He responded to my question; he is using Blockchain.info

Unfortunately blockchain.info does some really stupid stuff and makes it difficult to do any advanced tasks, so you cannot use it to create a CPFP transaction.

That is your address.

I meant what wallet software are you using? blockchain.info?

You can do that as trust is not moderated, so the forum will not ban you unless you are spamming. However, it is frowned upon to do that so other members may give you negative trust for doing that.

It depends on your wallet. What wallet are you using?

Because you probably aren't using Default Trust. You have a different trust list than the account that checks for the trust. That account uses Default Trust.

Read the post above yours.

There are two options. You can attempt a Child Pays For Parent transaction in which you create a transaction spending from this unconfirmed transaction. That spending transaction will need to have a transaction fee that is sufficient to cover both the spending transaction and this unconfirmed one.

Alternatively you can contact the user macbook-air and ask him if he can confirm the transaction for you. He is in charge of f2pool so he has the ability to do this.

Read the first post for the estimation algorithm. I haven't changed it in a while, so it probably isn't accurate anymore as it was last changed when the price of Bitcoin was a lot lower, around $300.

Fixed.

All previous requests have been removed, PM me if you need one of them.

It is neither legal nor illegal; there are no laws governing this. Furthermore, if there were laws regarding Bitcoin, it would vary from country to country even though Bitcoin is an neutral international currency.

Taking Bitcoin from an address that you generated that already had Bitcoin would be considered immoral and would be highly frowned upon by the Bitcoin community.

See: https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/pull/1235#issuecomment-185676811

I tried to get it reinstated here: https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/pull/1301 but it hasn't been done yet.

You can get the raw hex of a transaction by going to blockchain.info and appending ?format=hex to the URL for the transaction. You can also go to blockcypher, look up the transaction, and click on the button for "api call" under the Advanced details section. This will give you JSON for the transaction and under the outputs section is the script for the output in hex.

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In Electrum, you can go to the console and type
where <txid> is the txid. This will give you the raw hex of the transaction.

Then you can take that hex and type
which will give you the decoded version of the transaction. You can chain the two commands together by doing
and get the decoded transaction from the txid.

Remove the version number so it is just [tt\]wxWidgets[/tt]. Do the same for the three other libraries; \OpenSSL for openssl-1.0.2d, \DB for db-4.8.30.NC, and \Boost for boost_1_35_0

If that doesn't work, try doing make install in wxWidgets, openssl, and db.

More nodes for the network is always good. Whether it's good for you is a whole other thing. A Bitcoin node will not get you any money, there is no compensation.

Nope, any modern computer can run Ubuntu. There is no need for anything special. If it can run Windows or OS X, it can run Ubuntu.

Yes. Bitcoin Core is significantly easier than setting up a Tor relay.

Yes. Bitcoin Core is actually part wallet. It runs a full node, but it itself is also a wallet software. You can send and receive Bitcoin with it. The benefit is that you are not relying on someone else to give you the right data. A full node will always validate and verify every single transaction and block it receives, and full nodes will receive every block and nearly every transaction sent. This validation gives you more security. Mycelium on the other hand is an SPV wallet. This means that it trusts a full node to give it transactions that your wallet needs and it trusts that that full node properly verified the transaction. This is less safe than a full node which does the verification itself.

Unfortunately there are not any full node wallets for mobile since full nodes use a ton of data and storage..

At least 256 Gb.

Not quite sure what is causing the error. Are you sure that the paths to all of the necessary directories don't have spaces in them? If they do, you should either move the folders or rename them to not have spaces.

Yes. I recommend that you use Ubuntu. Don't use Windows as it is too large and makes doing Tor stuff harder.

You will need at least 4 Gb of RAM, 8 is preferable. You will probably also want an SSD instead of a normal HDD to reduce sync times for Bitcoin. As for CPU, any modern CPU will do, I recommend an Intel i3 or i5 as those are the cheaper lower end stuff. Lastly you will probably want something that can support a wired internet connection, not WiFi. Wired is better as it will be faster and it is guaranteed to work. Just make sure that the network card (or built in on the mobo) can handle several hundred Mbps.

You will need a decent internet connection, ideally with speeds of at least several hundred Mbps. Also make sure that your internet plan can allow hundreds of Gb per month. Bitcoin Core will use a few hundred Gb per month, and Tor will also use a lot of data, although probably not as much as Bitcoin Core.

Fees go to the miners. Miners include the transactions into blocks and they get the fees. Satoshi used nodes and miners interchangeably in the Bitcoin Whitepaper but they are in fact two separate things.

It's always a good thing to have more full nodes on the network.

Go into the makefile and change the two lines at the bottom from
to

Clearly he knows enough about technical stuff to do this:


Which he immediately followed with
which clearly shows that he isn't sure about whether those are valid keys. Importing them is not going to help if they are not valid, and the first step of a validity check is to make sure they are actually WIF keys before importing them.

Well good for you. A lot of people have been using Bitcoin since mid 2009 but have no idea on how it works technically or how a specific modern implementation of Bitcoin (Bitcoin Core) works. The amount of time you have been using Bitcoin does not matter.

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Anyways, this is off topic and not helping the OP.

Download Bitcoin Core from https://bitcoin.org/en/download. Install it, and run. You are then running a full node. To further help the network, you can allow incoming connections. Check your firewalls (on both your computer and your router) and make sure that they allow port 8333 and are forwarding it to port 8333 on the machine running Bitcoin Core.

It is possible. If you are using Ubuntu/Debian, follow these instructions: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian.html.en. You can also look at the instructions at: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en for some more info on setting up a relay, especially the torrc file.

As a bonus you can also setup Bitcoin Core to also go over Tor and accept tor connections as well.

I don't see why not.

Setting up a tor relay is kind of difficult for an average joe as it typically involves linux and command line. Bitcoin full nodes are super simple as it is just download and install Bitcoin Core.

Yes. Bitcoin Core will use a lot as it has to download the blockchain, which is quite large, and keep in sync with it by downloading and uploading to several peers.

Practically none. Just make sure that the computer is still on and that both pieces of software are still running.

There are no benefits like that for running your own full node. You will not get any sort of monetary compensation and your transactions will not confirm faster. What you do get is the security of a full node and an accurate estimate of the optimal transaction fee to get faster confirmations.

I am giving him more information that is relevant than you did. I told him to check for things and make sure that they are in the proper format instead of just telling him how to do something. The point is to get more information about the situation, especially since he worded things confusingly, before jumping to conclusions and trying things that will waste time and not work, as you were doing. You were assuming that he actually had WIF keys, but looking further up the thread, it is not clear whether he does as some parts of his story conflicts.

Secondly, giving instructions on how to do something in Bitcoin Core does not have anything to do with cryptography. The only things you have said about cryptography are incorrect.

Are you sure that they are in WIF format? Do they start with a '5', 'K', or 'L'? If they are WIF, then you can just import them. If they are hex, then you will have to convert them to WIF format. If they are encrypted, then you will have to find the master encryption key, decrypt that, and then decrypt the private keys.

The fact that you are confusing terminology just further shows that you don't know what you are talking about. The stretching has nothing to do with the private keys but rather the password he must enter. There is not "re-encrypted", just encrypted and not.