People doing this are insane. You should consider all email providers as NSAware, the hosts themselves probably can ready any email they want. If I had to choose one I would at least use something decent like Protonmail which supposedly it's all encrypted and they can't access your mail. Also log in through a Linux live DVD to guarantee your OS host isn't compromised, and do not store the entire seed. I haven't done the math but I would at least try to remember the last 4 words, or two first and two last, and that is already a compromise.

Why did TPTB allow segwit at all if they don't like it? I assume that they could have stopped it, but trying to fit this in your theory... it was to:

1) Set an example: Attempts at modifying Bitcoin, even if through soft-forks, will not be tolerated.
2) To accumulate more BTC: By means of expropriation (the so called "segwit booty") and profiting through US government based futures (CME) shorts in the process.

They also think they can get away with it and pump it back to ATH even after such a disaster happening and regaining confidence on it being a global store of value. This is where we differ, as some pointed out, I think the damage would be too much. By 2019 there will be more segwit activity than legacy. It could end up being an inside job that ends up not being profitable. It may be more profitable to simply keep milking transaction fees through LN becoming mainstream (without segwit LN doesn't reach it's full potential), and assuming TPTB controls mining, their funds would be safe while still having the power of stealing coins at will if needed. In any case, we will find soon, since the longer it takes for them to execute that theoretical attack the bigger the disaster would be and therefore it may not even be worth it for them anymore, so these expecting it to happen may sell and lose their position as nothing happens and price keeps going higher (again, this is also assuming it happens around the time you are proposing, that's somewhere next year, and it cannot take longer than that).

It's not clear to me that satoshi willingly set 1 MB as something that was part of a bigger plan involving a dead end which would force a settlement network to take place, I believe the official statement (that is, that he lowered the 32 MB limit to 1 MB to avoid spam, temporarily). This doesn't mean I buy into the "blocks-as-big-as-needed" approach by altcoin scammers, neither im saying we need a blocksize increase.

Basically, it was set to 1MB, and by the time one wanted to increase it, it was too late, as attempts would result in ugly uncoordinated splits generating altcoins as a result. Once he set 1MB it was set in stone, the question is if he was aware of this or not back then. I believe people often overrate satoshi's long term thinking on his own creation, he was discovering what it would become along the way, with the rest of the people involved since the early days, or maybe you are right and it was part of the plan, but im not willing to clam I knew his intentions with 100% certainty.

It's worth noting that Hal Finney was aware of the "settlement network fate" back in 2010, I don't know if any other big names saw that as well. It very well could be that Hal was satoshi and he knew, but didn't want to claim that as satoshi; then again that's all speculation.

I don't think so. It would be an interesting command to have. If there isn't, and until then, you can manually check it by subtracting N from current last block height, N being the number that you entered in the "prune=N" setting in your bitcoin.conf

So do:

getblockcount

This will give you the latest block you have. For instance for me right now is 526788, so let's say your prune N value is 550

526788-550=526238

getblockhash 526238

And there you go. If you try to get the hash of a block that is behind N you should get an error, something like "block not available (pruned data)".

A cvar that automates these steps could be added I guess.

Just a quick update on this one. I don't typically like to brag and everyone that knows me knows im as much of a Bitcoin maximalist as it can get, but when I see a good speculation I call it and try to extract value from it, and man was it a good wall. We are up %275 since my first calls on XSN, not considering even lower prices prior the POSW to XSN swap.

The marketcap is still tiny, and the TPoS approach is enough of a value proposition to propel it into the #100- rank. Considering the amount of shitcoins in the top 50, it is a safe estimation.  Now it all comes down to how much risk you can sustain. Personally I think it can pull a PIVX and reach 6 figures in satoshis eventually, this is again judging by the total supply, technical analysis and the fundamentals involving the massive amount of shitcoins above this one with 0 value proposition. For these that trust PoS based systems, cold storage staking seems like a pretty cool technology that will be explored further, and Stakenet is the leading one.

It is also worth nothing that the growth has happened despite the current Bitcoin correction, so if anything you have hedged against that and retained value, but you should have made some legit gains by now:

That is a nested segwit address by looking at previous transactions, should do for the task. Note that if you didn't move any coins with it we wouldn't be able to tell due redeemScript not being shown yet. You should know what you are dealing with as a Legendary member tbh.

Actually, there is an altcoin called "Bitcoin Core" now:

https://thebitcoincore.org/

Of course, it's just another shitcoin, but this has a very special goal: To use Roger Ver's politician tactics against himself. The point is that Roger Ver usually uses his big megaphone in the form of Twitter, other social media, or live TV appearances, to call Bitcoin "Bitcoin Core", so now whenever he calls Bitcoin "Bitcoin Core", he will be talking about the altcoin called "Bitcoin Core". So the bigger this BTCC altcoin gets, the more exposed he will get for trying to mislead the public, as they will learn Bitcoin. It is pretty funny.

Remember when he used to call Bitcoin "Bitcoin Segwit"? Then he switched to "Bitcoin Core", and if this altcoin gets big enough, he would have to change it to something else. The guy is such a relentless scammer.


Good remarks, but a bit overkill maybe. In a way every existing client is a fork of the original client with changed/polished stuff, so I think Knots should know as its own client in this list. Im not sure how Libbitcoin works, never tried it, I just was told it was a proper client you can run, I will have to look into that.


Cool, I added this one, seems to meet the criteria but will need to read more later. I like that it has cold storage features. I would like to see cold storage features in Core to sign tx offline and so on, all nicely integrated in the GUI Armory style.

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Is time to stop assuming the price is about to hit the floor for the bear market... we may or not go lower, what you should be doing is dollar cost averaging.

Personally I think $6500 ish range is a potential floor. After that, around $4900 would be it, I believe that is an ideal buy entry to go all in.

Worst case scenario is testing the (never re-tested) $1300 MtGox peak... it would suck but at the same time it would be a steal and I wouldn't doubt to sell my car to buy BTC at such ridiculous prices. We'll find out during the summer.

Indeed, I thought it was abandoned.. and well it's just an SPV client, so I guess I will edit the list.


That website is pretty inaccurate. For instance, the TRB client, is listed as supporting "Emergent Consensus". As far as I remember, EC was some sort of Bitcoin Unlimited-Gavin trickery.
I forgot to add this one in the list.

But in any case, im sure there are other ones not listed there, maybe some obscure dev teams doing something under the radar, that is what I find most interesting.

By "Bitcoin Core" alternatives I mean full validating clients that follow consensus rules (do not fork the blockchain... because that would be an altcoin).

The ones I know are:

Bitcoin Knots: This is developed by Luke Dash Jr and has some experimental features that sometimes are added into the Core client: https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin
Libbitcoin: I think this one was founded by Amir Taaki: https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin
BTCD: This one doesn't have a wallet and is written in Go: https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd
BitcoinJ: Very old client from back in the day, I think it was started by Mike Hearn: https://github.com/bitcoinj/bitcoinj (removed because not a full validating node)
Bitcore: Looks like Trezor uses this one, but also Bloq...: https://bitcore.io/
Bcoin: Some exchanges use this one like Bitwala: http://bcoin.io/
Gocoin: Written in Go: https://github.com/piotrnar/gocoin

Im sure there are more.. post yours. I think these efforts are good and positive for Bitcoin overall. As long as they follow consensus rules, it's good that several different teams are working on different clients.

Indeed. The point of Tails is to not use it as a regular OS, but as something you would use to guarantee your system is not compromised, so ideally you want it in a DVD and not in anything that could be writeable.

BUT you can also allocate space in which you can persistently install stuff and will be there on every boot, see anything related with "persistent" in the wiki:

https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/persistence/configure/index.en.html

I have never used this, but shall you use it, I would encrypt:

https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/persistence/index.en.html

Of course be sure to remember the password. I tested Veracrypt in some HDDs and I forgot the password, now they are useless HDDs since I can't access the data.

Bitcoin will always be winner long term. If you don't want to gamble, minimize BTC loses. If you think Roger Ver still has enough funds to keep pumping BCash, then keep your BCH position until you are able to get out without a loss or ideally find some profit.

The only options for BCH to pump is for Ver and Jihad to waste more money in another spam attack while pumping BCH on twitter as the savior of the cryptoworld, then quickly dump the BCH and you'll be back in BTC with possibly some profit margin.

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases

Download the appropriate files for your computer in there. amd64 for amd, 386 for intel, arm for raspberry pi...

What sort of problem are you having specifically? post the terminal log.

Tails comes with very basic stuff so you might need to download additional libraries. I managed to compile Electrum once and I needed to download other stuff. Also remember that you need to do this on each boot unless you enable persistent mode.

There would only be a group of miners left... the current miners, assuming that they will continue mining said supposed fork (ETH-PoW). I don't include ETC as Ethereum miners, but ETC is already a fork.

In any case, the other end would be ETH-PoS, so this means no miners in there, and I predict ETH-PoS will be the leading one price wise, simply because Buterin will support that one, just like how ETH leaded in price vs ETC, because basically Buterin supported the DAO fork... proving that Ethereum is simply a centralized coin with a clear leader.

The purpose for BCash is that they think they can scale indefinitely on-chain. In fact, after upgrading to 32MB, and after seeing how apparently everything is allright, some are calling for an finite blocksize:

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/8jtqpm/the_mythical_block_size_limit_has_now_become/#bottom-comments

So basically, these guys are deluded enough that it's perfectly safe and decentralization friendly to let miners dictate the size of the blocks. Is this mindset that predicts a big disaster eventually happening if BCash actually starts getting traction.

Some people are calling for a bull market in around june-july or somewhere this summer. I have positioned myself in a few altcoins expecting big gains if there is a bull market. It's hard to predict when altcoins will go up along Bitcoin and when they will dump.

Sometimes Bitcoin goes up, altcoins go down. Sometimes Bitcoin goes up, altcoins go up... if the situation is the second one, it's not a bad idea to hold some. I personally bet on Stakenet (XSN) going higher from now on, simply because of two things:

1) It has bottomed... it cannot really go much lower
2) It has some interesting features like TPoS

I think an all time high in BTC terms is reachable. Im holding until at least 30k.

The market "decided" Bitconnect was worth 0.037 BTC (258$, by then) and we all know how it ended:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitconnect/

So what I mean is, the market can decided that a scam has value for X period of time, it doesn't mean it ever had objective value. Ethereum, BCash and all these other scams haven't gone to 0 because it's harder for people to see how they are scams, and they are PoW coins so we have miners speculating with their hashrate while possible, and we have scammers with big megaphones like Ver on twitter etc.. but the time will come in which people realize they are scams and the dump will be epic, and all that capital will go to Bitcoin, which means people holding Bitcoin will once again be the winners.

Recently, BCash proved again that it is a centralized project, by smooth sailing into another hard fork, this time, to a 32 MB blocksize.

With such huge blocks ready to get filled (and ironically, having less demand than a lot of other altcoins in terms of transaction volume) it is basically a disaster waiting to happen. Anyone with enough funds and a mission to fuck BCash up could right now stop spamming big time and the blocks would become eventually undownloadable, just like Ethereum's blockchain.

These shitcoins can't die fast enough, and all the idiots getting tricked into selling Bitcoin for them thinking it's the next big thing will end up paying sooner or later. There's no excuses to not know that these things are scams, we are in 2018.

I don¡'t think so. I believe hardforks will keep raising exponentially, as long as the altcoin bubble doesn't burst. Hard forking remains a good way to spread coins around without much jurisdictional problems.

ICO's usually involve a ton of bureocracy and risks for investors. Airdrops aren't automated, and requires some centralized party holding the coins to distribute them. So the remaining way is hardforking so owners of previous coins get the new coins, this doesn't require to follow any laws or a centralized actor spreading coins (example, Byteball)

Of course, the best way remains a proper PoW launch like Bitcoin.