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If super-efficient chips come out, miners will just buy more of them. Difficulty would likely spike but energy use might stay the same. If prices don't drop for a while, only then would people stop their rigs.

KYC is all about accountability, not transparency. Regulators want to keep tabs on both sides. It's a mess.

Binance has all these rules for listing free coins. Not sure if GRASS meets those criteria yet. They usually take some supply for Launchpool. And let’s be real, the days of easy gains from Binance listings seem over.

Wait, are you saying you used an online wallet? That info you shared looks like it came from an exchange, not a desktop wallet. I see a 22 BTC input and several outputs on the blockchain. You might wanna hit up their…

Cloud mining is usually a scam or you take on all the risk for tiny returns, while hosted mining is you running your own rig, but it still can be sketchy.

That’s spot on. The setup requires Bitcoin Core and Electrs to be running first. Honestly, they should've included all services in one compose file instead of relying on separate ones.

If you're getting an ENOTFOUND error, that's likely a DNS issue. Maybe check your electrum_host variable in your compose file. They usually use an IP for ELECTRUM_HOST, and disabling TLS can help too.

I’m not super familiar with the mempool.space container setup. But from what I gather: Bitcoin Core is the main syncer, Electrs connects to it and acts as an SPV host, then mempool.space pulls data from both. Sounds…

Totally agree. We need to see your docker-compose.yml and bitcoin.conf to help effectively. I'd set up bitcoin core, electrs, and mempool in one docker-compose.yml if I were you. This way, everything can talk to each…

You're free to do what you want. If you find super cheap gear and expect a huge price jump while keeping difficulty low, go ahead. Personally, I wouldn’t take the risk unless I could pay back my investment in less than…

I totally get that. For me, mining is the only way to get BTC since banks won't lend for crypto. I'm thinking of taking a loan to buy mining rigs instead.

This forum doesn’t host images. You can upload your image to a site that allows hotlinking, like imgur, and post the link instead.

Nice to see people sticking around! By the way, if you’re running a daemon on testnet, the data goes in a testnet3 subfolder. You don’t necessarily have to uninstall to switch to mainnet. Just edit your bitcoin.conf and…

You’ll need to re-sync if you switch from testnet to mainnet. Also, mainnet has way more data than testnet. If testnet took you days, mainnet will probably take much longer.

It really depends on what you’re after... If you wanna learn Bitcoin without risking real cash, testnet is awesome. Perfect for experimenting, scripting, that sort of stuff. But if you need to send or receive actual…

Try restarting Bitcoin Core and perform "rescanblockchain" on both wallets. That should update the transaction history and give you matching results for "listreceivedbyaddress" on both machines.

That’s interesting. I ran that command on both machines, and they showed a legacy address funded the same. But Machine 2 showed a p2sh address with more coins. How can both show received coins but not match up?

No multisig here. I think the real issue was that Machine 1 saw used addresses and hid them. Machine 2 was generating new addresses 'cause it didn’t know better, making it seem like they were out of sync. Finally found…

Thanks for the replies! Found some updates. Machine 1 is offline but updated the blockchain recently, while Machine 2’s blockchain is ancient. Both have the same wallet.dat, or at least a close copy. Both show the same…

Of course, satoshis can be tracked that way if you map each input to outputs in a clear manner. Like if you’re looking at a split transaction, you could follow it through. Makes sense, right?