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Hello,
I have a bunch of old wallet.dat files that are very likely empty. I would love to give a final look to make sure I am not missing any money in those wallets.
I don't currently have a fully synced node and I have done the following to check the balance, let me know if this is correct.
I load the wallet.dat file in the Bitcoin Core app (on Mac). The app tells me that it needs to sync the entire blockchain and I say go for it. While the app is syncing the blockchain, I click on the menu Window and select Receiving Addresses.
I then check the balance of all these addresses on Blockchain.com.
Does this give me the full picture of the balance of those wallets?
That *is* correct. You can manually check each address on blockchain.com. I have a bunch of old wallet.dat files that are very likely empty. I would love to give a final look to make sure I am not missing any money in those wallets.
I don't currently have a fully synced node and I have done the following to check the balance, let me know if this is correct.
I load the wallet.dat file in the Bitcoin Core app (on Mac). The app tells me that it needs to sync the entire blockchain and I say go for it. While the app is syncing the blockchain, I click on the menu Window and select Receiving Addresses.
I then check the balance of all these addresses on Blockchain.com.
Does this give me the full picture of the balance of those wallets?
Presumably these are only bitcoin addresses. Dunno about all this electrum talk!
5 or 6 years ago, only about 95% of the coins announced were shitcoins or outright scamcoins. Now it is impossible to even find something worth investigating.
Is there some forum somewhere that is (a bit) moderated that may filter out some of these obvious shitcoins/scamcoins?
Thanks in advance if anyone can help me out.
Is there some forum somewhere that is (a bit) moderated that may filter out some of these obvious shitcoins/scamcoins?
Thanks in advance if anyone can help me out.
Check out the last block & scroll about half way down, & check the fees associated with those transactions.
eg:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/block/00000000000000000009fcb6f9931924f866140e90e819a6421ca5985dec292a
26 minutes after last block, so fees here are likely quite a bit higher than the norm for the day.
Anyway, this block explorer shows 5 transactions per page, so https://www.blockchain.com/btc/block/00000000000000000009fcb6f9931924f866140e90e819a6421ca5985dec292a?page=448 is the end.
Halfway through @ https://www.blockchain.com/btc/block/00000000000000000009fcb6f9931924f866140e90e819a6421ca5985dec292a?page=224 ;
31.595 sat/WU is fee paid. So 31.5 should be fine, to send within the next couple of blocks. Likely 15-20 is OK, if blocks start coming at typical pace (every 10 minutes).
Tons of places overpay bigtime. But I think a lot of these are businesses doing payouts, so they don't want any delay.
eg:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/block/00000000000000000009fcb6f9931924f866140e90e819a6421ca5985dec292a
26 minutes after last block, so fees here are likely quite a bit higher than the norm for the day.
Anyway, this block explorer shows 5 transactions per page, so https://www.blockchain.com/btc/block/00000000000000000009fcb6f9931924f866140e90e819a6421ca5985dec292a?page=448 is the end.
Halfway through @ https://www.blockchain.com/btc/block/00000000000000000009fcb6f9931924f866140e90e819a6421ca5985dec292a?page=224 ;
31.595 sat/WU is fee paid. So 31.5 should be fine, to send within the next couple of blocks. Likely 15-20 is OK, if blocks start coming at typical pace (every 10 minutes).
Tons of places overpay bigtime. But I think a lot of these are businesses doing payouts, so they don't want any delay.
Re: Harvard Professor, Kenneth Rogoff, says Bitcoin Regulation Is Inevitable
In an interview with Bloomberg, Harvard professor Kenneth Rogoff had strong sentiments about the future of Bitcoins. According to Professor Rogoff, governments’ regulation of cryptocurrencies is undoubtedly coming.
Professor Rogoff is a former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund and identifies as a Bitcoin skeptic. RePEc ranks him among its top ten economists. Although he confirms his statements as speculative, he justifiably questions the end-game of the continued rise in Bitcoins’ price and popularity. Ultimately, the Bitcoin bubble will burst, and there will be no use for it in the long-run.
The Harvard professor continues to share his theory that states will not allow Bitcoin to take over despite its rising popularity. Ideally, Bitcoins’ price will continue to rise, surpassing the traditional currency and maintain its pseudo-anonymous transactions. In that case, the likely results are failed states and the collapse of the current monetary systems. However, Rogoff affirms that there is no way governments will allow this to happen.
What is your opinion on this?
Professor Rogoff is a former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund and identifies as a Bitcoin skeptic. RePEc ranks him among its top ten economists. Although he confirms his statements as speculative, he justifiably questions the end-game of the continued rise in Bitcoins’ price and popularity. Ultimately, the Bitcoin bubble will burst, and there will be no use for it in the long-run.
The Harvard professor continues to share his theory that states will not allow Bitcoin to take over despite its rising popularity. Ideally, Bitcoins’ price will continue to rise, surpassing the traditional currency and maintain its pseudo-anonymous transactions. In that case, the likely results are failed states and the collapse of the current monetary systems. However, Rogoff affirms that there is no way governments will allow this to happen.
What is your opinion on this?
Regulations already exist.
Re: I am being mercilessly scammed by somone from the bitcoin world
How can you be "mercilessly scammed" by someone,if you didn't send him any crypto coins or money?
You are not scammed,you are just spammed.Your thread title is misleading,so you should change it.
I keep receiving such spam messages,but on Discord,not via email.
I wonder how the spammers got your email address.Did you submit your email on some shady crypto website or platform?
Simply mark those emails as SPAM and ignore them.I don't see a reason why you should create a topic on the forum and start whining about such small problem.
Spammers getting your email address doesn't require using your email on a 'shady crypto website or platform'. You are not scammed,you are just spammed.Your thread title is misleading,so you should change it.
I keep receiving such spam messages,but on Discord,not via email.
I wonder how the spammers got your email address.Did you submit your email on some shady crypto website or platform?
Simply mark those emails as SPAM and ignore them.I don't see a reason why you should create a topic on the forum and start whining about such small problem.
Yahoo alone has given up more than half a billion.
For bitcoin specific emails, if you polled a majority of bitcoin users, they'd probably tell you in 2011 that MtGox was the most reputable exchange. Someone managed to yoink the email list & then it was distributed to the public.
Despite that, in 2013 & early 2014 it handled 60-70% of exchange activity. It also did some fancy price manipulation ... or maybe that's "alleged", unsure if it was ever proven.
re; "I don't see a reason why you should create a topic on the forum and start whining about such small problem." ... yah, I agree w/ you there.
It goes up a lot when it gets a ton of press, because saturation level (knowledge of existence) amongst the 'average' investor is still low. Additionally, the number of people rubbishing it as a joke continues to drop.
Random people invest in it, w/o regard to the price, since they see a nice chart and don't want to miss out. This has happened.... at least three times in the past, maybe four. One of the other massive runs was when MtGox was manipulating the price.
I sold half of mine at $36,500. I was thinking I'd be able to rebuy at ~$18,500 level, ~$22,500 level, or around the 50 day MA when I sold (at the time it was ~$24,500).
It appears that someone wants to keep it above $30,500'ish, which is actually close to the 50 day moving average now (think it's around $29,500). There was that 'flash crash' down to $29,000, but it immediately went back up. If it holds the $30,500 - $31,000 for another week or two, I may cave and re-buy at this $31,000 or so. Probably not, though. I still think the price is massively inflated.
But I guess with virtually every govt going massively into debt and the Federal Reserve printing untold amounts of "funny money" to keep the US stock market from crashing, who knows.
I'm unsure why we aren't already seeing massive inflation in the US. Probably the low cost of energy has cancelled out a lot of it. This low cost of gas and such shouldn't last too much longer w/ Beijing Biden. China needs to sell some solar panels.
Random people invest in it, w/o regard to the price, since they see a nice chart and don't want to miss out. This has happened.... at least three times in the past, maybe four. One of the other massive runs was when MtGox was manipulating the price.
I sold half of mine at $36,500. I was thinking I'd be able to rebuy at ~$18,500 level, ~$22,500 level, or around the 50 day MA when I sold (at the time it was ~$24,500).
It appears that someone wants to keep it above $30,500'ish, which is actually close to the 50 day moving average now (think it's around $29,500). There was that 'flash crash' down to $29,000, but it immediately went back up. If it holds the $30,500 - $31,000 for another week or two, I may cave and re-buy at this $31,000 or so. Probably not, though. I still think the price is massively inflated.
But I guess with virtually every govt going massively into debt and the Federal Reserve printing untold amounts of "funny money" to keep the US stock market from crashing, who knows.
I'm unsure why we aren't already seeing massive inflation in the US. Probably the low cost of energy has cancelled out a lot of it. This low cost of gas and such shouldn't last too much longer w/ Beijing Biden. China needs to sell some solar panels.
I believe biden's adminstration will be friendly to Cryptocurrency especially on top coins like BTC, ETH, XRP after a big news from SEC before few months XRP faced a big blow and I hope the results will go on public favour as loads of money has been invested in XRP, and I guess they won't disappoint anyone.
And yes regulations will surely be there in upcoming days because they wanted to secure dollar
And yes regulations will surely be there in upcoming days because they wanted to secure dollar
If by "friendly" you mean scare people off the USD w/ massive inflation looming, then I agree with ya.
When is someone going to build a nuclear power plant to power those ASICs in China? Get to it!
Someone mark this words...
I would bet in the future the humans will have miners farm with their own electricity generators. Some farms powered by rivers and dams, and some others will have nuclear plants for enormous farms. And isn't a crazy idea at all, I mean the energy bill of a mining farm is really high.
And about the article... mining is done by miners and if someone gets a cloud mining service that means the miner is running somewhere in the world, and it's consuming energy any way...
Everyone will be dirt poor, so people will be working in bike sweat shops, perhaps earning paid several dozen corn kernels per hour, or half a dozen pinto beans.
Re: History shows Bitcoin price may take 3-12 months to finally break $20K
3-12 months to finally break $20k? OK, Nostradamus. I hope you just spent your entire life savings buying at $11500.
.... or is this just all based on USD inflation? I guess if you aren't investing USD, you may want to pass then.
The supply of funny money is high and anyone under 30 doesn't seem to understand basic economics.
On second thought, I rather like your prediction. It is vry astute.
.... or is this just all based on USD inflation? I guess if you aren't investing USD, you may want to pass then.
The supply of funny money is high and anyone under 30 doesn't seem to understand basic economics.
On second thought, I rather like your prediction. It is vry astute.
Apologies if this comes up a lot (as I'm sure it does) but when / how often do you feel is best to buy the dip?
I know its not an exact science but I've heard a few different preferences on this such as:
- When the price decreases x% on the weekly/monthly candle
- When the price moves below the weekly/monthly negative average
- Only a couple of times a year after a major correction
- Just look at the chart and go on your experience / gut
I know its not an exact science but I've heard a few different preferences on this such as:
- When the price decreases x% on the weekly/monthly candle
- When the price moves below the weekly/monthly negative average
- Only a couple of times a year after a major correction
- Just look at the chart and go on your experience / gut
I buy when keyvendor is selling TF2 keys for 1.65 or less.
But I guess a reasonable entry point (at a price you may see in the next few months) would be around $8400 USD (give or take $100-$200).
Probably won't see that $4100 USD value again any time soon.
If Bitcoin breaks through this resistance level, a further sustainable rally towards $10,500, $11,000, and $11,600 is on the table.
The best environment for altcoins is a slow, upward move following Bitcoin. As we’ve seen in recent days, other altcoins like Ether and Cardano have started to show strength. If Bitcoin remains to move to the upside, more altcoins can see upward breakouts.
https://www.investreader.com/sections/cryptocurrency
The best environment for altcoins is a slow, upward move following Bitcoin. As we’ve seen in recent days, other altcoins like Ether and Cardano have started to show strength. If Bitcoin remains to move to the upside, more altcoins can see upward breakouts.
https://www.investreader.com/sections/cryptocurrency
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5250177.msg54476074#msg54476074 -- the gist,
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I guess if you want to get into the technicals, there should be significant resistance at ~$10400 USD. It also has that nice round number at $10k as a psychological barrier.
$10200-$10400 was real resistance level (the highs from mid-Feb and trading range for ~10-15 days, pretty significant for Bitcoin, laugh), $10000 was just some psychological thing.
Though the action was a bit bizarre, both that took it above $10,000 and that took it below $10,000.
Price of bitcoin has been increasing since ... I guess we could say May 22, 2010? I wasn't around until 2011 and don't know of any real transaction prior to what is reported.
If you bought some on March 8th at $4100-$4500, you're up 2x in 2 1/2 months.
Current price is higher than it has been in all but ~5-6 months of existence.
I guess if you want to get into the technicals, there should be significant resistance at ~$10400 USD. It also has that nice round number at $10k as a psychological barrier.
If you bought some on March 8th at $4100-$4500, you're up 2x in 2 1/2 months.
Current price is higher than it has been in all but ~5-6 months of existence.
I guess if you want to get into the technicals, there should be significant resistance at ~$10400 USD. It also has that nice round number at $10k as a psychological barrier.
you shouldn't worry too much about what may or may not happen a 140 years from now since that is one and a half generation away from today! not to mention that with the way bitcoin is going, so far despite the huge decrease in the amount of block reward (from 50 down to 6.25) both hashrate and difficulty have grown to ridiculously higher values while miners are making millions of percentages more money compared to when the reward was 50!
This is solely happening because of the increase of bitcoin price right?And what you stated is the increase from the past to the present but it still won't change the profitability of mining bitcoin and the fact that some miners have stopped mining because they can't get decent profit anymore.
Anyway, it's just a curiosity, and getting a satisfying answer will definitely stop me from asking the same question again. I won't make it until 140 years later for sure.
Difficulty will decrease if people quit mining. This will then make it more profitable for those that are still mining, or start back up. At least until the next difficulty change ...
Energy costs less now.
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No. Chinese government does not control the pools. Pools are not that coordinated and if there war a slightly chance that this could happen, miners would just move to another pools.
It does unless they're operating illegally. I suppose in this case, it gives the CCP a good reason to just 'requisition' the pool.China has had over 50% of hashing power from about one or two years after the introduction of ASICs.
You can buy keys off of keyvendor.com, for ~69% US price (71% for EUR price, which is equiv to 2.43 USD). Even greater savings if you are in state with income tax (they cost me $2.71 each), since Valve charges US sales tax. They like to subsidize EU country, like Sweden and 25% VAT.
They are $1.72/ea there.
Why not just use this?
They are $1.72/ea there.
Why not just use this?
Oh, is looking better than expected, so I guess today is the day, have some 18-20 hours left for the 24 hr moving avg to remain in the huge positive.
Volume needs to be about 5-10 BTC to start attracting random casuals. It's sad to see someone is selling out for so little already, this ASK at 48 or 49 satoshi or whatever it is. I will clear it if it's still there in a few hrs.
Not this 1 bitcoin amount at 200 satoshi, though. That would take some really great momentum. Though, gotta say, this coin is actually 'legit', vs. these others I've messed with, bitbean, ooo, ladacoin, ... Maybe that does help some? LOL.
ed: Aborting -- some active seller that is dumb (?) and putting up huge sell amounts on ask side. I only have this ? because it's possible that it may just be someone accumulating some more before their own pump. Who knows. Not gonna spend 0.05 bitcoins to get it to 50 btc volume with someone putting a million at 100. If the guy is actually trying to profit off the coin, that is one hell of a cockblock.
I guess it's flax script,
Volume needs to be about 5-10 BTC to start attracting random casuals. It's sad to see someone is selling out for so little already, this ASK at 48 or 49 satoshi or whatever it is. I will clear it if it's still there in a few hrs.
Not this 1 bitcoin amount at 200 satoshi, though. That would take some really great momentum. Though, gotta say, this coin is actually 'legit', vs. these others I've messed with, bitbean, ooo, ladacoin, ... Maybe that does help some? LOL.
ed: Aborting -- some active seller that is dumb (?) and putting up huge sell amounts on ask side. I only have this ? because it's possible that it may just be someone accumulating some more before their own pump. Who knows. Not gonna spend 0.05 bitcoins to get it to 50 btc volume with someone putting a million at 100. If the guy is actually trying to profit off the coin, that is one hell of a cockblock.
I guess it's flax script,