It profits from others' carbon emissions. The "green" companies receive certificates and they can sell them to those who pollute.
I've read somewhere not long ago that Tesla, for example, earns more from carbon certificates than from making and selling cars.


I'm not sure if blockchain would be of any help, since we don't talk about something that is or can become decentralized.
Also afaik the companies make their own deals with the certificates, with special prices based on the amounts, the previous (similar or not) deals between those companies and so on.
You know, "I sell you certificates cheaper and you sell me this or that components cheaper"; I don't have a full overview on that market, but I have a feeling that's more complicated than Bitcoin markets.
And in the future I expect it to change, as a result of politics deciding to "punish" even more the polluting businesses, maybe not rewarding this good the clean ones.

Normally they should. But it depends where the sender have actually sent that money, the fee he used and other factors (including the sender's honesty).
If you think that's not a (privacy) issue, you can share the addresses where you expect the money and we check.
Or you can check yourself, go to blockchair.com, enter the address and see the transactions you have there - if any, is it confirmed and if it's not then what fee it's used and if is RBF enabled.

Your wallet generates new addresses every time as it needs them - usually for receiving funds or change addresses in transactions.
Using a new address every time is recommended, that's why it shows you new address every time.
But all those addresses are part of the wallet and the funds you receive should be there, not lost, even if you receive funds there much later or multiple times.

Desi in mod normal nu urmaresc canale de yt - doar caut cand si ce am nevoie, probabil ca ii voi da o sansa a lui tau si-l voi vizita din cand in cand, ca abordezi si subiecte care m-ar putea interesa.

1. Discursul lasa de dorit. Uneori nu pari prea convins de ce ar trebui sa mai spui sau ca ar trebui sa mai spui ceva  
Pe mine nu ma deranjeaza prea mult ca ma intereseaza mai mult ce vad decat ce aud, dar altii s-ar putea sa zic pass din cauza asta.
As zice sa fii atent si la greseli. Mi s-a parut ca am auzi inclusiv exprimari gandite in romana, zise cu cuvine englezesti. Nu vreau sa fiu rau, dar s-ar putea sa te ajute/impulsioneze sa-ti imbunatatesti engleza daca vrei sa faci un ban pe directia yt (eventual poti sa-ti faci un nume cu filme in romana si sa continui mai apoi si cu filme in engleza; na, e doar o idee...)

2. Desi imi place mult ca filmele sunt scurte, deci aflu mai repede niste chestii, in unele cazuri/subiecte ar trebui sa intri macar un picut mai adanc.


Nu am dat subscribe, mi se pare o nasolie pt privacy, dar o sa-ti mai vizitez filmele cand si cand. Bafta!


PS. Cum am raspuns asa tarziu, asta serveste si ca un fel de "up" 

S-ar putea sa ai cam mult de cautat. Ca pe aici nu-s asa multe persoane care scriu; desi poate sunt care citesc si inca nu au facut cont (speranta moare ultima).
Din pacate nici eu nu te pot ajuta. Cryptokitties mi-a atras initial atentia, dar cum facuse ca tx fee pe ETH sa urce pana la cer, am zis pas. Mai apoin nu m-a mai atras ideea sa incerc sa inteleg jocul pe banii mei, mai ales dupa ce am ratat cu mult startul.

It's money and also an investment vehicle.


It depends on may factors. Does Japan Yen make life better? Not at all, I couldn't care less about it.

On the other hand, Bitcoin is great because if you work for it, you'll receive in your own wallet, without knowing or caring about banking days or conversion rate/fees between employer's home currency and yours; it can be kept for long time in the wallet and, if you are careful, nobody else can touch it. So it's the best money over the internet.

Also instead of being touched by inflation (government's way to steal money), it's finite supply and its price even rises greatly over time (if you have enough patience).


It can be bad too.
If you don't afford to keep it for longer, the fees you pay for the services to convert to your home currency may make it not worth the hassle.


This is weak propaganda.
Go into the forest, live without money, become strong. But if you get injured, don't come and ask for help from the medical system people are paying for.
Go into the wild, live without money, become strong. But if a bad year comes (insufficient rain, or even fire, for example) and you don't find enough food, don't start begging for money...

All in all, money is a tool. You can use it wisely or not. Same goes for a knife too, for example.

I'll ask you try again, but this time, at the step after entering the seed, please do "detect existing accounts".
It may find your addresses since it should do directly the same thing as that tool BitMaxz has told us about.

Maybe you remember if this was your account 2 or more on Ledger? Since those may use different derivation path (m'/49'/0'/1' , m'/49'/0'/2' , ...) as somebody said on reddit. If Electrum didn't find your addresses, you can try with m'/49'/0'/1'

All they want is to issue their own version of stable coins.
This would allow them the ultimate control over money, from KYC and following all the transactions to seizing the funds they want at will.
This is completely centralized and very far from Bitcoin's paradigm.

All in all, don't be too happy about those news...

If you recovered the wallet in Electrum directly from the seed, then you didn't answer to a very important question, I'll re-post it.


It's important that you've checked that checkbox. See the step4 from here, the Options button.

It should be easy to check. Go to Electrum console and try something like


I've got the address from your first RBF tx.
If the answer is yes, you did right. If it's no, you may be missing something.

Yes, it's very possible.
I don't know LN very well, but it has occurred to me that banks and other institutions may actually set low or no fee to route as many transactions as possible and analyze them.
User info may bring them more money (in a way or another) than the fees you'd save.


That's probably (in) the future. But since they are leading exchanges, they won't lose easily their chance to become hubs. And until then - as late as possible - they can still ask for hefty withdrawal fees to discourage people from moving their money out.
I think that only strong (and many) voices from the community and their customers could make them change their current practices.

And you think that if you falsely name that cloud mining, it would work out?

Your business model is more or less used by many faucets.
The only differences are that (I think that) they pay less than 1 cent/dip. But they do fund themselves from advertising.
Some do bonus the people with money kept there, but it's some percents/day on the amount and not related to ads.

All in all, it's a PPC/ad-visiting business model. At cloud mining one buys hash power and doesn't have to visit the website to be earning.
You better go the freebitco.in faucet, maybe go to firefaucet.win, see their different way to handle ads and you can adjust your business model.

1. The ledger will clearly not be decentralized (who would store and mine that and for what incentive?!). That's why it's not better than an ordinary database (it's actually worse).
2. If needed the API that accesses the DB can give you whatever keys and proof they implement, from something basic to cryptographic keys too.
3. I was referring to crooked officials manipulating the data. Either a DB entry is altered or added, either a blockchain entry (unalterable) is added, somebody will get a fake "passport".

All in all, while blockchain is - in theory - not changeable (depends on implementation though, it can be done bad too), as long as somebody can add new records it's not really better than a DB. Also since it's not decentralized, also a hacker can do deeper change (double spend), but indeed, that's more difficult. And since it's cheap to just add a new record, it doesn't make sense to hassle.
So I don't see a real advantage of the (again, centralized) blockchain for this use case.


You know that databases can also be encrypted, right? You know that whoever can access the software creating the blockchain can also read/understand the info, so it's not a difference from the DB, right?

The most trusted wallet is the official wallet. Bitcoin Core. Just it needs bandwidth, 350+GB of disk space (if not pruned) and time for the initial download.
Electrum is one of the SPV (simple payment verification) wallets which synchronized in seconds and has a lot of features. You'll have to make sure you download if from Electrum.org and verify it.
In order to minimize the chances to get your funds stolen, a hardware wallet can also be used.

Keep in mind that a wallet doesn't hold your coins, it's only a tool that allows you spend them. You have to keep safe the seed, private key and wallet file since else anybody else can spend your funds.


I use a hardware wallet together with Electrum on desktop and together with Mycelium on Android.

The market price is basically an average of all the buy and sell prices. This means that if you buy at an exchange with really high daily volume you'll basically buy at a price very-very close to "market price" (you can say that you've bought at market price). The only problem is that you may have to also pay various fees (especially at centralized exchanges).
So, as already said P2P platforms may be your best choice.

Of course, you may find sellers on the forum too, but you'll have to be careful (not all are honest) and you'll have to also offer non-reversible payment (since you are new and nobody knows you). In this case you'd probably have to tell clearly the amount you are interested in, method of payment, maybe website of choice to decide the price and... use the Currency Exchange subforum (as also said).

Actually some nodes will probably have one new block and others will have another. And neither is really discarded until another block is mined. Only then the longest chain wins and the other one is discarded.


PS: OP, Bitcoin white paper is only 8 pages to be read (+1 page of references); it's not so difficult and can answer to many important questions.

A company like this, especially since it's not into Bitcoin, cannot afford to handle lightly such huge amounts of funds.
I expect them use 3rd party that help them handle everything and possibly that 3rd party either provides full custody, either keeps has at least one of the multi-sig keys involved. And I expect that 3rd party does all the actual handling (transactions) and possibly employing yet another company to provide insurance.
And, in order to avoid too many curious eyes, probably the addresses will remain private and the companies hired for independent review will sign strong NDAs.


Of course, that's what I'd do. Are Grayscale wallets known? (I expect they're not, but again, maybe my assumptions are wrong).

Your calculation sounds about right. But.. well, the miners have to earn something too. And it would be normal that at the point 1 BTC = $1M LN would be properly up & running & widely used. Yes, this means that although we'd love the high price, it may not come that early.
The point is that yes, at some point the fees will become prohibitive, but at that point one would no longer use on-chain transactions for withdrawing from faucets and buying a coffee.

You may have misunderstood what that tool is doing.
It verifies if a message was correctly signed from a certain address.
However, I took my staked address from here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=996318.msg53182208#msg53182208
And verified it:

Since it's not you who has made this picture, I strongly recommend you add the source.
It looks to be from Binance, I don't know if it's the website or the twitter or whatever.

...And get used to always post the source of whatever you copy from others.