I've merely given said examples as a way to convey what I wanted to say - if you know the technicalities, you can predict and react appropriately to price changes in order to preserve your capital and not have it halve several months down the line. And as I mentioned, it isn't needed to know about how your currency works to survive, but is needed to prosper.
I agree with what you say. In general you can divide capital into cold money and hot money. Things are more greys than black and white but suspending this realization for a minute, the cold money is that of the hoarders, the hot money is for the investors. In the bitcoin world money is coming into the system at a rate of 25 every ten minutes. Now, that money is most probably completely sold off to pay for the electricity and rent. Mining is not an altruistic activity now. The business man sells his bitcoin so he can keep operating. Users use bitcoin to live without creditcards. This is the hot money. A part of the money in the system is being saved, and not used in the economy. There is money in cold wallets. This money is virtually not part of the supply. This is the cold money. When the award halfs, we will only be able to buy half the amount of bitcoin from the miners and so we will have to go to the hoarders who have already obtained it for the other half. Now, if bitcoin is going to tend to say $200 in spite of 25 BTC being created every ten minutes, it is bound go up when the creation rate halfs to 12.5 BTC per ten minutes. sdp OK, examples, but block halving is a very bad one since it happens less than one a year. It would matter if it happened every month, but we're far from that. Next one is this summer, and when is the next block halving? Many world leaders will have changed by then, and they may edict very strict regulations on exchanges which may jeopardize BTC's growth. So politics could be more important than tech, but that's not my point. BTC is now very well known among geeks and web professionals, but BTC needs to be as easy to use as facebook of instagram to convince the general public. So maybe instead of explaining tech, BTC shall carry the message that it's the best tool to send money to a friend, or anyone, anywhere, fast and cheap. June/July-ish. 2016, not this summer, fyi. Then around 4 years after that, so probably spring-summer 2020 depending on hash rate growth. |
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maybe its real. but honestly. LOL
his profile and trustscore says it all.
I agree. Very skeptical. I hope it turns out to be true, would be a good tale, but I'm not holding my breath. The carvings he had posted about were very well done. Quite intricate and beautiful. [edit: although looking at the trust scores, they may be laser done, so....] |
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I see you looked here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/2853I think your answer is in the comments above from 2013-2014 - it isn't supposed to be chronological and the code won't be changed. HOWEVER, I would imagine you could write a patch and push it, something like: listtransactionschrono which would behave how you'd like. |
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so i checked my wallet a couple of days ago and noticed my 50 coins were missing. i restored my wallet from a backup and after rescanning it showed i only have 0.05 coins left. almost 50btc where 'sent' unauthorised from my wallet to 1LAosJwSQHmUzNnToPgjLaRTVUHP2WM8Wt https://blockchain.info/address/1LAosJwSQHmUzNnToPgjLaRTVUHP2WM8Wtaccording the my wallet it matches up on block chain showing 4 transactions. im still trying to follow it, but i have no idea what to do  i was trying to restore for backup and do a double spend, but it looks like its too late for that now... it looks like they are trying to launder it, anyone else able to dissect anything out of this? those coins are lost no way to recover them, sorry for your loss. were you using blockchain wallet? it's probably a keylogger that stole your account information. install malwarebytes and scan your pc and see if it finds any virus/keyloggers. And even if it does and says it has removed them, don't trust that they are all gone if you are going to store bitcoins on that computer. It is better to re-install the OS to ensure that you are safe. |
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You need to be really careful if you are running a bitcoin/crypto dice site and are having this much trouble even getting it installed. There are a lot of potential security issues - like posting the rpc password up thread.
Hot wallets are drained all the time when there is just a tiny security item that was overlooked. ;-)
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April Fools Joke?  Yes. And pumping the alt coin |
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Not necessarily. If Satoshi can't use those Bitcoins in any way, at the least he'd want credit for creating Bitcoin. Satoshi already revealed himself, it's just people don't want to accept it. And he's not Dorian or Nick Szabo.
Source? If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry. if you are talking about that old japanese man, then you are wrong, that's not satoshi, there wasn't any conimation about him being satoshi He is quoting an old Satoshi post there in case you missed it. |
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as the title states, where do i report them. i use the OS X client and i noticed a few bugs. i wanna help eradicate them and i also want to help optimize the UI for hiDPI (retina) displays. how can i contribute?
Curious what bugs you're seeing? I've used the qt client quite a bit on GNU/Linux and I haven't had any troubles. Again, just curious. I'm on OSX. Using the latest 5K iMac loaded with the latest version of OS X. I see two issues right off the back: 1) Clicking the Bitcoin-Qt icon from the dock doesn't load up the windows. Instead I need to right click and click Show / Hide to get it to pop up. 2) Other than the overview icon, the other 3 (send, receive, txns) are pixelated and not optimized for the retina (hiDPI) display. Nor are the icons in the recent transactions list. And the checkmark in the transaction list row. Pretty much everything isn't optimized for hiDPI displays other than the overview home icon. Kind of disappointing because it's such a simple fix and it would prepare it for future displays. I'd like to help provide cool looking icons that are hiDPI ready. I'm sure everyone would love the hiDPI icons! As far as #1 goes, that could be a Qt issue. Not sure, but the github tracking is one way to see if it is on the radar. ;-) |
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he is working on bitcoin 2.0, is still behind me why he stopped posting here, unless he/they is/are dead
We don't need bitcoin 2.0 right now, maybe in the future when bitcoin will be more established. And Satoshi posted one message in 2014, when media suspected some innocent man of being Satoshi. So he is not dead as people may think. I think he likes his godly status... for bitcoin 2.0 i mean this curent version of bitcoin, but out of the beta state sorf of a final release anyway...satoshi has forgot to do one thing: spreading his coins, to fast forward the adoption phase... Satoshi wanted to come out of beta in the summer of 2010. He wanted to go to version 1.3 - it was on 0.3.x at that point. This was to avoid the whole version 1.0 stigma since it was feature complete, but the discussion ended by staying in beta at 0.3.x. Here we are nearly five years later. |
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I am not sure. Is Protip a competitor or something that intends to stay just like changetip in the market ? Yes, they are two different projects. While idea is basically the same - you can tip people on the internet in a simple and easy way. But they are using different approach. And it is really good that we have to team focused on developing something similar because competition is the greatest force of progress. Agreed. Having two different methods and two (or more) groups working on the idea of tipping but with different methods if great. The open source p2p nature of pro tip is great and the extra ease of use for change tip is great too. Glad both are around. |
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Of course CCTV is the Chinese state broadcaster, China Central Television so they have the slant of communist, statist authoritarians everywhere that are skeptical and anti-personal liberty. Here they try to mask that with a small cloak of objectivity, but it definitely shows through. (Not that many of the news sources in the EU and US aren't pro-government-power biased for sure, just that CCTV is too).
They have to comply with things like this (from Wikipedia): "...acceptability requires that a programme has acceptable content, preventing broadcasts of material that contains inappropriate content or holds against the Communist Party of China."
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i knew you would love this video  You were right! Lol |
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Now i have uninstalled google, did a restart, scanned with Malware bytes , the 7 unwanted programs google chrome extensions are not anymore. Changed the wallet 2FA to email , google email which i have also via a SMS message. Am surfing with Firefox, its feeling great now with ADBLOCK , and avira browser security ,plus malwarebytes and Eset smart security latest update. I am giving a final go to my old wallet. What do you guys think  (I know ,i am too stubborn but thats me) Even doing this, you are likely not safe. If you have a key logger in there, you may still have something lurking. You need to reinstall the OS (backup your keys and anything else that is important first). Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, whatever. Malware bytes may have missed something and you should not assume that it caught everything. You don't want to have to go through this again, so I'd make sure that you reformat and reinstall. |
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That video is painful to watch.
This guy is on video basically demonstrating his ignorance of Bitcoin.
He incorrectly names Satoshi an "anonymous hacker" when satoshi is simply a programmer-- not a hacker.
Secondly the guy says he wouldn't trust an anonymous hacker, but the source code is open source so there's nothing hidden about bitcoin to "trust".
This is just one of those people who don't get it and will simply be mowed over by this evolution in money. Some people will never get it, like Warren Buffet (and this guy). They're too old to get with the new.
Typical old dumbasses talking about Bitcoin when they just should stick to oil while it lasts. Jesus Christ, only when the generation of all those old idiots die we'll be free from their deprecated opinions and their equally deprecated assets. They have literally no idea on what's going on, somewhat amusing to see. I can't believe such illiterate morons got so wealthy. He is only a few years older than Satoshi probably is. And about 8 years younger than Hal Finney was...so don't lump all of that age group together. :-) (Admittedly he does look closer to Buffett's age (84) but he is "only" 51-ish ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Mallaby). He does look like an insufferable prick though.) |
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that is a whole new level of stupidity..  an example of someone that closed a book after reading only the first and the last page and wrote a review about it like he knew it all I think perhaps the first word and last word, not even the first page. He is an apologist for the centralized Federal Reserve, on the payroll of the powerful. It isn't backed by an "anonymous hacker" it is backed by math and the protocol and all the people involved in the ecosystem. All voluntary instead of forced like the central banks. |
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Isnt there a lighter version for this to create nodes?
Because the blockchain is over 30 gigs now.
Not to create a full node. There are plenty of other wallets that don't need to download the entire block chain, but don't create a full node. |
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