I watched this recently, it might be helpful for an initial insight: https://youtu.be/aRds5RvexYg

It's a pretty good summary. If you have used bitcoin, you'll know of the drawbacks with anonymity already and there are many companies running chain analysis on every transaction.

The server software is called electrumx. Old versions of electrum were stopped from. Being able to connect via an update to the servers thst were voluntarily downloaded by the people running it.

If the servers all went offline and no one had a reliable backup, then you'd have to take your seed or your private keys and import them into another wallet. The chancss of this happening are extremely low.

There was a phishing problem with the old versions of electrum.

If you'd like a copy of the source code you can go here: https://github.com/kyuupichan/electrumx or there is electrum-server avaliable here: github.com/spesmilo/electrum-server

It's weird that it looks like it connects and then doesn't. What version of the software are you running? Is it the latest?

Do you have additional proxy setting configured for your device or your router?

There's a button that let's you read pages in Firefox without formatting or signatures or images...

On mobile it's next to the tabs button on the opposite side of settings, maybe you ought to try it. I think you can click the printable version and it does the same too...

Yeah you'll have to use online or mobile banking to do it (or you could walk into the bank).

Online transfers normally have a £500 limit so you can either do that for a few days if you want to put more in or phone them and ask for them to increase the amount.

If they work like my bank, you'll probably have to set them up as a payee and put a code into your phone and then you're free to send what you want up to the limit (for default it's normally 500 a day) to them.

By confirming your bank account with coinbase, did you send the £2 payment and has that appeared in your exchange wallet? If it has then I think that means it's confirmed (quite frankly it never links up properly because coinbase aren't authorised by banks to take money directly from people's accounts - probably because they're an international company). But you should be able to transfer to them pretty easily (try it with a small amount and see if it works, even the £2 again)...

For binance I'm not entirely sure but it could be a similar issue. If you can deposit into your account you should be fine though.

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The issues with coinbase are because barclays stopped accepting them for payments (it has nothing to do with brexit and I don't see why it would, the company is based in the US)...

Yeah it's possible what software are you using? If you're running core I'm not sure of how you do it (it'll be done in the console generating a raw transaction) but if its electrum. Then I've done it with that wallet and its pretty straightforward.

What browser are you using, it seemed fine for me yesterday accessing it through Firefox.

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Hashnest, have you tested the app for buying kwh I can't seem to be able to move the slider?

The most common apps for bitcoin here (as far as I know) are electrum and bitcoin core.

Bitcoin core has part of the announcement above and selectrum can be set to show it in the wallet.

There's then another issue of what to include and what not to, most of the time I look at when an app is updated on my phone to work out when I need to update it on desktop (it's not a good idea but and upadte still gets done at a reasonable time). I did have problems when I started using electrum that I'd have no idea when an update was avaliable, but unless it's a critical update you don't normally have to do it (and often it's ill advised to do it in case there are any vulnerabilites or tests haven't been 100% completed before releasing the new version).

I'm not completely sure on this but historically, doesn't the majority of money into London come from outside of Europe? From looking at the last financial crash, a $700 billion insurance company which served credit default insurance to the UK and US (and a few of the US banks went bankrupt because of it).

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The depreciation in the value of sterling i'd agree is probably due to more to the uncertaincy over brexit and not a direct impact. There were also articles scaring people out of investing into the UK by adding clickbait headlines of "the UK will go into recession if they vote to leave the EU" (which didn't happen but probably scared people from investing anywhere near the country after the vote had been declared). And if you look at the data, we were already in a downtrend to start with. In 2013 the pound was at $1.70, in 2015 it had reached $1.50, brexit may have amplified things but I'm not sure it provided the activation needed.
I think we should all at least be in favour of keeping healthy diploamtic relationships with the rest of the world and helpiing the european governments (where necessary) in security and privacy protections (as was done with GDPR).

Europe is a lot different from the USA, I don't think the continent can be joined into one huge supercountry, and if it can, I don't think it benefits from the UK being a part of it.

As I see it, and I was thinking about this before, the biggest issue we have was probably the Queen not assessing if the UK government had a clear strategy for leaving the EU (because it clearly didn't) she has successfully blocked things parliament wanted to put through in the past (such as the ability for them to declare war) so I don't see why they wouldn't have put more scrutiny into the details of what was going to happen once article 50 was triggered.

The UK is still pretty strong as a country and as one of the "financial capitals" and a place where large quantities of investments are placed into housing... 

The top sticky of this board mentions what you need for each rank: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178608.0

But it might be quite a nice discussion and certainly can't make meta go down anymore in quality. You might want to take a look at theforum rules too and ensure you understand them (they're the topic below the one I linked to above on this board.

Is there anything specific that we might be able to help with? I've used mycelium quite a bit myself.

I think this got reported at the bottom of this git issue: https://github.com/mycelium-com/wallet-android/issues/521 I'm not sure there's much more you can really do to get heir attention.

I forgot what the substance was called but I remember it from a video on youtube of bieng molten when it was emitting energy so that it could easily escape down a trapdoor (working like a sprinkler valve) in the event of a meltdown.

Uranium-235 is dangerous to handle, store and dispose of. Most places don't wnat to deal with it, it also has some impact on nature once it's buried.

On an interesting note for nuclear energy, there are a lot of advancements in nuclear fusion over the past couple of years so an investment in that company overall might pay off.

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I was looking at the last economic depression and the markets kept falling long after the 20%, perhaps a good investment would be to keep an eye on that ever so often and once it falls 20% from it's ath (for any asset in a recession) check it's retracement from last time and see how it compares to the S&P overall and check it's sentiment and if it looks like a good sell, you can always try to buy it lower.
There's a lot of comparisons of hedgefund managers how try to loo out for volatility and try to keep to a low risk but they have about as much of a return as a static 80:20 equity to bond split. A lot of pension schemes pick "traditional investments" such as freight ships as they have fairly stable returns and some shipping container rental places claim to make up to 20% a year - but you shouldn't invest in something unless you can get it fully insured and audit it (hence why a lot of large funds buy ships and other stuff as it's much less risky to own the whole thing).

What is your firewall setup? In my experience there are two extremes of modem firmware, one let's every port stay open and has a fairly awful firewall, another had it so you have to say which devices should be able to engage in receiving external traffic when they didn't make the connection first...

Do you have the domain set up to go to a socket [ip+port]? Linux is fairly secure as long as you haven't fiddled with permissions too much though the probability of you being hacked anyway  through bitcoin core are very low (nodes get ddosed now and then, if it was that easy to hack them why pay for a ddos).

I don't know of any vulnerabilities in php, I know sql can suffer from injections so it's worth protecting against that.

You probably just have to update to the latest version from electrum.org/#download. Old electrum was taken offline due to a phishing attack.

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If his computer has the btc on it, why isn't he trying to send it (potentially a stupid question but)?

Windows has CR+LR, Linux just has LR so the cr shows up as ^Z, open a bug report with electrum if you think they didn't just not copy the final return (it's better that way).

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@Rahar02 can you delete that link just in case a search engine crawler picks it up and boosts it in the page rank.

It's probably best to buy land rather than properties atm here. Houses have a lot of space to fall and if you have time to seek out good tradesmen, you can normally pick up farmland and build something on it. If you buy houses here, you've paid ~4 times the price of getting it built yourself (and larger companies normally like to cut corners in property development).

Gold seems to be bubbling too, platinum is quite a nice buy of th metals if you buy one... Other substances like caesium can fetch a high value. If you feel like speculating you could look towards buying fersionable (potentially awful spelling) materials (controllable radioactive substances but I forgot the name of the one people often refer to).

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1 sats fee, I forgot how cheap the lightning network was...