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OpenMonero.com has picked up a good deal of volume by now

It would be a 1TB microSD, whereas if I replace the SSD I'd have to get a 2TB one because I run a lot of other apps on the laptop. 1TB microSD should keep me going for long enough to wait for SSD prices to eventually…

Thanks, I'll consider this option as well

I wasn't aware of this, but was going to try to figure it out or ask here once I have the sd card. Thanks for saving me the trouble, I'll edit the config file as you explain when the time comes. It will probably be a…

Thanks so much, I'll do it this way

Hey everyone, my 1TB SSD on the Thinkpad T590 (where I run a full node) is almost full, and the blockchain is gonna exceed that size in a few months. SSD prices are pretty steep right now, so I'm considering a more…

All too true. I always see people complaining about CEX and how there's no alternative, and yet an actual alternative that works (maybe the only one) is available and they don't use it. And it's true, many (most?) don't…

Got it, thanks

Thanks for the informative reply, I'll try that if the tx doesn't purge soon

So, I've got this transaction that’s been sitting in the mempool for just over 2 months now. Mempool.space shows the fee at 4.4 sat/vB. It was meant for a payment, and when it got stuck, I ended up sending a separate…

The 24-hour trading volume for BTC is pretty crazy today, especially considering how volatile the market is. It's over $330 billion according to coingecko. I haven't seen it this high in ages. Anyone have thoughts on…

Understood, thanks again

Thanks, I wasn't aware of this potential threat from exposed Xpubs. So if an attacker was able to decrypt just one of my public keys with a quantum computer, and hack my online watching wallet to steel my Xpub, they…

I'm wondering whether higher is better when it comes to brute-forcing seed phrases, even though it's not better in the case of cracking 128-bit public keys. It seems to me that, in the former case, you're not limited by…

As for potential bugs in RNG, use of physical source of entropy such as dice rolls to generate the seed is one way to avoid this risk. I wasn't going to bring up the quantum issue, but since it's come up in this thread,…

Not a revolution, but definitely an innovation. The blockchain and self custody that it enables are truly original developments in fintech. It might have turned out to be revolutionary had masses of people adopted it…

Thanks, this answers my question. The distinction between entropy and security clarifies the issue for me. So any amount of entropy beyond 128 bits will be reduced to the 128 bits of security of the key.

I'm curious about the most secure seed phrase we can get for a BIP-39 Bitcoin seed. Can we actually get to the highest entropy with just a 12-word seed phrase, either with or without a passphrase? I'm not a cryptography…

Got it, thanks

I'm about to move my full node to a new laptop and I'm curious if I need to download the entire blockchain again, or if I can just transfer my existing blockchain over to the new machine. Also, I have another question:…