as title, i have pile of wallet backups.. most should be of the same wallet but i did create some test wallets to play with around that 2012 timeframe.

running core 27.1 and opening the 2012 wallet gives a "wallet verification failed" and says to run the tool bitcoin-wallet.

do i have to use old versions of core so the wallet recognized and is there a recommended upgrade path? like any particular versions i should run in sequence or anything to get the wallet up to 27.1 standard?

i suppose i should add yes they are my wallets and apologies if there is a thread(s) about this. if so please kindly point it out.

not expecting to find any coins but checking all those backups has been on my project list for a while.

per title.. dont care who, just have you changed your mind?

any comments/explanations welcome

edit: you can change your poll vote (of course)

so it occurs to me that an AI could be trained on an abandoned users posts to the point of it being able to mimic the original account holder. it could mimic the original account holder to the point of fooling casual inspection.

so to permanently retire an account (mine for example) i thought of asking a bunch of DT1 etc to red paint my account with neg trust and say its toast and done. the object being to make the account useless as to the point its no longer of value.

but the AI impersonation bit disturbs me as i can see it happening. or am i in tinfoil land again.

any comments welcome

edit: aside from setting up OTP and setting a password to something ridiculous, then destroying them both. i want something that makes the underlying account useless for taking over in the 1st place.

as title, which abbreviation fits bitcointalk better

2 votes each, 14 days

i have seen BTT for a loooong time, but use BCT myself.

so heres trump with years worth of classified info in his head. and hes on the hook for 300+ million bucks in loans personally guaranteed by him to come due in the next several years. to someone(s) unknown.

so say he loses. that classified info likely worth far more than that. so he goes to his master, putin, sells it and lives a life of relative luxury in russia. or sells to the highest bidder(s) and just splits to a non extradition country.

plausible? he certainly seems to value his own skin more than the usa or its citizens. i figure he will sell us out in a new york minute.

decentralization = ONE (ok manybe a few) datacenter that has the capacity to process this BSV nearly infinate size (at some point) gigabigabloatware data where everything including the kitchen sink and toilet plus the contents of those that goes down it and is stored on chain? i guess always wanted to know the exact composition of my septic tank contents. a "decentralized" blockchain that only huge AWS instances or other supercomputers and the likes likes can run?

No. But nice mischaracterization. At this point, there are plenty of 'normal' computers processing the BSV blockchain.

sure, now. im talking years out (if it doesnt die off in the meantime)

AFAIC, as long as there are no exclusionary barriers for new entrants to participate, then non-mining validation is exactly as decentralized as it need be. More such 'decentralization' is a red herring that serves no useful purpose. I realize this is a controversial perspective, but it is the one I hold.

just the money constraint. perhaps youre so loaded that 100+ grand for a datacenter and update cycle that will be needed eventually is a barely noticeable expense for the convenience and security. so say 50 grand for a casual setup that maybe that would last a couple years? so whats the upper limit for "just verifying" my transactions?

The alternative is to dumb down the entire system to 3 to 7 transactions per second. The notion of such a system working as world money is so ludicrous that it beggars the imagination that anyone would so think.

i agree here. work is needed. it is being done. i may not agree with some of it but stuff is happening regardless.

as the title says..  whats d-mans IQ

whaddaya think? vote now

btw i think you need an IQ of 60ish to use the toilet buy oneself.

this will self moderated as i just want the results and while comments are welcome please keep it civil (well for bitcointalk anyway). totally going off on whatever just to be nasty will probably have your post removed but i may quote it 1st as i dislike censorship and revisionist history. so unless it really crossed the line it will stay.

if so, what printer? and what major pros and cons are there.

i know some have printed fan adapters and whatnot, and i would also. ive seen basic ones for $250is but i want something fairly serious, all enclosed and heated etc. i would use it to print stuff for COVID use if possible.

ones ive looked at range from 2k to 4k USD. but im not real up on this stuff.

anyone care to enlighten me? i assume there is software (proprietary?) also needed.

per title.. would suck bad to use a compromised cable with a hardware usb connected wallet. maybe this is overblown? although this (bluetooth chip or even just memory to cache communications) is in prototype phases and as such it is a real possibility.

as it seems with the extremely small chips that could be hidden in a usb cable/connector now, and the proof of concepts out there demonstrating it. so to protect against that, seems it should be easy to make your own cables to meet minimum usb1.1 spec.

anyone done so?

EDIT: aaack. meant to put this in Hardware Wallets. if a mod could please move it there if more appropriate, thanks.

so my bcu1525 arrived yesterday, the upgraded air cooled version. i must say it looks to be a solid piece of kit.

currently running on the allmine shell with the "built in" lyra2 algo at blaze pool at ~40ish mhs (blaze auto switches to btc) for testing. its on a dedicated rig, a gigabyte Z97X UD3H with an evga 850. ubuntu 18.04, i ssh into it to control it. draws 350ish watts at the wall according to my killowatt meter. been running about 12 hours now, no problem.

now i know there are lots of bitstreams this thing can run but to do so you need specific settings in the shell (startup voltages etc) or bad things can happen. you also need to load some bitstreams (the non sqrl ones like whitefire/sensless stuff) via usb from a windows machine, and i havent got that far, mainly because im afraid of blowing it up.

anyone with a bcu1525 running other bitstreams? if so how did you set it up? i do have a windows rig next to it (my gpu/acorn mining rig) and have connected the usb cable from the windows box to the bcu. but thats about it.

btw the sqrl fan can get pretty loud, its running about 3800 rpm atm (perhaps half speed?). input power
around 260 watts, fpga temp 74C

i would love to play with more bitstreams and such but info is spread around so many places and so piecemeal its hard to find and digest. i hope we can consolidate some here.

not including almost placing orders in bfl, blackarrow etc, but making a transaction.

for me sweeping old paper wallets to claim bcash. i had done several already through mycelium on android but the biggest one i decided to send direct to my trezor, and not sweep to mycelium 1st as i had on the others. i send a small amount, check, then send the rest.

well this time i decided to sweep directly to the trezor and not use mycelium as an intermediary storage point, then send from there. it was a large amount. so i send 0.01 btc to the trezor. and i forgot about change addresses (DOH). thought i had sent the change to the great black hole.. so i was sweating bullets till i saw the change had been sent back to the original paper wallet address.

it was pretty nerve wracking to say the least as that paper wallet had a good chunk of my btc.

btw i keep all swept paper wallets so i can sign them to prove ownership if needed (for good old tax man). plus there may still be forked coins in there, wallets were from 2014.

soo, any other near btc death experiences?

as per the title.. whats to prevent the government of a large country to designing and using an asic purely for itself? they have the resources, the amount of money is trivial (for a government), power would not be a problem as they could build a power plant just for the mine to use. ultimate goal would be to control bitcoin. and make some money but that would be trivial. they wouldnt recap the investment but thats not the goal anyway.

sure lots of up front money and time but again, a government wouldnt care, and the long term gain in controlling btc might be worth it.

only bottleneck would be fab capacity. maybe buy or build one?

the fact that no government is trying this means my thinking is flawed somehow. so whats the catch?

EDIT:  goal is to for a 51% attack on bitcoin to cause people to lose faith in crypto, thus destroying it.

EDIT 2: i used 51% attack as an example as it is a well known figure. but the government that tries this could just as easily go for 70% or some other number that allows them to roll back the blockchain by an arbitrary amount, say several days worth of blocks.

i have been running core since ver .3 in 2011 or so. just kept upgrading the wallet as new versions came out..

so 14.2 supports HD seeds. is there a way to convert my existing wallet to seed based? can make a seed, make a new addy and transfer all btc the the new addy in the existing wallet? then from that point on im good and can recover from just the seed?

or do I have to create a new 14.2 wallet thats seed based and transfer all from the old wallet to the new wallet?

prefer to keep using the original wallet as is has my complete history all the way back to my 1st transaction in 2011. all annotated with labels etc.

i would of course keep the old empty wallet around if i make a new one.

still running my original core wallet from june 2011.

just checked my 1st transaction.. 0.35 btc from slush on june 16, 2011.

that was with mining with my HD4850. it was more of an experiment than a money making endeavor or to be part of the crypto scene. more like to see maybe i can help finance a new video card if this one makes money.

used slush as my 1st pool as they had the best instructions on how to setup a miner.

anyone else care to share their 1st incoming transaction and where it was from?

this is probably obvious but i havent seen a clear yes/no answer on this:

if segwit activates on btc (fat chance) will bitmains recent asics stop hashing? if so which models?

using core 0.12.1

my computer locked up on a blockchain sync (it was behind a couple days). fired it back up and got a database error. so now its reindexing the blocks on the disc.

this seems to take a LONG time, its already been a couple hours and its maybe 1/5 of the way through.

i have a 3570k @ 4.3, 12 gb ram and the blockchain is on its own dedicated 256 gb ssd.

so the question is: is this speed normal? I seem to remember reindexing going a lot faster in earlier versions of core.

did a quick search but all i saw were years old posts about it.

have a HD6870 and HD5830, both 1 gig cards, from back in the BTC GPU days. just built up a test rig with the 6870 and i might as well mine something even if its more or less break even, cool temps are on the way here and a space heater for the basement may come in handy.

i mine eth with R9s but of course these cards wont cut it.

any suggestions?

EDIT: never mind, User Error

i have the mist wallet for ethereum. the forked one, not etc.

i had eth before the hard fork, and i setup mist 8.1 to track on the forked chain. so now i would like a wallet for the alter ego eths in etc, and keep track of both.

i would rather not deal with 2 complete blockchains. so something like a SPV wallet (if i have the terminology right). any suggestions?

EDIT no interest in which is "real" please. we know plenty of threads where we can argue that rather entertaining stuff.

ok idiotic question time.

so Im trying to run armory, ultimately to import a wallet from 2012.

my blockchain is on drive d "d:\bitcoin-blockchain". core is in its default location "C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe"

I ran armory went to settings, I pointed the "bitcoin install dir" option to "C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe" and "bitcoin home dir" to "d:\bitcoin-blockchain"

I have core running. then I fire up armory. and it sits there saying "armory is offline"

what am I doing wrong? does it have to do with the blockchain locations? I do NOT want to dl another blockchain just for armory, core and armory can share correct? an both run at the same time?