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Any specific reason why you want to stake an address right after changing your email address?

Your signature is messy, but it verified anyway.

@Tonych: I have an airdrop suggestion:
Say 1000 high level (to stop alt-accounts) Bitcointalk accounts qualify to request 10 MBYTE + 21.111 MBB for free, received if they install the Byteball wallet. This is currently worth just under $2.50. That would put the total cost at 0.001% of all Bytes and Blackbytes ever created. (you could also make it 10 times more, but that doesn't really matter for my suggestion).
Doing this would get 1000 people to install the Byteball wallet, it can be paid from the airdrop funds, and with community support it should be doable to check all applicants to prevent alt-accounts.

One more idea: a Byteball signature campaign, entirely paid in Blackbytes only. It will be the most private payment for a signature campaign ever used, and can be paid from the community fund.

Your fee is high enough. I've entered the txid into http://confirmtx.com/ anyway, it should confirm soon.

Next time, try to avoid sending 0.00000102BTC to a change address, use it as fee to make the transaction smaller (with only 1 output). You can't use the dust anyway.

You forget 2 things:
1. More people get into Bitcoin, so more people spend dollars on it.
2. People selling Bitcoin don't sell the same amount at once. Where you may have sold 1000BTC at once 6 years ago, you'll sell 0.1 BTC now.

Now imagine JP Morgan makes the same statement about something else than Bitcoin. The price drops, and JP Morgan buys that asset just 2 days later. They'd end up in jail for market manipulation!
When they do it to Bitcoin, nobody bats an eye.

I wrote this just 4 days ago. Since then, Bitcoin went up $1200.
Now, imagine you would have shorted Bitcoin 4 days ago. You would have burned a lot of money!

Move (bottom-left) this topic to the Offtopic-section, you can play around there.
You can also test things by clicking Preview instead of Post.

The irony is: Ardor is actually the best performing altcoin out of the 10 picked coins at the moment, Waves is the worst.
Measured in dollars it's only down a bit, measured in Bitcoin almost all altcoins got slaughtered.

Now would have been a much better moment to start than last month, but that's "in retrospect". For now: 9 months to go, full update in 2 days.

Nothing special here, 3 year old cheap laptop, I only tested the speed for a thread here:
For 1 block per second you don't need very fast internet.

When I upgraded my RAM (4 > 12), I really felt like I should have done that years earlier.

I don't think it matters much, just pick anything that works for you.

I sold some today, exactly as I planned to do when it hit my target price. I've already set the next target, when it hits it, I'll sell some again.
The cash I got makes it easier to ride out a big drop. Big drops are just part of Bitcoin, meant to shake coins out of weak hands, after which whales accumulate more. I don't want to be shaken empty, that's why I set my targets and stick to them.
Bitcoin dropped hard many times this year already, and reached a new ATH just as many times. I have no doubt it will go up in the long term, just don't panic in the short term.

Although I like the prize, this part of the Terms is an absolute no go:

It doesn't. Transactions in mempool have nothing to do with this.

You can't be sure it's legit, the safe way is to let Bitcoin Core download everything.


From my own experience: adding more RAM made a huge improvement. An SSD will be faster than HDD, but at my current setup with HDD, I get about 1 block per second.
I've read much worse results too though, I'm not sure if Windows vs Linux makes much difference, and I can't test it by myself on Windows.

My advice:
-if your computer is low on memory: add more RAM. I consider anything under 8 GB low nowadays, and adding memory will also increase the overall performance of your PC.
-if you don't have one yet: install an SSD. Even if you don't use it for Bitcoin Core, your entire computer will work much faster (you'll need to install your software on it of course).

On average, 144 new blocks are found each day. At this speed iIt will take you a very long time to catch up.

I can't solve any of the mysteries around Satoshi, but I enjoyed reading it.

I think of it as knocking on his door. Very rich Bitcoin addresses also receive small transactions once in a while.

There has been someone who made this changes, and posted it in this thread. You'll have to search a bit, this thread has too many pages to quickly find back the link.
I never used it, as I have a hard time trusting new programs that create private keys. You could at least use it to compare the source.

I'm not sure about Electrum, but if it waits for 6 confirmations (as recommended) to be completely okay, an hour makes sense.

Correct.

The 0.001 was taken by Kraken, they probably send payments in batches, so you're not the only receiving party with a much higher fee.
The fee Kraken charges you has no direct relation to the fee miners get.

This is normal. You'll get an average of 6 new confirmations per hour.

It's in your wallet and it's confirmed. That means you did it right.
Did you also write down the backup seed phrase? And keep that in a safe place?

You don't have to enter the amount. On Kraken, all you need to enter is your Bitcoin address.
This feature can for example be used when you want someone to pay you a certain amount, and he scans the QR-code on your screen with his phone. You don't need this for Kraken.

Assuming Kraken uses a high enough fee: anywhere between a minute and an hour or more. On average it's 10 minutes.

You can set your Electrum wallet to show Bitcoins or milliBitcoins. Yours is set to mBTC.

You can find details on the transaction.

You're welcome.

The main reason: privacy. For the coming decades I don't worry about someone developing a quantum computer that can crack re-used addresses.

This is normal, and caused by the way Bitcoin works. You can prevent this by sending all your coins to one of your own addresses on a day with low fees (check https://btc.com/stats/unconfirmed-tx, it's not so high at the moment, but in general fees are lowest on Sundays). Think of it as exchanging your quarters for banknotes when it's a quiet day at the bank.

This slightly reduces your privacy though, but the same happens when you send your entire balance at once anyway.

Giving complete information helps, this is better
How much did you send (after fee)? My guess: 0.01677999 BTC.
If you sent it from an exchange, the Input-address isn't yours. You only get the amount you asked for, and the change goes back into the exchange's wallet.

The whole 0.01715088 BTC isn't yours!
Think of it this way:
You ask Company A to pay $90 to Company B. Company A gives $100, and gets $10 back.
What you're saying, is that you want the whole $100. I hope this analogy shows the flaw in your reasoning. The way Bitcoin handles change is much more like cash than other electronic payments, if you pay by bank or Paypal, you don't have to worry about "change".

Check again in Coinbase, and see how much you requested to withdraw. Is it 0.01677999 BTC or 0.01775089 BTC?

What wallet did you use to send this transaction? Blockchain.info?

This leaves only 2 options:
1. You made a mistake
2. Your wallet/computer is compromised. If that's the case, it's weird the attacker didn't steal all your coins.

Best-case scenario is that you made a mistake on the amount only, and overlooked the 0.7695 that went back to your own wallet. If that's not the case, it's gone.

On closer look: the transaction you mention was made in 2013. It helps if you show the real transaction.
The "Estimated BTC Transacted" is based on assumptions made by blockchain.info, you can ignore that statement.

You've got my attention, I'll join:

User application:
Bitcointalk username:- LoyceV
Rank:- Hero Member
Email address:- MyUsername.alenzuela@gmail.com (replace the red part, I don't like spambots)
Bitcoin address:- 1foreverDArUNEX2gVD26vautcx3b8zTZ

Bitcoin itself doesn't have "accounts". Any balance is kept forever if you don't transfer it.
If you hold 1.1BTC, you're holding $7000. Congratulations!

There's already Airdropalert.com. I've been in several airdrops in the past, some were worth it, some aren't worth anything.
It would be really nice to have a site with complete information, including a field to enter your current holdings for airdrops based on Bitoin balances, but for many airdrops, you can only know it's real value months later.
It would also be nice to have a complete overview of how to join, from instructions on how to install the best wallet to where to sell tokens. I see a big problem though: once you have a nice site like this, and you make it easier for more people to join more airdrops, you'll be overloaded with more new airdrops, which makes it harder to pick the valuable ones.

Another idea just popped up in my head: Dust to Charity!
I've had (and still have) many different altcoins, all barely worth anything, and for sure not worth the time to figure out how to sell them for a few pennies. I imagine many people have this "problem". Wouldn't it be nice to create a website where you can just upload old and almost empty altcoin wallets, after which the site collects them, and once worth it, sells them to donate the proceedings to some (crypto related) charity?