id |
Quotes from satoshi |
#1 |
It would have been nice to get this attention in any other context. WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet's nest, and the swarm is headed towards us. |
#2 |
Welcome to the new Bitcoin forum! |
#3 |
In a few decades when the reward gets too small, the transaction fee will become the main compensation for nodes. I'm sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume. |
#4 |
Lost coins only make everyone else's coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone. |
#5 |
This isn't the kind of software where we can leave so many unresolved bugs that we need a tracker for them. |
#6 |
Sorry to be a wet blanket. Writing a description for this thing for general audiences is bloody hard. There's nothing to relate it to. |
#7 |
Bitcoin is practical for smaller transactions than are practical with existing payment methods. Small enough to include what you might call the top of the micropayment range. But it doesn't claim to be practical for arbitrarily small micropayments. |
#8 |
It's nice how anyone with just a CPU can compete fairly equally right now. |
#9 |
The timestamp is limited to up to 2 hours in the future. It can be earlier than the previous block, but it must be greater than the median of the last 11 blocks. The reason for doing it that way is so the time can get corrected in the next block if the previous block had the time too far in the future, like what happened. |
#10 |
If the network is segmented and then recombines, any transactions in the shorter fork that were not also in the longer fork are released into the transaction pool again and are eligible to get into future blocks. Their number of confirmations would start over. |
#11 |
Sigh... why delete a wallet instead of moving it aside and keeping the old copy just in case? You should never delete a wallet. |
#12 |
There's a small transaction fee for very large transactions. The node that generates the block that contains the transaction gets the fee. |
#13 |
If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry. |