I'm toying with a proposal that I think might fix this type of issue.

https://github.com/d4n13/bips/blob/master/bip-00nn.mediawiki

Basically, you sweep your unconfirmed transactions to another address with a intentionally high TX fee.  This will incentivise your stale transactions.

Ahh... good information... I'll wait to hear what they say, but good to know that it may be a regression from a previously working state.

For my config... I did the following:

• put my watch address in
• set up my notifications
• checked blockchain about an hour later, no TX
• checked blockchain about an hour later, saw a new TX
• 6 hours later... still no SMS or other interesting notification

Thx.

Thx... I opened the ticket and stuff this morning, I'll change the subj from REQ to ATTN for those seeking this feature, it's not yet jelled, so look elsewhere for now.

SOLUTION: What a day or so after making the setting.  Took a few days for the notification setting to go into effect for me, but it eventually did.

On Blockchain.info web wallet, when I import a watch-only address, everything seems to work well, but when transactions arrive at the watch-only address, they don't notify via SMS or Android alerts..

@blockchain.info_staff, please expand your SMS / Android Notification settings so that they work for all addresses in a users wallet. This is the main reason I signed up to Blockchain.info

EDIT: No blockchain staff, so blockchain users... FYI

Thx.

Conversion to Fiat and the regulation that comes with it.

At the end of the day, if a merchant is willing to swap product for BTC great... no problem.

Whenever a merchant wants to swap product for $ minted from BTC, then you eventually run into regulation.  Even if your are small enough not to be regulated yet (like BTC to gift cards), you will be regulated eventually, whereever $ are involved.

So either stay in BTC barter land, or go to law school.

There is an easy-ish answer, although totally illegal in US because of currency laws.

1) Pick a spot price for USD/BTC (lets say 270).
2) Print paper wallets in denominations of $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100
3) Deposit mBTC into the wallets ($1 = 3.703 mBtc ... $100 = 370.37 mBtc)
4) Use your new paper wallets as currency.

Cavet: If anyone swipes key on the bill, it is "blanked" and now worthless paper.

Details of Bitstamp Hack

TL/DR BitStamp exec opened word doc sent to him over Skype and infected his laptop with access to the hot wallet.  Lost 18,000 BTC

I rest my case... How can these exchanges expect me to provide every shred of personal information with no regard for the fact that data breaches CAN and WILL happen (even if you uninstall Microsoft Word)

seemed relevant

ROKOS OS Integrated Bitcoin OKcash Litecoin Doge for PI

Two new methods I hadn't seen

1) Run a bitcoin full node https://getaddr.bitnodes.io/nodes/incentive/

2) Run a Tor Relay https://oniontip.com/

File torrcFile bitcoin.conf

I think their API fails when you try to add an onion node.

Bummer... It would be nice to know how many nodes there are on each of the for networks

IPV4=?
IPV6=?
ONION=?

Anyone know the bitnodes API dev to submit a feature request?

Yes, me for one... I had honestly thought that large altcoins like LTC were effectively pegged to BTC.  I was very surprised to see exactly how much swing there is between LTC\BTC.  In theory, I like trading BTC to ALT better than BTC to Fiat, since the former can hop from exchange to exchange, where the latter, not so much

There was the big jump in January, and again in June.  Any idea what predicated it?  New mining outfit, difficulty change?  Merchant adoption?  What does one study (other than a crystal ball) to gleen out these opportunities in the LTC/BTC market?  Or is the answer really... Crystal ball?

Perhaps markets and exchanges lack the sufficient volume yet to really apply any economic theory to, or perhaps they are just routinely corned by major players.

I'd be interested to know the how and why actually.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+set+up+bitcoin+as+a+hidden+service+ubuntu

Now I just feel silly

Answer:
https://www.sky-ip.org/configure-bitcoin-node-debian-ubuntu.html

I was thinking, it would be nice if the options worked something like this:

Connection options:
  -addnode=<ip|onion>    Add a node to connect to and attempt to keep the connection open
  -connect=<ip|onion>    Connect only to the specified node(s)
  -external=<ip|onion>   Specify your own public address
  -onion=<ip:port>       Use separate SOCKS5 proxy to reach peers via Tor hidden services (default: -proxy)

The idea would be this... if the "-onion" switch is present, then all the other IP based switches could use addresses like "eqt5g4fuenphqinx.onioin" in their peer list while also allowing peers to connect to their onion address.

Maybe the code is already written to work exactly that way, it just isn't in the documentation.

Any thoughts?

Awesome... A well thought out political discourse is very healthy, and I wish more people were open minded to listening to points they disagree with instead of shutting them down.

I don't know where your views are on the political spectrum, but I've always seen it go something like this


communist---socialist---US_"liberal"---moderate---US_"conservative"---libertarian---anarchist
<================= more Gov't =============================== less Gov't =================>


Labels are dangerous, and apologies for their use, but I would characterize your point as tending to the "more Gov't" / socialist POV, while I'm in the "less Gov't" / libertarian POV, again... apologies for labels... they come with baggage.  [Note: US_"Republican" and US_"Democrat" are not in the list since they fail to have a consistent political ideology]

Now that aside, most of the world is in the "more Gov't" camp.  Much of Europe is socialist-ish.  The libertarian POV hasn't held power in a major country for a very very long time (like 1780's), although there may be good argument for other world leaders in the last 200 years.

That being said... the socialist POV is by far the global majority.  Most people want (judging by elections) a strong Gov't, while a few groups want a small Gov't with limited power.  I am one of those few that want a Gov't that harkens back to the US 18h century ideals and that is often a point of ridicule from those in the majority.  

But... ridicule aside, cryptocurrency and the cypherpunk movement sprang from, of many things, a distrust and disdain of large authoritarian regimes.  So if someone is on the socialist side of the fence, then their interest in cryptocurrency would likely be attributed to, if one was consistent, some level of convenience it provides in its use at POS and international transfer capabilities.  While, on the other hand, someone more libertarian inclined, like I imagine the cypherpunks were, love cryptocurrency because of its incorruptible nature.  Fiat currency comes with all the baggage of a corrupt and draconian Gov't.

So I guess my argument is:

Love_Cryptocurrency == Distrust_Gov't == Love_Liberty == Accept_Right_to_Arms

True with SYSTEM write access.  The exploit I saw was a PHP bug that allowed the attacker to do a GET to basically any file.  They could grab the files from \Windows\System32\Config, then get the user list.  Now they did a get on \Users\<$user>\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\{bitcoin.conf, wallet.dat}, then they parsed the rpcuserid and rpcpassword, and tried those on wallet.dat with success.

Now IFF EFS was enabled, the they wallet.dat and bitcoin.conf files would have been scrambeld.  They would have need the certificate... which is stored in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates... which they would now have as well.... %$@#$%!!! guess I didn't think that one through.  Your right SYSTEM == REG_ACCESS == CERT_ACCESS == PWNED

Damn

I'd like to run a full node, but run it over TOR.  The caveat is that I'd like to contribute by accepting incoming connections.  I would think that this would be straight forward enough.  Just provide a switch similar to "-externalip=" but for your hidden service hash, like "-onionaddr=eqt5g4fuenphqinx.onioin".  That way a node could publish it's onion address to accept incoming connections over TOR.  Of course the node would need to set up the hidden service on the proper port, but this would allow bitcoind to plug into it.

Surely someone has proposed this before... is it already implemented?  Is there a way to do both incoming and outgoing connections through bitcoind over TOR?

Thx

Satire aside, your point is that Gov't regulation has successfully reduced vehicular death, and so perhaps Gov't regulation could reduce fire arm deaths.  The problem is that the statistics are all jacked.  Even the language is jacked.  Car "accidents" and gun "violence".  Vehicular death is much more violent than firearm death, so why is one an accident, and the other violence?  The deaths are also not broken down into criminal action and non-criminal action.

For example, Gov't regulation may reduce non-criminal vehicular death since more kids are in car seats (good).  But has Gov't regulation really reduced criminal vehicular death (ie drunk drivers and unlicenced truckers)?

Also, why isn't there a breakdown in firearm death.  Firearm deaths are all deaths with, by, near, or regarding a gun.  Rather nonsense if you ask me.  A guy robbing a convenience store and shooting the owner in cold blood... ok +1 on "gun violence".  BUT a homeowner shooting a guy who broke into his house... -1 on "gun violence" and +1 on good and positive use of firearms.  Now there is also the statistic of accidental shootings, but again, this are all lumped together in one mass number relating to all people killed by, with, near, or regarding a gun.  Honestly, its only a matter of time before they start grouping USMC casualties while in active engagements abroad as "gun violence".

When there are honest statistics (yes, that is an oxymoron) then we can have an honest comparison.

Alright, I'm convinced
1) Enact Car Control laws in all 50 states.
2) Only Law Enforcement and Gov't personnel really need cars.
3) Those in cities will use Gov't issued mass transit.
4) Those on farms will be relocated to cities.
5) Now all citizens claiming to own cars for "collector" reasons will have the death boxes confiscated and dismantled.
6) Having proven with 1-5 that a citizen's safety trumps their freedom move on to gun control.

At least that line of argument is intellectually consistent.

Premise: Freedom is dangerous
Premise: Gov't protects citizens
Conclusion: Gov't removes freedom to increase safety.

'Bout what you had in mind?

Here's an example of using ALT coin trading, buy low, sell high.  Here's a best case example from BTC-e

Lets start with $200 put into LTC, then swap BTC/LTC/BTC/LTC/BTC riding the roller coaster

___Trade___	___Date___	___Price___	___Stake___
| BTC/USD	| Jan 15	| 167.95 USD	| 1.1909 BTC
| LTC/mBTC	| Jan 23	| 6.08 mBTC	| 195.87 LTC
| BTC/LTC	| Jan 31	| 113.12 LTC	| 1.7315 BTC
| LTC/mBTC	| May 5	| 5.85 mBTC	| 295.98 LTC
| BTC/LTC	| Jun 18	| 78.31 LTC	| 3.7796 BTC

On Jan 15th, that $200 bought you 1.1909 BTC, yet at the end of the trading cycle above you ended up with 3.7796 BTC.  Of course this assumes an amazing level of clairvoyance on when to jump from BTC to LTC and back.

ref1 (LTC/BTC @ BTC-e): http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/pair/ltc/btc/btc-e/6-months
ref2 (LTC/USD @ BTC-e): http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/pair/ltc/usd/btc-e/6-months
ref3 (BTC/USD @ BTC-e): http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/pair/btc/usd/btc-e/6-months

EDIT: Missed a trade opportunity originally, now added it back in.