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Blockchain ‏@blockchain  3h3 hours ago
We're activating maintenance mode again to investigate a database issue. All funds and wallets are secure

The exchange rate of bitcoins is an issue but Ebay should use a payment processor that is accepted world wide while PayPal ins't accepted worldwide. There are some countries that cannot receive payments via PayPal which is not the case with bitcoins. Bitpay could be a great payment processor if introduced or any other payment processor that can convert bitcoins to USD and save the balance in USD.

I am not saying to disable the PM option for newbies but they shouldn't be allowed to post links as mostly people join this website and start either spamming their referral link or post malicious links.

Thanks for the post. The link PM is pretty easy and seems genuine to hack a person's account as the "i" is replaced with "l". That's why I had asked for the option to disallow newbies from sending/posting links to make it safer.

Ebay should directly accept bitcoin payments and then it would be good enough as PP can be charged back but not bitcoins. Their split up with PayPal has not made a significant difference as they only offer that payment option for US goods. For Indians they do have another payment option paisapay but that's also not good enough.

Just visited the site now and I can see the login screen but after few seconds all HTML tags reading the site is under maintenance started popping up. Looks like they are changing some features but it's taking too long.

What? I just logged into my wallet and saw all my earlier transactions. It might have been a problem earlier but it's working just fine now.

@bold: I received a negative rating from a buyer who himself backed out from my deal. He had purchased my gift card in an auction on Ebay and backed out later. Instead, I should be the one giving him a negtive feedback and yes, he has received 100% positives from other members when he himself seems to be a scammer.

I don't see any issues with blockchain. I logged in my account without any issues. Why is everyone else getting an error? 

So the only advantage of using bitcoins is the anonymity factor? Was that the only reason to have this crypto currency?

For me it's the fact that the currency can be converted into fiat and trading in it earns me a profit if the price increases. I don't bother much about the anonymity.

Thanks dear. I honestly don't prefer nor recommend investing in any HYIP site as most of them are scams. I myself once lost my money in an HYIP site and hence I don't believe in these sites. When you invest money, there is a risk of not getting your money back too 

The rules should be revised to prevent these and since scams aren't moderated, the forum will always lack security. Escrow is an option to be safe but newbies can easily be trapped if they use an unknown escrow another member recommends and cases have been reported here.

The main issue is that people here prefer buying stolen goods as the price is cheap (15% the face value) and when there are such customers, how can these good be avoided from being sold here?

Gambling too needs to be stopped and the ability to create multiple accounts which increases the chances of getting scammed. Moderators manually verifying accounts or having a newbie jail (which existed earlier) can be an option too.


Having a mobile verification feature is being considered by the forum admin but only for the new forum that's going to be launched and not for this forum. I guess the new forum will be much more safer than this one. 

If you want to earn bitcoins by completing easy tasks, you can check www.bitcoinget.com and even get-paid.com. Get-paid has several tasks to complete and each survey pays about $0.5 which just takes 5-10 minutes to complete and you get points for data entry work as well. It's a genuine site and you can either choose bitcoins as a payment method or PayPal/Payza/Gift cards.

https://coinworker.com/ This site as well is good which makes you earn points for simple tasks. If you have just started working with bitcoins, it's better to join these sites and then you can try signature campaigns when you become a Full Member (which takes time).

Did puzzel.me scam anyone? He seems to own over 50% of the forum accounts here. To me it appears puzzel.me tried to scam by blackmailing a member. Anyways, attempting to scam and being a scammer is almost the same thing and this user has been creating numerous accounts on this forum.

Having dealt with stellar, he seemed to be genuine but the amount was really small to say anything.

@OP:

Continue dear as you love using this language. I don't wish to argue with you and get abusive now. It's your wish to start getting abusive and do the same. Good luck!


I too don't want to breathe in the air where people use such words which I haven't been taught by my parents. I'm proud of having a mother who is a Criminal Lawyer and dealt with murderers and the worst criminals and made them suffer in jail. Even those criminals never used such words with her and saluted her for being an educated woman. I can talk to them as they know when and where to use abusive language and to whom.

I hope I don't get a reply from you. Save your words for someone else.

I have seen people crossing their limit in those threads and even cursing them to an extent that they have threatened and prayed for their death. It's sick and I do feel bad when members stoop so low.

OP dint post a racist comment for me but he did it earlier.

Also, he is just making a personal attack for me claiming to be a female. If it isn't considered a personal attack, I don't know what it is called then. May be the red part will be considered right.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.msg11225713#msg11225713

And you're right. When this forum can allow thieves, allowing such low class comments will be allowed to. What can I do when someone isn't educated enough to respect others? They will get what they give others.

@OP: I am ashamed to even know a person like you who disrespects females to this extent. It's below my dignity to even talk to you and my education doesn't allow me to stoop to your level. You have even proved to be a racist and abuser earlier and it's shocking that the forum allows such comments here.

You should learn to respect women in the first place and you aren't doing that by talking such abusive words. My avatar and the message is added for people like you.


@BitcoinDistributor: I'm glad that you respect females. I respect you for respecting others and most people in this world disrespect women and hence there are crimes that take place daily and especially in my country, India, it's a common case.

@theymos & @badbear: Does this forum allow such members to insult and abuse other members to this extent? I've reported such posts and they aren't deleted. Why does this forum allow members to be racist/abuses/gender biased? The little I expect from this forum members is respect but I guess it's too much to ask for. A loaf of bread isn't important for me more than a loaf of respect.

Still selling