Well you pull the lever to the left (in the orientation of the picture) and it looks like there might be a tab that you need to push or pull to release the lever. The tab would be beneath the lever by the lever's hinge.
Got the lever pulled with some brute force... Now what?  See that little metal square with the blue plastic square in it? You need to pop that metal up so that the plastic is no longer inside and catching it. Do that on both sides. Then the cooler should be able to be pulled straight off. |
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Yep, I understand. even if your tx gets in the block being mined when you send the tx, you still have 20 min wait to get 2 confirmations (well maybe 20>2x confirmation>10)
making block size bigger really does nothing significant. it would be fairly easy to calculate a new diff and reward for 24 sec blocks based upon one point in time.
so is 24 sec block time less secure than 600 sec block time? (with 400 ph network?)
What is downside to shorter block times?
Well shorter block times means that the network is more likely to produce orphans and fork, creating longer and harder blockchain reorgs. Since it would be easier to pull off a double spend (need less hash power to produce a block), the amount of confirmations required to guarantee that a double spend had not occurred would increase, so you may still end up waiting 20 minutes for X number of confirmations to guarantee that a double spend did not occur. |
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For fun, I decided to see the value of my account. However, it was taking a really long time to pop up so I closed the tab. That was yesterday.
Today I had more time to just let it sit so I thought I'd give it another go, but it keeps popping up with this error:
"Please wait for your previous request to finish and try again"
Any idea how to reset this?
I need to go in and reboot the server. Give me a couple minutes to do that. That should fix the problem that most people are having. Do you know if that will reset the queue and it will start working again? I'd like to look at my account again  It will reset the queue and everything should work again. I think the problem is that there may be too many requests to it at once which is breaking the program. It worked during my testing. I am working on a different fix which overhauls the whole thing. |
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Thanks and the lever is just bending the whole thing and won't undo. Well you pull the lever to the left (in the orientation of the picture) and it looks like there might be a tab that you need to push or pull to release the lever. The tab would be beneath the lever by the lever's hinge. |
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For fun, I decided to see the value of my account. However, it was taking a really long time to pop up so I closed the tab. That was yesterday.
Today I had more time to just let it sit so I thought I'd give it another go, but it keeps popping up with this error:
"Please wait for your previous request to finish and try again"
Any idea how to reset this?
I need to go in and reboot the server. Give me a couple minutes to do that. That should fix the problem that most people are having. |
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OK, I get the idea about larger blocks = more transactions/block
more tx/second
Can someone please explain how this will help speed up a transaction requiring 2 confirmations? I cant ever imagine anyone swiping their bitcoin card at the gas pump and waiting 20 min for "authorization" Imagine fast food drive thru line or the checkout line in grocery store If everyone had to wait 10 min for "authorization/confirmation?
The idea is that it will speed up confirmation times because then the transaction won't be stuck in a backlog thus waiting even longer for two confirmations. It can pretty much guarantee that your transaction will be included in the next block, instead of say the 10th block from the time the transaction was created. So I have to ask, why do we have to have 10 min blocks? Is there more security having 10 min vs 10 sec blocks? Or just so the block reward is 25btc? If mining revenue is 150 btc/hr, then why would it matter if it is 25btc/10 min block or 1 btc/24 sec block?
So, would the block size increase from 1mb block to 8mb, be the exact same as keeping the block size the same 1 mb but reducing the time from 10 min to 75 sec? (10*60/8=75sec) (block reward = 25/8=3.125)
I think this would handle more transactions (or same as 8mb blocks) AND SPEED up confirmation times.
Why is bitcoin so married to 10 min blocks? Is it tied the same way to 1 mb block size?
And really, will this larger block size help take bitcoin mainstream?
I know my reasoning is missing something, so I write to ask What?
Yes shorter times would speed up confirmation times and handle more transactions, but people are generally against that idea. It would require more to change than increasing the block size does. In order to change the block time and still keep everything else the same, the block subsidy needs to be changed, the difficulty will need to be reset, and a whole bunch of other stuff as well. As for why 10 minutes was chosen by Satoshi, it was probably arbitrary, just like basically every other number in Bitcoin. |
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You can download it as a Torrent.  With the latest version of Bitcoin Core, the torrented bootstrap.dat is no longer faster. It is actually faster to let Bitcoin Core to sync through p2p than it is to download and use the bootstrap file. |
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The only way for Bitcoin to go offline is for the internet to go offline. The only way that can happen nowadays is for a massive solar flare to hit the Earth. This would do much more damage than just shutting down Bitcoin, and Bitcoin being offline would be the least of our worries. Without any electricity, entire infrastructures would collapse and many people would probably die from lack of food and water (which both need electricity to produce).
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What is wrong with getting refunded with Bitcoin? Technically it is still a refund, so the title and article is misleading.
No, technically (and non-technically) that is not a refund. Right. sorry. In this case, it is simply easier to credit the customer with more Bitcoin because they probably will buy more, and it can be easily exchanged back into fiat, more so than normal goods. Also, Coinbase does not hold your funds for a week, they aren't holding them at all and not crediting the accounts. The delay is because ACH takes several business days to settle and they can only credit the account after it has settled. |
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What is wrong with getting refunded with Bitcoin? Technically it is still a refund, so the title and article is misleading.
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My internet speed is at leaste a 50mb connection but i think my 5 year old 2.6GHz computer will be holding it back! I thought that less cpu will be used if i ran the program in the terminal without any Gui coding being run!
No. The cpu work is all for indexing the blocks. The most cpu is to index and process each block it receives and add it to the database. |
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Multiple people have been asking for a FireFox version. I might rewrite the app for firefox later, but not for now.
I can't alert ppl when there is a new message in a topic. I should check all the topics then every minute, and I don't think the BT staff would like that... This would also take up a lot of bandwidth. If they would make a feature/API theirself it would be possible.
Couldn't you just keep checking the user's watchlist and alert them when a new reply shows up in the watchlist? |
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I have a sr. member I can sell you for 0.25 BTC. It has 300+ activity and 400+ posts and neutral trust. It has decent post quality, good enough for signature campaigns (it was in one before).
i will take it for 0.21 what you say? Sent you a pm |
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I have a sr. member I can sell you for 0.25 BTC. It has 300+ activity and 400+ posts and neutral trust. It has decent post quality, good enough for signature campaigns (it was in one before).
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Did anyone received any PM? Because i didn't receive one.
Me neither. I sent him a PM but he never replied. |
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Ok great. Please accept my bid at 0.17BTC
I hope you can shorten the bid end date Sept 10 is quite too long
Bid accepted. I won't shorten the end date. It is really just Wednesday the 9th at midnight. I wanted the addiction to run for a week. |
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Are all posts of this Senior Member account in English?
if Yes, I'll bid 0.17 BTC
please confirm
Yes. They are all in English. |
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