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"Hacking" wouldn't work the same way with Bitcoin as it does with other monetary systems. With a bank, you hack the bank. With Bitcoin, you need to be the bank - you need to have enough money and mining power to implement changes to the network. That's not some can do without hundreds of thousands of Bitcoin to spend.
Spam attacks already exist, but decentralisation is always the protection against any real hacking, because unless you can completely dominate the whole network, you can't hack it.
Individuals, however, can be hacked if a hacker can find out their private keys one way or another.
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My advice to you is to make sure this is repeatable.
If you look on Coinmarketcap, you'll notice that a good 95% of coins on there have gone up extremely dramatically in the last month or so. It doesn't actually take a trader to earn profit from that.
You don't want to let profit blind you because it can be luck. Stay humble, because altcoins have peaked, at least in the short term, and won't be doing that again. I hope you analyse the charts nicely when you're doing day trading, and I hope you're really putting effort into finding the best coins.
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Here it is. I did as instructed by DannyHamilton with the minimum free fee thing. Status: 0/unconfirmed, in memory pool, broadcast through 8 nodes
Date: 5/15/2017 15:02
To: 14XknsfpDYGV4pusK7b8bsixDQER4PZok9
Debit: -0.00183509 BTC
Transaction fee: -0.00000499 BTC
Net amount: -0.00184008 BTC
Transaction ID: fff3f4a24f7b725bb1d7598983cc744dad9f50678aad41a400b6873c5331176f
Transaction total size: 223 bytes
Output index: 0
Oh dear. DannyHamilton's suggested fee was 0.000499. You just set a fee of 0.00000499, making the transaction fee a hundred times less at about 2.2 satoshi/byte. Maybe that's the same mistake that you made when using the recommended fees page. Your transaction will stay unconfirmed again... Now your choices are to: -Let it sit unconfirmed until it returns to your wallet. -Pay for transaction acceleration by contacting the users Quickseller and macbook-air, by using ViaBTC's secondary paid service, or by using pushtx.btc.com. -Use a replace-by-fee transaction to resend it with a higher fee. Not all wallets will support this. |
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I dont think having no escrow for the ICO is something to call the project a scam. Actually, there's a lot of ICO that doesn't use Escrow so why just Ethereum.Link should be targeted.
But I think the ICO address should be shown on public.
Not having escrow doesn't make it absolutely definitely be a scam, but it does mean that everything they say should be deeply questioned. The obvious avoidance of direct escrow which Lauda pointed out makes it dramatically more likely to be a scam. Failure to show the ICO address is just yet another sign. Considering just how easy it is to make an ICO scam, the chances are through the roof. |
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Since the value of Bitcoin has gone up drastically, relative to everything else, shouldn't there be a decrease in the total BTC donation amount?
No, theymos ever said the donation amount won't change no matter how far bitcoin price changed. Theymos refers to bitcoin, not dollar. I agree with your answer being correct; however, I totally disagree with it. What I feel is a shame is that some listed donation badges are scammers from long ago and they are not removed. Any new company or legit person trying to get the badge simply can't because of the price of bitcoin. Example: In the beginning of donations, I could donate 50btc for a cost of about $500. There is no chance I would donate $87000 today. I can understand that it's nice to keep the list relatively short, but to expect 200 times the amount is absurd. When bitcoin hits $10,000 is it still going to be 50BTC, You know, only $500k to be listed and have the badge. This blocks everyone from donating. That said, it also implies that bitcointalk.org is limiting the number of donations it gets. I can understand the idea that the donation amount should be denominated in Bitcoin, but not that the amount should be static forever. If you're determined to avoid measuring Bitcoin against the dollar in order to consider it a currency in its own right, then you could measure the value with the Big Mac Index, against gold or something similar. It's impossible to deny that the actual buying power of Bitcoin has changed, and therefore the donation should be similar as you're contributing to the forum for similar things that you were contributing for years ago. Furthermore, many of the costs of the forum that we're talking about will either require the forum to convert it to fiat at some point to pay, or for the person receiving it to consider the fiat value of the coins in order to accept it. In either case the US dollar value is still relevant to what a donation should be. |
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OP,
Yesterday I requested my full invested amount back.
You promised it will come latest today.
Today you are ignoreing all my PMs.
For investors,
Invest with caution, there are issues now with the withdrawal!
Hopefully temporary, but now it is now not promising!
OP have told in previous couple of posts that's he is running on a tight schedule so because of which I guess he is not getting time of being active more. Hope to see things streamline for him soon. he was online many times today, and he havent wrote anything in reply. I dont think that this is because of his schedule, a reply can be made in few seconds. This is how all scams starting To look at it from a neutral perspective: Someone can be "active" without actually paying attention. He could be leaving his computer on when he's wandering around, or he could just be checking his PMs regularly instead of posting on the thread all the time. Typically, a scam will not end with the admin being less responsive. It ends with the admin being extremely responsive and desperately scrambling for a few more deposits before they vanish (often promising higher rates etc). However, this wouldn't necessarily be the same as a "typical" Ponzi because the OP is an individual, not an entity like a website, and therefore could lose interest instead or move in a different way. This would be more likely if the OP originally has legitimate intentions, like he appears to now. The OP has given legitimate reasons for his current actions and we should give him about 2-3 more weeks before passing much judgement. If you're paying attention, you shouldn't be worried. |
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Does anyone know the btc address this money is being collected in? I'd like to take a look.
There are three known addresses, which are coded into the software so they're mostly likely the only ones that they have. Address 1: 12t9YDPgwueZ9NyMgw519p7AA8isjr6SMw Address 2: 13AM4VW2dhxYgXeQepoHkHSQuy6NgaEb94 Address 3: 115p7UMMngoj1pMvkpHijcRdfJNXj6LrLn Fortunately, it seems like most institutions and even individuals will have regular backups. |
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It's sort of possible, but fiat arbitrage is a much better choice because:
-Bitcoin betting sites are extremely loosely regulated and could scam you at any time, especially the smaller ones.
-The larger sites have relatively similar odds, so you might have to venture to pretty questionable sites to get decent opportunities
-If you're looking to avoid verifying your identity, you're probably out of luck. Sites detecting suspicious activity like very frequent deposits and withdrawals in the way that an arbitrage better would do it might end up asking for ID, so you might as well go for fiat anyway.
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The owner of Poloniex is on the forum: busoni. You can contact him here on bitcointalk (although he has asked people to send tickets via the forum). He was last active in April but if he visits the forum anytime, you'll get a faster response. I contact the exchange owners here itself as they don't respond to my tickets on time and it takes months for verification then. Contacting him directly speed-up the process? The last time he was online was a while ago, so he's unlikely to respond quickly. I would think that Poloniex is up to their necks in people to handle since they've grown far too quickly without actually being prepared, so you'd be lucky to get a response (not to mention that for some suspicious reasons they're extremely reluctant to process withdrawals on time). Still, always worth dropping him a PM. You might get lucky. |
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There are several similar threads outlining similar selective scam attempts from BTC-E.
They hope that they can give some outrageously pointless means of proving your ownership that you won't be able to do so that they can accuse you of fraud. If you manage to do it, they will ignore you.
Fortunately they do still seem to care about their reputation being completely destroyed. What you need to do is kick up a giant fuss on here and several other communities and forums, then link them to everything you're doing. Eventually they're likely to cave and you can withdraw your coins to a safer exchange like Bitstamp or Coinbase.
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Core have proposed their solution to the existing problems and will obviously promote it. SegWit is a scaling solution and clears the way for more scaling solutions which are partially offchain (LN). For convenience, this will be a better choice in the long term.
Other solutions have done the exact same thing that Core has done - create a solution and propose it. SegWit hasn't happened, so clearly Core hasn't forced it on anyone (yet at least). Miners coming to a consensus is barely to do with Core.
I think you've been spending too much time on r/btc. Don't head to r/bitcoin either, they're both trashy subreddits.
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I paid 30 LTC for that
Yeah, but it's a well-known fact that no one gets ROI with Genesis Mining. They just pick whichever coins have the best profit at the time and hope that people will fall for it and assume that difficulty stays the same. It's basically a non-scam way of stealing your money. Even if you did get ROI it would be such a tiny amount that you would have been better off putting your Litecoin elsewhere. It's unlikely for people to bid very much for this. |
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Frankly that's completely meaningless. The price is only ever based on whatever information has found its way into the market as to what a coin is worth, along with speculation. A "cheaper price" isn't necessarily a cheaper price relative to the technology that the coin brings.
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Currency is based on storage and people's confidence in it. The only reason that fiat has value is because it is given value by a government and people agree with that value. The difference is that Bitcoin's supply is genuinely scarce, so it doesn't make everyone lose money automatically and instead can both gain and lose money.
With fiat money you're playing a rigged game. With Bitcoin, you're not. If a larger amount of people started holding Bitcoin then, like gold, its dependence on fiat decreases as the amount of people that hold it stabilises. Gold isn't given value by the existence of the metal, it's given value by the fact that the asset is scarce.
Equally, people buy special edition gaming devices and toys for extremely high prices, not because the materials are expensive but because they were told that's the price and they followed along with it because they can't just make their own.
Bitcoin is also quite hard to hack. I could equally break into a safe holding some gold, and that would be a "hack" in the physical world.
Most things related to Bitcoin are comparable to assets that exist in "real life". To argue that a digital asset has no intrinsic value is meaningless - its value is kept by the tech combined with scarcity, just like how a stock's value is kept by the company.
I believe putting the control of the world into those who just happened to buy Bitcoin in 2009-2012 for all eternity is a dreary prospect. They espouse freedom and economic liberty to the poor yet they are setting themselves up in a nearly communist system where only those most early adopters are benefiting at the expense of the new adopters. I don't think you understand what communism is. You say that fiat is a rigged game whereas Bitcoin is not a rigged game. While I understand frustration with fiat currency, it is fair to the extent that it is equally unfair. Like it or not governments have worked tirelessly to establish modern society and THAT backs up their claim to be entitled to print currency.
Governments do not solely print currency. They give that freedom to banks, largely controlled by the private sector, which can give out loans based on money that they just made up on the spot. Fiat money used to at least be based on something limited - gold - but now its value is zero because it's only based on previously existing fake money, and inflation spirals on and on since it's cumulative. Furthermore, governments have not worked tirelessly to establish modern society. Each individual government has worked to implement their own vision (loosely based on the voters' visions), all of which are separate from each other. People who bought Bitcoin early will spend it over a long time when the price has settled. It's not like there are no rich people with fiat currency, but who those rich people are changes regularly. Money isn't just held forever. The loss of nearly 1/16th of the current bitcoin supply to a single exchange hack is not dismiss-able. Especially if this were to grow to the desired dimensions of these maximalists. No bank robbery is moving a fraction of the total fiat supply.
The exchange was stupid and unregulated. Regardless, in a scenario when the price stabilises, far less Bitcoin would be held in exchanges anyway, especially specific exchanges. |
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Chances are that many of these offers are "legit" in that the sellers do actually give you the gift cards. How they obtained the gift cards, though, is much more questionable.
Gift cards can also be charged back through their credit card purchase. Be careful.
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To phrase it less rudely:
Sorry, but you probably won't get a trust-based loan, just because the amount of scammers on here is through the roof. A large majority of loans with no collateral end up being scams, which means that the 10% interest isn't worth the 50% or more risk.
Good luck with BTCJam or other systems. I hope you get the loan that you need.
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ranlo:
0.046 (first deposit)
0.005 (reinvest)
3.000 (second deposit)
= 3.051 btc
seems right to me but not yet updated in doc Quite annoying. The OP was active recently and it really shouldn't take more than ten minutes a day to keep this up to date, at most. |
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far better to keep it to yourself. people get very very weird about money. better not infect those closest to you with more of it.
I would say mention it once or twice. If they're interested, let them find out more themselves, otherwise they'll blame you if they screw it up. If they're not interested, leave it alone or you'll end up getting pissed off by their cocky attitude whenever there's a slight dip in price and their pedantic criticisms. |
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Well it's definitely not a giant conspiracy to make Bitcoin look bad, it's just some bastards using Bitcoin. They will use it just like how many bastards use physical cash. Doesn't make it any worse for legal transactions anyway.
The mainstream media have covered Bitcoin surprisingly little after the ransomware attacks, and barely even mention it in the articles except for in passing. Actually, it's very surprising how much their coverage of Bitcoin has matured over the past few years.
More understanding will come with time. Problems like this are barely even setbacks.
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Bitcoin is not cash it Gold.
It is a dream
A dream full of hope
And worth a lot of money
Bitcoin is much more worth than Gold and even cash. Seeing the current price of it you can easily say that bitcoin is a precious item. It has now more worth than Gold and it is a most expensive currency,. Those who have already saved bitcoins are now dreaming high to be rich if the price keeps on moving with the same pace. Claiming that Bitcoin is worth more than gold is meaningless. One Bitcoin (an arbitrary amount of Bitcoin) is worth more than one ounce of gold (also an arbitrary amount). The amount of money that people hold in gold is many times more as gold is actually viewed as a safe haven asset. People claiming that Bitcoin is "digital gold" are missing the point somewhat. To most people, a currency is a store of value. The more convenient Bitcoin is to spend, the more stable the price becomes as people have a fairly consistent amount of money in it, and therefore its value as "digital gold" increases as well as it has more of an intrinsic value. So Bitcoin should ideally be both at once. |
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