A guy i know at an exchange (Cryptsy) told me here publicly they had a mini group and would discuss matters via IRC.
The guy from GOX was apart of it "MagicalTux".
So there is some truth to this i think.
You know Paul Vernon? Could you please ask him to return the money he stole from his users? Or at least tell us where he is so someone can bring him back in handcuffs. |
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It's safe to say that most of the Bitcoin Exchanges have been founded by original whales, those that fall under the 900 people category.
What is 900 people category? It's those 900 people that own about 70% of all bitcoin in circulation.
In the bitcoin dips, it is so coordinated, these guys definitely collude with each other on what they want the price to be. In bear seasons, Bitcoin drops over 95 at different times. And in bull runs, BTC increases by 20x....
The rich is getting richer. The market is totally manipulated. The general "bitcoin user", investors, adopters, etc has about 5% influence on the Bitcoin market. 95% influence comes from the original 50 whales of bitcoin that dictates exactly what the price and graph should look like.
These guys are the exchanges, they founded the exchanges, these guys can make BTC price go to whatever they please.... though risking some of their assets when it is too extreme.
Perhaps you have some evidence to share, or are you just some crazy tinfoil hat person? |
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I'm very skeptical. It is probably a scam. Anybody can set up a site like that and just take your money.
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It doesn't seem like you are doing anything wrong. What is the address that you are using to receive the bitcoin cash?
You can also try searching for the address at blockchain.info. If the address is not valid, it will say that it cannot be found.
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Why do you have so much love for Mr. Ver(min) ?
He has done more for Bitcoin than you ever will, and I respect him for what he has been trying to do to improve the world. But, I have less love for him than the hatred you seem to have for him. I also defend Greg Maxwell from time to time, though I strongly disagree him on certain points. Mostly, I object to ignorant people taking a side and attacking the people that aren't on their side. You're a newbie. I recommend learning more and listening more before taking any side and closing you mind to any other perspectives. Roger Ver thinks insider trading is not a crime. I suppose you support that as well?
He has solid arguments to back his opinion but I don't completely agree with him on that one. Still, that doesn't make him as evil as you portray. Roger Ver tweeted: Since Bitcoin Core is no longer usable as a currency, we should no longer consider it to be a crypto currency. Is that your opinion too?
It's basic logic. If it is not usable as a currency, how can you call it a currency? If you can't eat a brick, can you call it food? Either way, it's not important. It's just words. You are obviously a loon yourself or in collusion with Ver.
Edit: I just realized that you could be Roger. He did buy tons of accounts for astroturfing.
I'm not a loon. I'm not in collusion with Roger Ver. I'm not Roger Ver and I am not associated with him, though I have met him a few times. |
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ftp://Is there any software out there that can find a wallet.dat file on a android phone? I wiped it and forgot about the wallet there. There might be alot of money on this wallet, and if it gets opened with your help I will pay for the service.
I hope someone can help me.
Kind regards
Dan
You backed up the wallet, right?
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I’m confused why anyone would still trust Roger Ver about anything.
Yes. You are confused. He was caught selling counterfeit computer equipment at MemoryDealers ... While Ver was never prosecuted for it I would never buy anything at a business Ver controlled.
Amazon sells counterfeit equipment, too. Should we prosecute Jeff Bezos for that? I assume that you would never buy anything at Amazon, right? He is a felon that spent time in a federal prison for online sales of illegal explosives.
In the post-911 world, paranoia and hysteria run rampant in the U.S. People that sell bitcoins to you and me are going to prison, too. He lied about MtGox costing people millions of dollars by keeping them from acting sooner. “I'm Roger Ver, long time Bitcoin advocate and investor. Today I'm at the Mtgox world headquarters in Tokyo Japan. I had a nice chat with MTGOX CEO, Mark Karpeles, about their current situation. He showed me multiple bank statements, as well as letters from banks and lawyers. I'm sure that all the current withdrawal problems at MTGOX are being caused by the traditional banking system, not because of a lack of liquidity at MTGOX”
He was duped. His is not a liar, just the patsy. Have you never been sure about something that turned out to be something else? He is a sociopath that renounced his citizenship to run to another country (a country where pedophila is not a crime btw, no proof-just sayin).
He is the opposite of a sociopath, and considering his abhorrence of the evil that the U.S. government inflicts on the world, renouncing his citizenship was honorable and respectable. Your not-so-subtle attempt at slander is disgusting, btw. Is there some unwritten rule that you have to be a complete lunatic to be a major investor in cryptocurrency?
To most of the world, yes. To forward thinkers and optimists, no. |
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Most people with bitcoins can no longer use them for transactions. That means that if Bitcoin is a store of value, then it is a store of value in the same way that collectibles are a store of value.
Like a painting, the value of your bitcoins is no more than the value of having them and the value of being able to show others that you have them.
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I trade on several exchanges and I always use 2FA. I backed-up all the codes of the google autheticator.
However, I realise that I never printed or took printscreens of the QR codes from the exchanges. Is this necessary?
I have difficulties to retrace these codes on all the exchanges....
The QR code is simply a computer-readable version of the google authenticator secret. If you didn't save a copy of the secret, you can get it again (or perhaps get a new one) by disabling and re-enabling 2fa. I wouldn't rely on the site believing you when you tell them you lost your phone. |
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"network marketing" is a euphemism for "pyramid scheme". Most people lose money in a pyramid scheme. The people that make the most money are the operators because they risk nothing (except the possibility of prison).
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Yes, your bitcoin is the public key.
I recommend that you read more before you post. |
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is bitcoin address the same as Public key in my wallet's ?
No, though many people confuse the two. A Bitcoin address is a base-58 encoding of a hash of a public key. More specifically: 1. Determine the public key from the private key. 2. Hash the public key using SHA-256 to get a 256-bit value. 3. Hash the result of #2 with RIPEMD-160 to get a 160-bit value. 4. Encode the result of #3 using base-58 encoding scheme to produce a Bitcoin address. |
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How will you argue the value of your bitcoin, when the US dollar and the US empire disapears, currently people compare their bitcoins value with the us dollar they can get for it,
... That question was answered a long time ago with this:  |
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We should have more control over changes to public addresses and i bet lots of money goes missing because of this
if i want to change my email address every day for "Security" then that's my decision and maybe i want to scan the block chain
myself for all my spending and i have better things to do than to type in 50 transaction ID's
You are focusing too much on the addresses. Let the wallet manage the addresses. There is no need for you to get involved. My wallet has generated hundreds of addresses. I have never needed to keep track of them. My wallet lists every transaction I have ever made. Either way, you can reuse addresses if you want. Get an address from your wallet, and print the QR code on a piece of paper and laminate it. Now you have your one address. |
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Unless anyone can produce any real evidence of "manipulation" (which I have yet to see) having any effect on the market, these claims of manipulation must be considered to be fantasy. People are very susceptible to confirmation bias. They see what they want to believe and tend to ignore evidence to the contrary. Read about "street light interference" and be amazed. ... Of course, I have no hard proof, but it seems much more likely to me that it is happening rather than that it is not. No proof --> fantasy. That is not a good way of thinking. You are acting like this is some sort of legal case where traders are "innocent until proven guilty." The problem is that this is not a legal case. For instance, if a person gets hired at a store and the customer service reviews of the store happen to go down in the weeks following this, it is reasonable to conclude that the new employee is to blame in some part. Sure, there is no hard proof of this, but you cannot consider the possibility a "fantasy". In fact, it would be ignorant to do so. The same goes with traders and market movements. I agree. Yes, proving manipulation would be the ideal case, but that doesn't mean we should not be suspicious or at least questioning market movements. Just because manipulation is not plainly clear doesn't mean we should assume all is fine in coinland. I agree that the possibility is real, though actual occurrences are rare and inconsequential. However, people frequently believe that specific moves in the market are caused by manipulation without any evidence (other than the movement itself), and that is fantasy. |
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Unless anyone can produce any real evidence of "manipulation" (which I have yet to see) having any effect on the market, these claims of manipulation must be considered to be fantasy. People are very susceptible to confirmation bias. They see what they want to believe and tend to ignore evidence to the contrary. Read about "street light interference" and be amazed. ... Of course, I have no hard proof, but it seems much more likely to me that it is happening rather than that it is not. No proof --> fantasy. ... the potential will be there to manipulate the markets.
Potential? Maybe or maybe not. Again, no evidence --> fantasy. I would also like to note that I don't feel that many situations that some people might consider manipulation are really manipulation. Just as fee-paying Bitcoin transactions that seem purposeless can't really be considered spam, placing orders can't be considered manipulation. For example, is a "sell wall" manipulation or is it just a large order? Are high frequency traders really manipulating the market by placing and canceling orders, or are they just gaining information or perhaps using game theory to compete against other traders? |
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Unless anyone can produce any real evidence of "manipulation" (which I have yet to see) having any effect on the market, these claims of manipulation must be considered to be fantasy. People are very susceptible to confirmation bias. They see what they want to believe and tend to ignore evidence to the contrary. Read about "street light interference" and be amazed. |
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Warren Buffet was proven wrong.
He claimed BTC was not a currency since it was valued against the USD
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The moron of Omaha was wrong
Perhaps you could support your opinions with some facts and actual quotes? Besides, a large number of the people here on Bitcointalk believe that Bitcoin is no longer a currency, but is now a "store of value". Are they morons, too? |
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One bitcoin is the equivalent of 10^8 satoshi. I wonder if someone could explain why one has not defined the factor as a power of 2,
as this would be a naturale choice from my point of view. Is there any deeper meaning in the preference for the decimal system ?
I'll highly appreciate your explanations and/or suggestions.
The number of satoshis in a bitcoin is arbitrary. People are accustomed to the decimal system and defining, for example, one bitcoin as 2 32 satoshis has no benefit over defining it as 10 8 satoshis. From your point of view, why would a binary system be better? |
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Keep in mind that these are addresses and not wallets, and there is very little that you can determine about the people holding bitcoins just from the addresses themselves.
Satoshi is estimated to have up to 800k BTC (which typically gets rounded up to 1 million), but these all remain in the original addresses, each containing 50 BTC.
Many of the top addresses, such as the Bitfinex address, contain bitcoins held for millions of people.
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