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1961  Economy / Services / Re: Apple iPhone Unlocking Service (Remote) - $10 per iPhone on: January 28, 2013, 09:06:39 PM
Not a big deal, I don't really see what harm anyone can do with an IMEI though.
There, unfortunately, isn't another way to factory unlock an iPhone without the IMEI.

Many people on here know were I'm employed and have much of my info for previous trades (and I would be willing to share those details with trustworthy people) if that helps build trust.
From what I understand (and this is just from some quick random internet reading), someone could emulate or rewrite a phone's IMEI to gain access to the same plan at the original phone is on.  So, theoretically, you could take my IMEI and put all sorts of fun stuff (text messaging, data roaming, purchases, etc) on my next phone bill.  I am no expert, so it could be that this is completely wrong.

I'm not saying you would, as I really don't think you would, but I don't like to take chances like this anymore.  If you could point me to a reliable source stating that this isn't possible, then I might reconsider.  Also, the trust-building things you mentioned wouldn't hurt.
1962  Economy / Services / Re: Apple iPhone Unlocking Service (Remote) - $10 per iPhone on: January 28, 2013, 08:06:05 PM
To get my service started (and prove my legitimacy), I'm willing to do my first unlock via BTC for very small amount:


Alright, I'll take you up on it for that price.

Great, you can PM me your IMEI and iPhone model.
Sorry, changed my mind after reading this:  http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090816175338AA61UpL

It's not that I don't trust you, it's just that I don't trust anyone on the internet anymore.  Wink
1963  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: www.btcbalance.net - View your balance easily online. on: January 28, 2013, 07:58:31 PM
Very nice work, thank you!

I still say ditch the "Total Received" field - it kind of distracts from the rest of the data. It's easily found on the linked blockchain.info page. And when would that figure ever be useful anyway?

Added the Blockchain.info link per address.
Just click the little rubik's cube link wich will open a new tab in your browser and send you to the blockchain.info address page of the corresponding address.
I would agree, but would say that the balance at each address would be useful to see in its place.
1964  Economy / Services / Re: Apple iPhone Unlocking Service (Remote) - $10 per iPhone on: January 28, 2013, 07:22:54 PM
To get my service started (and prove my legitimacy), I'm willing to do my first unlock via BTC for very small amount:


Alright, I'll take you up on it for that price.
1965  Economy / Services / Re: Apple iPhone Unlocking Service - $10 per iPhone on: January 28, 2013, 07:08:04 PM
A couple questions...

1) Is this unlock performed remotely, or do I have to ship my phone to you?
2) Does this involve any kind of jailbreak, or is the stock iOS left intact?

1) It's a remote unlock (I forgot to add that to the listing); All that is required is the IMEI number and the model being unlocked
2) It does not require a jailbreak; it's a permanent factory unlock that always stays with the iPhone
Very nice...
1966  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Last time you bought Bitcoins... on: January 28, 2013, 06:56:50 PM
Last time you bought Bitcoins, how much did you buy (value in USD)?

Now, if you made a deposit at MtGox of $800, and slowly bought it over the next week, with your last purchase being $50 worth, then select $800 in the poll, not $50.  I am looking for how much people are depositing to an exchange (or paying to a person).

you should've put in:

10000-20000
20000-30000
30000-40000
40000-50000
50000-100000 ranges.
Doesn't matter now - I rest my case.  Far more people are making purchases < $1,000 than over $1,000.

By the way, people posting polls should probably read this article.
I figured there was probably some mathematical way to more evenly distribute poll results like this.  I like the 1-2-5 method... thanks for pointing this out!
1967  Economy / Services / Re: Apple iPhone Unlocking Service - $10 per iPhone on: January 28, 2013, 06:26:33 PM
A couple questions...

1) Is this unlock performed remotely, or do I have to ship my phone to you?
2) Does this involve any kind of jailbreak, or is the stock iOS left intact?
1968  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [Newbie Special]: Casascius 1 BTC Coin: 1.50 BTC incl. shipping, buy 1 or 2 on: January 28, 2013, 06:00:46 PM
When you say "Original", do you mean series 1?
1969  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Let's add up the KNOWN lost bitcoins on: January 28, 2013, 04:18:14 PM
Nicely done jl2012!
1970  Economy / Invites & Accounts / Re: [WTS] Steam Accounts and gifts on: January 26, 2013, 02:55:47 AM
So these are stolen/hacked accounts?

No, these are recovered inactive accounts.
This does not involve any kind of hacking.

Koelen3.
The accounts you have with the games on them though... how do you acquire them?  Someone else bought the game, then you "recover" the account and resell it?  Do you send them phishing emails?  Or...?

These accounts have been played by the original user.
We run combo lists to obtain them.
We do not hack or steal accounts.
These accounts have not been online for more then 100 days.

Koelen3.
This is the very definition of stealing accounts.  You do not own these accounts, yet you are selling them to other people.  Other people own these accounts, and they may want to log back on and use them again in the future.
1971  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: There has to be a better way (getting USD to BTC) on: January 26, 2013, 12:00:47 AM
oh yeah, the other way to look at how much ppl on an individual basis are pouring into Bitcoin is to look at the # of asic pre-orders.  it's extraordinary the # of units ppl are ordering and the money involved in purchasing those units.  way, way beyond hundreds of USD's.  more like tens of thousands of USD's.
I don't see how this is relevant to the number of people submitting large deposits to MtGox.  It says nothing about the number of small BTC purchases relative to the number of large BTC purchases.
1972  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Last time you bought Bitcoins... on: January 25, 2013, 11:57:16 PM
Last time you bought Bitcoins, how much did you buy (value in USD)?

Now, if you made a deposit at MtGox of $800, and slowly bought it over the next week, with your last purchase being $50 worth, then select $800 in the poll, not $50.  I am looking for how much people are depositing to an exchange (or paying to a person).

you should've put in a $50000-100000 range.
Indeed.

Hindsight is 20/20 and all that.
1973  Economy / Invites & Accounts / Re: [WTS] Steam Accounts and gifts on: January 25, 2013, 11:56:01 PM
So these are stolen/hacked accounts?

No, these are recovered inactive accounts.
This does not involve any kind of hacking.

Koelen3.
The accounts you have with the games on them though... how do you acquire them?  Someone else bought the game, then you "recover" the account and resell it?  Do you send them phishing emails?  Or...?
1974  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Unlocking Cell Phones Becomes Illegal 1/26/2013 on: January 25, 2013, 11:54:51 PM
I dunno.  I'd be just as pissed if I had just spend 600 euro on one and broke it.  Either way, I'd have to replace it.

Look at it this way:

http://www.three.ie/online/shop/productDetail.aspx?src=p&p=voice&pid=1494&tariffType=contract

iPhone 4S, you get it for free on a 61euro/mo plan for 24months, if you loose your phone, you have to pay 1464euro in total.

http://www.three.ie/online/shop/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=1507&p=voice&tariffType=prepay&step=2&src=p&edt=0&itemId=0&dch=0

You buy it pay-as-you-go and it costs you 549euro once off. Not so bad if you loose it then, and the savings are pretty obvious.
Good point.  But, pay-as-you-go, you're still paying for some level of service (which you have conveniently discluded from your calculations).  The savings is in the service type - if you don't use your phone much, you'll save a great deal over the contracted plan.
1975  Economy / Invites & Accounts / Re: [WTS] Steam Accounts and gifts on: January 25, 2013, 11:52:54 PM
So these are stolen/hacked accounts?
1976  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Unlocking Cell Phones Becomes Illegal 1/26/2013 on: January 25, 2013, 11:47:31 PM
Interesting.  It's vastly different in the US, where a locked iPhone (with contract) costs you $200, and an unlocked iPhone would cost $800.  I haven't delved into the pay-as-you-go market here though, which might align more closely with what you see.

Its the same here. A billpay iPhone 5 would cost around 100euro but you'd be stuck paying 50euro/mo for the next X years. One on pay-as-you-go would cost 600euro but 20euro's topup would last around 6-8 months, and you can topup with as little as 5euro & can still receive calls/texts when you have no credit (and make them using Skype Wink ). The phone companies have tried all sorts of marketing to try and get us Irish on billpay phones, it hasn't worked much. The only person I know who has a billpay phone is from the US.

IMO I could never imagine having a "phone bill". That would suck soo much. What happens then when you lose/break your phone, I'd be pretty pissed off paying every month for a phone I don't even have.
I dunno.  I'd be just as pissed if I had just spend 600 euro on one and broke it.  Either way, I'd have to replace it.

I think I might look into pay-as-you-go, or at the very least, non-contract phone plans come this October.  We really don't use them all that much for phone, mostly just data.
1977  Economy / Speculation / Re: Could deals like this be real and if yes explain the recent big buys and sells? on: January 25, 2013, 11:35:36 PM
This is a scam, no way in hell a poacher or someone with their hands on a rhino horn/horn powder would sell on the darknet.

It's like buying red rock opium. You're an idiot if you did.
I'm not familiar with either case, so enlighten me please.  Why not?
1978  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: There has to be a better way (getting USD to BTC) on: January 25, 2013, 11:33:39 PM
i still can't understand why ppl don't emphasize intl wiring more.  for me, its a flat fee of $40 and this is the only way i've ever done it.

if you wire $50K to gox, that's only a fee of 0.08%.
Probably because most people don't have $50k - they're talking about amounts more in the range of tens or hundreds of dollars.

Wires make a lot of sense if you're moving a large amount of money, but for most people, the fees would make a huge chunk of the money.

ok.  let's use your numbers.  a $2000 wire at $40 = 2%.  add in whatever gox charges to make a trade (0.63% last i looked) and that still only 2.63% which is less than Bitinstant.

what's the problem?
I said tens or hundreds of dollars, not thousands.

$100 at $40 fee = 40%.   + 0.63% for MtGox = 40.63%.

I don't personally know anyone who has enough money that they would be willing to invest more than a few hundred dollars into Bitcoins.  I do know several people who are interested, but wouldn't want to put more than $100 or so in.  $2,000 would be a very significant sum of money for just about everyone I know to invest in a volatile thing like Bitcoin.

I have a feeling MOST people buy Bitcoins in amounts of a few hundred or less.  This is why WT isn't touted as a viable method very often.  Yes, it is very viable for $2,000 or more.  Not as much for $1,000 or less.

A poll would be interesting in this regard.  I think I'll start one.

i understand what you're saying but i think there are alot of ppl who are investing in the thousands of dollars range.  you can see the large single orders going off constantly on Clark Moody or mtgoxlive that number in the thousands of Bitcoins.  Cheesy
I'd bet most of those are daytraders gaining/losing money back and forth.  I don't see any evidence that says those are all new investors popping in - I bet very few are.

we see 5000 BTC buys or sells on gox all the time that clearly represent a single order controlled by one person.  whether or not it's a first time order is irrelevant; the point is that this single person controls that amount of Bitcoins or USD's and they had to get that money to gox one way or another.
I understand.  My point is, you could see 500 orders at 5,000 BTC, each one of which was definitely controlled by one person, and they could be trades conducted between only 10 different people, not 500 people.

I'm not trying to argue that people don't make large deposits, just that it isn't all that common compared to much smaller deposits/purchases of BTC.
1979  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Last time you bought Bitcoins... on: January 25, 2013, 11:26:13 PM
you should reword this as "$25 or more" or better yet, use defined ranges.

$100,000 or less includes all your choices less than that.
Well, good point, but "or more" has the same problem, just the other direction.

I'll rename to defined ranges if I can.
1980  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: There has to be a better way (getting USD to BTC) on: January 25, 2013, 11:24:46 PM
i still can't understand why ppl don't emphasize intl wiring more.  for me, its a flat fee of $40 and this is the only way i've ever done it.

if you wire $50K to gox, that's only a fee of 0.08%.
Probably because most people don't have $50k - they're talking about amounts more in the range of tens or hundreds of dollars.

Wires make a lot of sense if you're moving a large amount of money, but for most people, the fees would make a huge chunk of the money.

ok.  let's use your numbers.  a $2000 wire at $40 = 2%.  add in whatever gox charges to make a trade (0.63% last i looked) and that still only 2.63% which is less than Bitinstant.

what's the problem?
I said tens or hundreds of dollars, not thousands.

$100 at $40 fee = 40%.   + 0.63% for MtGox = 40.63%.

I don't personally know anyone who has enough money that they would be willing to invest more than a few hundred dollars into Bitcoins.  I do know several people who are interested, but wouldn't want to put more than $100 or so in.  $2,000 would be a very significant sum of money for just about everyone I know to invest in a volatile thing like Bitcoin.

I have a feeling MOST people buy Bitcoins in amounts of a few hundred or less.  This is why WT isn't touted as a viable method very often.  Yes, it is very viable for $2,000 or more.  Not as much for $1,000 or less.

A poll would be interesting in this regard.  I think I'll start one.

i understand what you're saying but i think there are alot of ppl who are investing in the thousands of dollars range.  you can see the large single orders going off constantly on Clark Moody or mtgoxlive that number in the thousands of Bitcoins.  Cheesy
I'd bet most of those are daytraders gaining/losing money back and forth.  I don't see any evidence that says those are all new investors popping in - I bet very few are.
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