I expect the price to rise before halving, but not too much. At halving the price would be the same as the day before.
I also expect that after the halving the price may drop a little, because of the end-of-bubble, but since the miners will still hodl, the price will rise back for a while.

I am going to be happy, because I expect to be at seaside those days, probably with no internet connection.
And for me no internet = less stress = more happiness.

But back to the subject, if the price rises too much I'll be mad on myself I didn't buy more BTC

I think that there are quite a good number (%) of the active users.
However, I think that sooner or later the Bitcoin virus catches them and they start to care 

The new signatures are looking just great!
Marco, don't forget to delete or to strike through the "September 6 - NEW SIGNATURES! Please Update Them! Thank you." line and put one about the Coinsbank signatures.

Since you are beginner, there are 2 important things to think about:
1. Electricity cost.
2. Bitcoin Halving.

Both affect a lot the calculation to be made if it's worth to mine. Because it may be cheaper to buy the Bitcoin and hold it than mine it.

I really didn't expect that preview works and post doesn't...

I did a test and for me it works.
I made a fixed version here http://pastebin.com/umU2XDSP


You made me think of something: I use Chrome browser. Maybe some other browser is more memory limited?

I may be wrong, but please check:

Line 441 ends a good table.
Line 469 contains TR and then other table parts, but no table has started.

That would be very funny indeed! To pay back the debt with the Bitcoin, while China is the biggest miner for Bitcoin.

You missed this:

I tried to say nicely that it's not worth the risk to ask somebody else to generate an address for you.
Sooner or later people will try to steal if you give them the opportunity. I didn't know, but from Lutpin said it looks like the vanitygen website already tried that.


Updade: I see that Lutpin edited his post. Should I delete this one?

Thank you. I seem to need to improve my English after all 

OP, I'd like to point out 2 things:

1. There's already a service for this: bitcoinvanitygen.com
This means that you'll really need more trust and also lower price than the existing service.

2. Using any 3rd party for creating a wallet is a security risk people already know and not many are willing to take.
While you can run a program (publicly available) to generate vanity address, most will do that in the privacy of their own computer.


So I'd think of better services to offer.....

Since I see the BTC I have in alts don't matter, I can say that I am a SatFlap. But I promise I'll fix this 

Is lmgtfy.com giving some pennies from their revenue to fund the fight against brain cancer or what?
Can you please give us more information?

I've said this a few times, but not this clear, so I'd add a well done here.

My usual advice is to keep the private keys in (laminated) paper wallets. This would be the safest copy, the primary copy.
For commodity you can still keep a secondary copy on USB sticks, just after some 1-2 years you should move the data on another stick, else you can lose it.

Since dropbox also came into discussion, I'd advise for tresorit.com or similar cloud storage providers: the ones that offer end-to-end encryption, which (at least on paper) means that whoever reads their server cannot see your data plainly (like in the case of dropbox).

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These are the last 2 blocks. It had a long pause but hopefully it's OK now.

All you want to imply is that there's only black and white, no other choice.

I know, it sounds scary that you cannot, in theory, have secrets. But that's only in theory.
Nothing can be monitored perfectly. From the point that some things happened in places inaccessible for the ones that do the monitoring to the point there's so much information that it doesn't matter they do the monitoring or not, they cannot find you unless they look express for you or you draw attention.

Some years ago it was said that mails are monitored and certain words like bomb, meth, "rang the alarm".
From maybe millions of mails sent each second.. what can they find? Hmm?
And then add up all the other means to find your secrets.

What do they do? Search for needles in the haystack. A huge haystack.


So, back to start. Imho you have your secrets, they have theirs. They have the good reasons to find yours if they can harm "the country". You don't have good reasons to find theirs.
If you are like 99.999% of us, then let them try to do the monitoring they want; you will not be caught in their patterns, they will not care of your secrets.

Thank you.


Interesting theory. If you also have a proof, it can get even more interesting.


I tend to somehow agree with this, though I wouldn't bring it to the level you are implying.


I would respect him if he would have convinced me. Unfortunately, all the evidence I have tells that this guy is a fraud, though a fraud that may have known "Satoshi"...

From what I've read, it doesn't look as dead as you'd claim. Look:


From what I see this thread became a speculation thread, more than a trading one..

However silly it sounds, yes, this is the big picture.

The other alternative would be the Eden: no secrets at all, we all go naked, nothing wrong will happen.
I guess that this is what you'd like.
Oh well, the sad truth is that some say that there was a snake in Eden and then everything was ruined.

If police tells "we think that one of ISIS funders is John Doe from city X, street Y and we go now to catch him", he may just escape. So it's OK to keep secret.
If the army has this and that which could keep the country safe, it's OK to keep it secret, since else the others will build something better.
If NSA can crack Bitcoin and see whoever sends whatever amounts where, they'll keep it secret to find easier the terrorists, the tax evaders and so on, and it's OK.

Of course, they can hide this way also illegal stuff, which obviously is not OK, but that was not my point.

And whether you admit it or not, you have secrets too. And it's OK. Maybe you smoke in secret, or take drugs, maybe you masturbate and would not like everybody to know, maybe you have a mistress, or .. whatever, I hope you've got my point.