It would certainly need to be a receiver option because e-book authors and some other press outlets make micro transactions for materials viewed and/or downloaded with the thought that the content creator would accumulate a useable sum.
Yeah, it wouldn't be a good idea restricting it altogether, but an option to block certain amounts or addresses could be useful. |
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I've got a feeling this type of spamming will unfortunately become more common. Anyone know if the devs are working on a solution to this? Will it become a big problem or is it just a minor annoyance? |
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Are these people actual employees of Gox, or just long-term no-life users who were given big old e-peens in the Gox IRC?
Halfops =/= employment.
Probably this. People often become tiny tyrants and abuse the little power they've been given in these situations. Free speech so as long as you don't say anything critical or something they don't like. |
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Yeah, but any rational person will already know this. Only fools and naysayers try to slander Bitcoin this way. |
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That's funny, someone else dropped the same info probably while I was typing mine, in this very thread, and you didn't beat up on them for it?
He hardly beat you you up over it, but there are several threads about this already. |
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Very bad idea. If you want this sort of protection use escrow or a payment processor that offers this protection. Just look how bad Paypal is defrauded.
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I got one from Sochi, but what are they advertising exactly?
Sochi 2014 Olympics? Or maybe they do not advertising at all but instead protesting against Sochi Olympics. Protesting it by how? Confusing/annoying Bitcoin users?  |
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I agree, it's not a matter of burdening the network. It's a pure spammy advertising which they're sending no transaction fee with. So technically, 1 BTC can send 100,000,000 transactions to different addresses. Let 1% of these check the link, you've got 1,000,000 visitors. Which $700 ad campaign can generate such traffic?
Smart, but not ethical.
Is there a way to stop this, or are the devs working on something? Not that I know off, but I could be wrong. I know some addresses and associated addresses can be flagged in case of double spending, but I'm not entirely sure how/if they can be blocked from sending/receiving. If they can, the devs would have probably thought about blocking the SR seized coins with the FBI to prevent a mass sell off  Why would they do that? That's just asking for trouble. What I was thinking was more along the lines of being able to set your wallet to not receive dust etc. |
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Yes, confirmed on their site. Need to get those servers rolling for cryptothrift.com as it's the only marketplace and auction site still standing Feathercoin have one too: https://feathercoinmarket.com/index.phpIt's weird that these markets are closing down. There's potentially a lot of money to be made. I'd also rather use coins than pay ebay and PP's rapebastard fees. |
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The only reason I could think of is if the owner was scared of being charged with money laundering. If someone else was selling illegal goods on there but he was facilitating the BTC transfer, he could probably get in trouble. Hopefully someone else will step up and maybe legitimize a BTC marketplace, maybe require an ID. That might prevent people from trying to sell stolen goods, etc.
There's https://cryptothrift.com/. They didn't allow illegal items and wouldn't even let you sell stuff like Cannabis seeds on there. Did Coingig allow the sale of drugs? No wonder they are closing down. No, I just said they wouldn't even let people sell seeds, so where'd you get that from? |
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He'd feature somewhere. Obviously Benedict Cumberbatch would play DPR - he'll shift shapes, it's his type of role. After seeing what DPR looks like, someone like Emile Hirsch would be more appropriate I think. Benedict Cummberbund is too old. Hirsh could work. http://www.coindesk.com/5-actors-play-ross-ulbricht-silk-road-movie/Robert Pattison could too looking at that picture. It's not about how one looks, BC has started something of a habit of playing real people lol. BC for the win. On a serious note though, Emile Hirsch definitely looks the part. You've got to look a little bit like the person you're meant to be playing. I've not really seen Cumberbatch in much. Only a few of his small parts. |
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The only reason I could think of is if the owner was scared of being charged with money laundering. If someone else was selling illegal goods on there but he was facilitating the BTC transfer, he could probably get in trouble. Hopefully someone else will step up and maybe legitimize a BTC marketplace, maybe require an ID. That might prevent people from trying to sell stolen goods, etc.
There's https://cryptothrift.com/. They didn't allow illegal items and wouldn't even let you sell stuff like Cannabis seeds on there. |
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The story of "it ruined my usual lifestyle" is something fishy for sure. Don't everybody want to change their lifestyles for the better? Since the guy made 50k/day, I assume there's something behind the curtains. Something should've went extremely wrong for the author to effectively kill his app.
Maybe, premature market testing, copyright problems, or a part of viral campaign. The latter one is something extremely unlikely to be true, I believe. You don't usually promote one of the most popular apps in such a weird way.
Yeah, the must be more to it. He probably had legal pressure from someone. If he was just fed up from the attention he could've just kept it up and running and just refused media attention etc and kept himself to himself. |
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According to their site and their twitter page: "Coingig is going to be shutting down, we will process all remaining orders and make sure everyone is paid. We had a good run."
No explanation that I could find. I was starting to take all my business there because they only charge a 5% fee rather than eBay/PayPals combined ~13%. I wonder if they are worried about being charged with money laundering?
Wow, I wonder why? That's quite abrupt and disheartening. We need more of these marketplaces. |
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Doesn't bitcoin have spam dust fee like litecoin to prevent this type of spam on the network?
I don't think the transactions will ever get confirmed will they? Doesn't matter, they still burden the network. I agree, it's not a matter of burdening the network. It's a pure spammy advertising which they're sending no transaction fee with. So technically, 1 BTC can send 100,000,000 transactions to different addresses. Let 1% of these check the link, you've got 1,000,000 visitors. Which $700 ad campaign can generate such traffic? Smart, but not ethical. Is there a way to stop this, or are the devs working on something? |
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The point is that the marijuana-shops don't want to keep Bitcoin, they want to accept Bitcoin and have it exchanged for USD, like most merchants accepting Bitcoin.
And then you end up using a payment processor like BitPay or Coinbase. And these have banking relations to maintain. And if the banks don't like dealing with marijuana-shops, they won't like it if they do so indirectly anyway through a Bitcoin payment-processor.
I'm sure they could just sell them on exchanges themselves or even sell them back to customers. |
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Too bad , no one should buy Drugs using Bitcoin.
Why not? You should be able to buy whatever you want with a currency (good or bad). |
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He'd feature somewhere. Obviously Benedict Cumberbatch would play DPR - he'll shift shapes, it's his type of role. After seeing what DPR looks like, someone like Emile Hirsch would be more appropriate I think. Benedict Cummberbund is too old. Hirsh could work. http://www.coindesk.com/5-actors-play-ross-ulbricht-silk-road-movie/Robert Pattison could too looking at that picture. |
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