Sad to see 5883 BTC wasted on the address ranked third. Other than that I see some well applied funds there

Before reaching whatever price, merchant adoption is good news because it will help spread Bitcoin and have it accepted in more places...

I agree, they should, and they would probably be doing so if there were less nodes (and then again, I'm not sure if they would, some miners probably think their nodes are enough ). That being said, of course they're earning more than they need to operate the miners... Who would mine if they weren't earning more than they need to pay their bills?


Identifying fake nodes would be the hardest part, indeed. The second part is probably not a big issue, I think, bitnodes distributed Bitcoin through their rewards program by examining nodes, giving points to those who were contributing more to the networking and distributing funds using this algorithm, so it's possible to prioritize rewards this way.

Suggestion box is open in order to avoid fake nodes

It's not overkill. You're mining for the coins... Who tells you miners do not need their coins? I think it's exactly the opposite.

I don't think most miners and pools would be pleased to see a % of their income to be directed towards full nodes, at least for now.

Miners also collect money from fees... So to them it's pretty much the same as taking it from a block.

It's probably technically possible, but impossible in practice.

Voted "it's possible". For all we know Bitcoin can die tomorrow, so... Although that's highly unlikely, obviously

I think that by the time Bitcoin mining ends we either have something better than Bitcoin or Bitcoin will have developed so much that we can't call it Bitcoin anymore. I don't think it will have an abrupt end and things like Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology won't cease to exist.

I've been paid 0.0128 BTC for 2016-03-06 (06:13:10), which is correct and links to the correct transaction. I've been also paid 0.0184 BTC for 2016-03-13 which is correct but does not link to the correct transaction (in this transaction I've been paid 0.02 BTC extra which I presume to be the "bonus"). However I have not been paid for the 0.064 BTC for 2016-03-06 (07:31:50), which I find odd because it's between two payments that have been correctly sent.

Any estimates on when payments will finally be on track? Should I send another PM to marcotheminer and/or Bitcoin_BOy$ ?

Funny try. Stats sites got tricked again! Is the attacker already known?


That's why the OP probably named the thread "virtual server" because that's what they are

And that's not even a bad experience for what concerns banks... You could have had something like this happen.


The user just moved money virtually inside the bank's network... Real, physical funds were moved from the ATM. He even "reversed" what he did right after. How does this cost 3.5$ to the bank?

Do you have any idea how much these academics receive to say certain things in scientific papers/articles?

WD already had a storage solution for Raspberry's, so I don't really see why only this product was in the news... I hope it's an improvement to previous product and can run with a single psu and usb connection directly to the RPi while having really low power consumption. This will definitely be nice to run a small, inexpensive node

You have to update when your version is useless and cannot create valid transactions or when there are deep changes on the Bitcoin protocol...

I'm willing to bet that the forum simply doesn't update post count in real time.

http://www.engadget.com/2016/03/13/microsoft-store-stops-taking-bitcoin/


Quite unfortunate I wonder why they left Bitcoin...

Yes, it will be compatible, at least for now

Woah... That was one aggressive announcement. I used to like that website as it gives insight about connected nodes, not so much anymore.

If they really want people to switch to Classic, then hurry the Classic dev team to implement the changes they've proposed quicker and make their client offer better than we have with Core.

Just click on the picture and you have the original one.

As it says on their page you can download their page and run it offline.

Basically you can generate the addresses you need offline, with their tool (or any other), but if you really want to have a third party (escrow) in your transaction you'd better choose someone that's widely known and accepted and not just a random website. You have a few trusted escrow services available on the forum, I think some of them even accept working with multisig addresses.

Just tell them you believe the concept of being in charge of your own money. If people don't believe in Bitcoin the currency, they must believe on blockchain technology or at least the concept... No way of denying that storing your own money securely is infinitely better than giving it to banks. People will start thinking differently if you show them the basic concept.