Are you using Visual Studio or something else to compile it.

Only wallets i have seen written in C# for windows uses a project called NBitCoin that is massive
and when i downloaded it from Github someone had left an extras file in the project so it would not compile
until i worked it out and just deleted the file but in a project that size it took more than a few seconds to spot.

Sorry cannot help if your using GNU to compile it, too far out of date with that one.

What I am starting to see are on-line HTTP API's you can call and write wallet code against in no time so long
as you don't mind paying the API owners a fee but from my investigations it would be easier to give birth to an elephant than
to talk directly to BTC nodes on port 8333 from a wallet you wrote yourself and i don't trust other peoples code library when it contains
hundreds of classes 

I am no expert at Bitcoins but i am when it comes to programming windows machines

Now it's possible to write code that peeks at network traffic and also to get a list of files back from the windows API that have been changed
and hidden away in the dark depths by microsoft. I can see my disk drive is writing away vasts amounts of data all night long and I won't tell
you about the back-doors they are using via ConHost, SvrHost to call home at night which i see by using my own version of something called
wireshark to peek at the network.

It is not possible for me to read this data because it has been encrypted so i can only guess what is going on.

For years I was looking for visitors in the night that could get past my Firewall that has both in/outbound rules and in the end I found them
because they use encryption so byte stream data shown nothing you can read once encrypted and in the end I found what i was looking for but
I am sure as news of this bug gets out that Microsoft will fix it.

What i found was that if you audit the SSL-Certificate store during the night using a program is that certificates would appear in the store
that were often issued by the DoD and other government names and some certificates would not contain a central authority to validate that the
certificates were authentic.

Lets just suppose that what i am saying is true and you are running a windows machine then are you sure that if you upset the
wrong people (expose the CIA/NSA) then they could not hack your account, steel your coins to punish you ?

Well hold on a second because i opened a Coinbase account and they gave me a public address and when i sold part of a coin they
gave me a new address so i was sure the coins were on the block-chain but when i checked for transactions against the two public
address given to me then i discovered they have no transactions against them.

Seems like Coinbase can counterfeit BTC and use them to run their own pool and are making a fortune in the process.

It should be my decision if i want a new address when i spend from an account but as it is Coinbase has my BT-Gold from the fork
and won't give me access so i feel scammed and it's all been legal but i can give you the fake address they gave me if you like
but i don't think you will learn much from it.

Just yesterday I was reading something in "The Sun" newspaper and this is being read by millions of people that might soon be
coming our way and it said transactions fees in BTC were free but us experts all know better than that don't we however if we just
dispel complains by giving someone a flee in the ear then were do you thing we are going   

"Transactions are made without middle men, so there are no transaction fees and no need to give your real name."
See https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/3000715/bitcoin-price-pound-sterling-worth-value-mining-futures-trading-investment/
Not so long ago everyone was saying this and I only found out later, not being an expert at the time and all that.

Myself pointing out that i clicked a link in google (Took screen capture later) that clearly stated that if i spend over $100 with
coinbase as a new client then they would give me a joining bonus of $10 in BTC got me too and i know that news like this becoming
public might not help your 'investment' rise in value but issues like these need to be addressed or we will end up back where we
stated from. 

 

I want to see a system were the coins are autonomous so that the network becomes separated from the coins themselves
and can transact with lots of new coin/token as they come along even if we have to go semi-centralized which we are already
anyway since ten big miners conduct 90% of all transactions anyway

mini pools all over the place does not really deal with scale-ability and already we have a 200gb database that is getting
far to big to work on the average desk-top PC

PoW is not used on digits flying around in the VISA debit card system and we have 1000 X more CPU power than they have
so maybe a system of nodes (cheap cell phones included) could provide a secure Tor type network to keep Big-Brother and government out
and then we just need a way of allowing the banks (Much like coinbase already) to hold the coins but not ever own them because the coins have a private
key to a hash of hashs so they cannot un-lock the coin

Don't know, above my pay grade but was i to be younger then I would put a few brain cells to work on this

 

I like people that question what they are told by the mejia and i fit into this group myself because I think that the block-chain solved a few
problems but created many more which as a developer I have been saying for about a year and now it looks like i am being proved right.


But when BTC was a mere $0.15 then it was more or less just a test network used by students so your theory is not valid since we are talking about prices today
were volumes and winning prizes are much, much higher

Trying to work out an actual number for the cost of producing one BTC must be a guestimated number since the number of nodes will go up or down
but i see no reason to argue with the many, many sites that put the number between $1k-2k in energy alone and not all the sites saying this
are working for green-peace or seem to have a vested interest in BTC

Yes something like that spike but it was a little wider and was in the 19k's for about an hour
See https://api.gdax.com/products/BTC-USD/candles?start=2017-12-07&end=2017-12-08&granularity=200

Data comes back in this format
time bucket start time
low lowest price during the bucket interval
high highest price during the bucket interval
open opening price (first trade) in the bucket interval
close closing price (last trade) in the bucket interval
volume volume of trading activity during the bucket interval

I cannot see $19,xxx in the data for the 7th or 8th
See https://www.coindesk.com/price/  and set the start date to 7th and it peaks at about $17k

Not sure how you got the chart but it does not look like this one that shows top at about $16,500
https://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg60ztgSzm1g10zm2g25zv

Our times will not be the same because I am on GMT here in the UK but i am sure it was the 8th at close to midnight my time and i was waiting to see
if the price hit $20,000 but it started to go down again at about 00:30 on the 9th

I scan read the data from the GDAX api for that date and also did a search for ",19" in the JSON and did not get a match so I am not sure what is going
on and because most of the charts show a peak of about $18,000 then people think I am barmy but i know what I saw but i will test again using the 7th
just to make sure

The price in South Korea I am told was about $23,000 at this stage but i am not quite sure why they pay much more than we have to pay for a coin

The actual cost is way over $2000 per coin and the reason for this is the capital cost of the equipment to compete for coins that is often
forgot about when miners talk about the profit they have made.

Typical array of 8 1080 GPU rigs tend to take 2-3 years to pay back the hardware costs that go on top of the electrical costs
and that is without factoring in GPU's over heating and going wrong since many of them are over clocked to run faster and this
results in more heat being produced.

Too me mining is like getting lots of computers to count grains of sand in a cup and the first one to get the correct result wins a price
after the other computers reach a consensus on the correct number. Block-chain has solved a few problems but has created more in the process
not that i am saying that I could come up with a better plan without taking years to do so   

No i stand by my numbers and your calculation did not deal with miners who did not win a coin

See http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/technology/op-ed-bitcoin-mining-consuming-more-and-more-power/article/509257

You will also find calculations for the estimated cost of each transaction using google (fixed search results)

Please correct me if i am wrong but it looks like something where you can earn like $0.01 a day by visiting a web-site that shows you adverts and the
bill is past on to the owner of the web-site who is placing the adverts.

if so then the google quiz for "I am human" would soon block any code that i could write and i would want
more money for having to go through that process each day than they are paying

You might like to checkout the "Brave" browser which really is top of the range when it comes to privacy and
blocking adverts but if you want to earn money then it comes with a built in wallet that earns your BAT coins
if you un-block some adverts without helping add-servers to rip customers off.

Not quite sure how you convert BAT to $$$ 

Feel free to kick me if i was barking up the wrong tree

No you could well be right but we are already more or less forced to trust some 3rd part like Coinbase as it is
so i could trust some type of decentralized central servers to stamp coins somehow without owning them.

I don't mind helping to authenticate two transactions to keep my transaction free but i cannot afford to
keep a copy of a 200gb block-chain on my little PC and to then process all the history for a coin.

Must be a way of using some type of digital stamping of autonomous coins/tokens without then having to be owned
by brokers using a private key pair but i do think we need to separate the value of the coins from the infrastructure
because any currency needs a stable prices regardless of how well the infrastructure is doing.

You can keep adding advancements to a formula one sports car but there comes a time where you have to scrap it and stat again
or end up out of the race is my thinking and we know by now we are heading for trouble anyway.

Just now i think more people would be happier if fees were based on value and not byte size and if the public do arrive en-mass
then they will be dipping toes in the water with $100 and they will not take to $20 transaction fees i don't think
  

You could try Github but good luck understanding the code because all the code examples I have seen for BTC on windows all seem to put wrappers around NBitcoin that is written in C#
and apart from it being massive it has become out of sync with many of the sample bits of code hanging around.

I looked at using web sockets which i am good with but gave in because the byte-data or packets looked well complicated.

You will find many HTTP API's from sites like gdax.com if you are looking to trade and others for wallets that provide an interface into
the block-chain but you will be a better man then me if you can talk to nodes on port 8333

if you are running a full node then you might look at the RPC stubs that can talk to the local server and you can find code
for that on github too and how to use it on stack exchange

Do you not see what is wrong here and were it is going ? I have time for you because your not running adverts but look at this chart

Red +10%(12.05)
Yellow +60%(12.06)
Blue +55%(12.07)
Pink +30%(12.08)

Tulip prices in 1629 and yellow ones did best and after the crash the politicians and bankers will pretend that they have a mandate
from the public to close all alt-coins down so people here making money from on-line casinos will be out of work and it won't be easy
to buy a bit of weed and this we are bringing on ourselves

I just want to send some type of currency across the internet without big brother watching or the banks owning the coins that is more or less transaction free
and is secure and the currency needs a stable price like all other units of payment have and I don't care about the asset appreciation or I would be trying
my hand at breeding kittens using Crypto-Kittens or something at $25.00 a cat.

We don't need the USD shooting up to make money on the black-market selling sugar after they introduce a sugar tax or something and we should be doing all
we can to keep the brokers out of BTC because often they are miniting their own coins and charging us a fee in the process

Sorry but i cannot agree and sky-high transactions costs will result in people using other alt-coins and these fees this year have gone from
about $0,0001 to $20.00 already and still the network is having trouble.

People like to test wallets out, send $1.00 from A-B but they are not going to do that at $20 a pop in fees are they

I have seen the arguments for bigger blocks via faster block times to prevent orphan transactions and also read a little bit about the
Lightning Network sticking plaster but i think the developers need to sit back and come up with a system that will scale without it costing
$0.10 a byte to send a GUID to a network

You might not like my views but i think fixing whats broken will see BTC going much higher in value so long term you best swallow that pill me thinks   

The BTC block-chain is already over 200gb in size and I have worked using SQL with table with just over a million rows of data in them
using 12gb of memory that needed to build the index up in a B-Tree

Once you starting having to page the index to disk as memory runs out then the database starting running like a snail

My understand is that nodes need to trace all parts of a coin in a wallet back to the coin that was mined to stop any double spend
so that's tree walking the database and is slow and hard.

Maybe they need to archive the data or use some type of snapshot but clearly this cannot continue the way it is going

Smarter people than me could maybe developer some type of autonomous currency based objects using encryption
that does not have to be replicated 200,000 times using a huge database but in any case this decentralized utopia plan
has resulted in most the coins becoming counterfeit by the likes of Coinbase anyway and developers should step back
and learn from the mistakes instead of being taken in by all the hype of the block-chain

IOTA Tangle has tried a new approach but in the end I think we are going to forced to rely on trusted central servers
and even with a Trezor hardware Wallet you are forced to use there site and software to move coins anyway I thinks

Maybe you need to read this
https://news.bitcoin.com/mathematical-proof-may-show-lightning-network-is-heavily-centralized/

You can find many more too so cut the insults when someone is trying to help you

I know its not easy but use a private wallet and try to stay away from the big boys like Coinbase
because they are not only charging too much in fees but are giving you a poor exchange rate that they
try to hide why you buy or sell

if you are in the UK this it might be worth checking out
https://bitbargain.co.uk/buy

it shows the price for small amounts of BTC like 0.001 and also displays the rate it will be costing you.

Please, please , please stay away from brokers because they are printing coins internally and are worse
then the old bankers in my book

I want to build a calculator that will provide a conversion from BTC to USD because 0.001 of a BTC means nothing to to me
and i want to be able to enter a date and get the ticker price for BTC on that date/time

Trouble is that I know that at about 00:20 on the 9th Dec 2017 that the market was showing BTC at $19,340 and this peak has been
taken out of most of the charts and I need historical data that is accurate for my calculator

I can get the data from gdax.com that lists candles and talks about buckets but i am not quite sure what these are and in
any case none of the data shows the BTC price going above $19,000 so whats the deal because it seems like someone is cooking the
book at Coinbase because they own GDAX to me.

Yes i know that i could talk to BTC nodes using port 8333 to get information on blocks but the BTC protocol
seems so bloated that it would take me a week just to write some code to ask for the time of day so that is
not an option in this case.

Hi

I read a paper that says the sticking plaster will not hold and it comes down to waiting for the end of the month to ensure the money is yours
so it will need a type of broker to lend you the money and no one is going to do that for free.

Lets face it the BTC protocol is broken and even with low volumes of trade the database is already at 200gb in size and having to parse
all that data chain to stop double spending needs a massive amount of processing power.

Block-Chain might be good from an accountants perspective but its a house of horror from a developers point of view.

IOTA Tangle might be a better way to go 

Yes sky high transaction fees we agree but you need to check your understanding on how much electricity it costs per transaction
and bring yourself up to date and if you think that is bad then did you know that the cost of mining a coin is between $1000 - $2000

High fees might suite miners but it will drive the public away and they have plenty of alternatives to pick from


I know about IOTA using Tangle instead of block-chains and that the Lightning Network being used to plug the speed issue has many critics
and i cut code for a living so maybe I am closer to the truth than you think