Ik heb al mijn btc ingeruild. Ik zie niet in hoe het kan overleven met de onvoorspelbare transactiekosten door de 1mb bloklimiet. Lightning zie ik het probleem niet oplossen.

I am interested to know also.
Even more, what if bitcoin would be the dominant currency in the future?
How would this work with taking loans for example? Would there be negative interest rates?
What would the investment climate look like?

Bedankt voor je uitvoerig beargumenteerde standpunt Daan

Het zal niemand ontgaan zijn dat er al een tijdje een hevige discussie woedt tav de max. blocksize.
Ben benieuwd hoe hier de meningen verdeeld zijn.

Okay, thanks for replying.
I don't still get the full gist of this but I guess you will need to fiddle with the actual code to get a total understanding.

So does the amount of transactions in the block change with each hash attempt with a new nonce?

From the whitepaper:

1)
New transactions are broadcast to all nodes.
2)
Each node collects new transactions into a block. 
3)
Each node works on finding a difficult proof-of-work for its block.
4)
When a node finds a proof-of-work, it broadcasts the block to all nodes.

So how does the the miner software work? I reckon transactions are flowing in continuously.
The time needed for the pow and the rate of incoming transactions determines the size of the block?

Here is another initiative:

https://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?/topic/4481-ann-link-the-blockchain-file-sharing-protocol/

Not sure what the status is.

Cheers for that Danny.

Btw, would a realtime difficulty adjustment be feasable in order to garantee a 10-12 min range for instance ? I mean from a architectual perspective ?

I guess not since it would probably be done already. But it would have advantages I take it.

I have a question complementing this thread.
I have copied a chunk from the whitepaper:


Every 2 weeks difficulty is adjusted to keep the 10 minutes avarage in place, but how can this be garanteed since adding or subtracting a nonce will change the difficulty and thus the average exponentialy.
Is there no risk the average will go from lets say 8 minutes to 16 minutes ?

Thanks for answering.
I will experiment with a few other wallets, I think required confirmations should be adjusted to spending amount.
3 confirmations waiting time can be very long when you are hungry ;-)

So I have started actually using bitcoins recently, have been a saver/hodler for 2 years.
The take-away express in the Netherlands lets you order food in bitcoin with zero fees (can save you some 10%).
So last time I noticed that my bitcoin mobile wallet (bitwallet) was empty so I bought some 20 euros of bitcoins online.
After the buy, my wallet had me wait for 3 confirmations (ca 30 min) before I could send out 10 euro worth of bitcoins.
I know that the takeway takes 0-conform transactions, or at least I get a sms-confirm directly, so I pressume as much.

So why is my wallet waiting for 3 comfirms on a small amount? Also are there any guidelines wallet-software could/should follow for confirms?
How does this work at the btc protocol? At which point can an output be used as an input ? After how many confirmations of the output ?

Thanks for explaining, didn't know.

How is this even possible, the funds belonging to a private key needs to be spend all at once right?

When reading all this I ask myself how can the average non-technical user ever store bitcoin safely ?
You would almost crawl to the necessity of a trusted party to store your keys.

They will probably be able to continue to do so for a while.

When Alice buys bitcoins from Bob, fiat moves from Bank A(Alice) to Bank B(Bob), hence there is no loss for the banking system.
In other words banks have nothing to fear from the bitcoin network, right?

Ik heb een eigen php framework gemaakt met een stukje smarty templating geïntegreerd.
Symfony ben ik echter ook in thuis.

Sowieso maak ik alles frontend met bootstrap(3).

Hallo allemaal,

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Als bitcoin enthousiasteling accepteer ik natuurlijk ook bitcoins.

Weet je dus iemand die een nieuwe (responsive) website nodig heeft en graag met bitcoins betaald, laat het weten!

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Goed uitgelegd door Martijn Wismeijer https://twitter.com/twiet, eigenaar van de eerste bitcoin ATM in Nederland.