I have no Windows in my house. The idea I’d floated is using mingw to create a Microsoft Windows binary from a non-Windows system. Before publicly distributing such a thing with my name on it, I would need to work with tester(s) who have Windows systems available. It’d be good to know if anybody would be interested in doing that ( cough). I use Windows, I could compile/test if needed. I think your project duffers from one I envisaged myself writing. And as you're using bitcoin core to produce the keys then I'm not sure that's particularly efficient (and most of my computers are extremely slow)!
You misunderstood. I am not using Bitcoin Core to generate the keys—what? Through the JSON-RPC interface? That would be absurdly slow, and quite stupid. Rather, I am using Core’s “Optimized C library for EC operations on curve secp256k1”. Speed-wise, it runs circles around OpenSSL for ECC key operations. On the slow test machine, with OpenSSL, I could never get over about 1500 trials per second per CPU core. With Core’s library, I can get up to around 10000 t/s/c; and the speed of my platform’s regex library seems to become a serious bottleneck.The original vanitygen runs much slower in regex mode, right? It would be better to first attempt to run in a "prefix mode" like vanitygen if possible that just checks the equality of the first characters, and doesn't evaluate a regular expression. |
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Concisely put LN is an offline solution that will result in essentially zero fees and near instant transactions which will utilize payment channels still on the network but not necessarily on the blockchain.
LN is not offline. LN requires nodes to be online even more than Bitcoin does because your node has to be online to receive payments. The payment channels themselves are on the blockchain as opening and closing transactions, but lightning network payments do not touch the blockchain, although they are all backed by valid Bitcoin transactions at all times. |
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I know no Python, I started with javascript in webpages, worked with Node.js for a long time, and in the past 2 years I've started to work with Java, and I've started with C in the past 6 months.
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I haven't seen one, but if you want I'd try to contribute to one on GitHub or somewhere. I like the idea, even though I know vanity addresses pose some security problems and they're not incorporated into HD backups, I still think it'd be really cool. Maybe here would be a good place to start? Thanks for the link. What languages would you use as I'd personally prefer either C# or Python (python is quite slow so I'd have to convert it to C# afterwards as that seems quite a bit faster). Currently reading the data from the link and want to see if I can build any interim stuff from it just as a simple address generator (or some sort of validator). I don't know C#, but I know a little but of C. I'd be willing to try to learn though, I know Java and Node.js, and I've heard Java is very similar to C# |
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I haven't seen one, but if you want I'd try to contribute to one on GitHub or somewhere. I like the idea, even though I know vanity addresses pose some security problems and they're not incorporated into HD backups, I still think it'd be really cool. Maybe here would be a good place to start? |
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No, I wouldn't. What's the point of a token that has no purpose? We already have coins that operate as stores of value. What does this bring to the table?
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We're gonna miss you, Ryan. I had a great time gambling at Bustabit back in 2016. I even invested BTC in your ICO back then. Too bad not enough funds was raised back then. Anyway, I forgot to say thanks for the bonuses you sent in spite of the failed ICO.
Bustabit was great during the lull moments when coins at Poloniex weren't doing anything.
Bustabit had an ICO? I wonder what the early investors got during those days and now that they moved on to version 2 of the site now and under new management. I also heard they have an investment option as that bustadice put in place when they started the site. Didnt you read it didnt raised enough fund? yes bustabit v2 now have investment option as well. Similar to bustadice , it has 10 % dilution fee to motivate people to stay longer with them. Site currently has 1700+ bitcoin and site's profit is at -99 btc. It is about the best time to put your money in before the variance swing to investor That's not how variance works. Probability works on future events, not on events that have already happened. The probability of Busta losing another 99 BTC is the same as it was before it happened. Don't fall into that mental trap. |
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Right now I am working on adding ETH - and it looks pretty good. I can already generate deposit addresses and process deposits. The only thing I need to do is withdrawals and to make sure the implementation is bullet-proof.
Cheers,
Ethan
I just updated AM to support ETH. Just a couple lines of code, pretty much only dealing with the rain tracker, because that's really the only thing that deals with currency. The yolodice-api package won't need changed, it's already currency-independent as of LTC. |
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Ethan, My investments have begun to take a very long time to load. I believe this is due to two factors: 1. Once after the initial page load, clicking on the Invest tab sends two list_investments calls, and receives two responses. This creates unnecessary additional load for the server and the client. Every time the Invest tab is selected after this, it only sends a single call. Example 2. Even though the "Display closed investments" box is unchecked by default so closed investments are not displayed to the user, all investments are requested from the server. I have frequently opened and closed investments, and now have 192 total investments including closed ones. It's not necessary to send that information to the client until they explicitly request it by checking the "Display closed investments" box. This could be fixed by using the status parameter when calling list_investments. Example Hopefully, this information will help you debug long loading times on investments for certain users and reduce server load. |
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How would one make a transfer on the lightning network, do you have to know how to code?
No, in the future it will be much more simplified for end users, very similar to normal Bitcoin wallets today. It will be available for both desktop and mobile platforms, so you will be able to go place and make payments with your phone which is IMO the best thing about it, POS purchases are viable again. |
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There are a few newer tools written in Go, namely btcd and lnd. I think a lot of it is that more people are familiar with using C and have been using C for longer. I'm not sure anybody is particularly against using Go, it's just the nature of a newer language. |
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I Think one reason why most services and exchanges have these fees is because they also want to get reimburshed for the deposits and for the inputs that they will need to batch in the future.
Basically an input always takes more space in a block than an output, hence if too many people send very small amounts to the site. They will need to spend alot to batch those BTC and resend as withdraws.
Sure they can charge a deposit fee, but that would make many people upset. Basically what Bitfinex did with their exchane where they started charging for deposits.
They could also take advantage of the very low fees to consolidate their UTXO set and avoid that problem in the future. |
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I believe there is no need for a subforum on the Lightning Network. Not yet. Because if the mods make yet another subforum, then the newbies will only start ignoring it simply for being isolated. It is better for Lightning threads to be in the open and be more welcoming and accessible to the newbies. They might learn something.
Lol at that. However I believe that my initial question "Where is the home discussion of lightning network" is reasonably well answered. There is currently no home. There is some here, some on twitter, some on reddit. I'm not trying to place a value judgement on that, just seeking to establish what the reality is. I don't really think there's a home, but there's a few slack channels I'd check out, namely the one for LND, I think there might be one for c-lightning too. Lots of technical discussion happens there. |
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Ethan, Bitcoin fees have been below 10 satoshis per byte for the past 4 days. Please lower the costs to withdraw, as even the batch withdraw fee is now 10x what it costs to do a typical Bitcoin transaction. For example, my last batch withdraw was sent with 0.000084 BTC in fees, but I was charged 0.00025 BTC, 3 times that. However, there were transactions with much lower fees that were still included in that block. I understand the need to send with a conservative fee estimate to make sure that transactions confirm but the amount you're charging is too much right now. Here is an image of the mempool over the past 4 days. The red bar is 5 satoshis per byte, and transactions lower than that are confirming right now. The one above it is 10 satoshis per byte.  |
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I've struggled with a problem like this before. I was trying to find a way to use the Bitcoin blockchain to generate random numbers similar to how provably fair gambling sites generate them now. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way that didn't involve either waiting time for the next Bitcoin block (which was undesirable for me) or placing trust in another party.
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This is the first time this year I see an interesting thread/post, thanks for that.
1MB can be considered for preventing spam. Maybe he didn't think if bitcoin could become so popular and also there aren't some things considered like what will happen after
...if more than 1,000 miners are needed for Bitcoin...No amount of miners are needed for Bitcoin. Difficulty scales with the hashrate. The amount of miners is a result of people thinking Bitcoin has value. |
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It would be nice to be able to see which of our posts was merited. Right now I can't seem to find a way to see that kind of info.
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The OP mentions about "required activity" and "required merit' for member ranks .So, from now on for member levels to be upgraded ,they need to reach required merit level apart from activity too ?
So,just posting and aging the account will not lead to new membership levels,unless if required merit levels are not attained !
Correct, stops people from making a ton of BS posts and then appearing more trustworthy/helpful then they are |
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I wonder who the first one to 15 million merits will be  I like this change a lot. Hopefully we'll see an increase in post quality. |
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I know a lot of you were using my exchange bot to convert BTC to LTC and not much the other way around, so I went and refilled the bot with mostly LTC.
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