Does anybody have an explanation for this?
There could have been a technical problem with the account handling at the service you were using, where customer service saw your request and decided to add funds to your account, and then the technical problem was resolved and you got credited a second time. Or your ticket was looked at by two different people doing customer service, and both gave you credit at the same time, before the support ticket was closed. Or the outfit is so sloppy they just honor any complaints and pay out to resolve it. This is particularly true for sites that hold a wallet (e.g., exchanges, escrows, wallets) that are fraudulent. If they don't really hold all the customer funds that they should be holding, then who cares if the proceeds of the fraud is only for 80% of the balance (because 20% was credited to fix problems like this). There are a lot of reasons this could happen. And each time it does should be a warning sign. |
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Oh, I'm mistaken. The naked domain (without www.) has that, but the www. still goes responds with the scammer site.
Weird, not for me. Ah, ... I think my DNS had it cached. That was a visually decent looking site (the lorem ipsum aside). Too bad that talent went to scamming rather than towards building a legit service. |
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If your bitcoin merchant terminal can do that then so can your CC merchant terminal. I guess the difference I was thinking was a merchant can use a mobile or tablet (battery powered devices) to being accepting payment through bitcoin whereas the merchant POS and CC terminal might not have battery backup (or not sufficient battery backup for an extended outage lasting many hours.) |
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BitcoinOPX is an exchange that offers bitcoin options, and now also currency exchange:
The exchange menu option no longer appears on the site? Is this no longer going to be offered? |
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There's a usability problem, I think. I can't visualize the order book. If there has ever been an offer from a CALL writers or buyer shown, I've never seen one in the half dozen times I've looked. Is it that there are none, so nobody wants to go first perhaps? Or is it a UI problem where any open orders available for trade just aren't easily seen? |
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That must be getting more strict because that's been coming up more often. Like here: - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=96166.0Had you bought SLLs on VirWoX or Rock, or did you buy them at the Linden exchange itself (if they offer that, I don't know). |
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[quote author=rjk link=topic=98251.msg1076928#msg1076928 date=1344031025]
[quote author=Stephen Gornick link=topic=98251.msg1076924#msg1076924 date=1344030963]
[quote author=Stephen Gornick link=topic=98251.msg1075172#msg1075172 date=1343964885]
This site is the same scammer as Easzpay.com (which has since been taken down), or at least is using the same PayPal address:
- securecashsolution@aol.com
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Well, that didn't take long!
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Oh, I'm mistaken. The naked domain (without www.) has that, but the www. still goes responds with the scammer site. [/code] |
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This site is the same scammer as Easzpay.com (which has since been taken down), or at least is using the same PayPal address: - securecashsolution@aol.comWell, that didn't take long! Tango Down http://Mtgax.com ! |
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For a company that tries to position itself as a "Trusted Bitcoin Platform", I find these facts disturbing:
- Anyone can reset anyone else's password by knowing their user name
- The "change password" form only has one field for "New Password" instead of two, allowing for user error.
They have two-factor authentication (using SMS text messaging). |
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Following a storm in late-June extended power blackouts hit the east coast. Then this week were the enormous back-to-back power blackouts in India affecting over half a billion people, Last year there was a notable blackout in southern California.
In a power blackout scenario, isn't bitcoin about the only payment method other than cash-in-your pocket that still remains functional? Most mobile towers have battery backup for a period of time, many with generators as well, I presume.
So even if cablemodem, dsl, and telephone lines have battery backup and are still online, most people don't have battery backup at home and couldn't use the internet from a plugged in computer or after the notepad/tablet batteries run low.
Most ATMs would still be without power, and most retailers would close or even they stayed open on emergency lighting they might not have sufficient battery backup to keep their point-of-sale systems on.
Some people might have a smartphone that is still online, but at the store they are used to swiping their card, so even though a mobile app might be available for P2P payments, at the retailer they are unable to be served. That mobile data connection doesn't give them much with present-day payment systems in a blackout.
Two people with a bitcoin app on mobile are already prepared for this blackout scenario though.
The bitcoiners who are prepared could end up being among the few people with the ability to make electronic payments in such a scenario.
When merchants who can no longer accept credit or debit cards then absorb all the circulating cash and with no ATMs operating, then an individual with a fat bitcoin wallet could act as a local exchange to the merchant -- converting some of that cash for bitcoins so that it can circulate. The individual then is able to use cash to purchase supplies and other needs with that scarce fiat.
Decentralized P2P likely does disasters better than centralized systems, such as our electronic payment and banking networks.
Am I painting bitcoin to favorably here, or is a bitcoin mobile wallet (and a solar charger for your mobile) just one more thing to add to the emergency planning checklist?
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I want to buy BTC for paysafecards.
I see that not even VirWoX takes PSC anymore. They suggest the http://www.bulido.com route to buy SLL, then trade those for BTCs on VirWoX. [Edit: VirWoX may not accept those SLLs unless your SecondLife account has been active for a month ... part of their Risk API.] |
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This site is the same scammer as Easzpay.com (which has since been taken down), or at least is using the same PayPal address: - securecashsolution@aol.com |
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How do I do BTC forwarding to one designated address as soon as possible in official bitcoin client?
Do you mean a method to sweep any incoming transactions? Electrum has a watch_address. |
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