He's not going to be so shy and retiring now that he knows he has a fan club!  |
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Surprising. Had these floods happened 30 years ago, then the damages would have been understandable. But how something like this can happen in the 21st century? The technology has advanced so much, and still the French authorities were not able to predict the impending floods and take the necessary mitigation measures?
What has technology got to do with the climate? the 21st century has seen far more violent swings in climate than the 20th century - lots of rain coming down in a short time, alternating with drought. Nothing technology can do about excessive rain... |
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I'm truly amazed he got the job of President of the Commission - what were they thinking?
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...Is that what's happening right now? The classic age-old investing advice? Everyone's buying like crazy on the "rumour" in preparation for a big dump on the news? It would have to be a pretty big dump to counter-act the sudden mining supply halving, but whatever, sentiment can be pretty strong in either direction. If you are in profit, then it makes sense to realise some of it. That way you won't feel bad if it tanks. If you bought in at $200, then sell half, and at least you will have got your initial capital back, and the rest is just a fun gamble! I think it was the Rockerfellers who said "No one ever got poor by taking profits". |
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I think scrypt miners have switched to mining Ether, and that's the reason for the drop... Once Ether goes POS, the scrypt miners will return to LTC
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Well spotted. The takeaway from this is that any exchange anywhere around the world, is regulated by CFTC if they have American customers... |
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http://www.coindesk.com/cftc-bitcoin-exchange-bitfinex-trading-violations/Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange Bitfinex has settled with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) following an investigation into its financed trading activities.
Bitfinex settled charges that it offered illegal off-exchange financed retail commodities trading, as well as failed to register as a futures commission merchant. Bitfinex did not admit or deny the CFTC findings, the agency said today.
According to an order published today by the CFTC, the issues arose owing to how Bitfinex held functional control over funds tied to leveraged or margin trading on the platform. The CFTC said that because no actual commodities were delivered by Bitfinex to its customers – the private keys tied to the applicable bitcoins remained under the exchange’s control – it was in violation of the Commodity Exchange Act.
Bitfinex will pay $75,000 in civil penalties, according to the order, and has moved to change its internal policies and avoid further violations of the Commodity Exchange Act.
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One option is to open an account with either Xapo or Coinbase as both issue pre-paid cards, so you can transfer your coin to the cards and spend.
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i dont understand how that is possible to tackle this issue. they could block certain words for sure, other than that i dont think so they could monitor everything  lets see how they are going to tackle this thing without any issue. since its a fine balance between freedom of speech You'd be amazed how good the software is at telling what a tweet is about. Look how well email providers detect spam and drop it in your spam folder - they simply need to employ similar algos on hate speech, to get the same result. |
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A small group, maybe 10% make genuine profits with genuine skill. The other 90% lose, and they lose money to the 10%. Trading is a zero sum game, it's not possible for everyone to be a winner.
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Create your own ads in-house and feed custom images and jump links hosted on the sites you run for your visitors.
Yup. This will be the solution - instead of using intermediary advertising networks that are easily blocked, just create your own ads. The development of ad-blockers will just remove the middlemen. |
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https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-payments-enabled-indonesian-e-marketplace/Users of KinjeraPay Corp., an Indonesian e-commerce platform will now be able to settle transactions on the marketplace with bitcoin.
In an announcement today, the Indonesian marketplace revealed a partnership with Bitcoin Indonesia, a digital currency exchange that enables buying and selling bitcoin with the local fiat currency – the Indonesian Rupiah.
With the newly enabled feature, users will be able to pay for utility bills, make money transfers and buy products sold on the platform, with bitcoin.
The move to enable bitcoin payments underlines the potential of bringing in the user-base of a growing community to transact and pay for normal bills with the cryptocurrency, for the first time in the country.
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You need to let your inputs age, and if they are small inputs, even if they are years old, they will still require a high fee. It's part of the anti-spam feature of bitcoin (to discourage small inputs) - bitcoin isn't really designed for microtransactions no matter what people claim.
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Make sure the coin you are investing in is on more than one exchange. It is a danger sign if it is just on one exchange - that usually means that volume isn't high enough for the others to add it. And if the only exchange it is on is bittrex, then panic a bit more as the trex is notorious for delisting coins the minute the volume drops. At which point you will be the proud owner of coins listed nowhere.
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The same thing happened with me but luckily i got saved as i only used to mine some altcoins like bytecoins and pretty much more and their value is less than 100 satoshis.  .. As you said in the main OP i also received a successfull login email from poloniex with Ip address from Russia. I will be providing more details with screenshot soon. Though I am secured now as i have enabled 2FA thats remind me when i got bruteforced by someone in my poloniex account,a mail which contain a confirmation link always popping up in my email until i changed my password, i wonder where he got my email from but gratefully i have different password for every site If you used that email address on MtGox, Mintpal, Cryptsy or bitcointalk, then it is on a list somewhere being traded. Your only protection is making your passwords completely different and 16 characters long. |
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That's what I assumed how it works. The model business is that hey offered a way to exchange coins without having to deposit them, which would make the risk of getting your coins stolen impossible. The profit they would make, is from the fees of the transaction. Now, what I assume that was stolen, is this amount of fee money they made (their money) and not anyone's elses money. In case im wrong then someone please explain it better.
You are correct - it was their profits from fees that were stolen. Props to Voorhees for sharing the detail of the story - that way other exchanges can improve security - such as getting an external security expert to audit weaknesses and sweep the servers for trojans such as the one "Bob" placed in the Shapeshift set up. ,if they'd hire a person with fake data, all their effort will end up losing ton of money again,even with all of possibilites from being hacked because "none of securities are perfect" This. What brought down Mintpal is that the owners decided to hire someone (Moolah) who appeared to be a trustworthy person, but as soon as he was put in charge of managing the site, he looted it. |
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I'm starting to believe that despite the delays in transactions confirming, the blocksize thing will never get resolved. Because it's now about people's egos and not losing face.
Move your money using an alt, there isn't really any other option unless you want your hair to go grey with frustration.
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I am sure this must have been asked many times but please help me understand. what will happen if one billion people were to use Bitcoin as their currency of choice, will the infrastructure be able to handle the traffic and will the transaction speed become extremely slow?
The infrastructure as it stands won't be able to handle it. But people will just use alts to move money instead (because now most exchanges feature Ether and LTC). |
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They'll probably do this using an algorithm that searches for "trigger" terms. Which will result in people substituting/inventing other words and just carrying on...
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I agree, this whole halving hype will leave so many in the community burned...
We might see a crash never seen before and even stagnation of the entire network.
Sad it has come to this.
I've seen every of your post since April. Please stop to create panic into the community. The problem is that those of us who saw the massive pump of early 2014 saw people getting burned as the community egged each other to buy at the top and tried to silence anyone who offered any warnings. As though silencing opinion affects the price (it didn't, it just meant that noobs got fleeced). Be careful people. Normal adoption doesn't see prices just by 25% in a month, it would be more like 1% a month. The way pumps work is that they lure people into thinking it is a one-way dead cert investment, and as the noobs buy at the top, the pumpers slowly sell to them at inflated prices. No-one ever got poor by taking profits. Each person needs to assess their own bitcoin portfolio, because everyone will have bought at a different price. If you are in the black with some of your coins, sell a small portion so that if the price falls back you won't feel bad or disappointed. |
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