For a generic non personalized spam, IMHO it would be too expensive to generate and track millions of wallets. They could have placed a tracking pixel for much less (they didn’t, the email is just plain text)
If then it’s some targeted campaign, then yes, a dedicated BTC address makes sense as you said
It’s a conservative estimate, it’s even higher than that
Crypto-biased source: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/08/18/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-use/ (you would expect they downplay the number)
You can just take a calculator and do by yourself the math from publicly available stats https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/
In the past 24 hours a block contains in average only 3500 transactions. Then that block needs to be validated by many other nodes in following calculations.
This is why it’s the most inefficient payment method, very slow (only 3500 transactions in ten minutes instead of few seconds), expensive for the user (transfer fees are high) and power hungry
There’s a default setting that allows unencrypted communication between the server and cloudflare. So they receive unencrypted data, sign with their certificate. Or send with self signed certificate, they decrypt and reencrypt. Or for some reason can download and import on the server their own internal use certificate.
Cloudflare knows almost everything done from your IP address because they’re used by the majority of websites. And some websites are using a cloudflare signed TLS certificate so if cloudflare wants, can see the content of the communication instead of an encrypted package
So they know if you have a human behavior (visiting many different websites at human speed and having rests during sleeping time) or if you have a bot behavior (sending millions of requests to the same endpoint at superhuman speeds)
A program that is supposed to make money when you’re sleeping by automatically trade currency pairs. Usually they aren’t as miraculous as their devs are stating.
It stands as “expert advisor”
I did, because I wanted to run multiple copies of it.
The cracked version was running much more smoothly (10x less memory usage) due to missing DRM encryption
My thoughts on it from a decade ago: https://www.forexperiments.com/2012/10/the-price-of-protection.html
This said, most expert advisors programs aren’t really functional, need a human supervision. IMHO the devs make more money from the sales/subscriptions of their software than running their “money making machines”. After all, if your “completely automated money machine” actually works, why would you bother in paying marketing, DRM schemes to have other people using it?
i just tried it on zorin os and it just wanted
libdouble-conversion3 libgraphicsmagick+±q16-12 libgraphicsmagick-q16-3 libmd4c0 libmng2 libpcre2-16-0 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 libqt5gui5 libqt5network5 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5svg5 libqt5widgets5 libxcb-xinerama0 libxcb-xinput0 photoflare qt5-gtk-platformtheme qt5-image-formats-plugins qttranslations5-l10n
maybe that’s a windows thing
enshittification happened to scribd, not bugmenot
scribd used to offer free hosting for all pdf files, then when they hit critical user mass, they decided that only paid users can download the (mostly pirated) PDF files. Literally profiting from piracy while pretending it’s designed for business.
please explain how to transfer bitcoin without mining a block, since the transactions are contained there.
You need to take the energy required to mine a block and validate it (a lot, could power a small town), then divide for the few transactions that could be included in just 1 mb.
They impose a size limit on the transactions that can be included, so even if tomorrow the transactions increase 10x, each block could contain the same limited number. Of course, if you only count the electricity used by your machine to send the transaction, it’s just a few milliwatts. The problem is all the garbage calculations that need to be done to actually validate it.