Merit system aside (Everyone's stoked about this) i have a question. Although it is somehow related to this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2817248.0 (sorting posts) i am not quite sure if i'd put this question here or reply in that thread. But the previous question was answered so i'm hoping that this would be answered too. But if not, it's okay since i'm just asking cause im curious. The question is: Why do all posts are branded [new] even if the last post in that thread is a couple of months ago or even more? Are there any ways to sort these posts to be literally [new] maybe within the 24 hrs period? Or anywhere near so that we could see what's new and what's not. Also, why do some of the threads that i have read are still highlighted and some are not? I do understand that i need to refresh the page, but it doesn't show. Does anyone have the same experience as me? Did you solve this problem? Thank you in advance for the answers! Godbless! Ps: am i shit posting? If this is shit posting please tell me, i can delete this immediately. I believe it is always marked as [new] unless you've read the last message/post posted in the topic/thread, no matter how old the thread itself is. If you feel lik you've read everything you want to, you can simply click "Mark Read" for this section, and everything will be marked as such, until a new reply/topic is posted again.  Is this what you mean? |
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So the safest option is to buy directly from the site itself right ? no coinbase, no exchanges?
Well, you're going to be buying from the website that is offering the ICO directly anyway. What matter is the wallet you are going to be buying from. Safest option would always be to send your money from a wallet/adress of which you have complete control -- access to private keys, adresses/seeds etcetera. Don't send for example Ethereum from an exchange such as poloniex or Coinbase to the ICO. |
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Can I purchase ICOs through Coinbase or any other exchange site? How does purchasing ICOs work?
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Do not do this. Most ICO's reward the tokens back to (for example) your ethereum adress, which means they'll be in possesion of coinbase, where you don't have control over your private keys, nor your tokens. Consequently, private keys associated with a specific address are virtually inaccessible outside of extremely limited circumstances. https://support.coinbase.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2829461-altcoins-and-icosAlthough i guess it could work for some ICO's where they don't reward the tokens back to the adress you send them from, but rather an adress on their blockchain or something. i'd really look this through before doing it though! |
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Perhaps you could you identify the coins from the formats of the addresses. As for the Dash address: If anybody could spend coins with just the address, the system wouldn't be very secure.  That's what I am trying to do  However I have very little knowledge of specific coin addresses, for example I could tell a BTC or LTC address but these I have no idea. I will post them here and see if anyone can shed some light on them - File 1 - sYbfjYwbR3KycYnH1voQQtf5KixSowWg9r and sXKyr9J8RyaXBfHnX6MNTRe3JigMAn7fiN File 2 - Byd4GhpA4roSiNHftTbSjh15oHUwAkjK3N If anyone can shed any light on what coins these addresses are related to I would be most grateful I've looked through Dash, Litecoin, and Bitcoin, but it doesn't seem that any of them have s/B prefixes. ( Maybe their testnets do?) Dash is usually an X, https://chainz.cryptoid.info/dash/block.dws?810841.htmLitecoin L/M/3, https://chainz.cryptoid.info/ltc/block.dws?1357474Bitcoin 3/1/bc1 https://blockchain.info/block/00000000000000000066809955bbbaa1c14642831004877926db694e411cdb5fAlthough i guess this could've changed through the years with some coins? (I doubt that this has happend with BTC/LTC though.) I've found a coin that starts with capital S, but i doubt this has anything to do with your adresses though. https://chainz.cryptoid.info/b3/ |
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Discover your 12 words, and you wallet will be retrievable easy There probably wasn't such thing as a seed back then, (or he chose not to use it). he doesn't have "the 12 words", but rather a file where all of his adresses + corresponding private keys are stored. |
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Hello all,
I'm trying to recover my wallet.dat from 2011. It looks like I used an old version of Electrum (version 1.5.6).
The instructions to install a wallet were:
Download and install ActivePython
Open Command Prompt
Type "pypm install electrum"
The version of python I used was 2.7.
My question is, If I were to install the latest version of Electrum...would I be able to recover my wallet.dat file somehow?
No, the current version of Electrum doesn't support the use of wallet.dat(SsS) (I'm not sure if it ever did anyway?). You'll need to import it in something like bitcoin Core, and see if you can unlock it that way. https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/3457just use the private key, you had to save it during the installation.
No, you simply had to save the wallet.dat + remember the corresponding password. the private keys are all listed in there. ^With a bitcoin core wallet this was. (It would've been a hassle to store 100's of private keys + the private keys of change adresses etc.) This might help you, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=325364.0, although it looks even more outdated. |
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Thank you for you answer, I send them to ticket additionally my balance is shown wrong in Blockchain, interesting. Also walletexplorer my balance is wrong, In my account I have so much BTC there so many thing wrong. Should I use Blockchain.info wallet for no problem? Also, I dont know when they will respond me.. What exactly do you mean? It could be that they have already moved out your funds from their wallet and batched/consolidated them, hence why it's a lower amount (or zero on that adress.). Should I use Blockchain.info wallet for no problem? If you're looking for a desktop/software wallet instead of an exchange i would either recommend you to use Electrum, or buy a hardware walllet such as a Trezor |
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So Why not clearly states in the Rules : Accounts sales is forbidden. THIS IS NOT WRITTEN IN RULES Because it's not bannable. Just like how scams aren't bannable. But do you think that scams don't deserve red trust?
Account selling is just not justifiable. For what reason do you need to purchase an account? If it's for signature campaigns or to scam, then that's untrustworthy. You are buying the account to abuse campaigns or you are buying the account to defraud others. Moreover, it's a form of buying trust. If the account was a Newbie then there wouldn't be any reputation attached to it. But if it's a higher-ranked account, then the reputation associated with it is being transferred over. Even though there is no difference in the type of person who owns a Legendary account vs. someone who owns a Full Member account we still have a subconscious bias towards the higher rank. I cant understand why people want buy accounts?. Even though you can make your own account without spend any pennies. So, that is main reason why buy-selling accounts are categorized as Scam. That is my opinion. Apologize if i do any mistake on it Then you should think a bit longer before you post. I'd say that there's two main reasons people buy accounts, (As i see are already mentioned above.) and both of these usually lead to abuse/misuse of the forum. 1. Buy a high ranking account (preferably with trust) to scam other users, by asking them to go first in certain deals, etc.. 2. Buy a high ranking account for the sole purpose of joining signature campaigns for your own gain, which usually leads to just the forum being spammed.
Therefore, it would make sense that certain people find account farmers untrustworthy, and thus tag them. |
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What is an ICO (Initial Coin Offering) and why invest in one?
It's the equivalent of an IPO - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/ipo.asp, basically when a stock goes to the market for the first time, they sell a certain amount of them at a fixed price. That's basically what an ICO does aswell, but with coins, or tokens. A more detailed explanation can be found here, https://blockgeeks.com/guides/initial-coin-offering/It could potentially make you a lot of money, if the coin blows up, ( like ethereum did.) |
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Any recommendations for storing various AltCoins
Want to take them off the exchanges and try and keep them altogether in one wallet preferably!
I'd suggest something like Exodus or Jaxx (although jaxx has had some issues in the past.), if you're going to store on your desktop. If you're going to store them on a android / iOS device, i'd advise something like Coinomi, which supports bitcoin and a whole lot of other coins, ( over 200). |
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I personally use Blockchain.info so I recommend it. It's easy to use.
And like @TMAN said above, I don't recommend using an exchange website as your wallet.
It's not like the Blockchain.info wallet is any different in functionality than an adress on coinbase/poloniex really... There's no direct access to your private keys, no added functionality such as double spending in the form of replace-by-fees, and blockchain.info could change their source code at any moment, which could possibly compromise your ( encrypted ) private keys/ seeds/ to them. |
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I think it would be nice if we got a little bit of merit for activity. Just cap it off low to avoid spam. Like you can get 1 merit per day. Or if you want it to be harder, one smerit per day.
I could really use some merit and my posts are usually short like this one...
Excellent idea! The current approach looks like game of chance, of luck, of randomized gift from senior, hero, ledgendary members to Junior members like me. No, the idea is extremely stupid and destroys the entire purpose of the merit system. What would the use of merit be if it is concurrently earned in the same pace as activity, in the same way? The current approach looks like game of chance, of luck, of randomized gift from senior, hero, ledgendary members to Junior members like me. If you can't earn 10 merit over 60 posts, ( or 60 days ), there's probably something wrong with the quality of posts you're making, and where you are making them. |
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why " Generally a mnemonic phrase only works with the same wallet software that created it." [1] and not like a private key? A mnemonic phrase is generated by using an algorithm to convert a key (or sequence of keys) into a phrase. Any wallet can implement their own algorithm for doing so. Therefore, the algorithm used in one wallet may not be the same as an algorithm used by another wallet. If you try to import a mnemonic phrase into a wallet that isn't using the same algorithm as the wallet that created the mnemonic phrase, then it won't convert back to the correct key (or set of keys). 1. The server does not store the 12 word, right? how it can compare and make sure of decryption. 2. Since I can transfer the 12 words from blockchain.info wallet to Electrum [ example]Why there is no uniform coding system "algorithm"? 1. No. Wallets like Electrum do not know your seed, or private keys. One way of knowing would be that you can create a wallet offline, and i believe that you can also import a seed while you're offline. Electrum is open-source, so if you're skeptical check it out here, https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumhow it can compare and make sure of decryption. I don't understand what you mean by this. 2. Because there have been different derivation methods implemented over the years due to them having advantages over others, hence why certain applications use certain derivation paths. You should see it as a "3rd party" implementation. Seeds aren't required per se by the bitcoin "protocol" to for example make a transaction, therefore there isn't any reason for them to all be implemented the same, unlike public keys etc.. Some of the more popular BIPS for HD / Mnemonic wallets, https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki, https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0044.mediawiki, https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki |
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Hi all, So as the title says, I am having difficulty squaring off percentage gain with pair/fiat-gain on altcoins. On the one hand, I can see that 50% is 50% is 50%, no matter what way you spin the maths of it. And therefore every quid put in can give you back one and a half. However, I favour a very aggressive trading strategy (possibly not a wonderful idea, but hey, my money ), and I'm being draw to the idea that it's much easier for a $0.01 coin to go to say $0.05, than it is for a higher market-cap asset like BTC to go from 10K to 50K. I suspect that I am mentally falling prey to some kind of gambler's fallacy here, but there are so many examples.... Anyone got a good source/video/article etc that might be able to help me out? In a nutshell, I have some Eth, I want to trade, but I am not sure whether to take a massive punt on the shitcoins, or go slower and steadier with the established ones. My instinct is to take the punt. But it's only that - instinct. I have a gambly streak  Advice appreciated. Yes, but the interest in said coin is also going to be much lower. You're right that it would indeed be way easier for the "shitcoin" to go up x5-x10, but that doesn't mean it is more likely to happen. There's over 1800 coins, chances that all of the lower ranking coins would all go up is extremely small, ( or even a small % of them.) while investing in something like XLM/ETH/ZEC might be less profitable, but the risk associated with them is much, much lower. Not to mention that the volumes of these low cap coins is often so small that you on your own would be able to "crash" the market. I believe that on average only ~2-3% of the market supply is actively being traded. However, I favour a very aggressive trading strategy (possibly not a wonderful idea, but hey, my money ), and I'm being draw to the idea that it's much easier for a $0.01 coin to go to say $0.05, than it is for a higher market-cap asset like BTC to go from 10K to 50K. Not if the supply is bigger. Tron is a prime example of this, while it is only 0.06$$, it has a marketcap of ~5billion dollars. |
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A single thread generated over 500 merit for a single user... I don't see how it'd be hard to earn 1000 merit within a year or so.
Just as easy as winning at a lottery. How many other people have earned 500 merits today? Or even just 100? By the way, who is the lucky dude if I may ask? Is there a sort of richlist of the people who get the merits that one can check? You can see who has gained/received the most merit All-time over here, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=topusersatCurrently theymos has almost received 1k, and Lutpin has received around ~500. It also has some other stats which include who gave the most, and all recent merits etc. |
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Ok, so sMerit points will be used up eventually and not refreshed. This stops people from giving merit for new posts that they think should be merited, they have to wait until they gain some merit to credit someone's post for merit.
Scenario:
Peter asked a question in a forum, he has received 3 quality replies from 3 different person. Each of the comment has helped him. However since he can only give 1 merit points, the other 2 contributors are not rewarded. This scenario only affects Peter and may not be helpful to other people, so why would other people notice and give merit to the contributors?
What if someone thinks that a post has added value to him/her but another party doesnt think it's "good enough"?
How to justify a post is deemed worthy of merits when everyone has a different opinion?
Personally i feel that "RANK" != "Influencer". Currently all aged account has a very high rank because of the number of posts that they have made till date... this new merit system is suddenly implemented to ranking based on "influence" that are deemed worthy. It is not a level playing field since aged old accounts that have high ranks are "out of the game".
I would suggest each thread to also have a nominated pool of merits to be earned so that participants can work towards one common goal/topic to earn their merits.
The cryptocurrency community will grow even larger 3 months from now, the forum will face more spammers as the numbers will always continue to grow.
The sMerit points is like a "halving" system, you are only going to be more reserved in giving merits since the rate of accumulating merits is typically lesser overtime.
I have another question: what does posts with the highest merit even mean since earlier posts are receiving higher merit points as the ability of giving merits by members are higher?
There are certain users ( probably most of the current people in DT1/DT2 + some other OG's) which are merit sources -- meaning that they get a certain amount of sMerit each month/week without doing anything for it. Thus the sMerit points will never be used up. Also, the amount of sMerit you first received is depending on the amount of activity you gained the last year or so, which means that old/aged accounts will most likely have a lot less sMerit. |
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I need help. I use blocktrail.com for accept payment in my site by bitcoin cash. Steps: 1. Generate bitcoin cash address 2. Sending bitcoin cash to generated address One of customer sent bitcoin (BTC) to bitcoin cash address, and the address is available. Look at https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/address/35HSWxagkcWxsEgDh3EWE6A1n3THyM1mqC/transactionsQuestion. How can I get these bitcoins? I haven't got private key from bitcoin cash wallet, but I have got restore-file "Bitcoin Wallet Recovery Data Sheet". I guess that file can be use to restore only bitcoin cash wallet. Any ideas? Thanks I am not sure exactly how the blocktrail.com wallet works, but if i were you i'd indeed try to restore the bitcoin cash wallet, then see if you can get the private key from the adress that way, and import it in a bitcoin-compatible wallet such as Electrum Or bitcoin Core. ( Bitcoin cash and bitcoin adresses/private keys are derivated/generated exactly the same way. Although i guess their seed derivation could be different,?) You mean this recovery tool right? https://recovery.blocktrail.com/EDIT: also, are you sure that is a bitcoin cash adress? looks like a segwit adress to me..? |
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If you want to be a merit source:
Collect TEN posts that have not received nearly enough merit for how good they are, and post quotes for them all in a new Meta thread.
Can someone show an example on a curation of 10 posts that qualify someone to be a merit source? I think the OP in this topic indirectly did a pretty good job.  There's some more correct examples to be found by simply browsing the meta section. |
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