Yep there's something pleasing to the eye about that insane amount of connections. And it gets better, if you click and drag a node the entire structure moves with it, it's pretty awesome to see.

The problem is, my computer is slow when I move a node or zoom in and out. When we have many more nodes I wonder how the hell it's going to be able to process that.. it's going to crash Firefox.

Someone needs to do a proper implementation that takes advantage of accelerated graphics to make it smooth.

If it's exactly the same seed then it should spawn exactly the same wallet on any computer. Are you sure you entered the same seed?

Also are you sure that your wallet is synced? Even if Electrum doesn't need to download the blockchain, it still needs some time to sync with the servers, it should have a green light on the lower left of the window if the GUI hasn't changed since I used it.

Can you post some screenshots? (do not post the seed obviously)

Just use these two pages:

https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,30d

As you see, the mempool now is pretty empty. The FOMO period brought traffic into people signing up for Coinbase to get some coins and most likely the overall transaction volume did really go up resulting in higher prices but make no mistake, Roger Ver and Jihan Wu spam the network during these periods to make it worse.

Now with segwit gaining traction and that period also over we are seeing one of the cheapest periods of bitcoin transaction in years, a good time to consolidating your coins into single addresses.

https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/

With this and the information of the poster above you would know how much money will spend in fees.

I don't think the bitcoin price cares about the start of the spring... now it's possible that it has a certain impact on the minds of traders, and ultimately traders make the price, but it's too fuzzy, it's just not clear enough to take any reasonable moves upon. It would be insane to claim like "oh, spring is here, traders will feel better than in winter, this will make them more prone to buy, the price will go up". It doesn't work like that imo.

I just take reference on further resistance points and I pay attention to the news, I don't think theres nothing else that we can do. Anyone claiming to predict the future is insane and a scammer.

Long term, if you believe in the fundamentals of bitcoin, it will go up no matter what it does currently. I have believed in what bitcoin is for years and im holding, I don't care about what the hell is going on with the never ending drama surrounding this project. I don't care about who satoshi is, I dont care about governments banning it, I don't care about forks. These are just temporal things and they will use these to create dips and buy cheaper. Long term the fundamentals are as solid as ever.

It's a verified account it seems. It is an AMA with 100k upvotes approved by Reddit, so yes it's Bill Gates, and yes it seems he said what he said. I don't see where he ever was positive about Bitcoin.

Bill Gates is working with the NSA by using his spyware (windows). Of course he isn't going to like open source stuff that empowers the individual. Bill Gates is a total NSA shill, he can never be pro-Bitcoin.

Don't forget that if you have your coins in cryptopia, it has a $5000 NZD daily limit, so if you got a ton of coins, you are going to have some problems unless you can do it before the countdown happens. Also you must get them out of Livecoin too. Im not sure what the limit of withdraw is in Livecoin.

Of course these limits can be lifted by giving them your personal information, but who wants to do that.

https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/

We just hit 900 nodes today in the lightning network, and we are about to hit 1000 nodes. Why not gather in here and countdown to 1000 nodes?

Also, how many nodes do you think we will have a year from now and how will affect the price? My guess is that a year from now we'll have 100,000 nodes, and it will be commonly used in the bitcoin community.

By 2020+, big companies will start running their own nodes and will accept payments.

By 2025, most transactions on the planet will be happening on bitcoin through the LN. Only idiots will use anything else.

But if Vitalik has to decide something for it to happen it means that the project is centralized and therefore worthless.

Can someone explain how the ETH switch is going to happen? Does Vitalik to have to say when it happens? how it is decided and put into practice? Sounds like a mess in the making to be frank.

It should have been hard coded since day 1 that X years later the PoS would happen.

The less automated something is in a crypto project the worse it gets. Just look at all these PoS and DAG projects where the creator has to issue the coins, it is rather lame.

I would like to know the details to see how ETH will make the switch.

First of all I haven't paid enough attention to know when the switch from PoW to PoS will happen, but as far as I know this is inevitable. For anyone holding ETH it should be important to know the possible outcomes and what to do with what you are holding. This is what I see:

1) The switch is a success. The former chain dies and miners go mine whatever else.
2) The switch a success (from the technical PoV) but the former chain doesn't die. The result is 2 coins. ETH PoW and ETH PoS.. with unpredictable outcome.
3) The switch is a failure. Something goes wrong and the PoS chain dies, the legacy PoW chain is then keeping all of the hashrate, but due the PoS clusterfuck there is a big sell off.
4) Kind of a bonus one: There is an ETC (Ethereum Classic) pump if 2) or 3) happens, since it is the actual legacy PoW coin.

Probably matter other scenarios. Honestly holding ETH is going to be pretty nerve-racking. I don't hold any right now but I may attempt to speculate during the switch, I think there will be big opportunities to make (and lose..) money.

I didn't notice any Tor switches back then, maybe this was added recently?

I want to access with Tor using the desktop, I never use Android for anything crypto since it shouldn't be considered safe.

So I assume that if I enable the Tor switch I don't need to open a Tor Browser instance? because with Bitcoin Core I think you need to have opened a Tor Browser window for it to connect to the Tor network.

I also assume that when you enable the Tor switch in the Byteball wallet, you have to restart the wallet for it to connect to the Tor network.

This is why I never took any non PoW project seriously. The coin must be automatically delivered to the world, and PoW is still the best method to launch a coin. It's elegant, automated, and you must put capital on the line to mine big amounts.

Honestly, no coin will ever be a challenge for Bitcoin unless a better way to distribute the supply is invented, while being as safe. I still don't trust DAG or PoS or anything else.

The changes in coin rewards are completely retarded. Out of nowhere, when I joined I barely even got any coins out of 2 figure worth BTC being linked, and just a week earlier, I could have got a ton of Byteball.

These arbitrary challenges coming from a centralized party that holds all the non-released supply to boot, doesn't look too good for something that is supposed to be decentralized and high tech.

I still haven't seen anyone paying signature campaign taxes, and paying taxes that belong to dead exchanges.

I wonder if the process would be easier if you could pay them directly with bitcoin. If anyone pays a relevant amoun of taxes from bitcoin-related income and having some problems with lack of market trades history (for example, having made gains in Cryptsy or Mintpal which are now dead exchanges, so assume you lost the trading history) let me know, because im worried about that. I lost my damn trading history on these dead exchanges, it sucks. And I also mixed some coins. So I wonder if presenting signature proof of the address in which you got paid is enough, or the address in which you deposit your coins at in the exchange will be monitored in the blockchain to see that they connect.. in this case that connection is lost on my mixed ones and on the ones that I sent and withdrew into now dead exchanges... I hate the clusterfuck of taxes with bitcoin.

If it's not much to ask... what kind of job do you have? Saving $1000 to $2000 is pretty huge in my book. If I had that income I would be buying Bitcoin with all of my savings monthly and not touch that wallet at all, just keep putting more BTC each month, and in 5 to 10 years I would be rich.

Unfortunately, I can't barely make around $300 worth of BTC a month.

Be sure to NOT fall for altcoin scams. Noobs that have money to spend, typical fall for the altcoin memes and think, "oh well, I got this money here, let me diversify". Well let me tell you... diversifying in crypto is generally not a good idea. Most projects that aren't Bitcoin are scams. If you still want to speculate, research first.

I would buy some Monero if I wanted to hold some other coins, but if you ever want to buy a house with your crypto gains, im not sure how you would report gains made in Monero which as far as I know have an obfuscated blockchain so consider these things.

Anyone knows how to start Byteball and route everything through Tor? I want to check my balances. The last time I checked, it was when the airdrop rewards got dropped a lot, which was when I linked my BTC on there. The reward was honestly so low that I didn't bother to check it again. I want to see what kind of interest it has generated since then. I think it was last august.

I made a thread asking about this but im afraid is going to get buried with 0 replies.

Well I just saw the actual video in youtube and it was exactly what I predicted... no mention of bitcoin at all, only some vague statements about "blockchain technology".

Im afraid that they are going to sell their own russian centralized shitcoin to the masses, but the good part is, Putin seems like a smart guy, so if they don't let people own Bitcoin, im sure that him and everyone that is smart will load up on Bitcoin while they sell russian shitcoin to the uninformed ones.

The world is now a chess game in which countries must own Bitcoin to be relevant, whoever starts first will have the advantage and whoever starts first will start the chain reaction to a massive bullrun of countries buying BTC reserves.

Good and bad.

Good because it will stop the influx of scams (presumably) since it will be more difficult for scammers to get their money into ICO scams, even if personally I think that this solves nothing since whoever wants to invest can easily bypass KYC and whoever wants to create an ICO can host it in a jurisdiction outside of KYC laws.

And then the bad, it makes it harder for the legit ICOs (not all ICOs are scams) to get funds since a lot of people are understandably not willing to give their personal information to strangers on the internet.

I think it's great. Powerful people accepting that blockchain is here to stay legitimize bitcoin, but the problem is if they are going get crypto reserves in any other coin that isn't bitcoin. If they are serious then they will add a big bitcoin reserve in their portfolio, just as they have gold reserves. If they get scammed, they will load on ethereum or any other shitcoin. And there's also the possibility the will issue their own cryptoscam instead of just accepting bitcoin.

If it turns out Putin is talking about bitcoin, then yes, other countries must follow or they will be left behind.

Anyone knows a way to access Byteball with Tor?

I usually use my VPN but I don't have it right now because i haven't paid my subscription, so I would like to use Tor to access my wallet. With Bitcoin Core is easy but I can't seem to find the option in the Byteball wallet.

I haven't looked at my wallet for a long time, I should have received some funds there because of the airdrops, I don't expect much but I want to see how much I made.

Here's a quick rundown:

1) Do not use Windows for anything crypto
2) Use Linux for anything crypto (any user friendly distribution would do if you are new to Linux)
3) Do not expose your private keys to the internet ever, so either have a hardware wallet, or better yet, a laptop with no wifi card or anything that could connect to the internet
4) Do not give your personal information to exchanges, they are all potential scams that will disappear eventually. I have a lot of experience with exchanges disappearing out of nowhere. Luckily they didn't had my info.
5) Do not store your coins in exchanges, obviously
6) Consider any other coin buy Bitcoin a potential scam

That would be it.

Jeff Garzik is working on "bloq", a company that does exactly that (to analyze transactions and try to guess where the money is coming from). This is one of the main reasons I never trusted Jeff Garzik, I think he sold out for the NSA or something.

As far as if this is viable or not, im not sure. I tested back then a mixer, I think it was helix, and it had so many options, like mixing the coins with freshly minted coins and then recieve back in random batches at random times and through Tor. Trying to trace back the original transaction would be a mess and a waste of resources.

Now I regret doing that test, because I did it with like 1 BTC, and now that 1 BTC I cannot sell, since the government would ask me where that money came from, and explaining to them the truth (that I was just testing a mixer) might not cut it and they may just steal my money.