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2021  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin became valuable because it's failed at fair distribution? on: July 29, 2019, 06:28:08 PM
distribute?
who said anybody should "distribute" money? that would create beggars and lazy people with open mouths waiting to be fed. money should be earned through work. and that is exactly what bitcoin does. the more valuable bitcoin gets the harder you should work to get it.
that is always fair and it will remain that way. the fact that people don't want to do the hard work (mining with special equipment) is their laziness not unfairness of bitcoin!
2022  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Is there a need for tools for sig campaign management? on: July 29, 2019, 03:55:08 AM
if all that the tool does is show a report or stat to the user of it, then i don't think it would be a very useful tool. most of the things you listed can easily be calculated. for example number of posts only requires you to click on the page numbers in the post history and find the last datetime of the previous payment. the number of posts is the number that is shown on the top right corner of that comment.

what you could do is to create an interface that shows all the valid posts. for example it could fetch the post history based on that date and "hide" posts that are not accepted. for instance it could hide posts in boards that they don't pay like altcoin board. and only show the valid ones. so the manager could just focus on them.
you could also add an X button on top of each post to let him remove anything that is not accepted and project that in the total accepted number.
2023  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Is this the best time to buy Bitcoin or not? on: July 28, 2019, 02:14:46 PM
some of the things you are listing here such as Libra, crowdfunding and that telegram thing have nothing to do with bitcoin. they are all about people who saw the hype and wanted in on the money they could potentialy earn from just using some buzzwords such as blockchain and cryptocurrency. and i don't think what they do has any significant effects on "bitcoin".
2024  Economy / Speculation / Re: The crash of BTC price on: July 28, 2019, 01:55:48 PM
first of all welcome to the bitcoin market.
hang around and watch the charts a little instead of reading shitty news sites and their misleading articles that they publish only for the traffic they can get through them.

as for the "crash", as it was mentioned it was not a crash, it was a small drop. i just want to add that when it comes to price of anything you shouldn't look at the raw numbers, you should see the relative size or in other words the percentage.
for example if price of something drops $10 it can be huge if the initial price was $20 because it is 50% drop but it can be tiny if the initial price was $1000 because that would make it 1%
so in case of bitcoin, this drop that you are calling crash was in fact a little bigger than 5% which is normal in a volatile market such as bitcoin.
2025  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Private key (privkey) hunters - unite! on: July 28, 2019, 01:38:04 PM
The program that I posted
23trillion pupkey / s
check out my profile

the thing you are trying to sell seems to be only working for that puzzle transaction and when you have the public key not in general which is the case of the comment you quoted and also is the general theme of this topic. not to mention that OP started this topic mainly as a brainwallet stealer!
2026  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Institutions Buying Bitcoin While They Fud on: July 28, 2019, 01:26:26 PM
i don't think institutions specially these big banks like Jp Morgan spread FUD about bitcoin because they wanted to buy bitcoin. in most cases they are spreading FUD because they are afraid of bitcoin and the fact that they see it has the potential of replacing their whole business and put them out of work eventually! even if it means losing a small market share they see it as a competition and a threat so they fight back and since bitcoin doesn't have any "company" to defend it like suing them for spreading misinformation they can easily get away with it.
2027  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Digital Wishing Well on: July 27, 2019, 04:07:12 AM
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It's the QR code at the top of the page (right where is the well). That's the whole point of his website (other than the donation stuff) - scan and "use" the whell.

The addresses you linked above are for the donation thing, so obviously it can't be a burn address, otherwise he wouldn't be able to donate/scam anyone.

the picture of the well on top of the website alongside the QR code that contains the "wishing" address doesn't always load. that is the problem with using free website builders, they are poorly coded and the hosting is not always responsive.
initially i was confused about this too so i had to refresh the site a couple of times to figure it out!
2028  Economy / Speculation / Re: Coin Days Destroyed and Leading Price Action? on: July 26, 2019, 06:11:53 PM
it is a good indicator only if you could associate a transaction with a sell. and since in bitcoin we can never do that for sure, the coin days destroyed becomes useless. it is basically the same as those topics that are created here from time to time where someone finds a big transaction for the first time in his life and thinks it is the end of price!
not to mention that day trading whales who have super active wallets are affecting the market a lot more than a one time seller selling a large amount of his old coins once.
2029  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Satoshi IP address on: July 26, 2019, 05:14:35 PM
Why not revealing them?

then why stop there? why not release the information this site sees from all other users. lets start from you, bitcointalk should release your IP address among other things including browser fingerprint,...
2030  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Indian government appointed committee proposed draft bill might get approved on: July 24, 2019, 03:16:58 PM
This is a very strange development, because India was one of the countries that made a declaration at the G20 Summit in Osaka that that "cryptocurrencies do not currently constitute a threat to monetary stability, and that technological innovation can deliver significant benefit to the economy." Source : https://cointelegraph.com/news/g20-leaders-reaffirm-position-on-cryptocurrencies-in-statement

They also committed themselves to comply with the updated Financial Action Task Force anti-money laundering and countering terrorism financing standards for cryptocurrencies.

India must have something up their sleeve with this, most likely their own GovCoin.  Roll Eyes 

ever since Venezuela created their own cryptocurrency called Petro many other countries started watching and working on their own government created coin. one of them was India. so i wouldn't be surprised if they continue bothering those who are invested in decentralized cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin to try and build the groundwork for their own coin's forceful adoption.
2031  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Crypto trading educational platforms on: July 24, 2019, 02:46:08 PM
Are there any good educational platforms for crypto trading while also having great tools to improve your trading?
don't look for "crypto" trading. but instead look for "trading" and you will find countless articles, websites, videos, books,... that you can use to learn how trading works and then use that knowledge to trade cryptocurrencies. the basics aren't that different.
sites like investopedia have lots of articles even for cryptocurrencies.

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ICO analysis and so on.
let me help you there> none of the ICOs have ever been good and none of the will ever be good as investment. no decent developer ever creates a token that is not even a stand alone cryptocurrency and needs to rely on another platform and then ask to be paid for it!
2032  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Question About Masternodes on: July 24, 2019, 02:38:30 PM
your question is unclear, you need to explain more. a masternode is not something you could "market"! it is something like a full node that users decide to run on their own and help the network by processing transactions and getting paid for it.
all you can do is to encourage others to run the masternode of a certain coin by introducing to that coin and telling them about the benefits of that coin! good luck with that

What are some ideas on getting more info out on the masternodes?

the "info" is already out there on a lot of websites and people can read them by simply searching. you could gather all of them or the good ones in one place or add your own explanations if you feel like some parts of it need expanding.
but in the end the coin with the masternode (the project itself) has to be interesting to get people interested as i said before.
2033  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Antonopoulos on Libra (facebook) - "this is a surveillance coin" on: July 23, 2019, 03:29:01 PM
Libra coin can be many things. It may be more open than banks, allowing faster and cheaper transactions worldwide, but it will also costs us much more in terms of privacy.

until it is actually released, if it is released, we can not say anything for sure but i seriously doubt that any of these could even be true. you see Libra is not exactly a cryptocurrency and people who may use it are not actually sending transactions. they are sending numbers from one "account" on Facebook website to another "account". under the hood they may as well not even be using a blockchain!
of course they will offer competitive features such as lower fees, reversibility of transactions aka charge back,... but in the end they have only created a copy of Paypal.
2034  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Question About Masternodes on: July 23, 2019, 03:10:04 PM
your question is unclear, you need to explain more. a masternode is not something you could "market"! it is something like a full node that users decide to run on their own and help the network by processing transactions and getting paid for it.
all you can do is to encourage others to run the masternode of a certain coin by introducing to that coin and telling them about the benefits of that coin! good luck with that
2035  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Iran legalizes mining on: July 23, 2019, 02:53:41 PM
Actually more bad news than good.

The reason mining was so profitable their cheap subsidize electricity.
That is over , rate will be at least .07 per kilowatt and most likely higher and a tariff charged on all imported ASICS.
Don't forget , nothing stops them from later outlawing it and then seizing the ASICS for their own use.

the plan was never to prevent miners from mining. the plan was to take their cut from it from day one, just like any other country and their tax man Wink
this means the cost of electricity for these miners will not be that much higher, there profit will surely reduce compared to when they were stealing electricity but it still will remain high enough for them to continue.
2036  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Which SPV wallets rely on bloom filters right now? on: July 23, 2019, 02:37:11 PM
i came across this new change in bitcoin core's next version (0.19) which they are planning to disable bloom filters by default. you can read about it in this mail: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-July/017145.html there is also the link to the PR and the relative discussions.

i was wondering which one of the current existing SPV clients rely on boom filters to work?
2037  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Gov'ts and Institutions buying up Bitcoin on: July 23, 2019, 04:25:04 AM
Most major governments, with the US in particular, already have large troves of Bitcoin that are seized from criminals. For instance, I think I recall the US seized 100,000 BTC from the operators of Silkroad.

but they are not "using" those coins. the seized coins have a clear fate and are only auctioned off to the public like everything else that the law enforcement seizes.
what this FUD that OP is pointing to and has been circulating on the internet lately, is referring to is basically about government buying bitcoin to manipulate the price. which doesn't make any sense at all if you ask me!
2038  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Dealing With Poor Price Uniformity on: July 23, 2019, 04:11:23 AM
big price differences are very rare and only happen during ridiculous volatility periods. otherwise $100 difference for bitcoin which is only 1% doesn't happen. for example price difference between Coinbase, Bitstamp, Bitfinex and Kraken is less than $10 (0.1%) which is normal in any other market too.
besides people don't care about these price differences unless they are doing arbitrage trading between these exchanges. and they fetch the price directly from the exchange API instead of relying on another site that updates the price too late (with delays). so for instance the only usage a site like coinmarketcap.com has is to tell us which coin is listed where and give us additional links such as their explorer link,...
2039  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Simple Program to Reveal Bitcoin address from Private Keys on: July 22, 2019, 04:37:43 PM
I have thousands of old bitcoin private keys. Is there a program to reveal the bitcoins address on this private keys?
Or is there a simple programming code to convert the private keys to bitcoin address?

You can use this script

https://gist.github.com/dooglus/3b1fcbc2449063a1c3f7f1003ca26447

Good luck

note that this code doesn't give you "addresses" (which is what OP is looking for), instead it gives you public keys and that only in uncompressed form which you have to first decide whether you want to use the compressed or uncompressed type then you have to hash them and do the address encoding (base58 or bech32) to get the respective addresses.
2040  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin price, am I right? on: July 22, 2019, 04:29:51 PM
it is correct but two things i would add. it is a very simplified view of the price and also it is a global rule called "supply and demand". it works for everything, from a cup of coffee you buy to a Lamborghini. you can read more about it here: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/law-of-supply-demand.asp

basically it talks about the relationship between supply (the number of coins available to buy) and demand (the number of users buying bitcoin). to define it, we usually keep one fixed and talk about changes in the other, like saying if demand stays the same and supply increases then price should come down.
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