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Re: Android wallet with notes?
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Pepe Lapiu
on 28/02/2020, 03:32:35 UTC
Well, I probably tried over a dozen wallets on my Android platform. And so far, the suggested Electrum is the only one that has that feature.

Samurai doesn't have it, neither does Blue, BRD, and a few others I can't recall right now.
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Re: Android wallet with notes?
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Pepe Lapiu
on 16/02/2020, 16:46:18 UTC
[They still evaluate whether to support LN[2]
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That's new to me. About 2 months ago, I was told on Telegram that the devs are not considering, ever, to add support for LN. Which is hard to understand since LN payments are far more anonymous than on chain ones.
But if they are considering LN support now, all the better!

Edit 1: the link you provided has not been updated since 2018. And I haven't found anything else since 2018. However Samurai recently partnered with Nodl. Still, there seem to be no recent efforts made to have Samurai support of LN.

Edit 2: I contacted Samurai on Telegram. Here is my post:
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Hey guys. I just read this: https://github.com/Samourai-Wallet/samourai-wallet-android/issues/92
Apparently Samurai devs were considering LN support back in 2018. But no recent update. And Samurai recently partnered with Nodl. Have Samurai devs abandoned LN support? Or is interest in LN revived with Nodl partnership?

And here is their reply:
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Almost certainly not happening at this point.
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Re: Android wallet with notes?
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Pepe Lapiu
on 16/02/2020, 16:39:25 UTC
They intentionally remove feature to show fiat exchange display[1].

Yes, I was already aware of that. That's what they explained to me on their Telegram chat. And I think it's rather stupid to try to force you and I to use our coin the way they think is acceptable. And they do this by actually regressing and removing features.
Frankly, I was flabbergasted when they explained this is how they want me to think of Bitcoin, and that they are actually removing a popular feature to attempt to shoe horn people into their way of thinking.

I hodl Bitcoin because I think it's sound money, because I believe it's part of the revolution against banksters and government. And I also hodl as part of my investment portfolio. But the Samurai team decided that it's unacceptable that any of their users can also use Bitcoin as an investment?
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Re: Android wallet with notes?
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Pepe Lapiu
on 15/02/2020, 18:25:25 UTC
I already was using Blue on Android. And I just checked again. If there is a way to leave a note, I can't find it.

You can't add a note/label to the transactions you received, but for sending, there should be a "note to self" textbox just under the address field.

Yeah, I get it now. Wirh Blue I can add a label to an outgoing payment. But it can only be done with outgoing payments, and only while sending. I'd like to be able to edit or add labels to all my transactions, incoming and outgoing.
I just switched to Electrum and it does that very well. Though Electrum is rather limited with very few other features and options.

So far, my favorite wallet is Samurai.  It's built on privacy, it allows you to send and receive various options of legacy and Segwit payments, and I like the GUI.
But I wish Samurai would enable labels like Electrum, be LN compatible, and have an option for fiat currency display.
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Re: Android wallet with notes?
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Pepe Lapiu
on 15/02/2020, 07:06:31 UTC
I would suggest trying Bluewallet, you can leave notes and it's also a very good wallet to experiment with the lightning network. And If you are interested in a multi-coin wallet with a great UI, there is Exodus (closed source).

I already was using Blue on Android. And I just checked again. If there is a way to leave a note, I can't find it.
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Android wallet with notes?
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Pepe Lapiu
on 13/02/2020, 04:30:36 UTC
Android wallet with notes?
Hey boys and squirrels.
I'm looking for a wallet that would allow me to write personal notes to each transaction. For example if I send Bob 1 BTC as a gift, I would like to add "gift to Bob" in my list of transactions so I can recall later on what specific transactions were all about.
Is there such a wallet?

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Re: Anyone here has a Bitmain S-17 ASIC?
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Pepe Lapiu
on 09/08/2019, 04:05:25 UTC
Well damn it! I was hoping there would be only two intake fans so that I could add two exhaust fans to make it a bit more quiet. But at least I will be able to add two exhaust fans on the PSU. I'm told the PSU fans are the loudest ones with a whinny high pitch noise.
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Anyone here has a Bitmain S-17 ASIC?
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Pepe Lapiu
on 09/08/2019, 03:25:42 UTC
Hey guys. Anyone here has some Bitmain S-17?
I would like to know how many fans on it. The Bitmain site only shows one side with two fans visible (not counting the tiny PSU fans).
A DuckDuckGo picture search revealed several ones with and without fans on the exhaust side.
Does the stock ASIC come with only 2 push fans? Or with 2 push fans and 2 pull fans as well?

Also I know the bigger fans are 120mmx38mm. Can anyone tell me the size and RPM of the smaller PSU fans as well, please?
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Re: LN withdraw with Blue wallet?
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Pepe Lapiu
on 04/03/2019, 04:02:15 UTC
Your LN channel might be no remaining funds or offline.

My channel is online since I have been able to make payments out of it. But the payments can',t be more than 2 Satoshies or the error message pops up. And as per my previous message, there is sufficient funds in the channel to make bigger payments.

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I tried to find the solution about your issue in google and I found two possible sources of solutions to take your bitcoin out from the lightning network.

I don't know if this will work as I just search it from google.

Check these two links below.

- https://lightning-wallet.com/recovering-lost-balance#recovering-lost-balance
- https://lightning-wallet.com/reimbursing-funds-locked-in-a-lost-payment-channel#reimbursing-funds-locked-in-a-lost-payment-channel


Unfortunately none of the links help me.  One is to recover a wallet if you loose your phone.  And the other is to bring a channel back online if the channel is lost.

My phone us not lost and my channel is online with sufficient funds in it.
What I would like to do is withdraw the funds from the channel back on chain.

The wallet allows me to do that. But when I click the withdraw feature, the wallet opens my browser to the following link: https://zigzag.io/?utm_source=integration&utm_medium=bluewallet&utm_campaign=withdrawLink#/

On that page, they ask for my "BTC refund address or invoice" and my "BTC blockchain address".
I don't know how to obtain either of these things. Do you?

Edit: I did find out what the BTC blockchain address is. They just want my public keys for the on chain wallet.
But I still don't know what they want for refund address or invoice.
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Re: LN withdraw with Blue wallet?
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Pepe Lapiu
on 03/03/2019, 19:03:55 UTC
The problem seems to be related with your channel's liquidity. How much of your channel's funds are on your side? Keep in mind that you won't be able to receive more than the channel's value minus 2% of its total value. Spending a few satoshis should solve your problem.
My Blue wallet has 300,000 Sat on it's LN channel.
My Bitcoin Lightning wallet I am trying to send coin to has a LN channel with 309,000 Sat size and it can receive 278,309 Sat.

The guy who loaned me the coin to play around with also has a LN channel with at least 300,000 Sat.

But I am not able to make a payment with the Blue wallet for anything more than 2 Sat to anyone else, including my own Bitcoin Lightning Wallet.

I think there us a glitch in the system. So I would like to withdraw our of my Blue LN channel.and back on chain.
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Re: LN withdraw with Blue wallet?
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Pepe Lapiu
on 03/03/2019, 18:50:23 UTC
I googled the error code you receive in connection to Blue Wallet and got this result:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bluewallet/comments/arhel2/api_error/

It seems the user on reddit got rid of the error message by disabling the auto pilot option. Try it out and see if it works for you.
I could not find any setting remotely close to 'auto pilot'.
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LN withdraw with Blue wallet?
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Pepe Lapiu
on 02/03/2019, 19:42:47 UTC
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Hey guys.
There is a problem with my LN channel on my Blue wallet.
For some reason since I updated the apps, it will no longer allow me to send LN payments of more than 2 Sat.
Every time I try, the following message is generated:
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API error: LND failure (code 7)
I contacted the devs and they are no help.  
So I would like to withdraw the LN funds back on chain.
For withdraws,  the app redirects me to.this page: https://zigzag.io/?utm_source=integration&utm_medium=bluewallet&utm_campaign=withdrawLink#/

So what is my "BTC refund address or invoice"? Where do I find that?
And what is my "BTC blockchain address"? Where do I find that?

I don't have a lot of funds stuck in that channel. But that's all the BTC I have. And it's not mine. So I really would like to send it back to the guy who loaned me those funds.

Thanx
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Re: Testing a 220VA Wall Socket?
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Pepe Lapiu
on 27/02/2019, 21:47:52 UTC
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Not that... It depends how strong your fan is. if it moves the others by airflow alone, they generate electricity. A generator is the same thing as an electric motor, more or less. If you pass current, it makes the axis rotate. If you rotate the axis fast enough, it generates current. You don't want current flowing back into your controller board/psu.

Good to know. I'll just make sure no fans are driving other fans by adjusting the speeds appropriately.

Problem is you need feed back rpms to the controller so it doesn't complain, at least until Braiins OS is ported to the S15.

That's not really a problem. Faking an RPM signal is easy. Or I can always pluck out one fan's petals and leave it running just as an RPM reporting fan.

And the reason why they use fans in push/pull is because that's the most efficient way of moving air around a case. Every fan you buy has a CFM rating. But that rating is in open air with no restrictions.  Once you add restrictions like ducks, elbows, fan grills, filters, and congested cases, the actual CFM goes way down from the rated one.

For example with water cooling it was once believed that radiators with multiple thin fins and thicker radiators would do a better job at cooling the system. Problem is, when the fins are too close and the radiator is too thick, the fans struggle at pushing air throught them. One remedy was to install thicker fans, faster fans, or have them going in push/pull configuration. And still, lab testing showed that thinner radiators with wide spacing between the fins actually performed better.

In other words, the more restrictions you have, the less effective and the more noisy your fans are. That's why it's beeter to have a set of fans pushing air in and an other set pulling air out. And tgat's why I think removing the grill on the exhaust side will help the airflow and help reduce the noise.

When you buy a fan, don't look just at the RPM and CFM rating. They only tell part of the picture. The static pressure is actually more important than the CFM rating. Static pressure is the fan's ability to push air throught restrictions. Kind of like water pressure versus water flow. Sadly, very few fan makers post the static pressure numbers.

But essentially, when you have two fans in push/pull, that basically doubles the static pressure while the RPM remains the same. So a lot more air gets moved.
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Re: Testing a 220VA Wall Socket?
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Pepe Lapiu
on 27/02/2019, 20:10:32 UTC
... I'm actually worried your squirrel fan would make the others move, ie, generate electricity... Which is the same reason people should not let a fan spin when dusting off electronics with an air blower (they will generate and send electricity down the wire possibly damaging things).

I'm not sure what you mean here. The S15 runs on 220v and the squirrel fans runs on 110v. So they will be on two different circuits.
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Re: Testing a 220VA Wall Socket?
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Pepe Lapiu
on 27/02/2019, 02:11:53 UTC
I want to see this magical S15 that you can sleep by. Either you're used to sleeping with a hair dryer running on your nightstand or you've made the equivalent of the 400MPG car...

It's not rocket science. If your fan has to push through a bunch of restrictions, it's going to make more noise than without restrictions. So removing the exhaust side grills should help a very little bit on the noise side. And it will allow for better air flow, or the same air flow at slower fan speed. Furthermore, a single fan pushing air through a tightly packed case is going to have to turn faster to provide sufficient airflow. Adding a fan pulling air on the exhaust side should allow me to turn them down to around 4000 RPM instead of the stock 6000 RPM.

What I am planning is similar to this:
https://www.silent-miner.eu/

My big 6" Vortex squirrel fan will be pushing air in while the stock fans will be relocated on the exhaust side to pull air out with a fan controller on them. I'll have to test fan speeds to see what works just as well as the stock configuration.

And of course none of this is going to completely silence the rig.  It will still be noisy, albeit less noisy. But next I will do similar to what philipma1957 did. I will build a box with a 1 foot layer of carpet pieces around the miner - a soundproof box of sort. Just try to run a vacuum cleaner rolled up in a pile of carpets and see how quiet it gets.

But in truth, even if I just replace the stock fans with my squirrel fan, that would already push more air and be a great deal more quiet. I had my squirrel fan running all night at full speed right next to my bed last night. Slept like a baby too but I will look to make it even more quiet.
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Re: [b]The Perfect Storm of Bitcoin Birth[/b]
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Pepe Lapiu
on 24/02/2019, 03:52:01 UTC
Well I have read and seen some with users asking for regulations. Actually there are lot of it and those users are not just agreeing about regulations but they want too the implementation of it and should be done by government in every country to hold security on every money invested on cryptocurrency especially in an ICO project.
The main reason why they keep asking for more regulations is that they think government involvement and Wall Street involvement is going to bring Bitcoin into the mainstream and make them rich.

That is completely false, but that's what they believe.

There is also the statism aspect whereas every aspect of your life is regulated/taxed/legislated/standardized/licensed/permitted by government. And some people become completely incapable of imagining anything working out without government saying so.
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Re: The Perfect Storm of Bitcoin Birth
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Pepe Lapiu
on 23/02/2019, 16:21:06 UTC
it is not a prediction or future telling. it is an observation based on current ongoing events and all the history that bitcoin had.

Past performance does not provide any indication of future performance.

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you don't need a crystal ball to know it either you just have to take a good look around to see the growth is happening all around you while more people all around the world start dumping their fiat to get bitcoin in return.

What's going on here is that you are getting immersed in Bitcoin. So more people around you are using Bitcoin because you are surrounding yourself with bitcoin users. As an example, I am a gun owner and a hunter. I also surround myself with people who share my lifestyle. Based on my limited experience,  I could claim that most people own guns and hunt. But that would be misleading myself.

And anyhow, even if we are to accept that more people adopted Bitcoin n the past and more people are adoring Bitcoin now, none of this should be accepted as an acceptable prediction that more people will adopt Bitcoin in the future.

I do hope that more people turn to Bitcoin. And I do hope that Bitcoin gets accepted by PayPal and Amazon some day, even at my local coffee shop too. But my fear is that a large number if people will be turning to paper coin and b
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Re: The Perfect Storm of Bitcoin Birth
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Pepe Lapiu
on 23/02/2019, 15:31:32 UTC
Paper bitcoin could get attention in the long run if you work on it and promote it well enough but there is already a non-paper bitcoin around that we can use however we want without the legal loopholes that riches use to manipulate the regular traditional money.

So, with your logic yes new people can fall over heels for paper bitcoin but also at the same time we are not going anywhere anytime soon so we will not use it and we are smarter than them on what the benefits are for not using and what benefits are for using it and we know benefits of not using outweighs the benefits of using it so we will spread that knowledge to new people as well. Your logic can only be sustained if there were no more people who already know what the difference is, but we are not leaving so it can't happen anytime soon.
Everything you just wrote can be applied precisely to gold. Yet none of that prevents regulations/Wall Street/banks from repressing the actual price of gold. So what makes you think Bitcoin is any different?

Don't get me wrong. I believe in Bitcoin. But I think it's going to be a tremendous upward battle to get an  honest Bitcoin to grow and become widespread. It's going to be an even harder battle if we refuse to understand that government/wall street/banks are the enemy of Bitcoin, not it's friend.
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Re: The Perfect Storm of Bitcoin Birth
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Pepe Lapiu
on 22/02/2019, 08:35:03 UTC
Governments will do what governments do, and that is to regulate, and to create derivative tricks such as Futures in order to profit from anything that attracts enough volume for them to bother, but this is all irrelevant for Bitcoin as it works as intended regardless of what government jurisdictions have to say about it, the blockchain keeps churning out blocks every 10 minutes incessantly, and this fact is undervalued.
I'm afraid you grossly underestimate the devastating effects of rehypotecation and fractional reserve banking (a.k.a. paper coin in out case).

Let's say that tomorrow an other 10 people decide to join us and invest in Bitcoin.
Let's say that paper Bitcoin is widely available and regulated/legislated/backed by government.
Of course neither you nor me with buy that shit.
But new investors into Bitcoin might.
And in fact most gold investors buy paper gold, not physical gold. So it would be hard to believe most people wouldn't jump on paper Bitcoin like rabid dogs.

And even if only half of the new investors are stirred towards paper coin, that still has a drastic effect on the price of Bitcoin.

I know you keep thinking that Bitcoin can't be printed into inflation, can't be faked, can't be multiplied at will. But all the exact sane can be said of gold. And yet it doesn't stop most people from buying paper instead of actual gold.

Neither you nor me want that, people rushing to buy paper coin. But that's exactly what wall steert/banks/gubermint would do to Bitcoin. Believe you me, Wall Street is not interested in pouring billions into Bitcoin. All that they want to.do is promote derivative vehicles for their profit.
 
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Re: The Perfect Storm of Bitcoin Birth
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Pepe Lapiu
on 22/02/2019, 01:26:54 UTC
sad but true---check out the speculation board. lots of guys in there have delusions about how wall street works. they think it'll be a mad dash to buy up all our bags lol! i've tried many times to talk about the effects of paper bitcoins and rehypothecation but it all seems to fall on deaf ears.

Some guys are so desperate to believe Bitcoin is going to make them rich that they desperately will cling to the idea that anything Wall Street and legislation will do will increase the price. It's a mix of statism and bias confirmation.  

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i'm pretty sure the question of increasing block frequency was put to rest years ago. it would increase transaction throughput, but at the cost of increasing orphaning rates and increasing the inflation rate.

Increasing block frequency doesn't have to result in inflation. We can have a block every 5 minutes with 1 Bitcoin reward instead of a block every 10 minutes with 2 Bitcoin reward. I think it's absurd to think Bitcoin is forever going to remain with the 2008 technology when data transfer, data storage, and computing power are all increasing drastically over time.

When everyone is eventually walking around with a phone that has 1000 TB of storage and a download rate of a 1 GB/second, it will sound absurd to use 1 MB blocks every 10 minutes. When that will happen is a different story.

I do know that not 25 years ago it was unthinkable to send an email with a picture attached. That would have melted the entire internet. The capacities we will have in 10 years are difficult to imagine today.

Everyone raves about 4G data for their phone. What will 20G be like?