Unfortunatelly for you and for majority of people, reality is not what most people wish for. It never was like that and never will be. It will be even much less in BTC-economy, because it will be even more antidemocratic than recent systems.

how much is the middle Price?

I saw a thread that was discussing the fact that blockchain.info's node will accept certain transactions that will be rejected by other nodes and as a result the TX will never get confirmed. This could be an example of this. Someone did mention that you could get the TX confirmed by submitting the signed TX to the node of f2pool aka discuss fish or eligius

"I am not Dorian Nakamoto"

Lol is only 1 i know

Since 2007.  At some point I became convinced there was a way to do this without any trust required at all and couldn't resist to keep thinking about it.  Much more of the work was designing than coding.

How would you pave the roads or build school or build hospitals genius?

Oh, yeah, a community effort... where everyone pitches what they can... oh wait a minute... Joe has a bigger farm than me, ...

If your argument was true, every person would then say " Of course we need taxes, but keep people who earn as much as me out of the tax net".

Are you sure about the difficulty not being able to decrease by more then 75% in one adjustment? I know that one of the early adjustments almost was 4x and satoshi mentioned that it was close to the limit, however I have never seen anything regarding there being any limits as to how much the difficulty can go down.

0x0.05a3f4 * (0x100 ^ 0x1c) = 0x0000000005a3f400000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 = 92413 * 2^202

0x0.0168fd * (0x100 ^ 0x1c) = 0x000000000168fd00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 = 92413 * 2^200

45.3858223410126280934500557280902037592113663662038890632270351573...

181.5432893640505123738002229123608150368454654648155562529081406295...

not a fake acct, anyone who knows me can verify this.

There was a backup on my computer of the wallet. So if they breached my PC somehow, they would have just needed the 10 digit password.

Confirmation of transactions would take longer untill we hit the next difficulty adjustment. After that difficulty would be decreased. I am not 100% certain if there is a maximum the difficulty can change per adjustment, but I suspect there is.

Just try to speculate what would happen if that thing did not exist.
What would happen if there were no taxes and hence no roads were built, no police force was around, etc..

Incidentally, yes wealth inequality is a problem, in that 99% of the people on the planet do 100% of the producing but only get to keep 40% of what they produce, while the other 1% that produce nothing, get to keep 60% based entirely on the luck of what family they were born into.  

It is really more about the rule of law and what is good for society as a whole. When the government imposes taxes on it's citizens, it is effectively forcing them to pay for things that is good for society as a whole.

Hi everybody, i have a question regarding the cascads and transaction fees.

So, in the first post it says that you can get better anonymity when you cascade your outputs.

If i have 5 BTC and find e.g. 3 People who also want to anonymize 5 BTC i can make a CoinJoin transcation tx_1 with them. The first (minor) problem is, that we have to pay transaction fees. So every praticipant have inputs with at least 5.1 BTC (0.1 BTC for fees). If we have that, we can make the transaction tx_1 where the outputs have a value of 5 BTC.
The problem that i see is, that if i want to cascade, say 3 times, i have to pay transaction fees every time.
I see two ways one could do that.

1. The transaction fees for the second transaction, which uses the output from transaction tx_1 is paid only from that output/input. So i have to find participants who want to make a CoinJoin Transaction with an Output of 4.9 BTC (5BTC - 0.1 Fee) which could be hard, or i find participants who want to make a transaction with less than 4.9 BTC. If i allow participants with lower values the rest is send to an change address of mine. But in this case i can't , in the beginning, know how much Bitcoins i have left in the output after say three cascades.
So if i want a cascade of three and at the end i want to have 5 anonymous BTCs the first Input must be 5.3 BTC -> output ist 5.2. The second Input is 5.2 BTC -> output 5.1 BTC. The third Input is 5.1 BTC -> 5.0 output.
I think it could be hard to find participants with exactly the amount of Inputs that i need. Furthermore i have to know in advance how long my cascade has to be and how much bitcoins i want in the end.

2. The transaction fees is paid by another Input.
So Alice makes transaction tx_1 with an  Input of 5.1 BTC -> output is 5.0 BTC.
The second transaction tx_2 consists of the Input with 5.0 BTC from the last transaction, and a new Input with 0.1 BTC for my fees.
Assume an attacker who can match all Bitcoin addresses to the person behind these addresses excluding the output addresses used for outputs in CoinJoin transactions.
If Alice uses an address  for the transaction fees input , which the attacker can match to Alice, the attacker knows which output of tx_1 belongs to Alice.
Why?
The attacker knows who participates in tx_1 because he knows the persons behind the inputs. The only thing he doesn't knows is, which ouput belongs to which participan. But if one output is used in a second transaction in which Alice pays the fees for, and no other input in that transaction could come from Alice, the only plausible way is, that Alice is the owner of the ouput from tx_1 which is used in tx_2. In that case the anonymity of the CoinJoin Transaction tx_1 is broken.
This even works if the fee Input comes from another CoinJoin transaction. You just have to look at the inputs of the CoinJoin transaction uses for the fee input, if one input matches an address of Alice you can be pretty sure, that the output from tx_1 also belongs to Alice.

So my question is, am i missing something, or is this really a problem when using cascades in CoinJoin. Cause i see no other option than the first case, if you want to use cascades and don't want the anonymity broken by the fees.

I hope you can unterstand what i mean.

Greetings
Duky

Could you explain why a transaction included in a block increases the probability that the block will be orphaned?

You are correct. It doesn't matter if Sallie Q American values the welfare of her cat over the life of a starving child in Sub Saharan Africa or elsewhere. But Sallie should just bear that in mind when her son little Johnny is diagnosed with leukemia. Maybe that's what it would take before she'll realize the selfishness in her way of thinking.

House pets can be special things in people's lives. I get that. But to even suggest that a dog or cat is more valuable to the world than a human being speaks volumes about you. Particularly if you are not a vegan.

Contrary to popular American belief...little brown kids in far away places are more important than your ugly family dog...you should act like it.

Contrary to popular American belief...little brown kids in far away places are more important than your ugly family dog...you should act like it.

Having a fee is a great way to avoid having to many unnecessary transactions but the miners don't need the fees to profit right now, the block reward is enough so even lower fees in average could be possible.