You have a nice thread summing everything "big block support" related here. And some random info scattered around different threads. And yes, I think people are tired of talking about it... For sure, I am  We're also all waiting on moves from the devs. |
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Did you do it in a Live CD environment or on the installed OS? Either way it's probably impossible to recover, sorry...
Either way, if your offer of 20 BTC still stands you should escrow them. Who knows? Someone might help you somehow...
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Shameful? More like hilarious! It was a brilliant marketing exercise, using XT's social engineering attacks to bring in suckers to help mine some blocks.
Nothing hilarious in making a move like this. Supporting a specific client and/or BIP should be something done, not simply thought out. Slush apparently only thought out and didn't really act. He didn't support his beliefs with an act. He should have simply change the client on the big block support port. Decisions like these in Bitcoin should be weighed in. It's the future of the whole system and economy we're deciding. You expected an established pool to just suddenly drop untested shite like XT into their production environment,
Yes, I did. What makes the spoofed client more reliable than the client that supports big blocks? What makes the client that supports big blocks less reliable than the spoofed client or the reference client? I'm talking stability-wise only, of course. just to appease some cranky insignificant Gavinista malcontent splinter group?
This has nothing to do with a single entity in my opinion. So I seriously don't know what to say about the "cranky insignificant Gavinista malcontent splinter group" But hey, at least your not among the dead-enders bitterly clinging to the idea that Slush wasn't spoofing, Because Intentions And Stuff.
The way to hell is paved with good intentions. |
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Good news, images on recent posts link were pretty bothersome.
Also... gay porn? WTF is up with that? Glad I never came across it, really can't see why such a thing would fit a speculation thread, or the whole forum even.
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I see Cyrus is on it as we speak, deleting threads. Looks like he stopped meanwhile,
Handled almost 100 reports before he stopped(left a couple of redirection topics to the trashcan to let users know I'm on it and that we've received eenough reports). He's banned now. Great! That guy EmpoEX has been hacked or atleast pretends to be a lot the last couple of months. Do you know if he got his account back after the first time? Good one bringing it to mods attention OP
Thanks, just doing what I can, I'm very frequently around here so not an issue reporting these things ASAP Another suspicious user, this time with a different MO. it's just the usual newbies posting their crap in the wrong section. a mod will nuke it quick. kinda OT, but I noticed that there's been a LOT of newbies lately. is it just me, or..? It's already been nuked apparently. Not sure if he was spreading malware too. There doesn't seem to be more newbies lately (or I simply learned to disregard them, or only see the "wrong" sections ) |
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Another suspicious user, this time with a different MO.
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Shameful that Slush isn't really running a client that supports big blocks. Wasn't expecting this from them. They publicised their pool as big Block supporting and gave miners a tutorial to join them in the big Block pool, but end up spoofing  I wonder how many pools REALLY support big blocks and if any block has been mined with a client that has not been spoofed. Giving the idea that you support something isn't really the same as supporting it. That known website that tracks blocks also seem to have stopped differentiating spoofed from real nodes. Anyways, I certainly know what nodes I'm running. |
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Well I am on Android and I am using a Bitcoin ticker widget. In apple store it goes by the name BITCOIN ticker by XT apps Ltd. This is by far the best and the most comprehensive Bitcoin application for following price that I have used.
You have many options to set, alarms, many different views, settings, etc.. Give it a try, you might like it.
Cheers!
WOW, IT IS EXACTLY THIS.  Thank you sooooooo much. It is perfect. If this is what you'd like, Coinbits and ZeroBlock apparently do the same (I use both, pretty good apps). Despite this, I'm installing Bitcoin Ticker now too, as it has an Apple Watch app which none of the others have and it's an app I'll certainly use. Thanks Mickeyb  Checking the app now and it seems to have a pretty good extra functionality comparing to the other two, in the "More" menu... amazing. |
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Nice one I think this actually works... It's like one of those things you constantly see... And then you have to search about it to see what it's about. They could have simply implemented a BTC symbol skin, as they did with doge. As for agar.io, it's simple, but certainly not dumb. It's a reference to the Agar plate (it's a bacteria growth medium)... So the "background" where you move in the game is Agar, and the "balls" are all bacteria |
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I've already reported in Staff Forum but we have only 2 active Global Moderators and BadBear to handle these.
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At least this brings some comedy to the issue... Is it worth continuing to report these posts, or is once enough? He's been playing funny and posting this on threads accusing him I remember seeing a thread where someone asked the same question (I'm searching for it now). and the answer is yes, once is enough as long as it is just one user spamming non stop all over the place. though there's nothing wrong with reporting all of them. edit: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1142209.0One report is enough. We can't do anything until a Global Moderator or Admin come up to forum.
Thanks for the heads up. I usually report all the posts just like I did now. I see Cyrus is on it as we speak, deleting threads. Looks like he stopped meanwhile, |
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Interesting idea. Unfortunately it gives an incentive to depend more on third party services...  It is kind of trade off, you can rely on third party services to get better day to day user experience, but you can not rely on them to do mission critical transactions. However, it is the day to day small casual spending that created most amount of transactions, so settlement based design will dramatically reduce those transactions on blockchain There are many brilliant idea from traditional financial systems, not every thing is bad. If you avoid taking too much risk on them, they still can provide better service. You only need to avoid two things from legacy financial system: fiat money and fractional reserve banking. In this case, centralized service platform indeed have the ability to do fractional reserve banking (like MTGOX), so it is important only put small amount of bitcoin there Why should I take this trade off? To unload the blockchain? I'm just a drop in the ocean... What guarantees others will also take this trade off? Sorry being so skeptical. But although this is a good idea in theory I think it wouldn't work in practice. I don't see myself stop relying on my online wallets to start relying on third party services to hold my coins. We can avoid taking risks... But the risk is still there. Even with small amounts. Small amounts from many of us make quite a big cake what if another Mt. Gox comes on stage?
Everyone would be screwed. Again. |
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The question is: why not? UPS probably realized they are fast enough shipping pretty much anything And they're inclined to have merchants accept faster and more secure payment methods... |
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Interesting idea. Unfortunately it gives an incentive to depend more on third party services... |
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People dancing on the rain tend to get wet. Too bad. hackers always see a way to profit...
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This thread really got me thinking. My first reaction was to answer no. But "Samuel" wants to follow the legit route... If there was a platform in place to sell organs in a legit way we wouldn't be closing the business of organ selling: some middle man would eventually win some revenue and illegal trafficking probably wouldn't hop on this "legit selling" bandwagon and risk diminishing its profits. However, selling his organs would be a good last resort to fund his family and allow others to survive using this organ. But this raises another question: Organs would certainly be expensive. Are we putting rich people in front of poor people that need organs? Not to speak of the ethical issues that this might raise, especially in religious communities... It's definitely not an easy subject. At least most of the world isn't ready to accept this and make this market go forward in a legit way that doesn't affect other negatively. After thinking and writing this post, my answer would still be no. If good condition to allow the trade of organs are met, my answer might change, but I will most certainly answer no to this in the next few decades |
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Wasn't expecting this to cause so much discussion and end up having a thread here... It was obviously a joke that those drugs he took before going on stage made him say LOL
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No. No need for a centralized source to have a default fee setting, Bitcoin Core has it.
Some (most) copies of Bitcoin Core have it. The reason they have it is because a centralized source put it there. Fortuantely, right now, it's just a "default fee" and not a "required fee" or "enforced fee". Therefore, anyone can change their own software to pay more or less if they want to. Thanks for the clarification, I thought the 3 points on Sending where somewhat blockchain dependent and not client dependent |
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