You make 10 wallet.dat backups? ?

Yeah, I'm sure because I've checked in Ubuntu system monitor.

I might run the non GUI client instead, to see if it makes a difference.

I use adblock plus to block ads and ghostery to block scripts. Both of them are fairly user friendly and work in Chrome and Firefox.

If you're trying to log into a site that you know is kosher, such as online banking, you can temporarily allow scripts by clicking on the ghostery icon in your browser toolbar.

So, anyone using bitcoin core with only 4gb RAM? If I limit my incoming or outgoing connections will my node use less RAM?

Just download core 0.9.2 from the link below your user name.

1. Close down bitcoin core.

2. Extract and overwrite the bin/32 or bin/64 directory.

3. Restart bitcoin core.

I've been using bitcoin core v0.9.2 for a week or so to help out with the network.

I'm happy to have it running in the background 24/7 because I want BTC to succeed and I'm doing my bit for stability of the network.

The trouble is, I'm using a fairly decent HTPC (6400K CPU, SSD, 4GB 1600MHz RAM in dual channel) but bitcoin-qt is eating my memory. I'm on Ubuntu Trusty and the system monitor shows bitcoin-qt to be using between 600 and 700+ MB of RAM!

If I've got a couple of browsers open and watching a video file this doesn't leave me with a great deal of RAM. The 6400K APU already allocates about 1GB to video performance so I'm left with about 3GB usable and Ubuntu only has about 25% left to spare.

Should I buy an 8GB RAM pair and swap the 4GB pair out? Will bitcoin-qt continue to use more RAM as the size of the blockchain increases and network activity becomes more common?

If you're using bitcoin core (bitcoin-qt) then I think I'm right in saying that you need an Internet connection to refresh/verify the blockchain. So this is not proper cold storage.

Try electrum instead.

I feel that my generation (30 something's) and below won't have a problem with using terminology like nano's, or whatever language develops for small transactions. It's the generation above that may be left behind.

People younger than my generation will surely not have a problem, especially when smartphone bitcoin apps become a bit more sophisticated and user friendly on a non techy level.

Suppose bitcoin goes megastrophic over the next couple of years.

Suppose 1 BTC is worth 13 semi-detached houses, in Runcorn.

Suppose people will be buying 4K-4D televisions, tins of cheesy-peas, internet enabled kettles, hover jigsaws and grandma will be buying her Readers Digest in BTC.

This would make the small items a fraction of a BTC, you get my over laboured point by now.

How many digits can we go down past a Satoshi? A Satoshi is 0.00000001 BTC, I think.

Is the protocol infinitely scalable, or is there a limit to the amount of decimal places without a rework of the blockchain?


_{Copyright, Alan Partridge.}

In reply to YogoH, I'm not an expert in the law. I suppose it's down to local jurisdiction of who seizes the assets. I was just wondering if this sale was ethical. If the marshals had said they were gonna donate the proceeds to addiction/homeless charity I could see that as a more positive end than profiteering from crimes that were committed on a global scale.

I've asked this question before on here, but I'll ask again:

Shouldn't known drug money be burned by the authority that siezes it? Same as a seized kilo of cocaine should be recorded as evidence and then incinerated?

Is what they're doing not illegal to profit from these coins?

I think you're right. If current value stays flat for two or three weeks and she decides to sell I will be fist in mouth, biting my knuckles as I've got my BTC in cold storage for the long term hold 

I've already mentioned the 27th June Silk Road/US Marshals sale thing to her, so maybe I can persuade her to wait until that blows over.

The last comment was a joke, due to being told to selfishly keep the BTC and spend it on drugs and hookers.

Well I just woke up (working late shifts this week) and she was already up and about. She fetched me a cup of tea and I told her I'd been up late and showed her a new Electrum wallet I'd created for her with the wallet.dat in her name, containing 1.00996667 BTC. I'd bought 1.01 in case some of it got sucked up by transaction fees.

She seemed quite happy with the GBP equivalent but a face of mild concern about having money in this new thing she doesn't fully grasp 

I said, "See all those extra decimal places? If the price goes up you can use those to buy something nice and still have 1 left.". She said if the price goes up she'd put £300 of it back into her savings, where it came from. I guess she still doesn't see it as a currency in its own right. She's gone out now, she's happy enough and might change her mind about it being a viable currency if/when she gets to use it.



Before she went she let me use a double dildo on her whilst letting me piss in her hair.

^That last bit's to keep Gingermod happy.

Done. I wonder how non-plussed she'll be in the morning 

That doesn't even make sense as a double entendre, Gingermod. Shame on you.

Right, I'll go and buy since it's been edging upwards recently and I accept no-one wants to convince me to gamble with her money.

It's not a fucking anniversary or declaration of love. I borrowed some off her when I was short last month.

Charming, Gingermod, I suppose it'll get her interested and another early adopter.

She ain't desperate for the money. She has other savings.

Haha, a gutter mind among our midst, Gingermod.  

Yeah, I'll probably use localbitcoins and pay a little premium, but my wages are good for it this month.

Short story:

I owe my girlfriend £300. I gave her a cheeky ultimatum yesterday: you can have £300 cash when I get paid, or 1 BTC, whatever the cost on 18th June.

She was a bit undecided at first until I showed her a couple of charts, giving her an idea of how it could rally soon. I told her 1BTC would likely cost me an extra £50, and she said "I'll take the bitcoin, but when I want to cash it you must cash it and not try to persuade me to keep it."

My monthly salary has literally just gone in the bank now, and a coin is currently £360.80.

Do I wait for a drop in the morning (it's gone 1am and she's sleeping next to me) or buy, buy, buy in case of a price increase when we wake?

I'm more excited about it than her, to be honest.