This will be a very small percentage indeed. The equivalent of dipping a toe in the water to check the temperature.

Bitcoin Client Software and Version Number:

- Bitcoin Core Version v0.16.0

Operating System:

- Computer #1: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
- Computer #2: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit

System Hardware Specs:

- Computer #1:
   - CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 3.2GHz
   - RAM: 16GB
   - Hard Drive: Samsung 500GB SSD, used space 370GB, free space 95GB

- Computer #2:
   - CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz
   - RAM: 8GB
   - Hard Drive: 1TB, used space 770GB, free space 160GB

Description of Problem:

- Computer #1: Hard Drive ended up with corrupt sector after a restart, some programs and files missing, Bitcoin Core would no longer start, giving error below inside quotation marks:

 "Assertion failed!

  Program: C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe
  File: chain.cpp, Line 102

  Expression: pindexWalk->pprev"

- Computer #1: Recovered Wallet.dat file and saved it offline

- Computer #2: Installed Bitcoin Core v0.16.0 to import backup wallet from Computer #1 onto Computer #2.

- Computer #2: No Bitcoin folder in APPDATA/Roaming directory after install & blockchain download / synchronization.

Any Related Addresses: n/a

Any Related Transaction IDs: n/a

Screenshot of the problem:

- Computer #1: Error Message



Questions:

Can Bitcoin Core installation on Computer #1 be fixed?

Why is there no APPDATA/Roaming/Bitcoin directory after installing Bitcoin Core on Computer #2?

What are some options for my wallet.dat file to recover the funds whether with Bitcoin Core or another local or web client, keeping in mind I have the wallet.dat, but can't start Bitcoin Core anymore.

I'm having issues getting the masternode running on Windows 7. All the how-to's I can find focus on VPS. Does ARC require static IP for masternode?

As the USD price of Bitcoin increases, the rewards that popular Bitcoin faucets payout decreases accordingly. Sites that would pay 50-70 satoshi per claim last year are now paying between 15-20 satoshi per claim.

If the price of Bitcoin continues to climb to $50,000 USD, the value of 1 satoshi would conceivably be higher then these faucets could afford to pay out (per climb) compared to the ad income they generate.

Any thoughts on how will these faucets deal with payouts when 1 satoshi is worth too much?

After using Gunbot 3.3 on Windows for a while and getting upwards of 60 trades a day, I switched to Gunbot XT for ARM and after some tweaking all week, I nailed it. 269 trades on November 16th! Pretty stoked.

Here is screenshots showing all the trades https://www.docdroid.net/9JhVO6O/2017-11-16.pdf

Also been using Gunbot 3.3/XT on Kraken over the last couple months and it's never made a trade, despite using the same setups that are working well on Polo. What can I do to trouble shoot the Kraken bot?

More fuel for the hype.

I think if Amazon rumors about accepting Bitcoin as a payment method prove true, that could be a temporary catalyst to drive prices upwards to $6500-7000 in the short term, with another pullback in the days and weeks following. $10k in 2018 might be realistic, barring major regulations that are not yet announced weighing down on the price.

I'm looking at that website from a developer perspective and I have a headache lol... it is a neat visualization though.

For my purposes, a Bitcoin ATM is irrelevant. Major exchanges are all able to connect to my bank account, and even if they didn't, Bitcoin funded debit cards have lower fees and can withdraw in your local currency out of traditional ATM's. If you want your coffee shop in the news for a day, a Bitcoin ATM will probably do it.

I could see the minority of people earning tax free income through bitcoin, but still paying income taxes through their jobs. As it becomes more prevalent, central governments will see trends of decreasing income and will begin to introduce additional tax policies which may not be income tax based, but will make the difference of lost income tax revenue and then some.

Two sure things in life are death and taxes... income tax might be avoided by some, but taxes will ALWAYS go up.

Get ready for some nasty price crashes before we see $7000... As always, be patient and don't make panic decisions but hold on for the long term rebound.

Regardless of the markets overall, there has still been some opportunity to trade profitably on the exchanges. Not nearly as much activity as I like, but still making headway. In for the long haul, I don't flinch at headlines anymore.

The "browser mining" would still have to use system resources that would be used for "normal mining". What's to stop them from using your system hashpower to mine useful coins in the background and paying you a few meaningless tokens that can't be exchanged or spent anywhere, but hey it has a pretty dashboard!

I can't contemplate a scenario where all coins in the world just "disappear"...

However, it really isn't that far fetched to imagine a scenario where at least part of the world will not have electricity to power computers or networks (North Korea EMP threat for one).

Although not a full on disappearance of all one's coins, it would essentially render them useless and out of reach as long as an electrical interruption continued.

We will also likely see more large scale breaches as time goes on and attackers find more innovative ways to access systems that were previously impervious to them. We've seen major exchanges and cloud mining companies compromised, if you were a victim of those situations, your coins disappeared.

Wow, he posted his API key in YouTube videos...

The only complaints I have seen about not being able to withdraw from Polo are usually issues with the coin (wallet/network/dev team), not with the exchange. I haven't had issues withdrawing BTC at all over the last couple years.

Yes the trollbox is gone, but that was to ramp up the support team, which customers had been asking for since ticket response times started suffering.