In some of the very old posts being discussed in this thread I saw some old posts by FreeMoney.  Does anyone have any idea what happened to him?  Since this is off topic you can respond to me in IM if you think that would be better.

Who did you pay?  What was his username?
How did you pay him?  PayPal?
Did he already get the payment?
When did you give him your Bitcoin address?

So now it sounds like you paid him, or are in the process of paying him.  Then you will need to send him a Bitcoin address so he can send you the Bitcoins you paid for.  I think he is trying to help you out.  What Bitcoin wallet are you planning on using (where are you going to keep your Bitcoins when you receive them)?

Yes it should show up on the blockchain as unconfirmed.

Yes.  But the comment "I do not have this" worries me.  Why do you not have it?  You most definitely should have it, after all you must have sent the address to the person who was suppose to transfer Bitcoins to the address.

Simplest way for us to help you:  Post the Bitcoin address here and we can help you see what is happening.

Well if he has already sent the Bitcoins to your address then it cannot be reversed.  I assume that is what you meant by "if he has already instructed the transfer of bitcoin to me", that is not reversible.

If they get their banking relationship all worked out then no problem.  If they cannot get their banking relationship fixed then not so good.  We will see.

Because it is currently very hard to get your currency (USD for example) out of Bitfinex due to some issues with their banking relationship.  This leads to increased pressure to BUY Bitcoins in order to move the Bitcoins of of the Bitfinex platform.  Since there is extra pressure to buy the price goes up.

This is strange.  Why can't I quote posts from this thread?  Never had that problem before.  It says:


I have been here for years and have never had this problem.

I will speak to any organization.  This issues crosses all political lines.  In fact almost everyone, except law enforcement, is against civil asset forfeiture.

This next one might be more your crowd:

Liberty on the Rocks Denver
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
7:00 p.m. (Happy Hour at 6 p.m.)
Choppers Bar and Grill
80 S. Madison St., Denver CO
LOTR Denver

Do not worry.  That is correct behavior.

Every time you spend Bitcoins all the Bitcoins from the source address are used and the address is thrown away.  Kind of like spending a $1000 bill.

The amount you spend is sent to the receiver's address.

The change is sent back to you on a new change address.

Change addresses come from a different list of addresses inside your Trezor than your normal receive addresses.

Your Trezor is operating correctly.

The Bitcoins I forfeited were combined with a boatload of coins from the Silk Road seizure into a 2,719.32669068 BTC lot and auctioned off by the US Marshals service (you can read about it here).  I had nothing to do with Silk Road they just combined the BTC they took from me with the BTC they got in that case.  The agents that got caught by their masters with their hand in the cookie jar was not my case - that was related to the Silk Road case.

Yes, I am in Colorado.  Speaking tomorrow night.

I certainly agree with that.  However in context:


It appears you think things are changing for the better.  I disagree.  In fact I expect things to get much much worse before there is any chance of things getting better.

I speak all the time about what happened to me and my family and the evils of our self funding police force through civil asset forfeiture.  In fact I am speaking tomorrow night.  However, there is little sign that things are getting better.  The last two state legislatures that PASSED civil asset forfeiture reform in their states were vetoed by their respective governors.  Trump and his AG are both pro the self funded police state.  The current legislation to reform or eliminate this evil and unconstitutional practice has little hope of success.  There are just too many people in law enforcement "on the take" when it comes to taking citizens assets for their coffers.

Now that they are self funded to the tune of billions of dollars a year they no longer need to answer to the checks and balances that were built into our constitution.  Local law enforcement use these "free" funds to militarize their police forces - and this is the root of the problem.  They are becoming an occupying army rather than a police force.

 

I have one. 

Mine is special because it was seized by Homeland Security and it took me 9 months and almost $250,000 in legal fees and donations to the federal civil asset forfeiture fund to get it back.  Would that make it more or less valuable???

As far as I know it has never been dropped, unless the homeland security or customs agents that handled it dropped it.  When I got it back I wiped it and started over - just in case.  It still works.  No problems with the buttons. 

It really has a lot of sentimental value to me since we have been through so much together so I cannot see parting with it at this time.

BTW when I got my stuff back I saw that homeland security keeps the Bitcoins they seize in their various "funding raids" on their own Trezor.  It was a plastic first edition that they seized from someone else before they arrested me.

I went back and dug up a bunch of clams from my old wallets.  Cool.

Question, there are these two web sites:

http://clamcoin.org/

http://clamclient.com/

Which one is the correct web site?

It is confusing.  I am worried one is a scam.

But there are two ways to replace the current block fee subsidy:

1) A lot of transaction with a lower fee per transaction

OR

2) The same number of transactions (capped at 3 TPS) but with a much larger fee per transaction.

If we do not remove the transaction cap, and we want to pay for the level of security we currently have then the fees / transaction will have to go up to the point that they replace the current subsidy.

So more transactions is not the only way to accomplish this.

Whether you, I or any other random nobody on a forum in the backwaters of the Internet wants to or not it appears that president Trump probably will bomb North Korea at some point.  It appears he is just that kind of guy.  All it would take is for one of his many scandals to spin out of control to the point he needs something to distract everyone from his and/or his people's shenanigans.

This would worry me:


So you lost a Bitcoin?  So with you "strategy for mining" you can lose?

What country is that?  I am looking for a new one.

Watch the John Oliver explanation of Civil Asset Forfeiture and then you will know more about what happened to the constitution, due process, and a boatload of other myths and legends you currently believe.

I will give you a real world example:

Everyone has see the reading of the Miranda rights on TV cop shows at least 10,000 times.

When I was arrested I was handed a clipboard and a pen and the homeland security agent simply said "here, sign this".  I took a quick look and it was a waiver of all Miranda rights.  That was it.  No "you have the right..." like you see on TV - NONE.  I refused to sign.  He immediately took everything he was going to share with me - including the reason I was being arrested - off the table.

I was not told why I was being arrested until after having spent 24 hours in the Denver county jail.

Wake up from your sweet cultural hallucinations of "constitution", "due process" and "rights".

We shall see.  But I have started to become convinced that a 3 TPS system could possibly work.  The fees will have to be high and it would not be used for anything but higher value transactions.  I can envision a system where, due to the high fees, people put their savings in and only take out what they need when they need it - maybe a few transactions per year.

3 TPS does give us 3 x 31,622,400 = 94,867,200 transaction per year.

I do understand your argument.  I do understand the demand side issues.  I do not know of a way to prove it will be sustainable at 3 TPS so I guess we will just have to see how this great experiment turns out.

One thing we can both agree on:  at 3 TPS Bitcoin will never be the everyday currency of large portion of the population.

lol it up buddy until it happens to you.