"teenage-tier" is the world changing tier

He's back:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39417937

edit: and now Wired:

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/anarchist-bitcoin-coder-found-fighting-isis-syria/

Using bitaddress.org (https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org):

Create a bip38 encrypted single private key using the 'Paper Wallet' tab and save it somewhere.
Copy the encrypted private key and open the 'wallet details' tab and paste;  enter the bip38 password to decrypt.
Scroll down and copy your Private Key Hexadecimal Format (64 characters [0-9A-F]).

Use https://github.com/bip32JP/bip32JP.github.io to create HD wallet:

Paste the Hex private key you just copied as the entropy.
select the 'Base 16' radio button and '24 words' below Bip39 passphrase.
Click 'Generate New Phrase' and a 24 word phrase should be generated.

Double check you can repeat the process with the same result before commiting any funds etc.

You can use bip 38 to create an HD wallet  - just use the decrypted 64 char hex private key as entropy to create the 24 word passphrase

https://bitport.io/ they accept bitcoins and do the same job - very slick I think.

Free for 2gb and no https.

Your sense of self is a genetically induced survival mechanism - it's total purpose is to encourage you to put every effort into your own survival.
Once you die the self ceases to have any purpose, since it's only purpose was the pursuit of genetic survival.

You could also download the My Wallet add-on for Firefox.

This means you don't need to download the java-script from their servers each time (which may be compromised by a hack).
Only 790 people have downloaded this amazingly.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/my-wallet/?src=api


For a little additional security you could run it in Firefox portable and keep it on a USB stick away from your normal browser.

And use watch only addresses for large amounts of Bitcoin - with the private key secured on a paper-wallet or equivalent

Blockchain published their wallet on 30th July

Last nudge up maybe ios iphone wallets - seems to coincide with Apple accepting Bitcoin wallets.

I've had this problem a few times - and the reindexing also failed a few times. I just stopped using Bitcoin core and imported wallet.dat into blockchain.info.
As long as you have wallet.dat your bitcoins are safe.

In Bitcoin core you can backup the wallet from file->backupwallet.
I would do that first and save it to a usb stick.

There is no single instance in the entire history of Bitcoin of this ever occurring.
The same output has to occur in the same moment of the initial transaction  and has to be propagated on the network in such a way that is is impossible to detect before the thief runs away with the swag (his coffee).
Any merchant who is worrying about this should not be running a business - there is more chance that the cash they are accepting is a forgery, or that the customer is a suicide bomber about to kill everyone in the shop.

Can you provide an actual example of when you used Bitcoin and the transaction processing was too slow?

In my experience of using bitcoin, the only times I've ever had to wait >0 confirmations is when using exchanges - these exchanges will not accept credit cards or paypal (since they do not trust the illusion of 'instant' payment they offer).

Every other time I've paid for anything with bitcoin, 0 confirmation transactions were accepted and the transaction was instantaneous.

Which merchants are not accepting 0 confirmation transactions? Perhaps we need a list.

Actions in the world do not need to be rational - it's possible to cook a meal following a 1000 year old recipe that is perfectly nutritious, even though it was devised by someone who had no knowledge of biochemistry. In fact the recipe had been tested by time (and evolution) and had proven itself to increase the survival of the those who ate it.

Religion is just a bunch of recipes for survival - it is tested by evolution and works in reality as it is, rather than a reality scientifically modeled.

Reality that is scientifically modeled may prove itself to increase survival, but since the individual is ignored by the model (ie the model doesn't tell them how to live day to day), people my be inclined to ignore it and prefer to find a system that allows them to justify what it is they actually do with their lives.

Science ignores what we do as individuals.
Science tells us that we are irreverent specs of dust in a meaningless universe - that our sense of self is just a genetic innovation that improves our chance of survival so we can pass on our genes.

Ironically, believing this may not increase our chance of survival (which is all that 'matters' to our genes) - hence religion continues to survive

Mcdonalds drain the spirit of their workers to produce hamburgers, so I'd have to agree with that (your crazy talk sometimes makes sense)

In the matrix the world is an illusion, and when you escape the matrix you discover another world that is even shittier than the illusion.

A world in which human bodies are used to provide energy to run the matrix (where do these bodies get their energy from isn't explained - presumably from the sun which is used to grow crops to feed the human bodies (but why not use sheep? - or just use the sun directly) - but then why would they need to develop a matrix?)
None of it made any sense.

But I enjoyed the first one and have seen it at least 10 times.

The craziest religion in the world is 'the work ethic' - people who follow this religion feel duty bound to spend their entire life doing a tedious task repeatedly 8 hours every day for their whole life (though they seem to rest at the weekend)

It's strange cultish behavior, but it has a massive following and is probably one of the most popular religions in the world.

The followers seem to be indoctrinated into this cult from an early age by their parents - few manage to escape. Social pressure and the threat of being ostracized is used to control the adherents of this religion.

Few of the adherents are aware that they have willingly turned themselves into robotic slaves

It's the Daily Mail!

It's bullshit. Everything they write is bullshit.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2159692/Womans-mouth-falls-pregnant-squid-biting-sea-creature-scientists-claim.html

I doubt there will be full DNA analysis - the police are just going to see who refuses and focus any investigation on them.

The few students who did a DNA swab with a track record or opportunity will have their DNA examined.
They are not after the full genome of all (male) students and teachers - they are just doing normal detective work.