the thing about the music industry is that ages ago someone only needed to sell 1million albums to become a millionaire.(albums use to be $10+ and artists got $1 per album)
now it requires 20million albums to become a millionaire.($2 an album and 5cents artist income per album)
most artists now make the majority of their income on Tour doing concerts

so you need to work out what kind of funds you want to receive. and how EG
if it takes 3 months to make an album with a 3 month break. then work out how much income you would want to receive over 6 months.
then work out a fair value per song/album you want to sell. and then multiply it to work out how many people need to buy your song/album to get that income.
then you will know how much PR, advertising and raising your profile to achieve those numbers.
once you know the numbers you can then set goals and tasks to get to that target.

if you get to the popularity targets, then you can start earning more money doing concerts, EG instead of a $5 door entry fee to a bar where you get 50cents per patron in a 100 seat bar($50 a night).. you can charge $50 per entry in a 20,000 seat venue where you get $5 per entry ($100,000 a night)

having a website is great but also having a 6month-5year plan of action with numbers and targets will help you know the direction to go and keep you ontrack to become successful by knowing upfront what to expect

as for the question about payment platforms. tr not to avoid them completely. but do avoid the management platforms like youtube/itunes. because they take a LARGE cut.

things like coinbase, bitpay and stripe only take 1%. which is acceptable.. rather than 70%+ that management platforms take

some points.
1. if the strip club is saying the pictures and details were taken via a patron taking pictures of the parking lot and other patrons. its not a hack. its spying.
2. out of all the places in all the world why swiss.. this narrows down the investigation that the perpetrator is local.
3. smart investigators can try working out what night all of these blackmail victims attended to work out a day the spying happened. and use any witness or security details to narrow down the suspect pool.


in short bitcoin wont protect the blackmailer if investigators are smart enough. the blackmailer has not covered his tracks and could get caught far easier then the ransomware scriptkiddies

to input a new privkey (EG a paperwallet ) requires starting from scratch each time?

any other work around, like disabling prune mode temporarily then enabling it again?

has anyone ran prune mode and then once pruned set it from 550 to 0 (disabling it) to see if it throws up errors, or if it just starts grabbing all data again, to allow people to get clogged up for an hour or less while they import privkeys and then enable prune mode again to then reprune whatever it grabbed in that hour..

rather than having to start truly from scratch?

claimed stolen over a year ago.

with the trading fee's etc they could easily have re-compensated the losses over a year, so try not to believe that their bitcoin holdings are empty. especially with users AFTER the supposed theft was added too.

more news in a few days.. (translation, weeks or not at all)

so knowing you cant to anything else all you can do is wait and see.
if you are thinking of joining a lawsuit. do not file it against cryptsy, file it against 'project investors inc' (the head company) because cryptsy is just an empty vessel/limb with no assets. or against vern himself. maybe that will prompt him to pay you out sooner.

filing against cryptsy wont get you anything because crypsy does not hold the fincen registration and can easily be thrown into bankruptcy and leave people without anything. but 'project investors inc' isnt as easy to throw away

the blockchain is the instrument of payment. the protocol linked to satoshis genesis block is the instrument of payment. but bitcoin is becoming the term to use for the units/tokens. not the protocol.

EG
"bitcoins blockchain" can be compared analogically as visa america
bitcoin can be compared analogically as dollar
"litecoins blockchain" can be compared analogically as visa europe
litecoin can be compared analogically as euro

thats why "blockchain" buzzword is becoming a thing.. not only because its a better term than 'cryptocurrency' but it also helps define what people are talking about when they use the word 'bitcoin' as its not good to call the token, the ledger database and the protocol code, just bitcoin.

its not about bitcoin its more about KYC and fraud protections.. EG unless they can prove the funds are going to an account of YOURS and not some scamming theif who hacked you.. because if they did send it to a random account not in your name that was not regulated by a hacker, you have lost it for good, so they wont send it for that reason and many other reasons(mostly to protect you, even though its a headache).

so easiest thing to do is put it in your bank and then transfer it to bitfinex

use blockchainuncovered to talk about all different things like alts, sidechains, offchain.

use bitcoinuncovered to talk just about bitcoin.. just try not to play the failed 'gavinista' buzzword game if your going to talk about blocklimits. because 2mb was not a intellectual property patent of gavin. it was code that anyone can implement, including core.

try to make it unbiased and about the community and bitcoin as a whole rather than playing the blockstream is god rhetoric aswell..

if you do have unbiased information that is backed up by real code examples or proper quotes from the original source. (rather an opinion) then you could become a good source of information for newbies

i know i know as i said before, that the real definition of pruning was as you said..
but the 550mb has got alot of people into a pickle that it must cut out some of the UTXO (laymens:unspent) to get to a possible level of 550mb hard drive space.

it needs to be clarified better that the 550mb is not total hard drive storage allocation of everything related to the blockchain but the separate parts related just to recent data that can change. and not related to archival data of unspents.

it may be wrote down in some places as far back as 2013-4-5 when the term pruning first came about. but the 2016 info on the actual release has made some left in a pickle thinking v0.12 is not the same as the original definition of pruning

care to give Lauda a correction

and thank you for correcting that. can you also find a way to make this more aware in the literature etc as i know alot of people will have 2 comments
1. "if i can set it to store only 550mb of data, thats not enough for the unspents so something must get lost"
2. "why have i put it at 550mb default but my hard drive is showing 2gb"

making both people think what is the purpose of 550mb

try to make it clear that all unspents are available thus able to be used to validate transactions.. as from what i read about
"storing only 550mb of latest blocks" left alot of holes in what was actually happening. which we both know would make the node not able to fully validate if it didnt have full unspent data.

so try to make it clearer in the literature that the 550mb default is not the reality of data storage but is the 'trigger' to enable pruning of spents. and as a separate thing (im presuming) to hold separately the latest data aswell incase of orphans/forks etc.

as its just not worked that clearly

title on website says everything you need to know about bitcoin.

but then the most largest piece of info right there as the page loads is a fiat price.. and not all 200 available fiats, but dollar(and euro/gbp if u click the selection box).. i think your missing the point of what bitcoin is if your main highlight is the dollar value.

i think you need to work on the purpose and what you want viewers to know..

is it to learn about bitcoin and how to use it to buy real things, or get sucked into trading it for fiat.

overall the theme is good and its a good start. but you need to work on the narrative/purpose of the site

basically calling them "assets"


so like other assets which by definition are a form of currency, but that does not mean that its treated the same as FIAT.

thats not what the original version of what prune mode was envisioned.

the original vision was to no longer keep spent data. but keep every unspent

now all of a sudden 2500 people who regularly upgrade are no longer going to hold full data should they enable lite node(which core wrongly calls prune)..
it should be called trim mode.. any gardener can explain the difference
pruning only cutting off the dead parts that are not needed.
trimming cutting off larger areas to improve asthetics and space for growth

but just keeping recent relay data is like cutting off the tree and only keeping the ripe fruit.. good old blockstream adding features to dilute the population of REAL FULL nodes. and leaving the community with a patch work of litenodes and compatible nodes.

if people dont have full history of unspents. then they cannot validate that a transaction is authentic.
why oh why do people think that making full node clients into crippled versions is a good thing. because fundamentally its not. if you want lite clients then download a lite client

stop trying to advertise that running in lite mode is better then sliced bread. if you want to say your a full node then dont cripple yourself or believe your still a full node after enabling such features

if your going to run (better to call it trim/lite) mode atleast accept your just a relay node and not a full archival node

if something like coinbase implements facial recognition. and lets say adam back had a coinbase account.

then here you go folks.. here is his access key

face recognition is fail.. lets say bill gates used it. i could steal his phone and then google image a picture of him and hold up upto the phones camera.

same as pickpocketing. i can stand at a distance and use a nice camera with a zoom to take a picture of someones face, and then casually walk upto them to pickpocket them.. then at home show the picture to the stolen phone,

pin numbers and passwords are better because of these reasons
1. its in the persons head so less chance to be directly attacked without close proximity, torture or harder tricks to get to have the access code
2. people lose weight, gain weight get scars, get age wrinkles grow beards.. so that can confuse photo recognition
3. identical twins
4. the effort to press the camera button,  adjust the angle, get the focus right, pose and then press snap picture actually takes more time and effort compared to typing a pinnumber or a lengthier password.

and even if that does phase you and you still want it...

yes it should be a gimmick GUI feature for stuff like multibit or coinbase. not something for core

totally agree. thats why i said no one should control and have veto rights over bitcoin to force anything.
bips are the first step (idea).. which when finalised its then moved into a code github where its put into a test client and checked for bugs and stuff.
so a bip is not forcing anything. its just an 'ideahouse' that should be utilised more
and when a bip is created should not just be one bip for companyA, one bip for companyB, etc... its instead a draft that all ABCDEF, etc all get involved in tweaking and developing and getting to an agreement. and then if its useful, finalized... or leaving if as draft if they cannot agree or find it not useful.

that way instead of having bip 101,102,103,104,105... there is just one bip eg 101 that has gone through 4 tweaks and decisions until there is a final bip 101 that the majority agree with..

which over the last year of the latest debates by organising things better we could have resulted as a bip 10X stating a 2mb with a 3-6month grace period
rather than 101,102,103,104,105 that has no collaboration at all and no tweaking and settling differences within just 1 number.

the current way bips are used is like throwing 5 lumps of dogs mess at a wall and seeing which one will stick, rather than being more involved and discussed and tweaked/refined.

that is because the current system is to have 5 pieces of dogs mess and then say lets throw it and see which sticks..
again if they instead worked on just one piece and tweaked it to make it the stickiest and least smelly version they can find. and then it would be easier to throw it at the wall knowing that there is less hit and miss

its funny that you delete posts.. because what i was saying was right and you dont want others to read it

i agree general chatter, altcoin chatter, blocksize chatter does not resonate to result in a change in bitcoin price. and most of the topics related to bitcoin price are reactive.. which by this i mean that the prices change and then people panic asking what the cause of the rise and fall and then hours later people google some news and then talk about it after the fact

the easiest way to think of it is that when you input seed it just reveals address seed1.
you have to make is scan address seed2 address seed3 address seed4 and so on

if you have used more then 10 addresses then just the smallest amount you can into empty address number 9.. then rescan. and that should force it to then scan another 10(totalling 19) instead of just 10

looking at february 2015-november 2015 there is a correlation that when there is a surge of new users, then a higher price has shown to occur within a couple weeks after it.

thats just logic.. new users=new demand

as for the other data about post and page views.. well your not going get any valid correlation out of it because the topics are varied and any pattern is drowned out by the repetition of signature campaign posters who post any random waffle no matter whats happening to the price.

you might want to however dilute down the post/view data into categories like economics and speculation.. rather then the whole forum, and see if there is any better chance of getting some reasonable and relevant indicators