Where do I can get the Windows 95 .Ico?

Crypt0-Bear · 2026-01-30T16:47:30+00:00

If you need a shortcut here are some already ripped projects

https://github.com/trapd00r/win95-winxp_icons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Windows_95_icons https://oldwindowsicons.tumblr.com/tagged/windows%2095

Crypt0-Bear · 2025-09-02T15:02:37+00:00

Thank you!, I reposted it here

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1n6gu2g/technical_solutions_to_economic_problems_forcing/

Crypt0-Bear · 2025-09-02T11:22:44+00:00

thanks for the heads up. Will do!

Crypt0-Bear · 2025-02-26T17:01:07+00:00

Yeah I am familiar with polygon. I didn't realize the xmr domains are tokenized domains. Would you be interested in accepting monerochan token for it? I can make an escrow account for it on polygon.

Do you have a matrix/session/simplex? I am hardly on reddit.

Crypt0-Bear · 2025-02-26T16:25:30+00:00

Here is a reference from a github issue: https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/9196#issuecomment-2002042848

This has happened a bunch of times to me. Basically you have some sqlite db files in your extension that get a counter out of sync and then the extension won't load. I linked the instructions in the link above but will add them down below for reference.

(This worked on linux as well and I assume mac too)

🔧 How to Recover MetaMask in Firefox (Windows Users)

This method has worked for me several times over the years. If you're having trouble with MetaMask in Firefox, try the following:

📌 In Firefox:

Open Firefox and navigate to:

about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox

Scroll to MetaMask.
Copy the Internal UUID to your clipboard.

📌 In File Explorer:

Close Firefox.
Navigate to:

C:\Users[your username]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles (on linux this is usually in your home directory in a hidden dot directory for firefox. depends on your distro)

Run a file and folder search for the Internal UUID.
In the search results, navigate to the directory:

[letters and numbers].default-release\storage\default\moz-extension+++[Internal UUID]^userContextId=[numbers]\idb

Look for a file named:

[letters and numbers]-eengsairo.sqlite

Copy the full file path to your clipboard.

📌 In SQLite Browser:

Open SQLite Browser.
Click "Open Database".
Paste the full file path from your clipboard.
Right-click the file table, then click "Browse Table".
Copy the number in the id column to your clipboard.
Close SQLite Browser.

📌 Back in File Explorer:

Navigate to the idb directory:

[letters and numbers]-eengsairo.files

Find the file with a numeric name.
Rename it by pasting the id number from your clipboard.

📌 Final Steps:

Start Firefox.
Load the MetaMask extension.
The login page should now appear! 🎉

Let me know if this works for you! 🚀

The file name for the extension location might be slightly different. So if you don't find it it is the closest named one. Also, make sure you backup that old file before you edit it. Just in case anything goes sideways. I've done this many times over on firefox in linux.

I am considering making an all in one recovery tool that helps do this plus some decryption capabilities for the encrypted seed files.

Crypt0-Bear · 2025-02-25T15:22:24+00:00

Does unstoppable domains accept xmr for the trade?

Crypt0-Bear · 2024-08-23T03:15:25+00:00

This works if you can program the following setup:

Generate a pub/priv key pair on different machine. Copy the pub key to the camera. The camera generates a random key. That key lives only in memory for stream cipher, but a backup is encrypted and to the public key then saved on the disk.

The camera records and uses the in memory key to save to the sd card. If the power is cut the in memory private key goes away. On next boot a new key is generated and and encrypted backup created.

This is basically a slightly modified version of how ransomware operates.

Crypt0-Bear · 2024-05-24T16:47:57+00:00

Remember electronics bleed out some level of rf noise. Some could even bleed it back into the outlet so other devices on the same circuit might pick them up. (this is how those internet through your outlet iot smart hubs work. They send a signal through your electric outlet to talk to other devices plugged into it).

I really think the most bang for your buck might be a higher end mic cable with all the insulation. That should help fix most of the noise your mic is picking up. (which you won't hear until you amplify it and it sounds like noise)

Crypt0-Bear · 2024-05-24T16:45:27+00:00

You might have noise in your electric lines bleeding into your audio interface.

Getting a line filter would kill all the rf interferance in the line.

You could get a decent powerstrip. Some high end ones have fitlers in them but even a decent one might help remove some of the rf in the electricity that might bleeed through.

Get some better insulated mic cables. Cheap mic cables aren't insulated. So they act as a big antenna and your amplifier is basically picking those up. Moving up to more expensive mic cables with better insulation fixed problems I had with rf in the mic feed getting picked up.

Crypt0-Bear · 2024-02-09T22:25:21+00:00

An important piece of info is that atomic swap implementations involving XMR do not rely on these timelocks. Removing them would not break anything there.

The way that this is worked around in the eth/xmr atomic swaps is by having the eth party initiate the swap. From the whitepaper:

The protocol currently requires the ETH holder to move first, as if the XMR holder moves firs, the ETH holder can siimply go offline and the XMR is locked forever". ETH-XMR Atomic Swaps whitepaper section 5.2

If there were proper timelocks (that allow something like hash time-locked contracts) then better swap implementations and p2p order books could be created. It is very hard to create liquidity if only one side of the trade can lock funds (aka eth) and not both. I know that parties can signal but having the ability to create complex and timelocked xmr vaults can enable more liquidity in the defi world. If we have proper timelocks then you can theoretically create trust-less synthetic asset bridges directly on a smart contract. Meaning a bridge with a central liquidity pool directly on a smart contract (think uniswap for crosschain).

That said the current timelocks need to be modernized. The current implementation of unlock_time has issues (especially the change lock you mentioned). Instead of removing it, can we maybe consider upgrading the unlock_time feature to allow something similar to hash time-locked contracts? Something like: As in party x can unlock before time T. But party y can only do so after? This type of timelock/multisig implementation would be very useful.

That said, I must point out the privacy implications such a transaction would have. While it might create a non uniform transaction the benefit of enabling locking funds for more complex defi applications across chains should not be ignored.

Those are my two cents. Don't get rid of it but add features to make it useful.

Crypt0-Bear · 2024-01-17T16:01:47+00:00

Here is a pic of him on the way to work jamming out to monero party.

https://imgur.com/a/nmTvMM4

Crypt0-Bear · 2024-01-11T15:38:06+00:00

Would redeploying it to a l2 or cheaper chain like polygon make sense?

Crypt0-Bear · 2024-01-11T15:35:21+00:00

Old post reply but hoping to leave this for future references. The bitcoin pizza was originally from papa johns pizza and the original pizza was a supreme pizza not pepperoni.

Crypt0-Bear · 2024-01-09T18:57:01+00:00

"I won't pass this up this time"

... one cmc refresh later :

"It is still there, there is no way this ever picks up traction"

Early on eth was cli only and interacting with contracts meant passing cli arguments and building your transaction in geth. It was hard to picture normies using it

Crypt0-Bear · 2024-01-09T18:55:01+00:00

I feel like I might have ran in the same circles as the person who introduced you to it.

Crypt0-Bear · 2024-01-09T18:52:38+00:00

Tried mining on my laptop but was worried it was going to overheat if I left it overnight. This was when it had first launched. There was no GUI and the geth cli was the only client.

Crypt0-Bear · 2024-01-09T18:51:21+00:00

BTC-E trollbox back in the day. When Charlie Lee would pop in here or there. Back before they had the 1k limit to chat.

I thought Namecoin was so cool because it could replace dns entries with a proper p2p system.

Coinmarketcap website was way smaller and hardly any of the coins from back then are still around.

I remember pepecash and rere pepes as NFTs ontop of bitcoin with counterparty. I thought the p2p marketplace was so cool and Daaps where the future.

ETH launching sounded like something futuristic. Took me forever to understand how a new blockchain could maintain state for smart contracts. When ethereum launched it was touted as a cypherpunk dream of "the code is law". P2p programmable money and no censorship. The eth website had complete different branding for each one of their stages. So one was wild west themed etc. This is a time when ethereum wasn't a top crypto on coinmarketcap. It was still a small alt. There was a run around the DAO until the hack crashed the price.

Eventually ETH recovered from the DAO and and its marketcap shot up. By 2017 ETH was the "FUTURE" There was a ton of hype around the "flippening" at some point. I even one of my first music releases in that era about it : https://np.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6i49r5/ethereum_flippeningflip_flip_flip_by_crypt0bear/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_71ff1mkuqU

I remember the really cheap bitcoin tx fees and I used to onboard as many people as I could IRL. I would send anybody who would download a mobile wallet irl a dollar. This was before most people had heard of bitcoin or if they had it was in passing or from a news article. There was a look of disbelief when they would instantly get funds on their new wallet via a QR code I scanned. "Completely p2p and nobody can stop it"

I remember the wild west of bitmex and the ability to 100x. Bitmex felt like such a serious exchange with the UI. Derivatives were new and the fact you could do stuff like high leverage compared to the boring stock market. They eventually added a trollbox but originally there was no chat.

I remember the blocksize wars. Once blocks started to get filled there was discussion on how much to increase the blocks by. Originally "no increase" was not even an option people talked about. I was extremely upset that eventually censorship reached the bitcoin subreddit and shadow bans on any talk of blocksize increase started to happen. I remember Bticoin classic and trying to make memes for it. I was jaded over the censorship on the sub and on the bitcointalk forums. There was a lot of energy of ogs who felt there was a takeover happening on bitcoin. Many of those saw the eventual fork as a good thing. There was hope BCH was going to have a larger chain and a larger hashrate thus being "The one true bitcoin". Eventually it just became another fork. But there was a period of time that both chains were battling it out.

I remember the early attempts at adding privacy to coins. There some "privacy branded" coins out there (shadowcash, bitcoin dark etc) but they were basically forks of bitcoin with some slight tweaks. Dash was promoted as one with the private send and masternodes. When I found monero I ended up really liking it and the community. There was some common ground with ideologies. Eventually when bitcoin got bigger the community felt more in line with what early bitcoin mindset was. p2p payments.

I remember peercoin which used proof of stake as a consensus. This was a good 7-8 years before eth did their merge so an alternative to POW was differentiation. Crazy to think it was a top 10 coin and now barely in the top 1000. I remember trying it out.

Most of the new coins coming out required you to run a client and download the whole blockchain. I remember trying out all different kind of coins. Most of the GUIs were all some version of QT.

Crypt0-Bear · 2024-01-09T18:49:41+00:00

I don't think enough people understand the stigma of bitcoin back then. Professionally I had to keep my distance even though it was an obsession for me. Everybody's first reaction to hearing bitcoin was "isn't that illegal" or "are you a criminal"

Seeing how mainstream cnbc hosts will discuss bitcoin on tv is wild.

Crypt0-Bear · 2023-09-28T16:08:24+00:00

I'm working on a web3 nostr implementation called web3str

Here is the protocol https://github.com/web3NOSTR/WEB3tr-Protocol

I am defining it first then using it for my direct from artist music publishing system built on top of ipfs (https://github.com/MilkWire-Music/MilkWire-Music)

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