Is 'WannaCry' creating a new address per user?
according to things you can read in this topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1916199.0it seems like they have hard coded a couple of bitcoin addresses inside the ransomeware itself which asks for the payment in one of those addresses. |
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not, because very soon the security holes will be patched and people stop getting infected with this ransomware and also on top of that there is only a matter of time before the hackers realize that bitcoin is no anonymous and either get caught while trying to cash out or move to an anon coin like monero. it would be funny to find out they were using coinbase as their bitcoin wallet like the kickass guy  |
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at times like this i prefer not to come up with any numbers because things become very unpredictable.
so my suggestion is either stay away and wait for things to clear up and then make a decision.
or stay away and wait for a big dip then buy and watch if you saw indications for more dips sell and buy more at the bottom and so on. but that will be hard work.
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At the 1st ETF btc fall 1350 to 850, 450$ lower.
So could we expect 1300$ this time ?
the first time a lot of idiots thought ETF is going to be approved and saw moon in their dreams so they FOMO bought bitcoin. when it was rejected they became sleepless. this time nothing has changed about bitcoin and its regulation nor its volatility so everyone knows it is not going to be approved. even if there are some leftover idiots dreaming of moon time i don't think their numbers are that great  so we can expect a much smaller dip! |
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A bank called Skandiabanken in Norway now supports Bitcoin. However you cannot purchase the Bitcoins through the bank, you'll be redirected to Coinbase in order to buy.
they are not really supporting bitcoin, they are supporting the idea of people using their bank to transfer money in and out of some service (it may very well be anything instead of coinbase) and the bank taking a lot of fees on the transactions they make! |
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people want more money and nothing can give a trader more profit than a pump and dumping altcoin, so obviously a lot of us are investing in these altcoins to make more profit.
profit in huge percentages that you can never find anywhere else in the world, 3000% in a month is indeed crazy. but also at the same time highly risky and at this point it is nearing the end of its lifetime. soon things will be reversed in altcoin market and they will get dumped.
the only thing that will remain is bitcoin which will continue on rising slowly.
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The sentiment of people on this forum and other places where people speculate about prices are great for trading.
Majority of people say Bitcoin is dying with no evidence? Time to buy.
Majority of people say Bitcoin is going to the moon with no evidence? Time to sell Spend.
If there isn't a clear winner you just look at which ones are the most ridiculous, like this one.
I like your logic. But I did modify one thing. If you spend it on something you were going to buy anyway, you will not only save fees but strengthen the bitcoin economy. So if you can, consider spending. Good point. Unfortunately, a lot of the merchants who accept Bitcoin are going to sell it straight afterwards for the stability, but it's still better to spend as it makes it appealing for more merchants to start accepting it. why do you even care what merchants do with what they receive  i read somewhere that according to bitpay many of them receive bitcoin from their service not the fiat value. of course bitpay provides receiving fiat and many of them do. and by the way, coins that are sold have no effect on the market price. |
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well my dear legendary friend, you are making 2 main mistakes here first is using blockchain.info for your bitcoin wallet specially these days that we know their fee suggestion is broken. secondly you are reporting the fee in absolute value, it has no meaning. you should look at fee per byte to see if $0.80 was enough or was terribly low based on your size. also a good idea to read this. good luck. |
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if you want to buy gift cards then try finding a legit registered service. something like Gyft i think is what you want.
when you buy from individuals the chances that they have bought the gift card with stolen credit cards are very high. and you might get into trouble if you use these cards.
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Don't you use Adblock? This 'intrusive ad banner' can easily be removed to never show up, with just 2 clicks, as you can manually blacklist ads on blockchain.info.
yeah, but it is still annoying, i also use other devices and not all of them have ad block. also it is good to know about alternatives. i know many of them already but i mostly wanted to know which one do others prefer or something that i may have missed. for instance something i don't see anyone mentioning is smartbit https://www.smartbit.com.au/ |
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you are right, it is more like being "used to blockchain.info" than it actually being good. they have a lot of problems, like going down often or not showing some transactions, ... i think i finally make something using their API and get rid of using a web browser once and for all |
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now that blockchain.info has an intrusive advertisement right in the middle of the page where you check the address i would like to switch to another one.
what is the most preferred one these days?
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the total amount that is demanded is something like 6 or 7 BTC! unless there is some other news that i am not aware of, this amount does not mean "thousands of people" it is just a handful which don't know how many are even going to pay the ransom. p.s. i would also have used Monero  |
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So, poloniex is down? Or they are going to be scam?
there is a massive scale dumping going on in the altcoin market and that means a lot of orders are being placed and that is a lot of requests to a weak server they have. so they go down a lot these days. although i have to say i am using their public API to get the charts and i have not experienced any downtime in previous days and i update that thing regularly |
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From USD1784.71 high, it's now trading at USD1699.83 due to massive buy in Japan and legalization of BTC in Aussie. After this news, and if the support cannot hold, I'm looking at a 23% retracement back to USD1374.23? Caveat! Link: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/Share your thoughts here. you should look at a better chart, coinmarketcap charts don't show things properly because it is usually zoomed out a lot and it takes the average of the average price (the second average is the average of that coin price among all the exchanges and this includes Chinese exchanges which are $200 lower and a couple of exchanges with much higher price.) i don't have much to say about the prices though because at times like this i prefer not making speculation. |
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if by "all the coins you have" you mean your balance there all exchanges have some section called balance or wallet which you can see all the balances and their value in bitcoin and there is always a little text on top telling you your total equivalant balance in bitcoin. try this link: www.poloniex.com/balancesI think he just wants to see all the coins he currently owns/holds. try ticking "hide zero balances". if you tick that you'll only see coins have some balance, all the other coins will be hidden. Yes, that was my intention and thank you, that showed me what I was looking for. But still I feel they should include this as a separate option on their website where we can see our investments, show the price when we bought them and the current value of them etc. That is what we all want to see I feel. i am not so familiar with poloniex since i don't use it for trading but all the exchanges have a history which shows all the trades that you made with dates and times and prices. you can export this history in .CSV format and it is a file that can be opened with Microsoft excel (or open office similar application) and you can do any kind of analysis you want on it. draw charts, get total profit, total loss, color the rows, columns. using excel is pretty easy too, you can find many youtube videos if you got stuck. |
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apart from being an investor in bitcoin i am also using it as a currency to purchase some stuff from internet and that means for me it will never matter what the price is! i will continue buying bitcoin as long as i need to spend some.
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that is true but that is also a big IF. and also your whole subject is debatable since it is essentially true about anything else in the world. lets take Gold for example. it has its high value because a lot of people are holding it and IF they decide to dump it price tanks. the question is will they dump Gold? following the rest of what you said is a bit hard, you started at some subject then ended up in a very different place, at least that is my understanding  |
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in 2017, i don't think so because usually we have only 1 crash per year and we already had that this year.the one crash you saw was not the only one! each year there is some orchestrated scenario that causes a big panic sell and prices crash. this year it was ETF rejection followed by BU split and all the combined FUD caused the big dip. last year it was Mike Hearn and some other stuff i forgot that caused a big dip and delayed reaching $600 last year the same thing around $200 and if you look at pages of 300+ in speculation board you see there have been same thing going on for years we take a dive then start rising super fast and then small correction followed by stable price when everyone gets board then repeat. The past isn't a guide to the future though! It's hard to tell what is going to happen - if the blocksize thing gets going again, we might look at some people selling. Ditto advances in some of the alts. FUD is like a one time use thing. imagine a tissue you cant keep using the same thing over and over again to wipe! it loses its power. it is like saying "bitcoin is a ponzi scheme" surely that worked back in 2009 when it was early days but won't work now. |
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and there will be a lot more stories like Koch from people saying we bought at $1700 back in 2017 and it is now 800% higher.
That's the amazing part isn't it? I don't know if bitcoin will hold the crown forever, but the upside of crypto currency even at these prices is enormous. surely there will be some better cryptocurrencies developed in the future but the sad news is that currently nobody is interested in creating any altcoin that is worthwhile, all the existing altcoins are all interested in making an altcoin that can "sell better". |
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