importprivkey in the console

As several have said it is a totally pointless exercise to give everyone on Earth one coin.  There are two possibilites:

1) Since everyone has the same amount of coins the coins are perceived as having no value therefore they have no value and the entire experiment is a flop.

2) If for some reason the coins are perceived to have some value then within a very short period of time all the rich will end up having all the coins and all the poor will have no coins and again the entire experiment is a flop.

Also, obviously, that line is in yellow to indicate the decline is still in progress at the time the chart was made.

You did not read my entire post.  The table was constructed during the current crash.  I did not update the table itself.  Instead, in the body of my post I wrote:


I am not "marketing" anything.  Learn to read entire posts.

Great first and only post!  Keep up the good work and someday you will be a Legend in your own mind.

No, I found it in another thread.  Sorry, do not remember the original author.

Would someone please write up a BIP for the SegWit signature algorithm implemented in Trezor and discussed here:

https://github.com/trezor/trezor-mcu/issues/169

So that we can kick start the process of having this become the industry standard algorithm for signatures based on SegWit addresses.

I am sorry but I do not have the time to write it up right now.

Thanks!

tonych,

Please consider implementing the signature algorithm discussed here:

https://github.com/trezor/trezor-mcu/issues/169

and implemented on the Trezor wallet so that we can make a step forward on implementing a standard way to sign messages with SegWit addresses.

As far as I know this is the only implemented proposal so far.

1) Anyone who keeps their coins in a Trezor wallet would be able to sign messages with them for the ByteBall bot.

2) More SegWit compliant wallets can/will be asked to use/implement this algorithm

3) This will help in the adoption of this proposal as a standard.

So you are asking if you can take the seed words from your Exodus and enter them into your Trezor and recreate your accounts on the Trezor.

I do not know the answer to that question but I do know that is not a secure method of transfer.

Good luck.

If I understand your question correctly then what you need to do is get the next receive address from your Trezor and transfer the coins from your Exodus Wallet to the Trezor wallet.

But I may not have understood.

I have wondered about this also. 

We could determine whether the private key is odd or even from the public key point only if:

There exists a definition of an "even point" and an "odd point" such that for (X, Y)' = (X, Y) + G

(X, Y)' is odd iff (X, Y) is even and (X, Y)' is even iff (X, Y) is odd

So there would have to be a property of the points on the curve (such as the sign of Y for example) that toggles with each new addition of the point G.

If such a property could be found then it would be possible to determine one bit of the private key from the public key.

Assume for example the sign of Y behaved this way then the private key would be odd if the sign of Y was negative and the private key would be even if the sign of Y was positive.

Give everyone N coins at birth.  Eventually all those that did not get coins at birth (you and me) will all die off and everyone alive will have been given their N coins at birth.

But, eventually, those that collect coins will be rich and those that spend them will be poor.

FYI:  The first 54970.38 billion pages on directory.io have already been searched for active Bitcoins and a few were found.  Most if not all of the bitcoins found in these first 54970.38 billion pages were placed there on purpose as a sort of "canary in a coal mine" test of the security of the network.

See the search project (started at private key 0 and searching the private key space linearly, currently running about 21.10 trillion keys per day): 

https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/stats

And the "puzzle transaction" security test is discussed here: 

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.0

I may be able to help you.  Questions:

Do you mean you had a wallet at blockchain.info?

I assume that is what you are trying to say.

If so then did you have an older wallet or a newer HD wallet?

If it was an HD wallet then you would have written down a set of random words.

 Did you do that?

Yes, I find that holding down the two buttons with the thumb of one hand while plugging in the cable to the computer with the other hand is not too bad with a little practice.  Just finished updating all my Trezors to the latest firmware.

If you are a customer, that is a person that is answering an ad on localbitcoins, then they will have a very hard time calling you a business so they can arrest you.  What they go after are people advertising and doing a lot of trades.  These can be called businesses and therefore they can be arrested like I was.

It sounds like StillCrypto was a customer.  This is not who they go after.  I think it is totally silly not to do business with noobs.  Their cash is as green as the customers with lots of reputation.  I did most of my trades with noobs.  I did it as a service to the community:  to help people get their first Bitcoins, answer their questions, and meet and greet new Bitcoin enthusiasts.  I do not understand this unwillingness to do business with noobs.  Perhaps one of these people with this prejudice against noobs can come here and explain the reason.

On localbitcoins the safest course of action is as follows:

If you are a customer responding to an ad you should assume that the person placing the ad is either a cooperating witness, undercover agent, is working for law enforcement, working with law enforcement or is a law enforcement agent.  This means that as a customer be very suspicious if they ask questions like "what do you plan to do with your Bitcoins" when you are buying or "where did you get your Bitcoins" if you are selling.  If you are a customer (not placing ads) they cannot bust you for running an unlicensed business.  You are a customer.  They might try to bust you for something else - but from my personal experience you should not have to worry about 18-1960.

If you are an advertiser then you should assume that anyone that responds to your ads is with law enforcement.  You should assume that they are making a video and audio recording of the transaction and that once they collect enough evidence that you are "running a business" they will arrest you and charge you with 18-1960 "operating a money transmittal business without a license".  They do this so they can shake you down for the asset forfeiture to fund their operations. You can avoid this by getting the state money transmittal license if required by your state and getting the federal money transmittal license if your state requires a license.  Otherwise you may find yourself in a federal holding facility, charged with a felony, and having to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend yourself OR find yourself taking a plea deal and working undercover for law enforcement doing undercover buys and sells of Bitcoins in order to entrap other advertisers on localbitcoins.

Note:  as an advertiser if you are trying to filter out law enforcement by filtering out noobs that will not work.  Law enforcement has access to plenty of high reputation accounts having busted their owners and gotten the accounts as part of their plea agreements.  So again, I do not understand the reluctance to doing business with a noob.

If you are so brilliant and a rocket scientist to boot then surely you can back up a few pages and read the fricking thread.

I like, good article.  Here is a list of the real "crashes" if defined as anything over a 33% decline, (update: the current decline is a "crash" under this definition with its sub $3000 price):




It would be nice to define and give meaning to the word "crash" but that will never happen in the click-bait world where we now live.

The blockchain itself is already "unhackable" and all the copies of the blockchain are already connected and all copies are already being "checked" against each other.

As far as I know there is no known attack vector on the blockchain itself.

When people say that the "blockchain is under attack" it always means that other things, things around the blockchain, are being attacked.

The blockchain itself has never been hacked.

Just read this:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Target

People sometimes use "target" and "difficulty" interchangeably but they are different.

Here is the key formula that should bring it all together for you:


Anyhoo, just read the pages and you will understand it.