I haven't seen it before since you edited your post. It can also work the other way. In one hour, more than 6 blocks can be found. Since Bitcoin difficulty has been growing for most of the time, doesn't that mean that more than 2016 blocks were mined (almost) every 2 weeks? After 10 years, it could add up to such a huge number.

Yesterday, Andreas Antonopoulos announced on his YouTube account that "Mastering the Lightning Network" is going to be released next year! It will be possible to contribute on Github to the book and proofread it before it is released. The work on it will start in the middle of September.

10 minutes on average between blocks is the target. It's not that uncommon to see blocks solved one after another. The time to mine 2016 blocks in 2 weeks is what matters in the difficulty formula.



Replace = with ~. Sometimes, no new blocks are found for 30-40 minutes.

Theymos nie jest jedynym deweloperem nowego oprogramowania forum. Z tego co pamiętam, to płacił komuś za pracę nad nowym silnikiem.


Problem w tym, że obecne forum nie działa tak dobrze samo z siebie. Theymos ciągle wprowadza różne modyfikacje, żeby mogło ono działać bez większych problemów. Sam kiedyś doświadczyłem pewnego błędu na forum, zgłosiłem go i dostałem informację od theymosa na czym on polegał i, że został naprawiony. Samo SMF opiera się na rozwiązaniach, które w przyszłości mogą mieć bardzo ograniczone lub znikome wsparcie.

It wouldn't collapse. Miners are still the ones who choose which transactions get to be included in the block they mine. First Bitcoin transactions were basically free of charge because of no block limit and empty blocks.

20 minutes is a reasonable time for a rescan. The image seems to be cut and I can't see on which step the program is stuck. Did you remove -rescan from your config or startup parameters?

Can you see the 'Max' button next to the 'Amount'? Once you click it, you should be able to adjust the fee manually. 'Credit is too low' doesn't sound like Electrum error.

You will be fine. This version is not vulnerable to phishing. Anyway, you wouldn't fall for it since you know about it and it only appears when sending a transaction while being connected to a malicious server. In case you decided to update Electrum, download it from the official website and verify the installer.

Coinb.in's fee estimation has stopped working. Look at the block height. It shows that #590168 is the latest block, but it was mined 12 days ago.

Yes, create a new standard wallet and select 'I already have a seed'. Enter it and you will be asked to select the derivation path. Try selecting 'legacy (p2pkh)' and you should see your balance after a moment. If not, create a new wallet once again, enter the words and then select 'native SegWit (p2wpkh)' instead.

I examined the log once again and it looks like you tried setting the 'setSatoshiDir' to 'D:\BitcoinBase', 'D:\BitcoinBase\blocks' and 'D:\BitcoinCore'. You forgot about 'D:\BitcoinCore\blocks'. Give it a try.

Paste the log again. It looks like you can set the database path in the Armory settings since the 0.96.5 update. It might have not been overwritten by the parameter. Can you look for it?

When you created your wallet for the first time, you were given a mnemonic phrase (12 words) which you were supposed to write down. These words can be used to recover your wallet. While creating a new wallet, select 'I already have a seed' and enter them. If you lost them then you won't be able to recover your coins unless you have a copy of your wallet file.

Armory tries to access the folder where Bitcoin Core stores the block database by default. Right-click on your Armory shortcut, select properties and add the following parameter in the 'Target' after the .exe


Change the datadir to the same path as you set after installing Bitcoin Core, for example, D:\Programs\Bitcoin. 'blocks' folder should be located there.

Do you have the same addresses as before? Do they start with the same number or letter (1, 3 or bc1)? It sounds like you either created a new wallet and not entered your mnemonic phrase (12 words) or you selected a wrong derivation path while importing your wallet.

Post your logs. You can export them by clicking 'File' -> 'Export Log File'. It will be much easier to troubleshoot if we know on what step exactly the wallet is stuck. Did you change any settings in Bitcoin Core config file or specified its location?

Here you can see the on-chain address of the channel. No transactions were sent from it. Once you update your wallet, you will have to wait 144 blocks (~1 day) as stated in the image you posted.

Can you tap on that channel and look for any refund related values? You should be able to see refund delays for remote and local uncooperative closes, and the block height after which the closing transaction will be broadcast.

Edit: I haven't seen the second image. Give me a minute to examine it.

Add Bitcoin data directory to exclusions. Check if that block has been moved to quarantine. You might be able to recover it. Here is the reason why Avast was triggered.

Blockchain.info displays results for both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. You might own some BCH coins if you had BTC on that address when the chain was forked (1st August 2017). Ignore it and select Bitcoin if you are not interested in Bitcoin Cash.