Please do try to be polite. An ignorant question is by far not the worst thing someone could post here— save the hate for malware and scams.

Besides, ignorance is curable.

That coin has been spent, getrawtransaction only returns on txn which are not entirely spent unless you run with txindex=1.

The recent posts list is pretty useless to me because it's always full of altcoins and newbies threads that I'm not interested in... Any thoughts on being able to filter it? (or— like usual— does this functionality already exist?)

This isn't how Bitcoin works.

Bitcoin is first and foremost a trustless system predicated on autonomous validation. We presume our peers are _evil_ and we verify the rules for ourselves independently from what our peers claim.  After all, if we can't trust central banks and democratic governments to manage their fiat how could we possible trust a bunch of sketchy, anonymous, self-selecting miners?

Unfortunately, there is no way to autonomously validate _order_ in a decentralized system, so we use mining to decide on an order, but thats all. Ordering control is powerful, but no majority of miners— no matter how large— can just randomly rob wallets.  A miner that produces rule violating blocks is equivalent to a miner that has shut down: their blocks are nearly costlessly ignored by all nodes.

Strictly limiting the behavior of miners is part of what keeps their incentives aligned. As you note— if they could just selectively rob a few people, they might well get away with it. But fortunately the system can be— and is— built so that those sorts of attacks are simply not available to miners.


FWIW, the cited article falsely claims the quoted text was removed from the weaknesses page— it wasn't.  I really suggest ignoring "cryptocurrency news" it's a really spammy outfit.

You've been misinformed. The GPU comment was a "what the heck do you _think_ is mining on P2Pool", and yes, I was laughing at people's capacity to buy into FUD and misinformation. Don't take it too personally.

Stuff in this space has been proposed many times before, but inevitably the proposals end up drastically increasing the size of transactions (and thus the blockchain).

The most technically interesting tool for compensating transaction relayers that I've seen is https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=290971.0.

But I don't know that any such scheme would be interesting, at it would just encourage miners to run huge numbers of sybil ingress nodes.

LOL. You think P2Pool has 150 TH/s of ... GPUs?

P2Pool works absolutely fantastically on most asics.  My avlons are at about 115% PPS on P2pool (both from reviving fees and because p2pool appears to do better than expected, potentially because of the faster block relaying giving it an advantage over other pools).

Sadly, the little CPUs on the antminers combined with their old cgminer version is absolutely taxed beyond belief, and they don't work fantastically on P2Pool right now— stale rate roughly 5x the avalons. I've been nagging them to post their firmware sources since they started shipping products so I could fix it and I guess they've been too busy.

Nah, run the numbers on what return was expected even if everything had gone according to plan. No one who can multiply bought in here because of an abundance of greed, it was never _that_ attractive an offer. The deal needed sweeteners like MPP, refund in BTC, in person meetings, and a partnership with an experienced design house before it sounded attractive.

Uhhh. If they don't ship with a firmware that enables this, very, very few people will perform the low level hacking to do so.

A slightly OT example: For those following along at home who don't get why HF batch 1 customers are so unhappy about their "october" batch 1 units,  compare: Instead of paying 55 BTC months ago for a 400GH HF batch 1 unit with uncertain delivery they could have sat comfortably on their coin and today ordered 3.1 TH/s of antminer for immediate delivery for the same price (or just got 360GH/s for 6.3 BTC).  Even figuring it in terms of USD, the little antminer devices are lower cost per GH/s than hashfast batch 1 devices which are still not shipping.

Man, I was about to yell at y'all for being offtopic and not talking about trolls... until I noticed they'd renamed the thread. I've fixed the name back. Next time the OP abuses their ability to edit the thread title for a long established thread to change it to something unrelated, please report it to the moderators.

Begging other people to hit ignore too is kinda ineffective. But I appreciate the comment about Reddit being a circle jerk greatly. I'd rather have more noise than turn out like reddit.

Do not ask altcoin questions, they will be moved to the altcoin subforum.

Incompetence and malice are often darn hard to distinguish. Keep in mind I'm responding to someone who was suggesting that hashfast was actually going to ship a box of rocks.

I've invited Mr. BREAKER to identify himself.

Sometimes I've wondered— when we've had really extreme over the top "shills", like in this case— if they really weren't double-secret shills pretending to shill just to make their love-object look repulsive. I guess intrigue seldom goes that deep in reality, but its something to consider.

Irritating in any case.

I don't think anyone really thinks the video was faked— it was pretty clearly the hashfast pcb.  Though I'd certainly like to see the video again. Care to re-post it iCEBREAKER or is being helpful not part of your repertoire?

I'm afraid you missed the subsequent:

I didn't however, thus my comment.

I apologize for my assumption, please allow me to revise:
As far as I can tell only person currently expressing any form of actively negative view of CoinTerra in this thread is a tireless promoter of Hashfast who is not a CoinTerra customer.
Is that better?
Cheers.

Ha. Some people expressed that kind of pessimism up-thread and it was rapidly pointed out that doing something that overly dishonest would be a Christmas present since it would remove any doubt over if they were acting in good faith or not. There is no way thats going to happen.

Probably the hardest thing to come to grips with is that the world isn't really stuffed full of manically cackling villains— though I suppose there are a few.  The mess for batch 1 HF customers is probably not a result of some great evil plot, and they almost certainly aren't about to ship miners full of kryptonite, regardless of how awesome a scene it would make "Bitcoin: The Movie".

If you're trying to guess what might happen, you'd probably be best of imagining a bunch of well intentioned people getting caught behind and making a heroic effort to make it all right. Even if thats not completely true, you can be darn sure they'll do their best to make it appear to be.

There aren't any irritated CoinTerra customers, not a single one— as far as I can tell, and I even asked. CoinTerra has, apparently, made right by their customers— at least for now.

The only thing I disallowed there was your all caps red bolded whatever-the-heck-that-was and people bringing other vendors into the discussion (which was, the same thing I did in the HF threads).


Okay, so who are you then? There is no mystery who I am. I think some transparency might resolve some of your complaints far better than what appears your preferred direction— of silencing anyone who is concerned, afraid, or angry from expressing their irritation or uncertainty.

You mean up-voting. "Banning" account selling wouldn't stop it— it would only make it more effective because then fewer people would believe its happening.

The best we could probably do is have an "account recovery code"... every account gets a magic code which can't be changed, which can be used to claw back the account at any time. This would make selling accounts slightly less safe because people could claw them back after payment was made.