If there are 2 reports made, one of an old PM (e.g. a year ago) and another recently (e.g. a day ago), that would count as 2 reports (if the old PM is really old (e.g. 5 years old), it might be counted as a half report or ignored altogether) albeit this may be the aforementioned circumstances that may reduce the ban duration. Some other moderators might only consider this as 1.5 (essentially waiting for another report to come in before a ban is issued). Again, it really depends on the moderator handling the situation. However, at least IMO if there are 2 reports, both of which are of old PMs, with one being reported back then and another one recently, it's probably gonna be counted as a single report.
And yes, once you've been banned, only reports of PMs you've sent after your ban will be counted towards a second (hopefully non-existant) ban.
Probably worthy of another topic but: 1) Is this something mods see automatically or do you have to look for? 2) How much checking is involved? I'm asking because I can see there being the potential for abuse if you want to get someone banned you could point a conversation in PMs a certain way. Would be difficult, but not impossible if the person trying to get someone else banned has a few alts. -Dave |
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The OP says 0% fees here you say 0.2%: https://fryx.finance/api is that just for the API? If it's open source where is the source? No link on the site. Have not had my coffee yet so have not looked deeply for a link. It looks like it's running in the Google cloud, opinion here and nothing more but I would move it to a more privacy friendly host. If I am wrong ignore that line. -Dave |
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I wonder how difficult it really would be to add a captcha requirement for every post. I know some boards have them, sometimes even multiple ones. I don't know if it hurts legitimate posting or not, but I don't see as much spam on them vs those that do not. One car board I am on has a quick and simple one like what is 2 + 7 and that is followed by the 'pick the image' one. And there is very little spam. The other is more like here where you can just post and does get a lot more junk posts.
Don't know how much work it would take to put one in.
But, the AI / chat spammers should just get a permanent vacation.
-Dave
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I look it as the same way that Matthew McConaughey is doing Lincoln commercials, or Samuel L Jackson doing Capital One commercials. They are going to get a lot more attention then if they stuck me on TV and said buy this car / get this credit card / etc.
So they get these famous people to push their services.
Once you become a social media influencer you have to keep paying the bills somehow, so when someone comes and gives you money to push some crypto project you do that. It's just what it is.
If you make investment decisions based on that you are going to get burned.
-Dave
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The world is not black and white but a 1000 shades of gray.
Most people live and work and spend most of their time in that large middle gray area. However, we all have our sections of black and white.
PP says black Rocye says white where I think most of us reading both threads are saying come on the the grey area there is plenty of room.
As was pointed out above bitcoingirl.club vs. jollygood , ognasty vs vod and countless others have gone on and will go on and while some people will pick sides with other people most others will just watch and comment and not pay attention to it.
It sucks that it did take money out of your pocket by costing you a client, but now that you know you can prepare and be warned what he may do.
-Dave
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It would really depend on where you are located. Here in the US there is a big emphasis on Mens rea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_reaSo there is the element of what is going on. Using your HSBC example they knew, but it was going to be just about impossible to prove who knew what and when. If some shifty looking person shows up at my shop and I take in a few thousand in cash and take a cut and give it back with a 1099 tax form it's fairly obvious what I was doing. So that is going to be a big part of it. If you are wearing a signature for Bob's Meth and Heroin shop it's going to be a much more difficult thing to talk your way out of then say [looks down at signature] ChipMixer which is a legit service for people who just don't want to be tracked. -Dave |
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Faketoshi will continue to exist so long as people are willing to play with his coin and give him money. More and more however people are dropping it. Today's news: https://decrypt.co/118951/robinhood-delist-bitcoin-sv-market-sellSooner or later he will go after someone who he thinks is an easy target legally and they will bury him in lawsuits. Yes, he can keep sliming his way to other places but for the most part you can only run from your debts for so long until they do catch up with you. -Dave |
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So, you wouldn't exchange F2F with a complete stranger, but with someone you've traded several times? No, I wouldn't trade off-DEX with a complete stranger. I've traded face to face with complete strangers before, but always via a DEX where the bitcoin involved will be locked in an escrow prior to meeting to hand over the cash. But now a lot of my trades are done without a DEX because once you've traded with the same person hundreds of times, you may find you have enough mutual trust to just message each other directly and send coins directly without using a DEX. I know it's been discussed here before, but for F2F transfers how do you verify the cash? Personally a local casino works for me. Lots of security, cash is common and you can put some random bills in a slot machine and if it takes them you are good to go. But meeting in other public places just does not seem as secure to me. -Dave |
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So after all the discussions about not your keys not your coins you are introducing a service that 1) Makes people leave coins on an exchange while 2) Is making trades based on tweets from a platform that has had a massive hack / data leak: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54318223) Is leaving API keys in someone elses control: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54322064) All with a site that gives no owner or contact information / no physical address. Don't think you are going to get a real positive response here. -Dave Hi Dave, thanks a lot for your reply actually, you went quite in depth there and althrough it feels as negative feedback, at the same time it is a quite genuine one too... I will try to reply as best as I can and add more context in the hope of challenging your thoughts in this discussion. 1) Fortunatelly or unfortunatelly, the CEX part of the business is not going away - at least any time soon (there are traditional industry brokers as well).... As Napcat, our main goal was to build all the service by connecting to DEX's, but we feel its easier to start as a CEX and then slowly slowly expand, in order to also do things right and not risk any potential hacks. 2) We are mainly listening to tweets from influential people, the time will come however that the influential people will leave Twitter for a decentrilized solution, until that happens thought, there is a market fit. 3) We are actually taking an approach of storing minimal data and the one that we do is hashed and encrypted - there are plenty of services that do just like that and are entirely secure. 4) The site was just constructed, we have not yet incorporated nor released a public Beta. We are not asking for funds, we just want to validate an idea. Was not going for negative more along the lines of what to expect here on this forum. There are people out there that probably will like and use your service. But, here it's going to be a much tougher sell. You might get more people if you post in the altcoin parts of the forum. There are people who spend a lot of time trading, you will get people who are looking for every possible edge. Here you are probably only going to get BTC users who sometimes dabble in BTC trading but, for the most part don't spend the time that people who live in the alts do. And we are a lot more paranoid then others. Also, as I said with all the security issues and exchanges imploding & closing lately I see it as a tougher sell in general. You MIGHT get a better response if you set it up that people could run their own server / local application with the code that then makes the trades based on API calls to your sever. This way the keys never leave their control. <shrug> the other side of that is then it becomes the users responsibility to maintain a safe environment. -Dave |
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How much hard drive space do you have / how is it partitioned? Could you be running out? The blockchain is 450+ GB at the moment so you need at least 500GB of space to hold the data (and os and other apps) but even now that is going to run out VERY quickly.
What does the debug.log file say.
If you want to post the last part of it here USE the code tags so it's not a scrolling mess.
-Dave
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Where do they bill out of? There are a lot of places where you can get a Visa / MC / AMEX gift card for BTC but they are region locked a lot of the time. Partial list here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5208530.0Due to the nature of the site I'm guessing you are a member here who does not want to come out and say who they are so you started a throwaway account. Most people are not going to want to put their own credit card in a site like this so they would probably want to get a disposable card anyway so you would have to go for more then then $3 you are offering. At that point might as well do it yourself. -Dave |
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Take a look here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5214021.0Keep in mind finding 10 missing characters is going to take just short of forever. Also the tool just finds the missing characters it does not check for balances. Where did you get the key from? Most, probably all, of them out there with missing characters are scams. -Dave |
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Be VERY VERY cautious of this exchange and DO NOT trust it with any real amount of funds.
The OP has not been online for over 18 months and EVERY positive review is from a new user all of which are also inactive.
Screams scam, but since as far as I can see there are no complaints either nobody here used them or they are legit. I would go with option 1 no use.
Stay safe.
-Dave
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Depends where you are. In the US there are a lot of 'mailbox' stores or 'virtual office' places that will accept packages for you for a fee.
Can't speak to other parts of the world.
Also, depending on where you are and what services are available some shipping companies will allow you to ship to their local depo and pick it up from there, there is usually a cost associated with that too but it never leaves their control which is a plus.
No matter what as far as I know those places will require you to have ID and show it. BUT the sender never knows your address.
-Dave
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Can you point me out the ones that do? The popular exchanges of that list I know don't, except Bisq. In addition to the ones o_e_l_e_o mentioned I know a few people who have used: peachbitdoin https://kycnot.me/exchange/peachbitcoin / https://peachbitcoin.com/PERSONALLY, since it's mobile based although it does avoid KYC it is not really anonymous unless you are using a disposable smartphone. Not a lot of offers but it is yet another option. They have to pay for the back end upkeep The back end only costs a small fraction of what they charge. Most of this must come from the space they rent. And judging by the rentals nowadays, it's understandably expensive. Customer support is also an expense to consider, right. Those are all fixed, if they have 0 customers for a couple of days, the people still want to get paid, the stores still collect rent and so on. The KYC is independent of all of that. It's independent, but it was their only weapon to compete CEX, until recently. They don't have future now more. As I said, you can get the exact same service from a centralized exchange, and much cheaper. And I don't blame them. Regulators must be pushing them. Part of the % is also convenience. No looking for people to trade with, no waiting for someone, no worrying if you are going to somehow get scammed. And so on, you put in cash and get BTC or you put in BTC and cash pops out of the machine. There is a cost for convenience. Humor, and unrelated but it makes the point. Back in the early 1990s there was an earthquake in southern CA, there were people complaining that some of the local convenience stores were price gouging / profiteering on the fact that they had things that people needed and were marking it up because of the earthquake. They actually were not, they were just that overpriced since they are convenience stores. Get in get what you want and get out.... -Dave |
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Don't forget about the exchanges listed at https://kycnot.me/There are a few that allow for cash <-> BTC exchanges. As for the BATMs yes the fees are high but they are getting multiple whammies on expenses. They have to pay for the back end upkeep, they usually have to pay rest to the store they are in, they have to have customer support people 24/7 for the calls and so on. Those are all fixed, if they have 0 customers for a couple of days, the people still want to get paid, the stores still collect rent and so on. The KYC is independent of all of that. -Dave |
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IMO and JUST IMO
The manager is responsible for the payments for the work done for the participants. So if someone was owed $50 they get the $50. This should come out of the campaign managers pocket.
If the company paying for it wants to pay the people to keep a good image out there that is up to them.
The rest of the funds is a semi private thing between the company and the manager. If they want to go after them legally or just take the loss or whatever is not really any of our business.
If they WANT they can post about it and discuss it here in public, but there is no reason to. Once the participants get paid, it's no longer our concern.
-Dave
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blockchain.com is just about useless as a blockexplorer. Picking a random recent block 771134 on blockchain.com following the link you posted https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc?page=1 it shows as 'unknown' under miner. If you actually click on the block and go to https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/771134 it shows as poolin they can't even keep things like that accurate. Using them to explore wallets and addresses can be just as bad. There are many cases of transactions being mined and confirmed for blocks and blocks and you can actually see the coins move buy searching them by the txid but it never showed searching for the wallet address. Same with just doing a direct address search glassnode and other places will give a name to an address [pool / exchange / whatever]as will some other explorers. blockchain.com will give an unknown. -Dave |
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it seems the world is focussing on bitcoin once again... I saw a similar article in several local newspapers (saying things like "quantum computers will kill bitcoin"). What people seem to forget is that RSA encryption is all around... If it gets broken, the world has bigger problems than killing bitcoin (imho).
Exactly this. New users keep asking this again and again in the forum and it's the same answer again and again. IF RSA gets broken. BTC is going to be the least of the issues. The credit card industry would implode, followed by the banking industry followed by everything else that relies on encryption for transactions. BTC is such a small part of that to make it not worth mentioning. -Dave |
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