Sorry - I don't know exactly why that might be (endian issues perhaps?).

My guess would be that - personally I really dislike "binary" protocols (and the internet mostly doesn't use them) as you just end up with a lot of headaches with serialization.

Agreed (much better to just have the one thread).

You could take a look at CIYAM Safe also (https://susestudio.com/a/kp8B3G/ciyam-safe). It uses QR codes for 100% "air-gapped" security and does the tx signing with an "offline" computer running bitcoind (and is built mostly from "bash scripts" rather than "proprietary" software).

Oops - fixed.

And as I think that this "crusade" seems to have an army of one I am officially "calling it off" (to spend more time doing useful things like "coding").

The problem is that the mods aren't having any great effect on "stopping the crap posts" so basically this is "a protest" at the poor quality of posts on this forum due to ad sigs but I don't think anyone is "joining in" so I doubt that my occasional "report" is hardly going to have any effect one way or the other.

I refuse to "waste my time" on maintaining an ever growing Ignore list (which also quite likely increases the server work for processing each request) so instead I am just now ignoring more and more of the forum Boards - I'll probably end up with just one or two Boards that I bother with eventually.

Sadly I have noticed the same as well - I guess most of the mods here "are in support of rubbish posts". 

I'd be curious to know "what criteria they use to choose who they will pay to have their ad sig?" but yes hopefully that might improve things.

I am not reporting *any post* made by "ad sig posters" - only ones that "have no value".

Let's be very clear about what my "campaign is about please".

In particular "pointless or uninteresting posts" is what I am against (it is just annoying to have to "wade through crap posts to find anything of interest").

Stop posting crap please.

Post your "useful posts somewhere else please" - here you are obviously just trying to "defend your *right* to post crap" as you don't want to "lose your precious ad sig BTC".

Reported - as I said "this is a campaign" (that is not *sponsored at all*) and if you want to end up on the "wrong side of it" that is entirely up to you.

As I stated - I would be happy enough if we just get the forum "cleaned up" so don't miss that point please (and people with "ad sigs should not really be replying" to this).

You are warned not to reply again unless you really have something relevant to add (or you will be reported - your above post was basically *crap* but I'll let that one slide).

So just to let all those "ad sig posters" know that I am now reporting all the crap posts I am seeing (off-topic or just plain stupid posts as well as the more like "+1" posts).

I suggest others thinking of supporting my "campaign" should include the text "ad sig post" in the "report" (such as "obvious ad sig post" or "looks like an ad sig post").

I guess the mods might get pissed off at me for reporting so many posts (as I am going to do this for every single shitty post that affronts me) but really - if this forum would prefer to read "that crap" than anything I have to post then "I am okay with getting banned" (i.e this is a "declaration of war").

Hmm... well that is not so bad I guess (assuming the ATO agrees).

What you're missing is that if you "buy your BTC in Aus then you will have to pay 10% GST for that" so from the point of just "using BTC as a currency" there is basically *zero* incentive to want to *buy BTC in Aus* unless you can actually *save more than 10%* on whatever you plan to *purchase with your BTC* (i.e. cheaper to just use a credit card and maybe even PayPal).

If you are a "investor" hoping for BTC to become "worth more" then perhaps the 10% "surcharge" is not a big deal (especially if you don't have to declare capital gains).

Although I know the mods are trying their best to "weed out the ever increasing amount of crap posts" we are seeing due to "paid sig posting campaigns" I see more such campaigns being created and more and more rubbish posts being posted.

Please consider clicking the Report to Admin link on any "useless post" posted by someone with an "ad sig" (whether or not you know it is part of a "paid sig posting campaign" because if the post is "rubbish" then it is more than likely than not that is why it is there annoying you).

If enough of us do this then either it'll result in "a clean up of the forum" or a "banning of paid sig posting campaigns" (the latter being my preference but either result would be better than the current situation).

You might want to try this:


or this:

(assuming that the problem is unconfirmed amounts)

Amazing that something that is neither a "good" nor a "service" attracts GST - you certainly can't imagine the Australian government getting away with applying this approach to "stocks" (I can understand GST applying to "fees and commissions" but not to the BTC itself).

I ran a competition with 4 character password of just upper, lower and numbers (just ASCII) and it wasn't cracked in 5 days (by forum members with some fairly powerful PCs who were trying very hard to get a BTC reward).

So IMO a 6 character password with just letters (non-dictionary) is not going to be very easy to crack (i.e. even with some very fancy hardware you are still looking at days if not weeks).

Agreed 100% - if one of the banks I use decided to offer a BTC account I think I'd probably put some BTC there.

Agreed - services will always be created "above Bitcoin" and numerous of those will "turn out to be scams".

Not everyone is *ready* to take *responsibility for their own money* (so if banks ever decide to allow "Bitcoin accounts" I am sure they'll be very popular).