The only thing that you can do to get an account older than the said date is to buy it from another user. There is no way whatsoever to make your account older. To check for account sales, check the Digital Goods > Accounts and Invites.

Hmm, I don't think the admins of this forum would meddle with the trade you've made off-site. Also, theymos (the admin) is very strict on giving out personal info of its users to single individuals who may have been scammed. Unfortunately, no one can help you out in this matter since you're just assuming that the other user who posted the product you think is yours is in this forum.

Btw, care to share the topic you think is related with your case? Maybe someone can take a look at that and see for themselves.

Mine too. If you want to do business in this forum, don't trust DT1 or DT2 too much. Even if they handled thousands of trades in this forum alone, how can one be sure that they won't screw up when their next trade comes?


Most DT1 members earned their greens doing auctions and trades here, so yep, if you are a small-time trader I don't think you can earn DT1 status, not in this kind of system we have currently.

If they want to launder btc, why would they leave some trails of their coins? Buying other coins and withdrawing them would still keep a record of your activity in their platform since they require you to provide your identity in doing some large trades whereas mixers, they only require a small fee for your coins to be lost among suspicious eyes.

It's obvious that BCH is just made for people to have more money on them to use as fuel to further increase the price on bitcoin. Have you observed that a week after consensus was reached, bitcoin suddenly surged up in price?


You will never know. During 2013, no one knew that the price was pumped until someone took the records of Gox revealing that it was trusty Willy who was doing these fake trades. It's just a possibility but then again, as of today's current state, bitcoin is receiving natural growth thanks to big businessmen endorsing their positive side of the cryptocurrency.



They can coexist same as to what other altcoins are currently to bitcoin. However we must accept the fact that BCH is categorized as yet another altcoin and can never be really a competition to bitcoin.

Lightning networks could provide a new avenue for faster and cheaper transactions if deployed. LN is currently on the works by several developers and will be deployed on the mainnet once everything is clear.


Two more years and it will be a decade for bitcoin. Fiat will surely be the currency that's going to be used by all nations but that doesn't mean bitcoin will just die out.

So what's your side of the bet? Any attainable figures you have in your head? Bitcoin is climbing higher highs everyday and it seems like this thing isn't going to rest. But when the fuel runs out, expect that there will be severe blows and sellouts that might happen. Not being a pessimist but anything can happen, really.

You will win the bet, and I'd say put their money where their mouth is; place the bet in a multisig address.

Could be implemented but only for users who have been here for over a year or two since that is the time when people know who should be trusted or not by just observing and seeing some stuff done by other people. Also, it truly allows for a "decentralized" trust system where everyone has their own trusted people and you are not restricted into "trusting" those people who has the most greens in their profile.



Couldn't agree more. The DT kind of like forces people to believe that these guys are the only "good" guys in this forum and the rest are just there trying to scam you.

But a lot of 'em are cool on my watch, except for some truly exceptional human beings.

You should see that on the top left corner of the forum. Show new replies to your posts. It does lead you to the topics which you may have replied to, but it's kinda time consuming since you need to find your exact comment and see who quoted it.

A faster way to do it is just check your previous post and see whether someone quoted it. Do it in your profile > show the last post of this person.

But unfortunately, overall market capitalization don't define bitcoin's success alone. It's still a grey area for merchants since they still aren't confident enough of bitcoin. If there would be millions of users for bitcoin—not investors but real users of the coin to use as a currency—then that will be the time where we can call it an overall success.


Better for the meantime, but can it hold? Not being a pessimist but you know, possibilities.

Exchanges, perhaps? If you are to store altcoins and btc in a single wallet, you are putting yourself into a big risk of being hacked. One single file can cost you hundreds or thousands of dollars down the drain. It's best to just keep these coins in their own wallets for you to be safe and have a proper management to your coins as well.

This just goes to show how sane it is to keep an asset that is free from the chains of the government when all hell break loose on the looming financial meltdown. Even lawmakers got their own share of bitcoins which is pretty surprising since they tend to always go against it.


Of course there would be some, especially in pro-bitcoin countries like Japan and Australia. It only becomes somewhat a 'problem' for other people when these officials have a holding that's worth over millions.

As the richest man in the world, many people would sure follow his words and would start going into the hype train without researching about the matter. That's where price comes from, FOMO. Added value, yes perhaps, but stronger? With weak hands, no.


Some billionaires do understand the significance of bitcoin in the coming years since they know that every year, the USD is getting weaker and weaker hence they start hyping some potentially stronger asset before they go all in to that for the mean time. Also, McAfee is not like Warren Buffett who still believes in age old practices for money. This is 2017 and almost everything is ran and secured by computers.

Almost all of the coins the FBI holds currently came from seized deep web marketplace and some from illicit activities by individuals—which are mostly related to tax evasion. Also, these coins tend to go into auction immediately, so I doubt they have that much coins since bitcoin is still a small ripple in the financial ecosystem compared to gold and USD.


I like the conspiracies and the wild imagination. Perhaps Satoshi himself is the Feds and bitcoin is one genius tool to enslave us yet again, who knows?


The feds do have large controls in every sector a society has. That's how powerful they are despite being a small unit in the government.


That is approximately 1 million coins mined from Jan 2009-November 2009 where mining isn't really the thing of the blokes.

I was also thinking of the same. Trusted members of the forum could be imitated by these Guests users and can therefore be a vehicle for them to scam gullible people. Trust ratings are displayed on the left and I get that, however some people are still too lazy to do a bit of research before engaging in trades that they think is a win for them.

Also, I noticed that you can no longer create usernames with spaces on the new forum. A good idea since some trusted forum usernames could be masked by spaces and small symbols, too.

Unfortunately, theymos don't check his past PMs to verify that it is yours since he has a lot of things to do in beta.bitcointalk.org. You need to have access to any address that you might have posted or sent to anyone in this forum to help you get back your account. Also, signed message doesn't verify. Check extra spaces, symbols or letters that is causing the problems in your message.

+1. I'm using Opera Mini on my mobile earlier this morning but apparently I can't complete the captcha given by Google. Solvemedia is better since it also works on browsers that doesn't support flash (like the version of Opera Mini I'm using). But anyways, everything is alright in Google Chrome and Mozilla. A nice addition to the forum to further decrease bots that creates spam threads in several boards.

It's not like waiting for an hour for a block hasn't happened in bitcoin yet. Also, it's not a guaranteed 10-minute wait time for the blocks to be processed/found. Quit yapping and try to read more about the topic. Sheesh.


The site is just full of empty addresses and not much to be found there. It was really funny for those who said that bitcoin is not safe since privkeys are laid out bare in the clearnet.

I don't consider myself an old hand since I bought my first coins in 2014. The stash I have had back then was sold for a hefty profit, bought back in the latter part of 2015 and sold most in May which enormously boost my money in the bank (lol). Right now, I'm still trying to check out some decent ICOs that may break the records once more and hopefully make a decent amount out of it.

The most valuable asset of bitcoin for me is its limited supply together with its (pseudo) anonymous feature. We live in a world where cameras and other stuff are always pointed at us, listening and observing our every move. People are now becoming aware of this and now wanting to break free from the system. Bitcoin offers just that, and that is where people see most of its value aside from being a great store of value / investment compared to gold. Also, financial magnates are now recognizing the capabilities of bitcoin to change the way we look at money, and it's a good thing since people believe in these experts thus creating a new influx of users to further drive up the price.