And this is how control is slowly imposed, step by step.

To users wondering why would they block coinjoin/mixer transactions when you can transfer the BTC to your own wallet, they're probably doing so because when you send coins coming from a mixer to your wallet, they both link and your identity could be found.

It's just like I suspected in a thread I've posted earlier on the forum. These are all absurd consequences of trying to keep your identity to yourself, because your information is worth hella lot of money.

Regarding the tweet from the OP, if I was the person in that situation I would not answer them anything and I'd immediately cease using my account through their platform. It's not their business what we're doing with our money after it leaves their platform, is it?

I've put trading apps aside for a decentralized atomic swap exchange called Atomic DEX. It's mobile-only for now (the desktop version is going to be launched soon), and the only problem is the small number of coins & orders and low volume.

It's not suitable for day trading though, as a transaction may take even 10 minutes to complete. But I never have that "what if they're going to freeze my account" fear that always spikes up inside my brain whenever I enter my account on a centralized exchange. When AtomicDEX will have high volume, it's going to be amazing and hopefully will succeed!

After all the pumps he generated through his Twitter account, his motives are obvious. He's becoming irrelevant and he needs to get to the news headlines again so people won't forget him.

This is a man nobody should trust. If he says Bitcoin a shitcoin after literally pumping shitcoins, he's probably not even noticing his contradictory words.

It looks like a final attempt of him to become relevant and a huge manipulator of the markets. He most likely earned a lot by promoting shitcoins.

Installing a wallet is a one-time process. I can't see the hassle you're talking about - you need a wallet to hold your funds anyway.

And, in fact, MetaMask is available for mobile too. Here's the Google Play link to it. Mobile is the new thing now, PCs are way less used. Mobile phones are taken everywhere with us, so now it's a bad idea to create something for PC that doesn't exist on mobile too. Mobility gives innovation a higher chance of being used due to frequent usage of smartphones.

I don't see where this large inconvenience comes from. Using a decentralized casino would work just like a centralized one, the only difference being the fact that casinos would process bets a little slower. On the other side though, your funds are safe. And I see no point in using a fast casino if your funds are at risk 100% of the time.


Please write this part in any language but gibberish... I don't get a single word out of your message.

I just think it's a bit weird to "raise the reward" since one of your other threads was posted on 27th and the other on 28th. 10BTC is close to $100k, just saying..

It depends which wallet you're working with. If you're using Electrum, first you have to set your wallet to use manual fees (select Tools and then Preferences). Check "Replace by fees" too.

Then, send the first transaction with minimum tx fee (1 sat/byte) so it gets confirmed the slowest. After sending the first transaction, send a second one but with a higher fee (20-22 is the fastest right now, according to https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/).

The transaction with a higher fee will be confirmed by the miners while the tx with 1sat/byte fee will be considered invalid. There goes the double spend.

If you're doing this with other (bad) intents, I'd recommend you not to. You'll get yourself in trouble.

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Although I kinda doubt you're the owner of this Bitcoin address, do you not remember even approximately how many characters the password had? Any clues, something it might've referred to? Or was it just a random string? Running a code to recover a password is useless and a waste of time if the password was a long string of random characters.

Edit: looks like my doubts were right.

You have posted different "Bitcoin bounties" on many websites, do you really think anyone is going to help you decrypt someone else's wallet? Get a job, you're wasting your own time.. and ours. Earn your bitcoine on your own.

http://throwbitcoins.blogspot.com/2020/01/10-bitcoins-rewards-please-help-me.html?m=1

http://www.viptrade.biz/novosti/item/78427-please-help-me-recover-my-bitcoine-wallet-password (archived)

I don't expect much to be honest, I just wish the time comes when these forks will not get this much attention and will be ignored by everyone, not just by us who've had a ton of experience in the crypto game.

2013 to 2014 was way more fun. You may be right - maybe it only gets worse from here.

But the point is that these shitty forks, coins and tokens are being continuously created because there's still that frenzy here with airdrops and all that crap. If there were only a few people out here who would give these projects attention, things would change substantially.

Salutare, BitcoinTalk România!

Nu am mai făcut acest job de foarte mult timp, mai exact de pe vremea când un Bitcoin era undeva în jurul prețului de $400.. și parcă m-a luat puțin nostalgia.

Azi m-am decis după puțin stat pe gânduri să deschid forumul și să-mi încerc norocu' - deși e cam inactiv board-ul român, poate reușesc cât de cât să-l mai trezesc.

Întotdeauna mi s-au spus cuvinte frumoase legate de felul în care scriu și îmi exprim opiniile, așa că de ce să nu îmi folosesc micul talent într-un mod util? Recunosc, am și greșeli și poate că nu întotdeauna ceea ce scriu e strălucit, însă am hotărât să pun acest thread aici cu gândul că poate găsesc o persoană care îmi va aprecia munca.

Ideea este următoarea: pot scrie articole și/sau eseuri (însă nu mă limitez doar la atât) la un preț care, zic eu, este unul competitiv și rezonabil. Acesta va varia în funcție de numărul de cuvinte (cu aproximație, +/- 50), însă deoarece nu am mai făcut de foarte mult timp acest lucru, este posibil ca în timp să schimb prețurile în cazul în care nu mi se va mai renta.

Momentan am să mă limitez la următoarele prețuri:

• 0-500 cuvinte: $0.01/cuvânt
• 500-1000 cuvinte: $0.02/cuvânt
• 1000-2000 cuvinte: $0.03/cuvânt
• 2000+ cuvinte: $0.05/cuvânt

Prețurile pot fi diferite de cele de mai sus în cazul în care lucrarea va necesită un efort mai ridicat decât în general, precum aprofundarea subiectului.

Cum funcționează?
In cazul în care cineva este interesat, lăsați un PM în care să îmi spuneți ce doriți să vă scriu și am să vă las un răspuns cât de curând posibil.
Voi trimite un text de 50-100 cuvinte tip "ciornă" gratuit. În cazul în care vă convine ceea ce vedeți, textul final va fi trimis în urma efectuării transferului BTC/Altcoin de dvs. Accept și escrow.

Ce cryptomonede accept?
În principiu, nu am o preferință.. însă sunt șanse mari să refuz o monedă dacă este centralizată sau dacă este mai jos de top 100 monede de pe CoinMarketCap. În PM-ul pe care mi-l trimiteți precizați și în ce monedă doriți să mă plătiți pentru a afla și răspunsul referitor la aceasta.

Pentru cei ce au primit textul finalizat de la mine, fie că plăcut/nu v-a plăcut ceea ce v-am oferit, vă rog să lăsați un reply pe thread cu o scurtă recenzie.

3 hours a day for 3 bucks is $1/hr. In other words, $1/hr on a 8hr job 5 days/week equals $160. Is your goal really that low?

To be honest, for 3 hours of work you'd earn much more than $3 if you were writing for somebody. Get yourself some articles to write and you'll exceed your expectations.

Years ago I worked for someone here, I was writing articles for BTC. They rewarded me better than I'd earn per hour in Romania and I was very happy to work with them. If you're talented at something else, go for it.

The only way they might convince someone to do it is if they promote the "21 million Bitcoins aren't enough to the world's population" idea.

But if we think it thoroughly, why would it be a problem if.. say through a hard fork the new Max Supply would be multiplied by x100 (so 2,100,000,000BTC max) and everyone has their balance multiplied x100 simultaneously? If Bitcoin is going to stay in the top as the beast of all cryptocurrencies, it would even with this hard fork happening, right?

Thanks. I don't use it with Electrum, unfortunately.
Anyway, I thought there might've been some risk if I'd spend my BTC balance with the dust from it too, but as soon as it hasn't been connected in any way to my identity ever since I started using Bitcoin, I think I'm fine. I don't plan to share my ID with anyone in the near future either.

I've browsed a little through my transactions and apparently I cannot find the Bitcoin dust txid. Might have been a paper wallet or my mobile one. I've found two of the dust transactions I had through alts though, I'm going off-topic but I'll leave the information here in case anyone is interested to research them.

First, the most recent dust tx, we have a Ripple transaction with a memo (description) attached to it: "NETWORK ANNOUNCEMENT: Ripple unlocks 50% stake in XRP, indicates massive airdrop www.*hidden fraud domain*". Seems like someone tried to scam by sending dust XRP with links in memos. I looked the memo up on Google and found this wallet: https://bithomp.com/explorer/rpWhspQz4DX5N5NoPDpvFtkcpyZiNa9Uv1, which confirms my doubts.

A second dust sent to my wallet was through a LTC tx: https://live.blockcypher.com/ltc/tx/c0ad0412027347d137f5f8c18ad0b61064d7051a8b57f97d09101bceabfd8c07/. The user apparently sent this to 2000+ different wallets.

I'll try analizing them ASAP, although I will not share them due to privacy reasons.

They are not addresses that I used on exchanges. In fact, I do not remember using any of my addresses on exchanges and I believe I have not used them for services either. Will try tracking the dust addresses down but I don't know if I'll get to any results.

I will have to look into that, I've never seen this option on my Ledger though. Thanks for the suggestion, although I think I've even spent some of the UTXOs already..  

I know this topic is old and has been revived yesterday by someone, but I just found it and I can relate to it. My XRP, LTC, BTC, BCH, ETH and DASH addresses have all received dust transactions from an unknown address. I've never done KYC anywhere, nor are my addresses linked to my real identity in any way. Is there anything I must do? Some of them MIGHT be empty, but I'm not entirely sure.

Now, after reading the last part of the thread posted by the OP, I have another theory: governments may be conducting this process of blockchain analyzing in order to find the identity of a person for money laundering and tax evasion purposes.

I'm using Ledger by the way.

The Fork think is turning into a nonsense creation of coins similar to what tokens became. Instead of having 100 coins with different functions, we should've had one with all better functions added to it. But then again, we have these "crypto CEOs" that would then become irrelevant if the coin they've supported would have been unified with another coin.

I cannot see a scenario in which we'd be using so many different coins & tokens. Exchanges are filled up with shitty coins I have never even heard of in my life, and people buy them "for moon".

If this continues, I'll start losing my hope about cryptos. I want to have a few coins that are going to give me the possibility of using different functions, I don't want to have 100 shitcoins I'll never be using for real.

Bisq and Komodo's Atomic DEX are your answers. They're working way slower than centralized exchanges, but your funds aren't at risk of being frozen. No more KYC, no more centralization.. we have to move there and stop using these scam exchanges.

Oh, an innocent-looking post with completely different intentions behind. Is it a coincidence that someone has posted in a comment under an article from 2018 this "Mr Walter Arrav" name, right next to the email address?

Here's the screenshot of the comment: https://i.ibb.co/gV3LJv2/IMG-20200129-121804.jpg

Couldn't agree more with you. If everyone would stand against KYC, it would MAYBE make a change.

I can buy gold worth $10k from The Netherlands and nobody would request my ID. Meanwhile, a $5 deposit on a KYC-enabled exchange could be frozen if the exchange considers it suspicious. How does that make sense?

I think money laundering and terrorism happens more with precious metals & fiat than with crypto, I mean it's common sense. Gold & precious metals have been around since before we all were born, Bitcoin is still growing up and nobody has been able to prove through facts that a certain percentage of BTC transactions are money laundering and terrorism funding. It's all bullshit. I haven't provided a single document of identification and I never will.

Know Your Customer, Know Your Partner. What comes next?

I think we should be looking for ways to stop this KYC policy instead, as in my opinion it only does more harm than good. Look around what's going on with the platforms using KYC and see for yourself.

Bittrex basically confiscated my funds by enforcing a mandatory KYC verification post-deposit. I only care about the safety of my funds, and KYC lowers the safety of them a lot more than lawmakers might've expected.

KYP wouldn't make things fair for both sides. What would knowing who's behind Bittrex help me with if they've confiscated my money thanks to KYC? It's exactly the same thing, but more privacy is invaded. Instead of making things better, it would make them worse. Instead of adding this policy, I would work on changing the KYC first so stealing of funds won't be legal anymore... because KYC basically makes money stealing legal. Fair? Obviously not.


If KYP would be implemented, platforms would offer it from registration phase. And then it would function just like it does right now, without KYP implemented.