As stated in the title, I have 0.032BTC and need PayPal funds at preev 1:1.  I can sell less than the full amount if you don't need that much.

I will not send first unless you have significant green trust or if I've done business with you before.

This will be a neutral feedback transaction.

Send me a PM if you're willing to help me out, as I might miss seeing this thread if you post here.

Local rule:  Please do not post here unless you're interested in doing this deal.  PayPal is very risky because of the chance of chargebacks, but I have never done this and won't ever.  Also, I won't deal with anyone under Full Member unless they're willing to send first.

Edit:  I don't have to sell the whole amount at once.  If you're interested in a smaller amount, just let me know.

Edit2:  Deal done with Legion13.  Locking thread now.

Well, that makes about three of us in this thread who've never heard of Cashaa, and as to the second part of your statement, I fully agree.  Not only that, but it sounds like a bizarre business practice and Cashaa doesn't seem like they knew what the hell they were doing.

And if I'm interpreting this quote correctly:


This Kumar guy is blaming other exchanges for accepting coins that were stolen and thus they should be shut down.  I have huge issues with that reasoning, mainly because a hacker can get dirty coins onto an exchange before the hack is even made public, and thus the second exchange would have no idea they'd allowed a deposit of stolen coins.  That's sour grapes logic, and it makes me want to pull my hair out.

Could have been an inside job, too.  I don't think you can ever rule that out when you hear about hacks like this.

Those situations are probably exceptions to the rule, but I'm not discounting the fact that there probably would be quite a few customers who missed the announcement and haven't been active and so forth.  That really does suck for them if they get their funds frozen--but anyone who's seriously into crypto ought to know not to leave coins on an exchange for extended periods of time, certainly not long enough to forget about them.  Crypto exchanges are not like banks or stock brokers.  They're moving toward operating like both of those, but they're certainly not there yet.

Wait, so they've already required KYC?  I've never had a Bitmex account, so I don't know how they do things but what's the difference between the KYC docs and e-mail verification and what they're requiring now?

Again I'm a bit confused.  Stock trading accounts require complete KYC, at least in the US.  Just like getting a bank account.  And I think Binance now requires KYC anyway.

I posted in this thread earlier in the year, and since then I finally bought a Nano X which I said I wouldn't do--but it was an impulse buy and a long story behind it, too.

There are members here with far more knowledge than me when it comes to HW wallets and the pros and cons of the Ledger X vs. S, but from reading your posts I think a Nano S would serve your purposes just fine, and it's a lot cheaper.  I haven't really seen any obvious advantages in the X except for being able to display more accounts on the screen, and I like the size and heft of it.  But if I didn't have a HW wallet and was in the market to buy a Ledger, I would definitely go with the Nano S.  I guess if I owned a ton of altcoins I might find the Nano X preferable, but I don't, and even if I did there still wouldn't be any real problems, just inconveniences.

Best of luck with whatever you buy, and may your device not have any problems that keep you up at night.

I'm ignorant as to how long Ledger has been in business, but I've been reading this section of the forum for over a year now and have never heard of anyone sending their device back because of screen issues--so my guess is that you're probably not going to get any replies to that question (though for your sake I hope I'm wrong).

That sucks that you're having all these problems with your Nano S, and hopefully you'll get it all sorted out.  At least you have your seed words written down, so things could be a hell of a lot worse. 

Is buying a new device an option for you?

Bro, you're talking about a year's time which is nothing.  And you only ended up knowing the rules when you got caught breaking them, but even still you should have known that plagiarism isn't ethical--especially when you're earning money from stealing other people's words.

Stop spreading misinformation.  He's permabanned as a person, not just the account in question.  In plainer terms, OP is no longer allowed to post on bitcointalk from any account.

Yeah, maybe cryptotalk.org is still paying their users peanuts to plagiarize all they want.  I don't know if Yobit gave up on that scheme or not, though.

Heh heh, maybe.  I remember there used to be a service called wesellcrypto.com, and you could buy bitcoin and some other coins with PayPal and it was easy as hell to do it--but they charged fees that were at least as outrageous as what OP is describing.  But you know what?  Had I kept all the bitcoin I bought through them years ago, I'd have made a huge profit.

OP, you didn't mention what country you're in, but is it possible for you to use a crypto exchange that isn't located in your country?  I know in the US it's possible to trade on exchanges like Yobit and Kucoin, which aren't located in the states.  If that's an option for you, there are a lot of exchanges out there that have very low trading fees.

And as far as stocks go, that's something I'd always be for.  Nowadays most online brokerages let you trade with zero commission, which is something I never thought I'd see.  Oh, by the way:  if you use a platform like Robinhood to buy bitcoin on, you're not really buying bitcoin (meaning you don't really have access to your private keys and you can't withdraw bitcoin).  Robinhood is a great place to trade if you want to bet on bitcoin's price, but it's useless if you actually want to own it.

The ones that don't have ANN threads on bitcointalk I wouldn't mind not seeing, but I do think it's important to warn people about these scams--even if they're completely obvious ones.  You and I wouldn't fall for a Ponzi, but there are a lot of others who would, and they do.  Hell, this forum even condones Ponzis since it's got the Investor Based Games section, which is nothing but Ponzi schemes disguised as gambling.  That drives me nuts, but it's something I've just come to accept.

I have a feeling you're right about that.  If only we had some data on the effectiveness of warning people, but we don't. 

No, I don't think so and personally I wouldn't listen to people (mainly news media) who are promulgating that idea.  There are so many professions where you cannot work from home, plain and simple, so we're not going to see a world where brick-and-mortar businesses don't exist anymore.  Hell, I can remember people saying the same thing about that when the internet was starting to really take off.  Watch the excellent documentary e-Dreams and you'll see an example of that.

On the other hand, for those workers who can keep working from home (and want to), I hope they're able to keep doing so.

And that's why I hope some workers get to keep working from home.  You lose so much time if you're commuting to a job, not to mention that you have to put up with coworkers' personalities, which can be a pain in the ass sometimes.

I don't know if any of this is going to affect "inequality" in any way, but my best guess is that it isn't. 

I tend to disagree with that, especially when I think of how many times I've tried to use bitcoin as a currency--or even just to send it to another wallet--when the network is extremely congested and it takes an abnormally high fee just to get the first confirmation.  If bitcoin was the only crypto in existence, that just wouldn't be good IMO.  And ETH is used much less as a currency and more for its smart contract functionality (as far as I know).

But I do think the crypto market is extremely saturated, and I've thought that for a long time.  Even coins that would function much better as currency than bitcoin (Dash, doge, LTC) don't even get used in that capacity.  They're used as trading instruments and/or stores of value, and seeing as how there are over 6500(!) cryptos on the market, I don't think there's nearly enough interest or money to support most of them. 

I'm assuming that 6588 figure includes coins with dead blockchains, like the shitcoins you'll find in the 1-satoshi graveyard on Yobit.  That's where the majority of them are headed IMO, since most don't offer any advantage to anything else on the market and most are just cash grabs by "developers" who copied the code from some other coin.

I highly doubt that's the case here.  I'm not exactly sure who's doing most of the escrow business on the forum (never having used one myself), but I don't think the members who negged you did it because of perceived competition.

That's your point of view, but you have to be able to see the situation from other people's viewpoint.  When someone is dealing with other people's money, their refusal to use an escrow sets off lots of red flags in the community.  Why?  Because there have been so many scams over the years, which is why the need to use escrow evolved in the first place.  You'll even see campaign managers/owners getting negged for not escrowing funds for their campaign participants, so don't take this personally and think there's some reason why you're being targeted other than the fact that you won't escrow funds.

Exactly, and if I had a link to that whole debacle I would provide it....but I don't know where the thread is anymore.

That's true, plus some of the feedbacks have no reference threads anyway.

Nice catch on this one--I don't know where some of you find these scam adverts.  And not only wouldn't FB do a presale, they wouldn't be doing any such thing from a website like LibraGlobalCoin.io.  That's a pretty obvious giveaway that this is complete BS.

Speaking of Libra, I haven't heard anything about the project in a few months at least.  Is Facebook still going ahead with it or what?  That's not meant to spark an off-topic discussion; I'm just curious, because there was so much hype around it that fizzled out very quickly.

Wow, that was a pretty cool advertisement!

I think it's just fine that Binance has all the shitcoins it does.  If all we had was bitcoin, I think the crypto space would be a hell of a lot more boring, with a lot less flavor. 

Once upon a time I had the pleasure of using Binance, and then all of a sudden they reorganized their US business and my state was excluded.  Since I don't actively trade and don't even own much in the way of altcoins it wasn't a huge loss to me, but I did find it annoying.  I know I'm not unique, so there are probably crypto enthusiasts in Florida who are celebrating right now that they can use Binance again--it's not like there are a lot of other options for US residents if you want to trade altcoins on an exchange that's got at least somewhat of a decent reputation.

So even though I won't benefit from this, it's good news for Floridians.  Thanks for posting the article, OP.

Exactly where are you earning that salary from?  Everything I've read thus far points to you in a straight vector toward the poorhouse.

Also this:
is insane nonsense, and if that represents your grasp on reality then I seriously doubt you're going to be attending any parties in the near future, bitches, fat salary or not.  I think the flag on you is a wee bit harsh, but it doesn't surprise me that you ended up with it.  I don't know if you're truly a scammer or not, but my inclination would be to give you the benefit of the doubt and just say you're attempting to do transactions that your trust level doesn't warrant. 

What's the name of that member who got negged by hilariousandco for trying to escrow $100k?  Mdayonliner?  I can't remember all of these users who didn't think people were noticing that they were doing fishy things.  Anyway, spy100 is another one to add to that list.

Yeah, of course.  And I don't know how many DeFi projects are out there (it'd be nice to see some data on that if I knew where to look), but the scammers are obviously using the DeFi hype to lure their victims in, as OP alluded to--just like with ICOs when they were the hot new thing.

Not that I doubt you, but how do you know they used that website?  I didn't click on the Twitter link since I don't use them and don't want to contribute to their traffic, but has that been verified?

Unfortunately, it's probably the reason you're going to have to live with, because I doubt anyone is going to come here and say they reported your posts--and I wouldn't sweat it too much.  I've had quite a few posts deleted in the time I've been a member here, and it's just something you have to accept.

That might be the case, but just because a post gets reported doesn't mean it's automatically deleted.  The mods presumably read the post and make a judgement independent of the reporter. 

Let's see, Lauda's gone away somewhere; cryptohunter disappeared for a while; and I think 2020 has actually been a relatively drama-free year.  Consider how bad it was in 2018-19 when CH was at his worst and had several members who weren't his alts following in his footsteps.  All of that has calmed down considerably.

DT members have always been arguing with each other, and I don't have a problem with that at all.  It's how issues get settled (usually).  Frankly, I'm glad this forum allows members to argue so freely, because there are other discussion boards where even little disagreements are shut down by the mods.

I don't think there's anything any of us really need to do except to bury our own hatchets, which was Theymos's suggestion a while back.  If it's not your drama, feel free to give your opinion but don't escalate beefs between members, DT or not.

Of course it didn't mention any important details like that--this is journalism we're talking about, where reading an article leaves you with more questions than information. 

I don't know how the South Korean law enforcement operates, but I'd have to assume that they're not going to just steal funds from legitimate Coinbit customers.  You do have to wonder how long it'll take for them to unfreeze those funds, though.  That really sucks that those legit account holders have to suffer because the exchange they were using was pulling all of this shady shit (allegedly).

Lol, no doubt.  And hell, I didn't even realize there were at least 178 crypto exchanges in existence (I don't pay attention to CMC).  That seems like a very high number given the fact that most people don't seem to own any cryptocurrency. 

I'm curious as to who the whistleblower was in this case, as I'm pretty sure the South Korean authorities didn't just stumble upon this on their own.  Rival exchange?  Pissed off traders?

Dang OP, when I read the title of this thread the first thing I thought of was Coinbase, since they're probably the most trusted in terms of exchanges dealing with fiat-->btc transactions.  I can totally understand your frustration with them, however.  They nuked my account years ago for a stupid reason.

Some of them don't require KYC, but some of them do.  My experience has been that at the very least you'll need to give them a phone number in order to receive an SMS text, and some of them require you to scan your drivers license.  The last one I used only needed the phone number, and I'm sure you could get around using your own phone if that's a concern.  More of a concern would be the fees, though.  If I had a choice, I'd rather buy bitcoin through Coinbase than an ATM because the fees on the latter are outrageous (IMO).

Man, I'm hoping that's not going to be the case, because the unemployment "crisis" that happened after 2008/09 was awful, and I can still remember it vividly.  And he's right about the longer-term consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown.  Corporations' upcoming quarterly reports for the next year at least are not likely to be looking too rosy.  It's amazing to me that the stock market is still flying high--though I realize that's probably the result of low interest rates and stimulus/unemployment money.  That can't last forever, though.

Fuck Trump and the blow to him.  May it blow that fucking orange wig all the way down Pennsylvania Ave NW on its way to getting stuck in a cherry blossom tree.

Oh hell no, he won't be able to do anything in that time frame--but no doubt he'll tell the voters all the things he's going to do (but never will) in his re-election campaign.