I second this: always choose the platform (and users!) with best reputation, not necessarily the cheapest ones.

If you have the time, a decentralized exchange can help you at least with the (lack of) withdrawal fees, but you have to learn/understand your ways there since you may give - by mistake - other users the opportunity to scam you.
If you don't and you don't mind the requirement for KYC (however, don't take this lightly), then you'll use a centralized exchange, and MK4's short list is pretty good. There you'll probably need to fill KYC info and you'll have to keep an eye on the withdrawal fees (if the amount is big, it doesn't matter, but if it's small you may want to wait to pay less times the withdrawal fee).

LOL! This stands even in a lot of cases people would think that Elon was much clearer in his tweets


You are partly correct; but "never say never". We don't know when somebody decides he wants to check Hal's awake hours or writing style or whatever... let's not waste what we can easily keep.


Since I am not so big of a Twitter user, I had to check your image for Hal's Twitter handle (of the many accounts called Hal Finney, heh).
But imho a much better approach is to archive this as text so people can also search in it. And I think/hope that this will do the job: Archive of Hal Finney's tweets and replies

1. Get for free a tool like Kaspersky Rescue Disk (https://www.kaspersky.com/downloads/free-rescue-disk), make off it either a bootable USB, either (easier, if you have device) a CD/DVD, boot from it, update and then clean your system. Other major vendors also have rescue disks, if you don't think that Kaspersky is good enough.

2. Consider acquiring a hardware wallet and keep your coins (actually keys) on that; it'll help you sleep better.

LOL! Thanks for bringing this up, I would be missing the news for some more time, maybe even days.
What a nice present! Funny enough, I even told him that he may get the name change granted as Christmas present.

Who said that theymos cannot be kind? Just give the man some time!
Congrats The Sceptical Chymist!

Felicitările pentru descâlcit situația le merită IntimitateaG, că el le-a exprimat mai clar și cu exemplu.

Iar în topicul lui theymos nu voi scrie și vă spun și de ce:
uitându-mă mai cu grijă prin tot ce s-a scris despre subiect am ajuns să urmăresc (vezi postarea de aici) concursul făcut de mocacinno, urmând ideile lui theymos. Dar, un amănunt interesant, și mocacinno a cerut o adresă de bitcoin necesară pentru confirmarea ulterioară a identității (vezi al doilea punct de aici), iar la sfârșitul concursului, doar câștigătorului i s-a cerut să își trimită adresa (vezi aici)

Deci practic eu doar am re-inventat roata. Și chiar dacă aș adăuga privnote în ecuație, aceasta nu se va schimba semnificativ.

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Și ca să închei intr-o notă mai veselă, GazetaBitcoin a participat la discuția din topicul acelui concurs, poate că ar fi putut să își amintească și să-mi dea peste nas... doar că acel concurs a avut loc acum doi ani și jumătate.

After being part of the discussion on CM topic, discussion even FatManTerra have contributed, you still decided to open a new topic and spread your.. let's be kind and only call it useless drama.
And you want our input.

My conclusion would be that maybe you are part of a government agency and you're trying hard, maybe even with multiple accounts and on multiple channels, to discredit ChipMixer.
What you say about that?

1. One Bitcoin related motto is "don't trust, verify". Tether is .. based on trust.
2. Tether never managed to prove beyond doubt that they have all their issued coins properly backed with really valuable stuff.

So at least I was never convinced by them. However, the "community" is not homogenous and some may be trusting Tether. But I would not count them as a majority.
And something more: why are you asking in Bitcoin discussion? Imho this is more meaningful in trading or altcoins areas.

Îți recomand cu căldură extensia de bpip pentru browser, în caz că folosești unul mai normal.
Printre muuuulte alte chestii faine pe care le știe, extensia te ajută și să copiezi în clipboard ce ai nevoie pentru a crea super simplu un citat dintr-un topic încuiat.

For the next transactions you should go to websites like http://mempool.space and take a look.
You will see whether the mempool is congested or not (if it's not, then minimum fee is fine). You will see how often the last few blocks were mined keep in mind that the average is meant to be 10 minutes, hence you can try to do an educated guess what's going to happen next.
All this can help with the fee and can also help avoiding headaches.

Mulțumesc, ești drăguț. Dar cel puțin în seara asta nu mă simt în stare să reiau raționamentul și să îl expun și în engleză, plus că mai bine mai las ideea "la copt", poate îi găsește cineva o fisură.
Poate că mâine m-oi băga în seamă pe acolo, dacă nu o faceți voi până atunci. (am și o reținere în a redeschide o discuție după doi ani; sau să fie doar oboseala?)

I'm not much of a linux guy, but this error line looks to me as being the meaningful one.
Does bitcoin use this same data directory when ran normally (ie. does the folder really exist?)
What can be the reasons sudo cannot access that folder? Maybe you can chown/chmod there or set up a different data folder that can be accessed by both?

Again, I'm not that much into linux and I may be wrong.

Eu înțelesesem în primă fază că doar câștigătorii vor trimite informații. Acum, după încă 2 citiri încep să-ți dau dreptate.


Păi asta mi se pare și mai nasol. Adică cineva poate să facă o tombolă cu niște abțibilduri și să facă rost de 100 de adrese fizice ale unor persoane interesate de bitcoin. Pare varianta benevolă a ce s-a întâmplat după hack-ul de la Ledger.


De fapt nici măcar organizatorul nu ar trebui să aibă acces la mai mult decât adresele câștigătorilor.


Exact. Suntem pe aceeași lungime de undă până aici.
O concluzie ar fi că sistemul propus de theymos, în forma asta cel puțin, pare mai nasol / periculos decât ce avem acum.


Am o idee care s-ar putea să fie mai bună decât criptarea. Eu cred că organizatorul poate să primească:

483920182 - Adresa1 de bitcoin
283021737 - Adresa2 de bitcoin
.....
143432989 - AdresaN de bitcoin

Fiecare utilizator își știe identificatorul. Adică tu știi că ești 483920182, eu știu că sunt 283021737 ș.a.m.d. (sper că nu greșesc).
Utilizatorul își dă o adresă de-a lui de bitcoin (preferabil goală și temporară), nu adresa poștală.
Câștigătorii vor trimite de pe un mail temporar încă un mesaj către organizator, probabil conținând un link de privnote. Iar în notița respectivă va fi un mesaj semnat cu adresa de bitcoin "de mai sus", conținând numele și adresa poștală, precum și numele concursului și "data de azi".
E într-adevăr mult ping-pong de informații, dar s-ar putea să meargă... cel puțin dacă nu am înțeles iar ceva greșit

There are lots and lots of such "wallets" on the internet. The problem usually is not that the wallet is encrypted. The problem usually is that it's a crafted wallet that doesn't actually contain anything meaningful that could get you anywhere near to any private key.

So if you bought this wallet, you most probably got scammed.
Even more, it's rather uncommon to have email address only 9-10 characters long. My shortest ever email address was 14 characters long.


This being said, I'll leave it to the others give you more technical details, since I don't have experience actually decoding / brute forcing wallets (I consider that a waste of time and resources).

Woah, you're right, I've made a confusion.
I wanted to test out my hardware wallet on Android "newer" bitcoin wallets and I thought that BlueWallet was the one this worked with, but no, it was Green Wallet (%!@$ color-names )

I've also corrected the other post too. Thanks.

A block may or may not contain users' transactions. But even if miners choose to not add users' transactions they will normally still include the transaction that pays them ( = to the miners) the block reward (called the coinbase tx). And since 2 miners will most probably have different addresses to send to that money, the headers will be never identical.

Imho autocorrect can do more bad than good. You can end up with a correct word, but not the correct one you wanted to use.
On the other hand, as Agbe also said, the modern browsers have, in a way or another, spellchecker integrated or available as plugin. And not only on smartphones. Red underlined words attract attention and help people improve on long term. This should be much more helpful than auto-suggestion or auto-correct.

A problem is the over-using of such tools too. I have a bad example, mine: I have spellchecker now set up for 3 languages and I can easily mistake and use sometimes a word from another language. But I think that this problem is a minor one compared with the huge amount of awfully written posts.

Eu cred ca asta poate functiona doar daca sunt mai multe premii identice. Asa organizatorul nu va sti care dintre cei 10 castigatori e cine. Altfel.. nu inteleg cum ar putea sa mearga asta. Plus ca poate deschide calea spre abuzuri: un castigator primeste codul, isi face 5 adrese de mail, cere premii pe adresa lui, a catelului, a purcelului, a bunicilor, socrilor samd, iar altii care afla tarziu ca a avut loc extragerea pot ramane cu buzele umflate.

Cat timp exista un singur premiu sau un singur premiu 1, nu cred ca ideea asta poate sa mearga. Dar poate ca nu am inteles-o eu cum trebuie.
Iar daca va exista o "cutie neagra" (criptata) unde eventual lumea sa se inscrie ca sa concureze... unii vor abuza si vor face inscrieri multiple. Daca se ramane cu utilizator de bitcointalk, undeva cineva (nu conteaza cine) va sti care este numele si adresa acelui utilizator. Daca theymos implementeaza o "cutie neagra" bazata pe numele/contul de utilizator va trebui sa avem incredere ca el si viitorii administratori de bitcointalk nu vor abuza de aceste cunostinte.

Concluzia mea e ca oricum o invartim, sistemul nu este anonim. Si atunci de ce sa facem un sistem complicat cand ce avem este tot pe acolo?

It may worth adding that sometimes the mempool just doesn't have enough transactions to fill an entire block, hence no matter the block is not full and the miners would want to add more, they can't; the block will not wait for new transactions to come.


Again, I'll add that it depends on fee rate vs how full the mempool is.
Plus, the fee cannot really be under the default minimum of 1 sat/vByte (but long ago in the past even 0 satoshi was sometimes OK as transaction fee).

This sounds like a scam to me.
Only you should know the private key, since that's the only "thing" that allows spending coins.
If the seller also knew the private key then:
* there's a high probability he gave you from start a bad/invalid key
* if by chance the key was good, there's a good chance that meanwhile the seller has checked back and spend those coins/sent them to his own wallet.

When you buy bitcoin you should get your own wallet (if you are not knowledgeable about this and it's a meaningful amount of bitcoin then you should use hardware wallet) and give the seller an address of yours where he will send the coins. The coins are really yours only if they (are confirmed and) show up in a wallet only you can spend from = only you have the private keys.


Sorry, that's not how bitcoin works.

Fixed that for you. Kept your spelling mistakes.