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461  Economy / Speculation / Re: BTC Falling to mid 3K Will it go down more? on: December 08, 2018, 10:06:10 AM

At this point, support levels are irrelevant because we're getting closer to the last bottom. So forget about looking for support as its not a good indication for now. Well 2017 was a bubble and it peak when we almost touch $20,000 and then followed by the bearish trend, which makes this another cycle. The only question is when will the next cycle starts? Well, it could be as early Q1 2019, so just prepared for the worst scenario (bottoming) and best scenario (start of the bull run).

Lol says who? How can people assume and claim such facts with that much confidence blows me away, I hope you actually have money on the line and you're not just rambling away at spreading information. We are not getting close to the last bottom, in case there's yet another dip (which there definitely is, it's not avoidable at this point), once it stops, it's the same scenario that happened at mid 4k$, it's either going to hold itself for long enough to become a bull, or we're going to yet again, dip.

I definitely don't think we're going to see "The bottom" yet. Two or three red candles that take us all the way down to sub 2k is not something unexpectable. I hope I'm wrong.. if not, I just hope it won't take too long so that all of this can be over and we start going upwards again.
462  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Friendly advice/warning about gambling in this market on: December 07, 2018, 05:21:35 PM
Gambling is always risky and when it comes to crypto gambling they have extra risk that prices of cryptos can fall any time so think before entering into any sites.Or just convert your crypto into stable coins after you got winning.


Stable coins? And which ones would that be?



Even the ETHorses are running away from their stables at this point.

For unexperienced people converting to anything will probably only worsen their losses. Converting to fiat would be a good option, but it's pointless if they're going to still gamble with their money in the close future, might as well just hodl and stack any winnings.
463  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: ⚽🏆 Cloudbet's Super 6 Soccer Predictor Competition - Free Entry - Win BTC! 🏆⚽ on: December 07, 2018, 04:37:44 PM
Sorry I'm late! Thanks for the PM reminder.

Chelsea v Man City 2:1
Leicester v Tottenham 0:2
Espanyol v Barcelona 1:3
At. Madrid v Alaves 2:0
Hertha v Eintract 1:1
Juventus v Int. Milan 3:1
464  Economy / Speculation / Re: What to expect from Bitcoin after the last BTC gets mined? on: December 07, 2018, 12:42:59 PM

Lolz, so haven't you seen the already up BTC 2.0 or 3.0? Bitcoin TRash, Bitcoin Diamond, Bitcoin Gold, etc. and many other forks off Bitcoin are not to be considered as other type of BTC with some upgraded/enhanced coding according to their devs? Aren't you aware of the fact that those who were mining BTC (giants), publicly warned and wanted everyone to drive their hash towards BCH? I guess nothing in this world would be able to snatch the power of BTC in terms of mining, and even if it does, it won't remain profitable for longer time (at least not for a decade in its own genre of SHA256 category).

Honestly the bitcoin has reached a level of adoption so massive it's really hard to dethrone it anymore. A lot of people mine bitcoin just because it's the most used coin in the market with a lot of options to exchange into "real" money. And it helps that miners couldn't give half an ass about whatever drama is going on.

So regardless of whatever drama occurs, there can only be two scenarios :

1. A hard fork occurs with massive consensus to completely DROP chains that don't commit to the fork. The "consensus" part can only happen if there's some major security risk involved with old bitcoin, or if there is some huge improvement in the new chain.

2. Another "BCH drama". Any kind of issue that doesn't have consensual feedback from the vast majority of nodes (51% isn't even close), will always end up with 2 coins, the forked one, and bitcoin.
465  Economy / Services / Re: [FULL] ChipMixer Signature Campaign | 0.00075 BTC/post on: December 07, 2018, 10:34:30 AM
Congratulations Lucius and oeleo.

Hard competition.

I will keep trying until acceptedone day. This is the best campaign in my opinion.

Yeah, a lot of people here make good posts. Great of DarkStar_ to add 3 instead of 2.

And yes like you said, this is the one of the BTCest camBTCaigns on the forums BTCy far.
466  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: HAVE PAYPAL NEED BTC on: December 06, 2018, 03:57:56 PM
bump
467  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread (EPL) on: December 06, 2018, 01:55:30 PM
Even though Arsenal allowed Manchester United to equalize twice in the match yesterday, and the equalizer goal scored by Jesse Lingard might just show the sloppy defense of Arsenal which needs more improvement,

While I absolutely hate how Arsenal gave 2 free goals, (I also don't think it's acceptable compared to their performance so far); I wouldn't blame it all on "sloppy defense". Mourinho probably pushed Utd to play a very aggressive tactic, he didn't let Arsenal have any chances. With 3 yellow cards and 13 fouls, every time Arsenal had a chance of a counter-attack, Utd just fouled to break their momentum and keep them from scoring. De Gea also picked up his pace by a mile at the end, basically saving Utd by a thread twice from ending with a 2-3.. I honestly hated the game but there's no denying it was completely Arsenal's fault for both goals on them.
468  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: HUGE PROBLEM, LOST MASSIVE AMOUNT OF BTC. 100 BTC is Reward on: December 05, 2018, 08:04:23 PM

But it does get deleted, doesn't it? Huh

Watch from 1:48 here: https://youtu.be/8BOxflDzhgU?t=108

He renames the "wallet.TIMESTAMP.bak" (the now very corrupt wallet) back to "wallet.dat"... then tries to start Bitcoin Core... then at 1:58 he states "And see what happens now. It.. is.. deleting the wallet.. It's not there any more"... and you can see that the wallet.dat is deleted... Bitcoin Core then finishes starting up and a new wallet.dat is created. "It puts a completely new wallet file in there".

This would seem to be the OPs real problem... he no longer has his original wallet.dat file, corrupted or otherwise. Undecided

The file gets deleted if you let bitcoin-qt overwrite it. If it's overwritten nothing can bring it back. It's lost, scanning for metadata of deleted files on the drive is a lost cause after so many years because the more you delete and use the disk the more bits are going to get changed.

What I understood when he says it's deleted is that bitcoin-qt creates a new one instead of trying to open the old corrupt one, but he kept the old files. He just cant open them using bitcoin-qt with risk of deletion.

On the contrary, I never said the software was useless or didn't work... I was just pointing out that the video was a little confusing.

The software is actually very useful and it's nice to have an updated "pywallet"-type key recovery utility that plays nicely with the newer wallet.dat format, but unfortunately, I don't think that it is able to help the OP given their specific circumstances.

i'm sure even pywallet would have a hard time extracting keys from deleted files / disk metadata, it's just one big blob of bits. It's probably much more efficient to get a serious recovery tool that works for that specific purpose to correctly retrieve the deleted data, and then try to scan it for bits.

But bottom line, OP is gone, he was probably lying, or just faking this for attention. Who knows, it's been almost 4 days since his last login.. If I had that much money on the line I wouldn't sleep for more than one hour without waking up in the middle of the night.
469  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: Looking to buy $20 bitcoin with paypal. $20 paypal for .0052 on: December 05, 2018, 06:51:34 PM
NO NEWBS. UNLESS THEY SEND FIRST. ALSO I WANT RESPONSE PISTED TO THREAD FOR SECURITY PURPOSE  

USER: Star Free Light (newb) pm me saying he has some and is refusing to post to thread lol I am not stupid responses here first!

I have bitcoins for you!

You're completely free to put some red trust on that user at this point. He is nothing but a time waster that just speaks nonsense and bluffs that he agrees to an escrow while he's only trying to scam. It's a shame he bought copper membership because at this point he's just wasting that five bucks.
470  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: Selling my 0.04 BTC for WU or Paypal on: December 05, 2018, 12:18:29 PM
I can do preev.com, will send you a pm
471  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: HAVE PAYPAL NEED BTC on: December 04, 2018, 11:58:29 PM
You can buy from me.

I think its funny how people buying with paypal are not willing to go first even to new members.  

Sending bitcoin first and you gets scamed, you are fucked.

Sending paypal first and getting scamed, you can get your money back.

Thats why i never ever go first when selling bitcoin, but i can do it when im buying with paypal. And i have got my money back the few times i got scamed.

I wish it were that easy. That exact line is the argument of every Paypal scammer out there. Read this :


When you send paypal balance to someone, and they decide to scam you, you're as handtied as anyone in trying to get your money back. "Oh you can just chargeback", no. You can't just chargeback, the receiver can instantly withdraw the money to his card, to his bank, and you're stuck spending more than two weeks dragging a case through paypal support because the receiver took your balance and your coins. This is from experience, I ONLY got the money back because the other person was a serial scammer pulling a massive exit, and his word was worth less than mine from so many chargebacks on his account (which I'm sure was disabled with negative balance), while Paypal took my side because I never raised a support case before.

So yes, for everyone selling btc, theres a long risk of chargeback for up to 2 months, which is understandable, but that doesnt mean you can leverage that risk to claim priority. Trust comes first, both ways. Stay safe.

Paypal scams are very easy to accomplish. I send you money first, you withdraw it to your bank in less than 24 hours, and I'm fucked chasing the shadow of my money back, which I might receive, but even if I do, you already achieved your goal, and you don't give 2 fucks about a limited or frozen paypal account.

I would definitely go first with trusted members, but you're not even close to convincing me with that tone saying "Thats why i never ever go first when selling bitcoin", because no thanks, I don't want the stress and the extra waste of time for 20 days.
472  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: HAVE PAYPAL NEED BTC on: December 04, 2018, 10:33:15 PM
Exercise caution if considering trading with this person and ensure you read their trust wall comments (and who posted them)

Beware of PayPal and other reversible transfer services https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=14632.0

Thanks! I'd wish people would actually read my trust wall Smiley I've done a lot of Paypal trades before up to 2 BTC which are way back the chargeback periods with no problems, and even recent ones with an off-forum member, so.. yeah!
473  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: HUGE PROBLEM, LOST MASSIVE AMOUNT OF BTC. 100 BTC is Reward on: December 04, 2018, 09:49:24 PM

So, that would be a no then... it is only searching files that the file system can actually find?

No idea what you even mean. I'm not going to get into an argument with you about what happens to data when it's deleted. About how OSX is a Unix-based system where metadata for unlinked files is automatically cleared on shutdown. About how your derisive tone is really not helping your case.

Which means that, unfortunately, your app is not likely to help the OP... who doesn't have a wallet file any more... if you watch their demo video, you'll see that they're demonstrating how their wallet file got deleted and then a completely new (and empty) wallet file was created by Bitcoin Core when they renamed the "wallet.TIMESTAMP.bak" file to wallet.dat and started their old version of Bitcoin Core.

That's not the problem. The file doesn't get deleted in the video. The problem is that when he renames it while bitcoin-qt is running, and tries to open it again, it's corrupt.

But your video doesn't really seem to show that. As far as I could tell, you "found" a bunch of "uncompressed" private keys ("5JHmj...")... but then you demonstrated "dumpprivkey" using the "compressed" address which gave a completely different private key ("KYK2R...").  You then did the same thing after using the "getnewaddress" command.

I don't know about anyone else... but, personally, I found it a little bit confusing. Just saying, it might have been better to highlight the same key/address in both places rather than mixing the compressed/uncompressed ones. Wink

Compressed or uncompressed keys are both derived from the same elliptic curve signature. I really don't like how you're insisting this hard on arguing over banalities. The private key is stored in bitcoin-qt  https://iancoleman.io/bitcoin-key-compression/ This is one of many links to show you the link between all the ways private keys are stored.

In addition, I added exporting of both compressed and uncompressed keys to my software. By all means if you think the software is useless or doesn't help solve OP's problem, you are welcome to making your own, or contributing to mine with whatever function you see I might have missed. Thank you.
474  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 10 Real places where you can spend your Bitcoins today on: December 04, 2018, 07:58:22 PM
IndieGala, a well established seller of Steam game keys, accepts Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Litecoin, and even give extra discounts if you buy with a cryptocurrency.

They are running a promotion right now, the "December Crypto Sale":

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/indiegala#announcements/detail/1715205666464630284


That's actually pretty neat. It's a shame indiegala doesn't really include many AAA games to discount from, but I might actually get Deponia. Hopefully they might add more titles later..
475  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Drownhim.com P⃢R⃢O⃢M⃢O⃢T⃢E⃢ A⃢N⃢D⃢ P⃢L⃢A⃢Y⃢ 250 Bits Giveaway on: December 04, 2018, 03:15:25 PM
facebook...

https://www.facebook.com/KilLaHpG/posts/10161249740635602

drownhim username: Krype89

number of rounds played...: 300-400 maybe? not sure .. where do i see that lol

thank you in advance

You can right click your username in any room!

You should get a popup like this one :



Glad you're enjoying the game! Seems like you picked it up pretty quickly too Smiley
476  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: findwallet - Bitcoin Core Wallet Finder on: December 04, 2018, 03:05:08 PM
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/52-percent-of-all-javascript-npm-packages-could-have-been-hacked-via-weak-credentials/

Just watch out with NPM right now many of the packages on there are hosting malware or wallet stealers.


This is the most recent one..

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/26/npm_repo_bitcoin_stealer/

Thanks for the heads up, while I did have a good laugh from all the memes here : https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues

This is genuinely concerning. Mainly because event-stream is not just a small-time package, the fact that a dev infiltrated it and managed to sneak malicious code through the eyes of a dozen other developers is very very bad. ESPECIALLY because this wont just affect the package itself, but pretty much all the other ones depending on it.

For now findwallet is relatively small, I'm definitely going to try and chop off as many dependencies I can for this exact reason. Thanks again!
477  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Vanitygen: Vanity bitcoin address generator/miner [v0.22] on: December 04, 2018, 12:19:13 PM

The intel graphics do not support open CL you need an AMD or Nvidia card.
-Dave

Are you sure about that?

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/opencl-drivers#proc-graph-section

Intel has OpenCL runtimes for both their GPU and CPU processors.

This seems to be a bug that occured 5 years ago too : https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen/issues/38

Check the fix there if it might work for you. Or change to one of the forks mentioned in the issue..
478  Economy / Speculation / Re: What to expect from Bitcoin after the last BTC gets mined? on: December 04, 2018, 10:14:33 AM
To those of you who think we can't live till 2140, think twice before saying that. It's our destiny and we may even live up to a 100 years if our will power is strong enough, so discussing about value of BTC after final BTC getting mined will not really harm anybody's emotions.
I'm sure that most of the people here are so stressed out about the bear market and their paper losses, and will continue to be during the next cycles, that they lost and will continue to lose a couple of years worth of their life.

In all fairness, most of the price growth that Bitcoin is going through is well beyond what it is actually worth, so no doubt the price will continue to follow what it has been doing since the very beginning.

The past is all we have, and as time goes by, it turns out that the past is the best indicator of what will be happening in the future. It doesn't have to be a 1:1 movement, the fact that the movements rhyme tells me enough.

That is a pretty dark bombshell to throw in just like that. I could agree that technologically, bitcoin could be behind newer coins that offer more features. But if that were the cause of its devaluation, it should have happened way before it hit 20k, so why do you think that bitcoin is over-valuated while we're at 3k, even though we've actually hit 20?
479  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: HUGE PROBLEM, LOST MASSIVE AMOUNT OF BTC. 100 BTC is Reward on: December 04, 2018, 09:44:09 AM

or is your app scanning the actual raw bits on the disk?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5071775   Cheesy

Also, just FYI, the reason why you were getting different addresses when you were attempting to validate the extracted keys using bitaddress, was because you were using the "compressed" addresses from bitaddress with dumpprivkey... but your software is spitting out uncompressed private keys (start with a "5") Wink

 Grin Do you really think I would have gotten this far if I didn't know the difference. bitcoin core stores the ECDSA private key, I'm computing the uncompressed key from it myself, (and I added even compressed keys later). The point of the video was to prove that those addresses were actually stored in that bitcoin core wallet, rather than fake/generated elsewhere.
480  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: findwallet - Bitcoin Core Wallet Finder on: December 04, 2018, 01:33:11 AM
Updated version of the software!

Taken from the package url : https://www.npmjs.com/package/findwallet

Quote from: KingZee
Release History

    2.0.0
        Added extraction functionality! If the wallet is not encrypted, the program will export both compressed and uncompressed private keys to a text file in the same folder.

findwallet can now extract your private keys if the wallet is not encrypted! It will create them by default and store them in a text file within the same folder where it discovered the wallet files.

I have tested the build on my Windows, and linux machines, and it's working great! Let me know if any issues arise. Cheers.
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