Cool article. Not sure it's necessarily the best thing in the world to continue being associated with tax havens, but hey, why not.
Why not? Tax heavens exist for a while and will exist many more years. Why? Well old, wealthy, gray haired gentlemen needs them to exist. If it's in their interest, trust me they will do everything to keep them up and running. As for the Bitcoin, this is a great news. We need places like this, to emerge, and to give us a recognition and to essentially give us a chance to do business, something that other conventional government are still reluctant to do. That is true. Many wealthy gentlemen and ladies find refuge for their monies there. Why not for their Bitcoins too. That being said, most of these people own web/retail stores who could be accepting Bitcoins. |
|
|
|
Is it a true story? Sending maybe more than 100BTC without saving the private key?  Around 138 coins according to the OP. (check the reddit post) |
|
|
|
I am really curious to know how many coins this buddy lost: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1173700.0It has to be over 100 if he is offering a 20 BTC reward for anyone who can help him recover it. EDIT: There was around 138 coins in the lost wallet/address. |
|
|
|
the next big thing is $1000 price of bitcoins! and i think everybody hope like that..
returning to somethign which was already achieved can not be called the next big thing, 10k would be a better price entitled as "the next big thing" if you want to talk about this True. That milestone has already been reached so we need to set a higher price. Who knows, maybe Willy 2.0 might pop up  |
|
|
|
I think people are waiting for the conferences and a less-heated environment to actually discuss the whole block size thing. According to theymos' post ( here) at Scaling Bitcoin they... "[...] will discuss Bitcoin's max block size issues from an academic and technical point of view. The first conference is focused on requirements: what we want Bitcoin to do, what is necessary for Bitcoin to continue functioning, etc. Specific proposals will not be considered at this conference, but will be considered at the later Hong Kong conference. This event will not be a debate, no decisions will be made, and it will not be political: it'll be entirely technology-focused." Interesting. Waiting to see what will come out of it. |
|
|
|
|
I am almost affraid to ask how much you lost, but I have to.
How many coins did you burn?
Also, if you didn't turn off the macbook after the incident, then look for a clipboard tool (using a different system) and see if you can get something out of it.
Your chances are probably zero but it doesn't hurt trying.
|
|
|
|
I don't see what they are going to be able to do about pump and dumps, the ponzi scam sites being operated in their country could be handled but that's all I see happening.
Many PnD are created from the alt-coin creators themselves. They might be trying to stop them but unless the developers are in South Korea then there is no chance of that happening. Also, I doubt they could stop web ponzis if they use crypto. |
|
|
|
|
Indeed well said.
If only more people would realize that.
I guess to most people it takes a few re-reads of the whitepaper to actually understand it.
|
|
|
|
I have used Bitcoin to buy my miners. Everything went as smooth as silk, as usual when dealing with Bitmain  |
|
|
|
In my opinion the wallet service providers need to be incorporated with major Bitcoin sites. When you join a new game, and you know nothing about Bitcoin... you account creation should be seamlessly created for you, with one of the web wallet servers. People should only learn about Bitcoin when they realize it is real money and they can buy at 150 000 merchants worldwide. People are getting more lazy and wants things easy... They do not want to learn about Bitcoin in 15 hours of research.. Make it simple.  That is true. There are a lot of examples of that with the biggest being Windows over Linux. |
|
|
|
I do not feel sorry for the Ashley Madison customers. How stupid. Regards to the hackers, good job! Once again it have proven how unsafe things are and Bitcoin has shown another time how to be used for criminals.
I'm not sure that you should be feeling sorry for cheaters. Karma has struck them hard. A ransom like this is always taught because there is no guarantee that the hacker will not keep asking for money. This reminds me of CryptoLocker, where they made off with around $3M. I do not feel sorry for such people at all. Practically with the information dump, anyone who is familiar with Bitcoin and privacy could extort money from these people. I've seen some examples online.That is not true.
Credit Card processing does NOT require all customer data being stored on the stores website.
Credit card processing requires some vital customer info for payment processing but that data need be not stored afterwards.
However, I do agree with you that using Bitcoin would have made things a little more private for their customers.
You're partially right. The number of companies that do not store data is minimum. The benefits of Bitcoin should be obvious in cases like these. I disagree. I think there's a special place in hell for the hackers who would try to extort people like that.
So you support cheating? Interesting. That is true. Aparently they store that data for ease of use (so you don't have to re-input it the next time). I find that an accident incident waitting to happen... |
|
|
|
Is fiatleak only counting the buy orders? Or the net change in realtime? Because if it counts only buy orders then it sucks, because the same amount of sell orders happen too (thats why the price doesnt change), so its very misleading. I've posted this before and got told once that that website is not very accurate and was somewhat "rigged". Could someone explain exactly why fiatleak.com is not legitimate? i've tried to find a good explanation for this but I can't find anything convincing, it seems pretty legit to me, its just taking data from the exchanges right? I didnt said that its not legitimate, i said it's misleading. Becuase it only counts BUY orders, but not SELL orders. If one guy buy 1 BTC, but then sells it at other price, then the net change is +0 BTC, but this site shows it as +1. If the BTC buy orders would grow by that much, then the price would move up too. The only reason why BTC price is not growing is because the same amount gets bid up than asked down. I am a little confused. When a person does a BUY order that means another person made a SELL order. Counting both as different would probably be misleading and false, not? .... .... So counting only BUY orders should be correct, right? |
|
|
|
The irony is, this all could have been avoided if Ashley Madison used Bitcoin to accept payments instead of the outdated credit card system which due it's centralized nature requires that ALL data is stored, all credit card movements + information is on their databases. So I hope they learned the lesson and next time they buy some Bitcoin.
That is not true. Credit Card processing does NOT require all customer data being stored on the stores website. Credit card processing requires some vital customer info for payment processing but that data need be not stored afterwards. However, I do agree with you that using Bitcoin would have made things a little more private for their customers.Indeed  private for the criminals now, haha ... On the contrary, those addresses will be on many peoples (and agencies) radar now. |
|
|
|
The irony is, this all could have been avoided if Ashley Madison used Bitcoin to accept payments instead of the outdated credit card system which due it's centralized nature requires that ALL data is stored, all credit card movements + information is on their databases. So I hope they learned the lesson and next time they buy some Bitcoin.
That is not true. Credit Card processing does NOT require all customer data being stored on the stores website. Credit card processing requires some vital customer info for payment processing but that data need be not stored afterwards. However, I do agree with you that using Bitcoin would have made things a little more private for their customers. |
|
|
|
|
The website and company image kind of reminds me of Lidl, which isn't surprising since they are both German companies.
None the less, it is good news and a good addition to the Bitcoin accepting Businesses chain.
|
|
|
|
If it's something like Samuel's case, then yes.
If it involves kidnapping, murders, etc, then NO.
But the activity of buying or selling organs, regardless of the true intentions of the involved parties, promotes criminal activities like kidnapping, murders etcSo does many other things. Trafficking human body parts already has a black market, that indeed does promote all the stuff you are talking about. If this type of market should emerge officially it will kill the black market. Much like drugs, etc. |
|
|
|
You mean something like thisblended with something like this? Wow, great resources S4VV4S. This is the first time I have seen these both sites. Thank you very much for sharing. You're welcome  |
|
|
|
|
I am in favor of adding it to Unicode.
It's a bout time and it would make things a lot easier.
|
|
|
|
|
OK.
You wanna explain to us how you came to that conclusion?
I mean, didn't Ross get busted?
And his business was illegal.
I see nothing illegal in Bitcoin tbh (usage by some people aside).
|
|
|
|
NSA/CIA/FBI/FDA/USDA ALERT: This is a question, not an actual offer or marketing opportunity! (related altcoins are only a rumor at this time)
Note: The existence of a market does not assume that everyone is a criminal.
Hello everyone, let's give a warm welcome to Samuel!
"Hey all, please allow me to help my truly needed family!!" ~Samuel
Critical Notice: Samuel has a rare disease that will kill him within 6 months, and leave all of his major organs perfectly healthy.
Instead of donating his vital organs, Samuel wants to use a network of legit doctors and marketplaces to sell his organs/parts to support his family.
Yes, sadly some of the other people who buy and sell will be evil, almost beyond belief.
Do you want human body parts and organs to be bought & sold with Bitcoin?
If it's something like Samuel's case, then yes. If it involves kidnapping, murders, etc, then NO. |
|
|
|
|
Show Posts
