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Excuse me from asking, but how does that differ from the current locktime feature? Currently, you can sign a transaction and state that it will be valid after a certain block or datetime. Thus, you can sign your inheritance and if it's going to be valid without you being dead, you can spend the funds, making it invalid.
The people who will inherit your property will only have given you their master public key.
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The fundamental goal of bitcoin is to prevent the need for a financial institution to transact money via the internet as the whitepaper says; Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as
trusted third parties to process electronic payments. While the system works well enough for
most transactions, it still suffers from the inherent weaknesses of the trust based model Now, if you think this brings freedom, it replaces (or will replace) traditional currencies, is and must remain an alternative payment method etc., is down to you to decide it. In my opinion, it's liberty rather than freedom. ( The difference) Whether you lean towards authoritarianism or libertarianism, whether you lean towards left or right, you can't seriously disagree with this statement. |
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And as time goes on, the proof from the signature becomes less significant. There'll definitely be a time in the future when someone finds the private key of the genesis' public key[1]. This won't make them Satoshi. Proof of ownership isn't proof of identity either way. It'll be really vague if a valid signed message appeared out of nowhere and I wouldn't hold my breath that they're Satoshi.
[1] 04678afdb0fe5548271967f1a67130b7105cd6a828e03909a67962e0ea1f61deb649f6bc3f4cef3 8c4f35504e51ec112de5c384df7ba0b8d578a4c702b6bf11d5f
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This reminds me of: What happens in a copyright infringement scenario?In reality; anyone would be able to make a complaint with as much as text as they want. This isn't reality. This is pure theory. Media could try to suppress the statements made in the public ledger, but anyone who downloads the entire ledger would have access to read all complaints. Here comes free speech. Has anyone gave this any thought? Yes, it's undoubtedly expensive to save much text in the Bitcoin block chain and extremely difficult to extract it. It's mainly for transacting bitcoins and even that is tackled with second layer solutions. Can you explain me why would you want to state your complain publicly? |
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As pooya87 said, there isn't such thing, because of lack of incentive. In block chains, the users verify every single information they receive. How will this work in a “Decentralized Twitter”? Will they download every single message, image, video, podcast etc.? I hope you understand how impractical this is.
Either the users download the whole social platform in their hard drive or they have to use a third party. It's that simple.
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Somebody could explain which variable means what? Yes. In elliptic curves, when you want to find the public key given a certain private key, you construct two algorithms. Addition and doubling. The image you've inserted shows the addition of two points (P + Q) whose result can be seen by drawing a straight line in P and Q; the inverse of that point is R. Your image is a graphical representation of point addition. In doubling, you draw a tangent line in P and where it'll intersect with the curve, its inverse will be 2P. i know tow point add,multiple in python code, but subtracter not understand Isn't subtraction just like addition? Instead of P + Q, you do P + (-Q). The only extra step is to get -Q. This may satisfy you: How to subtract two points on an elliptic curve? |
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Welcome to bitcointalk! Apart from the highly rich information about cryptocurrencies that can be gotten in this forum, can you also earn? Yep, there are ways to earn. - Sell your services.
- Signature campaigns.
- Bounty campaigns. (If you desperately need money)
I heard of bounties and I'm yet to properly know how it works In bounties you either wear a signature (& avatar) and make posts or advertise them in social media. Check Bounties (Altcoins). Note that you'll get paid in their token. but aside from the bounties program are there any other medium of earning here? Yes, signature campaigns which pay in bitcoin. Check Services. Those that start with either CFNP, OPEN or just include “signature campaign” in their title, are signature campaigns. How do I attract merits? In summary: You make constructive posts. See: FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit. What do you mean by quality posts? Is this an example? I guess what I'm doing right now is an example. |
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Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with Brandon Quittem and I wish this doesn't look like an advertisement which will bring traffic to their website.
However, I recently read an excellent writeup written by them and I wanted to share it with you, guys. Doin' my best to provide some quality content to the “unfortunate” Bitcoin Discussion. It starts with an acceptance; that life follows circles. That there are four generations in the so-called Saeculum (90 years) and that currently we're in the last one. Why four? The following makes sense: - Weak men create bad times.
- Bad times create strong men.
- Strong men create good times.
- Good times create weak men.
During this Saeculum, that started in 1946, we've passed over artists, prophets, nomads and at the moment we're at the last mood, heroes. It describes that, currently, there are and will be crisis until the end of the decade, at least. Then, as a reference to the known quote that history repeats itself, it analyzes what happened in the previous fourth turnings and how you can protect yourself with Bitcoin during this one. Just a short summary. It's a very bullish article and I recommend its reading unreservedly: brandonquittem.com/bitcoin-rhythms-of-history
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Maybe you also need to run Electrum through Tor proxy? I am not sure because I used Electrum only with clearnnet nodes, but it would make sense. Went through Tor. Results: No outgoing transactions in history. In my node's log: 2021-12-15T14:31:34.512Z INFO 0348800b9c5e68fe052d6b240350ae5412bbfc7fee7456ec4d725f7c7beff333f2-chan#3: Parsing funding_created |
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Electrum now returns me: Could not open channel: ConnStringFormatError('Hostname does not resolve (getaddrinfo failed)')Did it connect with my node, but run a command that isn't recognized? |
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Alright, so I installed c-lightning on my RPi and it's, indeed, better for a newbie like me. It seems more simple than LND, but I need your help with something. I opened a channel with - 026c0f266268c1edc4e1f7e17ba6aa18979fee47f059e46a40cafbbcc56ab3df57. ( d1d5720a39fe5786e972d1fc7ca1badd4dfb8c31dea62d45978f77b3dd9fc5e6) bitcoin@raspibolt:~/lightning/cli $ ./lightning-cli --network=testnet getinfo
{
"id": "039a7e0982d3b0f967dfc18b8b69c9e8cafd035985eff1832258daf08de119b10e",
"alias": "VIOLENTCHASER",
"color": "039a7e",
"num_peers": 1,
"num_pending_channels": 0,
"num_active_channels": 1,
"num_inactive_channels": 0,
"address": [
{
"type": "torv3",
"address": "pn4dvsmjxpkemwsuhocrytdpfgrqjzbd6zagasyrg4msce63sldxtlqd.onion",
"port": 9735
}
],
"binding": [
{
"type": "ipv4",
"address": "127.0.0.1",
"port": 9735
}
],
"version": "v0.10.2-145-g5bbe3fe",
"blockheight": 2131247,
"network": "testnet",
"msatoshi_fees_collected": 0,
"fees_collected_msat": "0msat",
"lightning-dir": "/home/bitcoin/.lightning/testnet"
} bitcoin@raspibolt:~/lightning/cli $ ./lightning-cli --network=testnet listfunds
{
"outputs": [
{
"txid": "d1d5720a39fe5786e972d1fc7ca1badd4dfb8c31dea62d45978f77b3dd9fc5e6",
"output": 0,
"value": 999846,
"amount_msat": "999846000msat",
"scriptpubkey": "0014bcddf25998e909d839b327d0f1bdabe7e0e68bd4",
"address": "tb1qhnwlykvcayyaswdnylg0r0dtulswdz75m44y2l",
"status": "confirmed",
"blockheight": 2131240,
"reserved": false
}
],
"channels": [
{
"peer_id": "026c0f266268c1edc4e1f7e17ba6aa18979fee47f059e46a40cafbbcc56ab3df57",
"connected": true,
"state": "CHANNELD_NORMAL",
"short_channel_id": "2131240x43x1",
"channel_sat": 1000000,
"our_amount_msat": "1000000000msat",
"channel_total_sat": 1000000,
"amount_msat": "1000000000msat",
"funding_txid": "d1d5720a39fe5786e972d1fc7ca1badd4dfb8c31dea62d45978f77b3dd9fc5e6",
"funding_output": 1
}
]
}
I'd, now, like to try to open a channel from my Electrum with my node. So... what's going on? |
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This is my bitcoin.conf: # RaspiBolt: bitcoind configuration
# /mnt/ext/bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
# Bitcoin daemon
server=1
txindex=1
# Network
listen=1
listenonion=1
proxy=127.0.0.1:9050
onlynet=onion
#bind=127.0.0.1
# Connections
rpcuser=[USER]
rpcpassword=[PASS]
zmqpubrawblock=tcp://127.0.0.1:28332
zmqpubrawtx=tcp://127.0.0.1:28333
As you can see I only relay through Tor. Due to the easiness Tor provides, I theoretically can contribute to the network's bandwidth by allowing incoming connections without having to port forward anything. However, I don't understand why I get 0 incoming connections. Isn't listen=1 and listenonion=1 enough? What do I do wrong? |
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In my opinion, most are not. LastPass specifically isn't open source which would be the main discouragement to use it. I highly recommend against on using a software that uses cryptography and isn't open source.
There have been times when messages got unencrypted due to poor usage of cryptography. The users are forced to trust the programmers; having the source code available for anyone to check, shows a form of dignity across the users.
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I'm just leaving some arbitrary numbers so I can quote them in the far future:
Wall Observer page 30,000: 1 BTC = $89,653.
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The question is why would one save 2 64 private keys in their hard drive? I mean what's the point? Do you also want to store the addresses after each key, just to make searching easier for the first 2 64 uncompressed addresses? There's no reason to store only the keys. If I am not mistaken, you are describing the amount of space required to store all private keys as 32 bit integers. Most private keys are numbers that are greater than 32 bits. He's talking about the [1, 2 64] range. Storing all the private keys would cost much much more space. |
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The other option is downloading kaspersky total or bitdefender and scanning the machine to see what it finds and then remove those threats. And maybe continue using it? Have less trust in anti-viruses. If your machine has caught anything, then for whatever “cleaning” program you install, you'll never be sure you're safe; I'd say not even close. What kind of files are those you want to export? Are they just videos, images and wallet.dat kind of files? If that's the case, then just transfer them in a USB, wipe up the drive and re-install your OS. If there are closed-sourced executables included, then I advice against. The big issue here is I have seed stored in my password manager, so if I open it up, if keylogger there, then I'm screwed? If we assume you copy it, then yeah. Keylogger will detect it. Note that there are screen recording kind of malwares, so just having the seed phrase on-screen on a virus-affected machine is neither safe.
I know we sound fearmongering, but it's the way computers and bitcoin work that makes us, completely justifiably, do. |
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Great, great questions. What is the best argument against the Ponzi scheme narrative? The first thing you have to tell them is that the definition of “ponzi scheme” or “pyramid scheme” is very strict. In a ponzi scheme, there's a leadership team that promises high returns and misleads the public with wrongful statements regarding an illegitimate business. - Is there a leadership team that promised high returns? No, Satoshi or the people who worked to create this innovation didn't promise you anything.
- Have the developers ever lied or misled the public? Nope. Their actions reveal the exact opposite: The software is open source, anyone's allowed to contribute; it promotes free speech.
- Is there an illegitimate business? If we assume that buying and selling bitcoin is a business, then that depends on how you see things. However, I think that the transparency of bitcoin discloses objectively that there's nothing illegitimate behind it, by default. If you start manipulating the crowd, then that's you who's problematic and illegitimate.
In what ways are Ponzi schemes different from bitcoin? The reasons I highlighted. How do they generate value differently? The conviction that there's something legitimate while there isn't is what deceivingly gives a ponzi scheme, temporarily, market value. |
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No, we should keep using this catchy phrase, but for the dollar!  
Seriously now, due to the financial crisis we're going through, I recommend more broadly on investing. Whether that's bitcoin, altcoins, stocks, real estate, your own businesses etc., do me a favor and take care of your finances. Good times create weak men, weak men create hard times, hard times create strong men and strong men create good times. Currently, I believe we're in the last one. Work less; learn more. People's biggest mistake, when it comes to finance, is that they add liabilities to their active income while they think they have added assets to their passive income. At this point, I think that telling someone to get involved into bitcoin is more than just an investment advice; it's a life advice. |
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This is a big one for me. Besides not using Google, I find not using Windows equally difficult. I agree with all the privacy advantages and similar you may gain by using a Linux OS instead, but that isn't enough to make me a Linux user. I'm a windows user since I was a child. I've used in their terminology and as much as I've tried replacing it with Linux, I've failed. So, if someone like Jerry faces such issues, you can't just tell them to use another operating system if they've used to use Windows their entire life. I find the following post very relevant: All OSs are vulnerable to malware and phishing attacks. The only way to avoid being victimized is to educate yourself, and be diligent. The OS you choose will not save you from mistakes.
I've been using computers since Commodore 64s were all the rage. I used Apple IIs and the first generation of Macs when I was in junior high and high school. My first version of Windows was 3.2, and I've used every version since, including enterprise versions and some server versions. Currently I use Ubuntu for a variety of tasks, and most of my servers run a version of Linux. My daughters prefer Macs, so I've had a couple of those around the house for the last decade as well.
Those of us who have industrial engineering jobs, those of use who use CAD to earn our living, those of us who must interact with other people around the planet who use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and the like... How hard would we be making our lives trying contribute while using some buggy shitware? All the best quality and most practical business and industrial software is written for Windows, and only Windows. So yes, my main personal computer is built to run Windows, and that's the only way I'll have it. Not because I don't know what else is out there or because I don't know how to use anything else. It's because I like it, it works great for my needs, and it's been quite safe when I do my part.
When I say that I find Windows to be among the most versatile, useful, and dependable OSs of all that I've used, it does come from a place of experience. So, you'll have to forgive me for not taking the advice of some newbie on an internet forum when he says things like "i suggest not using windows."
I can't stop but wondering what kind of coins and tokens those are. The majority of shitcoins are Ethereum-based, so he can just keep those on his Ethereum address on his Ledger. Maybe he doesn't know that and I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't.
Not that I like being biased, but he does look like the person who's here only for the quick profit without giving much attention to the potential risks buying shitcoins may have. What to say; Most of the participants are convinced that they are too smart to get off the train before it crashes. |
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