my theory and i think what mjc is saying is that although the seal is not much security. but the lack of smarts to seal both ends for 'authenticity' or the 'perception' of security's sake, is a lapse of judgement or laziness, which can lead many to wonder what other lapses of judgement they may have had.

for instance having a web broswer plugin, i see possible flaws. having the trezor USB linked to the computer, i can see flaws. the communications between the two i can see flaws.

so a well made trojan "could" (i said could meaning not impossible just improbable, but still could happen) .. could exploit one of the flaws.

all i mean was for the OP to not expect there to have been a second seal.. and to not fear that it HAD been compromised by there not being a seal... again there is only suppose to be one seal (nothing is missing) so it does not mean for sure that it has been compromised. though i agree, i think its stupid to only seal one end..

in 5-10  years some people will be getting old.
Alzheimer's will make you forget your brain wallet and the heart arrhythmia will give you an irregular heartbeat. biology may not be theanswer to solving technology, especially for security.

most issues in life can be put down to biological reasons why they went wrong.

EG most computer errors are due to 'human input'
most wars are not due to guns but tyrants decisions and emotions

from the videos i seen there is only one security seal which is only at one end, so i would deem it safe.

its glued together anyways. and if there was a deal that had been removed it would have left a VOID partial sticker there.

when it comes to technical stuff i do apreciate death and taxes info too (well sometimes), and in the past i have apologized for certain errors i made to him. but most miners are using all these excuses to enforce fee's NOW, when they are not actually needed now.

they're not actually needed next year, or the year after that, they will be needed in OVER a decade. its like telling a 15yo kid wanting to shop for a pair of jeans that he needs to pay an entrance fee to the shop now, because when the kid is 45, entrance fee's will be mandatory by law
(bitcoin only 5 years so 10 years is another age double ONTOP... =15yr old kid now age double ontop is 45)

right now all they are doing is shooting themselves in the foot. by demanding fee's as a bonus/subsidy ontop of their salary(block reward) they are simply de-valuing the block reward.

put simply as well as telling customers to pay up for F*£k off, they are also selling 'product' at a loss as fast as they can, because they feel the fee's should compensate them for their actions. which, by keeping prices of bitcoin low with the sell-offs, means that as miners costs increase every 2weeks the price is NOT rising with it. so they sell more of their bitcoin.(the other foot being shot)

if they instead hoarded coins and created some price rises through resistance by limiting supply, they would get nice profits. meaning they would not need to demand fee's, and in 10+years time the bitcoin price would be at a higher rate that a massive fee per transaction wont be needed.. (thats where i see later they will be shooting their left hand off).

again ill explain in better detail. right now miners share $15k per block (25btc x $600). now imagine one bitcoin was $10k in 10 years. and miners doing pfft. 20000 tx per 10mb block limit. if they asked for 0.0001 fee it would equal 2btc block fee total ($20k). but this 0.0001 fee would cost customers $1 per tx.

now if they shot their left hand by selling at losses imagine bitcoin was just $1k. then miners would want to ask for 0.01 ($10 a tx) just to stay around the $15k-$20k income share.

the only solution miners of the future, which will have a fair 'per tx' fee for customers and have nice fee $ total to share out is if they allow more transactions through. by allowing transactions with least delay will get more people to use the blockchain, instead of attempting offchain transactions (third party services).

facebook gets 2.5billion in advert revenue in the 3 months of spring 2014

so that equates to $18667.86 a minute. that means for every minute they are offline, $18.6k lost.. (translated: 31.37310924 BTC loss a minute)

so how many staff members did they have to sack to recoup losses due to downtime.

i use only 6 private keys (my own wallet) but if you want to include public keys i used to receive funds (throw away addresses before sweeping to cold store) or deposit addresses on exchanges i have access to, well.. alot

i estimate more then 300 addresses have passed through my copy&paste usage or qr code maker to then pass out to people to pay me

death and taxes you would not last long in retail. so lets translate other of your brain farts into retail analogies

1. orphaned block risk
shop:
ok staff there is a risk that for every 500 customers 1 customer may try to chargeback ruining our days profits. so we are only going to allow 200 customers through the door. and tell the rest to come back tomorrow, or hope another shop will let them in

2. no tx's
shop:
ok staff i know we are suppose to serve customers and thats what we are paid for and thats what retail is about, but lock the door and lets demand an entrance fee just to let customers in, after all the customers can go elsewhere if they dont like it, or wait in line for the 10 customers a day we do let in for free

death and taxes i truly do love the way you always chime in to attempt to defend mining pool owners greed. and someday's i do laugh at the rebuttals you reply with(somedays i just have to facepalm you).

the most laughable one was when you said that making blocks had nothing to do with accepting transactions and that miners have no incentive to accept transactions. that the point of making blocks was purely about network security.

what a warped mind you have

thats like saying a manager is not employed to manage his staff and keep the business running efficiently, but to purely sit in an office to secure the building against loss due to health and safety requirements needing a manager to be present.

thats what i call greedy and narrow minded


(this is not the only time you said it)

if your not accepting TX's then there is nothing worth stealing!!!!!, thus network security is a moot point. dont you get it!!

.. silly little greedy people defending other greedy people, ruining people due to greed, should be ashamed of yourselves.
the 25btc is the salary to do the proper job of making blocks.. and we all know the purpose of blocks is confirming transactions. saying that making blocks is not about transactions is like saying bitcoin is not about value or sending funds to people, its just about securing a network with zero tx communication that does nothing but secure empty worthless blocks of zero data.

you astound me with your mindset sometimes..

you really sound like the person that if a manager you would not talk to any staff, answer any phonecalls, do any inventory/stock control. you would sit there and demand a salary purely because the fire department needs some person of authority to be in the building for health and safety. and then you would demand a bonus for every staff interaction, customer complaint, stock issue you had to deal with.

truely greedy mindset you have

7 tx per second they say on many posts.. i think i remember even you saying it before too.

7x60=420 (1 minute)
420x10=4200(10 minutes)

and a tx is a quarter of a kb.. but when you have people demanding that people use multiple receive addresses so that when you make a transaction you have to list more addresses where funds come from. to then send,... your basically adding bloat. which is more about again forcing people to pay a fee due to bloat, and due to pools limiting transactions to only a few hundred per block.

but either way with the bloat as you show (average half a kb) thats still 2000 tx potential, yet we still have the issue with greedy miners setting lower limits purely to force greedy fee's.

its like the banking system employees should be paid only a salary for doing their job, but no they want to screw the system and demand a bonus for doing so..

the mindset of the greedy is astonishing

the chart you are looking at does not have data points for every single minute. but for once a day. so its an average of the day, not the minute.

if you looked at a chart by the minute you would see will the slope starts to drop to see when the majority of people think its approaching the weekend and time to stop playing with moving funds between addresses, and to enjoy the weekend

more to do with bitcoin merchants. they cant cash out on weekends so leave it for weekdays to move funds to exchanges to get fiat. then add on the day traders working 9-5 monday to friday..

again predictable patterns once you put them into context

too right. if they were not so fast in selling off their coins to pay electricity bills.. (meaning they are not true bitcoiners, but electricity company investors and FIAT spenders).. but instead hoard the coin(smart bitcoin investors and the whole point of mining coin) to help the bitcoin price rise by causing a price resistance.. then they can later sell at a profit, thus not needing to sell their wage(the reward) at a loss, to then demand a 'bonus/subsidy' to compensate them.

pure greed by forcing people to pay a fee to be in the top 200 tx's per block

not really.... but at the same time, i agree.. and here is why i say yes and no

the problem is that a block can store 4200 transactions no problsms. but if you knew why the max only seems to be 400, the answer is that mining pools block transactions.

some pools, due to the lying and stupid excuse of saying its to reduce orphaned blocks. only accepts 200 transactions.. some only accepts 400 transactions.. some only accepts 600 transactions..

so lets say the average transactions was 300..
you will see that the many blocks showing 200 tx's are these greedy mining pools. this causes the 100 over the top tx's to be thrown into the next block, which along with 300 tx's of the following interval would bring it to 400.. so the 200-400 makes sense to me.

this is why some transactions take upto an hour. as some pools have a 200 limit and some have a 400 limit. off chance that in a 10minute interval there was 1800 tx's not all tx's would fit into the block with a 200 limit, wont fit into the next pool that had a 400 limit, wouldnt fit into the next pool, and this could go on for many blocks.

localbitcoins sellers sometimes have high premiums. especially if using web dollar services that can chargeback. normally people search the listings for the best price first.

then they type in the dollar amount they want to send, and localbitcoins calculates the total you will receive. this value, when making the offer is locked in, so the other party cant accept the offer unless they have available BTC to be put into escrow.

basically if you were expecting half a bitcoin, localbitcoins calculator would have told you the total before the offer, and then when making the offer the bitcoins would be locked in.. so the other side cant just send you random smaller amounts that you did not expect.

not my job to hunt down scammers.. but it seems everyone else seems too scared to call people out that are scammers.

and by the way, this topic i was not trying to scam hunt, i was actually trying to recruit.. but as i said i dont shout out my intentions. the problem with looking for employee's and projects to invest in is that you come across alot of scammers..

my role is as a recruiter/investor.. im just not shy to point out and warn people when i come across a scammer.

and lastly your the one saying "league of..." and "spandex", words i have never used before so ill just leave you to realize who is ridiculous

have a nice day

you will find that unlike some, im not afraid to ask questions. i have many clients some seeking multiple skills and in this case i seen a guy that said he was becoming a lawyer, so i wanted to test him out to see if he was any good. as for the other people in the community, there has been a large influx of scammers and people pretending to be genius programmers, whom i later find out that they are dead-weight. so its easier to catch them early.

im just someone who is not afraid to hold back, as many seem to blindly trust others and get lead down the dark path.

i have in MANY occasions helped out numerous people, invested lots in many projects and gave people subtle hints to help them along... yea i can be subtle when i want to be.

a forum after all is for public discussion and debate. so holding back info, not asking questions, not helping, not being public.. is kind of the opposite to what a forum is designed for. if you want me to be happy and agreeable with everything people write. i can send people to a website that when they write a message, they get an auto reply that tells you how great you are.

but going back to this topics scenario. if i simply said i am looking to employ a lawyer soon. it would change the whole atmosphere and the guys responses would be completely different..

you can learn alot about someones character by not being obvious to your intentions

if you dont like javascript, what language are you looking for?

a simple way in php is to just echo the amount every time a person visits your page


save it as filename.php

oh and the blockchain.info address shouldend up looking like:
http://www.blockchain.info/address/1blahblahblahblahblah
not
http://www.blockchain.info/address/<1blablablablabla>

as i have seen someone before leave the <> in the code as they thought it was needed.

the code is not the hard part. the hard part is finding a service that doesnt mind being bombarded with balance requests per visitor... well thats if your website got that popular

well as i said i prefer people to dig deeper. and it seems you are not analysing the interpretation of legislative text.



your superior court got wiped out in 1775.. lol


i never asked about history, i asked about up-to-date and fully functioning legal and law systems of today

you do realise that i was trying to be subtle to test not only your basic knowledge, but your interpretations of what i say. and also not wording it to be easy. so if i said if you knew the difference between a "Court of Quebec" and the "Superior court". i would have made it too simple for you.

but basically you appear to be of basic legal and lawful understanding that does not analyse and interpret much to know the meanings of what is being said. i prefer lawyers that dont just read the words, but truly know what they mean, why they are there and what purpose they have.

so one last time. ill make it easy
there acts of law, and then there is legal statutes. which holds more authoritative weight?
if you knew the difference between a "Court of Quebec" and the "Superior court"?

good question.. as the cheaper the show producers give it, means the more common and easier to answer it must be.

i think in 2012 that question would have been worth $1000 to answer. and its a good sign if today it was worth only $50 to answer. so i too wonder the prize for the question (not american so dont knitpick if $1000 or $50 are not viable prize amounts)