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I hope the companies like newegg and overstock allow their employees to be paid in btc. They could be the leaders in that sort of "cycling" of btc. I've been a wage slave. The banks bleed you over and over. It would probably be very cost efficient over at payroll dept once it's all restructured.
I'd sign up! Put the btc in the hands that will use it!
As for big events? Don't world events tend to not influence btc? Like, user unaffected?
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I've been wondering lately, what the market decides... Maybe the novelty has worn thin, the security issue, the app, some disastrous turns in world economies, I mean, worse than now... Many things have to come together, and maybe a low stable price is good.
There's no song and dance. It's tech and finance and economics. If you aren't interested, you just ain't interested. Doesn't mean you won't use it, you just don't need to know. The killer app will seduce that consumer. BTC should go more "under the radar" and figure out a way for people to use it without realizing it. Safe and easy.
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Them dubz doe
(Sorry couldn't resist)
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From what I can glean from your average doomsday type is that they all tend to be basically anti-technology. They don't mind using it now for attention etc but they are expecting to live in a world where all the present systems have collapsed, aren't they?
I try not to listen to obvious crackpots (unless they're funny) but I've met a few survivalist types who intend to live off the land. Computers ain't comin' supposedly.
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I tend to give AM a hard time due to my experiences with them, but I really do hope they can release a good product this time. I like the idea of AM they just need to fix a few things. I just do not get why they can not get a Marketing guy and some support setup for their products. Most companies struggle with making a product and the others parts are simple. AM has the exact opposite problems..
+1 on that! I chalk it up to a combination of two factors making it a very hard thing to do; Language barrier And social/professional barrier. These are niche tech guys in a start up. They probably don't know how to navigate the business support end of things, even who to ask or where to start. They are probably more worried about leaking info than pitching woo to shareholders. Maybe. Could all be part of the death of the small miner consumer... They are restructuring? You see, they would need to go over many fine details with a pr team that speaks native tounge, then get that translated, also seo and that kind of stuff... Asia and western is all different too. |
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True.
Whatever BF's offer or how it pans out for its investors...we will see. BUT for absolutely sure they will market it better than anything AM has attempted and probably have no problem selling it out fast.
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OP I see a little of what you're saying. It's money, after all.
I would tend to think that general adoption is slow because when it comes to thier money they don't really want to know. They want a UI that makes it impossible for them to get separated from thier coins, by accident or theft. You'll see more backed services like banks, handling it for you. IDK I've had security nightmares recently, it's easy to be cynical. Blockchain is the revolutionary thing, where btc ends up in the mix remains to be seen. There's some very smart money coming in, more all the time.
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There is got to be intent and with btc theft... It's done by hackers with malware and exploits etc it's like walking around with a burglary kit and "testing" windows to see if they're locked.
There is no innocently stumbled across btc being found. Unless OP was merely alluding to the 6.4 btc someone grabbed out of my computer with a total exploit I had to wipe my HD to get rid of, then yeah... Giving it back is the right thing to do.
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I ran Sophos and it detected one item and deleted it. I don't think it was a key logger because I haven't sent any coins in weeks so no password was keyed in recently. It's just very weird that multibit opened up without me clicking it. All I can think is they cracked the pass with some super duper program or there is a flaw in multibit that allows the pass to be bypassed. I've cold storage for my savings, and they're fine, but ~6 btc is a big loss and I really don't understand IT enough to be 100% sure what I'm doing, like Linux or Ubuntu seem kind of daunting. I'm going to get a hardware wallet and I am never leaving more than 0.5 btc in my hot wallet ever again.
This experience has damaged my faith in btc. Not the tech itself, but the actuality of any regular joe ever trusting it. If btc is so easy to steal the banks will never have to worry.
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Yeah, it's my own damn fault for leaving those coins in the hot wallet. I guess I let my gaurd down.
My password was 16 characters, numbers and made up words... Not sure how they got past that? My btc in cold storage is untouched, I download a lot of music, and occasionally a movie, however I have been visiting viooz which is a bootleg streaming movie sight from Russia... So I dont know about that...
That's great you found the address but I'm not sure where to go with it? The "security issue" with btc sure won't help with the universal acceptance. I just lost almost 3k$ and I'm fairly careful, no expert, but fairly proficient... If I can get robbed than I would say over 80% of the general population is at far greater risk.
I'm buying a ledger wallet.
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yes i am going to reformat everything. running sophos right now. arrrggggg
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I had a little over 6 bitcoin in my multibit wallet, secured with complicated password...I was going to move my btc to a cold wallet, but got busy and went to bed without even shutting my computer off. When I woke up this morning, my wallet was open and had been nearly emptied in 2 transactions. Firstly, I've seen these threads before, and figured my security was pretty good, this thief just caught me off gaurd... I'm just confused... how did they do it? where did the money go? Is there any hope of catching these guys? I'm going to delet the bad wallet and start again, hopefully I will find a wallet that is harder to hack....ugh, I'm just sick... here's the 6btc transaction https://blockchain.info/tx-index/41191061dee39219aad24db41fa6f08f88a4664b75e19d0e7b2e809c4279ee36and one other 0.476 btc transaction https://blockchain.info/tx-index/16cb9a7b531f61000b935242d8486f6bd128fe64672d6a004b779f773be1f3c8I'm really upset, and I'm trying to figure out what exactly happened, or where the money went. Can anyone help? |
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Music industry promotors etc, aren't they all shysters? The EDM scene is especially rank (has something to do with the drugs?)
Since when do they ban anyone for promoting bullshit schemes in here anyways though?
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This will for sure send the price sideways.
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I signed up for this campaign on 5th sept 2014. I got my first payment on 5th oct 2012. In november the payment did not come until 14th november 2014. now it is 6th december 2014, I assume I am not getting paid on the 5th any more and that I will receive payment on or around the 14th of december 2014. is this correct? what is your payment schedual? also, if you move the payment date, I am actually being cheated out of 10 days rent, about 30% of promised month's income. keep moving the pay date foreward and you wont have to pay anyone at all.
get your shit together guys.
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Man, after reading this over again it just infuriates me how unqualified Ken ended up being as shown through his actions regardless of how he acted in person. To be completely honest, I thought of myself as a pretty good judge of character once I met someone. Meeting with Terrahash and Active Mining in person, shaking these guys hands and physically seeing at least what appeared to be a functioning mirage of a business and then still basically being scammed by them really put things in perspective. What's funny is we're (Well just Zumzero mainly) all arguing if Ken was a scammer or not. This doesn't even matter because the MSD doesn't care about that, he blatantly violated securities law and will be tried/fined on that. If the MSD feels "investors" were mislead (not even fully "scammed) then they would try to seek restitution. If you wanted to open a civil case against Active Mining and Ken (Who obviously was highly undercapitalized) because you feel you were defrauded then you could do that. I plan on waiting to see how the MSD handles this before doing such. If they release any sort of financials then everyone would be able to weigh the worth of a civil case. At the end of the day Thomas here is what happened, Ken single handedly took in hundreds of thousands of dollars if not a few millions depending on BTC Prices Failed multiple times to produce his own chip through a series of bad judgements and/or incompetence wasting some of that money Lied about multiple achievements to falsely boost confidence and share price - Examples: Shipping a "Product" implying it was a custom chip, Power Consumption on the People's ASIC Chip Lost BTC on an exchange that had multiple warnings it was going down (There's no reason to keep BTC on any exchange, just send it to the exchange when you want to cash out) Extremely poor communication and transparency with his company that "shareholders/investors" paid for Ken purchased Chips/Board design from a 3rd party (Who was forced into bankruptcy and is being auctioned off today). He also used their assembly line to manufacture "copy cat" boards. He failed at shipping & customer support - Some people received them quick, most it took months or not at all. Other customers has to provide support for customers. Shareholders received Bitcoin dust for dividends over the entire lifespan of this company I believe Ken hired only family to work for him (Wages, not Contractors) I'm sure others in here can fix or add to the above to make it more complete. Enjoy +100 Very well put. Reporter could just copy and paste what bargraphics wrote and put that in the newspaper. It pretty much sums up what we know, and is pretty much on target regarding what we don't know but highly suspect. Ken also has a history of being difficult/obstinant/stubborn/ incompetant in his professional past, although one past employer wasnt entirely negative saying words to effect that "ken doesnt listen, and stubbornly does things his own way, but occasionally his unorthodox methods get results..." which is as close to a compliment I've ever heard anyone say about him (excluding his #1 fan, Zumzero) |
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Well, real reporters typically talk to multiple sources, Jasun7211. I'm interested in speaking with someone who has (apparently) lost money in this endeavor.
Thanks for the other thread, gogxmagog. Hadn't seen that one. Yeah, if I write something I would be reaching out to the Securities Division, as I said in my last post.
its january 8th 2015, my mistake. please do go to MSD, and the hearings. i would love to hear what is going on. there is precious little in here but speculation. although a few users here who lost big will give very interesting interviews, a few are shills. i would avoid zumzero, most of all. he has vouched for ken so strongly, even when everything points to total failure, that many assume he is under the employ of ken, if not a relative, or even ken himself. the whole thing is shady and the truth is in short supply. |
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yeah the info is all in this thread, and the unofficial thread too, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=297530.0 its more to the point re; ken's illegal activities. actionable at least. If you can get a face to face with him and you csn get anything beyond his usual bafflegab I'll buy a f*&^in' subscription to your little rag! Good luck, you should probably be checking out the missouri securities division hearing this monday dec 8th as well |
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“Mining attacks occur when the computers used to solve the complex mathematical problems are faster than the software. Miners can hoard coins before the software has a chance to make the equation more difficult.” - Brian Kelly What could that possibly mean? Computers that are faster than... the software?  he must have some inside info ?  Or a really fast computer. |
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Ikr? I laughed out loud when I saw the headline. Makes me wonder why they even announce this stuff. They must realize it makes them look threatened? Those guys don't wipe their ass before running a focus group. Just wow
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