I envy those Bitcoin enthusiasts that are living in Venezuela. This is a great project having an ATM installed in Caracas. I do hope that our country, and might be all countries too will also adopt the innovation from Financial Technology like this. As a bitcoin enthusiast, I would love to at least spend and get my cryptocurrencies converted and accepted with an ATM. After a year, if no-one will still initiate this kind of project, I think it is me who will change the game. I don't think this is going to be very useful, but I'll take pics if i get to know where exactly is this ATM being put... Thing is, in Venezuela the biggest banknote would net you a few satoshis at best, and this is a fiat that loses half its purchasing power every day... The typical monthly wage is 20k (about 8 USD). The biggest banknote is 500 VES, around 5k satoshis each. Looking at their previous ad (they have ATMs in Panama City):  " Only 5% fee"... Are you sure you would want to go near a store like that during those times? You can bet its going to be inside a mall... |
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Is this because he is demanding funds to build a Wall that was going to be paid by Mexico to keep their own people imprisoned? Could congress do something to make things move again despite Trump's decision?
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So i tried logging in through other common browsers that people who wouldn't really care much about privacy and trackers and it usually takes less than about a minute to get it. Trying it with Tor browser requires too much patience. As crosswalks, chimneys, cars, bicycles, traffic lights, Fire hydrants etc keep flying in and you keep identifying them, then this  happens. It means i have to start over again after solving nearly over 20 captchas. So FatBen gets over it and tries again, same thing happens over and over again. I have never noticed this kind of things in other browsers and my internet connection is so stable. What i would really love to understand is; - Does google or cloudfare selectively and intentionally "punish" users of certain browsers like Tor? - Do this captcha challenges vary from user to user? or does one's rank also determine how much captchas one is supposed to deal with when logging in? I haven't been so much in the forum because of this problem. logging in was challenging. I did login through brave browser and there were a number of captcha to though they finally let me in but i would really prefer to do my stuff from Tor Yes Cloudflare punishes Tor users, and challenges them with Google's ReCaptcha. This has been mitigated somewhat, and Cloudflare customers can enable a special option to alleviate the issue:  https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-onion-service/It isn't so much Tor Browser (which always use Tor) but any browser using Tor would get the same treatment. Some more recent versions of chromium/firefox behave a little better, but if you configure them to use Tor, you will see the same thing. Cloudflare wants the opposite of privacy, it wants to distinguish you from others, so it can block you if you are a bot. The other browsers leave more traces and you are easier to distinguish, so it lets you in faster. BTW you haven't seen the worst of it. Don't ever, EVER run a Tor exit node from an IP you intend to browse the internet with in the following months... If you see connection lost message with recaptcha, just use the refresh button. Repeated captchas and grainy images means they don't like you, you are not distinguishable enough from others (yet)... I'm willing to bet if you change the browser http headers for something more unique (all Tor Browsers identify nearly exactly the same), making you more finger printable, it would let you in faster. Here you can check how hard to identify you are: https://panopticlick.eff.org/Perfect privacy means you can be a bot planning to flood the forum with spam. That is the dilemma... |
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Solve both of the problems in the OP by running a pruned node, and don't mine blocks. Then you can run your own node, and get all the flexibility and control it gives. Running a pruned node "solves" the storage issue, but not the bandwidth and time it needs to sync, since it does download the entire blockchain. I'm running little test here and bitcoin-core seems to be using about 2.2gb of data with prune=550 so far (on year 2015) Thankfully OP can just run a light wallet like Electrum and be done with it... |
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i think electric car must push to sell in the market...because car is environment friendly, no smoke, that can cause lots of deases, wish there's a campany that intruduse or manufacture it in the market world So you don't know about Tesla Motors? Where have you been living in the past decade? This company single handedly pushed nearly all the auto manufacturers into electric, because they (now) don't want to be left out...  Gasoline allows you to give more power to the machine than electricity Oh really? Name me how many gas guzzlers can get you from 0 to 60 under 2 seconds? AND The tow a Boeing 787? The Tesla Model X P100D can... |
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Heres the first part of the kernal log. Machine: Altera SOCFPGA, model: Altera SOCFPGA Cyclone V
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Memory: 1008MB = 1008MB total Mine is: Machine model: Xilinx Zynq
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Memory: 884148K/1032192K available We both have 1024 mb of ram... Well that explains why the AB firmware won’t install for zachj00, it’s only compatible with the Xilinx boards. I wasn’t sure if he could get the 2017-04-28 FW, so was checking to see if his board didn’t have the requisite 512 or 1024 mb of ram. Zach, can you tell us exactly what your R4 overview page says for your File System Version? I’m curious if you’re on a different 2017 FW that BM no longer allows us to download. Miner Type Antminer R4 Hostname antMiner Model GNU/Linux Hardware Version 15.0.1.3 Kernel Version Linux 3.10.31-ltsi-00003-gcf03eb9 #81 SMP Mon Apr 25 11:20:36 CST 2016 File System Version Sat Apr 29 20:06:46 EDT 2017 Bitmain is showing both Antminer-R4-all-201704270142-autofreq-user-Update2UBI-NF.tar.gz and Antminer-R4-all-201704280718-autofreq-user-Update2UBI-NF.tar.gz, but the date for "file system version" seems close enough... I wonder why Bitmain chose to leave both online if April 28 fixes "a bug of memory leak" from April 27? BTW: My Hardware Version is 30.0.1.3 |
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He/she/they chose to be anonymous, and they left a gift that changed human history.
The simple answer is: Because he/she/they could, and decided to do so.
Whoever made it doesn't matter, the genie is out of the bottle, and the world changed, and will keep changing, because we are only witnessing the very beginning. Sooner than later, we are going to be paid and pay with bitcoin, without any exchanging. Then we would have advanced as civilization.
Fiat currencies will become a thing of the past, and perhaps some failed schools of economy that depend on perpetual inflation and debt...
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I cannot believe some people are still falling to these cheap scams. Ignorance and greed are deadly combinations even in crypto. These are the same statistics that move spammers as well. Say, if only "2%" of the victims pay, they are making a fortune... Sad but true, the net is filled with scammers/phishers/spammers etc. Same thing goes to the malware that encrypts part of your data and demand a quick ransom for release, to make you panic and not give you time to confirm or research online about it. Most just bluff, but some do harm, especially to popular insecure OSes and some buggy email clients (or web browsers) that like to "display" attachments... I have seen the like of those not just in emails, but also social media, etc. Best way is to ignore them, send them to the spam folder, etc. |
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I am not clear about altcoin system. I actually want to know about altcoin. I am new in digital currency market. So I want to know more about digital currency. Bitcoin is the original cryptocurrency. Altcoin is a generic term to define all the other coins that followed. There are so many of them that you have no choice but to research each one individually for their merit or disadvantage. The forum area to talk about those is: [ DO NOT POST SESC LINKS #6]Alternate cryptocurrencies[/url] Bitcoin is another free open source project. Anyone can take the code, do some changes and release a new coin. That is why there are so many of them. Of course, the market decides if they have any value or not, and how much or little. Many simply wanted to be as successful as bitcoin was, but regret not being there when it all started, hoping to make a new coin to see if they too could make a fortune. But in the end they didn't get as much value as bitcoin, and all of them together are still moving less fiat equivalent money than bitcoin alone. But of course you are free to make your own choices. Just remember to use the designated area for that purpose. This forum was originally bitcoin alone, that's why its got "bitcoin" in its name  |
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It is very good to see that today I am a Jr member. It is a very interesting thing for me. I am now a target member. I'd like to wear a signature now. What should I do now? Waiting for signature campaign or starting a bounty campaign. Which will be beneficial? Many people have told me that bounty campaign does not make any profit. Hmm how about using the forum as a forum and stop worrying about your rank? It will come to you when the time is right. I think if you engage in normal discussions, those who can give you merits will. I think some of the signature campaigns even allow jr members, but since your signature space is very limited, don't expect a fortune in return... Also the campaign managers want quality messages anyway, you might as well practice beforehand... |
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Your "bitmain-freq" and "bitmain-voltage" set up is wrong. Look at the first page again and the bitmain freq should be set to 1 and for bitmain-voltage it should be set to 200. BitMaxz, where did you got this information from? According to sources online, what thierry4wd and others are trying to tell you is correct. Its not "1", but the actual frequency. You (or whoever you copied this from) might have found a bug that happens to set it to max frequency... Although I don't know what changes Bitmain did, you could ask the cgminer developer what this value is supposed to do... |
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Actually, I'm also a long-time holder and I still want to hope that despite the rapid fall in the price, Bitcoin will still survive  Obviously it will survive. But needs to be seen whether five digit exchange rates can be reached again. I'm sure it will, but it should not be soon, because if it comes quick, it leaves quick. If it comes slowly (naturally), it will also remain or not deviate too much from it. Bitcoin is maturing... |
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I added more functions: How about: Paint the price green, if its higher than the last, or red if its lower (and black for same)? You could also add some arrows for the colorblind people: ⇑ ⇓ ⇔ |
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I think human lifespan could be further increased a little bit, but not true immortality. It might involve gene manipulation, which is already in a grey area. Also i can imagine nanotechnology to fight diseases and repair the body (making surgery obsolete).
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Anyone using a VPN able to view bitmain site?
Why do you need a VPN to visit Bitmain's site? |
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Well 1 of 2 m10's are hadhing away. Just prepping the space so i can get the second online.
Pretty pumped to get myself over 100 TH once all is said and done. At least until spring, but a little luck and some planning i might be able to stay up there. The M10 are solid runners, you should be able to do it just fine. The 31T model looks so nice with that price... The S15 are supposedly more efficient, but only slightly. |
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There was no need for you to waste time with altcoins, bitcoin is becoming even better for business and small "Lightning" payments There are definitely other factors at play here And we have already seen them in action. People won't pay with Bitcoin for things you mention (like daily necessities or haircut), even if it would cost them nothing in terms of fees and time. But it doesn't mean either that Bitcoin will be useless and worthless. It will just turn into digital gold (it is not yet) but without gold's shortcomings and deficiencies. And this is where altcoins are going to pick up the lead as with Bitcoin being new gold (a store of value), using altcoins as change money would make perfect sense I have actually bought things with bitcoin, just not daily needs directly. Indirectly by selling for fiat, yes. Once LN becomes universal in wallets, i see no reason not to pay little things directly as well, as long as the business accepts BTC. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say, pay for things in satoshis, especially if as you say, the value of bitcoin will keep going up. Unlike gold that remains mostly fixed in place... Gold itself used to be used for payment, but it got so expensive that it got tricky to pay small amounts with it. Bitcoin doesn't have that problem, not only has 8 decimals already, but can quickly be expanded into 16, should a time come where a single satoshi becomes too much money. |
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Agreed, not much you can do except for trying to educate people and push them in the right direction. No legal recourse can be taken unlike in my scenario (though I don't think many people do get punished for selling fake rolex watches, although it's not something I know too much about!).
Education is the way. A fork is an altcoin, they can try to steal the bitcoin name but they can't because they came later, MUCH later. You can order clones of almost anything from China, with varying qualities. For a small fee, they can stamp anything as the "brand". If you attempt to resell that in another country where counterfeiting is forbidden, you might get in trouble; for selling in those countries the clients usually just stamp another brand. This is not related to free open source software of course. Forks are welcome and part of the ecosystem, but its up to you to make your fork "better", and for the people to welcome it. Sometimes forks add ideas that get implemented in the main tree, sometimes they dissolve as nobody wants them. Its part of the freedom of free software. If you copy Linux, change its name and say its yours, the community will immediately denounce you for plagiarism. The correct etiquette when forking a project, is to give credit where credit is due. Some licenses make this obligatory, and some even require you to publish back your source code. Calling the forks "Bitcoin" is a blatant lie. They have officially different names, although they use "Bitcoin" as part of their name, they are not. |
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I've searched the forums, and the variations of this question are not often specific enough to get a solid answer, so here's my situation and question;
If I have an older MacBook that I no longer use but that works great, and I have it reset to factory specs, then install a wallet on it, and use that computer as a "cold" wallet, with all wifi and wireless settings turned off, and only physically plug the laptop in when going online (20 minutes here and there) and unplugging it... could that be considered safe enough to be a secure place to store BTC or other crypto?
A MacBook and it's settings is something I'm familiar with, have an extra, and like being able to put different kinds of wallets on it.
I'm not talking about connecting to wifi now and then, I'm talking about ONLY plugging in the ethernet cable when going into the wallet and unplugging it when I'm finished. If I have the spare laptop (can't sell it, it has sentimental value but I have a newer, faster one I use daily) would the experienced on here say that's a secure way to store coins? You can't call that an "offline" wallet, but you can make it a secure laptop. Then I'd say, sure; because you can remove OSX and put Linux on it A true offline wallet is something like a piece of paper with your seed words (privatekey) written by hand, and your addresses so you know where to send funds to. By using any online blockchain explorer you can simply verify any transactions done to it. The day you want to move funds out of it... It becomes "online" because you are installing the wallet software "somewhere" and activating it. This should, ideally be done with a live iso, because YOU WANT everything to disappear afterwards. So the short answer to your question is: No, you can't. And yes, believe it or not it is possible to boot USB sticks or optical media from "macs", which is all you need to boot something decent like Linux where you should perform any offline wallet creation, or manipulation. Even if OSX can better than windows, its by no means secure. Besides Apple loves to drop support to older models, you are better getting rid of it sooner than later when your updates stop coming... |
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