Yes, a sufficiently old MacGPG will cause that kind of problems. I uninstalled mine and allowed Homebrew's gnupg to install, but then I have never been able to get MacGPG to work even in a remotely satisfactory way, and the newest version does not yet support Mountain Lion.  Do not worry about your private GPG keys, surely you have them backed up in three different places already.  Joking aside, uninstalling MacGPG should not uninstall them, they should be kept in ~/.gnupg but you certainly want to back up that directory before experimenting! This seems like a serious problem. I use GPG daily, mostly to encrypt files... I cannot risk to not being able to use it again I had all sort of troubles caused by MacGPG, even after I uninstalled it. I think I ven had to force brew to link the files to move on.
I tried the brew link gnupg" and I got this error: MacBook-Pro:~ mr$ brew link gnupg
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/gnupg/1.4.12... Warning: Could not link gnupg. Unlinking...
Error: Could not symlink file: /usr/local/Cellar/gnupg/1.4.12/bin/gpg
Target /usr/local/bin/gpg already exists. You may need to delete it.
To force the link and delete this file, do:
brew link --overwrite formula_name
To list all files that would be deleted:
brew link --overwrite --dry-run formula_name
MacBook-Pro:~ mr$ brew link --overwrite --dry-run formula_name
Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/formula_nameI really hope Red Emerald could find a workaround for this |
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Last time (10 days ago or so) it took me a full week to download the blockchain.
Hope the new client is on its way indeed.
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If I have 10 million, I am not loosing my time looking for more money, enjoy the life. If you still wants to invest, try help a good start-up.
This. |
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I'd say you'd average at around 0.03BTC per day, if you're lucky.
Well, that's disappointing. Then it's much more convenient to simply buy bitcoins |
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I'm trying just now to install Armory on a Macbook Pro running 10.8.2. I installed brew and downloading last version of XCODE and Xcode command line tools. Will update later  EDIT: everything was going smooth, until I got this errors: ==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/gnupg/1.4.12 --disable-asm
==> make CFLAGS= -std=gnu89 -fheinous-gnu-extensions
==> make check
==> make install
Warning: Could not link gnupg. Unlinking...
Error: The `brew link` step did not complete successfully
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
You can try again using `brew link gnupg'
==> Summary
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/gnupg/1.4.12: 54 files, 5,0M, built in 2.1 minutes
==> Installing armory-qt
==> Cloning https://github.com/etotheipi/BitcoinArmory.git
Updating /Library/Caches/Homebrew/armory-qt--git
==> Checking out tag v0.86.3-beta
==> Patching
patching file ArmoryQt.command
==> git verify-tag v0.86.3-beta
gpg: /Users/****/.gnupg/gpg.conf:233: invalid auto-key-locate listand then, when I try to run the client: MacBook-Pro:~ mr$ ArmoryQt.command
-bash: ArmoryQt.command: command not foundAny idea why this happens? I had installed MacGPG2 before running the commands, maybe that's a problem? I tryed "brew link gnupg" and I get this: MacBook-Pro:~ mr$ brew link gnupg
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/gnupg/1.4.12... Warning: Could not link gnupg. Unlinking...
Error: Could not symlink file: /usr/local/Cellar/gnupg/1.4.12/bin/gpg
Target /usr/local/bin/gpg already exists. You may need to delete it.
To force the link and delete this file, do:
brew link --overwrite formula_name
To list all files that would be deleted:
brew link --overwrite --dry-run formula_name
MacBook-Pro:~ mr$ brew link --overwrite --dry-run formula_name
Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/formula_nameI'm afraid that deleting those files could make me loose my private GPG key... Any idea of how to proceed? |
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I want to make my first investment in mining buying a BFL Jalapeno. I've read that, if ordered now, they will be shipped around April. I know it's pure guessing, but how many BTC per day do you estimate one of this Jalapeno units will make between April - October 2013? Currently the calculators ( http://allchains.info/calc.html) say 0.691BTC x day. I guess that as soon as the first ASIC arrive to the miners the difficulty will grow dramatically. Would it be a safe guess to consider 0,07btc per day with a Jalapeno, from April to October? |
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Imagine I'm an early adopter with 50.000 BTC (more than 1M usd at today's exchange rate)
Imagine I need to convert very quick that amount to usd or eur
How would you do it?
I've read that many people got their funds stuck at mtgox for weeks. Does not seem a reliable system for a large amount.
And: how could you quickly sell that amount of BTC without causing a huge decrease in the exchange rate?
I happen to have a good deal of trust with the community that I can leverage, so I would simply start making offers on the forums and over-the-counter and get people to wire me money and send them the coins. Clearly there is a disparity when it comes to whether this would work for the average joe (although, early adopters have a significantly higher chance of not being "average joe"). If I had 50,000 BTC to sell, without the advantage of a reputation to help me sell it, I'd be privately contacting many of the heavy hitters in Bitcoin and privately letting them know I had 50k BTC I wanted to unload, suggest a price more favorable than MtGox, and ask them to give me a call immediately if they later end up with a buyer. I would want to make sure that person ends up making a few percent on the deal, but even so, I'd see a far better return than dumping them on Gox and slipping the price. Those of us knee deep in bitcoin have the opposite problem: I have people coming to me asking if I can sell them coins, but I don't have any for sale, and I tell them to go buy from Gox or somewhere else. If I had a short-list of people I knew were selling, I'd see an opportunity to swing a few hundred bucks connecting a buyer and a seller, and make both happy. This is really a good answer that gives me a really a good picture of where we are at the moment. Thanks Cassascius. |
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localbitcoin.com
#bitcoin-otc on freenode.net
pm me.
i'm always buying if you or anyone else is selling before the crash.
I don't have that amount of BTC at all, I'm a newby with less than 10 BTC. I just wanted to understand where we stand actually in terms of feasibility of exchanging a large amount of BTC. Cass |
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Imagine I'm an early adopter with 50.000 BTC (more than 1M usd at today's exchange rate)
Imagine I need to convert very quick that amount to usd or eur
How would you do it?
I've read that many people got their funds stuck at mtgox for weeks. Does not seem a reliable system for a large amount.
And: how could you quickly sell that amount of BTC without causing a huge decrease in the exchange rate?
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blockchain.info i say. it's easiest just use two factor authentication.
For only a few coins for daily use, it's probably the easiest and fastest way to start with bitcoin. Blockchain.info's MyWallet is a very good service indeed. I would recommend: - blockchain.info as a starting point, to have a daily expenses wallet - paper wallet/armory for a savings account |
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My cost per kWh is USD 0,23
I don't want to exchange BTC for FIAT, but to support the economy exchanging BTC for goods and services.
I don't want to mine to make a profit, I want to get BTC, to use them supporting the economy. What I would like to know if it will be more cost-effective to mine BTC with a 60GH ASIC or just to buy them at the spot price.
What would you suggest?
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When trading:
I only buy panic
I usually sell euphoria
That's it. But I don't trade bitcoins. I'm not in BTC to "cash out". I'm in it because I believe in it. Because it's a clever and sound currency. I don't want to exchange my BTC for fiat, I want to exchange my BTC for goods and services.
But seriously: what can we buy with BTC, apart from drugs on SR? I'm not a blogger, I don't need web hosting at the moment. This is something we need to address ASAP.
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May I ask how far away in time is an Armory OSX bundle?
Thanks
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. . . if I want to do a 100% anonymous payment from one of the addresses in my wallet (which I assume that are trackable to my identity), would be a mixing service . . . do the job safely?
While it can be difficult (if the mixing service is well designed) to absolutely prove that the value that comes out of a mixing service belongs to the same person as the the value that went in, forensic accounting can often result in a pretty convincing connection. Thanks for the detailed and clear explanation. What would you suggest as the best way to manage your balance anonymously? The best solution I can think of: For new funds: - running Bitcoin-Qt (or an ewallet) through Tor - buying bitcoins with ukash or similar anonymous cash-like service (also through tor, or directly to a person I know) and sending the funds to the Tor managed wallet For already existing funds: - sending the bitcoins to a wallet (or ewallet) accessed only with Tor, through a mixing service (which is not perfect, but should help) Next step for me would be to learn to use Bitcoin-qt through Tor. I assume that if I do that I wouldn't be helping to the stability of the network, is this correct? |
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- if I generate new addresses in my wallet and send the funds received from Virwox there, would them be still easily trackable to myself? I assume the answer is YES from what I've read, but I really don't understand why. It is sometimes possible to figure it out, mostly if you send BTC from both wallets at the same time. (The bitcoin-qt client always does this.) What do you mean by "send BTC from both wallets at the same time"? Maybe you mean addresses? - being the transactions public, what would be the best system to hide your total balance to avoid theft or confiscation from authorities? Get coins into several wallets without giving away that you are controlling all the wallets. I won't comment on blockchain.info's service. Make sure you can actually pick which address on your local client. Sorry to insist, but maybe blockchain.info's service it's not secure or reliable? I see that I have to: 1) insert the address in which I want to receive the bitcoins 2) blockchain's service gives me an "anonymous" address to which send the bitcoins, 3) the bitcoins will be redirected "anonymously" to the address I specified at the beginning (point 1) Anyhow, if I understand it correctly, if the address in which I receive the bitcoins is in the same wallet of other "exposed" addresses, I may be identified because when making transactions Bitcoin-Qt client will take the coins from my newly created address for anonymity purposes AND the exposed ones. I cannot choose which addresses send the bitcoins in bitcoin-qt client, is this correct? |
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I've been buying bitcoins with my paypal account through virwox, and then forwarding them from the Virwox account to a couple address of my two wallets (an eWallet and a local hosted wallet). If I understand the system correctly, these addresses could be linked to my identity as paypal has my credit card and personal details, and the bitcoins bought with it were transferred to those addresses. This would be a security breach, as if I receive a large amounts of bitcoins to those addresses, somebody could figure out my total balance and therefore be exposed to theft. Here are my questions: - if I generate new addresses in my wallet and send the funds received from Virwox there, would them be still easily trackable to myself? I assume the answer is YES from what I've read, but I really don't understand why. - being the transactions public, what would be the best system to hide your total balance to avoid theft or confiscation from authorities? - if I want to do a 100% anonymous payment from one of the addresses in my wallet (which I assume that are trackable to my identity), would be a mixing service like this one https://blockchain.info/es/wallet/send-anonymously do the job safely? Thanks in advance. |
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I only find instructions about importing the JSON wallet to Multibit, I can't find nothing about importing it to the standard Bitcoin client.
Anyone knows how to do it?
If you have a list of private keys, you can import them using the debug window with the command importprivkey. - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_to_import_private_keys_v7%2BI don't have the list of private keys, just the wallet.aes.json (and obviously the password to access it). |
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For me it started working again just now.
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As blockchain.info wallet is down (at least for me) and I need to access my funds in there, I would like to import my backed up wallet.aes.json file to Bitcoin-QT. I've googled this query, I used the search function in the forum, but I only find instructions about importing the JSON wallet to Multibit, I can't find nothing about importing it to the standard Bitcoin client.
Anyone knows how to do it?
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Still can't log in at all. I just get the identefier field, but the password fiel is gone. A message in the upper field of the browser says "changing wallet identifier", and goes forever.
I tried to log in with Chrome and Safari (OSX), unsuccessfully in both cases.
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