but also any change in the protocol would need the acceptance of the majority of bitcoin users.
Even if SHA-256 is partially broken (say easier to find hashes, but not fully broken), you-d see major resistance from ASIC miners. You might even get a split network.
Whoever holds the crowd holds the coinvalue.
Majority of the miners probably more like it. |
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I went Kayaking the other day and rented a kayak.
The charge was $35. But they said "if you're going to use a credit card we charge extra". I used my credit card and they charged $37.50.
This is normal. Businesses pay the credit card companies a fee when a card is used. Instead of absorbing the costs, it's usually passed on to the customer. Gas stations sometimes do the same thing. A 7% increase does seem a little steep though... 7% isn't bad. Think about it, 1% on that purchase for the flat rate, plus 3% for the transaction fee. Then think about how much he has to pay in taxes when the cash just goes in his pocket. It costs him much more than 7% to have a paper trail. |
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What's a BRC? And how do I get 16 of them for a mini rig?
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I went Kayaking the other day and rented a kayak.
The charge was $35. But they said "if you're going to use a credit card we charge extra". I used my credit card and they charged $37.50.
Was $37.50 the extra or was the extra the $2.50? |
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Herp derp why would I only want to trade BTC if this is posted in the ALTERNATE CRYPTOCURRENCIES section...I can't leave BTC-E because it won't load. Bitparking is too slow because there is no easy way I've seen on that site to know if you made a trade, besides pushing F5.
Derrr... can someone tell me the other exchanges because I'm too lazy to look them up? I already have an opinion about all of them but I want you to tell me again. Wait... you already know about bitparking, vircurex, and cryptocoin... also not mentioned in your OP. Are you looking for something besides those? Because that's still not clear then. BTC can be traded on BTC-e, it's in their name. With how clear your OP is, if you're ready to unload shiny coins to cash, MtGox is still probably a good bet. |
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bitparking is too slow.
MtGox is only BTC to $
You mentioned no requirements in your OP besides where does everyone trade? Try rephrasing your question to something like: I want to trade <Insert name of pump and dump alt chain currency here> I am leaving BTC-E because <Insert whining here> and bitparking is "too slow" <insert WTF that means here> Does anyone kindly have suggestions for me? |
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Not only replacing it in the hidden bitcoin folder (where the wallet.dat is) ?
Because when I did that it showed me that the btc addresses are there in the wallet, but balance is still 0.00
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you need to run it with the rescan option so it will go through the block chain and find all of the transactions for each of the addresses in your wallet.
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I suggested that 2 days ago: - SNIP -
If you are using a version older than 0.7.1, I'd try the -rescan option on the command line when starting up Bitcoin-Qt.
Actually, even if you are running 0.7.1 or 0.7.2, I'd probably still try it even though I don't expect it to help under those circumstances.
You're not listening to Danny, and you're not listening to me it sounds like. Rescan it. If blockchain.info import gives you access to your funds, the only reason you couldn't see them on qt is because you replaced the wallet.dat file and then opened it up. That would show you your addresses, but your balance will be 0 until you rescan. It is not something you can do from console, you have to set that parameter during start up. You need to sit down and read these top to bottom: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoinhttps://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Wallet |
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I think this picture is in EVERY thread about this.
It's so fitting. They are saying there is NO chance and explain what would have to happen for it to work. Which is not a chance. But if it makes people giggle why not? That's the point. The chick in the movie was telling him there was NO chance either, yet he misunderstood it to mean there was a chance because he is either dumb or dumber! Okay, I'll agree with you. There is still a better chance that the scenario presented in the movie would happen than finding a private key. |
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I think this picture is in EVERY thread about this.
It's so fitting. They are saying there is NO chance and explain what would have to happen for it to work. Which is not a chance. But if it makes people giggle why not? |
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If we built a Dyson sphere around the sun and captured all its energy for 32 years, without any loss, we could power a computer to count up to 2192. Of course, it wouldn’t have the energy left over to perform any useful calculations with this computer. But that’s just one star, and a measly one at that. A typical supernova releases something like 1051 ergs. If all of this energy could be channelled into a single orgy of computation, a 219-bit counter could be cycled through all of its states. These numbers have nothing to do with the technology of the devices; they are the maximums that thermodynamics will allow. And they strongly imply that brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space. Bruce Schneier I think this picture is in EVERY thread about this. |
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=22697.0That's the post you need. If you can use a hex-editor to do a sector-by-sector search/edit on your entire hard drive, then search your entire hard drive for occurrences of the following byte sequence:
01 03 6B 65 79 41 04...........
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A government ban on bitcoin would only drive the price of bitcoin UP.
I don't see large volatility as a threat to bitcoin itself. Not all people are stupid, so not all would give in to a purposefully caused panic. The only threat of a temporary price drop in bitcoin, would be, that then some entity whose goal is to destroy bitcoin, could buy up all the bitcoins cheaply, and then destroy them (by not using them again).
I didn't say a government ban would do X I'm saying, coincide a drop in the price from 100 $ / BTC down to 1$ a BTC right when the government puts restrictions on exchanges and you don't think that confidence will be killed? Coincide that with 51% attacks that have been carefully planned out for years? The government knows about bitcoin. They have discussed how to squash it. They have discussed how to use it. They have some. To think that none of this has been mentioned, you're crazy. Or I need drugs. |
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I don't recall seeing a transaction like this in the first 2000 or so blocks, but you guys can have a look later today. I will upload the sqlite Abe dump of the blockchain in this thread soon.
Awesome, I may look at this too. inb4 claims "Oh we just sent them the wallet". Fine, sign every 100th address for the first 2000 blocks. Prove it... it's not like you can't prove ownership of coins in BTC or any alt chain. |
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