AFAICT, you can't check to see who likes your comments (as opposed to posts, which you can, appending /likes to a comment URL doesn't provide the functionality even though that's effectively what viewing likes on a post does, so I have to believe this functionality isn't implemented). If you have the ability to comment on my posts, do correct me if I'm wrong here.
I also don't seem to ever see any sort of notification for replies to comments, so maybe I'm overlooking something or my browser is uncooperative.
I wonder if noise.app will add a function to search my feed. I saw a post the other day I wanted to find and possibly comment on. Oh well. The post was about thetruesize.com, and I tried it out. Very neat, but apparently not perfect. I tried to compare the US to the US and they didn't match up.
ETA: This might only happen because it started with the US over another part of the globe and I dragged it back to the US. I suspect it would match up right and possibly maintain that match if I had typed in US and dragged it away and back.
For the few following me on the old platform who have joined or may join due to my automatic invite, the discussion here may help you understand what's going on: https://noise.app/Telesfor/pnrg2q1p
If I remember correctly, I read something after joining recently that indicated the automatic invite of people you are following and the automatic following of people you were following on the old platform was pretty much a brand new feature that hasn't rolled out to users who migrated earlier using invite links. This could explain why you might not be able to comment to some people you were able to interact with regularly on the old platform. However, the post and comments also have some detail about how various reconnections were achieved under similar circumstances, so it's worth scrolling through if you're interested in that sort of thing.
My feed got really quiet. Other than a content creator in the last hour, the newest post is from 2 days ago. What's going on?
I used to be super paranoid. I always tried to lock up accounts with "The00Dustin" on any platform I was aware of so someone couldn't emulate me to scam people. At some point, I decided that was paranoia and stopped doing it. Most likely this point was when Twitter came out because I simply really didn't want to be on Twitter. Fortunately, that in turn eventually convinced me it would be OK to delete my facebook account. Today, it has come to my attention that someone has created a "The00Dustin" account on Twitter using the profile picture I have here. Generally, I'm not very social, but I guess my presence on Telegram in the smartBCH scene is powerful enough to be worth emulating. If you want to verify me, I have "the00dustin" on LNS, a naming system NFT similar to ENS, but for BCH's layer 2 (smartBCH). If you want to verify that I'm talking to you, you should look at the list of confirmed accounts here:
https://app.bch.domains/name/the00dustin.bch
I'm thinking about adding a really old GPG key there, but I don't think I've ever publicly used it, so the age of it is about as relevant as CSW's "satoshi keys" that he allegedly proved ownership of and then also allegedly somehow subsequently lost. OTOH, it seems no one uses GPG except dev nerds, so I'm not sure there's much point until/unless I become a dev myself.
Anyhoo, don't contact me directly through the accounts listed there without me expecting it in advance. If you do, I WILL assume you are a scammer and block/report you. I'd hate to report someone legit, but EVM seems to be as wild-wild-west now as BCH was in 2011-2013.
Whelp, I decided to do something that seems completely insane to me. I minted myself few Reaper NFTs hoping to get one I liked for my profile. Possibly a waste of money, but I think it worked out nicely.
So I was trying to find MetaMask support, and I started with Telegram. There is a "METAMASK OFFICIAL SUPPORT" channel and a "MetaMask Support (Official)" channel.
The first channel has posts that say this:
> ❗️we disable the permission to post messages for your safety and convenience.
> ❌ We care about the quality and relevance of the content you see here and don’t want to expose you to scam attacks.
> Your METAMASK team ❤️
> 🚀🚀HELLO!!WELCOME TO METAMASK OFFICIAL SUPPORT!!!🚀🚀
TO CLAIM YOUR METAMUSK AIRDROP PLS SEND A DM TO
(and I'm not pasting those account tags here)
While that could be a legit way to prevent scammers from emulating official accounts and preying on unsuspecting support seekers, it could also be a great way to prevent people from announcing that the channel is a scam within the channel. It seemed more likely to be the latter to me, so I joined the second channel and asked about the first one. I think I accidentally tagged an account instead of the other channel. Syomeone followed up to see what I meant, and I mentioned that it seemed scammy. I was immediately kicked and banned from the second channel. My first thought was: "maybe they thought I'm a scammer," but my second, much more rational thought was: "why am I searching for a Telegram channel instead of looking it up on the official site?"
Guess what... metamask.io doesn't mention Telegram at all. Is metamask.io the official site? Are both Telegram channels scams?
Back in the 2011-2012 Bitcoin days, you practically had to go find a scammer offering something that was too good to be true and send them your money. I'm just starting to explore MetaMask, and I've already had a scammer DM me to try to trick me into giving up my seed phrase at a scam site, and it apears I've potentially nearly fallen into some other traps, too. I guess we were only pretending it was the wild west back then. Really it was just the new world, pre Oregon Trail.
ETA: Found some confirmation, kinda. https://community.metamask.io/ has a sticky security post including "Rule #8: DO NOT join discord servers, WhatsApps groups, WeChat groups, Telegram channels or Twitter DMs. These are all scams. MetaMask does not support these."
Security interests me, that's certainly one of the reasons I was drawn to Bitcoin all they way back in 2011. In spite of the fact that I don't generally make time to watch videos and there isn't typically much to gather from the summaries of videos I'm not watching, I've been following @NaomiBrockwell and @MRosenquist for some time. I was following one on read.cash and the other here on noise.cash. It only just occurred to me today that they should both be on both platforms, so I was going to comment as much to them. Luckily, I searched first, turns out they've both been on both platforms for longer than I've been following them.
Most of the things I want to write are emotional, political, and forgotten without "going to print" over a restless night. Today, I wanted to share my take and action regarding the new integrated noise.cash wallet, so I've posted this article:
https://read.cash/@The00Dustin/why-i-emptied-my-readcash-wallet-ad623d4d
Be warned, it's long and technical, but if you're unsure about the aforementioned new feature, it might be worth a read.
Why I Emptied My Read.Cash Wallet
Your Keys, Your Coins
The read.cash wallet has always been an interesting implementation to me. The private keys are only stored on your device, so you may even have more than one wallet if you use more than one device to access your account. While possibly a bit roundabout, this is the way Bitcoin is meant to work. You are your own bank and you are solely responsible for protecting your keys. However, the roundaboutness presents a conundrum. Because your wallet appears to be controllable on a third-party site, if you are unaware of the information in the articles I linked to earlier in this paragraph, you could wipe out your browser's cache and permanently lose your funds because you never backed up your seed words. https://read.cash/@Read.Cash/back-up-your-seed-words-1b9cb2b8 https://read.cash/@Read.Cash/access-readcash-from-more-than-one-device-b3b83996
Knowledge vs Responsibility
As those articles get buried by time and content, what happens when new users have that unfortunate experience? Consider the popularity of noise.cash in a world of instant gratification where odds that users aren't reading any instructions are probably higher. When the noise.cash platform was released, it did not have a built-in wallet. I believe this is because the team responsible for both sites (noise.cash and read.cash) shared the same concern due to the fact that platform is more of a social media platform as opposed to this publishing platform. On noise.cash, instead of having a hosted wallet and being able to send tips without using a QR code, the wallet is explicitly the user's responsibility, and to receive tips (from QR tippers and from the system itself), early users only needed to provide a BCH address. This is changing. https://noise.cash/u/The00Dustin
Features for the Masses
As noise.cash matures, it continues to add features, and as its user base grows, they continue to request features. Neither of those things are surprising. Likewise, it is unsurprising that an integrated wallet would eventually be introduced to noise.cash. In fact, I believe this feature was planned from the beginning, but in that post, it is immediately clear that the integration at noise.cash differs from the integration at read.cash. See this component of that post: https://noise.cash/post/rpr5262cg7gz
Brave browser users need to turns off the shields, sorry. We store your private key on another domain to protect it from hackers
Obviously, read.cash doesn't do this, as some comments regarding using Brave here pointed out before I ever saw the post. I wasn't even the first one to question the separate storage on an additional domain, but there was clearly some confusion, so I requested clarification and discussed the implications of this in a comment to that post. Obviously the majority of users would never see a comment to a comment, so it's not problematic that clarification wasn't provided in direct reply to my comment. However, the confusion continues, and users continue to be concerned about the safety of their funds. To that point, the noise.cash talking head has made a follow-up post, but it doesn't really clear anything up for me, because it states both of these things in the same paragraph: https://noise.cash/post/8x9386wavzv9 https://noise.cash/post/zmpr049s9094
The private key (and the seed phrase) of your wallet is kept on your device only and never leaves it
your wallet (and your private key) is hosted on another domain to prevent theft
Best I can tell, those two points conflict, because at the very least, a private key can't *only* be on my device while simultaneously being hosted on another domain. If I'm incorrect about that, someone may explain how on my comment to that post, or perhaps in reply to this very article. https://noise.cash/post/x52nxmja6n67
Security, Obscurity, or Both
As can be seen in the read.cash article where you can back up your seed phrase in case you failed to do so when signing up or subsequently lost it (first link I made in this article), your seed phrase is stored somewhere. My understanding is that it is truly only on your device, and the code on that page can cause your device to reveal it. To the extent I am correct, that means your keys remain safe so long as a malicious actor or software doesn't gain access to your device and malicious code isn't injected on read.cash. That's security.
Shortly after the first noise.cash announcement post was made, I started digging in a bit to better understand what was happening, and I was able to easily learn which domain was added to store whatever wallet information is stored. I was also able to learn that it was registered through the same privacy-centric domain service as noise.cash and read.cash. I'm not posting specific information because it really isn't necessary for purposes of this article, but I doubt the information I have would put me much closer to attempting to hack in and steal funds even if I wanted to. I don't have a problem with the operator of these sites having privacy, and it is at least a bit less concerning that all three services are are being managed the same way, but that's obscurity, which security experts will argue doesn't add to security.
Regardless, a seed phrase generates an endless string of private keys. To that end, the good news about the conflicting statements in the previous section is that only one private key needs to be stored on a separate server for noise.cash to provide convenience and simultaneously protect user funds from loss by way of clearing browser cache. This appears to be confirmed by the way that part of that comment was worded and again by another follow-up post made for users concerned about whether or not hackers could steal their funds once they provide seed words. https://noise.cash/post/g3nx083cvwv3
So We're Good, Then?
At this point, it sounds like my funds should be safe on noise.cash, but not necessarily best-practice safe unless I create a separate wallet only for noise.cash and have yet another wallet to manage. I've always managed more than one wallet, but that doesn't necessarily mean I want to manage a separate hot wallet for every service that may operate like this in the future. It seems to me that the most convenient way to deal with this is to use my read.cash seed words on the noise.cash hosted wallet. However, I don't necessarily feel that I have enough information to fully understand the current and future ramifications of that action.
Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins
The heading of this section is the paranoid answer to the question in the post. While I would still have my keys, someone else could theoretically gain access to them as well, and if they were to move my coins to keys that I don't have, then they wouldn't be my coins anymore. I'm sure you've noticed that I'm a bit wordy, so obviously I'm going to elaborate. In trying to understand as many current and potential future ramifications as possible, I came to the conclusion that it wouldn't be unreasonable for read.cash to make a similar move once the hot wallet on noise.cash is proved out. Such a move could even be seamless, as it may be possible for read.cash to include code that causes your browser to provide the seed phrase (or perhaps only the private key of the first address in the derivation path). While I hadn't considered that possibility in this way before, I was already moving funds to other addresses in the same wallet because I like to tinker and I play with coin control every time I merge coins or QR tip. I don't mind QR tipping, so I don't need funds to be on this particular hot wallet anyway. At the same time, if read.cash could do this (and I honestly don't know whether or not they could), a hacker that managed to take over read.cash could do the same thing if I were unfortunate enough to visit read.cash while it was in such a hacked state. Additionally, if I have to provide my seed phrase on noise.cash in order to use the same address there, I'm once again in the dark as to how much risk an action entails. For instance, maybe the processing to a single private key happens locally and that private key is uploaded to the separate server using another layer of public key encryption with no risk at all (so long as the site isn't in a hacked state when I do it), but maybe the entire seed phrase is uploaded using only SSL encryption with processing happening on the other end. If so, it can't be guaranteed that the SSL or remote server couldn't be temporarily compromised when I upload, and it can't be guaranteed that the remote server couldn't accidentally cache something in such a way that it could be accessed by hackers later. These are the thoughts that have motivated me to move all funds off of my read.cash wallet's entire derivation path.
Not Sick, Not Well
This section is entitled with a partial and broken chorus lyric to humor myself and possibly @Abraxas (a music connoisseur who doesn't even know he's waiting for me to post this article). The reference is meant to imply that I am being paranoid, regardless of whether or not "everybody's coming to get me." To be clear, it's most likely completely unnecessary to protect funds from hackers by moving them to a separate wallet if you're using the read.cash wallet on read.cash or even if you use the same seed phrase on noise.cash (outside of defense hackers who actually log into your account with a weak or reused password in order to perform a withdrawal). The amount of funds stored there should probably still be limited as discussed in the same backing up your wallet article I mentioned earlier (again, the first link in this article) where this is stated:
**We don't recommend keeping more than a $10-20 in this online wallet.**
Even as I admit to behaving in a way that one could classify as paranoid, and even as I suggest that the action isn't entirely necessary, there is more to consider. If we view all of this action through the lens of security best practices, a seed phrase shouldn't be messed with online, even if the online site is trusted and the page where the seed phrase is required does its work offline. Whether that level of security is achievable in a hot wallet and whether that level of security is necessary for a hot wallet could both be up for debate. However, if you want your bank to be as paranoid as possible and you are being your own bank, powered by Bitcoin Cash, then it might be worthwhile to empty your read.cash and/or noise.cash wallets regularly, and that's why I have.
Well this is interesting, that feature I just noticed might be newer than I expected. @milenazoran made a request that could have lead to it and got feedback from @noise.cash saying it was implemented less than a day ago... https://noise.cash/post/05rrx36a7j7z
Just noticed another new noise.cash feature that I haven't seen posted about. I'm sure I'm not the first to notice, but apparently noise.cash is now using e-mail to confirm wallet address changes prior to implementing them. I got a notice that I needed to check my e-mail when changing my address, and then I got the e-mail screenshotted here. After using the confirm link, I got the now-normal notification that my wallet address has changed.
So I recently posted a comment to a recent noise.cash post to ask for clarification about some confusion surrounding the new (but currently disabled) wallet feature. I told several peple who had posted previous relevant comments to the same post that I'd be posting it, so I tagged them all in it. I just tried searching one of the tags, and comments don't show up in the search. I guess there's no way to search comments at all?
So it looks like noise.cash is having a pending payout display glitch that may or may not have anything to do with the performance issues people are complaining about today. My wallet page is showing a pending payout higher than my minimum payout amount, but I'm pretty sure it was already paid out more than 100 confirmations ago.
Prior to noticing this, I replied to someone asking for help and explained to them that their minimum payout was set to low and that's why they were seeing a similar thing. Looks like I might have been wrong there and they might be seeing a pending payout that was already paid, too. Unfortunately, I can't go edit my comment because apparently username searches don't show comments. I think it's probably a good thing that username searches show comments, but at the same time, it would be nice if I had access to my comment history.
ETA: Browser history is a thing, so I was able to edit that comment after all.
Interactive Brokers now offers Crypto trading, and BCH is one of the options for trading. It is custodial ("All trading and custody of digital assets is provided by Paxos Trust Company"), so I don't recommend it, but this is international news, and it does a lot more than PayPal's similar offering to make me hopefuly that the disinformation campaign on social media isn't so effective against large investors. Source: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/communiques/2021/2021-Q3-vol15.php#section-feature-drop
Looks like the noise.cash changes keep on flowing in. I just noticed a "hidden paid message" box between a couple posts on my subscription page. It said something like "800 sats" on a tag. I clicked to see what it was and the "800 sats" tag disappeared and the massage showed up. The message was about SmartBCH, and it did not have a poster name like other posts. That new feature is an interesting concept regardless of exactly what it did. I assume either 800 satoshis was added to my pending payout for viewing the message, or noise.cash will be paid an amount that I increased by 800 satoshis. I should imagine the former is more likely. The tag being in satoshis seemed odd to me since everything has always been in USD here, so I went to check my pending wallet balance since it has always shown in USD, and it shows in BCH with a USD estimate instead of just showing the pending USD amount. I suspect this means that hearts which tip are now tied to USD upon click instead of only when the user-set minimum payout limit is reached.
I tried to reply to a post and my reply stayed in the box after I hit the Post button. I hit the Post button again and it told me it was a duplicate post and not to spam. The reply still doesn't show up, probably because it was in reply to an uncommented re-noise of a since-deleted post. Interesting to me, as I was wondering yesterday whether replies disappear when the posts/comments above them are deleted (unlike reddit, where you can see the replies under deleted comments). I guess this means they probably do....
When @noise.cash introduced user tagging, they chose not to have notifications for tags, and for good reason. However, as I'm looking at the interface today, it occurs to me that the "Subscriptions" feed could have tagged posts as an option to opt in/out of (from a UX perspective, it would just be another checkbox under "subscriptions", "channels", "replies to me", and "chambers").
The unofficial torch appears to be unofficially dead. Long live the unofficial torch.
No clue what I'm talking about? See https://read.cash/@Telesfor/the-unofficial-noisecash-torch-fea6377f but understand that there was a channel here and it is no more.
I don't know about everyone else, but I'm super stoked that the music posts by @Abraxas are going to have #similarposts under them. Can't wait to see all that Christian music!
My PC, with a GTX 560-Ti video card, an FX-8120 processor, and terabytes of storage on a series of old hard drives on an even older SATA II RAID controller has decided it doesn't like to turn on after I turn it off. I mean, it powers on, but it doesn't POST. Strangely, if I let it "warm up" long enough, it will POST after I completely cut power briefly. I'm considering replacing it with a new Mac Mini (M1). I've found that I am no longer taking advantage of anything the PC has to offer anyway. Am I going insane?
I believe that a significant number of noise.cash users are from the Philippines, and if I remember correctly, a significant number of those users use Coins.ph. If this is you, please keep reading. I thought I should take a moment to announce that it appears Coins.ph will start requiring KYC documentation for some transactions on June 18th. They have probably notified you already, but I thought I should post this here in case anyone missed the notification. Here is my (3rd party) source for this information:
https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/o119en/kyc_world_closing_in_heres_a_recent_email_from/
I don't know whether or not their wallet is custodial, so I don't have a clue whether or not using their wallet automatically makes this new requirement apply to you. Presumably you can verify this announcement if you have an account with them, and hopefully you understand whether or not their wallet is custodial if you are using it.
If you have a problem with KYC and want to move your coin before this requirement takes effect, I often see the Bitcoin.com wallet recommended, and I personally like the Electron Cash wallet. Neither of those wallets are custodial, so using them leaves you fully responsible for the safety of your coins. This means you need to be certain that you are downloading from an official source (so that you don't install a scam wallet that steals your coins). It also means you need to be sure to protect your seed phrase once you install (so that you can recover your coins in the event of damage to and/or loss of the device storing your wallet).
All of that having been said, if KYC and custodians don't concern you, feel free to carry on. Either way, stay safe.
u/noise.cash has been awfully quiet considering the minor-but-positive changes over the weekend. I've noticed two changes that matter to me so far, and both are for the better:
1) Channel posts made by people we are subscribed to are now included in the feed as chamber posts by them always have been.
2) There is now a customize button in the top right corner that allows you to choose which groups of posts you see on your feed (subscriptions [including their chamber and channel posts], channel subscriptions, and chamber subscriptions [possibly off by default]).
Personally, I turned chamber subscriptions on and channel subscriptions off since I can see which channels have new posts using the "channel updates" banner at the top, which does have an indicator for when the channel has new posts (I don't know if that is new or not, because I'm not super-active and subscribe to very few sources).
When you click the dropdown button to see replies to a post in a channel, you are presented with a "Subscribe" button and "To reply to this message you need to subscribe to this community." However, it is possible to see replies to a post without subscribing to the channel if you are only browsing channels and want to do so. Just click on the time at the top of the post to view it outside of the channel and the drop-down will work. At this point, it will also look like you can reply, but that is not the case, attempts to post a reply will give you the same message, only without the "Subscribe" button. If you find yourself in that situation because you're browsing a profile but want to subscribe to a channel, just click on the channel name at the bottom of te post, this will take you to the channel where you'll have a "Subscribe" button.
Nothing to see here, everything works in two very distinct completely consistent manners.
Thanks to u/Abraxas for picking up the unofficial noise.cash torch. I've passed it on, and I'm sure he'll take great care of it before passing it on to the next participant. #TheUnofficialNoiseCashTorch
76 people in this chamber and nobody wants to carry the torch?
https://noise.cash/post/l435qx36 #TheUnofficialNoiseCashTorch
Surely there is someone in this chamber who would be interested in carrying the noise.cash torch... https://noise.cash/post/l435qx36 #RandomThoughts
"We Must Crush Digital Misinformation Before It Destroys Society"
https://read.cash/@M.Rosenquist/we-must-crush-digital-misinformation-before-it-destroys-society-8c7f4437
I'd definitely like to see lots of discussion on the thoughts behind this article. Go there to involve the OP or comment here with what you think.
This token isn't moving nearly enough, so I finally made time to figure out how to receive it, and now I need to pass it on. Who would like to carry the torch next?
Reply here with your SLP address when you're ready to pass it on.
Don't know what I'm talking about? Check this out first:
https://read.cash/@Telesfor/the-unofficial-noisecash-torch-fea6377f
Interested, but not super-familiar with crypto in general? NFT are "tokens." In this case, SLP "tokens" can be "minted" on BCH. This isn't as advanced as ETH or SmartBCH contracts, and is tracked separately from BCH units on the same blockchain. Some NFT have trading value, but this one is just a good practice NFT. If you are going to mess with NFT, it is probably important that you already understand the "not your keys, not your coins" mantra and start to also understand that you should not use the same seed phrase for an NFT wallet and a non-NFT wallet on the same chain, because if you do, a normal spend from the non-NFT wallet could destroy your NFT. #TheUnofficialNoiseCashTorch
If you play Super Mario Maker 2 and like puzzle challenges , I made a Link one you might enjoy. Course ID is Q7K-TCW-W8G.
I've wanted to make one since I got my kids the game, but I had some "writer's block." It takes a lot more time to make a level like that than it does to make a basic level. I spent a lot of time trying to make sure the puzzles would require specific solutions, but as soon as I uploaded it and let my 8 year old play it, I saw an unintentional solution that might be more obvious than the correct solution in one room and my daughter used an unintentional solution that I thought I had effectively mitigated in the next. Still pretty fun, but possibly more challenging than I intended based on the clear rate. #NintendoSwitch
@The00Dustin
