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Thursday, 1 April 2021

BlackRock, one of the world's largest asset management companies, has announced an investment in Bitcoin (BTC)!

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My father laughed off me because of bitcoin

Today I tried to explain my 70yo father about why this is a good investment in the long run.

He looked at me like and laughed. Basically he thinks that he is very experienced because he had seen many pyramid schemes and he knows I will lose everything. I replied this is not the case at all, but he insisted. I told him I have little to lose and much to win, and that maybe and just maybe one day it is worth enough for me to build a house, which is my dream. He laughed harder and it bothered me because I really want to accomplish this dream no matter what and I felt really discouraged to see my own father laughing at my financial hopes.

I don't think getting maybe 150000€ ($175000) is impossible. It is indeed a very hard to reach target, but... He really makes me feel down about all this.

I don't want lambos as you guys often joke. I just would like to have a nice home, which I consider a humble purpose. How unlikely is that to happen? Maybe he is right in the meaning of never making that amount. I just feel down right now.

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Immediately losing peers when using bchwallet in SPV mode

I'm trying to use bchwallet (https://github.com/gcash/bchwallet) in SPV mode, as described in this article: https://medium.com/@bchd.cash/announcing-neutrino-wallet-for-bitcoin-cash-eb7a85a49c0e

I can see that the wallet is finding a bunch of peers and trying to download block headers from those peers. However, it appears that each peer gets immediately dropped once the wallet starts trying to download block headers. Once all the discovered peers are dropped, the wallet simply stalls.

I tried manually adding a specific peer by using the --addpeer option to add bchd.fountainhead.cash. When I did this, rather than stalling, I could see that the wallet kept trying to reconnect to that one peer, but the peer was immediately lost each time.

Has anyone gotten bchwallet to work in SPV mode? Any chance of some pointers on what I'm doing wrong?

Command I run:

./bchwallet -u blahblahuser -P blahblahpassword --usespv --rpclisten=0.0.0.0:8332 --noinitialload --addpeer=bchd.fountainhead.cash

Sample output:

2021-04-01 09:08:37.174 [WRN] BCHW: open /home/nick/.bchwallet/bchwallet.conf: no such file or directory

2021-04-01 09:08:37.175 [INF] BCHW: Version 0.8.2

2021-04-01 09:08:37.185 [INF] RPCS: Listening on 0.0.0.0:8332

2021-04-01 09:08:37.190 [INF] BCHN: Loaded 23 addresses from file '/home/blah/.bchwallet/mainnet/peers.json'

2021-04-01 09:08:37.190 [INF] BCHN: Registering block subscription: id=1

2021-04-01 09:08:37.190 [INF] BCHN: Broadcaster now active

... lots of random peers found and lost, followed by looping over just the bchd.fountainhead.cash peer (136.243.250.139):

2021-04-01 09:08:43.067 [INF] BCHN: New valid peer 51.195.7.112:8333 (outbound) (/bchd:0.17.1(EB32.0)/)

2021-04-01 09:08:43.067 [INF] BCHN: Syncing to block height 681191 from peer 51.195.7.112:8333

2021-04-01 09:08:43.067 [INF] BCHN: Downloading headers for blocks 1 to 11111 from peer 51.195.7.112:8333

2021-04-01 09:08:43.415 [INF] BCHN: Lost peer 51.195.7.112:8333 (outbound)

2021-04-01 09:08:43.415 [WRN] BCHN: No sync peer candidates available

2021-04-01 09:08:43.909 [INF] BCHN: New valid peer 136.243.250.139:8333 (outbound) (/bchd:0.17.1(EB32.0)/)

2021-04-01 09:08:43.909 [INF] BCHN: Syncing to block height 681191 from peer 136.243.250.139:8333

2021-04-01 09:08:43.909 [INF] BCHN: Downloading headers for blocks 1 to 11111 from peer 136.243.250.139:8333

2021-04-01 09:08:44.242 [INF] BCHN: Lost peer 136.243.250.139:8333 (outbound)

2021-04-01 09:08:44.242 [WRN] BCHN: No sync peer candidates available

2021-04-01 09:08:49.932 [INF] BCHN: New valid peer 136.243.250.139:8333 (outbound) (/bchd:0.17.1(EB32.0)/)

2021-04-01 09:08:49.932 [INF] BCHN: Syncing to block height 681191 from peer 136.243.250.139:8333

2021-04-01 09:08:49.932 [INF] BCHN: Downloading headers for blocks 1 to 11111 from peer 136.243.250.139:8333

2021-04-01 09:08:50.272 [INF] BCHN: Lost peer 136.243.250.139:8333 (outbound)

2021-04-01 09:08:50.272 [WRN] BCHN: No sync peer candidates available

2021-04-01 09:08:55.963 [INF] BCHN: New valid peer 136.243.250.139:8333 (outbound) (/bchd:0.17.1(EB32.0)/)

2021-04-01 09:08:55.964 [INF] BCHN: Syncing to block height 681191 from peer 136.243.250.139:8333

2021-04-01 09:08:55.964 [INF] BCHN: Downloading headers for blocks 1 to 11111 from peer 136.243.250.139:8333

2021-04-01 09:08:56.317 [INF] BCHN: Lost peer 136.243.250.139:8333 (outbound)

2021-04-01 09:08:56.318 [WRN] BCHN: No sync peer candidates available

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