2. It's unfortunate that sometimes even honest errors here, especially newbie errors, are not properly corrected but rather insulted, ridiculed, or even rebuked angrily. Rather than feeling mentored, guided, and corrected, there are probably newbies here who instead felt discouraged and unwelcome, thereby losing interest, curiosity, and the desire to ask questions, learn, and perhaps contribute.
With so many cases people make accounts because they've heard here and there that they can make easy money on Bitcointalk, then they start shitposting, sometimes it's difficult to differentiate the honest newbies who want to learn from those who don't care and only want an extra buck. And then such mistakes (i.e. wrong attitude against honest newbies) do happen, indeed and, indeed, it's sad they happen. But maybe we have to also take into account that this is a free forum (as in free speech). People may have better days and worse days, with better attitude (and answers) and worse. Of course, this won't help the newbies who get too easily disappointed. I know that. Still I feel like this had to be mentioned. |
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Keep in mind that there's probably a huge difference between what chain analysis shows freely/publicly and what can they do as paid service. It was often said that the free service is more a honeypot than something useful.
I have the expert account done through a collaboration with them so all good here. Then, unfortunately, I don't think that there is anybody on the forum that will be able to really help you get that information. But I have a feeling that this is not actually a bad news for you. |
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So I was surfing the gamblingnews.com website to get the latest information in the gambling world. I found this interesting story which I kept pondering on to understand whether this is the extreme or a new dimension of gambling addiction or not. I am tempted to think that it is because the gang according to the news, targets only businesses that have video poker and video gaming machines. And so far they have stolen a total of $400K from gambling machines. The logic behind my conclusion is that, if people who are addicted to gambling would do anything at all costs to win money and for this group they have gone the extreme of breaking and stealing the monies in these gaming machines. This behaviour should be on the far end of the continuum of gambling addiction.
My take is that it may not be at all related to gambling. My take is that - in a way or another - they've found out some ways to easily (or at least very fast!) break into those machines and steal their content. I would not be surprised only certain makers (of the machines) were targeted. |
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Yes it can be risky but it also depends on a few other details which the OP has
not mentioned.
You made a pretty good list, but there's also something we both forgot about: it's expected that all the prices will grow. So OP will have to also have some backup funds for the winter. So yeah, not a great time to have debts. I recommend him be overly cautious. |
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Some of Samsung models have built-in blockchain wallet in their smartphones, so they probably have plans to connect that to their new centralized exchange.
They already have secure element chip inside devices that can act similar like hardware wallet, but it's closed source
I would not be overly happy about those things in Samsung phones, nor advertise them. As you said, it's closed source, and we don't know what surprises they bring. I find these more a marketing stunt than actually useful features, Samsung trying hard to stay on top of the game. It's, for some years now, no longer an Apple vs Samsung game, there are other makers (especially Chinese) with huge sales eroding the giants' positions. Also, as I said, Samsung is investing in a lot of directions. Having their own exchange.. is just another business. |
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But i question the decision where first field (called "Reference" on test vector) may contain multiple types of data. If i'm going to use Excel, i'd rather see additional field which tell type of the data so i could filter/sort it with less effort.
That's what I've been also thinking: without more info that "one field that can contain anything" can become overly confusing. Then I've seen he uses/proposes different formatting for different types of data. But.. why not different field for each of those types?? Instead of having pretty much a syntax, we could just have the tx on the tx column and the input on the input column, for example (and leaving the not needed columns empty). Then something more: I've learned that best is that a file contains - in a way or another - the version of the protocol/documentation, to allow in the future, if anything is changed/added, still handle everything correctly or know from start it's not a supported version. Of course, then the use-in-excel may no longer work. On the other hand, I would suggest enforcing (or "strongly suggesting") the use of a password when exporting those files, for the sake of one's privacy... |
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right now i’m in debt for $6k but i want to keep DCA. should i focus more on pay my debt down or investing? This is an overly risky situation. We cannot tell if bitcoin will grow tomorrow or fall more. If you buy BTC and still can pay your debt as scheduled, you may be fine investing, but otherwise I'd go with focusing to pay the debt first. Else, in case of emergency, you will have to sell your bitcoins at a price you may not like. |
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Hello everybody, I have a noob doubt, if the hard fork of the BTC and the BCH was on Aug 1 of 2017, how is possible to see transaction in BCH currency before this date  ?  I don't undertand nothing Since BCH is forked from bitcoin, before the forking date they were sharing the same blockchain hence the same transactions. Obviously, that blockchain is actually called bitcoin, but, with BCH trying to alter reality and lie newbies they are the bitcoin, of course can easily pretend anything they want and write BCH wherever they want. I would not be surprised the block explorer you're looking at would show the genesis block contain the famous "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks." and still lie it's BCH  My suggestion is to leave those delusional altcoiners and go for bitcoin. |
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Meanwhile I received a "Failed login attempts detected" email warning from Bitwarden 2 days ago, maybe related to this?  I didn't get any mails from Bitwarden, so I'd guess that somebody may have been indeed trying your account at Bitwarden. So it's not related to OP issue. And I also recommend OP switching to Bitwarden. |
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To mention a few: Transferwise, Skrill, Revolut, PayPal, Neteller, Paysafecard etc.
PayPal with its chargebacks is a clear case, I don't have to say much. I'll only add that they sell bitcoin themselves, hence they will not allow others interfere their business. Revolut is a similar case, they sell bitcoin (actually bitcoin-named IOUs, I think), so they may not allow it. For the others... it may be laziness and possibly some high processing fees too. Plus, in some cases, anonymous payments can be a legal hassle they want to avoid. But it may just be that since all the other real possible alternatives may be more expensive, they expect too few use those. I guess that asking the exchanges especially on social media may make them reconsider. But would many use those indeed? |
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Really weird that chain analysis doesn't have information about it actually, Keep in mind that there's probably a huge difference between what chain analysis shows freely/publicly and what can they do as paid service. It was often said that the free service is more a honeypot than something useful. |
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How the Bitcoin Explorer really work ? Is the Bitcoin explorer pulling the data from backend of the Bitcoin database ?
Depending on the implementation, some get data from locally running bitcoin core or the blockchain the local bitcoin has downloaded, or (also) from an Electrum server database, or it can also build its own database off this kind of data. The data a block explorer offers is clearly from the blockchain, but, for easier retrieval a (another) local database is needed, to group the blockchain data in a different way. I want to create a proper Bitcoin Block Explorer, how to start it ? Where is the code of Block Explorer ?
You can look into the code of existing block explorers: https://github.com/mempool/mempoolhttps://github.com/janoside/btc-rpc-explorerCan some one help me out to create a good Block Explorer ? Once you help me and the Block Explorer running from new Node and server, I will be able to pay out some reward later but for now you can give a support Charity wise.
Since you seem to still have a lot to ask and learn until you understand how bitcoin works, I think that nobody will spend time with you. So start with the beginning and master bitcoin first. Then, if you have programming skills, you'll be able to make a blockchain explorer too if you want. |
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My Advice is, maybe you should try to find out the centralized exchange the address traded bitcoins on, maybe the owner of the address have KYCed on that exchange, so they are the ones in the best place to provide you with the information you seek, but mind you, you must give them the reason why you want the information of that user, and your reason must be of utmost importance and highly genuine enough, if not, you won't be given any attention.
No matter how good the reason is, there's a very good chance they'll give out such info only under a warrant. However, if the address is not posted in a forum or part of exchange, a good direction can be to look at chain analysis websites and see if it's linked to an address that can be tracked. But such info is most probably also not for free (that's why I will not do the research; I hope it's a helpful idea though). PS. I tried to help; if you feel like removing the post, feel free. |
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I have used sometimes 200 euro banknotes "in real life" but each time shoppers are checking for a while because they see really few of these: you seem like an alien and it's really uncommon for any expense.
Yep, but this can work with the rather uncommon big banknotes. The 100 EUR and 100$ ones are pretty much common (although I indeed find the 50 EUR much more heavily used than the 100) and getting them out may not got as easy as with the uncommon (from the first place) ones. BTW I am really curious to see the real effect of "digital money" here in my country . Probably it will be the good chance for crypto to become mainstream.
It heavily depends on govt narrative. They can push CBDCs and still tell that bitcoin is dirty money, or it consumes the so beloved electricity (I'm already expecting news that people will suffer in the winter because of bitcoin). So no, I think that CBDCs will have very limited "good" effect on bitcoin getting mainstream. |
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Santoshi produced 21 millions BTC, and out of these 21m of btc 17.18 minions bitcoin are stored in dormant wallet accounts and nobody can retrieve those account to free the bitcoins that are locked forever. That is were bitccoin became decentralized. As of August 2022 the number has increased and if 17.18 minions bitcoin are stored in lost or unused wallets then 90% of the bitcoins are stored in dormant accounts.
I've never seen the movie Santoshi and the Minions. Is it at the cinema now? Coins traded on the collectibles section contain dormant bitcoins. People's paper wallets contain dormant bitcoins. I don't know if that 90% is accurate or not (I guess it depends on how much time of inactivity means dormant for the writer). So..? Even though we can not discuss this on public, we can just give some highlights. As for me if I may say, since the wallets are traced let Satoshi and his co workers unfreeze the accounts if it is possible because the number is increase month by month and year by year and be we know bitcoin will be scarce in the bitcoin space.
No. This is crap. 1. There's no such thing as "Satoshi and his co workers", you should read more before writing this kind of crap. 2. There's no such thing as unfreezing accounts (do you want to steal people's money??), again, you should read more before writing this kind of crap. |
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Samsung The Smartphone Giant
They build from chips and smartphone panels or HDDs to ships. So presenting them as "smartphone giant" is a huge understatement. And in this light, expanding their business into adding a crypto exchange to their portfolio, is not that special for them. A good news for bitcoiners though, obviously. Still, as said, an announcement from them would be nice. Rumors from this or that can easily turn out to be false/incorrect (although that link from newspim the decrypt article contains is somewhat reassuring) |
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as for the lack of seeing the genesis block..
and more simpler reason.. some lazy coded wallets start at block 1.. not 0, because no one thought to check that there is actually a block 0, and instead just had a counter start at 1 for "the first block"
LOL! I didn't look into their code, but yeah, sloppy programming, even at this level, doesn't have to be ruled out (see what happens with DeFi and such). But really, even if one would not be sloppy, it's easier to ignore the funds from the first block since they cannot be spent anyway. And it can make sense too (from the wallet point of view). |
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When I put the Genesis Block in the Electrum it shows that there around some Bitcoin people has sents to the Genesis Block address but it does not show the 50 Coinbase transaction. Which supposed to be the first Bitcoin transaction.
I also put many other address but the result is the same. Some earlier Bitcoin address show the balance is 0.0 but in the Block explorer it shows that coinbase transaction of 50 Bitcoin is there but not spent.
What is the fact ? As said, some wallets don't show/count correctly P2PK outputs. Even more, some ignore the genesis block coins; even some block explorers do that (eg. SoChain). The reason, afaik, is that the genesis coins cannot be spent. |
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I am unhappy most times when I miss posting a reply on the first or second page of a thread. This is because I think that my response may be a repetition.
Indeed, the later you get to answer, the more posts you have to read in order to ensure you are not repeating somebody else. so I am curious to know. Is this normal? And are there other users who feel this same way too?
It's all about activity. I am on your list and I can tell you that in many cases I skip a topic completely (i.e. I'm reading, but not answering) because everything I could say there has been already said. But no biggie, the forum is big, there are always interesting topics to be discussed. Or for reading. Also don't forget that there's also a world outside of computer; you can easily do something else for a while and then come back. |
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If he would do this he would get - sooner or later - to fight somebody powerful enough and willing to defend himself. True, but he's already going after the likes of Coinbase and Kraken for "misrepresenting bitcoin", as Lucius shared above. Wonder why he's not going after them for hosting the whitepaper like he did with Cobra. My guess would be thar "misrepresenting bitcoin" is vague enough and can be twisted around so nobody loses, while the whitepaper case is clearly a losing scenario, since Coinbase will defend themselves if they have to. But it shouldn't matter. The burden on proof is on him to sign a message, not on Satoshi to sign a message calling him a fraud. If you make a claim like "I am Satoshi" and provide absolutely no hard evidence to support it, then you can and should be ridiculed for such a ridiculous claim. It's Russell's teapot. You make the claim, you prove it. The fact that he has been allowed to get this far with absolutely no evidence or proof is shocking, and partly the fault of the all the crypto "media" which keep giving him the spotlight, repeating his nonsense, and not calling out his lies for what they are.
And on top of that, even although the onus is absolutely not on anyone else to disprove his unsupported claims, we still have screeds and screeds of evidence showing his lies for what they are, including not least a signed message from 145 addresses he claimed belonged to him calling him a liar and fraud. What more can we possibly need?
Unfortunately people don't read much, people rely on news for getting informed and even learn something (they believe so). Unfortunately for many the advertising is more powerful than the hard facts because they don't get to find out about the hard facts. And on top of this comes the courts in various countries giving strange verdicts (see UK/Cobra case). And the cherry on top is that people were trained by the media to treat bitcoin and bitcoiners as scammers, hence the hard facts, even if it's math, get ignored. They are both heavily invested into Bitcoin SV Of course that one of their goals is to make people believe their (probably centralized) shitcoin deserves to get valued as highly as Bitcoin is. That would make them rich forever. |
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