Forgive me, but I somehow doubt this.

To get 20 percent montly increase on your investment means to get a yearly rate of unbelievable 792% (if my math is right).

I cannot take seriously anyone who promises me such huge returns.

It's not surprising that the European Union, as a strong bureaucratic state, will try to regulate the crypto space in all ways that it can.

But I didn't think that they would go as far as to prevent its member state from introducing its own cryptocurrency:

Source: https://blog.amon.tech/bitcoin-and-cryptocurrencies-regulation-in-europe/

Just visited the link and I can confirm this. So a word of caution: don't click on the website link.

The question is does the OP want to trick people into using their computer's CPU power without asking or not?

If the second is true, you should immediately make the necessary changes and ask for permission first!

Somehow I doubt that the intentions are honest. You have listed BTC, LTC as minable coins, which is out of the question for CPU mining even if you trick a lot of users into joining your program.

It looks very interesting. I might give it a try.

So the code is written in javascript, right? What about Ruby, where is it needed? On the github page, you mention Ruby and Gems as part of the requirements. I've never worked with the Ruby platform before and it could be trickier to install, at least for me.

Your question has been answered so many times here on the forum. For example, start here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4227118.0

Also, Andreas has a nice explanation of this topic in his book Mastering Bitcoin:

Source: https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/ch10.asciidoc The emphasis is mine

ETH Classic is sort of the losing side in the battle with ETH. Or, you can say that ETH Classic was the moral winner, sticking with the immutability of the Ethereum blockchain.

ETH, on the other hand, hard forked to deal with the DAO hack in an easy way. They attracted the majority of users and became a defacto winner in this battle. Had they not done so, probably we wouldn't have had these countless Dapps running on Etherium. But in doing so, they compromised the most important principle of immutability of the blockchain.

You can argue that both of them are shitcoins. I don't hold and wouldn't invest in any of them, but if I had to choose, my preference goes to ETH classic.

How about a proper bounty campaign? One that would include twitter, facebook, creative content campaign (youtube, blog posts, articles), and a signature campaign.

In order to eliminate (or greatly reduce) spam and bots, don't run the campaign on your own. Hire an experienced bounty manager. I've worked with some of them who have zero tolerance for spam.

I don't see much use of airdrops. I personally rarely take part in them. There is too much noise, with little or no real promotion for you.

I see, thanks for clearing this up. So P2SH addresses are the ones that actually enable complex scripting necessary for multisignatures.

So better to stick to mutlisig wallets. Just a thought. Given that some opcodes are disabled on the Bitcoin network, it could still happen that a complex script made by hand isn't currently redeemable after all.

To summarize point 2, in practice, the 3 of 4 wallet could be an easy solution.

Thank you all for your replies.

In their official FAQ, one of the conditions for listing is the following:


They don't explicitly state what this non-zero trading volume should be.

I also was under the impression that they require a volume of at least $100,000 per day (or $50,000 according to some sources), but it seems that they have removed this criterion:

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinmarketcap-rehauls-exchange-listings-in-response-to-controversies-over-skewed-volumes

So basically they say that the volume can be manipulated, so they don't have it as a strict requirement. But, it's hard to believe that they won't internally somehow estimate the volume and still use it as one of the necessary requirement.

I agree that the opposite should be true as well. To delist the coin once it shows signs of inactivity.

I'm a total beginner when it comes to multisig addresses and wallets, so I would appreciate some help from the community.

1. I know that you can make a P2SH (pay to script hash) address that can be redeemed by a multisig script. But can you create a multisig wallet for P2PKH addresses? 

I see that Electrum has this option (it asks for standard vs Segwit multisig wallet). It is somehow not clear to me how the output script is redeemed in the first case, as we have to have a hash of a multisig script, not a hash of a public key.

2. Second, I wasn't able to find a decisive answer, so probably what I'm suggesting is not possible. But it won't hurt to ask.

Let's say I want to make a multisig 2 of 3. Is there a way to make one of the signatures mandatory?

This would be convenient in hypothetical situations like the following. Let's say the money belongs to me, but I want to involve other people (to possibly improve security) so I create a multisig address 2 of 3:

• the 1st key is held by me
• the 2nd key is held by a relative
• the 3rd key is held by a friend.

If the first key is mandatory, my relative and my friend cannot conspire against me and steal my money.

Is there a place in the redeem script for complex logic that is probably needed to define what keys are optional and what mandatory?

After some consideration, it occurred to me that what I'm trying to achieve can be done by a 3 out of 4 multisig:

• the 1st key is held by me
• the 2nd key is held by me
• the 3rd key is held by a relative
• the 4th key is held by a friend.

so the dilemma is solved, but still the question remains, can there be a mandatory signature in a multisig solution?

Thanks in advance and sorry if some of these questions are dumb or obvious.

I second that. If you are going to trade futures, there's no better exchange. Here is a nice list of bitcoin futures exchanges

http://www.bestbitcoinexchange.net/futures/

with an overview of their pros and cons, trading fees, types of trading, etc. Still, I would stick with bitmex.


You can't trade futures on those exchanges.

Binance, for example, plans to include futures trading in the near future, along with margin trading, DEX, and some other features.

It doesn't mean anything. To see this, you you can compare the cryptocurrency market cap with all the other money markets. You will see that even at its ATH, the crypto market cap was ridiculously small. Compare it, for example, with Fed's balance sheet of about $4.2 trillion, or with the broad fiat money supply of around $90.4 trillion, or with derivatives market of $544 trillion.

There is a nice infographics for this comparison which is too large to embed here, but it's worth taking a look at:

http://i0.wp.com/money.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/all-the-worlds-money-mp-infographic-1360.png?w=1360

All this considering, cryptocurrencies represent just a small drop in the global pond of word's money. This also means that the crypto market cap has plenty of space to grow, and IMO it will grow well into the trillion range in the future.

According to the article it's just a lightweight wallet for ADA that you can install as a Google Chrome Extension. IMO it's nothing new or revolutionary. We have such wallets for other currencies, Metamask for ETH, etc.  

Now if they can integrate this wallet with third party applications for online payments, that could mean something. In any case, they will have to do a great job with respect to security because this wallet will have to run as a client side application (javascript). As such, it will probably be susceptible to malware, phishing, and other malicious attacks.  

You are right. The total supply has already crossed the limit projected by Vitalik in his reddit post:


So now, Vitalik proposes to limit the total supply to about 120 million:


or even 140 million coins:


Obviously, one of the most important attribute of a well designed currency is scarcity, and the ETH community has to find a way to limit the supply. Currently, they have an inflation rate of approximately 10 percent per year. IMO, that's too much.

I don't know much about these coins, but I managed to find a sort of warning thread about VeChain on BCT (maybe it's just FUD, who knows). So it's not easy to tell if you should trust this coin or not, but you should certainly look at it from all possible sides. Also check out this thread for a much more balanced discussion. 

Sorry to hear about this. Could it be that you've been targeted by a phishing attack?

Metamask is known to be vulnerable to phishing in case your computer has been compromised. Were there any other tabs opened in your browser? For example, a phishing may occur when other tabs are active during the transaction that you are trying to make. The attacker may use a tab to get access to your ETH address. With this knowledge, the attacker can retrieve the entire transaction you are currently making (this is a public record on the blockchain), and use this information against the you in various phishing schemes. 

Did you notice any pop-ups, failed transaction notifications, or similar out of the ordinary events?

Here is a quote from the article that I believe nicely illustrates the point here:

Source: https://finrazor.com/news/reporting-bugs-in-the-era-of-cryptocurrencies

All this just goes to show how critical cryptocurrency programming is. You have to have first class programmers, or you are willing to put huge amounts of money at stake. Once I heard Jameson Lopp in a podcast talking about bitcoin programming. He was comparing bitcoin programming to rocket science -- there is no room for mistake in either of them.

I don't think 2.5 minutes is a low enough block time to explain what's happening to your pool. There has to be something else at play. If you can easily switch to mining another coin with different characteristics, you may be able to check if it also gives you a lot of orphaned blocks and narrow down on the possible source of error.

Some coins with block times that are relatively short and with high network hashrate (compared to your pool hashrate) may give you a lot of orphaned blocks.

I have no idea if that's the case with your coin and your pool. BTW, what coin are you mining?

Edit: I just noticed that you wrote LCC. Is it Litecoin Cash? It has a relatively small block time of 2.5 minutes, but I have no idea about the total hashrate.

I don't think so. It's the other way around, you keep your PC secure from all the bad things that may happen if you install some insecure software in the Virtual Machine.

Read this post:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2264427.msg22944253#msg22944253