This is usually the tell, when shilling is being done... " The anonymous reporter Tyler Durden states within the article..... " We are getting used to it now, that these shills gets desperate when the price goes up. They use sites like this to spread misinformation.. but it only works for a hour or two... until it gets noticed and taken down. We should not underestimate desperate people... they are dangerous.  ... We should just "Blacklist" these questionable sites and call them out on their bullshit. Zerohedge is well known as are the guys who run it and use the name Tyler Durden. Whether the information they were basing it on is true is a different matter, but zerohedge is a legit web site. |
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hardware capacity will increase ok, but what if people need to put the full node online 24h\24h because they have web services and things like this?
It would be impossible!
I want to open a full node now (not for mining but for developing) and I can't because it's too big!
There are thousands of full nodes, so clearly it is not "impossible". There are many, many places you can launch a full node on a VPS or colo hardware for a full node. |
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...let's say 10% of the total mining power...
Are you asking about a hypothetical that might represent the actual threat from ViaBTC (or some other pool - it doesn't really matter)? If so, one would think that the malicious pool would lose members of the pool if they were blocking segwit while waiting for a different block size increase. This blocks some of the other segwit advantages. I doubt that every member of the malicious pool would support halting progress as an attempt to force a different path when segwit is compatible with larger block sizes too. Anyway, I think we'll know the answer to the question as to whether the threshold will be reached soon enough. |
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I mean, for me it would make some sense to make it sync with the block reward period which is 210000 blocks.
2016 is not a factor of 210000.
Was this done deliberately? Yes, of course it was, but why?
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Why did Satoshi not sync this to the block reward period and use 2000 or 2100 blocks(which are both a factor of 210000), which 2000 as most obvious round number.
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Regarding syncing with the block reward period, there was also some intent to avoid having both occur simultaneously to decrease the variability of having two events occur at the same block. It is almost always preferable to have one variable and everything else constant in a complex system. |
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... I use a VPS with Ubuntu 16.04, 8 GB RAM ....
What are the other stats on the VPS? Number of cores? Load average? Is the host throttling it? (Perhaps it is none of those things, but best to be thorough). |
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Curious, but what version of Windows? Memory?
Versjon: Windows 10 Home Versjon: 1607 OS-build: 14393.351 Produkt-ID: 00326-10000-00000-AA865 Prosessor: AMD FX(tm)-4100 Quad-Core Processor 3.60 GHz Installed memory (RAM): 12.0 GB System: 64-bits operativsystem, x64-based prosessor That looks fine. |
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Curious, but what version of Windows? Memory?
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I have a question
lets say I have a litecoin wallet, but I want to combine it's wallet.dat with bitcoin wallet.dat, and there will be two private key in one wallet.dat. Is that possible?
This is not for bitcoin-qt or electrum etc, this is for a custom software.
If it is custom software you can of course store private keys together. They are just numbers and you'd add a key indicating which type. |
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The now defunct BitMarket.eu was one of the first Bitcoin exchanges. Compared to today's trading volumes, it was very small. I was not aware that this exchange was also the target of a successful hack (I wasn't a customer of BitMarket.eu). From what I remember the exchange didn't store Bitcoin itself, but merely connected seller with buyers - but maybe my memory is deceiving me. It would be interesting to know if the sum of $400K is the worth of Bitcoin stolen at today's valuation or if it is based on the valuation at the time of the hack.
Edit: After reading the article again it seems clear that the amount of $400K is based on Bitcoin's valuation at the time of the hack. So today's worth in USD is significantly higher.
Given the circumstances of the arrest, it seems clear that the guy was arrested for his other hacks and that the discovery of his involvement in the BitMarket.eu hack is merely a coincidence.
ya.ya.yo!
18,800 bitcoins stolen in 2012 and then 620 in Feb 2013. So, 19420 (they claim were hacked) * $668/btc (as of now) is almost $13,000,000. So you are correct, it was the valuation at the time of the hacks. |
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It's ok, I was under the impression from all I had read here and elsewhere, that the transaction would never complete and I would lose the BTC but it seems to have disappeared from my wallet and not been deducted from my balance.
That's different from everything I read. Have things changed recently so that transactions that don't get included are cancelled or something?
Cheers.
If you read somewhere that you would lose the bitcoin AND the transaction would never complete, they are completely wrong. There is no "intermediate" state with bitcoin. Either you control it or you don't. It isn't in a "mid-state transfer" since bitcoin is based on the concept of inputs and outputs. As stated above, they could remain in nodes mempool for several days, but even this is dependent on the settings of nodes. |
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Never leave your bitcoins on third party websites...it's that simple.
Exactly. If you do, they are not "your bitcoins" - they belong to someone else and you just have an IOU. Which isn't worth much. |
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Might the Democrats want to get in on this new fundraising avenue? That’s exactly what Stan Stalnaker—a founder of the digital currency “Ven”—asked Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta in an email last year as revealed on Tuesday by WikiLeaks. “As we discussed, Bitcoin is being used on the Republican side and could be a useful tool, but we think Ven is a better choice for your campaign due to its environmental benefits, identity metrics and closed loop status,” Stalnaker wrote in a May 13, 2015 email to Podesta. The two had met prior at a Clinton fundraiser. Podesta forwarded the email to campaign tech aide Teddy Goff, adding, “I don’t send all the crazy ideas I hear about at fundraisers your way, but this seems interesting and legit.” “Essentially digital currency with a green angle as opposed to bitcoin’s libertarian Ayn Rand schtick,” Podesta wrote of Stalnker’s proposal that the campaign use Ven as an alternative. “Would you get some members of your team to meet with Stan when he’s in NYC later this month to see if it’s worth a real conversation?” Podesta asked. “Apologies for the slow reply – yes, of course, feel free to introduce and we will set up a meeting, “Goff replied three days later. http://rare.us/story/hillary-clintons-campaign-thinks-bitcoin-is-too-libertarian/Of course, the fascist authoritarians don't like things that empower people and take away their power. |
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Before you continue, make a few backups.
>"I checked the permissions. The file is not write- or readprotected."
1. What version of Windows is this?
2. a.If you check permissions for wallet.dat, you said it isn't read or write protected, did you mean it isn't set to "read only" in attributes? Did you check other permissions?
b. Are you listed as the owner?
2. Do the attributes from the newly created wallet.dat match those of the old one?
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Hey guys,
So i mistakenly sent my bitcoins to a wrong address.
Lets say the intended address is: 1D3kVrgh71gCFaQerj2eZUboSPeQdwTUQH
I missed out the H at the end and send it to: 1D3kVrgh71gCFaQerj2eZUboSPeQdwTUQ
My wallet currently says 0 confirmations after 4 hours.. is there anything i can do?
Thanks in advance!
The odds of the address missing a character passing the validation checksum check are pretty small. What wallet are you using? Can you provide the addresses? Does the transaction show up anywhere else? What were the fees? See e.g. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1026.0 |
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From Satoshi Nakamoto whitepaper : If we suppose blocks are generated every 10 minutes, 80 bytes * 6 * 24 * 365 = 4.2MB per year. With computer systems
typically selling with 2GB of RAM as of 2008, and Moore's Law predicting current growth of
1.2GB per year, storage should not be a problem even if the block headers must be kept in
memory At BestBuy : "Excuse me sir, i need to get new RAM , I need hmm ... 240GB of RAM please" And you could get a EC2 instance with 240GB of RAM (with 48TB of HDD space) as of Nov 2012[1], if needed. You can configure machines like that today with 256GB of RAM (m4.16xlarge for example[2]), less expensively than 4 years go. You can even get a 976GB RAM or 1952GB RAM (with about double that in disk storage) today - an x1.16xlarge or x1.32xlarge EC2 instance. So while 240GB seems like a lot when one is used to using a laptop with 16GB, in reality it isn't out of the ballpark for many needs. Kind of like 64K seemed like a lot in 1981. Or 1MB seemed like a lot in 1985. etc. 1. https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/29/amazon-announces-2-new-ec2-instance-types-cluster-high-memory-with-240gb-ram-and-high-storage-with-48tb-hdd-space/2. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ |
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Hi I want to close a auction in BitcoinTalk but don't know how to close it?
Probably should be in the Meta section, but you should be able to lock it. edit: it was moved |
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