2-of-3 multisig is a good solution. You hold one key and your client holds two, one of which is kept in a secure location. This setup prevents anyone with your key as well as anyone with only one of the client's keys from stealing the coins. This setup requires both you and your client to approve any movement of the coins, though the secured key ultimately gives the client full control over the coins if they need it.

These people can help you: https://thirdkey.solutions/

I wrote this in the other thread that you started on this subject:

It is a legal issue that is not specific to Coinbase.

Here is an article that explains it: https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/03/24/2122678/bitcoins-lien-problem/

In general, if someone uses an asset for collateral on a loan and they sell the asset and later default on the loan, the lender can legally force the buyer to give them the asset. Bitcoin is not immune to this law. So, if someone using their bitcoins as collateral sells them to Coinbase and Coinbase sells them to you, you could be forced by the law to to give the lender your bitcoins.

Stolen bitcoins have the same issue. If you inadvertently or indirectly buy stolen bitcoins, you could potentially be forced to return them.

My own opinion is that it could get messy for a couple reasons. There are no actual bitcoins and bitcoins are quite fungible. Who can say who has the bitcoins? Also, if you deposit them in another exchange, wouldn't that instantly make it someone else's problem?

It is a legal issue that is not specific to Coinbase or Bitcoin.

Here is an article that explains it: https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/03/24/2122678/bitcoins-lien-problem/

In general, if someone uses an asset for collateral on a loan and they sell the asset and default on the loan, the lender can legally force the buyer to give them the asset. Bitcoin is not immune to this law. So, if someone using their bitcoins as collateral sells them to Coinbase and Coinbase sells them to you, you could be forced by the law to to give the lender your bitcoins.

Stolen bitcoins have the same issue. If you inadvertently or indirectly buy stolen bitcoins, you could potentially be forced to return them.

My own opinion is that it could get messy for a couple reasons. There are no actual bitcoins, and bitcoins are quite fungible. Who can say who got the bitcoins? Also, if you deposit them in another exchange, wouldn't that instantly make it someone else's problem?

It is obviously a scam.

If your trust rating matters to you, I recommend that you delete your post. Creating a thread to ask a question about a scam site is a common way for a scammer to promote it, so someone might assume that you are promoting it and brand you with negative trust.

It is probably better to ask in the original thread (though it will probably get deleted eventually anyway).

I would say that the clouds going below the horizon in the picture (and the sun about to) are probably the strongest proof of a flat earth. Or maybe not.

I think you are confusing circulation with mining production. They are not related. Bitcoins aren't consumed, so the bitcoins mined yesterday are in circulation today, too.

Anyway, this page shows the production schedule: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply

Ok, now I know you are trolling. That isn't Carl Sagan.

That's Johnny Carson impersonating Carl Sagan.

I agree. In fact I consider them to be completely opposite.

A HODLer accumulates bitcoins for the long term and considers short term fluctuations to be irrelevant.

A trader is only concerned with short term fluctuations in order to make money regardless of what happens in the long-term.

Unless someone is being generous, exchanges are probably the cheapest places to buy BTC because they are the most efficient.

Also, be very wary of sites that will sell you BTC at big discounts or offer to buy your BTC at much higher prices because they are probably scams.

Personally, I prefer

ax²+bx+c

to

a(x²)+(bx)+c

and similarly

a₀+a₁x+a₂x²+a₃x³+...+a_nxⁿ

to

a₀+(a₁x)+(a₂(x²))+(a₃(x³))+...+(a_n(xⁿ))

I have never heard this. Can you provide a link to the podcast? Anyway, since bitcoins don't have titles associated with them I think it would be difficult for the lienholder to recover the bitcoins sold to you.

What do I do? I swallow it.

I don't know why I swallowed the fly. I guess I'll die.

Those extortion emails were common several months ago. They included usernames and passwords (that they got from hacked web sites), so they seemed very convincing.

These scammers didn't provide any info to back up their claims, so it's probably just some script kiddies that are just spamming email lists. I would ignore it. Its not worth any more of your time.

Why do you single out Nigerians and Indians? Should't any scammer, regardless of their origin, find something better to do?

I'm trying to understand your model better. I have two questions:

1. When it sets, the sun appears to go below the earth. If the sun is reflection on the dome 3000 miles above the surface of the earth, then how does that work? I guess the question also applies to the moon, planets and stars, since they all rise and set, too.
2. Do we know where the projector is located?

May 17, 2013: The first major Bitcoin Conference was held at the San Jose Convention Center.
August 17, 2012: Bitcoin Savings & Trust, the biggest Bitcoin-based Ponzi scheme, collapsed with victims losing millions of dollars.
November 19, 2009 - I (typo) Satoshi created the Bitcointalk.org site.

Try posting here: Bitcoin Forum > Bitcoin > Development & Technical Discussion > Alternative clients > Electrum

You want us to boycott Amazon because you didn't like your job? Must we boycott every company with an employee who doesn't like their job?

From your description, it doesn't seem like you were being exploited. It seems more like you weren't good at your job and you weren't willing or weren't able to improve. There is no good job in the world (except in government, of course) where the employee isn't required to meet minimum standards and isn't encouraged to improve their speed and accuracy. Oh, and getting to work on time is such a basic work requirement. If you can't do that, you'll have problems where ever you work.

While that is true, here is one way to think about it. The probability of you and everyone you care about dying this year is many times higher than the probability of a collision. So, which is the more important problem?



No. A hash is like a fingerprint. You cannot construct a person from a fingerprint. With a hash, you can identify a block and validate it's authenticity, but you cannot reconstruct it. That is a basic feature of a hash -- it's a "one-way" function.