way too early to tell but zane tackett's from bitfinex's wording is kinda slippery - "some of our users have had their bitcoins stolen" and they're trying to "account for individualized customer losses" check this comment - https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4vtv67/bitfinex_security_breach/d62uzxnat the moment it feels like their gist is that the loss is somehow the customer problem not theirs, but that's only my guess. he's emphasized repeatedly that only bitcoin has been taken and everything else is safe so maybe they intend to continue trading as if nothing happened? i'm not sure this guy understands bankruptcy and liabilities himself. The ignorance of those guys is pretty scary. If they carry on with that logic and allow withdrawals, they can land themselves in jail. ...
Ideally, bitfinex is in a situation in which only a small percentage of customer funds is affected, so the semantics will not really matter.
Are you sure? $78m doesn't sound like small percentage to me. |
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Bitcoin is not proof of Stake coin, so voting with coins is pointless in my opinion. And voting with under 1% of all Bitcoins on Bitcoinocracy is not very representative sample, plus the likelihood over 50% of all mined Bitcoins going to vote for some change is practically zero - thats why any suggestion future hard fork changes should have support from majority of coins is pointless. I would answer this way regardless who was winning on Bitcoinocracy, Im not 1 MB supporter anyway.
Yeah it is a pointless vote, as you say. But the question of OP was to Core supporters "is Bitcoinocracy still a reliable metric and should the results be respected by the devs?" Which it clearly isn't... anymore... now.  Which is why there were no reply's here in over 36 hours.. This. Bitcoinocracy is very lacking and it's easy to abuse (ie businesses voting with customers' deposits etc). But when pretty much every other poll showed support for blocksize increase, Core supporters dismissed them as unreliable and they quoted Bitcoinocracy results as the only good indicator of what "real bitcoin holders" want. So what happens now? |
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I think this should be in "press"
Yeah...No. Does this look like a notable press hit to you?
Some users' bitcoin has been stolen, and no there is no insurance for this. "Some users" are out of luck, hopefully bitfinex' own stash is unaffected. Fucking hilarious. |
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well r/btc trolls want to organize a fork...I've seen how well that went with Ethereum so I'm out. Good job trolls, you rekt Bitcoin
wrong topic? Thanks for sharing |
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** means that there are some special conditions. Please see the "Detailed information"-section for more information. Where's the 'detailed information' section? Has it been accidentally removed with the last update? It was removed on purpose because it creates the majority of the work. For details please see the linked thread. Oh OK. Makes sense, it must have been a real pain to keep the details updated. It would be good if the references to "detailed information" (there are 2 of them) are replaced with "campaign thread". |
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** means that there are some special conditions. Please see the "Detailed information"-section for more information. Where's the 'detailed information' section? Has it been accidentally removed with the last update? |
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Investing on gambling sites I think is not appropriate because it very difficult to make a profit. I will actually DON'T invest in gambling
I really want to ask a serious question, how do you even invest in gambling sites though? I mean, I really have no idea. I know about investing in stocks or even in cloud mining. Investing in gambling site is about the same as any of these two? Because all the investments are risk associated. I guess, no exception for that even with gambling sites. Visit site that has an option to invest, choose the amount, click invest. |
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There are also reports that banks in the United States will no longer make loans to Donald Trump because he has defaulted on so many loans through bankruptcy. See, for instance, "Donald Trump Owes At Least $250 Million to Banks - MoneyBeat - WSJ" http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/03/20/trumpwallst0320/As a result, Donald Trump's campaign has allegedly grown dependent upon loans from sketchy foreign sources, and from Russia, in particular, according to some sources. ... It's almost like you don't know the difference between personal funds and LLC funds. ___ What you're witnessing right now is media trying hard to take attention off the massive corruption in DNC and Hillary's camp and push the focus on 'evil Putin'. |
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(does PayPal allow you to have an account with no bank account?).
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As far as I'm aware they don't. You can have an account without providing bank/card details and you'll be able to receive money on that account but you won't be able to spend it. So as the others wrote, bitcoin card is probably the only feasible option, unless you can convince that store to start accepting bitcoins. |
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Just to make it clear, will this week payments be paid to SD accounts for those who opted for it, or will you be using those funds to pay to BTC addresses for all? |
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In relation to the topic, new bitcoin demographics survey results were released yesterday by bitcoinx, showing 86.9% males, 13.1% females: http://bitcoinx.io/news/reports/bitcoin-user-demographics-european-males-age-25-34/Pretty much in line with what any reasonable person would expect. Women in general are less interested in technology/economy, and those who are will get on board without any special encouragement. |
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During the whole blocksize debate, I recall many 'small blockers' pointing to Bitcoinocracy as a likely the best tool to measure the community's sentiment (or just serious holders). All the polls relating to blocksize debate were in favour of the Core side for a long time, until yesterday when huge-amount (>40k btc) address (Bitmain?) voted and reversed polls results. http://bitcoinocracy.com/addresses/1KwA4fS4uVuCNjCtMivE7m5ATbv93UZg8VSo the natural question to the Core supporters: is Bitcoinocracy still a reliable metric and should the results be respected by the devs? |
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This is an interesting development, as I have not yet seen a "real use" of the BTC blockchain.
Does anyone have any ideas what Blockstream may be up to? Would sidechain transactions be limted to non-BTC uses?
This, on it's own, doesn't change much in terms in 'real use', just an improvement in the way BTC is transferred. This could, but doesn't have to lead to some new areas of bitcoin usage. Blockstream received massive VC funding and they will have to find a way to transform into profit making business. Many suspected that it'll be the Lightning Network to generate most revenue, but looks like they're focused on sidechains. It's not very clear what Blockstream team promised their investors. Well, there's another 76 million dollars that some idiot VC investors threw down the rabbit hole. Those fools may as well just wipe their ass with hundred dollar bills and ask the government for a recycling tax credit. lol
The $76m mentioned in the article doesn't relate to GreenAddress acquisition, but to previous funding round. |
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...The problem BitPay had in the past was people canceling their accounts and dropping Bitcoin after the introductory period expired.
I think they've changed it to 30 tx/month (max $1000/day) for free (Starter plan), I see no info on this being for limited period https://bitpay.com/pricingi have done this a few times and had various success and failures.
here is some advice.
1. ensure you are living in an area where there are many bitcoiners
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^ and that's the problem right there. There probably are few places where there's enough active bitcoiners able to create enough demand. That's why many of the businesses on bitcoin directories started to accept BTC (or even lie about accepting BTC) just as a cheap marketing stunt. |
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There's no harm trying to explain the stores about the use of bitcoins. Many stores already are tired of paying taxes and I've also seen medical stores escaping to print bills as they need to pay tax. If they get to know about bitcoins, they would at least give it a thought. By not trying, they would too not be aware of this currency.
Wow, that's a smooth shift from bitcoin acceptance to tax evasion. Anyhow, cash is always better for such purpose than bitcoin (for physical store at least) as it leaves no trace, especially when merchant is using 3rd party payment processor (i.e. BitPay). |
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For a second , I thought they bought Bitcoin Core or something and I was like : "Rip decentralization."
How could anyone buy Bitcoin Core? It's open source, just use it as you please. So, if I understand correctly, users of the wallet will be able to make faster and likely cheaper sidechain transactions (off the Bitcoin blockchain) between all the partner entities (currently they've got like 5 exchanges on board). I've got mixed feelings about this. |
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as people were aspecting that the price of bitcoin will drop after halving and may be trade in 200$ after halving. but you can see that the price of bitcoin is pretty much stable and is increasing slowly
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People were waiting for the halving pump to reach the peak, once it was clear that price is unlikely to stay above $700, they started to sell. No surprise here. It could still go up in the longer run due to lower selling pressure from the miners. ... most of the people are still holding it for the price increase which is expected in next some months.
Expected by whom? Increase due to what? |
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