The only way to "crack the odds" and turn the game in your favor on a dice site is to be the house. Anyone who says otherwise is a scammer.

I couldn't watch this rally without doing anything, so I just sold a chunk of my BCH and bet the BTC from it on bitcoin still having the #1 crypto market cap at the end of the year.

Did you read the stickied posts? The Lending section is not about just taking money with a promise to pay it back. You have to provide collateral, or else there is a 0% chance that you will get a loan. If you can't provide collateral, you will have to go somewhere other than here.

It is just not feasible to get a loan here without collateral if you are not an established member. I'm sorry about your kid, but sob stories aren't taken very well around here. I suggest that you lock this thread before someone gives your account red trust.

The orange blocks in this chart are the ones Mike Hearn supposedly mined. The second block is higher than the first one, so there is an argument that they were mined by the same person, but there isn't any proof that Mike Hearn in particular mined them. (The big black line of blocks is Satoshi again)

If they are Hearn's blocks, I don't know why he would have forgotten to sell those bitcoins. You can see from his blog that he is clearly not interested in Bitcoin anymore. Maybe he lost the coins somehow, or forgot about them.

Unfortunately I can't conclusively say if the emails are genuine or not. Someone could have looked for two otherwise isolated blocks that had moved some coins around and wrote a conversation between Nakamoto and Hearn based on those transactions. We don't know!

It's possible block 11184 was mined by the same person, which is another unspent 50 BTC.

I'm doing some block chain analysis to see if these claims stand up. Block 5326 (highlighted above) appears to be a genuine Satoshi block; Satoshi's miner made those big diagonal line patterns with the extraNonce.

I will keep looking at the rest

I wonder what that algorithm was. The first transaction to Hal Finney spent from block 9, even though all blocks up to block 49 were mature at the time, and all blocks up to 77 were mined by Satoshi.

How much XRP are you offering as collateral? 120% of the loan amount would be good, so how does 125 XRP sound?

Is there some list of all these altcoins that can be redeemed from old coin/wallet BTC balances somewhere?

I checked and the account has these two addresses in its post history:

It would be good for your case if you could sign messages with them.

Some new precautions will be taken on the wiki following this incident:

• Copying a sample address or private key from the wiki to a clipboard will also add some text to the clipboard stating that it is a sample key and should not be sent to or imported
• A hatnote will be added to pages that make use of sample keys warning users not to send to or import them
• Private keys will only be included on wiki pages when they are necessary to explain bitcoin functionality

The website says it's an offline temporary wallet... "on your local machine"... which is online, having just downloaded the software. Sorry OP, uninstall this right away and do a virus scan.

This is claiming to be a CPU miner, but it is not feasible to mine Bitcoin Cash with a CPU. You will probably not reach the 0.001 BCH payout threshold after years of mining. Most likely it is going to deploy spyware on your computer either when you first open it or on a certain date in the future.

You can get the addresses in the wallet by opening bitcoin-qt without having to download the entire block chain, if it's a core wallet.dat.
Open up the debug window:


Then open the console tab:


And type listaddressgroupings and press enter.


It will show you a bunch of addresses associated with the wallet and you can check a block explorer to see if any have funds. (The wallet will say 0 because it's not synced)

It takes the same amount of work to mine a block at the end of the chain as it does to make a second block with a certain parent, so it doesn't really make sense to do so.

If your goal is to have more blocks solved in a given time period, one option would be to change the block time target from 10 minutes to something less. You would have to proportionately change the block reward too in order to keep bitcoin production relatively constant. However, it is unrealistic to assume that changes to the issuance schedule of any kind would be acceptable to the community, so that's probably not an option.

Ideas like this are still fun to think about!

If the contents of the drive are worth $160,000 you should probably be investing in trying to recover it with professionals before investing in more crypto

It looks like 1Ctc8YzJ6BZ8bNBaEPKG8AKWJ3qwke3nqj is your address, since it has received the last two transactions visible in your wallet. Remember that your wallet can be composed of many different addresses, and is a tool for managing them and counting up all the money! It sounds like your bitcoins are just fine.

When you check your list of addresses, ensure that 1Ctc8YzJ6BZ8bNBaEPKG8AKWJ3qwke3nqj is among them.

Does anyone have a copy of the Fairbrix block chain? I wasn't able to find any peers at all unlike a few years ago, leading me to believe the coin is completely dead. However I would still like to get its block chain for research purposes, preferably one synced up to 2015 or later! Anyone have any leads?

Although it doesn't seem likely, OP didn't actually specify; so just in case it was an incoming transaction and not an outgoing one, you should know that in that situation there is not really any indication that you've been hacked. If you see an outgoing transaction that you don't remember authorizing then it sounds like you were hacked and like everyone else is saying you should move any coins that might be left in the wallet out right away.

Your system, as in, an idea? Ideas aren't good collateral because, although they are transferable, it isn't possible to take it away from you - it can only be copied. Furthermore, ideas don't have a lot of value, certainly not 1 BTC. You will have to find a different kind of collateral if you are really serious about this loan, otherwise there is no way it is going to be filled.