While that would be great, how would such a thing be possible? A zero trust escrow in itself is contradictory since an escrow is a trusted person who holds money or goods for a trade. Escrow means that you need to trust someone. How would an automated 0 trust escrow work?

You won't get paid, but getaddr.bitnodes.io has an incentives program where every week one node that verifies with them can win some Bitcoin from them. It is basically the lottery and it doesn't hurt to enter it if you plan on running a node 24/7. Otherwise, don't expect any payment at all from anyone for running a full node. The incentives program can be found here: https://getaddr.bitnodes.io/nodes/incentive/

Here is the address you posted: XPch9Yha78Yw9GJ6pSdffP1UngaL3KHgML. It is for BnrtxCoin.
The post is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1094221.msg11689205#msg11689205 and quoted below

To sign a message, open the Core wallet, go to File > Sign Message and enter in the top bar the address, in the middle text box your message which should say your current user name, your hacked username, and the date. Then click the Sign Message button and copy and post the signature which is generated in the bottom bar. Post the address as well as the message when you post the signature.

It doesn't hurt to try but it is just a petition so it can't force anyone to do anything.

No. By received he means the computer actually received the transaction from the p2p network.

yes, but it is going to take longer than either waiting for a confirmation or asking brianddk to help you with CPFP. You could try doing RBF which is Replace By Fee, but very few nodes and miners implement that. Much less than CPFP. With CPFP, you will need to wait for Eligius to mine a block with your transaction. I don't know of any miner that does RBF yet. You could also do the standard delete transaction from wallet and wait a few days but that will take a few days.

It isn't supposed to deal with trust. The whole thing is supposed to be trustless. It is unfortunate that we live in such a day and age where greed rules everything and everyone.

That is called going to faucets. Every faucet required you to solve a captcha and they will give you a few hundred satoshi. You can't get a lot doing that though.

And if you don't want your data going to apple, don't use iOS, macs, or Safari. If you don't want Microsoft to know, don't use Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, or Windows. And if you don't want Mozilla to track don't use Firefox.

So basically, use linux and Tor. I would recommend TAILS(https://tails.boum.org/) which uses Tor by Default.

It probably only started initializing when you selected the option to use smart fee. Otherwise it would just be a waste of resources.

I see that the only address he posted is for an altcoin. Do you think it would be acceptable if he signed a message using that altcoin's address?

You need to wait for smart fee to initialize. It even told you so. Smart fee looks at fees from recent transactions and blocks so it needs to see those transactions and blocks before it can create a good estimate for a fee. Next time, you can either leave Bitcoin Core open or wait for smart fee to initialize before sending any Bitcoin.

To fix this, if you have change from that transaction, you can try a CPFP transaction. This is another transaction that spends the outputs of the first transaction but has a higher fee so that the fee covers both transaction's fees. You can ask this user https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=538273, brianddk, for help doing this.

It lets Bitcoin Core scan the blockchain for the transactions related to the addresses in the wallet since transactions aren't stored in the wallet. If it encrypted the addresses, then you would have to decrypt it in order to see how much Bitcoin you have. Besides, transactions and addresses are already public, so it doesn't hurt to leave them decrypted.

Assuming that no protocol changes to transactions happens and no one has spent those inputs yet, then that transaction can be broadcast whenever you want. There is no timestamp and the time is not a part of the transaction unless you include a locktime.

You could ask him to try using a multisig escrow. You can deposit into that address and he would know that you can't access the coins. Then after you are done your stay there, you can deposit the remaining into the address and release the Bitcoin to him. I would recommend that you either find someone on this forum for that or use keyscrow.com for it.

What do you mean by "based on the Bitcoin protocol"? I don't quite understand that. Can you go into details on how the DVPN uses Bitcoin to become distributed.

Also, why do you store the credentials on the blockchain and have them change instead of making this network something open to the public that does not require authentication? Something like Tor?

Lastly how does this protect my privacy? Does your network route my data through three different VPNs before it reaches its destination like Tor does? It seems like the only privacy is the data is going through 1 VPN before its destination which opens up the whole thing to privacy and Man-In-The-Middle attacks. That 1 VPN could be malicious and it would know who the user is and where he is going. How do you solve this?

Found a seller. Closing this thread.

Interesting. I haven't seen any around me but maybe that's because I'm not looking hard enough. Are there any accurate maps with all of the places that accept Bitcoin?

Since Bitcoin Core puts a heavy load on the processor and network, it could be drawing too much power and causing the power supply to fail. Try using a power supply with higher amperage and higher quality.

I would like to buy a Kerbal Space Program Steam gift for $35. That is .
Please PM or reply if you are interested. Escrow if needed but you will need to find an escrow and pay any fees.