Thanks BAC When you first stake your CLAMS I believe it takes 500 blocks in order for your CLAMS to actually have a chance staking. When you stake a block your coins can't move for like... gosh can't remember (someone will need to answer this question better.)
What is the target time between blocks? 15,059,850 CLAM distributed to 3,208,032 sets of different BTC, DOGE and LTC addresses. The left overs of the 15,059,850 CLAM got sent to a burn address (I don't have it on hand.)
I am not sure I understand this, what kind of "left overs" are we talking about? |
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Bid 18.5 btc
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I have a few questions to the CLAM community. I finally had some time to redeem some more clams from some old bitcoin paper wallets. So, I am actually considering to hold on to these fresh CLAM for a while and do som POS, I think it is a interesting initial distribution, and I see more and more accepting clam. But I need some info: How long is the stake time for POS on CLAM? What are the stake award? What is the maximum total number of CLAM? How much was initial distributed? (I know this number can be a little fluffy because of the proff of chain distribution) Thank you very much  |
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Id say this incident is an argument that bitcoin core already hides the technical details very well. The OP did only see on a blockexplorer that some coins have been send "elsewhere" and the wallet just displayed the correct balance as you would expect from a bank account. How much further can you hide change than in bitcoin core? With the default settings you will never see the "change" label anywhere as far as I am aware.
Yes, this is correct. All the confusion with "change" is always when people look at the blockchain and don't understand it. The bitcoin-core does not show anything about "change" as shorena point out, you need to enable "advance coin control" to see the change address. The average user should not look at the blockchain at all, it should just look at the balance in the wallet.. |
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By the way I may sound like a crazy person but has anyone tried to actually memorize their private key? Like the only trace of your bitcoins is in your head  I read 1/2 year ago about a user who has had completely memories his private key, took him about 2 weeks of training. I think with methods like "memory mapping", where you visualize the different numbers and characters at different locations in a house you know very well, it can be done fairly easy. However I don't like the idea about not having a backup (even your brain needs a back up). All my (important) private keys are located at least two places on two different mediums. |
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I think people that focus on the grades are a bit weird. Not like it really matters. Most of these coins other than the very early brass ones were never circulated and handled like gems. They are all in mint condition unless you handled them like a retard. Besides, people that buy these coins are all over the world. ANACS is just one in the US that does it. What if someone in Germany had a German grader grade it. or someone in Sweden have it graded. It's just a mess. What matters is that you have the coin. Majority of them other than the early brass are in excellent or mint condition. Stop wasting your time with this graded bullshit.
Can you give me a link to a German or Swedish coin grader that would be willing to grade a Casascius coin? As far as I know, there are no Swedish or Danish coin graders at all and German coin graders only grade historical German coins. Right now is there only one serious player for Crypto coins, ANACS. The grading bullshit make sense for coins that change hands a lot, since the quality of the coin is defined, both buyer and seller, know the quality and there is less chance of a dispute. Further I like the image service that ANACS offer (optional), where a high res pictures are stored in the data base. Graded coins are great for selling online across the world, in most cases is not even a picture needed in your listing. I have seen a ungraded Casascius Silver 1 BTC, perfect condition which I was willing to pay 2.5 BTC for, I have also seen the same type coin with a nasty nick and a scratch on the hologram, which I was only willing to pay 1.8 BTC for, that is more than 30% price different. Grading bullshit is also good for coins like error coins, since these had no numismatic value to begin with, so they have been carried around in pockets and thrown around in the office while others have been kept nicely in a plastic capsule, obviously these have very different quality. I am sure that there are more than 30% different in the price between the best and the worse. For a coin like the one you have here. I would not even consider grading it, I can totally follow you here, grading is bullshit for a 10 BTC Casascius. The higher the numismatic value are the less sense does it make to grade the coin. |
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What a monster sale you got going here. Good luck with the sale |
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Okay, so that model was just for ppl w/ really big asses then. I'll take the small ass version.
Ohh, I did not realize this requirement. In that case you might want to look into "Chip gratify".   This has been know since the dawn of microchips, if you as a chip designer have some free real estate on the silicon, then is there room for "artistic structures", this could just as well be a QR code with the private key. I am confident that this should last for at least 100 years and fit into most rectums. |
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Consider engraving your private key into a block of tungsten  With a melting point of 3422 °C if would be the only thing left if your house burn down. And with approximate same density as gold, the block is rather heavy to pick up and run away with. |
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Well who ever has it needs to sell it to me..So far there is 4 total Casascius Silvers with MS-68..
3 x Silver + Gold singles
1 x .1 silver
Are all of those singles gold-b ? |
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I wasn't under the influence of any mind-altering substance whatsoever as I never consume any, and will never.
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Not too sure about that after listening to THE Bitcoin Sound  Good luck find your post |
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I've tried to visualize the dark side of the Moon and this is what I'm getting. I see a giant skull face, the moon appears to be an artificial construct. Inside the eye sockets are terawatt stereoscopic imaging radar transmitters. The Moon need only turn and cast its gaze upon us should we anger it.
Do you realize how much energy would be required to start rotation of the moon, then stop it after 180 degrees? Where would that energy come from? I'm sure the question will be either answered sarcastically or ignored. You probably would need a nuclear explosion to turn it, but you'd also risk pushing it out of orbit so it won't ever be done. Even a 100 megaton of TNT explosion would not be enough, not even close. Its a whole different scale of energy required to something like that. I have not calculated the number, but if you said 1000000 nukes, then would it be more realistic. |
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You could use vanitygen. vanitygen64.exe -k -o dogeAddresses.txt -X 30 D for security add a password: vanitygen64.exe -e -k -o dogeAddresses.txt -X 30 D
> Enter new password:
This is not a bad idea. AT, you should consider using this. |
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I don't think of this as a secure or convenient method. OP, you should look at offline options. The only real question is the algorithm, I have not analyzed this specific page so I cannot vouch for it, but I bet that is a port of ninja's code  I trust Ninja's generator 100% (bitaddress.org) I use bitaddress.org for thousands of dollars worth of bitcoins, but only use bitaddress.org on a computer who has never been online. But I am not too comfortable with the random generator, so I always input my own random number, personally I like to use a 99 digit base6 number. That give such a warm fuzzy feeling, completely secure |
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There is a guy who made a pyhton script for bitcoin addy (I don't remember the link, but I can find it if you want to go by that path).
That script should be easily changed to support DOGE addy and to make bulks.
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Do you think it will be fine? What should be next steps then?
As said before, you don't need to download the blockchain again. 1. Install bitcoin-core 2. Transfer your recovered wallet.dat to the bitcoin-core folder 3. Launch bitcoin core, Open the debug console 4. run walletpassphrase <passphrase> <timeout> (you can skip this one of you have not encrypted your wallet file, timeout could be e.g. "300", which is in second) 5. run dumpprivkey 1DXKUMfM9UPqnHFZbvi5R9g7uBRchm8Gio 6. Save the returned private key, and your have recovered your 0.17837798 BTC Good luck Thank you so much for the steps and all your help guys! I have recovered the wallet.dat, private key, imported it to Electrum and transferred it back to my original account.  Now, I need to read about this 'Change' address. When did that happen? Since Bitcoin-core 0.10 version or from the beginning? I need to understand this thing, and I best understand from videos. Any related video to this topic?  Cheers! Alweays great to hear when people recover their lost funds. Have a nice day As for the change address, it has been like this at least for 2 years, I am not up to date with the version numbers. |
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Do you think it will be fine? What should be next steps then?
As said before, you don't need to download the blockchain again. 1. Install bitcoin-core 2. Transfer your recovered wallet.dat to the bitcoin-core folder 3. Launch bitcoin core, Open the debug console 4. run walletpassphrase <passphrase> <timeout> (you can skip this one of you have not encrypted your wallet file, timeout could be e.g. "300", which is in second) 5. run dumpprivkey 1DXKUMfM9UPqnHFZbvi5R9g7uBRchm8Gio 6. Save the returned private key, and your have recovered your 0.17837798 BTC Good luck |
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That's harsh.. Sorry to hear that. If it's any consolation, we've all lost coins at some point.. And I think you'll find your experience is quite common amongst new Bitcoin users (not using Blockchain.info.. which makes it super simple).. it has a steep and unforgiving learning curve. All the best things in life do Welcome to the CLUB! ps If you ran a mac and had a time machine backup, it 'might' be possible.. ? Oh yes!! I have my Time machine configured!!!.... let me give it a try!... I totally forgot about it. There is a resonable chance you can recover your wallet.dat file. The file is still physical on the drive, until it eventually will be overwritten. Shut down the computer without further notice, and use another computer to recover the file from your drive. The more you use your computer the less chance there is for a recovery. P.S. Always backup your wallet.dat file, even if just running tests. P.S.S Personally I save all my wallets for historical reason. Not really any good reason to delete them. |
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