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Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by invalidusernam3 on Sunday January 30, 2022 @05:12AM (#30135558)
If I was not 100% confident in performing this transaction (which I would never be) I would send $1 as a test before sending the other $499,999. Is there a technical reason preventing one doing a test transaction first?
Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by daviddoran on Sunday January 30, 2022 @05:31AM (#30135642)
Even then, whenever you’re dealing with large amounts there’s risk. E.g., early on in Bitcoin’s development a user lost a lot of Bitcoin by making a small test transfer, not realising that the change (their remaining balance) was sent to a new address in their wallet. But they were running a bootable Linux Distro from a CD and didn’t save the wallet back to a USB or other permanent storage. So they’ll never have access to those keys.
Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by ciupicri on Sunday January 30, 2022 @06:53AM (#30136243)
How was this possible, for the change to be sent to a new address? If I understand correctly what you're saying is that the account was split in two: one part went to the wanted destination and the rest to an unwanted destination.
Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by ripply on Sunday January 30, 2022 @09:13AM (#30137347)
Yes, this is how Bitcoin is designed and has worked from the beginning. The problem is his wallet did save the private key for the change address he just didn’t save the wallet, so it was lost - the changed address wasn’t unwanted, it was wanted, it just didn’t get saved. I believe early Bitcoin wallets generated addresses randomly so you couldn’t recover everything from a seed and had to save your wallet.
Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by Ekaros on Sunday January 30, 2022 @06:32AM (#30136084)
Ah, that sounds like lovely use case for average users with higher than 0 chance of blackouts... Right timing bad design(sensible one) and it is all gone...

So in the end regular user probably ends up doing everything on centralized wallets or exchanges and then those are likely to do some off-chain book keeping as that is cheaper... Brining us back to banking...

Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by denni9th on Sunday January 30, 2022 @05:32AM (#30135646)
The downside to doing this is you have to pay the transaction fee twice, once for the $1 and once for the $499,999. The transaction fee is a fixed amount irregardless of how much is being transferred, so it's definitely better to pay the fee twice than risk losing it all if you are even slightly unsure.
Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by dTal on Sunday January 30, 2022 @06:16AM (#30135954)
>irregardless

Friendly heads up - this isn't a word, and also happens to be one of those slip-ups that people will judge you extra hard for. Say either "regardless" or "irrespective".

Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by exegete on Sunday January 30, 2022 @06:40AM (#30136143)
It most definitely is a word irregardless of your feelings about it https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless
Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by dTal on Sunday January 30, 2022 @07:08AM (#30136390)
Fine. It's not a [standard, generally accepted] word.

Feel free to disregard my advice, though; it's no skin off my nose if you don't want to sound like a "native, educated speaker".

Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by zkldi on Sunday January 30, 2022 @08:54AM (#30137203)
Native, educated speaker here: Nobody cares and everybody understood what they meant.
Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by InGoodFaith on Sunday January 30, 2022 @09:40AM (#30137559)
I always appreciate grammatical corrections, and I know non-native speakers that do too.

A friendly correction of a non-standard word does not deserve derision.

Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by xtracto on Sunday January 30, 2022 @08:13AM (#30136883)
What do you mean generally accepted word? A word is or is not a word . Dont get butthurt because you were pointed wrong after trying to correct someone.
Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by dTal on Sunday January 30, 2022 @08:34AM (#30137033)
Sheesh. No good deed goes unpunished, eh? From the link:

>We label irregardless as “nonstandard” rather than “slang.” When a word is nonstandard it means it is “not conforming in pronunciation, grammatical construction, idiom, or word choice to the usage generally characteristic of educated native speakers of a language.” Irregardless is a long way from winning general acceptance as a standard English word. For that reason, it is best to use regardless instead.

Like I said - I really don't care what you do. I'm just trying to be helpful. Use "irregardless" and people will judge you. If you want to die on that hill, be my guest.

Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by Sargos on Sunday January 30, 2022 @12:45PM (#30139260)
>No good deed goes unpunished, eh?

The problem is that you think trying to sound smart by interrupting a conversation with irrelevant factoids is a "good deed". Maybe some introspection is appropriate here.

Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by DangitBobby on Sunday January 30, 2022 @09:35AM (#30137520)
You've clearly struck a nerve.
Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by dTal on Sunday January 30, 2022 @09:56AM (#30137708)
Right? If only I could attract such controversy on purpose.
Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by maximus-decimus on Sunday January 30, 2022 @01:14PM (#30139545)
Somebody might say you could care less.
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Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by pessimizer on Sunday January 30, 2022 @09:31AM (#30137488)
> No one cares about what you think.

1) It's weird to say this about someone you've never met, of course somebody cares about what they think, and 2) of course you care, which is why you're posting.

Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by pessimizer on Sunday January 30, 2022 @09:26AM (#30137447)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/LOL

A word is a thing people say. If you say irregardless to somebody you're trying to impress, you will fail to.