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something like this happened to me with an altcoin, not with bitcoin though
are the connections coming from a malicious node?
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As for having your ip publicly known as a bitcoin node ip, the problem might be that somebody might funnel a rogue transaction through it, and you'd be on the receiving end of govt thugs trying to find the culprit. This has already happened before. The chance is most likely miniscule for it to happen, but it's worth knowing about. Also, I'm not sure if this is implemented already, but certainly in the future, all bitcoin node ip's will be monitored, and perhaps you get an IRS-letter demanding you to declare your "bitcoin stash". This might depend on where you live as well. As the ip is linked directly to your isp-account it's straightforward to find your identity, provided you do use your real identity. I might be splitting hairs here, but I'm just saying..
It is great you want to support the network!
You can't just "funnel a rogue transaction" through someone's node because of the decentralized system. Any transaction sent to that node will be broadcast to the node's peers and thus to everyone. Hence the decentralization.
Also, I'm not sure if this is implemented already, but certainly in the future, all bitcoin node ip's will be monitored,
According to who? And by who? Not necessarily monitored, but all nodes are listed by the getaddr.bitnodes.io project. One way to prevent monitoring or having your node publicly available is to route all node traffic through tor. tor is not really that secure, even tor is a bit monitorided, better to use some that don't keep your log, there are many that are free too, or make your own vp network |
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If I buy using my credit card, they will keep my information (full name, address and etc) right? In that case, still not completely anonymous.
you need an anonymous card(bit-x is offering one, under a certain amount it should be anonymous) plus those site, or spend your btc without converting them, but add a mixer in this case |
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What are you talking about? There is no single button someone can push to destroy the bitcoin network. The closest to it is a 51% attack, even then is it still possible to destroy the www with a button? No.
Actually 51% would not be enough. We've had situations of 51% before a couple times, nothing happened. You would need more than that for the attack to be feasible. not true, nothing happened because who gained the control, did not made anything to prevent harming itself too, right now those who have the possibility to use this "red button"(51% basically) are only the china big farm |
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what the name of this virus, on the reddit link, it does not talk about it? i could search if it is already reported by antivirus vendors
it should be reported if the answer is no
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Women are more social than men? Im not sure. We need to somehow encourage women to use it, they will more likely spread it around the world than men just sitting in front of the computer. Tell me your thoughts  women are more emotional, not really more social, but there is another thread talking about this, with suggestions that see adding bitcoin in shoes's store(dress shop ecc...), or other things related to the needs of women |
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 In the simplest form how would it be possible for the price not to rise substantially in the next couple of years?
Diminishing supply + growing exposure + exponential investment + trading options = positive price increase.
I'm not sure why anyone would be concerned about investing in the technology... this is a great time to expand the wallet.
How many will be regretful for not taking advantage of early 2015 pricing?
The price is going to continue falling. The main issue with Bitcoin is it's only really useful for criminals (drug dealing, money laundering, etc.) Think about it: Why would someone convert their fiat into BTC so they can then go to Taco Bell, or Wal-Mart, or fill in the blank, and buy a bean burrito with bitcoin? The additional exchange step is unneeded. To make matters worse you have to keep a record of capital gains. And buying bitcoin is not easy. Fact: Bitcoin is unneeded by 99% of the world population. It's a fun experiment with limited practical use. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates created something that everyone wants, Satoshi created something that every criminal wants. Fortunately, there are a lot of criminals in the world to sustain the currency, but there's not enough ordinary consumer demand to get bitcoin mainstream. what about integrating bitcoin, in something that everyone wants, like products from appale or microsoft? or payment in bitcoin for youtube video? the real problem is that merchants are still offering fiat between the payment options, and it's obvious that many will still choose them, we should force those people to choose bitcoin, by removing other payment options, this could be not an elegant solution i know.... |
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oh this is something interesting, i always saw bitcoin and gaming do good together, talking about skill games only(i don't like gambling), i want to be rewarded in bitcoin, while playing those game
imagines if your score is converted in bitcoin, 1:1 ratio with satoshi, would be fabulous
the article talk mostly about a in-game trding using bitcoin, i think it could work well, and better than fiat
Only real games (not gambling) will be covered in Gaming on the Blockchain. Once in-game assets are on the blockchain, they will be readily convertible to Bitcoin. Spells of Genesis (an upcoming game to be reviewed) will do something like that with BitCrystals. for now only trading game will work with this system, they don't mentions games like fps or rts or rpg, just card games |
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I would say that London and New York are the LEAST likely cities to become the global bitcoin hub. They are already the headquarters of the fiat system. If a central bitcoin location were to emerge it would probably by somewhere in the the third world.
the bit licence can make this happen quickly(at least for new york), because it regulate bitcoin, other countries are still trying to determinate what bitcoin is, i doubt it would emerge in a third world country first... |
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well with free power, you can mine magi, which is cpu only for now, with that botnet you should do good
with gpu better to search other algo, like some x11/x13, start from the new coins that are launched every day/week
Not Magi, go for Monero - Magi's block reward drops when nethash rises. the discrepancy between gpu and cpu for monero, is so small that make cpu en mass still profitable over gpu? |
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The inflation is the only solution for Greek, Spain, Italy, Portugal.
inflation is good as long as there is something that keeps on sucking it(a thing that is deflationary), like for example bitcoin, if people start put their inflated money into a deflationary system like bitcoin, it would create an equilibrium , that will help the crisis |
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all those stuff and yet the site is not veryfied, how so? and the connection is not encrypted
i want to try it, but it looks fishy, how many users are already registered there?
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surveys don't pay too much unless you are doing a good survey like the one that was running here on bitcoin talk, better to go with a faucets rotator
but you can try coin tasker if you really want to earn with surveys, there also other numerous way to earn with coin tasker
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oh this is something interesting, i always saw bitcoin and gaming do good together, talking about skill games only(i don't like gambling), i want to be rewarded in bitcoin, while playing those game
imagines if your score is converted in bitcoin, 1:1 ratio with satoshi, would be fabulous
the article talk mostly about a in-game trding using bitcoin, i think it could work well, and better than fiat
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That is actually interesting. 4 years on, the price is $200 with a high of around $1k
yup. great gains compared to the start of the thread. even still, not everyone who was around in the early days got rich. some of us didn't have anything to invest back then. the most i had at one time was about 20 coins, and that was before we broke 100. spent most of it back then too. still looks a bit depressing, when you compare it to 2013, not only there was the ath in that year but there were also numerous other high prices, like 230 and 300 peak around april |
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Right now they are struggling to raise the money to pay back the creditors. I don't know how they are going to do that. Raising taxes and having tightening monetary policy is not going to make any difference. If this continues there is a high probability that Greece may default on its debts, forcing it to exit as a last resort. What goes from here is a catastrophic chain of collapse.
the only thing they can do is raising the amount of work for everyone(adding more work positions) and maintain or reducing the taxes(rising taxes is never the answer, it only makes worse your position like printing more money...) but pay slighlty less everyone, this mean that their pil will increase and the debit will be payed slowly |
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Yes, This is just another way for people to do target marketing. They see your address on some other site or forum, and they track your spending habits. {Some sites use static addresses, that can be traced to the source} Then they send you some coins, with a note to their website. Just a cheap targeted advertising technique.  So if they send some btc to our address altough its a little does that mean they can trying to hack in our own address? Or is there any possibilities what they might do for the next? they can't hack your address, that's basically impossible, if by hacking you mean brute forcing, but if you are talking about their website being malicious, then this is another story..it could be a trap to steal your wallet.dat |
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Because it is not 'user friendly' some people have never used a credit card, or they don't have any knowledge about internet or how to use a smartphone or pc. For the moment I think bitcoin needs a real killer app... and it should be more user friendly (most important it should keep the decentralization).
Exactly, user-friendlyness is an important problem to solve. PC-based and also web wallets are still very hard to use for non-techies. Smartphone wallets are on a good way, but can still be improved. And security is another issue - I would still not recommend BTC to people with standard Windows PCs. I think in the future we'll not even see addresses as we see them now. It's just not intuitive having to copy paste all those long ass alphanumerical strings. I think Andreas mentioned this in some speech. Bitcoin may change a lot in the following years from now, before it goes mainstream. you know that copy-pasted is not needed right? there is the adress book...you can simply choose the address by clicking on "choose previously used address", so this is a non-issue for adoption... it strange that it doesn't work if you put only the label, this should be fixed |
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I woke up this morning to see this:
A Payment has been received into your bitcoin wallet.
Public Note: YOUR RETURN ON INVESTMENT FROM -> LIMITLESS-BTC.COM <- You will receive next payment in ...
It was only 0.0001BTC, besides I have never joined this site before.
Since I don't like dust in my account, is there anyway to prevent this from happening again?
Be careful. Do NOT fall for scammy Ponzi Games. There are only a few honest Ponzi Games now where you are secured by design, e.g. Nine9.ninja or www.CrazyPonzi.com. Do NOT send your hard earned coins to other scammy sites without understanding their program in depth. there are no secured ponzi games, they are all a scam in the end, when they can't pay the last one, and stop advertising your site in disguise I woke up this morning to see this:
A Payment has been received into your bitcoin wallet.
Public Note: YOUR RETURN ON INVESTMENT FROM -> LIMITLESS-BTC.COM <- You will receive next payment in ...
It was only 0.0001BTC, besides I have never joined this site before.
Since I don't like dust in my account, is there anyway to prevent this from happening again?
to prevent those amount to be sent to your address again, simply transfer all your btc to another wallet and destroy the first one |
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How do you see the future of BitCoin Network?
It will probably mimic bittorrent. As its popularity increases, corporations and banks will use their limitless powers to keep it underground. How can they do that exactly? Surely the popularity of torrents and that torrent sites are even still going shows that they are powerless to stop these kind of decentralized systems. maybe they cannot destroy it, but they can certainly limit it, to a point where it will become useless, or controlling it indirectly, by forcing the miner(in case of bitcoin) to do a 51% attack, simply by paying them more(slightly more) than what they earn with their gear |
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