You can add bitcoin adresses to all sorts of directories, but they're really just useless (See Ninja's reply.).

You have https://www.scambitcoin.com & https://bitcoinwhoswho.com/scams that i know of.

These directories would only become somewhat interesting if Electrum somehow adds a plugin with a blacklist of these addresses, but considering the amount of false positives & the way malware would be able to simply maneuver around such a block & the fact that scammers can generate endless new addresses just makes it utterly useless to do. Not to mention that it's really a step in the wrong direction, towards centralization et al.

TLDR; be your own bank.

Ah. That sucks. Well, i guess it's worth trying, although i kinda doubt you'll find a buyer here. Maybe try some other forums such as nulled.to where there's more giftcard trading as well.

Or perhaps you could add these paysafecards to something like G2A, buy some CSGO skins and then cash out those skins for BTC.
No idea if it's possible or actually works, but i guess you can think of something similar, you get the idea..

Do these cards work everywhere in europe/US or only in greece?

Anyway this seems like it might be a pretty niche product. Try Paxful.com maybe if you have a physical receipt to show for these cards? If i remember correctly the rates on those were pretty decent. (For reversible giftcards that is.)

Stake.com is legit in the sense that they operate in good faith, which means you'll lose all your money anyway using their site, since they have a huge house edge.
Don't gamble on any casino is the most "legit" thing you can do.

And as nc50 said, i'm not aware of Stake.com having a faucet where you get x satoshi an hour, but if they do, don't bother with it. It's an absolute waste of time to fill in captcha's.
Any minimum wage job would pay better. (And probably would allow you to develop some skillset much quicker.)

I'd also advise you to steer away from these telegram bots & spam groups. As far as i'm aware they're all garbage.
Don't give a penny to anyone claiming to be able to invest your money for x returns, or claims to "mine" with it. It's all scams.

Yes. Obviously if your wallet is offline, it can't receive new data/transaction information.

Either it has something to do with the wifi you're on, or your software/PC. Check if your wifi blocks any connections, if so, you should either use a VPN or a different internet source.

If you think it's your PC, take a look at your firewall/AV. If that's not it either, it's probably an issue with your wallet software, in which case it could be many things.

Take a look at a couple other threads and see if it might solve your issue:
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5029716.0
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5092024.0

I think this really varies from which payment processor you use. On paxful it's completely normal to ask 10-20-30% for a transaction involving Paypal (Due to the reversible nature). It's not that weird, and for smaller transactions a lot of people are happy to pay such amounts. (For some reason i've also not completely figured out yet..)

But if it involves a non-reversable method you should indeed place some red flags, - especially if you're the one being approached.

I don't think you're liable for what other people do with the bitcoin they bought from you. That would be weird.

Localbitcoins already asks people to verify their ID before they can trade, so you're already doing/participating/complying in AML- Anti-Money-laundering laws.
So, in the case of someone trying to launder money through you, or use hacked bank accounts, you'll be able to report them using their KYC submitted to LBC, (or not be liable for their actions at the very least, since you can point towards the KYC they submitted).

As long as you report your earnings, and comply whenever required(when someone trades with you using a hacked bank account), you should be OK. (Although most often there isn't much to comply really when someone chargebacks you just have to take the fall usually.)

note: IANAL. Just my personal experiences.

Another note is that it varies from bank to bank, and whether or not you have a business account registered with all the paperwork etcetera stating what your business (model) is. If you have a personal account getting 10+ transactions a day from people all over the world, it might look pretty weird real soon, and they'll start asking you for proof of income etc.
It depends on the bank, but still.

Someone send bitcoin (presumably) to a mixer clone with a static deposit adress. So, yes - Users are extremely gullible.

But at the same time.... I mean, BitBlender went out with a blast. Everyone knows by now they exit scammed. I wouldn't understand why anyone would send anything to a site resembling BitBlender... But yeah.. It does happen otherwise these sites wouldn't be worth cloning in the volume that they are being created.

Hairypoints never opened another thread.

Many other people have already opened scam accusations on Bitblender, and nothing came of it. Bitblender is gone. He hasn't logged in since the 31st of May, and i deem it extremely unlikely that he will ever come back, much less so that he's actually going to pay anyone back, or is capable of doing so.

Your money is 99.9% lost, and there's nothing you can do anymore.


Their profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=229601
Main ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=436467.msg51337270#msg51337270
Main Scam Accusation: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5153756.0

The comments under that youtube video are pretty worrisome.



 

I agree. It's obvious he has been inserting conspiracy theories and controversial shit wherever possible for a long time now, considering that's where he gets his traffic and following from-- Other complete nutjobs who believe everything is a giant conspiracy, or those who seem him as some sort messias steering the right path through other "conspiracies".

There's no way you can convince these people in the comments otherwise, unfortunately. They either have a vested interest in sharing these conspiracy theories with him (BCash bag holders), or see him as the guy who's going against the mainstream. It's really becoming cult-like as in facts don't matter at all anymore. His following seems to eat up this misinformation like crazy.

I think a site with infamous scammers and detailed reports as to how they would scam you, (eg clipboard attacks, the electrum popup attacks, but also more pure social engineering and or things such as chargebacks) could be useful and pretty interesting to a lot of newbies. Wrap it in a nice blog/documentation format and i could see such a project become self-sustainable...

Especially something with a timeline and history of big scammers would (for me personally) be pretty interesting to give a read. At that point it does become more journalism than documentation though.

But... As others have already said;
You can already see it on this forum. People tend to simply not read the pinned/PSA threads. The incentive to go to a third party website and actually read a couple articles about certain methods might be even lower for a lot of users. I don't know.. The userbase which would fall for such scams would probably not be interested in reading a whole lot about it.

Not everyone is as anonymous as you are. If you have an account here with a real name or something that can attach you to your identity, i neither would be happy if i were to have a trust list with people calling me a "Child rapist" or "Mentally Ill".

Really, that's 4chan tier, and while it might be the epitome of free speech, i don't think that's the direction we should be headed with this forum.

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Newbies who aren't familiar with the forum who look at your trust list and see a bunch of fake retaliatory ratings (especially of this severity), might definitely impact how you're perceived by them, even if the ratings are completely false. I've had this happen before. So, no, it's not completely harmless (or has the potential not to be anyway.)

Just my two cents though.

Agreed.

I'm all for free speech and allowing everyone on your platform no matter their political stances/observations, but when you start spamming people's trust lists with stuff that's obviously false. (Being a rapist, & mentally ill because of X), really, some action should be taken...?

I believe he was temp-banned? but most of the trust still remains. Or did he do it again after his tempban? I know it doesn't matter (for most people), but it just looks extremely stupid to me and it's just overall slightly annoying to get smeared like this. People who are new to the forum and look at my trust list (or people in general who are ignorant of who he is), might actually get the wrong impression of me. Anyway.

Not to mention that his business model is nothing but blackmailing casinos. I'd say he has quite the set of (missing) morals,- although that in itself shouldn't be bannable, it just shows he's a big f-ing asshole.

Seems like OP is using Linux and i don't see any indication of OP telling, or by looking at the debug log that he needs to reindex or download the entire chain after booting up the wallet again. (Hard to tell when it's first ran anyway.

OP should try this. I've seen luke-jr recommend this (albeit on an issue which was a bit different) a couple times for similar problems. (Although OP seems to indicate that he has installed/uninstalled bitcoin core multiple times, so the issue might not be directly related to his Bitcoin Core software but rather... settings/hardware .. ?)

Okay. So what happens if i deposit 25 million dollars into your system to generate 12% interest a year?
Will that work? As in, will i actually get 12% interest on my 25 million dollars?

Just answer with a yes or no. If yes, what if i deposit 50 million?

If you offer the best interest returns (12%), you must offer the worst loans. (Or no collateralized loans in which case your investors will pay the ultimate price for this stupid amount of interest.)


There is no way you have any amount of outstanding loans that are comparable to the outstanding capital generating interest. BlockFi can barely offer above inflation rates when you're depositing more than 10BTC, (2,2%), but you can offer 12%?


Bullshit.

+1 for this question, although i can already predict the answer as i see it is hinted to in the article:

I'm assuming our savings are used to give out/back loans, (Or Turboloans as you call them), to your customers. But how can you legitimately garantuee a 12% interest rate? Really, that's insane.

Either the project is a farce, or the interest rates will (or rather MUST) drop by insane amounts to keep the ratio between lenders/loaners healthy.
We've seen the same thing with BlockFi et al. This project doesn't offer anything new but a rehash of already existing services. I'd avoid it.


If you want any interest at all you need to wait until the settlement period before cashing out.

Whatever that means.

Found this-- https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2019/08/bitpay-suspends-operations-in-germany-over-regulatory-concerns/

And

So it's probably only temporary? (Unless ofcourse they get denied a license.) Seems like a weird thing to do really, i mean why stop operating if they don't require any sort of license yet, but IANAL.

Even then, they could "mix" coins of smaller amounts and whenever you "deposit" a larger amount they manually stop your transaction and selectively scam you out of your bitcoin. I'd take care.

Sure. That's what this thread is for. To weed out the shady services.
Note that if you're going to use Monero; you probably need to convert it back to Bitcoin for most payments. There are very few services who actually let you do so, anoymously. Almost all will log certain data, if not ask for your KYC information.

That plan is stupid. You can't just magically increase the price of your coin for whenever you feel like it. I mean.. How? Burning tokens?
I don't really see any other possibility other than to increase the marketcap, and then dilute the amount of outstanding coins somehow of your stablecoin to inflate the price. Which would really cancel out the "profit".



I feel like this thread wants the best of both worlds, no inflation and general stability in the value of x.

I'm pretty sure this would've been done already if it was possible. You're not the first to come up with such an idea.

Where did you find them? They look pretty sketchy if not a scam to me. (Mostly perhaps because i've never heard of them before.)
- low res pictures,
- misuse of anonymous affiliation ?,
- no bech32 support

I don't know..