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Re: Would you invest in BTC or MicroStrategy MSTR?
by
HenryRomp
on 17/03/2024, 12:36:56 UTC
Would you invest in BTC or [insert anything here]?

..... BTC of course
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Board Serious discussion
Re: Can a poor man get his chance to be rich in Crypto?
by
HenryRomp
on 05/02/2022, 13:59:28 UTC
Yes. A poor man can get rich by buying bitcoin like he was addicted to it.  Every time he has $5, he buys bitcoin. He never sells it. Ten years from now, he'll be rich.
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Re: How do you predict the market?
by
HenryRomp
on 05/02/2022, 13:55:32 UTC
Nobody can predict the market. The thing to do is to buy bitcoin, and hold it. Anything else is foolish.
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Re: How much money is enough money?
by
HenryRomp
on 05/02/2022, 13:54:36 UTC
The point is to make so much money, that making money isn't the point any more.
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Re: How come BTC is not at least $75,000 yet?
by
HenryRomp
on 05/02/2022, 13:53:31 UTC
It will be soon! Give it some time.
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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin evangelist Michael Saylor says crypto regulations would speed adoption
by
HenryRomp
on 05/02/2022, 13:52:42 UTC
Saylor is a genius. He's right. If you haven't watched "The Saylor Series" yet, you should now.
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Board Goods
Re: [WTS] cryptovessel - bitcoin branded case for your paper wallet
by
HenryRomp
on 29/03/2021, 22:49:33 UTC
Hey, any source for these anymore? Can't find them for sale anywhere!
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Board Legal
Re: Church of Bitcoin [Updated!]
by
HenryRomp
on 01/07/2018, 12:08:27 UTC
Hey folks,

We've made a facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/churchbitcoin/

And we've updated the website with a whole new look, and a new Articles section!

https://churchofbitcoin.org

Thanks for all the interest!

Hail Satoshi!
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Board Serious discussion
Further Decentralization
by
HenryRomp
on 22/03/2018, 21:53:47 UTC
There seem to be a number of areas that need badly to be decentralized further.

Facebook, Instagram, and other social media, including YouTube. Uber, Lyft, ridesharing in general. Airbnb and room sharing. Craigslist. Ebay, Amazon.

All of these companies could be replaced by a single or multiple decentralized protocols, completely open-source and not owned or controlled by any individual or company, "out in the wild" like bitcoin is.

Sure, there are countless ICO's and other projects trying to apply blockchain technology to these areas, but perhaps they're missing the mark. We need truly decentralized solutions, so that censorship of our postings or videos is impossible, so that drivers can keep 100% of their fares, so that we can buy or sell anything over any border without being subject to arbitrary and often unjust legislation.

True decentralization of all of these is possible. Imagine an open-source app, connecting drivers and passengers, but with no CEO or office to call, the code running on its own, perhaps automatically taking a tiny percentage to rent server space for itself. Imagine video-sharing and social networking, completely decentralized, controlled by no man, censorship impossible.

It is key that the solution for each of these be truly open-source and not-for-profit. I would love to hear about examples of projects already working on each of these fronts, and thoughts about how to make them work best to achieve a world we all would like to live in. There are serious questions to address, but I think we as a community will solve them.

Thanks for your time.
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Board Armory
Re: Stuck in scanning
by
HenryRomp
on 01/10/2017, 20:22:11 UTC
Ok; I had not intended to make my node a pruned node. Bummer. Now I've restarted the whole process and am currently syncing the blockchain. I have the space, but my network connection is painfully slow, so it will be a while. I'll post here again when I am able to try again.

I'm not sure why core wouldn't run, but I restarted the machine and now it will. But now I'm back to "progress increase %0.56 per hour" ... Be back in a week or so I figure...
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Re: Stuck in scanning
by
HenryRomp
on 01/10/2017, 18:27:50 UTC
Looking in my bitcoin.conf I see I have a line "prune=550" will this cause problems?
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Re: Stuck in scanning
by
HenryRomp
on 01/10/2017, 18:23:15 UTC
Ok, now I don't know what I did, but bitcoin core won't launch anymore.





It's not already running, I checked, there's no bitcoind or bitcoin-anything process running; I'm pretty confused.
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Re: Stuck in scanning
by
HenryRomp
on 01/10/2017, 17:14:06 UTC
And here's a screenshot of armory, where it says 96.3:

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Re: Stuck in scanning
by
HenryRomp
on 01/10/2017, 17:07:52 UTC
So, I have now updated bitcoin core to 15.0.1 again;
I'm looking at the debug window in core and I may have found a problem or an answer,

Where it says "Memory Pool" and "current number of transactions," that number is not staying put, it's growing -- will i need to wait for it to finish before it will work?
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Re: Stuck in scanning
by
HenryRomp
on 01/10/2017, 17:01:17 UTC
Since it should work with 96.3 and 15.0.1, I'm going to restore my bitcoin core back to 15.0.1 and see if that makes a difference.
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Board Armory
Re: Stuck in scanning
by
HenryRomp
on 01/10/2017, 16:56:28 UTC
ok, so,
I'm running Armory 96.3
I did not have server=1 set in my bitcoin core conf, i set that in .bitcoin/bitcoin.conf and restarted core;
When I run Armory, it shows this screen:

And the log file is http://termbin.com/68sf
The relevant part/new part of the log file is
Code:
Log file opened at 12:51:03: /home/henry/.armory/dbLog.txt
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (main.cpp:32) Running on 2 threads
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (main.cpp:33) Ram usage level: 4
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (BlockUtils.cpp:915) blkfile dir: /home/henry/.bitcoin/blocks
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (BlockUtils.cpp:916) lmdb dir: /home/henry/.armory/databases
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:388) Opening databases...
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (BDM_Server.h:263) Listening on port 54406
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (BitcoinP2P.cpp:947) Connected to Bitcoin node
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (nodeRPC.cpp:57) RPC connection established
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (nodeRPC.cpp:346) Node is ready
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (BlockUtils.cpp:1108) Executing: doInitialSyncOnLoad
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:199) Reading headers from db
-WARN  - 12:51:03: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:1241) No headers in DB yet!
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:238) Found 1 headers in db
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:71) updating HEADERS db
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (Blockchain.cpp:248) Organizing chain
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (Blockchain.cpp:370) Organized chain in 0s
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:76) updated HEADERS db in 0s
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:388) Opening databases...
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:1231) verifying txfilters integrity
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:1314) done checking txfilters
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (BDM_supportClasses.cpp:1890) Enabling zero-conf tracking
-INFO  - 12:51:03: (BDM_Server.cpp:1114) registered bdv: 9b4b78f585354c16094f
-INFO  - 12:51:04: (BDM_supportClasses.cpp:401) Starting address registration process
-ERROR - 12:51:04: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:1503) Headers DB has no block at height: 0
-ERROR - 12:51:04: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:1483) No headers at height 0
-ERROR - 12:51:04: (BlockchainScanner.cpp:445) Missing file map for output scan, this is unexpected
-ERROR - 12:51:04: (BlockchainScanner.cpp:447) Has the following block files:
-ERROR - 12:51:04: (BlockchainScanner.cpp:451) Was looking for id #4294967295

[EDIT:] this log and screenshot were taken after deleting the database folder, adding the server=1 to bitcoin core conf, restarting bitcoin core and starting armory.

Any help greatly appreciated.
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Re: Stuck in scanning
by
HenryRomp
on 01/10/2017, 14:44:42 UTC
So, I've now downgraded bitcoin core to version 0.15.0.0, and now when I run armory, it does show "connected (0 blocks)" in the lower right corner (first time I've seen that! woohoo!) but it still doesn't seem to be loading the database correctly.

Screenshot:


Logfile:
Code:
Log file opened at 10:39:57: /home/henry/.armory/dbLog.txt
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (main.cpp:32) Running on 2 threads
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (main.cpp:33) Ram usage level: 4
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (BlockUtils.cpp:915) blkfile dir: /home/henry/.bitcoin/blocks
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (BlockUtils.cpp:916) lmdb dir: /home/henry/.armory/databases
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:388) Opening databases...
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (BDM_Server.h:263) Listening on port 62746
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (BlockUtils.cpp:1108) Executing: doInitialSyncOnLoad
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:199) Reading headers from db
-WARN  - 10:39:57: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:1241) No headers in DB yet!
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:238) Found 1 headers in db
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:71) updating HEADERS db
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (Blockchain.cpp:248) Organizing chain
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (Blockchain.cpp:370) Organized chain in 0s
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:76) updated HEADERS db in 0s
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:388) Opening databases...
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:1231) verifying txfilters integrity
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:1314) done checking txfilters
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (BDM_supportClasses.cpp:1890) Enabling zero-conf tracking
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (BDM_Server.cpp:1114) registered bdv: d7844602586a413b4d22
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (BitcoinP2P.cpp:947) Connected to Bitcoin node
-INFO  - 10:39:57: (BDM_supportClasses.cpp:401) Starting address registration process
-ERROR - 10:39:57: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:1503) Headers DB has no block at height: 0
-ERROR - 10:39:57: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:1483) No headers at height 0
-ERROR - 10:39:57: (BlockchainScanner.cpp:445) Missing file map for output scan, this is unexpected
-ERROR - 10:39:57: (BlockchainScanner.cpp:447) Has the following block files:
-ERROR - 10:39:57: (BlockchainScanner.cpp:451) Was looking for id #4294967295

Any help would be great!

Thanks again

Henry
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Board Armory
Re: Stuck in scanning
by
HenryRomp
on 01/10/2017, 14:28:03 UTC
Updated armory, recompiled it, basically did git checkout, git pull, autogen, submodule init, submodule update, make and make install.

Tried again, now I get this:

Code:
Log file opened at 10:23:31: /home/henry/.armory/dbLog.txt
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (main.cpp:32) Running on 2 threads
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (main.cpp:33) Ram usage level: 4
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (BlockUtils.cpp:915) blkfile dir: /home/henry/.bitcoin/blocks
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (BlockUtils.cpp:916) lmdb dir: /home/henry/.armory/databases
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:388) Opening databases...
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (BDM_Server.h:263) Listening on port 52437
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (BlockUtils.cpp:1108) Executing: doInitialSyncOnLoad
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:199) Reading headers from db
-WARN  - 10:23:31: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:1241) No headers in DB yet!
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:238) Found 1 headers in db
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:71) updating HEADERS db
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (Blockchain.cpp:248) Organizing chain
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (Blockchain.cpp:370) Organized chain in 0s
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:76) updated HEADERS db in 0s
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:388) Opening databases...
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:1231) verifying txfilters integrity
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:1314) done checking txfilters
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (BDM_supportClasses.cpp:1890) Enabling zero-conf tracking
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (BitcoinP2P.cpp:947) Connected to Bitcoin node
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (BDM_Server.cpp:1114) registered bdv: e4c3af14d20b95bf104d
-INFO  - 10:23:31: (BDM_supportClasses.cpp:401) Starting address registration process
-ERROR - 10:23:31: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:1503) Headers DB has no block at height: 0
-ERROR - 10:23:31: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:1483) No headers at height 0
-ERROR - 10:23:31: (BlockchainScanner.cpp:445) Missing file map for output scan, this is unexpected
-ERROR - 10:23:31: (BlockchainScanner.cpp:447) Has the following block files:
-ERROR - 10:23:31: (BlockchainScanner.cpp:451) Was looking for id #4294967295

Next I'll try switching from bitcoin 0.15.0.1 to 15
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Board Armory
Re: Stuck in scanning
by
HenryRomp
on 01/10/2017, 13:18:04 UTC
Reading other posts, I tried doing a git pull to update, ran armory again, similar situation, still stuck on scanning, but it looks a little different now:

And the new logfile:
http://termbin.com/9zhl
Any help much appreciated.
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Board Armory
Stuck in scanning
by
HenryRomp
on 01/10/2017, 12:58:57 UTC
Hey there,
I finally got my blockchain synced up with bitcoin core and now I'm trying to get armory online.
However I'm getting some errors and it seems to stay stuck scanning the database in offline mode. Any help figuring it out much appreciated.

The part of the logfile that seems most relevant is here:
Code:
Log file opened at 08:36:44: /home/henry/.armory/dbLog.txt
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (main.cpp:32) Running on 2 threads
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (main.cpp:33) Ram usage level: 4
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (BlockUtils.cpp:915) blkfile dir: /home/henry/.bitcoin/blocks
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (BlockUtils.cpp:916) lmdb dir: /home/henry/.armory/databases
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:388) Opening databases...
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (BDM_Server.h:263) Listening on port 51460
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (BlockUtils.cpp:1108) Executing: doInitialSyncOnLoad
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:199) Reading headers from db
-WARN  - 08:36:44: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:1241) No headers in DB yet!
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:238) Found 1 headers in db
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:71) updating HEADERS db
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (Blockchain.cpp:248) Organizing chain
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (Blockchain.cpp:370) Organized chain in 0s
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:76) updated HEADERS db in 0s
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:388) Opening databases...
-ERROR - 08:36:44: (BitcoinP2P.cpp:1032) caught exception in processDataStackThread: invalid varint size
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:1231) verifying txfilters integrity
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:1314) done checking txfilters
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:134) scanning new blocks from #1 to #0
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (BlockchainScanner.cpp:52) no history to scan
-ERROR - 08:36:44: (BlockchainScanner.cpp:1229) Cannot find block with hash
-ERROR - 08:36:44: (BDM_mainthread.cpp:306) BDM thread failed: std::exception
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (BDM_Server.cpp:1114) registered bdv: 10b2739563b20a3dfe28
-INFO  - 08:36:44: (BDM_supportClasses.cpp:401) Starting address registration process
-ERROR - 08:36:44: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:1503) Headers DB has no block at height: 0
-ERROR - 08:36:44: (lmdb_wrapper.cpp:1483) No headers at height 0
-ERROR - 08:36:44: (BlockchainScanner.cpp:445) Missing file map for output scan, this is unexpected
-ERROR - 08:36:44: (BlockchainScanner.cpp:447) Has the following block files:
-ERROR - 08:36:44: (BlockchainScanner.cpp:451) Was looking for id #4294967295

And the rest of the logfile is here: http://termbin.com/v7gp

Any help much appreciated!

Thanks,

Henry