Thanks for your help. I'll spend some time on this in a couple of weeks time, and will keep everybody updated
I have had cases like this where I type back in the string, and think I have it right, but a character was mistyped or written down wrong originally. However, suppose that you tested each position of the key with all valid characters. for base 58 that is only 58*number of characters in the key. No big deal, right? |
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Proceed.
What is a not first? It is my first time hearing or reading such word. Does it stand for a robot? Because I am not a robot. And I don't really really know how to prove it. But I have a birth certificate and X-ray and ctscan, you may check it and find out if I am a human or a roblt it not means a robot. You are not a bot because you typed "What is a not first." A bot would not have misspelled bot. |
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A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
And a robot must dislike the DANK MEMES.
You changed Asimov's fourth law, in a way no robot would ever do. You are not a bot. |
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A hard fork means your BTC would now be in both blockchains; but it is simple common sense that one of the two ledger must be invalidated in order that bitcoin is to be trusted - and survive. If the two forks last for years and I have my UTXO in both ledger, that means both ledgers have been compromised. One must die off!
The premise of your argument is that there should be others out there to provide for your "free lunch" - never!
Any "free forked coins" must come with a risk; it is a matter of good judgment over bad or luck.
From money supply theory, 2 forks with UTXO means a doubling of money supply - means BTC price should rightly be halved; or 6000/2 =USD3000.
Huh? After a hard fork there are two chains and two separate sets of coins. If miners mine both, both exist. Period. This is not a zero sum game so the values of two coins do not add to the value of one. Suppose the November fork causes a lot of media attention leading to public awareness that would not have existed otherwise. That causes a price jump, maybe. Suppose the November fork devolves into a hostile attack with a lot of bad transactions and lost coins. That causes a price drop. |
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I'm also curious about the Nov. 16 fork. I run two copies of Bitcoin-QT and one is a full node. I see Coinbase is going to be calling the chain with the highest difficulty Bitcoin. So, if one needs or wants to change to 2x after the fork how would one convert? Thinking each of my Bitcoin-Qt's to run a different chain.
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There is a very simple safe answer which is "Do Nothing and Wait." Can't go wrong this way. Think about it. A crypto coin, Bitcoin 1x - 2x - cash whatever, needs wallet support. Programmers change programs to make and allow that. Yes there are ways to do it earlier just as there are ways to post transactions to the blockchain without going through a wallet. |
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My archive consists of the blockchain database data only. The Bitcoin Core 0.15.0.1 wallet application should be downloaded exclusively(!) from the official site: https://bitcoin.org/en/downloadAnd THEN the signature checked, to validate the downloaded copy, before installation. Tell me please, exactly what should I do (brief yet step-by-step guide) to provide you with the signatures for the database I uploaded to the Google drives? Why not read Satoshi's paper first, kind of get a feel for it all. |
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The IRS views bitcoin as property. I would think this is not different than the case of a rancher, who started with 120 cattle and a couple years later has 450. Another analogous case is a stock split, such as when a company is split into two. Stockholders get proportional shares. Generally taxation occurs when the asset is converted to USD.
Consider if you had BTC on coinbase, and they gave you BTH. You wanted to convert it to BTC, and ON THAT PLATFORM this requires BTH-->USD, then USD-->BTC. A taxable event.
Another platform could allow BTC-->BTH directly. Viewing this as an exchange of property, rules for barter should apply.
Just the fact that you were airdropped new coins would not mean you had experienced a taxable event.
Barter is a taxable event in the US, but you're not bartering. It would be more like if you owned a sheep, which gives birth, and then you had to pay tax on the birth of the new baby sheep. You owned a sheep which gave birth, and then you exchanged the lamb with a buddy for a hunting dog. The exchange of one property for another is pretty much the definition of barter. |
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It's not enough to run a full node in some raspberry pi that you will never use. You should use it to transact too, so it becomes an economic node and you are in charge of your money 100%, knowing what you are doing. The problem is keeping your bitcoins safe.. which is why im asking what is the best operating system to run a full node that is also used as a wallet: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2332405.msg23830612please help. Linux of course. I think a good choice is Ubuntu (which is derived from Debian). This is what I run on my VPS and it is very easy to maintain and upgrade (I just upgraded to 17.10). My SPV desktop wallet (Windows 10) connects to just my VPS node, so I know that wallet transactions have been verified. So would you consider your Windows 10 desktop wallet (I guess it's Electrum?)? If it's in Windows 10, you are still expose to Windows 10's viruses and so on, not to mention which is closed source, with in-built spying stuff etc. Why would you consider this safe even if it connects to a node that is on Linux? Also can you really trust Canonical Ltd? Richard Stallman called Ubuntu "spyware" at some point. Debian is considered potentially much more secure, but if you have no experience with Linux, Ubuntu is much closer to the ideal than anything Windows. The remainder of the chatter above such as running one thing on Windows or PI and hooking it to the Linux machine is meaningless complexity. You asked what was the best OS to run Core on "which was also a wallet." |
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As I understand it, according to the original plan, ALL of the wallets were supposed to be full nodes, so naturally there was not provided any reward only for that. Moreover! All of the nodes (wallets) were supposed to be MINERS as well! And as miners they would have gained the reward! .....
That does not sound like what Satoshi wrote. At all. Agreed. Did this guy even read the white paper? Lmao. Satoshi wrote a whole chapter on how merkle roots should be implemented to help streamline the system for average users. He then specifically says, that if you are a business etc. and SHOULD NEED extra security, it would be better to run a full node. Do your research bro. OK, I shouldn't have used the words "were sopposed to be", but I'm sure Satoshi, knowing the actual situation today, would support me in what I said earlier : ...
Anyway, every smart and responsible Bitcoin holder, fan and enthusiast should:
1. Run his/her own full (maybe pruned) node.
2. Even much better if he is also a miner (now also signaling NO2x).
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It's not enough to run a full node in some raspberry pi that you will never use. You should use it to transact too, so it becomes an economic node and you are in charge of your money 100%, knowing what you are doing. The problem is keeping your bitcoins safe.. which is why im asking what is the best operating system to run a full node that is also used as a wallet: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2332405.msg23830612please help. Linux of course. |
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Can anyone claim acess to their Bitcoin gold yet? Seriously...the developers of Bitcoin Gold should be banished from the community.
Bitcoin Cash was such a seamless hard fork.
Has anyone successfully claimed Bitcoin Gold? And how?
This attempt to fork has been very ridicolous so far. They lacked skills, marketing, communication, development. Their website is very basic and they haven't released a wallet yet so far. I'm not really sure there will be a way to claim Bitcoin Gold in the future. Anyway, the important thing is to have control of our private keys, then if in the future there will be a way to obtain this altcoin, well, it will be free money. Otherwise, it won't be a tragedy... this coin will go nowhere anyway... Reminds me of what Satoshi said, "always save old wallets." Not sure of the exact phrase but there is nothing wrong with thinking that even in a couple years the scheme may be ready for prime time. Very unlikely but weirder things have definitely happened... |
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This is really confusing if you don't know what are the cool features of the new hard fork. Developers are doing what best could be beneficial for investors and everybody. Forks are designed to amend some features of bitcoin that are limited.
Don't assume good intentions. |
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The IRS views bitcoin as property. I would think this is not different than the case of a rancher, who started with 120 cattle and a couple years later has 450. Another analogous case is a stock split, such as when a company is split into two. Stockholders get proportional shares. Generally taxation occurs when the asset is converted to USD.
Consider if you had BTC on coinbase, and they gave you BTH. You wanted to convert it to BTC, and ON THAT PLATFORM this requires BTH-->USD, then USD-->BTC. A taxable event.
Another platform could allow BTC-->BTH directly. Viewing this as an exchange of property, rules for barter should apply.
Just the fact that you were airdropped new coins would not mean you had experienced a taxable event.
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As I understand it, according to the original plan, ALL of the wallets were supposed to be full nodes, so naturally there was not provided any reward only for that. Moreover! All of the nodes (wallets) were supposed to be MINERS as well! And as miners they would have gained the reward! .....
That does not sound like what Satoshi wrote. At all. |
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Yes, again just a test piece. To save you time from typing in the address to check here's what's on the card: Address: 1PiNodemHPYocq6dRw9JhN5f8N1nC2VfXQ Privkey: 5KYbHUHB4Bwa87pEvBgb4Aqj6KsRjCGiuvgNCHruz698MNwQpDJ You're welcome to anything on it 'cause I didn't put it there.  As for storage though it would be sensible to obscure the private key. Stop someone finding it and taking a picture/writing down the key. I was thinking a tamper proof label would achieve this? Any thoughts? (It's a label that disintegrates when peeled, revealing "void" in the hologram)  Yes this is a good method. Using stainless steel is fine for resistance to corrosion and fire. Check the etching process digs into the metal, can use a torch to do that. Get the metal red hot, see if the characters survive. Might I suggest encrypting the keys, that way you don't care if anyone sees them? I think the protocol was BIP38. RE the scan QR code, what it really does is provide a backup - a 2nd copy of the dataset. Good idea, two copies. For that matter, why not a couple more. Better a couple copies of the card than the same time spent doing the front and back on one card. |
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As tittle says, my friend does have a broken laptop with 200 btc in the offline wallet, it was since 2014
so I need help on how I can take the hardware out and get access to the wallet from another computer by inserting the hardware inside the other computer
Assuming it is a HDD, the first thing to try is to attach it as the 2nd HDD in another computer. Don't let the guy reformat it or otherwise modify the contents, not one byte. Attach as 2nd drive can be done just with cables, to some laptops and many desktop computers. This is how you start. Posts here that say things like "put it in another computer" are wrong. In general this kind of thing is routine for those that do it all day. Just tell the guy there are important family pictures and other things that you can't lose, they are priceless. You need an expert's help, but you can't leave him alone with this machine. That's not a problem, he will just assume likely you don't want him to find your porn stash. |
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My archive consists of the blockchain database data only. The Bitcoin Core 0.15.0.1 wallet application should be downloaded exclusively(!) from the official site: https://bitcoin.org/en/downloadAnd THEN the signature checked, to validate the downloaded copy, before installation. |
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You can also use Bitcoin Core as a very secure Bitcoin wallet.
Latest stable version: 0.15.0 (September 2017) [BitTorrent]
You MUST verify the integrity of this software before running it.
Should be changed to...
You can also use Bitcoin Core as a very secure Bitcoin wallet.
Latest stable version: 0.15.0 (September 2017) [BitTorrent]
Don't worry about the integrity of the software, trust us.
Anybody who knows anything about security would never say "trust me".You must have heard this phrase before:  That Bitcoin (and many other potential blockchain applications) are trustless protocols is a key concept. Here I simply apply this principle to the issue of downloading a database. |
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The problem is quite obvious, your blockchain is corrupted, what you can do is to reindex or just delete the entire blockchain to again start.
Some virus scanners will delete various blocks in the blockchain, thus corrupting it. |
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Caveat, I'll never be fluent in crypto anything to hold my own, but...
The initiative shown by the OP in making the blockchain available like this (trusting Google or not) is admirable, sometimes you just have to do something.
Reading thru most of the comments, especially those that mention "trust / trustless" always kind of makes me grin, the mathematics behind the blockchain is the only thing that is trustless about cryptocurrency, the rest is very much based on trust. Maybe that's just me being picky over semantics, meh.
Okay, so this phraseology....pulled from a standard known download location for Core.... You can also use Bitcoin Core as a very secure Bitcoin wallet. Latest stable version: 0.15.0 (September 2017) [BitTorrent] You MUST verify the integrity of this software before running it. Should be changed to... You can also use Bitcoin Core as a very secure Bitcoin wallet. Latest stable version: 0.15.0 (September 2017) [BitTorrent] Don't worry about the integrity of the software, trust us. |
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