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That's not a bad idea, certainly enough people around here who would fall for it. It's really not fair to accuse Lutpin of doing that though. He's just a bit fussy about who he accepts and I think he likes people to put a bit effort into working out how the campaign runs.
I'm not accusing Lutpin of doing that deliberately (to be honest Bitvest could be more to blame, I don't know the circumstances), just pointing out that it's not OK. If it wasn't Lutpin, but some new member trying his luck in as manager, everyone would be shitting on him mercilessly. We all know that. |
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I am pretty sure he is talking about 2 different instances.
Basically I am guessing that he used the exact same username, email, and password on many sites such as bitcointalk.
Then when BCT got hacked, there were attempts at his account. The one in 2017 most likely had the same password and he lost his $1000, and from a few months ago, someone tried to login and they locked it to prevent fraud.
Basically just contact support and you should get it opened again.
Well, "few months ago" could mean 7 months, and be related to the hacked account in June. That's what I assumed anyway. |
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So, as you say, news about bitcoin is mainstream, but not with its use.
But isn't public awareness enough to be classed as mainstream? You can't reasonably expect majority of global population to jump on it and use it. Assuming that (almost) everyone has heard about Bitcoin, I could imagine that those who were interested in the concept already got in, and those who aren't - unlikely ever will. If so, then BTC won't get any more mainstream than it is right now. Looking from other angle - if you accept that Bitcoin shouldn't be viewed as currency but rather as a store of value (or investment, speculative asset etc) then you can't define 'mainstream' as widespread usage and therefore, with that point of view, 'mainstream' is already here. |
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As for 777coin and Bitvest, I don't think they should be in 'Active' category. They advertised themselves as open, get shitload of new applications (way more than free spots), most would set their sigs+avatars and effectively advertise them for free for weeks now, while Lutpin won't process application and won't give any update.
Lutpin has stated in the thread that applications are only looked at when he does payments. So anyone applying only needs to set their signature, avatar and text on that day. He is also consistent in only replying to successful applications. When I applied and was accepted into 777coin campaign a few months ago I was able to deduce that from spending 5 minutes going through the thread. Yes, but he stated this somewhere in the thread, new applicants are not aware of that unless they decide to go through every post in the thread. Updating 1st or 2nd post wouldn't hurt. Edit: Can you actually link me to Lutpin saying that you can set sig/avatar only after accepted? I've scan Bitvest thread before and it's not very clear at all. Also, Lutpin's last entry in the Bitvest thread is this: That was 9 days ago, still nothing. It takes literally seconds to write a quick update and let applicants know on what's causing the delay etc.
If this is tolerated, then why wouldn't someone apply this campaign model: 1- Advertised campaign, offer attractive rates. You can even use trusted escrow. 2- Never reply, don't accept/reject anyone, so you don't have to pay a single satoshi (since no one is officially accepted). 3- People will be losing patience and moving on, but new ones will surely keep coming in. 4- Congrats, you got constant stream of free advertising. |
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In an encouraging series of events Goldman Sachs claims that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency has a viable future as a form of money,
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Great, but did they provide any rationale? Source? KFC Canada starts accepting Bitcoin for buckets of fried chickenb]...
You'd have to be clinically retarded to make any small/medium value purchase with bitcoins atm. ...and the state of Arizona has proposed SB 1091 which will allow you to pay your taxes in Bitcoin.
Now that's big if bill gets passed. But they propose cryptocurrency, not just Bitcoin. https://www.coindesk.com/arizona-lawmakers-want-let-people-pay-taxes-bitcoin/ |
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Lunyr Beta Sig and Avatar Campaign
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It's full now - CFNP, didn't take long.
As for 777coin and Bitvest, I don't think they should be in 'Active' category. They advertised themselves as open, get shitload of new applications (way more than free spots), most would set their sigs+avatars and effectively advertise them for free for weeks now, while Lutpin won't process application and won't give any update. I understand manager could be (and likely is) very busy, but there are limits. Keeping people waiting for weeks and not giving any sort of heads-up/update is a highly unethical not to say scammy behaviour. Move to 'Flux' or mark with asterisk? |
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Simple poll. Question as in topic.
No time limit. Vote changing allowed.
Self-moderated just in case, but I don't intend to use it.
Things to consider:
Brand recognition - you can hardly find anyone who has never heard about Bitcoin. They sure as hell don't know how it works, but they heard about it.
Omnipresent mainstream media coverage - countless number of press hits and mentions, all the financial 'gurus' have talked about it. No one is surprised by this anymore.
Years ago most would define 'mainstream' as widespread merchant adoption, but maybe it just wasn't meant to be...
Vote. Discuss.
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Are you people F'ing kidding me?? This is the most pathetic joke we've seen to date. They bought a bunch of S9's and slapped their crappy bumber stickers on them and are calling them Kodak Miners.
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Lol, you might be right, looks very slightly different than s9, but almost sure they haven't manufactured those themselves. At this time we have 80 miners, and we expect another 300 to arrive shortly. Note the word "arrive", it's pretty obvious they ordered those (from BitMain?) rather than made them on their own. |
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The conference organizer, Moe Levin, earlier told Bitcoin.com that his company was working to get bitcoin cash or other digital assets with cheaper fees integrated into the ticketing system. He told the news site: "We wish this was easier, but no ticketing options exist which can handle large volumes of ticket sales, and transaction fees on the Bitcoin blockchain exceed $30 at certain times of the day." Not even funny anymore, that's just sad |
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Sorry to say but they are just stupid!
As they have a professional external verification, called IDNow.
Which does the verification process.
And IDNow does clearly verify Romanian Passports!
I did make a video chat with them.
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I don't think they question authenticity of your Romanian passport, the issue seems to be more about which country do you reside in (IDNow positive passport verification doesn't help here). Again, it's an easy thing to resolve if they had procedures in place or were willing to resolve it. It's a free market, just use other service, they're the ones losing profit, not you. ...
I am sorry you feel this way. But as I said we don't have the procedures in place to onboard you right now. And this may be a bad situation for you because you are an edge-case, but as soon as we have good onboarding for romanian citizens/customers, you will be able to verify your account.
You don't need procedures specifically for Romanians (or other nationalities), you only need to determine whether a person is a legal resident of any of the supported countries and therefore subject to their laws (their nationality is irrelevant really). |
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I think that is part of the issue. The other part is the significant increase in BTC value last year. There are still high rollers that are willing to gamble with $1,000 or $10,000 (or even much more) at a time but now that is a much smaller amount of BTC. At the same time, the bankrolls of the casinos have stayed the same in BTC or even increased, so the turnover is a smaller percentage of bankroll.
Good point, that's why looking only at profit expressed as percentage can be very deceiving without taking BTC price into account. 0.5% gain can be much higher than 5% a year ago (in USD terms). The gambling in bitcoin could possibly be investment but the risk of her too big because gambling not was guarantee will always got advantage it also bitcoin is not good because it will give negative effects for people who gambled
Jesus Christ. Even adjusting for poor English, this post is pure spam and nonsense. |
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You still seem not to understand at all!
I do not live in Romania!
*snip*
Tough luck. Looks like they don't have procedures in place to deal with such cases. Normally, in the UK, you'd need to prove you live here legally (by having EU passport or work visa) + provide proof of address (i.e. recent utility bill)
Is there any info about BitPanda's fee structure anywhere? I'm struggling to find it. |
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IE v 11.0.9600.18861 Gdy kopiuje adres na stronie Wesprzyj, obojetnie ktorej waluty, adresy kopiuja sie z dodatkowym tekstem 'Copy' na koncu przez co adres staje sie niepoprawny, np: BCH: 3MZKaAfumM2vR6xEqqsDong77p8NDHrJPSCopy BTC: 36HE3LsN1ahohxJJ3kDegBStx6qYPCF9VvCopy ETH: 0xec0282d535667955b764601793067389e350f34cCopy itd |
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Is there any news about new participants? I have applied two weeks ago and Lutpin (campaign manager) said a week ago that he will announce new participants six days ago. But until now there's no new info...
Why would they bother to reply if dozens of you are advertising them for free for weeks now and most are to scared to even say a shit, because you don't want to lose spot, which you don't even yet have. There's no real reason Lutpin couldn't just give all a quick heads up on what's going on (he was online and active in other thread). Keep waiting or move on. |
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I think if something important as that can come out it for sure will be integrated, and i think exchanges who will integrate it first will profit and all the users will switch. I think if the LN is available it won't be that hard for the exchanges to create ln wallet for fast storage and transactions.
Why would average exchange give a damn about LN? Trades are done off-chain, large portion of bitcoin "users" don't even own wallets (buy for fiat on exchange and keep it there), to deposit - user still has to pay miner fee to open channel (so makes no sense), withdrawal fees can be passed onto users (to discourage them for withdrawing). I don't see any immediate incentive for exchanges to implement LN. They would likely be the last to jump on it, unless there's a massive demand from users, but average traders would hardly benefit from it, if at all (with an exception of arbitrage traders). |
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KashMiner FFS
A late entry to the cloud mining scam game.... Kodak
As ever if its profitable, why do they need a customer to sell it to?
You pay them upfront in fiat, the risk of volatility and rise in difficulty is on the buyers. So quick & easy profit for Kodak and they don't even have to touch Bitcoin. |
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Scam? ))) They try to jump to the moving train. Will wait when Kodak ico) I hope they have really good reasons(good idea) to run KodakCoin
it's mentioned in the quoted article: Kodak's other initiative, the KodakCoin, is being created as part of an effort to build a global ledger of picture rights ownership that photographers can add their work to.
Associated KodakOne software will be used to crawl the web and find pictures that have been used without permission.
The company said it would then "manage the licensing process," so the photographer can be paid, in KodakCoin I see it as potentially good idea, but have doubts whether Kodak knows what they're doing. If they want to put themselves as manager of the licensing process, then it suggests their blockchain/currency will be centralised and if so, there's no really a need for a blockchain, definitely not for a new currency (they could just accept fiat). But if they did it as a decentralised storage + smart contracts, where authors could upload their work, pick a relevant tags/categories, set their pricing etc, then it could work great, cutting off the middle-men such as Shutterstock and Getty Images. |
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Just want to add that I was locked out of my account on SafeDice a few months ago and had 0 response in resetting my password. It had around 1 BTC at the time.
You mean the account which, according to yourself, was hacked and funds were stolen from you? just had almost $1,000 stolen by someone who hacked my account on this site
The hacker must have been very generous to only steal $1k and leave you 1 btc. |
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As great an announcement as this might be, it's a bit absurd how this has affected Kodak's stock price. From $3 this morning to $9 in after hours trading.
As per google, the highest was $7.10 not $9. Still, 120% gain is insanely high for traditional stocks. This quote from the article explains it a bit: "This is a phenomenon we saw back during the dot com days in the late 1990s where traditional companies would mention some kind of internet strategy and their stock price would jump up," commented Garrick Hileman from the University of Cambridge. Investors got way overexcited about it. Then again, if Kodak manages to manufacture their own rigs, more efficient than Bitmain's ones + if they have their own power plant (as mentioned in article) + if the rumours about China capping mining operations are true - then this could turn out to be the best move for Kodak. Creating their own crypto seems to me like a totally missed idea, but if they were to launch it as an ICO, they could pocket some really big and quick profit even if the project fails in the longer run. Company that totally missed the shift to digital age of photography and now tries to spearhead the crypto era for photography. Interesting
Their timing is a bit off on this one too. If they did this ~2 years ago, when "blockchain technology" was No.1 buzzword, the effect would have been much better. |
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