That's not what I am asking. I am asking whether we can have more staff whose only job is to recover people's acounts. Theymos and BadBear are incredibly busy doing a bunch of other stuff, not just with recovering accounts. If we had staff who only had to recover people's accounts, then the process would go much faster. Instead of having BadBear and Theymos recover accounts among all of the other stuff they have to do, we can have 2 or 3 people recover accounts and that is the only thing that they do. They verify signed messages and also let the user know whether the account can be recovered or not, instead of just not responding to them at all. The process for recovery would be the same, you would just be talking to another person.

Would it be possible to have staff members whose sole job is to recover people's accounts? I have seen a lot of threads about people complaining about locked and stolen accounts, and many times it looks like people have to wait a long time, the account never gets recovered, and they never get a response. If we had staff that worked on recovering accounts, we wouldn't have this problem, and they could at least tell the user why an account cannot be recovered instead of leaving them in the dark with no response.

Yeah but with Bitcoin, no one is going to steal your money just by knowing your address (both physical and Bitcoin). With a credit card, someone can commit credit card fraud with just a name and credit card number.

I actually don't use purse.io even though I know about it. I am a little concerned about purse since it is pretty much a carder's paradise. So much credit card fraud happens there and I don't want to be involved in that.

I use a bitcoin debit card for my purchases.

USD is not entering the cryptocurrency market. The US Dollar is controlled by the US Government, and they are in no way shape or form entering the cryptocurrency market. Someone just made a coin called BitUSD (and they are allowed to call that coin whatever the hell they want) but it does not mean that the US government endorses that coin. In fact, it is just another shitcoin altcoin that is just going to die soon because no gives a shit about it.

That is what Reuter's and all of the big Media around reports, but a lot of it isn't true. You should really check up on their facts. This article by Coindesk should also help.

I like the idea of a trezor, I just wouldn't use it since there is the risk that SatoshiLabs could somehow steal my Bitcoin with backdoors in software or hardware. I would rather roll my own and make something Trezor-like, something where I control most things in it. This would include hardware interaction and the software used on the device. Maybe a modified Raspberry Pi could work?

Credit cards actually charge fees to the merchants, and the cost is passed to the customer. In theory, if you paid with Bitcoin, it should be cheaper by more than a few cents.

With Bitcoin, you aren't owing money to someone. You either have the money at the time of purchase or you don't. Sure that may be inconvenient, but so is having to pay credit card payments and if you are late, then also the huge amount of interest that will generate.

Another thing about Bitcoin is that you don't need to give away all of your personal info in order to get some. Unlike with credit cards, there is no application you have to do, and you don't need to wait for any application to be approved before getting Bitcoin to spend.

Another is that if your card gets stolen, it is a pain in the ass to recover from fraud and it is also incredibly difficult to recover from identity theft that can also occur with stolen credit cards. With Bitcoin, there is none of that hassle, just the risk that if your Bitcoin is stolen due to your own poor security, you probably aren't getting any of it back.

This is AWESOME! I plan on buying a laptop from Newegg this week and I can make almost 0.1 BTC in rebates from that! Thanks for telling us about this.

BTC-e was probably one of the sketchiest exchanges out there. No one knew who was running them at all, we don't know who operates the site, what country they are in, and so much other information about them that people should know. The only reason people trusted the site was because they have been around for such a long time. Personally I think that this is your fault for choosing such a sketchy exchange to use.

Also, how are you going to bring legal action against them? You don't even know what country they operate in and who operates the site, everything is anonymous.

I don't see that. I see the expected green lock and the message that "Your connection to this site is private" What is the exact warning? It could be possible that you are under some kind of Man In the Middle attack.

The only issue I can see with both of these schemes is that the recipient must check every single message he receives to see if any of the encrypted messages will be decrypted by his key. However, someone could be encrypting random data to send to the recipient, which when decrypted, will look just like any other ciphertext that is encrypted with another key since decrypting a message not meant for you will also result in random data.

Contrary to popular belief, people who support Blockstream are not against block size increases. I am not against increasing the block size limit, in fact, I want it to happen. I prefer BIP106, not BIP101. I am also not against Blockstream and sidechains. The people who work at Blockstream and on their projects are good people. They are recognized developers and many are part of the Core Dev team. Many of them have also suggested other block size increase proposals. There are other ones besides BIP101 that are potentially viable.

Even if blockstream charges people to use sidechains, the project for that is open source. All of that code is publicly available and people can use it, fork it, and do their own stuff with it. You don't have to use blockchain. Someone can fork the source code (and many have) in case they decide to pull it down. Even if they decide to make the sidechains stuff closed source, people will take what they previously published and create own sidechains implementations off of that. We don't have to use blockstream.

accounts cannot be deleted. You can delete all of your posts and/or abandon the account. The easiest way is to just abandon the account by changing the password to some extremely long random string of characters that even you don't know.

You could also sell your account. You are a sr. member, you could sell your account for around 0.2 BTC and then you would make a profit off of it and someone else can use the account instead of letting it sit and take up space on the server.

This^^

People think that because the lightning network is something that Blockstream produced which is supposedly some company that is conspiring to keep the block sizes small so that all of the transactions go through their (not) proprietary lightning network and they can make profits off of that (somehow) and then they will somehow control Bitcoin because the lightning network is theirs.

Except that the above is completely false. Blockstream does not have proprietary control over lightning and sidechains, both are all open source projects. And they aren't against block size increases, some developers with blockstream are just against BIP 101's method of a fixed schedule, and others are thinking of different ways to increase the block size. And I don't even think there is a business model with lightning that they could make profits off of (I'm not sure about that though).

When is the ETA for that?

Are you sure that the Bitcoin was stolen? The transaction to that address looks like he didn't steal everything he could have. The balance of the address it was taken from was 0.02569787 but the thief only stole 0.025, not as much as he could have. That seems a little suspicious.

There is so much more to Bitcoin than just a get rich quick scheme by mining Bitcoin. You can get Bitcoin by doing work and jobs like you do any other currency. It can be used to buy stuff. You can try to utilize Bitcoin and blockchain to make something that can potentially become profitable.

When will Armory support the importing of compressed private keys?

Who would regulate? Who would make those regulations and validations? What central authority would do that? Could it be done in a decentralized way because everyone here f*cking hates central authorities? Why should we trust that central authority? And importantly, who will enforce the regulations? What will happen to those that don't comply? These are the questions I want answered if such a group is created.

Overall, I am not opposed to having a group that creates regulations and inspects Bitcoin companies to see how secure they are and their likelihood of scamming. I think the group should be several trusted members of the Bitcoin community who check Bitcoin companies on their security and create rules that those companies should follow. Then they rate companies based on how well they follow the rules and how people like them. I'm thinking something like the BBB (Better Business Bureau). However, that group should not have the power to enforce. They should only give their suggestions and recommendations to the public, they cannot shut down a business, they can only tell everyone to avoid it.