Classic idea of what not to invest in. Someone who is unreasonably pumping a coin after getting a large stake in it so they can sell for more money, it may rise to $7+ and may also fall to $0. Nothing's guaranteed.

There's a site with a 2GB share limit (wetransfer I think it's called) you can probably get a link from that or send it to jackgbtc@gmail.com whenever you get the time. Or I might just start now.

And actually, you can do 20 posts a second, still very slow but...
Could always go since my first post as it can't be that bad. Maybe I can get it in bulk from archive.org I know there's options to do that but it's still a lot.

I will start reporting and patrolling tomorrow to offer help I'm not great at reporting posts/assessing others' quality but I'll try nonetheless I can't get anything from reporting stuff - report those two though if you can. FYI (interesting project also returns a lot of results).

Yeah, I was going/hoping to automate everything in python or c# (c# is faster). I think (when I was exploring with SMF 2 years ago) every post head is in a similar html structure.

That part is purely an interest thing. I'm not sure where you'd put it. I think most suggest pastebin for plain text and I assume it's raw html that you have gathered. Is there a script you have used to gather this?
I know archive.org will not function that quickly also but I don't really want to kill the forum's server by sending pings every 5 minutes. It's also a user-only privellage as far as I can gater. It would be interesting though to try to download and parse every post on the forum as a whole to check it (though I'm still trying to work out how to download from archive.org to do this, I did have a script that attempted to clone every page on this forum directly from the forum's server (starting with 1) but it didn't incorporate the 1 second request limit so it just kept on getting a 502/503 server too busy page - it also decided to clone every link in pages because it was programmed by me so I had a copy of everyone's signature's websites for the first few signatures it picked up).

Still, it would be interesting to get these general stats - especially for the patrol where everything starts (as a newbie).

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The special staff members, were ones who weren't moderators and were just regular members (sort of). They weren't assigned to a specific board - which moderators generally are and were assigned to "Patrol" the forum as a whole. I think they could hand out tempabans but not completely nuke accounts.

EDIT:
Found these two:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1835142;sa=showPosts
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=992109;sa=showPosts
These were within the first 200 objects on patrol. I was just quicklly scrolling and thought they looked a bit interesting, essentially the same thing written on all of them

Also went back for a little nostalgia and: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=543626;sa=showPosts;start=3400 - not particularly short and spammy, however did remeber that part where I picked on -ck at the start (just interesting to look back on - and some of it was a bit spammy or where I recommended a ponzi that stole all the coins I had then which wasn't that many) - I was really after a compairson to these newbies posts also it is worth noting, I signed up here 3 months after starting with Bitcoin.

Hey LoyceV,

Just found this project as I was searching through and I know Theymos used to get staff to mod the patrol links. And that was part of what they had to do, they were special staff from the moderators though as they only had the ability to delete replies from newbies (I think) and no higher ranks (though I'm not entirely sure what the patrol link does, I just know a user - lauda i think it was - was one of the users put in charge of doing that). TBF it's been at least 6 months since the thread where I discussed it with them and even then it was just two posts so I don't remember it that well. Though I'll try to do some digging at some point.
It's quite a nice effort you have put in and P.S. if you downloaded the entire patrol pages, can I have a copy? I want to run analytics on it to view stats on small posts (posts with less than 5, 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 chars to check how insubstantial they are and to see if there is anything else that can be gathered from that trend) if you want to do it yourself, then I offer this as a suggestion instead (or if you know a way of downloading them from archive.org as this forum's data ends up there daily as a mirror but I think it's just the public stuff).

Yes, a bug report is probably your best bet of getting it to work. Maybe they made an issue if it's an uncommon linux distro or one that they haven't used to test it.

I'm not sure there's really much I can suggest if the readme file is that bleak to not contain any more instructions on if there are any dependences actually required.

I'm not sure that CPFP and RBF are built into that online wallet.
Based on blockchain.info's general buggyness if the fees are too low/not confirming on time then I'd suggest you download electrum from electrum.org/#download it doesn't need the space bitcoin core does (only a couple of MB) and if you're running iwndows, you can run a portable version so no installation needs to be done (there is an issue with portable versions only when they're on external storage drives) if you keep them on your internal hard drive in you're computer, it's as secure as if it were installed (and also the wallet file is a bit harder to find as it isn't in the regular data directory) - you can then set fees dynamically to confirm from anywhere between the time of the next block, or 25 blocks (the 25 blocks should take 250 minutes to confirm, it is generally an overestimate as mine normally confirm in a much faster time than those 250 minutes and I use that one the most for non urgent transactions).

If you keep using blockchain.info, you might want to just check how it estimates your fee and see if you can change it to be a bit higher (though I wouldn't suggest using a manual fee each time as that that takes some effort).

That depends on what wallet it is?

For a non-exchange wallet. You own the private keys so you can do a double spend on it to sweep the coins back into your wallet (ie making an iinternal trnasaction with a higher fee to get confirmed before the other one does or to at least knock it out of the mempool). You can do a RBF double spend or a CPFP transaction also (the first requires you to own the sending address, the second requires for you to own the recieving address).

For an exchange, I don't think they'll do anything other than saying, "you'll have to wait for a confirmation as there's nothing we can do" until of cours it's been about a month or two and they recredit the coins (in some cases with a bad service exchange).

Minimum amount of time: time to find next block (anywhere from about 30 seconds to 2 hours).
Maximum amount of time: supposedly 21 days (or never if the fee is too low).

Confirmation time is dependent on the fee per byte and average network fees. The number of input transactions and output transactions (how many input transactions you are spending and how many addresses are recieving the transaction) changes the size.

Refunding dependends on how you send it: if you send it from a wallet where you own the keys, then you technically never lost your coins. You have them until they confirmed. With an exchange, they may NOT recredit the coins without you asking for them back in which case it could take a while so always try to use a software wallet like bitcoin core (from bitcoin.org) or electrum from (electrum.org/#download).

Can you post any transaction IDs of transactions you have sent?

Stupid Question: did you unpack it before running it from the .tar.gz format? Just wondering if you tried loading the mainfile directly from archive software and just had that?

If not:
• Is there another version that you could download?
• Is there something in the readme about installing the pyblake module. I tried installing a module for bitocin core on Linux and missed a '-dev' extension - the -dev did not appear in the error. If there's a pyblake2-dev or module like that then that might be what is throwing the error. Does it say anything else is needed, like python installation (though I assume your linux distro came with python27 at least).

I don't think you need an adviser, you just need to find yourself a good head programmer who can assign tasks to everyone else.

If you want to build a good strong cryptocurrency, I guess you have to do all the management on your own and allow your lead developer(s), testers and directors to help whenever you need them. I.E. a lead developer may suggest new innovative ideas that aren't currently in use such as a new, exciting algorithm your team/cryptocurrency could adopt to make itself better in some way such as being close to "asic-proof" or have an algorithm that hashes to an advanced state that it is theoretically "quantum-proof" up until a certain amount of power/qubits are generated in one processor.


Meetups are a great idea for gathering a good stead on this. It'd have to be a Bitcoin and altcoin meetup (not just one only on Bitcoins or certain cryptocurrency) as those people are generally just after making that currency grow instead of others - cryptocurrency meetups happen quite often in major cities - and even some less major cities in wealthy countries where there is enough interest.

I don't particularly know how testnet works/where you're supposed to get the data from?

However, try running it with the mainnet with the command -prune=1000. The number is the size the download data is limited to in megabytes. Minimum is 1000MB if you have enough internal space free.

Otherwise, where are you downloading the testnet from? Is the reason it can't connect because there aren't any nodes with a compatible blockchain.

1. It's being run in testnet I think, are the other nodes definitely active?
2. Do you have any AV/firewalls enabled on your device/modem/router?
3. Did you configure a config file correctly with rpcuser and rpcpass?
4. It seems to also run into an issue with leading the default datadir, how's your hard drive and was the folder deleted just beforehand?

There isn't a way to avoid it other than to use your IP or a non blacklisted IP to register here with a brand new account.
As for the fee, you're better asking them as it'll very based on how banned that IP is.

Ah. I was attempting to quote just OPs response for that but my phone couldn't cope with it - so I scrolled over what you put and considered it was his so it did seem a bit confusing.

Also, routers do change when using dynamic IP assigning. They usually have to be off for around 8 hours is normally the suggestion as the ISP will tend to try to assign the regular IP back to the same router again if it hasn't been taken (my suggestion: turn it off as you're about to sleep in the evening and then turn it back on in the morning and it should get a different IP - though the process may need repeating).

Can you post your entire debug.log (located in the bitcoin data directory, either ~/.Bitcoin or the appdata/local/bitcoin folder for Linux or Windows respectively).

1. It has only been a day but it will probably be ignored nonetheless (especially since a mod has already posted here and not offered anything without paying the fee).
4. Multiple accounts can be used on this forum. I acquired a few accounts from loans that I just held onto and leave stagnant.


Request a new IP from his ISP also. A blacklisted IP here might mean it's blacklisted elsewhere - a mere phone call and they should switch it for free if they're a good company.

Next time I need to move all my keys I might just do it then. It's 0.0001BTC but it's just stuck in a wallet on it's own (fairly dissappointing).


That's a great tool. Next time I need to consolidate my other transactions into one, I'm going to try the 1004 blocks recommendation and see how it does (providing it doesn't get rejected by the network as I think there was a protocolled minimum for most miner nodes now).

Where's the 3 Sat per byte one? I see 112 (sorry, wanted to see where it was to get an estimate on transferring one piece of dust just to get it out of one of my wallets).

That's a really great link as well. The dynamic sliders are quite good and give a great estimate for the fee, credits to the developer for the great site!

But you can send PMs on his behalf.

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Do you know the nature of his IP address. If it is that it is his own, can you get his isp (internet service provider) to give him a new one.
If it's from a place such as Tor, get a new Tor circuit.
Or if it's a vpn, use a different IP for the connection.

If all that's done, it might be a locaion issue, does he live near you? As it's part of the SmartBan system they have whereby if an IP address does an action malicious, other IP addresses of that range get a small mark.
You'll have to get him to register a new account however though most likely...

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To explain the Smart Ban system better:
If someone uses the IP address 192.168.80.5 ← internal address fromat - not a real public one.
If something malicious is done with that address:
192.168.80.0-to-192.168.80.255 are marked as potentially malicious and so inherit some of the red that 192.168.80.5 got.
192.168.0.0-to-192.168.255.255 are also marked as potentially malicious, less so than the other however... and so on.

I'd exercise caution when using p2p lending services people always try to scam others so don't put down too much without any sort of security or collateral.