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if you want people do potentially forgive you then you should make details of how much you tried to extort and what you were threatening to make public, public.
How much money were you asking for and who were you extorting?
How do you think your identity was discovered?
0.3 from some trusted people here. It was discovered via IP. What was it that you were threatening to reveal? I wasn't threatening directly, I was just threatening to do "something". I am not a lawyer or an expert of the law but this was probably not a very good idea. I am not sure if the fiat equivalent of .3 is enough to be charged with a felony, but it could certainly wreck your life. Who were you threatening? I prefer not to say. What is the harm in telling the community who you were threatening? It isn't like others would attempt the same thing as your scam attempt obviously failed miserably Ask BadBear if you want to know. The mods/admins tend to be very private regarding anything that is not displayed publicly. Why is it such a big deal that you don't want to say publicly who you tried to blackmail? The question is, why is it so important to you? Anyways, no more discussion about who it was. This is an apology thread, not a thread to try and spurt out answers from me. In order for the community to be able to potentially accept your apology we need to see how it affected your victim. If such feedback is not solicited then the potential for forgiveness is out of the question (although forgiveness is a stretch either way) |
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I am in the "price will go up camp". Right now there are a ton of miners mining. They need to sell their coins to pay for electricity. They are constantly dumping so that makes the price so low. If many miners went off line, the left over pools would be getting a lot more coins for the same amount of electricity. They wouldn't need to sell so many. They could hold and watch the price shoot up. After it was high, they could then sell a few and have lots of money for electricity.
I don't think that the miners are making up that much of a percentage of the total supply of bitcoin that is for sale. I think that some miners are mining to buy bitcoin at a discount and do not wish to sell immediately |
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It's inevitable! They have enough labor force, producing cheap and merchandising cheap. They have everything to be Super Power!
This. They have the mindless population workdrones to compete. You can't compete about human-robot workdrones that don't want basic rights. The young people is protesting already tho, so we will see. I think they do want human rights. The problem is that the Chinese government is good at preventing freedom of speech which prevents the spread of ideas like the granting of human rights. |
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if you want people do potentially forgive you then you should make details of how much you tried to extort and what you were threatening to make public, public.
How much money were you asking for and who were you extorting?
How do you think your identity was discovered?
0.3 from some trusted people here. It was discovered via IP. What was it that you were threatening to reveal? I wasn't threatening directly, I was just threatening to do "something". I am not a lawyer or an expert of the law but this was probably not a very good idea. I am not sure if the fiat equivalent of .3 is enough to be charged with a felony, but it could certainly wreck your life. Who were you threatening? I prefer not to say. What is the harm in telling the community who you were threatening? It isn't like others would attempt the same thing as your scam attempt obviously failed miserably Ask BadBear if you want to know. The mods/admins tend to be very private regarding anything that is not displayed publicly. Why is it such a big deal that you don't want to say publicly who you tried to blackmail? |
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if you want people do potentially forgive you then you should make details of how much you tried to extort and what you were threatening to make public, public.
How much money were you asking for and who were you extorting?
How do you think your identity was discovered?
0.3 from some trusted people here. It was discovered via IP. What was it that you were threatening to reveal? I wasn't threatening directly, I was just threatening to do "something". I am not a lawyer or an expert of the law but this was probably not a very good idea. I am not sure if the fiat equivalent of .3 is enough to be charged with a felony, but it could certainly wreck your life. Who were you threatening? I prefer not to say. What is the harm in telling the community who you were threatening? It isn't like others would attempt the same thing as your scam attempt obviously failed miserably |
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In gambling you can win or lose, though on the average there will be a small loss due to house edge. In mining you can only lose, so its worse than gambling.
This is not true. If the difficulty increases at a slow enough pace then you can potentially earn more then the cost of the miner (or cost of mining contract for cloud mining) plus the cost of electricity. Although generally speaking, the cost of most miners is so high that the difficulty will need to increase at an unrealistically low pace Even if the price doesn't increase, the difficulty will increase as newer miners are made. Their is only ones making a profit in all these are the mining companies. Well the difficulty recently decreased (by a very small amount) the last difficulty adjustment, and could potentially decrease this adjustment as well. With a very low increase adjustment (or negative increase adjustment) environment miners could earn more money. Anyone buying a miner is essentially betting that the difficulty is not going to rise at a very fast pace |
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I wonder who swithched OFF ~30ph in basically one day. It plunged from 304 to 274PH.
Network was kind of weird in the last month or so-sudden surges followed by deep plunges in hashing speed.
I still stay by my conviction that it would pay for someone to purchase calls on bitcoin, then purchase hashing, switch it off and see a spike in bitcoin price soon afterwards. Rinse and repeat.
A 30PH dip can easily be attributed to variance due to bad luck... especially when that missing 30PH suddenly shows back up on the network a day or two later. Well if you look at the 512 block hashrate chart, you will see that the hashrate is falling very quickly, likely more so then what I would personally attribute to "luck". I would say that some large farm is slowly being taken offline or inefficient miners are being taken offline as their owners are seeing they are no longer profitable. I would predict that we see another small decline in the difficulty |
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if you want people do potentially forgive you then you should make details of how much you tried to extort and what you were threatening to make public, public.
How much money were you asking for and who were you extorting?
How do you think your identity was discovered?
0.3 from some trusted people here. It was discovered via IP. What was it that you were threatening to reveal? I wasn't threatening directly, I was just threatening to do "something". I am not a lawyer or an expert of the law but this was probably not a very good idea. I am not sure if the fiat equivalent of .3 is enough to be charged with a felony, but it could certainly wreck your life. Who were you threatening? |
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if you want people do potentially forgive you then you should make details of how much you tried to extort and what you were threatening to make public, public.
How much money were you asking for and who were you extorting?
How do you think your identity was discovered?
0.3 from some trusted people here. It was discovered via IP. What was it that you were threatening to reveal? |
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if you want people do potentially forgive you then you should make details of how much you tried to extort and what you were threatening to make public, public.
How much money were you asking for and who were you extorting?
How do you think your identity was discovered?
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Do you have any examples of this? Filing a DCMA complaint would only draw attention to themselves and the picture in question. If they were making an "attack" because of bitcoin's threat then they are doing it wrong because their "attack" is drawing attention to the comparison between bitcoin and WU
Yes, but you are ignoring the fact that the lawyers are getting paid for defending W/U trademark regardless of the Barbara Streisand effect or whether or not it is a wise tactical decision for W/U as a whole. The attorneys are not the ones who make the decision on taking action against someone infringing on their trademark. There are too many examples to mention but here is a prominent one : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088931/No permission was granted , and Coca Cola was unaware of this project but decided to not sue or attack Dusan Makavejev because the movie didn't show Coca cola in a completely negative light. How do you know that no permission was granted and how do you know the rationale behind their decision not to go after the creators of the movie? |
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That'd be a hassle I guess. Zero-confirmation services would then explode, correct?
No, off the chain transactions would explode and alts would start to get adopted at higher rates. You are probably correct about off chain transactions, however I disagree with alts being used more as they would likely have similar levels of security (there is no reason why only bitcoin miners and not altcoin miners would shut down) |
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Estimated Next Difficulty: 40,248,405,371 (-0.13%)
I never saw this before:)
The difficulty declined twice last year, one of which was ~this time. With those two exceptions there was only one other time that the difficulty decreased in the history of bitcoin, although it did stay the same for several months (at "1") in the very early days of mining. |
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People do not know how quickly the difficulty will increase in the future. They are betting that the difficulty will rise at a slower rate then it has in the past. If they are paying for electricity then they are also betting on the price of bitcoin going up as the electricity cost will decline when measured in bitcoin
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BUT with the KnC announcement they are targeting 0.07W/GH with this new 5000 core FinFET technology!
That is at chip level. At system level it will be x2-x3 higher. Even .21W/GH is significantly more efficient then the most efficient miners available today. I don't think these will make other ASICs obsolete instantly. It would just make them less profitable. |
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It seems that candystripes is a true scammer now
Trust: -6: -1 / +0(0)
Warning: Trade with extreme caution!
IMO he has always been a true scammer. It is just now that he has actually gotten an actual scammer tag aka actual negative trust from someone on default trust Being a scammer is not an opinion, it is a fact. I am not a scammer, I have never sacmmed anyone. Some dude thinks I am Thoughtful, don't know who that is.... To clarify, it has always been my opinion that you were someone who was looking for opportunities to scam and were someone that probably has scammed in the past. I am fairly certain that no one thinks you are thoughtful as the majority of your posts are spam. I would second that, he hasn't shown ethical behavior in the past and himself acts like a 5 year old. He started 3-4 threads against Bad Bear : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=873361https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=873759https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=873763He also created this site: Crypto-Buzz, did a giveaway, which was in no Way Fair,and got a lot of twitter followers from that, then he posted on selling it. He also created a service discussion, about starting a site: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=842707And asked people if they believe and have trust in him, and would invest in him. He got a negative response, and never posted anything again in that thread. Rather, he just went ahead and started the thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=858627And still came across negative feedback. He also goes to signature campaigns, and asks for an extra amount, to join. His posts come to me as he is desperately trying to earn money. Not saying he is a scammer, but I would certainly not doubt anyone claiming him to be. He appears to be trying to build up trust with people by engaging in a lot of transactions with others. I would say that his endgame was likely his investor funded casino. He was probably hoping that since a lot of people had done business with him in the past that people would trust him enough to invest in his casino and would participate in his signature campaign without him putting funds into escrow (to promote his casino). |
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you mean that we can buy AGC with bitcoin soon??
You can already do that with a thrid party website, called Gyft. You can also effectively use bitcoin as a amazon gift card via offing to pay in bitcoin in exchange for people buying things for you on amazon, you can even get a discount for your goods. |
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As stated before, it has nothing to do with them being afraid of bitcoin
Would we of had such hand wringing from them if the picture had shone WU in a good light? Probably. If it was shown in a better light then the satire could have left out some important disclaimer or condition of using their service and as a result it would add liability to Western Union. There is a long history of examples where corporations don't waste their time defending their trademarks/copyrights because it isn't worth their time or they benefit from the advertising. W/U is clearly making a calculated attack because of a perceived threat. Do you have any examples of this? Filing a DCMA complaint would only draw attention to themselves and the picture in question. If they were making an "attack" because of bitcoin's threat then they are doing it wrong because their "attack" is drawing attention to the comparison between bitcoin and WU |
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To me that's only a couple of a percent chance of being personally affected if you happened to be transferring coin at the time of the attack. Then when it's noticed happening, we point dual Gavins at it and pull the trigger, 48 hour fix even if attacker paid someone to get them drunk at a conference the night before.
Yes, but Bitcoin will be permanently damaged by by removing the trust we have in the system from such an attack. and it's ONLY when a large amount of resources and planning has been achieved that you can possibly do anything else, at which point everybody is watching you like a hawk. With POS, it seems more like you can 5th column it gradually.
Again you seem to be ignoring that a disgruntled employee or outside hacker attacking a large mining pool without a large amount of resources can attack the network. You seem to be focusing on PoS as well which isn't exactly what the paper is talking about. People use the term "attack the network" a lot. Could you give examples, of what can really happen? What do these attacks look like? What damage can these "attacks" really do? Any successful attack would erode confidence in the network and would cause people to not want to hold/use any coins that are backed by the network. As a result the value of such coin would decline (like to nearly zero). A likely attack would involve spending the same coins multiple times, resulting in all of the people who thought they received money to actually not receive money. So, the real threat to Bitcoin is not on the technical site, but on the PR-site. If that would be true, shouldn't we fear more about people bad-mouthing bitcoin? Oh wait, they already do and Bitcoin is still alive, although people believe that the CEO of bitcoin if a magical tux or that bitcoin was already hacked, etc. No it would be a technical issue. If the network is successfully attacked then the network does not protect your money. It would be much worse then people "bad mouthing" bitcoin or PoW mining. |
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