This guy left a very weird negative feedback today for me
"I have since been offered reputation services to the cost of $4000 to clear my Bitcoin talk name" and referenced this topic.
Now I have him on the ignore list since he was annoying, but I see no one offering him any services here...

There aren't very many of them, but plenty of smaller altcoins have Bisq (a decentralized exchange) listed as a primary exchange. Bisq pretty much adds any altcoin that people request, so there are hundreds of them by now.

You would be surprised how many people in China use VPNs and Tor. Usually everyone has someone to set it up for them, since you only need to set it up once. It is just like when people don't know how to use cracks for programs and video games or even torrents. They just ask someone who knows. It really isn't that hard, is isn't programing or nothing needing skill or education, it is a normal function of an OS. Same as people setup WiFi or anything else that is not an everyday task.

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Your username is a full name which is kind of unusual to say the least. Also it is a female name, not that I think they don't get in to the Bitcoin, just that of hundreds of people I know in Bitcoin, none of them are woman, so it is less then 1%. And you were not reluctant to give a positive feedback. I don't want to be rude, but you really aren't bright bitcoinicon. I am very serious, you are quite below average. I would be quite concerned if I were you.

I believe that you shouldn't respect what other believe. Do you respect my beliefs?

You should learn about torproject.org
Bitcoin is very well tested over Tor and built to work with it well. Governments tried to block a lot of stuff, but it doesn't work. Torrents survived, so did Tor. China does these things all the time, but it just gets people to learn about anti-censorship tech. There is really no way to stop people from talking to each other in an efficient manner.

And when it comes to regulations, Bitcoin doesn't need them, it can surpass them and will not stop it from growing and taking over. Besides, governments are regulated by people themselves, they do something that people really don't like and off with the heads. Democracy pretty much won the world by now, more to do still, but hey, it is getting there and Bitcoin is helping quite a lot.

Why ever sell? You need some life savings man. If you believe in Bitcoin then you should plan and push to use it one day, just like people use fiat now. If Bitcoin achieves it's goal you will not need to sell it for fiat

Early adopters control the system forever. All the problems of centralization apply. One point of failure and all that.

Too bad I can't ignore the quoted replies from this guy. It is still weird to me that he is replying to me, when I don't usually see what he says. These treats are very pathetic. I always laugh at first, but then I just feel sorry for him since he is so pathetic thinking someone would be afraid of him, what a moron.

"Government protects us from even bigger scams." You sound like someone that is paying protection money for mafia.
That is what they will tell you, because they need you to be scared. But if you are smart, no one can trick you. You don't need their regulations, just use your head, don't let others be smart for you, because they will just use you, like they do.

Let them regulate it. Let those who are afraid to leave. We don't want them here in the first place. But making speculations on how many people will leave and how much money they have is a fool's job. Think about the long term, that is only thing that makes sense to predict. Is Bitcoin worth it's market cap, will it grow, do you think it is a useful and secure system, better then fiat? That is a question you should be concerned about. The rest is just fears and greed and in the end, no one can hurt you if you don't let them, not in the big picture. Be concerned about your part, not about other's.

You shouldn't get it to the Bitcoin if you want to get rich. You should get in it if you are willing to use it as a currency, to get paid in it, to sell stuff for it and to buy stuff with it. If you think that there is too much people that will dump it, then calculate it in the price and buy and sell it for what you think it is worth. If no one is willing to sell you something for what you think it is worth in BTC, then don't buy it, if no one is willing to pay you what you think your work is worth in BTC then don't do that job.

Everything is calculated in the price, the risk and everything else. If you don't agree, then that is fine, set your own rates. Same for fiat. It is ok for you to trade, everything is a trade and nothing is risk free. Countries go into hyperinflation, into bailouts, that is why Bitcoin was created in the first place. It was used by the people who believed in Bitcoin more then in the government. This all happened before BTC was making people rich, but it grew in price regardless, more and more people believed in Bitcoin. There is certainly people who will just pump and dump, there are people like that in every currency and everything of value. The percentage of these people is arguable in every currency and every stock. This is not just Bitcoin.

So you shouldn't buy anything that you don't think is worth it, just because you predict it will grow in price. All predictions are risky, you shouldn't bet on it.

There ware many cases when fiat went useless, governments don't last forever. Dollar won't either. Sooner or later every fiat falls and new one rises. Dollar was worth a lot more once. But inflation is killing it and if the country needs more, they will print more and dollar will fall even more, as it happens all the time. They gave money to the banks, they fund wars. Their currency is a lot worse then Bitcoin. Bitcoin acts as a currency a lot better then any fiat, it is small tho, so outside influences can affect it too much, but it changing all the time, for the better. More people accept Bitcoin as payment, more people pay people with it. That is it's true value and it grows.

Maybe you are just not a good scientist "It was all done with magic" doesn't sound like a good explanation to me...

I would say that Primecoin might be a better example of a useful secure PoW coin. You get big primes as a result, which is always useful in cryptography. Since prime numbers are used in public/private key cryptography, it would be kind of like it is feeding it self Who knows, maybe one day we figure out how to make a nice switch in Bitcoin's PoW algorithm, that might take some time tho.

WhyFuture paused their campaign yesterday. Chek their topic for more info.

All of them are at fault. They all sold a wallet without disclosing very important information, just so they can earn money on their expense. They all sold a wallet that they claimed had 468 BTC without actually knowing that it did. They also all acted like it was their wallet and they knew there was 468 BTC in it. That is a fraud, a scam, for their own benefit. Neither of them should be trusted for any further deals. They are selfish and irresponsible when it comes to other people's money.

Specifically bitcoinicon claimed that it was a legal wallet in the video's title itself and that he is selling it as a lottery. That was all a lie.
qasimilyas99 said that it was his wallet that he forgot a password for it and couldn't crack it because of the lack of GPU. But we know now that he tried cracking it ( he had the hardware for it ) and the guy from btcrecover said it was corrupted as well. Then when he lied all over about it all and changed his offer from sharing coins from a cracked wallet to buying a wallet and sharing nothing. Which shows that he knew at that point about the wallet's problem.

Bottom line is that they all lied either way. Even if bitcoinicon bought the wallet or made it himself, he is still a lier and a fraud. None of them should be trusted.

What if someone believes that your beliefs shouldn't be respected. Should that belief be respected?

Who wouldn't enjoy police? Every policeman is great, no doubt about it. That is why they give them guns and not to us, because they are all better then us, this is obvious. If they think that some or all of us are a threat, they need to be able to kill us, this is absolutely a foolproof idea. It never goes wrong.

No

SHA algorithms have been public for a long time, by now someone would likely found out and publish it. Thanks to Bitcoin there is a financial incentive for it as well, so the odds are against it. I think it is quite hard, even for NSA, to hide something like that in plain sight for so long.

First and original Bitcoin? I wouldn't be so bold to say that. First and original blockchain? Maybe, I don't know if there ware any successful hardforks in it's development to fix a bug or something. But to my knowladge, this hardfork was planed by Satoshi himself, long time ago. I can't say I know with certainty all the fork history and changes in protocol and design of Bitcoin all these years, but I am pretty certain that making your blocks bigger is not really stepping away from Bitcoin's originality. that was the first plan after all. And a softfork is a fork as well. So I don't think we should claim that Bitcoin Cash is somehow less original.