Even several years ago, transactions often took hours to confirm, sometimes days if the transaction fee was left off.   I think that if any crypo-currency is really going to replace cash, the transaction speed needs improvement.

I'm really struggling to understand how this LN would benefit Bitcoin.   I can see how it benefits some parties but it just doesn't seem to make sense for the small guy trying to use Bitcoin.

My gut feeling is SegWit is being pushed hard and it is more of a play to make it easier to change Bitcoin than anything else.   In generally I think the fact that Bitcoin is hard to change is what it saving it now.  It gives more time for learning and understanding.   

If SegWit is the way to go, then it needs to have a much wider acceptance than what currently exists.   It seems the BU really just buys time.   Maybe that is what is needed.   

Tokyo is making a lot of changes for the 2020 Olympics.   It could be that spirit of preparing is what is driving some Bitcoin friendliness.  Anyway my kids are often coming back from school with something 2020 related.  The 2020 Olympics are a very big deal in Tokyo.

If BTC keeps trading the way it does you be able to buy those coins back at $7000!   Then sell again above $10000. 

I understand you.   Sorry it is easy to come across wrong in just text.

The AEON code base isn't easy to work with in Windows.   I have a lot of respect for the work the Arux is doing!

One problem is that bitcoins are becoming impractical because the transaction fees constantly increasing.   It would be better to have more transactions than just growth in the transaction fee.

These kinds of issues make bitcoin unattractive to stores, if they are even aware of bitcoin. 

I wasn't trying to be encouraging.   What was being asked isn't a simple task.  If you give the impression that it is simple you just waste people's time. 

It also appears that @Arux is already figuring out what to do and making the necessary changes in the code to create Window's binaries. 

@Smooth also offered a good solution.  If you have a Windows computer one can just created a Linux VM and then compile the wallet and daemon on Linux.   Then just run the wallet in the VM.   It really doesn't matter where you run it as long as you keep track of the private key for your wallet.

I feel the current path Bitcoin is on is risking everything.  Transactions are getting too slow and expensive.   The use cases for Bitcoin are be limited by that.   

It used to be that Bitcoin had value because it was so much cheaper and faster to transfer to anywhere in the world in almost any amount.   What happens when that is no longer true?   I'm really struggling to see how the SegWit solution will fix this problem.   It appears that Bitcoin is being positioned into something much different than it was.   It used to be cool to buy your dinner with BTC, but it won't be so cool with it costs more to do the small transaction than the actual cost of the transaction. 

Whoa ... if people take that approach Bitcoin is doomed.   It will never fly unless it can be pretty much used for anything.   Crypto-currency is already vastly more complex then using cash, throwing rules at its use based on some absurd code based rules won't help.   

Not impossible but it isn't likely to happen very soon.   I've been using my remaining BTC to make more BTC, just a lot more carefully these days.  Maybe 10 years from now I'll have double the BTC and only need $5750 to break even!  

You have to build it.   Since you are asking about it, you probably don't have much chance of successfully building it.   Probably best just to wait for the binaries.   If you are going to build it you have to get the correct toolchain in place as well as the correct versions of 3rd party libraries.   To figure out what you need you need to look at the make files or project files depending on what the source includes.   It is often much more involved that it sounds.   Even if someone provides step by step instructions there can be many pitfalls.   

 

I'm going to need around $11500 USD to break even from all the scams I've been a victim of in the virtual currency world.   Most of these were mining related.   

That highly unlikely for most Japanese businesses.   Sure there could be some small time businesses doing that, but most Japanese businesses won't even accept foreign currency in Japan.   FOREX is the world's largest and most liquid market by far.   The viability of BTC is important but its actual value would be secondary.   What makes Bitcoin transactions viable would be the fact that a transaction could be done and the yen would show up in the proper account.   

I don't think that line of reasoning is valid.  Accepting BTC doesn't mean the same as holding it.   Most businesses would probably have the transaction converted to fiat as quickly as possible.  The actual value of BTC wouldn't have that much impact on the ability to use it.

Huh?  I must of blinked and missed it.   

Wow ... I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere, seems like I'm in the twilight zone ... 

From my experience you don't have to engage selling accounts or even ponzi schemes to trigger negative feedback.   Most the feedback is just triggered in having a different viewpoint form someone that is intolerant and you are correct it is just retaliatory.   You are also correct I should be bigger and not care.  

I can think of ways the feed back system could be improved slightly, for example require a transaction id to back up scamming claims.   If it isn't on a blockchain it didn't happen.   Although I know that would never fly and people could easily work around it.   It is just that maybe random feedback is just too easy to post.  

So you are a black woman?   That is pretty cool.   I'm a white man living in Japan with teenagers that love to make fun of my nearly non-existent Japanese.  (At least in their minds ...)   I'm all for diversity.   Different schools of thought lead to creative approaches.  

Thanks I'll try to grow a thicker skin.

PS. Interesting site you set up.   While I'm not really into that, it is a bit different to see!

People can slap nonsense feedback on you any made up reason.   There should be a way that feedback can be appealed and accounts that slap nonsense feedback should get negative feedback for doing so.   Basically there are just some users that are just jerks and probably use multiple accounts so that they can be a jerk in one account without any impact on their main account.   That seems somewhat shameful.    Then if they don't agree with something they just run around posting shill, sock puppet or other non-sense.   

I'm currently starting a new account because it is easier than dealing with the old one.   

Since I was never engaged in trading or encouraging people to engage in any particular activity I don't feel any feedback calling a scammer was justified.    It is a shame and I actually stayed away for over a year because it left such a bad taste in my mouth.   

I pointed out why earlier in this thread, it is the cost of electrical power.   In Tokyo we are paying well over 20 cents (US) per KWH!   In China power is probably 1/4 to 1/3 the cost it is in Japan.  So even though the Chinese government is very hostile to virtual currencies there is a lot more involvement.   Additionally the cost of living in China is much lower so that is what drives Chinese involvement.   

I don't think very many Japanese understand much about Bitcoin or even care.  Most of the people talking about Bitcoin here seem to be younger.   A lot of kids seem to know a good deal about it though.   

In some parts of Europe and the US power is pretty cheap and you have people heavily involved on their own, maybe not so much  Bitcoin but in virtual currencies of some kind.   It isn't the law that drives it, it is simple economics.

That being said Japan is used to virtual money.   There are more credit cards now and point cards are extremely popular.   While Japan is still more cash focused that say the US, in some ways people are more used to money being just numbers here.   Most on-going bills are paid from bank account transfers and mostly that is automatic.   The only monthly bill I have to pay is gas and even that I go to a convenience store like 7/11 and pay there.   In fact there are very few bills you can't pay at a convenience store and they don't charge any fees for that.

Japanese are very progressive when it comes to technology.   It isn't the government that drives that, it is the people that drive the government.   However when it comes to safety the Japanese are ultra-conservative.   That is what will slow Bitcoin adaption because Bitcoin isn't very safe in the eyes of many people.   

It seems to me that most people posting here don't really seems to know very much about Japan.   Japan hasn't been unfriendly to Bitcoin and there are even some BTC ATMs around Tokyo.   A lot Bitcoin events have happened in Japan, remember Mt. Gox?  (About 20 minutes from where I live.)

The problem in Japan isn't laws, the problem is the cost of power.   It has been getting better, but I'm still playing about $0.23 / kwh.   There will be some nodes setup and a lot of people will use Bitcoin but probably it will be curbed a bit because electrical power isn't cheap in Japan.