My hypothesis is that the ignore button is largely used to give people justification for not responding to others, but users still often show posts of the people they ignore, just because they are curious what that person is saying.
From what I see the people who have the most ignores are the ones who ask the question people don''t like to be asked. Look at who has the most ignores. Reeses. Phineas Gauge. Psy. Each and everyone people who ask exactly the questions that need to be asked but no one wants to have answered. And worse - time and time again they turn out to be right. There's also people like MPOE-PR, and pure trolls like ciuciu, smoothie, so the ensuing argument doesn't really hold up. MPOE-PR is just telling uncomfortable truths. Now with ciuciu... yeah, I've got nothing to say about that, he's an annoyotron all right. This is the great thing about ignore lists though, if you have an issue from someone rather than whining to mods about it and having to read their stuff you can just pop them on the ignore list and be very civil most of the time  Thank you captain obvious... Also MPOE-PR play devils advocate so they look like a troll. Most the time smoothie is actually funny in his own way I could never ignore either of them. |
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3 people gave this guy bitcoins I guess I have say the sad news. You guys will not be getting paid back. https://btcjam.com/listings/780https://btcjam.com/listings/850Two listing of 500btcs and 100btcs. As you read he talks about a exchange of some sort, he never gives a URL. You have read the comments and you get this http://bitcoinfinancialservices.yolasite.com/ a poorly designed web site with no automatic functions. Surelly someone like this We are a group of 3 reliable IT professionals with over 20 combined years of experience.
could have designed a better site. Ok so he can't design sites but wait We average 200 Bitcoin sales a week
They could surely put some away and pay for a designer and domain. But again lets pretend that isn't true and move on with our search. He calims to be charging 5-15%
fees. That is insanely high fee plus who charges variable fees, I guess one day he likes you and the other day he don't you getting the high fee. But if you see nothing wrong with every other thing, then this will be the red flag. No one in there right mind would use a exchange with variable fees, when every other exchange uses flat fees. He gives this B.F.S.,LLC and Bitcoin Financial Services, LLC as like he is a real business, if you googled you would see that it belongs to a insurance agency, click the link a really bad web page comes up. Also if you google Bitcoin Financial Services, LLC and do a LLC look up you would find out that there is no LLC in that name anywhere in the USA. You all been scammed have a nice day lets play this game sometime again. |
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Seems to me this people from blockchain.info know a little bit more than the rest of us, if they are running a modified bitcoind than I would start to worry about my BTC's.
Just cause there bitcoind gives you more information? All they did was add things so they could get more information then us, nothing really that crazy. |
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Once the GLBSE scam mothership is out of the way, Average Forum Idiot is desperately looking for some new ways to ensure his customary BTC losses. All the while telling himself that he's oh so great and "If you know what to look for you won't get one that defaults."
Too stupid to live is the term of art.
I have yet to be scammed so I think that speaks for it self. It is actually pretty easy. I am not an average forum idiot, unlike you who probably can't spot these. First off I would never dump 1000BTCs into btcjam p2p loans aren't good for trying to hedge your funds. Also you really never even pointed out anything, cause not every loan I invest is 5% interest. Your little math thing takes a lot of liberals in numbers. |
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If you know what to look for you wont get one that defaults. Some loans you can tell will never pay back.
true,true just wonder what the failure rate is on that site. Should be listed in a nice big fashion somewhere so know how many scammers we are dealing with you know. I think btcjam posted that they are at a 77% repayment rate, but just search the forums. |
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If you know what to look for you wont get one that defaults. Some loans you can tell will never pay back.
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Why the F are people freaking out about "OMG!Bitcoin is being linked with fiat!" when MtGox has been doing it for almost two years now? You guys are nuts! (And some of you need to tone down the trolling a bit; it's so moronic, it's blatantly obvious)
an exchange is very different from a bank It's a PSP. The only difference between Gox and this that I can see is that Gox can't keep your fiat in your own private account. I'm fairly certain Gox's bank knows full well what they are doing, and are OK with Bitcoin too. How do you know Gox's bank cares? Remember the bank is only seeing the withdrawals and deposits, they not seeing the bitcoins coming in and out, that are used to represent those dollars. |
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Why the F are people freaking out about "OMG!Bitcoin is being linked with fiat!" when MtGox has been doing it for almost two years now? You guys are nuts! (And some of you need to tone down the trolling a bit; it's so moronic, it's blatantly obvious)
an exchange is very different from a bank |
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I never ignored anyone, no one has gotten to me like that yet.
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as it states the list of nodes that blockchain.info's bitcoind is connected too. You can't see all globally running bitcoin clients
I don't even know that Blockchain.info needs to be able to connect to it to list it. If node A connects to node B, node B would share the IP for Node A, but node A doesn't necessary need to allow an incoming connection. And thus if Blockchain.info's node learned of node A through node A it might list it even though it cannot connect to it. I don't know if they are doing that, and doing so would make it trivially easy to pollute Blockchain.info's list of nodes. On there site they say "Connected nodes: <number>" so I think it is who they are actually connected too. I thought all the connections happened through IRC somehow anyway?
In the very beginning yes, not anymore. |
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1. What does this exactly mean: List of nodes blockchain.info is connected to. Are this all Bitcoin clients running globally which are connected to blockchain.info or just some random clients?
as it states the list of nodes that blockchain.info's bitcoind is connected too. You can't see all globally running bitcoin clients 2 How is blockchain.info connected to this nodes, there must be some code in the client in order for blockchain.info to get the connection otherwise how do they get the connection information?
They are running there own modified bitcoind |
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Really? Judging by bitcoincharts.com mtgoxUSD 30d volume of 844k to EUR's 96k, I would have guessed it was US based.
Really? Judging by Google Maps Tokyo's coordinates are 35° 41′22.22″N 139°41′30.12″E, I would have guessed it was Japan based. Ummm....isn't bitcoin decentralized? I VAGUELY recall seeing it somewhere hmmmmmmmmm...... Go learn about exchanges and how they work, bitcoin is decentralized, no here even knows what they are talking about. |
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This really doesn't build trust, and is kinda dumb. You should just ask for loans you need.
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(cur | prev) 18:30, 11 November 2012 Luke-jr (Talk | contribs) . . (97 bytes) (+97) . . (Created page with "* Operates the SatoshiDice DDoS attack against Bitcoin * Currently employed by BitInstant")
LMAO Erik was flying under the radar I am glad someone brought this to light LOL Under the radar? Bad joke is bad LMAO I meant he is under the radar with his DDOS of Bitcoins |
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(cur | prev) 18:30, 11 November 2012 Luke-jr (Talk | contribs) . . (97 bytes) (+97) . . (Created page with "* Operates the SatoshiDice DDoS attack against Bitcoin * Currently employed by BitInstant")
LMAO Erik was flying under the radar I am glad someone brought this to light LOL |
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Sorry, I still don't get it.
What do you mean with scaling issues? Is one bitcoind not connected enough, too ressource-hungry, too slow, too insecure?
Have you ever had over 100,000 address, it becomes slow, it becomes resource hungry, so I use two bitcoinds that complement each other and spilt up holding the addresses. Also it was never ment to be use in high traffic situations. Several wallets.. Why not having all addresses in one wallet.dat, and having "virtual wallets", like groups of addresses tagged in a database or the like, and catching newly-"created" change addresses and tagging accordingly.
Cause the wallet.dat gets bloated and if i need to fix a stuck transaction which is basically do a -rescan on the transaction to free it on my personal computer, it takes so long upwards of hours. With smaller wallets it goes a little faster. Also different wallets for different sites. Security? If you don't trust bitcoind enough, write/use a different one! ;-)
Spreading out between several (insecure/untrusted) instances lessens the value lost for each incident, and heightens the risk it actually happens.
This has nothing to do with security, while it does provide better security having your funds spread out, but not the main reason someone would do this setup. How about, instead of a project with a bitcoind cluster, enhancing bitcoind directly to overcome the limitations you see?
You really can't enhancing the bitcoind for this with out a rewrite, and I am not doing a rewrite cause the software works good already and I don't have the time. My project would levage multiple bitcoinds, to solve this issue and make it more robust. |
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Also I have to call you out on something, you do run a service that cuts out the need of a bitcoind at all. It is ironic you want more node participation when your whole business model is cutting that setup out.
That is not at all our business model. Strengthening the Bitcoin network in every way possible is in everyone's interest, including ours. You do make it so people/companies don't have to run a full node, so you are contributing to this issue. The network needs companies like yours making it easy for some people, but I disagree companies like wordpress and reddit using your company those are two companies that could really strengthen the network by running a bitcoind as the backend. I doubt Bitpay is preventing Wordpress from doing anything. Maybe they'd like to see a few bitcoins come in before they invest more. Regardless, Wordpress acceptance of bitcoin dwarfs their potential contribution to network health. So the health of the network is less than a PR stunt? Yes think about that one. LOL The health network should be first in everyone's mind. |
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The REAL big flaw with bitcoin... is the fact that it is pegged to the US$ and not to a basket of currencies.
It's funny how people can make nearly 200 posts here and still think things like that. Great now you have spoiled my 'jolly for the day post'....... LMAO someone needs to learn about currency exchanges and how back 1 btc = ~$13 doesn't mean it is tied to it. |
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But maybe you need to take responsibility for not doing enough research on the people your loaning. I highly doubt ANY OTHER LOANING SITE WILL TAKE LEGAL ACTION ON BEHALF OF THERE USERS. I have yet to see this.
I don't know about all other loaning sites, but LendingClub.com will submit your default to credit agencies, ruining your credit score, and will transfer your loan to a collection agency, which will come after you hard. I believe that is what people expected BTCJam was going to do, based on them collecting credit report info, and claiming they will work to implement those types of actions too. Prosper.com does the same. If BTCJam does indeed have the SSN and other pertinent information for given parties, they SHOULD submit the default to credit agencies and transfer the loan to a collection agency. Doing nothing is admitting defeat to the scammers and the fraudsters. Also, the BTC from loan requests on BTCJam should be sent via mail to verify that the requester is actually who he says he is (alternatively, a verification letter could be sent before the loan is funded if the requester wished to expedite the process). It's so cut and dry, and a 40% fraud rate is exactly why these actions should have been taken from day 1. I've been watching BTCJam with interest for a while now, but why this hasn't been done yet just boggles my mind. Where is collection agency that will take on stocks? Cause that is what bitcoin is, you have to take it at the current price but collection agencies don't take on those cases. Also Prosper.com doesn't even state on there site what happens in a default situation, plus they say All Prosper personal loans are unsecured, fully amortized personal loans.
Cause by the sound of this makes it sound like it is your RESPONSIBILITY |
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There have been people that tried to take court actions with people who they have loaned bitcoins to, they were laughed out court. Do research it will help with your loaning as well  I've been trying to find any records of people suing over anything bitcoin related, but I'm afraid that my Google-fu just isn't strong enough to come up with any loan disputes, let along any that have been laughed out of court (perhaps there are none in English?). I see some cases about coins that have been stolen and various other breaches of contract, but no loans. Would you do me (and others) a favor and post a reference to one such case? I would be very interested in the reasons the judge ruled the contracts unenforceable. Seconded. I'd like to think that I stay very well informed about all things Bitcoin, but I'm not aware of such cases either. Search the forums, they are there (good exercises for you people who need to learn researching skills), remember US Courts can't forceable make someone repay a loan in other currencies. If I loan you 5 pounds of rice and you have to pay me in rice you can't send that to a collection agency. |
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