What can be done about it? If a quack consistently fails to cure people, it's only a matter of time before those people (or their survivors) get angry and seek revenge. Not that I condone murder, but it's not entirely unexpected. To avoid being murdered, restrict your nonsense beliefs to a domain where people won't get sick or die from them.

It means what it sounds like. Of the 21 million bitcoins that will eventually be mined, nearly 16 million already have.

There is only so much of any currency in circulation. Dollars, gold, seashells, you name it, there's only a limited amount to go around. A currency can't function unless there's only a limited amount of it; if there's unlimited money for everyone, what incentive does anyone have to work or sell things?

Early adopters of a currency take the risk that it might never be widely accepted and the currency will become worthless. This risk must be taken into account when considering any advantage earlier adopters may have. It is not clear to me what you mean by "an alternate monopoly"; everyone who holds currency does so with the intention of eventually spending it, at which point the currency will flow into the hands of other people (specifically, people who provide goods or services worth paying the money for).

A long position means you make money when the price of bitcoin goes up, and lose money when the price goes down. 25x means you make or lose 25 times as much as you would if you had actually bought the bitcoins, eg, if the price goes up 1%, you will make a profit of 25%. Conversely, if the price goes down 4%, you lose everything you invested. Game over. Thanks for playing.

A short position means you make money when the price goes down, and lose money when the price goes up. Again, you lose everything if the price goes up 4%.

I strongly advise that you do not invest in a leveraged position if you do not understand the risks involved.

That's nothing. I currently ignore 4,018 accounts. They are not missed.

D'oh! Yes, you're right. I don't know how I got so confused about how base58 works. I blame insufficient caffeine.

Not necessarily. Since only the checksum was affected, it's likely the wallet decoded the public key hash correctly (in which case the transaction is valid and sent the coins to correct address despite the typo), but without checking the checksum at all. Other sorts of typos will not be so fortuitous, and are very likely to lose money. The wallet is not just broken, it's criminally incompetent and the developers should be beaten with rusty chains.

EDIT: Never mind, I don't know what I'm talking about.

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"The most astonishing adventure in the universe begins when the world ends."

Your cult actually believes this? How awful.

Don't mistake the Satanic Temple for an actual religious organisation preaching any form of Satanism. They are a political protest group, nothing more. All they do is pull silly stunts like this one to raise awareness for the need for separation of church and state, using the name of Satan to scare people into giving them free publicity. This annoys actual Satanists to no end, but what can they do about it? It's not like there's a commandment against using Satan's name in vain. Satan's cool like that.

Hardly anything in this section is. What do you expect? As I write this, nearly every thread on the first page was started by either someone advertising their "news" site or a garden-variety sig spammer, with the single exception being a newbie who either hasn't had time to sign up for a sig campaign yet or who just doesn't know how things are done around here.

That's more than adequate, and SanDisk is one of the better manufacturers. I think we can rule out the USB stick.

That definitely sounds like insufficient bandwidth, though if it's not the USB stick that just raises further questions. Does this "smart" TV not even support high-speed USB? Or is it just unable to decompress HD video? It may well only be designed to handle YouTube videos, with the expectation that all HD content will come from an external device. An SSD won't help if that's the case.

The easiest way to find out is to see if your USB stick works with a digital media player connected to a dumb TV. If so, I've got some bad news about your TV's intelligence.

Make sure you're using a high-speed USB stick (or a Class 6 or better SD card if you want to take that option, and note that you don't need a new TV, just a high-speed USB adaptor). Full-speed USB just doesn't have enough bandwidth to play HD video.

You should put it in a glass display case in a vault with the rest of your priceless treasures (if you have any). That's what Scrooge McDuck did with his first dime, and your BTC0.00017306 is worth about as much. There's not much else you can do with it, as it's barely enough to cover the transaction fee for spending it.

I swear these threads are getting more worthless all the time.

Looks like it. Nobody else here but sig spammers, and they don't count as people. Be sure to lock up when you leave.

You're preaching to the choir. I don't even know why I still bother to come here.

Because those are altcoins, and this forum is called Bitcoin Talk.

Yes, that must be what I was thinking of. (It seems I recall fewer details of it than I thought I did.)

Actually, there's something very special about coinbase transactions: it's possible for two of them to be identical, if they have the same outputs. Normal transactions cannot possibly be identical as they must spend different inputs, but coinbase transactions have no inputs to distinguish them. Identical coinbase transactions are problematic because only one copy of the transaction can be spent; all others simply destroy the coins. Miners have indeed accidentally lost money this way. OP is asking about the soft-fork to make blocks with identical coinbases invalid, which I don't recall the details of.

No more than usual. Financial institutions have always been screwing with me one way or another, going way back before Bitcoin even existed. The current scam is to insist that I buy life insurance with every transaction, despite nobody actually having an insurable interest in my life (I'm unmarried, unemployed, and have no dependants or business partners). Maybe that's why they try to get me to buy life insurance - they know they'll never have to pay out.

Ordinarily I couldn't say this without knowing exactly what you're accused of, but I'm pretty sure they got the right guy in this case.

Poor legal strategy #43: Move to exclude evidence on the grounds that the witness has a vagina. (It turns out that that's not actually valid grounds to exclude evidence in any court in Australia.) But I am not a lawyer, so feel free to ignore my advice.

Like everyone else in the thread, I'd like more details. Hopefully sufficient detail to know which court is hosting a free comedy show. If I'm in the area, I'll be sure not to miss it.