The question isn't clear. A lot of people are saying "Bitcoin" when they mean "XTcoin." Bitcoin is better than Litecoin because Bitcoin is older, more stable, and easier to run behind Tor. Litecoin is better than XTcoin because Litecoin is older, more stable, and easier to run behind Tor. imagine the unthinkable if Bitcoin took some bizarre development direction that wasn't in its best interest in the future
Yes. "if" ... That would be a fork, and we would just ignore it.
We're close to finding out. *sigh* This is why governments and executives at large companies have discussions in private. This is how decisions are made is by having an open transparent discussion about the options. Some people can't have a disagreement in a civil manner. All this toxicity and FUD in the bitcoin community lately is going to send these discussions behind closed doors. All this hoopla over gavincoin or XTcoin like there is some diabolical scheme to kill or control bitcoin is ridiculous. |
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for who know about bitcoin, yes bitcoin already succeeded but what the problom right now is many people still dont know about bitcoin or some people know but their worry if using bitcoin, their bitcoin can stolen by hacker
for me bitcoin not succeeded
i think you didn't understand the OP, bitcoin has succeeded simply bitcoin is still alive and kicking some ass, the rest is just fud and no-sense actually despite all the fud bitcoin is still here, hence it mean that his success is even more affirmed Thanks Amph, that's exactly what I'm saying. Bitcoin isn't going anywhere, it's passed all the tests, the hardest parts are behind us. Governments are trying to regulate but overall they accept it which is crazy to me it's happening so fast. |
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Bitcoin is supported by a larger group of people. The more people working on the project and running nodes makes it a strong decentralized system.
Also litecoin doesn't have any real-world adoption. It's been hard enough to get people to accept bitcoin, litecoin would have a lot of catching up to do.
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If you go to the "import/export" tab there will be an option to export your private-keys for every address in your wallet. There is also an import function that allows you to import a private-key into your blockchain.info wallet. If you are curious you can click on export unencrypted and it will display you public and private-keys in a JSON output. The long string of what seems to be random characters after the "priv" is actually your private-key. The string of characters after the "addr" is your public-key or address. As you can see in my example there is more than one key exported. If you wanted to you could copy the private-key and then import it into another wallet program. This would allow you to access this address from more than one wallet service.  Never show anyone your private-keys.
I am only showing these keys for demonstration purposes. |
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Thanks! I will check out blocktrail, but I hadn't considered the second option, and I think that it might be more straightforward. I've been looking into bitcoind and bitcoind accounts, but found that they aren't really scalable, and blockchain hasn't replied with the API key, so I guess I will check out the other options. Thank you again.
You don't need an API key for blockchain.info You can do what you want with their wallet API and a database. You could also use BlockCypher API does require API key, if you don't like blockchain.info. When each user registers you will assign them an address that they can deposit to. Create a callback with blockchain or blockcypher each time a payment is received you can update their balance in the database. |
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In order to change the code or files on github you would have to have commit access to the bitcoin repository. Any outsider altering the code would have to clone it under a new repository, essentially creating an alt coin that no one would use. Check out the help section on github. https://help.github.com/ |
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Tinfoil hat conspiracy theory ^^
As long as there are nodes and people don't adopt a new version with blacklists then you can spend freely.
Who decides which coins are "blocked"? If you are using coinbase or circle they can do whatever they want.
If major banks adopt bicoin and they decide the Bob and Alice are not allowed to transact with them, what stops them from exchanging their coins for another crypto-currency that the banks do not use? If you have the private keys there should be nothing stopping you from pushing a transaction to the network.
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https://github.com/coinables/Bitcoin-DonorBookhttps://twitter.com/coinableS/status/612319034638372864Remember those good old days of Geocities websites and guestbooks? Signing guestbooks gave users a feel that they were part of the site. This is a new adaptation to guestbooks using bitcoin, posts will only show if the user pays/donates to the address. **Since it uses BC.info receive payment API the user must send at least 0.0001 for it to work. No account with blockchain.info required. 1. Open the setup.php file and enter in your database info (name, username and password) 2. Save the changes to setup.php and run the file on your server to create the table. 3. Open donorbook.php and donorcallback.php and update to your site root, BTC address, database info and create a secret. 4. The $secret can be anything you want it to be. 5. Make sure your donorcallback.php file is placed in the same directory/location as specified in the 'Site Root' for donorbook.php 6. Send the users to donorbook.php using a link or embed it in your site with an iframe That's it! === There's a live example on the bottom of the page at my website: http://btcthreads.com
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Bitcoin is already a success. If it were a failure we would have known by now with lack of interest and a single or low double digit price. In 2013 the thought that there would be written state legislation on bitcoin in NY was laughable. The hardest times are behind us and now the focus is the future.
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In the first few years of bitcoin it was only used by uber nerds and crypto anarchists. Then came the web dark drug market. And when you think about it, Bitcon has only been in the realm of "normal" people since it's climb in 2013.
Since then it has attracted numerous investors, corporations and professionals that are not uber nerds, anarchists or online drug-lords. The inflation rate was/is too high to stabilize any sort of consistent growth. Still there is enough interest to absorb the 3,600 new coins per day without causing a major crash. This is how we know bitcoin has already succeeded. There wasn't enough interest to support 3,600 coins per day at $700+ per coin, but we have seem to found an equilibrium around the current price or $800K-$900K per day. If bitcoin were a flop we would have already seen the price back down to the single or low double digits. The "normal" buyers are here and have been here since 2013 and they don't appear to be going anywhere.
So go ahead buy another coin and tuck it away for safe-keeping, because bitcoin is already a success. When the next wave, mainstream, comes along the inflation rate will be lower and the demand will be greater.
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Nice! Thanks for the write up Jesse. I think I'm going to have to give this a try. How would someone on windows get started? Will they have to use a command line shell?
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Anyone who is pro-blacklisting pretty much in my mind doesn't really care about bitcoin.
Blacklisting coins or "working" with governments to "freeze" certain addresses or coins, pretty much renders bitcoin useless.
I thought Satoshi created this "experiment" so that governing bodies can not regulate or control our money?
What happened to all that? What about being your own bank?
Blacklisting coins opens a pandora's box that I think is unimaginable and quite sad for bitcoin's future.
Yes maybe, but as you say the box is open. If bitcoins are regulated and fail, then litecoins will take over. If those fail then maybe monero, dash, or (cough) doge will take over. It is a tidal wave and it cant be stopped no matter how many fingers you poke into the holes in the dam. Good point, even if they make bitcoin into the regulated, blacklisted, paypal of crypto it would be suicide considering all the alternatives that people could use to circumvent the "law". |
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I use chase and circle no issues. But I only buy, I don't sell my coins for deposit into my chase bank account. I think that's where people get into trouble is when they treat coinbase or circle like an exchange and frequently go back and forth BTC -> fiat -> BTC -> and so on.
how much have you bought ? more than 2k? Nice try IRS. HAHA just kidding. But seriously I'd prefer not to disclose that information. Circle has limits, the most I bought at one time was 2 coins a few months back. |
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That could be posted by some guy that is pretending to be Satoshi. Most of the people claiming to be Satoshi can't prove it and are pretending or trolling.
Come on guys... clearly Satoshi wants us all to buy NXT.  Hahah, nice one! I for one will never trade my precious BTC for some alt coin. Not NXT, not Paycoin, not ripple, no green eggs and ham sam I am!! |
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I use chase and circle no issues. But I only buy, I don't sell my coins for deposit into my chase bank account. I think that's where people get into trouble is when they treat coinbase or circle like an exchange and frequently go back and forth BTC -> fiat -> BTC -> and so on.
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The bears are in retreat, or it could just be a false break. We'll have to wait to see if we can hold over $250 and push back up over $300. I think the bear phase is over, but we might just see more sideways movement before we launch into the bull market.
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I believe Gavin and Hearn have the best intentions in mind. I don't think it's as sinister as many are making it seem. This is clearly a major issue that needs to be addressed, and the blocksize must be raised regardless of your politics. Now we need to find a consensus of how to do it the "right" way.
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I heard about it, dismissed it; I heard about it, dismissed it; I heard about it, dismissed it.
Then in early -mid 2013 at the finance company I work for, a customer requested a loan to buy bitcoin miners.
We assumed he was doing something shady, why else would he use bitcoin? Because mass media told us bitcoin was bad, you know...
Then I actually decided to look into it for myself.
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