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1621  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Bitcoin Core - some error happened on: January 17, 2017, 05:52:46 PM
Bitcoin Client Software and Version Number:  Bitcoin Core 0.13.2
Operating System: Win10 x64
System Hardware Specs: i3-3110M, 4GB RAM
Description of Problem: Client doesnt start.
Any Related Addresses:
Any Related Transaction IDs:
Screenshot of the problem:
Log Files from the Bitcoin Client: http://pastebin.com/fkkQrudw

You might try updating to 0.13.2 first and see if it is the same error - it seems as if you thought you had upgrade, but actually didn't:

>2017-01-15 00:21:14 Bitcoin version v0.12.1 (2016-04-11 13:01:43 +0200)


Given this:
Code:
2017-01-17 17:28:44 IO error: D:\bitcoincore_catalog\chainstate\2928190.ldb: Ошибка в данных (CRC).
2017-01-17 17:28:44 *** System error while flushing: Database I/O error
2017-01-17 17:36:16 ERROR: ProcessNewBlock: ActivateBestChain failed
2017-01-17 17:36:16 IO error: D:\bitcoincore_catalog\chainstate\2928190.ldb: Ошибка в данных (CRC).


You might also see if your hardware is okay since it appears that there is an I/O error.
1622  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: "datacarrier" command? on: January 17, 2017, 01:25:09 AM
Can someone please explain the following Bitcoin Daemon command for me please?

Code:
bitcoind -daemon -datacarrier

Much appreciated!

Check out:
https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide#term-null-data
And
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2738
And
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=957509.0

Do those help?
1623  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: How recover bitcoin wallet 2009??? on: January 16, 2017, 05:24:30 PM
Now i have only hard drive formatted 5-6 times.

I already tried using the data recovery software, recommended me to go to a data recovery expert?

One thing I didn't see you answer was whether after you formatted it 5-6 times, did you use the drive in between?

e.g. did you format, format, format, format, format and then nothing?
or
did you format, use for a year, format, use for a year, format, use for a year etc?

If it is the former, then it is much more likely you could have a chance to recover as compared to the latter.

In fact, if it is the former, you'd likely have a reasonable chance to recover and it would be worth spending the money to hire a recovery service to do so.  If it is the latter, it (as others have said) will be almost impossible to recover after years of usage.
1624  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2017-01-12]EU Planning a Database That Link User IDs to Cryptocurrency Wallets on: January 15, 2017, 01:03:35 AM
[...]Other than that, I only know BTC-E as a decent and major exchange that doesn't require you to sign up with any personal details. Yes, there are exchanges like Bittrex that do the same but I don't trust them at all.

FIY
https://bittrex.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/215282838--Draft-Frequently-asked-questions-about-account-verification

This means Bittrex is changing its way to deal with anonymous users. They are still moving forward to it. Personally I'm still keeping a legacy account opened long ago: but I know that new users already fall into the new verification policy (basic as the first level).
Things change soon in crypto.

Enhanced accounts require users to submit scans of their identification and selfies. A selfie? What's next? A medical record to verify you're sane?
I don't know about you but if all exchanges start doing it I'm not even going to consider buying fiat. I don't trust them enough to submit all my personal data to some private exchange with low security and then worry that it can get hacked or sold by the exchange itself.

Live streamed Colonoscopy will be next to verify you by DNA.

More BS will just discourage people from converting back into fiat making it more difficult to track. And will encourage better privacy protections in he network.

1625  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2017-1-14] Bitcoin ETF may attract $300 million in the first week, says Needham on: January 15, 2017, 01:00:23 AM
Im just curious. What is ETF? Anyway, it would be great if that $300 million really happen. It would be beneficial for us and so as the investors. If thats happen, it may attract more investors because tgey are a huge company. Wow! $300 million is really huge. Hope to see more of this in the future. And the price pumps again.

ETF = Exchange-Traded Fund

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange-traded_fund
1626  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Developing a Wallet? on: January 14, 2017, 07:10:06 PM
Actually, what I want to know is the working logic of wallets. For example new altcoins are coming out. Different wallets are being developed for these altcoins.
Is it like the bitcoin wallets in the logic of the wallets developed for the new altcoins?

Depending on the amount of detail of the logic you want, looking at the source code of some open source wallets might be your best bet.
1627  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2017-1-14] Bitcoin ETF may attract $300 million in the first week, says Needham on: January 14, 2017, 03:07:35 PM
Global investment bank and asset management firm Needham & Company recently released a short investment report focusing on the the Grayscale Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC). While analyst Spencer Bogart gave GBTC a “Hold” rating, which means the price of the Trust is expected to go sideways over the coming year, the report also included detailed research on the upcoming Winklevoss ETF.

http://bravenewcoin.com/news/bitcoin-etf-may-attract-300-million-in-the-first-week-says-needham-and-company/

FUD is the reason it might not get approved.  Gotta love the nanny-state Luddite, authoritarians in charge.

If $300 million comes in during the first week, the impact would be immense.

$300,000,000 at $1000/bitcoin (to make the numbers easy) means 300,000 (more than that at $800-850) bitcoins would be required.  New coins are mined at ~1800/day so that is 166 2/3 days (about 5.5 months!) of new supply.

So, to purchase that much would surely impact the market in a huge way. Now they may be selling some of their own coins to it, so that would decrease the amount that would need to be purchased, but any way you look at it, if approved AND if people invest in it at the rates they project, the price effect would be large.  

And once it starts, momentum players could follow.  The smart ones will realize that the earlier you get in the more upside there is.


1628  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2017-01-14]Nigeria Warned its Citizens About Onecoin and Bitcoin This Week on: January 14, 2017, 12:39:15 PM
With the inflation rate in Nigeria it isn't surprising those in power would be worried about something like bitcoin.
1629  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2017-01-12]EU Planning a Database That Link User IDs to Cryptocurrency Wallets on: January 14, 2017, 01:25:10 AM
Authoritarians of all stripes - fascists, communists, socialists, cronys etc - are the same the world over. They don't like freedom because it threatens their power and wealth and so they'll use just about any excuse to "regulate it".  Their motto is to "never let a good crisis go to waste." The EU is no exception here.
1630  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2017-01-12] Why China’s central bank fears bitcoin on: January 14, 2017, 01:22:16 AM
This is not an entirely bad report on what is happening in China. The Main focus is that the " Chinese authorities have taken note of the move toward bitcoin, and they are trying to throw cold water on the coin in order to tamp down capital outflows and help the yuan. " So they shine the light on Bitcoin exchanges to scare people, in the hope that less capital will flow out of the country. This will not stop Bitcoin or it's users from finding ways to buy/sell and trade bitcoins.

If this was done before Mt Gox happened, then irregularities would have been detected in advance and we might not have had the Mt Gox incident. The regulated exchanges must function as "safe" area for people to trade bitcoins and if they fail in doing this, we will suffer the same fate as we did with the aftermath of Mt Gox. The government have a duty to protect the consumer from questionable practices or services.  

The Chinese authoritarian communists need to control people to keep their power and wealth. To control people, they control the capital and speech.

Hence they fear bitcoin because it isn't subject to their control (except it too many miners are concentrated there).
1631  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2017-01-06] Death & Bitcoin: How I Prepared My Family’s Digital Inheritance on: January 11, 2017, 12:53:10 PM
No offense OP, but this post is just begging to get HACKED. May I recommend upping your security a bit?

Can you clarify the intent of your comment, because I am a little less understand what you want to convey? why can it give rise to hack? Because I think that people generally, if they died of course they do not want to lose their property. It would be better if someone close like a family would have the money, or may be donated to someone in need. thank you

Anyone bothering to include bitcoin in an inheritance must have a bit of coin, no?  And, you kind of gave away the secrets of how you secured the coin. I doubt your identity and location are secret? You've painted a target on your back. Just sayin'. The article was good though, and no disrespect!

Finally I hope your wife never "goes rogue" on you. Because I've had a couple of women f**k around behind my back and then rob me of everything they could get their hands on... Sorry to be cynical.

All good points.  It isn't cynical, it is reality. 😀 

OP could always use nlocktime to create a transaction three years (for example) in the future. Put that aside for his wife/spouse. Then regenerate it every 2.5 years. If something happens, the spouse may have to wait between 6 months and 3 years to get access to the coins because the transaction wouldn't be valid for that period, but even if the transaction is stolen, no one can steal the coins before that time period and OP can move the coins if the nkocktime'd transaction goes missing.





1632  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Is the SearchTrade Idea Protected by Trademark? on: January 10, 2017, 08:33:32 PM
SearchTrade is a website that has a google search which you get paid 20 satoshis ever time you do a search.

Here is something from the Searchtrade site:

Minimum Withdrawal Amount : 0.00100000 BTC.
Withdrawal Fees                    : 0.00036500 BTC.

so they are taking 30% of your searches in order to get paid and looks like you would
be using it about a year or two, at least to reach the payout.

Searchtrade also doesn't have a good BTCtalk track record.  Not much activity in the last
year.

It seems like a good idea, preferably one that might be bought out by someone who can make
it more feasible.  Most people know today that high payouts are a no go in affiliate work, faucets
and so on.  But can this idea be legally copied by someone?  I think the idea was around before it
was converted to BTC.

Trademarks don't protect ideas, but marks/designs etc used in trade.  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark
Copyrights don't protect ideas, they protect original works.  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
Patents protect an inventor etc of an invention.  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent

So, perhaps they could have a patent on their specific implementation, but it seems extremely unlikely they could prevent a different implementation.  It is possible to search and see though.

1633  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: How to encrypt for printing? on: January 09, 2017, 08:34:53 PM
Just make a paper wallet at bitaddress.org. there you can make a paper wallet with BIP38. With this you need to set a password which  encrypt the private key.  So you just see the private key but without password it's useless.

If you are really concerned about security, download they bitaddress.org web site from GitHub (https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org) and then run it while offline and in private mode on the browser - at minimum.  Quit the browser after running it.  Maybe even run it from a new user account on the machine.  (Or from a USB boot device that is only used off-line.) 

There are ways that are even more safe, but it is not recommend to do it online for obvious reasons. 

1634  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2017-01-06] - China's Central Bank Issues Warnings to Major Bitcoin Exchanges on: January 07, 2017, 01:07:45 PM
"PBoc detail: exchanges cant do offline promotion; no fake trade; Devaluation cant be mentioned; mandatory strong KYC "

https://twitter.com/cnLedger/status/817550313636798464

Looks like the government wants to know the real volumes.

Yeah, gotta keep the Chinese people in the dark about how the gov is robbing them through devaluation daily. 

This should only spur more use of bitcoin for people who are paying attention.
1635  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Are these BTC fixes feasible? on: January 07, 2017, 12:26:08 PM
3) Koblitz Curve  (@ 13:10)

At 13:10 he claims that the Koblitz Curve had some signature leakages, so he uses an R curve (571 bit), which he claims that has the highest quantum security to this date.
I don't know enough about this topic to comment on it.

gmaxwell discovered a security issue with the R curve while scracthing his head about why Satoshi had opted for the Koblitz curve version of ECDSA instead of the R curve (the R curve is recommended by NIST, whereas the K curve was not). Cannot remember the details, I'm sure someone can.

There has been some discussion and evidence that the supposedly random constants of secp256r1 may have been finessed by the NSA.

Edit:
Some reading:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=151120.0
https://chrispacia.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/nsa-backdoors-and-bitcoin/
1636  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin mining is not efficient & other problems on: January 06, 2017, 07:16:52 PM
Everyone knows that there is a problem with Bitcoin that needs to be fixed before there's mass adoption. What's one of the main problems? Miners. If you don't pay a fee or if your fee is too low they make you wait, sometimes for hours. Another thing is the block size. I believe that replacing miners with another system will make it so Bitcoin can actually function as an efficient system, instead of miners ignoring your transaction, it will go through quickly and painlessly.

Another thing is the block size and fixing Bitcoin. The average person needs to understand what's going on behind the scenes, people who are involved in alt coins are voting against fixing Bitcoin. In other words: keeping Bitcoin broken and UNFIXABLE, due to corrupt voting practices is considered a viable business practice.

What's going on behind the scenes? Bribes. People are paying well known people within the Bitcoin community to keep Bitcoin broken, they bribe them to say "There's no problems with Bitcoin! No need for an upgrade! Smiley". What I think should be done is the community should vote in people to work on Bitcoin software design to fix Bitcoin or it will remain broken for many years.

First, this is a technical discussion area and I see nothing technical.  It should be moved.  [It has been now]
Second, your claim that "everyone knows that there is a problem..." is false.
Third, if you wish it to be changed, go ahead or find someone and pay them to change it (along with anyone else who agrees).  This is open source software.
Fourth, miners aren't charities.  They have costs involved and they charge the people using bitcoin to cover their costs.  If one wishes to run a mining operation for free or at a lower cost, no one is stopping them and everyone would love it.  Yet I don't see many (any?) of the people who want "free" transactions buying mining equipment, networking equipment etc and mining for free (or only for the block reward).
1637  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: How to change ONLY wallet location Bitcoin Core? on: January 06, 2017, 11:19:23 AM
Ok my link is C:\bin\bitcoin-qt.exe -datadir=C:\data -wallet=D:\bit\wallet.dat

But it returns error "Wallet resides outside data directory C:\data"

That is because the -wallet argument only lets you change the name.  The information you were given above was not correct:
"Specify wallet file (within data directory) (default: wallet.dat)"

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin

You could just make a symlink to the file after moving it. See e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link#Windows_7_.26_Vista_symbolic_link

However, I'd be careful. And keep several backups.
1638  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2017-01-04] Bitcoin is going Bananas on: January 04, 2017, 07:00:58 PM
http://uk.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-price-january-4-2017-2017-1?r=US&IR=T

In the first 24 hours of the new year, over 5 million bitcoins were bought in Chinese yuan, equating to $3.8 billion. In contrast, just 53,000 bitcoins were bought in US dollars.

I think the more accurate statement would be that 5 million bitcoins were bought and sold (e.g. traded) in China.  If in reality 1/3 of the mined bitcoins were purchased (and not sold quickly) the price would be 10 or 20 times what it is now.   Smiley

1639  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2017-01-03] Happy Beginning Of 2017: Bitcoin’s Price Has Overcome $1,000 on: January 04, 2017, 06:56:12 PM
Is there any method in this madness? It definitely is a very happy year for the holders, with the current price over $1100 now.
Whether it is sustainable is an altogether different question.

I think I remember that same quotation (or ones very similar to it) being made at dollar parity, $10, $33, $100 etc.   Smiley 

As long as there are improvements, decreases in new supply (the halving) etc, and increases in utility, the price will continue to rise.
1640  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: How important is it to upgrade to Bitcoin 0.13.1? on: January 04, 2017, 06:52:31 PM

Im running 0.11 or something like that on an old laptop, been downloading the blockchain and its taking forever.  This laptop is slow af but my question is do newer update version wallets make the blockchain sync quicker?
Compared to 0.11, yes, newer versions of Bitcoin Core will sync faster. There have been numerous optimizations and improvements that decrease the sync time, although it can still take a long time.

Perfect ty

And before you go to 0.13.2, you might as well just go to 0.13.2 as there are bug fixes etc.
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