Although I tend to believe that LoyceV is right and you're lying, you had 10 years to buy at least some of those coins back to fix that mistake. If you didn't... too bad.

I would start with these 2 links:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/56924/what-does-signal-and-lock-in-mean-in-a-bip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Improvement_Proposals

Possibly the first one already gives you the "superficial" info you need.

I guess that this image tells it better than I could:

On the download page you can find:


The link from there goes to: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/tree/master/pubkeys
And you'll find all the public keys there, including Emzy.


Interestingly on https://download.electrum.org/4.1.5/ I cannot see Emzy's asc, only ThomasV and sombernight_releasekey

If you really want to, you can always stay afraid that this or that will sell. Nobody stops you from that.
But would it make sense economically to sell now if they don't really need that money? I don't think so. Not yet.



I would indeed see it as profit. But such a big company probably has people with more experience in handling values and they will stay real.
And, as I said, I think that they will not rush to sell if they don't have to, in the same way the banks don't sell and re-buy their gold based on market moves.

That's only on the paper. As people said, unrealized profit.
1 BTC = 1 BTC. As long as they don't sell, there's no actual profit to talk about.
Nice bullish (for newbies) news though

While the quoting is reassuring, it may worth mentioning that it was already archived automatically at ninjastic.space and loyce.club too.

It's not only about the years of practice on those tracks.
Some tracks have longer straight lines, some have shorter; some have tigher corners, some have them wider; some allow easier overtaking by being wider overall, some don't... and so on.
This kind of differences will favor one car or another, one driver or another, not necessarily because of the years of practice.

It could be. But it's up to the seller to decide for himself.
Imho at least this kind of clarification could get you more sellers. Good luck!

If you expect the other party use PayPal for conversion, that won't work:

1. Although PayPal supports Bitcoin, it my support it only in US for now.
2. One cannot withdraw Bitcoin from PayPal account.

If you expect somebody else sell you bitcoin for your PayPal USD, you should look for the few people "adventurous" enough to do this; there aren't many and you may have to pay a premium, since bitcoin transfers are irreversible, while PayPal allows charge backs so you have the "tools" for scamming.

As also said in the other similar topic, there's too big chance that the data is not accurate.
All the conclusions are based on statistical data and it may depend -a lot- what mining pools were giving them the data.
Also the "other" 8.9% is huge and can be anywhere. Even if (ad absurdum) added to Iran's percents can make that country get the 3rd place.

Actually the miners do very well what they do: confirm transactions and get paid for that. As long as the miners want to get paid and want that their payment is valuable, they can (usually) be trusted. They can be seen as a pretty good 3rd party that doesn't care who is sending the transactions and why.

On the other hand, if the ledger is written by parties involved in the transaction, it can be expected that one of them may try to cheat. Afaik altcoins like Grin may be fixing that, but I didn't pay attention, if you are interested I suggest you research more.

Satoshi had a simple and effective approach; it doesn't mean that's the only possible approach. But also you should not expect this get implemented into Bitcoin.
A common saying is: You have an idea? Make your altcoin based on that and see if the idea works and the coin will have success.
All in all, in the same way you make a new electric car instead of converting your current (petrol based), you cannot really expect Bitcoin do such drastic changes, whether the idea is great or not.

Just my 2 satoshi.

Actually we are still just under 58k. We went to 58500 and then back to lower values.
And I think that one reason is psychological and related to European traders: the current "barrier" is 50k EUR 
Let's give it a bit more time. We'll pass this too.

I was planning to not use emulated disk, at least (not) for bitcoin datadir. I was planning to use the shared disk functionality (or connect directly to the USB) and use the external USB disk I already have with a pretty much up to date datadir.

The VBox direction was chosen because I have to have Windows as main OS and I failed to install - at least at start - any reasonable Electrum server onto Windows. And on VBox I managed to have a Linux working with my USB disk. I've noticed that's not the best direction (and thanks for the heads up about the traffic!), but it was the best I could think of. After reading about Docker I am afraid to use it on this machine (I don't want to have to reinstall windows if I do something wrong).


Later on I managed to make Electrum Personal Server work on Windows, but that's still not enough, since as step 2 I intend to also get a block explorer.
I intend to try now @HCP direction with WSL; from what he said here, his setup looks very promising.

Am gasit de curand o poza care din puntul meu de vedere zice cam totul despre analizele tehnice. Chiar daca nu e din crypto.
Ideea e ca daca nu vrei sa faci asumptii bazate pe asteptarile tale, poti destul de usor sa ajungi la...


( sursa: https://twitter.com/BitcoinFear/status/1446815284707266564 )

just as a note, the topic is also discussed here: After a few months of China crackdown on mining. Check it out!

Mostly because I'm a stupid windows-head and although I heard about it, I've never used WSL and never actually needed it, since VBox (and before that VMWare) always did all I needed (usually clean Windows for tests).
And it didn't occur to me at all that this could be the way. Thank you!



Since you have that, I'll try to abuse your kindness and try to replicate your setup  , basically if I run into odd newbish issues at least I have the chance somebody can answer 
electrs actually sounds very good to me, at least it solves the requirements for a block explorer which I also wanted (as a step 2).

So.. what Linux flavor you suggest I should install? Ubuntu?

It looks to me like these guys try to get some (more) money off you.
If you want to sue someone, it's the site that scammed you, not the tool you used.

Just think a little: if anyone could do that, much more people and companies would do it.
The risk is there: unless you have big funds on all major exchanges, the price difference may be gone until your transaction is confirmed.
Then you have to know the exchanges very well: usually those that stand out with big price difference have issues - either very low volumes, either withdrawals (or even deposits) not working (temporarily or forever/scam). Also most exchanges need KYC and you cannot know how many of them will sell that information and what will be done with that (the more places you submit that info, the higher the chance somebody will misuse it).

I won't comment on the strangeness of the situation.  

You should have the transaction info in your wallet. You can check if the address you have sent to is the one you were supposed to send to. And if it looks correct you can try to discuss with the casino's support.
But don't send them more money.
However, there are good chances your money is gone, since I have seen that casino name (I'm not familiar with) in the List of Casinos and Sportbooks to Avoid

Next time try to use an exchange; or maybe acquire a Bitcoin debit card and make better use of that money.