Call me one of the rare users, but I treat forks like I treat shitcoins. The only one I ever cashed in claimed was Bitcoin Cash. I know it’s free money, but realistically speaking, I can’t be asked to keep track of all the forks and claim my free Bitcoin. I guess my tune will change if any of them become profitable and sustainable enough to actually give a shit lol

Dude, you are the man! Did you use ViaBTC's accelerator service for this? I was under the impression that their accelerator was currently disabled. How did you successfully submit the transaction??

I have purchased these gift cards. All the codes were just as described and in working order for $10USD each for the U.S. Store.



The transaction ID for this purchase is as follows: https://blockchain.info/tx/973e3349ca236f6d70240037991b577e7c03eb0cdf5aa49ef256bd60a5347587

Thanks, @winter! Please let me know if you ever come into any more iTunes cards!

STOP SPREADING FUD.

It's users like you who are cancerous to this forum. Learn how to read articles and stop taking the shit out of context. Stop repeating what other people are saying. Do your research before opening your mouth and contributing to fud. It takes no more than 30 seconds to google something and to verify it before continuing to spread misinformation.

South Korea is not moving to ban Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Why don't you go read some news articles and try repositioning your statement after you figure out what you said that is incorrect???

This is pretty typical for any news when it comes to media outlets... Not just for cryptocurrency, but for any topic. And true crypto enthusiasts don't shill or fud. It's usually the signature spammers that are the biggest fudders and shillers, simply because they have no idea what the fuck they're talking about.


Thanks for your insight to this matter. I'm American by nationality, but South Korean by ethnicity, and have family that are pretty involved with Samsung back in Korea. From discussing business with my family and visiting on many occasions, I would be extremely surprised if the Korean government decided to ban cryptocurrency altogether. I don't think that is the risk at the moment, but so much misinformation is being passed around by media outlets, it's not even funny. Thanks for giving us your opinion!

Just to be clear, did you buy 1BTC worth of ECH on their site? Or are you trying to withdraw the 1BTC, and they are holding your withdrawal? I'm not sure what your issues are. What kind of message does it give you when trying to withdraw your BTC? Either way, to be clear, are you selling your account on this website?

Bitcoin Core developers have been against increasing the mempool for years. Why would they want to support Lightning Network? Core devs are not the ones developing LN, so they have nothing to do with its release.

LN may not be the solution that you're looking for. In theory, it sounds great, but that just means that we now have a payment channel that not only we have to trust, but one that has to trust us that we won't be looking for exploits and bugs in the system. Additionally, LN goes against the peer-to-peer nature of the blockchain, and ultimately becomes a centralized second-layer off-chain platform for Bitcoin. My biggest concern with LN is that the only types of companies that are large enough or have enough capital to provide a level of trust for these channels are... well, banks and exchanges. So if you trust banks and exchanges, then by all means, have fun using LN.

All in all, LN is going to happen, but BTC Core devs have nothing to do with its implementation or development.

The best thing you can do is to be completely transparent with your request here. If this were a fundraiser that I was doing, I would place it in the Project Development board using your friend's name in the title, such as "The Alina Project: Donate to a Worthy Cause".

Transparency is key. Reserve the first and second post for the announcement of what you're trying to do, and use the second post for updates. You can edit either post with updates as the fundraiser continues. Make it a self-moderated topic so that you can purge all of the spam posts, and possibly the naysayers.

Provide photos and be transparent with how much you raise. Be transparent with what you want the donations to be used for. If you plan on taking out some of the funds for your time, or for your friends, be very transparent and upfront about it from the beginning. Show proof of funds transfers for pre-natal care. Even go as far as trying to find housing and post-birth care for Alina.

Another call-to-action you can include in the top post would be for benefactors to help donate some server space. Or for web developers to help you make a one-page website that you can access to provide updates. And a Bitcoin donation payment widget.

There are a ton of whales on the forums here that may want to help out a stranger, as long as you can provide transparency and indicate that you're a trustworthy person. Remember, there are literally thousands of posts here of newbies that try to come up with creative ways to ask for Bitcoin donations, so you have to make sure that you stand out.

Video content is king. It doesn't have to be a professionally produced video, but even a short clip in your native tongue with subtitles will really help for everyone to make a decision for themselves.

Chances are that most people will opt out of donating anything when they see this, but even if one or two people decide to throw a bitcoin or two here and there, you'll have made SOMETHING from it. And to me, something is better than nothing.

Good luck, my friend, and I hope Alina gets the treatment and medical care that she deserves.

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Honestly, nope. The only difference may be rate parity. Chances are that the dollar value for either exchanges are the same, but you can occasionally find that you'll get a better deal on one or the other for exchanges depending on how each individual coin is performing. An example of this might be as follows:

You want to buy an altcoin called ABC
Let's imagine that BTC is trading for $10,000
Let's also imagine that ETH is trading for $1,000

Let's say that ABC is trading for $50USD per coin
ABC/BTC pairings on the same exchange show that you can buy it with BTC for 0.0048BTC ($48USD) per ABC
ABC/ETH pairings show that you can buy it for 0.052ETH ($52USD) per ABC

The obvious choice would be to buy the ABC with BTC.

This obviously requires some math, and if this type of stuff interests you, or you have a knack for it, you can even profit from this. You'll occasionally find that this happens because of the volatile nature of cryptocurrencies, and if you're quick enough, you can get into buying for one currency, and immediately trading for another. This is called short trading.

But to answer your question, there is no major difference or drawback of using one currency over another to buy altcoins. It all just depends on the types of pairings that the exchange offers.

For everyone criticizing the OP, y'all need to calm down. Just the fact that you're on this forum means one of two things, really:

1. You're an avid cryptocurrency enthusiast that has more knowledge than the average *new* crypto user. Therefore, you have more knowledge of how the technology behind crypto works, which is unlike the majority of the new users of crypto, or the ones who never took the time to learn. Have some patience with the average person that is just finding their way to come and ask for advice. However, in OP's case, just because he's used Bitcoin since 2011 doesn't mean that he needed to take the time to understand how it works, or what transaction fees to calculate before sending out his payment. We didn't really have a scaling issue back in 2011... Just sayin'

2. You're a signature campaign spammer that only shills or fuds crypto based on the last thing you read. You spread misinformation and find ways to criticize users here if they're not as (artificially) savvy as you when it comes to crypto. But chances are that you read everything and take it at face value, and then post some ridiculous response to users, trying to sound like an expert in the field. Shut the fuck up.

OP, I feel your pain. Before I learned about the Bitcoin blockchain and truly understood how it operates, I put my faith in services like Blockchain.info and Coinbase. It's frustrating to see this happen, as you did follow their recommendation of fees.

We users keep wanting the price of Bitcoin to increase, but in order for that to happen, we need to rely on new users. This means that the majority of them have no idea what a transaction fee is, other than what their wallet services are telling them is the recommended fee. If I was a new user, I would look at Bitcoin as a scam... In order for me to send $50, I have to send a $15 fee??? Realistically speaking, I'm sure there are thousands of other people who are in the same boat as you, and I feel that the responsible thing to do, as a wallet service provider, would be to let users know the risk of sending a low fee, and clearly explain that transactions happen outside of their control. They need to express how important it is to send a comparable fee to what the network currently requires.

It sucks that you're having problems with your transaction, but ultimately, it's completely out of Blockchain.info's hands now. The transaction has been broadcast, and your best chances are to wait it out until the network is less congested, or pay for a premium accelerator that can include your transaction in the next block using their miners. Free accelerator services may be of help to you, so make sure to give that a try. You can start that process by clicking here: FREE BTC Tx Accelerators. Stop paying for something that is free!

If your friend has an asking price, why not just post it here? What you're doing sounds scammy. It sounds to me like you're waiting for an overbid, and then going to keep the difference in what your friend is asking for. So do us all a favor and post the "clear asking price" that your friend indicated, please.

Quoted. Any chance you can sign a message using that bitcoin address? It will help you prove that you own the address if you ever have any issues in the future.

Check out this topic by @shorena: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990345.0 (How to sign a message?!)

Wow. More misinformation being spread by users who don't know what they're talking about.

"At most", there can be up to 20 transactions processed and added to the mempool per second. It's all dependent on the sizes of the transactions. Yes, the average rate of transactions is between 3 and 7 per second, but the number does exceed that number quite often. At the moment, the average fee for transactions that are accepted into the mempool is $29-30, not $3.58. You're looking at the wrong number. You're looking at the average submitted transaction fee, including transactions that have broadcasted ages ago and will never get accepted into the mempool. You can set whatever fees you want, but that doesn't mean it will get confirmed.

You should look at the average fee of transactions that are confirmed instead of the average fee for all (unconfirmed) transactions in the network.

Chances that you'll actually see my reply are slim, but please stop spreading misinformation. The 0.001BTC "minimum" fee isn't a "recommendation", as you call it. That's just the minimum fee for most acceleration services to even consider rebroadcasting the transaction. The fee structures for transactions have nothing to do with the final amount that you send. The fees are based on the size of your transaction, and it's recommended that you send a minimum amount of satoshi per byte of that size. In dollar amounts, your fee could be anything from $10 to $100, depending on the size of your transaction.

That's partially the reason why it was so easy for me to sell the raiblocks when I did, as well. There were only two exchanges selling them at the time, and because of the scammy nature of how they were "mined" (collected from bot-infested faucets), I never expected the end of the distribution phase to actually materialize into what it has now. Rather than wanting to keep them in my wallet, I moved the coins over to Bitgrail, and just hodled them until one day I needed some bitcoin. I made a couple thousand bucks on the deal, so I wasn't too devastated, but it sure wasn't the $1.5mil I would have made today ha

You said it yourself in the video. Your 14y/o self would have sold the Bitcoins before now. I have my own stories of where I lost big, as well. I'm talking about potential billions tens or hundreds of millions. Most recently, looking at the prices of XRB (RaiBlocks), I kick myself in the ass. I had over 50,000 XRB sitting in my wallet, and I ended up selling them for Bitcoin (when it was around $2,000 per) because I didn't want to spend fiat cash to get Bitcoin. If I would have been less lazy and just went with my usual method of buying Bitcoin, I would have easily held on to the XRB, which would have been worth over $1,500,000 USD today.

ETH. same story. DASH. same story. SIA. same story.

I should teach myself how to hodl better lol.

But thanks for sharing your story, and I know it's hard to deal with instances like this, but hey, that's life. And keep remembering that you more-than-likely would have sold it long before this current point.

Keep on keepin on, and great video! I like how you ended it on a positive note

The current recommended fee is over 500 sat/byte. Your transaction fee is only 134 sat/byte. The good news is that there is a possibility that your fee is high enough to luckily get included in a block. The bad news is that this likely won't happen until the network congestion has died down.

A great way to check to see what recommended fees are (before sending) would be https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/. Scroll down to underneath the chart, and you'll see the heading "Which fee should I use?". The current recommended fee is 510 sat/byte.

Here is some slightly good news. You can rebroadcast or accelerate your transaction to see if anyone is willing to include your transaction in the next block. Don't pay for any premium services; just visit this link and follow the steps: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2510862.0

Be patient. I just had an unaccelerated BTC transaction with 280 sat/byte that took over 12 hours to get its first confirmation. You're not completely out of luck.

Cheers, and I hope this helps!

First of all, if you'll be moving your Bitcoin out, it's best to do it all at once. Create a new Bitcoin wallet (where you control the private key!) by checking this topic out: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1631151.0

Then, once you've created your wallet, move ALL of your bitcoin out of Coinbase. Coinbase is an easy way to buy bitcoins, but it's absolute garbage as a wallet service. Once you've got your bitcoin out, focus on where you want to exchange it for other coins.

Transaction fees are high, so if possible, send as much bitcoin as you can in a single transaction, rather than sending many micro transactions. Or just hodl your coins and keep your fingers crossed in waiting for the network congestion to die down a bit (doubtful).

Good luck, mate, and welcome to Bitcoin lol

What the fuck are you guys talking about? Are you expecting to see daily gains like we have been for the last few months? Yes, Bitcoin is extremely volatile in nature, but don't expect a rise "to the moon" with Bitcoin to be a regular thing. The long game is where most analysts see major rises in the value of Bitcoin.

The major problem now is the scaling issue and congest networks, which are causing transactions to become more expensive as users spend higher fees to confirm their transactions faster. Because of this congestion and recent influx of new Bitcoin users, a lot of exchanges have become overwhelmed with the sudden increase in their volume of users, so they've temporarily disabled registration.

And nobody is going to be able to tell you where the price of Bitcoin will be in a month. Anyone that says they know are just fudders/shillers. Any form of news can sway the price either way, which contributes to the volatile nature of the coin, but just sit tight and hodl if you trust in Bitcoin. Otherwise, look for alternatives that you can exchange your Bitcoins for. But asking questions like that honestly just contribute to FUD, which ends up hurting the coin in the long run.

First of all, this topic belongs in Beginners & Help section of the forum. May I suggest that you move it to that section?

Secondly, a simple Google search will help you answer this question: https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+blockchain

The first result does a great job explaining what the Blockchain is, so give it a read: https://blockgeeks.com/guides/what-is-blockchain-technology/

And if you're lazy like me, check out this YouTube video: Understand the Blockchain in Two Minutes