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We'll be liberated after our customary "Who sold at the bottom?" post.
The official appointed issuer of the above mentioned post can party wildly during New Year celebrations.
We are patient and can wait until January.
Chill out, guys, this is nothing.
Accumulate FFS.
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The way I see it, it's just someone playing the markets with skill and good execution. End of year, some cashing out, little liquidity around. Perfect timing. This might well be Masterluc's expected dip to 10k. Come 2018, I expect a significant retrace. End of January, I expect ATH-fest. February, we'll be in Carolina.
And the Ripple thingy - I like Torque's hunch. BTW Torque, it was in someone else's dream before you spelled it out plainly. Can't remember who the other poster was. Anyway, Ripple is a premined uncapped banking scam. We all know what it's ultimately worth. Wanna profit on it? Be quick and get out. Hold at your own risk.
C'mon guys, we've seen worse. I know I have, and some of you have been in the game longer than I. So stop whining and accumulate FFS!
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There is absolutely zero retail demand for "Ripple". No random joes off the street are opening Coinbase accounts to buy Ripple.
I see you can be right too at times. It's a good sign. Happy 2018! |
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Reading all these comments here again about Ripple, and again the conclusion is the same: this is the valley of the clueless. Clueless indeed. We didn't hear or read about the change of paradigm: burning of the premined coins and zero-knowledge induced decentralization (the technical details about this zero-knowledge thingy to decentralize ripple were a bit too complicated for me). Dimon also said it's perfectly ok and not a scam. We only missed it. Thanks for the heads up!  |
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Sorry for posting way off topic this morning, I was in panic mode. I know you guys are always on here, and I appreciate your help. Looks like I actually got my coins back now. (mind blown) I got on this morning to send a transaction, I was watching it on the blockchain, 2 hours later. A separate transaction appeared sending my remaining coins to unknown address. Which turns out, is one of my own hidden addresses. I know change can be sent back to hidden addresses, my understanding is it's always in the same Transaction ID though. This transaction shows on the blockchain with it's own ID but doesn't show in my wallet.
That's the first time I've ever seen a backdoor virus detected on this pc and I definitely did not turn defender off myself. Maybe that's just a coincidence and it was leading to draw the wrong conclusions. I dunno. I did a format and reinstall of windows 3 days ago because windows was reporting corrupt system files when trying to update. I've only installed programs I consider trustworthy since, so I'm really surprised to find a backdoor got on here. Anyway, think I'm going to take a nap when my blood pressure returns to normal.
Thank fuck for that. Get yourself a linux partition to start with. Also, you could keep the wallets cold ("watch-only" in Electrum). When you need to move something, sign your transaction on an offline machine, then broadcast them from a live (connected) wallet. But I guess you already know about that. |
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Sorry for posting way off topic this morning, I was in panic mode. I know you guys are always on here, and I appreciate your help. Looks like I actually got my coins back now. (mind blown) I got on this morning to send a transaction, I was watching it on the blockchain, 2 hours later. A separate transaction appeared sending my remaining coins to unknown address. Which turns out, is one of my own hidden addresses. I know change can be sent back to hidden addresses, my understanding is it's always in the same Transaction ID though. This transaction shows on the blockchain with it's own ID but doesn't show in my wallet.
That's the first time I've ever seen a backdoor virus detected on this pc and I definitely did not turn defender off myself. Maybe that's just a coincidence and it was leading to draw the wrong conclusions. I dunno. I did a format and reinstall of windows 3 days ago because windows was reporting corrupt system files when trying to update. I've only installed programs I consider trustworthy since, so I'm really surprised to find a backdoor got on here. Anyway, think I'm going to take a nap when my blood pressure returns to normal.
Wheeeew!!! Some celebration is in order, methinks. Pull out the good stuff!  |
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He got a confirm. 45k lost.  Sorry for you, man. It will happen again, several times over. Hope it's just a dent in your hold. We would really be interested if you could share some details on how you think the thief got to the keys. |
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Uh, hm, sorry about that, Jojo. I guess I got the quotation mixed up. Thanks, jojo69! (And thanks to AlcoHoDL for pointing that out.) |
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Ok, ok. I'm awake... And... Wrong about the price recovering by now. Good call torque.
It's not that Torque's paranoid. It's that they're out to get us! Nah, they're not out to get us. Because the idea of false flag events being perpetrated by the U.S. government against it's own people is absurd and nothing but conspiracy nonsense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoodshttps://crowdsondemand.com/Just like everything negative the MSM prints about Bitcoin is 100% accurate and true. Because they're trying to save you from yourself, can't you see? No one that has ever put money into Bitcoin has benefited from it, just look at the 8 year chart. In my family, only my SO knows about my bitcoin involvement (and knows no exact numbers - I talked about ~10% of the actual amount). So I have this very institutional, serious, conservative saver type brother. Intelligent, informed kind of guy, though not a follower of financial news if not in the broader sense. Just today, he mentioned BTC and said something like "They deserve it! 40% loss in one day!". He thought BTC is something new, a 2017 fad or something. I didn't argue that much, just replied "It began in 2009 actually, you know." This illustrates how the impact of partial, incomplete MSM coverage can influence the thoughts of even informed people. If my brother was more informed or understood the matter more deeply, he could be one formidable hodler. I hope to show him how wrong he was, one day when a big chunk of my stash goes to his children too. Keep on doing your thing, Torque! Your lucid paranoia is appreciated here. |
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Ok, ok. I'm awake... And... Wrong about the price recovering by now. Good call torque.
It's not that Torque's paranoid. It's that they're out to get us! |
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Pretty sure PR doesn't have internet in most areas after this hurricane. I think you can have PR residency and operate remotely from another location. |
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I think there is some fairly established procedure to sanitize Windows 10 into something resembling a loyal OS, but the sources are many and the devil is in the details.
1) stop windows update service (only reactivate when you install devices ... and desactivate after a reboot). 2) stop windows malware search. 3) done. point 1 is the same for Win8 actually ... when an update can WIPE OUT the PC at factory reset (many problems like this and Win10 follow the same route because of massive update for drivers ... incompatibles drivers from Windows Update !!!). Thanks, Meuh6879! So with a startup script to stop the update and malware search services we should be good. I think there was more to it though. The sites I visited (just for my own preventive information) after Win10 came out usually listed a dozen points. Maybe it had to do with Cortana and other data-hungry little daemons? |
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Buying and selling dash is not a taxable event for you? How is that?
Maybe because it's paid with/sold for BTC and not fiat? Maybe that's his point. Still look as a taxable event to me. Fiat has nothing to do with it. Yes, it is by the new rules  |
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I'm going to get a lot of flak for this, but Windows 10 isn't so bad.
Granted, I "modified" my OS so it doesn't auto update, and turned off all the suspect "malware / spyware". I confirmed it with network tools and wireshark and ethernet sniffers. Nothing in or out (not even encrypted unless I was using tor or a VPN).
Of course, I don't use IE. I just use Windows as the OS, everything else is an app ... firefox, bitcorns, gpg ... all free too. Got the license from school.
I'm still steering clear of Win 10 too, but finding good Win7 laptops (or desktop hardware with compatible drivers) is getting harder and harder. Do you have any pointers to good cleanup/securing routines? Thanks for the help! Edit: maybe the xvitaly thingy posted by NiceSoft12? Windows 10 1709 major update...auto downloaded and wiped my windows machine back to default (new computer id mode) and all apps came up as saying it was a NEW windows OS . also wiped out all my folder arrangments on main screen to default was a real pain.....so I do an update before moving ANY crypto on a wallet...could you imagine sending coin and then have your computer reset at that point on an auto update be cautious with this windows and your wallets boys and girls I know setting your main net connection to "metered" can stop the automatic loading and applying of updates if you set that option ("Don't update over metered connections", or something like that). I think there is some fairly established procedure to sanitize Windows 10 into something resembling a loyal OS, but the sources are many and the devil is in the details. That's why I asked Dabs, who seems to know quite a bit about this, to give us some pointers before we switch to the Dark Side (all Windoze users will have to, one gloomy day. Myself included, sigh sigh.) |
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I'm going to get a lot of flak for this, but Windows 10 isn't so bad.
Granted, I "modified" my OS so it doesn't auto update, and turned off all the suspect "malware / spyware". I confirmed it with network tools and wireshark and ethernet sniffers. Nothing in or out (not even encrypted unless I was using tor or a VPN).
Of course, I don't use IE. I just use Windows as the OS, everything else is an app ... firefox, bitcorns, gpg ... all free too. Got the license from school.
I'm still steering clear of Win 10 too, but finding good Win7 laptops (or desktop hardware with compatible drivers) is getting harder and harder. Do you have any pointers to good cleanup/securing routines? Thanks for the help! Edit: maybe the xvitaly thingy posted by NiceSoft12? |
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Buying and selling dash is not a taxable event for you? How is that?
Maybe because it's paid with/sold for BTC and not fiat? |
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Hey there,
I know that bitcoin is the most secure thing ever created and that duo to his low speed verification/transaction. If bitcoin turns to be very quick, hes going to lose from his security and then the possibility to be hacked.
But i have a question for bitcoin old big holders: When the bitcoin lightning fork gonna happend: are you going to hold the same amount of bitcoin and bitcoin lightning or more bitcoin lithting or sell all and buy more bitcoin?
The fact is: you can make transaction for less than 1 cent in 1 to 3 seconds max.
For me: i gonna use bitcoin for most of my money saving as it is the most secure thing on planet for now, and hold some bitcoin lightning for small transactions. Also can use it for big transaction if i need the transaction to happend in a second.
So, what is your view/Strategy on it?
There's no such thing as bitcoin lightning. It's just plain old (true) Bitcoin. You can choose to lock some of it in one or more lightning channels until they are closed, that's all. |
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Just bought @ 14700ish. Let’s see if I regret this.
Edit: yup went too early. Lesson learned.
Same. The first (higher) of my conservative orders. Got one more a couple of hundreds lower, but ATM it's getting buried in the orderbook. |
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This sideways movement has low volume, but for now there's good support/buy pressure. It feels like a very controlled series of swings. I placed a couple of conservative buy orders just under the recent lows. That was yesterday and none of them has been filled yet - even partially. Ready to BTFD if a significant dip indeed comes.
EDIT: I talked too early. It's going down fast, but it's still above my buy orders.
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