It seems that if we ask for a refund they will try to make us sign some sort of forfeit of all ulterior claims (i.e., we are happy with the refund):


Which is unlawful and which we don't want.

This crap won't be easy.

abount refund:
apparently it's not at all what we hoped for.
As far  as I understood from the HF thread, all they
pay will be the USD price of the unit.
That is, we only get a fraction of the BTC we paid.

I wouldn't accept that.
(of course now every HF customer would gladly accept a refund
of BTC he paid. But that's not on offer, that's something we would have
to fight for.)

OP, check out this thread

you'll be amused

I wonder how the emergence of doge-dice affects JD.
That is, whether it's drawing away gamblers.
Doog, do you have any data?

Just saw this thread and decided that in a case like this it is permissible to
point out an insignificant but mildly amusing detail which only marginally pertains to the topic:

in Kazakh  "kotak" is a vulgar word for penis 

thanks for your attention

if your funds were stolen from multibit it has nothing to do with multibit.
It means your computer is compromised. Using qt OR blockchain.info
on the same computer will make you lose more money.

Hey OP, I see you want to do something,
but don't have a good idea what.

To make your people use BTC here's what you need to do:
- teach people how to transact in BTC
- make it easy for them to acquire BTC: set up at least one physical exchange point
- offer protection against market volatility.

The first 2 points require a lot of on-site work with people.

For the last point: you could offer to always buy back BTC for the same
price you sold them to that person. May be with some limits on the amount and/or time.
Here you can be losing money, so it makes sense to ask for donations/funding.

I don't see how mining can be useful at all.

There's something in the paper about SPV clients: "These nodes will face a
larger number of block headers to download."
Can you give an estimate of how much larger this would be?

what about block rewards and tx fees? Whom do they go to?

if it's still only to the heaviest branch then there's still an incentive to create
smaller blocks that propagate faster, not including any transactions.

so basically they want to start a fractional reserve for bitcoin.

They issue bitcoin tokens and promise to exchange them for [the price
of] bitcoin. Since it's backed by the Royal Mint people would trust them.

Sounds like a good plan to make money.

10k worth of shrooms? No wonder he doesn't have time to post

one of the early adopters bought some shrooms on SR.
What's the big deal?

question to Predictious:
why does your logo look like a toilet seat?
seriously.

would you also accept paypal for buying the miner itself?
I'd prefer not to spend my btc right now

apparently, they can't. That's what BIP0038 is for.
I've also found out about it from this thread, reading.

all I see right now is a not-so-elaborate scam.
And it's not the first one. Hidden wiki had "assassination markets" listed by the dozen a year or couples of years ago. There're still a few of them listed.
The point is that one paid "order" is more than enough to pay not only for setting up a few hidden sites, but also for some  advertising effort - like this guy that had emailed  a  bitcoin journalist at forbes about this "venture."  From what I understand, he's already got at least 1 btc out of it. I think he can call it a success.

exchanging leftover currency for btc-  that's a great idea!
I would have surely used it when I was there last summer.
And I'd  be so much the richer now.

This market can't work.



two problems:
-The first is obvious: the anonymous site owner can run with the money.
There's  no reason to suppose he will ever pay out anything.

-The second problem: The suggested way of proving that you made the hit
is very naive.  Basically, to claim the bounty all you need to do is to submit a (hash of) the date
the hit will be done, and pay 0.1% of the bounty. Nothing prevents you from submitting say  365 claims for the biggest bounty,
and wait for someone else to do the hit.  If you believe the site is legit (e.g. will pay
out) you should do this to win 73.5% of the bounty if the hit is done within a year and if you submitted
the claim before the killer (I don't know what the site will do if two or more people claim
the same date; it doesn't say).

Edit: if there are multiple predictions, he claims he'll split the bounty between them.

Edit2: The bounies are obviously made-up.
Looking at the bounty address for Ben's  head,     13DF5tKZfq8X8hGdhDUySSPgD8iGsFv2WG,
first of all you see that all the donations made except the first one have 0.0005 fee,
whereas the default now is 0.0001. This already hints that they could have been made by the same
person. Further, if you take the first donation made with this 0.0005 fee, which was from this address
1CNd58gBE5Hyxj62kVr1BArhVwdemuYZ7H , then you follow the chain from the "change" address,
always following the biggest output (there are always two), in ~15 steps you arrive at the
3rd donation (2nd with 0.0005 fee) to the same bounty address, made from here 1FRFwBPtRmWs6mU4FZ3faQuLz9eyBKgkrk .
I didn't follow this further, because  to me the conclusion is already clear:
all or the vast majority of the transactions to this address were made by the same person - the
"assassination market" owner, who is just a  scammer.

when you start selling them, please consider selling for fiat currencies.
I for one don't want to risk my coins on mining operation, but would throw some
more  $ on it (and just buying btc with $ takes time which you often don't have
when you want to buy a miner)

username: brul

I'd like my freebie plz. thanks