https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/paradise-papersThe Queen of England Isabel II, Soros, Sheldon Adelson, Queen of Jordania, Juan Manuel Santos (president of Colombia), Justin Trudeau (Canada), some people close to Trump, big celebrities like Bono from U2, Madonna.... huge list. The elite continues avoiding taxes with their billions, meanwhile they will hate you for owning a small 5 figure bitcoin holdings and will put you in jail if you don't tax it. Isabel II? Are you referring to Elizabeth II? Well, with even monarchs in the list along with celebs, I wouldn't be surprised if this would be a bigger scandal than the Panama papers. Sadly, very few people would probably get jail time out of this. I mean, can you imagine punishing a queen for this? You are right, I got confused with the spanish queen Elisabel II for some reason. In any case, just as you said and as poster above said, I doubt this will have any relevant consequences for them, they have enough money to never put a feet inside a cell. Let's see, we've had OffshoreLeaks in 2013, Falciani's List with its Swiss secrets and the agreements and secrets of multinational enterprises in Luxembourg in 2015, the Panama Papers in 2016 and then more secret agreements but this time within elite soccer players: FootballLeaks. How many of these people went to jail? how many did pay the taxes that the poor citizens with no offshore leaks where getting raped with in the meantime? |
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https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/paradise-papersThe Queen of England Elizabeth II, Soros, Sheldon Adelson, Queen of Jordania, Juan Manuel Santos (president of Colombia), Justin Trudeau (Canada), some people close to Trump, big celebrities like Bono from U2, Madonna.... huge list. The elite continues avoiding taxes with their billions, meanwhile they will hate you for owning a small 5 figure bitcoin holdings and will put you in jail if you don't tax it.
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I realize most will say that it is going to turn into an altcoin, but with the majority of miners power and (correct me if I'm wrong) core bitcoin developers supporting the Segwit2x chain (or being apathetic about it), wouldn't it naturally go in that direction?
You are wrong. Miners are signaling, not mining. We will see what their cards are when the match actually begins. For now, it's all speculation, but with ViaBTC resigning it's down to around 70%. Given that in a real life situation miners should mine for profit and not due some agreement, it will be lower than 70%. If you are going to bet your money on some shitcoin that has no economic support (because no whales except Roger Ver support it). There will be enough hashrate to support these transactions which will result on a big S2X dump, which will then result in miners finding an incentive to buy BTC and not S2X. |
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You should NOT parasitize hoping that someone would perform hard, dirty work instead of you.
You must help, you SHOULD do yourself what you CAN do yourself.
 Parasitize? Miners mine for profit. The whole spectrum of the game theory involving miners goes deeper. Miners can be bribed to act in a way that would seem irrational at first, without knowing that there is a bribe going on. Case in point: An attacker (let's call this Government A) bribes miners into mining at a loss, the chain of a fork, in order to push this fork as "the real Bitcoin on all major exchanges, which are also bribed by Government A, such as Coinbase et al. These miners seem to be mining a less valuable coin, but they are making more money doing so by accepting the bribes. This is an attack on bitcoin, and this will explain when you see any miners mining segwit2x at a loss in the following weeks. |
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I am using Bitcoin Wallet v5.38 on my Android v6.01 phone. I am about to change my phone and want to move my wallet to my Windows 10 PC. How do I go about it?
If you want to be serious about your bitcoins, you shouldn't be storing bitcoin on a windows machine. Download an user friendly Linux distro like Ubuntu and store your coins there. Also do not import any private keys. To move between wallets, simply make a transaction to your new wallet and that's all. |
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This seems all like science fiction-conspiracy theory. First of all, show me the actual proof. Where did the guy that made this research come up with these entities from?
Show me the evidence (with links to a blockchain explorer) of 2,886,650 BTC belonging to the same entity.
Supposedly, Satoshi was the highest stakeholder with near 1 million BTC. This is easy to find, you just need to sum all the early mined BTC. And I heard some people say it was never anywhere close to 1 million anyway.
So who could this entity A be and where is the proof of 78,251 addresses pointing to entity A?
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What is the issues with blockchain.info this days, I sent Bitcoin over 5 days not yet confirm  Post your transaction id so we can try to help you, or post the bitcoin address where you sent your bitcoins to. If you sent bitcoins from the blockchain.info into another wallet and it's stuck, then it's blockchain.info's responsibility to get it sorted for you, so email them. If you used a Bitcoin client, ideally Bitcoin Core, then we can give you more help. Your transaction definitely paid a fee that is too low for the current network state, which is why you have not got a confirmation. This might be because of blockchain.info having bad fee estimation, but it is not necessarily their fault. bitcoinfees.earn.com currently shows that a fee of over 160 sats/byte is needed for a quick confirmation. How much of a fee did you pay? Also, if you send me the transaction ID, I can accelerate it with AntPool and get it confirmed for you. It's not clear if he sent the transaction to blockchain.info or from blockchain.info |
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The method of a double computer setup is achieved by dumping the raw transaction data on the offline computer, then passing it on (with an USB stick for example) in the online computer where your node is.
This can't be done with the GUI afaik, so you would need to use the command console, so this has added risk, and you still are at risk that the text file containing your raw transaction gets compromised somehow during the process of relaying it in the network.
I have never used this method so you would need to ask someone that does for the details, but I think an encrypted Linux partition with a node used as a wallet is safe enough in most cases.
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Can anybody tell me what to do / accelerate my transaction if possible? I'm slightly worried  0acb468554a2aa6a177009de7eed700cb0761a4a7cd26d80aed3bc17ed6cf71d thanks in advance! According to blockchain.info: https://blockchain.info/tx/0acb468554a2aa6a177009de7eed700cb0761a4a7cd26d80aed3bc17ed6cf71dSummary
Size 226 (bytes)
Weight 904
Received Time 2017-11-03 15:54:42
Included In Blocks 492956 ( 2017-11-03 19:40:14 + 226 minutes )
Confirmations 2 Confirmations It looks like your transaction is already completed. Depending on what wallet you are sending your bitcoins to, it may take a couple more confirmations to show up as spendable funds, just wait for a while, but your transaction is already relayed on the network so dont worry. |
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Do you think this will affect the price of bitcoin over the next few days?
It is truly irrelevant. Just look at this news for instance: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/30/vietnam_bans_bitcoin_as_payment_for_anything/The Bank lists conventional payment mechanisms like cheques, payment orders and credit cards as permitted, but then adds (after translation) that “Bitcoin virtual currency and other similar is not lawful means of payment in Vietnam; The issuance, supply, use of bitcoin and other similar virtual currency as a means of payment is prohibited in Vietnam.”
Fines of around US$9,000 apply to those who accept or offer payments in virtual currencies. Meanwhile, bitcoin keeps hitting all time highs on a daily basis. I wouldn't worry about bans, the market no longer cares. Maybe if US banned it it would have an impact, the rest of the countries are pretty irrelevant. |
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Here is my advice: dump all of your alts for bitcoin (BTC) before November, acquire all of the subsequent forked coins off bitcoin and sell them as soon as possible. Hold on your bitcoin and don't enter any alts unless you see a bargain.
Im pretty certain we are going to keep hitting new all time highs through 2018 as the segwit2x threat losses all possibility of ever overtaking the real bitcoin, and you must be ready, in other words, holding your coins and getting all of your coins out of any exchanges. We may see more forks during 2018 that you can profit from as a bitcoin holder. It's the only coin that others want to fork so you get "dividends".
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and what do you think what will happen with difficulty of btc ?
To answer this and your question above... the hashrate of the "signaling" for the segwit2x is exactly that, signaling, and is decreasing as miners reveal their true intentions slowly: they will not commit exclusivity of hashrate to any chain, they will mine what's economically profitable. The second, the difficulty may have wild fluctuations, but as soon as it's clear BTC is valued higher than B2X, capitalization of the fork threat will be reached and B2X/S2X or whatever they call it, will end up as an alt similar to BCash, BGold etc. |
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I think you are overthinking this (very typical when trying to choose a Linux distro). Pretty much any distribution will be a fantastic improvement assuming you are using Windows or Mac recently. I would recommend Ubuntu (which no longer has the spyware you talk about since version 16.something). I've also seen Linux Mint recommended for newbies (I've never tried it personally). There's also many variations of Ubuntu like Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu... im not sure about these, but you may want to check them out. Forget about OpenBSD, Gentoo, Arch or any of these, you don't really need them unless you are a super technical person. Given that you don't visit stupid websites or download anything of dodgy nature, your bitcoins should be safe in any of the most known distros.
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i know that 2X will have 2mb block because of chinese miners.. so 2x will be probably bit faster but what a new future bring us normal bitcoin? When you look at fees omg too high ... what suggest bitcoin core as solution for this ? Can someone explain me what will be new for bitcoin when btc2x will has 2mb blocks what new will has bitcoin as a solution for a huge amount of unconfirmed tx ?
Look at Bitcoin Cash: Is it higher than the real Bitcoin? nope. Not on price, not on transaction volume. Maybe have you considered the fact that the demand for Bitcoin is to use it as a store of wealth (digital gold) and not like a currency to send small payments? It seems the market does not want to increase blocksize thus far. What for you is a problem, for other is a benefit. Some people would rather pay an higher fee in order to avoid a hardfork that is already a mess. The hashrate will be lower for a while on BTC, then when it's clear that BTC is valued higher than S2X, S2X will lose hashrate because it will not be profitable to mine it, just like BCash. |
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This is not a blockchain upgrade. This is a chain split and we are failing to address legitimate safety concerns for the users of this network. We had ZERO users asking us to keep support for the now dead pre-Byzantium ETH chain. We have tons of users asking us to keep support for their "core" BTC. Text in Full: There are few things that are clear to me about this upcoming Fork. But the lack of consensus is definitely one of them. Sorry if I just made you puke Ben.
Given this is a technical mailing list, I would urge everyone to rethink the S2X code from a technical perspective. The code base was written as an upgrade to Bitcoin. I believe there is enough hard data out there to make it clear that S2X is no longer an upgrade.
F2Pool backed down
Slush Pool was never in
ViaBTC said none of their customers are requesting S2X
BTC.top said they will just mine whatever is more profitable
When do we stop and rethink? When we get to less than 50% hashing power?
I know most miners are still signaling NYA on their blocks. There is no cost for doing so and signaling is non-binding. One of the things that was agreed upon at the NYA was better signaling methods - I have seen none so far. Why is this? This makes me uncomfortable.
I am not aware of any BTC liquidity providers that signed the NYA which are abandoning the original chain, which is what happens with a blockchain upgrade (see last month's ETH fork).
Furthermore there are plenty of businesses that will not be supporting S2X.
This is not a blockchain upgrade. This is a chain split.
When we were invited to sign the NYA I saw an opportunity to come together as an industry. Although proud to have signed the NYA - it got segwit activated in a coordinated and safe way (no UASF hell!), I believe the NYA has failed in achieving it's original goal of keeping the community together and advancing the development of Bitcoin in a coordinated manner.
Whether this failure is the fault of some loudmouths in twitter, some trolls in Reddit, or very opinionated and principled engineers and scientists is irrelevant. What's relevant is that NYA has failed to bring the community together and provide a safe mechanism to upgrade Bitcoin as it had intended to do.
I might be stupidly naive or I might just be figuring how decentralized consensus mechanisms work (like many of you, I'd assume), but when asked about signing the NYA I definitely didn't agree to it in order to further divide and cause mayhem, which is what NYA has achieved.
I ultimately think this is about users. We had ZERO users asking us to keep support for the now dead pre-Byzantium ETH chain. We have tons of users asking us to keep support for their "core" BTC.
This is not a blockchain upgrade. This is a chain split and we are failing to address legitimate safety concerns for the users of this network. Daniel Vogel vogel at bitso.com Thu Nov 2 15:30:16 UTC 2017 https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x/2017-November/000632.htmlIndeed, just as I expected... chain reaction is happening. Smart actors are positioning themselves on the right side of history. We've see ViaBTC recently saying this:  Signaling means nothing, and they will not mine 2xcoin. With ViaBTC down, supposed hashrate support for 2x is down to 70%, which will be actually lower in practice as the rest of the idiots still on the 2x clown train realize they will be mining at a loss, but even 70% alone is already a totally insanely low amount of hashrate to pretend to hardfork bitcoin without being responsible of a total mess. |
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It's completely unbelievable that nobody speaks about the fork...
- It's almost tomorrow ! The segwit 2X fork is currently planned to happen on November 16th
- We have very few information about what will happen with this fork ?
The current and most probable scenario is :
=> The 2X blockchain will stay an alternative chain
=> The original chain will remains the main chain
=> Massive decrease of main chain hashrate due to the NYAgreement.
The massive decrease of hashrate will have a huge impact on the network. Even if it will be "repaired" after difficulty reduction, it cannot be unseen.
My questions :
- Will this uncertainty about future will be stronger than the hope of getting free money with the fork ? (if yes, price drop)
- Will whales will use this situation to FUD a lot and manipulate the price ? (for me, the answer is "yes of course").
Nobody talks because it's dead on arrival. Coinbase is going to get sued, so will Xapo, Gemini and all the rest of corporate retards that think they belong in Bitcoin but they don't. And they will get sued by idiots that also thought they owned Bitcoin but didn't. It will be a mess of people lossing money as they send to wrong addresses and so on, like BCash but worse. This will only solidify the fact that unless there's massive consensus, a hardfork will always be a disaster, and the idiots that will lose most money will be the exchanges supporting these scams, along with the idiots that sold real Bitcoin for fake bitcoins. So just buy any dip if there's even a dip and stop stressing. |
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1. Bitcoin's price while historically high is peanuts for institutions. Bitcoin is 1/8th the price of AAPL (Apple corporation). An 8th the price of one stupid tech stock.... just let that sink in. Bitcoin sustaining a price of $6k is trivial even laughable.
2. Massive wealth has been made in the past 3 years with smart money chasing crypto currency. Big money is insanely jealous of other big money that performs better than they do. They all think they are the smartest people on the planet. Their egos have no bounds.
3. Bitcoin has had clear continuous buying pressure for three years. Why? Because big money is buying everything at every single dip. The dips keep getting smaller and smaller. They are not selling, they are buying and if there is a sell cycle it is only to shake out small money who are so excited to make their $100k.
There are not going to be 21 million coins, millions are lost already. Most people on this forum in two years will not own a single bitcoin because the pressure to sell will be just too high and the price will seem so high that nobody will dare to buy one.
Institutions don't care about price, they care about markets, manipulation, control and dominance. If you don't understand what is happening, then you will get shaken out and be left wondering what the hell happened as you watch all of the rich take control of ALL of the bitcoin.
Bitcoin is going to $100k. Then it will won't stop until it gets to $500k just like McAfee has predicted. Any and all dips are just an effort to strip you of your future wealth as you try and secure your precious 2 year gains.
Don't say you weren't warned.
I mostly agree, but I would make a correction: Institutions will change Bitcoins PRICE, not "Bitcoin". Your thread title sounds as if Bitcoin, the protocol itself, is going to be changed by institutions. That would be an attack on the network, and that is what is going on right now with segwit2x, which is nothing but institutions trying to change Bitcoin, Bitcoin itself, which is why we must beat segwit2x, then we will aim for $100k easy. |
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I hope so. The only manipulation so far I can see in bitcoins are those that we can see in stocks anyway with whales dumping here and such. Otherwise, it's pretty much dictated by the market.
Well this adds the risk of big bubbles forming, bigger than we've seen. With institutional money coming in, we will hit $10000 easily, this will make FOMOers jump on the ship too. We may get a bit too carried away and we may face big corrections, but the bottomline is: the fundamentals don't change. No matter how many ups and downs along the way, 21 million coin hardcoded limit will guarantee a perpetual long term increase in price. Demand is not going to magically stop, bubble bursts cycles part of the transition from fiat to bitcoin. |
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did it and sent it to theymos, still what causing this hack to my account?? bitcointalk is lagging on security and the over burden staff at this site could do better then resetting accounts all day.. i do appreciate this
What is brickblock.io? I have javascript disabled and the website wouldn't load for me. Let me guess, it's another ICO scam that asked for your Bitcointalk username and password somehow? Have you entered your pass somewhere else? You may have been victim of phising. If that is the case, then it's not Bitcointalk's fault. In any case there are a ton of people getting hacked lately... another database hack with accounts being sold out there? who knows. If you have a BTC address that you posted before the hack, you will be able to recover the account with a signed message, I doubt you can get it back any other way. |
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Wow. I wonder how much money Roger Ver has paid Gliss to list his bullshit bitcoin.com website on there. How can you list bitcoin.com as a Bitcoin website, when they claim bitcoin is "Bitcoin Cash"? https://www.bitcoin.com/info/bitcoin-cash-is-bitcoinPlease, remove this website from the bitcoin coinmarketcap page, or else enjoy class action lawsuits when newbies that get tricked into thinking Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin lose their money and blame your website pointing bitcoin.com as faulty. |
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