Been searching and I cannot find an answer - I've sent 7 transactions of Hush of different sizes to Barterdex and no matter what I cannot make a trade and my inventory (not balance) says 0 - cannot split anything further. What am I doing wrong?

I sent one single transaction of BTCH and I'm able to see that on my inventory.

With the current state of bitcoin because basically unusable as a real currency, which altcoins (could) fit these criteria?

-scalable, continued usability and experience if the economy becomes massive (billions in market cap/transactions) - unlikely to have pending transaction backlog
-low friction transactions: continued low transaction fees regardless of price
-micro-transactions feasible regardless of price
-little to no useless coins due to complexity of transaction causing transaction fees to be greater than the value held, regardless of price
-environmentally/economically friendly for whatever mechanism generates coins (low energy usage) - maybe no 'proof of work' currencies.

Basically, if I want to tell customers to use a currency to buy a $1 cup of coffee that they can continue to use for that purpose in perpetuity, what currency should they use? Because it certainly isn't Bitcoin, and potentially wouldn't be any forks of it either

This is all regardless of current popularity/development of a coin - just which ones could fit that criteria should they become as popular as Bitcoin is now.

I see a lot of people saying this will correct and the currency will return to 'normal'

What is the 'normal' it will return to? Will transaction wait times go back to one block? Will fees shrink or ever go back to being able to transact feeless?

Will this currency ever be used like a currency again? Will I ever be able to make microtransactions? Will I ever be able to send transactions with many small inputs? Will I ever be able to buy a cup of coffee with bitcoin? What's the point of this "currency" any more?

People are seriously comparing btc transactions to Western Union now saying that $10 fees aren't that bad. This is not the bitcoin world I came to circa 2012.

It doesn't seem to see the inputs unless I'm missing something.
I think this is probably right, unfortunately:

Which would make sense since I have no idea where this transaction came from.

Is there a chance though that this is just an 'orphaned transaction'? (Not a transaction in an orphaned block)
I can't seem to find a lot of info about those since it's hard to filter out the posts about blocks.

Either way as this (probably?) doesn't have any fees with it and since it is old and no other nodes I've checked see it, should I run as my own full node and rebroadcast and attempt to CPFP? I'm not quite familiar with this stuff, but if this was a valid transaction and the funds are still sitting there this seems like the only option, yes?

Receiving address is 1BAGeeR428SMRqGyXrsXzAYiFWC7SuK21Y txid is 623c4c933a0a0f93567bfaa60181f9df4e2e995a505bea9891d9e012edbce7c5
amount sent was exactly 1BTC

So I tried blockexplorer and it returned an error: "Missing inputs. Code:-25
blockchain.info gives me "missing parents for <tx> while inserting: <other number?>

Could it be that this was spent from another unconfirmed transaction and since that one didn't confirm this one wouldn't show up? Or for some other reason was pruned by the network?

I did that and it showed 0 balance. I already know that the network doesn't seem to see this transaction. So where did this unconfirmed transaction come from on my client's end?

In going through some old backups I found an old bitcoin wallet.dat file and decided to download Bitcoin Core to load it and see if anything was in it, or to just see if there were old transactions listed that I could daydream about having now

Opened the file, and oddly there was a pending received transaction from December 2013 that is sitting unconfirmed. This transaction showed up immediately before I downloaded any of the blockchain yet (waiting on that to finish, estimated time ~week...)
If I search the received address or the transaction ID I find nothing.
Also, I have no recollection of where this transaction could have come from and have not used that receiving address for anything else.

Couple questions:

-If this isn't showing up anywhere (blockchain.info, for example) where did it come from? Could it be an intentional double-spend just to mess with me?
-can this transaction be rebroadcasted if the network has no record of it?
-do I need to have the entire blockchain downloaded to get my client to rebroadcast this transaction?

It seems like every few years when BTC is going up in price consistently China makes some sort of vague threat and the price crashes. Screams of attempts at price manipulation. I'm sure there's some insiders in the Chinese government making a lot of money off this.

Seriously, do people really think this coin for a video game is worth a market cap of $20mil+? Am I missing something?

lol @ the anti-logic of ETC holders. Yes, a massive sell-off will cause the price to skyrocket, because that has happened ever in a market before...

Very much, yes.

Some people are really trying to make a killing with ETC before it dies. I definitely will not be falling for that trap.
For most of us, it doesn't really matter if it is ETH or ETC. Moving on in the chain the only real difference is that there is a huge threat of a dump of ETC by whoever siphoned the DAO. As a speculator only, it would be incredibly stupid to push for the smaller guy with a big whale waiting to sell.
Now, if you're only goal is some kind of Ethereum purity and standard, then yeah, ETC is your guy. But don't expect to make any money holding onto it now.

also conflating units of physical measurement with currency, units as placeholders for valuation as a medium of exchange, is completely irrational. The comparison just doesn't work.
you can say a gram is a certain number of atoms. That is objectively true. There is no such thing as objective value, so you can't measure a constantly defined unit of value. You're just confused.

So under your definition pretty much every major economy is operating on something that is not a currency. The US dollar doesn't fit your definition. It is a completely silly argument.
'Unit' defined for currencies IS an abstract. You're conflating the constant of the abstract unit with a constant of physical unit. 1 Dollar is 100 cents. Dollar is the unit, cents are fractions of that unit. 1 Bitcoin, it is a unit that can fractionally be used down to .00000001. It is defined.
The value of the unit is not constant under ANY currency system.
In fact, I would argue that bitcoin fits the definition of currency better than the US dollar because it has greater definition. The monetary base in the US is indeterminate in the future, yet the path of bitcoins being introduced to the economy is definite.

I'm pretty sure you're just trolling, but I thought I'd say something just in case someone was taking you seriously.

I'm stupidly panic buying 

Matthew had already posted his payment address if he won the bet, and I'm sure many would have just paid what they owed to that address if pirate did start paying back - this right here makes Matthew the biggest piece of shit on the forums. No way in hell would I believe for a second that he would turn down 10,000BTC if he had won the bet.

His parsing of his own initial bet agreement to turn it into a 'joke' doesn't make any sense. It is perfectly clear that the '20BTC bet' was a reference to the bet format, not to the 'bet' as defined before the example. There is no reason to believe otherwise and no reading of it makes any other sense. If this were a legally binding document there's no way he'd get away with not paying as a plain reading of the agreement is very clear. This was a retroactive 'joke' for sure. He may have played it off as a 'joke' to some people beforehand to cover his bases.

I don't even have any investment in this bullshit as I didn't participate. I don't feel so bad for the people who lost money with pirate as the whole idea of his 'investment' was laughably unrealistic and obviously a scam from the beginning. But an established member posting a legit bet in the 'gambling' forum (not off-topic or other place, but a forum strictly for placing bets and gambling, which Matthew now claims was NOT the case from the beginning) and reneging on his part of the deal makes this one of the shittiest things to happen around these parts since this community started.

No - I understand that, but I'm wondering where the bitcoin price is. How do I know how much BTC I'm getting before I complete the transaction? Because effectively I got a ~4.4% less in BTC than I put in based on mtgox's prices. So for Dwolla>BTC, where does the BTC price come from?

so, I used this service for the first time to transfer Dwolla>bitcoin address. It is an extremely useful service, however, it was a bit confusing. Maybe I was totally missing it, but I was not quoted how much bitcoin I was going to get - only the dollar amount after fees.

The BTC I received amounted to $6.546 after fees. Where did this number come from? MtGox hasn't been that high in a while - 24hr average is $6.4, 2 day is $6.35, 7 day is $6.5. I don't have much of an issue with it being more expensive - but the rate should be stated *somewhere* rather than just buying blind. If I had received $7 coins, what recourse do I have to say I was cheated?

Anyways, I will be looking forward to trying out more of this service including the cash service, which seems super convenient. The bitcoins arrived within a couple minutes, which is awesome considering the delays lately from dwolla>mtgox.

dang, there's actually a lot of good stuff on there...