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Just a nit pick, I think the question is much better now either way

@Murch, "how do I skip synchronization and send the bitcoins directly without waiting", to me at least, is much clearer than "What can I do to gain access immediately?". If I give you a private key, you may have gained access to the associated coins, but there are still a few technical steps before you can use that key to send coins somewhere.

@Murch, it's good. If I were going to add anything, though, I would just add that you're trying to send it to another address explicitly, because I think someone could still read it and try to answer with a way to get the private key (because the private key gives you access to your coins).

I guess I would change it to say that there's some address A that you want to send it to. Then the answer will be applicable regardless of whether A is in a different wallet, or some exchange or something

@Murch, "gain access" still seems a little vague to me. You can gain access without moving your coins. Do you want to gain access to them in another wallet, or just send them off to some address you have?

@Murch lame...

I used to use that site as a utility, occasionally, not ever to store coins in a brainwallet. Kind of sucks that it's closed

@NickODell did they close brainwallet.org because that talk you referenced convinced the creator of brainwallet.org that people shouldn't be using brainwallets?

@NickODell done

@Bitcoin Out of curiosity, who are you in the bitcoin community? You seem to be very knowledgeable about bitcoin development, but your name certainly doesn't give you away! :P

@Murch Been there. The larger the development team, the less efficient it is, unless you have a really good manager. Our head of engineering has to do so much of the coding that he can't do scrum right, with proper sprints and backlog management.

But I'm getting my practical education in a startup.

Computer science departments do love to teach the theory. My undergrad education in comp sci could have been a little bit more practical.

Yeah, in probably anything you do, programming skills would be useful

Sounds like you have 3 good options.

@Murch, no, I'm pretty happy where I am for now. It's probably the closest job to where all my family lives where I could be working on Bitcoin related projects, which I want to keep doing.

@Murch, nice! Any names I'd recognize? I need to spend some time on my linked in profile...

@Murch hahahaha

@Murch, I've been working on implementing HD wallets in the mobile app of the company I work for. I've wanted to do a deep dive on BIP32 for a little while, so I'm happy to have an excuse to do it at work :P

I've been there a thousand times, having a bunch of work to do and looking for any excuse to not do it. The internet is all too helpful in finding excuses.

Haha, fun fun :)

@Murch Sounds like an interesting topic!

@Murch, haha, no, just curious. How's your thesis?

@Murch, are you done with school yet?

Yeah, it's already been approved. I might make one change to the wording, "from the text the problem is identified" flows weird to me.

@Murch, I hadn't, but it seems like a good edit to me, showing the solution as well as the problem.

So many people put [email protected] in for websites where they don't want to provide an email

He says it's not even usable

My boss was an early adopter of the internet, he has the email [email protected]

nice

I tend to just buy, as selling would add hassle to my tax returns :P

Me too

Indeed...

@Murch Looks good. Do you think exchanges ever set rates based on an intermediate currency? i.e. the USD exchange rate of *coin to usd is calculated by usd -> btc -> *starcoin

@Murch, because that might help

Does SE have something where higher rated questions are more likely to come up in searches?

It's an age old question ;)

Yes, that's definitely the best title

@Murch My only hesitation is that I think the one that Nate Eldredge marked is more succinct and asks the same thing basically.

I see you've posted an answer to it...

@Murch, what do you think about closing bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/37352/… ?

Nevermind, I had something I couldn't figure it out and thought you might be able to help, but I figured it out :P

@Murch, you in here?

Haha, true

Yeah, I agree, there are a lot of complicated details to be negotiated between nodes in the network, having some sort of automated configuration and negotiating would be very helpful to a project like this

In this case, "<<" takes the block object and turns it into a serialized block object, which is just an array of bytes that has the encoding for the block in it

That's operator overloading, in c++ you can define what operators like "+" and "<<" do

Yeah, github won't let you search forks, which seems ridiculous to me

Ehh, that's old, I'd guess main.cpp (since that's where everything used to be), but not really sure