I mean if someone can just play with random seed for fun until he got working SEED which can take coin from others ? Try it! Really, try it  Convince yourself how a Bitcoin mnemonic is. Here's a list of all funded Bitcoin addresses. Good luck! |
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I think 10% is too high. The criteria for plagiarism should be based on how often 7 or more words in a row are copied from another source (it should be never). Is that 7 word limit based on more common phrases, such as "not your keys, not your coins" or "don't invest more than you can afford to lose"? I'd say both are common enough not to need a citation anymore. I reproduce them by heart because I've read them so many times before. It is quite likely to write the same couple of words. Google gives 2 hits for "likely to write the same", while I only searched for it after typing it. Even if the same combination of words occurs many times in a document, if 2 people write about the same subject that is to be expected. |
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I paid 93 sats per byte nlyesterday to end up 47mb from the tip of the mempool I guess that wasn't meant to consolidate small inputs  Fees can always spike any moment, but if I look at Johoe's current graph, I see many people pay 50 times more than needed:  The graph shows what happens when it takes more than an hour to find a block (around 03:00). Wallets keep competing for the highest fee, but none of that matters until a block gets mined. Yesterday I paid 1.2 sat/byte instead of 1. That was enough to get on top of the large majority of waiting transactions, while my wallet was recommending to pay 80 times more. Even now, Mycelium recommends 82 sat/byte for a "Normal" 30 minutes transaction. For 2 hours, it recommends 59 sat/byte, and only for 3 hours it drops down to 8 sat/byte. It's such a waste of precious satoshis to follow the default fee, and on top of that it forces others to do the same. |
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Thermal paper can last a while, but yes I do see your point.
They also make micro sized inkjet printers. Maybe I should change my opinion on this matter I just searched for "micro printer" on Aliexpress, and it shows many different thermal printers. Ink jet won't be good either as they usually dry out. This would be a very fun project for boring lockdown days. The fun factor is more important than keeping the paper for decades. A beautiful UI shouldn't be a priority when selecting a crypto wallet. Let's face it: most people would choose the good-looking wallet over an ugly wallet. If you are using the Lightning Network wallet of BlueWallet you are wrong with the non-custodial part. It's a custodial wallet. I only use BlueWallet for the (custodial) LN part (I use Mycelium for mobile on-chain storage). I don't care that it's custodial, because I only keep small amounts in it, and it just works better than opening my own channels. Besides, it's a wallet, not long-term storage. People store billions on exchanges, so I really don't mind storing a few bucks in a custodial wallet. I think I have about 40 euro worth of LN in it now, and another 25 in (non-custodial) Phoenix Wallet. I make more off-chain transactions than on-chain nowadays, but the total value transfered is lower. A custodial LN wallet has benefits too: to deposit, I create a new LN wallet to get a new address. It's good for privacy, and I don't need to open another channel every time. |
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I have found the wallet.dat file, used the GitHub Wallet-Key-Tool to extract the Keys and then imported all 101 addresses into a Blockchain wallet with all having a 0 BTC balance. I don't know that tool, so I can only hope you took precautions (such as running it on an air-gapped offline PC). Why didn't you just install Bitcoin Core after making a few backups of your wallet.dat? Or even better: install Bitcoin Core first, let it sync the first few years (that's fast), then add your old wallet.dat after you take the PC offline to prevent any malware attack. I also hope you didn't import the private keys but only the addresses into an online wallet. If you mined a block back in the days, each block would make you a millionaire now, so you're risking if you expose private keys to a hot wallet. The strange thing is that within the Bitcoin folder, I have Block folders with transaction numbers and full transaction details and some of the addresses still contain mined BTC. Why do I have these transaction details if it wasn't my computer or wallet that mined? I wasn't using Bitcoin around that time so I don't know what files Bitcoin-qt used to write. I've never heard of Bitcoin-qt by itself storing keys anywhere else than in wallet.dat. |
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I honestly can not understand why many users find it so difficult to indicate the original source. Bitcointalk is the only forum I frequently visit that even cares about plagiarism, and in many cases it's just very convenient to quickly show a certain text. For as long as I can remember "the internet" is just a place where people just copy content from other places. Some people even used it as a stepping stone to become billionaires. Let's face (pun intended) it: most people simply don't care. |
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Personally I tried and failed to re-start a paper wallet in a box project. They also make micro sized inkjet printers. As cool as a "one click and it prints a wallet" device would be (and I'd love to have one for that matter!), I don't think it solves any problem. It doesn't help "others", as they'd still need to trust the creator of the device. So it's only useful for yourself, and if that's the case, you don't even need it. Just print a bunch of pages with paper wallets at once, and keep them on a pile for when you need them. Use a cheap dumb laser printer and a cheap laminator and it'll last a very long time. I know people who just store a paper wallet for long-term holding, and that's all they've ever done with Bitcoin. If they want to actually use it, most wallets will do for small amounts. From my own experience I would recommend either Mycelium or Coinomi for Android, or Electrum for a desktop. I've tried many different wallets and can only recommend to try more than one to see what works best for you. If someone wants to store a larger amount, I think they'd first have to learn a bit about what they're doing. Just like you don't just create an account at a broker and start buying stocks without doing some research, right? Right? Or maybe that is what's happening when a small car manufacturer has a P/E of 1400. Many people will get burned, just like they got burned on ICOs. Choose your wallet is a pretty good start.
In my mobile I use Coinomi. It is the best wallet for my needs. This is me responding after a year: I'm switching more to LN for small payments. Some hosting companies accept it directly, but usually it has to go through coupons. I'm okay with Bitcoin transaction fees most of the time, but this way I can evade the additional fee charged by payment processors for using Bitcoin. |
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048633E29F646C9AE551C3837959F40E13BA6D673138A68BBDB6B93E2E9AEC98B02354539A83780
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Indym The capital "i" isn't allowed, so I made it lower case: Address: 1 indymJ9Xa3QjwPPL9Xa19eEn6rBD2zDv (Balance:  ) PrivkeyPart: 5JtepRaJffbJQr9A79VKbS7juSUXh2re1sZgapX1ATeBqSmAR3B |
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BSV turns out to be much more annoying: it's own wallet doesn't let me sign a transaction from a read-only wallet, and I don't trust them at all so don't want to give the hot wallet a private key. Reddit suggested to use an old Electron Cash wallet, which I tried. However, once signed, the transaction couldn't be broadcasted. Eventually, I used Coinomi on Android to import the private key into a hot wallet, and broadcasted the transaction. This is not how I prefer to do things, but it got the job done. That leaves BCH-A. The wallet works just fine, but I'm waiting for Binance to accept deposits. |
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What a strange story...  It sounds like OP used a phishing site. OP: why didn't you check the Letter of Guarantee before depositing a small fortune? |
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Of course, that would mean I would have all the informations about your mixing, so you should be aware of the privacy risk. I can do the same, feel free to email me at LoyceVswitzerland@protonmail.com. If you use Protonmail to send the email, it should use full encryption so nobody in between can read the email. That being said, I just checked their website. It shows: Send your coins (min 0.001, max 146.0188 BTC) to: From the faq: Due to the nature of our operations we do not accommodate transactions that are less than .001 BTC in size. We consider the smaller transactions to be donations made to our system. My sample Letter of Guarantee shows this: Our fee is 2.9939% + 0.0005 BTC for every target address. So based on this, and your deposits: 0.00097 BTC
0.00062 BTC
0.001 BTC
0.00048 BTC
TOTAL: 0.00307+ BTC (minus the 14 USD they sent) I would expect the first, second and fourth payment to be considered donations. That leaves 0.001 BTC, minus the percentage and transaction fee, and you'll end up with less than 0.0005 BTC. That would be very close to the $14 you received. From what I've seen, I wouldn't call this a scam. It sucks, but small inputs are expensive to consolidate. |
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your original post got caught by LoyceV scrapper I'm not the only one running a scraper, so anythin you post should be considered online forever. @LoyceV, is that something you could edit or delete manually to prevent people from seeing his email in public? I've edited View all unedited (or deleted) posts made by PNW_Steve and my complete List of all Bitcointalk usernames. I'm not editing all quotes in my archives though, just like the old username is still visible in quotes in this topic. It might pop up again in for instance my Merit data too, that update is currently running. |
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I've been stockpiling *all* of the Bitcoins I've accumulated during the about nine months I've been in Signature Campaigns for use in creating Lightning Network Channels. ~ I guess HODLing for a year or two is my XMAS-Crypto resolution. LN is still highly experimental, so I wouldn't feel safe holding a lot of funds in there. I consider HODLing more of a cold storage kinda thing than using hot wallets or even active open channels. Just last week I found a really nice way to use my LN funds. I use it to buy coupons to buy what I need. It's a rediculous system with several additional middlemen, but it saves the ~0.2 m BTC "network fee" charged by BitPay, and my own on-chain transaction fee. For a small payment (around $20), I now pay a total of around $1 in fees, instead of $5 or more. If I can wish for someone else's new year's resolution: I hope shops that now accept Bitcoin start accepting Bitcoin LN this year, so I can cut out multiple middlemen. |
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Anyone that got it right? My prediction wasn't bad: LoyceV (Legendary)~ 14. How much will Bitcoin cost at the end of 2020?"I'll tell you in January  No really, I'm terrible at predictions. If I'd know, I'd be rich! I still have high hopes for the coming months (after the last block reward halving)." I know I said I have high hopes, but damn The current price is higher than I dared hope for. |
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