Also, keep in mind that the "big money" in Japan is with the older generation, so even if the younger generation may seem to be more open minded, they don't have the money to invest in new things.
Rakuten Group is one of the older generation. The CEO of Rakuten is 51 years old and he is bullish on Bitcoin. Rakuten was only established in 1997. I'm more interested to hear about keiretsu type companies when talking big money. But, well done you found one. I can see where you're sentiment of "huge adoption" comes from.   Even if Rakuten goes with bitcoin integration in Japan (their only one currently is in the US), it does not mean that bitcoin will be largely adopted by the general public. Exactly because - like you pointed out in the other thread - there are many, many options available to the Japanese already, most of which are more convenient than the use of bitcoin. |
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Japanese are not as conservative as you think. And you are basing that on what? Please give an example. Also, keep in mind that the "big money" in Japan is with the older generation, so even if the younger generation may seem to be more open minded, they don't have the money to invest in new things. If Japanese are conservative, Japan can not become the most advanced country in Asia. Most advanced in what? What year? Please be more specific. |
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You are assuming that major reason why chinese were purchasing bitcoins was to sell them for dollars. And they were doing it because they afraid that chinese government will print zillion of yuans and they will drop to zero. I have said not anything about dollars, you are making that assumption. I'm talking about getting money out of China. It is very difficult for them, doesn't matter where they send it to. [...]
IMO, the major reason why Chinese were purchasing bitcoins is absense of other ways to invest their money (low interest in banks and high business entrance barriers). The Chinese mindset is different to the Japanese. The Chinese invest money in pretty much everything they can get their hands on to. The Japanese are much more reluctant to jump on "new things". [...]
And the third reason: there is a lot of money in Japan. You have to look at where that money is. It is with the older generation that made their money pre-Asian financial crisis. That generation is not very tech savvy and highly skeptical of new things. The younger generation that may be a bit more open minded does not have a lot of money. So ... new China?
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Which link? Ignore the one on bitmaintech for now, doing something else.
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The one in your post. Goes to http://shop.syscooling.com/goods-45.html, returns: 404 Unsure on exact CFM but its the same as the S3 fan. Distilled water will NOT work due to the mix of copper and aluminium.
Hence the comment on adding car additives. |
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Again: Silly numbers != huge adoption [...]
Japan, just like China, has a lot of people with a lot of money they have nowhere to invest. Bank interest rates are around zero, economy in stagnation, entrance to business is controlled by big guys. So bitcoin is the solution a lot of Japanese are looking for. Is Japan the new China?
The difference is that the Chinese distrust their government and are looking to get money out of China. They also have a huge network of people outside China, that can receive that money. Neither is true for Japan. |
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The Bank of Japan just announced QE. Yet another reason for the existence of Bitcoin.
Huge adoption on November in Japan: 1. Kraken Launches in Japan 2. GMO-PG Enables 48000 Merchants Using Bitcoin as Payment Option 3. BitFlyer Rises $236000 4. Rakuten Accepts Bitcoin Silly numbers != huge adoption There is a virtual currency in Japan already called BitCash since 2002. It's not difficult for Japanese to adopt another one especially in online markets. Ah, I thought we are talking bitcoin. There are many "virtual currencies", "e-money" or whatever you want to call them worldwide. Now, this hasn't helped bitcoin adoption much worldwide so far has it? Neither will it in Japan. |
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Looking good!
Nice to include Shamir's Secret Sharing! How do these print-outs look like?
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The Bank of Japan just announced QE. Yet another reason for the existence of Bitcoin.
Huge adoption on November in Japan: 1. Kraken Launches in Japan 2. GMO-PG Enables 48000 Merchants Using Bitcoin as Payment Option 3. BitFlyer Rises $236000 4. Rakuten Accepts Bitcoin Silly numbers != huge adoption |
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Might be worth a try: Backup your "salvaged" wallet.dat. Install a fresh, single copy of Bitcoin Core. Start it once, so it creates the data directory structure. Shut it down (might take a little time). Copy a copy of your salvaged wallet.dat to the data directory [1]. Start it again and maybe you are in luck and you see your transactions in the transactions tab (they will be greyed out until the blockchain is synced). If you are not, another approach is using a tool called pywallet [2] by the user jackjack to export any private keys it can find and import them to Bitcoin Core (or another wallet of your choice). Like deepceleron said, the more information you can provide, the better. From now on, please start backing up your wallet information on a regular basis. A recommended interval for Bitcoin Core is every ~50 tx. If you haven't already done so, encrypting your wallet is also recommended. [1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34028.0 |
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How about this? https://blockchain.info/q/txresult/feec67bb56dbb5d18c535645879ec65c1d9b2da63e512c89d0ca052f40c4cfc9/1C5MT6YVpZF3G6xhp6PFti1ySzAxtpNf86?confirmations=6 edit: https://blockchain.info/q |
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To generate a transaction offline you would use something like the Armory online/offline model where an online system exists. To sign a transaction offline you will need to know the amount of unspent outputs etc. IMHO you'd better use Armory straight away if that is your use case, i.e. if you need to do this frequently.
Most people use their paperwallets only one time. Import or Sweep the key into a wallet that has access to the blockchain data one way or the other, make your necessary txs, including the rest going in a new paperwallet. The old one goes in the bin. Not necessarily something you want to use everyday. Hence the term "cold storage".
Another way (and probably the easiest) is spending with Mycelium (Android). They have a dedicated "Spend from cold storage function". The key is in the memory only during the signing process and any change goes back to the paper wallet. Once that's done all the info is wiped.
There's pros and cons to each of these solutions.
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[...] when things are going normally.
Define normal. When this page https://bitminter.com/shifts lists an actual payment under the Pay/Hour at 1 TH/s column, instead of 0. It _is_ normal for that column to have 0s sometimes. |
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[...] File is unpacked and is on desktop (like windows desktop). "Change in that folder" - what should I change in folder ? "Open terminal in that folder" - should I copy "terminal icon" to HF tool folder and open it from there ? Last question  I need some command to completely disable ASIC 1, would you know how to do that ? (I can't run the board on RPi so I will just disable that ASIC 1 and immediately I will move that board back to windows pc where I have cgminer so that command needs to be permanent command) Thank you very much for your help Ok, I thought it was on the desktop "unpacked". Did you clone it? Anyway... Open a terminal, type This will return something like Whatever it returns, select all of it with your mouse and hit Ctrl+Shift+C, type and hit Ctrl+Shift+V and Enter. You have just "changed" in the hf-tool folder, it will show something like root@raspberrypi:/home/pi/Desktop/hf-tool# Now run your command. Gathering from (good thread to read, btw.): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=639810.msg7237507#msg7237507You will need to run something like ./hftool.py -w 0:0,1:930@875,2:930@875,3:930@875 to disable die number 0. The other values depend on what you were able to read out previously with https://bitbucket.org/gateway69/hf-tool |
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[...] when things are going normally.
Define normal. |
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[...] 2: Next step doesn't work - pip3 install --pre pyusb [...] Nothing works  I have not tried this fully, as I have more than one Habanero connected to the RPi and I don't want to shut the mining down. However, a workaround seems to be (as root or prepend sudo): apt-get install python-setuptools then [...]
I downloaded HF tool and is sitting on my desktop(unpacked).
Now I have opened TERMINAL and typed there ./hftool.py -h which gave me NO SUCH FILE OR DIRECTORY.
Habanero board isn't connected to RPi.
Please can somebody point me in right direction ?
Unpack it. Change in that folder. Open a terminal in that folder. Connect the Habanero. Try the command again. |
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Jeez... 24 hours+ and still nothing. Has this happened before were a block has taken this long to find?
Yes, many times. Nothing extraordinary here. |
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im going to sound like a noob, but could anyone explain to me how to set up the config file for the cgminer?
cos when im manually inserting pool data when it promotes for it, the miner says pool invalid Check out https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/blob/master/example.conf Easiest is to save the config file from the menu to get you started. What do you enter for pool information? |
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