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11341  Economy / Gambling / Re: ★★★ TRUE FLIP 🐬 DICE, SCRATCH, SLOTS, LOTTERY 🎄🎄🎄 X-MAS GIFTS!!! 🎄🎄🎄 on: December 22, 2018, 10:04:12 PM
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11342  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: where can i buy bitcoin with credit card on: December 22, 2018, 08:56:09 PM
Coinbadse, coinmama and Cex.io allow you to buy using credit cards. Coinbase is one of the biggest exchanges in the world

The fee to use credit card is higher, ahout3-5%....
If it is the only way for you, go ahead, but I would suggest that you try another payment method.
11343  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: I Need A Project That Can Take All My $1 - $5 Shitcoins And Offer BTC on: December 22, 2018, 07:39:12 PM
If any of them is traded on binance you can just send them there. Then you can click "convert to BNB", within your binance account, and they will all be converted to BNB.

This is a very convenient way to sell your dust for some real coin. Then you can convert your BNB for BTC or eth xrp whatever
11344  Other / Ivory Tower / Re: Bitcoin fractional banking? on: December 22, 2018, 06:29:17 PM
So it seems there's nothing that can prevent them to use the same mechanism with your BTC funds, just like it was fiat or anything...



What can prevent is that there is no incentive to keep money in exchanges or banks, unless they give you some interest rate. This way you would be lending BTC to the bank,so they can do whatever they want with the BTC you deposited in their address.

But if you don't want their interest rate and you know how to keep your privatekeys (which is very simple) there is no reason to deposit BTC in exchanges/banks addresses

It is convenient to keep cash or any Fiat in the bank. How would you store 10thousand dollars by yourself? Under your bed? You need the banks for that.

But it's easy to keep 10k usdin btc by yourself, and you don't need banks.
11345  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: You are buying that bitcointalk account at your own risk on: December 21, 2018, 11:37:27 PM
Not all account sellers are criminal (i'm not on their side), yes you are right about buying bitcointalk account is disadvantage to the buyers and it may result in scam or fraud and there are sellers that sell bitcointalk account for the same reason as the buyers to earn bitcoin through selling of accounts for btc.

Well they are not criminals, but that's an attitude against the forum rules, and both the seller and the buyer are untrustworthy. If anyone discovers you are using a bought account, it will be tagged and become basically useless.

Also, those accounts for sale are mostly hacked accounts, so yeah, some criminal activity may be involved.

Or those accounts may be fr a user who made many accounts just to spam the forum, trying to get some money from it without contributing to anything...
11346  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Blockchain.com Verify Identity Problem on: December 21, 2018, 11:30:47 PM
Can you create a new account, verify it, and receive the 25 USD airdrop?

Or do you need an old account? I would not like to verify my old account, but a new one it would be ok...
11347  Other / Ivory Tower / Re: Bitcoin gifts for christmas? on: December 21, 2018, 06:11:20 PM
Has anyone thought of gifting close friends and relatives with Bitcoin? I'm wondering if anyone else has done it before before I try.

I feel it might be a good idea to do it to try to get them to understand how the system works. I know a few of my friends are interested in cryptocurrency and I also haven't bought anything this year so it seems like a good excuse Wink.

I thought about it. It would be interesting to force the person who receives the gift to "claim" the bitcoin.

I thought about giving a piece of paper with 12 words written on it. And a few instructions about how to download Electrum mobile/desktop and claiming the bitcoin.
11348  Economy / Speculation / Re: I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop what you are doing on: December 21, 2018, 03:47:28 PM
What is interesting about the text is not the debate about if it is fictional or not. Of course it is a fictional text, the guy didn't travel in time.

What is interesting is the whole concept of what he idealized. Bitcoin going to millions, Reddit tips becoming more money than you ever dreamed of, the citadel for Bitcoin riches, etc.

It is an extrapolation of the reality we all experienced already: 20million dollars pizza is real ,for example
11349  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Ethereum Dapps still barely used. on: December 21, 2018, 01:27:14 PM
I was making some research about Ethereum, trying to find some reason for the low price.

Ethereum Dapps are certainly one of the most important  and inovative aspects of the network.

Decentralized Applications are basically applications that cannot be stopped, as they run in a decentralized network. The problem is that it's quite expensive to use them because you need to pay gas for each interaction.

I found this website and I discovered that the most used Dapps in the Ethereum network are 0x and MarketDao. I don't know those projects very well, but their number of users in the last 24h was very low, 1000 users.

For such a great plataform like Ethereum and all the money they have (marketcap of billions ) , I think this number of users is very low. Dapps are not a thing yet.

Eos on the other hand has one Dapps with more than 15.000 users,. Endless dice. I think it's very strange to see a new plataform such as eos with more users than Ethereum... Maybe it's just temporary
11350  Economy / Economics / Re: CNBC: The US economy suddenly looks like it's unstoppable on: December 21, 2018, 10:38:32 AM
Seems like things are going well. Even the 3% economic/GDP growth near the bottom end of estimates for the latter half of the year would be massive. The higher estimates range around 5% economic/GDP growth which is ridiculously higher than the growth we've witnessed over the past 10-20 years. If the US economy is doing well, I hope people will buy bitcoin or invest in crypto currencies. That would be great.

Even though there is a GDP grow, SP500 index had no gains this year. On the other hand bitcoin is recovering from a bad year and bottom is near or behind us now.

This situation may lead more people to invest in bitcoin as well, as sp500 looks already over priced, as gains from recent years were so big
11351  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: This Brazilian Bank Is Using Ethereum to Issue a Stablecoin on: December 20, 2018, 06:54:14 PM
First of all, many stable coins work on ETH network, USDT and GUSD are part of that list.

Hey, just a small correction. USDT is not an erc20 toekn,  it is a coloured coin and it runs in the BITCOIN network.
It runs on Omni layer.



About the topic, bndes is a public bank that is planning to release this stable coin. It is different from Venezuela approach, and I believe that if it succeeded it will be good for the ecosystem.
11352  Local / Português (Portuguese) / Re: REVOLTADO!! Levei UnTrust de um moderador do BTC Talk na sessão gringa on: December 20, 2018, 06:24:06 PM
Eu vi o caso do HabBear, que foi semelhante. Ele tomou um trust negativo (não sei o motivo) e outro usuário (suchmoon) deu um trust positivo pra ele para zerar. No final deu tudo certo.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=662570

Eu abriria um tópico na aba REPUTATION e tentaria um Rename no nome.

11353  Other / Meta / Re: 🌎 Bitcointalk international 🌎 on: December 20, 2018, 04:22:11 PM
I already brought the traffic argument in past, but no response...
As I said just before you, this traffic data from similarweb is not reliable. It doesn't makes sense.

Is the Ukraine thread highly active? I believe this is the most important indicator here to create a new board. First you need a high active thread, then many active threads... Then your board. Usually boards are language related z and sub boards for the country/region
11354  Local / Português (Portuguese) / Re: Bitcoin no Pendrive - Bitcoin USB Device Wallet on: December 20, 2018, 01:07:05 PM
add=tem que ver se esse método é realmente seguro mesmo, gostei muito da ideia e espero que seja realmente segura, que os experts testem esse método para ver se encontrem algum exploit, mas torço muito para ser realmente seguro ao ponto (ou até mais) do que as hardware wallets.

Cara o problema de métodos assim é que pra ser tão seguro quanto uma hardware wallet voce precisa de um computador airgapped (offline).

Existem várias formas de fazer, mas a basicamente é um computador recém formataod que nunca entrou na internet e nunca mais irá (sem placa de rede). Daí toda a manipulação da privatekeys se daria nesse ambiente 100% offline, sendo assim impossível de hackear.

O problema é que usuários comuns não conseguiriam montar esse computador offline com facilidade.

Então surgem as hardwallets, que são baratas e disponibilizam um ambiente 100% offline para manipulação de chaves privadas.
E que precisa de zero conhecimento por parte do usuário
11355  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Proposal of a "stable" coin mechanism with no oracle or peg on: December 19, 2018, 10:06:20 PM
'Adjust' is a two sided coin (pun unintended). You cannot reduce supply under this model, only increase it. Burning transaction fees is not enough control.

Yes, you can. What makes you think reducing the reward per block and transaction fees are not enough? Blocks can have very large and variable sizes so transaction throughput will be much bigger.

He is basically saying that you cannot burn circulating supply. Unless it is a full centralized coin, and you can delete coins from other people's wallet.

By what you are saying, if the price goes from 1.00 to .90, you would need to "delete" circulating supply to control the supply. Burning from fees may not be enough.

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Yes, the price will be determined by supply and demand. If the price goes up more people will want to mine it and the hash-rate will go up. If the price goes down less people will want to mine it and the hash-rate will go down. Hash-rate is an indicator of price. That's what I meant by "estimate". Through the hash-rate you can estimate price variations without an oracle.

The problem is that your coin have no value. Why would people buy? Only to sell in a higher price. It has no real value.
It is not backed by a company with USD reserves, like tether. It is also not a share of a company, which pays dividends.

It is pure speculative, and it value is zero, as there is zero demand for it. Maybe at launch with market you may get some people to pay money for it (just trying to sell at a higher price).

If selling for a higher price ia not a possibility (if you can increase supply when price goes up), them only selling at a lower price is possible (if the demand goes down you can't do anything). So there is no reason at all to buy it, because you will , in best scenario, keep your investment with zero interest rates and a higher risk than tether/usdc etc.


I may be totally wrong, as I am not an economist, just using my basic economics/finance knowledge


Edit:
Why is Ether valuable? Because it is the fuel of the Ethereum network, which is the plataform where many Dapps (will possibly) run in the future, based on smartcontracts etc... Used by big companies like shell, bp, Microsoft....
Why is bitcoin valuable? Because it is a widespread internet money, accepted in most countries of the world.
Why is teher valuable? Because one tether is (supposed) to be backed by one USD dollar, and tether co will pay you for each tether you can get to them.
11356  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: December 19, 2018, 09:45:58 PM
Gerald.

Gerald of Rivia?
11357  Other / Meta / Re: [Proposal] Badges. Badges everywhere on: December 19, 2018, 09:40:07 PM
I think earned merit badges would be nice.

After all earned merit should have some kind of difference between Airdrop merit. There are hundreds of users who never earned not even 5 merit over the year and received 1000 airdrop merited.

High activity badged would be cool too. Like 1800 or 2000 activity. Few users have so much activity
11358  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Let's talk about Privacy on: December 19, 2018, 02:59:44 PM
Thank you for mentioning the Brave browser. I'm using this as a content producer as well as for privacy and safety. It includes a Tor + Duckduckgo window as well.

You can support the Fit to Talk project by donating the Basic Attention Token that you receive just for browsing. It's a great way to help sites you like at no cost to you.

In my opinion BAT/brave is one of most promising projects in the cryptocurrency market.

Online publicity is problematic now. Highly centralized on Google/Facebook, and the costs of this publicity is on the internet service provider (a significant amount of the total bandwidth is used by Google/Facebook ads). In Brazil for example you pay to the isp for your bandwidth usage.

Adblocks are not as widespread as they should be, and browsers with native adblocks are an elegant solution.

Bat token solves this 2 problems, blocking centralized ads reducing bandwidth costs.

Unfortunately brave browser is not as good as Firefox, and nobody knows if bat is overpriced or not...
11359  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Must have web browser addons to keep you a step safer from phishing on: December 19, 2018, 11:04:57 AM
I also want to add, if you can, disable "auto complete" or just ignore it and just type the whole URL, if you do not trust browser add-ons.

Bookmark the site you want is a good alternative also. It's safer and more comfortable for the user, as people are lazy to type (I am at least)
11360  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How to improve myself? on: December 19, 2018, 08:42:48 AM
Can anybody help me by suggesting, how i can improve myself in this forum.How i can gather knowledge?How i can good post?

You can begin by reading mastering bitcoin, by Andreas Antonopoulos
https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/README.md

You will learn a lot and will have more knowledge than 99% of the forum. Then you just talk about what you learned . You will help newbies and more knowledged members will help you as well, and in a few months years you will learn a lot.
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