I won't change my wallet because the development team has not got it act sorted out in dealing with fees
and if they don't fix it before May then it might not be a problem anymore because BTC could well crash
so the transaction rate will be near zero like our fees use to be.

Also I like all my data on the block-chain so forget Lighting with its "Off-Block" banks they want to Hubs that charge
fees on top of the miners $25 transaction costs.

The miners will vote for anything that makes them more money and so developers pretend that
miners won't like Lightning Network but they will love it with it's mini banks the development team
likes to call hubs "That will charge a small fee" because I still remember read a white paper that said
"Virtually free transaction fess" so that one won't wash again.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpfvhiqFw7A and jump towards the end

Well is i am sure you know already when not opening threads and removing comments but reading them instead that
Lightning (LN) with its hubs/banks is using a degree of centralization so that old cherry won't work no more and LN takes
data "of-Block" so we may as well throw Block-Chain in the bin instead of making out it's the best thing ever designed by
man.

Yes you can undo the damage of big blocks by restructuring the data and is something called a data migration
but the BTC developers are getting rich pretending we are running out of space, disk space is worth $25 to store
a mere 250 bytes and they kind of like the introduction of banks that are trying to call hubs in LN

Maybe the development team needs to go back to school and learn what distributed computing is all about because clearly
the development team have dropped the ball and they are going about the fix in the wrong way entirely.

"But centralization can kill Bitcoin"

Fees are killing Bitcoin and we are getting some centralization anyway so why not patch for now and do the job
right using block-matrix or is that getting in the way of profits for them.

As a quick fix for crazy high fees playing with block size and timing might increase
Bitcoin from 7 TPS per second to maybe 15 TPS like it has done for ETH but its just a quick fix
but my code will sort out the 19,000 miners that we don't need anymore

public static money MaxFee=1.50 // only need 1,000 miners and then they can then earn fair days pay for fair days work.

Longer term the block-chain needs to scale and if it's so good like they have been saying
for years then why would they now be telling us that "Off-Block" is the way to go.

The development team are not loyal to us so why should I be loyal to them and its not like they
didn't know nine years ago that the block-chain as implemented would never scale, it was always
a hack job from the start and now they are milking it and this could result in a total crash

Three reasons for the drop

1. Bubble
2. Fees
3. Won't scale

I am not waiting around for the development to fix it and have a stop-loss at $10,000
and I have looked at Lightning and can only see speeds going up a little and they way
they describe the benefits is like saying that a push bike can do 120mph but forgetting to say
"But only if you throw it off a cliff"

Hubs charge fees and are mini banks and could well force costs upwards
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpfvhiqFw7A and hear what he says
towards the end.

 

I think Berkeley-DB for the file format has been dumped and they now use LevelDB that is something
that Google started but getting a copy that will compile and works in MS-Dot.Net is no easy task

Thanks for the link, will check it out and i was using block.dat when searching so maybe blk0000.dat
will do the trick.

Won't use MySQL because you have to deploy dlls and I tend to use data-tables and I just save as XML (With -Schema)
for things like indexes which work nice and fast I find up to about a million rows of data but then Microsoft
starts falling to bits so i sort of use a derived version of a data-table that's been tested and works real fast
with 2 millions rows in a table and saves as simple CSV to reduce all the XML tags from read/write to file streams.

Chances are LevelDB will blow both me and Microsoft out the window when it comes to speed so
maybe I will just stick with that, who knows but thanks for the help

 

It's too much data in the block-chain without using a decentralized system or nodes with BTC no mater what way they cut the cake

And we have got Peer to Peer Parking here plus my new "Censorship" token but if we keep this up we will
have so many token that not only will there be not need for money but we won't need Bitcoin

Sorry to the ten other good coins posting in this thread but correct me if I am wrong but could I be
forgiven for calling you black birds and trying to empty the nest of original eggs ?

Bitcoin is fantastic , buy our coin, buy our coin 

 

No i did the calculations and to match Tulip Mania it will need to stop (Sit down for this) at $200,000
in today's prices and to reach your number we would need 15 X the number of miners we have today so that's
300,000 and they will all be running quantum computers to play computer wars that need super
cooling so all we need to do is drag the sun down to the earth to feed our power stations.

Yeah oil one day will be $5,000 per gallon but Tulips are assets, like oil, digits are not

 

New Gold 

Computer digits are not worth much and Crypto-Kitties even come with a nice smile
and we can add code to cull the numbers of cats if they breed to much to make them
valuable digits.

"Safe Haven" you do make me smile or have you forgotten the recent 30% price drop
and loss of market share to other coins that are safer, faster and transaction fees of zero
to what we are paying here.

We are gambling just like they were with Tulips but I am sure Amsterdam will still
produce flowers but they won't be selling for $13,000 and the profit gains will fall back
to a more modest number.

I know it will never happen, don't even know why i say this but try some self discipline
and put a stop-loss on BTC at $10,000 just to ensure you don't end up with nothing




Please remove that "B" thing that looks like a fat cat banker with a top hat and short legs
and replace it with a nice 1oz silver eagle because that is what you call real money, gods
money if you like

You can see it falling when you look at the transaction numbers for

BTC, ETH, Ripple

With all the forks this 21m numbers keeps doubling and Ripple has a crazy fixed number at 100bn
total and this coin cannot be forked because it's more private.

Well if you divide 100bn by 21m you get something like 4700 (top of my head) and
if you times XRP price of say $2.00 by 4700 then it comes out to $9,400 which is lower
than BTC price today but not by much.

I would say we have three crazy numbers here if you include BTC transaction fees and new
government regulations will push Ripple up unless we get our act sorted out or else it will be
set and match to the bankers

Nice code friend and I did a hatchet job on the code but it does not work on the block.dat
I am using because I think it's been change over these days to use Berkeley-DB format
for the files but useful code none the less and well written

See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2748620.new#new

Small, simple and easy to follow and is a good starting point for anyone going down this road

So if I buy a car and it's useless then I must not warn other people not to buy one before I have
managed to sell it !

I will tell you who is "shit in your invest" and it's the development team and miners and that
is why the price is down so us "Investors" or should I say gamblers have every right to shout
at board meeting.

"let it grow" I have not seen any of that since fees went silly and if we don't house
clean then it will rub off on all the other coins too so what does that say to you about your
future earning prospect ?

I was hoping the hash was just the previous hash added to a hash of all the data below the header for the block

Nothing is easy with bitcoin but it's good to see you know your stuff so i will bookmark the post and thanks

ShapeShift has some easy to use REST API's and you can pass it an address and say
what type of coin that you think it is and it will return invalid if it is wrong.

Url looks something like https://ShapeShift.io/API/ValidAddress/BTC/abcdefg12345.............

Well that's the lazy mans way of testing but should work fine from Java-script

Nice so did you do it from windows or Linux without using a wrapper around someones
mega-big API or running a full-node and using RPC ?

I am trying to code this myself to read block.dat from several  types of forked BC  from Bitcoin
so I need to go back to raw files I think and then see what happens after a fork date to the data
so off the shelf API's won't help me out.

Will be interesting to see who has money in the forks and are not using it

it says "In order to use bitcoinquery you need a Bitcoind RPC server"

I want to do it from windows without running a full node and doing RPC to the local node
See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2748620.new#new
Looks like i need some form of Berkeley-DB to run in windows to read Block.dat files that is not so easy to come
by in windows and yes I know it's all spyware

Will upload if i get anything working that should sum all balances (I hope)
but it will be windows based

Everything when dealing with Bitcoin seems hard work to me and is over complicated
especially using windows but not only do I want to parse BTC Block chain but also forks
like Bit-Cash, Bit-Gold and even the B2X if it gets started.

The data in these "Block.dat" files is not raw text anymore and I don't want to use NBitcoin or RPC to localhost node
because that won't work on several forked coins but it seems like i need to read the files using
Berkeley-DB format which does not compile for me so does anyone know where I can download a Berkeley-DB Dll that
will work in VS .Net or any short cuts using .NET file streams

I think i will be OK reading the header, transaction with input/outputs if I can just get the plain
text to parse it.

All the on-line REST APIs are very easy to use but it's slow and won't suite this job

I like Exodus myself but if you import private keys then they do a sweep of the old account to
move all the money to the new public key for the coins and I understand why they do this
but they should make it more obvious because for BTC it could cost you a fortune due to fees.

My top walled is Jaxx but that has a security issue so best to run it from it's own MicrosSD card
on a phone using Android if you can

Both wallets do ShapeShift plus I use "Toast" on a phone to store Ripple so what makes you say
exodus is bad ?

Was your comment pointed towards me because if so then I would have to ask if it's "Hate Speech" and if it's fine for people here
to keep plugging BTC and making out that everyone is stupid then it must also be fine to say the obvious because I don't make
a habit of having to debate with one hand tied behind my back

Regards Anit-Censorship