I struggle go think of anything more stupid and obvious. It's even gone beyond Nigerian princes by this point. At least you don't start off knowing who they are. I would've thought even someone nursing a catastrophic brain injury can figure out Elon Musk has slightly better things to do with his time, let alone his money.
I have a theory for explaining why some people so easily fall for scams in crypto - it's because they subconsciously don't think about it as money, but more like some shiny Internet thing. There's still plenty of people who believe that they should be able to get crypto for free from faucets, airdrops, giveaways, promotions - crypto is like magic to them, a get rich quick magic. Maybe some of them got free money from it in the past, so they believe in miracles like Vitalik or Musk giving them free coins. So, maybe to them it actually makes more sense than the classic Nigerian prince scam. |
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You should specify which website and coin are you talking about, without it no one can help you to fully solve your problem.
Json is a human-readable data format, so you can open it with any text editor, like Notepad on Windows - maybe it has private keys in raw format that you can import. Off the top of my head, Ethereum wallets often use json files for storing private keys, is this the case? Are we talking about Ethereum wallet? If so, you can use MEW or Metamask or any Ethereum desktop wallet to open your wallet file.
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Do my eyes see right? Did this stupid WWIII meme found its way into this forum? I thought at least this place is safe from it, but it looks like I was wrong.
There will be no WWIII over some killed Iranian general, and there's nothing that could lead to WWIII in the foreseeable future. If you look at the history, both WWI and WWII didn't come out of nowhere, all countries were preparing for it for many years before the wars started, but we don't see anything like this right now.
As for theoretical possibility, there are countless threads about Bitcoin and war/post-apocalypse scenario, I'm sure you'll find a lot of interesting opinions there.
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I'm sure that if Bitcoin will become widely adopted, nearly all daily transactions will be done via LN - it's faster, cheaper, more private. Why would merchants want to risk with accepting 0-conf transactions if they can just use LN and avoid this and other problems? And onchain transactions can be used for bigger purchases, like buying a car or an expensive phone.
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Next big thing in crypto is Bitcoin. Altcoins, blockchain technology, tokens, smart contracts, dapps - they will fade away in this new decade, with only Bitcoin remaining. I think this process has already started, everyone recognizes that alts aren't doing well and people wait for "alt season", the next stage will be a realization that there will never be any alt season, that 99% of alts are useless and that you can't seriously compete with Bitcoin.
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Cool story, bro. But do you have any proof? Do you know the names of these whales, how many coins do they hold, what exchanges do they use, when exactly did they manipulate the market (with proofs, ofc)? There's always some degree of manipulation on every market, even those that are well regulated, but you are making claims that the whales can move Bitcoin thousands of percent up and down, and such claims require more than just words.
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Would it survive? Yes. Would it be compromised? Probably. I would hate to see Bitcoin with its own version of Vitalik Buterin. That would be heartbreaking.
If Satoshi wanted to be a Vitalik, I'm sorry - a benevolent dictator, he would do so from day one instead of leaving this community. I think the fact that he left strongly implies that he doesn't want to be a single point of failure of Bitcoin, and if it's true, then this is the answer to OP's question - if Satoshi will be found, he wouldn't do anything to harm Bitcoin, he'd probably comment on it much less then people would expect. |
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I think the market will keep stagnating for a month or two, but then there will be a rapid movement, either up or down. Since the halvening is near and we've already been bearish for so long, I think the chances of going up are much higher. But I also don't think that the market will go vertical, it will be a long process, hence my prediction is not crazy high.
P.S. I'll make a leaderboard page after you will stop accepting new predictions.
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As for Libra, haven't the US and EU strongly opposed the project? I am not sure if anything has changed in the US, but the EU still firmly stands by its position that it will not allow Libra in this form as presented.
If westerm governments are so opposed to a coin managed by private company, imagine how would they react to digital yuan coin - I'm 100% sure it would be banned there, exchanges wouldn't be allowed to list it, businesses won't be allowed to use it, funds won't be allowed to invest in it (or it will be very limited). |
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I'm aware there are tools that would provide a level of privacy to Bitcoin users at some extent. However, these same tools can be easily intercepted by the government. It's no secret that VPN & proxy providers are centralized, while the Tor network it's said to be compromised by the FBI (look on Google for more info). The best way to use Bitcoin in a completely decentralized manner would be to run our own personal networks that are "off the grid". Something like a mesh network or even a PAN (Personal Area Network) could further decentralize Bitcoin. Of course, most people still connect to the public Internet to use Bitcoin. But in the event governments decide to collaborate with ISPs to prevent devices from connecting to the BTC network, other decentralized means could be used to maintain the blockchain over time.
As most Bitcoin nodes rely on the public Internet, the risk of centralization will always be there. This is something unavoidable since there's no such thing as 100% decentralization. Sometime in the future, we might be able to interact with new kinds of network protocols that would simplify the task of interacting with the Bitcoin blockchain in a decentralized manner. All in all, I hope that Bitcoin remains decentralized for years to come.
If Tor was so broken, cybercrime wouldn't exist. If privacy was impossible, Satoshi wouldn't be able to hide his identity for all these years. I think there's plenty enough proof that strong privacy is possible in modern age, that you can hide what you are doing from the government and ISPs if you are skilled enough. This means that they wouldn't know that you are using Bitcoin and wouldn't be able to stop it. As for mesh networks, they are local, so they can't be used for Bitcoin, we need a single network that covers the whole work, otherwise each local network will have its own version of blockchain. |
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With merit system people have no choice but to "build their account", meaning rank up by earning merit - because no good paying campaign would accept low-rank members. Some people try to jump straight to bounty or sig campaigns, but it's just a waste of time. But ranking up is also not for everyone, it requires a lot of time to learn about crypto to the point when you can start contributing to discussions and get recognized for it, these days I wouldn't recommend anyone to start posting on this forum with a long term goal of joining a signature or bounty campaign - maybe by the time they will get enough merit, those things would be even less profitable or non-existent.
Newcomers should use this forum as just a forum - a place to discuss Bitcoin, learn and share their knowledge, instead of treating it as some sort of career.
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Compare to other digital cash or digital currency I think bitcoin is a solid and secure type of digital cash, we know that until today no one could hack the bitcoin and I think there is also a lot of bitcoin wallet that is using bitcoin and they are also secured. I think when it comes to economy we could encounter a lot of issues when we use bitcoin or cryptocurrency as a currency but also with the help of fiat money bitcoin could still make it as a currency or even just an alternative currency for every country around the globe.
Yeah, Bitcoin network is more secure than payment network like Visa or Swift, but Bitcoin wallets are less secure than banking apps, because your coins will be gone forever as soon as someone steals your private key, but with banks there are obstacles like additional verification for large transactions, and you have a chance to recover your money if you notice the theft quickly. Criminals already target cryptocurrency users often, if the whole economy switched to crypto, theft-related cybercrime would be through the roof. |
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I'm very hopeful about 2020. I do not know why. But I have a feeling. It looks like the altcoin season in the first months of 2017. For the Altcoins, there may be another upswing. I think I'il make a big investment.
What makes you say that? The market turned bullish in early 2016, it was slowly growing for the entirety of that year, and then it sped up in 2017, so early months of 2017 were already very bullish. It was nothing like what we have today with this stagnating price that has been the same for months and actually goes down compared to all the action it had in the first half of 2019. Maybe the market will become bullish soon, but it's not what we have right now. |
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Fairness
One of our main goals was to insure the platform remained fair and cheat free. We have spent months developing and testing anti-cheat detection software to make this possible. Any player(s) caught attempting to tamper or cheat the game will have their IP and tron address perma banned.
If your game will become sufficiently popular, it will be lucrative to develop cheats that will bypass your anti-cheating system. If gaming giants like CS:GO and PUBG couldn't eradicate cheating with all their time and budget, how can your small startup do so? I personally would never bet on a game that doesn't have a 100% full proof that it is fair. |
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You're right about this being a browser extension thread, however preventing XSS, and XSRF attacks is a good start point, wouldn't you prefer to completely secure the system? A malicious browser usually only attacks the core of the browser, but can potentially affect the computer on a operating system if you aren't correctly configured. An example of this would be when a extension allows content from a certain web page downloading without prompting to your machine. This could be malicious software which could get executed in the future. The possibilities are slim, however from a security, and privacy point of view, and not a general consumer point of view I would prefer to advocate securing it via isolation on a operating system level or at the very least contained within a level 2 virtual machine (such as virtualbox & VMware)as using a different web browsers on a level 2 virtual machine would provide better security than just using a different container, because a lot of malware will not be targeting this sort of setup.
Of course using Qubes and other virtualization tools is a great advice, but the reality is that most people won't do this, it's simply too much effort for them. It would be hard (impossible?) to configure dual-booting Windows and Qubes, you'd have to restart your machine to switch operating systems, there could be driver problems and so on. People often tell others to switch to Linux because its more secure, but it's not feasible for most users who got used to doing everything on Windows or Mac. |
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You're referring to containers which do provide a way of dissociating browser data via placing them in containers. However, it does not protect you from all kinds of attacks. A website could theoretically target users with containers, and find the linked data. Another misconception is browser containers prevent malicious software from spreading, but this is also not true. Using separate browsers does the same as containers, but also prevents to a certain extent websites linking your agents together. Although, this isn't the best option either. You can spoof user agents, use script less browsers, and block trackers, but you have to do this in such a way that no third parties are involved. As soon as you involve a third party such as a closed source extension you are at risk of giving your data to the extension owners.
Well, I wasn't talking about preventing all possible attacks, this is a thread about malicious browser extension, so I had browser security in my mind when I was making my previous post. Firefox containers share extensions, so it's only useful against XSS and XSRF attacks. I was talking about changing browsers profile (about:profiles in FF) - this is nearly as good as launching a separate browser, though it's not very convenient to use. And using different browsers would obviously protect you against malicious extensions (in a sense that they won't still anything critical), unless there's some horrible vulnerability that lets malicious extensions escape sandbox and execute arbitrary code on a system level. |
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People really should use more than one browser or profiles within the same browser, so that even if something malicious sneaks into their browser, it wouldn't be able to steal cookies, logins and execute attacks against important sites. So, you could use Chrome for reading news or visiting entertainment sites, but then have Firefox for checking your main email, doing banking stuff and crypto. This doesn't mean that you can become careless when you use multiple browsers, but generally security by isolation is much stronger than relying on user to not let malware into their system.
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You don't need to do anything, they will die eventually, just look at their price, their community growth, their transaction flow and other stats - it's clear that these shitcoins are doomed.
Miners could launch 51% attack against these coins, but why would they waste their resources on it? They won't gain much by doing it, shitcoin fans won't become Bitcoiners as the result.
We as a community could spend more time arguing with shitcoiners, so that new investors would get easily tricked, but this isn't as relevant today as it was a few years ago when we had the scaling drama.
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I appreciated your decent time to code the scripts for users but if I was you, I would not going to this one. Users, personally know how many sMerits they have at specific point of time. While if one user is curious how many sMerits left the others have, they might choose to use your scripts and your JSON API for merit data.
I don't say negatively about it but I wonder what is the true reasons to look at the others' unused sMerits (to beg for merits, something like that).
BPIP provided that statistic during a very long period till the day it stopped showing that one. I don't know why Vod decided to stop providing it. As I remembered, BPIP did not provide that statistic before it shown issues with data scraping recent months.
Anyway, thank you for the script and happy new year, @hatshepsut93.
Huh? Where did you get the idea that I provide any data related to sMerit? I only provide data for merit transactions and merit profiles, and merit profiles have earned and sent merit, and that's all. As for BPIP, the difference is that this is an API rather than an app, the goal of API is for other people to build on top of it. I have created a userscript that displays user's earned merit below their actual merit in threads, by requesting this data from this API. One can create some merit statistics tool based on my API without having to do any scraping themselves. |
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In the last year I participated in a hackaton (my first ever) and won it. It was crypto-related, though the task itself didn't require any interaction with blockchain, smart contracts and that kind of stuff. It was a great experience, and I'm looking forward to participate in more hackatons in this year. I also did some open-source bounties, and it was pretty fun too - it's nice to learn things, gain experience and earn money simultaneously. Too bad that platform doesn't support crypto, I even asked them for it, but got no response.
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