I think none of the above. DAG, while very interesting, has been proven to be not safe by pretty creditable people. The Tangle technology on IOTA has an unsolved attack surface that I will not go into now, just look around im pretty sure you can find detailed information on it.

PoS is also not safe.

Unfortunately, PoW remains the most time-tested technology to keep a ledger safe from being modified, so wether we like it or not, Bitcoin is going to continue being the #1 coin (I say unfortunately because I would like to see an actual contender, but just there isn't)

Anonymity will also be improved in Bitcoin. Recently new discoveries have proven to make CT with only 3x weight of transaction (in the past it was measured to be 16x). At this rate we could have fungible BTC in the next few years.

You don't need to say what your private key starts with or anything that could have information about private key.

In any case, if I wanted to do this the right way, I would download the official full client of Bitcoin Gold, sync it, and then dump the (previously emptied) private keys on there, and it should work.

Im not sure what Coinomi is. I know syncing a full node is annoying, but that is what I would do. So far I haven't bothered to get my BTG yet, im still sorting out my BCash.

So you use bitcoind? Why not use the GUI? Sure using bitcoind may save you from some surface attacks introduced by GUI usage... but if you are running your node on a linux machine and you aren't doing anything stupid, it is perfectly fine to use the GUI in most cases, and you guarantee you don't enter any command line that does what you didn't want to do so that is to consider as well.

In any case if you still want to use bitcoind:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Raw_Transactions

But I can't find anything specific for change addresses..

Not sure about the fee, and not sure what the current behavior for change should be may you use a segwit address without specifying a change address.. so to guarantee that you get your bitcoin's change back in a segwit address, simply create a receiving segwit address and enter that address in the options (see "custom change address"), after enabling "Coin Control" feature:



This way you will do exactly what you want to do.

That was easy, the blocks folder is now smaller than the chainstate folder... pretty weird to see

But there is still a problem, when I reopened Bitcoin ABC, the progress bar is 112 hours away, it's stuck at 99.99%, and the other counter on the bottom left of the window says "97.5% Syncing Headers" and it's stuck there... what's happening?

It looks like all the 1mb bitcoin haters are pumping altcoins with higher blocksizes to try to trick the markets into thinking that there is a big demand for coins with bigger blocks, which I don't believe for a second. Whoever wants to transact with these coins is free to do so, what does have price to do if it's not a store of value? to move value you don't need an huge price, a store of value needs an increase of price ideally, since there are no dividends or interest rates in bitcoin, the limited supply is what should keep the price going higher and incentivize its use as a savings account mostly. Whoever wants to transact fast and cheap has a ton of options.

Indeed, I think even Mike Belshe from Bitgo is pumping it. I can't find a single person that did sign the New York Agreement that isn't actively pumping BCash ever since Segwit2x got cancelled, which leads me to believe this was a planned "plan B" a long time ago, just in case they didn't win Segwit2x. Even Vinny Lingham is pumping BCash is twitter. It has all become too obvious by now. Manipulation will not last and we are already seeing it crash.

Ok I have finally fully synced the Bitcoin ABC node on my laptop, I had to leave it opened all night but finally the hard work is done. Now I need to enable pruned mode. Since I have never done this I have no idea how to properly do it without screwing up. I have searched on the wiki but I can't find anything about pruned nodes.

Can you explain how to do it step by step? it is important to not screw up the blockchain, having to re-sync again would be a nightmare.

So from what I understood your coins are stuck in "Bitcoin Casino" website because the fee that "Bitcoin Casino" used was not high enough for the transaction to happen?

Why not post the txid? We can help you better if we can see the details, but I would understand it from a privacy point of view.

In any case there is not much you can do but to thell the Bitcoin Casino support to get their shit together and fix it, since online wallets don't give you much control to do RBF, zapwallettx or other cool stuff you can do with Bitcoin Core etc.

If you wait long enough, the transaction should get dropped from the mempool (im assuming it has 0 confirmations) and you will receive your coins again on the "Bitcoin Casino" wallet. If they are idiots that will not help you, then wait for the mempool to get less filled and make the transaction again and it should go through. If they are not acting accordingly you can make a thread on Reddit to expose them for example.

Well on that case I predict a lot of drama coming to Bitcoin Cash pretty soon. From what i've seen, ALL forks always survive, there's always some jackass that mines it just for the lols. This may create incentives to miners to keep mining it. In this case, it would be difficult for the old chain to survive since it's just the EDA change, but who knows, an attacker against Bitcoin Cash could use this fork to create disruption by keeping the old chain alive. I don't see how this pump can be sustained any longer, specially when in January 1st Coinbase will allow people all this free money to be dumped.

John McAffee is pumping Bitcoin Cash too. The whole crew of scammers are all orchestrated on this. Im starting to believe the theory of segwit2x being cancelled a long time ago, so they could have had time to prepare all of this with such synchronized acts. It can't be a coincidence that all this propaganda machine, mempool spam and Bitcoin Cash pumping happens right when segwit2x gets cancelled. This is an attack guys, there's no real support for Bitcoin Cash, it's only scammers. Keep holding your real BTC and dump BCash as quick as you can get yor hands on it. Im afraid we have already bottomed while BCash has already peaked.

This seems to be the case. I was confused and just assumed taht if the Tor Browser was oppened then Bitcoin Core autoamtically sets it up for you.

By the way I was reading on using Tor with Core and I saw this:


So im not sure anymore if this is a good idea at all... maybe it's better to use a regular VPN than Tor if you want an increased degree of privacy?

From what I've read, they are planning on forking Bitcoin Cash again to fix the stupid current EDA that makes these fluctuations... I was wondering, will this split of Bitcoin Cash create another Bitcoin Cash? (so that's 2 different tokens, which means if you are holding Bitcoin Cash you will receive that other token too??). How can they guarantee both chains will not live?

Im really confused at the current situation, too many forks to keep track off. The mempool spam was to be expect so im not surprised of any current events.

Roger Ver and his crew are spamming the network as it was predicted by anyone smart. There is an ongoing attack on bitcoin right now, with strong propaganda coming from the Roger Ver big blocker camp which consists on media propaganda while spamming the bitcoin network. Their goal is to trick the market into assuming that the market wanted bigger blocks, to make them think rejecting segwit2x was a mistake, so they will have more support next time. Of course outside the ongoing manipulation, there's no real support for big blocks. They will run out of money, and once this happens, BCash will dump and BTC will continue growing as usual. Get out of BCash while you can.

Well that's good hear, im sick of spending 100 GB of data in a coin that I only expect to dump. So I need to wait for the blockchain to be fully synced? Im only 2 weeks away but it's really slow for some reason. Is there a away to add more peers or something to make it go faster? Bitcoin Core goes faster and the blocks are bigger, but the software is the same, so i guess it is a lack of peers?

Also do you think it's a good idea to move my BCH to ElectronCash or whatever Electrum wallet equivalent for BCash? So I can have them accessible instantly at any time. Because the thing is, Bcash can pump a lot at any random time, and I have to wait for ABC to validate open so I can't react as fast. I know I can spend BTC/BCH on a full node even if it's not fully synced, but it takes a long time to open my old computer.

Im trying to to get my BCash finally out of my wallet.dat file on my Bitcoin Core so I can dump it while this pump lasts.

The problem is, my laptop is running out of space and im going to be soon not being able to keep running the Bitcoin ABC node which is the only way I can access the coins. It is not fully synced now but im about to finish.

My question is: Can I enable pruned mode and still retrieve the coins? Im just worried that pruned mode will not allow me to access coins that are beyond the last 1 GB or whatever amount a pruned mode saves (never ran in prune mode).

So I can enable Bitcoin ABC in prune mode while it finishes syncing so I don't run out space and still will be able to access the coins once it finishes?

Well according to what I did read, after version 0.12 or something like that, Bitcoin Core would automatically configure itself to route all connections throught Tor if you had opened Tor Browser before opening Bitcoin Core... but according to the wiki it tells you to do that:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Tor#GUI

Im confused now. I will try to find where I did read that you didn't need to do that anymore.

Im not sure if im connecting my full node through Tor properly. From what I understood, with the current Bitcoin Core version you can simply open Tor Browser first, then open Bitcoin Core and your node should be running through Tor anonymously now, but the strange thing is, when I click on "Help -> debug window" and I click on the different nodes on the "peers" tab, it shows that im connecting via my regular IP... so im confused. I understand that im connecting to these nodes with my real IP, but I should be connecting to them through Tor. What's happening?

He mentioned it on the other post:

https://polynetwork.org/

This must be it.

I can't access the wallet because it asks for a login:

https://ico.polynetwork.org/login

Anyway... it is clear now that he must contact support from that ICO and pray that you aren't victim of yet another exit scam of sorts.

Also OP, what wallet do you use to store your majority of Bitcoins? might be a good time to learn about cold storage and full nodes while you are at it.

On what site does it show up? it should show up on all sites.

https://blockchain.info/search?search=d35fcb3508f714163d31407a43557d61689f9d532cdba64625fd269281c96224&searchbar=homepage

The transaction doesn't exist. It never reached the blockchain. What wallet have you used to send the transaction?

https://blockchain.info/address/3QF3S7na14fyvDUqe1pxLfdGERpdfpuGvn

Your address shows a 0.77 BTC transaction with tx id 3cb31bdaac2a4820039be2bfae4f9956e645c020fda89149075136bc6e55d944... so it seems you sent the transaction but you are posting another tx id.