No, it was allready stated that the campaign will not continue but only run out.

Referal spam is again the rules anyway and will be deleted/removed from the post. The person in question had at least 23 posts today when I checked earlier. I am glad that badbear deleted them because this will also result in no or almost no payment.
Again: the quality of the posts is still low, but a low quality post every few days is fine, at least for me and the staff seems to agree. Its problematic (IMHO) when the majority of posts are of low quality and the person in question posts a lot. 30 one-liners over 60 days hardly matter, 80 posts within 24 hours do.


They usually have rules in place, but I feel they are not strict enough more often than not.

Das Thema hatten wir schon. Wenn Du ein Angebot machen möchtest: bitte tue das. Diskussionen über meine Vorstellungen von einem angemessenen Preis sind hier fehl am Platz. Es mag durchaus sein das ich völlig zu hoch gegriffen habe, aber so lange keiner von euch ein Angebot macht muss ich davon ausgehen das ihr auch kein Interesse daran habt zu kaufen und dann ist mir eure Meinung dazu herzlich egal.

Von daher: danke fürs bumpen.

Posts contribute to activity as much as a single post per day unless the activity was otherwise held back due to few posts in a given period of the past (which is rare). Thus your argument is mostly invalid, because a single post a day is hardly spam. It might be of low qualitiy anyway, but thats not the discussion here.

Usually customers dealing with BTC expect instant payout and not 2 hours later. While it might make more sense to collect transactions from a fee point of view it might cost you in customers.

Depends.


Depends.


The blocksizes grew over time, yes.

Bitcoin core needs a full copy of the blockchain to work. This is currently done by syncing with a single node you are connected to. Usually the first node. This might be a slow connection which will result in slow download speeds. The downloaded data will be locally verified by your machine, which is another reason this might be slow. If your machine is slow, the proccess is slow regardless of the connectionspeed.

There are some tricks to speed up the syncing. They all focus on downloading the data faster, because this usually is the bottleneck. Even old 1Ghz single core machines profit from a fast connection as there will be now downtime while verifiing.

#1 you can download the blockchain (unverified) via a torrent [1]. This will help if you have a fast connection but have not connected to a fast node. If your CPU is old or your machine is slow, this might not help. In your case Id go with #2 as you allready have plenty of the old blockchain data.

#2 you can force bitcoin core to connect to certain fast nodes. I made a list (see code block below) because this question arises often. In order to force the client to connect a specific node and only that node. Run it with -connect=IP

E.g. for Windows hit Win+R to open the "run" window:
enter: c:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe -connect=1.2.3.4
change the IP to one from the list, edit the path as needed and click ok.

Once you are fully snyced, close bitcoin core and start it like you normally would.


[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145386.0

BIP38[1]

[1] https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com/bip38-password-encrypted-wallets/
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0038.mediawiki

Since he is from germany most likely here [1].


[1] http://www.lieferservice.de/

I just "ask" bitcoind what I want to know. Had to start a reindex yesterday because the DB got corrupted, thus they currently look bad.

Pff, Emulator...

Ne, alles gut. 75€ ist der: ich brauch das jetzt sofort Preis. Dargst gerne n Angebot machen.

Hab von Menschen gelesen die das 3x gemacht haben dann gings. Wenn die DB regelmäßig kaputt geht liegt es evtl. an der Festplatte oder Strahlenquellen in der nähe[1].

[1] jakepoz.com/soviet_debugging.html

Ok lets get the crypto aside. Wr just have a different understanding. A definition of crypto is IMHO more than just how it is transmitted and there are oddities as well that still belong to the same group.

How is paypal a currency? The currencies paypal handles are $,€,£ etc. There is no inherent currency to paypal its a payment processor for different (non crypto) currencies. They might one day process crypros and be a valid topic in the service discussion section. Currently they do not. They even explicitly dissallow currency exchange via their service.

im Terminal [1][2]:
./bitcoin-qt -reindex

ggf. musst Du vorher in das entspr. Verzeichnis [3] wechseln. In der Regel geht das mit cd ~/.bitcoin (auch im Terminal)

Das löscht überigens nicht die Daten, was in der Regel auch erstmal nicht nötig ist. -reindex sorgt dafür das die Datenbank (die offenkundig im Arsch ist) neu aufgebaut wird. Dafür musst Du die Blockchain nicht neu runterladen. Das ganze kann (je nach CPU und Festplatte) trotzdem einige Stunden dauern. Ne Single Core CPU ~3Ghz braucht so 48 Stunden wenn ich mich recht erinnere.


[1] http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Terminal
[2] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin
[3] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory

So your argument is basically: Bitcoin is nothing new, it is not significantly different from paypal?

I think you will be pretty alone with that argument.

I never got that far in actually using it, but thats how I understood it yes.


Thats just someting I do on this forum. I sell my signature (below my posts) to advertisers. It has nothing to do with bitcoin per se. Sorry if this is a source for continued confusion. It was ment as an example of income.


I never had a Trezor to test this, but my understand is pretty much what you describe. As long as the host is not infected durring the creation of a transaction you are golden. You keep the Trezor around and only need to plug it in to send bitcoin.


Usually the address is also printed on the paper, but yes it makes sense to keep the address in multiple places.


Electrum handles change as a good wallet should, by default. As in: it creates a new address for every time a change transaction occurs. Here [1] is a very good explanation (IMHO) with pictures.



Currently I use bitcoin core for most things bitcoin, but I plan to change that. I am not entirely sure if I want to use armory hot/cold or electrum hot/cold in the future. I have an old laptop around to experiment with and by its age and performance I will probably end up using electrum. On the other hand I really like the multisig features of armory and the performance should be no issue for cold storrage. There is also this even older netbook that I might use. So I could use both armory and electrum for a while and decide later. Decisions, decisions and little time to actually set thigns in motion. The easiest and fastes setup is Electrum, no questions asked.


Nice summary, just some nitpicking. AFAIK this attack also requires the master public key, which is usually easier to get though. The point "do not mess around with private keys" still stands ofc.


[1] search for "Seeds and Change Addresses" http://bitzuma.com/posts/a-beginners-guide-to-the-electrum-bitcoin-wallet/

Probably someone handling some sort of payouts, probably belongs to a service of sorts. ~2000 TX in ~2 hours is a bit much for a person I think.

It started here [1] 42 blocks ago with ~78 BTC


[1] https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/4f5c4019383827467654a0ab4e692bf96de42ce319743585449f4c20fb012523

Yes sweeping with Mycelium works great. I did it in the past and IIRC it even handles change appropriately[1] for you. That should not be an issue in your case anyway.

[1] as in: change goes to address the wallet controlls not back to the paperwallet.

Yop. Ich hatte noch überlegt ob ich Super Mario Land nochmal doppelt durchzocke. Beim zweiten run am Stück ist die Welt anders. Wo Tetris hin ist weiß ich leider nicht, das hab ich auch geliebt. Das hab ich noch für nen DS. Mal gucken ob der auch noch raus muss.

Probably because:


its not an alt coin, its not a cryptocurrency [1], while it does use crypto for transportation (as you point out) it does not create anything. Its just another way to proccess fiat payments.


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency

Depends. Some campaigns do strange stuff (IMHO) like: post at least 10/30 in gambling section. I think this will just result in spam in these sections. Id look for those that do not restrict you where to post and continue to post as usual. Make sure your post are actually help- or meaningfull as part of a discussion. They basic idea however is that you post within this board as you usually would.
Keep in mind that whoever runs the campaign might not be trustworthy. Do some research before you join.


An overview thread is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615953.0