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.

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.

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.

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.

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:
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.
Yep, you're one of the cleverest and most mature people I've ever seen  

Quote from the Bitcoin Wiki about this:

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.
OK, but you still need to understand the importance of changing addresses when you're receiving coins from someone new.

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.

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.


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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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).