I agree that changing the calculation method for fees is driving up the fee, but that's a client-side feature in my view, not a change to the rules of the blockchain. The actual consensus rule there is how miners calculate the expected/minimum fee - which I believe is still based on the size of the ...
One more thing! Are chargebacks possible with btc at all?
The transaction should always show up more or less instantly in your wallet but you will have to wait for at least 1 confirmation on the blockchain before being able to spend your bitcoins.
As soon as the btc sender hits 'send', they won ...
Electrum is an easy to use wallet that doesn't require a lot of resources. You can receive coins into that wallet then simply send them to whatever service later, like a cash exchange, instead of keeping them on a server or website you don't trust.
Bitcoin needs technical solutions that rely on cryptography without trust, not paperwork and arbitrary dictators. Even if Blockstream was "outsted" by some regulatory action you would likely now have an even shadier organization operating Bitcoin.
Hi everyone. With RBF recently getting some exposure I was thinking more about ways to solve the problems that RBF solves without it. In particular, I see the blockchain more as a data structure made up of immutable pieces, and I don't like that RBF violates this to some degree. I would prefer a ...
Have you heard of coinswap? It's another algorithm like coinjoin for improved privacy, but it disjoints the transaction graph. There are downsides to it compared to coinjoin, but both have a place in the long term solution of bitcoin. It could be incentivized in the same way as joinmarket does for ...
I don't see why coins "touching each other" is a bad thing.
It would make most graph analysis impossible. I agree coinjoin transactions with many inputs and outputs accomplish almost the same thing. (zero versus really small)
As bitcoin transactions are many-to-many mappings, eventually ...
I appreciate the importance of privacy, but providing a Bitcoin mixer on bitcoin.com would aid people involved in illegal activities
I'm sorry but "illegal activities" doesn't matter to most considering it can be crafted and manipulated to mean anything. I'm pretty sure Roger knows that first ...
@rogverver, I was speaking of a JoinMarket implementation, sorry.
@eragmus Great points and well put.
My only gripe is that I would prefer a system where the coins have never touched each other. For example, in the graphic you see addresses A, B, and C making a join and the coins are delivered to ...
When I went to sign up I was given social media buttons. I noticed these are in Russian, even though none of the other page is in Russian and I'm from the US. It may be a problem in your caching software.