You can check blockchain statistics here. We don't seem to be going through a particular stress test or anything similar.


That's kind of not an option... And you can rely on the network for fast transactions, if you make them yourself...

How should I go on about uninstalling Minera and it's related packages? make uninstall doesn't seem to work.

Cryptsy is having issues. Here's their blog for more info.

Yes, if most nodes were in fact Classic nodes, it would definitely be showing a trend there... But that's not the case. Don't forget that just because node operators change their client doesn't mean that forking to that client's rules is a certainty.


Thank you, I was unaware that one could already mine with Classic. Didn't see any warning regarding that.


Correct, hence why I said nobody would really switch... Faking nodes could be easily detected, like the case you referred from when someone deployed a huge number of fake nodes. That's not support and makes your statement true.

Understandable. Thank you for your effort.


Wasn't expecting this so soon, interesting

No, just having more Classic nodes won't make people switch. These nodes are just relaying transactions like Core, XT and Unlimited nodes... And last time I checked, you couldn't even mine with a Classic node.

Both should be around 120GB with default settings. It's more or less what I have. Something's probably wrong with your Armory and you definitely don't have your Core client synced.

Signature issues seem to be on lower resolutions indeed... When I read about them I noticed the irregularities, but I was on my laptop which is 1366X768, running Linux Mint and Chrome. My Windows 10 + Chorme 1440X900 desktop displays the signature just fine. never noticed if this always happened or not, as I don't use my laptop often. I can only say I'm 100% sure the signature always displayed correctly on my desktop. Hope this helps figuring out what's up...

As for payments, mine seems to be on hold too, and no sight of the funds from when the bot changed either.

Hahaha! "The noise is a problem, but not like the world cup"

This was one epic find... Worth the post. Nice one OP

For those saying that dentists are this or that and won't accept Bitcoins... There are quite a few who already do, and I remember reading a couple years back about a dentist being one of the first accepting Bitcoin and one of the first people in the medical business doing so. Since I can't link that one (not sure where I read about it), here goes other dentists accepting Bitcoin:

http://bitcoin.travel/listings/emident/ (In Budapest, curiously)
http://www.dcdclinic.org/ (these apparently do too, although no mention of it on their website)
https://meidanklinikka.fi/ (These accept Bitcoin too)

And there's also this

Just searching for dentists+bitcoin gives us some options.

Also, OP, what do you understand by "heavy dental work"? And why is it worth it to fly to Budapest just for that? Prices must be really, really good and the service top notch...

Everyone would definitely go for that


He's pretty much too old to get anything, I think. Fresh faces on the government would be much better.

You cannot run a node for free. Unless you steal bandwidth and electricity which is obviously incorrect


What's the host?


It's feasible, and there are people running nodes this way... But obviously not on the 512MB RAM Pi B You've got to have a Pi B 2, which has 1GB RAM.

For now you can even run the node solely on the Pi, using a 128GB card. You can even run it portably, on an external battery, using wifi or a 4G connection (I haven't tried this, but it's not an impossibility)

I've only done one transaction using a PayPal account and I've paid more in fees on this transaction than I've paid in fees in 2 or 3 months using Bitcoin... So there's that. PayPal is immesurably more expensive.

To new users ending up here and/or old users outdated or currently unaware of what's happening: Alan Reiner (etotheipi) has ceased to take an active part in developing Armory, and Armory Technologies, Inc. isn't responsible for Armory anymore. More about that here.

goatpig is now in charge of Armory as it can be seen here and will continue actively developing Armory, for the time being.

Meanwhile, Armory's website is offline. If you need sources you can go here (goatpig's GitHub) and if you need binaries you can download them from here, which is also from goatpig's GitHub.

Just a TL;DR for confused and/or lazy people

I suspected that. Anyways, it's you call, fine by me and pretty much anyone else on this thread, we know how to get our source and binaries from... I suggested this after reading about a user having issues with an older version and well... the binaries have to be somewhere visible for people who spend less time here to update. I haven't taken the liberty to create a thread with links and an explanation because it wouldn't be stickied and would probably get lost between all the threads I don't think mods would stick a thread not made by you.

No pictures up yet, as far as I've seen... Do I really have to go watch it now? haha

Bitcoin is about giving the power of holding your funds back to you. Why would you trust a third party to hold them for you, especially since you're going to buy a nice sum of coins? It makes no sense. That's what we already have, it's called a bank, and it's the reason most people end up here.

Example: would you trust me to hold your coins? If you went on holidays, would you trust me the keys to your house?

There's a saying around the forum that goes "if you don't own your keys, you don't own any Bitcoin", and that's correct (we don't even need to talk about Mt. Gox, Cryptsy, etc to verify this statement as true).

So, in short, if you don't mind losing your coins, then yes, you can trust any wallet.

You have web wallets with 2FA/SMS. Examples have been given. Use them with caution and with amount you can afford to lose. If you want to store big amounts, a cold storage method is a must have.

Highly doubt it. It would give him a dubious image and it wouldn't win him many votes, if any at all. I also don't think he desires to be involved in Bitcoin... He's a politician after all.

You can trust them as much as you would trust a third party to hold coins for you.

Looks scammy to me

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1344233.0