I can say it's nor all rewards that don't show since this one does in electrum: 1PKN98VN2z5gwSGZvGKS2bj8aADZBkyhkZ  (this is the address of ck pool - a solo mining pool). Mined bitcoins now appear in electrum.

It may be likely that since they were both developers of bitcoin core they decided to make their coins not spendable but I'm not sure. Anyone putting it into bitcoin core might have to go through a rescan and I'm not sure how long that takes.

Can you post his address here so I can take a look?

It is probably that they were both developers of the network and decided that the bitcoin satoshi mined couldn't be spent (to improve security most likely).

The genesis block reward can't be spent. It's downloaded and compiled with bitcoin core so the computer has something to go off, Satoshi thought it a bad idea to let it be spend able which is why it won't show.

The network doesn't consider the initial block reward to actually be bitcoin, its just the root for everything else essentially. Block explorers will do literal scans of the blockchain so they will think it is part of the chain and spend able on the Web interface.

Read the title and the op. What do they tell you?

That bit is confusing to me too... Whenever you normally encrypt stuff (if you know what you're doing) the encryption should be done using public and private keys of their own or at least a really strong password, but they should be encrypted inside a ZIP file or even a defacto .dat file so they're easier to recover if the drive fails (I haven't needed to recover stuff from that this way but most places backup that way so I'd guess it makes it easier to reverse)...


If I were satoshi, I'd either: use them all from the start; say "I'm dumping each block reward every year"; or not touch those coins and instead have a stash of 1000 coins later on since I want to stay anonymous... No one said he didn't stop minning (and if he did then he might have got some from hal or elsewhere to one of his other addresses).

You came on a forum and said how much better ethereum was. What it makes up for in speed, it loses in security. One of their developers messed up some code and lead to a hack of several million, the same hasn't been done with Bitcoin recently.

10 minutes isn't a long time to wait and the problem was extremely simple, if it's costing you too much to move your coins between exchanges and wallets, why are you not just leaving your funds on exchanges while trading with them and instead sending them to and from blockchain.com... Generally the fees from the exchange are also more expensive than the fees to the exchange from blockchain are they not?

The algorithm for suggesting nodes works as such (if there aren't limits on connections - simplified a bit):

1. ping neighbour peers and broadcast peers I'm connected to (I don't think many get sent but they can send up to 1000 and probably do it every so often).
2. receive pings from other peers
If >999 peers in peers.dat
(test ping speeds to see if any are faster than what you're already connected to)
do nothing
Else
test connections and add to list

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My daemon automatically drops connections with a node after a while and picks up a new one, I think this is due to one taking less of a load and deciding it will be faster.

Thus leaving your node on means you have more access to established nodes who will get more connections (most likely ping speeds of <10ms are not uncommon) so it will mean your node is shared better over time and has a better history of being online but you will still get connections regardless normally.

It'd be interesting if there are ping speeds on your list of below 5ms as they'd most likely be people on your wifi - probably on the 10.10.x.x range or 192.168.x.x

It's doubtful they will find a solution to the problem other than using second layer solutions like the lightning network and altcoins like litecoin and ethereum.

It would be quite damaging to change the block creation time for less than 10 minutes as a lot of elements of it would have to be changed such as a block reward fee given to miners that offers inflation to bitcoin... Also it means that the chain remains a reasonable size and isn't terabytes for those who want to support the network.

I normally send transactions at night so I can wake up and have them confirmed, or just find something else to do while waiting for it to confirm. With a high enough fee it will confirm within 10 minutes anyway so it's not too long to wait.

Where are you sending these funds to. If it's to people, you could try to convince them to use the Lightning Network instead and then your transactions will confirm in a second once you send them.

Alternatively, litecoin has a new block every minute and it's chain is pretty small (as apposed to the ethereum chain which I think was about a terabyte in size a few months ago...

When most transactions are made via banks, you can expect a delay. With mine, if I send to someone else it takes 15 minutes for the transaction to go trhough. With bitcoin if you pay a high enough fee it will go through in 10 minutes (but you don't need to do that unless you're in a rush).

If you use electrum, when sending your funds from it, you'll have a bar on the send tab that allows you to drag it across between 1, 2, 5, 10 and 25 blocks which you can use depending on how fast you need the transaction to go. If you make it lower, it pulls the fees down for the rest of the users of bitcoin and yourself so it makes sense if you're not in too much of a rush.


I sent a 1 sat/byte transaction earlier and it's 9mb from the tip at the time of sending (9 blocks).

Hong Kong is now in the legal jurisdiction of China (I think) - the UK returned it to them...

The Chinese government seem very volatile about cryptocurrency markets (sometimes they hate them, then bitmain starts to move and they get worried and bring them back or whatever happened)... I have to sayt my issues with bybit were that it doesn't have the litecoin/bitcoin pair and it's very over advertised to the point where they may find it more profitable to exit scam than people trading (they also don't display the fees they'll charge when you make an order on their site which has started to greatly annoy me).

Bitmex has it's issues, I'm not sure what yours were or if it's just being in the US but sometimes things didn't work properly - you get liquidated too early and whenever you try to put in a trade when it's volatile or even just moving a bit you start to be unable to place orders...

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I spotted there was a release of a decentralised leverage trading exchange on this forum but I didn't get chance to take a look at it, it seems that decentralising or adding more servers is the way to go for bitmex so maybe once they've evolved a bit the decentralised exchanges will be better but no one seems to make a DEX mobile app.

Have you tried restoring and then going to step 3 to see if the keys are there?

They'll sort it within 48-72 hours normally anyway if you've sent an email request.

So whenever you restore the seession it says you have a chip worth BTC0.000?

Go back to step 1 and make sure you got the address right (you might want to check it on another device too just in case a virus or something has changed it). Once you've done that, send an email to chipmixer's support at the bottom of their site (the protonmail one) and they should be able to fix your issue.


You could actually try going to step 3 too just in case you've already click ed that accidentally as that could be another reason why it's saying BTC0.0000

No....

Whenever I program a project, I push everything to git and make two backups offline... Why wouldn't they have done this with their wallet.dat?

I didn't get the whole way through that article as a bit of it was in broken English and I was questioning why someone would have a copy of the times paper and then write unbroken English (just a thought)...

I noticed EE do a similar cheme to that (which I'd put in the Hotspot) of unlimited everything for £20 contract ove 2 years or £25 a month...

I actually think my ipad will take a sim which will probably be the way I go as then they're two separate devices.

If you're running Ubuntu on that laptop it's probably why, my old Samsung (who recently celebrated their 9th birthday) has a battery that lasts about 4 hours with Windows and 14 on Ubuntu.... The operating system is so much more efficient.

There's a "delete from history" function on android as far as I can remember... Maybe it got removed at some point...

I don't see why you'd want/need a good credit score. A lot of the time it's normally only bad if you pay in cash for everything and don't pay by card (even though its nicer to pay with cash)...

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It's probably the acidity of coke that's good for that, much like the acidity in your stomach (only about half a pH weaker than stomach acid) so probably quite a bit...

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There are a lot of cases where too much money seems to be a curse. If you've ever looked at case studies of anyone winning the lottery that'll tell you an extreme version of it. Other things are like how wealthy people buy cigarettes and drugs which also do a lot of damage to your mouth and throat (especially if smoked/snorted)... Even alcohol can cause a lot of issues if you can't work out your limits.

Couple of weeks ago, I got bored and got an address from Jet Cash so I could test it (it adds more of an incentive when you send it to someone else to try to get it back and it worked with RBF enabled - doesn't work without RBF it's helpful to know if someone sends you a transaction as you can check if there's a 1 or a 0 which would work for some services that require only one confirmation).

I thought you could just delete it from your local history and then make a new transaction to broadcast?

I've normally done it with an intention to double spend it straight afterwards so I've had 2 computers and signed it on both... But it's probably helpful for when you get the address wrong.

I have a couple of smart devices and they prefer to connect to something other than a the phone controlling them and I can't seem to work out a way around it.

I'm looking for a WiFi Hotspot that will work in the UK with 4G either with or without an unlimited sim (I'm planning on using one I can take with me and avoid line rental that gets paid on landlines).

Does anyone have a Hotspot that works well that could offer a suggestion?