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Nice! Makes a change to win something!! Thank you  Lutpin has bestowed some luck upon you mister Zepher. Thanks Lutpin for paying and thanks Lauda for allowing me to win a coin that I've had laying around for months now.  The shipping cost is definitely going to be high for this transaction.
The goods should be shipped the coming Monday. I'll lock the thread now as we have finished with the raffle. |
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Correct, it's the S5 that still had in on screen.
They did change that, however I don't find fingerprint safe especially not singular ones. Maybe if there was a specific combination of fingerprints used, it could result in a decent password (e.g. a specific order of several fingers only works). This is something I'm really curious about... What about retina/iris, would it increase the set of possible keys?
It would likely not do that. The security of bitcoin comes from its enormous address space, when you reduce this space you reduce the security. This is why human generated brainwallets are stupid and are often sweeped in seconds.
One could argue that this isn't the only factor that gives it security. You're forgetting proof-of-work, While not on-topic, your statement does seem a bit incorrect to me. I do agree with your statement regarding the brainwallet. I really don't see the need for someone to use one, especially not one based on fingerprints/IRIS. An offline wallet with encryption is always the better alternative. How hard could it be to memorize a semi-complex string of ~20 characters? If smart glasses like Google glass will be mainstream in some years, everyone will be able to easily get an iris scan. However a scan of three or more fingers of yours is rather impossible. Just my opinion.
All of your fingerprints are pretty much everywhere, especially in the place where you live. That's not a good argument. |
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That's not a valid example. Those threads are the primary place for discussion regarding a certain altcoin. It fits into those 'exclusions' that I've mentioned earlier (as does the "Wall Observer" thread). There are on-going discussions on how to deal it. Whether there's going to be a separate board for Sport discussions, or all of this will be moved to the off-topic section. I know that the second one is like a talk for the whole season or something. So it can be endless. But the quality as you said becomes degraded as it gets longer.
It quickly turns into endless rephrasing of random predictions just to meet their signature campaign quota. You cannot even say if a post is already said or even copy-pasted from the previous pages.
Copy-pasting content results in a permanent ban. You would not even know if the OP is still active.
In this case, we can assume that OP is still active by looking at their profile. |
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bitcoin-qt would be the best if we talk about an hardware wallet, because that is the most trusted and used among the senior users of bitcoin world, so using that would make you satisfy if you hold your coins in it, just keep your private keys safe.
It is called Bitcoin Core. The move away from Bitcoin-qt happened with the release of Bitcoin Core 0.9.0 which was 2 years ago. Using outdated versions of wallets is not recommended. Your choices, well, suck to be honest. Get your self a hardware wallet like Ledger Nano S or Trezor.
That's not necessary, but definitely a great thing to have. For those not wanting to spend a fortune, the ledger wallet is a nice option (I have one that I've never used though). bitcoin-qt would be the best if we talk about an hardware wallet
You have no idea what you're talking about. Bitcoin-qt is not a hardware wallet. i think coinbase must be added on the list because that wallet is a good online wallet.
No. Coinbase is a horrible option to choose as your wallet. When it comes to online wallets, coins.ph beats Blockchain in terms of value because coins.ph pays for all the transaction fees.
But Blockchain is number 1 in terms of security and reliability.
No. Stop spreading false advice. Online wallets should be avoided if possible. |
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That is not enough. If you apply something like that to only a singular section, it will likely backfire (which one could argue that it did). Maybe we need mods to periodically evaluate reported threads which tend to be spammy, or whose questions have already been answered.
You could go into the Gambling section and Bitcoin Discussion and easily remove 30-40 threads right now (threads that are worthless that is). Threads reported should be looked at for removal. I've actually seen the removing happening more now. I hope it continues.
If enforced in several sections at once, there may be an improvement over time. but we can't deny that signature campaign is a good advertisement disregarding the quality of the content. the most important is the publicity of the site that's why
You could argue that it does more harm than good. i hope the staff must make a rule here for maximum post for a user. to avoid spam.
That doesn't cut spam - just spreads it out among different accounts. So that won't work. Exactly. It possibly even makes it worse. Generally it can be concluded that trying to prevent the sales of accounts or limiting the amount of posts that an user can make (already limited in many campaigns) will not be helpful. This thread should be locked anyways. |
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Providing that work is done on the quality of posts here, I can't say I would see the need for this to come into place.
I don't see the need for it either, but I wouldn't mind going either ways at this point. There aren't that many 'real reasons' for which one would need to engage in account sales. In addition, I feel that it may simply be useless work for Staff members; if the seller has any sense he will sell the account using an anonymous Newbie account. Banning this will do nothing but waste the time of Staff.
Indeed. It may end up being a lot more work than its worth it. In any case, I don't see the forum policy shifting towards that direction. Yes and unfortunately members with positive feedback and specially the old members can do more scams if they want to.
We can't educate everyone on how to avoid scams on time. At least selling some accounts must be restricted or publicly announced. I do not know why this rule does not modified.
I'd say because it is near impossible to enforce properly and may not do that much good either. From experience, I see that those of higher ranks write more constructive posts than lower ranking members.
That's not a general thumb rule. I've seen users of high ranks write posts of very poor quality. |
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Find me one constructive post amongst those pages.
Because most, if not all of them, are one-liners. And when they're not, they're vague and general. Occasionally, they ask a fake question (which is again, vague and general) to future spammers to incite a fake discussion.
Even in cases in which the posts are constructive, they are probably just rephrased version of what someone has mentioned at least once (or several times) somewhere in the thread. Such threads are pure garbage and similar examples can be found in the Bitcoin Discussion section. One of the causes of this are campaigns such as Fortune Jack:Minimum Posts: Minimum 30 Posts per Week. IMPORTANT: 25 Posts out of 30 MUST BE MADE IN GAMBLING TOPIC (Any Thread), otherwise payments will not be made.
Until something is done on a global level (starting with these two sections), the forum is going to keep degrading quality wise. This was discussed several times over the years in addition to there being a fresh thread on the last page. |
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425900 - 0000000000000000007ab68c5a054f3df9c4e0a534a5cd7ff4fd684d864419c4: zepher 425902 - 0000000000000000001cdfff70d8e790a1ab168fd325b0c49fa609068912aa3c: Mitchell
Congratulations to the winners. I will contact you regarding the shipping of the goods. Once again, thank you everyone for participating.  |
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A Bitcoin specific video tutorial on how to confirm the Integrity and Authenticity of binaries and then compile them into a working program for windows would make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
That's a good suggestion. IMO it is generally better to have video walkthroughs than just written guides. This applies to both building Bitcoin from source and verifying the authenticity of the download. It would really be helpful if someone created one (I do wonder why nobody did do that so far?). Bonus points if you can find a perky enthusiastic middle aged girl to do it  You're asking for too much. Dose the Bitcoin community have its own intelligence arm now? Do we have our own spies informants? If so thats really cool.
We do, the BSA - Bitcoin Security Agency. 2 days later, 3 pages later and there is still no clue as to what this threat may be and how to cut this issue from the root up.
I guess the information is there, but it isn't public. I do recall reading on IRC that maxwell talked to cobra. |
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Confirmed and distributed. Thank you for the purchase.
The blocks that will determine the winners are: 425900 & 425902
 Thank you everyone for participating! |
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Due to the user not properly handling the situation and paying, I have freed up the slots again. Only 3 slots left!
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Think about what you're doing here: You're asking random people on the internet where to put your money. Generally, there are no 'safe-bets' and one should stay away from ponzi's, cloud mining (as stated by you) and similar. You're better of reading up on general investing than reading the replies that you will receive here. Most of the suggestions are going to be very useless or backfire on you. You can always play around in the altcoin game if you can afford to lose some coin (you may end up profiting a lot though).
There are also a few threads of similar type, ergo you can look around this section and Begginers & Help. Additionally, you can use the search function.
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But I think it's perfectly fine to hold small amounts of coins on them, just not more than what you could afford to lose.
There's no reason to opt for a web wallet in comparison to SPV wallets like Electrum in these cases either. Better store your btc in offline wallet if you want security, but if you want mobility and a good online wallet,then choose blockchain (xapo has no fees anyway)
It doesn't have to be an offline computer. I comes down to your usage habits and expertise. Generally, even a SPV wallet (e.g. Electrum) on a computer used daily (the same one that would have been used for the web wallet) is safer. I think both bitcoin wallet Xapo and Block chain is good and both are safe, but i prefer pick blockchain, because blockchain is my first bitcoin wallet and i don't have any problem everytime i use blockchain.
This is useless advice. And the other reason is, I just feel more freedom when I'm using Blockchain.info as my online wallet.
Using a web wallet is counter-intuitive to freedom. They're just a better version of Coinbase. So if you are anything serious into Bitcoin, you shouldn't use online wallets at all.
To better formulate it: If you're using Bitcoin for the right reasons and care about its intrinsic values, you're not going to use web wallets. |
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Absolutely. I also like the low fees, and that's only sort of a problem, because PayPal has low or no fees just sending someone else money (I think).
It is all fun and games until Paypal locks you out of your own money (hint: You don't own the money on Paypal) when you're in an emergency. I find absolutely no reason to spend what bitcoin I have.
The reason for spending Bitcoin is the same for which you spend any currency. Unless and until things are priced in bitcoin, and we all get paid in bitcoin, I'm going to have no impetus to spend it.
That process is likely going to take a lot of time (especially pricing in Bitcoin which should require stability). True that Bitcoin has lot of advantages but There is also Disadvantages depending on the situation of the circumstances that cannot be solve by it.
What disadvantages are you talking about and what "problems" did it not solve? |
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Are the staff have the authority to delete this kind of thread? because i know that you can delete some spammy post. but i don't know about deleting
a nonsense thread.
We can either lock, delete or trash the thread. They are handled on a case-by-case basis and appropriate action is taken (although currently it is lacking in certain sections). i think this thread will give a same result as OP describing thread. hahaha. you better luck now because staff already answer your question.
That wouldn't surprise me at all. As a general recommendation when starting threads (until the fight against spam improves), I suggest creating self-moderated threads each time. |
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What thread are we talking about? A thread that is ~500 pages long is not common (unless we're talking about some altcoin ANN threads or special threads like Wall Observer). I mean, the answers are probably already said in the first pages and of course, a single user cannot read back to know if his answer is already said because of too many pages.
Those threads are generally useless and should have been locked long ago (excluding the examples listed above). How about you avoid posts in those in the first place? |
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