If you send them a screenshot where you show the email or website where they show their deposit address and the amount, and this link: https://blockchain.info/tx/bed5d7b809254fe066d1f913c3a409ff2107517d647e9a2f3ff1cc974b0cd445
it should be obvious to them that you payed your bill...

The fact that they told you they received other deposits later on as a proof their wallet is sync'ed is not your concern... It's up to them to sort out any wallet problems they might have. A screenshot of the page showing the deposit address and amount and a link to the transaction should be all proof you'd ever need...

If you're 100% sure your vendor sent the address 1857fhkHStyLyrAgTuCMHvxkyuxoXegnvJ and asked for a deposit of 0.0623586 AND you're sure you're the one that broadcasted transaction bed5d7b809254fe066d1f913c3a409ff2107517d647e9a2f3ff1cc974b0cd445 you payed your vendor... If he says he didn't receive funds, he's either lying or his wallet isn't synchronised properly

you report those users to the mods... It's not because a "regular" user thinks that selling accounts is untrustworthy (thus deserving red trust) that the mod will feel the same... AFAIK, mod's can delete, lock or edit posts and they're in direct contact with the forum admins when they feel somebody needs to get banned.

Since selling accounts is not against the forum rules, mods cannot delete or edit the user's posts, nor can they recommand a ban to the forum admins.

I personally don't have a strong opinion on account sales (don't really like the practice of account selling, but i don't feel strong enough to leave negative trust to account sellers), but if you personally think account sellers are untrustworthy, nothing is stopping you from giving them negative trust yourself...

So, to summarise
=> clicking on the "report" button will send a request to the mods. Mods have to moderate infractions against the forum's rules. Since account selling isn't an infraction, they probably do nothing at all
=> a lot of people feel that selling accounts is one of the reasons the post quality got so low, and so many scammers are active on this forum, so they personally think an account seller is untrustworthy. That's why they give negative trust. A mod might also give negative trust, but that's under his own name, and not under his "jurisdiction" as a forum moderator.

I want to say more or less the same as Vod, but wanted to add some detail...

It is legal to buy and sell account (in case they're acquired honestly). As for your question why a user got red trust for buying/selling: because the trust system is not meanth as a moderation tool.

If you do something against the forum rules, you don't automatically get red trust, you get a warning or you get banned.
If you do something someone on this forum finds untrustworthy, he (or she) might give you red trust for this.

Depends on your os and the electrum version you used (installer, standalone,...)

AFAIK, selling your account is not forbidden... This means the mod's will not ban you if you try to sell your account.
Trust, however, is unmoderated and has little or nothing to do with the forum rules. Yahoo62278 indicates he does not trust you because you're selling your account, and that's OK. It's perfectly valid for him not to trust you if you're selling your account.

It happens quite often that a sold account is used to scam people, or to send spam, so a lot of people will give you negative trust if you get involved with the account trade.

As for your last question: the only one that can remove the red trust is yahoo62278. Try contacting him, explain your situation and ask him if he's willing to remove his trust if you delete your sale topic... Maybe he'll help you out, maybe he won't... That's completely up to him.

I'm sorry, but this doesn't make any sense to me....
Difficulty has nothing to do with a connection.
A RIG with high/medium hardware specs??? What do you mean?
Why would some early week be fine, what does this have to do with mining?
Why would there be problems in the next several months, which problems?

AFAIK, brainwallet was a project that started in the beginning of 2012. At that time, the bitcoin price was under $10/BTC. I assume that at that particular time, there was a completely different mindset towards bitcoin... It must have been more about innovation and wonder, and less about profit.

I can only imagine it must have been fun to store 10 BTC, worth less than $100 (at that moment in time) in a wallet that was generated by the first name of your family members and not by a software wallet you had to keep sync'd on your PC...

Offcourse, now, whith BTC prices hitting $4000/BTC and scammers around every corner, it seems stupid to create a brainwallet...

that's correct... Same password => same private key => can be used to spend the same unspent outputs...

Altcoin mining might give you a better profit, but you'll have to keep an eye on the altcoin markets and diff to decide what to mine at that particular time, since you'll have to mine GPU-minable altcoins, and those networks fluctuate in diff quite often, new coins hit the market often and prices fluctuate to (an altcoin ASIC is more expensive than a second hand S7, so you won't be able to afford it, you'll be bound to a GPU rig... Basically an old PC with 1 or 2 GPU's).
Bitcoin mining is more of a setup-once, then forget kind of deal.

An S7 hashes at 4.86 Th/s and seems to be more reliable than the (newer, and more efficient) S9:
At current diff and BTC price, an S7 will make you ~$136/month
https://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/bitcoin-mining-calculator/?h=4860&p=2600.00&pc=0.0&pf=1&d=1103400932964.29000000&r=12.50000000&er=4137.40000000&hc=0.00

Do be carefull, in my opinion, there is no such thing as "free electricity". In the end, somebody is always paying the bill.
It might be possible that the one paying the bill does not care if you use a couple Kwatt's, but i wouldn't assume they're not going to care about the power bill unless i'd asked them first...
A couple hundred bucks is not worth losing your job over

hacked? Pretty simple, a brute force attack or a dictionary attack... A lot of people made brainwallets with either a short password, a name, a date or a simple sentence.
For a "hacker" it's fairy easy to generate a script that tries out all combinations shorter than 6 or 7 characters, or go trough a list of names, dates or popular sentenses. Then use the same algorithm as they brainwallet generator to create the private key, generate a public key and and address, then use an api to check if there were unspent outputs that could be spent by the generated private key.

How to generate one? DON'T!!!

Your OS = your operating system (windows 7, XP, 10, Mac OS ..., android, ubuntu 16.04)
Your txid= the transaction id of the transaction where you withdrew your btc

but none of that matters... you're running an old version of electrum. My first advice would be to write down your seed, then upgrade to 2.9.3

https://electrum.org/#download

could you try this:



depending on your OS, you might need to install a telnet client.

Also, like i asked before, could you share your OS, electrum version and txid (if this doesn't violate your privacy to much)

quoted, however i was unable to verify your signature using both my own service and electrum 2.9.3
link to my service

Hmmm.... Are you sure your network is OK and you're running the latest version?
I've just started my electrum client, i have access to 10 working nodes... Since you only have a access to 2 of them, and they don't seem to sync, my best guess would be a firewall on your network or your local pc, or a virusscanner or something...

It's just an educated guess tough. It could be tons of other stuff to, including an outdated version or a full disk?

The problem probably is the fact that it's stuck on synchronising.

Have you tried manually switching servers? Just click on the button on the bottom corner, deselect the select box that stipulates electrum can automatically pick a server, then manually pick a server from the list (sorry, don't have electrum open ATM, so i cannot provide screenshots or the exact wording of the wizard that allows you to pick your servers.)

If you don't care about anonimity, you can also post the transaction id, so we can verify the transaction itself.

BTW: as long as you keep electrum's seed phrase safe, there are always ways to recover those funds... So don't worry to much

BTW2: it might also be a good idear to restart your complete pc, check your network settings and post your OS + electrum version (it might help us to troubleshoot your problem)

they're not the same  

To be honest, i used to mine BTC, but i've never gotten into altcoin mining, so my advice might not be 100% correct.
In my personal opinion, BTC mining is more predictable... You know which coin you'll mine (BTC), you can more or less make an educated guess about the diff and price fluctuations (but like i said: it's an educated guess, strange things CAN happen to the BTC network's diff and BTC price in a short period of time). Given your power price, the ASIC's specs and your educated guesses about diff and price, you can more or less try to predict your ROI. With this ROI you can more or less predict if investing in an ASIC is a smart thing to do or not.

Compare this to altcoin mining: in my opinion, the altcoin prices are coupled to BTC (making their FIAT price fluctuate a lot more than BTC's), their diff fluctuates a lot more, new algorithms hit the market all the time... This makes altcoin mining, in my opinion, less predictable. It does mean, however, if you keep monitoring the altcoin mining scene and constantly adjust what you're mining, you might make a lot more profit if you know what you're doing.

A second thing to realise is that GPU's have a much longer guarantee period (a GPU can be under guarantee for 2-3 years, while most ASIC's have a guarantee period of only 90 days).

A thirth thing which might be nice to know is that, generally speaking, the resale value of GPU's is much higher than the resale value of used, older ASIC's. I might be mistaking here, but i also think GPU's don't get outdated as fast as ASIC's...

https://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/bitcoin-mining-calculator/?h=14000&p=1400&pc=0.10&pf=1&d=1103400932964.29000000&r=12.50000000&er=4105.32610000&hc=0.00

1 BTC/month is incorrect, at current diff and block reward, you can expect ~0.1 BTC/month from an S9
The current amount of profit is directly related to the power cost.

Be carefull when using coinwarz tough, the calculator calculates the profit with the current network conditions...

If the diff changes, the amount of BTC mined changes
If the price changes, the profit changes
If the block reward halves, the amount of BTC mined halves

Do you mean you're going to build your own ASIC, or are you planning on setting up a mining farm by yourself?
In the second case, the number one reason people don't make any profit is the power cost... If you want to make some profit, it's best if you pay 5-10 cents/Kwu (the lower the cost, the better offcourse). At higher power costs, you might still be able to make some profit mining altcoins, but chances of ROI'in in a reasonable timeframe while mining BTC are getting rather low at these prices

Depends on:
- Your infrastructure
- how much you can invest in hardware
- wether you'll mine btc or altcoins

There is no way of answering you straight up, if you have a suitable mining room (shelves, cooling, network, wiring) and a million to invest you'll get a completely different answer than when you'll be placing an asic in your living room and have a budget of 500 bucks.