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15361  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: So we can get paid BTC for searching on Bing? on: June 26, 2015, 06:49:45 PM
Not available in my country yet. Also, reading from the feedback for this new feature of Bing, it seems that it is not worth it to spend a ton of your time searching for anything you can think of by using a search engine that is way too slow and sometimes fails to return you the results you are expecting.

Well, I got the Tango card successfully. Went to the website, redeemed it no problem. Apparently you can't redeem it for bitcoin.   Angry
As you can see, Bitcoin is listed on the rewards catalog here, (https://www.tangocard.com/the-rewards-catalog/)
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But when you redeem the code to your account, it seems to disappear.   Tongue

I looked, it's just not there to redeem as bitcoin. I think there's been a misunderstanding between rewards and shopping? I have no clue, but what a bummer.  Undecided

So will you still continue to use Bing even if bitcoin isn't really available in the rewards?
15362  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Password cracking? on: June 26, 2015, 06:40:54 PM
How do people crack passwords with bitcoin miners lika antminers s5? And how can I prevent my account from being cracked?

Anyone got knowledge of this?

What passwords and accounts are you referring to? If it is about the forum, there are several ways to prevent your account from being compromised like generating a strong password (usually 15 characters or more are enough, but common words or phrases can be easily guessed by attackers). Also, bitcoin miners cannot in any way crack any passwords as far as I know.

I've never heard of password cracking with miners but passwords are generally hard to crack past 12 chars unless formed with one word.

Agreed, 12 char passwords or more cannot be easily cracked if it's unintelligible or made up of different combinations of letters, numbers and/or symbols. If it is a phrase or a group of words, it can be easily guessed by an attacker within hours or minutes.
15363  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: So I guess people are using bitcoins for takeaway on: June 20, 2015, 06:16:03 PM
Sad to see that this service is only operating within 7 countries. Sad I've always wanted to order food online when I'm with my girl so as to lessen the hassle of calling through the phone or walking on a physical store to buy food. The idea of this service that can be paid with bitcoin is really amazing, though it needs to expand for it to gain a wide audience.

P.S.,
Our country (the Philippines) still lacks a pizza for bitcoin online store. It would be nice to have one since the number of bitcoin users here in the country is increasing. Smiley
15364  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: A major flaw with Bitcoin on: June 14, 2015, 01:52:45 PM
Fiat money gains its smell from the hands it went through and it's usually not one of its basic characteristics. Bitcoin can be printed on paper and can be passed to different people, and thus gaining "smell."
15365  Economy / Economics / Re: What awaits Bitcoin in the future? (poll) on: June 11, 2015, 02:17:53 PM
The room for growth in bitcoin is very large; there are many things that could happen along the way. It is very evident that there are setbacks every now and then, like companies saying bitcoin isn't good, gov'ts banning bitcoin, several exchanges asking for too much personal information (that is against bitcoin's concept of anonymity) and most specially, people on-board treating bitcoin as an investment and not as a currency. The concept of bitcoin is great, I mean, who doesn't want to have full control of their money? It's just that the general public are too accustomed on using the fiat system on their monetary engagements. Once the general public realizes that bitcoin is the way to go and fiat is completely flawed in several aspects.
15366  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why ISIS winning in Iraq? on: June 09, 2015, 09:04:10 AM
Though Iraqi forces outnumbers ISIS in terms of troops, the coordination between Iraqi troops and the guts to fight ISIS is missing. It is true that the US trained Iraqi forces, but not to the extent that the whole army is being trained (according to one article that I've read, only 5000 Iraqi troops are given basic weapons and tactics training. More info here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the-us-military-is-back-training-troops-in-iraq-but-its-a-little-different-this-time/2015/01/08/11b9aa58-95f2-11e4-8385-866293322c2f_story.html)
15367  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How to protect against the bitcoin robbery? on: June 09, 2015, 08:35:20 AM
What kind of robbery? In the physical world or in the virtual world? Kindly specify what kind of robbery are we talking here. Smiley
15368  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: WE JUST LAUNCHED! - The latest Bitcoin store! on: June 09, 2015, 08:34:05 AM
Your site doesn't seem to have any contact details for your company. Unless I missed them somewhere.

Perhaps they're meant to be under the non-working "Support" button?

Looking at the product mixture on their shop and their willingness to report reduced price on the shipment to save on your customs duty, I am pretty convinced they're based in China.

I have seen similar products and policies on chinabuye.com and pandawill.com when I was looking to buy a cheap Android tablet.

I've once pointed out that this might be a scam because of the prices they offer for several gadgets. It turns out that their products came from China, but I can say that they aren't from China. Also, I talked to the site owner (or one of the owners, he once said that he and his brother is setting up this store) and discussed some issues that they might face in case they set this up and running. I still have the private messages intact in my inbox and in case this store do shit, I can help in the issue if ever.

And no, I am not in any way affiliated to them.
15369  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Which exchanges need little verification? on: June 07, 2015, 08:15:11 PM
Not familiar with exchanges in Guatemala but I have found a website in which you can find several bitcoin exchanges. Kindly take a look in this site: http://howtobuybitcoins.info/gt.html

Hope it helps you in finding a service that will satisfy your needs. Smiley
15370  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Welcome to Earth on: June 07, 2015, 08:11:52 PM
What exactly is the point of having a flag for a planet? Are there any other planets in the solar system that has a flag? If other intelligent life-forms found our planet, they wouldn't care for the flag. Obviously, they will care for the resources they can gather in our planet. Sure we have a flag, and that flag represents us being the citizens of Earth, but do you think aliens would care about that? No.

P.S., the flag isn't that nice. I prefer James W. Cadle's flag.

EDIT: corrected a single word.
15371  Other / Meta / Re: Phishing link received from user - bobbo54113 on: June 07, 2015, 08:03:40 PM
I received the following PM from someone with the subject '100 bitcoins' - it appears to be some kind of extortion attempt
!!! WARNING: This user is a newbie. If you are expecting a message from a more veteran member, then this is an imposter !!!

we have acquired all of your passwords and login information through an sql injection that was sent through the phishing site. we will keep grabbing info until you meet our demands.
1. You will NOT release the information.

2. You will leave them alone.

3. You will send an apology PM to them.

If these demands are not met, we will never stop.

- ANONMERC Smiley

P.S. To get rid of an sql injection script, you have to format your C drive.                  Cheers.

Haha this is escalating quicker than I ever imagined. Is it coming from another alt of the previous one? Also, why would he leave a hint as to how the receiver of the message get rid of the malicious script?

-snip-
P.S. To get rid of an sql injection script, you have to format your C drive.                  Cheers.

Seriously? Huh
15372  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? on: June 07, 2015, 07:06:46 PM
There is no Satoshi Nakamoto, the Bitcoin creator in this world anymore. He died in 2010 or 2011. Roll Eyes

We're on the same page. I'm also thinking that the persona behind Satoshi Nakamoto died a few years back (sickness/natural causes or killed by someone), though there are some people that I think is Satoshi (the EhVedadooAnonimato user here in bitcointalk, topic here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1062829.0).
15373  Other / Meta / Re: User creating massive amounts of referral spam - EmpoEX on: June 07, 2015, 06:58:22 PM
Hmm I've noticed some of the posts with that cloud mining referrals but I just ignored them (I'm not helping the mods in doing their job Sad). I thought referral links aren't allowed for posting? Just a suggestion, I think auto-removing referral links should be implemented in this forum. Just a thought that popped out of my head.

Edit: I think we need more Global Mods. YourNewGod excessively spamming. Hope these accounts will be banned soon.

Not necessarily needed for the mean time I think, as long as there are also other members of this forum helping the mods in their job by reporting posts like this. Smiley
15374  Other / Meta / Re: BitcoIntalk phishing PM! Warning! on: June 07, 2015, 06:41:31 PM
Good thing there is a feature of the forum wherein suspicious links coming from private messages are automatically disabled. Gullible people (like me) still clicks on links that are being sent by unknown users, thinking that this might be some good websites. Good thing I haven't encountered one of those PM's yet.

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There are legit reasons for newbies to send a number of links to people, however I think phishing sites of the forum should probably be added to the list of domains that get auto removed

I agree on this idea that suspicious links should have a complete list so as to get them auto-deleted if ever another user attempts to use them again.
15375  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What if Satoshi was revealed to be Charles Manson on: June 07, 2015, 05:06:19 PM
Whoever this "evil" may be, I should thank him for giving an eye-opener to the things that are really happening around me and possibly saving me from another evil entity/ies (banks, financial institutions, and possibly the government). It wouldn't change a thing--at least for me--because I really like the idea of being your own bank, anonymous-like transactions, no authoritative control, and low processing fees.
15376  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I wanted to know!!!! on: June 07, 2015, 01:12:57 PM
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Nope. As far as I can remember, most wallet services only require 6 confirmations from the network before the balance appeared in the wallet. That will only take 30 minutes usually (in opposition to several days before you can flag a transaction complete in bank transfers). In case of importing wallets, it only takes several minutes before the process is done. I don't see how you consider that as long.

30 minutes - too long for me. Sometimes you need to quickly convert from one Bitcoin exchange for another. For this, I and many others are using other coins. This is for me the main drawback.
Very often it is necessary to wait more than 30 minutes (~60min). Although I pay a good commission.

Even banks require more time than 30 minutes to process a transaction. If you see that transactions being settled for more than 30 minutes but not more than an hour a drawback already, then you must find a new competitive service that completely outpaces bitcoin in many things. Without the necessary confirmations in the network, then even though you have some coins ready within a minute or 10 minutes, you'll have useless coins given to you because coins that are used in a transaction should be confirmed first by the network to ensure that these coins are valid enough to be spent.
15377  Other / Meta / Re: Satoshi's IP address(es)? on: June 06, 2015, 03:28:08 PM
Well he's not Japanese, that we can pretty sure of.
On what are you basing that assertion?

Judging from the language which the client was, I can fairly say that Satoshi Nakamoto is not a native of Japanese but just used the pseudonym so as to conceal his true identities. Also, he asked people if they can translate the client into different languages, and if Satoshi was a native speaker of Niponggo, then he would probably do the translation himself. Also if you can read his posts in this forum and other websites, his proficiency in English is outstanding and is very profound (and if you note the time of his activities in his forum, he may be living somewhere in UTC +0, British maybe? Or just having a strict sleeping routine).
15378  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I wanted to know!!!! on: June 06, 2015, 01:17:51 PM
Bitcoins can be called disadvantages.
Constantly increasing the size blockchain.
Very long transfers between wallets.
It is necessary to wait 6 evidence, and it is long!
Many believe that the end will come soon Bitcoins.

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Constantly increasing the size blockchain.

This is necessary as the need for data space will arise as soon as the network sees increasing transactions over time.

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Very long transfers between wallets.

Nope. As far as I can remember, most wallet services only require 6 confirmations from the network before the balance appeared in the wallet. That will only take 30 minutes usually (in opposition to several days before you can flag a transaction complete in bank transfers). In case of importing wallets, it only takes several minutes before the process is done. I don't see how you consider that as long.

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It is necessary to wait 6 evidence, and it is long!

Necessary? Yes, so as to prevent double-spending. However, there are some clients who don't flag a transaction valid before it reach 120 blocks deep. See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Confirmation for more information.

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Many believe that the end will come soon Bitcoins.

This are only some of the factors that helped bitcoin see its way to where it is right now. Without the necessary safety precautions and measures that is being implemented in the coin, I don't see bitcoin going this far.
15379  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: NYC man robbed of bitcoins on: June 06, 2015, 12:52:57 PM
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"After the pair met up at Troy Avenue and Crown Street, the supposed would-be buyer asked the victim to come to his car, a silver Honda, to seal the deal, sources said."
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Why would a person willingly go inside someone's car just to seal a deal? They could've probably go to a place where there are people so as to ensure each party's safety. Also, I think this is a fake news aiming to put the silk road issue. Because what does this sentence do to the topic of the article?

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In March, two federal agents who were investigating Silk Road — the underground online Web site where users buy drugs and weapons using bitcoins — were busted for pocketing the virtual currency for their own personal use.

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison last week after he was found guilty of running the black-market site.
15380  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: World's Biggest Bitcoin Holders on: June 04, 2015, 03:21:36 PM
There is an entire website that lists which addresses own the most Bitcoin. You can find it here: https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html

edit:
Why does the balance on blockchain.info is not the same?? All the richlist address are almost empty on blockchain?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938903.0
thanks for this. Changed the site to accurate one.

How come I cant see satoshi's 1M btc on that list?

Satoshi's coins are probably distributed to many addresses and not just pooled in only one address. There is an assumption that he holds over 1 million coins because during the early days, he was the sole miner in the network.



As for the OP, there isn't even a single correlation to an address with any personal information of people. You will only know that this person holds X amount of coins only if that person decides to put his/her address together with his/her personal identity (e.g. the profile on bitcointalk where in you can place your address together with your profile.)
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