If there is an exploitable vulnerability in both chains then I guess we'll find that out when it's fixed/no longer exploitable.
$200m sounds like a lot to have been stole from that exchange too so the funds were probably stored in different ways - seems strange you'd exploit an exchange like that and not a bigger one though.

Most attacks seem really shady in this industry until more information is made available anyway - though there's been a history of sketchy people/exchanges in crypto.

I don't think we'll fall much further but I think it'll be much easier to say this around Monday or Tuesday when the market is tested with higher volumes/probably institutions too.

Platinum has done that in value per kilo though it has many of the same properties as gold, is less reactive, more conductive and used as a catalyst in a lot of places.

I'm not sure if perceptions changed kuch with that as gold didn't seem to do too much better out of it. Eth might be different though but I think there would be a lot more caution by institutional investors due to the increased potential for vulnerabilities (because it has extra functions).

If you do some research and find the most common value sent over the xmr network in a transaction then you might get somewhere.

The issue will be that someone might notice $100 being bought and moved twice and then exist as $100-fees in your bitcoin wallet.

Just back up your wallet.dat - preferably encrypted and on a different drive - and the install the new update and you'll be fine (although you should try to backup your wallet file before you send funds to it).

For appreciating assets, trading and investing will both work so a hybrid of the two will obviously work too.

Most people probably expect the hybrid to take as much time as trading though (unless you're trading something like alerts for % rises and drops as an example).

(there are people who seek investments and holding them because they don't want to think about trading or they have tried to and made a loss - either risk managed or just lost more than they wanted to - and got put off).

Surely he's got a lot of control over the money that's invested and when to buy in extra btc to Grayscale, it's probably just a few of them making the decisions too so there's that to consider.

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People want to know when they should do things for themselves when they don't want to or are nervous to, some people (like Elon) have found ways to exploit that...

Well the two main flaws of this system are that:
1. What happens if the person wants the funds that are stored there and don't care for it being there/their keys being a larger target than they were.
2. What if an attacker thinks they'll get more by not emptying the wallet than they will by taking the funds.

Realistically though, it might work and be a good idea in some cases. I could imagine a large security firm putting something on their main signature private keys similar to this (if an attacker can get $10m from that exploit, they might not bother trying to sell the keys on).

The block database is nothing to do with your wallet file, I don't think there would be an obvious error if the file loaded wrong.

Do you have the last few lines of your debug log just as the error started?
Also if you're not far with the syncing process, you can try to run the program with -reindex and see if that fixes your problems.

There are also a lot of people who don't trust banks, the same can be said for bitcoin too - especially when banks quietly underwent deregulation in a lot of countries without their consumers knowing.

Crypto has fees, as long as banks keep paying those for consumers I don't think people will care abut using bitcoin as a currency.

Have you installed the firmware for your ledger nano s? Normally there's a driver or something you have to install to get it to work, ledger will likely have it on their website.

This link contain info on installing the ledger firmware: https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002731113-Update-Ledger-Nano-S-firmware?docs=true
This is then the one for connecting the ledger to electrum (just in case you get a problem): https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005161925-Set-up-and-use-Electrum?docs=true

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They did say they were using Mac.

Perhaps the gold price and prices of things similar go up because industries are trying to stockpile what they need too.

Bitcoin may drop because no one knows what will happen when it drops and they're taking too much risk on it. Gold might just be seen as less risky as it's historically proven.

Bitcoin isn't even close to digital gold though... People tout it as that to make it easier to understand and incentivise investment but we're far from there for now and might not reach it on quite a lot of properties (bitcoin lacks physical uses and is easy to split - it'll end up somewhere between gold and cash if it matures enough).

Why have hope when you can just move to a cheaper chain? It seems like a thing that's been promised for a while and never actually done, who's storing the eth chain when it's a few petabytes in size also (unless that's why they're switching to PoS)?


OK so the gaming industry is slow but I don't think it's that slow play to earn is probably something that'll take a while to come out, most mmo games ban you from selling stuff anyway in their terms (I think it requires extra licensing).

They'll make a new address for every customer they have yes but the mechanics of how this might be done can be different per place.

The simplest is creating an address and private key pair every time a user registers and storing that address with them in their account (they're all less than 40 bytes so it's not too much to store - two million is only 80 MB).

The second alternative some places kufbt use is by using the bip32 derivation to get a master private key and master public key pair. These can be used similarly with limits set things such as "only let 1000 people have an address that uses this key before getting a new one" and then set a number next to the users' database entry so they know how far down the key must be indexed to get their address.

That's one way to go about it but now isn't a great time to start doing that I don't think. Lots of people trade patterns with altcoins for when the btc dominance fluctuates - a few patterns repeat themselves 3 or 4 times before they're obselete too (don't risk too much on this though either 10% is probably the most you'd put on even if you're confident)...


I've seen people try to do scalping and other things to get more bitcoin but that might be riskier than day trading with it.

There used to be a lot of people who had sizeable amounts of bitcoin that would go around claiming faucets (which might be some way to accumulate). Or find a service to sell or something (especially if you enjoy it already).

Unless bitcoin doesn't get used for a while though, there would be no reason to stop mining collectively as miners can still collect fees from people sending funds across the network (as they already do now).

Also full nodes propagate the blockchain across the network and verify transactions.

Miners are paid via a reward for finding a block yes, but they're also paid transaction fees - you pay a fee whenever you send bitcoin and this gets rewarded to miners.

This fee on it's own has been fairly big, the last block had 0.023btc in fees - which seems smaller than it has been: https://btc.com/btc/block/711888
That's still $1.5k (today, potentially a lot more if bitcoin continues into the 2100s) and an incentive enough for some people to mine/keep mining.

People only really ignore terms and conditions if they don't expect them to be enforced though so it's quite strange they wouldn't bother?


Well, other countries' banks could always try to compete with Chinese banks on that. I'm surprised North American and European banks haven't yet, they've normally overleveraged themselves on something by this point.

(although vaccine producers have been blamed for doing similar recently).



They've learnt from their own colonisers on that one... Sounds like the agreement the UK had for Hong Kong (1,063.70 sq mi - Wikipedia). That was returned though at the end of its lease, perhaps China plans to extend their lease in places that will agree to it.

My last eth transaction cost $250 though .

They will try to make blocks as efficient as possible thought by including smaller transactions that don't pay as much per byte if they're only a few bytes in size and have a small amount of space to fill (in my experience this seems to happen anyway) - at most it'll only be a few per block.