I'm still puzzled by the PayPal chargeback thing. About 2 months ago I was at the other side of the transaction, buying BTC for PP from several users here. Obviously I had to send PP first. Most transactions went smoothly, but I eventually got scammed for a "small" amount (about $80) by this user.

My mistake, I was in a hurry to get BTC to buy digital goods, so I took that risk quite recklessly with the family & friends kind of PP payment. The user was noob but didn't have any negative feedback by then, and I thought the worst case scenario was that he wouldn't send the BTC but I could chargeback with the "my account was hacked" trick that had been discussed previously in other topics.

Turns out that when I attempted to charge back, my requested was rejected by PP within 48 hours and without any human-written explanation (just the default template like "request reviewed by staff but denied").

Bottom line is that the scammer has got my money and I've got nothing but that stupid story. I could try to chargeback on my credit card, but I won't bother because I hate the paperwork and hassles that CC chargeback procedure involves. I didn't even bother to leave negative feedback on the scammer since he had already got plenty in the meantime and had obviously abandoned his account. I just won't deal with noobs again, even when I want something quickly and I'm short of BTC

See this thread for details. Basically:

• Avatars were re-enabled today (04/01);
• You need to be full member to be able to upload a new avatar;
• April Fool joke: until 04/02 every newly uploaded avatar is replaced with a Sponge-Bob-ish ridiculous meme

Reposted from quoted text a few inches above:


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Newbies: please stop posting.
Moderators: please lock this topic.

I would have been completely lost without the subtitles

If you want to reset and re-download the blockchain from scratch, you should also delete every file in the %APPDATA%\Bitcoin\blocks directory (the absolute path should be something like C:\Users\<username>\Appdata\Roaming\Bitcoin\blocks). Obviously you should make sure that Bitcoin Core is not running when doing it.

Thanks for the info, so I'm lagging a little bit behind and the return avatars made me pay more attention. Hopefully this topic will be useful to others who hadn't noticed the feature already, or didn't see the difference between the edit button and this icon.

Here's what I'm talking about, visually:



PS: the icon seems to appear at the lower right corner of one's posts

Oh yes please, pretty please, if our admin overlords ever allow animated GIFs for avatars, then consider the disable option as well. It's not that I dislike animated GIFs per se, but I've never liked animated graphics mixed into textual content as it's a distraction to my eyes indeed.

I've noticed this feature this morning, and I assume it is new: you can now use in-place editing for your posts right from topic pages. It's kind of a detail but still nice to edit typos etc. What do you think, did I miss something before or is it a new feature indeed?

The question is now what will happen once the April fools is over, will we get back to the previous situation or are the real, new avatars going to show up?

If Bitcoin Core (aka bitcoin-qt) isn't an option for you, e.g. too long to download and sync, consider using a simplified client like Multibit or Electrum. In the blockchain.info wallet, you can go to My Wallet > Import/Export and the choose export (encrypted or unencrypted depends on your personal context and preferences). Then import the private key according to the instructions of your target client.

You can ask for more specific help if you're stuck. By the way, did you try to contact blockchain.info about the issue? It seems unusual that such a transaction keeps being broadcasted over and over again without ever timing out.


Consider consolidating your transactions using multiple outputs (i.e. one payment for multiple persons) if you have many small amounts to transfer and what to save on mining fees.

This good question indeed has been discussed in this topic a few days ago.

You need to copy and paste the quote tags and do the editing manually. It's a bit tricky but hopefully it'll be easier with the new software.


It's all about controlled supply. The specifics (halving every ~4 years and 21M cap) are somewhat arbitrary though.


Yup

Evolution, un des successeurs de Silk Road dans le marché noir, a fermé ses portes en gardant le pactole. Le marché réagit négativement. Tout cela est éphémère, vraiment pas grand chose à voir, en tout cas pour ceux qui regardent depuis longtemps. Sur ce, je vais circuler...

Your question isn't stupid at all. As you spotted already, Bitcoin is a very complex "experiment" and not much is obvious about it and its associated economics. The block reward is a form of subsidy, which skews the basics of the supply & demand model.

Just a thought:


Notice the discrepancy between time and difficulty. Block reward halving isn't linked with difficulty (rising), it's only linked with time.

Also, the problem with the more work = more reward analogy here is that as an economic principle, it only works as long as there is enough demand to absorb that work without making the price per unit of work decline on the market (again, supply & demand).


At this stage, it doesn't make sense. Mining is saturated. There is already way too much hashrate compared to the actual utility of Bitcoin IMHO. However, I would also say that mining is somewhat 'overrated', there's no point in getting into something once it reached a certain equilibrium. For instance, if there are already five different hairdressers in your neighborhood, and each of them makes enough profits to stay profitable, but none of them makes enough profit to get rich, there's no point for any one of them to close shop, neither is there any point for any new hairdresser to come to your neighborhood.

Oh, and it's heartwarming to see newcomers that are actually interested about the fundamentals like early adopters were, not just trolling and asking for free money, lulz and 2themoon

As for no longer being an early adopter at this stage, well, only time will tell, but I wouldn't be sure about that.

Ben ouais ma foi... la drogue c'est le mal

Ahah, the devil is in the detail

That makes perfect sense, thanks.

Interesting, I was approximating from blockchain.info but your reply puzzled me: knowing that generated coins come as 50BTC, then 25BTC per block, how could you possibly have a total that is not a multiple of 25?

I would expect the total bitcoins in circulation as of block #348050 to be exactly this:

210000 * 50 + (348050-210000) * 25 = 13,941,250BTC

So, where does your extra 14.80231183BTC come from


Oh yes it is, at least for us