There are some things in Monero that make me avoid using it on my development and one of them is this. For some weird reason, I can't test anything if I don't wait for 6 hours+ to complete its syncing with testnet or with stagenet. Note that in mainnet, it syncs faster than in those networks, probably because there are more nodes that I connect with. Here I'm trying to sync with stagenet; it's being around 8 minutes and I'm still on 0%.


Any idea of what goes wrong? Is this the same to you too?

Well, that's not exactly true. They cannot be advertised in a banner under the original post of each thread, but mixers and investment types schemes are already advertised under the signature of users.

@xeny00000, that's called a signature campaign and they can be seen here: Services. The good side of a signature campaign is that you don't have those strict rules such as no ICOs or anything like an altcoin that is backed by a company. You also don't have to pay these amounts of mBTC. You let the users decide if they want to join by giving them your own payment rates.

Here, take a look on this one: [FULL] ChipMixer Signature Campaign | Sr Member+. I honestly don't know what will be more profitable for you.

This is what I explain in the first sentence of the OP. There's no standard definition for global adoption; anyone can assume their own.

Look, I get you, I'm just not quite convinced that a digital commodity with a hierarchical structure and with a very volatile market price can be used as a medium of exchange. I find LN really cool as a solution to the scaling issue, but there are lots of people believing that due to its existence, it can be globally adopted as a medium of exchange.

Then, there are people like you and me who see it more as a long-term store of value.

o_e_l_e_o probably takes it for granted that the island will someday stop having newcomers. In that case, it'd surely be less volatile.

Why are you still on Bitcointalk? There's nothing new to you, you've already formed your opinion about Bitcoin and you seem to continuously disagree with us while you're prejudiced. You keep creating idiotic threads with non-sense content and you try to... what? Convince someone? Any sentence that starts with "As a rational real Person" won't be taken seriously by anyone, FYI.

Don't you find it dumb to reply with “Btc has no utility” when someone responds you with counter-arguments? Would you like us to agree with you and make this kind of replies?

• “ur right. btc hasnt any utility”
• “eth for the elite”
• “btc has no value”
• “ada to the moon”

I'm truly curious what's your purpose on this forum.

Free like to be instantly richer for no reason? “Is there such thing in real life?” someone may be wondering. The word “free” is under some serious abuse; sellers use it in their sentences when they want to earn a profit from it, even if they aren't earning anything from you directly. It proves to be that there isn't anything “free” in this world, because everything costs.

You may be attracted to use services or to receive coins for free, but keep a friendly note from a stranger that:

Once I made my account here, I had the same query, but it turns out that DooMAD is right. You should see this a little bit more ideologically. These people that donated didn't just increase the forum's liquidity; they joined and supported this new forum's experimental project called “Bitcoin”. Their donations didn't just mean financial support.

Bitcoin has got lot of support since then, but those people were the first ones that tried it. They had the chance to be a part of this very early and their activity contributed to the forum.

Besides, it doesn't offer you anything special rather than having a custom title and being able to post in an extra sub-forum. On the other hand, copper membership does and it changes if there's a variation in the exchange rate of dollars.

Each one may see it differently. I, personally, see this meriting-for-payment as a way to encourage the manager to continue paying. Especially in that campaign, if I remember correctly, there were lots of merits given when the manager picked merit sources for the weekly bonus. Well, that was a mark of continuing picking them for the bonus.

But, yes, it can also be seen as a “thank you”, as you said.

While I get your point that inflation is what these billionaires want, I'm afraid that being rich on a relatively early era of Bitcoin, the first decentralized digital currency that operates with this innovating technology, is a reason why they should enter. A deflationary currency that gets more scarce overtime and that it's perfectly distributed in terms of wealth is a challenge; the more bitcoins they accumulate, the more profit they'll have in the long term.

And who told you that they'll stop getting richer from inflation? Bitcoin won't replace fiat. As it seems nowadays, it's becoming just an alternative for some people.

Hold your breath.

Why does it decrease faster than theirs and why are you using “shares” instead of purchasing power?

Total pseudollars in circulation: $5,000,000,000.
I own $1,000,000.
You own $1,000.

The system inflates with $5,000,000,000.
I lost 50% of my purchasing power.
You also lost 50% of your purchasing power.

Could you explain that further? I may have misunderstood that part of your message.

You see, the problem with the new coins' potential is the wealth distribution. A cryptocurrency may work in a great way technically, but whales will grab it; it will then be manipulated. On the other hand, Bitcoin isn't consisted of whales, because it wasn't grabbed in the beginning.

Quick answer: Because it's something new and innovative. It may still be an experiment for humanity.

I had tried it in the past and you can actually recover legacy addresses generated by electrum in Iancoleman. To do that you have to download the source code and make a bunch of modifications.

Open src/js/jsbip39.js and search for:

In that function, change this:

To this:

(It should now skip the checksum's validity)


Now search for:

And replace where you find this:

With this:

You should now be able to import an electrum seed by choosing BIP32. Don't thank me, but HCP.

Does the U.S Department of Justice have a proof that the block chain technology is weak in terms of security? Lots of authorities want to spread FUD right now to create temporary dips, including DoJ. I won't be surprised if this summer they'll all get into Bitcoin strongly.

Even if these weren't lies, the person who lost the bitcoins could have simply not managed them properly.

No one took that money, you can check it on a block explorer by yourself. Besides that, the post you quoted says itself that this address has never spent a satoshi.

You may have misunderstood what's Bitcoin Core. It isn't an actual Core where the whole chain of Bitcoin is built on. That being said, a developer of Bitcoin Core cannot delete UTXO by his/her own will. The whole system functionates decentralizedly and no one can remove a UTXO from a past block, because that would make the next ones, including that one, invalid.

I don't tend to just quote other people's messages as replies, but:

No, you're missing the point. The zero consisted RIPEMD160 hash you mentioned isn't the same as a private key equal with zero. And it didn't just used to be an invalid address, it's still and always be invalid, because it's below the secp256k1 range limit. On the other hand, 1111111111111111111114oLvT2 is a valid one, because there may be private keys that can satisfy the conditions to return that 160-bit hash once their public keys are put through SHA256.

That's exactly what I thought, but then I remembered this thread:    
Best way to destroy bitcoins? Send them to the value 0 address?


I still haven't understood how he ended up to that address since there isn't a valid public key for private key = 0.

Really, really small.

That's probably what happened. The hackers needed to launder their bitcoins and they somehow got scammed by the FBI. I believe there are lots of things in the background we're unaware of, but I guess the mixing would be the most logical. They didn't recover them all, so the hackers may tried the mixer firstly just to see if it's properly working.

Try mixing 60 BTC with CoinJoin. 

I'll agree with @Lordshiva here.

I keep reading “Now is the best time to invest” and “I bought the dip, greatest opportunity ever”, but it turns out that over time, it becomes a less greater chance to invest in Bitcoin than it was years ago. The quoted message properly explains that Bitcoin does grow and that it's never too late to buy it, but truth be told, the best opportunity was a decade ago, when it was a new experiment.

Fluctuations such as from $0.01 to $1000 (100000%^+/-) will never be seen again. I believe that after lots of halvings, the price will remain much more steady than it is nowadays, so if you wanted to be richer in terms of fiat, you've lost your greatest opportunity.

In my mind I have around 1500 BTC, but in reality I won't be accepted by the network if I told them so. So is it really in fantasy?

Money is anything that is accepted by a community of people as a medium of exchange. Whether if it's physically (banknotes, coins) or digitally represented, in this case an immutable ledger, if some of us agree that it's useful, its units will start having value.

It depends on that number. If the number

• Cannot be erased no matter the excuse.
• Can only be transacted by the owner.
• Can be accessed by anyone in the world 24/7/365.

Then, I don't find any reasons why it shouldn't be valuated.

Just because it isn't used for expressing the ownership of governments' debts, doesn't mean that it can't.

Because they cannot control it. It's that simple. Are you sure that every other country will behave same like El Salvador did?

I hope they all adopt it and maximize this global adoption, because I have bitcoins.

There's a difference between adopting Bitcoin and legalizing it. Yes, you can make it legal to use Bitcoin, but will there be places to use it, you know like... locally? It could surely provide a great way to purchase from the other side of the Earth, but locally, it'd be better to use your nation currency. It's faster, it costs less to make a transaction, you don't have to dedicate some hundreds of hours understanding how it works and it'd be better for you to spend it now, rather than keep it.

If you're a merit source, it's abuse.

I disapprove it.

This forum's development is probably abandoned, at least for the SMF version. A bitcointalk mobile application could not be built easily and be user-friendly at the same time. It'd require lot of work and I doubt that Admins would pay for such improvement. But, besides that, there isn't point for an app; using the forum from your browser does work fine.

They're already working on improving the forum software.