Hello guys, is there any way to locate someone by his bitcoin address?
Yes. Suppose someone posts their address in their signature. And then use the same username on other social media sites. With careful trawling of other sites, you can glean clues to who they are. Some people's Facebook profiles list the school they went to, the university they went to, where they live. Plus they post pictures of themselves, so you can pinpoint them with facial recognition technology. You can even entice them into an email correspondence - and most people have their real name on their email profile. For example with yahoo, even though your email will say cutepseudonym@yahoo.com, when you actually receive an email from the person, their name is at the top... Put all that together, and you have matched the identity to the email address and their bitcoin address. Other way is to trace transactions and wait until 'wanted' person purchases some physical goods involving shipping. Then you could ask/bribe/trick/harrass merchant (especially smaller one) to provide you the person's details. Yes. I believe this is how they trapped the Silk Road bunch. |
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Have you done it or would you recommend it? I'm not an active trader so my bitcoin stash is just sitting on Coinbase. I heard I could lend in Poloniex at a loan of 0.048% per day which with 100 btc would earn me about 0.5 BTC per day.
That sounds pretty good for just letting my BTC sit there, since it already is just sitting there on Coinbase, but do you know what the risk is? Besides Poloniex shutting down and running away with my BTC is there any risk of losing BTC though the lending process? I'm not sure how lending works exactly so I wanted to hear your opinion
Thanks
I've done it. The thing to do is apply risk management strategies - so instead of lending your entire amount in one lump, break it down into much smaller loans - i break it down to 0.01 (so lots of small loans of 0.01). And lend for the minimum time (2 days). The best time to lend is when there is a pump on, for example during the ETH pump, people were borrowing BTC at about 0.07% to 0.1% and sometimes higher. As with everything do your own research. But it's less risky lending on Poloniex than on places like BTCJam. That's because Poloniex actively monitors margin on the borrower sides and if they don't put in additional margin, they forcibly liquidate the trade to protect the lender. You won't get rich fast doing this - it's modest returns and they deduct a 15% fee. But if you have coins just sitting there waiting for an appropriate trade, it doesn't hurt to lend them out and make a little something. |
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For me this is the right place for that. Bitcointalk is very useful tool if you wish to earn on trading. Before any purchase I come here and search for interesting things about some specific coin. I know there is a lot of comments, but if you know what you searching, have a bit patience to read all stupid things first you will find very good comments from people who have some very valuable information's.
Here you can always open some topic and ask what ever you wish, just before asking something first take a look on other threads, maybe someone had same question like you..
Don't forget to check out Reddit as well. For lots of coins (eg doge) their subreddit is the main place they congregate, so there is more news posted there than here. |
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If that is true, it's actually shocking. It's like Reverse Robin Hood. Take from poor broke people and hand the money to the cable companies, with Bernie's campaign advisors taking nice fat commission for placing the ads. |
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Obama called them "so-called allies" when he was running for POTUS in 2008, and they're probably cross that he hasn't bowed to their demands to a) send American troops to Syria and b) continue to freeze out the Iranians.
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I hope they start, or already have started, legal procedings against the 'rogue employee'
Crypto currency is money, if a bank employee told a thief how to steal cash from the bank, they would be arrested, the same should happen here.
I hope they have made lots of improvements, it takes a long time to regain trust though
They're lucky the heist happened this early in their business. It wasn't till they called in professional security experts they got to the bottom of how the coins were stealing. Lesson: don't skimp on security, it really is worth paying for expertise. |
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He has most of the bigger Bitcoin merchants convinced that Classic will be the best solution for their problems for about 3 months, and now he is shifting his attention to the miners. If he can get their support, Classic will be the next hard fork.
This whole thing are playing out like a election campaign for a new president. I see some similarity between him and Trump at the moment. ^hmmmmm^
C'mon! He's not Trump. And he's done more to help BTC than anyone apart from Satoshi. |
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Bitcoin isn't ending - but it's always good to have some doge!
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Only two things can resurrect it: anonymity & instant transactions.
Or people can use other coins with those attributes? |
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Can the nodes really be bought and sold? I thought "paynodes" simply meant they got a percentage of the block reward.
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You need massive volume to make it work. Which is why Coinbase is so upset about the blocksize limits - they cap the amount BTC is used and are therefore a threat to their business model.
The opposite could be argued. There probably are Coinbase customers who haven't touched the blockchain in months moving between their site and their exchange and perhaps the odd merchant transaction too. No doubt they'll open a big ass lightning network channel too. If people start using their coinbase wallet the way it was originally intended (to make purchases in the real world), the block limit is a problem. Do you member that series of articles done by that Forbes reporter in 2013 about whether you could live on bitcoin? She was using a coinbase app, and her main problem was that there weren't retailers accepting BTC back then, the app worked fine as did rapid blockchain confirmations. If she did it now in a congested network it would be a whole other story. |
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all the upcoming primaries are closed as well.
Are you sure about that? I think Maryland, Connecticut, Pennsylvania etc are all closed primaries. If he loses them, it's over, well before he gets to California. A closed primary isn't an issue if they allow same-day voter registration... The problem comes when you have a state like New York... which requires you to register 6 months before the election... before Bernie's campaign even started! I understand New York has had those rules for forty years - and a 74 year old like Bernie should have known about it, given that the rules have been in place half his life. He lost because people just don't like him. The ones who did like him were put off by his stumbling answers in his interviews to the New york press. He's done. |
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all the upcoming primaries are closed as well.
Are you sure about that? I think Maryland, Connecticut, Pennsylvania etc are all closed primaries. If he loses them, it's over, well before he gets to California. |
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I'm sorry, maybe I don't read enough about crypto--what is an airdrop coin?
An Airdrop is a free giveaway of premined coins. Which makes me wonder – did the term "airdrop" come to life to circumvent the "no giveaways" rule? "Airdrop" was coined by the Aurora team, and they didn't give them away on bitcointalk. Instead icelanders had to go to their website and prove they were icelanders and then received coins. Sort of like a faucet but much bigger amounts. The iceland airdrop was a bit of a failure because the people who received the coins sold them immediately and the coin didn't take off in Iceland as hoped. |
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Hello guys, is there any way to locate someone by his bitcoin address?
Yes. Suppose someone posts their address in their signature. And then use the same username on other social media sites. With careful trawling of other sites, you can glean clues to who they are. Some people's Facebook profiles list the school they went to, the university they went to, where they live. Plus they post pictures of themselves, so you can pinpoint them with facial recognition technology. You can even entice them into an email correspondence - and most people have their real name on their email profile. For example with yahoo, even though your email will say cutepseudonym@yahoo.com, when you actually receive an email from the person, their name is at the top... Put all that together, and you have matched the identity to the email address and their bitcoin address. |
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Given the way they are burning through the money they raised, and closing their forums and all - unless they can convince people to actually use yhe elaborate platform they've built, the only way is down.
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Litecoin is still an extremely strong coin and this is why:
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It was the #2 coin for ages but is now #3. Poloniex doesn't feature it as a second trading pair (instead they feature Monero). Bittrex doesn't bother with a second trading pair at all. The only people still into LTC appear to be the Chinese, but how long till they get bored and move onto something else? Litecoin has been displaced as number two and recovered before. This link shows the last 24 hours volume compared to many other coins taking into account all exchanges not just two. I have not seen any indication that the Chinese are getting bored and if you check the large increase in volume on their exchanges in the last eight months the complete opposite is true. http://cryptocoincharts.info/coins/graphicalComparisonNote: The last time i got snipped it really hurt Sorry! Don't take it personally! I just didn't want to repost a wall of text. I agree that LTC lost #2 during the doge heyday and came back. But this time they seem to have lost all steam in the western alt exchanges, and I feel the Chinese exchanges only like it because it's Charles Lee's coin. How long they'll continue with it, given the price is stuck is anyone's guess. |
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Will you be alive in 2106? Why care about the price so far in the distance? Countries collapse within the space of 100 years, so you shouldn't be banking on your descendants using any alt that far ahead.
In the short term, doge fluctuates between 50 and 60 satoshi. Sometimes it breaks out of that range for a day or two, and sometimes it drops below for a few weeks. But that's it's range.
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Try the following site: https://coin2pal.info/They are run by an Argentinian. I've used them and they are reliable. (Read the FAQs first) |
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