If you're thinking about viabtc: i don't think it'll work, since i suspect the transaction is using inputs that were previously used in a different transaction that remained unconfirmed and is since dropped from the blockchain.info's node mempool....
However, viabtc, like my own node, has modified mempool retention times... So they won't drop a transaction after 3 days, so they'll reject transactions that double spends an input for a longer time...

The problem analysis and potential sollutions can be found here:
http://mocacinno.com/feecheck.php?txid=0f8197251408b3c6913eb8812a63469db37566b237329b671bf33088feb285ad

Summary: in your case you can:
-wait
-pay off a miner (but you cannot use viabtc, since they don't allow transactions with less than 5 sat/bye)
-since you're the sender, and there is no change address, you cannot do a CPFP (unless you're also the receiver)
-you can still double spend one of the unconfirmed inputs in a new transaction
-it seems you didn't opt-in RBF, so you can't do that either

This transaction uses an unconfirmed output as input to create a new transaction.
Next to this, the error code i got when pushing your raw, signed, transaction to my node seems to indicate that this transaction is double spending an input that has previously been used in a transaction that is still in my mempool (altough the error i got can also mean other things, so this is not confirmed)...

Here's the raw transaction:

As soon as the conflicting transaction is dropped from my mempool, you can use my wizard to push the new tx to my node: http://www.mocacinno.com/page/txpusher . This way, your transaction will be re-broadcasted trough the network.

You can try to follow this link: http://www.mocacinno.com/feecheck.php?txid=df994f4dce12dc8b83d42da984f3aa5a3418ebc525bb3b3835ff5ad5402ac138#asking in order to find a pool that can potentially include your tx in the block they're working on, but they'd have to include the transaction this tx depends on aswell, and they'd have to drop the conflicting tx from their mempool before pushing this tx to their node...

@OP : this tutorial should help you out setting up electrum as cold storage: http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/coldstorage.html

It could be a bit outdated, buttons might have moved around a bit, but the basic idear is still completely correct.

btw: if you want an easy sollution, look into either a paper wallet, or a hardware wallet. A paper wallet will costs you basically the cost of a sheet of paper, but it can only be swept once (once you sweep it, it is compromised and it can never be used again). A hardware wallet will set you back 70€-100€ for a basic model, but it'll last years and is usually pretty straightforeward to use.

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MOD EDIT: Removed part that quoted a removed post.

I'd suggest only using somebody with massive green trust and postive feedback to help you out. If you cannot find anybody, i'm willing to give it a try, altough i seriously doubt i'm trusted enough to request for the wallet file + password + seed for a wallet that holds 5 BTC...

You'll deposit ETH, so the fee for the deposit transaction will be payed by you. The fee they list on their site is the withdrawal fee... So you are correct, the 0.0021BTC is the miner fee to include the withdrawal transaction in the bitcoin blockchain...

At the time of writing https://bitcoinfees.21.co/ recommands a 220 sat/byte fee.
Using my tool: http://www.mocacinno.com/page/feeestimate at the time of writing, a transaction with 2 inputs and 2 outputs should have a fee of 0.00082 to have a 95%  chance of getting into the next 3 blocks... So 0.0021BTC is a bit "outrageous" at the time of writing (altough, i verified your claim, and i came to the same conclusion as you did).

So, they're either planning on creating a withdrawal transaction using tons of dust inputs, or they pay way to much fees and pass the costs on to their users.

But, remember, nobody is forcing anybody to use their site... If you don't like it, don't use it

IF you bought an oculus and really want to use it, there's always the option of either dual booting, or the option of running a linux distro in virtualbox.

Altough untested by me, there even is the option of running windows subsystem for linux on windows 10:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_guide

Arch linux even has a wiki page devoted to running an oculus V9 => https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Oculus_Rift

Altough for simplicity and compatibility reasons, i'd suggest either debian or ubuntu as a starter distro

I'd still go for linux, since an honest dev should, in my opinion, publish his work on github (or an other online repo). Once the sourcecode is on github, i personally think it's much easyer to compile a wallet on linux compared to windows.

The ones in your current list are still older, established coins, so there should be little or no difference in the release time of windows vs linux binaries tough...

In that case, i'd defenately go for contacting remitano, since i cannot help you to create a double spending transaction using an online wallet (it should be possible, i just don't know how to do this).

BTW: most nodes drop unconfirmed transactions from their mempool after 72 hours, so if your transaction remains unconfirmed for 3-4 days, you have a reasonable chance blockchain support will be able to fix your wallet, so it'll be like the transaction never happened.

You're listing the bigger, more established coins here... I don't think there will be a (big) difference between the release times for windows or linux wallets for these coins.
I was talking about new coins with a small community.

I'd personally go for linux, but i think it's just a matter of personal taste...

In my personal opinion, an honest dev will publish his sourcecode on github...
In my experience, compiling a node/wallet on linux is a lot easyer than compiling one on windows.

however, i've seen some dev's publishing the windows binary long before publising the linux binary...

you can always try to double spend one of the inputs of the transaction in a new transaction using a higher fee, and try to broadcast the new transaction...
If this new transaction makes it into a block, the inputput you double spent is removed from the UTXO set of the nodes, so your "old" transaction is now using an input that is no longer in the UTXO set, hence it will be voided...

BawsyBoss is right tough: the cleanest, most honest and easyest way to handle this problem is to contact remitano support.

BTW: could you possibly post or PM the tx id, that way i can have a look... It might also be usefull if you told us which wallet software you used to create the tx?

Is it this one? https://shop.pinidea.io/index.php/product/asic-x11-miner-du-1/
Are these specs correct:
HashRate: 9M
Power: 1.4A/5V, that's 7W (without a controller)

Since you'd make about $60/year mining dash with those ones (without power costs), i'd also offer $30 for one (delivery and escrow included).
I know this is kinda lowballing, but i'm only interested in such a miner if it's really a bargain, so no offense taken if you don't accept my offer

Over the weekend, i got following 3 PM's from bussybuddy. As said in the PM sent on friday, i will no longer answer to these PM's in private, but rather publish them and answer them on the public forum.

pm id: 5973490


pm id: 5973497

pm id: 5974066


My responses:

• I did not ask you to close your lottery... I asked you to either confirm or deny that you were buying your own tickets, and i asked you to make your lottery provably fair. If the lottery was provably fair, i couldn't care less if you were buying your own tickets. But buying your own tickets + not provably fair = suspicious
• Thank you for admitting you bought your own tickets, i'll add this answer to question number 1 (14 unanswered questions left)
• Where do you get these 15 friends?
• I have never called you a scammer directly (as far as i can remember). I just said i have a bad gut feeling about allmost every project you start. There is a big difference between not trusting somebody and claiming they're scammers
• Please provide proof about the fact that i'm mentally affected... Sure, i have a bad feeling about any project you have promoted on this forum so far, and i have called you out about this, i don't see why it should make me mentally affected
• Thank you for allowing me to post historic PM's between us. At this point, i think posting these old PM's would just distract everybody from the 15 questions i asked you tough
• I do not think i created a single story about you... I'm asking you (what i believe to be) legitimate questions. If you have nothing to hide, why don't you just answer them?

At this moment, nothing tops the S9 (afaik) when talking about Joule/Ghs. That being said, you'll still need a sub 7 cents/Kwu electricity rate if you want a shot at making profit (there are many other factors, but the electricity rate is the biggest)

This is the PM i sent bussybuddy, messageid 5966907:


My weekend starts in 2 hours, i will only check back on this thread on monday!!! This gives user bussybuddy ample time to think about wether or not he wants to answer any of my questions, or if he choses to ignore me

Edit on monday 8/05/2017

Public list of questions/answers from/to bussybuddy

• 1)Can you give a reasonable explanation why the tickets sold in your lottery are all bought by the same person?
• 1)Answer: bussybuddy admitted to buying his own tickets in PM 5973490, altough he claims this is not suspicious behaviour
• 2)Will you take steps to make your lottery provably fair?
• unanswered
• 3)Will you start using a reputable escrow?
• unanswered
• 4)Is user Pixellord your alt? In case you deny, can we ask Theymos or an other global admin to look at the ip evidence?
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• 5)Were you really thinking about giving user serje a 20 BTC loan? If yes, can you prove that at one point over the last couple of weeks you helt an address with a balance of at least 20 BTC by signing a message with the address? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1766596.msg18784778#msg18784778
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• 6)You have posted a link to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1864906.msg18543012#msg18543012 on several pages, did somebody actually take you up on your offer?
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• 7)Can you give clearer statistics to support your claim of 1000 uniques/day?
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• 8)Can you show us the txid of the payment for the ponzi ad you initially had on your site?
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• 9)Can you, for the sake of clarity, once again explain why i'm a copy paster?
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• 10)Can you give any shred of evidence to prove i'm an alt of adaseb?
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• 11)Can you explain why you recently started locking your threads? It seemed like most users that were worried about your activities gave up on calling you out... so as far as i can see, there shouldn't have been a reason to start locking your threads.
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• 12)Since you seem to be pretty proud you registered your domain under your real name, did you have real life contact with any reputable member of this forum that can vouch for your identity?
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• 13)How do you repond to the fact that scamadviser itself has very negative reviews on many trusted sites, since this seems to be your main proof of honesty?
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• 14)Can you prove you actually payed the 1 BTC bounty to any of your experts?
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• 15)Can you tell us what you did with any of the private information you got from the form where you asked experts to sign up?
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First of all, let me start this thread by saying i have NO conclusive proof to say user bussybuddy is a scammer. All proof is circumstantial, and could be interpreted in a way that places bussybuddy in a bad light, as well as it could be interpreted in a way that makes user bussybuddy look like he's just trying to jumpstart his business.

The reason for making this thread is that i received a PM from a second user that pointed out bussybuddy's recent activities. As many of you might know, bussybuddy and i didn't get off on a good start. I asked him, what i believe, legitimate questions, and gave him (what i believe) honest feedback to improve his service... He replied by calling me mentally ill, a pervert, a copy/paster, a sockpuppet,... You get the point.
I took him off my watchlist and put him on ignore, but the PM i got from a second user put him straight back on my watchlist, since his recent endaveour might end up in innocent people losing funds... So it was time to write up all my suspicions about this user and create a thread in the reputation subforum to give him the opportunity to explain what's happening (since i have no conclusive proof i will not open a scam accusation)

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First observation:
Bussybuddy is running a lottery... Apparently it's the second drawing already.
The first lottery used deposit address 1P24zuaR9niAjWtMsGisfmUNqyR6mk1fVD.
At first glance, looking at https://blockchain.info/address/1P24zuaR9niAjWtMsGisfmUNqyR6mk1fVD it looks like he sold 18 tickets, drew a winner and sent him 0.013201. When digging deeper, the user PM'ing me found out that all inputs come from the same wallet. As a matter of fact, there was one original input, and each time the input is used in a transaction buying a ticket, the change is used to buy the next ticket...

The second lottery follows the exact same sequence, using the winnings from the first lottery!! He only changed his deposit address to 1HC4pyrN6Hnizpz5zFST3RUDgje6tMeCDU

First conclusion:
Although there is no way to prove that he's buying his own tickets, it's hard to believe a third party is buying up all tickets in both drawings. As a matter of fact, because the transaction size becomes so large, a huge fee is needed, so if a third party was buying all tickets, he would lose a lot of his money in fees (0.004799 BTC from first draw)

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Second observation:
Bussybuddy's lottery isn't provably fair, nor is it using an escrow

Second conclusion:
If the draw ever sells any tickets to real users, bussybuddy can buy 1 single ticket and then he can easily manipulate the draw to pick himself, thus stealing from ticket buyers.

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third observation:
Although bussybuddy has accused me of being an alt of other users that replied on his thread, i completely deny this accusation... However, i strongly suspect bussybuddy has an alt he uses as his own sock puppet to shill for him:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=987978
Why?

• Pixellord is a term he's trying to "brand". If you look at his site, you see a big banner saying "become pixellord for only 0.01 BTC/month"
• User Pixellord was created after bussybuddy had altrications with other people on this forum, and he needed a "helping hand"
• User Pixellord was created for the sole purpose of shilling for bussybuddy. All posts made by pixellord are solely aimed at making bussybuddy looking good
• User Pixellord has made his 5 posts during the timeframe user bussybuddy is most active
• User Pixellord actually has promo for bussybuddy in his signature
• User Pixellord uses the same crappy english
• User Pixellord gave +ve to bussybuddy
• User Pixellord uses telegram, something bussybuddy seems to do to

Third conclusion:
Although not 100% proved, i think it's very probable user bussybuddy uses a sockpuppet to shill for him. He also uses this sockpuppet to get "free bumps" on his threads, he later on replies to his sock puppet, again bumping his own thread, circumventing the 1 bump per 24 hours policy

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Fourth observation:
User bussybuddy started spamming his business all over other threads, completely hijacking them without actually contributing. Although, at first glance it looks like he's giving advice/loans/..., he actually never forks over any BTC to fill any request, and the end result is just him posting his link on hijacked threads
examples:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1766596.msg18784778#msg18784778
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1164418.msg18561132#msg18561132
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1853580.msg18557053#msg18557053
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1739698.msg18555848#msg18555848
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1065017.msg18555802#msg18555802
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1173703.msg18555651#msg18555651
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1133534.msg18555642#msg18555642
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1571743.msg18555533#msg18555533

Fourth conclusion:
Most of the posts he makes out of his own threads seem to be pointed to drive people towards his threads, to his site or get them to mail him

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Fifth observation:
User bussybuddy claims to get 1000 uniques/day to his site (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1766596.msg18784778#msg18784778), the only half-proof ever posted was a print screen without legend on this post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1878258.msg18668562#msg18668562 . The country with the biggest amount of hits is the UK... The country of his residence. The second most is the US, home of the google bot... There is no legend to see if this were stats for 1 day, 1 month, 2017, forever,...
I'd like to see some real statistics that prove that those couple thousand hits are real traffic, coming from real people, and add up to 1000 uniques/day

Fifth conclusion:
If he cannot prove his statistics, IMHO, he's using false advertising, since he's selling his adspots for 3 BTC/100pixels at the moment, but if his site doesn't have any traffic, it's actually falsely advertised, since the net worth of the adspot is determined by the number of visitors

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Sixth observation:
At the beginning of his website, bussybuddy put an ad to a clear ponzi on his site. To bad it has since been removed. He insisted the ponzi was placed there by one of his customers, so it wasn't his fault. I estimated the price this user should have payed for this adspot, and asked bussybuddy to prove that this adspot was sold, and not owned by him by showing me a txid of the buyer. He refused to do so.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1808632.msg18022745#msg18022745 is where he says the ponzi add is not owned by him... There is no proof of him not wanting to post a txid, since he just ignored my questions about this subject.

Sixth conclusion:
Since he failed to prove that the adspot was purchased by a third party, i think it's fair to conclude the odds are very great that he put an add to his own ponzi on his own site. Once he realised people were not buying his explanation, he removed the add.

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Seventh observation:
Bussybuddy is claiming other user's are breaking forum rules related to copy/pasting and using sockpuppets:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1808632.msg18286687#msg18286687
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1808632.msg18033928#msg18033928

Seventh conclusion:
the only thing i did was making the mistake to think that he asked 0.01BTC for 100 pixels, while instead, his price at that time was 1BTC for 100 pixels. I also miscounted the number of pixels used to publish the ponzi ad, so my final calculation was way off. He then proceeded to make fun of me, and corrected my mistake. Of course, i used his corrections to make further calculations instead of using my own (incorrect) values.
Because i used his correct values for further calculations instead of using my incorrect values, he started called me a copy/paster (which is a serious accusation on this forum)
As for the second part of his accusation: i strongly deny to be an alt of Adaseb, although i strongly respect this user.

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Eighth observation:
all bussybuddy's more controversial threads seem to be locked most of the time... Does that sound fishy to anybody

Eighth conclusion:
it does to me

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Ninth observation:
the only proof bussybuddy seems to give is that he doxxed himself, and that his rating on scamadviser is higher than the rating of my free site. The fact that i do not want to give up my anonimity, use an avatar and have a lower rating on scamadviser was sufficient for him to discard any question i asked as utter nonsense. He waved away any questions i asked by saying i was a competitor, while the only thing my site does is giving free tools to people, while his site is aimed at making millions of dollars by selling adspots.

Ninth conclusion:
Afaik, scamadviser isn't a community standard. Before bussybuddy brought it up, i never heard of the site... Googling some reviews usually turn up site like this one:https://safeweb.norton.com/reviews?url=scamadviser.com
So, all in all, having a good/bad rating on such a site means nothing to me.
As for doxxing himself.. I haven't seen anybody trying to verify his identity, as well as the fact that having a known identity will not prevent him from scamming (Mtgox was brought up by adaseb, although bussybuddy failed to recognize Mark Karpelès)

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Tenth observation:
Recently, bussybuddy started to forward traffic from his TLD directly to his million pixel webpage. However, in the past, he was actively recruiting people to become a "bussybuddy expert", promising up to 1 BTC for all applicants.
AFAIK, he didn't have a solid privacy policy while he was asking a lot of private information... No proof, but it sounds rather fishy to me.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1628645.msg16388049#msg16388049

Tenth conclusion:
I have no proof he was gathering private information for personal gain, but the fact he offered an outrageous signup bonus coupled with the fact he was asking personal info seems sketchy to me

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And now,
List of questions i'd publicly like to ask bussybuddy...  If he can give satisfactory answers, i promise to leave him alone, and publicly apologise!!!

• 1)Can you give a reasonable explanation why the tickets sold in your lottery are all bought by the same person?
• 2)Will you take steps to make your lottery provably fair?
• 3)Will you start using a reputable escrow?
• 4)Is user Pixellord your alt? In case you deny, can we ask Theymos or an other global admin to look at the ip evidence?
• 5)Were you really thinking about giving user serje a 20 BTC loan? If yes, can you prove that at one point over the last couple of weeks you helt an address with a balance of at least 20 BTC by signing a message with the address? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1766596.msg18784778#msg18784778
• 6)You have posted a link to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1864906.msg18543012#msg18543012 on several pages, did somebody actually take you up on your offer?
• 7)Can you give clearer statistics to support your claim of 1000 uniques/day?
• 8)Can you show us the txid of the payment for the ponzi ad you initially had on your site?
• 9)Can you, for the sake of clarity, once again explain why i'm a copy paster?
• 10)Can you give any shred of evidence to prove i'm an alt of adaseb?
• 11)Can you explain why you recently started locking your threads? It seemed like most users that were worried about your activities gave up on calling you out... so as far as i can see, there shouldn't have been a reason to start locking your threads.
• 12)Since you seem to be pretty proud you registered your domain under your real name, did you have real life contact with any reputable member of this forum that can vouch for your identity?
• 13)How do you repond to the fact that scamadviser itself has very negative reviews on many trusted sites, since this seems to be your main proof of honesty?
• 14)Can you prove you actually payed the 1 BTC bounty to any of your experts?
• 15)Can you tell us what you did with any of the private information you got from the form where you asked experts to sign up?

The full analysis of the problem + the possible sollutions => https://www.mocacinno.com/feecheck.php?txid=78d646934f25c8aa168805b4dbd29c01e619b8c1f27c3032f7a084b9d0ff9ec0

It basically breaks down to the fact that at this very moment, 100 sat/byte isn't sufficient to have a 95% chance of getting in the next 24 blocks (4 hours). It does not matter what the fee was at the time you broadcasted the transaction, a miner doesn't care about the order in which he received the transaction, he only cares about which transaction in his mempool has the highest fee/byte, even if older transactions are still unconfirmed.

I think this is the correct answer...
Technically, i would solve it by running bitcoind, then create a cronjob:
1 8 * * * bitcoin-cli sendtoaddress "1Myaddressdmfkljsmdfkjsd" 0.001

I would create a bitcoin.conf file in ~/.bitcoin and add following lines:


Transaction fees are a given, the only way around them is by using a service that pays the fee in your place (like coinbase used to do), but by adding txconfirmtarget to your bitcoin.conf, you basically tell your wallet: i'm willing to way 144 blocks for a 95% chance of getting a confirmation.
You can change the number of blocks, but remember: most nodes drop unconfirmed transactions from their mempool after 3 days, plus your wallet has no way to look in the future. If the mempool size explodes and a fee bidding war starts, setting to big of a number might result in all your transactions getting dropped from the node's mempool after a couple of days.

Do note it might be a good idear to lock your wallet, in this case you have to run a second script to unlock it before issuing a "sendtoaddress"...

Partially, but it would also stop legit newbies from sending PM's.
I've seen loads of people that register on this forum after they run into problems... If we would prohibit such newbies from sending messages, it would stop these new users from asking advice.

Isn't there a limit as to how many PM's a newbie can send/hour? Also, the big red warning at the top of their PM's is doing it job (at least, in my case)