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4021  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Why not integrate Tor into Electrum by default? on: June 26, 2020, 06:13:15 PM
Meanwhile a court could demand you reveal what you've been using tor for or conclude that your use of tor might be of a fraudulent nature. You're still giving your ip to someone using tor, even if the rest of your data is encrypted they still know you're making a connection. Do you trust a random person more tha a certain trusted electrum node operator.

You can run your own personal server if you want a higher protection than tor will provide...
4022  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: asking btc hash $bitcoin$98$ on: June 26, 2020, 02:28:35 PM
What sort of hash are you asking for, what's the specific context?

I'm assuming you're talking more about the identifier/separator, but what's the context is it a whole wallet or specific key you're trying to find?

I've seen wallet recovert services use $bitcoin$ for the identifier and a : as a separator (normally when a password needs brute forcing for recovery for example).
4023  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Which coins are bad to invest in on: June 26, 2020, 03:25:06 AM
If there is a hidden gem out there, odds are you won't find it until it has already skyrocketed upwards. That's just simply a testament to the sheer number of shitcoins that clog the pipes of crypto ticker sites.

Yeah this is quite true, any good coin could just keep falling if it's hidden in a bunch of thorns, unless you have a lot of funds to try to market it.



I'd also suggest avoiding icos unless they have a functioning testnet chain and released software for it.

It depends on the people because today most of the developer making different coins and hoping it will make a good outcome after a few weeks, months and years the result will show immediately it this is a successful thing or not. If many people support the coin there is a potential it will continuously become popular if not it will dump immediately, at the start of the bitcoin-only a few people appreciate the use of it but by the time goes by it becomes popular because of the market profit give to the investor.

Yeah bitcoin was also cheap at the start because things like a 51% attack were much easier to pull off and as a coin ages its precieved security also improves, I think bitcoins blockchain hasn't been hacked in it's history and non smart ethereum funds have not been compromised either (there was a smart contract/multisig hack a while ago).
4024  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin's name and Logo Registered in Spain. on: June 26, 2020, 03:15:02 AM


Surprisingly it can still be used to scam people. With trademarks you can protect the brand, logo, name but you can't avoid consequences of process that will affect it. So what if that guy registered it, it's just good for his office's authentication but not what he would do inside. I am not saying it's not helpful or best thing to do but it's pointless to say its gonna make the trades more secure. There is always breach in any organisation no matter how small or big brand it is.

Yeah there are so many reason this patent might not be enforcible (one main one being that the scammers could just be prosecuted against advertising laws). Another being that you can't enforce a trademark of a functioning name, if I tried to trademark an untrademarked name they'd still be able to use their name and probably take me to court for claiming their property was mine - however this will probably result in a fine to their representation.

The EU patent looks a lot like it might just be advertising the company that registered it rather than something enforceable imo.
4025  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Is this right on: June 26, 2020, 02:12:43 AM
Yeah it's perfectly fine and recommended to do stuff like this.
Preferably the user should point to parts of the text that are relevant to them/the topic but it doesn't violate anything imo.
Okay. Thank you, I just want to be sure, I am still not stale on this forum and this is so new to me. That means we can copy and paste articles from another site but we should include the source link.

Yeah like I said, preferably try to paraphrase the text or highlight the important stuff. You can also use [ quote] tags to differentiate yours and the source's post. Generally if you're picking important stuff eclipses '...' are very commonly used to remove the non usable stuff or ~snip~ also gets used a lot here...

4026  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Is this right on: June 26, 2020, 01:29:13 AM
Yeah it's perfectly fine and recommended to do stuff like this.
Preferably the user should point to parts of the text that are relevant to them/the topic but it doesn't violate anything imo.

It's a social media post too and posts to social media normally immediately enter the public domain...
4027  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin's name and Logo Registered in Spain. on: June 26, 2020, 12:16:17 AM
Is there not already an EU wide patent? https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/4/EU010103646 (apparently registered in Germany in 2011)...

I mean it's a step but I don't know if it'll stop people relating scams to the name...

If I remember the patent legislation correctly,a registered patent in one EU country doesn't mean that the patent is approved automatically in all EU countries.There's an approval process in every country.
Off course this won't stop people to continue creating Bitcoin scams and I doubt that it will stop the altcoins BCH/BSV and all the other forked "Bitcoins".
That guy will have to sue all the people,who are using the name "Bitcoin" in Spain without his permission,but court trials are very expensive and very slow,so the effect of this patent is questionable.
If a patent is registered with the regional patent office, then its validity applies only to the party in which it is registered. But if the copyright holder registered the patent with an international organization, which includes countries from a certain list, then the patent can be international in nature. In addition, there are certain international organizations that control this process and protect property rights, such as the World Intellectual Property Organization. In addition, a patent can be protected in many countries even thanks to the existence of the World Patent Cooperation Treaty. Although in this case, regarding obtaining a patent for Bitcoin in Spain, you need to study the information more carefully, in order to understand what to expect from the owner of the property right. But in my opinion this in any case will not lead to good.

https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/trade-marks
Yeah it's protected throughout the entire EU.

The same information on the trademark can also be found here https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/010103646
4028  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Which coins are bad to invest in on: June 26, 2020, 12:01:38 AM
You could take a look at the devs and wider community and see how they appear. I generally don't invest in anything with. A market cap lower than doge unless it has a good team...

If the team seem fairly confident and have programmed the project well (e.g not just used almost identical code to bitcoin and added little on top) then I'd say the coin might be worth an investment if it can fill a gap in the market too or do something more efficiently price wise than another coin.
4029  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How to recognize a scam on: June 25, 2020, 11:43:30 PM
1. Do some research, put a name into a search engine. No rep is bad rep, bad rep is bad rep and good rep from a trustworthy source (like different levels of users here) with little bad trust may mean the company is less likely to scam.
2. Check if the Ann thread is locked or self moderated and the thread you're on if they're different. People shouldn't make a self mod thread for this sort of thing and you could tell them about the rep they'll build for themselves by doing this....
3. If it sounds too good to be true and they can't gain much then it normally is...
4030  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin's name and Logo Registered in Spain. on: June 25, 2020, 03:40:40 AM
This makes me ask myself, should bitcoin be patented on each country? or if it was already patented in another country then is nonsense to do it?

This looks like a nice step, but if it was already registered in Germany maybe it was just a waste of time.

Exactly, and this get me thinking, should I patented it myself here in my country? LOL.

I'm not sure but the person who registered and patented it may have some 'narrative' behind. At this point, we can't really tell, but I'm a bit skeptic and suspicious, to be honest.
I am sorry but can someone explain the reason for patent because I apparently do not get the point why they are patenting the logo and name, wouldn't patenting it meant they will get royalty when someone uses the name and logo? I have that question because I think that is how patent works and I find it odd that they do that just to recognize the cryptocurrency when there are things that they could've done, I am not against it, I am generally just confused, enlighten a brother here, thanks a lot.

It's a registered trademark they're going on about. A patent on it would be patenting the wholensoftware which would be counterproductive and unenforceable anyway.

Whether a trademark can or will be enforceable on the bitcoin name is something I'd also consider unlikely since it wasn't taken out by the person who came up with the coin (I assume but European courts would accept a bitcoin signature of a Satoshi private key to be valid). Essentially a trademark protects the name and logo from being misrepresented so no one could use bitcoins name to market something else unrelated (a bank couldn't sell flashy stickers with the bitcoin logo on claiming they're a bitcoin - a poor example but it's hard to explain).
4031  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Blockchain wallet shows innsufficient funds when trynig to send btc on: June 25, 2020, 03:11:42 AM
I can't tell it looks like you have enough to be able to send. How long ago did you receive the funds? Perhaps try again in an hour or so and see if it works again.

Or check what unit that 0.0199 is in (screenshot your balance or recent input transaction?)
4032  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Appimage parameters to connect to our node on: June 25, 2020, 02:34:03 AM
Do you have access to your tor node, can you try running netstat - rn to check the port's open (the one you're trying to make the first hop to).

You could also try proxying to 9150 instead of 9050 (port wise) mine switched - probably due to another process or that port being closed - but as a 2 second task it might be worth a try...
4033  Economy / Economics / Re: The Fed caused 93% of the entire stock market's move since 2008 on: June 24, 2020, 11:43:36 PM
I think a 200 billion market cap for bitcoin is too small to be manipulated by large banks, some banks have been reported to use other currencies though from what I've read though so those could be inflated but may be helpful to banks if they are...

If one thing inflates, everything else will. House prices have quadrupled in the UK since the 90s (and slumped since brexit). Most other markets that aren't in the US (stock markets) seem to have been slowing since 2015 at their peak (don't know how much political tensions in Europe impacted that though)..

If the quantitive easing has had that much of an affect then the repercussions of it could be felt for a while but may just mean there's a higher rate of observed inflation but the affects may have already been dealt with... If countries stop using the dollar though and it gets replaced by a currency like the euro or an international one then this will probably make the impact of the 93% printing be felt.
4034  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin options worth $ 930 million will expire next Friday. on: June 24, 2020, 08:46:39 PM
I don't think expiring options really does much. But 26th sounds familiar, I'm sure bitmex is around that time too (but I think theirs expire in September or August)...? If most exchanges expire on the same date then this could cause issues imo.

I saw a thread here yesterday with someone reporting low overall volume and both of these coinsiding could be an interesting event to see...

CME really shouldn't just dump much of this on the bitcoin market and I'm assuming their futures follow an average price of bitcoin too... They'll probably just be getting adsorbed into new contracts opened from now.
4035  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Recovery private keys behind „ckeyA“=“hex: 63 6B 65 79 41“ on: June 24, 2020, 08:37:50 PM
https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet

Jackjacks pywallet code is available here (not me just in case of confusion considering the names) you should be able to extend the recovery code from here if you need to. If you're used to. Programming the git shell is really simple to learn if you're not familiar, github will even give you the clone command to get it in your machine (or you can click to download an archive).

4036  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: 1xbit account locked after tried to withdraw about 4 BTC on: June 24, 2020, 07:11:21 PM
Check the Google search results. There are plenty of accusations against them. From what I've read, it might help to stay persistent. Don't give up on your money.

It is a shame that persistence is becoming the key to success more and more when dealing with company support, I've successfully done it myself against an exchange in the past and it worked but it's quite annoying...
4037  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: 1xbit account locked after tried to withdraw about 4 BTC on: June 24, 2020, 05:20:46 PM
I think they're a known scam, I'd just email their support again though and see if they'll respond if they responded the first time... I'm not sure the trend in how they scam or how it works but I think they've done similar to a lot of people...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5179175.0 post 3 here is an example...
4038  Economy / Digital goods / Re: What's the going rate for buying Netflix gcs on: June 24, 2020, 04:57:32 PM
Yeah I expected as much, I'll have to see if a reputable member lists stuff like this in the marketplace here or elsewhere but ima leave my search open as I can save something if someone does need to exchange a card for cash.
4039  Economy / Economics / Re: Rise in US unemployment. Thoughts? on: June 24, 2020, 03:56:18 PM


How the hell are those counted because till now I've seen numbers from 66k to 300k with a lot of values in the interval.
I've finally got to an official statement and this says:

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/reports-studies/Characteristics_of_Specialty_Occupation_Workers_H-1B_Fiscal_Year_2019.pdf
Quote
The number of H-1B petitions approved increased 16.9 percent from 332,358 in FY 2018 to 388,403 in FY 2019.
more than all the papers are saying.
Seems India is going to be hit the hardest, they seem to have 80% of all the applications.

They would have been good choices in the past, EU companies are also cutting jobs, I doubt there will be an extra 30-300k whatever the number is of new jobs available to absorb this offer, it might actually bring paychecks down, nobody will pay you a lot more when they have 10 people waiting in line for your job demanding half.



I do wonder how much information governments keep on visas they issue, they might just have a number or information somewhere in case they need it although I imagine this is another thing the US government inherited from the UK - an irrational fear of any data or files being kept...

And yeah but a wage reduction of specialist roles may allow more people to fill it and different ways for them to be entered... If I high demand springs up somewhere you could train up a bunch of apprentices to work on the job rsther than hiring expensive graduates (which might become a problem for people who get told they need to be a graduate to get a job a few years ago)...
4040  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin's name and Logo Registered in Spain. on: June 24, 2020, 03:49:45 PM
The EU considers bitcoin money as a whole, is the dollar sign not protected? Can you not claim a piece of paper is a dollar without problem (just curious)...

Legal protection and regulations of the use of the dollar symbol ($) must vary from one country to another. We have to note that there are at least 20 countries all over the world using the dollar as their nation's official currency.

However, I am pretty much certain that if you use it as a shirt, mug, book, cap design which is not in any way offensive or degrading to it, or use it in a store name such as "Convenience $tore" or "Save a Dollar Store," you won't be having any problem at all. Neither would you even need to ask for permission for its use.

But if you claim a piece of paper other than the one officially issued and sanctioned by the government as a dollar and for some reasons I cannot imagine it gained some monetary value, then you could probably be sued for fraud or even counterfeiting. 

Anyway, this man referring to "Bitcoin" and the Bitcoin logo as "my brand" makes me cringe. 




Yeah this is the difference between what intellectual. Property protects and what it doesn't. Afaik if you set up a private Disney, Cadbury... store and confirmed everything you sold was genuine from them, they won't have any power in closing you if you use their name in the store or on products for example (as long as it isn't identical to their name and logo)..

In the context of writing a review or mentioning an IP protected item is also considered acceptable use.

The line of legal and illegal is very thin and sometimes may end up getting twisted by representation of one side (especially if juried which I think you can request in Europe).

Has he actually registered the patent based on the article, I wouldn't have thought they'd grant it since in my post on this threat (at #2) I found a patent registered in 2011 and approved in 2012 that already existed in the EU.
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