They are not Hong Kong based for years by now.
Where are they based now, I thought it was still in Hong Kong? The privacy policy gives a Hong Kong address for customers to use for requesting Personal Information held by Bitfinex. https://www.bitfinex.com/privacyAccessing Your Personal Information: You may access and verify your Personal Information held by Bitfinex by submitting a written request to: General Counsel, iFinex Inc., 13/F, 1308 Bank of America Tower, 12 Harcourt Road, Central, Hong Kong. |
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The ETF rejection was a good thing and I think thats why the price is rising. I was worried that coins would be eaten up by hedge funds and price heavily manipulated up and down on a wildly insane level due to mass manipulation by the largest player in the Bitcoin sector.
Yes ETF rejection was a good thing because it left many people salivating at the mouth to buy Bitcoins! It was a good thing despite the rejection because of the publicity it gave Bitcoin. How any newbies started taking an interest for the first time after hearing about the ETF? The Silk Road shut down's the last thing that gave Bitcoin so much publicity, and that preceded a massive pump. |
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It's not according to coinmarketcap, which shows bitFlyer's BTC/JPY market as the fourth biggest Bitcoin market. If you disregard poloniex's DASH/BTC and ETH/BTC msarkets it's in second place for volume.
https://bitflyer.jp/en/commission Zero fees. If I hosted a zero fee exchange in my grandmother's pussy, it does not mean the population of my grandmother's pussy has adopted Bitcoin en masse. It's exactly the same but even more blatant than China. Once fees are in place it'll go down to a piffling trickle. No one uses it in Japan. Look at you. Denigrating grannie, just to make a point about fees and bitcoin. Couldn't you come up with a little better example to make your point?  He's been denigrating granny for years without bothering using it to make a point. I just shit on the kitchen table and let grandma clear it up when she comes to visit.
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I looked for users in the Japanese language section that use coincheck, but there isn't a Japanese section. Well I couldn't find one.
There should be one considering Satoshi's a Japanese name.
Zero fee = irrelevant. And they'll all be foreign traders who can't get onto the Chinese exchanges any more. As far as I can tell Japan is a crypto desert. https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/JPY/BTC This does not scream huge interest to me. This week's volume was, er, 28 BTC. So that's 1 BTC per 5 million people. It's not according to coinmarketcap, which shows bitFlyer's BTC/JPY market as the fourth biggest Bitcoin market. If you disregard poloniex's DASH/BTC and ETH/BTC msarkets it's in second place for volume. editYou're right, bitFlyer doesn't appear to charge fees for BTC/JPY trading. That volume's bullshit. Why hasn't coinmarketcap put it in the no fees section marked with an asterisk? https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#markets edit2It charges fees for "Bitcoin Easy Exchange" and "Lightning Spot" but there's no fees for "Bitcoin Market" and "Lightning FX". WTF does that mean? What volumes do those various markets have, and does coinmarketcap's volume include them all?  |
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Anyone here use this exchange? I looked for users in the Japanese language section that use coincheck, but there isn't a Japanese section. Well I couldn't find one. There should be one considering Satoshi's a Japanese name. |
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The next thing to move the price will be when China starts allowing Bitcoin withdrawals.
Not that the price needs much help in moving.
The next thing to move the price will be when the FED raises the rate next Wednesday, and the Yuan crashes because of it. Nothing starts the Chinese buying Bitcoins like the Yuan crashing. That's actually strong point. If we don't see correction until wednesday, i will start thinking about going long. Do i remember correctly that FED give info about rates in the morning Wall Street Time? Like 9AM there? Investing.com says the FED Statement for Mar 15, 2017 will be at 14:00, but it doesn't specify what time zone that's in. I assume it's EDT. https://www.investing.com/economic-calendar/fomc-statement-398I think there will be live updates at this link. http://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/fed-march-meeting |
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OK thanks, I will wait until tomorrow morning then I will move the funds through a new multibit version or an other client. The size of the transaction is 18,687 bytes.
If you paid a 0.0019011 BTC transaction fee for a 18,687 byte transaction, then you paid an extremely low fee by the standards of today's overloaded network. Others paying such low fees have waited days for a confirmation. I issued a transaction, the minimum default transaction fee I could use was 0.0019011
A 0.0019011 BTC fee for a 18,687 byte transaction is paying 0.0001056 BTC per KB. That's just above the minimum 0.0001 BTC per KB fee that the viabtc pool requires to let you use its transaction accelerator. Keep trying to submit your transaction's ID to this webpage until it says acceleration succeeded, and the viabtc pool will include your transaction in the next block it mines (provided it's a low s transaction). The page only accepts 100 transactions an hour, and it's overloaded with requests, so you have to keep trying a few times an hour. https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/The latest multibit classic (0.5.19) has a fee slider in the preferences. It's maximum possible fee is 0.0005 BTC per KB, and there are times when that's not high enough to get a fast confirmation. This is a screenshot of it.  The version you are using (0.5.16) does not have that fee slider. Electrum also has a fee slider, but its slider dynamically calculates the best fee to pay based on the current number of unconfirmed transactions. It currently recommends paying more than 0.003 BTC per KB for a confirmation in the next block. That's over six times more than the maximum the latest version of multibit will let you pay. This is a recent screenshot of electrum's slider.  |
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The next thing to move the price will be when China starts allowing Bitcoin withdrawals.
Not that the price needs much help in moving.
The next thing to move the price will be when the FED raises the rate next Wednesday, and the Yuan crashes because of it. Nothing starts the Chinese buying Bitcoins like the Yuan crashing. |
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If you post the transaction's ID here the community might be able to help. Very old versions of multibit were capable of sending transactions that included something called high s values. Since then the Bitcoin network has been changed to only accept transactions with low s values. If your wallet sent a high s value transaction the network will reject it. Upgrading to the latest multibit classic version will solve that problem https://multibit.org/releases/multibit-classic/multibit-classic-0.5.19/There is a problem with Multibit Classic where the transactions with high "S" values are not accepted since the Bitcoin protocol is now enforcing low S values only. So my question is will the developers and maintainers of Multibit upgrade classic to use only low S values when sending Bitcoins?
I hope they will since I like the classic wallet better than HD. I would hate to run into problems where my transactions would not be accepted by the network.
Besides that problem the network has a high backlog of transactions. Any transaction without a very high fee per KB is likely to take longer than normal to confirm. |
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The OPs wallet.dat could have been malware from such a site.
I'm not exactly sure how malware can work but the file I downloaded was a readable one.
Is your computer configured to show file extensions? Does an .exe file appear as just a name, or "name.exe"? I have heard of malware disguised to look like wallet.dat files, but they are really called wallet.dat.exe If a computer isn't configured to show file extensions such a file appears as wallet,dat The .exe extension doesn't show. When you double click them they infect your computer. |
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I'm actually starting to think that I might vaguely remember a site similar to what your describing. Its certainly not one of the sites already mentioned above in this thread though.
I will need to have a look through some old emails / notes etc., which I may or may not have access to any more. Its clearly not my old service anyway, so that's one possibility less I guess.
Please try not to get your hopes up. I've done that myself before to only be disappointed.
That's good advice. I started running a google search for sites selling Bitcoin between 2009 and 2010. I came across a number of cached pages of sites, but stopped searching after I checked one that virustotal scan says is a malware site. The OPs wallet.dat could have been malware from such a site. |
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Indeed. What's done is done, but we don't forget (well perhaps some of it)!  As Satoshi pointed out, it was easy to generate 50 Bitcoins back then. Five Bitcoins was "play money", and 500 wasn't a big deal Excellent choice of a first project, nice work. I had planned to do this exact thing if someone else didn't do it, so when it gets too hard for mortals to generate 50BTC, new users could get some coins to play with right away. Donations should be able to keep it filled. The display showing the balance in the dispenser encourages people to top it up.
You should put a donation bitcoin address on the page for those who want to add funds to it, which ideally should update to a new address whenever it receives something.
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One of the last things I did before I left the forum, on hiatus, was to donate 500 BTC to Gavin's bitcoin faucet, because it had 'run-dry'. Coins which I almost put into cold-storage.  It could be worse, you could have donated ฿1,100 to get it started off, then added more later like Gavin. For my first Bitcoin coding project, I decided to do something that sounds really dumb: I created a web site that gives away Bitcoins. It is at: https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/ Five ฿ per customer, first come first served, I've stocked it with ฿1,100 to start. I'll add more once I'm sure it is working properly. *snip* The donation address from Gavin's faucet shows you weren't alone in making huge donations. It had 19,715 Bitcoins donated to it! https://web.archive.org/web/20100703032414/http://freebitcoins.appspot.com/https://blockchain.info/address/15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC |
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I ran the '2nd' known Bitcoin <> fiat exchange service, using Liberty Reserve (now defunct - with my totally legally earned Forex trading funds being 'confiscated' when LR was shut down).
I had a basic website with contact information and a simple pricing widget, but the few successful trades I conducted were all manual and done via email. I certainly did not accept credit cards either and none of the trades I conducted totalled more than $10 in fiat value, at that time.
Before the BitcoinMarket exchange was established, there was someone in the US who made exchanges by accepting cash in the mail. I don't recall who that was and I think they also deleted most of their post history.
I just checked the way back machine archive and no copies of my website exist during the time it was online, which was for less than a few months, probably. I used a free .cc.cz domain with my forum account name. It was hosted for free on weebly.
There are waybackmachine snapshots of it. This is the earliest one. It says "Our maximum Exchange per request is currently 2500 BTC or $10 LR USD" on the homepage. https://web.archive.org/web/20100617031313/http://www.bitcoinfx.cz.cc/This is all the snapshots on the waybackmachine. The second one says "Available Bitcoins = 15,000 BTC". https://web.archive.org/web/20100601000000*/http://www.bitcoinfx.cz.cc/ Thanks for correcting me on Bitcoin's history. I thought Bitcoin Market was the second exchange. You should be in the history books (and in the wiki).
Before the BitcoinMarket exchange was established, there was someone in the US who made exchanges by accepting cash in the mail. I don't recall who that was and I think they also deleted most of their post history.
That might have been the user called Vinnie who ran http://bitcoin2cash.com/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2508This is a quote of the first waybackmachine snapshot of his site on July 16, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100716235418/http://bitcoin2cash.com/We are currently buying up to 25,000 more bitcoins. For every 200 bitcoins sent to 1CRZpkKKAt7G5uiK4JPBjBJGnozgiatFAs you will receive $1.00 USD in cash by mail or via Paypal. Send transaction details to sales@bitcoin2cash.com after the transfer. All transfers are final. We are not responsible for lost or stolen funds during transit. The prices shown here are subject to change after we establish a market value. Our automated system and complete website are coming soon! |
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Gotta feel for the Winkles a little bit. I know they are privileged cocks - but they believe in BTC just the same as the rest of us.
it must be a real pisser to have all that effort thrown away at the last minute, especially when the sec could've saved it all for them years before. i wonder what other options they're looking at. i hope they keep pushing gemini at least. Can't their ETF be approved later down the line? technically ya. but that would be a "completely different application" i'm guessing years from now MAYBE the SEC could be persuaded to reconsider. The pdf with the rejection decision in says if Bitcoin gets a shitload more money thrown at it in the future the SEC might consider changing its mind. I'm sure if Bitcoin's value increases 100x the SEC will fast track another ETF. https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/batsbzx/2017/34-80206.pdfThe Commission notes that bitcoin is still in the relatively early stages of its development and that, over time, regulated bitcoin-related markets of significant size may develop. Should such markets develop, the Commission could consider whether a bitcoin ETP would, based on the facts and circumstances then presented, be consistent with the requirements of the Exchange Act. |
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I agree there should be an easy way to export private keys, but this was Andreas Schildbach's response to an earlier request for adding that option. Private keys are not meant to be moved around, because they are very sensitive to theft. In fact the only reason to move them out of the app is a backup of the keys (which is unfortunately necessary).
If you want to move value to another wallet, use a standard Bitcoin transaction. That's much safer!
As the github readme instructions are complicated I posted simplified instructions for exporting private keys below. First get your wallet file off your android phone. You might have to restart your phone it before you can see it. Next, follow this part of the instructions from the github readme to decrypt your wallet file. DECRYPTING
You now have your backup file on your PC. Wallet backups are encrypted. Let's decrypt it using:
openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -a -in bitcoin-wallet-backup-testnet-2014-11-01 > bitcoin-wallet-decrypted-backup
It will ask you for a decryption password, which is your backup password. If it prints
"bad password" you've got the wrong password, but if it doesn't print anything your password might
still be wrong. We can only be sure by looking at the decrypted data. After decrypting your wallet file open it in notepad, and follow the instructions below to get your private keys. Looking at the protobuf backup in a text editor, I see it starts like this:  Notice the 12 words in the middle there? That's the BIP32 mnenomic for the wallet - and that's all we need. Copy the 12 words, paste them into https://dcpos.github.io/bip39/, go to the BIP32 tab, put "m/0'/0" into the "BIP32 Derivation Path" field, and there are all your receiving private keys. Then put "m/0'/1" in the same box and see all your change address private keys. You can toggle off the paths and addresses, generate as many as you need, then copy/paste them into a text file for importing into the CLAM wallet. Here's a screenshot of the Android wallet, showing my receiving addresses:  and here's a screenshot of the dcpos bip39 page showing the same addresses along with the private keys:  Note that if you put "m/0'" into the "BIP32 Derivation Path" field, it shows you the same xpub string that the Android wallet app shows you when you go to "Settings>Diagnostics>Show xpub". Rather than forcing people to jump through all the "simplified" hoops above it would be simpler just to include an option to export private keys from the wallet. |
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I don't believe the OP could have bought Bitcoins from an exchange around August - fall of 2009 The first Bitcoin exchange was started by a user called NewLibertyStandard who registered on January 19, 2010. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=26NewLibertyStandard's profile link above shows he was the 26th user to register here. How could there be an exchange before he registered when the community consisted of less than 26 people? The second Bitcoin exchange was called Bitcoin Market. Its thread was started on January 15, 2010 and trading on the exchange started at a later date. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=20.0Those two exchanges are the first two mentioned in the Bitcoin wiki. If there were earlier exchanges then why doesn't the wiki mention them? https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:History |
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The dev's already implemented at least one of your requests. The freeze option is now available on the address tab in the latest version of electrum (2.8.0). I haven't tested sending any coins to it yet, so I don't know if the send from option is back on the address tab too.  I prefer the freeze option on the address tab too. |
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