Thanks for your input...

If I understand you, the compiled original (without the install option) should work on another Unix install without any missing dependencies?
That's not what I get. I will investigate and post the result here. I must have made a mistake.

When I am doing


Generates a bitcoin-qt (same with bitcoind) that cannot run without installing the dependencies... and the size is way bigger than the bitcoin official distribution ones.

So here is my question, what is applied to bitcoin-qt so that it is so different in the release than the result I get when following the instructions?

Check the pictures. Mine is working when the dependencies are installed, but on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04.2 install I get a segmentation fault.

The bitcoin-qt (and bitcoind) from the release on https://bitcoin.org, is totally different, small, and is working without having to install any dependencies?

The password is not encrypting the wallet itself, but it locks the sending action. That mean each wallet can be loaded and viewed, the password will be used/needed only when you try to spend.

Once you know that, you realize that an encrypted Wallet is a local information. The blockchain does not see the difference between the 2 wallets, this information is not shared. From outside, the peers and the network, encrypted wallet or not these wallets are the same.

But, if you try the password of wallet1 to unlock wallet2 for spending coins it will not work and vice versa.

The address used are not affected by the passphrase. The only thing affected as I said is the action of spending. Everything else is working normally. So if you generate an address on wallet1 and someone send money to this address, both wallet will receive the money, as they are the same wallet, locally protected by a different password.

I love Bitcoin, and I love how it is working. However there is one point that I think is a mistake.

The subsidy algorithm.

It seems that in 2010 when Bitcoin was almost abandoned or run by a few, the modélisation of the subsidy from gold mining was making sense. Gold mining has a finite supply, so has Bitcoin.
Today, with +5000 Bitcoin ATM and growing, it seems that Bitcoin has taken another direction. Monnaies never stop to be minted, at least to replace the lost coins for example.

Having the mining rewards divided by 2 every 4 years is a major liability for Bitcoin. Ripple, and all the ERC-20 contracts that can be minted almost définitivement are waiting that Bitcoin weaken to take the lead, and about this specific issue, Bitcoin has a real problem.

While I was working on Kryptofranc (KYF) and FRANC, I came to the conclusion that the subsidy had something wrong, so I have created an algorithm that mine forever.

My suggestion would be to switch to this type of logic, before the next halving, and let Bitcoin enjoy a smooth mining future, that will not jeopardize the miners and their investments because of an obsolete mining design.

The consequences/changes for Bitcoin would be to:

1- re-adjust the mining reward every bloc
2- increase the total number of Bitcoin mined, since it is mining longer.

What would not change is:
- the number of coin generated by each bloc... instead of being halved, this number would start to very slowly decrease, almost in-definitively (at least for the next 10,000 year)

I am afraid that if the Bitcoin core team does not take these steps, Bitcoin will have some trouble to lead the Crypto in the future, and possibility face a existential thread.

If there is some interest about this idea, I can come with a tailored algorithm and a simulation, even the source code of GetBlockSubsidy that would fix the problem.

Here is the Kryptofranc Subsidy simulation. This algorithm can be modified to match the characteristics of Bitcoin as of Feb 2020, and switch to the new algorithms at a specific block, before the halving occurs.
https://kryptofranc.com/kyf-100y.php

Quantum computers are not going to replace the computers as we know them. They can be considered like a GPU that will be attached to a normal computer, providing speed for some limited operations. Their usage will be very limited specially at the beginning and their price very high.

I wrote this:

Is Facebook’s Libra a nuclear crypto weapon built by the West to win a currency war against Asia?

The article is here:
https://medium.com/@nicolas.choukroun/is-facebooks-libra-a-nuclear-crypto-weapon-built-by-the-west-to-win-a-currency-war-with-asia-44bff10ef4d4

If you create a crypto currency like I did with the Kryptofranc (KYF), nobody really cares about what you are doing and what will be the consequences of it.

When Facebook does it, you might ask yourself, why are they doing it? Because it is not some small project without consequences. The rhetoric from the social network giant is that Libra is designed to “ …help 1.7 billion people who are completely unbanked”.

There are over 300 million Facebook users and over 400 million WhatsApp users in India, which means that Facebook’s new currency could threaten the Rupee, the Indian’s national currency.

Wang Xin, director of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC)’s research bureau stressed yesterday that Libra could potentially be a problem for the Yuan too, the Chinese national currency.


Now who is going to control the “nodes” since there is no mining? The founding members include payments giants Mastercard, PayPal and Visa, as well as tech majors like eBay, Lyft, Spotify and Uber.

If you place yourself above the rhetoric, and see who can profit and who can be hurt by the Facebook currency, you realizes that Libra might be a weapon, brought by the West in a currency war with the Est.

India and China, the 2 biggest challengers in Asia to the US Dollars are the main target of this war. If people are using Libra instead of their national currencies, this will strengthen the USD and weaken the Asian’s currencies with serious consequences for these economies.

The two countries are aware of the danger and immediately announced that they would ban Libra and even maybe all Crypto-currencies in consequence.

The fact that Mastercard, Visa and Paypal are behind Libra is the smoking gun. You can notice that all the voices in America who complained about Libra were shut quickly, why?

Libra is not going to do any problem to the USD, because it will actually fight for it, and will be the crypto USD with another name that will be controlled by the same who are controlling the finances in the West.

No Asian companies will run a Libra’s node. It is exclusively Western and Wall Street controlled.

Libra is a currency weapon and is very smart. It has no way to fail and can be lethal for Asia.

Either Libra expends in Asia through Facebook and Whatsapp, and then the West take the control of part of the Asia finances and banking, or it is banned and then all the Cryptocurrency dies.

Because the laws against Facebook in Asia will hurt the crypto economy as a whole and will ban millions of investors to trade them, this will have a tsunami effect that might send the capitalization in crypto to a fraction of what it is now... or even worse.

Visa, Mastercard and all the financial institutions may well kill the crypto with Libra, and this currency war. In any case, they win and as crypto investors we lose. If the crypto loses 90% of its value the US will blame Asia for their protectionism and will take the control of the crypto economy as well.

Libra seems to be an evil plan, a nuclear crypto that will have only bad consequences for the crypto economy.

By default Unlimited = 125
But Bitcoin evaluates your hardware and set a limit by itself.

Here is the code


If you want a lot of connection you can specify maxconnections=1000 in bitcoin.conf or in command line with -maxconnections=1000

If you specify a very high number, Bitcoin will calculate the most your hardware can handle. It will say nothing if your hardware can accept the number you entered, but if this number is higher than the most Bitcoin evaluated, you will get a popup with a warning telling you what maximum Bitcoin can set for your hardware.

I have solved the problem. Bitcoin apparently does not use the 'normal' QT dev install, so you really need to compile QT5 from the depends.
If there is a problem with the depend compilation (for example one of the sha256 flavor is doing an error), the depends compilation is stopping, before QT5 was installed (it is compiled close to the end).
I didn't noticed the error and though the depends were totally finished.

make -i solved the problem, the compilation of the depends jumped over the failed compilation and finished correctly.

Btw, it is also working to backup the depend folder or copy from one folder to another. Bitcoin configuration is all relative to the depends/ folder, so what I am doing to save the time to re-compile the depends is to zip the depends folder for each version of Bitcoin and unzip them after cloning the repository, it is working and is fast!

Another interesting thing is that the depends folder can also be copied into a fork of Bitcoin (altcoin) and it is working - assuming that the versions are matching of course.

Merci pour ce post très instructif. Peu de gens connaissent l’existence du micro language Bitcoin, et encore moins savent s'en servir. La lecture de ce post etait tres instructive.
Je voudrais le traduire en Anglais et le poster sur Medium, en créditant l'auteur original bien évidement, et mettant un lien vers l'original.
Je peux ou pas?

Communiqué de presse officiel

KRYPTOFRANC (KYF) est une nouvelle devise dédiée à la défense des
droits de l'homme dans le monde entier.

Paris, France le 04/07/2019.

L'esprit de la Révolution française est bien vivant avec ce nouvel altcoin
basée sur le Bitcoin Core lancée par deux innovateurs français.
«Nous pensons que la cause des droits humains est attaquée dans le monde
entier, les dirigeants populistes essayant de saper l’état de droit et de
restreindre la liberté d’expression des médias et de la population», explique
Jean-Martial Lefranc, qui a fourni le seed financing pour le projet, «Nous
voulons tirer parti de la crypto pour nous défendre».
Le Kryptofranc sort une nouvelle blockchain dédiée basée sur le Bitcoin Core
0.18. KYF est entièrement minée à l'aide d'un algorithme Proof of Work.
Au-delà de sa blockchain, KYF construit une application «La monnaie en tant
que réseau social» via un système de vote qui permettra à sa communauté
d’attribuer toutes les deux semaines une donation de KryptoFranc à une
personne ou à une organisation défendant des causes liées aux droits de
l’homme.
Pour obtenir l’un de ces dons, vous devez présenter votre projet sur notre
site Web et la communauté votera pour l'attribution de cette subvention tous
les quinze jours.
«Nous avons décidé de baser Kryptofranc sur le Bitcoin Core, car il s’agit de
la technologie la mieux soutenue par les professionnels, qui représente près
de 70% de la capitalisation cryptographique totale. Kryptofranc est
systématiquement mis à jour pour conserver une compatibilité totale avec la
dernière version du Bitcoin Core, qui inclut SEGWIT, Lightning Network, et
une multitude de correctifs de sécurité »explique Nicolas Choukroun, CTO de
Kryptofranc.
Deux milliards de KYF ont été pré-minées sur une masse en circulation
potentielle totale de six milliards.
Cette masse pré-minée sera distribuée aux cause de défense des droits de
l'homme au cours des dix prochaines années, grâce à des dons d'un montant
d'environ deux millions de KYF toutes les deux semaines.
«Nous pensons pouvoir faire la différence dès lors que la valeur du KYF
décolle. La valeur combinée des dons pourrait alors représenter plus de 400
millions USD au cours des dix prochaines années d’après nos anticipations»
Evalue Jean-Martial Lefranc.
Kryptofranc n'a pas été conçu comme un stablecoin, ce n'est ni un jeton ni
un contrat intelligent, c'est une vraie blockchain, décentralisée et avec son
code source entièrement disponible chez Github.
En s’appuyant sur la défense des causes liées aux droits de l’homme,
Kryptofranc entend renoué avec le projet libertaire et humaniste des
pionniers du Bitcoin.
Kryptofranc poursuit actuellement un tour d’investissement privé limité afin
de financer le développement de sa plateforme de vote.

You can download a press kit at this address:
https://kryptofranc.com/downloads/presskit.zip

More info at the Kryptofranc website: https://kryptofranc.com
Follow us in the following social networks:
Discord: https://discord.gg/7qscn6S
Facebook: https://fb.com/Kryptofranc
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kryptofranc
Github: http://github.com/NicolasChoukroun/Kryptofranc
Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5157308.0
Pool: http://pool.kryptofranc.net/explorer/KYF
Telegram: https://t.me/kryptofranc

Official Press Release:

KRYPTOFRANC(KYF) is a new currency dedicated to supporting
human rights throughout the world.

Paris, France 04/07/2019:

The spirit of the French Revolution is alive and well with this new alt coin
based on the Bitcoin Core launched by two French innovators.
“We believe the cause of human rights is under attack throughout the world
with populist leaders trying to undermine both the rule of laws and
restricting the freedom of expression of both the media and the people”
explains Jean-Martial Lefranc who provided the seed financing for the
project. “We want to leverage crypto to fight back”.
Hence the release of Kryptofranc on a new dedicated blockchain based on
the Bitcoin Core 0.18. KYF is fully mineable using a Proof of Work algorithm.
Still beyond, its blockchain, KYF is building a “currency as social network”
application through a voting system that will allow its community to assign
every two weeks a dedicated donation in KryptoFranc to an individual or an
organisation defending human rights causes.
In order to get the donation, you need to introduce your project on our
website and the community will vote to assign a grant every fortnight.
“We decided to base Kryptofranc on the Bitcoin Core because it is the most
professionally supported technology representing close to 70% of the total
crypto capitalization. Kryptofranc is systematically updated to keep a total
compatibility with the latest release of the Bitcoin Core, which includes
SEGWIT, Lightning Network, and a myriad of security fixes” explains Nicolas
Choukroun, CTO to Kryptofranc.
Two billion KYF have been pre-mined out of a potential total circulation of six
billion coins. This pre-mined mass will be distributed to human rights causes
over the next ten years through grants of a couple of million every two
weeks.
“We believe that we can make a difference as KYF value takes off, the
combined value of the grand may represent over 400 million USD over the
next ten years.” Anticipates Jean-Martial Lefranc
Kryptofranc has not been conceived as a stablecoin, it is not a token or a
smart contract, it is a true blockchain, decentralized and with its source code
completely available at Github.
Beyond human rights causes, Kryptofranc intends to revive some of the
humanist and libertarian ethos that served as the foundation of the ideology
of Bitcoin pioneers.

Kryptofranc is now pursuing a limited private round of investment in order to
fund the development of its voting platform.

You can download a press kit at this address:
https://kryptofranc.com/downloads/presskit.zip

More info at the Kryptofranc website: https://kryptofranc.com
Follow us in the following social networks:
Discord: https://discord.gg/7qscn6S
Facebook: https://fb.com/Kryptofranc
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kryptofranc
Github: http://github.com/NicolasChoukroun/Kryptofranc
Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5157308.0
Pool: http://pool.kryptofranc.net/explorer/KYF
Telegram: https://t.me/kryptofranc

Hal was one of the first to participate to the development of Bitcoin, he received the first transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto.
He was a precursor in Cryptography participating in the creation of PGP for example.
He deserve all our respect, he found many bugs in the early versions of Bitcoin.

But he got really sick and lost step by step the usage of his body, he could not eat or breathe without a machine, ultimately finishing his life in pain, paralyzed.

This is one of his last post, he was writing using a device that was tracking his eyes movements.

People who are spitting on him in this thread have no idea how disgusting this can be. Moderators should remove all the messages writing negative about this man. It was his testament here, and this thread should be respected.

This man is part of this history of Bitcoin, and new clueless members who have not compassion or empathie should pay respect to the man, or shut up and keep him in peace.

Rhaaa! I feel sorry for asking, for some reason Google didn't gave me a satisfying answer. I should have checked better the source.
 

Since there are a limited number of people who have a push access to the repository, what is the process for submitting updated/fixes to Bitcoin core and have them reviewed by the team in charge?

I am sorry to disagree.

The owner cannot change the smart contract, but the smart contract purpose is to issue tokens. Most smart contracts have function to mint, remove tokens. This is complete centralization. You can call the smart contract functions from outside and ask it to block addresses, move money from one address to another, mint more tokens etc... The functionalities of the smart contract are totally centralized.

Located here: https://github.com/NicolasChoukroun/10X-Token/blob/master/10XToken.sol

Check the functions of this ERC-20 compatible contract


These functions allows the owner of the smart contract to add or remove tokens. Isn't that complete power of centralization?


These functions are blacklisting people based on their address... pretty cool?
Imagine if Bitcoin or Dash, or Litecoin was doing that?
Yet Solidity allows smart contracts to do this.

And I do not talk about the fact that Smart contracts can scrape variable from outside, using the Oracle system... which can be discussed another time.

I think that you are mistaken in thinking that a Smart Contract is as good as a blockchain, because it is saved into a blockchain.

It is nothing more than a script saved in a block that can be executed by a node... but it is totally in control of the owner, who can control his tokens the way he wants and without oversee from outside by calling the smart contract and ask him to do what he wants.

That's cool...thanks!

Smart contracts are evil. They are doing a huge prejudice to the blockchain and the crypto.

Basically, smart contracts are using the block chain hype, decentralization, peer to peer and security, to offer to anyone who has almost no programming or crypto knowledge, to do exactly the opposite of what the block chain is.
Smart contracts are by definition centralized, the owner can stop, start, mint at will, do an ico, stop it, redo it, and do whatever he wants, the users of the smart contracts are naked, powerless and can lose everything.

So from the start a smart contracts are a blockchain fraud.

The success of the smart contracts is just because it is an easy way to clean money by the mafia. They buy at the ICO, sell at the introduction and they have clean Bitcoins. Easier than any other washing money scheme.

Billions are washed this way. About the usability it is less than 99%... all the rest have just banked at the ICO and now it is traded by the crypto casinos (read exchanges) where people do not care what they are buying/selling as soon as they can make some profit.

The block chain is a series of block saving transactions removing the banks trust to replace by mathematics. Not the smart contracts, they are just saved in a block, like a transaction. The only security is that they are public, and once published, they cannot be modified.
But they can control their generated coin, like a bank does.

e-Gold failed, and all attempts at doing anything else than Bitcoin failed because of the centralization issue.

Smart contracts are changing the author of it, into a banker. Who wants that? We have enough fraudsters in the banking industry already.

This worked, but I got 1 error.
Next when I do rpm run build I get a bunch of errors. I guess I need to edit some config files but, there is no instruction about it.
I am on windows 10

I tried to install Zap, but I cannot because when I run yarn it gives me a network connection and stop at the end of the package update.

I have a network connection. I know how to develop with electron, nodejs and in general javascript, but I never used yarn. I don't think that the connection is not working here, I have no problem browsing anywhere and my line is fiber 200 Mbs

Not necessary, it is as simple as basic. But careful to bugs, it cost ETH to save it into the blockchain, and if you need to fix something, you have to pay again. You can debug for free but when you really publish it, it is definitive.