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Dāvināt meritu ICO skameriem nav labi...
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Following steps might help you dump the pk from the wallet: 1 Start Bitcoin Core 2 Stop Bitcoin Core 3 Datadir should be created, open the datadir folder ( https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory) 4 Replace the existing wallet.dat (backup it if you already had Bitcoin Core installed) with your old wallet 5 Start Bitcoin Core 6 If you want to export your keys, open the debug console and type dumpwallet <filename> Sorry, but You did not read the thread properly. After Step 5. the Bitcoin Core crashes and it is over. Also I do not need tips on recovery, I am syncing the wallet in question with 0.14.2 version as I write this. This is thread about possible problems either with Bitcoin Core or particular wallet.dat file. If the wallet.dat does not contain history of some of my illegal activities, I will post it publicly for examination after moving coins away from it. |
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Correct my if i'm wrong but isn't it easier to use a python script to just extract the PK's? There are some scripts build especially for that.... or am i missing something here?
This is unexpected behavior in the client and it must be fixed. It is clearly some sort of bug, since even older wallet.dat runs without slightest problems. I can use recovery tools on this wallet.dat, but it will be just like repairing teeth trough anus. I will get my coins anyway with older version, I just want to help sorting out what is wrong. |
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Additional info about this wallet.dat file. It was running with command line option to disable last blocks check upon startup or with reduced count of last blocks check. It was due to default option taking from 45minutes to 1 hour to start Bitcoin Core on old computer. I do not remember what the command line option was back then and the bitcoin.conf from that setup is gone long ago. edit: db.log contents. Seems like it thinks wallet.dat is corrupted. But the Bitcoin-Qt version used back then did not consider it to be corrupted and also I took great care to backup this wallet.dat when the node is properly shut down. file wallet.dat has LSN 1/4211, past end of log at 1/333
Commonly caused by moving a database from one database environment
to another without clearing the database LSNs, or by removing all of
the log files from a database environment
DB_ENV->log_flush: LSN of 1/4211 past current end-of-log of 1/333
Database environment corrupt; the wrong log files may have been removed or incompatible database files imported from another environment
PANIC: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
wallet.dat: unable to flush page: 10
txn_checkpoint: failed to flush the buffer cache: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
File handles still open at environment close
Open file handle: C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\wallet.dat
Open file handle: C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\database\log.0000000001
PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
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Here is debug.log contents. Installed Bitcoin Core 0.15.1 and started it up. Set the options and edited bitcoin.conf to add pruning. Then closed, replaced wallet.dat with problematic one and started Bitcoin-qt.exe with -upgradewallet option. Gave me the same error. 2018-02-10 11:59:52
2018-02-10 11:59:52 Bitcoin version v0.15.1
2018-02-10 11:59:52 InitParameterInteraction: parameter interaction: -whitelistforcerelay=1 -> setting -whitelistrelay=1
2018-02-10 11:59:52 Assuming ancestors of block 0000000000000000003b9ce759c2a087d52abc4266f8f4ebd6d768b89defa50a have valid signatures.
2018-02-10 11:59:52 Setting nMinimumChainWork=000000000000000000000000000000000000000000723d3581fe1bd55373540a
2018-02-10 11:59:52 Using the 'standard' SHA256 implementation
2018-02-10 11:59:52 Using RdRand as an additional entropy source
2018-02-10 11:59:53 GUI: "registerShutdownBlockReason: Successfully registered: Bitcoin Core didn't yet exit safely..."
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Default data directory C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Using data directory C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Using config file C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\bitcoin.conf
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Using at most 125 automatic connections (2048 file descriptors available)
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Using 16 MiB out of 32/2 requested for signature cache, able to store 524288 elements
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Using 16 MiB out of 32/2 requested for script execution cache, able to store 524288 elements
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Using 0 threads for script verification
2018-02-10 11:59:53 init message: Verifying wallet(s)...
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Using BerkeleyDB version Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (April 9, 2010)
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Using wallet wallet.dat
2018-02-10 11:59:53 CDBEnv::Open: LogDir=C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\database ErrorFile=C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\db.log
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Cache configuration:
2018-02-10 11:59:53 * Using 2.0MiB for block index database
2018-02-10 11:59:53 * Using 8.0MiB for chain state database
2018-02-10 11:59:53 * Using 440.0MiB for in-memory UTXO set (plus up to 286.1MiB of unused mempool space)
2018-02-10 11:59:53 init message: Ielādē bloku indeksu...
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Opening LevelDB in C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\blocks\index
2018-02-10 11:59:53 scheduler thread start
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Opened LevelDB successfully
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Using obfuscation key for C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\blocks\index: 0000000000000000
2018-02-10 11:59:53 LoadBlockIndexDB: last block file = 0
2018-02-10 11:59:53 LoadBlockIndexDB: last block file info: CBlockFileInfo(blocks=0, size=0, heights=0...0, time=1970-01-01...1970-01-01)
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Checking all blk files are present...
2018-02-10 11:59:53 LoadBlockIndexDB: transaction index disabled
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Initializing databases...
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Pre-allocating up to position 0x1000000 in blk00000.dat
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Opening LevelDB in C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\chainstate
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Opened LevelDB successfully
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Wrote new obfuscate key for C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\chainstate: 8ccea2ae22e7c058
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Using obfuscation key for C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\chainstate: 8ccea2ae22e7c058
2018-02-10 11:59:53 init message: Rewinding blocks...
2018-02-10 11:59:53 block index 3ms
2018-02-10 11:59:53 init message: Ielādē maciņu...
2018-02-10 11:59:53 nFileVersion = 150100
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Keys: 0 plaintext, 0 encrypted, 0 w/ metadata, 0 total
2018-02-10 11:59:53 Performing wallet upgrade to 60000
2018-02-10 11:59:54 keypool added 2000 keys (1000 internal), size=2000 (1000 internal)
2018-02-10 11:59:54 keypool reserve 1
2018-02-10 11:59:54 keypool keep 1
2018-02-10 11:59:54 wallet 1139ms
2018-02-10 11:59:54 keypool added 1 keys (0 internal), size=2000 (1000 internal)
2018-02-10 11:59:54 setKeyPool.size() = 2000
2018-02-10 11:59:54 mapWallet.size() = 0
2018-02-10 11:59:54 mapAddressBook.size() = 1
2018-02-10 11:59:54 UpdateTip: new best=000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f height=0 version=0x00000001 log2_work=32.000022 tx=1 date='2009-01-03 18:15:05' progress=0.000000 cache=0.0MiB(0txo)
2018-02-10 11:59:54 mapBlockIndex.size() = 1
2018-02-10 11:59:54 nBestHeight = 0
2018-02-10 11:59:54 Failed to open mempool file from disk. Continuing anyway.
2018-02-10 11:59:54 torcontrol thread start
2018-02-10 11:59:54 Bound to [::]:8333
2018-02-10 11:59:54 Bound to 0.0.0.0:8333
2018-02-10 11:59:54 init message: Loading P2P addresses...
2018-02-10 11:59:54 ERROR: DeserializeFileDB: Failed to open file C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\peers.dat
2018-02-10 11:59:54 Invalid or missing peers.dat; recreating
2018-02-10 11:59:54 init message: Loading banlist...
2018-02-10 11:59:54 ERROR: DeserializeFileDB: Failed to open file C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\banlist.dat
2018-02-10 11:59:54 Invalid or missing banlist.dat; recreating
2018-02-10 11:59:54 init message: Starting network threads...
2018-02-10 11:59:54 net thread start
2018-02-10 11:59:54 dnsseed thread start
2018-02-10 11:59:54 Loading addresses from DNS seeds (could take a while)
2018-02-10 11:59:54 addcon thread start
2018-02-10 11:59:54 opencon thread start
2018-02-10 11:59:54 msghand thread start
2018-02-10 11:59:54 init message: Ielāde pabeigta
2018-02-10 11:59:54 GUI: Platform customization: "windows"
2018-02-10 11:59:54 GUI: PaymentServer::LoadRootCAs: Loaded 8 root certificates
2018-02-10 11:59:56 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.14.2/: version 70015, blocks=508507, us=212.3.196.61:49166, peer=0
2018-02-10 11:59:57 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.15.1/: version 70015, blocks=508507, us=212.3.196.61:49168, peer=1
2018-02-10 11:59:58 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.16.0/: version 70015, blocks=508507, us=212.3.196.61:49169, peer=2
2018-02-10 11:59:59 138 addresses found from DNS seeds
2018-02-10 11:59:59 dnsseed thread exit
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 12
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 12
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 12
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 12
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 12
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 12
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 12
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 12
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 12
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 11
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 11
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 11
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 11
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 11
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 11
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 11
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 20
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 20
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 20
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 20
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 20
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 20
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 20
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 16
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 16
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 16
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 16
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 16
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 16
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 16
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 17
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 17
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 17
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 17
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 17
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 17
2018-02-10 12:00:02 GUI: OpenType support missing for script 17
2018-02-10 12:00:28 ProcessMessages(version, 113 bytes) FAILED peer=3
2018-02-10 12:00:43 upnp thread start
2018-02-10 12:00:45 No valid UPnP IGDs found
2018-02-10 12:00:45 upnp thread exit
2018-02-10 12:00:46 tor: Thread interrupt
2018-02-10 12:00:46 net thread exit
2018-02-10 12:00:46 torcontrol thread exit
2018-02-10 12:00:46 scheduler thread interrupt
2018-02-10 12:00:46 Shutdown: In progress...
2018-02-10 12:00:46 addcon thread exit
2018-02-10 12:00:46 msghand thread exit
2018-02-10 12:00:47 opencon thread exit
2018-02-10 12:00:47 Dumped mempool: 0s to copy, 0s to dump
2018-02-10 12:00:48 Shutdown: done
2018-02-10 12:02:20
2018-02-10 12:02:20 Bitcoin version v0.15.1
2018-02-10 12:02:20 InitParameterInteraction: parameter interaction: -whitelistforcerelay=1 -> setting -whitelistrelay=1
2018-02-10 12:02:20 Assuming ancestors of block 0000000000000000003b9ce759c2a087d52abc4266f8f4ebd6d768b89defa50a have valid signatures.
2018-02-10 12:02:20 Setting nMinimumChainWork=000000000000000000000000000000000000000000723d3581fe1bd55373540a
2018-02-10 12:02:20 Prune configured to target 4096MiB on disk for block and undo files.
2018-02-10 12:02:20 Using the 'standard' SHA256 implementation
2018-02-10 12:02:20 Using RdRand as an additional entropy source
2018-02-10 12:02:21 GUI: "registerShutdownBlockReason: Successfully registered: Bitcoin Core didn't yet exit safely..."
2018-02-10 12:02:21 Default data directory C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin
2018-02-10 12:02:21 Using data directory C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin
2018-02-10 12:02:21 Using config file C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\bitcoin.conf
2018-02-10 12:02:21 Using at most 125 automatic connections (2048 file descriptors available)
2018-02-10 12:02:21 Using 16 MiB out of 32/2 requested for signature cache, able to store 524288 elements
2018-02-10 12:02:21 Using 16 MiB out of 32/2 requested for script execution cache, able to store 524288 elements
2018-02-10 12:02:21 Using 0 threads for script verification
2018-02-10 12:02:21 init message: Verifying wallet(s)...
2018-02-10 12:02:21 Using BerkeleyDB version Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (April 9, 2010)
2018-02-10 12:02:21 Using wallet wallet.dat
2018-02-10 12:02:21 CDBEnv::Open: LogDir=C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\database ErrorFile=C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\db.log
2018-02-10 12:02:21 Cache configuration:
2018-02-10 12:02:21 * Using 2.0MiB for block index database
2018-02-10 12:02:21 * Using 8.0MiB for chain state database
2018-02-10 12:02:21 * Using 440.0MiB for in-memory UTXO set (plus up to 286.1MiB of unused mempool space)
2018-02-10 12:02:21 init message: Loading block index...
2018-02-10 12:02:21 Opening LevelDB in C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\blocks\index
2018-02-10 12:02:21 scheduler thread start
2018-02-10 12:02:22 Opened LevelDB successfully
2018-02-10 12:02:22 Using obfuscation key for C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\blocks\index: 0000000000000000
2018-02-10 12:02:24 LoadBlockIndexDB: last block file = 0
2018-02-10 12:02:24 LoadBlockIndexDB: last block file info: CBlockFileInfo(blocks=1, size=293, heights=0...0, time=2009-01-03...2009-01-03)
2018-02-10 12:02:24 Checking all blk files are present...
2018-02-10 12:02:24 LoadBlockIndexDB: transaction index disabled
2018-02-10 12:02:24 Opening LevelDB in C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\chainstate
2018-02-10 12:02:24 Opened LevelDB successfully
2018-02-10 12:02:24 Using obfuscation key for C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\chainstate: 8ccea2ae22e7c058
2018-02-10 12:02:24 Loaded best chain: hashBestChain=000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f height=0 date=2009-01-03 18:15:05 progress=0.000000
2018-02-10 12:02:24 init message: Rewinding blocks...
2018-02-10 12:02:24 init message: Verifying blocks...
2018-02-10 12:02:24 block index 2855ms
2018-02-10 12:02:24 init message: Loading wallet...
2018-02-10 12:02:24 nFileVersion = 90300
2018-02-10 12:02:24 Keys: 104 plaintext, 0 encrypted, 0 w/ metadata, 104 total
2018-02-10 12:02:24 Performing wallet upgrade to 60000
2018-02-10 12:02:24 wallet 31ms
2018-02-10 12:02:24
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EXCEPTION: St13runtime_error
GenerateNewKey: AddKey failed
C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe in Runaway exception
2018-02-10 12:02:30 CDBEnv::EnvShutdown: Error -30974 shutting down database environment: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
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As noted above, You can install Electrum and import wallet.dat to check and use the coins. Take note that this will link all your addresses together, since they are checked simultaneously with centralized server. Not good idea if You have in same wallet address used to withdraw coins from exchange and also from Silk Road.
Or You can send these wallets to me to check them. I have octa core computer with SSD drive and unlimited 150mbps network connection. 10% of balance + tx fees are acceptable to me. I will not run away with coins since I value the community I am part for years more than fast cash.
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As a interpreted language instead of compiled, it is not good for anything serious. Python is modern day version of 90ties Visual Basic.
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I decided to sweep the pocket change from my old wallet.dat files. One wallet.dat file that I created with 0.23.1 version of Bitcoin and last used with 0.4.x or 0.5.x version worked perfectly when pasted in 0.15.1 64-bit version data directory. But I have problem with wallet.dat created with 0.6.x or 0.7.x version in late 2013 or first half of 2014 and last used in first half of year 2015. Version 0.10.1 32-bit opens and runs it fine. Version 0.14.2 64-bit opens and runs fine, but throws out error when shutting down Bitcoin Core. Version 0.15.1 throws out error when starting up and is unusable. EXCEPTION: St13runtime_error
GenerateNewKey: AddKey failed
C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe in Runaway exception
2018-02-10 11:10:28 CDBEnv::EnvShutdown: Error -30974 shutting down database environment: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
So far I think my workaround for this situation will be using 0.14.2 to sync and send the coins. |
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John McAfee is one of greatest IRL troll ever. Do not take him too serious, but there might be some truth in his predictions. Bitcoin reached 18k/BTC, with the limited supply why it cannot go for 1M/BTC?
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Vai esat ievērojuši to, ka tiklīdz parādās kādā meinstrīma portālā raksts par bitkoinu, tā raksta komentāros uzreiz uzrodas komentāros vesela čupa tukšpļūšu, kuri saka ka tā ir piramīda, MMM, vai arī ka tā ir centralizēta, kuru kontrolē kāds nezināms spēks vai ķīnieši, ka bitkoina cena ir sasaistīta ar elektrības cenu, utt. Nav pārāk aizdomīgi? To, ka visbiežāk šis "eksperts" ir baņķieris vai tamlīdzīgs fuktuks mani neizbrīna.
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Tought police already is here and operating. FBI of USA, FSB of Russia, the list continues. Write or plan doing something against current establishment, and You will be persecuted in best traditions of Russian KGB. Even in USA.
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Your life seems to completely lack any type of religion.
My life lacks any type of purpose. I want to be someone important, and engaging in intellectual work and adventure. I would like to be scientist or explorer. But I have drawn empty ticket in lottery of life. Being born in wrong time and place in low income family. Speaking about religion, I am not religious. When I was small kid, I believed in God and Santa Claus. Then I found out the Santa Claus is my neighbor, and adults made just big hoax. If Santa Claus does not exist, why the same is not with God? Santa Claus gave me presents and I talked to him. I have not talked to God, and he did not give me candy and toy cars. |
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I hope the OP dies in horrible death. And soon! Encouraging internet censorship and copyright is bad, encouraging snitching is worth of death penalty.
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Dissent is terrorism. Anyone who opposes current system will eventually realize that only real possibility is violent overthrow of that system.
And one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.
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Before I die I want to become immortal.
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As I do initial Blockchain download, the dates zipping by remind me of some important moments in my life that happened around same time when these blocks were created and transactions took place. The geeky nostalgic memories follow:
2009 winter-early spring. Late February or first dates of March maybe. Genesis block was created by Satoshi Nakamoto while I was drinking and driving my friends to sauna in neighboring village. My love of my whole life then danced naked while she was only 15 years old.
2009 spring. I was assembling Core2Duo computer that served me really good. Installed WinXP Pro SP3.
2009 mid June. I was celebrating midsummer. Fingered a 16yo gypsy girl while going back to home.
2009 September. Installed Windows 7 x64 Ultimate. I really loved this version of Windows, compared to XP and Vista.
2009 November. The Western Digital Velocirpator drive went bad. Lost my Win7 install. Reinstalled the OS to 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda drive.
2010 February. Reinstalled Win7 for various reasons. This install lasted till September 2012.
2010 spring. First heard about bitcoins in Frost messaging application running on top of Freenet. Joined Bitcoin forum, I think it was running on SourceForge domain back then. I took a nickname that represented then-curent theme of MysteryMiner.
2010 spring. I was seeking political asylum in Iran because of political persecution and possible imprisonment back in my homeland because of my anti-jewish beliefs. Instead ended up collaborating with Iranian secret services in cyberspace.
2010 mid June. I was celebrating Midsummer with my friend in his ranch. It was amazing!
2010 year. More hacking, hacking Bitcoins on unsecured wallets shared on P2P networks and other dumb configuration mistakes, leaving them open to whole internet.
2011. year. This was really low point in my life. The topless dancer that I fell in love in 2009 rejected my feelings. More drinking, then more hacking while sober and drinking lot of coffee, then more drinking and barbiturates till I fell asleep. Repeated this again next day. Again and again.
2011. The bitcointalk user Dank wanted to kill himself. Some dumbasses intervened and made him stuck in this world for few more years.
2011 maybe? I found out about Silk Road from this bitcointalk forum. I registered there. Helped the admin Silkroad in few security matters. Some time later I made good profit, doubling my bitcoins in real life money, making purchases and reselling items from Silk Road and sister site Armory. I was asked personal details as insurance to get promoted to senior staff. I refused to give my personal details, so I went free. Later some dude took over, going by name Dread Pirate Roberts. I can swear by my pants that he is different person than Silkroad I was contacting at the same time. Ross Ulbricht is not founder of Silk Road, as far as I can tell.
2012. This is the year I really took my life in my hands. Found a job that is hard and pays minimum wage. In parallel, while I was working for 400 USD a month, I was hacking high-security facilities and selling the dumped data for 2500 USD in piece. I wanted to get my loved topless dancer back, start family and usual shit young men dream about. Ended up being rejected again.
2012 mid June. Was celebrating Midsummer with my friend in ranch. I was metal detecting and digging up skeletons and explosives with my friend while being drunk. That was one of my best memories from that period in my life.
2012 25th of June. My friend hypnotized me while I was drunk. He hypnotized me to play World of Tanks. So the first thing I did when I returned to my desktop computer is to install World of Tanks and play.
2012 autumn. I understood that I was not getting the girl I love so much, my life is going to shit.
2012 early September. The Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB drive showed mechanical problems. It was time for replacement.
2012 September 28th. My computer was infected with virus. I was depressed and did not install required security patches. So I ended up having 0-day exploit sucessfully running against me.
2012 November. I sold most of my bitcoins for 5EUR each. Purchased new hard drive to install my new system. Then while the hard drive was purchased and upgraded DDR3 memory shipping was delayed while the package was stuck in New York due to that stupid storm Sandy, the mainboard of my Core 2 Duo system died.
2013 March. I was siting next to Pentium4 replacement computer with integrated video card. I was drinking like devil and watching the 2013. march blockchain split unfolding in real time.
2013 midsummer. Again I was celebrating with my friend in his ranch. No more metal detecting, but we got a lot of weed to compensate that.
2013 year. As my Core 2 Duo system was still not operational, got a Pentium 4 replacement from junk parts I collected. It was Socket 423 system that was maxed out, like 768 MB RAMBUS memory, 120GB RAID1 array, GeForce Ti4600 card etc. Only problem it took 1 month to do initial Blockchain download.
Year 2014. It was more shitty than previous years. But I got by accident a HP Pavilion AMD laptop that was faster than my Pentium 4 system. And it was portable.
Year 2015. I went to war in Ukraine as a volunteer. Surprising thing that the HP Pavilion survived the whole trip without any scratch. But my psyche was not that lucky.
2015 Septemer. As a completely changed person I returned to my homeland. Went to study.
2015 November. I was undergoing surgery and I was suspected to have cancer. I needed 2000 USD for medical examination or needed to wait 6 months in queue for government-sponsored examination. As I did not have money to have examination right now, I choose to wait. Back then I know it can be fatal to me.
2016 February. While under stress of study and impending death, I forgot my whole disk encryption password. Lost 5TB of data, large part of my digital life.
2016 year. Finally I got good news that I do not have cancer. Then I worked hard to get a Alienware laptop. It was dangerous, but still worth it.
2017 year. I went to work in Ukraine in IT sector. And also to find out what happened to my war comrades.
Now I am here. Drinking Champagne alone and being happy of the short and unfair thing called Life.
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I think there is no real reason for life. It is just chemical reaction that randomly got out of control and got incredibly complex over time. Of course, we can come up with elaborate excuses for purpose of life.
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Find food, find shelter, fix the world!
No real plan for me. Young people tend to have big plans for future. Find wife to love, start family, have good job or travel the world. But they usually end up working some shitty job for minimum wage, relocate to United Kingdom to work same shitty job for somewhat higher minimum wage, and are either single or living together with some bitch they do not love. So if that is reality, why not travel to some hotspot, grab a gun and explosives and have fun while fighting for whatever ideals that You find attractive?
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Thank You all for the answers, it really confirmed my research. You know, it is always good to have confirmation from somebody who already knows, because often the technical documentation is incorrect and there are lot of myths and misconceptions about technical stuff. Is there a specific reason why you'd rather use Bitcoin Core instead of a lightweight client like Electrum? Yes. I always used full node in past when I was deep into Bitcoin related things. I still prefer full node over SPV clients because of anonymity advantages. I want to be in full control over my coins. You can also keep your blockchain on multiple drives if you use Linux. So if you have another hard drive you can start downloading the blockchain on that hard drive and then change the data directory to the one on SSD and make soft links to the block files on the other drive. (soft links are like shortcuts)
You can make soft links by using a command "ln -s <target> <shortcutfilename>", which will make a file <shortcutfilename> that will point to the <target> when accessed. In this scenario it makes sense for target to be on the regular hard drive while the soft link (shortcut file) to be on the SSD.
I use Windows 7. I know I can use NTFS junctions to point to another drive as well as choose different datadir in startup parameters or bitcoin.conf. The problem is that my main computer is now a laptop, not a desktop. Sure, my laptop have small 256GB SSD system drive and 1TB 7200RPM secondary mechanical hard drive, but today I think it is bare minimum for power users like me. For desktop it is possible to throw in just another multi terabyte drive, but for laptop the expansion is somewhat limited. |
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Lame question, but since I was not much into Bitcoin for some time, I want to get this right on first attempt.
I have computer with small SSD drive that have 120GB free space. I want to install and download Bitcoin Core. I have no space on drive to store entire blockchain.
1. Should I install Bitcoin Core, set up my preferences, then add prune=550 or some larger number to Bitcoin.conf, then shut down and start again Bitcoin Core?
2. Will the space usage never reach 120GB or more while initial downloading?
3. Any other things I need to know about pruning that I missed?
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