Ignore the "Time" in the photo below.  It is WRONG too.  4sat fees confirm next block the past few days.



Do NOT use the Bitcoin Core fee estimator tools... use your eyes/brains.

Bitcoin Core tries to drive in Sunday traffic with Friday's data.... so so so stupid.

There are MUCH better ways to estimate send fees.

Someone big is buying Monero... this is a market shake out trying to part some week hands of their sweet XMR.

I don't trust this dip. Buy buy buy!

We need more people willing to buy and sell XMR on https://freebitcoins.com/xchange/market/Bitcoin-Monero (no KYC or anything weird, just make an account and go... no email required even.)

(Sort of related, but not really, Freebitcoins.com has listed Wownero... which is a fork of Monero, but has ten times the coins for ten times the WOW! lol )

FreeBitcoins.com launched the WOW market on XChange today:  https://freebitcoins.com/xchange/market/Bitcoin-Wownero

We should have the Faucet and Swap Tool working for WOW early this upcoming week.

https://freebitcoins.com/blog/buy-sell-free-wownero-wow-on-exchange-at-freebitcoins/

(It should be noted that our wallets don't see WOW/XMR transactions until 1 confirmation, so don't freak out when you don't see your transaction pending if it doesn't have any confirmations yet!)

Someone bought DOGE up to 59 satoshi today on https://freebitcoins.com/xchange/market/Bitcoin-Dogecoin

We need people willing to sell DOGE.  The streets are hungry!

Beautiful, thank you very much good sir.  <3

I shall have an update shortly.

Can anyone spare a few WOW for testing?

WW3Sv1JUkDjEPE9QWx1wNqhX3ovWXoqBPNYFwDRZ7SaU5yLF1bN8gcYdu2rTPqE668aaqzNiHEYk4CF RDGhci15M2Atoaxmja

Thanks!!!  (I can buy them if needed too, but really $1 worth is plenty)

I did in fact make a mistake in the OP.

I was confused on which address was "Hals".

However, Hal's addresses have spent coins since his death, for sure.

Actually,  I think I made a mistake in the OP... I'm going to have to double-check the address 1ByLSV2gLRcuqUmfdYcpPQH8Npm8cccsFg.

That kinda fucks up everything I said... ops!


One thing I am for sure is that Hal has spent Bitcoins well beyond the grave...  Check out his confirmed wallet spending coins in 2017:  https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3

See this screenshot above to confirm that 1Q2TW is for sure Hals.

The 1 BTC that Hal received before the 10BTC came from the same wallet that sent him the 10BTC (with one address in the middle, AKA a peel address)

The 1 BTC ended up in 15NUwyBYrZcnUgTagsm1A7M2yL2GntpuaZ (Hal's address because these coins were swept along with the "first 10btc Hal received from Sat") and the 1btc came from 13HtsYzne8xVPdGDnmJX8gHgBZerAfJGEf (assumed Satoshi Change Address) which came from 12cbQLTFMXRnSzktFkuoG3eHoMeFtpTu3S (Assumed Satoshi Main Address)

The 10 BTC came directly from from 12cbQLTFMXRnSzktFkuoG3eHoMeFtpTu3S.

Hal made a Ross like a mistake and exposed himself right off the bat.  I think I made a mistake with the address "1ByLSV2gLRcuqUmfdYcpPQH8Npm8cccsFg"

Hal ran multiple wallets and Hal is Satoshi.

Little offtopic, but this is really important and I've been working on this all week for my site:

Stop trusting your Bitcoin client to calculate fees for you... it's HORRIBLE wrong.
(Lots of third party websites like Earn.com are even worse at estimating fees than the client... avoid them like the plague!)

Imagine Bitcoin like a highway... would you drive on 7 am Sunday based on Fridays 5 pm rush hour traffic or would you drive based on the traffic at the moment?  The moment of course! But that isn't how the "fee estimator" works at ALL.

People are grossly overpaying for Bitcoin because the wallet estimator is fucked.  Earn.com and other API providers are even more fucked and priced pointlessly high...

Earn.com API right now says to pay 328 satoshis/byte, Bitcoin Core wallet says 0.00091582 for two blocks, and the reality is:



4 sats for the next block in reality!

Each block clears out 1mb ish... so its fucking wild that Bitcoin Core & Earn would say to pay those huge fees it's obvious you could pay 4 satoshi for the next block.  Almost overcharging 100x and this causes a "pile-up" in the road.

The client is basically like a blind Uber driver trying to select the right toll lane to go over the Bay Bridge... "Well, I remember it was SUPER busy on Friday, so I better take the $10 toll rather than the 10 cent toll!"  When in reality your driver doesn't just use his fucking eyes and look to see which toll lane is best rather than trying to use historic data for a real-time event. (Earn is like a blind driver that also suffers from a little bit of Down Syndrome, lol! )

Tl;dr stop using Bitcoin Cores fee estimator and third party API websites... they are fucking wrong, horribly designed for users (great for miners), and are basically duping people out of millions of dollars in unneeded fees.

EDIT:  I BELIEVE I MADE A MISTAKE ASSUMING 1ByLSV2gLRcuqUmfdYcpPQH8Npm8cccsFg WAS HAL's.  
MY BAD AND THAT KIND OF FUCKS MY THEORY... I'M GOING TO LOOKING WHEN I WAKE UP TOMORROW,


Hal claimed that the 10 BTC sent from "Satoshi" to Hal was the first Bitcoin transaction to Hal.

On 2009-01-14 14:40 someone moved those 10 BTC to a new wallet...(txid:  a3b0e9e7cddbbe78270fa4182a7675ff00b92872d8df7d14265a2b1e379a9d33) however, there is something interesting about that transaction:

There is a transaction for 1 BTC received by Hal's wallet that originated from the 10 BTC Satoshi donation wallet.  

Hal received the 1 BTC at 2009-01-12 01:16

Hal received the 10 BTC at 2009-01-12 14:04

So Hal received a Bitcoin transaction roughly 3 hours before he received the "first bitcoin transaction" of 10BTC AND the 1BTC traces back to the wallet that sent Hal the 10 BTC in the first place as well...

It goes as such:

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/0437cd7f8525ceed2324359c2d0ba26006d92d856a9c20fa0241106ee5a597c9 - 50btc generated by assumed "Satoshi"

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/12b5633bad1f9c167d523ad1aa1947b2732a865bf5414eab2f9e5ae5d5c191ba - 29BTC from the 50 are peeled into two wallet.  28 BTC in 12cbQLTFMXRnSzktFkuoG3eHoMeFtpTu3S and 1 BTC 13HtsYzne8xVPdGDnmJX8gHgBZerAfJGEf

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/4385fcf8b14497d0659adccfe06ae7e38e0b5dc95ff8a13d7c62035994a0cd79 - The peel address "13Hts" address then sends 1 BTC to Hal's wallet at 01:16.... for the real "first Bitcoin transaction" to Hal's wallet....

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/828ef3b079f9c23829c56fe86e85b4a69d9e06e5b54ea597eef5fb3ffef509fe - Four hours later Hal claims he received the first Bitcoin transaction of 10btc from the 12cbQL address that sent him the 1BTC via a peel address four hours previous.


Why in the world did Hal say that the 10BTC was the first-ever when it clearly was not......

We had someone buy DOGE up to 30 satoshis today on FreeBitcoins.

I'm slightly annoyed because I bought like 1 million DOGE for 32 sats, sold them all for 18-20 sats, and now 10 hours later.... she's 30 sats again.

Brb while I an hero! jk  

FB's need more people willing to sell because someone is clearly willing to buy!

Use core.

Still shipping free stickers for free all over the world.

Please don't be shy.  No names required on addresses.  No custom forms.  No signatures.  No tracking.  All stamps!

FreeBitcoins.com Wownero wallet is officially getting prepped... I believe we will have a market and faucet this week!




Try FreeBitcoins.com when WOW is listed.  I think you'll like it.

Isn't Test-net designed almost just like Bitcoin?

No one is saying scam. I think offering a market that is clearly labeled isn't comparable to someone trying to pass off testnets to someone trying to buy Bitcoin.


Seems kinda rude  ... testnet is cryptocurrency too.  Why can this be the "world currency" and this be worthless, but they are basically the same thing? That makes no sense to me.

Mining power is 99% pushed by greed.  I would bet that testnet gets more stable for people using it when there is more mining power behind it and I bet a market leads to mining power.  Thus making testnet better and easier to use for Testers... Example:  You could rent mining power and easily point it at a service to mine testnet. (I'm aware you could set up your own P2Pool, but it would be a 3 minute task if Testnet had any infrastructure.)  I'm sure there are better examples of why having a solid testing infrastructure could be beneficial, I'm just tired and that was a problem I faced recently.

I don't think coins like Dogecoin would even be a thing if Bitcoin Testnet was done "right".  I'm not 100% sure though.


That makes it even more exciting kind of tbh... it's like a hot potato!

If stuff shifts to TestNet4 then so would the crowd.  Seems like some additional risk to make it exciting.


Haha, I'm sure hacks have happened because of a decimal missed here or there... if people can only test with dust, I could see this as an issue.

Plus, it's good for the imagination to see your application work with large numbers of coins if that what you intend it to do... rather than just be a dust bowl.

It should be noted that I am not a coder... I am, however, fairly familiar with Bitcoin.

Sidenote: Even Pokerstar has an option for buying play chips.

Yikes, one person says they would be 10/10 mad!  The majority of votes have voted that they don't care... which is kind of what I expected.

I agree with this... as long as she's got warning labels all over here too.

I feel like Redman when someone asks for a fee to do something that makes their service better...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTNl5QAO9WQ

I've paid in the past, but it never works out well.  It's similar to buying "Netflix" with Bitcoin.  It works while it works and then poof!

I would imagine/bet these are Mongooses Bitcoins that he got from proving himself as worth a shit.

You don't just make suggestions and get listened to in those "industries"... I think you do something that kinda makes a name for yourself.

I bet the nasty secret was Mongoose lifted some coins from Ross and helped Ross patch the problem.  That's how they got acquainted probably. (I do not know, just guessing)

Now Mongoose is negotiating and it looks like negotiations are going well because it's "hacker x" and not Roger Clark.