Well, the only safe way to securely store your wallets is in a local core network which is password protected, or on a paper wallet... That has to be seen as an incentive (though you'd agree that a financial one would have been more preferable)  

I'm (possibly) sure theirs only information on which nodes are connected to the network, but, not actually the chain of nodes that broadcasted their IP:Port to make them visible.

well, it would be easy to do if you could access a history of which nodes broadcasted which nodes, and which nodes broadcasted them...... but you can't, and you can't listen to port 8333 to find which nodes are connected to you (because bitcoind would be using it) the only possible options, would be to get a list of known nodes in the network and individually request which nodes they're connected to and then map out the results... but i also doubt that theirs an API to query nodes for this information, if there's, you would need the username/password (per node) to make an RPC request. But you can see each connected nodes, and their IP (which helps determine their location) here

tl;dr: no...

Hi felicita,

Thanks for the support.

Hopefully a simple and clean WP plugin would help old/new and inexperienced users into hosting their own well designed faucet..

Hi Kruno,

Thanks for the tip, and it's been moved. Hopefully more people might support this idea.

I actually thought there would have been much more people hosting/using faucets but it doesn't seem that way. 

I hope more people are interested in this idea!

Hi Adam,

Thanks for the support!

It would be great not to reinvent the wheel. The project is amazing, and it would actually help speed this development up.

We would actually be very interested in learning more about its features and how we can extend/manipulate them for WordPress faucets.

[ED] For the license, It's mostly likely going to be under GNU V3.0/MIT

Hey!

Thanks for the support, we'll sure give you a call to give the plugin a good penetration testing

You do have a point, an open source WordPress plugin would be great for the community, since it was a promise that never came true.

Nice idea, but I'm actually not sure about how many people still use/host faucets. I'll probably wait for more response to see if this can kick off.

Hi guys!

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                                                 We're looking at developing & releasing customized faucets


>They will be easy to install
>Have loads of plugins
>Easy to customize, design & edit your preferences.
>Lots of payment options
>Plug & Play feature (for plugins)
>Lots of community requested plugins

[ED] WordPress plugin faucet to integrate into existing websites.

------> Would anybody be interested in buying/using this sort of faucet/service?

We're looking for answers to this tricky question, that would be going to a research  paper

Hi CIYAM, please add any available links to your de-projects here. We need increase the awareness and purpose of de-exchanges because sooner or later they could be the only backbone bridging digital currencies to ensure their survival. I'm sure we could also collectively share resources and knowledge to make this dream a reality.

European Commission (EC) wants to strength its grip on anonymous payment systems such as Pre-Paid debt cards and digital currencies (Bitcoin / Ripple) this scheme would involve our (their) exchangs being forced to hand private user data OnDemand.

As you can see — the need for decentralised exchanges — has never been more important.

Of course they can't control users, but, the fact is the majority of liquidation within bit-ecosystem is from exchanges and if restrictions are placed on these services, then it would be as good as restricting the: purpose, reach, freedom, and strength offered by Bitcoin.

We were doing so good, going so straight, destroying so much, empowering so many, but somewhere along the line of success, we lost focus and indirectly started to make the use of centralised systems the norm when purchasing or selling bitcoins.

This needs to change. We need re-adjust the focus, and quickly. We know of some upcoming decentralised exchanges such OpenBazaar & bitsquare — if you know any existing & available de-exchanges please list them below — the purpose of bitcoin was not to re-introduce a new for of middle-men in the name of Coinbase or Xapo or in the form of BitLicense.


Soures: ec_virtual_currency_regulation_suggestion
Source: Schäuble calls register of bank accounts and Bitcoin control

Does anyone have any idea about the legality of mass distributing Bitcoins, in the UK, similar to the form of fiat notes?

Thank you for your reply. There's various problems: size of blocks, the increasing blockchain, proning. The later forces a centralisation of bitcoins blockchain because only the necessary amount needed for an application is used.

The purpose of this post is to ensure that the people always have the collected capability and computer resources to manage a blockchain of any arbitrary size.

Furthermore, the use of some words in this post is merely a coincidence. A "packet" is used to describe a full blockchain, which has been divided by 5% of the online nodes (data packet).

The problem with the blockchain, is that its ever increasing, as we all know. Many attempts have been made to solve this issue, though with old fashioned thinking.

Our proposal, though simple for some, is to divide the blockchain into packets (instead of sharing the whole blockchain) by 5% of total online nodes, and having all these packets shared across all nodes online on the network. So i. E. If the blockchain is 30GB, and was shared by 5% to any number of nodes, 20 (+-) copies of the blockchain should be available in the whole blockchain, whilst consuming about 1.5GB per node.

When a packet is less available than other packets, nodes with much more common packets would drop those, to store those less available packets (so to stop them from disappearing from the network)

We've included a formula to further highlight the advantage of this technique.

A = unique copies made
N = online nodes
C = data per node
b = size of data
r = required nodes





As you can see, a size of a 500GB blockchain would only occupy 4GB per node, to replicate itself more than 20(+-) times in any given N (2,500) number of nodes, where each full blockchain would occupy 125(+-) nodes.

This is a great point. Edits have been made.

Great question. It's good to see some logical analysis of these results. I did consider lots of various possibilities, and other countries but UK and US has always been the main contenders. So, it seemed much more probable that someone who uses US grammar throught most of his work, if not all, would have been from somewhere within North America.

 We was so proud that Satoshi was probably from the UK. But it seems not.

The hard truth is that Satoshi is "North American, " if that's still in question.

We took some time to analyse, simple grammatical structures used, in his various 575 variants of informal posts. Here what we found.

'"-disablesafemode",' - post 1. English (UK) version - "-disablesafemode, "

"realized" - post 15. English (UK) version - "realised"

"criticized" - post 20. English (UK) version - "criticised"

"minimized" - post 525. English (UK) version - "minimised"

I'm certain we could use this same trick to triangulate his location, but, that task is for someone else to accomplish - if at all necessary.

Edit...


From bitcoin.pdf at bitcoin. org

"realizes" — English (UK) version — "realises"

"characterized"— English (UK) version — "characterised"

'"tape",' — English (UK) version — "tape,"

"we propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer distributed" - use of we (group of people)

"we propose begins with a timestamp server" - use of we (group of people)

"we will need to use a proof-of-work system similar to Adam Back's Hashcash [6]," - use of we (group of people)

"we don't care about later attempts to double-spend" - use of we (group of people)

"We define an electronic coin as a chain of digital signatures." - use of we (group of people)

We did not find any evidence of the letter I; The final references on the white paper suggests someone else "we, " was involved in the research and documentation of this paper — at least someone that seems to be from UK.

What do you make of this "The blockchain of #FinTech has revolutionalised finance. A blockchain (a shared database) of computer vision & deep learning will destroy barriers in AI, " for a blockchain

Source: https://twitter.com/BitNyeFe/status/692656335461163008