The Great Block Size debate is one of the reasons I'm more into alts. Bitcoin has too many egos and not enough desire to be mainstream. It's obviously a problem, so what the HELL is the big deal? They could easily raise it incrementally. This is an engineering problem, not a political one. Personally, I'd be in favor of keeping the size as it is and decreasing the block time. Every solution involves a hard fork, and the current confirmation times are (to put it nicely) suboptimal. A great many alts have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that fast block times decrease backlog and do NOT kill the system.

If Bitcoin does not or cannot grow and evolve, then it deserves to be beat out in the marketplace.

FTFY.

try repairwallet if you haven't already. Sometimes having the orphans in your database causes problems. Or at least it appeared that way to me when I was having a similar problem. I actually ended up resynching on my episode, and that fixed it in combination with repairwallet. I'm far from an expert, but that's what I did

According to a block explorer, that account has     0.6198463 BTC in it, from four transactions. No outputs. So it would appear that your coins are not lost. Do you have a backup of the wallet? It sounds to me like something got corrupted. You may need to resync the blockchain. However, if it is in sync (equal to the block explorers, there are a couple of options to try. First, of course, make at least one backup of wallet.dat in a SAFE place (not the VPS). I use Bitvise myself, if I'm forced to use Windows, but that's neither here nor there. Once you have wallet.dat backed up, try starting the client with -repairwallet and see if that recovers your coins.

Aye. The US dollar is probably the most successful long term scam in history. It has retained it's exchangeability through inflation that SHOULD HAVE killed it. Actual inflation, based on purchasing power only, has been very high at many times. True inflation is even higher than that, following the Austrian postion that inflation actually only has one definition: Adding to the supply. Looking at it from that point of view, and for the moment ignoring the legerdemain of the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department, the actual inflation from 2008 to present (as far as we can determine) was nearer to 80%. We're talking Weimar levels here, and yet the PR army manages to hold the lid on it. For now. I would not have thought it could last as long as it has, let alone be 2014's best investment. But it did. It seems that people prefer a comforting lie to the stark, ugly truth.

Yet it cannot be sustained. The money will either have to be revalued and reissued with a planned default, or there will be the unplanned one when merchants simply won't take the paper anymore.

At the moment, BTC is inflationary, as was gold in the early days of mining, but that will pass. It will become more valuable over time, if it gains wider adoption.

I personally think that BTC is just the beginning. I think the concept sound, but the inital currency deeply flawed on multiple levels. But that first mover advantage will keep it on top for some time to come.

yeah, and the wedding too 

Sony.

Hey!

I got something to say.

It's better to burn out, than fade away....

Ok, enough Def Leppard, but it was appropriate. A bit of a strategy rant follows, for those of you who trade on exchanges.

Sellers. You determine the price. Since some of you are dumpers, LISTEN THE HELL UP!

Behind the scenes (as y'all have seen a glimpse of in the past few days), we are working hard to make this coin the different one. The one that goes mainstream. So to be honest, I, personally, am not all that concerned with current exchange price. But I'm irritated that certain people (you know who you are, and frankly, I don't) are willing to just toss the coin in the street. On the one side, this increases my stash. But on the other side, it's creating a negative perception. "Jones will dump the coin like a hot rock, there must be something wrong with it!"

Hell no, there ain't nothin' wrong with it. We busted our balls to make sure there's nothing wrong with it. And as y'all can see, the value is up, significatly. In my arrogant opinion, it still has a long way to go. Our FOCUS is to make THIS coin the one that is used on games that are sold in Walmart. You think a token like that is worth less than 500 satoshis? Personally, I think that 5 THOUSAND is unreasonably low.

So. Sellers, you control the market. You think Buyers do, but they don't. If they want the coin, they'll meet your price. Sure, the day trader who only looks at the last ten minute's numbers isn't going to play right, but so what? This is a long term project.

Strategy, boys. Strategy. If everyone who held GMC put their lowest sell order at 1500 sats AND HELD FAST, it would go way over that in one day. then you set the floor at 2k. And onward. It's the basics of real economics. If it's more valuable to you than what the buyer is offering, YOU HAVE THE WRONG BUYER. It's an exchange. It's largely anonymous. Just hold your cards. This is high stakes poker, and poker is NOT a game of chance.

I have already seen the "miner's have to pay electric bills" mantra. One, it's scrypt. Small potatoes, the damn things don't generate a big bill. Second, and far more importantly, don't you think you could pay those bills BETTER with the coin 3-4 times more valuable than it is today? I can't tell you how to act, of course, but I'd make the power company wait a couple days. The late fee would be FAR exceeded by the raise in price. And that was a modest goal I suggested. For the most part, My GMC are not for sale. At any price. but I do have a bit that I caught when idiots threw it away, and you'll not get it off me for less than 2K sats. If everyone took that attitude, where do you think it's value would set in a week?

EDIT. I changed my mind. 2K is far too low. Changed my orders to 5K, and there they will sit.

Therein lies the crux of the problem. That idea has been very successfully sold. Cops are NOT for the people. While a few of them may INTEND to do good for the people, it is the government that they serve and protect. As early as 1867 the Supreme Court of the United States held that the police have NO duty to protect or respond to the citizens. Given that Police forces were first in the United states just five years prior to that, it's pretty well established (though downplayed) who they actually serve.

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Oh, I have to reply to this It will be the first time in our history where I know more than Presstab

When you encrypt wallet.dat, it encrypts the private keys, and any SUBSEQUENT transaction recorded by your wallet will have that flag as part of the blockchain data. I don't know that much about it, but it means that your old wallet will not work PAST the block it was encrypted at, which could lead to loss of coins. So the warning is made slightly more dire than it needs to be, but that's the gist of it.

As I understand it, if no further blocks were found OR your account broadcast no transactions, you could still restore from your old backup "wallet.dat" file. the other workaround, in the event that you did somehow lose your wallet (assuming you had not exhausted your keypool and refilled it) would be to dump the private keys from the old backup and import them into a new wallet.dat file.

Just looked at your image. You are staking. It shows "your weight" with a non zero number. With current difficulty, you would be damn lucky to stake in 11 days. It does happen, but frankly, I've found that if I have blocks under 10K it takes 20 days or more to actually stake. I almost always hit the cap.

another way to determine it is to go to the "send" tab and hit "coin control" (if it's not there, you need to turn it on via tool->options->display and hit the radio button next to "display coin control options (experts only)"

there are several columns in the coin control dialog, but the ones you care about right now are weight and stake amount. Ignore the estimated days to stake, except as an extremely variable ballpark figure. If you're stake age is over 8.8 days, weight should be a non zero number. If it is NOT, then you have a problem. If it is, just be patient.

As others noted, you do need to set the wallet to unlock for staking.

Hope this helps HyperStake can be a long waiting game sometimes. You have to figure out a balance you can live with vs. hitting the 1000 coin cap. On the plus side, I started with less than you, and have well over a hundred thousand with occasional profit taking. Best of luck to you!

EDIT: I failed to refresh my page, I see I have reinvented the wheel But I'm gonna leave it for new guys to find, as some of this gets asked a lot. I think you're the first to bring up an issue with "getinfo", though I never look at it that way, so I would have not though to look there.

*ahem* Deutchmark under the Weimar republic. Venezuelan dollar in 2005. Zimbabwean dollar around the same time... I can come up with others. Where BTC did better, is that it did bounce back.

mprep, knock it off. The only offensive person in this thread is you and your overzealous underthought delete key. In a political rant, or some other trivial thing, your "moderation" is annoying but largely irrelevant. Here, you are straight up interfering, and you KNOW IT. I say this because if you were as stupid as you like to come off, you'd forget to breathe.


GMC people, I highly recommend you go to the forum at forum.gamecredits.net to avoid this sort of crap.

Yes, I'm of the same opinion. But if it's following the ratio it pays to me (pretty small) then he's still somehow paying out around 2 to 3 BTC a week. Just wonder where it's coming.

I missed this thread.

I was one of the early investors, and thoroughly bought it. The only good I can see from that is that I am less of a dumbass now. I was in early enough that I didn't lose out, but it would be nice to see something moving forward on it.

The site is still up, still tracking, and still paying out dust on a semi-regular schedule. I don't know if this is the alleged recovery program, or what the hell it is. Lately it has an ad on the front page for 1Broker, whatever that may be. Haven't followed the link, and ain't gonna. But I wonder if the ad revenue is how they're still paying out dust?

No, if they've got at least 2 confirmations, you're good to go. It just takes a while for them to be spendable. I can't recall how long, now. It's 100 blocks or more in most cryptos for mined coins.

It often is. Welcome to Mos Eisley

That is the latest version. It's fine, I've been using it for a while. It's just not stripped of "prealpha" messages.

Luke-jr has not been the operator of Eligius for quite some time. And Wizkid is about as straight up as they come.

Very saddened to see you go. I remember when you were the "big bad wolf' that people were afraid was going to mount a 51% attack on Bitcoin It was amusing, since it was obvious how much you were dedicated.

May you fare well where ever you fair. Many have come and gone, and few will be missed. BTCGuild will.

My very first attempt at bitcoin mining was on your pool. It was frequently my failover even after that (Eligius winning out, barely). I haven't mined bitcoin in some time, preferring the "wild west" of alts. But I have watched, and learned much from you.

goodbye to a legend.