I had the same issue. Tried to resync and deleted everything except for the wallet.dat to no avail... until I updated from 0.14.1.1 to the latest release (0.14.1.6).

So I updated Bitcore Core, then cleared the datadir (except for wallet.dat) and now all is well. Clearing the datadir again was necessary due to 0.14.1.6 still getting stuck at the first try when simply using the data that 0.14.1.1 left behind.

I hope this helps.

Depends on how you define "decent gains" and "forseeable future". Will we see a 10x surge within half a year? Nah. Those times are over. But we could see steady growth. Some sideways action may be boring, but also means stability, which leads to more credibility, which ultimately helps adoption. Bear markets suck, but are a great opportunity to stop staring at the charts and get some fresh air.

I personally would be quite content with Bitcoin just stabilizing between USD 3000 - 2500,- without overextending itself. People have heard of enough Bitcoin crashes. Many people that only follow mainstream news have not even fully realized at which price level Bitcoin is currently trading. Let that sink in with the general population first.

Oh boy oh boy. This is going to be fun.




Appeal to authority. Appeal to emotion.


Ad hominem x2.


Jumping to conclusions.


I guess? Didn't check. Not sure why relevant.


How so? Please expand.


Why? Please expand.


Ad populum.


Yes...


Non sequitur.


Acknowledged.


Non sequitur.


Ad populum. Appeal to emotion.


It takes only a small price pump to Bitcoin Cash Dogecoin to become profitable to miners and imagine if Bitcoin Cash Dogecoin was the price of current Bitcoin, miners would be totally crazy to mine Bitcoin when they can get hundreds of percents more money for mining Bitcoin Cash Dogecoin.

(Ad Doge.)


Appeal to emotion.


It will only take a small changes for stores around the world and Japan to change from Bitcoin to Bitcoin Cash Dogecoin, because it's just forked Bitcoin, support can be brought in a few days.

(Ad Doge.)


Ad populum. Appeal to emotion.


Non sequitur.


Appeal to authority.


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If Bitcoin where to be used as the main currency this still wouldn't mean that you'd get rid of taxes.

Accepting Bitcoin as payment doesn't absolve a company from doing proper book keeping. Receiving Bitcoin as salary doesn't absolve an employee from doing tax reports. Or do you think that everyone will all of a sudden just report zero income while driving around in Lamborghinis?

Bitcoin doesn't change anything about that. In fact, it could make taxation more transparent. Just imagine what it would be like if you could publicly audit Google, Amazon and Apple on the blockchain. Seeing their well oiled machine of tax-optimized international subsidiaries at play. That'd be something.

Exactly. So far the growth of Bitcoin relative to fiat has always offset the loss of declining block rewards - and then some. Assuming that Bitcoin is still alive and kicking in 15 years this trend is likely to continue. Worst case the Bitcoin fiat price can't keep up with the block reward halving, in which case less electricity will be spent on mining. But as long as Bitcoin exists, mining will always find a profitable optimum of more or less hashpower. That's the beauty of it.



Duuude. So what you're saying is that Bitcoin is NOT grammatically limited to the name Bitcoin? :O

It's the perfect move. By giving a definite deadline for allowing withdrawal no court will even think about making a case out of it. January 1st may be an eternity and in the crypto world, but it's the blink of an eye in the legal system. In addition they don't have to entirely give in to coercion while also not having to resort to "stealing" user's BCH. Not bad.

I wonder though why some BCH supporters are so keen on getting their coins out sooner? I mean BCH is a long term investment, no? They would hodl anyway, yes?

Even if they were legally obliged to allow their customers to withdraw their BCH, they still couldn't force Coinbase to support BCH trading. It's up to Coinbase which currency to trade and which not. You can't coerce a business to sell a product they don't see fit.

Isn't Bitcoin all about freedom and financial evolution? Let the free market decide. Maybe those guys are onto something and big blocks work more reliably. Maybe it'll crash and burn in which case we'll finally have the proof that larger blocks just don't cut it. Either way we're going to learn something.

I personally believe that BTC's approach of using a second layer solution for scaling will be more fruitful than a linear scaling solution such as bigger blocks. But we'll only see it when we have it.

In a 100 years may as well be never It's already hard to project the technological advances of the next 10 to 30 years. Everything that goes further than that is pure speculation. We can expect pretty much everything to be possible, even things that seem physically impossible with our current understanding of physics. But I daresay we're still far off from encoding emotions in a way beyond describing which chemicals to put into our bloodstream and which hormones to trigger.

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The BCH price did well today on what little liquidity was available. It's still way too early to say that BCH will be doing well. That we will see once the BCH network is fully functional and BCH can be effectively traded and arbitraged. Until then it's not much different from viaBTC's pre-hardfork futures trading.

In general, I agree with OP. Bitcoiners should rejoice about the progress that's happening instead of bitching about their neighbours (that goes for both sides of the fork). But I understand all the focus on BCH. Haven't had that much fun watching crypto drama unfold for quite a while.

If BCH's 2-way replay protection is worth anything you should be able to reclaim BCH even after moving your BTC (ie. 1:1 according to the BTC balance you held on your Trezor on the time of the fork). Obviously I can't speak for the Trezor team, but at least from a technical point of view that's how it should work.

I did not, thanks for point it out. You can still import from Trezor to (an old version of) Multibit to Electrum... or actually to Electrum directly, apparently [1]. Point being that with the key derivation logic being public there will always be a way to replace your hardware wallet with a software wallet. Of course this also means to stay away from any hardware wallet that isn't open source.

[1] https://doc.satoshilabs.com/trezor-apps/electrum.html

Escape quotation marks " within the passphrase with backslashes like so: \"

Escape backslashes \ within the passphrase with backslashes like so: \\
( ^ not 100% sure if necessary )

Unless you have some funky whitespace characters in your passphrase the rest shouldn't matter.

Leave the poor exchanges alone Here, try this:

https://cash.coin.dance/blocks

As of right now we're still on BCC block #12 (for about 13hrs at the time of writing). Exchanges enabling the deposit page won't help anything if the blockchain doesn't chug along.

Even if it were true, that would only mean that the NSA could create some badass ASIC miners. At this point in time Bitcoin's PoW hashing algorithm is probably the least viable attack vector (one could argue that the arrival of ASICs already was an successful "attack" on SHA256 as PoW hashing algorithm in the first place).

That part is over, you would have needed to hold BTC on Aug 1st 12:20pm UTC (assuming you had the private keys or an exchange that made BCC accessible to its clients)

So far most BCC holders say the will be dumping it, but no one has been able to do so so far. Looking at BCC's upwards price swings today I wouldn't be surprised if some people change their minds and decide to hold their BCC after all.

BCH is surprisingly resilient, looks like it's far from being a stillborn. Still too soon to tell how well it will fare though, current evaluations are useless without people being able to deposit BCH into exchanges.


Definitely not buying, but should have waited for the bounce before parting with what little BCH liquidity I had available -_-

The guy lost me at recovery seeds being "paper claims" to private keys. The source code for deriving said private keys from your recovery seeds are out there. You can derive your private keys yourself without the need for any third party support. Also, at least with Trezor, you can import your recovery seeds / private keys into a software wallet such as Multibit, so you're not forced to buy a new one.

Of course you don't need a hardware wallet to store your coins securely. I personally just find it way more convenient to use my cold storage with the ease of a hot wallet.