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10961  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: Ledger - A critical vulnerability on the Bitcoin app has been reported by Myceli on: February 08, 2019, 03:28:05 PM
This one more reason to use Electrum instead of ledger app.
Electrum is far more tested and trusted. Additionally, you have much more control over transactions with Electrum than with ledger app.
10962  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: what is the best device for mining on: February 07, 2019, 05:28:49 PM
Asic devices are the best. They are specific hardware made exclusively for mining, with very high hash rate.
The most common is antminer.
10963  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: Poloniex About to Drop Support for Monero on: February 07, 2019, 05:25:19 PM
Sadly, as monero is becoming illegal in many countries, we will probably see news like that a lot more often .

This maybe an opportunity for bitcoin mixers. However they may be next target.. I hope not.
10964  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Please give some light on XRP on: February 07, 2019, 05:22:35 PM
Xrp has nothing to do with Ponzi scheme.

Xrp coins are mostly Holden by ripple company, so that company can manipulate the price a lot. You probably bought in a bad time, but the fundamentals of ripple are good.

Santander and other big banks are heavily involved and invested in ripple. Ripple will be providing services for banks, reducing swift and other transaction costs. It's no surprise that it is the second coin by marketcap
10965  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why any transaction dont include the final balance of each address? on: February 06, 2019, 10:05:44 PM
Why any transaction dont include the final balance of each address?

That would be much better to get the balance of any address, just need to find last move in blockchain and dont need to recalculate entire blockchain.

The reason behind the need to every full node have a copy of the whole Blockchain , including every spent input and output is that it's a system where you don't need to trust anyone. The lack of trust is one of the things that make this cryptography system so secure.
10966  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Lightning on: February 06, 2019, 09:29:15 PM
I think he is talking about a bitcoin fork. It is a low value fork, and is not listed in any reliable exchange, that's why it's not listed in CMC.

Coinmarketcap only recognize some exchanges, not all of them. Once it is listed in those exchanges it will be showing in cmc.
10967  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: What % volume is just traders? on: February 06, 2019, 06:47:15 PM
So being # 1 by volume is great thing for a currency. It means the currency is well circulated within the crypto ecosystem.

Not exactly. Trading volume may be a good indicator , yes. But it's completely different from transaction volume, which is the true indicator of circulation within the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Trading volume doesn't occur in the Blockchain. It's an off chain data , which occur inside exchanges.

Transactions are done in the Blockchain and they indicate the usage and adoption
10968  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: What's going on [BNB] Binance Coin. +14% up on: February 06, 2019, 06:01:21 PM
BNB coin reflects binance exchange grown and constant development. They are always adding new features:more stable coins, credit card, Fiat deposits, etc...

They are doing a very good job and it reflects in token price, as the token is used to pay fees inside the growing exchange.
10969  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Who blocked the opposition leaders from standing in the Venezuelan election. on: February 06, 2019, 05:04:16 PM
Understand both the US and China desperately want influence and control in Venezuela. One or other of the nations here are going to end up having a significant amount of influence there, that is pretty much a given at this point considering the state of affairs

His battle for influence ended long ago, when chaves took over. Then, almost 20 years ago until now, they are under influence of Russia and China. Brazil was in that situation as well. We formed a block with Cuba and Bolivia and Argentina and a few others, supporting each other (Brazil giving more money than receiving). Our country was not destroyed as planned because our institutions are more resilient to control (not very resilient, but better than Venezuela's). They couldn't find a legal way to remove the government , only now (very late, and now we see lots of people saying he is a CIA agent , terrible)

For now, Venezuela is aligned with this Russia China block, against population will.

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I think it is most important that the people there understand this, and make a choice for now. Then as things develop just remember to do what you need to do, but always try to ride your own horse if you have a choice.




People made their choice to get rid of Maduro ajd chaves long ago. But they made lots of turn around to stay in power: fake elections, repressing protests (lots of deaths) etc .

They are now under China influence, however the economy collapse so amazingly, more than Soviet Union did. Now it's time for them to leave. But they stay in power because military are receiving lots and lots of money to support the totalitarian regime. This is the worst that can happen to a country already destroyed economically

Edit: of course USA will become more influence in he region when the crazy dictator is removed. However saying that the dictator may not leave because it's a USA coup is his propaganda. It's a false idea.
10970  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: What is Bitcoin Mixer? on: February 06, 2019, 03:19:24 PM
Alternatively, just use a privacy coin and skip all the work and fees associated with using bitcoin mixers.  XMR is one of the best options considering the high trading volume and fairly stable price.

That's a turn around, and not necessarily enough

Sometimes you want to buy bitcoin. More adoption, there are more ATMs and more exchanges that accept it. And you want to clear your balance from your name, so a bitcoin mixer will do the job.

Xmr is also becoming illegal in some countries. Mixers aren't illegal yet, as far as I know.
10971  Economy / Economics / Re: Quadriga CEO Death - Real or fractional banking? on: February 06, 2019, 02:06:44 PM
They will surely investigate if $250 million were involved. This should also be a wakeup call to other exchanges to have backup measure for instances like this. When I started working, we had a big safe in our offices and we had two people working on different shifts with keys to that safe.


Sadly, this shows how much regulations are important, and this ecosystem desperately need it.

An exchange can't simple steal or lose 200 millions dollars because a CEO died. There must be security measures such as the ones you saw in your job. There will be some obligations regarding how privatekeys of someone else's money will be kept. It's somehow sad to think that those measures are necessary.
10972  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Who blocked the opposition leaders from standing in the Venezuelan election. on: February 06, 2019, 01:02:14 PM


Finally someone who reads the news.

This idea of CIA and USA preparing a coup or whatever is a leftist propaganda. I hear that bullshit all the time since I was a kid.
Since my history classes in school I hear from teachers that we need to have public companies , because if we embrace capitalism the  imperialists Americans will take over our country.

So we cannot change our country and our socialists/wellfare policies, because imperialists will take over our country

 That's so childish and naive that I can't believe how can people believe that.

Think, who will winif Maduro stays there? Who will win if all Latin America economy is controlled by socialists?

Latin America socialists fear open market, because they will fall. They wouldn't be able to steal billions of dollars from the people in an open market  country, without public companies, licitations, bureaucratic rules everywhere, etc.. total economic control.
10973  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Who blocked the opposition leaders from standing in the Venezuelan election. on: February 05, 2019, 09:25:23 PM
Everybody seems to blame it on Maduro, but I keep reading that in fact it was the US, and the UK Intelligence Initiative.

This is delusional
Research about Leopoldo Lopes, for example.

In 2014 he was leading manifestations against Maduro. Maduro said Leopoldo lopes was going to make a coup. So Leopoldo lopes decided to go to authorities by his own and face justice .

He was arrested, and is still under house arrest now. He spend years in jail, faced many human rights violations. He was one of the favorites to become president in a possible election

If Maduro did that once, he can do again.
10974  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Has anyone tried to do a wire from crytp exchange to n26, TransferWise or bunq? on: February 05, 2019, 09:16:57 PM
I have already done a few SEPA from n26 to exchanges, but never to n26.
Never had any problem. N26 is a very good service in my experience
10975  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: bitsler profit on: February 05, 2019, 07:34:33 PM
What a crazy post. Didn't understand anything either, only that you are winning. Congrats.
If you made money, take out some profits and gamble with the rest . The more you win, the easier it is to lose it all.
10976  Other / Meta / Re: [RELEASED] @mention notification bot - now with Telegram on: February 05, 2019, 05:55:08 PM
I noticed that if someone quote a post that I was quoted I am not notified.

Can this be configured somehow in settings? I would like to be notified of such posts.
10977  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Bitcoin block creation !!?? on: February 05, 2019, 01:46:54 PM
Why algo for next Block ??
And Can we find a block 2 months ago

You can track any block since Genesis block (2009) using any block explorer, such as blockchain.info
Just Go browsing through blocks and look at timestamp to see the date.
10978  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: I lost 30,000 on superbowl. on: February 05, 2019, 01:33:57 PM
I believe 30.000 is a lot to lose for anyone. The problem with gambling is that we get too greedy, and want to make lots of money. Don't forget that gambling is a fun money... 30 k is not reasonable amount for fun money ... Unless you are in a casino with hokers
I think even in a casino its too much
10979  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Should the UK return the Venezuelan gold? on: February 05, 2019, 12:50:21 PM
You swap hard-totalitarianism for soft-totalitarianism. Capitalism is what you will not get.

Maybe.
But it's possible to get a real capitalist economy in a few decades. At least we can try .

 Latin America socialist policies do not let people develop their talents, create their small companies, etc. I am not talking about a perfect country, just a Better life for people who want to work and study.

The dynamics you just described is what we have in Brazil now. However, we are shifting now to something different.

 It's a long term process, changing our institutions and the way we think. Now, everyone needs the government to make money: you need to work for the government, or sell your good to the government, or makes services to he government to make money . The idea is to reduce the government so people can live their lives away from it. It's possible for us, we are not doomed forever to live this way.

And of USA is somehow helping our neighbors I'm the process, that's amazing. I don't get why people think it's ok to have our economy destroyed by socialists allied to Cuba China and Russia, but it's bad to rebuild the economy with USA money. Europe did that after the war. Why can't we?
10980  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Should the UK return the Venezuelan gold? on: February 05, 2019, 11:07:44 AM
It's so crazy to see people from rich capitalist countries defending Maduro (or trying to compare his crimes to supposed US interference).

Maduro and chaves stole not the country, but the people.

This is what happened therein the last decade:

Engineers and technicians from PDVSA (Their oil company) were most of them fired and had their pension funds deleted. They were all replaced by socialist party members. Imagine, oil engineers replaced by illiterate members of the party.

Those engineers flee away from the country, most wen to Brazil and Colombia and USA. They were the lucky ones.

The ones who stayed now live with a wage of about 100 USD per month in Venezuela.

Marketplaces are all empty. Food shortage, basic hygiene products shortage.
All big companies left the country.

Welcome to the Latin America socialist dream.


Maduro chose who can or cannot participate in elections. Chaves banned all guns in the country, only his government officials are allowed to have guns (how convenient isn't it?)

Criminality there is one of the highest in the world. The homicide rate is higher than in Syria during civil war.

There is no food. People are eating dogs in the streets

All that happened in front of Obama eyes. USA did nothing. Obama is a fuking coward.
Brazil did nothing. Even worse. Our corrupted government supported maduro.. We were also having problems, as we had to deal with our socialists (Lula and Dilma) who wanted to make the same to us.

Now Brazil and USA are finally doing something. Embargos are the least we can do
It's our moral obligation.

Maduro needs to be removed. That's the only thing that matters for people who live there.
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