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I haven't used an ATM yet (ever), did they give you a receipt? If so, this this receipt contain a transaction id? If you don't care about your privacy, could you share the address you entered and/or the transaction id?
With the amount of information you shared, only the original company (bitaccess) might be able to help you.... However, if you deposited 2+ weeks ago, there is defenately a reason to get worried. Transactions are broadcasted instantly, and with the very low average fee we're seeing lately, a broadcasted transaction usually ends up in a block pretty soon.

So, you either entered a wrong address, they didn't broadcast your transaction or they messed up the transaction.... Those are the only things i can imagine happening right now.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1938621.0

This post contains links to several tx pushing services (including mine), AND a link to Coding Enthusiast's Pusher, which is an application that uses a bunch of API's to allow you to push your tx to several nodes...

Since nobody else seems to be doing anything, i gave a neutral tag to the account referencing this thread... However, since i'm not in DT, i doubt many people will read my warning.
OP: if you ever recover your account, please PM me to remove my tag.

warning signs:

• no address on their about page
• no contact info
• no online help
• free xyz domain
• no ssl
• no vendor endorsement
• no vouches
• no images proving any stock or purchase
• only 1 day old
• whois info not hidden, but has the name of a private individual i can't directly find using google
• whois info says owner lives in franklinville VA 22134 US, i don't know how US zipcodes work, but this site says it's the zip for QUANTICO, not franklinville: https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/22134/#cities
• company name only has 3 hits via google
• the image on the main page (http://bitmain4less.xyz/) was taken from any of these other sites : https://bitshopusa.com/pages/about-us , https://digigoldllc.com/ or https://cryptominersusa.com/... Or all 4 sites are owned by the same owner (since all 4 look like a potential scam)
• logo's on mainpage are stored locally
• it seems like no payment gateway was used, you pay directly to the vendor eventough the mainpage shows a (locally hosted) image of the (unknown to me) gateway gourl.io
• The quality of the site seems a little basic for my taste, especially for a company that sells such expensive equipment

These are warning signs i personally wouldn't ignore... I wouldn't call it a 100% scam, but my gut feeling about this one isn't good at all.

It's not an official app, it's not written by Theymos (or any other admin), however, the person that did write the app did an official announcement here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=327238.0

Personally, i wouldn't run this app on my device... Unless i got the sourcecode from the dev, browsed trough it and compiled it myself... But it seems other longtime members did try it out and didn't file a scam report afterwards... Still, i wouldn't trust it, but it's certainly not proved to be a scam.

For what it's worth, the signed message checks out. I've checked out the staked address to, and it was staked in 2014 (which is certainly good enough).
Have you followed the steps in this stickie'ed post? : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497545.0

In the meantime, you can always try to send the same information to one or two people in default trust and ask them pollitely to give a red tag to the hacked account to warn everybody not to deal with the hacked account untill it's recovered.

you are in the bitcoin subforum, so i'll give a bitcoin answer: there is no pc you can ever build that will mine bitcoin profitably. Even worse, even the best GPU with free power will make about ~20 cents a year at current diff, block reward and btc price. Since such a GPU costs ~$350, it'll take you (on average) 1750 years before you mined enough BTC to pay back your initial investment IF you got your power for free, IF the diff didn't rise, IF the block halvings were removed with a hardfork and IF the price didn't drop.

Here's an auto-updated list of some non specialised mining hardware, it's hashrate, it's power consumption and it's revenue @ certain fixed power prices: https://www.mocacinno.com/nonspecialisedmininghardware.php

Bottom line:
- you can't mine BTC profitably with a cpu (any cpu)
- you can't mine BTC profitably with a GPU (any gpu)
- you can't mine BTC profitably with a cellphone (not with it's cpu, not with it's gpu)
- you can't mine BTC profitably with a botnet (a botnet with 1000 PC's with an i7 will make you less than $10 a year if you run them at 100% load 24/7 for a full year)
- you can't mine BTC with a supercomputer (since a supercomputer is basically just a collection of hundreds of 'nodes', which are basically small, stipped servers)

It isn't the account that gets banned, it's you (as a person). If you are permabanned, and register a new account, it's called "ban evasion", which is a bannable offence if you get caught.

You are allowed to create a new account and open 1 thread (only 1) in the meta subforum to discuss your ban. That's all... If you PM, open a second thread, create a thirth account, you're evading your ban and risk your other account(s) to be banned as well.

If you are permabanned and you don't know why, create this new account, open 1 new thread in meta and ask why you were banned... After you get your explanation, log out and stay away from the forum for a couple of months.... When several months have passed, you can (potentially) appeal using the one (and only) allowed thread in meta you opened earlyer and hope the admin is in a really good mood and gives you a second chance (altough i wouldn't get my hopes up)

agreed, the brain is a terrible source of entropy (that's a quote i picked up a long time ago, but i don't remember from who).
An other option would be to generate a seed using a hardware wallet or electrum, then use an algo like Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme, for example with 5 shares and a subset of 3 shares needed to restore the secret. Hide each share with a different friend/family member and use one strong root password. This way, 3 of your closes friends/family members would have to collaborate AND know your password in order to restore the 24 word seed...

Hardware wallets are pretty safe as-is, however, personally, i haven't put all my eggs into one basket either It never hurts to have 2 brands of hardware wallets if you hold enough crypto imho...

Sure, you can manually pick unspent outputs that will be spent in a new transaction. That being said: it's never a good idear to collect dust, since sooner or later the avg fee/byte needed for a fast confirmation will rise again, and at this point you'll have to pay a lot of fees to spend that dust...

It might be a good idear to use all your dust outputs to fund a new address you own, combining your dust when the estimated fee/byte is low can save you a lot on tx fees afterwards

The lightning network is not a fork. It's a protocol that allows people to create payment channels that can be settled on chain when they are closed after usage. Only 2 on chain tx's are needed: one to open a ln channel, one to close a ln channel. All other tx's in the channel are off chain, this makes them instant and results in less tx's in the blocks

I personally moved my bitcoin cash and bitcoin gold to a new wallet, a simple tip i might add: start by creating a new BTC wallet and moving all your unspent outputs on the BTC chain to this new wallet(you already did this), then start with the most valuable fork and work your way down to the least valuable fork, skip the forks without replay protection and move those ones after all other transactions on all other forked chains have confirmed.

Also remember: if you want to keep 2 BTC wallets disconnected from eachother for privacy reasons: don't move unspent outputs from both wallets on a forked chain to the same forked wallet... This will destroy your anonimity, since people can analyse these forked chains as easily as they can analyse the BTC chain

Since i'm not in DT, a neg tag from me wouldn't really help your cause, if it was helping i'd probably tag him.
If i understand correctly, the last communication you had with him was only 5 days ago? I'd probably wait another 3 days before releasing the escrow, that way it would be a full week without response, and you would have covered your tracks by making this problem public 3 days before actually initiating a refund.
Don't get me wrong: if you initiated a refund today, i'd still think this was fair, since the seller didn't provide reliable tracking info within 18 days.

In any case, i'm going to bookmark this thread to refer to as a perfect example the next time i'm telling a newbie to use an escrow service... This is a standard case to proof why escrow services are badly needed, you probably saved the seller...

I can verify this answer...
If i create a new session, fund the address, wait for a confirmation, sweep the private key, destroy the session THEN create a new mixing session, i get the same sessionid, but a different deposit address.

If i create a new session, fund the address, wait for a confirmation, sweep the private key, DON'T destroy the session (never go to step 4) THEN create a new mixing session before the session expired, i get the same sessionid and deposit address. However, if i fund this address for the second time, i get new chips equaling the value of the second deposit and when i go to step 3, i see the private keys for the "first" session and the "second" session... I think it's working as designed, and i have no problem with this.

Buying and selling accounts is not illegal (not against the forum rules). It is frowned upon, and, if caught, the buyer AND seller will probably receive negative trust from DT... However, the buyer and seller will not be banned, since account sales are not forbidden...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0#post_rules
read rule 18

Don't get me wrong: i'm not an advocate of account sales... I'm just saying that the claim that account sales are illegal is false... They are frowned upon, discouraged, distrusted,... but not illegal.

OP: i think you've gotten your answer in the first 2 posts in your thread, in my opinion the other answers were just rehashing the first two answers... Please close this topic to avoid clutter.

What do you mean by increased efficiency? The diff is still rising a little bit, the average time between two blocks is still ~10 minutes...
I did notice more and more people are using segwit wallets, that might result in slightly more transactions per block (i see a lot of blocks that are 1,1-1,5 Mb in size nowadays). This does not account for the drop we're seeing tough.
An other explanation might be that a few people might actually be using the LN, altough i doubt that at this point this would contribute largely to the drop we're seeing...

The only reasonable explanation is that somebody (a person, a group, several people, several groups) for some reason stopped broadcasting an insane amount of transactions. Given that the drop was achieved in a relatively short time, it is my hypothesis that a group or organisation was behind the massive amount of transactions. The reason behind this flood is unknown and might be bening (for example, a large group of traders, or a network that uses these transactions for alternative purposes), accidental or a malicious spam attack (either for political or financial reasons)... We'll probably never know. The only thing we know is that, for now, they stopped flooding the network.

As far as i remember, this only works if the daemon on the rPi is no longer running... You can't run a daemon on the rPi and while it's running use the blockchain stored on the rPi for running an other daemon or a QT client.

OP... If you're comfortable using the cli, there is the option of just using json-rpc commands, altough i would recommand setting up an stunnel between your local machine and the rPi for encryption purposes .

To do this, first setup stunnel, then edit your bitcoin.conf to allow connections from your client machine and setup a strong user/pwd , then install bitcoin-cli on your client. Offcourse, you'll need to add the following parameters to each command you send: -rpcconnect=<ip>, -rpcport=<port>, -rpcuser=<user>, -rpcpassword=<pw>. You can also looking into rpcauth instead of rpcuser and rpcpassword...

I've had the same question a long time ago, and as far as i know, that's about the only way to do this using bitcoin core... I didn't find a way to run bitcoin-qt by connecting to the daemon on a secundary machine (and i did search for a sollution for quite a while)