Ok. I will not use the data from bitcointalk then. If really I realize I need those information, I will just scrap the website and use my own local search engine. Just use Google. They already do that. site:bitcointalk.org your query here It will search stuff only on Bitcointalk.org |
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I’m Brazillian so I can talk a little bit about them.
Almost no one here believes that this is their real volume. They work, so you can actually deposit, trade and withdraw - and with a better price than any other BR exchange. That was until the last few days... they stopped all withdrawals and deposits without any notice and only 2 days ago they released a note saying that some people found an exploit that let them withdraw 2x the amount they had in their balance (making the exchange lose a few millions).
They said they will enable withdrawals again this Wednesday, but no one is sure if that’s going to happen.
Anyways, they are super shady. They are controlled by a group called Bitcoin Banco which also owns another exchange called TemBTC. You can send BTC and BRL back and forth between the two exchanges immediately without paying any fee. The problem is that there is always a big spread between the two exchanges prices (Negocie and TemBTC), so you can arbitrate super easily. Eg: buy 1 BTC for R$ 33500 on TemBTC, send to Negocie immediately and for free, sell for R$ 34000. Easy R$ 500 (~$125) profit.
No one knows why there is such huge spread, so a lot of people think they use both exchanges to launder money or do some other shady stuff.
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Read this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=577765.0Specifically, this post by Vod: What is considered collateral?
Collateral is something that can easily be resold to cover the loan value plus interest should the loaner default on the loan.
- The best collateral is another crypto-currency, such as Ethereum (also written as ETH). Coins must be moderately traded on multiple exchanges.
- Some digital wares such as domain names can be considered as long as the user cannot recover it.
- Small valuable items that can be shipped though the mail - i.e. gold, silver, iphones, etc.
- Large items, such as a motorcycle or guitar can be used if you live close to the person giving you the loan. Try localbitcoins.com
What is not considered collateral?
- Merit. Bitcointalk Merit is not a commodity and is not meant to be traded. Asking or doing so may get you negative trust (Trade with Extreme Caution!)
- Items they want to sell. They don't want it back, so they will default. It's scammy unethical behavior and will lead to negative trust. Check their recent posts!
- Items not in hand. Don't trust a user that promises to give you something *when* they default! Tracking numbers only show something has been mailed - it could be an empty box.
- Future income. You can prove you'll make xx coins in the next few days, but nothing forces you to send those coins to pay your debt.
- Identification. So what if they can prove who they are. Are you going to spend more money and time taking them to court on untested legal grounds? You'll probably just walk away, like everyone does. ID is useless.
- Games codes or similar. To verify the collateral you need to use the code, which destroys the collateral. Consider this a purchase, not a loan. (Post in Digital Goods instead)
- Most new alt-coins or alt-coins that trade for satoshis are not good collateral as they can become worthless overnight.
- Most pre-coins/tokens are worthless, or may take significant time to be worth anything.
- Paypal should never be used - they are anti-bitcoin and will rule against you 100% of the time. Escrow can't even help, as paypal charge backs can come over six months later!
- Most valuable online accounts can easily be recovered by social engineering (the user contacting support to say they were hacked, and regain control of the account) Examples: Steam
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You were asking for a loan of $200 without giving any collateral. What would have happened if you decide to just run away with the money? The lender would lose everything. By giving him a collateral worth more than the $200, he can recompose his losses if you scam him. |
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Im just trying to help you. You don’t have to pull the passive aggressive card. But great! Everybody is now warned! Thank you for your service, sir. Maybe lock the thread to avoid more “obvious” stuff?  |
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I have a question to ask. I always wonder. When I type in my password and username what can be done with that info. Look at brave browser. I will make a fictional scenario.
Let us say brave browser collects all passwords and for which site they are for and emails it daily to the dev?? How do I know if I type my info into a program it is safe? What if the wallets people dev for crypto is on a timer and one day all wallets are emptied and hell breaks loose. Could this happen? Please say something to calm my nerves.
Officially, you don’t unless you audit the source code (if available) and build the software yourself. Now, you don’t even know if Windows saves your passwords and keystrokes when you use it. Or if your PC manufacturer implemented a chip that opens a backdoor on it, etc, etc... At some point you will have to trust someone. My suggestion: on most cases, don’t lose your head with it. It’s not worth it. Obviously you shouldn’t trust random softwares or websites, but most known softwares can be trusted (in part). Just do your research and see what other (trusted) members say about it. |
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OP, I am wondering what happen to Merit sources when they got ban. You still able to use your smerits or it is disabled for you now?
Banned accounts can’t give merit, so even if they remain as a source (until they get removed), they can’t spend their sMerits. OP has been sig-banned, but he probably got a temp normal ban as well. While he’s on the “banned” status, he can’t merit. After the temp bans expires, I doubt they will remain as a source. But if he does, he’ll be able to spend them again. |
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I’m pretty sure that would be considered “ban evading”; banned users can create ONE appeal thread and only post on that thread. Having a discussion somewhere else isn’t allowed.
Nah, it would not. Another thread generated by community, not by banned user. Forum allow you to create a thread by supporting a person if you think that any person deserve unban or temp ban. If you think that a ban should be ended, make your case in a new topic from a "good for the forum as a whole" perspective.
If the banned user (OP) posts in the other thread. That’s what I meant. Obviously it wouldn’t be ban evasion if someone else created an appeal for you. lol |
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Só o tempo dirá (os próximos dias pra ser exato). Diz-se por ai que quarta já vai dar pra sacar de novo (agora com limite de de 1 BTC / dia). No artigo: Limite de saque será de R$ 10 mil e 1 Bitcoin por dia, a partir de quarta-feira, dia 29 por prazo indeterminado; Nas últimas semanas me contaram umas 4 histórias parecidas. "Vamos estar resolvendo o seu problema em breve Sr.". Nunca me senti tão lesado e tão cético em relação a algum acontecimento. Duvido que eles me paguem. A propósito, o título "NEGOCIECOINS FALINDO?" é bem adequado nesse momento. Bom, sem querer defender eles, mas essa foi a primeira vez que eles revelaram o motivo da “insolvência”, então ou é pra valer ou eles vão correr com o resto do dinheiro. |
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Só o tempo dirá (os próximos dias pra ser exato). Diz-se por ai que quarta já vai dar pra sacar de novo (agora com limite de de 1 BTC / dia). No artigo: Limite de saque será de R$ 10 mil e 1 Bitcoin por dia, a partir de quarta-feira, dia 29 por prazo indeterminado; |
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Most of the ban users recently they are banned because of plagiarism so I think this is the reason why you permanently banned. Why don't you just continue this unban appeal here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5143666.0 created by your friend? Someone already posted the reason why you've been banned. I’m pretty sure that would be considered “ban evading”; banned users can create ONE appeal thread and only post on that thread. Having a discussion somewhere else isn’t allowed. He can read that thread, and continue as he wish here (on his own thread). |
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Eu fiquei bem tentado em vender uns BTC lá pra aproveitar a alta diferença de preço em relação a outras exchanges. Sorte que deixei essa ideia de lado (mesmo com um povo do Bitcoin Brasil meio que “atestando” por eles).
Eu sempre associei o Bitcoin Banco com algo suspeito, que não inspira confiança (pirâmide, esquemas fraudulentos, etc...). Parece que eu não estava totalmente equivocado.
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but what other service are you talking about here? is there an alternative payment provider already existing on those mentioned countries?
sometimes you really have no choice using the BitPay service.
There are many. E.g my fav one: https://btcpayserver.org/ - as said above (open source, free, you own the keys, no one can freeze your money, block you or ban countries, you can use the lightning network, etc..., and it WORKS EVERYWHERE regardless of your country). We can all do our part to show these services that we prefer other (better) alternatives. |
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They did not respond to my email, now do you think it's a scam?
So, you sent them what they requested and they still did nothing? Or you didn’t because you don’t trust them with your data? If it’s the first, then it looks like it could be a scam. But unfortunately I don’t know what we can do to help you. It could even be a excuse to get your coins in case you don’t want to comply with their requests (which is pretty shady). Do you know if they have an account here? |
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Nice job! But looks like it requires users need computer/server which run 24/7 if you need continuous notification, right?
I wonder if the script would run on QPython3/Pydroid 3 out-of-the-box?
I’m not sure if it would work, but you can try “hosting” your python script with PythonAnywhere[1]. It’s free and you can make the script work without having your PC on all day. [1] https://www.pythonanywhere.com/ |
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Thank you! But why to have ledger live AND electrum wallet?!
It’s up for you to decide which client/interface you want to use to manage your wallet. Some people like Ledger Live while others prefer Electrum. You don’t have to use both. Just try out both and see which suits you better. |
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Well, people shouldn’t be using online websites nor remain connected to the internet when generating a paper wallet. The point of it is that you have to download a safe and open source generator and run it in an airgapped machine. When you do that in a .org website, you can’t actually be sure about what is happening behind the scenes.
Thanks for the warning tho. I remember I’ve used this paper wallet generator multiple times in the past years. Thankfully, I only hold my coins on a hardware wallet now.
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Great Job! I actually prefer Pushbullet over Telegram (which most people use).
Could you add an option to scrape posts in the “recent” page? That would allow to search for keywords direclty on posts instead of just thread titles.
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Do you know what percentage of the market BestMixer had? I don't, but I believe it was not a major player in the mixing market.
The article says that they were among the top 3 mixers. So, pretty good volume and (probably) porcentage (75 BTC in fees/month). Bestmixer.io is one of the three largest mixing services for cryptocurrencies and offered services for mixing the cryptocurrencies bitcoins, bitcoin cash and litecoins. The service started in May 2018 and achieved a turnover of at least $200 million (approx. 25,000 bitcoins) in a year’s time and guaranteed that the customers would remain anonymous. Source: FIOD.nl article |
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Parece mais um site genérico e duvidoso de “opções binárias”. Nem SSL o site tem.  No thanks. |
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what did bestmixer's FAQ actually say? did it literally say "use this service to launder your money"?
The quote is huge so I’ll only link the post here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5099654.msg49639206#msg49639206It’s funny because they explicitly said in their FAQ that they didn’t allow money coming from drugs and other illegal methods, which is exactly why they got shutdown. They were probably only trying to blind themselves from legal issues, but it didn’t work as we can see.  |
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