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Good to know. I stopped doing Bitcoin transactions because they were so high. I preferred Litecoin TBH. I'm going to give it a go next time and see what my fees are like. Give it a go now, this is the time to do some transactions, because the fees won't stay very low in the near future, until Lightning network will be ready... We are already over $10,000 now, and if the investors will start to put their money back to bitcoin, fees will likely to raise a bit again. I don't think that it will be 500 sat/B again, but nobody knows it for sure... So if you want to combine your coins into one address or you want to send your coins from your legacy address to a segwit enabled one with low fees, this is the right time to do that. |
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So i have a raspberry pi 3 and i need some help.
Let's start from here:
First i have windows 10 on my laptop
2) I've formatted my scan disk, installed noobs (piece of cake right. )
3) this is where it gets tricky, COMMUNICATING with my pi from my laptop.
Where do i connect the pi? To my modem or laptop?
I plug the ethernet chord in the router, my a to a usb and my scan disk, and nothing still comesup
Do i install putty first?
I've watched almost every video on youtube and I don't know.
I need serious help, I'm trying to run a node with my pi PLEASE HELP
If you still need help, check these threads, it's more or less about Raspberry PI: Full Node on Raspberry Pi 3 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2683060.0Moving from Windows to Linux and claiming forked coins. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2968427.0The practical aspects of running a Bitcoin node over public WiFi. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2722391.0Running bitcoin node with LN hub on a Raspberry Pi 3 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2963266.0 |
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I ran a full node on a 256Gb SSD ( external), that was a few months ago, so I'd probably go for a 512 if I was starting now. I'm using a 2TB external drive ( Toshiba) for my new node , and that is fine, but it's a bit slow, and you probably ought to have an alternative power supply for it if you are going to use one.
What do you mean about 'a bit slow'? I have already a 512 Gb external 3.5" HDD with an external power supply, external HDD enclosure with fan, so I thought it will be OK to start with. As I've read somewhere if I run the OS of the Raspberry PI from the SD card, the OS will be relatively quick and I have to store only the blockchain on the external HDD. If the OS runs from the SD it should be as quick as an SSD? I'll give it a try as soon as the Raspberry arrives and I can start this little project. What I can do beforehand to install a node on a laptop, download the blockchain and to copy it to the external HDD. |
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Maybe they still don't know the rules which they should follow in this forum. They use google translate just for add their activity in this forum, even this is will be big risk for they, because if moderator know and see it, then their account cloud be banned by moderator, they can reach very hight rank but merit is coming, this will be fix that problem, their account can't go up if they can't get merit.
Are we supposed to report them? They are just farming accounts. They post over there so they can boost their post count and that becomes less obvious for other users (since the users may not understand that language and thus will ignore it), so the posts go unreported. Just report those accounts next time if you see them using google translator to post.
Where can we report them? You can report them using the 'Report to moderator' button next to the post itself. You'll have a text box to type in the reason why you are reporting and there will be a % of your previous reports if they were accepted by the moderator or not. I usually report the google translated answers, ICOs, etc... in the local thread because there are some languages where google translate can't do a proper job, so it's obvious that the post is made with google translate. It takes a day or two and the mod ususally deletes the post. |
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I open it once a week and it takes hours and hours to update on a fast connection.
Please give some details: What kind of wallet you use What kind of device you use (PC, smartphone, Raspberry PI, etc...) Do you run a full node on your device and because of this you have to keep it updated regularly? |
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Just checking in as adviced in order to have this thread in my watchlist.
I am thinking about a similar thing, but not only for claiming altcoins but running an LN node (just for fun and to learn) on a Raspberry PI (I think it has a special linux OS) so this thread is really interesting for me.
Thanks for suggesting to copy the whole directory of blockchain on the external drive, I saw guys compaining about the Raspberry's speed (syncing the blockchain for several days), otherwise the speed of the Raspberry seems to be decent to run a small node.
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99% of the merchants that accept coins are doing this by working with bitpay. The coins are automatically exchanged to USD at the price of the sale so thee is no risk of volatility for the seller. ...
Transactions fees are 0.15 cents at the moment. Secondary , they don't have to report cryptocurrencies, what they get is $. This (they don't have to report cryptocurrencies) is a key thing every time I think about the merchants. If a merchant wants to accept crypto, it's an interesting question, where they should keep them in their books. If they accept fiat, they put the amount into 'Cash in hand, checks', if they receive the amount with regular bank transfer, they put it into 'Cash at bank'. If they receive crypto, they cannot put it into the 'Liquid assets' class, because it's not allowed. If they want to do this part officially, they have to put it into the 'Other receivables' because there's no other category the crytos fits into. Most of the book-keepers are not familiar with cryptos, so it's hard to do things officially yet... |
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I did not partition it. Although you can create a filesystem without a partition, it's not recommended. Yes, I bought it used...
You should start by testing the SD card it self. Write 100 GB, and see if you can read it back. A simple test: #!/bin/bash
mkdir ~/disktestbyLoyce
cd ~/disktestbyLoyce
wget http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/1GB.zip
i=1; while test $i -le 100
do cp 1GB.zip 1GB.zip$i
i=$((i+1))
done
md5sum 1GB.zip*
rm 1GB.zip*
cd; rmdir ~/disktestbyLoyce If your SD card is okay, it will show the same checksum 101 times without errors. SD with 200 GB available... used from ebay... From shop, it would cost about $200, you can buy a decent USB HDD from this price and it would not have only 256 GB space but much more. Anyway, how much space is needed to host a full node? I'm thinking about the same, using a Raspberry PI to run a full bitcoin node and I'm thinking about what size of USB HDD I need to buy. Does SD card is a possible solution for storage, when running a node on PI? I mean the OS is writing on the swap partition continously, so SD can reach it's write limit in no time and after you can just trash your SD? |
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This new merit system doesn't work. The only thing it serves is to make people even more factional than before. Logic gets shot down for loyalty.
I agree with this post. Merit sistem really does not work. I can understand your frustration, your activity has already reached the member level, but you miss the merits to rank up. You need to collect 8 merits to be able to rank up. This is not as bad as you see now. If you check a few Hero members, who were 1-2 activity periods away from becoming Legendary, they have to recevie 500 (!!!) merits to be able to rank up. Also, on lower level, they also have a huge number of merits to receive before they can rank up (Senior to become Hero: 250, Full member to become Senior 150 merits, etc...) You only have to receive 8 more merits and you can rank up, this is not so bad, comparing to the above stated ranks. Also, the system has just changed, so you cannot decide if it works well and as expected or not in a short time like this. I know that you are not happy with these kind of answers, but what I would do to recevie my 500 merits is the following: I'm hardening my efforts to post quality content and sometime somewhere merits will start to come. You cannot expect that every post you make will receive merits, especially now, when people are not really aware about the change and they have to adapt themselves to this change but time will tell which effort of you was the key in receiving the merits on the long run. Also, you just have agreed someone who was complaining about this new merit system and you have received a merit. This can be a luck, but you cannot build your rank up process on posts like this, so it's better to start posting quality and waiting for merits (and there's nothing else you can really do). |
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You've prompted me to add a link to blockchain on my mobile. I should have done that ages ago.  The main reason for my running a full node is to explore the variety of payment conditions that can be associated with a payment. One that interested me was a form of escrow where one could use a trusted party as a third signature for a 2 out of 3 release. Another is a time lock with possible reclaim to prove the availability of funds. Unfortunately I haven't had the chance to research these, but hopefully I will be able to do so in the near future. I've found this thread because Raspberry Pi was mentioned in (and I'm about to build a Raspberry Pi node, and I'm searching for information) I read thru the thread and I think I understand your problem. If I'm right, you receive smaller payments for domain names in bitcoin, and you want to protect yourself from being scammed and lose the domain and the bitcoin payment too. You have to use free wifi sometimes, this makes the whole thing even more risky. Also you usually do this meeting the buyer personally somewhere. As I'm about to install a small Lightning network node on the Raspberry Pi (and this is why I'm searching on the forum for information) the LN came into my mind as a possible solution for you. You don't need a Raspberry for this, just an LN wallet on a laptop. I think you contact the buyer before the personal meeting via email, so you can tell the buyer to set up an LN wallet and send the funds to his LN wallet (like ZAP https://zap.jackmallers.com or similar, I've found ZAP as the first one in the google search). This is not risky for the buyer because he can use his own LN wallet, if something goes wrong then he can easily send it back to his original address. You can also have your LN wallet to collect these payments at personal meetings. So when you meet, all the buyer has to do is sending the payment via LN. It confirms instantly so you don't need to wait for a few confirmations (20-30 minutes). This also shortens the time available for hackers put their equipment together to mislead you about the payment (and this can be the key in your case). After you can check the LN transaction on your laptop LN wallet (over the public WIFI), and also that time you can check the LN transaction on your smartphone, on a LN blockchain explorer, and if the two devices show that the transaction was done without a problem, you can hand over the domain name to the buyer. If the buyer comes with a loaded LN wallet, this whole thing won't last as lons as you can drink a coffee or cappuccino. I know that this is under testing now and we need to wait for some time to get it working without bugs and hassle, but I would think about it if I were you. If you sell those domains for years now over public WIFI, I would consider not to invest in tinkering boxes (just if you really interested in), because in a few months time you can have a chance to do the payment via the LN. Maybe those few months would be needed for your to set up your new equipment with the VPN, HTTPS, SSH and so on, to test it hard to be reliable, but if you can use LN, this all will not be necessary. (this is only my opinion, but others will surely correct me if I'm wrong). Also, later on, you can set up a small website where you can accept LN payments for your domains, you can do that also when you meet the buyer personally (access the website from the buyer's laptop or mobile and sendig the payment also from there). In that case, when the buyer needs to initiate the payment over the public WIFI, the security will be his problem, not yours. In order to check if the payment was really successfull, you will have an easier situation, because of the really short confirmation of the LN transaction, hackers won't have the time to scam you. Please let me know your thoughts, I was just wondering if LN can help you. |
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Thanks, I haven't found this one yet. I have read it thru quickly, it uses the eclair version of lightning hub, the one I put it into the OP was referring to lnd which is a different build, according to my understanding, they are totally different. I'll search for the differences, surely there's somewhere a comparison about the different LN nodes (there's 3 kind of LN nodes as I saw somewhere). |
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wow, thats really a good news for all of us
Atlast, there is a slight relief
unfortunately it is. but news of banning or not banning bitcoin should not affect it ever. we need to reach a state when everyone understands that bitcoin was created in a way that what the government thinks about it is never of any importance. whether they ban it or not ban it should not be something that bitcoin cares about. It's OK that from bitcoin's point of view ban is a neutral thing, but for the Average Joes the official acceptance and regulation makes bitcoin a more trustable thing, so it can help the mass adoption somehow. Bitcoin can work if it's banned everywhere, but it would restrict the use of if. If it's an accepted thing, people will give a try much easier. The mass adoption is a good thing to reduce the volatility but it brings some restrictions or regulations... not sure which is better, volatility or regulation... but Average Joes would simply go for the regulations in order to reduce volatility... |
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Hi experts, I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I'd like to start to play with Lightning network, but want to start small. I've found this https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md on github, and I've made my first step, I've ordered the Raspberry Pi 3B. I've found some threads about Raspberry Pi but it's usually about running some nodes (bitcoin, other alts) on PI but not about LN. Do you have any experience with the LN node on the PI? I'm not afraid of linux or anything, just wanted to ask in advance before the PI arrives, what to download, where to search for some info (I can use google, but this is something specific.) Thanks in advance! |
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Don't think that bitcoin will die because of the miners, if they stop mining... In the beginning, bitcoin mining was done on a few GPUs (in the time of Satoshi), so the network can be run on a few capable PCs, ASICs, etc...
Some miners will leave when the Lightning network will start to spread and will reduce the number of the onchain transactions or at least will make the transactions way more cheaper compared to the end of the year 2017. This will reduce the income of the miners, so they will fight for their profit, I don't know what will come but we can expect anything starting from FUD campaing to network spam or anything we just can't imagine now...
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If you use a hardware wallet such as Ledger Nano S you can use MyEtherWallet pretty safely. They link up together and you must physically interact with the ledger nano s to allow an outgoing TX to be performed.
This main difference if you use MyEtherWallet with or without a hardware wallet (Trezor, Ledger Nano S, etc...) is that if you use the hardware wallet, your private key won't leave the device, so nobody will be able to steal it and to steal your funds. This means you can use it more or less safely on a compromised computer. If you don't use hardware wallet, you need to input your private key somehow into the web page , so it gives the chance for the hackers to steal it. This is the reason that the Ledger Nano S is available with some months shipping time, because of the huge backlog of the orders... I don't know what amount was stolen, but the 10% of the amount worths the price of the hardware wallet, that's good reason to buy one. It's similar than in the real life, when you want to secure your funds at home. You should buy a safe box to protect the funds or install an alarm system, etc... Rule of thumb in connection with the security: Spend the 10% of the saving to buy/install security solutions to be on the safe side... |
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Is this a bug ? This user has more than enough merits and activity to be a legendary member but his current rank is still hero member. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=558519That user I linked above was just one of them I think there's more of them who have 1000 merits and 770+ activity who aren't legendary. : Legendary: random in the range 775-1030 This user has only 868 activity. He can become a Legendary in the next period or maybe only at the 1022 activity mark. He got 1000 merits by default because theymos thought it was not fair to only give 500 merits to Hero Members who were in the 775-1030 range and could become Legendary at any time. It seems interesting Was it a one time action, (to give the 500 additional merits to those who has reached the 775 activity these days), or it will continue? If it was a one time thing, I would really miss that 1 activity period that made me miss this chance... But that's life It was a one time thing to accommodate those who had already reached enough activity points to become legendary at the implementation time of the merit system. You were a couple of activity periods away from the 775 activity limit at the time. Thanks for the heads up, I've checked it, so the couple of activity periods needed were actually 2 I feel much better now, thanks  Anyway, life goes on On the other hand, I'm happy that this solution can help to reduce the amount of the spam on the forum, so I won't need to skip nearly every second newbie and Jr. post on a page to find quality answers... |
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This is a good news for Europe.
But I don't quite understand why they do it, they see big opportunities in what exactly? It is quite unclear at least for me.
In Indonesia there is no bank that officially supported buying or selling cryptos, we used a third party (exchanger, to be exact) to buy and sell crypto. After that, we exchange it with fiat currency and then transfer the money to our own bank account. Because there is no strict regulation on cryptos (Indonesia's government are "learning" about blockchain tech they said, at the same time there is a plan to launch Rupiah crypto with a flat value just like Indonesian fiat currency), this practice is still on going till today.
Opportunities to attract new customers. It's the same reason Overstock enabled bitcoin back in 2014 - they were losing their competition with Amazon.com, and used bitcoin to gain publicity and get new customers. It worked, loads of bitcoiners who hadn't even heard of Overstock signed up and bought stuff from them. Banks are working on a very competitive market. They're 'only' dealing with money, they're not producing anything that can be labelled differently etc., they just doing nearly the same service to customers to let them use their money. If you think about how you choose a bank, what's your first thought? The logo, the color of the bank, the stories you've heared from other people about that bank? Do you think about any 'product' of the bank? Not really, because you can open a bank account at every bank, and every bank charges you a fee if you use their services. No difference. Only the marketing and the trust that can make difference... If you're an old and big bank like Barclays, you have the trust, you are not forced to overuse marketing. If you are a smaller bank and want to grow bigger, you have to make yourself different. If the basic services are the same at every bank, what can you do to catch the attention of the customers? Doing something special, to make them think about you (the small but special bank) at first thought if they hear the word e.g. bitcoin in this case of Fidor. Do you know a bank that's friendly with bitcoin? Now you know, and that little bank has made itself different, which can help them to acquire a lot of new customers who are interested in bitcoin. (And that can help them making more profit, and the possibility to grow). |
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I know that the post above is an aswer in a 7 year old thread (seems that the poster is beating the dead horse or necroposting), but after I have read the old posts from 2011, it seems that the idea in the thread (sendig coins thru hops (nodes) in a network) is similar (at least a bit) to the Lightning Network which is under development now. I also read somewhere that Satoshi was also thinking about a solution similar to the LN, so I'm just amazed that those peple were just thinking about increasing the privacy of the bitcoin network (or just add another network to increase it) and it's really similar to LN.
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Thanks guy.
Problem is I have had 7 emails since! 4 are closed down emails.
All I can do is go on every single site register every email address I have had and if I don’t get an error saying email already being used means it’s not that email.
I ment I sold some supplements to someone from the states. He asked me can he pay via coin so I followed his instructions to open a coin account and so on. Don’t have the guys email anymore.
I can remember like after a week of him sending me the money it dropped down to £0 so I thought wtf been hacked and just left it! Never signed back in. But even if the coin went to £0 it would of went back up once value of coin went up?
It's strange for me that the money (balance) has dropped to Ł0... Are you sure that the guy had not asked you to send him some key (not the public but the private), because you wrote that you were following his instructions. In that case he was able to empty the bitcoin address after a week, so it smells like a scam, or at least similar... Hope you'll have luck and can work out a solution for yourself! At least, you'll learn a lot about bitcoin, and later that knowledge will worth more that those old coins... |
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