Naja aber unterm Anzug sieht er ja aus, als hätte eine alte Avocado Sex mit einer noch älteren Avocado gehabt.

Gutmensch-Faschismus nenne ich das. Da kommt noch was auf uns zu, wenn die derart indoktrinierte Jugend mal das Sagen hat und bis dahin nicht zur Vernunft kommt.

Was gibt es da nachzudenken? Da liest einer Texte von 1894 vor, die halt entsprechend auf dem Stand des ausgehenden 19. Jh. sind.
Damit ist selbst bei einer nur mäßig gebildeten Bevölkerungsschicht heute kein Blumentopf mehr zu gewinnen.

Ich formuliere es mal um: Sollte nicht zu gewinnen sein.

Rico

So viel, dass Du dafür hier einen Betrug begehen würdest? Denn deswegen wurde ja hier die Diskussion losgetreten. "Es sei nicht sicher, ob Du nach dem Erhalt der 125(?) EUR die 0.2 BTC auch losschicken würdest."

Ich lehne mich aus dem Fenster und behaupte nein.

Denn das ist mein Punkt: Hier wird standardmäßig auch bei solchen Beträgen kriminelle Energie unterstellt (Straftatbestand: Betrug). Wenn ich einen Nick sehe, der seit über einem Jahr dabei ist, hier 200+ Beiträge hat, keinen "Vorsicht!" Trustlevel und es geht um 120 EUR UND ich bei der Überweisung Kontonummer, Name (ggf. Telefon) gesagt bekommen, dann ist das für mich trusty genug.

Ich bin zwar nicht auf EInkaufstour, aber alleine schon aus Demo-Gründen würde ich die 0.2 BTC kaufen. Hast sie immer noch?


Rico

Kann ich vollkommen verstehen. Das typische Trustgelaber hier halt - geht mir langsam enorm auf die Nerven.

Wie soll bitteschön der Trustlevel unter dem Nick steigen, wenn man nicht die Möglichkeit bekommt mal persönlich Trust aufzubauen oder eben niemandem vertraut.

0.2 BTC erscheinen mir jetzt auch nicht die Welt um da gleich einen Mittelsmann einzuschalten (von der Perversion der P2P Idee mal ganz abgesehen). Bei 50 BTC sieht das natürlich anders aus.

Egal - sorry für den Rant, nicht mein Problem. Wenn die Community sich in diesem Thema derart suhlen will, werde ich diese Masturbationspraxis nicht verurteilen. Nichwa?



Rico

Nur fürs nächste Mal: Ich habe hier (in Prag) die Satoshi Labs direkt vor meiner Haustüre.

Wenn Interesse besteht, kann ich solche Bestellungen hier persönlich abwickeln und dann aus D-Land versenden, da ich häufig zwischen Prag und Nürnberg pendle.


Rico

That sh*t is not even available (with reasonable effort) as package in my linux distribution.

Why should I care?

Where is coinmap.org for Ether?

Pre-mined as hell 60/77 mio Eth, "hidden" as crowdfunding.

The thugs did sell, then bought back in when it crashed and cornered the market. now they can pump and move.

Yeah - bitcoin id ded. Totally. All hail eth. Please all sell your btc, so I get it cheap.


R.

# uptime
 17:47:49 up 35 days, 19:42,  1 user,  load average: 0.14, 0.21, 0.29

# bitcoin-cli  getconnectioncount
97

Thanks, but obviously my node with its 8 CPUs, 64GB RAM, 2.2GB/s IO and dedicated 1Gps right on the ISP switch is nowhere near utilizing the hardware with the default parameters. That's why I am asking how to tweak these to make use of the hardware (and be useful to the network).


Rico

Hi,

I've been running a full node for quite some time and am pretty high in the https://bitnodes.21.co/nodes/leaderboard/ - it's fun.

However - in the metrics of the leaderboard computation, there is a

NI = Nodes index
    NI = (p ∩ N) / N
        p = number of peers returned in addr responses
        N = number of reachable nodes


which is constantly low with my node and it seems no one gets really high numbers there.
What parameters would I need to feed to bitcoind, so that number gets higher?
Also this brings me to the more generic question "What parameters could I use to run a really really heavy duty full node?"
By heavy duty I mean a full node "serving" a lot of peers.
The machine I run it on could probably pull a lot, so I would like to test the limits.

Thanks for the hints.


Rico

Maybe 2016 will be your year if http://www.joulecoin.org/ becomes un-suspended again.


Rico

I have an Antminer S3+ left with 450GH/s on free power.

Gives me about 20$ a month which will ROI in about 7 months (of which I still have 4 or so left) as I bought it with the power supply for roughly $150.

I use it for two reasons:

 1) to have a nice daily look at the eligius.st charts
 2) as a motivational and affirmative tool how much the BTC price is undervalued


Rico

Hi.

Up to now I had bitcoin-qt on my notebook and every once in a while I start it up and it syncs with the network. The blockchain is taking something over 40GB on my notebook SSD and while it's still ok, the temporary availability of my bitcoin node and the space requirements does not seem like a viable long-term solution.

I have therefore installed and run a bitcoind on my server, which will be able to support the bitcoin network permanently on a 1Gbps link until the blockchain is about 1.6TB big ;-)

Now:

The bitcoind on the server has no wallet and of course no graphical UI, I would like to keep using the bitcoin-qt on my notebook, but a) without the blockchain space requirments and b) without the sync delay on startup.

Possible?

I had hoped to be able to give the bitcoin-qt on my notebook the IP and rpcuser/rpcpassword of the bitcoind server and to just connect for blockchain info while managing the wallet locally. While this would be the ideal situation in my case, it seems I cannot find the necessary configuration to do that.

Does it even exist? If yes, please advise. If no, how could I achieve something similar to my plan?


Rico

Ich würde ja gerne bei einem der nächsten Treffen vorbeikommen, aber es wäre nett wenn mal jemand was zum Programm sagen könnte.

Weil wenn wieder 90% der Zeit über Ethereum gequatscht werden würde, dann muss ich nochmal ein paar Monate aussetzen.



Rico

Plenty of water, sunlight, good soil and much care.

Rico

• it's neat technology
• it's a real alternative to fiat and other commodity
• it's pretty subversive - I like that
• it's giving me the feel of "power" - compared to the feel my fiat bank gives me
• it's giving me the feel of "enlightenment" - I knew nothing about money before I studied Bitcoin
• and probably more...

Rico

Depends. 

If you mean the 1st Bitcoin I *allegedly* had, that came from Gox.

If you mean the 1st Bitcoin I really had, that came from my CPU, or - if you really mean Bitcoin and not fractions thereof - it came from a KnC Jupiter.

Well, to be even more precise it came from Slush.


Rico

Because the question is not "exactly 1 Bitcoin" nor is it "at least one Bitcoin", my answer is: no.

Might be skewing the stats though.


Rico

http://bitcoinblog.de/2015/04/02/supergeil-bei-edeka-mit-bitcoins-lebensmittel-bestellen/

Nevertheless I wrote today a congrats letter to Edeka Management

https://www.edeka.de/kontaktformular.jsp

and hope that I will soon be able to just scan the QR-code at the PoS.


Rico

And let me clarify upfront: The reasons for my positive attitude can be classified as "Techno-Darwinism".

Bitcoin and its underlying blockchain is an incredible piece of technology. The reason I write "piece" and not "masterpiece", is because there are still dark places. Some we know and I believe some we still don't know. From time to time these dark places appear on our radar and sometimes they stab us in the back unannounced.

Remember - among others - the "faucet" bitcoin client in 2010 that allowed you to create large amounts of bitcoin? Or the March 2013 hard fork?

I'm talking solely about the technical blows Bitcoin experienced, not the socio-economical like thefts, Go[of]xs and the like. Guess what happened *every single time*? That's right: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It may seem twisted to you, but following this, we should actually try to kill Bitcoin more often and in a more systematic way.

I do not propose Bitcoin XT. In fact, I hope it will vanish deep in the anals of history - so to speak. ;-)

On the other hand, the limits regarding transactions is a serious issue and anybody who would like Bitcoin to become more popular and widely accepted should agree that this problem (and a problem it is) has to be solved and it has to be solved for good.

For me personally, just increasing the max. block size is not a good solution, but then again I have not contributed a single line to the core/client. Some adaptive mechanism would be better, and a more generic concept of offloading transactions (merchant sidechains) probably even more so.

If nothing else, this stress test would lead us somewhere where we have never been before. Reminds me of a recent session with https://loader.io/ where we tested a web site. The productive one, I might add. Result: About 2 hours of intermittent downtime and bad availability, but in the end the site is now able to flawlessly cope with twice as many concurrent clients (1000) than before when 500 started to take it down. Plus we now have better insight where and how to scale.

If someone is willing to spend 100 BTC to enable(!) the Bitcoin community to do a similar thing and announces this in advance, I cheer to him. Bitcoin is still very young and still has to prove itself. Events like these contribute to the proof of concept.


Rico