I don't think this is how Electrum works with Trezor. I set my existing Trezor up with Electrum a few months ago, but from what I recall all I needed to do was create a new Trezor wallet within Electrum, and then Electrum asks for the user's passphrase or PIN, and then you can see all the balances on the Trezor accounts. So no recovery seed is needed to setup a Trezor with Electrum.

Doesn't look like the OP really cares about people finding out the account name. I found it, and the signature says "Bitcoin Member: Scream is selling this account."

I've heard of people doing this before with Monero (XMR) because it's an untraceable (and fairly stable) currency. Buy Monero on one exchange, send it to another, then exchange it back to bitcoin and your coins have basically been mixed. Low fees, and it doesn't take much time either.

Full members or higher are allowed to upload avatars again. It's been this way since April 1st of this year. See this thread for more info: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1008863.0

It could be caused if you had potential activity. Basically how that works is that if you post once during a two week time period, although you've only gained 1 activity point, you've also gained 13 "potential activity" points. So as you post later on, your activity will increase post by post, until all your potential activity points are used up. That could be what caused your activity change on a Thursday.

This sounds very similar to how #bitcoin-otc authentication works, but bitcoin-otc also supports PGP signing as well as bitcoin signing. I'd be supportive of this idea, however the one issue I'm able to think of possibly arising would be that if someone's bitcoin private key was stolen, then they could potentially lose access to their account, and would have no way to truly prove that they're the account owner, since there could be someone else signing messages with their private key as well.

That's not completely true. I'm using my Trezor with Electrum, and I'm able to access multiple accounts within Electrum.

Do you have a link to your service? If your company is reputable and you have competitive pricing, I suspect you'll have at least a couple people rent a server with bitcoin. Plus, like secrethedgehod mentioned, it isn't very difficult to implement bitcoin payments for most websites.

Well, more often than not when loans are given out to newbies without any collateral, loaners probably won't see their funds back. Amount doesn't matter, you'd be surprised at how little some people will try and scam for.

I think I've seen a few Legendary accounts for sale before. If I remember right, they don't sell for much more than a Hero account would, even though it takes a lot longer to achieve Legendary rank than it does for Hero. I've also seen quite a few people listing low ranking yet old accounts for sale, which can be ranked up fairly quickly too, as long as they've make a post every two weeks, as others have mentioned before.

In most countries running a ponzi is illegal. I don't think there is any way you can create a "legit ponzi". You can probably run one and base the site around a fact that it's a ponzi, but I'm thinking that would probably be illegal as well.

After 24 to 36 hours the transaction should be dropped from the blockchain i've read. after that happens (you don't see the transaction anymore) send it again but with a fee and it should confirm in the next block or two.

I'm on the fence about this. On the one side I really like making extra BTCBTC but then on the other side I really like seeing a bunch of cool creative avatars. i think that with more avatar campaigns the community would lose some of the cool avatars that some people have.

Yeah don't get into ponzies or gambling. those are both great ways to lose your bitcoin in the long run.

The initial sync with Bitcoin Core can take days. If you download the bootstrap.dat torrent that saves many hours though.

i was going to mention the electrum seed problem with importing a private key. you won't be able to recover that key if you ever lose the encryption key to your wallet, or something along the lines of that.

it would be all around better to just start a fresh new electrum wallet, and try and transfer your existing payments from your current address to a new electrum address.

i too have found that lately when i send coins it takes forever sometimes for the tx to confirm. i add the correct fees, it's just that the blocks can be 30 minutes or more between each other. maybe it's just bad luck, who knows.

me too. i wouldn't trust online wallets. there are lots of wallet thefts even with major online wallets such as blockchain.info. i'd recommend just an offline wallet on your pc, like electrum.

that's a really cool page, i haven't seen it before. thanks for the link!

i think it also depends on the amount of the transaction. for example, with a transaction under 5 btc, then 3 confirmations is good. if the transaction is over 1000 btc then 6 confirmations would be safe to verify the deposit. if the transaction is < 1 btc then i'd say 1 confirmation would be enough.