Bitcoin Forum
June 27, 2024, 08:12:31 PM *
News: Latest Bitcoin Core release: 27.0 [Torrent]
 
  Home Help Search Login Register More  
  Show Posts
Pages: « 1 ... 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 [234] 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 »
4661  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How to sign a message?! on: July 08, 2017, 02:38:40 PM
Hi,

I am using www.unocoin.com for my BTC wallet, It is an Indian BTC wallet provider.  I dont know how to sign a message with their BTC address, can anyone here suggest me a way to sign a message with unocoin BTC address.
I don't know if that wallet you are using is supported by a sign message .It is better to pick some wallets in the OP and follow the steps then you are good to go and signed message.
I signed up to the wallet for the purpose of seeing whether they have that function.  It appears that the wallet doesn't have that feature.

Unocoin is an online wallet - this means that they are holding your coins for you.  If they allow you to have access to your private keys, you can sign a message - but it doesn't appear that they do.

You should consider moving your coins to a personal wallet if you want to do this.
4662  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] ChipMixer - mixing reinvented on: July 08, 2017, 08:49:04 AM
Hi ChipMixer, can you share with us why using a chip mixer is better than using an online exchange lik Coinbase, Xapo, and others?
That's pretty obvious.  They are offering a mixing service, which is unrelated to those online services.  If you're talking about using those services as mixers, then it's obviously because they don't want you using them as mixers and could suspend your account, as well as the fact that Chipmixer lets you have the private keys and fiddle with the amounts to anonymise them better.

Quote from: Muhammed Zakir
Yes, you are right! However, anybody, especially competitors, could use this flaw to destroy their reputation.
Also there's the fact that in the unlikely scenario that Chipmixer did turn out to be a scam, it would be extremely hard to tell whether or not all the accusations were accurate or just a lie.  Bitmixer makes it easier to prove with the letter of guarantee, so this is quite a flaw.
4663  Other / Meta / Re: Lauda should not be in DT2 ::::: Agree ? Yes : FuckOff on: July 08, 2017, 08:28:22 AM
How does someone get into DT2?
Default Trust 1 is a group of trustworthy members chosen by theymos (he mentions it in his thread about the trust system here).  

DT2 is made up of people who are trusted by those on DT1.  Lauda was recently removed from OGNasty's trust list, which has pushed him/her off DT2.

I'm skeptical of whether Lauda is ideal on DT, but no one is perfect and unfortunately there just aren't enough active DT members to tag all the likely scammers that are parading all over the forum freely.
4664  Economy / Reputation / Re: LAUDA IS OFF DT! EVERYONE CELEBRATE! on: July 08, 2017, 08:17:31 AM
I guess kiklo will be having a field day.  He probably thinks that he did this with the incessant spamming.

 Cheesy

There is no doubt about that.

Pretty immature for an 84 year old, eh?
Did you Dumb Asses ever bother looking at the reputation forum, the majority of complaints are about Lauda,  I think I created about 4 or 5 topics in a 2 month period and then locked them.
The majority of complaints are about Lauda.  Almost all of these complaints bring no new information.

Your complaints were all just repeating the same thing several things - that you really, really don't like Lauda, or that Lauda is being mean to you.

You are now pushing to a new way of phrasing the argument by assertion.  Rational Wiki explains it like this:
Alternately, the argument can be phrased as:
X has been asserted as true many times.
Things that have been asserted as true many times are true.
X is true.
Quote from: kiklo
There were a lot more ongoing topics about Lauda's abuse of DT, by multiple users.
Ignoring that shows you trying to hide the facts.
OK, this is true, albeit exaggerated.  There were a couple of shady cases such as jonald_fyookball - I don't think he should have got negative trust on DT.  While Lauda is not on DT, the negative trust is reasonable, because Lauda no longer needs to be so objective.
Quote from: kiklo
Anyone want to compare my IQ and apparent Age, read my Post History and then read the Fatman's Vod Post history , it is not hard at all to discern which of us is Older and Wiser.
Yep, you're one of the cleverest and most mature people I've ever seen  Wink
4665  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What fee managment methods do you know? on: July 08, 2017, 08:00:25 AM
using multiple address is useless they are all linked if in the same wallet, in fact i only use one now, privacy is still safe because the address it's not linked to your name you know
Quote from the Bitcoin Wiki about this:

There has been significant research into the area of what researchers are calling 'identity collapse', which is what happens when more than one Bitcoin address is strongly-linked via the Bitcoin transaction graph to another. Re-using addresses makes their job trivial. There are publically-known databases that exist, right now, that have not only collapsed millions of Bitcoin addresses, but used publically-available information to link those collapsed identities to individuals, and these databases are being actively maintained.
When you buy coins, the exchange can see the addresses that the funds move to.  When you send your coins to a shop, they can see the address that it came from, and if you give them a shipping address then they know who you are and that you own that address.

It's true that when you spend, you would be spending from multiple addresses and the shop would see all of the addresses that you spent from - but the point is that the shop would have to do at least a little effort, and be fully malicious, if they wanted to find out where the rest of your funds were.
Quote from: Amph
if you want real privacy you need to use a new wallet each time not creating a new address
OK, but you still need to understand the importance of changing addresses when you're receiving coins from someone new.
4666  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Myetherwallet Phising website on: July 07, 2017, 09:48:09 PM
I had a similarly suspicious looking PM on Slack, presumably because I'm in the Byteball slack.

The scammer sent me a message claiming that there was a problem with My Ether Wallet, and that you needed to update or you could lose your ETH, linking to the (presumably) phishing site (DO NOT GO TO THE URL,  POTENTIAL MALWARE), myetherwallet.ch.

Bookmark the page myetherwallet.com and every time you want to use the wallet, use your bookmark.  Any incorrect domain could cost you all your coins.
4667  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Why all the coins prices are dropping? on: July 07, 2017, 09:35:49 PM
Its quiet surprising for a Hero member do ask this thing when it comes to trading matter. Prices do really drops which is normal on cryptoworld we do see most reds and later on we do see mostly on green.Its just on alternate position no matter what would be the reason is since they are all volatile depending on the activity of its users and as of now i cant see any news related on going red on most coins.
It's really more surprising to see a hero member asking this "recurring" events in cryptoworld than seeing those red marks.
But then, I am expecting a green marks as we approach the August 1 event.

Maybe the OP is asking if there is a specific event that might affecting crypto's going red that he is not aware of. There's no negative news that's going around. People are just simply cashing it out or just waiting for Aug 1 to happen before investing again in the crypto's. And just like we preached, we really don't need to panic at this time and sell our reserves. We all know too well that crypto's specially bitcoin have the capability to bounce back.
I was feeling so tensed this evening when I saw the price of SiaCoin. Because few days ago I have invested some amount in SiaCoin.
I also asked for suggestion in their official thread yesterday regarding the price drop. But today price dropped much more than yesterday.

I am just undecided what to do with SiaCoin..
You bought Siacoin?  Right after an absolutely gigantic pump, flying almost to number 10, when people were telling you it was going to be worth stupid amounts?  Really?

Well anyway, I hope you didn't lose too much and you've set your stop losses high.  IMO it'll go a similar way to how STR did after the pump instead of becoming completely irrelevant, but you really need to think about this stuff a bit more before investing.


So I became curious to know what is happening exactly in crypto world...? Why almost all coins are red? So created this thread.
You should read this thread.  Basically, miners are signalling their intention to support a scaling solution when they can (SegWit 2x), which would involve implementing SegWit soon and then a hard fork to 2MB blocks three months after that.

Some people are dumping pre-emptively, expecting an upgrade to Bitcoin to make altcoin hype subside.  Only time will tell if they're right.
4668  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Share With Us The Most Popular Bitcoin Forums In Your Country. on: July 07, 2017, 09:24:04 PM
Bitcointalk has local boards [ DO NOT POST SESC LINKS #5]here[/url].

While the bulk of the forum is in English, several of these local boards are quite active.  Bitcointalk is the forum that satoshi started, so it'll always be very significant for Bitcoin fans everywhere.

However, beware of all the spammers that use those local boards for their ICO campaigns, use bots and stuff.  Since a lot of the mods speak English, some of the local boards can get pretty shit.
4669  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Whats the most secure wallet outside of hardware? on: July 07, 2017, 09:16:33 PM
I think op is just looking for temporary to hold his bitcoin before he can order and buy a hardware wallet..
Electrum was good choice but there are still many alterntive wallet and we can use android or apple mobile bitcoin wallet.
Electrum is a temporary solution.  If the OP was talking about months, I would have suggested Bitcoin Core.

Electrum works well for this case because it's light for you to download (just an SPV wallet), and it will also be compatible with the hardware wallet once you have it, so you don't need to stop using it.  It would be a good idea to check it out.

I also wouldn't particularly like to see their insurance put to the test. The first duty of insurer is to find a way not to pay.

In my opinion, the worst part is that if they do end up paying, people will get compensated in fiat according to what the value was at the time a hack, inside theft, or whatever happened. I would only be interested in getting my coins back, and not fiat.
There were news articles about Mt. Gox being "solvent" recently - what that means is that the coins they stole/the ones that they hold is now worth enough fiat to compensate what the users had at the time.  But because of how much the price of BTC has rose, it's a huge loss for them.

No matter how much talk Coinbase has about being US based and having regulations, I wouldn't trust another exchange to have a proper system. 
4670  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Do you hate christians? on: July 07, 2017, 08:43:35 PM
Tough question.

In the Bible, there's loads of stuff that contradicts the other stuff.  Homosexuality is "detestable", and the homosexuals involved will "surely be put to death" - yet everyone should love each other.  It doesn't really make any sense as a whole, so people start digging into their own interpretations of it.

Furthermore, unlike the Qur'an the Bible is not believed to be the exact or direct word of God, so it could be subject to human error.



This leaves many Christians believing in one side of Christianity and that they are "true" Christians, while the others believe in the opposite side and that they are "true" Christians.  When people can believe in a wide variety of different things and still be regarded as Christian, the whole point of being Christian starts to fade away, and there's no clear line for whether the religion is right or wrong.

Therefore, I'd say that I don't hate Christians, because even within their own religion they have some of the freedoms with their beliefs on social issues that atheists enjoy.

However, I feel that many of these Christians are not sure of what parts of the Bible they're believing in, and get a bit muddled up.  They believe in God, and culturally that makes them feel that they are Christians.  In the same way, a person who grows up in a Muslim family and believes in God feels that they are a Muslim.

I would rather that these people simply said that they are theists, but this is not an objection to what they actually believe, rather to how they express it.

4671  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Whats the most secure wallet outside of hardware? on: July 07, 2017, 07:04:44 PM
What you should do: Download Electrum and store your Bitcoins there. When your hardware wallet arrives, transfer your coins to your new address.
Absolutely.  Online wallets like Coinbase are far from ideal and Electrum is definitely easy to use.

More importantly, both the TREZOR and Ledger are compatible with Electrum, so you can continue using Electrum after you get your hardware wallet if you want.  Electrum is an extremely good interface for using your hardware wallet and the TREZOR one can be a little slow at times.
4672  Economy / Reputation / Re: LAUDA IS OFF DT! EVERYONE CELEBRATE! on: July 07, 2017, 05:30:06 PM
If I might inquire,  what's the deal with ognasty excluding lutpin and zepher and you? 
I have absolutely no idea and can't find a rational reason to exclude this combination (especially not all at once).
Well, you are running competing escrow services.  That could be part of it.  It would be a more subtle way of undermining those services than, say, leaving negative trust.  Zepher in particular would justify that thought, since they have less close associations with you and they're part of another escrow service.

That said, it is kind of a conspiracy theory and I don't have evidence to back up the statement.  It's just a thought.

I guess kiklo will be having a field day.  He probably thinks that he did this with the incessant spamming.
4673  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Toxic Blockstream/Core/Segwit are done. on: July 07, 2017, 05:18:17 PM
Satoshi has come back to rid us of these poisonous deceptions. Rejoice and HODL!


Ahh, OK.  Would you care to give us some details or a link?  I would like as much as anyone else to see BTC get its scaling problem(s) solved, so that more people would likely join the system and with more confidence.

IMO, the price would go up if/when "they" fix this.

Or are you just posting clickbait?


https://vid.me/frzw
Ah, so the lying bastard who pretended to be Satoshi Nakamoto has made a public statement saying that he doesn't like SegWit.

Well, I guess this is the end for Bitcoin Core, now that someone everyone hates is against SegWit.
4674  Other / Politics & Society / Re: When did the 4th of July become so commercialized ? on: July 07, 2017, 04:55:11 PM
Banks are incentivised to have people going into debt all the time, because giving out loans is how new money is introduced into the economy.  This is why it becomes more and more convenient to go deep into debt with credit cards and other loan systems.

At the same time, companies are incentivised to have people going into debt all the time, because the debt is needed to sustain their crazy amounts of profit.

For companies to do this, they offer deals which only apply on certain days that people regard to be "special".  The company reduces prices so that people feel that they are getting a discount on goods by buying on those days - but in reality, people are spending more by buying products that they otherwise wouldn't have bought.

All of this commercialisation of various holidays will get worse and worse because both the banks and companies are incentivised to push people further and further into debt based on currency which has no intrinsic value.
4675  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How can we solve the social justice problem? on: July 07, 2017, 04:47:34 PM
It's pretty ironic to see people desperately try to fit the words "triggered" "SJWs" and more into every conversation.

The way that some of these people talk about getting offended implies that they are extremely offended (or "triggered") by groups advocating for social justice (which are not all just 12-year-olds sitting in their bedrooms, I'm sorry to tell you).

I find this "the world is unjust, get used to it" kind of mentality very condescending, because you'll find that progress has been made by grassroots protests and individuals voicing their views for many years.  In the UK for example, protests in the 1960s led to almost all the rights which minorities and all groups in society enjoy today, from the Racial Relations Act outlawing discrimination from work and housing on the ground of race to the Sexual Offences Act decriminalising homosexuality.

I think it's time for the majority of these people to admit that they are in fact twisting their wording to avoid openly saying that they are against these rights.
4676  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 6 Interesting Points from Jihan Wu Future of Bitcoin Speech on: July 07, 2017, 04:33:43 PM
5. In order to solve this problem of protocol tyranny and hijacked implementations, Wu suggested that for the future of bitcoin to remain beautiful and grow, the community will need multiple implementations.
Satoshi was against multiple implementations.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=195.msg1611#msg1611.

I don't believe that we should religiously follow everything that satoshi says, but I've seen a lot of people like jonald_fyookball talk about satoshi's support of larger blocks, so I thought I'd throw it right back.

Quote from: satoshi
If the second version screwed up, the user experience would reflect badly on both, although it would at least reinforce to users the importance of staying with the official version.
4677  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: The Forbidden Fruit: Selling BTC(and altcoin) on EBAY AHMG on: July 07, 2017, 04:17:07 PM
I'd be cautious, even if they don't scam you the providence of their BTC might be dubious.

Why don't they sell on an exchange?  Perhaps they acquired their Bitcoins via illegal means.  Do you want the blockchain showing you as the new owner of those coins?

Same argument can be given about the FIAT in your pocket... Is it possible that $10 bill was once used in a sting operation to capture a drugdealer? Maybe it's marked? Maybe it has traces of cocaine?

https://themerkle.com/what-is-bitcoin-fungibility/

True, but the only person who is going to be looking at that FIAT is the guy at the store you use to buy $10 worth of groceries from.  Even if the authorities somehow figured out you withdrew that $10 from an ATM they aren't going to hold it against you.
Bitcoin, much like fiat, can be used for illegal activity.  A huge amount of cash has been used for shady activities, and the same applies to Bitcoin.  To blame the person who receives the transaction would be absurd.  In fact, if they were to do this then they wouldn't just blame you, but any merchants that you send BTC to as well.
Quote from: stevebc
The full force and strength of international law enforcement has the ability to look at the blockchain.  Unfortunately they are likely to suspect (possibly unreasonably) that because you received the BTC from a scoundrel, that you must be a scoundrel yourself.
There's absolutely no reason for them to assume this.  If they find the address of the criminal, they will attempt to track the coins in order to find any other illegal activities that the criminal was taking part in.  It only matters if:

-The criminal was sending to sites such as Alpha Bay and using the coins for crime;
-The criminal was sending to their own wallets, in which case the authorities may attempt to seize the coins.

Even in the unlikely scenario that they bothered trying really hard and they tracked the coins to an individual, they would not arrest you - all you have to do is show them eBay where you bought the coins from and explain why you did so.
4678  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Why all the coins prices are dropping? on: July 07, 2017, 04:01:14 PM
They all follow each other.

BTC falls slightly because the bull run preceding it was weak, based on little volume.  This is not significant, nor should it even be regarded as a correction unless it goes somewhat lower than this.

Other coins are just sheep, which move along with Bitcoin but get their price movements amplified by about fifty.
4679  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin just an asset ? on: July 07, 2017, 03:03:53 PM
I have read in the news that that like bitcoin as virtual currencies are assets and does not have the characteristics or what it takes to be a currency that could meet our modern economic needs. It was said that it does not have the fundamental attributes. What are your thoughts about it?
If you simply accumulate bitcoin in the hope of selling it later at a higher price, then describing it as an asset is perfectly fitting.
However, Bitcoin does match the characteristics of money better than fiat money does.  The conversion rate between Bitcoin and fiat and whether people intend to trade it or invest in it does not change this.

The characteristics of money are listed here.

The characteristics of money are durability, portability, divisibility, uniformity, limited supply, and acceptability.
Durability - Bitcoin lasts forever.  As long as there are people willing to use it, it will continue to exist.  The same cannot be said of physical fiat money which can break or wear down, or of digital fiat money, which is controlled by banks and governments.

Portability - phone wallets such as Breadwallet and Mycelium allow you to have your coins no matter where you are.

Divisibility - each one Bitcoin is made up of 100,000,000 spendable units.  More divisible than a dollar to cents, for example.  Admittedly it's impractical to spend just 1 satoshi, but microtransactions with digital fiat such as credit cards are impractical as well.  Many small places that I've seen only accept credit cards if you're paying a certain amount.

Uniformity - Bitcoin is all the same, and after several confirmations, the probability of double spending or "counterfeiting" Bitcoin is completely negligible.  Physical fiat money has been counterfeit many times before and taken up a large amount of the economy - some banks have even taken counterfeit bills by mistake in the past.

Limited supply - There will never have more than 21,000,000 coins, and the amount which come into circulation until all the coins are mined is predictable.  Fiat money is created and there is a constant inflation rate - the supply is not limited and often increases dramatically at the whims of central banks and governments.

Acceptability - Fiat money is dramatically better for this.  Other things are not legal tender for debts, and almost any shop will take fiat before even considering BTC.  However, the only solution is to use Bitcoin and be part of the movement that makes it more accepted.
4680  Economy / Web Wallets / Re: Wallet that doesn't require ID and other stuff on: July 06, 2017, 10:40:26 PM
You're misunderstanding what a "wallet" is.

The term "wallet" for Coinbase is misleading.  It is a web wallet (in this section) which is like a bank in that you are giving your coins to a third party and trusting that they will spend them for you.

If you are regularly exchanging between Bitcoin and fiat or you are dealing with pocket change, this type of wallet can be okay.  However, I would regard a "real" wallet to be your private keys (what allows you to spend the coins) and the interface which makes it easy for the user to find out information about the coins they have a right to spend.

Since these "real" wallets allow sovereignty of people's funds and are basically just a piece of software, almost none of them require your ID. 

Examples of them include Bitcoin Core (full node), and Electrum (SPV client). 
Pages: « 1 ... 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 [234] 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 »
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.19 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!