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Public Service Announcement: Users of Simple Bitcoin Wallet (100,000 users)
by
sir_danny
on 22/09/2022, 06:36:02 UTC


Public Service Announcement for users of
SimpleBtcWallet (100,000 users)

Consider reaching out to https://twitter.com/akumaigorodski

For Reference: https://twitter.com/akumaigorodski/status/1561414202119667714

Slava Ukraini

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Re: Best country to migrate to live, work and settle.
by
sir_danny
on 22/09/2022, 03:21:41 UTC
I heard New Zealand is nice, but I've never been there. I can see people complaining about Jacinda Ardern, but mostly it's because of policy disagreements and Covid related restrictions.

If I had enough Bitcoin, I'd probably go there.
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Re: How do you make money online?
by
sir_danny
on 29/07/2022, 14:44:17 UTC
By reviewing Bitcoin Wallets





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Re: What should we do when we are tired of the work we are doing?
by
sir_danny
on 28/07/2022, 10:44:11 UTC
I make memes for my work!



I love my work!
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FBI says fake crypto apps defrauded investors of more than $42 million
by
sir_danny
on 20/07/2022, 06:26:17 UTC
  • Fraudulent crypto apps have scammed investors out of more than $42.7 million since October 2021.
    Cybercriminals are capitalizing on the growing interest in crypto investing by using the names and logos of legitimate companies to attract investors.

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The FBI is warning financial institutions and investors about cyber criminals creating fraudulent
cryptocurrency investment applications (apps) to defraud cryptocurrency investors. The FBI has
observed cyber criminals contacting US investors, fraudulently claiming to offer legitimate
cryptocurrency investment services, and convincing investors to download fraudulent mobile
apps, which the cyber criminals have used with increasing success over time to defraud the
investors of their cryptocurrency. The FBI has identified 244 victims and estimates the
approximate loss associated with this activity to be $42.7 million. The FBI encourages financial
institutions and their customers who suspect they have been defrauded through fake
cryptocurrency investment apps to contact the FBI via the Internet Crime Complaint Center or
their local FBI field office.

Link to IC3 FBI Advisory.



[url=https://walletscrutiny.com]https://walletscrutiny.com
has thus far, assessed 35 apps in the Google Play Store to be Fake.

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Re: If folks want to bury their head in the sand, they can go right ahead.
by
sir_danny
on 19/07/2022, 08:17:44 UTC
Before you buy a hardware wallet.



We have the most complete list of wallets, period.
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If folks want to bury their head in the sand, they can go right ahead.
by
sir_danny
on 16/07/2022, 02:34:26 UTC
“If folks want to bury their head in the sand, they can go right ahead. The reality is Bitcoin is helping millions of people protect their assets from confiscation and censorship and debasement and demonetization everywhere from Cuba to Palestine to Nigeria to China.”-
~ Alex Gladstein, Human Rights Foundation

WalletScrutiny.com does its part by laying the groundwork for an important aspect of bitcoin, the scrutiny of the software that allows people to use bitcoin.

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Re: walletscrutiny: the majority of "wallets" are either custodial or closed source
by
sir_danny
on 15/07/2022, 07:56:08 UTC
WalletScrutiny provides a great service for those who aren't technical and self custody is on the rise. Also, delete coinbase Cheesy


It doesn't end with that as well. WalletScrutiny is currently running a donation campaign.

>> Bare URL = https://walletscrutiny.com/donate

There are:

- 2790 in Cryptocurrency apps in Google Play
- 651 in the Apple Store
- 288 hardware wallets
- 44 bearer tokens
Roughly 3,770 ways, to HODL.

Proceeds go to manpower.

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Re: New project to scrutinize Bitcoin wallets: walletscrutiny.com
by
sir_danny
on 14/07/2022, 09:11:03 UTC
**Update**

WalletScrutiny is currently running a donation campaign. So far we've 'analyzed':

- 2790 in Cryptocurrency apps in Google Play
- 651 in the Apple Store
- 288 hardware wallets
- 44 bearer tokens

Big thanks to some friends in BitcoinTalk who actually provided some materials regarding some of the archived bearer tokens.

If you're interested to contribute, do visit https://walletscrutiny.com/donate

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The most ambitious Bitcoin Project in the space - WalletScrutiny.com
by
sir_danny
on 11/07/2022, 07:58:32 UTC


WalletScrutiny.com has analyzed so far:

2791 Android wallets
652 App store
288 Hardware wallets
44 bearer tokens

Out of 2791 Bitcoin-related apps in the Google Play Store, we have found:

9 - that are reproducible
19 - unreproducible
160 - have no publicly available source code
457 - custodial services
50 - have wallets but these cannot send/receive
11 - have obfuscated code
35 - fake apps
696 - still in development
1121 - apps that have very few users
74 - do not support Bitcoin
137 - are services that do not have bitcoin wallet support

We are running a donation campaign and would appreciate your support.

Donate to WalletScrutiny.com
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Re: Which hardware wallet to buy?
by
sir_danny
on 08/07/2022, 08:10:18 UTC
Best is subjective.

Every single individual will have an opinion on what is "the best".

But it's time to approach this from a more technical perspective.



WalletScrutiny approaches this problem through this methodology:

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To put it dramatically, we search for the obvious potential to empty all the wallets of all the users at once. Could the provider of the wallet, with enough criminal energy, defraud all its users at once, without this being possible to be detected before it is too late? (If he could in theory, then a sufficiently motivated criminal could also put him under duress to steal your funds or manipulate him into stealing your coins with social engineering or with a backdoor.)

This horror scenario is possible whenever the provider can obtain a copy of the wallet backup and thus access all the users’ funds at once. He could collect the backups and once the amount of coins he could access stops growing, empty all the wallets in one big transaction. This form of scam got known as “retirement attack”.

Seeing that some wallets have millions of users, it is plausible to assume that some wallets manage billions of dollars. This would be a huge incentive for criminally inclined employees, even if the wallet was not set up to scam its users from the start, which probably is the case for some wallets, too.
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Re: walletscrutiny: the majority of "wallets" are either custodial or closed source
by
sir_danny
on 24/05/2022, 02:47:53 UTC
⭐ Merited by dkbit98 (1)
We need your help.

Our #opensource #bitcoin project critically examines wallets - by looking into code reproducibility.

We're trying to raise funds to keep the project going. There are thousands of wallets and hundreds of devices.
Visit http://walletscrutiny.com for more info.

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NCR 90.75% Double Vaccinated, 45% Positive Rate = Arrest the unvaccinated?
by
sir_danny
on 07/01/2022, 09:23:10 UTC
Isa sa mga adbokasiya ng bitcoin ay ang kalayaan.

Decentralized, peer to peer, censorship resistant currency.

Eto po ay mga facts:

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By Lade Jean Kabagani
 November 11, 2021, 6:28
 
(File photo)

MANILA – Vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. on Thursday said about 102.86 percent of the National Capital Region (NCR)'s target population have received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine.

Galvez, who is also the chief implementer of the National Task Force (NTF) against Covid-19, said more than 8.8 million individuals or 90.75 percent of the Metro Manila’s target population are now fully vaccinated against the dreaded disease.

Iyan po ay noong Nobyembre. Ngayong Enero:

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The National Capital Region’s (NCR) positivity rate has further increased to 45 percent, independent research group OCTA said on Thursday, Jan. 6.

Muli:

1. NCR 90.75% double vaccinated, 102% single dose vaccinated
2. 45% Positivity Rate

Conclusion:

3. Arestuhin ang mga hindi bakunado!

Kamakailan ay inutos ng hari sa Palasyo ng Malakanyang na arestuhin ang mga hindi bakunado.

Ang pinaguusapan po ay ang batas, karapatang pantao at kalayaan.

Para sa akin, hindi po makatarungan ang ganyang patakaran sapagkat base mismo sa datos ng gobyerno, ang mataas ng vaccination rate sa NCR ay HINDI nagpigil sa TRANSMISYON ng COVID, na sa ngayon ay pumapalo sa 45% transmissibility. Ibig sabihin halos, 4 na tao sa 10 itest ay nagpopositibo.

Samantala - sa ibang bansa tulad ng Switzerland ay may tinatawag silang NATURAL IMMUNITY CERTIFICATE para sa mga nagka COVID, at naka RECOVER.
Makikita ang NATURAL IMMUNITY CERTIFICATE NA ITO SA SWITZERLAND.

https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/fr/home/krankheiten/ausbrueche-epidemien-pandemien/aktuelle-ausbrueche-epidemien/novel-cov/covid-zertifikat/covid-zertifikat-erhalt-gueltigkeit.html

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Re: Cryptocurrency written in Python
by
sir_danny
on 31/12/2021, 10:41:25 UTC
It's sha256, similar to bitcoin but there are a couple differences, you can find them in README. You can start mining with the miner.py file

Won't this be vulnerable to a 51% attack? Bitcoin is using 256, and if even a single miner decides to mine your chain, they'd have the hash power.
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A question about inputs and outputs - re: Aantonop's bitcoin book
by
sir_danny
on 22/12/2021, 08:50:44 UTC
⭐ Merited by LFC_Bitcoin (8) ,bitmover (2)
So I was starting to read Andreas' Antonopoulos' "Mastering Bitcoin" and I was wondering about this diagram:



Quoting from the book

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In summary, transactions move value from transaction inputs to transaction outputs. An input is a reference to a previous transaction’s output, showing where the value is coming from. A transaction usually includes an output that directs a specific value to a new owner’s Bitcoin address and a change output back to the original owner. Outputs from one transaction can be used as inputs in a new transaction, thus creating a chain of ownership as the value is moved from owner to owner

My question is:
 Huh

Does "Output 1" mean that there will be a new "Input" for Alice's account?
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Re: Help with research - Comprehensive list of desktop bitcoin wallets
by
sir_danny
on 14/12/2021, 11:08:54 UTC
Hi, just want to report back,

My list now contains the following:

1      Armory
2      Bitcoin Knots
3      Bither
4      BitPay
5      Electrum
6      Sparrow
7      Specter
8      Wasabi
9      Mercury Wallet
10      Exodus Desktop
11      CoinApp
12      Atomic Wallet
13      Coinomi
14      Jaxx Liberty
15      Blockstream Green
16      Lily Wallet
17      Nunchuk
18      Guarda
19      CoinSpace
20      Infinity Wallet
21      Zap Desktop
22      FreeWallet dot io
23      Spark Wallet
24      Bisq
25      Lisk Desktop
26      Kronos
27      BTCWallet
28      Yeti
29      Fully Noded
30      Berlino
31      Paymetheus
32      Caravan
33      ARK Desktop Wallet

I'm still trawling through github and I see a lot of abandoned projects.
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Re: Another KYC requirements ng coins.ph?
by
sir_danny
on 10/12/2021, 01:15:26 UTC
Mga kabayan, gusto ko lang malaman kung nakaranas din ba kayo sa inyong coinsph account na may message mismo sa app na kailangan mag submit ng karagdagang kyc details. Curious lang ako kung ano ang bago ngayun sa kanilang sistema, nagtaka lang kasi ako nung nakaraang araw meron ako nabasa na mensahe galing sa kanila, at ganun din sa email ko.
Kung sino dito ang may karanasan din kagaya ng sa akin, paki share naman ng inyong nalalaman tungkol dito. Hindi pa kasi ako nag submit ulit ng personal details kasi gusto kung maka sigurado kung ano ang layunin ng coinsph sa ganitong kyc requirements.

Coins.ph is a custodial service.

Ultimong brand ng tissue paper na pampahid mo sa doo doo, baka itanong din nila.
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Re: Help with research - Comprehensive list of desktop bitcoin wallets
by
sir_danny
on 09/12/2021, 01:21:49 UTC
Hi! I'm trying to do research by compiling a mega-exhaustive list of desktop bitcoin wallets.

It has to support BTC (If it's a multicurrency wallet)
~Snipped~
You might want to mention if you're only looking for those with source codes [to check if you can reproduce them] or not, but I'll list one for each:

  • Guarda - On some review sites, they're claiming it's open-source, but AFAIK it's "not" completely open-source + it's connected to "Changelly [the same goes for Atomic]"!
  • Jaxx - Closed-source.

Note: I would not recommend using either of them to store anything [especially the first one]!

First time I heard of Guarda - thank you! We categorize closed source accordingly Smiley
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Re: Help with research - Comprehensive list of desktop bitcoin wallets
by
sir_danny
on 09/12/2021, 01:20:45 UTC
I don't know if people will agree with exodus and coinomi both multi currency wallet, but it's worth mentioning. Also blockstream green wallet.
Another one that I know is atomic wallet but it is also close source. I can not use close source wallet because people do not know if close source wallets have malware, it is good to use open source wallet.

I do not know what the OP want to use it for, may be he will need all the wallets, both open source and close source, but in his research writing he has to include the disadvantages of close source, especially that people do not know if the wallet is having malware or not.

Thanks, I do have those in the list, and in contact with the devs.

Can't really blame them. Many of these projects were previously open source. Then bad actors started copying the code verbatim, slapping on a different logo and name, or worse, pretending to be the real app and then stealing users funds.

A security model that some now embrace is "security through obscurity".

To each his own, I guess.
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Re: Help with research - Comprehensive list of desktop bitcoin wallets
by
sir_danny
on 09/12/2021, 01:17:05 UTC
Whta I am going to suggest is already on your list but if you are looking for a way to use an android app on your desktop is to use an android emulator like bluestacks for example where you can install wallets that are only available on android or both android and app like electrum.

Thanks! I have listed several hundreds on ]walletscrutiny.com.

I work with them by collating data and then categorizing them. Then somebody else tests for reproducibility.