You can try contacting some miners and asking them to include your transaction for an additional fee. You can try contacting macbook-air or Quickseller.

Your transaction is spending from an unconfirmed transaction. It cannot confirm until the unconfirmed transaction it spends from also confirms. That transaction is also in the same situation. The chain of transactions leads back to these three transactions: https://blockchain.info/tx/7a917cb57e56907bdb2438d3a0c97b764523d6673f5609141fa7f148a240b177, https://blockchain.info/tx/612348191383451a8f8f7a5fc77606537c1b77c5ea4fead5d4894afbe5d9344c, https://blockchain.info/tx/8461791798e5d7fea1b351afade20dfe3249cfaf6f2e5288f9935fc69421d249 and all three of these have a relatively low transaction fee.

Lightning will probably be a separate software. A node in this case is not really a node in the sense of a full node, but rather a person who has many open channels with other people and payments can thus be routed through you. If you are a node, you could take a fee for routing payments.

Your fee is too low. You paid a fee of ~44 satoshis per byte. According to http://bitcoinfees.21.co/ a fee high enough to get your transaction to confirm quickly is 110 satoshis per byte.

You can only earn at most 14 activity for every two week period that you post in.

Use the search function, this has been asked to death already.

I added an indicator for SMAS blacklisting. If the account being priced is on the SMAS blacklist, it will be marked as so for both Normal and Merchant modes.

I have also fixed the posted address scanner so that it gets all posted addresses. Apparently it was not doing this before.

I feel like they would like those kind of posts so they can run around screaming about how there is a backlog and that block sizes need to be raised immediately.

Anyways, reddit is very conducive to censorship by the majority due to down voting which thus hides dissenting opinions.

You have to have control of the VPN and be able to open and forward ports. You need to be able to allow traffic from port 8333 on your VPN to port 8333 to your computer.

You could also run your node over Tor and allow incoming connections to a hidden service that is started by Bitcoin Core.

Get better hardware.

I believe that BIP 134: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0134.mediawiki is very similar to this, but taking things to the next level (so to speak). It is a bit more complex but in theory it shrinks transactions quite a bit by removing a lot of unnecessary bytes.

Note that any such change would be a hard fork. Furthermore, AFAIK, BIP 134 has not received a lot of review and testing yet from multiple developers.

You should be using p2sh nested segwit addresses. The segwit scripts are the "redeemscript" of a p2sh address. Since all wallets today can use p2sh, this lets wallets without segwit still be able to send to you and you can take advantage of segwit.

AFAIK you don't need anything related to python if you just want to run ArmoryDB. That is entirely c++ code.

How so? The lightning paper doesn't say anything about that. In fact, it says that closing a channel can be done by broadcasting one of the many channel closing transactions that are created during each transaction in the channel.

The internet is essentially p2p already. The internet does not really have any central nodes which everything must pass through that enables censorship. What does enable censorship is that connections to the internet are essentially peer to peer with only one connection, which basically defeats the purpose of p2p. With multiple connections (physical connections), then this is circumvented.

You have described... the internet

A number of other teams are also creating their own independent implementations of LN as well. For example Blockchain.com created Thunder which is their own implementation of Lightning. IIRC Bitfury is also working on an implementation as well.

LN does not actually depend on Segwit. However it will be easier to implement, less complicated, and more efficient with segwit deployed.

Right now, you can't. There are no complete implementations of LN yet.

Any change to the timestamps for nLocktime and the block header will require a hard fork. Given that this is a long term problem, it is not particularly urgent right now to fix this.

It does not matter how many cryptocurrencies you have. Most will not interfere with each other.

Basically. It increases transaction capacity so more transactions can be included in a block, not really reducing transaction time.

No. If you want to use a chat thing, go onto IRC on Freenode and we can talk there. My nick is achow101.