Yes, I have received tracking info. You did the right thing, eventually... but everything in between was pointless. I would be a lot more willing to give you credit for admitting your mistakes if you had done it of your own volition rather than after the forced pulling of teeth. I am not going to antagonize you. All I wanted was for you to learn something out of this whole fiasco, otherwise it would have eventually been some one else if it wasn't me.

Blood is thicker than water.. You'll have your day too.. believe me..

Locking the topic it's gone on long enough and the above is the reason for the "self mod" to stop idiots like this posting rubbish that is not constructive in any light...

I will unlock once the Buyers all have there products.


PS welcome to the igonre list rxalts

You have not received any negative feedback.

Most people were super helpful to you in the auction thread, trying to explain to you how your terms can be misinterpreted and how you could conclude the auction amicably, but unfortunately you ignored most of that advice. TECSHARE is an asshole to everyone so don't take it personally, and in this case he had every right to be like that, seeing how your behavior did not inspire trust.

You can't really expect to impose your own rules when you start business in a new place. For example on ebay you'd probably have the funds on hold for 21 days for the initial trades on a new account, and if you dragged your feet with shipping you'd probably have a negative rating already. No hand-holding and personalized advice for sure.

Here at least mistakes can be excused if you make an effort to learn from them.

People get hung up on 51% attack.

Here is an attack that can destroy bitcoin using nothing but economics.

The Confiscation & Hack Attacks
Each Country in the world continually Confiscates Bitcoin earned by criminals and auctions it to the public.
Hired Hackers to constantly steal bitcoins from Rich People & exchanges to Sell on the Markets.

What this does is keep the price of bitcoin lower than the actual mining costs forcing more miners into bankruptcy and eventually bankrupting the ASIC manufacturers. This will eventually cause the network to enter a death spiral as the ability to find a new block will be beyond the majority of the public.

* Advantages to this attack, is the governments profit the entire time during the attacks, using the profits to fund even more attacks.

Funny thing is:  This attack is occurring now and will only increase as time passes.

Back to my other point, is this not already designed by beurocrats to encourage a lot of spending?

If someone didn't pay their loan then their collateral would be put up for sale and the bank would already have needed to print money to pay them, but wouldn't this already be factored into the government measured inflation?

(the British government measures inflation based on grocery prices so surely this would still remain fairly stable as the currency has already been minted into the supply).

It will be good when your customers confirm receipt of your bars. However any positive trust score you get out of this auction will be overshadowed by what happened during the auction and before you shipped.

If you have other items you want to sell, you can auction them off, and if you do, you should take this as a learning experience and refine how you conduct business.

Good luck.

Just going to use this post to explain what it is so if you have proof feel free to reply without reading this.

As I understand it (not looked at it recently) fractional reserve banking is a system that allows banks more earning power on money you put in while allowing the customer access to some of their funds.

For example (@10% reserve):
If you deposit $3000 into a bank account, the bank is able to lend out $2700 and keep $300 of your original $3000.
If this $2700 is then lent out to someone who wants to buy a new kitchen for example, they pay the cashier and the business owner receives the funds in their account. Now of this $2700 the bank is able to lend out $2430 and store $270 of the original funds as the reserve and this can continue on...

This often gets explained as a "concept" or "theory" but does this actually happen?

Since the commonly used example allows $1000 to become $9000 (I may update this if I get libre running). Edit: spreadsheet says $2912.37 as a floor of the number of new money produced with a 10% reserve).

Bitcoin 0.1 will find connection, but certainly can't find other compatible node because it use IRC to find other nodes and the "node" won't run.
Besides, i'm not sure whether Bitcoin 0.1 include list of IRC link or IP of other node.

 struct hostent* phostent = gethostbyname("chat.freenode.net");
        CAddress addrConnect(*(u_long*)phostent->h_addr_list[0], htons(6667));

        Send(hSocket, strprintf("NICK %s\r", strMyName.c_str()).c_str());
        Send(hSocket, strprintf("USER %s 8 * : %s\r", strMyName.c_str(), strMyName.c_str()).c_str());

        Send(hSocket, "JOIN #bitcoin\r");
        Send(hSocket, "WHO #bitcoin\r");

bool GetMyExternalIP(unsigned int& ipRet)
{
    CAddress addrConnect("72.233.89.199:80"); // whatismyip.com 198-200

    SOCKET hSocket;
    if (!ConnectSocket(addrConnect, hSocket))
        return error("GetMyExternalIP() : connection to %s failed\n", addrConnect.ToString().c_str());

    char* pszGet =
        "GET /automation/n09230945.asp HTTP/1.1\r\n"
        "Host: www.whatismyip.com\r\n"
        "User-Agent: Bitcoin/0.1\r\n"
        "Connection: close\r\n"
        "\r\n";
    send(hSocket, pszGet, strlen(pszGet), 0);

What? Since when? Works fine for me:


$ ./bitcoin-cli generatetoaddress 1 bc1qw64su7f6sdf9qqawa40v2uq7crzrrmzs2qx2hl
[
]


(and setting a high max tries makes it take a long time to return while it busily tries many times).

It has an utterly negligible chance of finding a block because the little cpu miner does so little work compared to the current difficulty, of course, but it works.

Please don't conflate "this would be a waste of your time and energy" with "this will not work".

Yelling at people that they shouldn't or can't mine has done a lot of harm to Bitcoin. And a bitcoin node that couldn't mine at all-- even if the mining is only useful in a testing capacity without the help of an asic-- wouldn't deserve being called a node.

it is a lot of coin.  it is just about 123000 usd.

i dont think i would tell people i had that much.

The question is in a very weird format.

'I understand elliptic curve is to be researched and understand by us noobies. But is it required to use to reach the private key?'

So, we're supposed to understand it to get to the key, but not use it?
Though Max hasn't confirmed the first part of his question.

SGI has denied any contact with Craig Wright and his supercomputer firm, Cloudcroft Supercomputers Australia, despite documents claiming that the two companies have previously worked together.

High performance computing firm SGI has denied any involvement with Cloudcroft Supercomputers Australia, a supercomputer firm that was founded by suspected bitcoin founder Craig Wright under his parent company DeMorgan.

In a letterfeaturing the SGI letterhead and the supposed signature of SGI APAC service director Greg McKeon, SGI acknowledged it would be assisting Cloudcroft Supercomputers Australia in the development of hyper-density machines and supercomputers.

"As a global leader in high performance solutions for computers, data analytics and data management, SGI considers Cloudcroft a worthy partner in the goal to accelerate time to discovery, innovation and profitability," the letter said.

The letter also highlighted the two companies have previously worked together to build Cloudcroft's first supercomputer, Sukuriputo Okane.

WhaTechhas previously reported that Wright even presented lectures on supercomputers in partnership between Cloudcroft, SGI, and Charles Sturt University.

Further evidence to suggest that Wright was the supposed owner of a supercomputer was highlighted in a Cloudcroft blogposted in December 2014, which indicated that Wright at the time had intentions to build "the biggest supercomputer cluster in Australia, with just under 5 petabytes", in time for the release of the Top 500 in June 2015.

However, Cassio Conceicao, SGI EVP and chief operating officer, has told ZDNet that despite this, SGI has never had any contact with Cloudcroft or Wright.

"Cloudcroft has never been an SGI customer and SGI has no relationship with Cloudcroft CEO Craig Steven Wright," he said.

Conceicao added that SGI has no record of the C01N supercomputer being purchased or serviced by the firm. The C01N supercomputer, which was placed at number 17on the list of the world's fastest supercomputer in November, is another supercomputer that Wright apparently owns. It was allegedly created when Wright merged C01N and Tulip Trading, Cloudcroft's supposed flagship supercomputer, into a single high performance computer.

"SGI has no record of the CO1N supercomputer ever being purchased or serviced from SGI, therefore SGI suspects it may have been purchased on the grey market," Conceicao said. "SGI does not operate, maintain, or provide any services for this supercomputer."

On Wednesday, a home located in Sydney, New South Wales, and offices, which allegedly belonged to Wright, were raided by the Australian Federal Policein relation to an Australian Taxation Office investigation.

While it has not been confirmed, Wright is reportedly involved in the creation of the bitcoin cryptocurrency. Based on leaked transcripts of legal interviews and files, Gizmodo and Wired have highlighted that there is evidence to suggest Wright, along with computer forensics analyst David Kleiman, who died in April 2013, are the men behind Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of bitcoin that has never been identified.

Since the raid, Wright's online presence has been slowly disappearing. The letter, together with the Cloudcroft and DeMorgan website, and Wright's LinkedIn profile and Twitter account, have since been pulled.

In a letterfeaturing the SGI letterhead and the supposed signature of SGI APAC service director Greg McKeon, SGI acknowledged it would be assisting Cloudcroft Supercomputers Australia in the development of hyper-density machines and supercomputers.