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July 05, 2015, 05:20:46 PM
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My biggest problem was the wallet which i should use? Because, i can't trust any wallets except bitcoin core Roll Eyes. But if i use bitcoin core, i've to wait untill it sync. (its about ~21GBs of data) for that i've to wait at least 2 to 3 months Shocked (due to my connection and some other factors).

And also if i use bitcoin core, there's another problem i.e., some malwares and trojans.  Sad

If you're from a software development group, why would your code a wallet long with an antivirus(may be a new antivirus or along with any/someother trustable existing antivirus)? with full control over my BTC like bitcoin core?

Is this possible? If yes, implement it  Smiley


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i don't see any reason not to trust other wallets, since they are open source and anybody can review the wallet's code. for example Electrum which i use is good and reliable.

and i want to add that the whole blockchain is much more that 21 GB if i am not mistaken it is around 40GB now.
There are plenty of reasons available to not to  trust wallets. Yes! I've to trust the code. Yes! you said, i/anyone can review their wallet's code. Yeah! I've accepted, but the problem strats there. Because i don't know anything about codings and even programming is not even my profession then how can i review their codes and trust them? Now tell me how to trust those wallets. And also i told bitcoin core also in an vulnerable environment. That's why i was mentioned bind bitcoin wallet with some antivirus program.


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July 05, 2015, 05:34:55 PM
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For bitcoin to be used by average joe, it needs to be as simple as email ,facebook etc. stop confusing people with technical terms like private keys, multisig etc
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July 05, 2015, 05:52:48 PM
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For bitcoin to be used by average joe, it needs to be as simple as email ,facebook etc. stop confusing people with technical terms like private keys, multisig etc

but it is simple, they only need to know that an address is like an iban of your credit card or debit card, and on top of that you need to make a copy of your wallet.dat, all the other fancy stuff, like trezor, lightwallet, paper wallet ecc.., are just annoying things that distract

one thing that should be added to help newbies, is the thing about the 100 address of the mempool, basically after 100 address if you do not save your wallet(if you recieve income), you can lose bitcoin, the client should warn you that you are near the critical amount
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July 05, 2015, 06:17:51 PM
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For bitcoin to be used by average joe, it needs to be as simple as email ,facebook etc. stop confusing people with technical terms like private keys, multisig etc

but it is simple, they only need to know that an address is like an iban of your credit card or debit card, and on top of that you need to make a copy of your wallet.dat, all the other fancy stuff, like trezor, lightwallet, paper wallet ecc.., are just annoying things that distract

one thing that should be added to help newbies, is the thing about the 100 address of the mempool, basically after 100 address if you do not save your wallet(if you recieve income), you can lose bitcoin, the client should warn you that you are near the critical amount

there's a lot of details left in your post

If you are using core, a newbie doesn't know he has to use a single different address each time if he wants privacy, doesnt know that he may need to mix coins and control his coin output to not mix your own coins for added privacy, doesnt know he needs a wallet.dat everytime he generates a new receiving address... and the list goes on.

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July 06, 2015, 07:39:28 AM
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For bitcoin to be used by average joe, it needs to be as simple as email ,facebook etc. stop confusing people with technical terms like private keys, multisig etc

but it is simple, they only need to know that an address is like an iban of your credit card or debit card, and on top of that you need to make a copy of your wallet.dat, all the other fancy stuff, like trezor, lightwallet, paper wallet ecc.., are just annoying things that distract

one thing that should be added to help newbies, is the thing about the 100 address of the mempool, basically after 100 address if you do not save your wallet(if you recieve income), you can lose bitcoin, the client should warn you that you are near the critical amount

there's a lot of details left in your post

If you are using core, a newbie doesn't know he has to use a single different address each time if he wants privacy, doesnt know that he may need to mix coins and control his coin output to not mix your own coins for added privacy, doesnt know he needs a wallet.dat everytime he generates a new receiving address... and the list goes on.


maybe everything does look complicated and difficult to understand, but this is done to secure coin memeng owned.
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July 06, 2015, 07:54:26 AM
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For bitcoin to be used by average joe, it needs to be as simple as email ,facebook etc. stop confusing people with technical terms like private keys, multisig etc

but it is simple, they only need to know that an address is like an iban of your credit card or debit card, and on top of that you need to make a copy of your wallet.dat, all the other fancy stuff, like trezor, lightwallet, paper wallet ecc.., are just annoying things that distract

one thing that should be added to help newbies, is the thing about the 100 address of the mempool, basically after 100 address if you do not save your wallet(if you recieve income), you can lose bitcoin, the client should warn you that you are near the critical amount

there's a lot of details left in your post

If you are using core, a newbie doesn't know he has to use a single different address each time if he wants privacy, doesnt know that he may need to mix coins and control his coin output to not mix your own coins for added privacy, doesnt know he needs a wallet.dat everytime he generates a new receiving address... and the list goes on.



newbie do not search for anonimity, if they still prefer to use their credit card, i think you can leave this behind, and it does not need a wallet.dat for every new address, this is a BS, you can just generate as many address as you want with one wallet.dat only
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July 06, 2015, 08:40:39 AM
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My biggest problem with Bitcoin is, I don't know where the easiest and the safest place to keep it.
I want to use the Bitcoin core, but my PC couldn't handle it. So I use an online wallet, but I don't know if it's safe enough. Sad

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July 06, 2015, 10:11:10 AM
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My biggest problem with Bitcoin is, I don't know where the easiest and the safest place to keep it.
I want to use the Bitcoin core, but my PC couldn't handle it. So I use an online wallet, but I don't know if it's safe enough. Sad

I have no doubt this is the biggest issue with bitcoin.

Except for people looking at it from the outside who never actually owned bitcoin. They may see the volatile prices or lack of backing etc. But the actual real main concern is the security issue.
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July 06, 2015, 12:01:22 PM
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My biggest problem with Bitcoin is, I don't know where the easiest and the safest place to keep it.
I want to use the Bitcoin core, but my PC couldn't handle it. So I use an online wallet, but I don't know if it's safe enough. Sad
why don't you use an SPV (light) wallet.

you can use something like Electrum, it is easy to use and you don't need a huge Hard drive space or bandwidth. it would be less that 40 MB in total size because it only downloads block headers.

and as for security you can create an offline wallet with Electrum and only send the signed transactions on an online computer.

all of these works that you need to do have good step by step walk-throughs and you can ask any additional question that you might have here.

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July 06, 2015, 12:05:44 PM
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The biggest issue is the volatility and I think that's what scares a lot of people off, but at the same time its that volatility that is very attractive to speculators and thus the potential for profit. For the average user who may wish to use it as a currency though it can be scary for them.

This is what I thought for the first time Im doing trading bitcoin, I scare about the volatility but at last I think without any volatility I dont think I can get good profit. With this volatility we can earn every time and get much profit from it

But the opposite is also true. You can lose a lot of money and profit not at all. Trading or investments always carry risks and are not always profitable.
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July 06, 2015, 12:37:17 PM
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My biggest problem with Bitcoin is, I don't know where the easiest and the safest place to keep it.
I want to use the Bitcoin core, but my PC couldn't handle it. So I use an online wallet, but I don't know if it's safe enough. Sad
why don't you use an SPV (light) wallet.

you can use something like Electrum, it is easy to use and you don't need a huge Hard drive space or bandwidth. it would be less that 40 MB in total size because it only downloads block headers.

and as for security you can create an offline wallet with Electrum and only send the signed transactions on an online computer.

all of these works that you need to do have good step by step walk-throughs and you can ask any additional question that you might have here.

even if you are already using any security, make sure you do not carelessly visit wallet phishing sites, or sites that contained the virus, make sure your antivirus is always updated
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July 06, 2015, 12:50:31 PM
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Very poor advertising, majority of btc promotion is in the crypto circle, outside that its awful.
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July 06, 2015, 01:10:26 PM
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My biggest problem with Bitcoin is, I don't know where the easiest and the safest place to keep it.
I want to use the Bitcoin core, but my PC couldn't handle it. So I use an online wallet, but I don't know if it's safe enough. Sad
why don't you use an SPV (light) wallet.

you can use something like Electrum, it is easy to use and you don't need a huge Hard drive space or bandwidth. it would be less that 40 MB in total size because it only downloads block headers.

and as for security you can create an offline wallet with Electrum and only send the signed transactions on an online computer.

all of these works that you need to do have good step by step walk-throughs and you can ask any additional question that you might have here.

even if you are already using any security, make sure you do not carelessly visit wallet phishing sites, or sites that contained the virus, make sure your antivirus is always updated

and make sure you use a genuine antivirus Grin
btw, do you guys think that Bitcoin would be more secure in the future? or even vice versa? Cool

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July 06, 2015, 01:23:28 PM
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My biggest problem with Bitcoin is, I don't know where the easiest and the safest place to keep it.
I want to use the Bitcoin core, but my PC couldn't handle it. So I use an online wallet, but I don't know if it's safe enough. Sad

I have no doubt this is the biggest issue with bitcoin.

Except for people looking at it from the outside who never actually owned bitcoin. They may see the volatile prices or lack of backing etc. But the actual real main concern is the security issue.

it's not the biggest issue at this moment, but with the increasing blockchain size it will be much harder for people to make space for it on their hdd in the future.
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July 06, 2015, 01:28:16 PM
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My biggest problem with Bitcoin is, I don't know where the easiest and the safest place to keep it.
I want to use the Bitcoin core, but my PC couldn't handle it. So I use an online wallet, but I don't know if it's safe enough. Sad

Keep it offline. Why do you need it on your computer? Plenty of liteweight wallets as well.
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July 06, 2015, 01:29:29 PM
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Biggest problem with bitcoin is the time.
It takes hours to confirm a transaction so it can be better like other coins to process faster.
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July 06, 2015, 01:32:58 PM
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Biggest problem with bitcoin is the time.
It takes hours to confirm a transaction so it can be better like other coins to process faster.
You have the opposite of my problem
[IMO]
Faster transaction = Less secure
Slower transaction = More secure
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I'm wondering, how to solve this problem without making any problem even worse. Huh

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July 06, 2015, 01:35:28 PM
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Biggest problem with bitcoin is the time.
It takes hours to confirm a transaction so it can be better like other coins to process faster.
You have the opposite of my problem
[IMO]
Faster transaction = Less secure
Slower transaction = more secure
 Grin

I'm wondering, how to solve this problem without making any problem even worse. Huh

Lol, let's make this ideal. Faster transaction = More secure, isn't it possible?
Check other coins and you will see Tongue
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July 06, 2015, 01:37:04 PM
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Biggest problem with bitcoin is the time.
It takes hours to confirm a transaction so it can be better like other coins to process faster.
You have the opposite of my problem
[IMO]
Faster transaction = Less secure
Slower transaction = more secure
 Grin

I'm wondering, how to solve this problem without making any problem even worse. Huh

Lol, let's make this ideal. Faster transaction = More secure, isn't it possible?
Check other coins and you will see Tongue

I'm not actually really understand about other coins, but these was the Biggest problem of all time. Grin

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July 06, 2015, 01:52:02 PM
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Biggest problem with bitcoin is the time.
It takes hours to confirm a transaction so it can be better like other coins to process faster.
You have the opposite of my problem
[IMO]
Faster transaction = Less secure
Slower transaction = More secure
 Grin

I'm wondering, how to solve this problem without making any problem even worse. Huh

you simply do not solve it, because it isn't a problem, merchants should just go ahead and accept 0 confirmations

but if you really want a solution sidechain are what you are looking for
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