Man, this thread is a year old already and Amazon (and eBay, too) have yet to start accepting bitcoin. That's unfortunate--I remember this thread from last year and I thought we were actually going to get some good news from at least Amazon, but not to be I guess.
As I've said many times, I'm not a huge fan of spending bitcoin, but in the past 5 months or so I've accumulated more than I've had in quite a while and I haven't always wanted to hold it. I probably would have bought some stuff from Amazon if I could have paid for it there in an easy way. Selling bitcoin for PayPal always makes me nervous, even though I tend to trade with one individual who hasn't let me down yet. It's still always risky, and there are times when I'd rather just not convert to fiat, and Amazon is one of the biggest marketplaces on the internet. If you could just pay for things there with bitcoin there would be zero need to sell bitcoin for cash.
Any idea what their thinking is on this one? I haven't read anything lately about it or really any big merchants starting to accept bitcoin.
Personally I don't want to see amazon or ebay starting to accept bitcoins, especially amazon. At first ebay has paypal which doesn't accept even btc buy with it, so they'll stick with fiat. On another hand if they have to refund, how will they act? Seems they have to convert bitcoin in usd at the moment of payment receive and do the same on refund (consider that amazon is usually seller itself). Also imagine if amazon receives and receives bitcoin and holds it? I don't want such situation. |
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Not so long ago, we simplify registration process at our site leaving only the username field... As a consequence, we are faced with a problem of creating multiple accounts by the same user and abusing faucet (faucet at our site - 0.007 mBTC and only request every 3 hours when balance is zero). Guys, what solutions do you recommend?  Thank you! I am sure that there is a way to prevent someone to do that thing especially if you are admin of the site. You will not have any problem to detect people who are trying to creating multiple accounts and abusing faucet. You can make some limitations for every user especially for people who are coming from the same IP, you can reduce the rewards of the faucet, or if someone caught abusing the faucet, then you can ban his IP. I am sure that you will find a good way to make sure your site secure from the abuse. I think you are still making people punished for what the abusers are doing. Yes people who do not invest at all and do not deposit to it usually are not the type of people you want however back in the day when I first started gambling couple years ago I loved the faucets because there was a real chance that I grind that to withdrawal amount without depositing any single cent to it, that hooked me to the game, of course I have never managed to do that but whenever I lost I got closer to depositing and eventually deposited one day and ever since than I deposit and play with real money. Faucets was the one that got me hooked, if it was play money back in that day maybe I wouldn't be a gambler today. You are right Domicbora, faucet really hooks people, let me explain for others why this happens: When you register and play with faucet, sometimes luckily you win, you can win so much to be able to withdraw but this happens very rarely. When you see that you won 0.002 bitcoin with 0.00001 bitcoin, you think that you are smart enough to win much from 0.01 right? Yeah, so when you won 0.002 btc. you decided to withdraw it. Then you begin playing with faicet again, seems you don't win so much to withdraw, so you deposit your 0.002 won. Then you lose it, then you deposit 0.02 in order to win 0.002 and grow your chances of prodit. Then you win or lose but finally you lose, that's all. |
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Hellp guys, as I see it's pretty expensive to rent GPUs for rendering some projects and there are some services which offers it. If we compare rendering to mining and consider prices of current companies like google, ultrarender and etc, seems rendering is more profitable then mining.
Is there any place where we can rent GPUs for rendering instead of mining? I can't find similar place.
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There was and probably is one global currency and it's Gold, in history silver and gold were used worldwide and also all currencies are backed by gold as for now. There is no need of another currency which will be called global currency. Every current currency is exchangeable so they are global for me but on another hand many countries' economics depends on usd and there are many countries which doesn't need their own currency because they are economically very weak and big importers, so usd has great chance here. On another hand can't think why we need blockchain technology here.
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That's not so easy to answer because bitcoin is money, yeah? It's same if we ask where to live if we have money. There is no country's economy built on Bitcoin. Also if there aren't any regulations, it can change in near future too. You can access bitcoin exchanges in almost every country, if you live in cities, you'll have access on internet too, some villages don't have it. On another hand I wouldn't say that having of bitcoin ATM is any privilege because their fees are very high everywhere. If you own xapo, you can convert btc with very good rate and withdraw from any ATM with fixed and very low fee (heared that they changed something in withdrawal process). Your priority must be safety and cost of living. Btw it would be easy to answer if someonr asks: What are the best places to live if you are a miner? Because some countries, like Georgia for example, offers tax free zone and very cheap electricity costs for them. You can check this country for your question too.
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The maintenance is over and you can read about the changes here and be sure to check that you are using your new deposit address for ripple and not the old one. That's a good news, I like how you try to make deposits as fast as possible but what about to include every wallet update in one work? It's not comfortable when deposit adress changes very often because most people like me save adresses in their wallet. On another hand every positive news is great, would like to see new games. Yeah, maybe others offer different games but it's hard to find a casino which you can trust, this is the reason why we want new games from you guys. Cheers. |
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Hi, does anyone know of a virtual visa or mastercard that exists where verification/ID isn't asked for? I need to pay for multiple accounts on a website under different names, and everywhere I look, ID is required. I tried Entropay but now they decline my transaction when I try to load any cards I create. I live in the UK by the way. Thanks
Have you done some research at your local banks or online wallet services? Because there is a high chance you'll find local one which offers virtual visa possibly without KYC. Btw in UK it's easy to obtain license, don't trust to every unknown company. On bitcointalk, in Goods section, you can find some people who offer virtual visa/master cards for online payments where you can top up your virtual card with bitcoin. |
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These people have fantastic imagination, imagining of those themes needs a talant too lol.
OP what about blockchain based ranking system? Or merit system where everyone has to prove that you deserve one merit.
C'mon man, there is no way to prevent spam and it's not so necessary too, it's a little bit funny when you see how others seriously post threads like bitcoin causes dehydratation and etc stupid things.
No one in real life was able to prevent crime, so in virtual world always someone will spam.
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As you see, Bitcoin has removed checkpoints, so it's not as necessary as you think (it was removed because couldn't prevent any meaningful attack) but yeah, others have it too. The reason why they are using checkpoints is to provenet denial-of-service attack.
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In the beginning Bitcoin was only an idea. With a value of a fraction of a U.S. penny. This was in 2009.
Then in 2012 bitcoin gained popularity on the internet and gained its first publicized value of $13.28.
This was the first recorded value of Bitcoin. Now let’s see how Bitcoin progressed over the years…
2009 — $.0003
2013 — $13.28 44266.67X gain in 4 years
2014 — $770.52 58X gain in one year
2015 — $315.42
2016 — $435.82
2017 — $959.15 1.24X gain in 3 years
2018 — $6355.70 6.63X gain in one year
2019 — $? 10k, 20k, 30k, 40k, 50k
2020 — $? 60k, 70k, 80k, 90k, 100k
With these mathematical statistics it is sure enough that Bitcoin will be rising to the 100k mark within the next couple of years.
From your mathmatics I can't understand how you got it, you are doing everything wrongly. From your charts, logically we have to see fall in 2019 if we compare this year to old years but you do opposite. Also you haven't considered what will happen on high prices, we had transaction stuck on 15K and more, probably worse will happen on 30K, 60K. You have to consider how grest miners will be available in 2019, there are a lot of factors, of course bitcoin will rise but not so much, to my mind we will get 60K price in 2021 because of halving too. |
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There are so many reasons NOT to.
Big reason is, if you deal with fiat, then you need to get licensed, you need to get regulatory approval, you need to prepare your entire system to work with a fiat system.
Do you honestly think you could enjoy low house edge, fast approvals, fast play, and all that, while using fiat systems? The whole reason dice games and crypto games can offer much lower house edge is because of lower operational cost. Choose to use fiat and kiss goodbye to those low operational costs.
How can you say not while such thing exists in reality? I already said, let's take for example about butstabit lkke game, absolutely same game played by fiat money is on local casino's website. They have provably fair system too and you can verify each bet + they offer jackpot in this game, withdraws take 0% fee and are immediately on your card. My example is 100% opposite of what you say, such thing exists, it even offerd jackpot and 0% withdraw fee. |
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I wouldn't quote your reply because it will take a lot of space and won't look nice, so...
bugslayer
You make quotes wrongly, you don't have to put answer immediately after my proposal, you have to write your answer after [/quote].
I don't know much p2p lending examples, but I know many project has failed.
In developed countries there are low fees on loans, is 4% higher? Well, in another countries it's usually 10% and more, these countries can be prioritized but they will have high risk of non repayment. Well, you know who is your target.
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Not only between bitfinex and coinbase, bitttex also has the same price as bitfinex. Btw on coindesk, price is nearly the same of what's on coinbase. Coinbase's rate is lower than preev's rate which isn't normal to my mind.
Personally I rarely see prices on exchanged, I use coindesk to know price.
Seetheummerallyeah
I didn't know that but why is coinbase's rate lower than preev's rate?
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No, there is. For example local casino has dice and game similar of bustabit, both available in fiat. Dice don't has verify your roll function but bustabit like game has, also it has different name. Dice is usually called HI-LO but mostly casinos offer 2x win, you can't edit it. Local casino has almost every feature on it's HI-LO game that other dice websites have, except autobetting.
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We had a huge pump in 2017 which did not last for even 2 months. But look at the growth trend from February 2018. Though the price fall of bitcoin was drastically huge, it just stayed above $5000 which should be noted closely. I like this growth trend and wish this continues. Such trend will seriously bring in strong and healthy investors into the crypto market. We would certainly and undoubtedly reach minimum $25K by end of 2020 not falling back to below $20K. Kindly bring out your thoughts on it.
Quick growth will last, in this I don't mean that price will rise 10x and keep the same, no. Bitcoin was stable 600-1000 usd for some months after fork. Then it begin to rise, at first 1000 usd was like an anniversary day, from 1000 we soon move on 2000, this continue on and on, as you see finally we got 20K, this growth was quick from the begining, nothing to mention about how quickly it grow by 4K in one week. Btw from this story, bitcoin felt but it's stable 6000K. I think there will be some skyrocket shit after the next fork, we will get absolutely more than 25K by the end of 2020 year. |
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My merit analysis:
I believe Ddmrddmr is the only user with more merits than posts.
Lol great job, as always!
I wish you had created some kind of interactive tool where we could put our username and see our merit path. Interesting subject
Isn't BPIP.org enough? Can't understand what you mean. |
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d) Surprisingly enough, Newbies merited for the first time in the Mining Altcoins is pretty high (5,59%), and are by comparison pretty high on Bitcoin Development and Technical Discussion (4,15%) and Bitcoin Technical Support (2,39%). Strangely though, many of the merited Newbies in these sections are barely active, so perhaps they are not very concerned with the Merit System and Ranking System at all. I think I can explain this: From what I've seen, new users post in those boards with either a technical question, an interesting idea or even a scientific paper. I consider them to be real users, they should not be restricted by Merit, and I love to Merit them. Once their question is answered, they often disappear again. They're not spammers, so they deserve their first Merit, but you're probably right saying they don't care about Merit and Ranks. f) Ann Altcoins is the section that most people got their first merit on, regardless on the rank (Russian board aside). Since these boards have the most spam, and good posts are hard to find, it would be interesting to see how many of those are deserved, and how many are just plain merit abuse. But that's a lot of work to analyze. Merits in those sections are logical because they are ledd abused threads, users without knowledge can't post here, also I want to mention that moderator achow101 is excellent, thanks him for the work he does in his two section. Also posts in Marketplace and altcoins announcement sections are often merited without reason, ANN threads are meritted, that's not right use of merits. |
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I actually just saw an announcement of a new landing platform that does work with collateral. Now, I have no idea if they're trustworthy, so I wouldn't just trust them. Just thought I'd share it. https://lendabit.com/They seem to accept collateral in Bitcoin. Hello, Lendabit is not a scam and a proof can be the fact that we’ve registered a legal entity and are working now 100% legally. We have also filed documents for receiving a license that will let us work with fiat money. Our company is a start-up that just started working since July. But we’ve already launched a fully working lending service and are currently working on the Ethereum smart contracts and fiat money implementation to our platform. We will definitely publish our team and investors as soon as we complete all formal procedures. As of today, we can say for sure that our seed investors are the top managers of one of the major mining equipment developing company in the world. The team has many years of experience in banking, trading and the cryptocurrency market. The official release will be done after all legal affairs are sorted out. You can join our Telegram channel or group to keep yourself updated. Telegram channel https://t.me/LendaBitTelegram Community: https://t.me/LendabitcommunityI think it’s worth mentioning that our official partner is Hashing24.com, the service which has been working for a while already confirmed its reputation multiple times. The scam scenario you’ve mentioned is juicy for those who collected huge amount at once(for example ICO) and escaped with the investors’ money, but our situation is entirely different, we have only started working on this market, we are constantly developing our product and building legal business that will last. We’ve excited to announce that we’ve extended our offer on reduced loan amounts. Hurry up and get a P2P deal starting from just 100 USDT. What is more, we’ve lowered the system fee to just 0.5% per transaction. There is no need to invest or borrow huge amounts from the start. You can now take it slow and fully explore the benefits of LendaBit.comFirstly last active of this user was on 27th august, I highly doubt he will read your post, so replying to him was unnecessary. Then for me a company that looks for similar boards and tries to promote itself with posting in them, doesn't seem serious. There are some companies who are registered in Hong Kong and in London and are scammers, they use these "License" to scam people, I don't know why it's easy to obtain that license. I saw your banner on hashing24.com They have contract with Bitfury and I know they are legit, btw I want you to prove your legality without doubts  ) |
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More than 90% of ICOs (still a wide margin) lack pure utility aside from trading values. Among freelancers, people may trade one crypto for another, but in a brick and mortar business scenario, crypto has little to no impact. For example if I walk into a store I could get the credit card and a few other payment options. Still, with the over abundance of crypto technologies and their native tokens, only a handful of stores have barcodes for bitcoin and a few other payment coin types.
I think we need more radical real world businesses tokenizing their products and using this 'tokenization' as a means to garner support for mainstream crypto adoption. Like rewarding people loyalties for using their products.
Does anyone else here share the same concerns, or do you know a coin that is owned by real businesses for such purposes?
You can do almost everything you wish, but usually that happens online, you can book flight tickets, buy things from amazon, etc and etc. Ripple may be used by financial institutes too. You can own bitcoin debit card and pay with it, I have no idea why you want to harden everything. Is something wrong with paying visa card? Don't tell me anonimity, why the hell anyone wants to purchase potatoe with bitcoin? |
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Maybe that changed, but I saw in the past they DID post here which is why I started the thread. If they had any intention of cleaning of their reputation, then they would fix something like this. But it they gave up on that, then yes I doubt itll matter.
Yeah, they created new account and opened new thread here but if you saw, they got immediately negative replies. 1xbit is the website of 1xbet, they are in business for more than 10 years, always were scammers, they won't change. What I don't get about 1xbit is they are still so popular across all the sites. Almost every streaming that I watch for the hard to find games in Asia like badminton for example, all have 1xbit banners. Almost every sports bookie site I see also has 1xbit. But we keep hearing about them scamming, could it be they are paying selectively, paying affiliates and paying smaller players?
It's really not nice for new players, yes they should have checked scams. But this is not the gambling forum everyone knows.
I think you see an advertisement of 1xbet, not bit. They have ads mostly on pirate websites, live streaming and etc. They pay money selectively, mostly everything depends on how much profit they get from you, they hate when someone wins. |
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