and what's the situation with "cryspy" and they PCs?
that's a great question. did they lose their primecashtaker in the new funding round? |
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That's cashflow and proves nothing. that's interesting. last thing I heard was that they do not payout any longer... |
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any chance you'd add shapeshift? I'd like to buy with some alts and don't want to take extra fees for exchanging. or even better: take BitShares BitUSD directly  |
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Is there a way to force those spv mining to have their work count as less to discourage it?
if I understand it correctly, they are losing a lot of money at the moment due to mining on an obsolete fork... so that's punishment |
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Ok so for example i got an older bitcoin core version, way before the header stuff was included. So if i download the latest version, do i have to redownload the blockchain too? Because the blocks got corrupted?
Also i use blockchain.info as a secondary online wallet, do i have to worry when i send or when i receive bitcoins?
If you run the latest core version you're fine. as for blockchain.info - they did not even identify this issue (read up in this thread) - so it's not save to use them at the moment. |
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As the title says. What if a newbie asks you what is the easiest way to buy BTC, what would you suggest?
depends on where you're from. I prefer bitcoin.de and fidor bank. fastest and easiest way to buy bitcoin for euro in my opinion |
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Just saw the warning. Glad I did. I use Electrum for my hot wallet. (Not that I keep much in it anyway)
Is there any news on this? I've looked through the end of the thread -- this is where the warning points -- and it appears unresolved. Am I crazy or shouldn't this be an easy fix for these pools?
electrum uses nodes. go to console and check the status "This node is running bitcoind 0.10.0 with no scheduled restarts." < means you're good to go |
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Anyone on SPV wallet question?
ARE SPV wallets (i.e. Multibit) safe?
Using anything other than official Bitcoin-Qt wallet (full node) is playing with fire. For the sake of saving 40GB of HDD space and to have a bit faster syncing you have massively increased a chance for all sort of troubles and you are actualy not contributing to network at all, just draining resources off of it and using up others' connection slots. As far as I know, SPV wallets are not relaying transactions or blocks, they are just like people on Torrent who download stuff but not share anything. SPV wallets were Satoshi's idea. He knew they would be needed by people with low spec computers and metered internet connections. People have complained the Bitcoin core wallet can take a week to sync on a low power computer with a slow connection. They say if anything goes wrong whole it's syncing and the database gets corrupted you have to start the whole process again. My computer is too low power and has too little free memory to consider using the Bitcoin core wallet. Not everyone has the choice to use the Bitcoin core wallet, some people have no option but to use SPV wallets. "Here I have 100,000 USD and I'll put them in lowest-security bank because I have no money for better one".  I use blockchain.info/mycelium as hot wallet and that's absolutely fine and needed in my opinion. however, I would never store a significant amount on them |
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I have skimmed through all the posts in tis thread so far and cannot find much information to help those using multibit wallets. The two posts below are all I could find. If I start my multibit wallet will it corrupt it if it connects to a node mining invalid blocks? Will I have to download all the headers again if it gets corrupted? Most normal Bitcoin users will be using light weight wallets like multibit, not Bitcoin core, so it's important we get some knowledgeable advice posted for light weight wallet users. ...If you have a SPV client, it will trust the miners to not do something stupid like this and thus it may be on the wrong side of a fork. There is a small chance that you see a transaction with a few confirmations that doesn't make it to the 0.10.x chain.
Another update from Peter Todd:
"The majority of hashing power is now mining only valid blocks. However, SPV wallets are still vulnerable as they do no validation, and ~4% or so of hashing power is still mining invalid blocks. Don't trust txs in SPV wallets w/o >= 2 confirmations right now."
FYI-- no alert message with 0.10.2 now that I upgraded to test this node.
Thanks for the updates informations. what are SPV wallets? multibit and other light desktop wallets? what about blockchain.info and other online services? |
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I think its time to send a letter to garzas mother so she can go smack him for being naughty... mothers like their children to behave. Especially religious ones as they can't be too pleased their naughty boy might not go to heaven.
forget about that. we learned during the mail drop that he doesn't really like his mother. she asked him for some money to pay a dentist or something, he didn't even answer. |
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so two chinese pools went unintentionally rogue and forked bitcoin. however, they made a rollback and fixed the problem, does that summarize the issue?
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I think it's time to ask some open questions again:
* What's with cryptsy's PC
* Where's Garza
* What's with Uncle Stu
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As stated before. We are of course willing to help, but we need a detailed error explanation. I still don't know any major wallet issues.
Still no one knows what kind of error on exchange wallets? It takes so long and sounds a bit unusual. "wallet problems - we are in contact with developers" is the official response I think |
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this is just another bitcoin doubler. do not use them! it's a ponzi & scam BE CAREFUL! |
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So is there a p2p place where I can buy qora? Over the counter?
Edit: voted on btc38
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Just buy bitcoin. You will lose a lot of money to electricity costs with mining. It's not worth
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legitimate companies don't use whois protection. this is just another ponzi, don't bother
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it's beyond me how some of you still think they "haven't lost anything yet". truth is, scryptcc ponzi collapsed and they won't come back.
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The idea of this is not that bad, but I would never risk my anonymity by posting an address which I use more than once.
If you don't do it here, but you also put your address in this forum for joining sign campaign. You also expose your bitcoin address to the public! you're absolutely right. that's the reason why I change my address every month, or at least try to do it And so, if i want to change my address, i need to sign a message from the previous wallet i wrote times ago here? yes. that's the reason why I use PGP. it's universal and not bound to a bitcoin address |
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the saga continues   even if you keep paycoin there... it's a total waste of time to even think about them. paycoin is worthless, and cmilian is a minigarza. |
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