Upgrade from 8 to 8.1 was free for me I think if that is what you were talking about. 7 to 8 was not free, I paid my 80 dollars for windows 8, but I am regretting this cause people are now selling windows 8 keys for less than 2 dollars here... are those legitimate?
If you read my post, I've only talked about 8->8.1, so yes, I was talking about 8->8.1, lol. And the keys are usually legit. They come from MSDN, and are called VLKs (Volume License Keys). It's more of a moral question than anything. Basically, a company will buy keys for all their systems. This could be hundreds or thousands, so they pay tens of thousands for a VLK that they can install on every computer they have, rather than manually buying one key for each as it's needed. These are the keys people are selling. |
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Unix masterrace gui is for wimps. In all seriousness I think windows 10 is going to really good.
What platform though? I think newer windows OS are just becoming more for tablets and not desktops. I am not interested in any OS past windows 7 for desktop, I accidentally got windows 8 cause it was cheaper and I deeply regret this. I personally don't find windows 8 that bad. Don't understand the complaints of most people. The whole metro design and no start menu by default is what probably sets it off. Its designe dfor touch screens, to be able to swipe between apps and windows, its just awkward with a keyboard and a mouse. Desktop mode is fine, but I had to install a laggy windows start menu thing. Read my post up about 8.1. Also, the upgrade to 8.1 is free as far as I'm aware. Just upgrade it and you're good to go. |
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Unix masterrace gui is for wimps. In all seriousness I think windows 10 is going to really good.
What platform though? I think newer windows OS are just becoming more for tablets and not desktops. I am not interested in any OS past windows 7 for desktop, I accidentally got windows 8 cause it was cheaper and I deeply regret this. Windows 8.1 brings back the start menu, the ability to bypass the metro look, etc. (basically making it Windows 7 but more secure and faster). The issue here is that desktops are also becoming more touchy (i.e., touch screen monitors), so they're trying to bridge the gap between desktop and tables I think. |
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There may be something even worse than faucets, and that's signature campaigns below posts on this forum. I'm using them, so I can't criticize much, but it's sad to see people writing new posts obviously without reading what's been said already.
Anyway, my case is solid. I gave 2 arguments why faucets are bad for BTC, and nobody so far have proved them wrong.
The signature campaigns wouldn't be an issue if the people running them would actually evaluate posts. Instead, they promote this idea that everyone should spam as much as possible to earn the most they can. What they should be doing is: 1) Evaluating posts for quality 2) Removing low-quality posts from the payouts 3) Increasing pay for legitimate posts This would boost forum post quality, increase earnings for those that aren't abusing the system, and still result in savings for whoever is running the campaigns. The sad part is nobody wants to do this, and the forums are degrading more and more daily because of it. It's a bit off-topic but since the point was introduced by the OP, I'll chime in. While your idea sounds nice, I would think that it would simply consume far too much time and energy to check each and every single post except for the smallest of campaigns. And it might not be enough to check just the post itself to see if it was constructive or not because sometimes you have to read the entire thread to see where exactly the post fits in and whether or not it actually adds to the discussion. That would require a full-time manager working several hours per day which would increase the expenses of the campaign considerably. In fact, the trend is now towards more automation - presumably since that cuts down on manager/escrow costs. And I'm not sure if I agree with you that the forums are degrading more and more. The introduction of signature campaigns did degrade the quality of posts but we have had plenty of time to reach a plateau. Signature campaigns aren't a new thing, and even back in 2013-2014, people were spamming their PrimeDice sigs all over the forum. An alternative would be to have a few moderators (or even one, really) that actually bans spammers. It's pretty obvious who is spamming and who isn't. I can't count the number of times there will be a thread about, for example, a new dice site, and someone will post a message like "i like cars." These things are obvious, yet always go unpunished. |
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Mmm I have a positive outlook on bitcoin but my interpretation right now is that demand is stalling.
This is nothing like last summer's rally from $420 to $680.
For now I think we will not go past $300 for quite some time. But hey this is bitcoin so anything could happen still...
300 is going to be heavy resistance. Then 350, 400, 450... I think we might have heavy resistance on a smaller scale as well (think 325, 350, 375...). As of now, I think we've got a while before we hit 300 though, other than a quick spike here or there. |
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What is the best opertive system gfor your pc in order to preserve bitcoins ?? BTC
The one you understand best and can maintain the best. No OS is secure if you do not know how to handle it properly. If you spend the first 26[1] years of your life with Windows it makes no sense to suggest you switch to OpenBSD just because its safer. [1] random.org provided that number dont think to much about it. This is a pretty solid answer, and is something far too many people overlook. People think that Linux is the most secure by default, when it's not if you don't know what you're doing. With that said, the best option is to LEARN Linux, including security practices, and then use that. It offers the most security for those with the knowledge of how to use it. |
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Hi...
I know freebitco.in pays directly to ur xapo wallet..
I am looking for more faceuts that directly pays to your xapo.
Looking for healthy replies...
Any faucet is fine. Just use your XAPO deposit address and when you get payouts, they'll go there. You don't need a XAPO-specific faucet to do it. |
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Hello everyone, This is only my second post, and I am not a techie, so please forgive my ignorance if I ask the wrong question  I am an author and about to publish the first 6 (of 12) chapters of my first book to Amazon. That's all set up and seems to be fine. However, I'd also like to establish a way that Bitcoin-buyers could read my book. I don't think this can be done directly through Amazon, so can anyone suggest a way that I can do this? I am not techically confident enough to set up a personal website with a Bitcoin pay function. Thanks for any advice. Ist. Just create a site using Wordpress and use something like Coinbase to accept payments. Verify the payments and send out the books. There are also automated ways, and I believe woocommerce (WP plugin) allows this to be automated and should be easy to set up. |
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That chart shows deflation, rather than inflation (devaluation). It says it's AUS->USD, and that it went from 1.1 to 0.7. This means whereas it used to cost $1.1 AUS = $1 USD, now it only takes about half that. This means it would have deflated by 50% (meaning $AUS is actually worth twice as much as it was before, relative to USD). i.e., in 2012, if I had $1000, I could buy $1100 in stuff in Australia. Now, with $1000, I can only buy $770 in stuff there with the same USD. So the value of $AUS has gone up, the value of USD has gone down. For your statement to ring true, it would have to go in the opposite direction (in that it would take MORE $AUS to equal the same USD). Pretty sure you are wrong. it is an AUD/USD chart. You read it like and USD/AUD chart --> http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=AUD%3DX+Interactive#{%22range%22%3A%225y%22%2C%22scale%22%3A%22linear%22}You're definitely incorrect. You can even run it through a converter if you need confirmation. Just use Google and type in $1 USD and you'll see that it coincides with the chart's estimate that AUD->USD is around 0.77:1. Or use any other converter for confirmation as well. https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=aud+to+usdShorter link to it. It also shows the chart over time, further proving that $AUD has been deflating over time, rather than inflating (relative to USD at least). Charts aren't that hard to read, :p. The chart you just posted is in the opposite direction of your first, showing that it now takes $1.2x to equal $1 AUD. That coincides with it taking $0.77 AUS to equal $1 USD. If you look at its history, just in 2013 it was only $0.95 USD to equal $1 AUD. So just from this period, AUD has increased in value by over 25%. |
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That chart shows deflation, rather than inflation (devaluation). It says it's AUS->USD, and that it went from 1.1 to 0.7. This means whereas it used to cost $1.1 AUS = $1 USD, now it only takes about half that. This means it would have deflated by 50% (meaning $AUS is actually worth twice as much as it was before, relative to USD). i.e., in 2012, if I had $1000, I could buy $1100 in stuff in Australia. Now, with $1000, I can only buy $700 in stuff there with the same USD. So the value of $AUS has gone up, the value of USD has gone down. For your statement to ring true, it would have to go in the opposite direction (in that it would take MORE $AUS to equal the same USD). |
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my frnds invest their money on a bank which pays 8% per year....lolz...and they says it is 100% safe hahahaha.....i bet that is surely safe :-P
If a bank is paying 8% for anything in this time of rates, they are taking enourmous risks. I am talking headge fund or atleast direct stock investments. Supposedly interest rates in Aus are a lot higher than in the west. Many are claiming their banks offer 4-6% for savings accounts, for example. I'm not familiar with their insurance policies though. I see. In that case they must have some strongly devaluating currency for the interest rate parity to hold true. It's somewhat hard to tell, really. I remember just like 7-8 years ago, you could get savings accounts in the west that had 4.5%+ interest rates. I'm not familiar with what our economy was like back then, but I figure if we used to be on that level, it's not impossible to think Aus can still be (depending on how they manage stuff). |
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There may be something even worse than faucets, and that's signature campaigns below posts on this forum. I'm using them, so I can't criticize much, but it's sad to see people writing new posts obviously without reading what's been said already.
Anyway, my case is solid. I gave 2 arguments why faucets are bad for BTC, and nobody so far have proved them wrong.
The signature campaigns wouldn't be an issue if the people running them would actually evaluate posts. Instead, they promote this idea that everyone should spam as much as possible to earn the most they can. What they should be doing is: 1) Evaluating posts for quality 2) Removing low-quality posts from the payouts 3) Increasing pay for legitimate posts This would boost forum post quality, increase earnings for those that aren't abusing the system, and still result in savings for whoever is running the campaigns. The sad part is nobody wants to do this, and the forums are degrading more and more daily because of it. |
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my frnds invest their money on a bank which pays 8% per year....lolz...and they says it is 100% safe hahahaha.....i bet that is surely safe :-P
If a bank is paying 8% for anything in this time of rates, they are taking enourmous risks. I am talking headge fund or atleast direct stock investments. Supposedly interest rates in Aus are a lot higher than in the west. Many are claiming their banks offer 4-6% for savings accounts, for example. I'm not familiar with their insurance policies though. |
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i suggest you do some research about trading altcoins with your bitcoin. BUT if you want to jump in without enough information and knowledge you will surely lose more money than you earn. but if learn the ways, the earning is good.
EVen the "pros" that claim to "Beat" the altcoin markets either only do it by manipulating the market or the flat out lie about their results. The problem is that there is so much variance and people are really bad in distingushing results into skill and variance. There are very few who are beating the alt coin market consistently and like you said that is threw manipulation and flat out lies. Most of them who do are cum bags plain and simple. The problem is those who try to trade are so new to it most of the time they cannot hold for long enough or know when a coin is accumulating there is so much to learn not many have the patience to be able to but if you do then you can earn from it if you have a lot of discipline. It's not hard to beat the market with cryptos, really... the problem is people still don't utilize basic investing/trading rules and end up losing everything due to one bad bet. The alts are being manipulated almost daily, but that makes for even MORE profit if you just pay attention and don't throw money into random coins with the thought that "it has to go up sometime, right?" |
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I think some of you are really jumping the gun on these assumptions. We don't need guesses, but rather information. For example, has anyone been paid over the past day or so? With how many people are in the campaign, multiple people are bound to have hit their pay time.
The new campaign of weekly term started at the 3rd of march, most will be paid a week after enrolled which would be at 10th March i suppose, still another 2 days to confirm it Got ya. Wasn't aware it just started up recently with the changes. I'm really hopeful that he'll follow through, despite what's happened on the forums. I guess in a couple days everyone will know whether to stay or jump ship one way or the other... |
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Pretty risky, basically gambling with your money.
you mean investing? if someone would invest bitcoin in mining hardware no one could scam them The risk is not actually profiting along with not recieving your hardware and getting scammed etc. Like the case with many mining companies they often cannot meet up to what they say about their hardware. Not to mention... you're fighting Bitcoin's hash and value volatility like this, increasing risk further. If a mining company could make a profit, why would they sell YOU hash rate for LESS than they'd earn? The thought of this is ludicrous and is proof that the cloud mining sector is full of greedy people. |
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I have to agree with OP. I dislike faucets, they don't help the bitcoin ecosystem at all. They're just a haven for ads and captchas so the website owner can try to make a few bucks on advertising. "click this button once every hour and you might make 10 cents if you do it every hour, 24 hours a day for few weeks". What a joke.
Beginners will happily do that. Who would risk money into something that isn't guaranteed by anyone and with a entirely new concept? And may I ask why it doesn't help the bitcoin ecosystem? IMO it attracts more people into the bitcoin system, and it rewards the faucet owners. As a side note, it also directly benefits the miners, by offering more transactions and fees, which leads to stronger incentives to mine. Exactly, faucets are a part of the bitcoin ecosystem. I doubt anyone would join if we take this facility away. And that results in bitcoin prices dropping, and miners dumping their coins. Respectfully, I disagree. The price would not be affected at all if faucets went away. I got started by buying $20 worth and playing with it, not a very risky investment. However, in favor of your argument, I can see how faucets can attract more people to the bitcoin ecosystem. No one has ever heard of playing a game and getting free money in return until bitcoin faucets came around... So I retract my statement that they offer nothing, but they don't offer much IMO. Problem is first time people don't want to buy. They would rather spend their time in front of a computer screen than going to the bank. But I respect your opinion, as you respect mine. This is because to a lot of people, Bitcoin is still "funny money" or "Internet money." I know a lot of people that are familiar with it and have been since 2013, yet nearly every one of them uses Bitcoin as a joke, making remarks all the time about how it's a scam, it's a ponzi, etc. For people like this, getting in for free gives that "feel" that they aren't risking anything (though we could argue that time is money). |
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I think some of you are really jumping the gun on these assumptions. We don't need guesses, but rather information. For example, has anyone been paid over the past day or so? With how many people are in the campaign, multiple people are bound to have hit their pay time.
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I would have to agree with them being bad for bitcoin and for the persons mental health lol It is a waste of time for anyone who is not a newbie just getting started in bitcoin and learning which it does a good job at in my opinion so they will not go anywhere soon
Bad for mental health? Really? The worst part about comments like this is that back when faucets gave .1 BTC and up *per claim* (as in 2.4+ BTC a day was possible per faucet) people claimed the same thing because they were valueless. I have the feeling in the next 5 years people are going to cry about how they didn't do faucets back in the day (now). If you had started a few years ago, you could have been earning hundreds of BTC a week off less than an hour of work. Not so worthless now, is it? Not necessarily. The jump from a 4 million dollar market cap in early 2011 to a 4 billion dollar one today (x1,000) is far easier than the jump from a 4 billion dollar market cap to a 4 trillion dollar one. Someone who had the luck or foresight to hit the faucets back in early 2011 would have made an enormous profit since every dollar earned would be worth 1,000 dollars today. In order for the same to happen for people using faucets today, Bitcoin would need to replace approximately 1/5 of all the fiat in the world. At the rate inflation is heading in, this might not be so far off. Many countries are facing huge issues due to debt-based economies, and inflation is increasing at rapid rates. |
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I have to agree with OP. I dislike faucets, they don't help the bitcoin ecosystem at all. They're just a haven for ads and captchas so the website owner can try to make a few bucks on advertising. "click this button once every hour and you might make 10 cents if you do it every hour, 24 hours a day for few weeks". What a joke.
Beginners will happily do that. Who would risk money into something that isn't guaranteed by anyone and with a entirely new concept? And may I ask why it doesn't help the bitcoin ecosystem? IMO it attracts more people into the bitcoin system, and it rewards the faucet owners. As a side note, it also directly benefits the miners, by offering more transactions and fees, which leads to stronger incentives to mine. Exactly, faucets are a part of the bitcoin ecosystem. I doubt anyone would join if we take this facility away. And that results in bitcoin prices dropping, and miners dumping their coins. Respectfully, I disagree. The price would not be affected at all if faucets went away. I got started by buying $20 worth and playing with it, not a very risky investment. However, in favor of your argument, I can see how faucets can attract more people to the bitcoin ecosystem. No one has ever heard of playing a game and getting free money in return until bitcoin faucets came around... So I retract my statement that they offer nothing, but they don't offer much IMO. If you want to relate it to games... trials have been around since software was first invented, and long before things like Bitcoin were ever thought of. Shareware is another form. This is almost exactly what faucets offer, though there is a tangible benefit (in that you can use the funds to purchase something). |
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