You better did that back then. blockchain.info was known to have several bugs and security flaws for a time now, and it isn't even advisable to store your coins in an online wallet. The mobile app is fine, but with the recurring bugs and security issues, I don't think people would still be confident on doing business with blockchain.info.

"So long as there are men, there will be wars." -Albert Einstein

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Well it clearly proves a point that as long as humans exists, there will be conflicts and whatnot, usually starting from ideologies, different disputes and conflicting ideas. Bitcoin has nothing to do with world peace, it's just a financial instrument that people can use to somehow free themselves from the oppression of the banks and the governments. Bitcoin is a tool, yes, but not a tool to save the world or help the world attain global peace.

This is quite enticing. Can you offer lower prices for bitcoin customers? And is this legit? o.o

My new address: 1A26NMs1Ta5pSCDJ2vVybciMtyeZM1UEvK

Message: I am the new owner of this account as the previous owner sold it to me outside this forum. Will this work?

(actually, ignore the message. My girl went nuts earlier so she typed that.)

Signature: ICNK5m2r5UoUAddoH9nwb8GyNK275evTDK0gcTXJWi6PUN9wn7I70K4//QT8cbwbVSKhFYY+SgRJD4iG1CoOzpc=

A very sound advice telling a person go big or go broke, but hey! It's his decision after all. For the record, I only gambled three times in my life, and that doesn't include bitcoins but rather dogecoins. I made 500,000+ dogecoins out of my 10,000 dogecoins deposit. After three runs, I managed to get 650,000 dogecoins all in all. I won, yes, but after that, I know that I will lose so I stopped and just looked for another option to earn and here I am, posting for a signature campaign and doing some surveys and turks just to earn some extra cash.

If you are curious as to where I did that feat, it is at SatoshiBet, the minesweeper game in there.

But seriously though, as long as you can, stay away from gambling sites because once you get addicted, you will spend every single bit of your earnings just to win it big time.

Not sure if this will be a feasible way of increasing your assets. You know, there are things that requires skill and luck to achieve positive results rather than relying on sheer luck alone. I don't believe on the Martingale method or some other stuff like that, certain algorithms do their jobs on those dice games and other gambling games (except poker and card games) and you cannot actually take advantage of it. I suggest you learn the basics of trading alt coins and see if you can make something out of it. It is equally risky, yes, but if executed perfectly, the risks will be minimized and the chances of you earning is big.

Definitely, not only in financial terms, but also in different knowledge areas specifically economics and politics. Bitcoin opened my eye wider to the things that are actually happening around me. From the greediness of the banks to the overly-obsessed politicians to power, bitcoin helped me see more, see clearer to what is really happening. There is more to bitcoin than just being a financial asset, people. The concept behind it will make you see through what is really happening in our society right now.

Farming accounts are not prohibited in this forum, but I think using them for different campaigns will likely be resulted into a ban of the farmed account and the main account (because afaik, every connection of a user is IP logged, so that makes it easier to track who is doing multiple-signature spamming. Reference: https://bitcointalk.org/?action=help

What I usually do is to send x amount of btc to an exchange and withdraw it to a new address. Most of the exchanges do not use the same address if you withdraw your coins. In that way, your coins may be mixed with other coins and will likely be untraceable. Other mixer service also do the thing, but I'm not sure whether your coins would really be that secure or 'mixed' because any time, these mixing services could tell the information to the authorities.

Fake. Other block explorers are showing that the addresses that are assumed to be Satoshi's still have the balance intact. See this one for example: https://btc.blockr.io/address/info/12c6DSiU4Rq3P4ZxziKxzrL5LmMBrzjrJX

Your friend isn't lucky, he already knows what he is doing back then. In the case of bitcoin, it is a completely new economy back then: no one knows for certain whether this is going to go big or go broke, whereas CKG was launched (2014) long after bitcoin was launched (2009). At this point in time, there are already people who knows how this works, and if you know what your actions will be, if it yields you a positive result, then it is no longer called luck, but rather skill. Bitcoin is different, because as I've said earlier, it is entirely new. No one knows what to do from point A to point B; they just hold it and luckily it gained traction because people noticed it.

We don't actually let them make this kind of money, but rather we are helping them to make this kind of money by supporting them in their objectives. Also, we are controlled by them (print more and more money for the plebeians, they think it's good lol) and there is not much we can do about it, unless we can find a way to avoid their control (bitcoin, maybe?).

Well, not all people experience doing the right thing at the right time i.e. me when bitcoin was in its infancy. If I only knew bitcoin back then, I would have been a millionaire now, but no. Also, no one knows for certain back then that bitcoins would be that big, so I think those who hopped the train early were very, very lucky to be doing the right thing at the right time, and that is before the ATH of Nov. 2013. Well, that was the first wave of luck that bitcoin brought to us so far. Who knows? Maybe there might be another lucky event that at this time, we are going to be included?

The point number 3 on ndnhc's post only tells you that you cannot use someone's address for fraud or scamming because first and foremost, you cannot prove that you have control over that address because you cannot sign a simple message using that address.

Most of the assumed Satoshi Nakamoto's addresses received a transaction from 2009 - early 2010. The only miner that time was satoshi and it is logical to believe that because he was the only miner, he would also receive the first coins to his addresses.

Check this thread. This is where the member group limits are located and with clear explanation of how a certain rank is attained: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=237597.0

EDIT: Seems that you already got the answer that you wanted. Time to close this thread now, I guess.

Uhhm, nope. blockr.io still gives me 50.00001000 as the final balance of that address. http://btc.blockr.io/address/info/1JfbZRwdDHKZmuiZgYArJZhcuuzuw2HuMu So much excitement, I thought someone still have the control of that address.

EDIT: Why does blockhain.info returns a different output?
https://blockchain.info/address/1JfbZRwdDHKZmuiZgYArJZhcuuzuw2HuMu (can't post a screenshot)

Well, just follow the member group limits. At 480 activity, you will be a Hero Member. As to what ColderThanIce pointed, achieving Legendary rank is guaranteed between 775 and 1030 activity. Oh and you said that you have that account since 2011? There is no way to boost your rank into Legendary even though you should be one right now. If you stopped posting on the biweekly periods, then you miss the chance of gaining 14 activity points, and there is no way you can regain those lost activity points by posting too many posts. This is what I like on the member group limits--you cannot game the system even though you've been here since the beginning of this forum.

Same thing here, but I realized that memorizing the user ID would save you some time in searching the name of the bitcointalk profile in a search engine. Idk but I find it more convenient than typing the name of the user (especially if it's a long and sometimes unintelligible.)

Not necessary, I think. Just stake your address in the "Stake your bitcoin address here." thread on the meta section and you shall be fine. Also, don't forget to change your password and email immediately after the deal is closed, or else the seller will still have control of the account you have just bought.