I was able to cash out of my investment in bnktothefuture. IIRC, I was asked to complete KYC verification at the time of investment, and had to verify information similar to what I originally verified several years later.
yes, similar story with me, I was deemed compliant(and I know that I still am, and they should be too) and was able to invest two years ago , I provided exactly the same docs now. but these failed to get re-validated by their external provider and after three months now some of my docs are outdated and different(and issuing the proper ones now requires me to go to another country). and the fuckers just have no idea how to escalate and prioritize and follow trough. (and in case they do know what they are doing, its definitely a scummy outfit) If you are trying to use expired documents to complete KYC verification, they will probably not accept these documents. Getting updated documents may be inconvenient, but I understand why they would need this from a compliance standpoint. I would hope you understand why they need current KYC documents. I don't think you would appreciate it if your bank allowed someone with your old expired driver's license to withdraw cash from your account. I have found their support to be not very good, and generally did not have a good experience with them. It took years for bnktothefuture to roll out a secondary market, and I believe caused investors to miss out on a bull run peak. |
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Other than trading in an airport (past security), there will always be the risk that the other party claims to have a gun in his pocket that is being pointed at you if you don't comply. To any bystander, or any CCTV camera, the interaction will be nothing more than two people talking. In this case, even a weapon of your own will not do much to protect you if you don't want to risk getting shot in the process. I mean, sure, that risk always exists, but you also accept the risk of someone with a hidden gun threatening you for money every time you leave your house. How do you know the guy standing behind you in the queue for the ATM isn't waiting to rob you? How do you know the guy standing outside the bank isn't waiting to rob you? I would argue you are at far more risk when you withdraw cash alone from an ATM on a quiet street at night time then when you and a friend organize to meet someone in the middle of the day in a busy shopping mall. When taking money out of the ATM, the person will not know the exact amount of money you have. If you are selling to someone face-to-face, your trading partner will know exactly how much money you have. When I wrote my post, I was referring to someone who is trading fairly large amounts. You can also start with small amounts and trade with the same person repeatedly over time to build up trust.
That is one good option, yes. |
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So basically he was fired because of his political ideology.
Not his ideology, but his action. If a police officer thinks that someone who is on trial for homicide is innocent, that's one thing... if he actively funds them, that's obviously different. Especially given the Jacob Blake context, and the wider George Floyd / BLM context. Don't you think it makes it look like the police department is full of white supremacists? I don't think there is any evidence that Rittenhouse is a white supremacist. I am also not aware of any evidence that suggests that Rittenhouse was doing anything other than trying to protect a local community. I understand that if the donation had been to someone from BLM he would not have been fired.
I imagine it would depend on the situation. Perhaps if he'd donated to BLM the group rather than an individual, he might have been fine, or he might have got in a bit of trouble. But if he'd donated specifically to a BLM individual who was on trial for gunning down innocent people in the street... then I think he would still have got fired. The US Vice President openly tried to get people to donate to a bail fund for people who were arrested for rioting and related charges. There were dozens of people killed in these riots, and hundreds (if not thousands) of businesses burned down by these rioters. I also don't think any of the people Rittenhouse shot were in any way innocent. They were all trying to harm Rittenhouse. |
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You could use some kind of "wrapped" bitcoin that uses another blockchain, and is easily convertible back to bitcoin. The problem with this is that you are essentially forcing your payees to bear the cost of the fees.
ETH (which host "Wrapped" Bitcoin") also have high tx fees, while Bitcoin on sidechain (such as RSK/Liquid) have very few user with very few wallet software option. I was referring to wrapped tron, which might allow for something similar to bitcoin to be sent to those the OP needs to send bitcoin to. However, like I said, doing so would essentially be pushing the fee to be paid by the recipients if/when they ever want to spend their money. |
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For just knowledge purpose, I have created two paper wallets by using the same website btc-paper-wallet.com twice in one minute. Don't use this website. It appears this website will not generate private keys on the client side (on your computer), but will rather generate the private keys on their server. Your private key will also be known to the owner of api.qrserver.com, if different from the owner of the website you are using. So, can you please suggest a safe and secure site that is 100% trusted? You can consider using bitaddress. You can generate a paper wallet offline while using the site offline. I would suggest that you not use a paper wallet until you have some experience using bitcoin, and you are confident that you have a solid understanding of how bitcoin works, including things such as private keys, importing private keys, and the importance of backups. |
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For just knowledge purpose, I have created two paper wallets by using the same website btc-paper-wallet.com twice in one minute. Don't use this website. It appears this website will not generate private keys on the client side (on your computer), but will rather generate the private keys on their server. Your private key will also be known to the owner of api.qrserver.com, if different from the owner of the website you are using. |
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Or is lightning payment not yet safe?
That may be a small reason at this point but the main reason is that using LN doesn't make sense here. LN is useful if you are going to send/receive multiple payments with the channel you open. But if it is a one time payment every week/month then it makes no sense and it also costs more than the on-chain transaction. Lets say your signature campaign wanted to do this, they have to: 1. Open a channel for this week/month 's payment which means sending an on-chain transaction to that channel ( fee #1) 2. Send out the payment to each user on LN (a tiny LN fee for each tx) 3. Close the channel since there won't be any payment until next round ( fee #2) 4. Each user (or at least most of them) that receives the payment has to close their channel and move the coins to their wallets ( fee #3) This means using LN in this case replaced 1 on-chain fee with 3 on-chain and a tiny LN fees which makes no sense. Fee #2 will not be necessary because the payor can receive a LN payment to make the following week's payment. Similarly, Fee #1 will only be required the first time a payment is made. Fee #3 will apply to anyone not intending on keeping the bitcoin in the LN network, in which case a LN payment would probably not be appropriate. |
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i agree with these terms
Go ahead and send the $65 in litcoin to the above address, and post the bitcoin address I need to fund the loan to. Thanks. |
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You could use some kind of "wrapped" bitcoin that uses another blockchain, and is easily convertible back to bitcoin. The problem with this is that you are essentially forcing your payees to bear the cost of the fees.
Setting the fee to 30 sat/byte is probably below the lower bound fee rate at which you should expect to have your transaction confirm anytime soon. The reality is that fees for sending on-chain transactions is very high currently.
Others have mentioned that you can send a single payment after a month that represents 4 weekly payments. I think this is probably the best option, and would effectively reduce the fee you are paying by 75%.
If any of your participants are willing to accept a LN transaction, you can pay via LN, but I would say that you should not force this. You can add incentives for accepting a LN payment, such as offing a small bonus.
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It might also be a good way to find yourself becoming a victim of a $5 wrench attack. If it was just for a few hundred bucks, then okay that may be a cool way to trade bitcoin, but I wouldn't take this risk for anything over a couple grand. YMMV.
I guess I'm kinda skeptical about informing complete strangest that I own bitcoin. Other than my immediate family and few very close friends, the only people who know I'm into bitcoin are you lot.
There are a number of methods you can use to trade bitcoin in person for cash while still maintaining your privacy and security. I've done a number of trades with complete strangers which have gone smoothly. - Only trade with someone in person who has a history of numerous trades and plenty of positive feedback.
- There is no requirement to share any personal details with them whatsoever. Simply pick a time and place to meet, and some sort of physically identifying information (I'll be wearing a blue Yankees cap, for example).
- Meet in a public place with plenty of other people around. You can also go for somewhere with lots of CCTV if you like such as a big shopping mall or a major travel hub (such as an airport). You can also meet directly outside a bank which either the BTC buyer can withdraw cash from immediately prior to the trade, or the BTC seller can deposit cash to immediately after the trade. Doing this eliminates the risk of counterfeit bills.
- Bring a friend with you. If legal in your jurisdiction, bring something for self defense.
- Only take with you the exact amount needed to complete the trade, be it in fiat or BTC.
Trading in an airport, past security would help with protection from theft from your trading partner, but might risk theft from the government (via asset forfeiture) if you are dealing with large amounts. Other than trading in an airport (past security), there will always be the risk that the other party claims to have a gun in his pocket that is being pointed at you if you don't comply. To any bystander, or any CCTV camera, the interaction will be nothing more than two people talking. In this case, even a weapon of your own will not do much to protect you if you don't want to risk getting shot in the process.
My suggestion to the OP is to wire money to coinbase as opposed to sending it via ACH. This will speed up the time the funds will be available for withdrawal. Other than my suggestion, there is really not much that can be done to speed up funds availability without sacrificing cost, an ATM for example will take a (usually large) spread or fee. |
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in need of $55 in bitcoin will pay back $65 in one week
have Collateral: $65 in litecoin
I can help you with this. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Terms: bitfinex exchange rates will be used. Loan amount: $55 Repayment amount: $65 Due date: April 30, 2021 Repayment address: bc1qruh36ap8n6ufhvgtxa9kglrmtm0338fdgflv80 collateral: $65 in litcoin collateral will be held by: Quickseller at: LbjJmPBrqPdUHWJ8Re3bj13mFpt7wgaKTQ loan will be funded to: address posted by mbuk81 collateral will be return to mbuk81 at the address of his choosing upon repayment in full by April 30, 2021. If the loan is not repaid in full by this date, absent an agreed upon extension by Quickseller, the collateral will become the exclusive property of Quickseller and mbuk81 will be relieved of his repayment obligations -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEPnn+llIEVKrixxxICkPizH4nZ20FAmCA4rcACgkQCkPizH4n Z20AbA/+LvoJHIoq4G8RSCbMo867wJ9gLs4F30lBEy0hJtvLRrfOwdrIVbdadore kDNu6Puv7Q+U320zTuoAO/fmm8kLO/emu12E63yE8m+sW7I3Opu2L9NooVYflLRC te4Cgk2iNST8TnhSQnY0OF2l1Eo5T7PbBRQx8axR2bJc2YCuphbWXQBls+y9ByF3 sBS+TpApvNNY4p4isBpJsGWREG6KX4zrxQ/QjhcXxGSUr6mZ72OAMSe0UjTAPa7o ZijLM2lshGeJCuKjXO1DOLHYXQA2NEPZAprSQ/YJyZrJ86rZ6f+m5UyelRu1YU8R Wu/SrU0wIlHVdcRN8eCjJApuF7WEFVlfTVLj99kyCSryoRDF/3jCYVg88glUMSws syekQj/18RUFwkkPCIl6lYs8fDoWEF5832HN79xcJSrwY5mnxCQuhv3PiupmXtmt HGQ8QTu8JuPujlnOsXrNWJYvkc25OpriT+1FfWrHcfd1Dc3Mf8yGTKuNtsD/y/q9 M2nMcfIn+WDH9qb0HbiMXikfaEoWjVcDEXW0muSUPc7AcbAi2NyzioVU22v/w7Ar 8hxau3hjh10kQuJiChrEWyoF0x2NKcKYMNQvL6VCI+aNbkVxmfb9g78vxUgI43Sy +FPCj1yXXtm1gfNPznthUMFRxcDo/H1McFb9CWs5ecWH7SsCcXs= =XB/2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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I haven't looked at the new forum software in depth, but I can assure you that it does not use JS based frameworks on the front end. The new forum software ultimately will have a div that displays the post content, just as the current SMF forum software does.
False. It does not render shit without client-side JS. That is surprising. I guess that means those who want to avoid using JS will have to use the API, or a framework that leverages the API. |
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Or is lightning payment not yet safe?
Yes LN payment is safe. The current bitcoin economy does not currently allow for LN payments to be efficient. In order to receive a payment via LN, you need to either have spent money on LN or have someone else open a channel with you that gives you inbound capacity (usually for a fee). Also, if you receive a payment via LN, it will generally mean you intend to spend most of that payment in the near term, otherwise you will deplete, and eventually exhaust your receiving capacity. Some bitcoin merchants accept LN payments, but most do not. Personally, I would be open to receiving LN payments if I had inbound capacity, and intended to spend bitcoin at a merchant that accepts LN shortly after receiving the payment, but absent these two requirements, I would tend to prefer an on-chain transaction. |
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I kinda like this board as dated as it is. Change is always jarring when you've been used to something for so long. Me too, I'd hate to see all user-scripts (my own and from other users) broken because of a forum upgrade. If would probably take me months to update everything, and I'd probably abandon several of my old projects. If all the IDs in the HTML remain constant, moving to the new forum software shouldn’t break most scrapers. If your code is structured in a way such that each function does a single task, it shouldn’t be terribly difficult to update scripts based on the new forum software. Except new forum software rarely keeps IDs constant because each forum engine has a completely different way of rendering things. Imagine if this forum moves to some JavaScript based framework like Invision, where the pages and content is loaded dynamically. Then we (yes we, I also have scripts) have to somehow patch our scripts to call the JS functions that return the items we want to scrape and it's too much legwork when all you had to do before was search for HTML tags. I haven't looked at the new forum software in depth, but I can assure you that it does not use JS based frameworks on the front end. The new forum software ultimately will have a div that displays the post content, just as the current SMF forum software does.
I know there are a set of intended APIs for those that want to retrieve information from the site. Wondering if that will be the mandatory path, as opposed to scraping, due to things as the above.
The API allows someone to query posts by user and by thread. The API documentation is somewhat confusing, but it appears both the username and thread are strings, as opposed to both being ints currently. I haven't looked deeply at the code to see how a thread ID is created. |
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Bump.
New achievement. Today I got to the mark in 40 000 sent reports.
Congrats. Keep up the good work.
Maybe theymos could implement some kind of dashboard that updates every day (or however often to not overload the forum's database and other resources) regarding reporters. I would think he would periodically query information about reports, as part of the forum administration. This could be similar to the merit stats, except the stats would not load when someone clicks on the report. |
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The Police officer is a member of the union, and the union will fight for the officer to get his job back. I have not reviewed the union contract, but I strongly suspect the officer will prevail.
The firing was clearly political. Also, news that the police officer donated to Rittenhouse's legal defense fund, and the comments that he made while donating clearly violate Twitter's "hacked materials" policy, yet Twitter has allowed stories to remain.
The hacking of the website that is hosting Rittenhouse's legal defense fund was obviously done with the intent of harming people who are trying to help Rittenhouse have the resources to ensure he has a fair trial.
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I kinda like this board as dated as it is. Change is always jarring when you've been used to something for so long. Me too, I'd hate to see all user-scripts (my own and from other users) broken because of a forum upgrade. If would probably take me months to update everything, and I'd probably abandon several of my old projects. If all the IDs in the HTML remain constant, moving to the new forum software shouldn’t break most scrapers. If your code is structured in a way such that each function does a single task, it shouldn’t be terribly difficult to update scripts based on the new forum software. |
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Are the phishing sites from the same websites? If so, the admins can automatically change the link that newbies post to “suspicious link”.
Another option would be to add a warning to any post a newbie posts with a link advising to verify that the link is correct.
I don't think they're all the same sites. Not sure if this is the OP's case but back then I recall reporting some bots posting Reddit links in the Bitcoin Discussion with suspicious links inside the post that I didn't even bother to click. They were taken care of in <24 hours. A 24 hour turn time for phishing links is probably too long. IMO, a better SLA would be an hour or two. If necessary, the admins should invest in a way to get the turn times down to a few hours. This could mean investing in AI or software that will censor posts based on logic, or it could mean hiring additional patrollers. |
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Are the phishing sites from the same websites? If so, the admins can automatically change the link that newbies post to “suspicious link”.
Another option would be to add a warning to any post a newbie posts with a link advising to verify that the link is correct.
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What does everyone here think about this
There is a huge chip shortage globally currently. Some have attributed this to Covid, but I am not sure. The chip shortage is affecting everything from cars to computers to miners. The cited investment is an attempt to increase capacity to bring to closer to in line with demand.
A large chunk of the chip capacity is in Taiwan. I would be more concerned about China invading and/or attacking Taiwan when it comes to chip capacity. |
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