It's a sum of everything. People are overrating a lot the segwit2x speculation. I don't think most of the money is coming in just to get segwit2x coins. It's mostly CME and wall street money plus other factors, you can't simply say it's due segwit2x because that's nonsense.

Segwit2x may not even happen and a lot of people looking forward to short the market will get burned. Shorts never learn, so many idiots get liquidated, just look at the twitter bots.

The idea is to have a full bitcoin node installed in a decent system like a linux partition that you don't use for much other than to have the full node so you lower the surface attack (and not use Electrum because it's not ideal, some consider HD wallets unsafe).

Then, you would have something that's completely sealed like an airgapped laptop, and you would do the actual signature there, then you save this information in an USB or something and then relay it into the network with your full node.

The problem is I dont really know how this method works. How do you make the offline transaction, then pass it on the full node linux partition safely?

Trisquel looks nice. I think I saw a video with Richard Stallman and during the interview (it was an interview over the internet, like skype but they used free software) he was asked what distro he was using and I think he said Trisquel.

Is Trisquel easy to use?

Has Bitcoin Core been tested in Trisquel successfully?

I also considered Xubuntu.

Not having the same address format may not be a technical problem for us users that are more experienced than the average guy on bitcoin, but think about all the newbies that come in here and have to deal wit all these forks, which all share the exact same appearance in address format.

This is just another kind of attack by the forkers trying to deliberately confuse newbies into thinking their bitcoin is the real bitcoin. It would be as easy as giving the forks different formats, but they choose not to in purpose.

Anyway, lets say I move my BTC coins to another wallet so I can access the BCH coins. But then, the BCH coins are still sitting on exactly the same BGT addresses on the BGT chain.

So should I also move BCH or BGT to another wallet before transacting with either? damn, it's going to be a mess trying to access all the coins. Im going to waste satoshis on a bunch of transactions. Yes it's still free money, but you are losing a % during this process.

I've also been recommended Debian, it at least has a GUI online OpenBSD. Will it auto-update itself fixing any vulnerabilities etc? do you need to mess around wit the terminal to make it work?

What do you think about the openSUSE one?

In general would you consider using Core as a wallet under Linux safe? I just don't understand how this idea of running the node separate from the wallet while still using the node to transact works.
It seems ideal tho.. since you would sign the transaction offline, then use your node to spread it into the network, but I have no idea how this could be done properly.

I tried to warn people several times, to not put their coins into shitcoins. They asked me to rate their portfolio, I told them the honest truth: "what you are holding is 99% scams, just stay on bitcoin, unless you want to gamble, if you want to gamble, then don't hold alts for too long". They wouldn't listen, they would call me a "bitcoin maximalist" (what a stupid term to use).

Well now you are reaping the benefits of spreading your BTC across a ton of different nonsense alts.

Wow that's crazy. 1 block per second? Can you post your computer specs in detail? also what's your internet connection like? I should update both my computer and internet. I need to see if there is reach for optical cable fiber internet in here, im still stuck with the good ol ADSL connection.

I will indeed get an SSD but im saving to get more money ready for a full update to go with m.2 SSD and not regulat SATA3 SSD.

Also, what Linux distro are you using? im looking for one that is secure but not too hard to use and maintain safety. Im not really sure about Ubuntu anymore since their shady ad partnership with Amazon.

What are your computer specs like? The only thing you could do is to buy a faster computer. Im not sure what is more important, if CPU, HDD or RAM, but it should be way faster with a faster computer, assuming that your internet connection is good, and that your connectivity to other nodes is good.

Sometimes it becomes really slow for me, like 0.15% increase an hour which is insane. I open and close it and I get new peers and it goes faster, but my computer is old and im hoping that an upgrade makes this process faster.

I have nightmares about my blockchain becoming corrupted and needing to sync from scratch. That would suck.

Yes, Ubuntu seems very user friendly, I used it some years ago, I think it was version 10, and it was almost like Windows. To install stuff, you just clicked on the Synaptic Package Manager thing and you would get all of that installed there, you didn't even need to use the terminal much. Eventually, I somehow bricked my install when I tried to install nvidia drivers (which needed the terminal). The monitor was just black after boot. I gave up and went back to Windows...

But some thing I dont like about Ubuntu is that it was accused of spyware in the past:

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do

It may be a bit too much calling this incident spyware, but it still sucked, I wouldn't expect these practices when I go to Linux. But now it seems in recent versions all of that was removed, but im not sure, I haven't been paying attention to anything Linux.

So would you consider your Windows 10 desktop wallet (I guess it's Electrum?)? If it's in Windows 10, you are still expose to Windows 10's viruses and so on, not to mention which is closed source, with in-built spying stuff etc. Why would you consider this safe even if it connects to a node that is on Linux? Also can you really trust Canonical Ltd? Richard Stallman called Ubuntu "spyware" at some point.

But Electrum in an SPV wallet, how does this work exactly? and where does your full node enter the picture on that setup? you just said you use electrum cold wallet then electrum read only wallet to transact. So wheres your full node there??



What distro? and what do you think about OpenBSD?

It's not enough to run a full node in some raspberry pi that you will never use. You should use it to transact too, so it becomes an economic node and you are in charge of your money 100%, knowing what you are doing. The problem is keeping your bitcoins safe.. which is why im asking what is the best operating system to run a full node that is also used as a wallet:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2332405.msg23830612

please help.

Let's say you have bitcoins on the legacy chain, (BTCaddress1)

As a result, you got whatever amount of bitcoins held there in the BCash chain, (BTCaddress2)

Finally, you didn't move your coins from there, come November and you get whatever amounts of bitcoins held on BTCaddress1 in 2x's chain (BTCaddress3).

Notice that BTCaddress1, BTCaddress2 and BTCaddress3 are all the same address because the jackasses doing forks don't even bother in having their own address formats.

Anyway, my question is... does this pose any risk when I try to access one of them? what would be the correct way to access BCash and 2x without screwing up in the process? im not sure since it's a triple match...

My idea is to set up a node on a computer at home with a monitor that I would use as a wallet, which is why I don't want to use windows at all for that. I thought about Linux to bypass the endless sea of viruses of windows. Im not sure if I would still need an antivirus in Linux but at least it's open source. Then someone told me about OpenBSD, but i've seen OpenBSD has no GUI, so you need to install it separately, and I don't know if that is safe. Also I don't know if OpenBSD is going to be too difficult for me to keep updated and safe, im not a coder. Does it have an auto-update system? I used Ubuntu in the past and it was pretty easy to keep updated.

What do you think of Linux Mint? i've heard is better than Ubuntu.

Nope. Everyone is free to hoard. It's really stupid when people claim "if you just hoard it, and don't transact it, you are hurting bitcoin!". What the hell is this logic? It is my bitcoin, I do whatever I want with it. If I choose to hoard it then so be it. It is stupid to spend your high quality money that appreciates with time when you have bad quality money that depreciates with time (fiat) to spend things you can already buy with it. Hold the bitcoin, dump the fiat, that is what the intelligent people do. There's no point in doing payments in bitcoin unless you really need to (like paying an VPN service for example.)

Some are theorizing about a segwit2x hardfork that ends up being very dramatic for bitcoin, pushing holders into altcoins while the situation resolves. Im not sure about this. Why would you put your money into altcoins? they are less safe than bitcoin under segwit2x's attack and any other attack. Altcoins could be frozen due no hashrate, could get delisted, could also crash... there's no safe haven.

Who knows, maybe Litecoin saves the day again during this hardfork crisis. I can't wait for November to be over so we can enjoy Bitcoin whitou stupid big blockers.

There aren't many that I know off, but I know this one called "Poswallet". They pay monthly dividends, as well as PoS staking. Masternodes may be coming soon on november, so that would ne more passive income. Poswallet has a good idea, and that is to allow people to stake several coins at once, now in a decentralized way thanks to the TPOS method. More here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2186549.0

Technical and fundamental analysis tell me this coin is undervalued right now.

Looks like a total joke to me. But the more of these bitcoin knockoffs the better, it only legitimizes the real one even more. This is the beauty of it... imitation is a form of admiration and respect. All these imitators only point to the obvious: Bitcoin is king and everyone else is just trying to the Bitcoin, but there can only be one, and that isn't going to be any of the altcoins you are holding, specially the altcoins that claim to be Bitcoin (and this includes Segwit2xcoin too, so beware with the scammers).

Im confused. Wasn't the shutdown already taken place last month? Im tired of the chinese talking about exchange bans, they first make an statement, then a statement about the statement, then a deadline, then a statement about the up and coming deadline... it never ends.

In any case, the huge dip towards high $3000's was it. IT was priced in already, so this is irrelevant. Anyone that had money in China already moved it elsewhere or dumped for chinese fiat.

I don't think geo-location, ISP, browser, OS, etc is relevant in 2017. Most people use Tor or VPN to access this website, hopefully with javascript off too because you don't want to get hacked by some scammer sending you a PM that has a javascript exploit of sorts which would get your IP, or a simple image hosted by an attacker that opens itself in a PM and reveals your IP could do it. It's just dump to visit a bitcoin forum without some protection. So both good people and bad people are using these things.

Theymos specifically asks for BTC signed messages because it's the only 100% guaranteed way to prove you own the account (getting email, account and entire BTC wallet hacked is too unlikely specially for people that has been here for years, so Hero Members and up)