I'll offer fee-free escrow.
I'm trying to establish trust in this forum. I've used escrow for my own purchases. I'm familiar with the process and can open a dedicated wallet for your transaction and keep all progress transparent.
PM me!
lol To be honest this was exactly my reaction lol. You can't just waltz into a thread and try to escrow a deal that could be worth over $3000, when you're a Sr. Member with no valuable trust...that's not exactly how these things work. To the OP, good luck on selling, but do you have certificates of authenticity? |
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Some more info after some discussion.
- Yes, we're interested in doing a special issue coin, solid gold is on the table but we're playing with design options
- We're considering a run of around 25 coins - fewer and the premiums would be killer, more would be difficult due to the cost of the batch run and we'd probably have to get pre-order guarantees if we were to go above 25
- We can't use existing dies from previous runs because gold is more dense than silver, and the coin dimensions would be smaller, so we have to either re-make dies with a previous design, come up with new artwork, or mix in another metal to alloy with to achieve the same dimensions to be able to re-use previous dies. I mention this because it will obviously affect the pricing based on how much work/money needs to be put into the solution
- The coin would be most likely 1oz. As mentioned by others, with gold anything smaller will not fit everything needed. It won't be larger, as even at 1oz it's a smaller market due to the cost
- We have not discussed the holos, numbering, engraving/stamping or anything like that yet. I think there will be some sort of marking to make it a special issue series, just not sure what yet.
Pricing is very hard to speculate right now until we figure out more of the technical parts. If we have enough interest that we know we'd sell out, premiums could be adjusted accordingly, but we're so far away from that right now it's not worth any larger discussion.
This will not take away from our desire to issue a "normal" Series 4 coin in the traditional silver & silver/gold gilt like the past. Stay tuned for more information on that.
Please keep the ideas and questions coming!
Have you considered using gold other than 99.9 purity? There's upsides and downsides to using less pure gold, the upside being it's easier to drum up interest due to the cheaper price (and it helps you as you need less capital to produce your initial run), the downside being that people might not be as allured by the coins if they aren't completely pure. |
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Aren't these against the forum rules? I have reported this user multiple times, but he still seems to be continuing.
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The thing is those quotes are directly relevant to the thread. The addition of the URL itself I wouldn't call advertising as the person posting is a representative of that site. The rest is relevant 'news' to the thread whether you like it or not. AFAIK there are very rare cases where advertising is allowed on threads, or at least there used to be. Threads which collate large amounts of information and weren't expressly created just to advertise seem to be where those advertisements mainly popped up, but they were never very successful. |
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In reference to spamming, I believe it's kind of discretionary. I believe there is a system of increasing ban lengths but I think a permanent ban can be given out immediately in some cases.
In reference to the "gambling script", it depends. If it's just a scam that's not bannable. If it's malware that is bannable.
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Even though I have a Chain of Points signature I'm going to try to be relatively unbiased here. Why is the thread self-moderated? I don't think self-moderation and holding an initial offering go very hand in hand, I think you'd have better luck increasing trust in your surface without it.
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@all responders: Thanks, your suggestions helped me a lot to realize the script. Do you need help? I can help you for reward  what is your project? Thanks, as said in the opening post, I just integrate a fast address balance check into my project. The project is a little community project. Nothing spectacular that has to be mentioned here  I'm quite curious to see which of the APIs would be the fastest, actually. Have you considered trying each blockchain API in order to see which returns data the fastest? I suppose it doesn't matter too much for a community project, but it would be quite interesting to see anyways... |
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Is this just a regular pooled brute force attack? If it is I don't see how it really adds anything to Bitcoin's development or tells us something we don't already know, unless it's trying to use some new novel method of finding collisions: in which case it is less of an attack on Bitcoin, and more of an attack on SHA256 in an attempt to prove it obsolete.
Please define "regular" and "us" Also, would you care to lay out "what we already know" and finally why you think this is an attack on SHA256. If you don't know what it adds to BTC development, you probably haven't read anything of the thread in which case it's hard to discuss the matter. Fun fact: BTC mining is a regular pooled brute force attack. Rico You might have misinterpreted what I said, the phrase "attack" was in no way supposed to be an attack on your project, I actually think a successful attack on Bitcoin/SHA256 would be very important and noble of the person showing it in proving that the protocol is no longer effective. However the project is literally an attempt to find collisions, no? Does it prove a point, and if it does, is it any different to, say, finding a collision in SHA256 using a birthday attack? |
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Is this just a regular pooled brute force attack? If it is I don't see how it really adds anything to Bitcoin's development or tells us something we don't already know, unless it's trying to use some new novel method of finding collisions: in which case it is less of an attack on Bitcoin, and more of an attack on SHA256 in an attempt to prove it obsolete.
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Sure.
BTCTalk name: DiamondCardz
Rank: Legendary
Current post count: 3823
BTC Address: 171717Lqgyi88sqSqRtToFYUYmJqeq5Bui
That is, if this still has open slots, anyway.
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To the op. Why not make a post on how to solve overpopulation. Far more energy is spent due to 8 billion living people. World works fine or just as bad with 3 billion people.
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The hamburgers comparison was not meant to be taken seriously. In the OP, I literally referred to the problem of population growth, so I'm not sure why you are using overpopulation as a point. Our energy resources are already being stretched by overpopulation and your attempt at being witty doesn't cut it. Do you plan to convince people to stop having kids so we can save energy for other things, like Bitcoin? |
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This is ridiculous all around. An absurd amount of money to be paying for one subscription when they can be bought for much cheaper, the fact the OP's account has been hacked, and the fact he wants to pay all who do this service for him in May. Don't waste your time on this, else you're just feeding obvious scams.
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I would like a loan of 1 BTC. I am a Nigerian Prince and I am the heir to a fortune of 130 Million US Dollars, however I cannot move this out of my country until I pay Poloniex and OKCoin a required verification fee of One Thousand US Dollars. etc etc etc.
That has about the same level of validity. No one is going to randomly drop you about a thousand bucks.
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This is the feedback you left me :  Please point out where I claimed I sent you funds? ok i change now an accusation without proof can lead to libel It isn't libel. He pointed out something you have done (making these threads and asking for no collateral loans), and pointed out that it is suspicious and risky (which is true). Please refer to the no collateral, no loan sticky in the Lending section. |
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Any plans to make the Silver Wallet in a limited run of solid "Gold Wallet" at a reasonable markup over spot price of gold?
Would they have the kind of money required upfront in order to produce a run of gold coins though? The startup capital required for that is waaaay more than what you need to produce a run of silver coins. Maybe if they raised money in advance like a crowdfunding campaign? |
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the obscene energy usage of Bitcoin miners is a problem.
Which is a fraction of the energy used by the worlds current banking system. What Bitcoin would replace in the banking system uses a fraction of the energy of Bitcoin miners. Things like investment banking would still be a thing, you realise? The stock market, all other functions of a bank other than money exchanging, they don't just vanish if Bitcoin goes mainstream. |
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You're still doing this, Mitchell? Is your sanity alright? I was sure you would have given up or given it away by now... |
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It's all about the quest to farm sig money. Some of the amounts of money available are veeeerrrrryyyy appealing to people from countries like China (which you've already identified as a prolific country for account farmers). Luckily you can usually filter these kinds of people out through their quality of written English being extremely poor and their posts generally being off-topic and short. Patrol should get some of their posts but really, and I said this years ago too, account farming and spamming will stop when sig campaign managers become more selective. I see some are now taking a harder approach to poor English and spammy posts but not all do.
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To be honest, not very much dude. 8000 followers isn't a huge amount and price is based on a lot of things, like the main language of the account and followers (and the fluency), the interests expressed by the account/its followers, the amount of followers, the age, etc.
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This is based on something someone else said to me recently, though I wrote it it doesn't necessarily mean I wholeheartedly agree with what is written, it is more of a debating platform.For a world which is about to face an enormous threat to civilisation's growth and survival - climate change - the obscene energy usage of Bitcoin miners is a problem. In 2016 Motherboard modelled[1] that, pessimistically, the Bitcoin network could require 14 GW of energy to supply all the miners in action, that is, 14 gigajoules per second or 14 billion joules per second. For context, 14 gigajoules is - in the UK anyway - equal to just over 16.1 million McDonalds' hamburgers worth of energy per second. That's a lot of hamburgers. (simplified, of course) The world is already experiencing an exponential growth in population and therefore energy consumption, and energy is already going to limit the future's economic growth[2]. If we want to prevent this happening we need to seriously decrease our global energy consumption, and Bitcoin needs to be a part of this, either through changing the hashing method/protocol or centralisation/regulation (one being more desirable than the other). In addition, Bitcoin mining is generally focused in places where renewable energy is not taking nearly as much of a hold as in developed countries, e.g. Russia, Brazil, China, and so the effect of the energy consumption in those areas is worsened. I couldn't find a reliable source I trust to back that up, however. What is your response to the question in the title? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1]: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bitcoin-could-consume-as-much-electricity-as-denmark-by-2020
[2]: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/61/1/19/303944/Energetic-Limits-to-Economic-Growth
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A twitter account with more than 8,000 followers doesn't really serve as any meaningful collateral...those are fairly easy to come by, even with much higher quantities of followers. I don't think you're going to convince anyone to lend you a thousand bucks worth of BTC with no rep or collateral.
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