Transaction times are not ridiculous, they're instant. How are they marked high priority? Did you calculate priority yourself?

As for dice sites, most required X confirmations before crediting.

You can send 0 fee transactions with pretty much any client, and have it confirmed on the next block, depending on network conditions and your inputs.

More news on this... Seems pretty interesting, has anyone tested it yet?

You can try to message them here, I assume this is their official account. They have no official thread, as far as I could see. Also, if you feel you've been scammed, there's a Scam Accusations board

The correct place to post about faucets is here

Indeed, lol, this is hilarious in ways I can't even describe! haha. They're ridiculous, I really do not get it what they mean with new money. PayPal is one of the biggest advocates of old money in modern days, saying otherwise is having visors in their eyes like racing horses... Good try.

So that being said what's your opinion on blockstream?


The thing that makes it special in this case is it wouldn't die if devs started quitting.

This is actually really great! Makes me remember those machines that were around when I was a little kid, but this time using Bitcoin! I wonder how he did that, what machine is powering it and how... Excellent project!

Why are there reasons to worry? They're not competition.


Name isn't everything. IBM developers do not have experience building cryptocurrencies, neither do they have that much experience around blockcahins. They're most likely just building tools built on top of a blockchain, not a currency...

Just checked your edit. I also thought it was really odd to have a Core dev experiencing issues and things went smooth here..

Thanks for replying. Yes, only relied on pics for measurements, my bad. I'll consider ordering one.

These pics look interesting. It looks way bigger on your website. I'm very curious as to what this is, Arduino or a Raspberry Pi?

What changed these days? The essence is still the same... The only difference is, more people come because money. But they soon realize what's this all about. People learn about Bitcoin and start looking around differently and see that they were blindfolded all their life and their financial freedom was nothing but an illusion. People see that banks were pretty much getting ready for the long con...

We still want to set people free. Free from financial restrains and free from scams.

I am still as excited about Bitcoin as I was around 3/4 years ago when I first heard about Bitcoin.

I probably wouldn't do anything different than I'm doing right now... Or maybe I'd buy more So not voting as nothing really fits me.

Downloaded Ubuntu and setting up a VM a few minutes after you posted, it's finishing installing now... I'm giving it a shot too to see what's up. Also want to check up on Ubuntu

EDIT: Bitcoin Core 0.12 runs perfectly out of the box on the daily image I've downloaded from Ubuntu's website. I've downloaded the Core tar from bitcoin.org, which I assume is what most people do. Also tried adding the repository, which doesn't work, as expected. Armory however does not install from the deb, which I again assume is the way most people try to install it.

EDIT2: downloaded the offline installer and did dpkg -i *.deb, errored out. Did apt-get install python2.7 and terminal requested me to do apt-get -f install, which I did and in the end it said "Armory installed successfully". So I'm having success with both Core and Armory too... Doesn't seem to be breaking any compatibility so far whatsoever (at least it installs, not sure if it runs fine ). Tried with Armory 0.93.3, BTW, can try later with the most recent test versions.

This was indeed a missed opportunity to spread Bitcoin... Didn't knew they were going to release in the wild a bot like this, otherwise I'd be on top of it. Apparently only 4chan people knew about this as they completely dominated the bot's speech...

Yes, Bitcoin is legal, and even if it was illegal, no government can stop blocks from being mined... But UK banks sometimes have to wire money to other places where legality might be challenged or at least activities related to Bitcoin might be question because of misendeavors by a few community members.

Banks will eventually be replaced. At least that's what we're all here aiming for. So it's fair that they see us as competition. What I cannot understand is why they don't take the profits before they fall, just like Fidor. So at least my second option remains, banks are simply not looking for money, which I find odd. Their loss, our gain. But yes, we do need banks like Fidor, for now As for supporting banks... No, I've had enough of that. Everyone I know that supported banks has either lost all his money or on the brink of losing it.

So they're Bitcoin friendly when an exchange hires their service in order to transfer funds resulting from selling Bitcoin... I see Definitely a good way for them to have clients. If I owned a bank, I'd definitely be friendly with whoever can bring cash flow from legal businesses.

I assume banks rejecting to serve Bitcoin related services are afraid that Bitcoin is suddenly ruled to be illegal or aren't really looking for money (which is odd).

Every wallet is a good wallet to keep Bitcoin safe. There are no known vulnerabilities in the most widely used wallets. Things just depend on how you protect yourself and how much you get used to the wallet you use. No point in using an extremely secure wallet in a compromised security or using a very secure wallet that you don't know how to operate in order to fully secure it or a wallet you don't find handy to use.

I'm obviously already excluding web wallets, for reasons stated above


I also don't get it what's so good about web wallets when you have better and as fast wallets where you store keys yourself

As for Armory, it is a really, really good wallet software, but it is a bit advanced (I assume you're a new user, since you state you're a noob). Despite this, it's not impossible to start with Armory. You just have to try it and read about it. It may have a steeper learning curve but if you master Armory you're pretty much ready to use Bitcoin securely.

It works as cold storage if you have it on an offline computer and a watch-only wallet on an online computer.


They do, if you have a spare iDevice that you don't connect to the Internet, lol


This is not correct. 2FA on a web wallet doesn't guarantee you won't get your funds freezed.

Good to see that these guys have their bumps every now and then... But still, their growth is impressive. And we're the ones blindly fueling it. We must stop it by educating people in order to switch to Bitcoin, or a similar cryptocurrency in the future.

These guys fill their pockets with our money and then fade away, some without any repercussions to their acts. This has happened before, and it will happen again. Time to give people back what's already theirs.


Are they really Bitcoin friendly? Bank + Bitcoin in the same sentence doesn't even match.