Welcome to bitcointalk, Spontaneous. You'll learn lots of things here if you become more interested towards Bitcoin.

These instructions describe how to get into a signature campaign and the video is 4 years old, despite the fact that not many things have changed since then. If you want to get paid by posting, you'll have to reach certain ranks.

The rules are the first thing you should read. (shared above)

Here's what you possibly want:  Overview of Bitcointalk Signature-Ad Campaigns.
This is also important: FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit.

I know who's franky1, but I'd discourage anyone from having an disagreement with him, just like you do. There's just not a point, it is completely meaningless to discuss for over a post with him.

Alright, scarcity definition:  A situation in which something is not easy to find or get. It doesn't matter if that something becomes easier in terms of sharing, or if the digits of its unit can is extended. That is your assumption.

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Usually, one would pay to avoid waiting for post submission and to insert images. I don't know if you've read this before, but you can buy a copper membership and upgrade to Member rank.

Bitcointalk could have its own lightning channel, but I'm afraid that there's no point on implementing what you may find needed.

Where's the scarcity promise? Would you mind sharing a link? I know that whether we had 8 or 18 digits, we'd still never exceed the 21,000,000 BTC; isn't that what matters? Even if it can be divided, how would that affect the Bitcoin or the people's wealths?

I think that Satoshi made it pretty clear that we could extend its decimal places in the future. There's no reason, at the moment, though. You can't send less than 547 sats, so it'd be ironic to upgrade to 12 places.

Sure, that's why they frequent on the Off-Topic board. Because, there are lots of quality posters there...

What would you say that is the cause behind most of the forum spamming? I'd guess signature campaigns & bounties. There's even a marketplace of people who farmed accounts by spamming and who they, then, sell them to other people who'll also spam to earn from signature campaigns & bounties. If the managers stopped accepting shitposters, that procedure would be useless.

Where there's money, there's immorality.

I don't think that this has anything to do with the existence of Bitcoin. It is indeed, like gold, not backed by anything.

You're closed minded. In our wallet, we hold private keys which can be used to sign transactions. There's no reason to think that the number of an output quantifies anything. It's just a balance that increases and decreases based on the transactions you sign. If we all agree that we could debt each other using that number, why should you try to stop it?

I'm still waiting a valid answer to this:

Solo-mining is always allowed by Bitcoin Core. It'd be ironic if the official release of a Bitcoin client didn't have a solo-mining option.

Open your Bitcoin Core console and type “generatetoaddress <nblocks> <address> <maxtries>”.

Example:

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You won't be able to solve a block, because the difficulty is incredibly high for an average solo-miner. Try creating your own hard fork of Bitcoin and then use that for solo-mining, just to see that you're allowed to do that.

Bump.

That's a quite wider topic to analyze. Yes, I agree with the money laundering & the investment risk, but Bitcoin mining is a different story that has never been seeing again historically. It's not a simple “energy-costly procedure” and in my opinion, it shouldn't be compared with the banks neither with any energy-wasting possession like Gold.


The mining of Bitcoin is a greedy game and even if it uses human's greed for the common good, I'd say that it can be really dangerous (& unethical). There is no standard energy required for extracting those 6.25 BTC every 10 minutes. It changes every 2016 blocks and by the technology that is being used for calculating those SHA256d results. At the moment, it uses 70.36 TWh per year, but that thing can change incredibly quickly.

The energy required could be considered as an analogous variable with the market value (of 1 BTC). If the market value increased, it'd be more profitable to spend more energy on mining, because you'd be earning more in exchange rate with fiat. So, by comparing Bitcoin with banks, you're comparing a non-globally adopted product with a globally adopted one.

If we assume that Bitcoin will be globally adopted in the future ($1M — $10M), you'll realize that Banks use much less energy than Bitcoin. It'll have environmental impact in the future, whether the majority of those hashes is being calculated by renewable energy sources or not. If Bitcoin wasn't a thing, these sources could be used to cover another impact, so Bitcoin, essentially affects indirectly the environment.

No I wouldn't. It's not the total of the participants who use that subforum to earn money; it's the quality of those participants' posts.

Should we, then, create a subforum called “Spamming” where they could constantly spam their shitty content? Don't you see that this is a makeshift? We aren't tackling the problem from its root which is the way managers hire their participants and have then no responsibility.

Great. I ordered a Raspberry Pi 4 and it'll be here within the next 3-4 days. May I use your thread for asking questions too?

Just realized that it isn't open-source & free. Thanks. Although, the premium version offers the followings too:

• Premium Support
• One-Click Upgrades
• VPN - Remote Access
• Tor - Remote Access
• BTC Pay Server
• Mempool Viewer
• Caravan
• Specter
• LNBits
• Thunderhub

I'm not sure that I need any of these so I may just use the community edition...

Is that an external drive?  Nevermind, I saw that it's an external.

I'll be using an external SSD and I've heard that they're slower than the internal ones. I wonder how many days it'll take for me to finish.

It seems a great marketing move in my opinion; leaving those who're willing to donate you some extra features along with a “premium support”, I really don't know how that differs  , but I just have one query with the premium edition:  Do you have the source code? Can you actually take a look on every line of the premium project? It's a double-edged sword to attempt charging your users in an open-source environment. I mean, if you do charge them and reveal the source code, they can share it with others or even upload it publicly. If you don't reveal them your code, you're ruining the whole point of open-source softwares.

So, you meant privacy ruination. Not tearing off anonymity.

I'm already taking it for granted that they spy on me, but you should be aware of your statements. It hasn't been proved that the majority of the electrum servers is being ran by surveillance agencies and you're raising a big issue for such short meaning.

Can you also point your lightning server too? With no third parties involved?

Satoshi never reused any of his known addresses. Each time he solved a block, he used a different address.

There is no private key equal with zero, because that would be outside the secp256k1 range. If by “zero” address you mean the one that has its RIPEMD-160 zero (1111111111111111111114oLvT2), then it has the same chances of having 2⁹⁶ valid private keys. The fact that no one knows it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.

I never said that word.

No, it's not the correct sense of the word. Read what you quoted:

Do you really consider this a valid argument? If none of you understood that the earth isn't flat, shouldn't I try to at least convince you that it's not?

I've recognized the Wall Observer before, but I didn't become mean. I just corrected his wording for the common good.

There are no addresses with no private keys.

Better formulation:  It hasn't been proved that there's an address that has no private keys. On average, each one has 2⁹⁶ different keys.

If someone could generate an uncompressed address or the specific address you wrote?

If it's the first one, then yes, you can still generate uncompressed addresses, it's just not recommended. Instead of hashing the compressed public key in the step 2, hash the uncompressed public key.

For example, take this public key:

The starting “02” means that your y is an even number. Solve the equation: y² = x³ + 7 and you get:

Your uncompressed public key will be “04” + x + y.

Thus, we have:

Hash it with SHA256 and continue the steps by yourself. This uncompressed public key gives us:

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If you meant the specific address, then it's impossible. (for you to generate what he did)

Generally, the campaign manager has to be aware of those who hire.

That's not the point... I want to discuss in the off-topic section and these meaningless posts prevent me from having a constructive discussion. I obviously know how to use the ignore button.

That's the problem.

I personally doubt.

In almost every other section, there are users who participate in signature campaigns and they indeed write high-quality content. Objectively, the majority of the 777coin and Bitvest.io participants are shitposters. You can't really have a constructive discussion, they just post to fulfill their weekly requirements. In a subforum where they have dominated due to their campaign's allowance, I'll prefer not to discuss.

I proposed a solution. Another solution could be to forbid the managers from rewarding for off-topic posts.

OP, avoid using Electrum on iPhone if it isn't recommended. I'd go with BlueWallet if I were you.

Even if I take it for granted that most of the servers out there are ran by surveillance agencies, what's your evidence?

You mean the pseudonymity? The addresses aren't anonymous. Each one is like an identity; a pseudonym that is being used by you and can be tracked down from the transactions.