As I read it, it is really good news. Forget about Bitcoin and currencies, and think of it from a consumers point of view. If we can monitor food sources and shipping processes for the stuff we buy, then that's great.If it can be used to check on fraudulent derivatives, then that's even better. Currencies stored in the IBM cloud, then that's cuckoo land.  |
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The US dollar ( and theUK pounds ) is de-centralised. The Government no longer controls its creation, that has been decentralised into the hands of the banks.
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Would it be possible to flag really old threads bumped by newly registered members?
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Shouldn't every bought account be given negative trust?
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How do you tell the difference between a lost coin and a coin held for investment?
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Next generation miners will be treasure hunters. They will recover the lost coins. |
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What do you mean Windows 10 contains a keylogger? Are you talking about the automatically released data to Microsoft of your daily usage? You can stop that by tinkering with the settings and stopping some services from activating.
I managed to disable windows contana, but it isn't easy. That contains a key logger. I suspect that there are other routines as well that store all your files and traffic in a windows cloud. |
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It's difficult to compete with the Chinese miners. I think their government is building 170 new coal fired generators, and they are increasing non-fossil fuel generation ( mainly hydro and nuclear I believe). They don't need that electricity, but the government guarantees the purchase price, and it is sold at low prices. Electricity is a major cost for mining groups.
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I would imagine that Bitcoin casinos get a receive a lot of small deposits from the guys using faucets. Your large transaction size could be as a result of spending those, rather than a deliberate attempt to annoy you.
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Let's try again. Imagine you have huge BTC holdings, but no fiat money. How do you manipulate the price up?
You increase demand, and also encourage saving. To increase demand, I believe that you need to speed up transactions, and improve the image of Bitcoin. It is my belief that it will be neccessary to free Bitcoin from the chains of 10 minute block intervals, if there is to be any significant acceptance by the general public. |
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I'm coming to the conclusion that I'll be earning coins by talking about Bitcoin. |
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Windows 10 now contains a keylogger. I'm commenting on the problems posted in this forum. I don't use any of the services, so I don't have any direct experience.
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I guess 694 updated nodes isn't too bad then. |
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I'm still only seeing a couple, or 3 at the most (out of 8 ). The good news is that there is only one Classic that appears regularly.
0.12.0 seems to be a bit faster, so I think it's worth upgrading if you haven't already.
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Anything that restricts the sale of stolen, counterfeit or goods obtained by fraud or deception is good.
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I've noticed that several members seem to be having problems as a result of using these services. With Google, Microsoft and others installing keyloggers, and other anti-privacy "services", is it worth trying to use them. I assume their use just draws attention to your transactions.
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It's demand that will drive the price. Coins will still be mined, so if demand doesn't increase, then the price will drop. What could hold back demand? Well one factor could be increased confirmation times as miners drop out of the mix, or submit more empty blocks. 10 minutes between blocks is far to long to build public opinion regardless of block sizes. In fact increased block sizes could lead to longer confirmation times if miners don't fill blocks, and transaction sizes increase.
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Bitcoin Uncovered is a good name and imho should be used for more greater use then just a site explaining about bitcoin to newbies, there are already a lot of that and newbies don't even bother to read those.
Since Uncovered means to discover something secret or hidden, maybe it should be about things about bitcoins which aren't too basic or maybe just explaining things which are too complicated in a simple manner.
Thanks Twister, That is the direction I have planned. My level of knowledge is not great enough to plumb the hidden depths, so I am considering asking for contributions, with donations as a reward for the suthor. |
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use blockchainuncovered to talk about all different things like alts, sidechains, offchain.
use bitcoinuncovered to talk just about bitcoin.. just try not to play the failed 'gavinista' buzzword game if your going to talk about blocklimits. because 2mb was not a intellectual property patent of gavin. it was code that anyone can implement, including core.
try to make it unbiased and about the community and bitcoin as a whole rather than playing the blockstream is god rhetoric aswell..
if you do have unbiased information that is backed up by real code examples or proper quotes from the original source. (rather an opinion) then you could become a good source of information for newbies
Thanks for the comment, and that's more or less what I intend to do. The blockchain name will have to wait until I know a bit more, but I can start building the basics of Bitcoin uncovered now. What I would like to do is to build up to applications rather than tech stuff. Escrow is one that is particularly interesting to me,. I've just sold a name through escrow.com without any problems, but I think it could be done using Bitcoin with arbitration. re: blockstream and core. I really don't have any knowledge of the relationship. If there is an issue, I would be happy to discuss it via pm, or I can start a thread if you think that would be better. |
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