Hello,

I am not sure if I have been refunded. When I open my counterwallet account I can see that there are some BTC (0.5) but I dont know if that are the refunds or if the BTC were there before, because it has been a while since I looked at my counterwallet account.

When I open the tap "History" I can see that NVSTVOTING tokens have been send to my address but there is no entry in "Account History" with BTC send or refunded, so I am a little confused (I own 4902 NVST that would be around 0.5 BTC).

Why doesnt the refund show up in the tab "Account History"?

Is there any opinion on how much impact the UASF will have? I mean will it really change something if I, as simple user, running a full node, "enforce" BIP 148. Do the users of the Bitcoin network have any power? Can it really "enforce" a change?

I heard that for Litecoin the UASF worked. But I dont know why. Is there any possible technical description on how this UASF works?

How much "voting power" has a user and how much "voting power" overall is needed for BIP 148 to happen.

On August 1st there will be user induced soft fork. So your Bitcoin will split into two parts maybe somehow. I dont know exactly what will happen and how to handle it. Also dont know what to do exactly. 

@AK47: Can you name some, except "Mastering Bitcoin" by Antonopolous?

The book "Mastering Bitcoin" has also some coding examples.

No one any idea? 

I have a very general question. How to study the technical aspects of Bitcoin.  

I know already a lot. I have read the book "Mastering Bitcoin", wrote a small program to send a version message, designed a website to print paper-wallets and last but not least graduated in Scientific Computing with my Bachelor's Thesis in Bitcoin.

Now, today I was thinking about enrolling at The University of Nicosia in the graduate Program: Master in Digital Currency. But!
About 11500 € (5BTC) in costs. And if this is not enough I have to submit this certificate and that certificate. And then the courses: Only four courses about the technical aspects. The rest bla bla (e.g.
regulation and taxes of crytocurrencies or the banking world and cryptocurrencies). I don't want to spend my money on this shit. Not 5 BTC.

Then I proceeded duckducking and found the "Blockchain University". A lot of strange videos clips on YouTube, not really educational. No possibility to enroll as an online course.
There is the Khan Academy with a bunch of videos with the basics of Blockchain and thats it.

My dream is to fully understand the inner workings of Bitcoin (like a Core developer does) and to maybe invent some improvements. I have some small projects and will learn by solving them (e.g. program Blockexplorer, Headermessage, ...).

But is there any good educational material or an organisation to help me in this task?

I installed it on top and everything is fine.
User-Agent /Satoshi:0.14.1/UASF-Segwit:0.3(BIP148)/

Thanks for the help.

Now I already installed the normal Bitcoin Core 0.14.1 

Is it possible to install this BIP 148 enforcer version on top? I mean it is a fork from bitcoin/bitcoin
So the question is, can I just simply compile the source of bitcoin-0.14.1-bip148_segwit0.3 and use the already downloaded blockchain or is it more complex?

I am using Linux Mint by the way.

Thank you very much achow101. 

O.k. the command is only sending a signal if I understand this correctly. So, how to support it on August 1st?

 
The question came to me after reading exactly this article. So I assume I have to type into the bash the command mentioned in this article after installing the Core Client.

So I first install the Core Client, then start it with ./bitcoin-qt -datadir=/what/so/ever
and then open another Linux bash cd to /usr/local/bin and type:

echo "uacomment=UASF-SegWit-BIP148" >> /what/so/ever/bitcoin.conf && bitcoin-cli stop && sleep 5 && bitcoind


But why bitcoin-cli stop && sleep 5 && bitcoind 
This doesn't make sense.

How can I check if the BIP 148 support signal was correctly set?

If I install Bitcoin Core v 0.14.1, do I automatically support BIP 148 or is there anything else needed, e.g. some commands in the debug console ?

Thank you cr1776. This makes it clear to me.   

If I want to compile 0.14.2, lets say in some weeks, is it possible to just run the usual

./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

or do I have to delete 0.14.1 before this procedure on my Linux System? So my question is how to "upgrade" the Core Client to a newer version.
I installed the Core only on fresh systems so far.

I want to install Bitcoin Core on my system which I have newly formatted. I have done this several times before. Now, I am wondering which version to use.
The newest one is v0.14.2rc2 But what the hell does the rc2 mean?

Also, is it best practice to always install the newest version of core in terms of reliability and safety?

Is it possible to install a new version of core although there is already a core client with an older version installed?

What is a Bitcoin faucet? What to use for and how to program it? 

Is Cloakcoin a scam? 

If not:
- how to activate the cloakshield? I have the message "CloakShield unavailable" at the moment in my qt window.
- how to participate at Enigma Processing. I have no Cloak Assist Earnings and the Enigma Stats Tab doesn't show anything right now. Nevertheless I am using Cloak now for a while     and the Enigma and Cloaking participation is enabled in the Options Tab.
 

Looking forward that this coin gets open source at least.

@newIndia

My website can be used offline. It is only front end.

Maybe I should put the code on github. I am not sure yet if this would be a good idea. I have to think about this a little bit.

Paper wallets are very safe. Check out my website:

paper-wallet.net

I still have a lot of work to do in order to improve my website, but it works already for some currencies.