alex.gw31

How much memory do you have? Do you have an HDD or SSD? Obviously, syncing will happen faster on a SSD than an HDD. With that being said, blocks from around the 97th percentile (or anything mined one year ago) are…

I hope there's a way to estimate from empirical data how much of the time he's actually right, using a boolean algebra model or something. Because I'm starting to see a phenomenon, the oppisite action of the decision…

Yeah, don't trade with leverage. Ever. Unless you are trading with a strategy with a very high Sharpe ratio (>= 2), do not ever use leverage because you will usually get liquidated.

You have 13 outbound peers only or is it in total? The mempool takes several minutes to a few hours to build up after you start the node, even if the IBD is finished then you still have to wait for your peers to send…

Can you verify that your node can receive incoming traffic on port 8333, and not just outgoing? I don't know if your node has a firewall from Docker or AWS, but you might want to check that out to make sure that's not…

Not at all. In fact you can even do it on 2002 computers. Creating a private key means you only need to generate 256 random bits = 64 random bytes, and elliptic curve cryptography is light enough that the process of…

I guess they just need to update their website with the info and we're good.

OP can use any tool like Iancoleman or BitAddress for generating the keys or the BIP39 phrases. It's not that difficult at all, and for an educational project it's not worth the hassle involved in using other,…

This is basically what Luke-jr was trying to do a couple weeks ago with patching the datacarrier structures to interpret TapScripts (well not exactly increasing fees but to make large data transactions infeasible). It…

Technically, that is what I was referring to when I wrote "average", not the mean. It would be like like taking the mean of 100 people's income including Bill Gates versus taking the median.

I don't like this idea. It doesn't solve the problem of keeping fees low and the mempool normal, because when you artificially limit the amount of bytes one kind of transaction gets in a block, desperate users will…

That makes sense, since the symbols are the only way I can think of that make a binary with otherwise a few changes grow really large in size. Is it possible that the build steps are running with the -g flag somewhere…

There is a simple solution for this and it is do not keep more than a few hundred bucks inside your phone's crypto wallet (If you even want to at all, that is!) Delete all the apps you don't want CBP messing around…

So if one person makes a bad trade using a currency I don't like, then I must go on a crusade to stop everyone from using that particular currency, right? Right? (/s) I am very glad that the IMF doesn't have any power…

Factor in the costs of the USB hubs and fans and you're looking at an extra Compac F in price to pay for. Also, that's a lot of daisy chaining to do on a computer. Don't you think that would mess with kernel drivers a…

The T9's MSRP was around $1300 so that means the scrap value is at the worst case more than 85 times less than the miner. Unless you're referring to just the chassis, and there is some other practical use for the…

Without unlocking the miner, even this isn't possible because there's no display or input ports on the control boards. Even then, you'd have to write your own custom firmware for it - most normal Linux distros will not…

I do not recommend directly using private keys which are derived from the seed phrase for holding bitcoins because there is a change that you might mess up the generation process which leads to the coins becoming…

What is stopping a malicious user from using WinDbg to trace Bitcoin Core syscalls on later versions of Windows in order to extract private keys or the AES encryption state of the wallet password? I don't think the…

It could simply be a rounding error introduced by imprecise floating point arithmetic on the hardware.