Thoughts on deeponion?  I read some ppl mentioned this and you get some free 7 percent or something?

I have an old coinbase account.  I followed the instructions to log into gdax with my coinbase account but apparently they send you a verification code to your google authy or authy?  I have used google authy before but i just found out about authy.  Can someone tell me how this works?  Do i need to have google authy and/or authy installed on my phone?  I installed authy on my phone but how would i receive a number message?  The thing is gdax can't send me the code through my email?


Do i need to be logged into my email that is connected to my coinbase in order to receive this code? 


With gemini, when i entered my information, it ask me to put in my information.  I got an issue when it ask me to input a phone number as i put my google hangouts voice number on it and i get a message that says it needs to be phone based sms.  The thing is i have used this google voice number on other sites without any issues.  Can someone tell me how i can go through this without a us number?  I thought google voice number is same thing.  Does that mean i cannot use gemini without this?  I want to use gdax and gemini but having issues with this.  Also do both sites require you to have 2FA?  The thing is i never liked google authy as i had issues with it a while back.  I mean cant they just send me a text code or something to my google voice number etc?  Would like someone who uses gdax and gemini can answer these questions.

I'm an american but located outside the US.  I'm from a state in the US where most exchanges accept the state as its a very popular state.  However, im not there at the moment and in another country.

I know when i first signed up with coinbase a while back, i put my us information and it was fine.  I had connected a us bank account to it with no issue.

However, will i have issues registering or using sites such as


Bittrex
Gdax
Gemini


Because I"m outside the US?  Also i believe many sites ask you your country of residence.  Well if im in another country temporary, wouldn't that mean I still put US as my country of residence?  Since any documentation i send them will be that?  The other thing is i would be registering my account here outside the us.  I assume no issue here?

I have not claimed my bitcoin cash nor bitcoin gold. Did most of you sell it for trade it for btc or altcoins? Which seems to be the best idea?


Also if you were to trade it for bitcoin... i assume that still counts as a capital gain? Or it does not? I know when you trade btc for usd or an altcoin, even though no usd is involved, there is a capital gain or loss. But what if you are converting your btc cash/gold to bitcoin? Obviously trading it for altcoin or usdt would count as a capital gain.

Hey all.  Im planning to use bittrex to mostly buy altcoins.  Thus send btc to bittrex and then buy altcoins.  Then do some daytrading and sell the altcoins back for btc etc.

I read all about the verification that people mention about here.  First off, i created an account already and put in my name and all that information. 


So if i send btc to bittrex, is that okay to do trading now?  Or should i send them more documents first?  Because i do not want to send btc there... and then when i want to withdraw... i find out i cannot because i have to send verification documents and then it takes very long etc.  I created bittrex account not that long ago but never did any deposit nor sent any documents.  Can someone tell me what is the best thing to do now?  I hear people say without enhanced verification, you cannot withdraw more than x bitcoin?  So what level am i now?  But you could still trade no matter what right?  But does that mean you cannot withdraw other altcoins etc?  Thus i don't want to have coins on bittrex where im not even sure if i could withdraw or not.  Can someone tell me the best way to go on with this as i do not want to send btc to bittrex until i know about this.  Also if you plan to sell for usdt etc, that requires more verification.  What exactly are the documents they want?

Okay well it seems most people don't think much about bitcoin gold so most likely i will trade that.  But the question is... to what?  Bitcoin or altcoins?  The other thing is bitcoln gold is not valued that high compared to bitcoin cash.


So are you guys suggesting just hold bitcoin cash?  The thing is the most foolish thing to do is sell bitcoin for altcoins right... mainly due to the owning bitcoin would mean you get more coins in the forks?


However my issue is i want to buy those altcoins i listed.  And i can only do that if i do sell my bitcoin cash and gold.  Then i could get those altcoins.

Can someone tell me how i could receive and send btc now where it would only show 1 transaction?  Is the any bitcoin i receive now and then sending it from that address only enough to not show my previous transactions?  The thing is i was told its better to use an address just once as that is better  and more privacy.


Can someone read my previous response and tell me if what im describing is the proper way to go with this?

I have bitcoin and use electrum.  I know you can claim bitcoin cash and gold but you have to download programs to do this and i have not.

I like to know for those users who kept their btc in an exchange like bittrex, were you able to get the bitcoin cash or gold in your account credited without you doing anything?

I ask this because i read there are going to be more bitcoin forks... if that is the case, wouldn't it make sense to just send btc to bittrex so that way, you get credited with whatever is the fork as oppose to you having to download a program on your computer etc?  Did bittrex credit users with bitcoin equivalent of bitcoin cash, gold and diamond in their account?  Or did they have to do something else?  Because i was thinking about just moving btc from electrum to bittrex so once i get whatever fork is there... then i send my btc back to electrum as i read keeping btc in your own wallet is safer etc.

If you held btc earlier, you got bitcoin cash equivalent.  Then there is bitcoin gold.  And i also heard there is a bitcoin diamond and also there will be more forks later on.  I have not claimed my bitcoin cash nor bitcoin gold yet.   But those people who sold their bitcoin cash when they first got it would have sold it for at least 250 at the minimum with most sellers selling it at 300 or more.  I know there are ppl that sold it for 500+.  Now the price is even higher etc.


I had asked about selling my btc for altcoins and some people said that is good idea whereas most said it was bad idea because bitcoin will only go up.  But now the issue is if you sell any btc, you lose the value in the upcoming forks.  Because of this, i do not even want to sell any btc at the moment.


Does anyone know how many total forks will be there after bitcoin diamond?  I was surprised at bitcoin cash as this was the first fork.  Then when i heard about bitcoin gold... i thought wow thats like free money.  Then there is bitcoin diamond.  Will there be more forks upcoming and if so... when will these stop?  Because if there are always multiple forks, wouldn't you make decent money just holding the btc just for these forks?  I mean if you hold say 2 bitcoin... well you going to get a few hundred dollars each fork it seems?   Now imagine you had more.


However if this is the case, wouldn't it make sense to sell your bitcoin cash and bitcoin gold since holding it doesnt mean you get something else?  Thus actually selling it for bitcoin itself would be good idea because not only would you get btc... but you would be able to get more when the next fork comes?


So if i have bitcoin cash and gold, would you say its best to hold it?  Or sell it for bitcoin?  What about selling it for altcoins?  The reason i ask this is because there are lot of altcoins in the 10 dollar and under range but more specifically the under 5 dollar range where i want to get because my thought is it has more chance to 5x, 10x etc as oppose to bitcoin.  Obviously if you sell it, you want to sell it at the highest price with bitcoin cash and gold.  But in general... best thing to sell it for vs worst thing?  I would assume selling it for bitcoin is best choice?  Then it probably would be selling it for bitcoin and then get bank transfer so you have usd in your bank account?  Then the last would be altcoins since these are the most risky?  Because right now bitcoin cash and bitcoin gold are pretty high and im wondering if i should sell it for btc or btc to usd bank transfer or for altcoins.  Because there are lot of altcoins i want to buy... however i dont have enough money to do that right now.  If i cash out bitcoin cash and gold now, i could buy a good amount of altcoins that i wanted.


The altcoins that i want to buy are


waves
gamecredit
wings
shift
edgeless
funfair
bitbean
bitshares
xem
xlm

If you held btc earlier, you got bitcoin cash equivalent.  Then there is bitcoin gold.  And i also heard there is a bitcoin diamond and also there will be more forks later on.  I have not claimed my bitcoin cash nor bitcoin gold yet.   But those people who sold their bitcoin cash when they first got it would have sold it for at least 250 at the minimum with most sellers selling it at 300 or more.  I know there are ppl that sold it for 500+.  Now the price is even higher etc.


I had asked about selling my btc for altcoins and some people said that is good idea whereas most said it was bad idea because bitcoin will only go up.  But now the issue is if you sell any btc, you lose the value in the upcoming forks.  Because of this, i do not even want to sell any btc at the moment.


Does anyone know how many total forks will be there after bitcoin diamond?  I was surprised at bitcoin cash as this was the first fork.  Then when i heard about bitcoin gold... i thought wow thats like free money.  Then there is bitcoin diamond.  Will there be more forks upcoming and if so... when will these stop?  Because if there are always multiple forks, wouldn't you make decent money just holding the btc just for these forks?  I mean if you hold say 2 bitcoin... well you going to get a few hundred dollars each fork it seems?   Now imagine you had more.


However if this is the case, wouldn't it make sense to sell your bitcoin cash and bitcoin gold since holding it doesnt mean you get something else?  Thus actually selling it for bitcoin itself would be good idea because not only would you get btc... but you would be able to get more when the next fork comes?


So if i have bitcoin cash and gold, would you say its best to hold it?  Or sell it for bitcoin?  What about selling it for altcoins?  The reason i ask this is because there are lot of altcoins in the 10 dollar and under range but more specifically the under 5 dollar range where i want to get because my thought is it has more chance to 5x, 10x etc as oppose to bitcoin.  Obviously if you sell it, you want to sell it at the highest price with bitcoin cash and gold.  But in general... best thing to sell it for vs worst thing?  I would assume selling it for bitcoin is best choice?  Then it probably would be selling it for bitcoin and then get bank transfer so you have usd in your bank account?  Then the last would be altcoins since these are the most risky?  Because right now bitcoin cash and bitcoin gold are pretty high and im wondering if i should sell it for btc or btc to usd bank transfer or for altcoins.  Because there are lot of altcoins i want to buy... however i dont have enough money to do that right now.  If i cash out bitcoin cash and gold now, i could buy a good amount of altcoins that i wanted.

I want to use an example of an altcoin under 1 cent and want someone can tell me if my math is right here.


Bitbean currently is 0.0041087 cents.  Thus its not even half of 1 cent.  It showed that it increased 0.000308 cents in the last 24 hours.  That is an 8.1 % increase.  Im checking this on blockfolio app.


So basically this means... say right now you buy it at 0.0041087.  Let say you buy 1,000,000 of these coins for $4108.70 plus fees so let say around $4120 or so.


So if this coin goes up to 0.0082174... you basically doubled your money right if you were to sell?  Thus if this coin goes up to 1 dollar...you would have almost 250x this coin?


Im curious about coins that are like under 10 cents and especially under 1 cent because how would that work since many of these coins could be 0.0041087 and hen 0.0052233 etc.  Because aren't the returns on these coins much higher and these coins gives a chance to hit it big?  For example, if you buy 1 million bitbean now for 4120 usd... if it ever hits 1 dollar... then you would have 1 million dollars right?


I heard someone mentioned that they knew someone that bought a lot of NEM when it was even less than 1 cent and got to be rich because of it.


So what about these coins that are under 10 cent and under 1 cent etc.  Any thoughts on bitbean?  What about stellar lumens?

okay so back to my original question... any btc that i have in my electrum wallet now... one address i used over 25 times already.  So that means if i send/receive from it, it will get tracked to all those previous transactions right?


Now what if i receive btc from now on?  Such that right now i receive btc from a site but give them a different btc address i never used.  Then i send btc to another with it.  Then say i withdraw btc from that site but give them a new btc address every single time.  Then everytime i have btc or receive btc, i give the site a different address everytime.  And everytime i send btc to the site, i have to MAKE SURE I CLICK SEND BTC FROM THIS ADDRESS RIGHT?  That way it doesn't get connected to the btc address i used over 25 times?  I want to make sure from here on out...  any btc i receive and send ... that transaction is used once only.  So can someone tell me how i can do this?


So what about the btc already in my electrum?  So say i send all my btc to blockchain or another site.  Then i withdraw some btc back to my electrum wallet but of course give a different receiving address.  When i receive those btc... would it show the previous history of the btc that i sent them previously or not?  The thing is i want to make the btc i have at the moment have privacy and not when i post on it, it showed all the btc transactions i ever did etc.   Can someone answer this for me?  Right now i want to make sure any btc i receive from now on and then i send only gets used once... so how do i make sure of this?  And is it possible for me to move the btc from my old btc address where i used over 25 times to where it would only show 1 transaction on blockinfo etc?

So you are saying if i send my btc from my electrum to another electrum address... then i were to download the fake bitgold wallet and then put in the 12 word phrase, would they be able to get the btc to the address that i transferred the btc to?  Thus the old btc address would have no btc etc since its already transferred.

Well i want to use an example.  One of the addresses i used a lot.  When i typed it in the blockchain.info, i notice you could see all the transactions that i have done with it.  The reason being i used this address a lot.   


I want to start using an address once and that is it.  I assume this would not be possible with the bitcoin in my electrum then?  Because if i send btc from that address to one i never used, well it still would trace back to all those transactions i ever did with it?


However, what if i receive btc now and then have the site send the btc to an address i never used before.  Then when i send btc to another site, i would then click send from that address right?  That way the btc i send would be coming from that specific address?  Then when i want to receive btc, i give a new address everytime?  That way from here on out... there would be just the 1-2 transaction trace only as oppose to using the same address say over 25+ times?  Im guessing i phrased it correctly where you know what i mean by this?  I want to make sure from now on... any transaction i do with btc i get i want privacy and to use an address once.  Can you tell me if what i described is the proper way to do this?  Because if i have a site send me btc to a new address of mine in electrum... if i were to then send btc from my electrum to another site, well they would probably send it from my old btc address that i used right that there would be a trace of all those transactions?  I dont mind the tracing but if people say use an address once only so there is no tracing, then i would rather do that.  Would this be more private?  Thus i want to send btc and receive btc to an address once.  Can you tell me exactly how i can do this?  But no matter what, any btc i currently have in my electrum, this would not be possible to do right?  For example if i were to send btc to blockchain... then have it sent to a new address on my electrum, that won't work as it would show the entire btc history transaction right?  But any btc that i receive from a site to a new btc address, that would be fine as starting now, i make sure whenever i send btc, always click send from that address?  And i have to make sure i dont touch any of my btc in my wallet right?  So imagine someone has 0.5 btc in their wallet.  Thus you receive 0.25 btc to a new address.  As long as you send 0.25 or less btc where it doesn't touch the original amount of btc you have and make sure you send it from this address, you would be using an address once only and thus have more privacy?

Is this recommended to be done on a different computer?  I read that claiming bitcoin cash, you should use another computer.  I assume using this on the same computer as bitcoin cash would be fine?  What about doing this on same computer as you keeping btc on the same computer with electrum?

I have btc stored in electrum.  I do have a password i put in it if you want to send btc.  Thus if you send btc, it ask for your password.  However, i did not put a password there for the encryption of the btc balance.  I also used electrum litecoin where i keep litecoin and when i click on it, i have to put the password in order to view my litecoin balance and history etc.


To those that use electrum, do you encrypt your wallet where you have to put a password on it before you can view how much btc is showing on balance?  Because if you don't, when you click on electrum wallet, it shows your btc balance etc.


I use windows.  What precautions can i take since i use a computer for it?  For example, i asked on a thread where i said if someone had access to my computer, could they install a keylogger or malware or program and then hack my electrum?  I was told yes.  This is true right?  I feel it has to be true since i read about people who download the wrong electron cash and then got their btc stolen... so that means if someone computer savy got your laptop, then you have no more bitcoin?


People say use cold storage or hardware wallet.  What exactly is cold storage?  The thing is what if you use electrum a lot to send btc to and from etc.  Would cold storage work for that?  About the hardware wallet, you mean trezor or the ledger right?  So if you had a hardware wallet, its impossible for someone to hack your bitcoin wallet?  So if you have trezor, you dont need electrum anymore?  So if you download the wrong electron cash on your computer but use trezor, your bitcoin are safe?   But what if someone had your computer and your trezor?  I assume they still need to know something for your trezor and if so what is that?  Is it a password or a number code?


Now let say you dont have a hardware wallet and just use electrum or exodus or your computer.  Well if you put a password on your computer at startup, is that enough or not?  Like if you put a password for windows before startup, its the one where you have to type it before you can use your computer... is that enough?  I did hear its easy to get by that and the windows password is useless.  Is that true or false?  I also heard people mention bitlocker or something like that.  Can someone explain this?  So having bitlocker would protect your computer information if someone had access to your computer?  Thus if they had physically possession of your computer, they would not be able to view your computer without a password?  Because i want to know what is the way to make sure no one can log into your computer if they were to say have access to it.  I assume this is the number 1 thing you could do to protect yourself besides not clicking on links etc?


Also there are tons of links and signatures here from poster etc.  Is there a very good chance some of these links posters post here are keyloggers/malware where clicking it could mean your bitcoin wallet such as electrum get hacked?

I have btc stored in electrum.  I do have a password i put in it if you want to send btc.  Thus if you send btc, it ask for your password.  However, i did not put a password there for the encryption of the btc balance.  I also used electrum litecoin where i keep litecoin and when i click on it, i have to put the password in order to view my litecoin balance and history etc.


To those that use electrum, do you encrypt your wallet where you have to put a password on it before you can view how much btc is showing on balance?  Because if you don't, when you click on electrum wallet, it shows your btc balance etc.


I use windows.  What precautions can i take since i use a computer for it?  For example, i asked on a thread where i said if someone had access to my computer, could they install a keylogger or malware or program and then hack my electrum?  I was told yes.  This is true right?  I feel it has to be true since i read about people who download the wrong electron cash and then got their btc stolen... so that means if someone computer savy got your laptop, then you have no more bitcoin?


People say use cold storage or hardware wallet.  What exactly is cold storage?  The thing is what if you use electrum a lot to send btc to and from etc.  Would cold storage work for that?  About the hardware wallet, you mean trezor or the ledger right?  So if you had a hardware wallet, its impossible for someone to hack your bitcoin wallet?  So if you have trezor, you dont need electrum anymore?  So if you download the wrong electron cash on your computer but use trezor, your bitcoin are safe?   But what if someone had your computer and your trezor?  I assume they still need to know something for your trezor and if so what is that?  Is it a password or a number code?


Now let say you dont have a hardware wallet and just use electrum or exodus or your computer.  Well if you put a password on your computer at startup, is that enough or not?  Like if you put a password for windows before startup, its the one where you have to type it before you can use your computer... is that enough?  I did hear its easy to get by that and the windows password is useless.  Is that true or false?  I also heard people mention bitlocker or something like that.  Can someone explain this?  So having bitlocker would protect your computer information if someone had access to your computer?  Thus if they had physically possession of your computer, they would not be able to view your computer without a password?  Because i want to know what is the way to make sure no one can log into your computer if they were to say have access to it.  I assume this is the number 1 thing you could do to protect yourself besides not clicking on links etc?


Also there are tons of links and signatures here from poster etc.  Is there a very good chance some of these links posters post here are keyloggers/malware where clicking it could mean your bitcoin wallet such as electrum get hacked?

if im planning to send btc a lot from wallet to bittrex, then i could still use cold storage?  Well what if someone has access to your hardware wallet then? 


So basically if you keep btc in your electrum even if its encrypted to not show btc balance... they can just download a keylogger on it and thats all?


What could be done to prevent this?  So if you install a program like bitlocker to secure your computer such as you need to put a password on it in order to use your computer, would that prevent it or not?  I want to know what is needed to be done on my computer where if someone had access to my computer, they cannot view my electrum or anything else on my computer.  Because i believe putting just a password for windows 10 is not enough?

Okay so if want to encrypt my electrum similar to like how i did it with my electrum litecoin... does that password have to be the same as the one i send my btc?  Or is it suppose to be different?

Also do most people encrypt their wallet where if you open it, you cannot see the balance or account history?


What if someone had access to your computer?  Could they install a virus/program and that would mean you lose all your bitcoin etc?  Because i read about people downloading the wrong electron cash for claiming bitcoin cash and gold etc and then their electrum wallets got hacked and coins emptied.