Can anyone explain how they plan to protect the privacy of the buyers. If we use them as a proxy for our online shopping, will they somehow link our bitcoin addresses with the gift cards we purchase from them? This is an important point regarding privacy, because the next step is shopping on Amazon, where you have to enter your private data to receive the shipment.

For a CPU it seems to be a fantastic hash rate.

Considering for example how intel I9 stands:

Your tips are not bad, but I would suggest not to beg for merits. It will not help you, quite the contrary.
Even if someone found your post of excellent quality, they wouldn't give you merits just because you asked.

Let me share one additional tip how to find a good bounty campaign:

5. Look for established users of higher rank and a great number of earned merit points. Check the signatures they wear. They have most likely selected the best bounty campaigns already.

What do you mean deleted? How can one delete coins? Coins are nothing but unspent transaction outputs. They are still there in the public ledger. The only thing he could have done is burn his private key(s) so no one can access them ever. If indeed is true that he did own so many of them.

Simply because it is a phrase. According to this urban dictionary, the expression "to the moon" means:


and there is the phrase, "to the moon and back", as in "He loves her to the moon and back"
which people use when they want to express something which is huge, or to measure something which is hard to measure, something unmeasurable.

RavenCoin, RVN

I wouldn't discard the issue of stability so easily. To reply to your comment, there is an interesting medium article. It nicely illustrates the
concerns and danger of Bitcoin's centralization and having a lot of hash-power concentrated in the hands of several entities.

Exactly. I can't understand why it is so difficult to distinguish between an exchange and a wallet.
Coinbase is an exchange (website), not a wallet.
Electrum is a wallet (computer program), not an exchange.
See, really easy to distinguish.
People stop storing your coins in an exchange. Store them locally, on your computer in a wallet.


A good wallet will set reasonable fees so that your transaction is received in a reasonable period of time. But in the end, you are free to set the fees manually.
The transaction times will depend on the fees. If you set them too low, the transaction time will increase.The reason is that miners prefer to include transactions with higher fees in the blocks they mine.

I can confirm this. When I installed Tails, the built-in Electrum was an older version ( 2.7.9 if I'm not mistaken).
But the really annoying part was that it wouldn't sign transactions.
Being an amnesic operating system, Tails also would not allow you any new installation. That is, you would have to reinstall a new version of Electrum every time you restart your computer.

I get your point about the importance of transparency and listening to the community. A strong community can help a lot. That's for sure. But your coin also has to solve a real problem if it's going to last.


Proof of capacity is a nice concept but we yet have to see a sustainable solution. The only real implementation seems to be Burstcoin. I think it is still early to say how it will develop.

Thanks for that. Totally agree with your clarifications and improvements of point #2. The ways newbies tend to interpret things is really astonishing. And when people have no technical background at all, it's even harder. They can easily be confused and get all sorts of crazy ideas.

First of all if we are talking about Bitfortip, three should also be a link to their website. It took me a while to find it on your website. Second of all, it would have been nice if there was an example of actual use case in the article about Bitfortip you wrote on your website. What I would like to know is, for example: Have you made any money with them? Or maybe you know someone who has. How much do they pay? It would be better to know more details in advance.

Exactly my point too. You need skillful developers by your side. Community is fine, but they are in no position to make major decisions. Even if you closely listen to what your community wants, it all comes down to a good team of a few people (developers) around you. And sometimes, what the community thinks is best, isn't really. One genius developer is worth more that all the communities in the world. When Satoshi started Bitcoin, there was virtually no community of this type. Yes, he communicated his ideas with some mailing lists (highly specialized around cryptography), just to get feedback regarding his future project. But in no way did they crucially impact his brilliant ideas. So yes, community is needed, and good interaction is needed, but start looking for a good team if you are really serious about creating your own coin.

Why do you think a paper wallet is not a secure option for beginners?
Paper wallets are among the most secure wallets, for beginners of otherwise.
Here is a nice guide I think a beginner can follow:

https://hackernoon.com/securely-generating-and-storing-an-ethereum-wallet-907bcbd8e5ae

It is much better for every beginner to invest some time to figure out how to store their coins securely, than to rush and use unsafe solutions.

Thanks for the correction. I didn't mean that one could guess the parent keypair from their child pairs, however, my wording was misleading.

I was under the impression that the safety of the Master Public Key is not so essential. After all, it is used to create a watch-only wallet.
I get it that all child private keys should be kept safe, the same way one should keep safe the master private key.
What if just the Master Public Key is leaked without a child private key?

If I use a hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallet, like Electrum, I get a huge number of addresses.

Obviously each address has to correspond to a public key, and also each public key has to correspond to a private key.

I understand that there is a well ordered sequence of private keys and similar well ordered sequence of public keys. The child key in this sequence is derived from the previous, parent key.

They all lead back to just one original public key and just one original private key.

Now the question:

Say I pick up a random address from the pool of addresses that my wallet has generated. I use it to pay something.

Say I choose another address and use it to pay for something else.

Is there a direct way to correlate these two addresses?
Is there a way to tell that they are from the same wallet?
Is there an indirect way to do the same?
What's the best practice as far as privacy is concerned when using your HD Wallet generated addresses?
Is it enough to pick a new address every time?

Thank you in advance!

In order to find a hidden gem in real life, you would have to search, to dig into the dirt and mud, and spend a lot of time doing that. And there's no guarantee that you will find one.
The same is true with hidden gems in the crypto-space. You have to do your own due diligence, your own research to increase the chances of finding one.
How tiresome is going through thousands of white papers, checking the team of developers, estimating the utility value of the tokens.
No one is going to deliver the solution on a plate. There's no such thing.

If you have them on binance, then you don't really have them on your own address. It's binance's address. Once you have transferred them to your own address (receiving address of your wallet, which is controlled by your own private key), you can check them using an online tool such as ethplorer. Then you would be able to put your address and check the amount of tokens.

Edit. I don't really think that you can use their deposit address. They might be using it for other people's coins. Not sure about this, maybe someone can clarify this further.

You might want to check this bitcointalk post about how long you would have to wait till your coins mature. I've never used this particular coin, but it seems that the waiting time is inversely proportional to the amount of coins you currently own. Hope this helps.