Note the answers above are still not "No" ; At least he's not a sociopath, they can lie without remorse. ...
I am 19, a student and unemployed (also suffer from severe depression).... I have made this site with about £50 which i have really struggled to get. "Use our easy website builder to put your business, group, or personal website online at no cost." Pressing CTRL-C and CTRL-V on weusecoins (without abiding the creative commons attribution license) is also free, as well as embedding a video that others paid 13000 BTC for. Making people click on ads to go to other sites is not my definition of "I am truly trying to help bitcoin as a whole", it is co-opting clicks into profit. Also if anyone is looking for a Bitcoin investment I am open to offers, Please PM me with how much you are considering investing and we will see if we can come to a mutual agreement so we are both benefiting from the investment
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Please donate to 1K7zadwk2PHYi91P1K6e9zNtvRgt3sVPVr for help with the development of this section of the site.
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If you do not have any BTC to donate but would still like to help with the development of the faucet and lottery could you please just click on a few adverts money, money, money. |
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I've been wondering quite a lot about this hypothetical situation. Situation: someone steals Bitcoins from one address, sends them to another address, then exchanges those Bitcoins for a fiat currency from an exchange.
Is there any way that they could be held liable for the theft, or are they protected by the general pseudonymity that exists within the Bitcoin network? (i.e. It couldn't be known that the supposed thief wasn't just sent the coins for whatever reason)
One only needs a small transformation to show the silliness here: " I've been wondering quite a lot about this hypothetical situation. Situation: someone kidnaps orphans from one country, sends them to another country, then exchanges those children for a fiat currency from a crime syndicate.
Is there any way that they could be held liable for the kidnapping? Because if not, I'm totally doing it..." Criminal theft starts at "someone steals" in the quote above. There have been people that have had coins stolen without justice, but there is a non-zero chance you will steal the coins of someone that will identify you and feed you to fishes too. |
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Most people have never had money explained to them, start there.
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That is in theory. In practice there is a bug with the 0.8.0 version where only ~70K blocks are loaded from the bootstrap.dat file instead of 200k+. This is my experience and you can read about it on this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153120.0I assume you are responding to "I found out that using the new version 0.8 it only takes a couple hours", since nothing I posted is in theory. There is no bug in Bitcoin, anyone that has taken the time to actually file a bug report and follow up with testing after having such problems synchronizing the blockchain, it is determined that there are hardware problems with their computer causing inconsistent or unrepeatable errors. |
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I am running bitcoind for the first time, mine is at 218590 blocks at the moment and it looks like its only getting 2 blocks per minute now.
Is it normal that bootstrap.dat (4.5gb) takes more than 10 hours to update the whole blockchain?
Hi Abdussamad,
I have read about electrum before but is it usable for a bitcoin payment gateway system?
Btw, I found out that using the new version 0.8 it only takes a couple hours to process the whole blockchain.
The bootstrap.dat torrent includes blocks up to 216116, the complaint is about speed after this point. The quotes above show the original poster already found out his problem is from not using the newest version of Bitcoin. No need to respond. |
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It seems reasonable for him to protect himself from people who would get the gold if gold price goes up, or ask for a refund if BTC price goes up.
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This is just a scumbag site that runs every URL through coinad to show people ads, and subjects visitors to unattributed copypasta in Comic Sans. It was created on the free Webs.com. There's still a box on this site "put in your address and we will send you some coins". This guy's concept was to put people's addresses into another faucet, not give them any money himself. I cannot afford to purchase coins at the moment, the aim of this site is to help out beginners. See link in signature below for a web site with only original content, web hosting I paid for myself, and not a donation address or ad on it. Nor are there any promises to give you the equivalent of a free £0.0001. |
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If he's even got python installed, it might be a screen that flashes this: Usage: pywallet.py [options]
Options:
--version show program's version number and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--dumpwallet dump wallet in json format
--importprivkey=KEY import private key from vanitygen
--importhex KEY is in hexadecimal format
--datadir=DATADIR wallet directory (defaults to bitcoin default)
--wallet=WALLETFILE wallet filename (defaults to wallet.dat)
--label=LABEL label shown in the adress book (defaults to '')
--testnet use testnet subdirectory and address type
--namecoin use namecoin address type
--otherversion=OTHERVERSION
use other network address type, whose version is
OTHERVERSION
--info display pubkey, privkey (both depending on the
network) and hexkey
--reserve import as a reserve key, i.e. it won't show in the
adress book
--balance=KEY_BALANCE
prints balance of KEY_BALANCE
--web run pywallet web interface
--port=PORT port of web interface (defaults to 8989)
--recover recover your deleted keys, use with recov_size and
recov_device
--recov_device=RECOV_DEVICE
device to read (e.g. /dev/sda1)
--recov_size=RECOV_SIZE
number of bytes to read (e.g. 20Mo or 50Gio)
--recov_outputdir=RECOV_OUTPUTDIR
output directory where the recovered wallet will be
put
--dont_check_walletversion
don't check if wallet version > 32500 before running
(WARNING: this may break your wallet, be sure you know
what you do) |
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I just did a Googling, and found a follow-up story from Apr 24 1953, the guy didn't go to jail (which he probably didn't regret come 1955 or 1957):
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A man who wanted to go to jail for five years to be with his pal waas freed yesterday by District Judge Clarence Mills despite his protest.
Oscar Lee Clark had pleaded guilty to a car theft charge earlier in the week. He asked for a five year term like the one given his friend, Leon Wilkerson, who was sentenced for car theft and burglary.
But Clark had no previous convictions, and an assistant district attorney recommended a suspended sentence. Clark said no thanks, he wanted to go to jail. He had agreed with Wilkerson they would stay together, and he wanted it that way.
But Judge Mills paid no heed. "This doesn't make sense," he said. "Everybody that comes before me wants out." He suspended Clark's five-year sentence.
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I was reading an Apr 21 1953 newspaper, with stories in it like the FBI arresting a union leader who "lied" about not being communist, and came across this gem (I had to type for you):
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A 47 year old man chose five years in the state penitentiary rather than a suspended sentence yesterday to be with a man whose friendship he prized more than freedom.
Lee Clark was arrested and charged with larceny of an automobile. It was his first offense. His accomplice, Leon Wilkerson, had one previous conviction against him. He was also charged with the burglary of a city sporting goods store.
Both pleaded guilty in district court last week, and Public Defender Charles Moss recommended a five year sentence.
But Joe T. Martin, assistant county attorney, pointed out Clarks's record was spotless prior to this offense and he was entitled to a suspended sentence.
The judge agreed, and phoned Deputy Sheriff E. A. (Boots) Capshaw the good news.
But Capshaw said the men would not be parted. "That's the way they want it. That's the only way they'd cooperate with me," he said.
He quoted the convicted pair as saying, "We've agreed we'll go for five years and we'll go together."
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Slashdot? The problem with voting/autohiding systems is that they are subject to manipulation by sockpuppets, and a few missing posts can break up the flow of a conversation.
A subclass of elected moderators called voters could vote down or autohide junk posts and post count pumping. Too much downvoting and a poster could be temporarily hidden or banned from new posts.
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Likely someone was trying to DDOS the site through Tor and got the Tor exit node's IP banned.
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If the installation of Linux included a full format (probably 20 minutes of formatting on a 160G drive), then all hope is lost.
The pywallet offline scan instructions that were given scan your entire raw hard drive looking for private keys, if it can't find bitcoin keys anywhere on the disk (and the wallet was unencrypted) then there is no point spending the effort to recover other stuff.
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I was just experimenting with those free sites, and yes, totally a waste of time, however... the mysterious 3 cents I got came from a request payment address I used exclusively for them. to recieve a payment 2 months after I was ever near one... seems kind of strange. also that it is a transaction that is not found in the chain. how does that even happen.
also, how are the coins useless? are they invalid? the other dollar or so I made from them was ok. I mean I won 5 dollars with it on SD, so It couldnt be bunk. It was the only BTC I could get at the time.
also. where does the BTC go if it is not recieved by the intended recipient?
All those questions are answered in my quote below. The coins are useless because it costs more in transaction fees to send them than their value. If you get hundreds of them to make a larger value, the per-kB transaction fee will be higher because the transaction to send many payments will be larger in bytes. A: If the transaction is not included in the blockchain, it is not spent. Bitcoin shows zero-confirmation transactions as soon as it sees them on the network, but the sender could have sent the same coins to someone else with an appropriate fee, essentially double-spending them.
If the answer doesn't make sense, you should review sections on http://we.lovebitco.in/how-bitcoin-works/ |
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