Wow I was expecting to be annoyed with a ukip member when I clicked that link... Maybe we should've given them more power after all.

The point of insuring something not backed by anything does sound incredibly stupid and like the governments want to dig themselves into a hole...

I'm surprised it's taken him so long to get here since Andreas A seems quite outspoken on reserve banking.

Did you see what sorts of seeds it was generating?

Does it look like they were "random" or just one generated repeatedly? If the latter, we could report the addresses it produces also to the projects that mark tainted coins.

It's nice to see you included the source of the phishing attack too, search engines are always a pain with ads (especially Google for not moderating them).

Afaik it's the versions of python that don't let it work (if you've built from source) so I don't think this is in electrums control.

You're going to have to use at least v3. 3.5 and its recommended you jus tuse the latest version of the software. Older versions won't connect because the server rejects connections due to phishing and ddos attacks.

You can transfer funds to the ledger but you can't jus tput your seed into the ledger as the two aren't compatible protocols.

Yeah I can see a move to (below)10750 on the 4 hour timeframe (if we don't end up just breaking down here which might be likely)...

And yeah 11500 is a reasonable step up from here, but the step-down from here would be the ~9800 regions again...

Sidenote: when did we start measuring moves by half of the levels they've reached before? I'm trying to work out why that's looking to work with analysis.

Just tried it on my electrum wallet:

It asked to confirm the close and I got the please wait and it froze for about a minute.
It then pasted a transaction ID and said the channel had been closed successfully.

Could you give me the ID of the node you're trying to connect to (you could DM it me if you want to maintain a level of privacy, include the domain and port).

It should be something like
ID:name:port

I'd need it in plaintext to be able to run a test on it... no longer needed unless you still want to test it I'm happy to... It could've just been jittery Internet.

Imo payments are failing atm because not everyone is connected up well enough to each other and route finding fails when nodes go offline. It'll evolve though...

Is that address yours or does it belong to the channel? The address that funded it was multisig (unless I got script hash the wrong way round).

I'm not sure what shutdown actually means but it probably means it's in the process of ending the channel. It might either have to wait for a htlc to stop being enforceable or to wait for the other party to cooperate in channel closure (if the other party don't participate, you might be waiting 2 days to 2 weeks for the funds to come back, but within that time they're pretty safe afaict).

No not on mainnet anyway.

I'm sure there's some testnet faucet that gives free bitcoin if you wanted to test out invoices there though (preloading a testnet channel).

Can you open a new instance of the wallet and check if the channel is closed?

Or check the multisig address on a block explorer to see if the funds have been sent? It could just be that the gui has frozen.

Error pow 10 I think that is, thanks!

This'll be specific to the node but generally:
Addresses are for receiving funds from the main chain - so it can still act like a regular bitcoin wallet.
Invoices are for lightning transactions.



Invoices on their own are a bit like sending a parcel.

It includes the address + what you want to be sent in a string of characters. They don't have a bearing on channel closures but if someone signs to consent to sending those funds they're then transferred by a series of contracts to their final state that satisfies the invoice.



Yes it is possible to see the address on the chain, if you've opened a channel just look at either the funding transaction or search the address with funds in it on blockchain.com or btc.com and you'll see your funds are transferred there.

YOU and your node control the PKs. A thing is sent called a "Commitment transaction" CT which allows your channel to have a single state you both agree on.

If the other node goes offline, and I've had that happen, you merely broadcast your last commitment transaction and your funds are restored back to your wallet.


This is what commitment transactions are for (opening and closing channels). Invoices only tell someone how much you want them to send, where you want them to send it and how long they have to send it.

No, you'd have to make a new wallet and transfer ryour old funds there (ensuring you keep the seed words safe).

You'll have to pay 0.0025 i think at the start for your first 100 transactions. So it's 0.000025BTC per transaction. More info see hosseins post.

It's viable if they pick up a currency widely used like the dollar or the euro.

If they try to control everything, there's potential they could just cut off your Internet and kill everything that way.
You could still potentially sell some for cash etc but because of transaction times with most coins they'd probably expect you'd double spend on them unless they get you to wait for it to confirm.

Device connection issues seem pretty common in Linux. I haven't been able to find where my speakers would be mounted on a laptop I've had Ubuntu installed on for a while...

You might not find something with full compatibility, I know my raspberry pi wouldn't also accept a USB stick if it was plugged in during startup.

What's the potential of tiktok moving to London though? How would that actually work, would the UK buy the company from the Chinese government or is that company allowed to own stuff.

On the faulty products side I don't think anyone deals with that well and China might actually be doing alright. I think trading standards in the UK just destroy everything not up to cscratch. Loyal engineering firms in the UK have only been around for about 300 years (excluding tools and smiting) and German and the rest of Europe have probably 200 year old companies so itight not take long for China to see some names as recognisable as ones that already exist in older countries.

I see a lot of companies print parts in China but do quality control checks and actual assembly in the UK, Germany or the Netherlands.

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And yeah they don't seem too ethical in their running of a country (probably because they're a dictatorship) no wonder they ally with North Korea so much...

I saw they have a president and a one party system (apparently not a dictatorship?) but they have Marxist ideologies and look to be in a transition phase to communism?

I'm wary of socialist control of everything as I don't think it's historically ended well in the past (eg the Soviet Union) and it could either kill or heighten innovation.

Does anyone know of the plans to turn China communist and how it will look once all the phases are complete? Also would you expect their military to still be able to compete well with other countries?

(self mod just in case I grt anti ch>nese or anti communist sentiment that I believe is TROLLISH only).

I'd agree with that bit, he should really be voted out of the US wants to take itself seriously again and thinks he's not the best president (although it looks like they're now stuck with two not so good options)...

I'm not sure but the US looks like its kinda sat on the embers of the booming economy it had in the 20th century, maybe they're relight able but I can see a potential for it to at least stabalise to lower levels of growth (as have been perceived in the UK).

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I saw some analysis that the UK stocks had fallen when Boris was declared ill (literally about an hour ago) but they didn't mention anything about when he got admitted to hospital and apparently the market was fast to recover (took 2 weeks) - this could remotely be attributed to EU negotiations though too...

I think binance is hosted from Singapore, I'm not sure about bybit but it'll be interesting to see if anything can happen to those two offering the same thing....

Yes either that or it was an address that belonged to an exchange or something.

Would they use a ship to transport a block though too if it was used interplanitarily and intergalaxariously?

The speed of light takes 9-18 minutes (depending on orbit) to get here from Mars. Warp speed is 3x10^8 meaning at 7 warp, they'd be travelling faster than the signal?


Their teleportation was still kinda bad though, they probably wouldn't have needed the ship if they had enough range just to beem people to earth when then was a problem with a planet...