And because the majority would never agree with the new chain, you may as well acknowledge that they cannot

Another way that they could be deleted would be for someone to alter Satoshi's brain and/or his records such that he cannot find his private keys.  That would also effectively delete them, but again, why are we considering these outlandish scenarios?  Lol.

Sure thing.  BTW, bibaby's suggestion about a FF extension might be easier.  But I took a look at the chainroll site and it's quite simple to change the background in just a few clicks.  In FF, I just right-click on the background of the page, and then select "inspect element".  The inspection window opens up and the background div is highlighted.  On chainroll, it's a <div> with a class "container".  Anyway, at that point, you can click into the right panel where it is showing CSS rules and you can click into the section called "element" and then type in "background:green" or whatever color you want.  That worked for me when I just tried it.

In that same "inspection" panel, you can click into "console" and type (or cut-n-paste) in some javascript to do the same thing for all the elements of class "container".  Two lines:


The first line gets all the elements of class "container" and the second line loops through them and turns their backgrounds green.  That also turned the background green for me.  Change "green" to whatever you want.

I note, however, that the list of "container" elements was only a single one, so it's a little strange that "container" is a class and not an id.  But whatever.  Anyway, you could also use an add on like greasemonkey to save this javascript to always run on chainroll.

Hope it helps!  Have fun!

RIght, that's actually an interesting point, a1choi, the longer the streak you're multiplying out, the more you're going to see that divergence between wins vs. losses multiplied out and getting bigger.  Ie, as you say, you can observe the house edge in action.

Congrats on trustedness, MICRO!  BTW, will the HH be announced on this forum as well?  I know a lot of us here don't do social-medias.

Given the question (bolded in the quote), I think the suggestion to use PuTTY is a little misleading.  PuTTY is an SSH client for Windoze.  But the question was about installing vanitygen from the control panel.  So, I'm pretty sure what MZ means here is that "no you can't use the 'control panel', you'll need to get a shell on the server using an ssh client (such as PuTTY)."  Then, in that context, you can see that hexfraction is pointing out that beyond just getting a shell on the server, you'll need to actually know some commands on the server.  At least wget/curl and tar, so that you can get the binaries (even if you don't want to compile).

BTW, PuTTY is quite an awesome program.  I only use GNU/Linux and I'm always super-frustrated when I sit down at a library or somewhere that has windows and I can't do anything or install anything.  PuTTY is wonderful because you don't need to "install" it for it to work.  I just download it and click it and it runs and I don't have to be an "administrator" or whatever it's called and then I can log into a real computer and starting getting stuff done!

It's not about "deciding" to add a block.  If you're mining, you are in a race with many other people to "add a block".  This answer has more detail:


So the fees are in there when you find a block.  As the mining computer (or pool), you get to keep the difference between inputs and outputs in the transactions which are in the block.  You can make decisions about which transactions to try to include in the block as you go looking for a block and receiving transaction broadcasts on the network.

About starting your own pool, you're going to be in tough competition.  Since you're just learning the very basics here right now, it's doubtful that you're ready to compete with the big players out there.  But nice enthusiasm tho!

Well, thanks for the links, TECSHARE, I may try to look into that further when I get a chance.  In the meantime, I just want to remind everyone that the best thing we can do for now about people on default trust who are causing issues is to remove them from our trust lists.  As I understand it, all it takes is
two people to put
into their trust lists and the problem (with him at least) will be temporarily solved.  Vod, do you trust Quickseller?

It's because in normal language we often conflate "impossible" with extremely improbable.  Now, with computers and such that do so many operations per second, we can even find ourselves in these strangely improbable positions. 

I saw OP moved the meetup to luckyflop from bitcoinpoker.gg.  Unfortunately, I've never been able to get luckyflop to work on my debian install.  If you guys move back to bitcoinpoker.gg, I'd definitely like to join in!

I don't have the snippet for you ready-made, but I'd take a look in the pycoin library, specifically the Key class:

https://github.com/richardkiss/pycoin
https://github.com/richardkiss/pycoin/blob/master/pycoin/key/Key.py

The Key class has several methods which do something pretty close to what you want.  Specifically, check out the Key.from_text(text) method and the subroutines in there.  I think you'll find it helpful (I hope).

By "rasperry computer" are you talking about raspberry pis?  If that's what you mean, presumably you just need to download (or build) an arm7 binary of bitcoin-core and install it on your raspberry pi running raspbian.  I would suspect that would be reasonbly straightforward to try so perhaps I misunderstand your question.  BTW, here is a guy who is selling them pre-setup for you: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1005654.0  Also note, several folks, including gmaxwell, question the practicality. of this endeavour.

I was going to ask aren't altcoins+exchanges essentially these sidechains you're asking about?  I guess the one difference is that altcoins can be volitile with respect to price.  I guess the question remains, what motivation is there to mine the blocks of your hypothetical sidechain?  If there's value in that independently, the you're basically talking about some kind of altcoin, right?  If the value of that is a portion of the bitcoin block mining, then it seems like you're watering down bitcoin mining and you'd need a fork.

Oooh, good point.  I wonder why I haven't had this problem yet (maybe because my sound is always down or something .

No way should Satoshi's coins be deleted.  For one thing, how on earth would you get consensus with everyone for such a nonsense idea?  They have to work really hard to get consensus for reasonable things like block size increase, etc.  Then, think about it further, if Satoshi's coins can be "deleted" then so can yours.  How would that be a good thing?  Don't be a hater.  Just cos Satoshi thought of it doesn't mean he doesn't deserve to be treated with the same respect as any other bitcoin user. 

Vod, I don't know the word for it.  But I do have a solution: set your browser not to autoplay videos.  I always put my plugins to "ask first"  or whatever the setting is called. 

Unless the OP releases source code for this I would consider it to be almost certainly a scam.  Please do not run untrusted code that you can't see on your computers, ppl!

If anyone needs help coding a bot for primedice api, I've already made a set of scripts to login and run some bets, it was pretty easy.  Just PM me if you need help.

Again, don't run code you can't see the source of!

Consider this as well: once all the 21 million bitcoins are distributed, there won't be any coinbase in the new blocks and at that point, the miners will indeed be mining only for the fees.

Welcome back ndnhc!  Hope it was a good vacay!

Isn't there a button on chainroll to change the color?  Perhaps I'm remembering wrong but I thought they had night/day modes.  Even if they don't, you can always just change the color of the background with javascript in your browser:

document.getElementById("idofthedifyouwannachangethebackgroundof").style.background.color="white";

What are "green" addresses?  Can you provide a link or something?  I don't know what that means.