Some terminology clarifications:

• Wallet: Contains private keys. It also describes the software that accesses the bitcoin network and maintains the addresses and keys that it controls.
• Seed (or recovery phrase): used by the wallet to generate all its private keys.
• Private Key: Used to access bitcoins at the address associated with it.
• Public key: Derived from a private key and used internally by the wallet.
• Address: In simplest terms, it holds bitcoins. It is derived from a private key (through an intermediate public key).

Frequent confusions:

• An address is not a wallet.
• A seed is not a private key.
• An address is not a public key.

The title is misleading. Not every coin is an ICO. The list includes hundreds of coins that are not ICOs.

It is not true, or it is at most extremely exaggerated. Nobody can control bitcoin prices with any kind of certainty and with no risk.

You neglected to include the URL of the original article: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/clipboard-hijacker-malware-monitors-23-million-bitcoin-addresses/

Don't be naive. It is obviously a scam. Nobody ever needs to log into your Blockchain account, except to remove money from it. If he asked to gain access to your credit card or bank account, would you let him?

By the way, he didn't put any money in your account. He is just following some addresses (that's what a "watch" address is). You cannot access the money at those addresses. He is probably trying to fool you into trusting him.

If you have anything in that account, remove it immediately, otherwise he will soon empty it for you. I would also remove all the personal or identifying information that it might contain, and then abandon it. You should consider it to be unsafe and completely compromised, forever.

Take a look at Bitcoin Forum > Local > Other languages/locations

I think questions about the site should go in Meta or Beginners & Help.

However, the answer to your question on where to post a new consensus protocol might be Development and Technical Discussion or Altcoin Discussion, depending on what you are proposing.

Perhaps your seed is a BIP-39 seed. Did you try that option?

This is great news! I hope that every hasher demands it and every mining pool switches over.


I think ghash.io demonstrated to everyone what happens when you go over 50%.

Who is ghash.io? Exactly.

Hire someone that understands how the code works.

While he compares the distribution process to mining gold, he doesn't call it "mining". I'm looking for the term's first use.

Does that make any sense? Suppose you own a lot of bitcoins. Would you want their value to go down? No. You would want their value to go up. That's how you make money.

All of these conspiracy theories about manipulation by "whales" is irrational and stupid. It's all just a part of a paranoid fantasy. There is no evidence -- only conjecture and speculation. Nobody can even come up with a solid scenario about how or why it might be done.

Get a grip! Get a life!

I'm skeptical of your so-called "experts". What exactly are the differences between a "payment currency" and a "investment currency"? Do you have any good examples (other than cryptocurrencies)?


What about Bitcoin's design makes it specifically an "investment currency". Are you claiming that only a government-supported currency can be a "payment currency"? How do you support that claim?

My own belief is that with widespread adoption, Bitcoin will become a boring cryptocurrency with no more investment opportunity than any other major currency. And when that happens, I won't have to pay attention to any of the speculation hysteria and the world will be a much better place.

I'm interested in finding out the origin of the term "mining". Who suggested it? Where was it first used? Were other terms used before "mining" became standard?

I don't understand your question. A blockchain is a database. It holds information. It doesn't make sense to use a blockchain for encrypting information. Why would you need a blockchain for that?

Maybe you could explain why you want to encrypt names and what you would do with the encrypted names.

The problem with this question is that nobody agrees on what "backed by" means.

To me, if a currency is "backed by" something, it means that the currency is guaranteed to always maintain a certain tangible value. For example, a gold-backed currency is guaranteed to always be worth a certain amount of gold.

By that definition, fiat currencies are backed by nothing and Bitcoin is backed by nothing. On the other hand, USTD is backed by dollars (as long as Tether remains honest and solvent).

Currencies that are "backed by the full faith and credit of the government", "backed by the military", or "backed by its users" are not really backed by anything.

The majority maintains the cap. If the majority wants to change it they can, but it is unlikely that they ever will because there is no benefit.


You might be right. Bitcoin could crash at any time. I give it a 30% chance of total failure.

Anyway, the minority chain might be exiled, but they still have their coins (on both chains).


I actually know quite a bit. It has been my profession for 30 years.


You seem to believe that anything that is a poor investment is a scam. I don't agree.


They are misinformed. Being wealthy doesn't automatically make you well-informed about everything.


You equate Bitcoin with a pyramid scheme and I have to agree that it has some of the same characteristics, but all investments are like that. Name a successful company in which the earliest investors haven't done better than later investors. Do you believe that Microsoft or Google or Amazon or Netflix or Apple are scams simply because the early investors ignored the doubters and made a ton of money?


The ROI is not 0. It may be close to 0, but it is not 0. You can assume that it is greater than 0 because if it were not, then nobody would mine.


You have provided no facts, just exaggerated claims and opinions.

If you are truly trying to help people, then I suggest that you stop labeling Bitcoin as a scam. It isn't a scam, and you are diminishing your credibility by claiming that it is.

I believe that most people up to now have been investing in Bitcoin for the wrong reasons, and I believe that they will probably lose money as a result (if they haven't already). The problem is not Bitcoin. IMHO, the real problem is all of the misinformation promoted by ignorant people. The solution therefore not to attack Bitcoin, but to correct the misinformation with accurate and correct information whenever you can.

Even though I disagree with you, I support your efforts. Claiming that Bitcoin is a scam with unspecified or poorly supported reasons is no better than all of the other misinformation out there. You can do better.

The payments do not vanish into nothing. The chart shows only the subsidy portion of the block reward. It does not include the fees portion.