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  1. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    You need mainnet bitcoin to open a channel on your self-custody wallet, but if you use the centralized custodial lightning wallets, i.e. Strike, it works on both mainnet and lightning Lightning is not for on-boarding millions of no-coiners Lightning is to scale bitcoin to millions of...
  2. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    It's because the amount of liquidity that will flow into btc and eth will be enormous once the money-printing starts again to pump up the economy for the election, plus plus the Blackrock etf Some of that money will flow to other altcoins and it doesn't take much to pump these smaller altcoins...
  3. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    Please make sure to have trading capital next year during the (bitcoin) crypto bull market Altcoins trading during a bull market (unlike right now) are the stuff trading dreams are made of :D Cheers mate!
  4. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    Hey Semper! I was going to say not much since I do not have a job for almost 3 years, I've only had fiat USD (checking account - for living expenses) and bitcoins/crypto assets for savings I have no steady income, per se, to stack more sats ...but I have had some occasional windfall (i.e...
  5. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    It's a soft fork so there's not much we can do to stop it, Saifedean Ammous has a tweet thread on it today, got a little bit more insight I haven't read much about BIP-300, I'm still on version 24.1 of Bitcoin core, but planning to compile from github source and upgrade to 25.0 soon The...
  6. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    As part of troubleshooting, you want to eliminate as many variables as possible so you can hopefully find what the problem is Most VPN's (my vpn) allows for split-tunnels, meaning the local network is accessible and the VPN tunnel to the internet is also functional at the same time Are you...
  7. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    I agree the wording seems confusing, however, given the recent controversies re: BIP-300 (soft fork), node work is more than just enforcing Bitcoin fundamental rules but also newer feature sets For example, many nodes are running a version of Bitcoin core that is pre-TAP root, and possibly a...
  8. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    There is a limit of 8 connections if you are not accepting inbound connections, and if the router is configured correctly, I've seen over 50 peer connections on my node "ss -tulanp | grep 8333" for windows the command is something like "netstan -an > search-8333.txt" load into notepad The...
  9. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    Yes, this is a threat vector. Governments, not just US and most likely other (non-government) bad actors are running nodes everywhere I haven't kept track of the improvements in the Bitcoin software but I believe that the increased frequency of connected nodes is to address it But as you...
  10. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    Your computer needs an IP address in order to communicate to the internet, your computer will be issued a non-routable IP address, local IP 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x or 172.16.x.x by your local router, but what you cannot see is the outside IP address assigned by your ISP That outside IP address...
  11. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    Ohhhhhhh, you have sauces , dayum, why didn't you say so, that is absolute proof you're telling the truth IP address is the most basic of all networking information... and it is a useless information that has no place to store on the Bitcoin protocol It is not present on the tx details, nor on...
  12. johnarb

    How to build a secure computer for storing digital crypto assets

    Yes, but in context of the thread, privacy is sacrificed to Google dot com in order to utilize the required tools, i.e. storage of information and web extension Remember, dedicated linux computer with no ties to real-world accounts, think of it as a burner phone, but in this case burner...
  13. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    Sheesh, if you're going to bullshit, at least know the person you're bullshiting I was a Bitcoin miner in 2014, there is no code on the Bitcoin software protocol that collects ip addresses, I asked you to show how, but you conflate blockchain analysis with ip addresses to gain legitimacy for...
  14. johnarb

    How to build a secure computer for storing digital crypto assets

    Using fake gmail on a dedicated linux builit from scratch, with no ties to real world identity, anyway you should read the whole thread and intents I suppose you don't also know about throw away prepaid sims...
  15. johnarb

    How to build a secure computer for storing digital crypto assets

    Oh you're laughing? Instead of taking advantage of valuable info I shared, lol I'll throw you a bone since I don't need it anymore as I live in Asia Mexc exchange is a non-kyc exchange, all you need is an email (google fake email you're laughing at) and you can withdraw non-kyc bitcoins up to...
  16. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    Welcome back, thought you got wiped out with your funds stuck at FTX, glad to hear you survived First of all, you're not a Bitcoiner, so you may think you know how the Bitcoin network functions, but you do not Metamask is tracking US ip addresses and DeFi projects i.e. dexes and staking...
  17. johnarb

    Bitcoin Price Thread

    Do not let Blackrock get your bitcoins. Hold on to your fucking bitcoins!
  18. johnarb

    Bitcoin Price Thread

    400 Million Trillion Hashes per Second. Prolly nothing...
  19. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    SO WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU SO LAZY TO EDUCATE YOUR SELF??? GOOGLE DEFI, PUT ON YOUTUBE ---- But to answer your question, defi crypto projects exist on the blockchain, aka the internet, there is no location You can be 8 yo or 88 yo, you can be in Dubai, or you can be in South Korea, if you have...
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