Money is a tool.Bitcoin is money.You can use the money to buy poison or nectar.It doesn't makes bitcoin bad if it is put to bad use just like you dont stop using fiat despite a it is also used to buy weapons etc
Yes, it depends on the minds of people not on the type of currency that cases of money laundering occur. There are some people who are mentally good they use safe and legal ways to earn their lives and the people with dull minds use illegal ways to earn according to them they are short cuts.
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Price fluctuation can be the most important reason for people not using bitcoins, as the price of bitcoin is too volatile that makes newbie to think twice before investing the money into it, and other reason is lack of knowledge of bitcoins.
Yes, the newbies with lack of knowledge do not ever invest in there, as they will have a fear that one day the bitcoin will go much down and they will lose their amount. But it is a feature of any currency, the prices goes up and down in any currency, in some on large svale and in some on small scale.
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You can buy more or trade some coins. Another option is that you can also get some advertise. And that is good. I think you must wait now for sell your bitcoins. The value is now quite low and that is not good to sell them.
Nope i see the price is quite high. before who people buy at 1 week ago, at price $380. of course already profit, youn sell right now Now is the time that he sell his coins, as the price reached to a value that if someone want to sell their coins to get benefited they can get benefited. I also sold few of my coins for buying some services.
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I personally think 1MB blocks are enough without the stress tests. Also 2MB blocks will eat up our storage space fast (double as 1MB blocks). Myself have even not downloaded the blockchain due to the big size.
BTW if miners don't mine zero transaction blocks then there's nothing to debate, as 1MB blocks are enough to accommodate the normal transactions!
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I have always received this email when I login to my blockchain.info account (maybe because I have signed up the account from my old ISP IP address and I'm now using my new ISP). However I think this is a good security for my coins (though I have abandoned that wallet). Few days ago, I have received a mail of this kind from an unknown IP address (meaning that the account is being hacked). However the hacker can't take my keys away. So, security is more important than convenience, at least for me.
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No, I just want the price of bitcoin go down for a while, where I could grab some cheap coins, and then let the price skyrocket, either to $500 (somewhat higher than the level of now), or as other says, $1000, so that I can buy a lot of things online with the bitcoins
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Since lets say all of 2015 , what are the major things that I should check and know before going in again?
You should first check about scam accusations on this forum (as well as scam warnings given by other members). I gave up on bitcoin after I started my new job and shifted my interest in other stuff.
Why?! The price of BTC is rising! And the scam things don't related to bitcoin itself!
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It is no need for finding out other accounts of one account, unless he is scamming you.
In that case, you can ask for admins for help, or get assistance from the community (they have helped others found out many alt accounts of scammers).
If not, then you can't found it, due to the fact that IP address could reveal some (but not all) personal information of a person (like which district he live in), and hence related to privacy. Privacy should be kept secret, so we have no ways to find it publicly.
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My first time with bitcoin was not that awesome I was stupid that I got scammed. It was not that big amount of bitcoin I have lost. But getting scam is just my fault. But the nice think was that with bitcoin I have earn quite a lot of cash with just trading it.
Me too... When I first found bitcoin, I was actually finding a way for free bitcoins. The I use faucets and paid-to-click sites for my very first coins. Then I have 'invested' my first 0.001 BTC to a HYIP site (by that time I still don't know how dangerous those sites are, nor joined here in bitcointalk), and then I of course, lost them. So for all first time bitcoiners, don't spend your first coins without doing research on the site that you're spending your bitcoins to.
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I think that Bitcoin will become even more popular. For example in Russia, Bitcoin is illegal yet there're still many Russians using various faucets and making Bitcoin sites in Russian language. However in some unbanned places like Hong Kong, Bitcoin have already been faded out (like BitcoinAverage have had a Hong Kong Dollar price like a year ago, but it have been disappeared now). So banning Bitcoin actually could bring more good than harm to it.
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In fact there're few fake ones (I have opened a thread half and year ago on that: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1086448.0). I've asked it because I've found those fake sites through Google, too. So I prefer using the search box in the forum first, then only if after I can't found the result I want by that, then I use Google.
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I have never seen that message, instead few months ago, when the forum suffered from a DDoS attack (ref: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1010342.0 and more), I can't even access the forum. I can only see a twitter message about the forum is being attacked.
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I've voted 'no, no doubt'. I don't think that guy is satoshi, or even an early adopter of bitcoin. He cannot sign the genesis address (which mined block #0 at 3rd Jan 2009), or even an old address with unspent output from 2009 (but the real satoshi have many of them). Signed message is the proof of identity in the bitcoin world.
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As a bitcoin user from mobile, my list is: 1. Mycelium bitcoin wallet for Android - because I send and receive my bitcoins by that app. Also I could control the miner fee policy (like paying less or more than 10000 satoshi in a tx, unlike the traditional wallet which force you pay 10000 per kB) 2. Blockchain.info - it is the biggest blockchain viewer site in the industry, and I used to use its 'My Wallet' service for spending my bitcoin. My main bitcoin address, 17sy7mX9t8CsnYM39bs4pQ3aVtgeanyu63, also generated on that site. 3. Bitcointalk.org - a place for discussing bitcoin, and many bitcoiners are also here to solve any problems. Also the source of some of my bitcoin income (from sig ) 4. Badbitcoin.org - not many people know that site, but it give scam alerts of potential scam sites, and I've avoided losses from scam sites by watching there before I invest. 5. Bitvisitor - a PTC site, though its pay rate is very low. I include it because my very first satoshis are generated from there.
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Hi
I think you can place your referral link in your signature. Just make sure to place it in a clear and honest way, maybe post a twitter and post your link there?
And remember not to spam your posts with your ref link in signature everywhere, or you will got banned and have all your posts deleted, hence no use in spreading your ref link. No one will use your referral link for free, so at least you're paying. You have to post in services because really, this doesn't belong anywhere else. You also have to PM the recipients with the referral link, as it is not allowed to share referral links on the forum.
I don't think so. People will use a ref link if they first found and entered the site and registered (though it is very rare here) and he/she will not get anything, hence OP wouldn't be paying anything. However, PM-ing ref links to users aren't allowed here either, unless they request you to send it.
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The forum time zone is just UTC (GMT). If you don't changed anything about time settings in the profile page, then the time you're seeing at the top right of any page in this forum is the forum time.
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Did you(Oceriw) by any chance buy the account from aakashwagan? He seems to have a lot of these scam accusations recently.
No his name was klitoris69. But i know where you are getting. I saw another thread here of a scam accusation. Weird story, So i thought it was the same guy, but not in this case. The user was klitoris69 Maybe you know something about his posting habits and can trace him back to his aakash. This was his last PM, since the pass has changed, it's safe to send it here. account: wikenpp password : a88888888
verify all the things you want. then change email password, security question and then please send the bitcoin to : 15eM6kToKj3yMvWWSq1JjrmnU5LwykLHj4
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=658084Have you asked for a signed message from that address stating that the account was sold to you when you bought the account? If not then it is not safe (as the old owners can easily claiming the account back using this way). If yes then post that here, and it could prove that you've really bought the account.
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Potential activity is the activity that an account can potentially have. You can get up to 14 activity every two week period. If you make one post in that two week period, you get 14 potential activity. There is a whole description of how the activity works in a sticky in meta There are a few sites which can calculate the potential activity of an account such as http://bctalkaccountpricer.infoAwesome! Just what I was looking for. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction (and for the link). Appreciate it There's another site: http://visitorsbit.com which usually don't have the queue that the above one have. Also, if you want to, you could PAY 0.001 BTC to http://www.bitcoinrates.in/bitcointalk/getactivity.php and their reports are much more detailed and there's no ad (I am not affiliated with that site, nor getting any benefits from that, I also need to pay 1mBTC to use that).
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I just setup my first btc wallet to help earn to get engagement ring for my amazing woman.
18jeDfkHk4dXbfssL24zB9KYsGhZ8ATVwZ
That above id is where i ask people to send btc to right? for services and or donations?
Yes this 'ID' (called a Bitcoin address) is the string which you give people to send BTC to. Also you should got a private key which is normally hidden in the wallet, and you may want to backup it. However, DO NOT share that private key to anyone ot your bitcoins will be stolen! Also, if available, backup your keys offline, so that your backup won't be hacked. For cloud mining, you may invest some amount gained from faucets to it, but don't invest other money in it. Cloud mining have a ROI period of more than 1 year as of the current difficulty, which will increase over time. Also by block halving, you will probably never get your full investment back. BTW welcome to the bitcoin community!
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