Latest posts of: Chris!

Quote from: klaaas on May 02, 2017, 07:43:51 PM

sure' aslong as your electricity bill is low enough.

...and you don't mind ruining good hardware for the sake of earning a few dollars worth of bitcoins. Why not look into mining alts with a GPU?

Quote from: Lauda on May 02, 2017, 09:31:48 AM

You can't be in Bitcoin for the right reasons and love ETH at the same time. They are mutually exclusive (one is decentralized, the other is a centralized bail-out coin). ETH pump campaigns have been going on for a while in the Bitcoin subreddits (i.e. SPAM being sent to a lot of users).

I've got to be honest when I saw price increases I was intrigued. So like any investment I started doing some research. After about 5 minutes I realized that I would never be investing in a centralized currency. Why wouldn't I just keep Canadian dollars that are controlled by a government I can vote for rather than some developer from where ever that can change anything he wants at any point. That sounds awful. Smart contracts are a good idea, but he didn't get it right.

Lol wow just look at all of those alts crashing. It looks like they all popped simultaneously. It just goes to show that bitcoins are what their prices are based off of for the most part.

Quote from: Ayiranorea on May 02, 2017, 05:05:16 AM

The difference in value between the USD and the CAD might be the reason for the ATH in Canada crossing $1700 and at times more than $1900 depending upon the exchange rates. Hope this time the price is expected to keep moving and reach 1500USD at the earliest.

Lol um... I hope your campaign manager reads your posts.

I just noticed this when I went to check on new replies to my posts. There seems to be one of the major/basic icons anymore.

Oh idk. It's back to normal now. Nevermind I guess.

Quote from: JimboToronto on May 01, 2017, 03:48:46 PM

$1900 is a done deal.

We hit $1938 at Bitcoinaverage (global) and $1992 at Google.

Hopefully we hit 2 grand today. I've got my meme ready. Cool

QuadrigaCX was at $1950 when I checked. Bitstamp seems to be a little behind. $2k is going to be happening very soon it seems. I hope people aren't riding on the fact that the whole ETF appeal came out as nothing had changed so I don't see the decision changing either.

Wait for it... wait for it...

$1900?!?!?!?

Quote from: Lauda on May 01, 2017, 10:37:09 AM

Of course I should call them out. People who are investing in [X] or promoting [X] solely or primarily because it has made them money are greedy idiots. They don't care about any fundamentals that crypto was built upon.

I keep getting emails from certain blogs about bitcoins that keep saying how much they love Ethereum. That's wonderful. I don't. That's why I was added to a mailing list for a blog about bitcoins. If you are deviating to only talking about alts then I'm really not interested. Some have potential but I'm not invested in any of them. I do a little altcoin trading here and there to take advantage of wild swings but I would never hold 95% of alts. Ethereum is one of them. I don't agree with any of the fundamentals of Ethereum. Saying it's great because you've earned a lot doesn't mean it's going to be useful in the future (or now).

A lot of banks are in on Ripple. Again, another alt I'll never touch. I don't want a centralized currency, that's why I went with bitcoins. Why wouldn't I just use fiat and I wanted someone to be in complete control of my money?

*pop*

Quote from: vbitexchange on April 30, 2017, 04:02:56 PM

Quote from: pecson134 on April 30, 2017, 03:20:47 PM

While it is legal to buy an account here, for me it is not a good way to build up a good account. As much as possible you should work for it from the starting rank going up. I'm not fond of using other's account and makes me uncomfortable so if I will buy an account, it will be just like that. I'm not against you from buying the account but consider the consequences and the impact it will bring as you use that certain account since most of the people in the the community doesn't encouraged this kind of transactions.

can you tell me what is sign process for taking acc from him carefully ?

It would be best to check out How to sign a message?! because it goes over lots of different popular wallets. Make sure you confirm that the signature is genuine and always have them include today's date. If they can't sign a message from an old address that they used in the past then it's probably hacked. There have been a huge amount of bitcointalk accounts hacked in the last while.

Yes it's allowed. Yes they could potentially recover it back (especially if you didn't have them sign a message from an old staked address). It's frowned upon because it encourages spamming and scamming.

Is it worth it? Not in my opinion.

Woohoo I have made one whole laptop. I still need some DDR2 (pretty much 1gb+, just to test if old laptops MOBO still works) and I need a bit of DDR3. As usual HDDs 120gb+ and SSDs 32GB+ I'm interested in. SATA or mSATA.

This is good to know about. I'll be looking into their fees though. I don't need to get gouged when I'm the one offering a superior currency Wink

. Sometimes I buy things that I know I'll need to sell bitcoins to pay for so it gives me a buffer to put it on a credit card. I do much prefer hanging onto my bitcoins though as others have said because I've seen a 500% rise on my initial investment. Not bad in my books.

I can vouch that his ancient magic is real*. Although it took 48h not just 24h to achieve this:

*Can't show tx, can't prove I talked to him as we used telepathy, vouch is not valid in any country other than Algeria and Pakistan

Quote from: pooya87 on April 24, 2017, 05:11:13 AM

Quote from: Chris! on April 23, 2017, 10:09:22 PM

So then the formulae I'm using are close enough that it shouldn't be off by 10% and should at the very least should be a good indication of what the fee should be, right? In the end that's all I'm looking for is an estimate.

as long as you don't have some crazy number of TX_In and TX_Out (something like 300) the fixed amount of bytes you add is 10 (4 version + 1 TxIn count + 1 TxOut count + 4 LockTime).

also as long as you are using a Pay To PubKey Hash and also use Compressed private keys (like the address you have in your profile which has a compressed private key) your formula is correct.

Great then it's good enough for me! I just have some paper wallets that I was wondering what the fees would be if I tried to sweep them some day. This helps a lot. Thanks everyone.

Quote from: pooya87 on April 21, 2017, 04:31:16 AM

The problem with "making up a formula" is that there are too many factors to consider. for example that 10 byte that we say is fixed, is not really a fixed 10 byte. it is the sum of the following:
4 (fixed) + 1 (variable) + 1 (variable) + 4 (fixed) = 10
although it is rare to have that many outputs to have that 2 bytes instead of 1.

or for example inside the transaction when you say 148 (or 147) * inputs that is if you are not using a multisig.

https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-reference#raw-transaction-format

Version (4 Bytes)
TxIn Count (1B) since you won't have that many outputs to spend

number of inputs *{
Outpoint (36B)
Script Length (1B) the most common cases
ScriptSig(~106-107 B)
Sequence (4B)
}

TxOut Count (1B) since you won't be having more than a couple

number of new outputs *{
Value (8B)
Script Length(1B) the most common cases
Script (25) the most common cases
}

LockTime (4B)

Quote from: achow101 on April 19, 2017, 02:13:33 PM

Quote from: DannyHamilton on April 19, 2017, 01:37:05 PM

Quote from: achow101 on April 19, 2017, 03:13:46 AM

It can vary as much as 4 bytes per input IIRC.

Everything I've seen has indicated that the signature data can vary + or - one byte. I'm not aware of any other variation. Are you sure about the extra 3 bytes of variation? If so, do you know where/why that variation occurs?

It seems I am mistaken.

Ok so if we were to write out the formula what would it be (understanding that of course there is a range)? The 10-26 bytes aren't multiplied by the number of inputs though, was that part still right?

Ok so after a little reading I think I've finally got this but I wanted to confirm with the experts.

If I have a compressed public key then my transaction size will be calculated:

Code:

148x(inputs) + 34x(outputs) + 10x(inputs)

But I also understand that there could be a 1 byte difference in the input sizes.

If you're using an uncompressed public key then your transaction size would be calculated:

Code:

180x(inputs) + 34x(outputs) + 10x(inputs)

Will this give me a fairly accurate fee? I'm also not sure how to tell if my public key is compressed but I guess I could just check bitaddress.org address info.

If I'm wrong or missing something let me know.

Assuming I had a compressed public key with 10 inputs and 1 output it would be calculated:

Code:

148x10 +34x1 +10x10 = 1614 bytes

Then let's assume a nice round fee of 100 Satoshis/byte and my fee would be around 161400 Satoshis or 0.001614BTC.

Did I get that right?

I was provided with a vouch copy to review. It is a retail key that does work as of right now. As to how long the key will work is uncertain but I can give an update if it ever stops working for me.

I have confirmed that I have in fact been given a retail key as shown here:

Code:

 Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved. 

C:\Windows\system32>cd\program files\microsoft office\office14 

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14>cscript  ospp.vbs  /dstatus 
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8 
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. 

---Processing-------------------------- 
--------------------------------------- 
SKU ID: **REDACTED** 
LICENSE NAME: Office 14, OfficeProPlus-Retail edition 
LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 14, RETAIL channel 
LICENSE STATUS:  ---LICENSED--- 
ERROR CODE: 0 as licensed 
Last 5 characters of installed product key: BBT7Y 
--------------------------------------- 
--------------------------------------- 
---Exiting----------------------------- 

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14>

Thanks for the key and good luck with your sales!

I'm in need of a 2gb DDR3 stick and as much DDR2 as anyone is willing to give for a donation. I do need SSDs (SATA or mSATA) and hard drives. Any broken laptops or laptops with issues would be fun to tinker with too.

Quote from: Lauda on April 14, 2017, 09:58:56 AM

It is very clear that the same person/group of people are behind these hacked accounts. It is also a possibility that they are using a bot to spam these one liners. However, Bitcointalk staff doesn't do anything. Maybe they will receive a 7 day ban. Roll Eyes

There are so many obvious things that should be done. Hacked accounts get banned until the original owner can prove it's theirs. All accounts that didn't change their passwords after 2015 get locked until confirmed (via a script obviously. Log in with the same IP = unlocked).

Why do the mods keep these massive spam threads open still? If there are 1000 answers over a month the OP obviously doesn't care if you think gambling is good or bad anymore or if you think satoshi will ever be found. I find that I see less spammers because I just don't look at those threads. They all flock to them because it's so easy to blend in and spam.

I'm sure there are better ideas too but that's what I've come up with off the top of my head.

I still have the two white ones up for sale. I'll cut a deal if someone would like to buy both!