Did you pay bitfury to get your transaction confirmed? I am surprised that you were even able to get that to propagate, let alone confirm with the current mempool environment.  

What rate are you looking for, and what payment methods are you willing to accept?

Verified.

Just to let you know, your signature (on your bitcointalk account) is very weird. I am not quite sure what it is...

If a user has a pre-version 2.8 wallet that they wish to remain encrypted, that currently contains BTC and/or transactions are anticipated to be received by addresses within the wallet, how upgrading to 2.8 affect their wallet? Will they need to keep this wallet unencrypted in order to spend BTC in that old wallet?

Well that will change things a little bit. Probably most importantly, you need to understand that you cannot simply "add transactions together," all of the inputs in a transaction need to sign the entire transaction -- this means that if you have a transaction in which 7 users are sending funds, but only 5 of those users sign the transaction (assuming 1 user = 1 input), then you will not be able to send any of the transaction until the remaining two users sign the transaction, or alternatively you create a new transaction spending funds from the 5 cooperating users, that each of them sign. This will result in you having a tradeoff in that it is likely that many of your transactions will fail because users refuse to sign a particular transaction for one reason or another, and depending on how many users you have/how frequently you are creating transactions, this may lead to long delays in being able to even broadcast a transaction.

Additionally, if each user has their own address and own private keys, then I would presume that if a user does not spend an entire input, that they will also have their own change address, which would mitigate the savings that I described above.

Under my understanding of your setup, you would save about 40 bytes per transaction that you can eliminate, and you would have the tradeoff that there might be delays in broadcasting transactions.

One other thing to keep in mind is that having large transactions might result in you having to pay higher tx fees rates (on a per byte basis). For example, if your transaction is only 0.24 kB, then your transaction might be the cheapest transaction confirmed in a block if you are paying 0.0000012 BTC per byte because there are no 0.24 kB transactions that pay that high of a rate. However if your transaction is 150 kB, you might need to pay something closer to 0.0000018 BTC per byte because you will need to outbid many more transactions competing for that greater block space.

bdonlan is an alt of TheGambler aka James Volpe, aka Moreia aka many others.

He admitted to as much here

Since about two weeks after signaling for SegWit started, support has held steady at about 25% plus or minus small variance.

In other words, there are currently miners who are totaling ~75% of the network hasharate who would be against the UASF.

Also variance can let someone with around 35% or so of the network double spend a transaction with 6 confirmations, only this is horribly unprofitable because it will not work most of the time, and when it does not work, the miners would be giving up their block rewards.

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I think the answer to piotr_n's question is:
"Someone who very much wants SegWit to activate"

Your trust shows that you have only been entrusted with a few hundred to a few thousand dollars worth of others' money at a time, and for short periods. Your trust also shows something closer to around $10k in trades as opposed to $300k, although some of your trades may not have involved the leaving of trust rating at their conclusion. Could you maybe have some of your trading partners post that they have traded with you, the value of the trade at the time of the trade, and if they trusted you as part of the trade?

Another concern is that most of your trades involve Casascius coins, which is Suspect is not the case for your business proposal (I don't know what you are doing, so I might be wrong on this). How much experience do you have in the line of business you are proposing entering into? Even if you are not going to outright steal the money, this does not mean your project will automatically be successful.

That probably depends on how you define "large volumes". I don't think the few hundred BTC that is the upper bound of what the thief took would be easy to trace, especially if multiple mixers are used.

You would probably need to move four digits worth of coins in a short period in order to potentially have your coins traced with blockchain analysis.

Have you tried a title loan?

You said:

Posting from the wrong account?

Are you offering any kind of collateral for this "investment" or is it based entirely on trust? If on trust, then why should anyone trust you?

PM me once resolved.

What happens if some miners want to lower the limit and some want to raise the limit? I am not sure the formula in the proposal would work.

Do you want a picture of the paper, or the actual paper? How much are you willing to pay?

There is no authoritative way to say that an account is "hacked".

If a new user buys your account from you with the intention of participating in a signature campaign, but is not experienced enough, nor has done sufficient research to know to ask for a signed message, then your account is not hacked. The presence of a signed message will not prove that an account was hacked.

If someone infects your computer with malware, and is able to steal both your private keys and your passwords, then the hacker will be able to produce a signed message claiming the account was sold, yet it would in fact be hacked.

There are many other situations in which the issue is muddy when dealing with potentially hacked accounts.

For the most part, the forum does not get involved in these kinds of disputes. It is also fairly rare that accounts get hacked because of a security breach on the part of the forum, although this is somewhat more common now because of the 2015 hack -- if your account is getting hacked two years after the fact, then this is really your fault because you very much should have been aware that you should have changed your password. Most "true" account hacks are the result of the end user making some kind of mistake.

I am not sure why you are asking how quickly they would recover your account. This does not matter. It would probably not be minutes but would probably be quick enough so that the escrow would not be able to secure your account.

This is most likely accounts getting hacked. The members list was leaked in the hack that occurred in 2015 that included the hash of accounts' passwords -- passwords need to be cracked individually so it is probably that someone was able to crack these accounts' passwords, likely because they had weak passwords.

The forum very explicitly does not endorse any trades, nor any traders, so anyone considering to conduct business here needs to make their own decision if they want to trust a potential trading partner or not.

Even if a person's RL identity could be authoritatively confirmed (it realistically cannot), this will not prevent them from stealing other peoples' money.

The question of if someone should be trusted or not is not a binary question, it might be a good idea to trust someone with $100 while it would not be a good idea to trust that person with $1,000. Similarly it might be safe to trust someone with certain types of trades, but not others.