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Registrant Contact Information: Name: Carol Bilto Address 1: 28 Polaris crt Address 2: apt 12 City: Saint John State: Alberta Zip: e2k 4l9 Country: CA Phone: +1.5066934558 Email: Email Masking Image@mail.comAdministrative Contact Information: Name: Carol Bilto Address 1: 28 Polaris crt Address 2: apt 12 City: Saint John State: Alberta Zip: e2k 4l9 Country: CA Phone: +1.5066934558 Email: Email Masking Image@mail.comTechnical Contact Information: Name: Carol Bilto Address 1: 28 Polaris crt Address 2: apt 12 City: Saint John State: Alberta Zip: e2k 4l9 Country: CA Phone: +1.5066934558 Email: Email Masking Image@mail.comBilling Contact Information: Name: Carol Bilto Address 1: 28 Polaris crt Address 2: apt 12 City: Saint John State: Alberta Zip: e2k 4l9 Country: CA Phone: +1.5066934558 Email: Email Masking Image@mail.comInformation Updated: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 19:59:19 UTC There's your whois data. |
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Exactly. Easy to say "sell on bubble peaks and rebuy at a lower price" but you can damage your long term profits if you get the timing wrong.
99% of people will not be able to do this with a positive expected value. They might as well be flipping coins. It's possible to have an edge if you really have a solid understanding of the bitcoin market, but most people who think they do, don't. |
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Why are guys so paranoid on this board? If you are not trading in the millions of USD, then no one fkin cares about your 10kish stoploss order. Seriously...
There are lots of exchanges out there and some of them have very little volume. So I think this is actually pretty good advice considering how thin some of these markets are. |
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Ok, so I want some bitcoin in Australia. What are my choices? I can meet the local drug dealers on the corner and do a shady deal, or I can provide detailed personal information to some unknown company. I have a credit card account and I can buy $1000 products online anywhere in the world, but I can't buy bitcoin. Here is the registration questionnaire ( https://anxbtc.com/#setting_verification) for ANXBTC bitcoin exchange before I can purchase bitcoin: Applicant Information First Name Last Name Address City State/ Province/ Region Country of Residence ZIP/ Postal Code Mobile Phone Number Date of Birth Occupation, Income and Source of Funds Occupation If 'Employed' or 'Self-Employed is chosen, please specify: If 'Other' is chosen, please specify: Source of Funds (multiple options can be selected) Salary Saving Inheritance Other If 'Other' is chosen, please specify: Annual Income Nature of Activity If 'Other' is chosen, please specify: Proof of Identity and Address Please upload the following documents: (1) Proof of identity * Must be valid (i.e. not expired) government issued ID. ANX accept the following: o International Passport (both sides) o National ID Card (both sides) o Permanent Driver's License (both sides) (2) Proof of address * Must not be older than 3 months * We accept only the following: o Bank statement o Utility bill for utilities consumed at your home address o Tax return, property tax bill o Election/Voters ID Additionally: *Documents must be in the following formats: jpg, png, gif, pdf. *Documents must be scanned in colour with minimum of 300dpi resolution *Documents must be entirely visible *Proof of residency document must be a scanned image of a paper document, not an electronic substitute. Electronic versions of proof of address will not be accepted. Drop files here to upload Upload Files Having trouble uploading the documents? Please contact verify@anxbtc.com<mailto:verify@anxbtc.com> Declaration I do hereby solemnly declare that the information provided is up-to-date and correct. The documents provided as proof of identity and proof of address has been self-attested. I authorize ANX to verify the information provided to confirm its accuracy. Submit <javascript:void(0)> Cancel <javascript:void(0)> Admittedly, that questionnaire is ridiculous, but there are quite a few other options for you as people have pointed out in this thread. Personally , I wouldn't give that company my business after seeing what information they require. I know that they are just attempting to cover their ass legally speaking, but I still find a company asking that much of a single person offensive. |
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While no one is ever going to agree to stop Satoshi from accessing his coins, they nonetheless remain a huge wildcard in the future of bitcoin. Just the possibility that he could move those coins has to add some negative value to an objective evaluation of bitcoin's value. I love Satoshi as much as anyone, but the idea of a million coins that sit there in limbo is not a good thing anyway you look at it.
I would hope that one say Satoshi returns and openly discusses his plans regarding those coins. I think he deserves everything he can get, but he also has the ability to destroy, or at the very least do great harm to his creation. And I'm sure that he realises this as well.
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I have long thought positive thoughts when it comes to Bitcoin. In theory it's a really good thing.
A few recent events have started to shake my belief slightly, for the following reasons:
- Although there is more acceptance, there doesn't seem to be a growing 'mainstream' acceptance. It is still too difficult to use and way too difficult to understand for the vast majority of people.
- There's no incentive for buyers to use Bitcoin. Why spend one's fiat to buy Bitcoin to spend on a product when one could just spend the fiat directly? By buying Bitcoin to buy a product, one will likely be paying more in fees via companies such as Bitpay and losing out on any sort of 'buyer protection' offered by credit card companies.
- Too many clones and copies are diluting the market and causing even more confusion among 'ordinary' people that don't understand the difference.
- Talk of impending financial collapse in the US and the collapse of the dollar at first would appear positive for Bitcoin. When one takes into account the likelihood of civil unrest leading to martial law and the internet kill switch, suddenly a hoard of Bitcoins look less like the smart move.
- The expectation of massive growth in the price deters use of Bitcoins. I made the mistake of paying 2 Bitcoin for something a year ago to pay the equivalent of 30 Euro, if I had kept the 2 BTC I would have had closer to 1500 Euro.
- The only reason the authorities aren't taking it seriously is because it isn't big enough to do any real damage. Once it is, who can honestly say that the US/China/Russia won't shut Bitcoin down. Pah!! Shut Bitcoin down? That's impossible.....well, no, not really. If they impose enough of a penalty for dealing in Bitcoin, the majority of people won't touch it with a barge pole, and certainly any large investors won't come within 100 miles. The extreme end to this scenario is that they force ISPs to block P2P traffic. I don't know if or how that would work, but governments are NOT going to give up their power without a fight.
- Lastly Bitcoin itself has nothing special to offer when compared to all the other copies other than it was first, but, so was Myspace and where is it now, and where is Facebook?
Don't get me wrong I am not a Bitcoin hater, I hold Bitcoin myself and I do hope that I am wrong, but these doubts are (IMO) real and quite worrying for the long term.
I think these are all reasonable points. But the longer time goes on without the government taking a hard stance against bitcoin the less likely that it's going to happen. So far bitcoin as had very little resistance as far as attempts by governments to stop it goes. Even if it is only a fringe currency, it's still slowly growing in mainstream acceptance. It's not an all or nothing proposition. If bitcoin was in ten years used for 5% of American transactions that would be a victory as far as I'm concerned. And the way it's designed it's going to be hard to stop people from using it as a store of value(which is fine, it's the one thing that looks to be almost guaranteed at this point). If it propagates to the point where governments decide that it's in their interest to hold some bitcoin in reserve that's another huge victory. There's lots of ways this can play out, mainstream or not things are looking very positive these days. |
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In our latest Squawkonomics interview, we asked Marc Faber about David Moskowitz's point he raised about how there is great interest in bringing cryptocurrencies to unbanked populations in developing countries. Countries like Cambodia only have 1 stock in its exchange, while other Southeast Asian and African countries still do not have a stock exchange. We explore the idea of a Bitcoin IPO being the first IPO in a country, thereby becoming a part of that country's history. Check out the full 4 minutes where Marc Faber talks Bitcoin IPOs in Cambodia, India, and more at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5YwtyDZ0jU&feature=youtu.beIs bitcoin really ready to serve a country like Cambodia? It would take a specialised company completely focused on the Cambodian market and offering a customised and safe experience. It would have to be something similar to Circle. Bitcoin by itself doesn't solve any problems for this unbanked segment of the population. Bitcoin it it's raw form would just introduce new problems unless it was handled very carefully by a company basically handling every aspect. |
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PayPal integrating bitcoin in to it's wallet system would probably the biggest single step for bitcoin on the path to main stream acceptance. If they add BTC alongside USD, GBP, EUR that would be fantastic. If you could buy BTC through PayPal it would be a huge gain for bitcoin in terms of easy access for the average person.
He really did sound excited and ready to deal with the reality and the challenge of this new form of money. I have to give him credit for that. That's exactly the sort of attitude I would expect a good CEO to have.
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This isn't Facebook trying to profit from cryptos at all. Approving one app that happens to use a bunch of altcoins isn't exactly a big deal considering the same article mentions that Facebook had already approved apps using bitcoin in the past.
Apple beginning to allow apps to use cryptocurrencies, now that was news. This, not so much.
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So when is the post cut off day for the next payment period? Last time it was June 1st, right? So I'm guessing if you plan to pay around June 9-11 the cut off will be posts before June 8th? Is that correct?
Recent payout was for June 1st and FXO said next weekly payment will be paid on June 8th (after a week). If there will be a delay, yes It could be on 9-10 June or some but the payment should be on June 8 with no delay. He just replied to your post specifically up there stating that the payments will be done on June 9-11. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=618870.msg7163552#msg7163552 |
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What are peoples initial thoughts on Apple's new programming language, Swift?
Personally, I had very little interest in doing anything related to objective-c. I wasn't fully against it or anything, but I had little motivation to try and learn. Now that they've created an updated modern language like Python or Ruby I'm much more interested in checking it out.
Also, for people who do coding for Apple, how do you like xcode? They have xcode 6 beta and I took a look at some screenshots and docs and it looks not bad.
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What's your condom use pattern like? Do you always use them or are there times when you just say 'fuck it'?
How far have you lowered your standards in order to find a new partner to have sex with? Do you get so desperate that you'll take any girl that is willing?
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Firstly they look ok but they are far from being good enough to compare with real people. Personally I wouldn't really like If a robot like this would serve me in a restaurant or any other public place, I just wouldn't be comfortable with It because they are robots and they work on a program which would make their service really bad for customers , no emotions just ok, yes, bye and that's all. The price of this "pepper robot" seems to be very cheap I'm surprised. At the beginning these robots might have success because If some business man would start a restaurant only with robots like these a lot of tourist or just curious people would visit that restaurant but yes normal restaurants must be considered with real people and restaurant with robots only for entertainment.
Eventually robot waiters will be the norm and you'll have to go out of your way to go to a special restaurant that has the classic style human wait staff. It will be a gimmick in the future, like going to one of those old diners that decorate like they're from the 50's. None of this is guaranteed of course, but really if you think about how much money a $2000 robot can save a business compared to a full time employee it seems inevitable. |
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I know this isn't 100% secure or anything, but realistically is this a reasonable course of action to secure some coins?
1. USB flash drive of Linux Mint or Ubuntu
2. While connected through direct LAN cable internet go download Electrum.
3. Create wallet and write down seed on paper(double, triple check seed ect.)
4. Write down receiving address from wallet.
5. Shutdown computer and send bitcoins from non secure source to the receiving address that was written down.
How does that sound as far as a decent way to have some coins secured? If I need to access them I can boot up from the USB flash and restore the wallet from its seed.
Save the master public key to a file and use that to create a watch only wallet for your online system. This will give you unlimited addresses and offline spending capabilities i.e. a proper offline wallet. https://electrum.org/tutorials.html#offline-mpkoffline pc being your PC booted off a live disc. Online being it booted of your regular OS. Ah, this is quite good. Sign transactions completely offline. Thanks for that information. |
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So when is the post cut off day for the next payment period? Last time it was June 1st, right? So I'm guessing if you plan to pay around June 9-11 the cut off will be posts before June 8th? Is that correct?
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During the relevant period, Shavers transferred at least 150,649 BTC to his
personal account at an online BTC currency exchange which, among other things, he then sold or
used to day-trade (converting BTC to U.S. dollars and vice versa). As a result of this activity,
Shavers suffered a net loss from his day-trading, but realized net proceeds of $164,758 from his
net sales of 86,202 BTC.
During the relevant period, Shavers transferred $147,102 from his personal
account at the online BTC currency exchange to accounts he controlled at an online payment
processor and his personal checking account, which he then used for, among other things, his
personal expenses, including rent, car-related expenses, utilities, retail purchases, casinos, and
meals.
My god. He only got 150k out that whole mess? Even as a scammer he's a massive failure. We were all thinking he walked away with millions. I don't understand how he only cashed out so little. 86,202 btc is much more than 150k. How much did the lose day trading? He used to brag on IRC all the time about moving the market and controlling bitcoin. He constantly implied that he was making all these returns to trading and selling big amount of btc to the secret customers. |
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Taking my reserved spot.
Posts: 737
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Please confirm, thanks.
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F. J. Seibert guy looks real after a quick google search, and whoever registered secvshavers.com domain used his contact details, but to be sure I've sent him an e-mail.
Seibert is real. Not sure why he picked up the cause. Perhaps he had money in Bitcoin Savings and Trust and he thought he might be able to get some of it back if he gets Trendon off the hook?  haha |
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Sounds pretty secure, I just store mine in encrypted files and keep them in a few places. There's always a chance you make loose the USB drive and don't forget its not reccomended to use flash drives for long term storage. Pen drives degrade over time.... Apparently  Keep this in mind. Make sure to use a long unique password for the wallet and be sure to have multiple backups. For added security you could put the wallet in an encrypted container as well. The key here is multiple backups. You wouldn't want a dodgy usb drive to be the reason you lost your bitcoin. With Electrum I'm under the impression that I don't have to use any backups at all as long as I have my seed. |
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Loads and loads of people from across the globe are immigrating to America for different purposes.. Their aims and purposes are getting fulfilled but America is actually getting destroyed..
Some adverse affects are as below :
- Americans are losing their job
- There has been an increase in crime, pollution and traffic congestion
- Erosion of culture
- Over-utilization of resources such as electricity, gas, food, etc
- Loss in form of remittance
You are free to debate, confirm on\off any of the combinations above..
Immigration is a good thing. Voluntary and yes even forced immigration built this country. We should have open borders. Immigration might be a good thing. But open borders would be quite the situation. People from all over the world would be flocking to the US in the millions. There would be violence for sure. Honestly the thought is just scary, and I'm not anti-immigration by any means. But open borders is asking for trouble I think. There are a lot of people in the world who would take advantage of such a situation. There will be violence either way. I should rephrase what I mean though. I am not advocating a completely lawless border. I would like to see a robust and quick system to allow for orderly immigration. Sort of an open borders policy framework that makes it easy for hard working people to come here and pursue their dreams. Ah. That sounds reasonable. I think that something like that might be a good idea. |
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