When the client transferred you the Bitcoins, he must have given you some information for you to have verify that that the transaction took place and confirmed successfully. He would have at the very least given you a transaction ID or a Bitcoin address or a private key.

But if he asked you to install a software as you described... you probably are mistaken. Far as I know, the Nano itself is a hardware wallet... you can't turn your harddrive into a Nano. Perhaps the description you gave seems to indicate you were asked to install a wallet.

Could you not ask the client for clarification on what you were asked to do? What was the software given to you? This was transferred over IRC?

Be very careful with what you share here, Xynerise warns because if you share your private keys here, anyone could take control of your coins. As pointed out, all the info you might have been given will all look like a long string of random characters, which you wouldn't be able to tell apart... so don't post any of that here until we can determine what you have.

Feel bad for the guy who lost 80% of his coins due to "hacks, exchanges" and other shit. But did he really have to go full paranoid and store his private keys on his body? Now that his name and storage is publicly known, does he not think there could be attempts made to either using radio or some to hack/steal the data on those chips, or in worst case scenario, even just to hack those hands off his body?

Satoshi's supposed wallets have been sitting untouched since 2010. I'm pretty sure he never had to resort to extreme measures. Paper wallets would even have been a far, far better option that those chips. Hardware wallets. Chips in your hands?

Right! Came home from a night out, didn't watch any games but nice to see the league light up! Liverpool got a nice 3-0 win, which has been my favourite score all season, so they won me my doubler. And City got me my ML win too, Pep avoided an unwanted record of 4 straight losses. So nice beer money after the week's matches. Perfect run of wins on betting. Maybe I shouldn't watch more often to get the jinxing out.

P.S. Bitcoin's doing well again, will soon be back to betting 0.001 as my favourite base bet?

@Wendigo Betfair always has odds for manager sacking
@toke you found any joy with the new links?

I think traders can roundly agree that bots are very good for automating strategies that you as a trader must manually build. That's all bots are good for. That's no guarantee of profit, since strategies work... until they don't. All the trading bot scams that litter the internet are proof of this.

Some say AI and NLP now are the answer. There are scores of blockchain projects focusing on this alone. What can I say? They also work, until they don't. The fact is, the market cannot be gamed if you can't exert any influence over it. Whales are probably the only traders that can somewhat move things in their preferred direction but even they cannot control how the market reacts.

The sooner you accept the facts, the better for yourself. Expect facilitation of your strategy and nothing else, and you'll do fine with bots.

I feel your pain, but I guess you can tell from posters here that few people would sympathise. The things you want might seem to be better available in the conventional financial and employment system where you're protected by centralised systems... governments that ensure you get paid according to fixed contracts, etc.

Think about it. We're all taking risks here. I could be earning in Bitcoin all my life and have it suddenly worth zero one day. It could happen. Would be unfortunate, but it wouldn't be unfair.

Same as ICO participants. They could say it's unfair they invested thousands for tokens that eventually are worth next to nothing. Unfortunate, not unfair.

Move on, and next time, look for fixed payment for work you do if you want predictable earnings. These token bounties are a risk it seems you're unwilling to take.

At OP, not that it seems to be extremely active, but you might also link your issue and mention it in their official thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=276455.360

Bots closing support tickets don't sound very good, you sure that's what's happening?

Also checked out the signature campaign run by Lauda. Don't think he'd be inclined to contact them for your issue... start something like that and he'd set precedent for others. Pretty sure he'd alert them that there were unhappy users though, you don't seem to be only one judging from posts in their official thread.

Would be a shame if they go down this track. I quite like them.

Assuming this world war would be on a scale larger than the previous, all economies would be affected, including cryptocurrency. It wouldn't suffer as much as fiat though. I think immediate impacts would be some fiat immediately devalued as opposing factions stop recognizing each other's national currencies. Others would be vulnerable to hyperinflation.

I imagine Bitcoin itself will soar in value, but there will probably be wild variations across exchanges, with many possibly choosing to abstain from trading with fiat. If anything, we might see an uptake in crypto adoption as governments rush to hedge and protect their assets.

Mining rigs might also be military targets. Can easily see this happening. Power rationing would mean shutting down all non-essential use of electricity, so industrial miners can say bye-bye, probably even have their hardware conscripted for technological warfare.


Nodes will find a way around that. Blockstream's satellite network comes to mind.

Calls... I was referring to the signals you're posting here. You're advising entry points, advising exits, so I'm saying that you made calls on prices... or have I been using this term erroneously all this while? And no, we do not know each other. I certainly hope not, anyway!

And I'm asking that you also share the "bad calls", signals that didn't turn out as you though. Always curious to see successes as well as failures - we all have them.

OK you guys. Back for another weekend of football mania. I've been having pretty decent runs in mid-week football but not weekend premier league, but I never learn my mistakes, so here are my bets for today's games.

First up is the only real game worth watching, and that's the last one at Wembley. Now, normally I back the underdog, but if you look at bookies, City and Spurs are both above 2.6 to win, so there's no value backing Spurs @2.7, I'd rather take City @2.6. That's just maths, but City will want to avoid 4 straight defeats in 10 days, they've got nothing else but pride to fight for now, so I believe they'll either maul Spurs or be mauled. This will be a test of the most hyped team in EPL.

The other game I'm betting on is good old Liverpool. The expectations for them to score are so high that Over 3.5 is only paying out 1.9! So that's really poor value for me. Money Line win is also crappy but I'll have them at a 1.5 handicap for a nice almost doubler.

Think I just saw Chronoswiss also releasing a "crypto watch" series... same "token sale" model as Arcona, it would seem. I never actually really knew that this luxury item industry existed until I arrived in Brunei in 2013. Tax-free income there, lots of disposable income, and almost everyone collecting shoes, handbags, motorbikes, watches.

Granted, they all seem to appreciate in value due to collectibility, but then no one actually buys it until the original owner is dead

Maybe a hundred years from now, we'll find one of these Bitcoin Pens or Bitcoin Watches in some rich aristrocrat museum somewhere. Well. Not us. Our... descendants.

Learn to recognise success sometimes as luck, but kudos to your calls so far. Care to share the mistakes you surely also made?

P.S. Nice screenshots on CNBC's Fast Track. Probably not the entire story, but it goes to show that expert opinion is exactly just that: the opinion of an expert. All the McAfees and Drapers and Keisers of the world are only half the story. Good luck and happy to see more people jumping back onto the bull's back.

Right on. I'm sure if anyone dug up enough predictions from him, they'd notice they were not always on the mark. I think even a year's valuation would be enough to be in the "right region". The way Bitcoin moves, you only need to be right for a few minutes before corrections happen (might be more interesting if he'd make a prediction on a closer average rather than just a spot price.

Again, all due respect, at least he had his money where his mouth was/is.

On 2020: the last halving didn't seem to have much bearing, but I suppose by the next one, mainstream will see it as a huge scarcity factor. Olympics though? Who knows.

The only accurate word in the entire post is popular. But we all know ponzis need to be popular to be successful. I know sites are just doing PR so not going to shoot newsbtc as it's just the messenger, but this kind of outfit have scammed so many and are ready to scam even more now (what on earth, another ICO?). Shameful to call themselves a Bitcoin community.


There is one inaccuracy there though... it's not decentralised

Bitconnect. The original BCC. Got to hand it to them though.

Far too early for discussions! We're still in the thick of the tail-end of national leagues, not to mention both European cups - expect lots of drama from there. Coaches will be fired and appointed ahead of June, players will be named and some dropped, injuries etc. So yeah, too early to make bets now unless you're like me and like tipping an underdog like Iceland to go far (skybet has 150/1 on them just reaching the final!).

I'm also going to attempt a mini betting pool or two for WC. Bitcoin's about to wake up again so pot might just end up huge at the end of the final. Just keep your eyes peeled, my lovelies!

Nah, I don't buy that. Of course I'm happy for prices to go back up, and pretty significantly in my opinion. Right now, it's back up over $8k but that to me doesn't say anything about "legitimacy". If it were a pump yesterday, desperate buying or whatever, then surely those deep pockets weren't emptied out and will attempt to sustain this over the weekend.

I would say though that the news for once is swinging back towards good vibes. Maybe all the past regrets of not selling will turn into regrets of not buying more into the dip.

Wow. Made a mistake not to watch any of the games in Europa. Possibly a mistake not to back Marseille again (I bet on them on the first leg, the only losing match that failed my parlay). So Arsenal prevented a comeback, my favourite Athleti couldn't score but are through, would have made a lot of money betting on the underdogs this round.

Perfect Europa final: Arsenal Athleti.
Perfect CL final: Liverpool Real.

Worth an all English parlay?

I'd wait for more information before jumping to that conclusion. Police don't swoop down if there isn't a public report lodged. With all due respect to these conferences, I'd say that organisers have a bad reputation for managing participants. It's all fee-based anyway, so there's no incentive to screen participants. I mean, how many ponzis masked as cryptos have already made big stage appearances? Remember OneCoin and their Forbes cover?

News says suspicion of fraudulent ICO in the midst. Won't be surprised if these wolves are prowling these conferences for networking opportunities. There's already a pattern of corporate scams ala Madoff in Southeast Asia now.

Hmm. I rarely seem to like updates to sites, unless they've been really sporting dated looks, which Bittrex wasn't, in my opinion. Everything looks sort of pastelly now. The things that matter to me have yet to be improved. Speed is pretty much as slow as it ever used to be. Clicking Wallets and Orders always took 30 seconds or so to fully load, so that hasn't changed.

Small bug in my portfolio too, Gridcoin doesn't show up in my wallets list, only in the markets page.

Same same so far, I guess.

Damn I missed that! Just sold a bit of coin yesterday below 7k, wasn't that urgent but never saw the pump coming. 1k in one hour, though, so artificial at best. Can't have been the news from Wall St giants, that's several days old by now.

Can't do much as am not really online now. Probably all settled by the time I get home. Or are we in for a sustained round of whale pumping?

Just to add, yes virtually impossible for individuals now to find blocks. I'm pretty certain there is no longer any individual miner (or individual who owns a lot of rigs) trying on his own. I believe everyone is part of some pool now. In this case, then even your "low" hash can still earn you a proportional share of the rewards if the pool you joined finds a block. A somewhat comparable example is with so-called cloud mining services...


Wow, you actually caused a copy paster guy to edit and correct his post. I feel like you just achieved something amazing here...