IMO that company isn't fake, it just probably isn't legal. Their sig campaigns are for advertising that they are hiring people for their company, which is a darknet company so it probably isn't entirely legal. There appears to be no scam about it and they aren't even offering any services, they just want people to work for them.

The questionable part is why they need four different campaigns for this.

In the OP he says that we should let him know if the list is incomplete or incorrect, and that is what we are doing. The list is incomplete, it is missing at least 3 members, 2 of them are well known campaign managers.

He is still offering his services, this thread is linked in his sig. And someone is now putting together a list of campaign managers so he should be on it. I am just letting him know. I would add him to that list myself but I don't know enough details about what he offers so I can't add him. I am asking him to add himself there since he obviously knows his service better than I do.

This isn't the alert system, and he has no way to increase the hashpower like that unless he bought a ton of new miners to do it.

If you read the full quote, he is assuming that the hashrate is not increasing. That calculation is the probability of finding 1 block every 5 minutes for 4 hours.

Bitcoin shouldn't be tied to any other coin or fiat. It should be like pretty much every other currency out there, it isn't intrinsically tied to any other currency. The value of Bitcoin should be how fiat currencies are valued, how much stuff you can buy with one unit.

It isn't still illegal.

The price of Bitcoin will inherently increase since other fiat currencies are inherently inflationary.

You should add yourself to this list of campaign managers: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1303430.0

You should add carra23 and hilariousandco.

Try redownloading the wallet file. Maybe it got corrupted while you were downloading so btcrecover doesn't recognize it.

It looks like the warning is gone now.

Unfortunately you can't force anyone to shut down the site. All you can do is report it to as many places as possible so that those search engines no longer display the site in their results and that browsers and antivirus software will warn you if you visit the site.

Reporting to blockchain won't do anything, you need to report this to google so they remove it from their search results and ads.

If people already had ideas on what this would be, then it would already be out there and making tons of money and bringing Bitcoin mainstream. And no one with a "killer app" is going to post it publicly so that someone else can steal it. I think it is pointless to keep making these threads and asking the same question over and over again.

All of those are legit. Kraken is more USD/BTC and USD/LTC oriented but it does have altcoins. Poloniex and Bittrex are more altcoin trading oriented.

It's not a miner, it looks like it is basically a faucet. However, I am concerned about the fact that it needs to be sideloaded. I suspect that this app is really just a virus.

It is an OP_RETURN output so it the output doesn't go to an address.

Coinchimp is an exchange run by a known scammer, Michael Moriarity. DO NOT USE THIS SITE, YOU WILL GET SCAMMED BY A KNOWN SCAMMER!!!

I am assuming when you mean by prepaid cc you mean a prepaid gift card like a visa gift card.

There are a couple of services that allow this, but they all have high fees so you wouldn't get as much. You should try using localbitcoins and just using cash, either in person or in mail. Just make sure that you always use escrow and check the reputation of the trader.

I don't think you can use a prepaid card to buy Bitcoin from coinbase. I tried a while ago and it wouldn't let me.

The Core developers have 7 people, people with commit access. And there are many people who should be considered core devs because they contribute many commits and to many discussions on the github, irc, and mailing list.

Gavin has not left core development. He still has commit access, he still contributes to github, irc, and mailing list discussions. I would not say that Gavin has left development.

Also, that list is up to date. IIRC it fetches from github the number of contributions each person has made to Bitcoin, and Gavin has most certainly made contributions. He should still be on that list, just like everyone else who has contributed.

Why would it not have to be Bitcoin based? Namecheap accepts Bitcoin, I don't think they would have anything against a Bitcoin based application.

OP, why don't you try using Namecheap? While you would have to give namecheap your personal information, they have an option called WhoisGuard so that you don't need to use your real information in the Whois information. That way no one actually knows who is behind the website and you would be safe. You can also pay using Bitcoin on namecheap.