lets pretend it is true.

how bout alternative spin starts.

A)  you must use heads on top to start flips for first ten tosses
B) you must use tails on top to start flips for second 10 tosses

so on and so forth pretty much ends that issue.  if that issue is true.

Other things need be done when you flip it it must go up and over your head as it is spinning. It must spin.

I would be willing to bet that if done with the same coins as the first test for 350,000 spins it would be more accurate.

Bcash and bcash sv have under 2% of the sha-256 network. ie almost no security .

scrypt mining ltc/doge merged have well over 95% of the network very secure.

so the glaring defect of btc is it can not move 12x the tx that it is moving now.

if it could you would not need scrypt and ltc/doge merge mining.

we can argue semantics forever.

so rather that do that.

I mean 95% or more of the hashrate ie BTC and Ltc/doge both have that thus they are secure.

but btc has 1 block every 10 minutes

and ltc/doge have 12 blocks every 10 minutes.

the most secure coin in terms of gear  hash rate percent power use is Btc
the second most secure is ltc/doge.

I see what you mean by it is not the algo.

So I am clarifying myself

ltc/doge 95% of the algo’s hashrate a lot of expensive gear and high power use= safe
btc        95% of the algo’s hashrate  a lot of expensive gear and high power use = safe

ltc/doge 12 blocks per ten minutes
btc 1 block per ten minutes


doge/ltc could use another super low hash algo but it would mean junking a ton of gear. the gear is in place the infrastructure is there.

the op can rebroadcast it over and over and it could last a long time.

so a transaction can easy peasy last months. Just do 1 sat and rebroadcast it.

I guess th op got it to clear. Last I looked fees are dropping just a bit.

Why isn't it about Bitcoin's

the title is BTC vs altcoin's

So it is at least 50% BTC and since BTC is more than 50% of the market cap I think 54-56% it is mostly about btc.

what does simping in here  for Musk mean?

I feel Musk does not get too much attention and praise.

I am not a particular fan of him.

I would argue that dollars are backed with plenty of guns and soldiers that will take orders and if push comes to shove the dollar

would win over any virtual coin if the people with real power want the dollar to win.

It's not that far off. I think we get close to 48K by years end.  but if you look at dec 2017 we moved bigly

nov 19,2017.  8,300
dec 01, 2017 10,800
dec 16, 2017 19,800

that is 1.8333 x 1 increase  dec 1 to dec 16 we are 36545 so x 1.8333 = 66999

So it is unlikely but could happen.

and 19800/8300 = 2.3855 to 1 or

2.3855 x 36545 = 87,179

so hi end could be in 67k to 87k for this year.

I do not think it will but you don't know

All this is why I have been doing laptops recently  first choice.

Multiple wallets are an important way to manage and secure your wealth.



Having everything tied to single wallet will eventually jam you up or worse lose you some coin.

Scrypt algo merged mined LTC/Doge

and a hand full of other pow coins.


LAst I look there were 9000+ coins on coinmarketcap.

we are down to 8831

https://coinmarketcap.com/?page=89

over 8600 are garbage

I think I was saying the issue is BTC is an oil freighter. Really good for security and large sends of high value.

but it sucks to use an entire oil freighter to move a quart of oil.

---

BTC sha-256 10 blocks an hour

DOGE/LTC scrypt 120 blocks an hour

---

this is the dynamic (in my opinion) that drives the issue.

BTC more gear and more  more security      12 x 4mb blocks less space for tx
Doge/ltc less gear and power less security  120 x 4mb blocks  more space for tx


So you have 1 mill in coin you say fuck it do btc I want security I will pay with btc

so you have 10 dollars in coin you should say fuck high cost security I will pay with LTC/Doge


this dynamic can not go away via bigger blocks


btc goes to 8mb vs 4mb we double the storage.

ltc and doge laughs does nothing and now has 6x the storage still 6x better for small sends.


btc needs to go to 64mb and that is only 8x the storage it has now

ltc/doge does nothing because they still have 1.5 the tx room at no programming or any other thing.


So expanding the block size to 128mb would get you at more storage for tx then ltc /doge


or simply push use a smaller delivery system for small value.

It is an  easy  fix stack your btc and leave it alone in a cold wallet. think store of wealth.

Keep small amount of btc usdt ltc doge in an exchange like coinbase. think small buys sells etc low value etc.

If most people did this the high fees would be a non issue for most people.

If you insist on being a btc on chain only and nothing else you are feeding into the problem.

Here is an example I am trying to win an auction. If I win the price may be 0.0003 btc or about 12 dollars.   if fees are at 100 sats that will be 0.000226 or close to 9 dollars.

the seller is willing to take doge or ltc

fees will be well under 1 dollar.

I said "a responsible way is always use a trezor to send as it has a boost option."

that does not mean

"Trezor is the only option that RBF allows, especially with the anti-privacy turn they've taken lately."

it means "a responsible way" which means there are other responsible ways.

I own multiple Trezor models as my only hardware wallets. 
Thus I will only recommend what I know works.

Since I do not own any other hardware wallet I do not mention any other as good.

So "a responsible way" is always use a trezor with active rbf.

if others want to testify to other responsible ways cool.


"Trezor model 1 works fine with rbf" as tested by me.

yeah I never ever ever log out unless there is a power outage I have been logged on since aug 2012 which is about 11 years 3 months.  I think my log in time listed is 500 days.

I am at ::

Total time logged in: 487 days, 7 hours and 1 minutes.

about 16 months time.

I try, but I am semi retired. I do the mining and bitcointalk so the time available for posting is much greater for me than most other people. I always like to post between bitcointalk and other websites I am very likely over 70,000 posts.

well if you are 50 cents a kwatt or more  and burn 10 watts an hour it is 240 in a day or a kwatt every 4 days. say 100 kwatts in a year.

round up. so that is a $50 a year cost.

my home is 14 cents not 50 cents  so I am about 14 a year cost for a rasp pi and maybe 2x that for a laptop or a dell tiny

so 14 vs 28 and the 28 cost unit allow me full pc use.

vs 50 against 100 if you are 50 cent power cost.

I am not sure how much over 50 cents a kwatt you could be.

found this via google

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cost-of-electricity-by-country

Top 10 Countries With the Highest Electricity Costs:*
Denmark — 0.538
Germany — 0.530
United Kingdom — 0.479
Austria — 0.471
Italy — 0.470
Belgium — 0.452
Bermuda — 0.395
Spain — 0.373
Cayman Islands — 0.366
Czech Republic — 0.367



So based on that above the laptop could be as much as 107 a year to run. based on a constant 20 watts

and the rasp pi could be as low as 53.80 based on a constant 10 watts.


I am going to hook my laptop to a meter and see what it burns.

this is a really high number. way too much to pay

last 10 blocks grabbed data from https://blockchair.com/bitcoin



817351.... 2.09
817350.... 2.34
817349.... 2.10
817348.... 1.99
817347.... 3.12
817346.... 2.27
817345.... 3.07
817344.... 1.98
817343.... 2.11
817342.... 2.98
totals....... 21.98

that is a big drop off in fees

give us the tx id's I can try to push them on viabtc for you $0 charge if they can be done.

 It is not miners. It users that insist on thinking that it is okay to move small amounts of btc.

1)Ban all btc sends under 0.0001 btc = foolish users not miners
2)ban all zero fee white listed trans actions = pool owners = very rich people that may or may not mine commerically
3)make 0.0001 the smallest fee possible

If you do the three above things would change, but scrypt's 12x blocks per hour edge will still exist so small fee small value sends will always work better with scrypt.