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show me where is MARCO PERSONAL AVATAR ?
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There was a Bit-X avatar campaign where Marco said he would either modify your current personal avatar to include the name Bit-X, or modify your current personal avatar by taking up most of its space with a Bit-X advert. That campaign is now closed, but a new one might star in the future. <snip>
Please PM me with your offer to have Bit-X take up some of your avatar space and personal message. It will either be like mine (added onto your current avatar) or will take up close to the entire area. More likely like mine, to the side
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There is an example of a modified personal avatar in this post with the name Bit-X added onto dznuts85's personal avatar. If you'd like to wear one for free out of good spirit just post here and I'll give you one/make you one with your current avatar.
Please tell me if you want a completely Bit-X dedicated one or just an addon!
Hey marco can you make an avatar for me with bitx addon at the bottom? Thanks!  The post below gives me the impression that Marco's avatar is mean't for him alone. I'm quite happy with this one   Hi Marco send that one to me i will replace my current avatar with that  It's mine!  |
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OK wait ...
Yesterday Plural of Mongoose comes back with a bang after a 6 years silence and today there are Bitcoins from 2009 moving .... coincidence?
This fact is interesting, really really something is going to happen. Maybe bitcoin will crash lol, i don't want to see at 2$ price. @AGD may i know how did you upload gif to your avatar? I'm only guessing, but I think animated GIF avatars were allowed about a year and a half ago, then the forum got hacked through some exploit to do with avatars. When I signed up nobody was allowed to add an avatar, and anyone who already had one couldn't remove it. A few months ago we were again allowed to add an avatar, but not an animated GIF. AGD must have added his animated GIF avatar over two years ago and left it in place since then. If he removes it he will probably only be allowed to add a normal GIF to replace it with. |
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Hi Marco
I'm applying for a spot. Here's my enrolment post.
Userame: HI-TEC99
Bitcointalk UID: 325680
Activity: 264
Post count: 264
Position: Sr. Member
Bit-X BTC address: 3PnFKx7rjPo4DdifWE87fActVRuyySz3h7
Thanks
@marco Has my application been rejected? No hard feelings, I just want to be sure so I can start looking for another sig campaign to apply for. |
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/u/btcthwy on reddit said in response to the question How did you find out about bitcoin?Slashdot probably. I was looking at zero knowledge proofs and someone mentioned bitcoin as an option. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ln3sp/it_was_me/cv7qqskBut, he mined block on February 3, 2009. Genesis block was mined on Januray 9, 2009. Slashdot has not published any article on bitcoin before February 3, 2009. And within 20 days of Genesis block mining, who can tell btcthwy about bitcoin as a zero knowledge proof system? Things are really mysterious about this person /u/btcthwy. Maybe he found out from the original source on the cypherpunks mailing list where Satoshi originally published Bitcoin? He just said this... Possibly in slashdot journals, which weren't indexed then (and now?).
Given what I limited myself to online, /. is most likely. Just searched thru email, nothing. Which I found odd. I may have deleted a lot of stuff though back in the dark days when space mattered. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3lp9py/analysis_of_ubtcthwys_blocks/cv8iml2If I had found out about Bitcoin that early on and started mining it I'd remember exactly where I heard about it. Using your computer to mine involves leaving it running at 100% CPU power for months. Anyone doing that would have to watch the fans screaming at their maximum while it heats up to frightening levels that will obviously damage it in the long run. That user's claim that he might have heard about it on slashdot, but he's not sure doesn't ring true. He's claiming he decided to trash his computer mining, but he can't remember for certain where he heard about Bitcoin! |
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I found the address 1AbHNFdKJeVL8FRZyRZoiTzG9VCmzLrtvm in the github code for btc-inquisitor. https://github.com/mulllhausen/btc-inquisitor/blob/master/unit_tests.shThe dev was using it in unit tests. The code says it was the first address to receive funds via a txout of the form OP_DUP OP_HASH160 ..... OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG, and that both the from-transaction and the too-transaction are in block 2812. If that address really is the first one used in that form of transaction, then I imagine it must have belonged to someone deeply involved in Bitcoin coding and testing early on. It's unlikely someone trying out Bitcoin for kicks would control it as he wouldn't understand technical tricks like that. # 1AbHNFdKJeVL8FRZyRZoiTzG9VCmzLrtvm - the first address to receive funds via a txout of the form
OP_DUP OP_HASH160 6934efcef36903b5b45ebd1e5f862d1b63a99fa5 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG
both the from-transaction and the too-transaction are in block 2812
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That reddit user claimed he moved those coins hours after they had been moved. Also, someone asked him to sign a message to prove he controls those addresses, and he hasn't done it yet. I'll only believe it after he proves it by signing a message, or announcing his intentions to move specific coins in advance. I've become skeptical of any claims of ownership of vast amounts of coins, or ownership of very early coins because it's very rare anyone provides conclusive proof of their claims. |
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Someone analysed the blockchain and used some highly technical tricks to work out how many coins Satoshi mined. His analysis mentions something called an extra nonce field that he says acts like a clock you could use to track a miner's blocks until he restarts his mining machine. I'm sure someone with the necessary technical skills could work out if those early coins that just moved were mined by Satoshi. The guy who did the analysis says he's sure he's worked out which single miner mined most of the early coins, and that miner mined block 1, so as far as I'm concerned it must be Satoshi. https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-well-deserved-fortune-of-satoshi-nakamoto/Disclaimer: I can’t assure with 100% certainty that the all the black dots are owned by Satoshi, but almost all are owned by a single entity, and that entity began mining right from block 1, and with the same performance as the genesis block. It can be identified by constant slope segments that occasionally restart. Also this entity is the only entity that has shown complete trust in Bitcoin, since it hasn’t spend any coins (as last as the eye can see). I estimate at eyesight that Satoshi fortune is around 1M Bitcoins |
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Hi Marco
I'm applying for a spot. Here's my enrolment post.
Userame: HI-TEC99
Bitcointalk UID: 325680
Activity: 264
Post count: 264
Position: Sr. Member
Bit-X BTC address: 3PnFKx7rjPo4DdifWE87fActVRuyySz3h7
Thanks
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I like this project. Will be following.
Also, for the note to function, we will need the satellite to connect to various ground stations around the world so it constantly stays up to date. We could probably set up a network of volunteers who would broadcast and receive data from the satellite and publish it to the internet.
Also, I know an aerospace engineer (rocket scientist) so I will see if I can get him in on this.
Wouldn't the time delay between the satellite node transmitting and the receiver nodes on Earth receiving make the satellite node always out of sync with all Earth base nodes? I'm no electronics/radio expert, but a cubesat couldn't have a very powerful transmitter considering its size. Can tiny transmitters transmit reliably at high speed over the vast distances from orbit back to Earth? |
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In most POS altcoins, not in bitcoin there is this line in checkpoints.cpp
// ppcoin: sync-checkpoint master key
const std::string CSyncCheckpoint::strMasterPubKey ="you pubkey part of keypair goes here"
and then in the checkpoint servers coin config you add checkpointkey=long-ass-privatekey-goes-here
With the actual keypair being replace in the sections after the = symbol
Most popular POS coins have this.
are you sure there are checkpoint- servers? this would imply that some nodes have more control than others? if thats true i'd avoid them like a plague (well i dont know / like POS anyway) I'm new to checkpoints, but I found a guide on building an altcoin that describes how to use the code the OP posted to setup a checkpoint server. I don't really understand what he means by a server though, because the checkpoint code is pasted into a normal wallet's code. I assume all wallets would contain that code and the only difference between the dev's wallet and the others would be his private key pasted into his personal configuration file. After a Google I found that blackcoin uses the checkpoint code like the OP says. How often would a checkpoint be created using the checkpoint code and could it give the dev an unfair staking advantage? ... { Do these steps to setup a checkpoint server: assuming you've already compiled, open your client. open the debug window(or from the command prompt/shell if using daemon) type you will get an output like this <snip> save this in a text document. close the client. open your configuration file for your coin(if you haven't created one, now would be a great time to start.). paste in your privatekey in the following format checkpointkey=<your long ass hell private key here> now save and exit, then restart the client. now you must reflect this in the sourcecode, by adding your public key as the checkpoint master. without this, it will not work at all. checkpoints.cppfind this and add your public key( do not add your private key in the source, only in your conf file. const std::string CSyncCheckpoint::strMasterPubKey = there will be a public key already there. delete it, and put yours in its place. now save, and recompile the clients. congratulations, you are finished. ... |
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Remember that linuxfoundation forum post that claimed to be from Satoshi that discussed the block size? There are posts by other old timers in that thread like one by Laszlo Hanyecz (the guy that swapped 10k Bitcoins for two pizzas). Other old timer heavyweight posters in that thread include Peter Todd, Gregory Maxwell, and Jeff Garzik, Laszlo Hanyecz hasn't posted here since February 20, 2014 and last logged in here on August 15, 2014 under his bitcointalk account name of laszlo. However he's still posting on the linuxfoundation forum, which seems to be where the other old timers have gone. http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-August/thread.html#10238 |
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Preev.com says $244. Where is that price based on? I don't see it here in this topic.
Apparenty they use the average of four exchanges - including localbitcoins.com. If you click on the settings icon (the cog at the top right) you can select one exchange - localbitcoins is showing $360ish (ouch!) I don't really understand why people include localbitcoins in things like this - it's not an exchange and it really confuses things. What volume does localbitcoins have? I cannot believe its got more volume than BTCChina or Bitstamp. If they averaged the price based on both volume and price I suspect localbitcoins would barely make any difference to the average price between exchanges. There's no point using Preev.com to get a reliable average price until they change their averaging method. If they made that minor change they would get far more page views than they do now. |
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Nobody got every up and down of the price exactly right. In April 2014 very few people thought we could go this low. A few extreme bear trolls predicted Bitcoin would keep falling until it reached a dollar or below. Apart from predicting it would go down hard they also got it wrong. There was a thread where people posted their long term predictions, and a bear called fonzie got the closest simply because he predicted way lower than almost everyone else. This is his prediction for 1 April 2015. It's nowhere near correct but everyone else's predictions in that thread were far higher, apart from xperiencia who predicted $27, and a few other very low guesses. 135$
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They tend to be located in major cities. Capital cities often have a few, and the biggest city in each region might have one or two. If you live out in the sticks it's difficult finding a nearby ATM. It's probably not profitable to operate ATMs in smaller cities yet. They might start spreading everywhere the next time we go up to a new ATH because it will be more profitable to run one then.
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Because they have "incompetent developers"  I consider Mark Carpeles to be an incompetent developer at best and an outright scammer at worst. There's a thin line between developers and scammers. Not really sure what you are getting at. Yes, Bitfinex has incompetent developers. Their front-end source still contains Bitcoinica code -- and I have no doubt their back-end does too. Order mismatching, stops not executing, terrible lag, double order execution -- these have always been the hallmarks of Bitfinex's shoddy code. What does that have to do with Mark Karpeles? Is Karpeles a developer? Genuine question - I remember MtGox getting bought out and moving to Japan, but I thought the idea was that Karpeles was a businessman ( allegedly) and he was going to hire devs to replace Jed. I don't know, really. I've always heard that he loves his PHP. I'm not sure what he has done outside of Gox. I remember his twitter at one point mentioned some PHP project he was doing, but it's gone and I don't recall. I don't know what he may have done with Tibanne, either. Have a read of this reddit comment from someone that worked at MtGox. Mark was the only one allowed access to the backend and did live updates to the exchange. He must have programmed a database in addition to php coding. Whether he was professionally qualified to do that kind of dev work is another matter. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3fe92x/im_ashley_barr_aka_adam_turner_the_first_mtgox/ctntuszA lot of ridiculousness, and a lot of nothing. I hired the initial employees, Mark hired some devs (his friends) and not a whole lot was accomplished during my time there. Everything was walled-gardened (I think I made up a word) by Mark. I recall the dev's (and Mark) playing Oblivion, super meat boy and other games while shit was hitting the fan. I don't blame the dev's, they had no access, not even a pre-production server to help Mark with the exchange. In the truest sense of the work, Mark was a maverick, making live updates to the exchange (some went well, others didn't) |
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Not really.People, including yours truly, still have problems withdrawing from Bitfinex.For some dubious reason my account's USD balance on exchange is -18$(negative) even though my BTC balance on exchange is in the thousands of USD. Any withdrawal attempt is automatically canceled for this reason: "Negative balance on wallet exchange". Please don't full GOX on us bitfinex, pleeeeease. Seriously,you leave "thousands of USD" in BTC on an exchange You mention Gox,sooo you have learned nothing from that Wow  NEVER leave BTC on an exchange...unless of course you don't care if you lose it all  But people predominantly use Bitcoin for trading which necessitates leaving funds on an exchange,and preferably one with the highest liquidity. Bitfinex had the highest USD/BTC liquidity before their system went haywire so if you wanted to trade there you had to gamble it wouldn't Gox you. If nobody left funds on exchanges there would be no trading and Bitcoin would have almost no value. Until we get decentralized exchanges we're stuck with he present state of affairs. Leaving fiat on exchanges is one thing. Leaving bitcoins is another. Fiat transfers cost money and take days. Bitcoin transfers cost almost nothing and take minutes. No one can Gox what's safely in a paper wallet. Market moves can happen very quickly and it can take an hour to send coins to an exchange and wait for six confirmations. By the time your coins show up in your exchange account a market move can be over. If your coins are in your exchange account you can take advantage of a market move quickly but run the risk of the exchange going haywire. |
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Not really.People, including yours truly, still have problems withdrawing from Bitfinex.For some dubious reason my account's USD balance on exchange is -18$(negative) even though my BTC balance on exchange is in the thousands of USD. Any withdrawal attempt is automatically canceled for this reason: "Negative balance on wallet exchange". Please don't full GOX on us bitfinex, pleeeeease. Seriously,you leave "thousands of USD" in BTC on an exchange You mention Gox,sooo you have learned nothing from that Wow NEVER leave BTC on an exchange...unless of course you don't care if you lose it all But people predominantly use Bitcoin for trading which necessitates leaving funds on an exchange,and preferably one with the highest liquidity. Bitfinex had the highest USD/BTC liquidity before their system went haywire so if you wanted to trade there you had to gamble it wouldn't Gox you. If nobody left funds on exchanges there would be no trading and Bitcoin would have almost no value. Until we get decentralized exchanges we're stuck with he present state of affairs. |
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Bearish?? Maid is comming, the new internet will be anonymous Tor was cracked ages ago. There are stories that most of the exit nodes are either run by scammers of NSA/CIA type organisations. They can launch attacks to crack sessions that pass through the exit nodes they control. The MIT reseachers have only devised yet another way to crack Tor, not the first way. Most Bitcoin users probably never think about running their wallets through Tor anyway. It's not very likely to make any difference to the price. |
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If it's anything more than free I'm sure not going to use it for something like paying a bill or getting coffee. My banks debit card doesn't charge me to do that.
If it's a negligible amount like 1 cent then people will think of it as free. Once it rises above a few cents people will choose to use free methods of payment like debit cars. The only case where people might be prepared to pay high fees is sending money abroad when the fees are less than the fees for wiring money between bank accounts. |
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Banks in Greece won't open this week I doubt they will until some sort of agreement is reached with the Euro... they will maximize pain until the Greeks give in... or at least they'll try. The banks are kinda out of money... They defaulted on their payments to the Eurpean Central Bank. Greek banks are essentially finished. The Greeks will be asking officially for help from the European Stability Mechanism tomorrow, and the Eurogroup is ready to hold a meeting about it on the same day as the official request arrives. They will probably give Greece at least enough money to last until the latest emergency summit on Sunday. That should prop the Greek banks up for a while longer. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11722511/Greece-news-live-Greeks-have-voted-themselves-out-of-the-euro-as-European-leaders-openly-discuss-how-to-manage-a-Grexit.htmlFollowing the meeting Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem announced that the Greek government would submit a new request for financial assistance from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). The request is expected tomorrow, 8 July 2015.
The Eurogroup is ready to hold a conference call on the same day when the request is received. |
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