If I were you I wouldn't invest in Any cloud mining. I have seen way too many of them turn out to be Ponzi schemes or other scams, even ones that seemed 100% legit and too big to fail. Plus if it is actually real mining involved with your cloud mining investment, you would not make much anyways. I'd say you're better off just buying some cheap second hand mining hardware for a much lower price than new retail, even if you don't make much off of that, you can always resell the hardware down the road.

I would say Switzerland or the Netherlands. Have always wanted to visit Russia but would never want to live there long-term, personally.

Just for any Google searches a potential victim does for www.thebtcescrow.com -

www.thebtcescrow.com The BTC Escrow Review - SCAM Site, False Escrow, Avoid. Website only registered 1 day ago and claims to have completed 10,000+ escrow transactions and have 57 employees at a surely false address listed to be in London.

Also- there is not even any way of setting up escrow for a legitimate transaction on there...
I clicked "Create Escrow" after typing '1' into the "Bitcoin Amount" field and it gives you a Bitcoin address to deposit to and a 'tracking number', and says to notify them once you have received your item. There are no fields to enter details about the transaction, no payment address for the seller's Bitcoin to be transferred to after the buyer receives the item, etc.

Just came across your site for the first time yesterday; I had seen the name ShapeShift.io in ads and articles before, but had never checked it out. It looks great though, and seems very simple to exchange between multiple cryptos! Best part is it seems no account is needed, which is a huge positive in my opinion!

One question though- I think I saw you have an affiliate system for people referring through your API, but would you consider a regular affiliate system with unique ShapeShift.io referral links, where the referrer gets 1% of any amounts traded or something like that?

Oh wow that is a thing of beauty! Great job on those Og, and I think the new reverse design looks great as well. I bet those 5 seat'rs shine like a mirror in the sun!    Congrats to all the new owners.

Edit: 1000 posts, woop woop!

Well I just tried 2 different times to create an account/wallet on MyMonero.com and got "server error" each time after tediously writing down the mnemonics each time. I was on the latest version of the Tor browser bundle if this makes a difference.

I remember Blazed or Night Owl mentioned that they had a new design a while back, I can't wait to see it! I think their previous releases have been pretty well done. (I think the font looks fine as well, but that's just my opinion.) I love the 2 out of 3 I have, but I am a silver bug as well, so I might be a bit biased.     Was very grateful to be able to participate in the SW sig. campaign for a free coin too.

I think a Platinum physical Bitcoin would be dope as hell, but I agree with AT101ET, I think that would be a hard sell right now unless you did an extremely limited run, and then you could get the people like Goat, otoh, bitmarket.io, etc. buying some maybe. Unless you could do a fractional Pt. coin, then more could probably afford one. I'm surprised Casascius didn't end up doing a Platinum coin after he did the 1 oz. Gold 1000 BTC coins, that would have been amazing!

Hey guys, I was asking about making Paper Wallets for Monero a page or so back. I only have like 50 Monero coins, which I know is not much, but I want to stash them away safely and just try and forget about them until I check back in on what they're worth in the future. Don't want to be tempted to spend/sell them if I need some BTC for a purchase.

A few people pointed out MyMonero.com as a good web wallet. In your opinion, can the site be trusted to hold my Monero funds securely for a while? And is that the user fluffypony's project?

Ha, I love the animated video with the queen using Bitcoin and making multi-sig paper wallets for her prince children! 

I'm interested in the Mycelium Entropy device, because I've been thinking about getting a Trezor (or similar device) sometime and I love making and stashing paper wallets. I will have to check out my printer and give it some consideration. And of course if TookDk wants it first it should go to him.

I've just been patiently waiting for the auctions to end so I can buy a "Normal" Edition. Not that I didn't want a Limited Edition 1-10 print, but the auctions have been getting up there in price! And for good reason I think, you have made some amazing Bitcoin "Bills" here, the quality seems to be gov. bank note level- and I have not even seen one in person yet!

Will you start selling the regular PaperSafe prints immediately after the 10th auction has ended?

Sorry for quoting my own post, I just figured it would be buried soon in this thread.

But is there anyway I can make a secure Monero paper wallet without downloading the whole client and blockchain? If I need to do that, to say, generate an address and export the private key, just let me know.

Put me down in your mental list as interested in 1 or 2. Just shoot me a PM whenever you find out they've shipped to you to check in, thanks.

Bumping a dead thread here but I'm looking to find a secure way to generate a Monero address or 2 and print them out in the form of paper wallets (like bitaddress.org is for BTC) to hold some of my XMR coins for a while. I'm not looking to download the entire XMR client and blockchain to do this, but will if I have to. Anybody got an ideas?

Hey everybody, I have limited knowledge about Monero but I've been wanting to add just a few XMR coins to my modest holdings for a while now to hopefully appreciate over time with some kind of stability. Tonight I just bought 50 XMR on Poloniex for a total of 0.108 BTC which didn't seem like a bad price after looking at past charts on there. Do you think this was a decent price?

And, my main question- Are there any secure and proven Monero address generators and paper wallet sites like bitaddress.org is for Bitcoin? I'm wanting to just make a secure paper wallet or 2, send all 50 XMR to those paper wallets and stash them away from my house but in a safe location to just forget about basically and check on the XMR price 6 months, 1 year, 2 years+ from now and hopefully see some gains. And do you, personally, think the XMR price is stable enough to just buy a bunch and sit on them for a year or 2 and not have any huge losses? I never feel comfortable holding Any altcoins for long periods of time without checking on them regularly.

Hey masterp, I will do $50 with you if that's fine. I can send first again, just PM me. I think I might post a thread of my own looking to exchange like $10-20 of my PayPal once a week for Bitcoin at current rates just to build up my BTC holdings and stash away in a paper wallet.

Good point, for some dumb reason I was only thinking of online shopping. If it were a small vendor though I would imagine it would just be his personal wallet and would ultimately be up to him to accept at 0 confirms or wait for more.

This coin is now SOLD to user ct1aic and the OP has been updated to reflect that! He is a friendly guy and has also bought a couple of my coins on eBay as well, I was more than happy to sell him this coin.

I don't really have any problems with Gyft supporting Bitcoin instead of eBay directly accepting it. I feel like eBay would just dump any Bitcoin received for fees anyways, just as other large merchants dump all BTC for fiat when they accept if for payments. I feel like Gyft at least holds some of their BTC, and they were an early supporter of Bitcoin so I have no problem supporting them with my BTC. They provide a fair & reliable service and allow you to indirectly spend your Bitcoin at a wide variety of merchants, and give you 3x Gyft points for doing it; I don't see what's not to like about that.

And you definitely can buy pretty much anything on eBay. They are a Huge company though and still can't lower seller fees, which end up being 10-15% after PayPal fees are factored in too. I'd rather see Bitcoin market competitors to eBay like CryptoThrift and OpenBazaar succeed.

**One downside to Gyft that I see though is that they are US-only, or at least they were. It probably doesn't matter much anyways though as I'm pretty sure you can use the Gyft-purchased cards online with most merchants. Still would be nice to see them expand and be able to use purchased cards at brick-and-mortar merchants in other parts of the world.

Nastyfans.org is working for me at the moment, at least on my iPhone's Safari browser.

And @OgNasty- I can already tell those coins are going to look fucking amazing! The sheer thickness of that hunk of .999 silver is a thing of beauty! Can't wait to to see full front & back pictures of the finished product with holograms in place. I just wish I could have afforded one, but I will buy/sell/trade my way there eventually.


Thanks for the clarification nonnakip. I am definitely not a fan of the Bitcoin Foundation and all of their BS drama, and for the fact that an average person may confuse the BF's relation to Bitcoin or may think they are somehow "in charge" of Bitcoin, which would be the complete opposite of decentralization. Like you said BitPay and other organizations consider the invoice paid immediately after receiving the Bitcoin transaction. I don't see why 60 minutes would be a big deal for any company to wait anyways, unless perhaps they are selling digitally transferred goods, because unless they ship the purchased item within 1 hour it shouldn't be a big deal. Instead of an "instant pay system" that works on 0 confirms, why not pop up a message stating "Bitcoin Payment Received. After your payment has received 6 confirmations from the Bitcoin Network, it will be considered ready for shipping. This process is a safety precaution and usually takes approximately 1 hour." ?

I feel like Nubbins meant to post this in Goods, and not Auctions. Still though, there is not much information either way about shipping, pictures, etc.