first of all China can not ban bitcoin mining because of how corrupt their whole country is. all these mining farms are feeding lots of people including government officials! additionally most of what you see from hashrate that is called "China" is not Chinese mining farms but Chinese mining pools. and pools have their servers in different places, even outside of China making it impossible to shut down.

and if some day they did shut it down with some miracle, if the mining distribution is like today still, it will affect the bitcoin market. we may see a drop but it is not a long term effect by any means. just like them banning exchanges for some time!

there is always some kind of bill being prepared to suggest banning of cryptocurrencies. in fact i have seen such bills in almost all countries. the other day someone here said we should ban bitcoin and cryptocurrencies just because they don't match our financial system and another one said we should adopt them ourselves in the central bank so that we don't fall behind.

none of these matter until the court accepts them and then turn into law.

you are correct about the second part, the deflation and the limit. but you are wrong about first part. Satoshi's  decision doesn't matter one bit, so does any other individual's decision. we are talking about a decentralized system and such systems work based on the consensus of the whole system (all the users that are involved in it) not decision of some individual(s).

are you just sharing a news link or did you actually lose bitcoin? and by the way the site is just addressing the same issue as the sticky warning on top of bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2702103.0 about the JSONRPC from versions 2.6 till new releases that fixed it.

in case you actually lost bitcoin, would you mind telling us why you think this is the reason you lost bitcoin and not the fact that you didn't have password set on your wallet? because it may as well have been a simple malware that stole the file itself. something like a keylogger but a little advanced.

yeah it does need an explanation!
maybe it is clear to you but it is not clear to me how we are "still near the top of the bubble". you are ignoring the fact that bitcoin lost 43% of its value after the top of the ATH or bubble if you like, and it is still a bubble.

irrational things happen with bitcoin all the time, but prediction an irrational thing to happen like this is weird...

wow, that is a wild speculation you have there!

you are practically saying that bitcoin is going to get dumped -66% and not exactly explaining why, you just practically say that bitcoin will "fall apart" just like that. and then you say it will rise up +300% out of nowhere just because some people sell at the bottom! and again i can't understand "why" you think this can happen!

the charts are going to look funny if that happens though

translation:
Microsoft: "the publisher of the program you are trying to install has not paid us, so we don't recognize them".

it is a Code Signing Certificate that the publishers can purchase and use that to digitally sign their released applications. it costs something as low as $80 if i am not mistaken and doesn't really do anything if you ask me when we have PGP signatures which are more secure.

i am not sure why you are seeing these files and what they are, but what i can tell you is that all you need is your seed words. write them down on a piece of paper and even if you delete something that you shouldn't have deleted like your wallet file then you can always recover it from seed.

have you tried opening these files to see their contents?

you can't change a system as big as bitcoin. when it is worth this much money and has lots of people involved. and we are talking about a decentralized system not something that only has users using it but users who are involved and are shaping it!

so far i am all for the second layer solution for bitcoin and despite all the false information and FUD that is flying around i can see how it can be helping bitcoin future. but also i can't see the block size staying at 1 MB either. with on chain scaling we can make going in and out of LN possible, otherwise you have to pay a lot of money to enter/exit LN.

the future of trading platforms is in more decentralization. the current existing exchanges are nearly obsolete and they don't match the decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. we need them to become more decentralized.
and it has already been started too. there are many projects (which sadly are not so popular) working on this goal right now. and i believe with side chains growing this year we may see a big growth in decentralized exchanges too because it makes things easier and more secure.

the "parent" transaction is paying 52 satoshi per byte and your transaction is paying 38 satoshi per byte. both of these fees are extremely low. current suggested fee is 540 satoshi/byte[1] you may be lucky with 200-300 too but not a chance with that low a fee.

you can not cancel a transaction. what you can do is either wait a very long time (it can be months to never) for it to confirm or since your transactions are opt-in RBF you can increase the fees to get them confirmed faster.

[1] https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/

ingredients:

• pen/pencil for writing: 1
• paper to write on: as much as rquired
• 16-sided hexadecimal dice: 1
• an even ground to roll the dice 64 times: as big as possible!

congratulations you now own a private key. not to get your bitcoin address you need:

• some tool to convert the hexadecimal result to a bitcoin address.
• a DVD with live linux to run that tool

now you are only trusting ECDSA and hashes to be safe.

but we already had a nearly 40% crash. how many more do you want? for some people it seems to me like they want bitcoin to crash 80-90% and go down to something like $100 so that they can start calling it a "crash" and believe there no longer is any bubble! which is pretty weird to be honest.

the safe bet is to sell a small amount so that you feel good about yourself if price went down but not get fucked if it didn't go down and stayed here or continued rising more.

the critics that are criticizing the total market cap of all the cryptocurrencies have a good point criticizing it because as it was said the total market cap of all the crytocurrencies is mainly fake because there are huge number of shitcoins with lots of fake "circulating supply". most of them have premines and other shenanigans to increase their supply. and when a coin with only $2 price has half the market cap of bitcoin with $15000+ price you should know there is something wrong there...

all the possibilities that you mentioned are true but so far they have also been true all this time and none of them changed anything. there are still a couple of big exchanges that nobody seems to want to move away from and they are not the best services either! some of them even cause a lot of issues for their customers and they even lose money because of them, like the server problems on poloniex where you see others dumping but your orders never go through!

i am personally hoping for decentralized exchanges to become bigger and more popular but then again i have had this wish for about 2 years now.

that is what happens when you over-pump a bunch of shitcoins and a lot of newbies start running to pour their money (that they took out of bitcoin) into those shitcoins. they get pumped big and then they will tank big also.
you can not avoid the dumping that comes after these types of pumps. the Korean exchange thing is just an excuse that initiated it. it is more like the last straw that broke the camel's back.

no, your transaction was not valid to begin with. it was spending a transaction with currently does not exist which means that transaction was rejected or forgotten so your transaction became invalid.

if this was really 4 years ago, then the only possibility i can think of is that the first transaction had some issue like being non-standard so it didn't confirm.


the bold parts are the first transaction which this transaction is spending:
it does not exist.

and the public key of the sender
which is this address:
as you can see it has never received anything.

try installing the KB2999226 Windows update as the Electrum.org website suggests.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2999226/update-for-universal-c-runtime-in-windows

your Malwarebyte is not blocking the official website! nor is it blocking Electrum!

what it is blocking is an Electrum server called "us01.hamster.science". and that is a false positive that only Malwarebyte blocks for some reason.
just go to your Network settings (you can click on the circle at the bottom right corner of the Electrum window) and change your server from there. choose any other ones and you are good to go.

it's funny how many of those who are new to bitcoin are starting to invest in altcoins!

there is this forum where i used to visit rather regularly (in my language) and mostly talk in this topic there about bitcoin. answering other people questions about what it is, how wallets work, how blockchain.info is not bitcoin (LOL), ... and whenever i told someone that price will be a lot more than this ($200, $400, even $1200) they said it is a bubble and we are already too late.

now when i visit that forum and look at that topic, it is nearly as big as Wall Observer topic in this board and everyone is talking about some random shitcoin they have found which is going to make them rich...