Check the screenshot......
I did, entered it in my Bitcoin Core, and it doesn't verify. It is easier if you copy/paste the text than posting a screenshot though. Try again please. |
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Newbie mai_ngoc tries to be "constructive" by copy/pasting. Please end his posting career. Copy: On October 25th, the Bitcoin blockchain is set to hard fork and create a new cryptocurrency called Bitcoin Gold (BTG).Existing private keys holding a Bitcoin balance at that time will be credited with the same amount of Bitcoin Gold on November 1st, similar to how they received Bitcoin Cash at the beginning of August. A wallet for Bitcoin Gold may not be available in time, however, which could cause a delay of up to a few weeks before holders will be able to use the new coins.
The driving force behind Bitcoin Gold is a team of developers, miners, and other contributors led by Jack Liao, the CEO of Hong Kong mining manufacturer LightningAsic. His financial partner in the endeavor is known simply as Wubi, a Chinese mining tycoon and owner of Chinese Bitcoin news portal Jinse.com. The project’s anonymous lead developer goes by the name H4x3rotab, and several other developers and contributors can be found inside the project’s GitHub project and slack channel.
Deemed a “friendly fork” by the development team, many differences in this copy of Bitcoin make it less like Bitcoin Cash and more like a complimentary accessory to Bitcoin. H4x3rotab explained to Brave New Coin that there are “vested interests who benefit from blocking upcoming upgrades of Bitcoin by making hard forks like C-cash, D-cash, or SegWit4x and SegWit8x.”
His team’s plan to combat this ongoing attack is to have Bitcoin Gold take a similar, supporting role to Bitcoin, much like Litecoin did for the segwit upgrade when it deployed segwit first. However, unlike Litecoin, which has shorter block times and uses a mining algorithm that is different but still allows for ASICs, Bitcoin Gold “is also a real blockchain to pilot Bitcoin upgrades,” H4x3rotab says.
Original: https://bravenewcoin.com/news/bitcoin-gold-a-friendly-dividend-fork-or-bitcoins-disaster-recovery-plan/ |
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A Forkcoin isn't a giveaway, it's just a fork: everybody has the same number of coins as they had before, and the chain continues from there in a different direction. Usually the Fork creators give themselves a lot more coins (instant profit!). If you want to know how real airdrops handle it, have a look at Byteball or Bitcore. |
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no-one wants to give merit because they might never get any more, so the scarcity makes it so much more valuable You're giving away sMerits, not merits. Why would you want to keep them? |
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yeah i'm wrong to call it's a bug because i have no idea to call what it's but i see negative balance several times on Coinbase Coinbase can go negative, but Coinbase is not Bitcoin. It's a private website, just like any bank can give you a negative balance. Negative Bitcoin would be like having negative cash in your IRL wallet. It's not possible. |
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~ for the qrencode thing, how are bitcoin address/pubkey/privkey used in them? like do they simply serialize the bytes? no special schema or something? how do qrcode readers deal with them when importing? It'll be awesome if you have some 100 page manual or proper documentation link for it since this is going to be part of a project I'm working on.
QR-codes convert to text, that's it. Unless you need to know how it works exactly internally. You can adjust the error tolerance, for instance if you want to be able to put a Bitcoin logo in it. The man page isn't that long. From my cheat sheet: # Make QR code with 7% error tolerance
qrencode -t png -o file.png -s 10 'private key here'
# Make QR code with 25% error tolerance (preferred option!)
qrencode -t png -o file.png -s 10 -l Q 'private key here'
# Make QR code with 30% error tolerance
qrencode -t png -o file.png -s 10 -l H 'private key here' Example with 25% error tolerance used for the logo:  |
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The market is rudicolous, price are falling too fast. I won't make any trading before the market is green or getting stabilized again. And you're not the only one. That's why all coins instantly go up 20-30% the moment they start rising. Everybody jumps in again! One thing didn't change: many people want to invest their money in crypto. |
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Is there some light program/script that allows to generate bitcoin addresses, as well as converting address/private key to/from QR code (image file), and it'll be awesome if it supports mini private key format as well.
Ideally I'm looking for libraries to use in my project, but if they're stand alone CLI I can still manage to use them.
A year ago, I've been playing around with miniprivatekey.py, bitcoin-tool and qrencode. I used this to search for mini private keys with vanity addresses. Combined together, these 3 programs can do most of what you're looking for. Update: I think I made up the name "miniprivatekey.py", so it's not helping you. I used this script. The rest of the programs can easily be found. Note: I haven't used this for anything holding actual funds. I'll leave it up to you to make sure it's secure and random enough. |
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Which is why he should not only be a merit source,but a staff member.
It doesn't work that way, nearly no one who "wants" to become a mod becomes one on BCTtalk or we'd have either Lutpin or shorena be one(who are at the top for making the most reports AFAIK). I didn't ask  As much as I appreciate shorena's contributions to the forum, he hasn't posted between October 29, 2017 and January 19, 2018. As for becoming a merit source, I believe this is way too early to ask to be one You clearly haven't been following the Merit-thing, as my quote in the OP shows: theymos literally asked for people to open a thread in Meta if they want to be Merit sources. secondly your examples aren't that noteworthy I could have cherry-picked 10 exceptional posts, but (as explained in the OP) I did my normal way instead. In my opinion that makes more sense to spread Merit on posts that deserve it. you'd have to get at least the approval from some merit sources That's not required. Well theymos rarely replies or reacts when you just make a thread, might as well send a PM with a link to this thread, don't expect a reply though. Theymos has seen the " Unofficial merit source application thread": <Table updated -theymos>[/center]
I'm in that table now, several others are, so I just keep bumping this thread until I hear from theymos. No need to PM him on this. P.S: I have the 36 sMerits things, does that mean I'm a merit source? If you're a source, it will say so on the Merit-page. |
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Great project @LoyceV -20 Merit for you  they can maybe set a characters limit needed to post the comment, for example, minimum 15 characters are needed to post it, but i guess they will surely find another way
That won't work, you'll get posts like: "Sir, Great Project, thank you!". |
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I was just looking at Bitcoin $500,000 by 2020: most "predictions" just extrapolate whatever is happening, which last year usually resulted in a very high prediction. Bitcoin went up for a very long time, and has been dropping hard for 6-7 weeks. For 6 weeks, I've been expecting the drop to end, but so far it just keeps going down. Each time crypto bounces up a bit, most coins instantly increase by 20-30%. I can only assume that means many speculators are waiting and ready to jump in the moment they expect a rise again. I also think positive feedback mechanisms (either going long or short) increase the magnitude of fluctuations. The moment short positions are closed, the price has to go up again, which triggers more positions to close. Bitcoin (and crypto in general) is heavily manipulated. Of course I don't like seeing my stash drop in value, but it isn't the first time. The fact that among others billionaires, governments, (central) banks and stock brokers warn against Bitcoin tells me we're on to something here. They don't care about the general population risking their money, they care about losing control over money. And that brings me to what I believe: Bitcoin can easily double (or much more!) in a few days, you're right there. But it's impossible to time the market, it can just as well lose a lot more first. This is not even a prediction at this point, it is just speculation. I would have guessed that people would have learned that it is practically impossible to predict the price of bitcoin at this point. If enough people make enough predictions, some of them will be correct. That makes it an easy mistake to assume credibility based on past predictions. |
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But installing the VM on an external harddisk and DETACH that from the computer, that's like the XXL version of a hardware wallet. Not really. A hardware wallet keeps the private keys away from the online computer. In your setup, your wallet has been online, and any malware can patiently wait for to fund your private keys after they are stolen. It's not needed to backup your entire partition, all you have to do is backup your wallet.dat. Note that Bitcoin doesn't have "accounts", it has "wallets". |
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I found a small bug in way the forum links to some posts. I noticed this quote doesn't link to the original post. It only happens in Merit & new rank requirements, from page 60 (post #1200) onwards. The bug: the last post on each page doesn't link to that post, it links to the next page. It works fine on page 59 and earlier. I haven't been able to reproduce this in any other topic, as far as I know it only happens in this one. |
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The Services board has many phone verification threads: someone pays $0.50 to verify a phone number. The same would happen to get access to this exclusive "rich club board". Besides, owning 1 Bitcoin doesn't make you a HODLer, you need to own the same coins for a long period to be a HODLer. |
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these guys with high merit points are simply making new accounts and meriting themselves Do you have any evidence for your accusation? Feel free to check my Merit summary to see who I've given Merit to. Why do you care so much about Merit? Your second post after you joined (cropped): what if i post quality content and still no one give me merit points thinking their points get exhausted? What if no one really gives me points because there are too many messages in the forum that no one ever recognized my comment? Why don't you start writing quality posts, instead of starting with complaints about the Merit system? This is a rhetorical question, it's very likely you joined the forum to join campaigns and earn money spamming the forum. Your third post was post #866 on page 44 of a Spam Megathread: Better invest entirely in etheirum because people have a strong belief that one day it shall take the place of bitcoin Your fourth post was complaining about Merit again: This merit system is meant only for big rank people and let them earn more from signature campaigns and selling merit points because many people wont grow in rank anymore because these merit points are specifically implemented for the sake of few people and the proof is given by you, merit system is a currupt thing now
Your fifth post is this topic, once again complaining about Merit. The Merit system is doing exactly what it's designed to do: First, most people complaining about merit are constantly posting garbage, and should not rank-up. |
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I sometimes see addresses with negative balance.. like -0.05 BTC
I don't understand how it possible. It's not possible and you don't see it. What you see, is a website with bugs. I assume you're talking about blockchain.info, I haven't seen this on any other block explorer. Where can I read about this features? I wouldn't bother about it, it's not a feature. it's a bug of double-spend when making transaction.
It's important to note this is not a Bitcoin bug. |
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Off Topic and just to ask you about Spam Megathreads.
1. I love that term, It emphasises what is wrong with this forum, all threads are at a risk of becoming SPMT´s. Is that a new saying or something you invented? I am quite new on this forum so I do not have the complete history. I'm not sure who came up with this term, I saw it first used by DarkStar_2. What would be the solution to all SPMT´s? Is that not locking them, or deleting them? Thus deleting the post history and every activity and merit earned by that SPMT´s. Recently several of them got deleted, which leaded to many topics like: Disappearing posts. Deleting posts doesn't remove Merit, but it's very unlikely to get them for Spam Megathreads anyway. Deleting threads has a downside: the spam continues somewhere else. I'd rather have them stay in Off-topic than move to Bitcoin Technical Discussion for example. |
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I tried to be helpful and answered some question few newbies raised but none of them are merit worthy as per the readers. I really thought that if you help answer some questions you'll get merits but I think I was wrong. Don't try to only be helpful to earn Merits. Just be helpful, be a good forum member, and Merits will find you. But don't make Merits your primary objective. So I think to be able to gain attention to your post you have to post something that people can relate into I don't think that's necessary to earn Merits, but it is needed to get someone to start reading it. Why would I keep reading a story that doesn't have my interest? (I don't think my post are relatable to those with smerts because they are those that are high ranked and me as a newbie cannot really contribute much that is relatable to them or to their likings) I can't really relate to most of the Beginners & Help board. But, like I mentioned before, don't make Merits your primary objective. If you can relate to this board, don't start posting somewhere else just to get Merits. For users that are poor in English like me Your English is fine. You don't make broken sentences, you use decent capitalization and punctuation, and it's perfectly clear what you mean. I think it's safe to say your English is better than 99% of your fellow citizens who post here. Of course you'll never reach the level and vocabulary of a native speaker. I read new words every day, and have to Google what they mean. Make your post easy to read and presentable, If necessary you have to make Use of the font size, style, colors and other formatting available in the forums I've noticed some people start highlighting parts of their text. I'm not sure if it's related to the Merit system, but coincidentally I started noticing it around the same time. Don't overdo it. Please feel free to add more tips on your observation I'd like to hear other observation from newbies especially those that already got plenty of merits legally (not given by friend/trading/purchased) The most important tip: read more than you write! |
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This has got to be a record right; copy and pasted the same thing 3 times? He needs Merits: I cannot upgrade to member... can anyone help me out?
I can tell you what might help you get merit. It looks like most of your posts are in bounty threads. You’re here to make money and that’s fine (we all need to eat). The problem you're having is that other members of the forum need to see you add value to the forum before they will reward you for being here. So he's just trying to "add value" now  He even got 3 Merits for it, so it works! Good catch! |
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