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401  Other / Meta / Re: Would you like to have an app for Bicointalk.org on: July 01, 2019, 10:55:08 PM
I'd be for that, but not for my own benefit--I can barely type out coherent sentences on my phone because of my huge thumbs and tiny keyboard.  Even when I use a stylus it's an enormous pain in the ass.  That's just me, though.  I'm sure a lot of members do access the forum from their phone, and it'd be nice to have a proper mobile layout for them, and there would be no app needed.

I've actually been quite surprised that Theymos hasn't implemented something like this, since most websites I know of are mobile-friendly and he certainly could do it.  Not sure how expensive it would be to make the forum look pretty on a smartphone, but I'm fairly sure bitcointalk has the funds. 

By the way, this isn't the first time this has been discussed.  I don't think Theymos has the will to do it.
Web-devolopment is a pain in the ass, and making a hybrid website while the forum is based on SMF is definitely not going to be the easiest thing to do, I am not sure if a more UX intuitive hybrid website is even possible with SMF. I do remember seeing a bitcointalk (unofficial) app on the Playstore, i played around with it for a while, not the best experience, it just felt like how it is on the browser, and I heard a lot of forum memebers screeching out on how risky is it,so uh there is that.

Or if you are a bit nostalgic; you can always use a typing machine! https://www.qwerkywriter.com/
Yo this one is PERFECT for The Pharmacist, he likes grandpa like stuff anyway  Grin

I really hope Epochtalk comes out more sooner than later, and more importantly, hope that all this waiting time was worth it.
402  Economy / Economics / Re: Can bitcoin help rebuild Venezuela? - Darb Finance on: June 28, 2019, 11:55:10 PM
The first things they must do
- throw in the sea every incompetent that is appointed right now
- peg their currency to a more stable or a basket of stable currencies (like Bulgaria with the euro)
- stop throwing money around and cut subsidies for gas and electricity as the first is getting smuggled in enormous quantities abroad and the second is not even enough for the country itself.
- stop with the government control fo companies, privatization is the key here
- call in firms from abroad to set up factories, give them tax exempt,  you need to produce something to keep inflation at bay, there are thousands of unemployed, they right now do not produce anything, don't be greedy about some shitty taxes and think of the money they will pay your workers and the produces goods once exported can sustain your trade balance and your currency.

All of this can be done without some crypto, it can be done with fiat, it has proven it works, there is no reason for it not to work in Venezuela.

What it doesn't work is praying to some magic bits that will do the whole thing for you.
Solid points, but Venezuala doesn't have a lot of fiat, they need fiat. They need to start trading oil with other countries, make imports and exports a little more convenient than what its normally defined as fuck all.

They should definitely stop backing their resources with the petro crypto, and rather focus on increasing the employment rate and reduce the inflation over there.

Bitcoin is not going to help here whatsoever, bitcoin was never meant to bring up unstable economies, it never was and it never will. They need to reform all their policies, get loans from the world bank, and spend a lot of money on helping business and individuals grow, because if that doesn't happen, the economy will collapse at any given time.

Honestly, I want them to try Libra and see if it would solve their problem.
You would be a maniac to think that a currency wherein which hardly anyone knows about will be able to upbring an economy that has been doomed for years now.
403  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Bitsane Pulls Exit Scam on: June 28, 2019, 10:29:12 PM
I have never heard of bitsane, like ever, and I am surprised the number of people that have used it and kept the amount of funds in it. Coindesk reported that a user allegedly lost 150,000$ on there.

See this is why I have been on a hunt for a decent decentralized exchange which kinda works like shapeshift, because that is so fucking better, but hey we can't get what we always want. :/
404  Other / Meta / Re: 1miau Merit source application on: June 27, 2019, 10:31:03 PM
Dude, your application is amaazzziiingg!! All the best, hope you become a good merit source dude, I mean clout farmer/underground DT cultist/ secret member of the GANG, I mean WHAAAAT?  Shocked

Hold up, are you contesting against Lauda who is also a cat? This should be interesting.  Roll Eyes
405  Economy / Exchanges / Re: What's up with Binance and US customers? on: June 27, 2019, 10:13:11 PM
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Hi there! We do apologize as KuCoin does not offer KYC for users in the USA as of the moment and there is no official statement yet whether it will be available soon. However, you may still continue to perform transactions on KuCoin even if the account isn't KYC verified. The only limitation for non-verified accounts is the limit of 2 BTC every 24 hours. Thank you!
The bolded part genuinely scares me, not gonna lie. Kucoin could block your account at any given time if your account is verified, and I definitely wouldn't want to be in that same place. I got my funds stuck in bittrex, so I know the pain and wouldn't suggest you do so.

Using a VPN might be a better option,albeit not the best. If it helps, read this article on exchanges that still allow US customers to trade: https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/united-states/
406  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Question about crypto exchange on: June 27, 2019, 09:16:28 PM
I also got a question about exchanges that I dont want to start a thread with: its about what are the difficult requirements that turns most projects down from listing, even for low volume exchanges,
Well, a lot of exchanges ask for a certain amount of money for them to list your coin in their exchange. Secondly,the exchanges do their background check of the projects, and check how legit they are, how useful they are, and their community etc.

This should pretty much summarize things: https://blog.goodaudience.com/how-to-list-your-cryptocurrency-on-exchange-b673215d3204


Did the requirement change in recent months makes it more difficult? Most big volume exchanges didn't add new coin this year and some successful ICO couldn't make their way into exchange even with the available money.
Well the norm has been somewhat the same, a couple exchanges did remove the requirement of not asking for fees to list a coin, but other than that the norm for getting coins listed on exchanges is still the same for most of the big league exchanges. Etherdelta lists every fucking ico,without the permission of anyone so there is that as well.

This is apparently the requirement for bittrex:

Submitting a request on Bittrex requires all of the following info:

– Your coin name: self-explanatory.

– Enhanced Verified Account: a team member or shareholder holding more than 10% of the company, must have their identity verified on Bittrex. As with Poloniex, this saves the team time vetting.

– Description of your coin: What makes your currency different than the hundreds of others floating around? The Bittrex website warns “If your ANN thread only has coin specs on it, you are not going to get listed on Bittrex.” Have a clear mission and pitch.

– Coin Trading symbol: a 3-5 letter ticker that will represent your coin forever. No numbers allowed.

– A coin logo: Must be submitted in PNG format with a transparent background. Bitcoin’s orange tilted B is ubiquitous worldwide. You should have a slick-looking logo.

-A launch date: if your coin will or already ran an ICO.

-Github link: Bittrex requires the source code for their due diligence. They will not accept binary.

Additional questions required are: the max money supply, other exchanges you’re listed on, the official blockchain explorer, the TxFee, the results of a premine (if there was one), how money was raised, and links to your company’s social media.

ETH tokens require a few additional notes. If you’re launching a token through Ethereum and had the code on your smart contract reviewed, Bittrex wants to see those results, as well as your smart contract address.
407  Economy / Economics / Re: New High... For Everything. Is there something unnoticed to the public? on: June 27, 2019, 03:31:38 PM
I'm not sure about the connection that you're making between S&P500 rising with BTC rising. This is a correlation that a lot of people like to cite, but I still haven't seen solid evidence for in terms of them moving in accordance to one another.

Some people attribute this to the potential Fed rate cuts, but I don't think that's the case either.

With BTC it's purely a cyclical thing, where the market has consolidated long enough within the bear market for bullish sentiment to be reinjected, and weak hands and panic dumpers to be washed out. I think that the political instability especially in Asia have at least contributed to the bull runs of both gold and BTC, because people are looking for a safe haven to park their assets.

In regards to the stock market though, I still think that there are companies that are extremely overvalued that will correct soon. This could just be short term noise.
Apparently, the recent price surge in bitcoin wasn't only related to bitcoin but rather the motive was to have a huge investment in all of the big major assets,thus bitcoin and SP500 being a few among the rest. Read this post by theymos:
I think that the market has long been dominated by the aftereffects of quantitative easing, and the current thing is just another ripple of that. There's simply a worldwide glut of money.

In QE, the Fed bought MBSes and treasuries, which basically amounted to printing $3 trillion and giving it to everyone who was holding those things; namely, banks and various investors (mostly institutional). For comparison, M3 money supply is currently $14.5 trillion. What do these groups do when they get tons of money? They're investors, so they reinvest it, especially in bonds/stocks, but also in things like BTC. They don't buy food or gadgets or whatever. IMO this is why stocks have been going up at an unnatural rate for a while even though the CPI doesn't grow out of control. Eventually the money makes its way out to ordinary shareholders, but shareholders also have a tendency to reinvest rather than spend, so the process of money escaping the investment universe is slow.

The Fed has been slowly unwinding QE, though they're talking about stopping that (after eating only about a quarter of what they printed). They also continue to print money in their open market operations.

I don't know how this will play out long-term. I suppose that the inflation in investment-asset prices will eventually have to leak into CPI, but it might be gradual enough to not cause a catastrophe. It might end up being a sort of loan, paid to investors, and paid by holders of dollars over the next several decades.


Anyways, the world economy is just gonna probably end up in a worse clusterfuck than we have ever seen,the more the money goes in investments, the more easier it gets for an economy to tremble into ashes. Global Supply and demand has become an outright joke right now. Mind you, if people don't pay attention towards strengthening the global economy, we would soon have an existential crisis.
408  Other / Meta / Re: 4 Pages of Bounty Mega Spam on: June 26, 2019, 11:23:31 PM
Let's say a user actually creates 10 different accounts and posts the same message in the same bounty thread, how'd one know if those accounts are linked? Assuming they have different throwaway telegram accounts.
So like Proof of Authentication works like, if a user applies via a google form, they also post in the thread with the same details so the manager can verify and authenticate the entry.

Proof of Authentication is used to verify whether or not a certain bitcointalk user applied for a campaign or not. So like, what some shitposters used to do is, use random bitcointalk user's names to get multiple entries in the bounties without the user's consent or knowledge, and made a shitload of money by that.

Correct me if I am wrong^.
409  Other / Meta / Re: [BAN ] Sr.Member tayfundeniz on: June 26, 2019, 10:15:27 PM
If you have an email address included in the ban message then you need to appeal by sending an email to that address. That's your only chance of getting unbanned as plagiarism is considered a very serious offense around here, and depending on the circumstances they rarely get lifted.
The dude claims no plagiarism but who knows except the mods on how and why his supposed friend was banned. Can you check? I went through the last 10 pages of his post history, and almost 99% of his posts are in the turkish board and a couple of posts for crappy-ass bounties. Maybe a turkish mod could help?
410  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Question about crypto exchange on: June 26, 2019, 09:47:09 PM
I also got a question about exchanges that I dont want to start a thread with: its about what are the difficult requirements that turns most projects down from listing, even for low volume exchanges,
Well, a lot of exchanges ask for a certain amount of money for them to list your coin in their exchange. Secondly,the exchanges do their background check of the projects, and check how legit they are, how useful they are, and their community etc.

This should pretty much summarize things: https://blog.goodaudience.com/how-to-list-your-cryptocurrency-on-exchange-b673215d3204

411  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Coinpayments - Service Restriction Notice on: June 26, 2019, 09:40:56 PM
They gave me 1hr for support ticket but no response yet.

Anyway, I think they don't allow me to sell in these countries so I decided to disable their WordPress plugin temporary and find another alternative.


Already checked them from google but I don't see any trusted alternative for coinpayments and it looks I need to stay accept bitcoin with coinbase payment gateway.

What I'm looking right now is a woocommerce plugin for WordPress that accepts bitcoin and most of the altcoins just like copayments but it looks like no alternative yet that accept most of the altcoins.
Did they ever reply back to your support ticket?

Is the Woocommerce plugin a permanent alternative to CoinPayments?

can't tell if you're serious or just joking...Did you read the list? Nepal, Zambia, Syria, Vanuatu, Eritrea, etc...tell me, what crypto history do these countries have? 99% of people in this planet don't even know where most of those countries are on a map.
Syria has 1000s of years history afaik, it's not a new country which popped up a few 100 years ago. Not sure about Nepal, Zambia about their history but Eritrea is definitely the new one which I knew right now and I think I heard Vanuatu before.  Smiley
Oh, so the Phoenicians were using bitcoin a thousand year before it was invented?  Grin
In terms of crypto usage those countries of an importance trending between 0 and zero.
My reply to tomahawk9 was about the bold part, I haven't said Syria is using crypto from 1000s of years ago I guess. Just don't invent false meanings of other's posts, it looks odd imo.
Tomahawk9 asked a question about crypto history (see the bolded part) because that's what we're discussing here, we're talking about crypto payments, not digging relics, you jumped on it, misses the crypto part and tried to teach us a history lesson no one wanted, I made a joke about it, nobody got hurt, get over it and keep moving Tongue

<insert care bear with hurt feelings here>
"Crypto History" it was another sentence. I picked the other sentence where he said what he said. So what's wrong with that?

I know what we are discussing here as I have created the thread to people know about Coinpayments restrictions, you don't have to tell me, I know the topic.
Am I the first one here in Bitcointalk who went a little bit off-topic in a specific topic and answered a different thing of a different phrase?

As an example, in my other posts, I have said what I said and that can also be found in Lucius post but you have picked my little off-topic to troll here and picked other's post to post your comment -- the reason?

If my post to tomahawk9 was off-topic and no one was interested then don't you think your joke was also an off-topic same as mine?
You also went off-topic same as I mate..., it's not a topic for joke post, serious discussion going on here. You just can't go a little bit off-topic.

>>>insert care bear with hurt feelings here<<<
Woof Woof, someone is salty. It is okay honey, i care about history, gimme your lessons.
412  Other / Meta / Re: Have a whole forum for the Satoshi topics on: June 25, 2019, 11:42:13 PM
Craig Wright should just log into his satoshi account and create a sub board for himself, but until he does that this isn't needed and almost certainly won't happen.

    Wouldn't theymos have to unlock the satoshi account, first, before that could possible happen? I guess that means there is no chance at all for this subboard.
If Craig Wright is indeed Satoshi, who created bitcoin,don't ya think it'd be fairly easy for him to get his account unlocked?


If it was Craig Wright, I wouldn't unlock it for him no matter what he proved.  Cheesy
Or maybe even if he does, the account could be set up in such way that any page he visits literally displays dick pics, and tiny ones....to describe him of course. I am pretty sure I read something somewhere saying that theymos blocked access to some scammer's account, and everytime they visited bitcointalk, they'd be redirected to some random black screen or something. Very delusional details, but I know I read it somewhere.

Also as a prank, the same could be applied to Roger Ver's account, wherein if he ever sees bitcointalk, the entire page just shows memes of how bitcoin cash is dead, and how bitcoin is the real bitcoin. Golly would that be an ebic gamer moment.
413  Other / Meta / Re: Have a whole forum for the Satoshi topics on: June 25, 2019, 10:24:12 PM
Craig Wright should just log into his satoshi account and create a sub board for himself, but until he does that this isn't needed and almost certainly won't happen.

    Wouldn't theymos have to unlock the satoshi account, first, before that could possible happen? I guess that means there is no chance at all for this subboard.
If Craig Wright is indeed Satoshi, who created bitcoin,don't ya think it'd be fairly easy for him to get his account unlocked?

It's within human nature to seek the unknown. Ever heard that the key to attraction is building mystery? This is part of the reason why people, and media are obsessed. Although, I don't tend to follow much of the crypto news these days, and certainly almost always ignore these Satoshi findings I'm still intrigued by why Satoshi disappeared. Although, personally I'd prefer it to remain as it is, I can definitely understand from a media point of view why they are always trying to bring out bogus stories. The good thing for us is it creates headlines for us, and generates exposure which I'm all for.
I think we could all agree that there is no real media source over here, just a awful load of shitposters minding their shitposting business. And most of those shitposters don't even know who satoshi, they probably think he's the dude who created etherium :/
414  Economy / Economics / Re: Hong kong and China war can lead to possible Bitcoin popularity on: June 25, 2019, 09:23:35 PM
If it looks like a mandarin duck, it quacks in chinese, and it's going to end as a Peking duck then it's a Chinese duck.
How they think of themselves doesn't change much, Catalans do the same thing but everyone is labelling them as Spanish and no matter how they try to spin it, they are Spanish.

Anyhow, when China will decide that it can't tolerate this anymore it will simply move 5 million Chinese from Shenzhen across the border and suddenly Hong Kong will be full of real Chineses that are obedient to the government while the former will try the hospitality of northern Xinjiang and its reeducation camps.

As long as China is still on its path to a superpower they are fighting a losing battle.
You're not wrong here though. Regardless of the fact that 2 Million civilians marched against the new bill that was passed, the only option they have is to leave that god forsaken shithole of a place.

This was quite an interesting read: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/25/we-have-no-other-choice-as-china-erodes-democracy-hong-kong-citizens-prepare-to-leave

Imagine how bad the condition is, that the people are moving to Australia out of all places. This whole world needs a redo, desperately and immediately.
415  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Coinpayments - Service Restriction Notice on: June 21, 2019, 12:02:29 AM
It's time to switch to another payment gateway
Maybe switch to another one if the work is less, or you may add a new gateway which accepts all?
This is my big problem right now I can't seem to find any legit alternative for coinpayments that accept other altcoins.

Wordpress recommends Gourl as an alternative but there are many complaints that Gourl is scam.

Anyway, I'm waiting for coinpayments response and hoping that it's still allowed to sell service on these locations listed above.
What about this one: https://coingate.com/ but it kinda seems they are scammers(https://www.trustpilot.com/review/coingate.com,https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/avkb93/coingate_are_scammers/,https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4492476.0).

You might find this interesting: https://coinsutra.com/bitcoin-payment-gateways-merchants/
and this: https://www.devteam.space/blog/10-best-bitcoin-payment-gateways-for-2019/
416  Other / Meta / Re: I can't find my thread on: June 20, 2019, 11:44:26 PM
Well, one thing that I can say about the Beginners and Help section. It seems a lot more palatable to read than it was the last time I checked it. The last time I checked it is when people were demoted to newbie because they didn't have even 1 merit. It was filled with people basically begging for merit. I'm not certain if the reason it is actually worth reading now is because the mod(s) for that job have done a good job keeping it clean or if I just picked a wrong time to start reading it in the past.

Again...newbie or not a valid question was asked and deleted. This not a mistake it's an incompetent Mod.

Well, I think the mod that moved the topic to mining was trying to be helpful and move the topic to where the newbie could get expert answers. Unfortunately, the mining board has rules, and this thread broke one of them.

6. All virtual mining - such as cloud mining, purchasing hashrate etc. is a service and NOT bitcoin mining. Discussion regarding cloud mining, contracts, hosting services, renting hashrate etc. belong in the economic services subforum and not the mining subsection.


If this is truly the case,I don't see why is there a need to delete the thread instead of moving to the relevant section. Its not like moving a thread is much more modwork, then deleting one. The hate for the mods in the mining section is growing, they are strict, I get it, but for the wrong board.

Have them mod the bitcoin discussion board, or off-topic board and then see how the clusterfuck of spam posts goes down.
417  Other / Meta / Re: Proposal to Moderators on: June 20, 2019, 11:29:55 PM
Well, are there even enough hosting related threads in the sections you mentioned? I found 0 threads on the first page of all the aforementioned boards containing the word 'hosting' in it.

Mods cannot create boards and only admins can, and there isn't going to be any new child board, unless there is enough demand for it. If you really think there should be a board for hosting, make sure there is enough demand in the mining community.
418  Economy / Economics / Re: Hong kong and China war can lead to possible Bitcoin popularity on: June 20, 2019, 11:24:10 PM
We all know that China doesnt want to be involved on cryptocurrency for some reasons but after whats happening to China and Hong Kong, it seems like bitcoin would be the main option.

I don't think Bitcoin will be the main options, wealthy Chinese or Hong Kong citizens can still go to traditional assets like Gold.

We dont want to have this kind of war between people or countries. Even though it will be a good way of boosting bitcoin, i hope it will not end in that way and resolve the problem of both countries. Its still not safe there till now. Lets pray for the people's safety.

Here's the full article
https://bitcoinist.com/hong-kong-protest-china-bitcoin-assets-offshore/

Don't exaggerate things, there will be no war between the two, remember they still shared the same President and that is the current President of China.  Grin. But what I admire about Hong Kong residents is that they march in the street because they know the future of their country is at stake. But as to the net effect on crypto? I'm still divided though, maybe some of them has shifted their wealth to Bitcoin but for sure majority is still undecided because they know that this will settle down.
The people are marching and revolting because of China's big dick fuckery. The Chinese laws and their bill will fuck up entirety of Hong Kong, as if their cost of living already doesn't. Bitcoin's price won't be affected by this for sure, hardly a few would even consider purchasing bitcoin, they have their lives at stake, everything they stand for is at stake rather. This issue is way bigger than what media portrays because Kylie Jenner just lost one strand of her hair OMFG.

There are no two nations, HK is an autonomous region with more than 90% of the population being Chinese.
Apparently not: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48607723

419  Economy / Economics / Re: Issuing loans in Bitcoin, how we could do it on: June 20, 2019, 10:31:07 PM
I started to think about it. How a bank and folks could issue loans to people?

Currently, when you need to borrow money, your banker just edits your balance account and create money magically. You then pay back monthly.
Banks won't be able to do that with Bitcoin with its limited supply. You can't print bitcoins.

But now, between folks. Let's say I'm the banker and you're the customer looking to borrow money to buy a house. I can lend you the money but how to be sure you will pay me back with full interests? With banks, the solution is easy, the bank seizes the house and you can't do something. But the average Joe hasn't the same 'power' than a bank to collect a debt.
Well in theory, banks just play with people's deposits, one person's deposit is another person's loan. Btw, commercial banks cannot print money, only central banks/Federal reserves can.
When an average Joe wants to lend bitcoins, he can sure lend, but it all comes down to how he wants to lend his money, the terms he lays down etc etc

What people usually would tend to do is get the borrower's personal details, verify it and then lend money. Also all borrow requests aren't fulfilled by the bank, so an average Joe isn't obligated to accept all his requests.
420  Economy / Economics / Re: Repeating of all time high has begun on: June 19, 2019, 11:07:45 PM
As we see bitcoin wins over all things, we recovered from 3K price, went up to 5K 6K and now we finally hit 9K and this last number is near to 10 which is a psychological factor too. We are very near to 10K and I believe we will reach this price in following days which will automatically boost positive feelings among bitcoin and crypto community. This is were further rise gets start. Well, maybe I am super positive but I think current market actions will return all time high pretty soon. Imagine, positive feelings, possibility of profitable mining, possibility of increasing profit and a lot, this all united in one can return old all time high price.
I think this time has come again.
I haven't read up on any main reasons for bitcoin to rise up out of the blue, any big changes or something??

Still stoked to see what the price will be by the end of the year,the next six months gonna be a tough ride for sure!

Yo does anyone remember the bet McAfee came up with, he'll eat his dick if bitcoin isn't valued at a million dollar a piece?
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