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1  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: 10 VPN Services Providers That Accept Bitcoin on: April 07, 2017, 09:03:11 AM
VPN makes us untraceable
No it doesn't. Don't lull yourself into a false sense of security.
Why sir? If you use a VPN it will hide your location and if you're just doing it for gambling purposes then it can make you untraceable and  you can access the site using VPN. I think that what VPN's for to hide your location

Well it stops your ISP/your employer/somebody on your local network from snooping through your traffic, but you're just moving the problem somewhere else.
Instead of your ISP or whoever looking at your traffic, you have to worry about the VPN provider or the VPN provider's ISP looking at the traffic instead.
Additionally I don't see what gambling has to do with anything  Huh
2  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Unlimited v/s SegWit on: April 06, 2017, 07:51:18 PM

Our payment gateway GoUrl.io will support "Bitcoin Unlimited".

As we wrote in other topic, "Gourl.io Bitcoin Gateway pays $500-600 per day as transaction fees for forwarding payments to our customers. It is expensive!"

Segregated Witness is not good solution ...



I wonder how you manage to pay $500-600 per day on tx fees if nobody actually uses your service  Roll Eyes
3  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: "Bitcoin" Unlimited Officially #REKT on: April 06, 2017, 02:34:00 PM
I love youre firework pic Icebreaker, i always knew someday this disgusting hostile take over will end like that.


Yep, I wish they'd fork off into ChinaCoin to leave our precious chain alone.
4  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: 10 VPN Services Providers That Accept Bitcoin on: April 06, 2017, 02:30:20 PM
VPN makes us untraceable
No it doesn't. Don't lull yourself into a false sense of security.
5  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Raspberry pi 3 using 5v 2.1amp power for mining on: April 06, 2017, 12:39:06 PM
Do you suggest any good usb miners? Thanks a lot.  Smiley
Have a look at sidehack's usb miners. They seem like the only modern/up to date USB miners.
Don't bother with an erupter unless you're getting one for novelty value, you'd be lucky to find a satoshi per year  Cheesy

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the reply. Do you have a link for the sidehacks usb miners?
Also what is the difference between usb miners vs erupter? Sorry super noob.

Thanks

The block erupter is just a USB miner. It's really old and the only reason to buy one is as a museum piece Wink
As for sidehack's miners, he has multiple so here's a link to all of the threads he's started.
6  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Well, well, well, now we know what Jihan Wu’s been up to. on: April 06, 2017, 11:54:55 AM
Hope he gets his ass sued off.
I hate Jihan as much as you, but under what grounds can you sue him? That sounds a bit absurd.
7  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: lending on poloniex and bitfinex on: April 06, 2017, 11:34:01 AM
Also, I suggest installing anti-key logger, PAID one, not some free or cracked shit.
Or you could replace your proprietary operating system with only free, libre and open source software Wink
That way the code can be publicly audited and proven that it's not going to send your Poloniex password or whatever pictures you keep of your girlfriend to scary Russian hackers.
8  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Erik Voorhees: SegWit should be activated on: April 05, 2017, 09:07:57 PM
Erik Voorhees: SegWit should be activated, the sooner the better, and I'll support any plan that moves it forward.

My only hope is that we get over this the sooner which is also better for the community. If this drags for too long, many investors will try to look for other altcoins and people will be less interested to BTC because of the problems we are experiencing right now. It is inevitable that BTC will implement BU or Segwit. We need to move forward and progress with the correct technology to come up with a solution. Currently at coin dance, BU has 37.9% and SegWit has 32.4% pool support (last 1000 blocks).

Why nodecounter shows different numbers? I think nodecounter is pro BU.
Look at the "public service announcement" you get for /r/BTC upon opening nodecounter. Of course they're pro VerCoin.
9  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Erik Voorhees: SegWit should be activated on: April 05, 2017, 04:34:25 PM
SegWit can revitalize Bitcoin while Bitcoin Unlimited can only create another wall between users.
You don't believe it? Just check up what is happening to Litecoin, they are on a brink of SegWit's activation.
The price of LTC is soaring, media attention is higher than ever and community is positively thrilled.

http://litecoinblockhalf.com/segwit.php Litecoin is only ~6% away from a major breakthrough.



Funny, because Litecoin blocks are nowhere near full.  Also, they lowered the activation threshold to 75%, so we'll see if that causes pain on activation. I predict that some subtle bugs will appear shortly after activation. Then we can thank our lucky stars that the miners are vetoing Segfault.

What a sh*tshow it will be if Litecoin has to roll back Segwit...

Segwit is already live on the Bitcoin testnet.
Even some LN payments are going through Wink
Don't be so pessimistic.
10  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Class action lawsuit for Poloniex on: April 05, 2017, 03:38:25 PM
I've noticed that Poloniex isn't as responsive as it should be, but I don't think they're malicious.
The site must be under a ton of load with all of the trading bots, lending bots, people reading the trollbox etc. In my opinion they're doing quite a good job to keep it online at all.
11  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Initial Coin Offering for political party, would you support it? on: April 05, 2017, 03:22:32 PM
I doubt anyone will have influence under this system except the one who has access to the money. All donations will be anonymous so even when the party comes into power, there is no way to reward the biggest donors an Politics is all about having influence through donations.

While I would support something like this, the issue you raised is actually one of the problems. In the current political donation scheme, donors are clearly identified most of the time, unless the donations are really tiny (even then, the names are recorded, it's just easier to put a random name on a 5 dollar political donation, rather than a 20k one). This would actually be a decent use case for a smart contract like Slock.it would have been; you could vote by holding coins. This raises yet another problem. Is it OK to allow the biggest donor to have the most influence over.the voting process? And what if a rival party corners the market on the coin, to influence votes?

Pseudoanonymity is a double edged sword. There's nothing really stopping anyone creating tonnes of names/addresses and donating under that.
12  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why I support Bitcoin Unlimited and hate the wizard alien overlords on: April 04, 2017, 03:52:17 PM
Roger Ver also an extremely trustworthy and upstanding citizen. I was a large customer of his, and he always delivered the explosives that I bought off him on eBay and counterfeit cisco hardware that he also sold to the US government on time and provided excellent customer support when he was an admin at blockchain.info wallet, and was nice enough to publicly post a blockchain users full name, address, phone number, wallet URL and wallet secret answer publicly on bitcointalk so that they won't forget them.

Yeah I agree here, Ver is a great guy.
His video on MtGox showed me how trustworthy he is.
13  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Help! I am new I think i used the wrong receiving address!! on: April 04, 2017, 10:51:21 AM
Thank you so much AngryDwarf, I feel like a weight has been lifted!

One last question though, how long did it take Bitcoin Core to finish synchronizing for you? It says for me it will take 40 hours... I just really want to purchase something now!!
Bitcoin Core took a few days for me. You only need to wait through that once though, as the blockchain is saved to your computer. If you stop it, wait a while and open it again, you'll only have to download the blocks you missed.
14  Other / MultiBit / Re: multibit hd sending forever on: April 04, 2017, 10:20:24 AM
Thank you. I submitted my transaction id to them. Can you give an idea how many hours is the average transaction of a 100 dollars and how much fee should be? Thanks
The value of the transaction doesn't matter, only the satoshis per byte.

You can have a look at the average confirmation time for varying satoshis/byte on https://bitcoinfees.21.co/

You paid just over 26 sats per byte, which could take anywhere between 35 and 1260 minutes.
15  Other / Meta / Re: New posting bot on: April 04, 2017, 10:14:12 AM
Talk is cheap, show us the code
Sure thing. These things are really old, people used them to spam newsgroups and stuff, so they're easy enough to find on the internet.

I made a really small corpus from a few posts from the last couple of pages from this thread and got this:

Quote
Wise, they will quickly get devalued and people cant spam anymore.
Quote
Suffice at least theyre not being too lazy well thats why members looking and striving for power should do something similar by changing a word
Quote
If the spammers to a moderators position too many bans for too little effort and severely damage the forum reputation as well
Quote
He is modifying your own posts above?

Here's the code I used, it was on the first page of Google Smiley

Code:
#!/usr/bin/env python2
import random
import re

FORBIDDEN = '[]()"\''
TRUNC = re.compile('([!?.]+).*')

class Markov:
    def __init__(self, data=None, order=3):
        self.chains = {}
        self.order = order
        if data:
            self.add(data)

    def add(self, data):
        data = ' '.join(data.lower().split())
        for x in FORBIDDEN:
            data = data.replace(x, '')
        for i in range(len(data)):
            key = data[i:i+self.order-1]
            val = data[i+self.order-1:i+self.order]
            if key not in self.chains:
                self.chains[key] = []
            self.chains[key].append(val)
        return self

    def generate(self, max_length=140):
        try:
            current = random.choice(self.chains.keys())
            length = 0
            generated = []
            while length < max_length:
                last = current
                current = random.choice(self.chains.get(last, ['']))
                generated.append(current)
                length += len(current)
                if any([x in current for x in '!.?']) or not current:
                    break
                current = (last + current)[1:]
            return TRUNC.sub(
                lambda m: m.group(1),
                ''.join(generated).strip().title().capitalize()
            )
        except:
            return ''

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys
    print Markov(
        unicode(sys.stdin.read(), 'utf-8'),
        order=int(sys.argv[1])
    ).generate()
16  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Erik Voorhees: SegWit should be activated on: April 04, 2017, 09:54:12 AM
>90% Core full nodes
it will be hard to explain that in fact 90% support BU
Actually miners are still supporting unlimited.

That's why he said nodes instead of miners  Roll Eyes
17  Other / MultiBit / Re: multibit hd sending forever on: April 04, 2017, 09:50:44 AM
Thank you. What should i do with the transaction id? What is the viabtc. I clicked it but i got paranoid that it has a malware so im scanning now. I hope you understand that i have to be paranoid on this site. About my transaction. It happened also to me using multibit classic thats why i changed to multibit hd.  But at multibit classic, i just use the tool, reset blockchain and transactions a few times then it continues processing. I was fed up that it always happen thats why i tried to use hd. I/m not sure if the fee is zero by default because i checked the details of the transactions


 
amount including fees  -0.0699
 
amount including fees USD -79.20

the transaction fees is n/a.


Transaction fee rate sat/byte - n/a



seen by 11 peers



Here is from blockchain.info

Summary
Size   372 (bytes)
Received Time   2017-04-03 19:08:33
Relayed by IP   5.44.97.110 (whois)
Visualize   View Tree Chart
Inputs and Outputs
Total Input   0.07076154 BTC
Total Output   0.07066154 BTC
Fees   0.0001 BTC
Fee per byte   26.882 sat/B
Estimated BTC Transacted   0.0698 BTC

Don't worry, it's not malware. They're a mining pool.
When you submit a transaction id to them, they'll include it in the next block they mine. I think it's just a service for people that have entered the wrong fee or are impatient Smiley
18  Other / Meta / Re: New posting bot on: April 04, 2017, 09:35:58 AM
I am not really sure if this is a very smart bot, or just a lazy man copying others' posts. Whichever case it is, it is against the forum rules.
To be honest it wouldn't take a very smart bot. You could build a markov chain on a ton of posts from the site and it'd spit out posts that made sense.
19  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Inviting reasoned and civil criticism of my big-block position please? on: April 04, 2017, 09:07:13 AM
Would you elaborate please what you mean by 'it doesn't scale'?
The time taken to process a block doesn't increase linearly with the size, it's quadratic.
If you double the blocksize, you multiply the time taken to process it by 4.
It gets very slow very quickly.
Thank you. I appreciate the simplicity in the what you say  - and if this is true because of something that could be addressed such that it isn't the case, then it is what I was referring to - which, for some reason, doesn't appear to be on the wiki list of big-block objections.

But apart from the possibility that this can be somehow addressed, given hashing difficulty will adjust to accommodate increases in time, is the problem with 'time taken to process by 4'  that it becomes a race, not just of hashing power, but of the processing required before hashing can commence? Could you link me to a reference that discusses this matter (preferably one where counterarguments can also be voiced and considered).
Sorry I didn't mean that it takes 4 times longer to mine. I mean when a block propagates through the network, every node needs to download, verify and then save it. The verification part is what takes longer (and also I suppose downloading and writing the block to disk would take longer too).
20  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: lending on poloniex and bitfinex on: April 04, 2017, 08:46:42 AM
Is lending worth the risk though? Never done it, but might be interested.
I can't speak for Bitfinex but the only risk on Poloniex is the exchange getting hacked and somebody taking all of the coins.
Ignoring that, the risk is nonexistent. That's why the rates are so low.
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