Some people will change poola based on prospective earnings yes. Per pool, an API call can normally be used to find the total hashrate and the amount of blocks mined by that pool in the last x amount of time (anywhere from 2 hours to a week or so as some smaller mining pools may find a block only every week or so but it may work out that everyone gets a better share, profit wise). There's an argument for that not making a lot of a difference though calculation wise.

There are other factors though. A company with some miners in it (separate from what the company already does) may just leave the miners running for 9 or 10 hours a day for example. Or someone may live in a flat with electricity already paid for and may turn the miner off at night to sleep in a room a bit quieter.

And hobbyistic miners that won't ROI with their miners may only leave them running for an hour or two every so often. If people do this at different times (due to timezone differences) then the mining share to a certain pool may increase - like a solo mining pool if someone feels particularly lucky.


Also, in the OP. I see btc.com being mentioned. That pool is owned by bitmaintech who also own antpool.com and have a large amount of hashing servers and server farms.

There's also the issue that they can be blocked by the website administrators for something either random or unreasonable (normally deemed to be something against the terms and conditions of the site but they're not normally very specific).

Bloclchain.info is an exception to that but it's still risky to leave coins in it as they have a copy of the private keys and can be hacked (if your password is too weak).

Can you get your private keys from the wallet? If not, you'll have to send the coins to electrum instead if you really want to use them there.

It's highly recommended you move from web wallets to software wallets (SPV or wallets like Bitcoin Core).

Average fees are normally between 0 and 3%.

Afaik, if you wanted to mix an altcoin, I think it'd be more likely people would use shapeshift.io to convert it to bitcoin and convert it back at a later time as shapeshift is quite a quick exchange with no sign up options everything's quite anonymous.

There are sutes particularly like chipmixer who round down payments to the closest mbtc and take the extra btc as a donation/tip.

I'm not sure that's accurate for every wallet but it'll certainly help a few. Normally, due to the decentralization of bitcoin, every wallet has to validate the transaction input and the output and gajn a TX hash from the validation process. If the TX hash is different for bech32 (which is probably the case as they're much smaller transaction sizes) then some nodes will reject them.

Though ledger and trezor will support receiving from them as you state so that is correct and the original point of this thread...

What software are you running for this?

Also, could possibly be an issue connecting to the daemon. Probably start by checking it is accessible, the right rpcusername and rpcpassword are configured correctly in both the software and the daemon.

Yeah sure, that's how everything works.
Even stuff that's hard coded and not updated just randomly accepts new protocols... It usually doesn't!

Think about trying to run a Windows application on Linux, there's obviously going to be some issues. Blockchain.info took a few weeks and think about the volume of visitors they get.

You could probably get your coins credited to an exchange wallet by sending an email to their support (but that normally takes 48 hours to two weeks or even a month since there are disputes on unconfirmed transactions). Or importing a private key from another wallet into electrum but that's quite risky especially if there's a lot on it.

Abdussamad has the right idea.

Every wallet that has been programmed to accept it can. There are some that won't for example, wallets that might not currently be in development for obvious reasons like multibit. Also, I'm not sure whether the Andreas Schildbach (not sure how you spell his name) Bitcoin wallet for Android recognises bech32 addresses or not as it does get updated every so often but I'm not sure entirely what the updates bring each time as there isn't normally an update log with it (unless I'm looking in the wrong place).

For a trezor: seeds, private keys and derivation paths are generated by the hardware so. No to both as both will work from the same system.

I think they should be able to receive from bech32 however, especially of you use electrum.

Aha! You finally managed to perfect and upload it then? I'll test it when I open up a Linux machine. Might also try to convert it to use in Windows (probably by translating the code to one in Windows that'll run fast enough).

In addition, most sites will use validation to determine whether the address entered is wrong. This will raise up 2 errors:
1. The bc1 isn't a 1 or a 3.
2. The checksum will not correctly validate as it is a separate algorithm.

Addresses starting with a 3 came to the network long before segwit was activated so they SHOULD be accepted (a very limited number may still not).

There's a network tab in either help>debug or the options window.
There it should give you an option to change a port/use a vpn. Change the port to something like 22.

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Only one connection is really necessary for synchronization.

Have you found any qr codes in his paperwork anywhere? He may have printed off the wallet as a backup.

Do you have any idea what passwords he used, how old was he? If he was over say 30 he might have started writing passwords down somewhere.

If you load up bitcoin core with a copy of the backup of the wallet, does it have a padlock (search for wallet.dat if it's bitcoin core).

Did his phone also get destroyed or is that still functioning. Can you get that recovered or recover it yourself?

If it was a wallet other than bitcoin core, if theres a random 12 words, it could be a HD wallet. I'd suggest downloading electrum and trying it in there.

Also, my sincerest sympathy to your family and his friends/colleagues at this time. The coins will remain on the drive if you don't want to rush and want some time to maurn for him.

Is your wallet fully synchronised? That's normally what causes the issue of it not being enabled on the network yet (as you haven't gotten up to that block so core doesn't know it's been activated).

It is dependent on the wallet type and hwat it can decode whether it will accept it or not. Generally speaking, Bitcoin core and Electrum are the only ones that can easily send/recieve to bech32 addresses. There are other wallets that will support it as well but these are the two main ones I know that will definitely support them. If you could post a list of the main wallets you use then we could try to see if those wallets support recieving from bech32/natic segwit addresses or not?

Try going to the network dialog screen and uncheck "autoconnect" and select a few different servers to check that's not the issue.

Also, what does the balance bar show at the bottom? Does it say "synchronizing" or 0 (verge).

The retweeters either don't know what they're talking about or have just sold and want the price to fall so they can get more and watch it go back up once they get more money.

Its stable at about £6000 ATM I'd say it's almost inevitable we'll climb back up to £10k soon and may even go further than that this quarter.

There's already a miner app called simple g miner you could use/look at for Android not sure if it's open source or not.
It uses both sha256 and scrypt.

It isn't viable to mine from Android but it's quite a nice app nonetheless.
Also, there might be a way to connect a USB asic to a rooted tablet to get it to mine but it'll probably overheat or damage RAM due to the intense process needed.

In addition to this. Booting in safe mode (if it's Windows your using may help with this) for built in firewalls.

Also, do you own your router and have access to use any port on it? If not, you'll have to change the port your client connects to (port 22 would be a good one if it's free as that's usually an SSH port).

I think MysteryMiner is referring to the main console only allowing interpreting of the software.

Microsoft and other companies have made powerful compilers of it though however and yes electrum is mostly written in Python. Even theymos says they like to use electrum for small amounts of bitcoins that he wants to transfer/store.