ron paul makes a good point why bitcoin would not be a good replacement for the failing 'in god we trust' to print and manipulate dollar, he says: "On reason Greece has been forced to seek bailouts from its EU partners is that Greece ceded control over its currency when it joined the European Union." http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/july/12/greece-today-america-tomorrow/bitcoin would be just like the euro.. it would not work. only a metals backed currency will work as a replacement for the broken dollar 'interest to infinity' debt slavery system. The loss of control you are talking about occurs as much with metals as it does with Bitcoin. And of course Texas is asking for gold, not Bitcoin from the fed because the fed is (supposedly) holding gold for Texas and not Bitcoin. (Though the point you were trying to make (Texas would prefer gold over Bitcoin) is likely also true, it is not directly relevant). |
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You never know. There's an outside possibility. The numbers of folks who were around when it was worthless enough to delete are pretty darned low but even 2011's dust is still a nice bonus.
You must get a fun occasional consolation prize of photos of the hard drive owner taking his saggy old wife up the shitter while she's bent over the washing machine.
I know a couple of people who claim to have mined a bunch and then to have repurposed/reformatted the hard drive. There have to be more out there just forgotten but it's a crapshoot probably smaller odds than finding a silver quarter. |
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Haha, fiat incoming shortly, plans to buy some bitcoin with it... Of course it starts to rally.
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However, family is tricky.
Yep. My experience is that any financial entanglement with family should be exited as quickly and graciously as possible. |
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Maybe you are right. We haven't promised her anything yet. I just feel bad about the timing of it all. But patience is a virtue. I wish she could have just been a little more patient. My husband felt bad because when it took a dip the first time around she wanted to bail then and he encouraged her not to worry about it and just ride it out. She said that the next time she wanted to sell he wasn't supposed to argue with her so he didn't this time. I feel like she waited this long, what is another week or two? She is going to feel really stupid in a couple months. I don't want her upset with us. There is a reason some people have a hard time with investments though.
Bear in mind that you could be wrong*. It's her money, just accept her decision. *I don't think you are but I could be wrong too  |
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i think my days of supporting bitcoin could very well be coming to an end. i have a tendency to turn when i feel wronged. a cashless society is not really a free society.
It's coming anyway. The question is, who will control it? |
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Weird. Was like that for a while on "5 days behind" then I restarted, jumped to "3 days behind" but no network traffic at all also no response on debug console. Then restarted and got stuck on "loading wallet" then rebooted whole computer and it stuck on "Rescan... 100%" for 5 minutes and when it finally started, I was only 5 hours behind and now I'm caught up.
Just plain odd. I appear to be caught up and good now.
Will play more with the copying to Linux tomorrow.
I guess maybe I was actually caught up but the bitcoind part was still busy with something so wasn't updating the GUI or something odd.
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Hmm. Had no inbound ports open for the windows client. Let's see if that helps.
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Opening a file simply for reading should update its access time but not its modify time in linux. ~/.bitcoin$ stat blocks/blk00001.dat
File: 'blocks/blk00001.dat'
Size: 134174148 Blocks: 262328 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: fd05h/64773d Inode: 10493965 Links: 1
Access: (0744/-rwxr--r--) Uid: ( 1000/ rich) Gid: ( 100/ users)
Access: 2015-07-08 22:16:36.913205675 -0500
Modify: 2015-07-08 22:16:33.403205785 -0500
Change: 2015-07-08 22:16:33.403205785 -0500
Birth: - |
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Hmm, for some reason on my windows client, it looks like my peers have decided to starve me of data.  |
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I'm not so sure since those timestamps show the files being modified. Bandwidth was taking a hit too but it's possible that that was just because I quit my client a few days ago.
It's looking like I probably need to copy the whole of the blocks directory and the chainstate directory too. I'll give that a go and see how it works out.
Worst case, I should probably be able to just tell the bitcoind on linux to use my windows node as a peer and get the blocks that way.
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I have a bitchain-qt (0.10.1) which I have been running on Windows with an (fairly) up-to-date blockchain. I have some dev work I'd like to do on Linux (and for which a new wallet would be a good idea anyway) so I downloaded the latest (0.10.2), ran it to create the directories then copied rev*.dat and blk*.dat to a new directory and symlinked the blocks directory in ~/.bitcoin to that thinking that bitcoind would recognize the files and I could avoid having to redownload everything. The problem is, it's still redownloading everything. It's even overwriting the files so I know it's not that I have some weird directory thing going on. Did I miss a step? This is what an ls -lrt looks like when I run it on the directory. It's started redownloading right from the beginning... [...]
-rwxr--r-- 1 user1 users 67108864 Jul 3 12:46 blk00244.dat*
-rwxr--r-- 1 user1 users 7340032 Jul 3 12:46 rev00244.dat*
-rwxr--r-- 1 user1 users 134214302 Jul 8 16:41 blk00000.dat*
-rwxr--r-- 1 user1 users 19922944 Jul 8 16:41 rev00000.dat*
drwx------ 2 user1 users 4096 Jul 8 22:16 index/
-rwxr--r-- 1 user1 users 134174148 Jul 8 22:16 blk00001.dat*
-rwxr--r-- 1 user1 users 16777216 Jul 8 22:16 rev00001.dat*
-rwxr--r-- 1 user1 users 265289728 Jul 8 22:18 rev00002.dat*
-rwxr--r-- 1 user1 users 2097439789 Jul 8 22:18 blk00002.dat* If I'm just missing a something, could someone point me at a tutorial? Note that I'm not worried about having to reindex, just don't see the point of burning bandwidth when I already have the data. |
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There's little doubt in my mind that even if this doesn't directly lead to bitcoin buys, we're going to get a whole lot of media exposure. Which will lead to more buys.
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I don't think you are honest about your basic motives regarding bitcoin. I'm a 44 year old nuclear physics-guy.
Is there some sort of causality I'm missing here? Jorge has successfully identified enough BTC scams over the years to warrant respect. Sadly, there will continue to be scammers as long as BTC attracts happy-clappy noob idiots who think they are financial geniuses. The (not recent) rapid rise of the Bitcoin price attracted the greedy. The greedy tend to be the easiest to scam which attracted the scammers. |
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I still don't trust your motives, I still think you lie about what makes you scan the Internet harder than google, looking for the word "bitcoin" and a negative slant, lol.
I think Jorge wants to not believe in Bitcoin but subconsciously recognizes that it is likely one of the most important events of the 2010s and probably 2020s also. Some people just can't help being in the right place at the right time despite their greatest efforts |
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We're still going in the right direction. I'm actually surprised that we're seeing this positive thread right now. Has anyone figured out what is causing this? Greece?
There's a new movie coming out that features Bitcoin. That could be some pretty big world-wide exposure. |
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BEAR NOTE - ELIMINATE, ELIMINATE, ELIMINATE!!!!  Is that a creepy harpy thing or a dead rabbit's head propped up with a stick? |
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I thought the chart on the far right hand side was OKcoin. I could be wrong but I can't think of any other exchange coin is an abbreviation for. It just says "coin" and I assumed chartbuddy hasn't got enough space to fit the full OKcoin in.
I believe it's Coinbase. I often wondered why Richy used "Coin" instead of "Base". Someone told me "All your base are belong to us". Coinbase was more of an afterthought (hence the lack of logo). I possibly should just take them out. The depth is so shallow. |
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Yeah OKCoin is having trouble again.
It keeps having 522, 520 and 502 errors.
EDIT - It is back, but I am not convinced yet.
What does chartbuddy do when OKCoin keeps spitting out 522, 520 and 502 errors? Does he start showing error messages instead of charts, or is that one of the reasons we sometimes get an invalid image message instead of a chart? Chartbuddy doesn't care too much. It's just missing data. If there's no data at all for a chart, we get to enjoy the ol' Karpeles picture. The error messages are either because an image failed to upload or the bitcointalk proxy is misbehaving. |
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