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1421  Economy / Web Wallets / Re: Aes.json wallet and forgot password? on: February 19, 2021, 12:40:57 AM
If you have no idea what the password is and no other means of recovering your account, then there is no hope.
1422  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Ridiculous transaction fees. Electrum wallet. on: February 19, 2021, 12:34:27 AM
Fees are very high right now (> 90 s/vb). I think your transaction (62 s/vb) might be confirmed tonight, and probably sometime this weekend if not.
1423  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Storing the seed. Is this method efficient enough? on: February 19, 2021, 12:09:17 AM
It is relatively safe, but there are issues. One issue is that you can distinguish between the two parts and that lowers the security. Another issue is that you must find 6 secure places to store the data. That is a lot to maintain. Also, I believe that a 12-word seed in random order is not considered secure. You should use a longer phrase.

There may be better ways to do it. Why not simply encrypt the seed and store that in a few places? This looks interesting: https://trezor.io/shamir/
1424  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: I wish I could loop through coins on: February 17, 2021, 07:49:30 AM
Blink twice if you're human. Your post reads like a derailed Markov chain. Can you restate what you were trying to say?

By any chance, are you talking about possibility of turing-complete script for Bitcoin?
P.S. i think this post was written by AI

LOL. That was my thought. I see lots of English words in mostly grammatically and semantically correct sentences, but expressing no meaning whatsoever.
1425  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Question about confirmations and reorg on: February 17, 2021, 07:43:58 AM
Also, what was the longest period of time you had to wait for a confirmation?

There are currently hundreds of low-fee transactions that have been waiting for a month to be confirmed.
1426  Economy / Economics / Re: The volatility in the price of a bitcoin is falling over time on: February 17, 2021, 07:05:44 AM
I updated the graph. It now shows the recent increasing volatility. Despite the recent volatility, the trend is still falling.
1427  Other / Off-topic / Re: Scientific proof that God exists? on: February 16, 2021, 10:50:28 PM
Still no scientific proof against the existence of God. Simply play-babies' theory stories and mumblings, as expected from jokers who believe in the religion of science, rather than understanding science.

True, perhaps, but lack of proof of the non-existence (or existence) of a god is not evidence of the existence (or non-existence) of a god.

Also, they are not the same. Compare:

Theist: God exists.
Atheist: What's your proof?
Theist: Bible, appeal to authority, flawed logic, etc.
Atheist: Not good enough.

Atheist: God does not exist.
Theist: What's your proof?
Atheist: Sorry, you're right. I can't prove it.
Theist: Aha!

God has no intelligence - god just is.

Simply making a claim that something exists is not evidence of its existence. You'll have to do better. Plus, if a god exists but that's all, then what good is that?

1428  Other / Serious discussion / Re: Change my mind: NFTs are a fad on: February 15, 2021, 09:27:04 AM
NFTs have some utility, but I think what we are seeing now is just another version of CryptoKitties.
1429  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Do btc blocks have private keys? on: February 15, 2021, 09:20:40 AM
When creating an altcoin base on bitcoin you generate a genius block private key which controls that chain. I assume it's the same for Bitcoin

What is a "genesis block private key", what is it used for, and how is it generated? What exactly do you mean by "controls that chain"?
1430  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Hello I have a deal for a week that has not been approved How do I raise the gui on: February 14, 2021, 09:34:10 PM
2. Another solution, but I have no idea if it would work, is to ask on this thread ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5034315.0 ), somebody claims to be able to do it (but don't tip him before your tx actually gets confirmed)

That's a scam.

3. Paid accelerators. But they are overly expensive ( pushtx.btc.com shows 85$ you'd have to pay, as estimation )

Accelerators that are not offered by major pools are scams. These are the only pools that can accelerate a bitcoin transaction with any success:
  • Poolin
  • F2Pool
  • AntPool
  • Huobi.pool
  • ViaBTC
  • SlushPool
  • BTC.TOP
  • WAYI.CN
  • SBI Crypto
  • OKExPool
  • EMCD Pool
  • NovaBlock
1431  Economy / Speculation / Re: Manipulation of price will decrease soon? on: February 14, 2021, 05:53:17 PM
People talk about bitcoin price manipulation as if it is an established fact, yet there is not a single example.

Somebody please show me a documented example of bitcoin price manipulation. Note that simple buying and selling, and rapid changes in price by themselves are not examples of price manipulation.
1432  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin is 100% faith on: February 14, 2021, 05:47:15 PM
"Bitcoin is 100% faith" is a meaningless statement. It is nothing more than an admission of ignorance.
1433  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Is buying from a merchant who accepts bitcoin a taxable event? on: February 14, 2021, 05:44:57 PM
Ok so suppose I buy a laptop from newegg.com and pay with bitcoin. Is newegg going to send me a 1099-K form next year (as an exchange would)? Or should I manually add it myself to the 8949 form?

Nothing is sent to the IRS. You must track it yourself.
1434  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Help with 16 word seed phrase? (10% reward if you can help me) on: February 14, 2021, 05:15:04 AM
I was dumb years ago and wrote a seed phrase down, but with no info about what the wallet is.

It's a 16 word seed where the 13th word is custom. My hunch is a weird HD wallet on blockchain.info, but I don't see where I can recover with 16 words. I've reached out to their support. It could also be metamask or myethereum wallet, but looks like those don't work. MEW didn't work. I'm positive it is not a hardware wallet.

I don't think there is much crypto on this wallet (somewhere between $0 and $1k at 2017 prices), but I will give the person who helps me solve this mystery 10%.

Did you try this?  https://login.blockchain.com/wallet/forgot-password

Your phrase might be a legacy blockchain.info seed and this is where would you recover your account using it.
1435  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Is buying from a merchant who accepts bitcoin a taxable event? on: February 14, 2021, 05:04:47 AM
I'm not selling any bitcoins to the merchant. I am just paying the merchant with bitcoins directly to buy a product. (the merchant processes my payment through bitpay)
...
So buying something with bitcoins as I explained above is considered "send" right? The bitcoins->USD conversion which is done by bitpay is done at the merchant side right?

No, not taxable.

That is not correct for the U.S.

If you used bitcoin by cashing it on an exchange or buying goods and services, you will owe taxes if the realized value (the sale price of bitcoin, for example) is greater than the price at which you acquired the bitcoin. You may have a capital gain that's taxable at either short-term or long-term rates.

That is mostly correct. In the U.S, when you exchange bitcoins for anything, whether it is dollars, goods, or even other coins, that is a taxable event -- a capital gain or a loss.

This explains everything: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/frequently-asked-questions-on-virtual-currency-transactions
1436  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin is 100% faith on: February 14, 2021, 04:50:24 AM
Bitcoin is not a stock. So, I guess it doesn't matter what he thinks.
1437  Economy / Speculation / Re: Manipulation of price will decrease soon? on: February 14, 2021, 04:48:01 AM
...When it will increase more, what do you think, will the price manipulation be decreased? Or even effected? If we look at the Tesla announcement, it didn’t create huge changes. India may have a ban on crypto, that doesn’t effect the market. So, as we see the increase in mcap, will we see power of manipulation is decreasing?

Before you can say that it will or will not decrease, you have to show that it exists and you have to be able to measure it.
1438  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Heroes of Bitcoin - A thanks to the many good people. on: February 12, 2021, 05:15:25 PM
Elon Musk? I don't think he qualifies. He has done nothing except buy some bitcoins. Putting "#bitcoin" in his twitter bio doesn't count as evangelizing.
1439  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z to allocate 500 BTC to Bitcoin dev on: February 12, 2021, 04:59:34 PM
There is also brink.dev, a foundation started by John Newbery and Mike Schmidt to fund Bitcoin developers.
1440  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Electrum and change addresses on: February 10, 2021, 05:51:43 AM
I have an Electrum wallet which contains addresses originally created in multibit. In that wallet there are no change addresses.
My question is firstly - where do I find documentation on precisely how electrum deals with change?
My specific questions are:
* will it add change addresses to my wallet?
* can I use one of my existing addresses as a change address?

Electrum generates change addresses in a way similar to the way that it generates receiving addresses. Are you interested in the details?
Yes, you can list all the change addresses - click on addresses tab and scroll to the bottom.
Yes, but there is no good reason to.
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