A few line changes from Core, put some new codes here and there. Rush it a little bit and voila! We have Bitcoin Cash. How often do we see other versions of bitcoin from minorities that are unsatisfied of what the main code can deliver? I'm just gonna put this here...  +1 for Bitcoin Cash team for tryharding. |
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Has there been any word from Kraken?
Kraken would probably decline the idea of support BCC unless they want to operate at a loss or has been bribed by Bitmain. But idk, it still depends on how they see things even with UAHF around. But good thing that most exchanges declined since it will be somewhat confusing for some people around, too. |
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Due to the growing demand for graphics cards they have already earned more than $ 800 million. This is a real achievement of bitcoin.
Not really an achievement. More like a symbol that cryptocurrencies' Proof of Work system is the least efficient thing ever created. Seriously, people are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to prove that they can waste money and make a chain secure. An "achievement" would be figuring out a way to fix this without resorting to shit systems like PoS. Achievement to AMD, at least  PoW would still be the king of a secure chain seeing that in order to overwrite the whole thing, you need to have hardware that is worth millions. If you are even successful, the coins would be worthless by then, seeing that people would dump the coin. -- It seems that the GPU market is currently stabilizing for now. For 12 weeks, the supply of AMD's RX cards has been in its lowest—globally. Also, the cards were used for altcoin mining and not btc. |
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Some of us born to be a gamer and spend some money to buy stuffs in-game. Many of us spend their time just to level up things on the game but the question is;
Is it possible to have a bitcoin project that is game-related?
Is it possible to buy in-game items through bitcoin?
Gaining bitcoin through a game?
Sometimes while playing online games, i think about this things. This process can increase the popularity of bitcoin and develop the use of it.
We already have had projects intended for gaming back in the days. Some of them were quite unsuccessful and just discontinued. Today you can buy in-game items from Steam itself. Also, there are other sites out there which accepts btc as a form of payment for in-game cosmetics/premium items. It's up on Steam since 2015. |
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Let's assume that Bitcoin doesn't die in a few hundred years from now on, and our descendants (or even us ourselves if we manage to live that long) could reclaim these coins (coins that didn't move all that time) as public property for the common good
If you're looking that far into the future presumably brute force hacking could have improved so much that the missing bitcoins could be recovered. In fact, we don't need that We don't need to wait till advanced brute forcing becomes available (through quantum computing or otherwise). Actually, we don't need to wait any time at all. All we need is consensus what to do with lost coins and consensus in respect which coins to consider as lost. If we have both we can easily retrieve the coins that we think as lost. We would only need to make a few small changes to protocol (i.e. the way Bitcoin transactions are processed). For example, if it becomes known for certain that Satoshi is dead (provided he was alive in the first place at all, of course), and no one is going to claim his coins (his heirs or beneficiaries), we could retrieve and share them among all active Bitcoin holders (or spend them on something useful) Why would we need to vote something for what's already deemed as irretrievable? Voting to recover coins that are already lost is stupid and just makes available coins be less of what it's worth today. The key idea of a deflationary coin is to make available resources scarce over time to increase its value. Also, we aren't so sure if these coins really are lost or kept very well in cold storages. |
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Bitcoin Cash is just another version of bitcoin made by people who are "not happy" with what SegWit could do for them (or at least not happy with what they could do with SegWit). Besides, who would want to rely billions of dollars to a code that was rushed by people that just aren't "happy" with SegWit?  |
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Maybe somebody on localbitcoins would be willing to sell you $100.000 worth of BTC... Altough with this sum, you should be carefull not to attract people that want to rob you, or want to sell you BTC that is directly linked to illegal actions...
Localbitcoins wouldn't be a possible bet knowing that the OP wanted to pay with his card. Idk if you can buy with Vircurex since idk where are you located. Best bet would be bitstamp though the limits are pretty low. Localbitcoins would allow you to buy in your desired range (possibly with below market rates) though you need to be wary of exchanging personally with another party. |
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1900 more SegWit blocks required for lock-in  what do you think : can we fear before 1 aug. ? As long as you keep your coins with you, you don't need to fear about anything. Also, it wouldn't take long. Besides, if there would be dips after the chain has stabilized, wouldn't it be cool to grab some cheap coins before this thing skyrockets once more? Also, given the past few weeks full of negative news, price tends to stay afloat still. |
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Why not? Supporting only one side of a story would be a bias move and thus not reflecting a fair and just "consensus." Besides, during the UAHF anything can happen, so why not give the users a more flexible (and fair) approach and not stick to just one option? Supporting one option is good, but letting both options have a chance is better.
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Not really a necessity since you can do a simple mix by yourself. Yes, they have far more complicated methods of mixing your coins but you need to pay them 1% or 2% of the total amount you'll mix which is not good plus the fees when you send them the coins. You can do a simple mix by sending your coins to an exchange then move it to a new address that you own. That is way more economical and faster IMO.
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I only traded altcoins, much of which were only pumped and was just lucky to be in the right time. As for bitcoin, I made a lot of money from a humble investment since I just held for 2 years and sold. Should I have bought ETH and XMR when they were only a couple dollars, I would have made a fortune alongside my btc holdings, but nah trading is just another risk that I'd take to hopefully get some profits.
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Well it depends on your country. Some countries have some policies regarding bitcoin and some doesn't have any. Here in my country, Philippines I never heard of taxing bitcoin. I don't know if that is it or I never heard of the law before. It is revolving behind that.
There are also some news that the government is trying to close some online bettings sites but i think it was just toppled by many issues regarding the welfare of the country from terrorists. But i dont think it is just easy to tax btc transactions unless countries will manipulate there own conertion sites from btc to there own currency. The transaction fee of btc itself may be called tax and unless a country has its own blockchain then it is possible. I highly doubtful any government will be shutting down and Bitcoin casinos anytime soon. Terrorists ? What you talking about ? Bitcoin is only taxable after converting to us because it's capital gains like the users above were talking about. Most online gambling sites in the Philippines have already closed since the crackdown of the government. Bitcoin casinos, however, is another thing and because the government don't know what bitcoin is 'yet', it is safe to say that these type of casinos will continue to be used by its peers. -- On the taxing part, it varies very differently by country. Like in the Philippines, it is fine even if you don't file any taxes in regards to your gains in cryptocurrencies since it is not specified by the law to be taxable. |
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I have a little BTC in Bitcoin Core client but need to upgrade my operating system on this machine.
I have backed up my wallet.dat file onto a USB stick (and I know my wallet's password). I dont know if the upgrade will wipe all my files or not. (or indeed keep files but wipe programs)
Is this enough to ensure the security of my bitcoin? If I reinstalled Bitcoin core on the fresh system and imported the wallet.dat file into the correct folder would it be able to read it and give me access?
Second question. What about the blockchain? I currently have run the core client pruned to 2Gb. Will I need to download the whole thing again? I really dont want to have to do this as it will take weeks.
When you upgrade from win7 - win10, all compatible applications would be kept and before upgrading, you will be asked whether to keep all your files or start a clean installation of win10. All userdata would be kept, but there are cases in which some of the app data would be erased (some of mine were deleted especially in the C:/ drive). If you have an external hard drive, you can keep the appdata of bitcoin qt there, or an easier thing is to copy or move the whole folder in another partition and don't place them in the C:/ drive. |
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I have the exact problem with my main account.I just sent a email to theymos and pmed hilarioisandco hope they unlock it for me...
Hello, I just sent a signed message using my ethereum wallet to theymos. Hopes he read it asap. Only Cyrus and theymos can unlock your account. You should have sent a pm to either of them. Both are busy managing the forum and also working on the new forum that we will be transferring to, so expect that your PM might not be read immediately. Also, before sending a PM, read this post in regards to recovering accounts with lost passwords or hacked. |
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It depends on how you look at it. For me, more price drops mean more opportunities to buy cheap coins. No matter how hard the dips are, the price still tends to go up and pursue higher highs compared to where it was before. Also, the fork drama alongside other 'bad' news is great.
Wouldn't you want to buy cheaper coins?
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Hello everyone
As I see, some rules on bounty threads have become more strict. Hope the post to be useful and help some users to not get banned.
1. Some of bounty managers asks participants to posts all links of facebook posts or tweets once a week. Is it allowed?
2. Am I allowed to post an application form for signature or social media campaign? Or must use off-site links?
3. Am I allowed to post my bitcoin (or any altcoin) address after an very easy task (not giveaway but a really easy task: like the facebook page, vote for a coin to be added on an exchange, etc. )
4. Am I allowed to post in a bounty thread to ask something from manager ( for example change my address) Or must send a PM?
Best Regards
1. Can you elaborate furthermore? Post to where exactly? In the thread that they run? 2. Application form for any type of campaign is allowed here jn the forums. Most campaigns use this method rather than off-site links just for easier organization. 3. It is subjective in my opinion, but to give you an answer, your description of "easy task" like voting for a coin to be in an exchange should be considered a giveaway, and that is frowned upon here in the forum. Never post your address after doing something "easy" like the example you've given since it will just be another form of a giveaway. 4. Yes, as long as you're not begging for coins, you are allowed to do so. -- Looks like you haven't read the rules yet. Please read it here. |
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Depositing funds stolen from Mt. Gox right back into gox, now that's a rather bold move.
I agree. This report tends to exonerate Mark Karpeles of the thefts, but also reinforces my perception of him as clueless as to what was going on in his own operation. He did his part. Karpeles was using money deposited on GOX to finance his expensive lifestyle, renting apartments, hookers, and such. Let's not make a saint out of him. I believe he wasn't clueless, but ignorant. He thought his system is secure and never bothered to monitor the balances. Also, he didn't give his employees access to cold storage, so nobody could check how much they actually have and compare to API balances. So giving his employees access to the cold storage would make significant difference, no? Karpeles is a dick, sure. He is ignorant of what is going on inside his exchange ergo the supposed "hack" of Gox. But handling out control over the cold storage to his employees would have been a dumb move since he would have handed the money up for grabs to some other people with their motives unknown to him. |
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The mere fact that there are only a few active countries which has an active bitcoin economic scene makes me want to save more cash if in case I would ever want to travel. Or I can use my debit cards and load them up with bitcoins if in case I get lost and no cash on hand. That would be more promising.
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Why would a forum be banned anywhere? Man, free world really takes its freedom as granted. Banning a forum?  FFS! It is, considering that in the 21st century, everyone is posting stupid, nonsensical things in social media to "express" themselves. But some countries still have strict stance against other countries' culture, beliefs, ideologies and whatnot. One of them is China. Ever wondered why the Great (fire)Wall of China exists? To prevent their users from accessing contents about the Western world and their cultures that could free up 'liberalism' in their minds.
OP, wrong board. This should be in the Meta subforum. |
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While very likely it's not yet confirmed that the arrested person is related to btc-e, right? Either way that explains why bitmixer.io decided to close shop. Holey moley, talk about crackdown...
The arrested individual is Alexander Vinnik, one of the owners of BTC-e, and you can read it here if the above link isn't enough.The thing with unregulated exchanges is it's always a hot target for the feds. It delivers great service to traders who doesn't want to submit to the invasive KYC process but the downside is the owners can fuck you up anytime they wanted to go batshit crazy asshats. --- Kinda cringed on "cybercrime website(s)" though. Users have been warned of this exchange since late 2014 but their loss, I guess. |
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