There are still miners out there with old versions of the software and running the defaults. Thus, if there's not too much of a backlog, it's quite possible zero fee transactions will get included.
So if zero fee transactions are actually a problem, perhaps it is better that we do have a bit of miner centralization so we have professional miners who actually pay attention to what they are doing instead of a bunch of amateurs not acting in their rational self-interest as was supposed to happen.
Don't amateurs mainly hash for pools? It seems hard to believe there's any significant hashrate operated by hobbyists who actually run their own bitcoind for mining. Good point. And mainly so I think. In fact, some of the offenders seem to be large pools. Antpool and slush appear to be still mining with a 750000 soft limit so it would be interesting to see if they were mining 0 fee transactions also. I send 0 fee transactions all the time and so far they've always* gone through, so there's definitely still a decent percentage of miners that accept them. The only time I pay a fee is if I'm using a web wallet or phone wallet where the fee is built in, or if I'm sending coin to an exchange to make a trade and time is of the essence. * (I did have 1 unconfirmed from a test during the mtgox malleability fiasco, but it actually went through, just my client thought it didn't) What's the longest wait you had for a transaction to go through? When the spam attacks were running people who paid fees were waiting over half a day, and the backlog took a week to clear. Did you try sending any zero fee transactions while those attacks were ongoing? |
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The Cryptsy has died officially. It lost 13,000 coins in 2014 and did not tell the truth to the users. There should be certain justice done to the operator of Cryptsy.
you shouldn't bump an old topic like this But, yes i heard there's an action class lawsuit already filled against cryptsy, so we can hope there's justice into this  But only US customers can file the class lawsuit, not other international customers. So International customers will lose out. In the comments of this news story about the Cryptsy lawsuit it suggests that international customers could try using a company called Atradius to try to collect for failure to deliver goods. I don't know whether that would work for a bankrupt company but it could be worth investigating. That is a tough one. I suggest going through an international collection agency like Atradius. They have a presence in over 25 countries. File a collection notice of failure to deliver goods or provide refund. Take snapshots of your Cryptsy account ASAP and all correspondence (tickets) https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/class-action-lawsuit-filed-cryptsy/ |
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Has anyone actually been able to withdraw funds from Cryptsy for one of the wallets that has been "re-opened" for withdrawals?
I withdrew blackcoin I had traded. I wish I put all the btc into that had I known but I only left bit. Hours before the blog post and the cancelling of orders I got my small dogecoin balance sent out as they did clear out some coins till then. I do think they should press ahead with some compromised solution and put people out of their misery with whatever losses have occured. Like one person said above alot just kept random coins here for convenience so at least let them continue to swap even if the main problem of the missing btc is still a loss for many There are coins there that don't have anyone mining them anymore. It was impossible to withdraw them before the hack. What will they do about coins like that? If they let people trade them again there wouldn't be any buyers because it's impossible to withdraw them unless a miner starts mining them again. |
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Good opportunity to get new shorts in!
My view is that we are going lower from here.
Do you think it might go up to or above $400 first? There's a giant spread that's making the price erratic. A few thousand Bitcoins would go through the walls before $400, or send the price below $350. Bid support is weak on Huobi and the Chinese are doing their Sunday morning trading which might stop an attempt on $400. |
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By the way, there was another message by "Satoshi" recently, denying that he was Craig Wright -- and then adding "We are all Satoshi". That last part is obviously something that Satoshi would not have written. I can only think that the hacker is aware that everybody is aware that the account has been compromised, and does not care to pretend anymore.
Sound, sensible analysis as always. Good to have you home, professor. The problem is that the anti-fork message was not spoofed and the writing style matches. http://pastebin.com/Ct5M8fa2Here's a quick technical analysis of the email sent to the bitcoin-dev mailing list today at http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-August/010238.html The email was sent from an anonymous email provider called vistomail.com which gives the appearance of being out of service. However you can see the logins at https://webmail.vistomail.com/ The vistomail servers are authorised to originate email by their IP address via the SPF DNS records . Satoshi used satoshi@vistomail.com when first announcing Bitcoin http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2009-January/014994.html From this you can safely conclude the email did originate from vistomail.com servers and was not spoofed. It does not prove the account was not hacked of course. Partial headers from the email: Received: from mail.vistomail.com (vistomail.com [190.97.163.93]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2175813F for < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 19:00:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from DS04 ([190.97.163.93]) by vistomail.com with MailEnable ESMTP; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 13:51:14 -0500 DNS RECORDS FOLLOW: vistomail.com descriptive text "v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ip4:190.97.163.93 ~all" vistomail.com has address 190.97.163.93 vistomail.com mail is handled by 10 vistomail.com. The "we are all satoshi" was spoofed and the writing style or expressions didn't match. So the second doesn't invalidate the first. Additionally, that particular email address is not known to have been stolen. Therefore the August message could be legit - it's a very serious risk for BTC. Risk, in the sense that if the proposed fork goes ahead, we'll have Satoshi's second coming after the forkageddon to proclaim Bitcoin is a failure since it failed to protect itself from this kind of attack. Anyone can get a vistomail email address, I had one myself once. It's an anonymous speech service which has been around for a long time and they are reliable. Who obtained those headers, and how do do we know they are legit? Only a few people must have acess to the linuxfoundation.org mail servers. Does the linuxfoundation publish all the headers for the public to view, or do you need access to its mail servers to view them? If I can't view the originals myself I want proof they came from a reliable source. |
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I am predicting a drop to 350 ish fairly soon... then moon within the next 6 months.
I don't see it going to $350 under any circumstance. For the record, do you see it going below $350 now? Do you think there's the slightest possibility of that with the combination of Bitcoin Classic hardfork, Cryptsy, and Mike Hearn? I don't believe TA works with all the manipulation that goes on in a market as thin as Bitcoin's. Manipulation and the power of events to affect the market make TA useless. |
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I wonder if stuff will get more expensive or cheaper when the crisis arrives? Like Computerparts, Graphics Cars etc.? Not sure if to buy now or wait for the crisis?
As about BTC, HODL...
If the crisis gets worse few people will have the money to buy Computerparts, Graphics Cars etc. It will become a buyers market where sellers keep undercutting each other to try making sales. Your money will go further because everything will get cheaper. Wait to buy and you will get better deals. |
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The drop is caused because Cryptsy is collapsing, I think.
If a reasonable solution is reached, then we'll see a recover, otherwise two more years of bear
Speaking of which, I think Craptsy is dark now. The drop is caused because Cryptsy is collapsing, I think.
If a reasonable solution is reached, then we'll see a recover, otherwise two more years of bear
Causing a fall of $ 430 to $ 370, loss of 1 billion dollars in marketcap, in 1 single day? I don't think so. I'm sure it helped. Not Cryptsy itself, but Cryptsy reaffirming the (seemingly obvious) fact that so-called 'trustless' currencies, like filthy fiat, rely on trust. Only instead of needing to trust legacy institutions -- greedy banks and their henchmen, the lying governments -- trustless currencies require you to trust fellers like TradeFortress, Ukyo, and Big Vern. Yeah that was kinda my round a bout point yesterday that trust is a huge thing, and with the exchange ( another I might add ) going down and lord only knows how many thousands of dollars are now missing, to the normal joe this is not good. The media will have a field day with this for sure... again showing how much growing this thing needs to do. Every time another exchange gets reported hacked its a reminder of Gox. Cryptsy made the final news worse by behaving exactly the same as Gox for a year+. They covered up the hack, delayed withdrawals, and eventually stopped allowing Bitcoin withdrawals citing fake excuses. When the news got out they had done a Gox the media had a field day destroying trust in exchanges. |
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The process is always irreversible. Once you have the tainted coins, they an only be used for illegal actions and will never be exchanged to the get the bitcoins that are very clean...
The US Marshalls auctioned off the dirty tainted Silk Road coins they confiscated. Those coins couldn't have got much dirtier, but they were clean after they had been auctioned off. We knew the addresses the US Marshalls stored them in, and any buyers can prove where they came from. The coins are now clean because all the buyers can say "I purchased them from the police". |
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I think it is okay for them to do so. But it would be wrong to track transaction of non-terrorist people. I think you still can bypass this tracking.
And how would they determine who owns what address? How do you know that the person who owns the address you are tracking is or is not a terrorist? Given the pseudonymous nature of Bitcoin, it is pretty damn impossible to determine who actually owns the address. There's not much they ca do today, but if they asked all their exchanges to provide information about customer's trades, deposits, withdrawals, and IP addresses used they could connect it all to transactions in the blockchain. New York got the Bit License, and Germany could bring in tougher measures if there was enough support for them. |
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Thinking to also just zip the whole bitcoin data directory and use that instead, Using the bootstrap.dat leaves out the index folder and other files which I think speeds up the client sync process.
Using 7zip would make a smaller download than using zip. If you created a portable Bitcoin qt wallet in your c drive, then 7zipped the whole folder it might be faster to sync because it would already be indexed up to the block you synced it to before 7zipping it. You can make Bitcoin qt portable by creating a shortcut to bitcoin-qt.exe before syncing, opening the shortcut's properties, then clicking the shortcut tab, then changing the target field from C:\bitcoin-0.10.2\bin\bitcoin-qt.exe to this C:\bitcoin-0.10.2\bin\bitcoin-qt.exe -datadir=. Adding the -datadir=. makes qt put the blocks and chainstate folders in the same folder as bitcoin-qt.exe, instead of in appdata. If you always remember to start bitcoin-qt.exe using the shortcut rather than the exe itself the wallet will remain portable and put the blockchain in the same folder as bitcoin-qt.exe. Ok so for my next update i will probably use 7zip if it indeed compresses to a smaller size. I actually use linux as my os, so i can't follow these instructions, do you have linux intructions? If making a portable bitcoin client prevents the need to reindex then i will do this. I'll see if importing the bitcoin data directory from this torrent requires re-indexing first, if it does then i will try and make it portable. I could make separate portable versions for windows, linux and mac. I don't use Linux so I don't have any instructions for it, but the Linux users here will probably soon tell you how to do it with Linux. This is a good file splitter software for Windows, and there must be similar software for Linux available. http://www.snapfiles.com/get/gsplit.htmlThere are download links for the Linux 7zip here if you don't already have it. http://www.7-zip.org/download.html |
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Thinking to also just zip the whole bitcoin data directory and use that instead, Using the bootstrap.dat leaves out the index folder and other files which I think speeds up the client sync process.
Using 7zip would make a smaller download than using zip. If you created a portable Bitcoin qt wallet in your c drive, then 7zipped the whole folder it might be faster to sync because it would already be indexed up to the block you synced it to before 7zipping it. You can make Bitcoin qt portable by creating a shortcut to bitcoin-qt.exe before syncing, opening the shortcut's properties, then clicking the shortcut tab, then changing the target field from C:\bitcoin-0.10.2\bin\bitcoin-qt.exe to this C:\bitcoin-0.10.2\bin\bitcoin-qt.exe -datadir=. Adding the -datadir=. makes qt put the blocks and chainstate folders in the same folder as bitcoin-qt.exe, instead of in appdata. If you always remember to start bitcoin-qt.exe using the shortcut rather than the exe itself the wallet will remain portable and put the blockchain in the same folder as bitcoin-qt.exe. There are file splitters you could use to break the giant 7zip file into smaller chunks. People could download each chunk individually, then recombine them using the same file splitter software you used. |
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1PdVemFTXCtcsWBctZXwTnjS55o3sL2fEH
Happy New Year
Please quote my address that belongs to unent on January 03, 2016
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A Romanian billionaire called Mircea Popescu is rumored to hold a massive stash of Bitcoins, but I couldn't find out exactly how many he has. He paid $20,000 to help OpenBSD and I keep coming across his name on bitcointalk. Someone here must know more about his stash. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/20/openbsd_bailed_out/Described as a Romanian billionaire, an individual named Mircea Popescu has offered to bail out the OpenBSD Foundation.
The Foundation responsible for maintaining OpenBSD is $20,000 in the red over an electricity bill for powering the servers which host the operating system.
As yet, Popescu does not feature on the OpenBSD list of “significant” Foundation sponsors.
In an IRC session on January 19 Popescu had asked how to make a donation. On a #Bitcoin-assets IRC here, he made a comment that’s been taken as read that he had donated. “And it pleases me to announce openbsd got itself sponsored,” he wrote. |
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Is there a saying in speculators land that indicates the opposite of 'never catch a falling knife'? Something like 'never exit a moving train'?
I suppose there's HODL your coins, but it doesn't quite fit the context. Apart from HODL I can't think of any suitable expression except maybe "to the mooooon", or ccmf. |
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can't wait for news from FED...
What time will we find out what their decision is? I couldn't find out a probable announcement time from Google, only that an announcement is expected sometime today, and the stock markets are waiting with baited breath for it. Will the announcement be good or bad for Bitcoin? Brilliant, so we have about four and a quarter hours left to wait. I have read innumerable opinions about what the FEDs decision will be, and what affect it will have on the Bitcoin market. Some say the price will go up, some say it will go down. All I'm sure of is something will happen to Bitcoin's price after the announcement. |
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can't wait for news from FED...
What time will we find out what their decision is? I couldn't find out a probable announcement time from Google, only that an announcement is expected sometime today, and the stock markets are waiting with baited breath for it. Will the announcement be good or bad for Bitcoin? |
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In extremely dumbed down terms, for each private key there is a matching public key, and both are a long string of letters and numbers.
A private key can encrypt something. A corresponding public key can decrypt something its private key has encrypted.
Also a public key can encrypt something, and its corresponding private key can decrypt something the public key has encrypted.
A public key can be mathematically calculated from a private key. An address is a public key that's been mangled by adding some information to it, then having some mathematical calculations done on it.
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In Europe you can do SEPA bank transfers for a ridiculously low price, like about 10 cents.
Use the Kraken exchange to sell your Bitcoins, then do a SEPA withdrawal from it to your bank. The Kraken has a bank account in the EU so it only costs about 10 cents to transfer your money from its account to your EU bank account (provided your country uses the Euro). The transfer should take less than a day (again provided your country uses the Euro).
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Can't believe i missed this; their rates and everything (xcept maybe for that bonus) was not really overpriced so i didn't even bother looking further into it. 1H8Pm29JPzX3KjjapjmgpYSCUySVnHKfWT likely controls 47 addresses as per https://bitiodine.net/cluster/1H8Pm29JPzX3KjjapjmgpYSCUySVnHKfWTThose associated with bitcointalk accounts are: (cant guarantee it's all 100% correct, or even at all)Great work! There was a guy that said something like "is there enough funds in the address where funds for the campaign are held" - but not exaclty in those words If someone can find me that quot , it would help, because i think i linked him as well (can't be sure, i'm really tired and sleepy  , but would like to check it out later on) Is this the guy? A Full Member called SmartIphone queried the insufficient funds in the address where funds for the campaign are held. I had to post a link and quote it because the black Friday campaign thread's locked now. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1253069.msg13082279#msg13082279Will the campaign run until today 23:59 or until tomorrow 28 November 23:59 ?
P.S the funds in that address aren't enough even for bonuses This is the bitcoin address he used in his black Friday signature campaign application. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1253069.msg12999019#msg12999019Username: SmartIphone
Post count: 196
Rank: Full Member
Bitcoin Address: 1JzCkTG9F8jQLbot4UMLKXHod8bp99V3B5 |
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