I am sure, actually i am positive i am not the only one who has fallen victim to a moderator of this forum (gmaxwell) throwing his weight around with out regard or common sense to the function of a forum community. As a matter of fact after looking through his post history i see it happens quite often. So I myself, yes out of rage for such behavior ( i will not argue that i am pissed off about this being allowed to happen on a community website) am starting a campaign to have him removed as a moderator on this form.

If you yourself have been harassed by gmaxwell this is your place to post about it.

Let me start by sharing the following statement from him after jumping in on a thread in which he knew nothing about but wanted to jump to wild conclusions with then further wanted to leave notes on my trust rating calling me a thief when clearly after reading the post you will see was not the case (unless he deletes it with his "all mighty power")

[Edit: Incidentally, there is no point in crapping up the thread with "quoted for reference" posts, I can delete or edit every post here.]

[Disclaimer:]

This tutorial is a step by step guide on how to install the insight bitcoin blockchain api on your local windows machine.

The purpose behind this is a preventative measure for the future as i have begun work on several local browser based PHP applications and clients in which you will be able to run on a windows server machine and these applications are dependent on Insight. Follow up threads will be started for each new application and client. If you have reached this thread from one of my other threads for an application or client, please post application specific questions in their respective threads.

Disclaimer: I am neither the creator or a developer of Insight API, this thread is for install instructions or questions on windows machines only. For problems with Insight API itself please contact the development team themselves through github

For now, the tutorial.....

How to install Insight Bitcoin Blockchain API on your local machine

Prerequisites

You will need a machine running Windows Server, Windows 7, or Windows 8. For future application and client purposes i recommend Windows Server 2012R2. Yes this is a $10k-$60k piece of software, but i trust that those of you who want it know how to get it for free.

You will also need to downlaod and install

Python 2.7.x or newer
Node.js
Git for windows Use the default installer options except, select “Run Git from the Windows Command Prompt” when prompted
If you are running a 64bit windows 7 system you will need the 64-bit SDK
I also recommend Visual Studio 2012, But you can skip it if you are comfortable with windows CMD.

Installing

Step 1:

Once everything from above is installed either;

Open a Windows Visual Studio development command prompt (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat)

OR

Open a windows CMD window run as administrator.

Next in either window (VS or CMD) Type the following;

cd C:\

then press enter

Then copy and paste the below and press enter

git clone https://github.com/bitpay/insight-api.git

then type the following

cd C:\insight-api (hit enter)
npm install (hit enter)

Step 2:

Locate your current bitcoind data directory, which is normally located at %APPDATA%\Bitcoin. Copy and paste this filepath to a notepad for later.

Step 3:

Type Windows Key-R and enter "rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL sysdm.cpl,,3" , then press OK. This will launch the System Properties panel. ( if this does not work enter it into CMD and hit enter) Here, click on Environment Variables, and under User Variables, add the following:

    INSIGHT_NETWORK: Set this to livenet if your bitcoind is running on mainnet. If on testnet, set this to testnet
    BITCOIND_DATADIR: Set this to your bitcoind data dir you found in the step above
    BITCOIND_USER: Whatever your bitcoind RPC user is set to (rpcuser= in the bitcoin.conf in your bitcoind data dir)
    BITCOIND_PASS: Whatever your bitcoind RPC password is set to (rpcpassword= in the bitcoin.conf in your bitcoind data dir)

If you are running on a different host, or set of ports, you will also need to set BITCOIND_HOST, BITCOIND_PORT, and BITCOIND_P2P_PORT as appropriate.

Once done, click OK on both the Environment Variables and System Properties windows to save your changes and close them out.

Step 4:

Open up a command window and run......

"node C:\insight-api\insight.js"

You can run it on start up by adding to your Start up program group in Windows.

Result:

After running insight, it should start parsing the blockchain data from the bitcoind data directory you specified (at BITCOIND_DATADIR).

You can do other things during this time, although i would not recommend shutting down the computer without first terminating the parsing function.

Thats it, your machine is now running an instance of Insight !!!!! Good job on following directions

[Is there any way to check the balance of a ton of addresses by simply copying and pasting them into an input field.]

Ok, after a week and a half of searching it is CLEAR that there is no easy solution to this problem.

The goal or problem is checking the balance of a ton of addresses without having to import them with keys without having to run a linux machine, without having to run anything in python, just plain and simple copy a list of addresses......

1EMXdJrLUhyh5ycijPzmJKWGStQ915VGSJ
1EmXdS1QPA7wmJqH7WtfwaV6rM88LC9t6F
etc....
etc....
etc.....



Then paste them into an input window, click submit or what have you, and have their balances checked say a 100,000 addresses at a time, or a million at a time, or whatever large number.

I have seen this question asked over a few hundred times in my week and a half search and have found 0 answers to it. 0 real answers that a non software developer, non linux running, non python familiar person can take advantage of.


So i ask again, on behalf of myself and the hundreds of other people out there that have been asking the same thing and all ended up with over technical non useful results.

Is there any way to check the balance of a ton of addresses by simply copying and pasting them into an input field.

Things we dont need:

Links to your software that will not run easily on widows or mac without having to install a ton of other stuff
Your explanation on how someone could code this software, Myself, and the others who have asked are obviously not developers
simple one line replies referencing someone else's block parser or other non windows/mac programs with no "how to use this for dummies" help.

you get the point, do a quick google search and you can see for yourself how this has been a discussion hundreds of times with no resolution.

Side note: if you are a able bodied developer, and the solution is as easy as (this) as has been answered many times before, maybe you can spend the few hours people say it would take to make such a software for the community to use.

[How many bitcoin addresses currently hold bitcoin in them? more than a 0 balance.]

My kid decided she was going to do a paper for school on bitcoin since i talk about it so much, then tonight over dinner she asks me a question i had no definitive answer to.

How many bitcoin addresses currently hold bitcoin in them? more than a 0 balance.

After a few hours searching the WWW i have found nothing more than a few charts that show "addresses used by day"  and 10,000 pages telling me how many bitcoins have already been mined which i already know.

Is there any way to retrieve that data from the bitcoin client, or any website that accurately has that data? i need to find something that she can use to cite her source with. 

Any help would be appreciated.

[What i would like to know is how businesses like localbitcoins.com blockchain.info, satoshidice and others can manage tens of millions of addresses before they start having "bloated" wallet issues?]

I have a quick question that i am sure someone has an answer to that will make it all make sense for me.

I recently was able to get re-imported a bunch of old addresses that are still receiving payments from faucets and old affiliate programs, but since the import my client is running at the speed of molasses in January. I know this is not a computer hardware problem because my server is only 2 months old and has 6 top of the line intel CPU's with haswell cores and 128 gig of ECC ram. Way more raw computing power than a person should ever need for pretty much anything.

I have tried, erasing the client and re-installing it, i have the bitcoin client set to the highest priority on 12 cores, i have had a data center engineer friend of my check everything on the hardware config. i have ran through everything on the software side of things, and the speed issue does not make sense. Almost an hour to load the client and half a day to scan the blockchain when i import a new address.

What i would like to know is how businesses like localbitcoins.com blockchain.info, satoshidice and others can manage tens of millions of addresses before they start having "bloated" wallet issues?

Is there a better client for this than using bitcoin QT and bitcoind directly?
Is there some sort of setting i am overlooking?
What am i missing?


<?php
if (BTC questions > dumb stuff a noob should know)
  echo "Yeah i know, i'm new to this stuff";
?>

Quick question, is it possible to transfer the armory_randomkey_.wallet files to different machine then restart armory on the other computer to have the wallet on the new machine? Or what would be the best way to back up and duplicate wallets that contain a bunch of imported keys from vanity addresses to another machine without having to save all the WIF keys and paste them over to the new machine then have armory spend a bunch of time importing them all.

Thanks

I found on another thread a reference to a RPC command "importwallet" although i can find no documentation about it anywhere so i am looking for a different approach.

How would a person import a list of private keys into Bitcoin QT through either debug window or Bitcoind? Not a single address but a long list of private keys.

[SUMMARY:]

I am looking to find a wallet that can do a few things for me and i dont want to download them all to see which work in any of these manners. I have been a long time armory user but need a few features i am not getting currently.

1: and probably the most important i cannot find. I need a wallet that makes a sound, plays a noise, or something audible when bitcoin are received. Armory gives me a bubble that pops up from the toolbar, but no sound.

2: It needs to be able to easily import WIF style private keys, and function well with a ton of them (thousands... its a long story i would rather not explain but will summarize below briefly.)

3: It needs to be a windows desktop application, not a web wallet, not an android wallet, it needs to be like the original bitcoin client or armory where i have it on my own home network.

The summary.....

I was into bitcoin a long long long time ago when it was a new thing ( no i am not rich from it ), i was a faucet and referral program whore. Back then i did not understand anything about bitcoin and was paranoid about using the same address in two places so every faucet with an affiliate program i signed up for i used a different address. I recently found that old laptop with a ton of addresses on it and low and behold i had about a half a bitcoin sitting there after 3 days of sync time with the network. Not to mention, since i got back into bitcoin i am still a referral program whore although i learned not to use a different address with all of them recently i still made a ton before january. I am still getting payments from faucets from 3 years ago as recently as 2 days ago so i do not want to just forget about the addresses. SUMMARY: i just need a place to import all these addresses and forget about them. I need a loud audible sound to notify on coins received as i have no idea how secure i was back then and dont want to leave coins sitting in possible compromised addresses.

Any help would be great

Thanks

Just wondering if anyone knows of a Drupal module for the Bittrex Ticker as displayed here at the bottom of the screen?

If not would anyone be interested in coding one quick, and what would you charge? The API does not look too difficult from what i can tell, i'm just new to drupal.

Just a quick question.

Since about November of this past year, as every month goes by, i notice that transactions are taking longer and longer to confirm. I'm sure that some will argue that, but i have a few wallets on a few different machines all on different networks and i keep track of these kind of things. In january of this year, it was pretty common to get 6 confirms in under 10 minutes of it hitting the blockchain. In february almost 12 minutes. Now today, well this month, i have been waiting upwards of 30 minutes just to get 1 confirm on a ton of transactions. Dosnt matter the volume, the address, the wallet, it is getting to be more the normal than the exception.

Does anyone have any idea why its slowing down over time? Is the blockchain getting slower as it gets bigger? will this start to cause problems for retail use in the future? i know i am not the only one to have noticed this.

[Our F4 male kittens normally sell for $2,500 fully papered ( F4's are not fertile and cannot breed) and our females for $4,000 fully papered without breeding rights.]

My wife and i are owners of the Ambajejus Savannah Cattery in northern Maine. We breed beautiful savannah cats from strong and healthy bloodlines. We have recently evaded an near rip off from another breeder but in doing so did not get a new mate for our beautiful F5  with BC1 lineage stud Prince Baxter. Over the past months we have found a new and very reputable breeder through whom we have an opportunity to get our stud Baxter a beautiful buttery yellow F3 savannah girlfriend to breed with and make us some gorgeous F4 kittens.

Due to the timing of our new daughter we have found ourselves short on the cost of getting our F3 female and her breeding rights but dont want to miss such a great opportunity for such a perfect mate for him as she has direct savannah to savannah since the F1 generation and with our Studs BC ( "back cross", meaning that they crossed the African Serval back into a savannah 1 additional time before extending the bloodline ) they are going to make some very beautiful very large kittens.

We were hoping to reach out to the crypto community and find a few people who would be interested in owning one of the majestic animals and making them a member of their family. Our F4 male kittens normally sell for $2,500 fully papered ( F4's are not fertile and cannot breed) and our females for $4,000 fully papered without breeding rights.

In order to make sure we can get our F3 female we are going to offer out her first litter for $1,200 each without breeding rights with pick of the litter rights in order of purchase. Savannahs reach the age of maturity usually around 9 months of age meaning the female would be ready to have her first litter in roughly 6-7 months from today. If you spend a few minutes of time you will see that $1,000 usd is normally the standard "deposit" just to get on a breeders waiting list, to make sure we do not miss this opportunity and can raise the rest of the funds we are only asking slightly more for the full purchase price for you to take the animal home.

A few things i want to go over before the discussion starts on this thread.

1: We are a legally incorporated business in the state of Maine of which my attorney is our registered agent

2: As we need the funds to purchase the female to breed i cannot necessarily accept escrow if you pay in crypto but what i can offer in place of that is a legally binding contract signed and notarized in which you yourself can have your own attorney look over for piece of mind stating that you will get exactly as promised or a 200% refund. Our company owns the house that our family lives in, you can easily verify that by checking with the register of deeds. If we screwed you and violated the contract you could easily take us to court and win without fail. We are not willing to risk losing our house with a newborn baby so you can trust that we are genuine.

3: Savannahs are not legal in every state and every state that they are legal in has different laws pertaining to them. Please check Hybrid Law before contacting us about purchasing a kitten. These kittens will be F4sbt's and in about a half dozen states in the US you cannot own a savannah under a F5 filial generation. So please check before hand as we will not sell you a kitten if it is not legal where you are.

4: We will not sell you a kitten without communicating with you on the phone first. As part of our Responsible Savannah Breeder's program it is our duty and responsibility to make sure our kittens go to loving homes that intend to keep them until their dying day. On average a F4 savannah can live from 12 to upwards of 25 years if properly cared for.

5: We expect that you will do a little homework on what a savannah is before contacting us. As direct descendants of the African Serval, and cousin to the Cheetah these animals are a little bit more wild than a domestic cat. They are very active, very fast, need space to run and play and most of all they LOVE to jump. Savannahs can jump over 8 foot high and the earlier generations have been recorded at over 12 foot jumps from standing. If you have a house full of knick-knacks on shelves a savannah is NOT the cat for you. Most of all you need to remember that savannahs are big, smart, and powerful. Our savannahs will be well socialized before they go to their new homes and very docile but the golden rule with savannahs is that you play with toys not with your hands

6: We do not ship our kittens, if you purchase one you will be required to come and pick them up, several airlines will let you take them with you under the seat as kittens or if your close enough you can just drive We live only 45 minutes from an international airport and would be more than happy to come pick you up from there to get your kitten. When we flew out to get our stud last Christmas it cost us less than $400 round trip, you will know plenty in advance of when you can come get them so you can save a lot of money by booking in advance.

7: If you live in our area ( or even if you dont ) you are more than welcome to come check out our cattery and meet our stud. He loves company

8: Our kittens will come with all of their papers (TICA) and their first shots.

9: We will only be selling 4 kittens for this price as that is all the funding we need to cover the rest of the cost of the female and her breeding rights. If you are still interested in a kitten after the first 4 are sold we will always be excepting crypto payments and you can always come see what we have for litters available

Dont hesitate to PM me if you have any questions.

Now for the cute pics

Prince Baxter:




Princess Nala ( the female kitten we will be purchasing )

Looking to see if i can find an volunteer editor to proof a few pages of a book here and there. Maybe 2-5 pages a month.

Thanks in advance

Hey guys, i know a ton of you are a lot more familiar with this stuff than i am and have a lot more time spent online in this niche already so i was wondering if anyone knew of a scrolling ticker based on the cryptsy API. When i say scrolling ticker i mean like the NYSE tickers that stream real time data on stocks, ( example ). I was looking for something that shows the data like you see on the left side of the screen when your logged in to your account. CIRCLED BELOW

http://imgur.com/ua0t1Fk

If nobody knows of one that already exists, does somebody know of someone who could code one for a reasonable price? I could hire a coder from india for $15 an hour but i would rather keep my bitcoin as bitcoin and pay someone directly with it if one dosnt exist already.

Thanks in advance if you know where to find one already and for sharing.

Hello to all, and thanks for having me.

I am working on a new piece of software (not named yet) and i am having a small issue. I am looking for a website that shows coin values for multiple coins (bitcoin, dogecoin, litecoin, world coin, etc. etc.) that has an API i can ping prices from. Bitcoin is easy as that is steady from bitcoinaverage.com but i need a one stop shop api for lots of coins. i have spent a day or so looking on google and find lots of sites that have the data, but none that have an interface API.

If someone could point me in the right direction that would be great. I hate wasting time on things i cannot find it aggravates me much.

Thanks,

- Ferox