the Bitcoin autogen'ed makefile compiles a static binary, i.e. all dependencies are a part of the final binary executable.

you must have changed something in configure.ac or the makefile, or deleted the bundled 3rd party libs. An untouched bitcoin.git doesn't behave how you're describing, and never has AFAIK


start again, delete the directory and git clone https://github/bitcoin/bitcoin.git


also, use strip bitcoin* on all exectuables you compile to reduce the size of the binaries. They still won't be byte-for-byte identical to the official binaries, you need to use gitian (or guix in future) to get precisely the same binaries as the official ones. strip will only reduce the binary size to a similar value.

all functionality is the same, regardless of whether you use the strip command or not. but, using different version of the 3rd party libraries than those bundled with the Bitcoin repo will result in different behaviour, some 3rd party libs are forks maintained specifically for the Bitcoin project, while others are frozen to an old version to maintain consistent behaviour between Bitcoin nodes of differing versions

if you use different 3rd party libraries, you cannot expect such a Bitcoin node to function correctly (arguably, it isn't even a proper Bitcoin node when you use the wrong 3rd party libs to compile bitcoin source code)

that's just because the market is a [dismissive face + tone of voice] bitcoin maximalist [/dismissive face + tone of voice]



that's because you're a [dismissive face + tone of voice] bitcoin maximalist [/dismissive face + tone of voice]



no, 'bitcoin maximalist' is a genuine cast-iron rock-solid scientific term. only [dismissive face + tone of voice] bitcoin maximalists [/dismissive face + tone of voice] think it's psychologically loaded language that's used as a derisory label for those who can justify anything about Bitcoin using any kind of reasoning.


Are you reasoning about Bitcoin? Were your conclusions not totally negative? It's because you're one of those [dismissive face + tone of voice] bitcoin maximalists [/dismissive face + tone of voice]

if that was correct, we could all be Bitcoin billionaires. Just imagine you have, say, 50 trillion BTC, and everyone has to believe you, right?


if negative merits existed, I wouldn't have written this post. Can you guess what I would have done instead?

go to real stores that accept it. you don't need any of those things in any I've been to.


you've got to have some dedication to actually use your economic power. so if you only get as far as talking about the problems on a web forum, it's possible you're just not that committed. You're basically sitting around listing problems, when the solutions are not all that hard (although it depends on how far you have to travel to use Bitcoin in person, it's not a credible option for some people)

Something else occurred to me


Despite any collusion between apparent foes, powerful organizations across the world will no doubt screw each other over in power plays from time to time. I can just imagine, for instance, Gadaffi or Saddam holed up in their bunkers being calmly reassured by their 'old friend' in French/US intelligence that "the real plan is for our invasion to fail, and we can all jack up the oil price while we're pretending to fight, cool right?". And Gadaffi/Saddam replying "this all seems a bit too real though, Jean/John", and so Jean/John tells Gadaffi/Saddam "well its gotta look like we're not just faking it, old pal!", just as pieces of the ceiling collapse in on top of Gadaffi/Saddam's head.


Bitcoin might well be one of these kinds of incidents.

The public agreement was to create the SDR, basically a carefully controlled basket of the currencies of all the big nuclear/economic powers: the central banks of US, China, Japan, UK, France and Germany (Russia is absent on account of playing the gangster/rebel) have an ostensible agreement to share power in a dominant settlement currency, dressed up to some extent with economic relevance (i.e. the weighting within the SDR's basket, which is not so much representative of economic reality as it is the political reality).

It wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that all the intelligence agencies suspect one another of having developed Bitcoin in secret, and that they all know that the entire SDR/IMF planned roadmap is now null and void as a consequence.

I wonder what the chatter would be like if that was indeed the case amusing, I should imagine... France: "You fucked us, you fucks!" not-Satoshi: "I don't know what you're talking about"

This is the beginning of the end of any pretense of meaningful AML controls at centralized Bitcoin exchanges. When using a more complete version of Lightning, there's not going to be a way of knowing exactly how the money is routed. Sure, exchanges could ask to be provided with information about the channel a client funds their exchange account with, and there will be no way of proving that a client used a given channel to make their deposit.

BTC in payment channels will be fungible as a side effect of routing efficiency. And yet another 20th century gangster-ism will be rendered an anachronism.

so why are you here then?

please show some evidence for this, instead of constantly repeating it. you're out of luck, there isn't any

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Tommy Robinson is an actor, his real name is Aaron Lennon or something close to that. If he does something that looks stupid, it's probably for effect

private email

• set up tor (or i2p... or cjdns, but fewer people use those)
• set up a hidden service (or just use your ip address if you go the cjdns route)
• set up an email service (use dovecot & smtpd for the easiest setup IMO)
• use the hidden service (or cjdns ip) as your domain (i.e. the @website.com bit)
• profit

for private social media, mastodon and diaspora are the bigger ones. Lot of Bitcoin people on mastodon. Same basic process as email really.

sounds dangerous, god forbid that people who aren't gangster-ment protected cohorts can make money in financial markets. this wagon circling initiative is to protect the poor little sweethearts from losing their money and having their feelings hurt, go uk.gov!!!

those were the names that popped into my head at the time. It should also be noted that government spies sometimes play the role of freedom fighter too, all sorts of tactical reasons to do that.

yep.


But I would balance that out by saying that a hell of alot of people agree that it's acceptable. The practicalities are difficult; it wouldn't be right to invade women's privacy by telling her to prove she's not pregnant so that she can be monitored for in utero infanticide attempts. So like it or not, abortion always has been and always will take place.

if, for instance, a mother aborted a child conceived as the result of a sexual assault, I'd be more understanding. It would still be regrettable to me, but at least she had a really tough decision, unlike these woman who have abortions for career or relationship reasons.



not necessarily.

that sounds like it should achieve what you're after



any tech site has been following this since the introduction of W10; it's an advertised feature. Microsoft collects all user input, all hardware input and as much user data as they wish. It can be switched off, but what if that's not working? :/

sticking with W7 or W8 won't work either, automatic updates including this specific "feature" are pushed to those versions too. It's ok though, Microsoft have promised to only ever use the data to improve your Windows experience!!! They're really nice people like that

here's a visualisation of the above from Magic Byt3:


                                                                                                                                                                                    Mine full block N+1, as tx's in
                                                                                                                                                                                   block N are known. Now a valid
                   Mine empty block N+1, as do not yet know which tx's are confirmed in block N                                set of tx's to confirm into
                                                                                                                                                                                        our solution for block N+1
                                                                                                                                                                                             can be constructed
<-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> <--------------------------->>>>>>>>>>>
 x milliseconds                       3x milliseconds                                             3x milliseconds                                      
|--------------------|---------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------->>>>>>>>>>>
   Receive &                       Receive, then verify                                   Build block template for                               Attempt solution for 
    verify new                      transactions included                               N+1 as now we know which                          block N+1, now with  
  block header                          in block N                                            transactions are included                            transactions included
   of block N                                                                                                         in block N                                                 (a full block)

the proportion of the times are wrong, but that's not the most important thing here.

hmmm, wait till version 0.19.0. I think what you're talking about might be possible then (depends how the developers get along with separating the wallet into a different process than the node, which is in progress right now).

But right now, I don't think it's possible to have 2 different instances of Bitcoin with access to the same block information. I'm happy to be wrong, if anyone else has an idea how to do it.

it's software.

• Bitcoin is a network
• BTC currency is sent between nodes on the Bitcoin network
• Bitcoin Core is the software that lets your computer get onto the Bitcoin network (to send and receive Bitcoin/BTC)

start the Windows bitcoin instance with -connect=192.168.<your rPi's>.<local ip address>  as a parameter to the command you use to start the bitcoin-qt application. Or put the line connect=192.168.<your rPi's>.<local ip address> in a file called bitcoin.conf in you bitcoin datadir (note the connect line has no preceding dash char if you go the bitcoin.conf route)


Windows node should then connect to that IP only, and thus relay transactions using the rPi node only. Configure your router to give the Pi a static IP and that'll work indefinitely.

This will only work when you're using you local network, you'd need to do one of the various different ways to make the Pi directly accessible over the internet if you want to be able to do the same thing from a different LAN


Note that Microsoft are sucking all user data from your machine, you are sacrificing your financial privacy when using Windows

this just is not true


other people are spending BTC, and that's a big part of what's maintaining the BTC price. Just dump fiat when you receive it, then spend BTC. Easy.