Miners can pick whatever transactions they wish to included in blocks, even zero (within the upper limits). |
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This very whiny article ( http://fusion.net/story/124655/why-bitcoins-male-domination-will-be-its-downfall/ ) says that there are not enough women using Bitcoin. So, just as most stupid reporters that talk about "inequality" and other collectivist drivel, they would likely want the government to step in and do something. What do you believe the punishment should be for women who do not use Bitcoin which would satisfy the reporter's thirst for government power? Maybe the government can force the "Bitcoin CEO" to stop checking IDs of people who want to get involved in bitcoin? :-) |
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Thanks, looks like good info.
Sadly, I already downloaded bootstrap.dat and tried loadblock....
How long should this take? There is no indication of progress..
Somewhere between 30 minutes and a couple of hours. From the bootstrap.dat it mainly depends on diskspeed unless you have a very slow CPU. With SSD being much faster than a HDD. |
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Does that mean that the "Bitcoin CEO" has to stop asking to see IDs before letting people get involved in bitcoin? Or is this another case when China is going to ban bitcoin because there are not enough women "allowed" in?
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What version are you running? 0.10.0? (Or 0.10.1?)
It is v0.10.0 You might give 0.10.1 a try. Thanks, I'm currently testing that....... Is downloading the bootstrap.dat an option? (If the new version of Bitcoin Core not solve the problem?). 0.10.x should be faster syncing than using the bootstrap option. Are you running on a SSD or HDD? (You might have to restart it IF there was corruption in the download before. If you are using an SSD, it should not take long, you can always add specific nodes to connect to - Shorena has a list of fast nodes if that becomes needed). |
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What version are you running? 0.10.0? (Or 0.10.1?)
It is v0.10.0 You might give 0.10.1 a try. |
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What version are you running? 0.10.0? (Or 0.10.1?)
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Yeah, some of you haven't read thru the parts where I stated
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You would do well not to take advice from anybody that has an advertisement in their signature space on this forum. The vast majority of those are people that are being paid per post to advertise with those signatures. Therefore, they'll say just about anything in a discussion thread just to increase their post count (and therefore increase their income). Generally, they know less about the topic they are discussing than the person asking the questions. Danny is correct. Often the people with the ads in their signatures are doing nothing but spouting random advice that is often not accurate merely to get the ads in front of people. Be wary of advice from people with the signature ad campaigns. |
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Scratch that, TruCoin seems a bust.
All I got was a "you have been added to our list" message and I read that people waited and waited and nothing happened.
I live in the middle of nowhere in Northern MI, so I can't just walk out and meet folks for a transaction.
Any suggestions for a specific site that seems to have quick turnaround?
Thanks
TB
Since you are in the US, coinbase.com has fast turnaround - or at least they have in the past. I too have seen reports where people paid and got their files unlocked, so if you need the files, this is pretty much the only way. Good luck. |
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A lot does depend on where you are. Converse is good and legit, but not everywhere. They are in the US, EU etc.
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I know, there are people who wanna buy drugs/weapon/child porn, this BIP is not for them, they can always use "old school" wallets that will not support this "regulation feature".
I'm not following you. Couldn't such users still choose to use the regulation feature but simply supply false information? If everyone is free to supply whatever information they wish then who benefits from such a scheme? I have to assume you have some plan for ensuring a reasonable level of metadata integrity but I cannot discern it from your post. Interfaces for regulation must begin to develop, this is nothing about hurting the Bitcoin user's privacy, we need to break away from that "drug dealer "character and understand that protocol-level standards will create strong ground for that Nobel technology.
Why do you consider the Bitcoin technology noble? What value do you see in Bitcoin that does not already exist in better established alternatives? First of all, thanks everyone for the reference, Implementing this "trust" layer on wallets should be a decision of the wallet developers,if they decided to add a BIP like that,they will be responsible for verifying their customer's information,otherwise their service will not be considered 'trusted',(i didn't mentioned that,but its the wallet service provider responsibility). The direction here is to create some standard for verifying identities,because i see that every new bitcoin "company" trying to create her own standard and what i think is that we need to create some consensus in a much lower level then everyone apps/services. If you set a single and simple way for every wallet provider for verify his customer (merchant/costumer) then is a much better way to start and create trust between wallets-merchants-costumers. The "open source" approach is good for developers,not for regular people who want to understand who they can call in a case of emergency,this is the reason why "series" wallets who determined to keep peoples money must be under a much harder laws of the protocol/bitcoin community. We can think about the SSL and the Certificate_authority
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authorityhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_SecurityIf the "authority" is faking the SSL,no one will be her client and she can not exist as a business because she's not loyal. Same process like that should translated to the Bitcoin echo system as a BIP i think... About your second question "Why do you consider the Bitcoin technology noble?" For me bitcoin is not money,its "Value over the Internet",it can be the "next generation of money",i never see other platform that works worldwide so good that can transfer any value within a seconds,its just something amazing. Another major thing,the Bitcoin system is just "working",as a user I never saw any bugs, always the money goes to his destination,any amount that i ever sent,the transaction went smoothly (hundreds of transactions). All the "bugs" and risks out there (51% attack,scalability of the blockchain and more..) are just "tasks" that developers will resolved over time,for regular users the bitcoin is really a simple thing that just works great ,but i still think that it will take at least 7-15 years for that technology to become adopted seriously. One doesn't want to use the certificate authority as an example. As a centralized authority they can be coerced or compromised. Look at the issues with MITM from various countries for example - China, probably the NSA etc. A distributed solution like name coin for domains is important here. Centralized is the opposite of the philosophy of bitcoin. Edit: In practice the CA's have been compromised at the governmental level and even in egregious examples haven't always been punished in the market place because few people are aware of the issues. |
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Hello
To say I'm a noob is an understatement.
I need your help. My work at home computer is infected by the TeslaCrypt virus, and after trying everything I can think of I had decided to pay the bleeping ransom to get back all the work I have lost. Except that getting my hands on some bitcoins is not that easy, apparently.
Look, I just want to pay market value from paypal or my mastercard and buy 2.5 bitcoins. I had no idea it would be so difficult.
I signed up at localbitcoins.com because that is what was suggested by the hackers. But nobody there will sell me 2.5 bitcoins and they want a crazy amount more than market value for them. So instead of $550 it's going to cost more like $1000.
I can't afford that. I'm probably going to lose my job if I can't get these files back. It's months of work. I'm about to fall off the wagon here, I need help.
What is the safest way for me to buy some bitcoin, quickly, to satisfy the demands of this hacker?
Can I buy them anywhere that accepts credit cards and will that "address" work for ransom demander?
Please help me
Thanks
TB
If you don't have a backup, you are taking a risk that they won't decrypt it. But if that is your only option, then it is worth a try. However, you can try coinbase.com and buy coins there. It depends on your location though. They are not available everywhere. I am not sure if they do credit cards or only bank accounts though. |
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Bitcoin Foundation has proven to be too scandalous in the past. There is no wonder that Bitcoin Core developers don't want to be associated with organisation with not so pristine past.
The only problem with their decision is that MIT will have too much of an influence on developers now imo.
Given how long RMS has been at MIT, I doubt they'll exercise a lot of influence. MIT seems pretty hands off. :-) |
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The distinction between two individual coins makes no sense. From a trading perspective you bought 1@1 and 1@.5 you now have 2 and paid 1.5 for them. If you sell any of the two for more than .5 you still have more than you had before.
If he is in the U.S. (or elsewhere), it could be relevant to be able to choose your tax lots. Eg you realize a loss on some coins vs a gain on others. From a technical perspective you are right, but from a tax perspective it could matter. At most brokerages you can say "sell the 100 shares lot of INTC I bought on date X, not the 100 shares I bought on date Y." Even though they are fungible, the government views them differently. Whether the OP had tax concerns, I don't know. They should let you pick. |
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HI People,
I really like the idea of PoS, to stabilize the bitcoin prize and to prevent the big miners to sell huge amount of BTC every day! And ofcourse as a way to profit.
I'm wondering if it is a doable project and if it is possible to implement into the blockchain such a technology?
Thank you
As Danny said, it is certainly possible, after all this is software and there are a lot of examples of it out there. You are free to go to github, fork the software, implement it from the examples, fork the block chain at a particular block number and attempt to convince everyone to switch to the POSCoin which won't be bitcoin. It would be a good experiment and something that would be education for you to try. From a practical standpoint, it won't happen under the current circumstances, but I think you should go ahead and fork the software and block chain and try the experiment! The idea is not to swith from POW to POS but to use them together I don't think it will be so difficult to convince people to use, let's say "my wallet", because they will earn interest from their coins doing nothing. Ofcourse it is just my opinion First, this won't happen in bitcoin itself, you'll be creating an alt-coin or sidechain. But just to clarify, you'll have to explain how changing the wallet alone will change the bitcoin from a PoW to PoW-PoS hybrid system. |
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HI People,
I really like the idea of PoS, to stabilize the bitcoin prize and to prevent the big miners to sell huge amount of BTC every day! And ofcourse as a way to profit.
I'm wondering if it is a doable project and if it is possible to implement into the blockchain such a technology?
Thank you
As Danny said, it is certainly possible, after all this is software and there are a lot of examples of it out there. You are free to go to github, fork the software, implement it from the examples, fork the block chain at a particular block number and attempt to convince everyone to switch to the POSCoin which won't be bitcoin. It would be a good experiment and something that would be education for you to try. From a practical standpoint, it won't happen under the current circumstances, but I think you should go ahead and fork the software and block chain and try the experiment! |
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Can Bitcoin create subaccount trees? Being able to create subaccounts would enable multifunctionality to the Blockchain. E.g. wallet/lend/wallet2/1 would specify a particular loan. The loan could be paid out of and into this sub/sub/subwallet. The loan history would be recorded in the blockchain.
Is anyone creating loan accounts on the block chain another way?
Bitcoin works on the concept of inputs and outputs, see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/TransactionWallets and accounts, sub-accounts etc are, more or less, abstractions. It seems like you want to build something on top of the block chain, but I am not sure exactly what you are proposing. Depending on what you are trying to do, someone might have solutions. It looks like you are, perhaps reusing addresses (again, something of an abstraction) which also is not recommended. If it is just loans on the block chain, perhaps you could do something with colored coins or maybe multi-sig, but since I'm not sure exactly what you re asking, that is just a guess. If you can explain more, perhaps someone can respond in a more detailed fashion. :-) |
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I'd be curious as to what OS you are running, where it is running (e.g. host), memory etc. ;-)
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