I just saw this, what has caused this price surge? any news regarding developments? darknet markets adopting it? anything else?

I can't keep up with so many coins, and maybe something interesting happened with Monero that made it rise?

43% volume is coming from Poloniex, and 19% is coming from Bittrex... could be a Polo pump for no reason?

Thanks, I have hitBTC and Bitfinex bookmarked now as two potential candidates for my BCash dump. My question is, do you know what requeriments does Bitfinex asks to trade crypto to crypto? Because I've seen exchanges getting increasingly annoying with the verifications. For example, Bittrex no longer allows you to trade crypto to crypto without you revealing your full name, address, place of birth and a bunch of other stuff that you shouldn't be giving away to some altcoin exchange because they get hacked often. It's ridiculous.

Agreed. None of the existing altcoins are real treats to bitcoins' supremacy. Don't get me wrong, I dont believe all altcoins are a scam and a waste of time, some of them got really interesting tech worth your time to get into, but they are not enough of a game changer to get BTC holders selling their coin and felling safe on their investment, knowing that this altcoin is objectively better and will undoubtedly surpass BTC, thus making you rich while keeping your crypto holdings safe.

There is no such thing, and I suspect, we aren't going to see such thing anytime soon, so hold your BTC.

Well, by doing so, they are screwing up all the users that want to retain any sort of privacy with their transactions. You can't expect anyone with half a brain to send their entire bitcoin portfolio into a single address that belongs to a damn exchange to boot. You should do due diligence and keep your privacy intact, and it has nothing to do with taxes, you just don't want people to know you own X money. Do you go around telling people you own X fiat? same thing.

I will try the hitBTC exchange, thanks.

I find it very suspicious that it's coming mostly from Japan and South Korea. Turns out Japan and South Korea use Bitcoin.com a lot to get their news. I think it's obvious that Roger Ver has managed to brainwash asian markets into the big blocker nonsense thanks to this incessant propaganda with the Bitcoin.com website. It's unfortunate that Roger Ver had to buy that name. The Bitcoin developers should have bought that domain and redirect it to bitcoin.org

Yes, I did open my Bitcoin Core client post-split, it is synced, and I did transactions post-split.

It is then safe to copy the blocks folder without the chainstate folder? I just want to save as much time as possible.


Yes, obviously for privacy reasons, sending your entire wallet into an exchange address is stupid. That's why im asking, what exchange can I use that will let me generate different deposit addresses? Poloniex has BCH for example, but it has a permanent deposit address, so I can't use that one.

Also, can I send the BCH directly to the exchange after I move the BTC addresses to other addresses?

God I Just hate this process, it will take so much time, and so many fees, I hate having to keep track of inputs to retain any sort of privacy.

Please Bitcoin devs, make Bitcoin more private by default.


And about BCH client, I downloaded it from here:

https://download.bitcoinabc.org/0.14.6/win/

The "bitcoin-0.14.6-win64.zip" one, and there's a bunch of .exe files, what one do I run?

Or should I download this?

bitcoin-0.14.6-win64-setup-unsigned.exe   

But it says "unsigned..."

How do I verify these files are legit? There are these files here:

https://download.bitcoinabc.org/0.14.6/bitcoin-win-0.14-res.yml

that cointain some hashes, are these SHA256 hashes for the files? I just want to be sure im not downloading any viruses.

Every since BIP32 was introduced (https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki) Core has HD support (since 0.13.0 I think)

I never bothered to switch to the new format because I was too lazy to send all of my BTC into a new wallet.dat (I got too many addresses)

Now that im going to need to do this in order to safely access my BCH, I was wondering: Does the post-0.13.0 wallet.dat file become incompatible with older clients? or with any other nakamoto-consensus following clients like Bitcoin Knots, TRB etc?

Also does the HD format have any risks compared to the original format of the wallet.dat? Im a pretty paranoid guy when it comes to any updates specially when it comes to changing the wallet.dat format...

I have doubts regarding how to obtain my BCH (to dump them)

I got all of my BTC on Bitcoin Core, so I was considering installing Bitcoin Cash full node on my secondary computer. Questions

1- What blockchain files can I reuse on the Bitcoin Cash folder to not download the damn thing from scratch?
2- Considering I have around 80 different addresses with BTC, I will need to do 80 different transactions into a brand new wallet.dat, then put the empty wallet.dat into the Bitcoin cash full node folder and once Bitcoin Cash client syncs, I should see my BCH and my BTC should be safe since the addresses no longer match. Can I now send the BCH to the exchange or do I need to also do another additional 80 transactions into 80 different addresses before sending it to an exchange?
3- Can you tell me what exchange can I use to dump that will allow me to create a new deposit address per transaction? That would be another additional 80 transactions to the exchange..

Now you understand why I haven't even bothered with getting my BCH yet. The time, and fee expenses on so many transactions is such a mess.

I don't want to send all of my coins to the same damn address. Why isn't Poloniex letting me generate new addresses to deposit in different transactions using different addresses? Fuck these guys if you can't.

What exchanges that have BCH listed will allow me to generate different deposit addresses? I want to dump all of my BCH for once, but I can't send it all on a single batch, I need different deposit addresses.

I think both fans will be fun to watch. Mayweather vs McGregor is great for casuals because of the excitement of the boxing vs MMA world clash and both personalities of the fighters are huge and very polarizing.

Canelo vs GGG is for boxing purists, one of the two current best boxer on their prime going at it, it will be a hell of a match.

I will watch both for sure.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/bitcoin-cash-just-exploded-in-value-2017-8

The Business Insider is constantly reporting on this altcoin for a couple of hours ago. It seems rather obvious that they are getting paid to do so. Roger Ver and Jihan pumping the price, then paying mainstream media to report on the pump to get the noobs buying. Good ol strategy. I wonder how much they are investing on this one.

I gambled once when I was drunk in Las Vegas casino with some friends, I lost 300 bucks which was all I had on my pocket. I was young and stupid. I no longer go out clubbing or even drink any alcohol, im done wit that lifestyle. Im healthy now, I dont gamble, only on new years ever or on any other special occasion, but usually im done.

If you drink, dont drive AND dont gamble.

It's not only about the storage, which would be growing exponentially and you would end up pissed off yourself eventually too, but about latency. Check this explanation of 3 minutes of why big blocks are stupid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2941&v=iFJ2MZ3KciQ

Dead cat bounce/new Ver/Bitmain pumpmoney coming in to get the rest of the suckers buying. Good news, I didn't yet dump all of my BCash because im too lazy to do the whole process of dumping the thing while retaining your addresses privacy. So keep pumping, we all know it's getting nowhere long term.

Cashless society is happening whether you like it or not. Once the current boomer generation is dead, there will be no one that doesn't know how to use or own a phone anymore, everyone will be paying digitally. Cash is going away, it is what it is, it's what governments want and citizens can't do nothing to stop it. The only thing we can have is alternatives like bitcoin to retain any sort of financial privacy in a cashless world.

When will big blockers understand the fact that you can't have "total control of your money" when you are handling the full validating nodes into the hands of corporations that will be validating everything for you because the blocks are too big to do it yourself?

BCash was DOA. They raised the blocksize limit and they can't even fill 1MB blocks because no one uses it, laughable.

We don't need to rush any hardforks anytime soon, if you support a hardfork you will lose your money every time.

You must either be bagholding a lot of Bitcoin Cash or getting paid by the big block usual suspects to post all day about how awesome Bitcoin Crash is.

The market has already spoken, BCash is irrelevant. People that invested = has lost money. People that mined it = has lost money. The result is clear, BCash has been a fail. Segwit2x will be a fail. Money doesn't want rushed hardforks. Go into hardforks anytime soon and lose your money.

Who knows, there are millions of new coins everyday, ICOs etc... I would have loved getting on all of these coins early on including NEOS, but after I see these big pumps from nothing into 2-4 billion marketcaps I feel like it's too late to make any relevant gains and the risk outweights the potential gains. What can NEOS do? It can pump to $100 or it can stagnate...

What about Stratis? why is it behaving like this? what happened to all the tech talk and all the Microsoft partnerships? ...

Current F1 standings:


I think it's still very exciting... Vettel will win again if I had to choose a winner and put some money on the line, but Hamilton is very solid on the last fights on every championship... it will be between the two for sure. Bottas will not win his first tournament this year unfortunately for him.

I agree. Still trying to understand what's backing up the hype, other than "It's the Chinese Ethereum" sales pitch. How high can this pump the asset before investors become bored and dump? I mean how viable is this?

I don't like investing on altcoins that had such an overhyped increase in price. I wish I bought when it was worth cents, I didn't, now it's too late and time to move on. Could It pump to $300? Sure, but that's not that much of a gain anymore, compared to the risk of losing your BTC in a stagnating altcoin.