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721  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: What websites do you visit to check the price of Bitcoin? on: May 14, 2016, 02:25:37 PM

https://bitcoinity.org/markets
722  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Theymos: “Bitcoins Belonging to Satoshi Should Be Destroyed” on: May 11, 2016, 10:23:46 PM

If Satoshi wants his coins so badly, then he can move them himself before they are destroyed.

What?
Course he want's them.
They are his.
Leave them alone.



That right if he wants them he can move them to prevent their destruction.It is better to destroy them than those coins falling in wrong hands.Since these coins are not in circulation,their disappearance would not make any difference

They are not in circulation, they are in storage.
You wants Satoshi to moving them or loose them?
723  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Theymos: “Bitcoins Belonging to Satoshi Should Be Destroyed” on: May 11, 2016, 10:09:44 PM

If Satoshi wants his coins so badly, then he can move them himself before they are destroyed.

What?
Course he want's them.
They are his.
Leave them alone.


724  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Best way to destroy bitcoins? Send them to the value 0 address? on: May 11, 2016, 09:13:59 PM
Why would anyone want to burn Bitcoins?

People want to do the strangest things.  I think some folks want to destroy bitcoin to make the remaining bitcoin more valuable because of increased scarcity.  Not sure if that makes sense.  Now there was a program that looked to burn shitcoins because there are way too many of them, and that I can definitely get behind.  But bitcoin?  It really makes no sense to me.

Like Theymos?
www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4isxjr/petition_to_protect_satoshis_coins/d30we6f
725  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin IS basically DESTROYED on: May 09, 2016, 06:52:13 PM

"Please don't disrespect TPTB_need_war. His is working as furiously as he can, and no one helps him. Maybe one day he will get some assistance and be recognized for his efforts. But he doesn't care! He is doing what he is doing as a labor of love and because he loves the challenge."

I'm reading, but struggling to keep up on many threads.
On this thread, segwit worries me more than China at the moment.
Or more specifically the soft fork and untestedness of it all in the timeframe.

But bitcoin is not destroyed yet on these counts?
More likely "destroyed" by other points by TPTB in other threads?
(TPTB was temp banned for his hard to keep up with, but def relative efforts for serious readers. sig spammers run amok.)



726  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why so little talk of Dave Kleiman? on: May 05, 2016, 09:58:19 PM
There is the problem of Dave Kleiman's father too. As we know, he is old 92 years and at least partially informed, concerning Dave's infliction with Bitcoin.

But he probably has no idea, what is Satoshi Nakamoto. And that there is a fortune of half a Billion dollar somewhere jammed in the cyberspace, what belongs to Satoshi's successors, so maybe to Dave's successors.

Imagine.

Its a message, what can kill the old man, if it is delivered false. Heart-attacks exist.

My advice: say nothing or say it professional. Its explainable to the old man only when Ira is in security. Its a task for the psychologically hardened public service. Nothing for good-meaning amateurs.
Its first Ira, then Louis. Both need professional help.

Warning: if Ira is really paranoid, he risks to defend himself with the gun, getting accessed violent.

Calm down, his family must know something about all this.

Even if they don't realize this usb stick is potentially worth half billion dollars,
They must know it is potentially of some great value by now?

They will have checked.

727  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [POLL] Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? on: May 05, 2016, 09:49:54 PM
What do you think?

Fucking dick head neubie.

728  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] NeuCoin - Easy to use, free to try, focused on micropayments - Official on: May 04, 2016, 08:24:42 PM
This was the one big crowd sale that I lost money on.

Shame that.
Did Sandrine sell it to you?


New all-time-low today... below 300 sat.

Looks abandoned.

The cognative dissonance of James is amazing:

http://forum.neucoin.org/t/neucoin-volume-is-6-600-or-15-btc-in-the-last-24-hours/2623

A 15 BTC dump is "positive".

James has always been comedy gold.


 Cheesy  Cheesy  Cheesy

James mod, analysing a 15 btc dump* to new lows, (average days trade under 1 btc)
"The volume is a positive sign. What do you think?"

Priceless.

* (ex)team or angel drawing their pension.

729  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: transaction issues. on: April 29, 2016, 07:31:37 PM
I have a transaction I sent a couple of hours ago that is still unconfirmed altough the 0.001 btc transaction fee is paid aswell. I have other transactions that went on afterwards that are allready confirmed but that one has 0 confirmations.
What can I do?
https://blockchain.info/tx/b42250103c054ca5410a82df25a566bdc2cab713295d7833c3369dd0850d6f91

Thank you.

Medium priority TX.
Just wait a few months for segwit, I think that is the plan.
730  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] NeuCoin - Easy to use, free to try, focused on micropayments - Official on: April 28, 2016, 08:27:56 PM
Magicking quit  Shocked

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylvainlaurent


Who's lead dev now? Ophie?

And I thought that you hated me Sad

Can't speak for scam, but me, I don't think so.
It's not worth that much to me.
(mind you, you sure are grumpy, even to neucoiners  Angry)

I think you have probably been a bit mercenary.

You were drafted in later on? *
When the others left?
You were paid well?
Or offered a commission?
You must have seen what a bad set up it was?
Before you joined?
Are you still holding neucoin?
How much did it cost you?
Was neucoin a good career move for you?

Oh, and do you respect Dart and James mods?  Huh

(* just remembered you were there at the beginning, lurking. Sandrine forgot to mention you were part of the team)
731  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] NeuCoin - Easy to use, free to try, focused on micropayments - Official on: April 22, 2016, 10:23:44 PM

I actually had to buy a few after this email hit me, maybe this coin is not a flash in the pan. 
 
NeuCoin to eliminate 50% of coin supply
 

I bet you wish you hadn't been Suckered in now.

No neucoin burnt as yet.
More BS?
No interest on nokoin forum, as expected.
What's up, Dan cant bear to press the destruct button?

He should though, it's another great deal for him, as always.

He burns 2 billion coins tagged for distribution to the masses, but keeps all the hundreds of millions of team restricted coins.
Doubling his already excessive stranglehold overnight.
Doubling the distribution problem, not halving it.
Doubling the % of total coin owned by team. (higher than ever before)




732  Other / Off-topic / Re: Are Bitcoiners dumber / greedier than ordinary people? on: April 14, 2016, 10:51:23 PM
-snipe-

Except from his foul language, most of his posts are offensive and/or nonsense. You guys need not to argue with ZyclonRacerX anymore as he is banned now. Roll Eyes
Link here

I just saw the thread though. Just wanna inform you guys who were offended by ZyclonRacerX

I wasn't offended. I am more offended by the lack of intelligent discussion here. (on bct in general)
I was following that linked thread, it was very informative, including mod input, but now it is deleted?

I commented on spam recently. No reply, no action, no interest.
(was this thread moved from discussion? should it be in meta, it's actually more about the moderation?)
Hilarious?


733  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Core have been derelict in their duties. on: April 10, 2016, 09:36:57 PM

My bad. Do you have evidence that supports this 'trajectory'?

Only that blocks weren't very full a while ago, then more recently they got fuller, now they are nearly full.
I'm guessing next stop is full.

https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-per-block?timespan=all&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address=

734  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Core have been derelict in their duties. on: April 10, 2016, 07:27:32 PM
It's been 2 weeks, will you allow me a couple more?
Yes. If you would rather rush a solution than properly test it for invalid reasons (greed?), then you've come to the wrong place. Changes like these have to go through extensive testing.

Where did I say I want to rush anything? I said it is too late now to "plan"
If Core did have a plan in place for this situation, there would be no need to rush anything (segwit maybe, hf to classic maybe) and no need to worry about gridlock.

And why plan to build up fees now, only to collapse fees with the "extra" capacity of segwit in a few months.
The added capacity of Segwit is a bonus, the main idea behind it is solving transaction malleability.

Fine, doesn't address my question.

Blocks are nearly full now, but not really full. Big difference.
A lot of those transactions are spam, you will get a different percentage depending on who you ask and what criteria they've used.

As you say, spam is hard to define.
Standard fee payers have never had much to fear from spam.

On Bitcoin's present trajectory blocks will be really full before segwit. (as that's months away, if ever)
Or bitcoin adoption is kind of failing/slowing/deterred anyway?
Bitcoin is not experiencing any issues at the time, nor should the users be. If you are experiencing issues with transactions (e.g. delays) then it is usually your own fault.

I agree,
But as I said, "On Bitcoin's present trajectory blocks will be.."
735  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Core have been derelict in their duties. on: April 10, 2016, 06:53:58 PM
It's been 2 weeks, will you allow me a couple more?

I explained previously why I think a "fee market" is not compatible with "full" blocks. (i mean full, not nearly full)
Spare capacity is needed to deal with busy times in a consistent fee market, or it becomes a "hostage market".

And why plan to build up fees now, only to collapse fees with the "extra" capacity of segwit in a few months.
That is boom and bust.
Also Core want miners to allow segwit cheap fees?

So, we "need" more capacity, and you have a problem with Segwit providing it? Personally I'd prefer that there were no Segwit discount. As a user, I want fees to rise. But Core is doing what Classic supporters have long asked -- finding compromise due to the demand for cheaper fees.

I do have a bit of a problem with segwit, but that is not the issue here. It's the period from now untill segwit, (or not) that is relevant here.

Blocks are nearly full now, but not really full. Big difference.
On Bitcoin's present trajectory blocks will be really full before segwit. (as that's months away, if ever)
Or bitcoin adoption is kind of failing/slowing/deterred anyway?
Can that really be orderly or wanted by users.

Full blocks are not a problem. Bitcoin works, and will work, as intended. Any evidence for the bolded? The fact that BTCUSD price is UP 82% year over year suggests that adoption is not failing.

I am saying adoption is growing, not falling. (yet) Or there would not be a problem.
So, if blocks become full, (due to continued adoption) high fees will be needed to drive away users.
If high fees do not drive away users, and adoption continues, still everyone cannot fit into blocks, causing delayed and unpredictable tx's.
Delays will then drive away users.
Either fees or delays will drive away users. If the average tx rate goes over 1mb per 10 min, (due to continued adoption) something has got to give.

I'm not prepared to be held hostage in the near future, unable to move my coins in the next general panic/rush.
Unable to move my coins in any predictable time frame.

What = being held hostage? Being forced to pay 5 cents for a transaction? 10 cents? What exactly entitles you to virtually free transactions, anyway?

I do not want free tx's, I want standard(ish) fees I can plan for, as I have said earlier.
In a panic or busy time, if a rush is on, if the mempool grows rapidly, you will need to spend far more than 10 cents to have any hope of moving coins.
But worse, more likely your coins will be stuck in the mempool for days as panic goes on and your fee is over bid.
That is when you will be hostaged.

All I see happening while we wait for segwit are delays, high fees, inability to move funds with any predictability,
panic/loss of faith.

I don't see any of that. If anything, these supposed "horror stories" of stuck transactions are only becoming less prevalent. Fee estimation is no longer some abstract concept, and people are not as clueless as they used to be. You are repeating the same FUD that Gavin and Hearn repeated a year ago, yet none of it has come to fruition. I think you should stop repeating this fear mongering.

Time is bringing that day closer.
Were Gavin and Hearn a year too early. Should they have waited untill it was a problem?
I guess they were looking ahead to now, (and the next month or two) trying to plan. (foresight?)

Followed by HF to Classic as the only viable option for quick consensus.
(didn't satoshi foresee this kind of rapid consensus under pressure.?)

Quick consensus? Good luck. I sure as hell won't be installing Classic. I highly doubt BTCC, Bitfury and Kano will either.

That is in the balance. If tx's do gridlock, panic, HF.
Maybe not, but Core will be pushing people that way for sure.
What other option is there?
Wait for segwit. (which could be delayed, slow to adopt, etc.)
If a perma backlog occurs, Core are planless. Powerless.

Core don't have a (publicised) plan B to avert such a situation.
Core will be handing it to Classic.
Maybe it will all be fine for Core.
Core supporters could stop using bitcoin for the next few months, that would help.

What situation? XT and Classic have been trying to force a hard fork for nearly a year. Bitcoin has functioned perfectly well during that entire time, and fees are still incredibly cheap. There is no crisis currently, nor is there one on the horizon. And these "OMG STUCK TRANSACTIONS" FUD is only getting less effective.

A full block backlog situation.
There is no crisis currently I agree.
But it is coming "at some point". For certain if adoption is continuing, or as a possibly due to a panic.
(i also suspect it could happen very quickly and permanently)
The question is will segwit arrive in time, (before gridlock) to avert panic/frustration.
(BTW, an increasing hash rate is finding "quicker" blocks at the moment, giving the effect of a larger block size - more tx's per second. that wont always be so. diff adjustment in 4 days may change that)

Obviously not going to be a popular opinion.
But Core could have had a plan B ready and publicised.

They don't need a "Plan B" because there are no viable alternatives to Core, nor is there any crisis. If Segwit can't achieve consensus, status quo prevails.

I think they do need a plan B. I think they should have foreseen this possibility.
Even if it was only a "possible" outcome.
It is certainly going to happen in time. segwit is now under pressure to deliver, even more.
A plan could have been in place. Simple.
736  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How to evaluate a claim that a certain person is Satoshi Nakamoto? on: April 09, 2016, 01:43:40 AM
but I would prefer that Satoshi didn't move any of his coins.
If he did that, it could cause unknown effects on the bitcoin economy that may be irreversible.
I do not believe the real Satoshi Nakamoto would want to destroy users investments and his experiment.


Hard to build on though.

So satoshi is not entitled to his profits, for the greater good.
Yet every other Donkey holding bitcoin is?

If Satoshi has held the key to a millionish so far untouched coins, maybe he can be trusted in the future. (a bit)

Maybe the possibility should be priced in, regardless of the current claim.
737  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Core have been derelict in their duties. on: April 09, 2016, 01:17:24 AM
Here is the current cost per transaction graph for those who are curious:

https://blockchain.info/charts/cost-per-transaction

An INSANE $7 per transaction and all of it is getting paid for through inflation. Why I don't invest in Bitcoin, illustrated. Great to hold for incredibly brief periods of time but these fees will almost certainly bury investors over the long haul. They are forking money HAND OVER FIST to miners who are forking money HAND OVER FIST to utilities.

The people getting rich off of BTC are electricity providers...

But if we had 100 times the tx ability and adoption, in time, tx's would be 7cents.
That is why there is a good block subsidy in the earlier years, decreasing with adoption.
Inflation allows other still early adopters, and secures the network.

Utilities are just part of miners overheads. Electric companies also have overheads, and so on.
738  Other / Meta / Re: Q: Should Lauda *really* be a moderator of bitcointalk A: no on: April 09, 2016, 12:47:54 AM
Does anyone else think that Lauda should not be a moderator?

Lauda proceeds with her opinion when moderating the board. Lauda does not follow the rules of the board the same way other moderators do. Lauda is not open to ever being wrong or mistaken. Lauda does not understand what it means to moderate the board. Lauda does not bother to explain reasons behind actions in a friendly way. Lauda likes to be abrasive with people she is moderating. Lauda is power hungry.

I move to have Lauda removed from being a moderator effective immediately.



I wouldn't go that far.

But I do think guilty of over zealous posting, which blur's the mod role he performs.
Seems like every other post is Lauda saying either you are right or you are wrong.
It's too in your face.
It stifles discussion and aids trolling.

What's all this about for example?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1164464.60
Lauda's comment totally uncalled for, imo. Leading to at least 3 of the 5 following posts off topic spam/trolling.
(has VeritasSapere done something wrong?)

Not trying to be confrontational here, just saying,
Can't Lauda bite his tongue occasionally?
739  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why I support BIP101 on: April 08, 2016, 11:18:14 PM
First post that I have made in weeks, and you say that I am advertising for BU everywhere?

Pretty much the only thing they say in this (BU) thread. I thought you had disproved that already?

ed. with great effort of research it would appear, to answer comments made on a whim.


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I will also be writing another article soon relating to the blocksize debate and its more recent manifestations.

I look forward to it. Some discussion written like we Wasn't 5
740  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Core have been derelict in their duties. on: April 08, 2016, 11:03:07 PM

It's been 2 weeks, will you allow me a couple more?

I explained previously why I think a "fee market" is not compatible with "full" blocks. (i mean full, not nearly full)
Spare capacity is needed to deal with busy times in a consistent fee market, or it becomes a "hostage market".

And why plan to build up fees now, only to collapse fees with the "extra" capacity of segwit in a few months.
That is boom and bust.
Also Core want miners to allow segwit cheap fees?

Blocks are nearly full now, but not really full. Big difference.
On Bitcoin's present trajectory blocks will be really full before segwit. (as that's months away, if ever)
Or bitcoin adoption is kind of failing/slowing/deterred anyway?
Can that really be orderly or wanted by users.

I'm not prepared to be held hostage in the near future, unable to move my coins in the next general panic/rush.
Unable to move my coins in any predictable time frame.

All I see happening while we wait for segwit are delays, high fees, inability to move funds with any predictability,
panic/loss of faith.
Followed by HF to Classic as the only viable option for quick consensus.
(didn't satoshi foresee this kind of rapid consensus under pressure.?)

Core don't have a (publicised) plan B to avert such a situation.
Core will be handing it to Classic.
Maybe it will all be fine for Core.
Core supporters could stop using bitcoin for the next few months, that would help.

Obviously not going to be a popular opinion.
But Core could have had a plan B ready and publicised.




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