I have the same problem. https://www.semux.org/assets/bitcoin/summary.json does not seem do be updated with my signatures either.

Waiting for news on this.

The main problem is that ICOs are unregulated and most data can be easily manipulated.

Everything is fine. It is just a scheduled maintenance.

BTCD rising quiet a bit. I guess that is a good sign for KMD investors. Might also be related to the ZEC uptick.

Thanks for the successful campaign!

Although I got some problems initially, everything was sorted out in the end. I think it was overall well managed and executed.

I was removed from the spreadsheet. I fulfilled all requirements throughout the campaign and was ensured to get paid in the end as you assured me above. I knew something was off when I stayed pending in the spreadsheet for weeks. Luckily I got a confirmation from you in above quote.

Why was I removed from the spreadsheet? Please put me back on the spreadsheet as accepted asap and reconfirm that I will get enumerated.

If the blockchain is down than the coin is officially dead. There is also no way to revive really in a trustworthy way as anyone can easily execute a 51% attack. So your balance is irrelevant at this point as; besides being unusable anyone could fake it.

Hi, please update me in the google spread sheet from "pending" to "accepted". I got my 25 posts and are still waiting for the spreadsheet to update. I would like to get this off my list of things to worry about.

OP can you please update my status from pending to accepted in the google spreadsheet. I now got my 25 posts.

The advantage of trading with such small amounts is that you will find buyers / sellers fast and make transactions quickly. For much larger sume that can become a problem, which is why many whales having a hard time to profit in the altcoin market sub 10$ million market caps.

What is true however is that for every altcoin increasing in value, there is another falling. The only trend of the altcoin market is what share altcoins have compared to BTC. That is currently at 83.6%:
https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/#btc-percentage

You can always make profit if you pick exactly the alts that go up while avoiding the alts that go down. Very similar to the stock market, but hard to achieve.

I think we should give this guy a chance and proof him wrong.


You are saying that you would wait for 6 confirmations and then send the private key. However, anyone could just pretend to own the private key while the network cannot verify that you own the private key. This means that it did not matter how many confirmations you have waited as your transactions only becomes worthy once it can be verified (in your case once your private key is revealed).
As such, problems arise which others have described.

Scenario 1:
Mallory sends 1 BTC from Alice address. Mallory is an attacker and actually do not control Alice address (private key) but I can still make the transaction as the pub key is visible e.g. base64decode address. After 6 confirmations Mallory is doing nothing. I suppose in your example you would probably state that the transaction becomes invalid after e.g. 12 transactions without revealing the pubkey, which is fine - no funds are lost for Alice in this example, but way lay the groundwork for the next.

Scenario 2:
Alice sends 1 BTC to Bob (Transaction 1). Transaction 2: Mallory impersonates Alice (can be easily done as per Scenario 1) and send 1 BTC to himself. After 6 confirmations Alice reveals her private key. Meanwhile Mallory established a Man-In-The-Middle between Alice and himself. Mallory does not forward the private key to the network for Transaction 1, instead Mallory will forward the private key of Alice to the network for Transaction 2. Since there is no signing in you scheme this can easily be done. Mallory will continue to block Alice until e.g. 12 transactions as per Scenario 1. After this point all funds are forever lost for Alice.

I am also not aware of this. If this is true than I think a lot of Rootstock supporters would change their minds on the project. Can you please add a source?

I think it will happen in the next 15 years. I think bitcoin needs to achieve the following goals for it to happen:

• Throughput that scales and that can exceeds Visa transactions
• Better anonymity
• Low cost per transaction probably less than 0.02$
• Quantum computer resistant
• Mining solution for Bitcoin going forward without block reward

To be honest. With Rootstock making such steep progress recently I wonder what benefits Ethereum will offer in the future. There seems to be a lot of support recently for rootstock and it is not an altcoin but builds directly on Bitcoin: https://twitter.com/slushcz/status/795744821717692416

I actually see a bit of an advantage for Rootstock as Bitcoin has more users and Bitcoin does not need to hard-fork if Rootstock is being attacked.

As per proof-of-work: Miners will need to find a hash which contains the right amount of zeros to match the difficulty. If a miner found the right hash in time but it does not match the hex number that he placed the bet one, than he can choose to not submit the block and instead continues to search for a different nonce/hash. This will likely take him on average twice as long and even then there is still a 15/16 chance that if he found a new hash that it is still not the hex number that he placed the bet on. However, meanwhile the miner risks that someone else finds the correct hash - so he is risking his block reward doing this.

The odds are entirely different if the house allows to place bets exactly until the block is announced. In this case the miner could just place a bet before announcing the block to the network. However, it is unlikely that the house would allow these last-minute bets.

Well, this is where things seem to be going with more and more big mining companies with large upfront investment moving into the market. Somewhat the same with the internet. Look at the small players that rent cloud space - they have a very hard time to compete with the prices of larger companies. The same thing is happening in bitcoin. There are also the advantages of this. A few weeks ago bitcoin was said to be decreasing in hashing power because of the halving. This is a great investment in further supporting the network from attackers.

While centralisation seems to be a problem when this goes live by driving up difficulty. This may then also lead to a general higher costs of mining which may increase the price further and which then may make mining more lucrative. This being a free market more big players could move into mining.

If the majority of the transactions are not anonymous than this is quite bad for the coin. The default should be anonymous transaction such that even non-technical users receive the full benefit of this technology. I hope the zcash team will fix this in the future.

The most popular ones are Ethereum and Litecoin because :
- they have been consistently popular by volume and market cap
- they have the widest support from wallets and exchanges

The are potential upcoming heavyweights like Monero, ZCash or Dash which all try to capture the anonymity share of the market.

I think that Bitcoins share in non-fiat holding is increasing faster than Golds. This is especially true in recent months given the price increases in bitcoin. Also it is seemingly becoming increasingly popular in china while there is little news about gold.