Google does indeed care about Bitcoin and seems rather supportive about it. The did this video recently explaining Bitcoin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN7cmfoH06wSome people didn't like the fact that they didn't mention Bitcoin on the tittle of the video, but I actually like it because it makes it look as if crypto is Bitcoin (which is pretty much right since all altcoins are irrelevant compared to Bitcoin) |
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Yes, the way the Lightning Network works is, it gathers a ton of small micropayments, even picopayments, and then makes a nice package big enough for it worth sending into the blockchain. This way you don't bloat the blockchain with stupid transactions. I can't wait for it to be active so we can start competing against Paypal in a realistic way.
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If anyone follows world news. it is no secret that major countries are devalue their currencies. I don't think a complete wipe out will happen, but inflation will kick in someday violently. If bitcoin can live to that day, probably less than 3 year, btc should go up dramatically, in sync with gold. Of course,i am afraid governments will try to depress gold, maybe at the same time, bitcoins.
We don't need for currencies (fiat currencies) to get totally wiped as in disappear, but just the devaluation, hyper inflation and then the nail in the coffin which will be the fact that governments have an agenda to get rid of physical cash in the next 10 years, will make a massive demand for Bitcoin and will drive up to unforeseen marketcap level, then the people that didn't put the effort to store some now will cry because they will see with perspective that they missed the biggest train of their life. |
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Gambling can be like a drug so the best you can do is not to stop all of a sudden, otherwise you can create a strong relapse period where you will come back to gambling and do something stupid like gamble a ton of money you can't afford to lose, so it's better to slowly quit gambling slowly, start gambling less and less and you'll become bored of it.
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It's wrong if you spend too much money for it, just be smart, it's risky, and don't even try sports gambling, i heard it's very risky
All gambling game is sure have a risk thats why the payout is good, if there is no risk I dont think you can really earn money from gambling. Btw what I do know is the most profitable gambling is sports betting because sportbook already give you their odds, it is your time to gather more information to boost your winning chance on sport betting plus there are tipster nowadays that really help you to get more information if you dont have time to search it Yup sport betting has a chance that you can win it by knowing who's team or player that has a good performance then that will be your bet but their are a slight chnace that you will lose because you will never know who will really win until the very end of the game right? I think the best scenarios to make strategies for gambling is fighting sports and soccer/American football, those are the sports that have the biggest following, the most money on the matches and the sports are complex enough that they deliver you a nice set of variables to play with and try to predict an outcome without being as chaotic as raw gambling like dice or slots. |
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I mean when you open the wallet, now it's pretty fast compared to the old version, the verification process it's not longer painful, I even see a % to see where you are at. My problem is still the downloading time is still pretty slow. My connection is not fantastic but I can download at around 800 kb/s max when the source is great, for example a Steam game (they have top quality servers). I doubt im downloading at 800 kb/s or anywhere near that because it's taking me so long and I doubt to update the blockchain from a "4 days ago" point can take this long. There must be something wrong with the upcoming connections. I have opened the port and I get around 8 upcoming connections. I would like to see at what speed im downloading. Maybe you could add this on the green loading line like "4 days ago (523 kb/s)" or something. Seeing at what speed you are downloading is interesting even for newbies so it should be pretty easy to see somewhere in the interface.
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For me it was really fast compared to the older version, the verification I mean, but the download speed is the same, rather slow I think.
Is there a way to see at what kb/s are you downloading the blockchain? I think it would be cool if it shows somewhere so you aren't as desperate about it. It's really confusing to not know if you are downloading at a decent speed or not. I think its downloading really slow compared to the maximum bandwidth of my connection. I have opened the required port and i get around 10 incoming connections so I don't now whats up.
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One of problems in using Bitcoin mixers is 'dirty' coins from SilkRoad type websites. You put your coins in a mixer, you get back 'tainted' coins, who knows what kind of shady deals they had been used in before you got them. Keylogger is not a problem, don't use Windows - problem solved.
A bitcoin is a bitcoin is a bitcoin. The idea of banning "shady" bitcoins is a GTFO of here. Yeah but this will keep happening like it or not, as long as people can see transactions over the blockchain, that's why confidential transactions and "integrated coinjoin" in a way (I think BIP47 is somewhat related to this idea) would be mandatory if we want to end with that. All of the transactions should be confidential transaction ON and "coinjoined" with random people, unless you want to do a clear A to B transaction for some reason. |
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they are used to help anonymize the criminals, lol. in that case, they will be able to earn more money for the better service for those criminals. lmao.
That is nonsense.. I have never committed any crimes and I am using it. I even feel so strongly about it that I signed up for one of the biggest and reputable mixer's signature campaigns. Your privacy is your business... If you use cash, you have the same anonymity as with the use of any mixer service. If the authorities wants to trace criminals, who use mixer service, they only need to follow the rules of the game and subpoena these services for the information. I do agree that using a mixer increases your anonymity but what happens when you want to exchange some of your bitcoins into fiat? You need to provide your ID to the exchanges to get out your cash. It doesn't make sense to me to bother with mixers unless you send a fraction of your stash through a mixer to conceal your main wallet but this is a different story. I guess if it makes you happy and more secure online more power to you mate. Or you could just sell your recently mixed coins locally for cash. You do not need to provide an ID for that. Well more and more people are demanding more data about the people they sell coins to which is annoying. In any case, what are you going to do when the governments get rid of cash? We better have better alternatives than that, and we will since we will have CoinJoin more functional and Confidential Transactions. |
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If you are in for the fun, you will never suffer any negative consequences, the problem is the addiction and delusion of making insane profits just because some guy made a thread here showing massive wins. It's not going to happen, most likely you will never hit the jackpot, of course this doesn't mean that you shouldn't say positive about it, but you have to stay realistic too.
Gambling for fun? Most people who was gambling for fun has suffered this domino effect : 1. Was Gambling for fun 2. Saw some people won jackpot or massive wins 3. Continued gambling for fun, but hope he/she could win jackpot or massive wins 4.  5. Now he/she addicted in gambling. Yes, in some cases that's true, but not always. I think we shouldn't avoid something completely only because some people when doing it wrong way become addicted. Same "domino effect" as you call it may be applied to alcohol drinking for example: 1. Was drinking just small amounts of wine or beer on occasions. 2. Saw some people drink heavier and "have more fun" 3. Continued drinking small amounts of wine or beer on occasions, but sometimes was drinking heavier liking it more and more. 4. 5. Now he/she is an alcoholic. Some people just should never even try gambling, I think everyone should get genetic tests and see what% of massive addiction you have to gambling activities before "gambling" by trying gambling, I wouldn't gamble with that, given the massive negative consequences tat it can have, its just better to know the % and also see if in your family someone had gambling addiction related problems. |
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The fact that dollar will collapse in the future is just that, a fact... this is not a discussion, it's just a matter of time. So anyone that is paying attention to what's actually up, must have important amounts of money in metals and Bitcoin. If you are a goldbug that only pays attention to metals and ignores Bitcoin, you are an idiot. If you only pay attention to Bitcoin and ignore metal, you are also an idiot.
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Why is that , are you talking the new version ? what changed exactly because I read the changelog and I honestly didn't understand much , too much technical stuff .
The new Bitcoin Core version (0.12.0) enables you to run a wallet in pruned mode. This means that you can use it without storing the whole blockchain. Essentially it can cut down the usage from around 60 GB of data to around ~2 GB. You only store the last X amount of blocks. thats not what the original version of what prune mode was envisioned. the original vision was to no longer keep spent data. but keep every unspent now all of a sudden 2500 people who regularly upgrade are no longer going to hold full data should they enable lite node(which core wrongly calls prune).. it should be called trim mode.. any gardener can explain the difference pruning only cutting off the dead parts that are not needed. trimming cutting off larger areas to improve asthetics and space for growth but just keeping recent relay data is like cutting off the tree and only keeping the ripe fruit.. good old blockstream adding features to dilute the population of REAL FULL nodes. and leaving the community with a patch work of litenodes and compatible nodes. if people dont have full history of unspents. then they cannot validate that a transaction is authentic. why oh why do people think that making full node clients into crippled versions is a good thing. because fundamentally its not. if you want lite clients then download a lite client stop trying to advertise that running in lite mode is better then sliced bread. if you want to say your a full node then dont cripple yourself or believe your still a full node after enabling such features if your going to run (better to call it trim/lite) mode atleast accept your just a relay node and not a full archival node Funny that Blockstream FUDsters would say that they are giving the community reasons to not run full nodes when not a while ago they were supporting BIP101 because Blockstream FUDsters are braindead zombies that will say "yes sir" to anyone that gets supported by Gavin. No one on Core has said that running lite nodes is better... they are just giving people options. If your computer is too old to run a full node, now you can run at least a lite node, which is better nothing, but of course Gavinistas always must complain. |
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It will be easier in the future, once more people is aware on Bitcoin, and specially once goverment gets rid of cash so they only alternative to work "by yourself" (without government knowing) is going to be through cash. A lot of people is struggling to pay the bills so if they had to pay taxes they would be dead, therefore they will look for alternatives to keep doing this and Bitcoin is the only way to go on. It's amazing that a lot of people don't see this. Bitcoin will go to trillion dollar marketcap in the next 10 years because of this alone.
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I never trade Bticoin against dollar or any other currency because that implies you need to give all kind of details in the exchange and im not down to deal with that bullshit, so I just edge against other crypto currencies, recently I did a trade with ETH and made extra BTC, now I also bought some MAID which is looking spectacular.
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You don't necessarily need to "use it". Does anyone use gold for anything but storing value? That's right, no one, so buying Bitcoin and storing it to edge against government issued money is an use within itself.
Once people start getting paid directly in Bitcoin we'll see more everyday use.
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My plan is to reach 21 BTC as soon as possible, then basically hold for at least 10 years, and then, if the goverment is not a piece of collapsing shit like it is now and the goverment currency is stable and has a good outcome, I will sell some, then diversify and put some on stocks and metals as well, but never selling more than 50% of my BTC stack.
Its only 6 billion dollars marketcap, we are early also adopters, don't listen to the idiots saying otherwise, they are missing the big picture.
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If you are in for the fun, you will never suffer any negative consequences, the problem is the addiction and delusion of making insane profits just because some guy made a thread here showing massive wins. It's not going to happen, most likely you will never hit the jackpot, of course this doesn't mean that you shouldn't say positive about it, but you have to stay realistic too.
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I think no country wants to leave the European Union. They may threaten with it like Greece did, but at the end of the day when the citizens are asked if they have the balls to pull an euro-exit they always back up, because they know they would not be as cool if they are not from Europe. Most people would not like to be a country somewhere that has nothing to do with USA or Europe.
Anyway bring it on tho, anything that destabilizes fiat currencies will help Bitcoin.
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Well this is odd. I just updated from 11.2 and now I have a 'Pending' amount in my wallet that was not there before and there are no transactions for that amount that show in my wallet or blockchain for my address.
Did you do this transaction or is it an incoming one? It is weird that it doesn't show up on the blockchain, usually this is because it hasn't spread yet to the network, but im not sure how the pending stuff works tbh. |
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I just updated to 0.12.0 and compared to the endless waiting time for the previous versions to check the blockchain and that stuff, this one was really quick, and they have put a % so you can see how much time there is left. It was quick and now im syncing. Syncing seems to be at the same pace tho, which is pretty slow for me.
But overall massive improvement, good job by Core devs. Classic devs can only dream to do this kind of improvement by themselves.
Dude, they're the same... Huh? Bitcoin Classic developers are Bitcoin Core developers... Classic does not have any solid dev at all except Gavin & Jeff. That's enough, only one small change between Core and Classic, maxblocksize increases to 2 MB, everything else is the same... Sorry but you seem very confused. Who did develop all the improvements for Core? The Core devs, no one on the Classic dev team did shit for Core. Bitcoin Core is a lot faster in 0.12.0 thanks to active Core devs, not the Classic devs. Please don't be stupid. I hope you are just trolling. Bitcoin Core developers are basically the Bitcoin Classic developers. There is almost no difference between them.
Are you guys trolling now or just this retarded? |
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