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Re: What's the current best way to run Bitcoin throught Tor?
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Satofan44
on 09/09/2025, 21:07:36 UTC
Edit: Upon further research, I was confusing Tor Browser, with Tor. I have Tor Browser installed, but not Tor, so I guess I could follow that tutorial to install it. I thought Tor Browser included the Tor service which you could run separately but you need to install it yourself. I still need a proper tutorial tho.
Good, you've figured out your first mistake. That's why it is called Browser! It is a standalone and separate project that uses TOR and is different from the global tor service. Which Linux version are you using?


Last time I did this for my servers I used something like this, check it out: https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2021/01/install-tor-tor-browser-ubuntu-20-10-20-04/. It should be pretty straightforward. Let me know if you manage to do it.

proxy=127.0.0.1:9050
listen=1
listenonion=1

But some use the tor service, and have to register some sort of cookie, I don't know something weird that also involves giving your login and password to this cookie.
There are two difference here:

  • 1) TOR in "client" mode, which would be connecting through the proxy as you have written above. This method does not have any authentication. If I remember correctly, this method would have you only as a client on the TOR network and not a full peer that others can reach.
  • 2) Authenticated mode, more for persistent use i.e. running a full node that others can reach and download data from.
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Re: How do the poor catch up with the challenge
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Satofan44
on 09/09/2025, 15:58:10 UTC
⭐ Merited by NotFuzzyWarm (1)
This guys can make big investments in market analysis, tools and expertise, tell me how will the poor catch up, how will the poor get to such height, how can they afford to overcome fear when there is little experience. It is very challenging for the poor investors to succeed in the Bitcoin market, potentially whitening the wealth gap.
Why should they? Your topic has a very bad assumption laid in it, that poor people should get something. This is a word of work and merit. Why should poor people who do not learn and do not do quality work that relates to markets reap the rewards from markets?

Bitcoin is a tool, a neutral currency, commodity, asset. If you approach it properly, it can do wonders for you. However, you must do the effort. It will not magically do something for you.


Equal outcomes is a Marxist communist idea that only the most stupid and least productive people of our society support. Nobody is entitled to anything.
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Re: gambling vs doomscrolling
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Satofan44
on 09/09/2025, 15:45:14 UTC
I dont see how gambling and doom scrolling are related.
Things don't have to be directly related for one to be able to make a comparison between them.

It's obvious that engaging in these two activities in excess is unhealthy, but answering the question about which one is worse is not an easy task. On one hand, you can lose money in slots, a lot of money if you develop an addiction, which doesn't happen with social media. But while you scroll, the platform learns from you, and you also get manipulated by the platform, which doesn't happen if you gamble.

So, I think that although the downside of gambling is clear, the dangers of infinite scrolling are more subtle, but also deeper, and we don't know yet the future impact it can have in our society and in our lives.
You lose money also from social media and doom scrolling. The process by which this happens is very subtle, and when compared to some direct form of losing money such as is the case with gambling it can be misleading. You make 2 mistakes in your post:

1) Social media platforms don't just learn from you, they manipulate you to do things. They make you buy things and you will believe that the decision was yours, but it was not.  Smiley
2) Gambling platforms do regularly manipulate you. Most of gambling games are designed in a way that maximizes playing, that is the manipulation.
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Re: gambling vs doomscrolling
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Satofan44
on 09/09/2025, 14:20:28 UTC
basically doomscrolling is aimlessly scrollig through social media without any real intentions. being on social media also generates dopamine which is the same happy hormone that gambling can give you. we both doomscroll or gamble when we are bored. what do you think is worse, gambling or doomscrolling?

is it healthy to engage in these two activities excessively?
There is a mistake in the setup of this thread.  You are comparing an extreme form of scrolling to a general form of gambling. The question is what kind of gambling? To make it somewhat equivalent, you have to compare doomscrolling to addictive or obsessive gambling. Both actions are pretty terrible, but in that scenario obviously the gambling is much more dangerous.

If you like being on social media, there is nothing bad about be there if you have time for it, but the difference is that doomscrolling or what you call it is not involving money, but make sure social media does not affect your work and your sleep.
What are you talking about? Social media has a massive negative impact on any psychological metric and including several physiological metrics like sleep.
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Re: What do you try to learn first?
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Satofan44
on 09/09/2025, 14:13:15 UTC
If someone who is not that knowledgeable about sports and gambling but wants to do sports betting, what would you recommend for him to start learning first? Do you advise him to go and watch sport matches and learn how it goes first or go to online casinos and learn about sports betting? Will he someone with sports knowledge be more profitable in sports betting or will someone with gambling experience come out on top?
The best advice would be don't start betting at all. If he does not want to listen, then he should start reading proper analysis online and not spend his time watching matches thinking that he's gonna become a smart analyst in his free time.

Here, of course, I would tell him to watch the match well first. Because watching more and more matches will increase your experience, and the more games you watch, the more your analysis skills will increase. This means that you can predict in advance which team is likely to win next, because you have seen their previous games.
You think that watching a couple matches, or even couple hundred matches gives you analytic skills?  Cheesy Your analysis skill after watching 1000 matches is closer to 0 than it is to 1. What kind of delusions gamblers tell themselves are amazing.

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Re: Staking more than you receive or earn
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Satofan44
on 09/09/2025, 12:41:00 UTC
What would be your advice for such if they were to be your friends as a caring friend who want them to not get financially drained in the process?
You've been given all kind of advice in here. Depending on the strength of the friendship and historical context of the relationship, you can try to help them for a while. They probably deserve that. If it does not work, give up and move away. Get better friends, they are not worth your time.

Now, if they still don't listen, they can't blame me because I really did my part as a friend. It's that simple for me, of course, so they can see that the money wasn't just found;
they still worked hard for it.
Even if they would blame you, so what? Don't waste your time with stupid people like that. Life is too short for you to have bad friends.

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Re: Congress Demand Treasury to Custody all US Acquired Bitcoin
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Satofan44
on 09/09/2025, 12:35:22 UTC
Yes that's precisely what I wrote above; that this is the traditional way of doing things. Bitcoin is innovative in this regard. Essentially, Coinbase does "self-custody" of USA's coins Tongue
Fair point, I misunderstood the direction of the post. Well, Coinbase is a fully American company so there are less other risks involved with this.

It's not a big deal though, meaning that I am more concerned that the huge majority of individuals prefer to allow CEXs to keep their coins for them.
Any reduction in CEX holdings is beneficial for everyone involved, and comes at just a small negative impact on the CEX revenue. Big holders and governments can make a significant impact on this situation by moving to real self-custody, but that comes with other risks that not everyone wants to accept.

The US government can deal with Coinbase, sign a contract with Coinbase and use Coinbase as their custodian but we individually should not try to do the same. Coinbase never intend to cheat the US. government in any national contract between the US government and Coinbase. They know what to do in order to keep their business and owners safe but with non-government customers, Coinbase can do differently.
Cheat the US government? Good luck with that, it always works out really well for anyone who tries. It is a nice way to get Epstein'd.  Smiley
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Re: Putin adviser claims US using stablecoins, gold to devalue its $37T debt
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Satofan44
on 09/09/2025, 12:12:11 UTC
⭐ Merited by philipma1957 (1)
They have been already devaluing the dollar for a very long time. Each time you print any amount of dollars, you are devaluing all existing dollars. This claim is not that strong and is still made with inherent bias towards monetary inflation. The other side can't make political arguments against printing money, because then people in their own country will question this practice too.

A potential stablecoin act could allow the U.S. to pull off the same scheme again. This time, the issued tokens would be backed by U.S. government debt. However, since they wouldn't be a direct government liability, they could de-peg, just like what happened with Do Kwon's UST stablecoin from Terra (LUNA)
Your idea is that the government is running an organized scam with the stablecoin? Life is already entertaining enough. Their stablecoin can't depeg like Do Kwon's UST, the stablecoins created by the stablecoins act are not algorithmic. They are backed by dollars. They can depeg in different ways, but not in the way that it happened to LUNA.



I think this post should be in the "Economy" board because it's not bitcoin-related, but economy and stablecoins.
Yes.

Claims you saw are not supported by official U.S. government policy. They are part of political argument from country that wants to challenge U.S. dollar global power. Idea that U.S. would use stablecoins or gold to devalue its debt is not standard economic concept. In reality recent laws in U.S  like GENIUS Act are designed to do opposite they make sure stablecoins are backed by U.S. dollars and government debt which actually helps strengthen U.S. dollar position not weaken it I think.
Another shitpost by another idiot.
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Re: Congress Demand Treasury to Custody all US Acquired Bitcoin
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Satofan44
on 09/09/2025, 12:06:44 UTC
In my opinion the matter is really serious. Because a country essentially delegates the security of a huge-valued asset pile to a company. It's obviously not the first time it happens, but it signifies the continuation of the "trust mentality" that they can't get away from. Bitcoin comes to solve this, so in a more libertarian way of thinking, the USA should do their own custody and completely ignore third parties. Right now, the coins belong to Coinbase, not to the USA.
This is not unusual. Often times the government will delegate something to a private company because it is more specialized in dealing with those things and does so at a lower cost. However, in this case it would be more better to withdraw all of this from Coinbase. There is an overall benefit from that as Coinbase will have fewer coins, they already have too many stored with them.

Since they propose a bill for that, let’s just assume they already set all the measures to keep those billions in Bitcoin safe. They can’t just trust a 3rd party anymore. Even if it’s in an institutional wallet, we all know nothing is hack proof.
If they can keep the nuclear launch codes safe, they can definitely keep the small amount of Bitcoin that they own safe.
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Re: Are Bitcoin’s Layer 2 Solutions Finally Enabling Everyday Microtransactions?
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Satofan44
on 08/09/2025, 22:34:14 UTC
I would say UX friction comes second after adoption. The lack of adoption is really the biggest reason. Lower fees are all nice and good, even if you have a decent UX design that allows even newbies in crypto to easily navigate their payment experience but if no shops are offering Bitcoin payments then lightning is not going to be any good in the first place.

Lightning is still too early, basically.

But it has the chance to grow, adapt and become more amazing and will be ready for the future adoption.
Lightning UX on mobile devices is great. Try to onboard your local vendors, you will see that it is pretty easy.

Real-world peak bandwidth: 98% saturation at 1.5 Mbps upload (per Core v25.0  node logs). Why home nodes choke: Even 100 Mbps connections max out during mempool spikes (e.g. July ETF rush). Dedicated servers? Smooth. But 67% of public nodes run on home broadband (mempool.space 2025 data, hope it is accurate). Tech fix? BIP-325 (compact blocks v3) cuts bandwidth by 40% - live in Core v26.0 (Q4 2025). Let’s build a BTC Scaling Pulse report: I’ll draft metrics (node bandwidth, mempool depth, orphan rates and so on ) if you co-author. First edition by Oct 1?
This has nothing to do with blocks though. If we were to go with that reasoning, then there is never going to be a technological justification for increasing the block size. At any bandwidth someone could spam the mempool so much to choke it.

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Re: Crypto owner losses ≈ $1 million after fake job interview
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Satofan44
on 08/09/2025, 19:14:52 UTC
Can we really avoid strangers completely? It takes a day to know someone and then form a relationship with that person. Severally, people we don't know in person but must have seen our work online have reached out to us to either promote a brand or work on some project together. It is our duty to verify if those offers are genuine.
It is ridiculous advice. Most people are on social media and work social media like Linkedin. Most people are exposed to all kinds of strangers all the time. In this day and age, such strategy is only for a fringe minority of people.

The only mistake I see that Alex did here was not verifying those scammers to ascertain if they are really business people.
How exactly do you believe verification can avoid a scam that involves a zero day exploit? They can create all kinds of fake documents and profiles. They can even hire people to pose in video calls if you believe deepfakes can be easily detected by other humans. Verification does not really avoid this situation.

Some people have their CV on different platforms, so they will be expecting business proposals or deals from anybody from any part of the world. If you keep avoiding business deals from strangers, you might end up missing out on valid deals.
Better advice would be to stop using Windows for starters.  Tongue
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Re: Team's Failure, who is Responsible?
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Satofan44
on 08/09/2025, 18:55:01 UTC
It always the coach, we know sometimes players have effect on these results but it left for the coach to put in the good players and make sure he get the result he want.
The coach is at fault because the main player was stupid and spent the last 2 days before a game secretly partying? Brilliant.  Roll Eyes

I agree that the most important point is to be prepared to lose the money we bet, so that when predictions go wrong, we don't have to look for scapegoats to blame.
This has nothing to do with the topic.

If a team performs poorly in just a match, then we shouldn’t blame more than the coach and the players, but if it’s continues, then we have to blame the players, coach and the management, maybe the management isn’t providing what the coach needs to improve the teams performance.
Perhaps the fact that you need people to micro manage you indicates a problem with yourself instead of a problem with the management? Many adults are in fact still children, and it is a very similar situation in large corporations. You need to treat many adults like children for them to work properly.
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Re: Crypto owner losses ≈ $1 million after fake job interview
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Satofan44
on 08/09/2025, 18:40:58 UTC
This sounds somehow legit that is why the victim of the scam fall for it. But how did they get access into his crypto wallet? You did not tell us how they got access into his wallet. Did they hack his wallet why he was on call for the job interview?
Shitposter, read the article and the whole thread. All the information about this is provided already.
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Re: Reason to return to gambling after quitting
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Satofan44
on 08/09/2025, 17:07:58 UTC
Why do we need to create another topic for this discussion when we already have one topic that we are talking about gambler's that quite gambling for addiction reasons and now coming back to it again,, let lock this thread and concentrate on the other thread you can still have all your questions answered on that thread and beside a lot of comments already answered that question on that thread.
Here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5558370.0
Good point, I didn't see that one. You don't need to ask the question why, you know the answer is always the same. So that his alt accounts and spamming colleagues can create 10 pages worth of generic posts.

The only person in best position to answer this question was the gambler that got returned back to gambling, he can explain better on the reason that makes him quit and what he sees that makes him returned back into gambling, because this is more about personal experience in gambling from the affected gambler.
It is not really. Most people behave in similar ways and you can group their behavior in categories. You may think you are unique, but you are not. The topic is pretty interesting even if most people are misinformed about these things.
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Re: US Government Steps Up Crypto Control: Mandatory AML Compliance by Feb 1, 2026
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Satofan44
on 08/09/2025, 17:01:03 UTC
I think I have found the point the author is trying to make in this article:
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the industry-leading anonymous AML wallet scanner
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100% FREE for your first check
Good narrative, even though I think it's all bullshit.
Even if it were true, the tool is a scam. Whoever advertises something like this in this way is a scammer by default. No need to invest effort in it.
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Re: US Government Steps Up Crypto Control: Mandatory AML Compliance by Feb 1, 2026
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Satofan44
on 08/09/2025, 16:47:41 UTC
⭐ Merited by d5000 (1)
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Not just exchanges—independent wallets with “tainted” history flagged by AI. Innocent holders losing access due to dusting attacks.
This argument is bullshit written by someone who does not understand anything. The solution to this is very simple. If you can get some tainted just do a dust attack on everyone, all the major exchanges and known legitimate addresses.

You forget that artificial intelligence is smarter than these unintelligent politicians. At least ChatGPT can answer to my basic questions and to be honest, really do some good stuff with the data that I give to it but these politicians are completely useless one way or another.
Don't be stupid, there is zero intelligence in the things that are currently called AI. But they sure can easily fool people like you with their marketing lies.  Roll Eyes

No. Only on CEX. The government have no control over your non custodial wallet or hardware wallets.
It is not a big deal then, in the EU they already require you to submit information relating to addresses. You can input any bogus information though. A useless system that does nothing.
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Re: Reason to return to gambling after quitting
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Satofan44
on 08/09/2025, 16:36:32 UTC
It depends on the exact nature of the initial situation. Was he addicted or not? This makes all the difference.

  • If he was gambling occasionally as a hobby, there is nothing wrong with returning to it after a break. Many people do not consistently engage in all their hobbies for many reasons. A good example would be sports. Some people return to some sports that they have not played since they were very young.
  • If he was addicted, then the situation is quite negative. People do not understand addictions at all. Even reading about addictions just gives them a superficial and false understanding of it. He has not cured his addiction, but has instead done other things that were essentially just temporary replacements for his addiction.

A truly cured addict never returns to his addiction, neither in moderation nor in any other amount. NEVER.
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Re: Crypto owner losses ≈ $1 million after fake job interview
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Satofan44
on 08/09/2025, 15:59:57 UTC
⭐ Merited by Pmalek (3)
150 wallets and all on the same device? I would not be surprised if he was advertising himself as a privacy and security expert, what an idiot.  Roll Eyes
Not everybody listen to their own advice. Knowing the right thing is one thing but doing the right thing is another.
I would consider that advice by a fake expert. Whoever has time to suggest things that they themselves are not doing, they are a fraud who does not believe in the things that they are preaching.

However, even full access to the computer means that you cannot empty all crypto wallets just like that, unless they are not protected by a password at all, or the attacker knows which wallets the user has and prompts him to open them and thus find out the password.
No, that is not how things work. There are automated tools by now which will scan your machine for every possible known wallet type, desktop and extension wallets. Even if they are all password protected, which I assure you in many cases they are not, where are these passwords most often stored? On the computer in plaintext, or on the computer inside a password manager. If you have complete access to somebody's system, you can do anything. If you don't know how, it is mostly due to a lack of your own imagination. Sometimes people compromise systems and wait months or even years, gathering information, before executing an attack.
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Re: Is it worth coming back?
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Satofan44
on 08/09/2025, 15:49:33 UTC
As far as the spam I think it's still very bad, it seems like most people are just farming posts for signature campaign payouts. The quality isn't anywhere near what it was early in bitcointalk. Even when people shitposted early in the forums history at least those posts were kind of endearing, the shitposts now are just slop.
They are generic bullshit, much worse than AI slop. Genuine troll posts would be much less spammy and more entertaining than this. A case example can be found above you

If spam had been the problem in the past then it's no more again now, because the merit system has helped in so many ways to flush out the spammers and avoid them from ranking, of course we can't claimed this was completely done at 100% but the little ones remaining have always been finding it difficult to emerge, because they got reported and the moderators act accordingly.
Roll Eyes
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Re: Crypto owner losses ≈ $1 million after fake job interview
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Satofan44
on 08/09/2025, 12:19:10 UTC
Nope, Alexander Choi didn't disclose anything to the scammers during the call, Alexander is somewhat experienced in the industry, so he didn't do that. I have read from a few sources about this case and this is a very sophisticated scam, i believe the scammers are exploiting some form of vulnerability in video conferencing apps/platforms.
Abusing a zero day vulnerability in existing software, one which you have probably not discovered yourself, is not a "sophisticated scam". It is a low level hack.

Two days go by, and Alexander gets a notification on his phone that some crypto got transferred out of one of his wallets. He checked several wallets on his PC and noticed that each one had been emptied. In total, he claims that almost 150 different wallets and addresses got drained of all their coins.
150 wallets and all on the same device? I would not be surprised if he was advertising himself as a privacy and security expert, what an idiot.  Roll Eyes



Similar but different scams are going around Telegram and Discord. They tend to offer several different and highly paid jobs in groups for testing out new games and other stuff. They are trying to catch anyone that may be interested whereas in this case it was a targeted scam.