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Who said Satoshi is spending his coins? Last time I checked, his addresses were intact AND we don't even know if they're Satoshi's addresses. We don't even know if Satoshi has his private keys... (but if I had to bet, I would say he knows perfectly well were his keys are)
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Still no luck setting up amodem. Anyone tried it? What's the best frequency?
Hi unamis, I recommend using the following commands to test and calibrate the modem: At the sender side, run: $ BITRATE=1 amodem-cli send -vv -c autoAt the receiver's side, run (after the sender is running): $ BITRATE=1 amodem-cli recv -vv -c autoThe sender will play a 2kHz tone, at maximum amplitude. The receiver will try to find the best gain, such that the received audio will have the maximal amplitude that won't saturate the microphone. It uses binary search method to adjust the gain via PulseAudio command-line utility, and it will take ~15 seconds to find the correct value for your setup. If everything is OK, you would get "good signal" message with the coherency measure very close to 1. Please attach the log, if there is a problem. Finally got a (working) soundcard for my Raspberry Pi, and I am trying to setup amodem as it should be. Tried to run these commands, but it just says it can't find amodem-cli... What's up? And roman.z, you can count me in if you wish to beta test on Raspberry hardware. This is a really nifty tool for cold storage... So let's make it work in the best cold storage device there is! |
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Also a remittance channel and merchant processing gateway, Bitt claims to have implemented "military grade security", with a multi-signature HD wallet system keeping 95% of customers' bitcoin offline. Let's see about that. I really hope these new exchanges (and the old ones revamping their tech) really keep their word and protect their customers Bitcoins as far as they can... They have the funds to have great systems so... looking forward to see them operating |
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Bitcoin Core always took something like 20 minutes to boot around here (the disadvantages of not having an SSD...). Never really worried about it, but it would be cool if I could speed it up a bit. Doesn't lowering the number of blocks checked at startup make my wallet a disservice to the community? Could I be relaying imprecise blockchain data if I do that? Would my connections be rejected if I had a somewhat wrong blockchain?
I have a crappy old 7200 RPM, which I found in the dumpster. It works pretty ok for the core. But yes, SSD would speed things up. But overall 3 min start up with a wood-computer with a old magnetic drive is not too bad. What did you change in your configuration to get 3 minutes start time? I have my blockchain files on a WD Caviar Blue 1TB. It's not a old disk but still takes much more time than your disk. |
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How much are all those items worth at current rates?
I honestly do not know. our friend up there in this thread is looking into it and he is interested. Comeon guys at least jump the gun and start with one cent? I mean get the ball rolling? Bidding 0.001 Can you send me the profile? I'd like to know the value of the items. |
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There is a bit torrent with the blockchain if I rememeber right.
There is also someone in the market place selling USB drives with the blockchain pre loaded on.
That is a great idea, it is not smart to download all those 30 gigabyte everything you reinstall your computer.
Better to have the chain on a USB stick. Peace.
The torrent is useless now with Core 0.10  And you don't have re-download the blockchain everytime you format your computer. Simply don't delete the blockchain folder... Put it in your storage partition, and just point Bitcoin Core there |
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Any collateral? |
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Someone here can show me what is "block reward" ? I don't understand that.
When is "block reward" is 25 BTC and when is 50 BTC or 100 BTC,....
thanks !
A block reward is what's distributed to miners when they find a block. The reward is now 25 BTC and doesn't change until the next halving. See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining#Reward |
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How much are all those items worth at current rates?
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If I was you, I'd go with a cheap Nexus 4 or something similar. It has official updates, it's still a pretty robust phone, and you can probably find it cheaper than the overhyped Galaxy S phones (with which you'd have to reflash them with custom firmware after getting them, TouchWiz is simply awful, especially on older Galaxy's).
With Nexus 4 you have enough power for daily tasks and you can use Bitcoin wallets, with all kinds of connections (via Wifi, 3G, NFC, Bluetooth). It's not a huge phone too, in today's standards (also slightly smaller then S3), and you can upgrade it to Lollipop straight out of the box.
It also has the advantage of Galaxy phones. Nexus phones are pretty well known and recieved in the community and they sell pretty well, so there are quite a few devs for them around there. Even if Google gives up on building Android for Nexus 4 you can get updates from XDA or somewhere similar. You also have lots of kernel tweaks and stuff like that for Nexus phones...
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Why would a VM be safer than an online machine? You have to run it from an online machine, even if you isolate your VM... I definitely wouldn't feel safe using one for offline storage |
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It will be difficult, but I hope these guys win on court. The users are indeed not ready to be completely spied on. One thing is authorities knowing what's up on the exchange, other thing is the authorities being able to track transactions and addresses related to the exchange's clients.
If they win, I hope this case serves as an example!
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Waiting to see what these guys come up with I hope it's a similar system to FON routers, but accepting Bitcoin! |
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Another milestone for Bitcoin. A good time to look back at what we achieved, but also a good time to look forward in search of a new future, solutions to old problems and new ways to "reinvent" Bitcoin. Let's see what we can say we've accomplished on the next milestone |
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Saw his tweet earlier... It was pretty obvious all along that he would have something to do with Bitcoin |
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Thank you. A bit off topic, but this looks amazing! |
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Objective accomplished, achievement unlocked  And about that Azure container... looks good! And I can't find anything about the ASIC container... |
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So basically we have to pay 0.1 to get the card going, and 0.02 to keep it going each month? That way, the card will cost 0.34 in the first year, right?
0.05 BTC is the card issuance fee which will be waived if you are part of the signature campaign and/or complete basic verification before April 1! 0.05 BTC is the card activation fee. So you can get the card for only 0.05 BTC (activation fee) and then 0.02 BTC a month. 0.29 BTC in a year which is incredibly low considering what it is and what it means (a debit card you can use anywhere with your BTC/LTC balance)! Didn't know it would also be free for folks on the signature campaign So, the card issuance fee includes the issuance and the shipping? Anyways, I think this card is a great idea... Just not 100% convinced to use it as of yet As I've said in the other thread, I'll wait for the terms and conditions and then I'll decide. But yes, this card means quite a lot, that I have to agree. The issuance fee (0.05 BTC) is waived if you are part of the signature campaign and/or complete basic verification before April 1! Regular shipping is free for all cards ordered. All you would be required to pay would be the activation fee of 0.05 BTC. Ok, thank you |
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So basically we have to pay 0.1 to get the card going, and 0.02 to keep it going each month? That way, the card will cost 0.34 in the first year, right?
0.05 BTC is the card issuance fee which will be waived if you are part of the signature campaign and/or complete basic verification before April 1! 0.05 BTC is the card activation fee. So you can get the card for only 0.05 BTC (activation fee) and then 0.02 BTC a month. 0.29 BTC in a year which is incredibly low considering what it is and what it means (a debit card you can use anywhere with your BTC/LTC balance)! Didn't know it would also be free for folks on the signature campaign So, the card issuance fee includes the issuance and the shipping? Anyways, I think this card is a great idea... Just not 100% convinced to use it as of yet As I've said in the other thread, I'll wait for the terms and conditions and then I'll decide. But yes, this card means quite a lot, that I have to agree. EDIT: edited and requoted to avoid mistakes from folks checking the thread |
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Bitcoin Core always took something like 20 minutes to boot around here (the disadvantages of not having an SSD...). Never really worried about it, but it would be cool if I could speed it up a bit. Doesn't lowering the number of blocks checked at startup make my wallet a disservice to the community? Could I be relaying imprecise blockchain data if I do that? Would my connections be rejected if I had a somewhat wrong blockchain?
I wouldn't say you disservice the community. You are still running a fully node, but before startup you only check, say the last 10 blocks. The chances of those all being generated by an attack and hence being fake, are small (I'd think so anyway). Worst that could happen in my opinion: You receive X fake blocks generated and then you shut down your client. After some time you restart the client, but your last X blocks are wrong, hence the check will return an error. I am not sure what would happen, maybe you would need to recheck the blockchain or re-download. However I think this is unlikely. When I set up my client to check only the last few blocks (10-20) the client started in a fraction of the time than what it used to be. Regardless, I have just recently switched to Multibit as 30+ GB of HDD space is something I simply cannot afford just to store some mBTC. That was precisely my fear, having to reindex the whole blockchain... I think I'll change the block checking anyways, thank you |
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