See, this is the difference between you and me. You don't want then to take Mariupol if it would get the rebels trapped. I don't want them to take Mariupol if that city's population DOESN'T WANT TO JOIN THEM. Why would the rebels have to "take" the city, if the city is on their side to begin with? You guys are blatantly rooting for forced takeover and subjugation of civilians without even realizing it.

So your answer is that you would choose to have a Russian passport forced on you, and be forced to live in Russia. OK then.

Good idea. We have had the question of "how do I restore my backup" a few times. We are finishing up the HD functionality, where all addresses will be restored from a single seed, so this would be good to add as a separate specific option.


I'll let Jan comment on this one. The idea of sending change to a new Entropy wallet is an interesting one, but I don't know if that would make the cold wallet feature too complex.

How do you guys know that this was left by Ukraine, and not secretly donated by Russia with a convenient cover story? You guys yourselves admitted that Russia is giving weapons assistance to the separatists.

It probably has to do with the fact that it was Russia that invaded them, Russia that was the seat of Soviet power, and basically Russia that they broke off from, after which Russia renamed itself from Soviet Union back to Russia. While still having the same soviets and KGB in power that it did before. Russia displaying imperialist tendencies, trying to take over countries and bring them back under Russian control, just as they did back when they were Soviet Union, isn't helping either.

It's really depressing seeing libertarians supporting statist socialist extremists. I support separatists. Actual separatists. I don't support foreign "volunteers," or what seem to be warlords in the making, who are imposing their will on the people actually living there. At this point, there are only three possible outcomes for these regions: 1. Russian invaders are pushed out, Ukraine holds control, and they are forced to join Europe (which has some economic freedoms and almost all personal freedoms), 2. Russia takes control and annexes these territories to be part of Russia (so they have few economic freedoms and even fewer personal freedoms, but at least have a lot of social welfare programs to depend on), or 3. both sides are pushed out, these places are given independence, and thanks to the statist socialist brainwashing of the general population, ends up being similar to Somalia at worst, or one of the failing Baltic states at best.

Honestly, these "separatists" would have been MUCH better just never starting this whole thing in the first place (which I still entirely blame Russian propaganda and fear-mongering for).

Most of those thousands are not FROM Novorossiya. They are Russians who weren't supposed to be there.

That doesn't answer my question, especially since if you lived in that country, your income would be while you lived in that country. Also, I didn't ask what citizenship you want, I asked where you would rather live if you were forced to.

Don't forget Aamir Taki's libbit coin, BitPay creating their own versions of addons, and that Bitcoin Core devs are mainly working on splitting it into separate components, so that different coders can make their own versions of components, instead of having to code the entire core (like Aamir had to). Yes, progress is slow, but thankfully so is adoption for now, and I'm optimistic that it will pick up when there is demand for it and its easier to implement.


That has almost entirely to do with regulations, not technology. There are a bunch of people in US who have ATMs already, with locations where they want to set them up, but the only thing that has been keeping them from turning those machines on in the last year is lack of regulatory approval and licenses.

"United Russia - (Russian: Еди́ная Росси́я; Yedinaya Rossiya) is the current ruling political party in Russia."

What? I'm confused. Are you saying that the party that is ruling Russia, presided over by Putin, is against all Russia? Or is enemies of Russian people? Well then I agree!


Hey, just curious, which country do you think is worse (or would hate to live in more), Russia or USA?

I'm not a fan of USA either, and am looking to move out, but if I was forced to live in one of them, I would still pick USA. How about you guys?

Typically!my merchants hire other companies to do their payment system man agent already, since those companies can then handle tracking their balances, and maybe even doing accounting. So it's likely, yes. But even if merchants accept payments themselves, with a BIP70 style payment, they receive the payment, hold onto it for a few seconds while monitoring the blockchain for double spend attempts, and then publish it. If this becomes a problem, they could even set up a deal with mining pools where they register their key with them, sign the transaction with their own key, and upload it to the pools to let them know that this should be the only transaction from that output that they should mine. Sure some minor pool might ignore it and still get lucky, but if pools charge a fee for this service, they'll have incentives to cary it out, and fairly, so their miners get the most revenue. And this is just a solution I came up with just now off the top of my head. I'm sure others will come out with something even better.



The point, as with all things bitcoin, is not oversight, but incentives. Are incentives lined up properly, and if not, how do we fix them. Above is an example.

Huh. If that's the case, $1,000,000 is a definite possibility. And I always thought that $100,000 was the most likely ceiling.

You're right, I was thinking fiat, not wealth. I wonder how much of that $241T is real, and not unbacked debt?

What I find tragically funny is that conspiracy junkies come up with a bunch of conspiracies, like in the list OP gave, then some revelations come out about actual conspiracies, which are totally different and unrelated to the ones junkies keep pushing, and then those conspiracy junkies go, "See?! That conspiracy was fact! That means mine could be a fact too!"

Sorry guys, just because new facts about some other theories are discovered, that doesn't make your theory any more valid.

BTW, you do know that satanism isn't actually a religion, and was started specifically to make fun of and scare the catholic church just a few decades ago?

United Russia party? I don't even know what that is. I am against all and any Russia, so I don't think that's me.

All the people who keep taking any CIA and USA involvement, Obama, and Western Imperialism.


So many trolls? It's just me, wasting my time and pointing out logical inconsistencies, contrived conspiracy theories, and outright lies, as I come across them. Pretty sad that one guy with a bit of free time can completely kill your soviet propaganda thread.


There's no dichotomy here. Ukraine is ruled by a left socialist government, with people who never fully let go of the old soviet style economy, but who otherwise don't care what people do and are somewhat socially liberal. Russia is ruled by ex-KGB members and wealthy oligarchs many of whom made their money by basically stealing industries and resources when Russia "privatized" them (by which I mean government officials gave them to their well connected friends), and now has a near totalitarian government that suppressed their people's freedoms, and has major imperialist ambitions and longings for the days of the USSR.


OK, update. Russia is no longer able to fool anyone that their military troops are in Ukraine, meaning that Russia invaded Ukraine.

Sorry, but ever since the Maidan protests started, there has been a MASSIVE amount of extreme anti-Ukrainian propaganda coming out of Russia, even when Ukraine was doing nothing other than protesting Yanukovich for trying to establish dictatorial powers. Don't forget that Yanukovich and Putin were buddies, and Putin needed Yanukovich to set up deals between Russia and Ukraine, so when the protests started, Russia immediately started screaming that Maidan protesters are all fascist Nazis. This propaganda never stopped, and a lot of people who SHOULD be for freedom and liberty are falling for it, thinking that Ukraine is fascist and oppressed its people, and Russia is free and trying to liberate them, when it's the other way around: Russia is very fascist and oppressive, and while Ukraine started this fight only intending to suppress essentially hooligans and thugs running around with guns threatening and shooting people, Russia used propaganda, military support, and eventually actual military to escalate this into a full blown civil war. And since so many such propaganda threads are starting up all over, I am hoping to either dispell their lies, or shut them the hell down.

Honestly, I am against Russia invading and annexing those parts of Ukraine NOT because I support Ukrainian government (I am an anarcho-capitalist), but because I am quite sure that the people living in those areas will be MUCH worth under a repressive Russian rule. Case in point, Russia has arrested and imprisoned a documentary film maker from Crimea for 5 years, because they don't like what he wanted to say. Why would any of you support a country that gives a 5 year prison sentence for speech?

Are you talking about me? Or the Christians who are trying to stop this satanist thing? Cause I'm all for these guys trolling christians.

I just tell them that consensus to fix a bug, or to add a beneficial feature, is basically guaranteed. And if it's never reached (90% of nodes never add that code), consensus won't be reached and the new code will never be implemented. On the other hand, consensus to have everyone give away a part of their money, and at the same time consensus on whom to actually give it to (miners, charity, some "bank") is practically impossible.



No, I'm saying that's a bug in Hive's software, or them restricting what is actually perfectly fine in bitcoin.


Not allowing a transaction to have an unconfirmed input doesn't actually protect Hive from anything. They should just check to make sure that the unspent input has enough of a priority (fees, etc.), and if yes, let you spend again. Mycelium and Blockchain.info wallets do that and work fine.


I didn't know enough about the technical details of that, so couldn't have anything more than an opinion based on whatever I heard devs say about it. Not being an expert on that topic, what I thought was irrelevant.


Thanks to BIP70 (Merchant Payment Protocol), you don't have to. Since the signed transaction will be sent to them for review, instead of broadcasted outright, their software can automatically check for unconfirmed inputs, verify that they have enough fees, and if not, reject the transaction back to the customer. Soon they may even be able to add their own fees to customer's unconfirmed inputs, to make sure that they do confirm. And hopefully wallet developers will keep up, or their wallets will be abandoned for having too many problems. As I said, this issue is a non issue that already has a fix.


Are you comparing this to a 6 months chargeback waiting period? Or buying a beer at a bar? Cause it's true what they say, bars and restaurants (and BitPay) don't even wait for one confirmation. I buy stuff with bitcoin all the time, and I don't know any shop (except Piiko) that does. So I don't know why Hive enforces it on its users