My first bits came from faucets, after a week, I discovered bitcointalk and saw that there are "signature campaigns" that pay their members to just post and post. The first campaign that I participated in was Primedice. I remember the time when Members are still allowed in that campaign, and the first that I received from that campaign is 0.04btc. Not a bad start. Soon after I discovered the altcoin trading section, I started watching the markets, but didn't totally understand a thing until I tried my first trade. I didn't know that buying Blackcoins at the time would be a great investment (well I bought the coin because of the name lol). Within a couple of hours, I managed to get my 0.04 into 0.28, and I never knew how did I do just that. It turned out that by that time, the coins is being pumped. From then on, I started researching more and more in this trading stuff until I get the hold of it. Now I'm doing some trades every now and then.

I'm from the PH too, and I don't think that there are 7% of the entire population that really know bitcoin. There are some exchanges, services and people that promote the use of bitcoin but it seems that the general public is still iffy about the actual use of it. Also, it is surprising that even the smart minds in the IT industry aren't that familiar with the term "bitcoin" and what it really is.

Not yet widely-known and only a few small groups here in our country help the BTC takes it cut into our nation (the Philippines). i know some people who use bitcoin for trading and whatnot, and also I know several crew members of a bitcoin exchange here in the Philippines.

I know a similar service like this already exists, just forgot the website. In there, you could by a cheap phone or an expensive laptop, depends on what your budget is. Idk if it is a legit service though.

Oh wait I remember now, it is named Coins for Tech. Just forgot their domain name.

Aside from being a public ledger, I don't see anything more to the block chain (at least for my own thinking). It could be a proof that a certain transaction is valid and therefore must be kept anyways, but that's all I can think of.

So, have they accepted the fact that relying on fiat isn't that viable for any longer? Apparently, they are seeing that crypto-related technology would be the future of finance and economics. This is big once they started using it.

I don't know if social media campaigns/advertisements pay decently and not also sure whether they pay decently or not. Have you tried looking for such in the services section? There are a lot of campaigns in there that you might be interested in participating. Also, this is the inappropriate board for this query. Better move this to the services section instead.

I don't know if anyone else aside from me do this method, but I find it really easy and helpful: I send my coins to an exchange and withdraw it to an another address. The coins are very hard to be linked to a single address or trace as to where the coins go because apparently, the coins most of the time stay in that address even though you withdraw your funds into an another address.

This is the third time a see a similar thread like this in a span of a day. Well, this kind of advertising spam happens every now and then, and I think it is just a way of the advertisers to promote their service in a shitty manner. It clogs the blockchain, adds worrying to the users thinking that they're being watched, and annoys the users.

Ooh another "victim" of advertising spam on the blockchain. Well it isn't a mysterious payment; it's just another attempt on advertising a service and getting you to visit the site that may or may not harm your computer. Whatever happens, don't click the link. Also, don't worry about the 0.0001.

Yup. Idk what is the point of that, but to me it seems that they are just helping to clog the blockchain by sending small amount of bitcoins to random addresses. That isn't a good thing to advertise imo. There are many other options for advertising, not by just spamming the blockchain.

Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/05/05/kiev-ukraine-moldova-globalpost/26923909/

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A case like this wouldn't happen if there aren't people in the authority who helped this thing done. Well, that's fcked up if people would lend some people money without asking their personal information and such. Something fishy happened here.

Also, wrong board. Kindly move to Politics and Society.

Glad to be of help. I have experienced the same on another wallet and tried to reset and re-sync the blockchain and the transactions appeared, so I think that it would also work on other wallets with the same problem, too.

Well I have created several paper wallets and I haven't downloaded any code from any website to produce one, instead, I directly print it once the necessary things are done. You need to run bitaddress.org offline so as to minimize the risk of having a compromised paper wallet in terms of security. Also, once you made the wallet, be sure to keep it safe. You don't want to have a wallet that's useless after all those safety precautions and cautious procedures, do you?

It is a lite wallet so it is not a hassle in case you re-sync it with the network because it doesn't need to download all the data from the genesis block. Try resetting the blockchain and sync it to see whether the transactions get through or not. If that doesn't work, we'll try to help out as soon as you fix your problem. Post feedback here after doing the above.

Which wallet are you using? Just like what others instructed, try resetting the blockchain or anything similar (that is what i see in my wallet) and re-sync it with the network. I've experienced that same issue on my Android wallet (the one made by Andreas Schildbach) and reset the blockchain and synced it again, then the transactions went through.

Is your wallet synced with the network up to this minute? This could be some synchronization problem because if it is shown in the blockchain, the transaction is valid, and therefore happened.

What exactly are we talking here? Sometimes, bitcoin transactions can be traced via the tx id if it is not yet detected by the network. If the transactions didn't appear in the blockchain, two things might've happened: 1. the transaction didn't happen and; 2. an error occurred in the transaction eg. you sent to the wrong address.

Just by looking at the picture, I'm already confused as to what belongs to who even though there are pointers. Also, why would bitcoin share its ledger to the banks when in the first place it is conceptualize that we are going against the current financial system? By sharing the public ledger, bitcoin is also sharing what's unique to its concept and structure: transparency, which the banks don't offer afaik.

We all know that Chinese aren't that far behind in terms of technology. In fact, theirs are advancing at a fast rate. Even though they hold the sufficient technology to crack or generate the same private keys to Satoshi's addresses, it still is a resource-consuming and time-consuming effort to recover those coins. SHA-256 is secure enough to be cracked by our technology for the next couple of centuries, and I doubt that even with the world's most advanced computers today, the algorithm would be cracked within a short span of time.