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3061  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Dutyfree.io - Buy cheap cigarettes with Bitcoin on: December 05, 2016, 07:02:36 AM

Since I paid 5$ each carton for Tracked Shippings, and as you can see on the tracking site, http://www.posta.md/en/tracking?id=RB023519292MD, the customs seized it / destroyed it. Not sure if they'll send it back to the dutyfree.io people, but this is the proof,  so why would I need a letter?

Don't know if Netherlands is any different, but normally when the parcel is seized, you'd receive a letter from the customs. They'd ask you to either pay the duty or have your cigs destroyed. In some countries you can refuse the delivery and the parcel is returned back to sender (unless the goods are illegal, counterfeited etc), in such case - dutyfree would re-send.

So, if Netherlands allow recipients to refuse deliveries and return seized goods to senders, than you'd need to wait for the letter to tell the customs what do you want them to do with your cigs.
3062  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Dutyfree.io - Buy cheap cigarettes with Bitcoin on: December 04, 2016, 09:19:15 PM
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The support seems to ignore me, they might have scammed me. Will keep you guys updated Sad
Wouldn´t suggest buying until I post more!

I don't get it, how do you think they've scammed you? You ordered cigs and they've sent them to you. You got unlucky and have all of them seized by the customs. As far as I remember, dutyfree would re-send them only if you refuse the parcel and the customs sends it back to dutyfree (although not every country provides such option).
I am pretty sure that if the customs catch it, they´ll resend. Their site is down RN so I can´t show you the FAQ, but, if that is true, then why don´t they even bother e-mailing me back? If that´s how they treat their customers, that´s, well, not too good.
I´ll make another post when their site is back up online.
Q: Will you refund/resend lost orders?
A: We will resend your order free of charge only if you can prove it’s actually been lost. For this, it needs to be shipped via “Tracked airmail” (we urge you to pick this shipping option to make life easier for all the involved parties) – otherwise we can’t really tell if it’s true, can we? We are not huge believers in free lunch.
I have proof that my cigarettes got lost, I have shipped with Tracked airmail, so how could they not refund it?
Well, thanks for your comment anyways, have a nice day dude Smiley

But your parcels haven't been lost, they've been seized by the customs, you know where they are.

Look again at "Q" directly above the one you quoted, it goes like this:

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Q: Will you refund me in case I am asked to pay the excise duty?

A: We don’t do that, and for a good reason. Well, two actually. First, we don’t want to create an incentive to cheat – seizure notification letters are being ‘photoshoped’ and are in the wild already. Secondly, we want to avoid funding the refunds through an increase in overall prices – we’d much rather keep our prices as low as we can and share the (albeit rather small) seizure risk with our customers. In most countries (as explained in the answer above), this risk is either inexistent, very low or harmless (the final price still stays below the local market price).

If you happen to live in a country with tough customs and your package gets stopped and you’re unhappy about having to pay the big brother, you have the legal right to refuse the parcel and have it sent back to us. We resend all the incoming mail right back to the customer, free of charge.

3063  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Dutyfree.io - Buy cheap cigarettes with Bitcoin on: December 04, 2016, 08:13:41 PM
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The support seems to ignore me, they might have scammed me. Will keep you guys updated Sad
Wouldn´t suggest buying until I post more!

I don't get it, how do you think they've scammed you? You ordered cigs and they've sent them to you. You got unlucky and have all of them seized by the customs. As far as I remember, dutyfree would re-send them only if you refuse the parcel and the customs sends it back to dutyfree (although not every country provides such option).
3064  Economy / Securities / Re: Putting 10 BTC to good use on: December 04, 2016, 01:36:02 PM
Another decent advise is margin lending, Polo offers it and Bitfinex offers it. You cannot lose money there unless the site goes offline. So there s always some form of risk inside crypto world.

Margin lending is probably the safest option but it's not risk free. If you provide a loan to a trader that uses it to margin buy a certain altcoin (hoping it goes up) but the altcoin's price takes a sharp nose-dive for whatever reason (ie critical vulnerability discovered) and forced liquidation can't be executed at set price (due to no buy orders) then you'd be at loss. So there is a risk other than exchange going bust.

3065  Local / Разное / Re: Twitter фоловим друг друга on: December 03, 2016, 01:22:20 PM
Привет

Followed everyone (almost) from the first post, can you add me to the list:
https://twitter.com/RoosterCockbur2

спасибо
3066  Economy / Micro Earnings / Re: FreeBitco.in - Win free Bitcoins every hour! on: December 02, 2016, 07:58:33 PM
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They generate main part of revenue from gambling deposits. And it's already long time since they don't use any of adnetworks. I don't think that situation with ads would change soon

Yes, owner wrote that ravenue from ad network it was only 5%. AdSense block his account because of traffic (i think bots). He have Mellowads, but i don't know why he remove them.

Thanks. I remember wetsuit saying something about revenues from ads and dice long time ago, but I thought it was the other way around, that ads generated most and profit from dice was just an addition.

Anyhow, it still would make sense to put some ads here and there to generate bit more income and capitalise on large traffic.
3067  Economy / Gambling / Re: SafeDICE.com ★ Bitcoin Dice ★ Monero ★ 0.5% Edge ★ Fast Cashout ★ Since 2014 on: December 01, 2016, 11:22:03 PM
well if they cannot attain to their site well its provably time to hire people that can do it for them since many players well get affected if their status will remain at this state, it can turn to more worse situation if they well not act right and a big possibilities that their credibility as a trusted site before well became bad and turn as shaddy place to play with, but lets give them a little chance for now since i think they are bit struggling as i've see.

Personally I'd rather wait for a few days for withdrawal and see the site operated by trusted admin, than force him to hire new people and put private keys in their hands.

You need to note that people may have different lifestyles/employment commitments than yourself. If i.e. admin has a full time job that requires frequent travel, he will not be able to resolve any issues until he's back etc (don't know if that's the case tho).

I've had my own issues with SD in the past and had to wait and I know how annoying it can be. It surely can negatively affect the user experience, but I wouldn't say that long response time means that the site is in any way less trusted.
3068  Economy / Collectibles / Re: [FREE] Monero Brass Coin Giveaway on: December 01, 2016, 10:59:26 PM
Is there still coins available?

yes. There is a back log of them to go out yet.

No specified timeline on shipping.

"Soon" is the best way to describe it.

Damn, I just discover this thread. 1000 coins is an epic giveaway.

Nevermind the shipping time, but do you know (roughly) how many of them have been claimed / how many still available?

Is it first come - first serve, or do you prioritise by country (lower shipping cost)?

Are you seriously funding this yourself, or is it some wider XMR community promo project?
3069  Economy / Micro Earnings / Re: FreeBitco.in - Win free Bitcoins every hour! on: December 01, 2016, 10:44:24 PM
I'll give a clue - it's something that has required significant monetary investment on my part (I'm talking 5 figures US$) before I can offer it to users. I'll reset the 24 hr limit for the users who posted before. You guys can guess again.

OK, my another guess:

You're going to implement CLAMS staking. Users will get some CLAMs per roll (or choose between BTC and CLAM), or users will earn shares (per roll/ref roll/wagered etc) in profit from CLAM staking.

ps I noticed that (for a while now) there are no ads on the site at all (other than the small ones from your own 'advertise' program). iirc after the adsense block, you used a different ad network, but now there's nothing. Is this permanent? How do you generate revenue?
3070  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: R.I.P. ChangeTip on: December 01, 2016, 10:23:04 PM
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I'm not talking about the current increase in fees due to the recent congestion. But I'm still utterly curious where you got this idea from (that I meant this rise in fees)

The thing is you seem to rarely know what you're talking about, you post your brainfarts at random and when you're called on that, you'd just beat around the bush and try to somehow justify it, or go with "that's not what I meant" or "(I posted complete nonsense) because I couldn't find a better term".

Your utterly curious how people bidding with fees on the limited block space are causing increase in fees? If that's not self-explanatory to you, I can't do nothing for you.

Edit: shortly saying: fees in btc terms are not fixed, they're flexible.
But I don't deny that. ...

You don't? Than what's this?:

I mean if Bitcoin price increases, so do the fees in fiat terms, while they obviously remain the same in bitcoins. ...

Flexible or 'remain the same'? Which one is it?


Though this still in no way undermines the simple math that says that when Bitcoin cost 100 dollars (or 200 dollars) the fees in fiat terms were substantially less than they are now when Bitcoin costs 700 dollars, even if we don't take into account the transaction jam as of late. I don't really see any sense in challenging this point. ...

In case you failed to notice, for a good couple of years we had a 'default' fee of 0.0001 for the first 1000 bytes. Yes, if it wasn't manually adjusted, it would rise/fall (in USD terms) according to the price, but since it was always a trivial amount of few cents, rarely anyone cared. That's in no way an indication that people would be happy to pay significantly higher fees, just because it's 'default'. They'd either change it manually or use different wallet (with lower 'default').
Now things changed and most wallets would use flexible fees. As I already pointed out to you, you can find examples of standard fees (in USD) being lower when BTC was in $1,000 zone, then they are now when BTC is in $700. Similary, in the 'off-peak' (with BTC at $700) you could pay lower fee, then when BTC was at $500 or $600.
But that's irrelevant anyway, let's circle back to your original claim, from which you're trying to escape:

...You can't raise the Bitcoin price without raising the fees at the same time and in the same fiat terms (say, dollars). If Bitcoin continues to climb the price mountain (what we all hope for), we will see a lot of other applications falling off dead till the time when even regular payments become too expensive to be made directly in bitcoins themselves

Can you provide short, on-topic explanation of what will prevent free market from keeping fees affordable? The only sensible answer you can give, to sound somewhat coherent, is that full blocks will enforce higher fees, but (according to yourself) that's not what you're talking about.
And if "fees are now higher than when BTC was at $200, therefore they'll always rise with the price" is all you got, then don't bother - I'm not interested in 'artificial discussion' with the main goal being that of increasing your post count.
3071  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: R.I.P. ChangeTip on: November 28, 2016, 05:07:55 PM

You obviously missed that part about "fiat terms". You may set no fee to your transaction, and it may get confirmed in the end (though this is not likely to happen at the next block). I mean if Bitcoin price increases, so do the fees in fiat terms, while they obviously remain the same in bitcoins. This is what we see today, and some people are already complaining about microtransactions no longer feasible exactly because of the fees being too high. Whether the fees will go down if Bitcoin price continues to rise remains to be seen, though...

But so far the fees are what they were when Bitcoin was at $200

I missed nothing. You've missed a point.

First of all, current increase in fees is due to the block congestion, not increase in price. Fees now are higher than they were when BTC was at $1000 (in USD terms).

What I mean is:

Let's assume average fee being 10,000 sats ($0.07), if BTC price increased 1000-fold, do you honestly expect anyone to be happy to pay $70/tx? Of course not, number of txs would massively drop, leaving lots of room in the blocks, then you could send your tx again with $0.07 fee (this time being only 10 sats) and the miners would likely include it (providing they want to maximise their revenue).

Edit: shortly saying: fees in btc terms are not fixed, they're flexible.
3072  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 21 millions bitcoin in question on: November 28, 2016, 04:46:04 PM

nope... the unit of measure has moved from X to xxxx
they would just resized the barrels. to keep an artificial human visual accounting limit of 21 million barrels. yet each barrel contains more litres.
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My "FTFY" is correct assuming BTC purchasing power = OJ's nutritious value.

You won't increase market cap by x1000 by introducing millisatoshis.

I do understand where you're coming from and you're not wrong saying that it's essentially creating x1000 more bitcoins and changing definition of what "bitcoin" is, but that would have zero effect on the price, other than maybe caused by psychological discomfort and few bad press hits (I. Kaminska from FT would be all over it).

It's definitely not the same as i.e. changing 21m cap to 100m etc. It's essentially the same as dividing shares of a company, i.e. from 10 to 10,000, it won't have any effect on % holding of each shareholder and will have no effect on the value of share capital. So what's the issue?
3073  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 21 millions bitcoin in question on: November 28, 2016, 04:00:34 PM
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day 1.
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fruitjuice seller: "orange juice barrels only $700 for 1000litres"
fruitjuice seller: "i have 21 million barrels to sell before i retire. hurry hurry hurry"

customerA: "great i can pour out 1000 litres to 1000 friends"
customerA: "ill buy one and comeback every day for another barrel for the next 3 years because each friend needs a litre a day"

fruitjuice seller: "great, see you tomorrow"

day 2.
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fruitjuice seller: "orange juice barrels only $700 for 1000000litres, except what I call "litre" is now a unit x1000 smaller than yesterday's "litre" and has x1000 less nutritious value
fruitjuice seller: "i have <21 million barrels to sell before i retire. hurry hurry hurry"[/color]
customerA: "great i can pour out 1000,000 litres to 1000 friends and have enough for 3 years1 day"
customerA: "ill buy one and see you in three yearstomorrow"

fruitjuice seller: "wait, what..so i only sell you one barrel in 3 years instead of 1 barrel a day for three years.. nothing changed..."
fruitjuice seller: "dang i better lower my price per barrel or be stuck with not selling as many"

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FTFY

3074  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 21 millions bitcoin in question on: November 28, 2016, 02:02:51 PM
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However, everyone told me that the majority of node runners will not allow this to happen.
My question is why they will not?
Indeed, this will create more revenu for them, as there will be more bitcoin to mine and not only revenu from transaction fees.

Nodes don't get any revenue, miners do.

Who is proposing this? I have not seen any serious proposal which proposes any sort of change to the monetary supply (except for BIP 42). Do you have a link to a source?

rusty russel of blockstream LN fame wants to first introduce millisats into LN. and later change bitcoins measure to comply with LN.

Increasing the number of base units by x1000 could have some ugly psychological effect, but in reality it changes nothing, every balance would be multiplied by the same factor and the cap of 21m units called "bitcoin" would still be in place. The only difference from the users' perspective would be more decimal places.
There's nothing controversial about that, and afaik that was suggested from the start if BTC price was to go up to some incredible levels.
3075  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Do we need to pay tax from Bitcoins earnings? on: November 28, 2016, 01:20:30 PM
As long as we keep Bicoins as btc in our account and don't exchange them to either EUR or USD will we be liable for tax at this point?

I was just wondering if somone know about it since my CPA say no.

Could depend on your jurisdiction and/or the type of activity, but in most cases (in my unqualified opinion) the answer is Yes. Doesn't really matter if it's bitcoins, foreign currency, or even other goods/services (received as a payment), you're still expected to pay tax on it (providing it's a taxable income), at the exchange rate/value at the time of receiving payment.

Let us know what kind of earnings are you talking about and what country do you live in and maybe someone will offer you a sound advice.

3076  Other / Meta / Re: [SMAS] Signature Managers against Spam (light version) on: November 28, 2016, 12:19:56 PM

Interesting initiative, can't wait to see what impact will it have.

But what's the end result you're trying to achieve? Is it to create one main list ("general"?) to serve as a single point of reference for other campaign managers to use when considering applications? Or do you want maintain 3 separate lists + 'general' and 'Permanently Blacklisted' just as informative additions?

In theory it doesn't matter, you could say that each manager can choose whichever list(s) he prefers (if any), but imo, putting focus on one, main list (by clearly denoting it as 'main' and possibly moving other, supportive lists to 2nd post) will have much stronger effect, especially if you intend to take more managers on-board.

Are the lists on the first two posts the definitive SMAS blacklists? Is there a place where I can just retrieve a text file with just the names of all of the people on the SMAS blacklist? I am planning on including an SMAS blacklist indicator for my account pricer.

Will it only be an indication, or will you adjust the value of such account accordingly?
3077  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: R.I.P. ChangeTip on: November 28, 2016, 11:38:21 AM
...You can't raise the Bitcoin price without raising the fees at the same time and in the same fiat terms (say, dollars)...

What do you mean? There's no minimum, set-in-stone bitcoin tx fee (well, you could say 1 satoshi is the minimum). If BTC price goes up to $1m/1btc overnight the free market (after some time) would bring the fees to the lower level.

There's no strict correlation between fees/btc price. You could have btc price at only $100 and still have high fees, if there's high transaction demand and blocks are full.
3078  Economy / Services / Re: [OPEN] | 🔥 Bitmixer.io Signature Campaign 🔥 | Earn up to 0.035 BTC/week on: November 28, 2016, 09:08:10 AM
Im glad to enroll in bitmixer signature campaign!

I hope help you with this!

Thaks for the opportunity!

Looking at your posts, you're very likely to be removed and won't get paid. You should reconsider whether you want to be in.
3079  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: R.I.P. ChangeTip on: November 27, 2016, 10:15:30 PM
Only heard this news the other day, is it because they know that the writing is finally on the wall with Bitcache and LN on the horizon ?

You tell me. Does bitcache and LN allow you to send tip to twitter account, or tip reddit post? Will they allow you to tip someone who doesn’t even know what Bitcoin is?

ChangeTip failed because they were spending more than earning. It's that simple.
3080  Economy / Gambling / Re: SafeDICE.com ★ Bitcoin Dice ★ Monero ★ 0.5% Edge ★ Fast Cashout ★ Since 2014 on: November 27, 2016, 10:49:28 AM

I have emailed them & PM Safedice account here.. No answer yet!
I'm new playing on this site.. Usually I play on primedice or 999doge with bitcoin.. i try switch to altcoins because i think can play longer with altcoin.. is this safedice site can be trusted???

The site has a good record and they've been operating for over 2 years now. The biggest issue is that admin is not full time committed to running the site and sometimes it takes few days to get reply. But so far, all the problems have been resolved eventually.
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