Jeff Garzik is launching a Cross Chain ICO called Metronome and most probably working full time on that and the rest of the developers have to take responsibility for the coding on SegWit2X. The risk for failure is very high, when you consider that they refused to add replay protection with the code.
Who will step forward to take the blame, when people start to lose bitcoins <BTC> in the confusion with zero replay protection?
As a developer, I would not risk my reputation and my future projects on such a risky move. You do not mess around with a Billion dollar project, if there is the slightest chance that people would lose money, because of your mistakes.
But apparently they didn't care about that. Or it took that a long time to grasp. Why? They probably thought that the Bitcoin Core would either lose all support or more likely that they will agree to fork as well. Once they saw the battle was lost and that no one comes out a winner, they simply gave up. They never wanted a chain split apparently, they wanted Bitcoin to do a hard fork as a whole with no legacy chain left, but they made a mistake of not asking people what they think first, did everything behind closed doors.Fie, Fit, Foe, Fum. I smell the stink of New Yorker-dumb. |
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Just got a reply after numerous trials, "there is some issue related to network and our team is working on it." Now at least i am certain to some extent they're not gonna scam but all i have to do is nothing but wait for some time.
Actually your conclusion is incorrect. Assume it's Oct of 2013 and Mt. Gox told you that. What should you have done? Whatever you should have done now, you should do now. Move the largest fraction of the coins. |
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Bitcoin is predominant because it has a future. It was built to defy all odds.
Forks have been speared with a fork, and looking at them, you know what? They're done. |
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Hell is empty and all the devils are here. |
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Site is back now. But still i don't see my coins..  Why not move some out? Like 0.95. Yes they may have a temporary maintenance issue but you have a "where are my coins, Dude?" issue which is unknown as to whether it's temporary or permanent. |
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Hello,
If I have understood correctly, there will be a further hardfork from SegWit to SegWit2x in November.
At the moment a Bitcoin can have three types of addresses:
1. already in power: Bitcoin Addresses like: 1BvayiASVCmGmg4WUJmyRHoNevWWo5snqC (without SegWit)
2. P2SH: Bitcoin Addresses like: 3P14159f73E4gFr7JterCCQh9QjiTjiZrG (SegWit)
3. bech32: Bitcoin Addresses like: bc1q76awjp3nmklgnf0yyu0qncsekktf4e3qj248t4 (Electrum only) (SegWit)
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This explains the bitcoin addresses. "1 or 3" is public address, note. bech32 is a representation of address without upper and lower case, not a differing address. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_address_prefixes |
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Jeff Garzik is launching a Cross Chain ICO called Metronome and most probably working full time on that and the rest of the developers have to take responsibility for the coding on SegWit2X. The risk for failure is very high, when you consider that they refused to add replay protection with the code.
Who will step forward to take the blame, when people start to lose bitcoins <BTC> in the confusion with zero replay protection?
As a developer, I would not risk my reputation and my future projects on such a risky move. You do not mess around with a Billion dollar project, if there is the slightest chance that people would lose money, because of your mistakes.
But apparently they didn't care about that. Or it took that a long time to grasp. Why? |
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I just created a new segwit wallet but my new address start with bc1*************** and not with 3*********
Why?
This is a native segwit standard (so called bech32 address using P2WPKH) but this is not yet supported by merchants or other wallets. The addresses starting with 3 are P2SH addresses. They can specify many things, including segwit embedded inside P2SH (P2SH-P2WPKH). I figured out how to create such a wallet in Electrum (use BIP39 seed and m/49'/1'/0' derivation path) but it may be better to wait for some more official tutorials. Unfortunately, segwit wallets are not standardized yet and there might be problems with importing/exporting keys between wallets. It's a good development for electrum, but address start with bc1*** is a native segwit standard? I don't know about it, and doesn't have to start with "3" right? As long as it's segwit address, doesn't matter for me. But, regarding segwit address cause low fees for bitcoin transaction, is it really worth? I mean, we pay very low fees such $0,4 but miners tend to pick higher fees to included into next block, especially for current market transactions, over 54,000 unconfirmed transactions. Going with the "bc1***" on there own was a serious mistake. There is enough confusion already, without developers placing burdens on the entire software community to support their latest style of encoding of the same data. |
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I figured everything out. I gained access again to my bitcoins. I'm very happy!
I'm going to start reviewing this as it's not ideal to store bitcoins this way. Also it takes huge amounts of space on my hard drive and 240 GB isn't sufficient anymore so I'm thinking about getting a hardware wallet like the digital bitbox and store my coins there on. I'm reviewing now which one will be the best to suit my needs.
Thanks again to everybody here who contributed to this thread and helped me out. I'm very thankful!
This is true. Also it's somewhat fantastic that people think they need "a wallet" just to store a couple 50-some digit long numbers. The wallet is needed to TRANSACT, but is totally suboptimal for STORAGE. |
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Why is Bitcoin the predominant one among different forks, such as Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin SegWit2X?
Is it because Bitcoin is the most original one? Does it have to do with its price? Or does it have to do with its broad, generic name? Or because it's more widely adopted by many companies? In other words, is there some sort of complicated blockchain technology that will always make the Bitcoin most predominant one among different forks regardless of any circumstances? Is it theoretically possible for forks like Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin SegWit2X to be more predominant than Bitcoin in the future? I don't know much about blockchain technology and I wonder if it's ever related to the fact that Bitcoin's the most predominant one.
It's nice to think of Bitcoin as the original, the thing created by Satoshi Nakamoto. But over time we may see some splits to remain true to his original concepts. Not saying that's good or bad, only that it could happen. |
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ok, but "they" have to firstly know you, know your interests, try all combinations of all the interests you have, know you have Bitcoin and know they are in a brain wallet.
what about picking something you absolutely hate, or something male orientated if you are a female, it just needs to be something specific that you will remember.
The reason I have to voice an opinion on the NO side here is that I've heard a fair number of people proudly explain to me what their passwords were. Almost always these were ridiculously easy to crack phrases, yet they didn't have a clue about that. Humans are just plain no good at creating random. |
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Each address has it's own key... so, logically, if you have coins spread across multiple address, you're going to need to get multiple keys. (NOTE: Instead of using 'dumpprivkey' multiple times to get each private key, you can use the 'dumpwallet' command to just dump the whole wallet out to a file). PROS: Free! Maintains privacy (none of the addresses will be linked) CONS: Time consuming, messy, possibility of missing a key/address Or... as Spendulus has suggested, just send ALL the coins in that wallet to a new address in that wallet, and just export that one key for the new address. PROS: Just one key to rule them all!  CONS: Will cost a transaction fee... which could get large dependent on how many UTXOs you're trying to consolidate, plus you have to wait for confirmation... possible privacy implications I understand. Thank you. One more question - that command "dumpwallet" won't do anything to my wallet iselft or my bitcoins? It just "dumps" all data to a text file? No it won't change your wallet. Yes to text file. |
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@Spendulus: Thanks very much! -> Retrieve 15 BCH (the ones that are still on the Exodus wallet) I have to access some homepage (what page is not important right now) and enter the private key of the Exodus wallet in order to retrieve my 15 BCH. (Question: Would it be possible to only retrieve let's say 10? Although it does not make sense  ) I just want to comment on this. To be clear, never ever put your private key in a random website!A private key is the only important information that allows access to your coins (whether it's BTC, BCH or some other currency). At some point in time I will have to do it in order to retrieve BCH or did I get something wrong? But when the keys of my BTC change when SENDING and RECEIVING them from Exodus to the Ledger wallet my BTC should not be at risk when retrieving BCH or am I wrong? Thanks! BR I have a suggestion. You are facing something that is actually quite confusing and risky. You are learning fast but you are a noob. Why not just do nothing and wait? In six months there will be slick, easy ways to do the recovery of the new coins. Probably. And you'll be more experienced, skilled and knowledgable. |
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..... If I own 1 BTC there might be 2 PKeys behind this coin because I own 2 fragments of it. Given the example that my 1 BTC has got the PKeys "abc" and "def" I want to know whether these PKeys will be the same in the ledger wallet after having transferred them from Exodus to Ledger? Sorry for the non-Bitcoin-related wording  BR, the.Phil Only if you imported those private keys. If you did a SEND from Exodus and a RECEIVE in Ledger, then you have new private keys in Ledger, and new public keys. The term "Pkey" does not distinguish between public and private keys. |
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It was unencrypted. I have some very good news. I have mounted the hard drive on my other computer using the cable and I could read the files. As I suspected everything is still on it. So I think I found the wallet.dat file. Is it this one?  If it is then what is the next step I should do with the file? Sorry for asking if the answer would be too obvious but I just want to make sure I won't do anything wrong here. I already want to thank everybody here for helping me so far! No problem. Now you are going to copy that file to the primary drive and to a USB stick also. At this point your goal is to read that wallet.dat into a functioning known good similar version of Bitcoin Core. Honestly, if that thing was on my workbench I would disconnect that SSD and not change one byte on it or use it further until I had the wallet.dat file restored correctly and working in a new Bitcoin Core, and had made a backup of the new working system. Not sure I can explain why on this, but feel it has to be pointed out. That would render the contents of the SSD obsolete. At that point one option would be to leave the 240gb as a USB drive and use it only for the Bitcoin Core. There is a minor change to set the blockchain directory to other than the default. |
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I actually mined the bitcoins probably 2 years ago, never used the app . so last week installed an updated version of Bitcoin core and it started re-sync , told me I had no space left so I stopped the process, Went to appdata folder and copied the Bitcoin folder to an external drive. started the app, asked me to show the bitcoin data folder, selected the one in external drive, synced it for a day. I came in front of it and it was showing me 0.51  I have never spent a bitcoin before One other option : I had 0.51 bitcoin and I had this crazy idea that I had 0.98 coins. Feels like I'm 100 percent sure but people sometimes make themselves believe unreal stuff over time. If someone says, it is not possible losing coins during sync, I'll probably accept I'm tripping. Thanks a lot for help Why not print out the transaction register or export it to Excel, and check if at some moment in time you had 0.98 bitcoin. Then after that, there would have to be transactions that reduced it to 0.51. Another method, you say you mined the coins, was it with a group like Slush? Logon and download from then an activity history. |
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I am a newbie here. Can somebody tell me what is "bitcoin adress"? Because i saw that i need to write it in my profile, but i don't know what is that, or where can i find it. Thanks a lot for help!
First of all you should research about bitcoin, you knew to Bitcointalk forum but you just ask "what is bitcoin address" although you can quite find out it on google This is the answer which i found out on google
what is bitcoin address?
A Bitcoin address is a single-use token. Like e-mail addresses, you can send bitcoins to a person by sending bitcoins to one of their addresses. However, unlike e-mail addresses, people have many different Bitcoin addresses and a unique address should be used for each transactionWell, that's completely wrong as an answer. Frankly, the answer from a live forum with a mix of people has got to be superior because it's self correcting. A random Google search is not self correcting. By posting your Google result here I correct it. (Similarly, Wikipedia is self correcting) A bitcoin address is not a single-use token, as can be easily seen by charities and other organizations that accept bitcoin via a posted receive address. Similarly, when you put an address in your sig it isn't single use. A "bitcoin address" might be either a public key or a private key. |
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Ok, so after downloading the blockchain and re-indexing a few times, I'm still stuck. The outputs below are after that I have reinstalled bitcoin core. 2017-11-06 19:37:05 UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000000032894a63a03884fc3fd4b5c98de5e2cc7066ce764dc447e height=445828 version=0x20000000 log2_work=85.748268 tx=183429132 date='2016-12-30 15:58:45' progress=0.681485 cache=325.9MiB(2116235txo)
2017-11-06 19:37:05 LevelDB read failure: Corruption: block checksum mismatch
2017-11-06 19:37:05 Corruption: block checksum mismatch
2017-11-06 19:38:07 Error reading from database: Database corrupted On a clean wallet: 2017-11-06 20:02:45 UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000002e901d8303d43e8bbd4d8f76a66cf2f2da064e8fbb31dbe height=448192 version=0x20000000 log2_work=85.819278 tx=187733247 date='2017-01-14 21:07:23' progress=0.697464 cache=238.2MiB(1397685txo)
2017-11-06 20:02:45 LevelDB read failure: Corruption: block checksum mismatch
2017-11-06 20:02:45 Corruption: block checksum mismatch
2017-11-06 20:02:56 Error reading from database: Database corrupted
In addition, during syncing my wallet shows transactions with the wrong date. Transactions from 2013 show up as they were in 15/10/2017, which is definitely wrong (aka at 60% blockchain I seetransactions with 2017 datestamp). Re-indexing does not help this. The drive is healthy, plenty of space and the error occurs regardless if I use Windows or Linux. (According to various scans, no bad sector, is present. The drive is ~6 monnths old, so statistically it should be the smallest "issue factor") I have even went so far as to completely uninstall bitcoin core, create a fresh wallet and start downloading the blockchain. If I put back my own wallet, I get the error and the messed-up datestamps for transactions. If I let the fresh wallet, it also gives the error (as above). is it possible a virus checker has removed some blocks or modified them? |
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...We have stuck with old hardware, which is very annoying to deal with since syncing the node becomes even slower...
But who cares? Ten year old laptops are basically free. One of them can run 24/7 a node and do nothing else. |
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....But now with all the fork nonsense I will be forced to move my coins into another wallet...
Why is that? |
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