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1121  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: CoinReport Exclusive: A Conversation with Ronny Boesing, founder of CCEDK on: December 05, 2015, 04:08:38 AM
Nice, whats the secret to getting media attention for a unique bitcoin service? Do you pay for these, send out a press release on a listserv, or did they contact you? Inquiring minds want to know.
1122  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Fighting the Price Divergence. What is the true price of bitcoin? on: December 03, 2015, 09:41:16 PM
Don't you think the volatile nature of bitcoin has something to do with the big gaps between exchanges?

Sure volatility plays a large part, but its really the time and cost of wiring money that prevents people from arbing. The trick is to make arb trades cheaper and faster, so that volatility plays a smaller part in the equation.

If it takes 5 days to complete a trade then the odds of bitcoin price moving substantially are high, if it takes a few minutes than the risk is less and more people would be willing to do it at a given level of price difference.

If say, the spread is 2% and the 7day volatility price range 10% it would be very risky to make a trade, because the price might change by the time you make the trade.

But if the spread is 2% and you can complete the leg in 30minutes, where the expected volatility for that time period is 1%. It would be substantially less risky to make that trade.

The inter-exchange spread upper bound is equilibrium point where the risk of making an arbitrage trade is equal potential profit of an arbitrage trade. The easier it is to make an arbitrage trade the lower the maximum spread.
1123  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Fighting the Price Divergence. What is the true price of bitcoin? on: December 03, 2015, 08:11:27 PM
I don't think Nubit will change anything.

Because it is not important if the price of an altcoin is 1$ or x$.
You can use any altcoin to move fiat from one exchange to another. The important thing is the spread at both exchanges in the altcoin orderbook.

If you were able to buy a litecoin for 3.3$ at one exchange and sell it for 3.3$ at the other,  it would be the same result.

But here is the problem:
The market depth of all altcoins is too low. So even if the spread would not be big, you could only transfer a few hundred $ a day, which is much too less.
Even all Ltc orderbooks I know are too empty.

So you would need great market makers for nubit (or any other altcoin). But to have those great market maker, they need to be able to move fiat fast.
-> it is circular reasoning.

The only way to make really efficient arbitrage, is to move fiat fast and cheap. No new altcoin.


read more about nubit, the function of the custodians is to provide orderbook depth and maintain the peg. https://nubits.com/about/price-stability they are the "great marketmakers" for nubit. and they don't need to move fiat at all.


the custodians can provide enough depth to regulate the price. and maintain a large enough buy and sell walls on multiple exchanged to arb against. that is how nubits have been so successful so far and it is perfectly scalable.
1124  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Official Anoncoin chat thread (including history) on: December 03, 2015, 06:11:03 PM
Well, you may have wallet ready in some weeks time, but I have my ANC on Craptsy and CEX, need to get them out of both, but without wallet?


you can get the anoncoin-qt software on your own computer https://wiki.anoncoin.net/Download or use the ExchangeD.I2P wallet

both work right now, the upcoming 969 code is just a new version of anoncoin.

the exchanged.i2p exchange is awesome =]

and im guessing theres no way it can be DDOS'd since retrieving its ip is a no-go Cheesy


any website can be ddosed darknet or otherwise. but it is harder to DDOS ExchangeD.I2P then say an .onion site because i2prouter has built in request limit features.
1125  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: [INFO] Open Source Trading Platforms on: December 03, 2015, 06:00:43 PM
I, personally, believe there is a higher chance of success for an anonymous exchange in onionland than a p2p approach.. I don't feel like making individual cash transfers directly to my trading partner. I would prefer to trust an anonymous (TOR-) exchange.

The old problem, of course, is how to fund it.
I don't know a good solution to this. However, you could as well have all funds go in and out in bitcoin only. The dollar equivalent only exists in the books. For trading only this should work. Of course it would not work for anonymously cashing in and cashing out. But that is a problem with all existing exchanges too.

Or find some anonymous way to load fiat into it.

Ente

I run an I2P cryptocurrency exchange, we use nubits as an alternative to fiat for trading.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1092682.0
http://dogecoindark.net/i2pexchange/

also working on a localbitcoins type service that will be ready in early 2016
1126  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: What's that HUGE gap between huobi and btc-e price? on: December 03, 2015, 05:47:01 PM
proposal for reducing the gap. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1274789.0
1127  Economy / Trading Discussion / Fighting the Price Divergence. What is the true price of bitcoin? on: December 03, 2015, 05:46:25 PM
Fighting the Price Divergence. What is the true price of bitcoin?

Many traders and bitcoin enthusiasts may have noticed that the price of bitcoin varies on different exchanges. Lately BTC-E has had the lowest price while chinese exchanges like Huobi have had the highest. MT-GOX classically has a 30usd+ price difference over other exchanges while the infamous Willy bot ramped up the price.

So when the price of bitcoin varies significantly as it may, what is the true price of bitcoin? How do I price my goods and services? There are 2 obvious options to this, 1) a localized approach, "i use BTC-E so i shall use their price when factoring the price of bitcoin" or 2) generalized, "i will use a basket average of several exchanges." (such as bitcoinaverage.com)

What is the cause of bitcoin price divergence? In an ideal system various exchanges would be served by efficient arbitrage mechanisms. These mechanism function buy buying on exchanges where the price is low and selling on exchanges where the price is high, making profit from the difference in price. As long as there are spread between exchanges it should be profitable to make arbitrage trades bringing the price closer and closer together, Bitcoin is an electronic currency, transferring it from one exchange to another is trivial, (unless you are Crypsy). However moving fiat around may take 5-7 or more business days and incur large fees. The fees and time required to move fiat from one exchange to another is what prevents the arbitrage trades to reduce inter-exchange spreads,

What is the solution? Reduction of the barriers (fees and time) to arbitrage traders should allow market forces to prevail. The ability to transfer fiat from one exchange to another with the speed and cost of bitcoin, would be adequate.

How can this be done? Nubits is an altcoin tied to the price of the US Dollar by a sophisticated decentralized mechanism. https://nubits.com/about/white-paper For the last year Nubits price has been constantly within 0.5% most of the time within 0.01% range of the USD. If exchanges such as huobi and BTC-E both allowed bitcoin/nubit trading they would allow arbitrage forces to take effect utilizing nubits as a way to move fiat between exchanges instead of the hassle and lengthy waits of wire transfers. This would allow a significant reduction of inter-exchange spread perhaps to less than half of 1 percent.

Who would benefit? Bitcoin accepting merchants from a fair price of bitcoin, by allowing them to price goods and services constantly, Traders would benefit by allowing them to transfer funds between exchanges with less hassle, Exchanges would benefit by increasing trade volume. Seemingly everyone within the bitcoin ecosystem would benefit, except the banks collecting wire transfer fees.

What needs to be done? we need to lobby bitcoin exchanges to allow trading in nubits, and allow withdrawal and deposit capability in their API's (not all exchanges have this).


What is my motivation? I dont own any nubits, or nushares. However I would like to see a move towards a consistent bitcoin price. I operate an altcoin exchange that accepts bitcoin, nubits and other currencies. I cannot take up this activism as I do not have the free time, however I have written this proposal and encourage others to do so.

1128  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Official Anoncoin chat thread (including history) on: December 03, 2015, 01:02:51 AM
Well, you may have wallet ready in some weeks time, but I have my ANC on Craptsy and CEX, need to get them out of both, but without wallet?


you can get the anoncoin-qt software on your own computer https://wiki.anoncoin.net/Download or use the ExchangeD.I2P wallet

both work right now, the upcoming 969 code is just a new version of anoncoin.
1129  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Josh Garza, CEO of GAW Miners, paycoin, charged with securities fraud. on: December 02, 2015, 10:56:50 PM
Cryptsy knew 100% that hashlets were fake long before getting involved. This is not opinion, it is fact. I was informed of this by those is a high position there who, for now, will stay unnamed. This was long before PayCoin was even listed there. My disdain for the shitty people (as people) working there makes this an even sweeter moment because I know exactly what will happen next  Wink

I tried telling you guys this literally two years ago, called this exact outcome, and was called a liar and troll. Maybe next time you will believe when I say something
Go away troll! Garza is going to give us $20 per XPY when he gets out of prison! He's going to hide all of his millions in his gaping *expletive* after he becomes Green Mile's next biggest fanboy. Wink

that's really the beauty of cryptocoins, you can put 20million dollars of bitcoin on a tumbdrive and shove it up your ass. No other monitary system lets you store so much value in one rectum Smiley

course you got to deal with the volatility. i cant imagine many people can handle these massive swings in value, without busting a blood vessel in the lining or something .
1130  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Josh Garza, CEO of GAW Miners, paycoin, charged with securities fraud. on: December 02, 2015, 09:51:52 AM
Isn't Cryptsy highly involved with Paycoin?  Could this be one reason why they're having insolvency problems (allegedly)?

Are they planning an exit and making a run for it?
http://coinfire.io/2015/10/04/federal-investigations-of-cryptsy-underway/
http://www.coinbuzz.com/2015/04/26/cryptocurrency-exchange-cryptsy-now-involved-in-gaw-scandal/
http://cointelegraph.com/news/115384/cryptsy-we-have-never-been-investigated-for-anything

its all speculation this point but it is safe to say cryptsy is balls deep in shit and it seems to only be going south from here.
1131  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Josh Garza, CEO of GAW Miners, paycoin, charged with securities fraud. on: December 02, 2015, 09:40:23 AM
im curious but how does this compare to other public figures that has raised money for their projects like ethereum and bitshares? aren't they in the similar boat with a risk of getting in trouble with the SEC? now i can understand why some coin founders would want to stay anonymous or just disappear after creating the coin.
this lawsuit is about his cloud mining ponzi scheme, they havent even started with paycon indictment (yet).
1132  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Official Anoncoin chat thread (including history) on: December 02, 2015, 09:32:59 AM
The address itself should work, as I tested to withdraw from Vircurex for some time ago

K1773r used to work with the vircurex dev so he could explain better, but from what i heard, the exchange owner sold it to someone else. then it got "hacked" and froze all withdrawals back in 2014.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=135919.0
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/03/23/sound-familiar-bitcoin-exchange-vircurex-freezes-customer-accounts-as-it-battles-insolvency/
http://www.usacryptocoins.com/thecryptocurrencytimes/uncategorized/vircurex-an-exchange-that-stole-2-5-million-from-investors/
http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/23/yet-another-bitcoin-exchange-implodes-vircurex-will-freeze-accounts-tomorrow/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2111000/small-bitcoin-exchange-vircurex-teeters-after-large-withdrawals.html

but i mean, if you want to trade there, by all means...
1133  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Official Anoncoin chat thread (including history) on: December 02, 2015, 09:27:50 AM
One thing with Anoncoin, is that I always fear the withdrawals. Can you guys tell me what could be wrong, since I made this withdrawal from Cryptsy yesterday (just to test that they still are able to send ANC):

Address: AZRaYktZMQdc3V1zN1BQiLARVgJjrHPKHb
Amount: 35.00000000 ANC
Confirmed: Yes
Request date: 2015-12-01 15:01:00
Processed: Yes
TrxID: d93c72885162c1022f95589fc3058f1f6f7b20cfd1ee8e872c7a85f91127878a @ 2015-12-01 15:06:10

But the transaction is not seen on anoncoin blockchain. The address itself should work, as I tested to withdraw from Vircurex for some time ago (Yes, vircurex is valid in this sense. I actually have more faith in vircurex that what I have in Cryptsy).

Since Cryptsy says the transaction is processed, how long should I wait until I can actually see it on the blockchain? Why is there such a damn huge delay for ANC always?


IS CRYPTSY FINALLY BANKRUPT?? - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1272860.0
CRYPTSY stopping withdraw locking accounts without notifying users! Class Action - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1173703.0

You are not the only one with craptsy issues at the moment and they have a long history of fucking up anoncoin withdrawals.



consider using ExchangeD.I2P, we process all our deposits and withdrawals instantly
1134  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Josh Garza, CEO of GAW Miners, paycoin, charged with securities fraud. on: December 02, 2015, 01:54:48 AM
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/sec-charges-josh-garza-with-securities-fraud-alleges-bitcoin-ponzi-scheme/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/291829693/SEC-Complaint
Quote

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT  ___________________________________________ ) SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Case No. ) HOMERO JOSHUA GARZA, ) GAW MINERS, LLC, and ) ZENMINER, LLC (d/b/a ZEN CLOUD), ) JURY TRIAL DEMANDED ) Defendants. )  ___________________________________________ )
COMPLAINT
 Plaintiff United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“the Commission”) alleges the following against Defendants Homero Joshua Garza (“Garza”), GAW Miners, LLC (“GAW Miners”), and ZenMiner, LLC (d/b/a ZenCloud) (“ZenMiner”), and hereby demands a jury trial:
SUMMARY OF THE ACTION
 1.
 
Defendants used the lure of quick riches from a twenty-first century payment system known as virtual currency to defraud investors. Though cloaked in technological sophistication and jargon, defendants’ fraud was simple at its core – defendants sold what they did not own, and misrepresented the nature of what they were selling. 2.
 
From approximately August 2014 through December 2014, defendants sold – to over 10,000 investors – investment contracts representing shares in the profits they claimed would be generated from using their purported computing power to “mine” for virtual currency. “Mining” for virtual currency means applying computer power to try to solve complex equations that verify a group of transactions in that virtual currency. The first computer (or collection of
Case 3:15-cv-01760 Document 1 Filed 12/01/15 Page 1 of 23
 
 2 computers) to solve such an equation is awarded new units of that virtual currency. This process is known as “mining,” and the computer equipment used in this process, and the humans who own it, are known as “miners.” 3.
 
Defendants sold shares in the returns from their purported mining operations, via investment contracts that they named “Hashlets.” Hashlet contracts entitled their purchasers to a share of the profits from defendants’ purported “hashing power,” or the computing power (measured in megahash per second), that defendants purportedly devoted to virtual currency mining. In reality, defendants sold far more Hashlets worth of computing power than they actually had in their computing centers. There was no computer equipment to back up the vast majority of Hashlets that defendants sold. 4.
 
Defendants earned about $19 million in revenue from their sales of Hashlets. 5.
 
Defendants Garza and GAW Miners made many false and misleading statements about GAW Miners’ virtual currency mining operations to potential and actual investors. For example, they misrepresented: a.
 
that all of the Hashlets of computing power purchased by investors would be  pooled together to engage in virtual currency mining, and that investors’ returns, or “payouts,” would be calculated based on the success of those collective virtual currency mining operations;  b.
 
that buying a Hashlet would allow investors to mine virtual currency without the expense and expertise that would be required to purchase and maintain their own virtual currency mining equipment; c.
 
the profitability and life-span of Hashlets; d.
 
the extent of GAW Miners’ mining activities; and how the payouts for Hashlets were derived. Garza and GAW Miners knew that each of these statements was false at the time it was made. 6.
 
Defendants’ Hashlet sales had many of the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme. Because defendants sold far more computing power than they owned and dedicated to virtual currency mining, they owed investors a daily return that was larger than any actual return they were making on their limited mining operations. Instead, investors were simply paid back gradually over time, as “returns,” the money that they, and others, had invested. As a result, some investors’ funds were used to make payments to other investors. Most Hashlet investors never recovered the full amount of their investments, and few made a profit. 7.
 
Through the activities alleged in this Complaint, defendants have engaged in fraud in connection with the purchase or sale of securities, in violation of Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”) and various subparts of Rule 10b-5 thereunder; and fraud in the offer or sale of securities, in violation of various subparts of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 (“Securities Act”). Defendants have also engaged in the offer and sale of unregistered securities, in violation of Sections 5(a) and 5(c) of the Securities Act. 8.
 
Based on these violations, the Commission seeks: a.
 
the entry of a permanent injunction prohibiting defendants from further violations of the relevant provisions of the federal securities laws;  b.
 
disgorgement of defendants’ ill-gotten gains, plus pre-judgment interest; and c.
 
the imposition of civil penalties due to the egregious nature of defendants’ violations...


can't say you didn't see it coming.
1135  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Official Anoncoin chat thread (including history) on: December 01, 2015, 06:59:05 PM
pure guy who dumped 20k today, he will never be able to buy back cheaper
sucks to be that guy, we are working out the last kink in the 969 code, should be ready for a public testnet in the next few weeks
1136  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: ExchangeD.I2P Darknet CryptoCurrency Exchange on: November 25, 2015, 03:54:25 AM
made some design improvements hope you like it.
1137  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Official Anoncoin chat thread (including history) on: November 23, 2015, 05:27:13 PM
hi guys, my pool had a bunch of blocks found the other day when a few miners jumped on, however they are sitting in pending.. how many confirms do mined blocks need?

when i run a getinfo, i dont see immature coins, just a balance of 0.



did you try listransactions?
1138  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: Official Anoncoin chat thread (including history) on: November 23, 2015, 04:52:45 AM
Anoncoin too late - no innovation coin destiny is unclear

-samsunk

That is the best, while other coins are to big for insane raises, ANC still have potencial to pay my mortage one day.
Can Darkcoin go 20x up now?

Bitcoin is at a few billion usd and lots of people think we will break all time highs and go up another 100x... eventually.
Anoncoin will finish the zerocoin implementation... eventually.

We are making progress though. I am impressed by the teams dedication. ATM running a 969 testnet rooting out the last few bugs.
1139  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: ExchangeD.I2P Darknet CryptoCurrency Exchange on: November 20, 2015, 04:00:34 PM
we are now on the i2prouter homepage \o/
1140  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: ExchangeD.I2P Darknet CryptoCurrency Exchange on: November 18, 2015, 07:43:20 PM
trade api is done, check out our sample python bots scripts

Trading Bot Xample I2P link
or over clearnet (kills kittens)
or tor


note that this api can securely work without I2P using clearnet inproxies ONLY with our end 2 end encrypted API. we dont run these an inproxies but as long you use our keys, which are in the default settings nobody can steal your moneyz. Except that your not anonymous. Every clearnet connection kills a kitten so we dont recommend it

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