Also what's with all these fake breakthroughs?
Money. 1) Put up bogus fact videos on youtube videos, get clicks get money. 2) Put up bogus fact websites and get clicks get ad money. 3) Get people to pay you for this magic things and get money. And so on.... -Dave |
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Thank you I was thinking about the Master Card  It is the VISA that you have used outside the United States ? Neither card bitrefill sells is *supposed* to work out of the US. With that being said there has been some discussion on reddit that they do work in limited instances in other countries, but I have not been able to get them to work. A few months ago when I got some and gave them to other forum members to test they did not work for them. -Dave |
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Don't know if you saw my comment in the now locked thread:
Cool that you are doing this.
BUT, any reason you are not doing it on Testnet?
There might be some people who would point to your pool to figure things out but would want verification.
Doing it on mainnet is going to mean the odds of a block being found by people just figuring things out is just about 0.
-Dave
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Cool that you are doing this.
BUT, any reason you are not doing it on Testnet?
There might be some people who would point to your pool to figure things out but would want verification.
Doing it on mainnet is going to mean the odds of a block being found by people just figuring things out is just about 0.
-Dave
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It's from a company called perfectgift.com The card number itself is issued through Sutton Bank.  It's also good since if there are more options that are out there, services like Bitrefill & Coinsbee & others will be forced to keep their prices reasonable and perhaps come up with better options for cards. -Dave |
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At the moment Bitrefill has 5% BTC back on prepaid virtual visa cards. US only. There is a 1% fee to buy the card so I don't know why they just didn't get rid of that on give 4% back but nobody asked me :-) https://www.bitrefill.com/us/en/gift-cards/virtual-prepaid-visa-usa/Did some testing, like their prepaid MasterCard: If you try to buy it with an IP out of the US or with a known VPN IP it will fail. If you try to activate it with an IP out of the US or with a known VPN IP it will fail. Once you get past that it does seem to work wherever I tested it. It is better then nothing, but still not great. -Dave |
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Did you look at https://payscrypt.com/ ? Without knowing what coins you want / need it's tough. You also did not mention if you were converting to fiat. Having that makes non KYC very difficult. -Dave |
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also dont forget these two details
1. many bitcoiners lobbied to get governments to recognise bitcoin as a currency.. opening the door to currency regulations
(2009-2013 bitcoin was defined as private property. 2014-now its currency)
2. regulations actually require businesses to watch/monitor mixer users that deposit with them, more so than other random people transacting on the blockchain. so using a mixer doesnt offer better privacy, it puts you on a watchlist due to using a mixer.
the solution, if regulators require businesses to monitor mixer users..
a. stop using mixers
b. invent a new service that does not even mention privacy/cleaning, mixing.. and is more creative with how it takes in deposits and withdraws .. cough cough satoshi-dice cough cough
1) Still depends on where you are in the world. A blanket 2014 date is not accurate, even now there are still places that see BTC as property. 2) A lot of places still don't really care about mixers, they just monitor sanctioned addresses, no sanction no problem. The question is how far back do they look. 2a) Yes. 2b) Don't think that matters if once again people / services pay attention to sanction lists. -Dave |
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and to all a trezor.io is cheap
put your coins in it
or any other good hard wallet.
That is still and IF and only IF you know 100% that you will always be using that same device / recovery phrase. You (not you you the generic you) decide for whatever reason to stop using the trezor and go to a different device and start fresh. A couple of years later you do an exchange on some exchange you have been using for years. In -> exchange -> out quick and done. But on the out you used an old saved address by mistake. It happens, we are human, we make mistakes. And instead of the new address from the new device you sent it to the old address from the old device. Do you still have access to it? Does it still work? If not did you keep the seed? And so on. Or something like the issue that happened in to the user in the link in the OP and so on. It takes no time to enter a new address. And it's better for privacy. But, for some reason people keep saving old addresses places and then bad things happen. -Dave |
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Stop Saving Your Bitcoin (and other crypto) Addresses In Exchanges And Wallets Period. Full Stop. End Of Line. Wallets are lost. Other exchanges you may have sent to in the past have closed or changed receiving addresses. And again we see something like this happen. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5476264Not your keys not your coins. And not an address you have access to not your coins. With more and more exchanges shutting down and the constant hacks against them using saved addresses is just going to cause loss of access to coins more and more. And if you sent to your own wallet, don't save the address. Address reuse is bad for privacy anyway but beyond that if you loose access to that wallet for whatever reason do you even want the possibility that you can sent to it by mistake at some later time? The coins you save may be your own. -Dave |
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It could prove to be expensive and not really worth it if you are going to give most of the money to the law firm to handle your case. I would again advice you to contact the Finish Financial Authority and see what they have to say. It's a serious country and regulator; we aren't talking about Curacao or the Seychelles Islands. Check with them, and you can always go back to discussing the matter with a law firm if they can't do anything. If you don't want to contact the Finish Financial Authority as Pmalek suggested, I would use a law firm in Finland where LBC is based. They are going to know that countries laws much better then a foreign firm. Your location may matter a bit too, depending on the relationship your countries financial regulators have with the Finish ones. Your local version of the regulators *may* have a better way of contacting the Finish ones or at least a more direct route. -Dave |
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You can withdraw what was there before the 16-Feb-2023 closing date.
Without knowing how their back end worked the support staff that is left might not even have access to the wallets.
BUT, you can try to keep after them. The worst they can do is keep saying no. There might be someone left who can get to the BTC
It also does depend on the amount. If you are talking about 1BTC they might be more inclined to do something vs BTC0.0025
-Dave
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Need more info, there really is no one size fits all answer. Kind of like 'I need a car' Do you need a small city car? Or a full sized on to take 4 kids to school and other places? Large pickup truck to go to work sites? Something cheap and almost dead just to drive a couple of miles at most to and from a train station. Take a look here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5444578.0-Dave |
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@jstefanop how 'off the shelf' are the fans?
From the USB sticks you used to sell and the LTC Apollo and the BTC Apollo I have wound up replacing just about every fan over the years.
Probably just bad luck on my end, I don't think the office is THAT dusty, but are the fan(s) in these user replaceable and easily sourceable?
-Dave
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Patrol is a filter for newbie accounts. You can customize it to have bounty posts and no-bounty posts. With no-bounty posts, you can continue customizing it to a specific board. Hidden pages/ features on the forumhttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;boards=1;patrol
boards=1 for Bitcoin discussion. Honestly I did not quite understand your issue well but my answer is from my guess about your issue. Please ignore it if it is helpless for you.  What I was asking is more or less, is there anything else not shown then what is described with the link you posted. In my mind with the URL I am using it should give me all of the latest newbie posts outside of bounty. BUT I did not see a post form a newbie that was non bounty posted a couple of minutes before I went to that link. I could see if I went to the thread itself. So I was wondering if there is any other filtering going on. Not important, just wondering if I was missing something. -Dave |
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- Hey, how can I gain privacy in Bitcoin?
- Use mixers!
- Cool, which one?
- WTF, you want to get banned sir?
What about? -To gain privacy of your UTXOs use the Mix function SomeRandom wallet (Non-custodial wallet)? what if you just point to those functions in our recomendations? That worth a ban? Wallet discussion is expressly not banned. Examples of things that are not banned mixers include exchangers (unless they have a mixing function), CoinJoin-supporting non-custodial wallets, and Monero.
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So when I use https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;patrol;nobounty what exactly am I getting? I always *assumed* it was everything new except for bounty but I can see that there are some other posts that I am not seeing. Is there a list of what you get and what you do not? Been using that link for a while and just now noticed that things that I can see by going to directly have new posts but are not showing. Did a google search and didn't come up with anything. -Dave |
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