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Is there a specific reason? If you want to run a node for the sake of your privacy, there are several ways to do it. It's not expensive as you can find the necessary hardware for less than $50.

If you just want to learn more about the way bitcoin nodes work, study!

— https://learnmeabitcoin.com/beginners/nodes
— https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information/full-node.html

Bitcoin is better than gold as a store of value asset, objectively.

• It can sent from one side of the planet to the other within seconds. (And it's extremely cheap with LN)
• It's easier to cut it into 100,000,000 pieces.
• It doesn't take space. (No storage costs)
• You know exactly how many there'll be.
• It's easier to verify.

And it introduces an extra feature: Trustless divided possession. (Multi-sig)


But, is this true? Lots of human rights are violated from authoritarian states. So, while everyone should have the right to own Bitcoin, they don't. While everyone should have the right to vote democratically, they don't. While everyone should have the right to be educated or health cared for free, they don't.
 
Some don't even have water.

I was searching for a way to solve this. At the moment, I'll just use this as a temporary solution. Thanks!

Could you explain us why you want this? Just to avoid any XY problems.

Done.

I added a low, medium and high fee. I think we should leave it that simple.

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Do images update on your Chrome? Just to be sure, could you open a Firefox and a Chrome and refresh the page? I think that in Firefox it works properly, but in Chrome you have to open them in another window to refresh their results. There must be troubles with cache involved.

It's not just transaction indexing block explorers depend on. Once you enter an address on the block explorer, the back-end needs to find out which of the indexed transactions are related with the given address. Thus, during the installation it has to create a list with each address and their transaction ids.

Electrum server implementations do that. Just the Bitcoin Core doesn't. There are various projects depending on what you want. Electrs, for instance, does what I said above and usually comes with btc-rpc-explorer in some node OSes. There's ElectrumX too.

Hi.

What's an original coin? Just say it altcoin. It isn't bad sounded.

In both Windows and Ubuntu there should be an application data directory where all the applications keep things such as configuration files etc. Same applies for Bitcoin Core. You should create the .conf file there and if you've ensured that it's the correct directory, then any included command in that file should be the same if you executed as a parameter.

If you've included the addnode commands, what's the debug.log saying? Is that all it says?

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Note that many things may have gone wrong, so it may take time to even understand why your computers cannot connect. Could you first explain me why you used 0.20.1?

I haven't tried all of them, but you should take a look on each implementation and understand if, at least, one of them meets your criteria. Most probably all of them will, but check yourself.

— https://github.com/iquidus/explorer
— https://github.com/romanornr/blockexplorer
— https://github.com/hyperledger/blockchain-explorer
— https://github.com/poanetwork/blockscout
— https://github.com/X9Developers/block-explorer

That's an interesting point of view. Indeed, centralized exchanges have this downside in which they know when you want to sell or buy. They can approach what the majority wants and take advantage of it. They don't just hold your coins; they hold your interests.

I don't trade, but if I ever want to buy a cryptocurrency, I'll use a decentralized exchange instead. I highly doubt the majority will do either, but at least I'll feel alright with myself.

Excellent writeup!

I'll leave uncommented the above nonsensical and senseless post above me and focus on Dave's question.

I'll speak for privacy since I consider it a more significant right than anonymity. I do, but I can't explain why I'm annoyed by the uncontrollable way some corporations keep sending me the next cleanser which kills 101% of the bacteria. I just feel, you know... not free?

Isn't privacy required to preserve democracy? We saw what happened with Trump and Facebook few years ago. That's surely something to be annoyed with. Anyway, there's no privacy in the internet nowadays, truth be told. That's not a reason to give it up, though. Do your best and hide your activity as much as you can from those corporations and surveillance agencies.

Do it and enjoy the few squares of your privacy that're left.

Setting aside the connection of my node, I want to clear up some things first.

I'm trying to understand the technical background of the penalty mechanism and need some answers to continue my study further. First off, I'll write what I've understood so far. The juicy part of the lightning network is this IMO. How can you discourage someone from publishing an older state of the channel. Lightning must have been an enlightenment for whoever thought of it. I'll take Bob and Alice as my examples.

Let's say the channel starts with Alice having 10 coins and Bob nothing. (Commitment transaction #0)

Alice wants to send 2 coins to Bob. Once she signs the transfer, she has to assure Bob she'll not cheat him in the future. Thus, she provides an evidence that the previous transaction is revoked. So, she has to sign the following:

1) If Bob somehow provides a signature from Alice's revocation key, he can seize all of her coins. Otherwise, Alice can take the 10 coins if she broadcasts the transaction, in which she spends her coins and reveals her revocation key, acquires 432 confirmations.

2) Bob gets 2 coins.

They both exchange signed commitments and revocation keys as they transact. First, Alice sends the above to Bob and Bob agrees. If Bob wants to send 1 coin back, Alice needs to make sure he'll not publish the previous state. So, she tells him to provide her the new commitment transaction signed, so that she gives him the revocation key of the previous state. (The one that if Bob tried to cheat her, she could sign a transaction with and take her 2 coins back)

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Am I wrong until here? I'm sure I've said something that's not true.

The title of this thread touches on some important topics of cryptography.

1) What do you mean by true randomness? Don't we already have true random generators? Do you mean that our supposedly random numbers are chosen predictably?
2) Why is your way more random than ours?

I don't have much to say, but this. Human moves are generally predictable, so anything the human knows he's doing can be predicted on way or another. So, what's unpredictable? The exact opposite:  Roll a dice!

While it's a procedure in which you can calculate the final result, you don't, because it's difficult. So, for you, who's rolling it, it's unpredictable. It's a great source of randomness if the dice is properly made. (Each side is a 16.6%)

Agreed, but why would they reuse their client's address? I mean, I can't think of one reason you should do that other than exposing your clients willingly. (Which makes no sense)

They show their true selves. They must be feeling better now.

Roubini, just like any other no-coiner, wanted to support his position providing some invalid arguments such as bitcoin isn't backed by anything or it's used mainly by criminals or energy inefficiency. Alright, now that he admitted defeat, let's move on. I can't stand the moment when Schiff will make a positive comment instead of showing his hate.

Hey OP, when did that happen? This month bitcoin went from 30k-ish to 60k-ish. It's kinda hard to understand which is the transaction your friend did. Did you friend receive those coins and then lost them instantly? Is it surely from an exchange? Provide some more stuff.

It seems weird. Usually, addresses aren't reused especially from exchanges. It looks rather a compromised address in which you deposit funds and it “pulls” them right after you do it.

There's no point to add something that remains the same. For instance, highest prices or most active addresses of each month aren't going to ever change; you can just type them.

The stats I've chosen change pretty frequently (except the ATH). Someone may want to refer to the chain's height, a number which changes every 10 minutes or the price which changes ever more frequently.

Another great idea is the total capacity of the lightning network or the current S2F price.

I had deposited 500,000 sats few days ago. So, open it if you want. Do I have to give any permissions or you can just do it by having my URI?

I think that's where we all, the Bitcoiners, rely on. To this wrong attitude towards it during an early epoch. It is mainly seen positively; we take our opportunity to increase our future accumulation status while the majority of the people out there are unaware of the radical changes that will occur.

It is disappointing, though, if it's a close friend of yours or a relative. Still, that's the reason we're heading on a highly hierarchical economy.

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My answer to Pmalek is that if your friend is highly likely to lose them or not appreciate them, don't. While it sounds cool, it isn't.

I want to open a channel, but it still says that I haven't synced with the chain. Anyway, you have to give me a lninvoice, right?

Do you want us to have eye pain? Why did you use bold and italic in all of your text?

The entire text is a non-sense. So many sentences for no reason. You could just ask what would happen in case of a sudden vulnerability or what would happen if the internet was cut off from the entire planet. The latter isn't a reasonably scenario as the whole world operates online nowadays. As for the vulnerabilities, we'll tackle them as we've used to; with consensus.