Looks like you have to turn coins into paper with the machine, then return from the counter with your paper and feed it in.

Why?

More fees just maybe?

Feeding a mountain of coins into machines like this is one of life's great pleasures, even though it's so goddamn unhygenic your hands are grey by the end of it. I can't find any mention of fees. I hope it's not even worse than what they charge to get conventional money back.

edit - https://www.coinstar.com/bitcoin

You can't turn loose coins into BTC. Weirdorama. More fees I presume.

If that happened to me I'd be screaming the house down. Is that even legal? They seem to have had a flurry of bad reviews in the last few days.

I'm happy with them. I still would not leave any money on there for any longer than strictly necessary.

Looks good.

If I was president I would go full international gangster pimp style.



The suit thing is so crashingly dull.

Really weird that Bittorrent isn't referred to more by crypto fans. It's the one true example of decentralisation sat staring them in the face. If there was any centralisation whatosever no one would ever have heard of it. Yet people are doing their absolute best to centralise everything as rapidly as possible in cryptoland.

V strange.

The exchanges and sites we grew to know and love had a need to stay alive hence the KYC bonkersdom. That's the price of increased growth and visibility. It's only going to go in one direction.

Back in the day you could buy inside the blockchain.info wallet with Paypal. That's the luxury of being obscure. As soon as that goes out the window it's time to man up.

Hopefully proper p2p stuff is going to get more robust and easier to use. Right now it's on the painfully clunky side.

And it turns out the one true anon exchange, btc-e, was probably a giant money laundering machine.

Speak for yourself. I just named all the children I keep in my porn dungeon after it.

Some, not all.

From observing previous hacks when someone is frozen they move on to other exchanges that are more slack. When Coincheck had $500 million of XEM stolen the hacker eventually found an exchange who publicly stated they didn't give a fuck so he piled in there until they caved to public disgust.

You have been given links to historical volume and ways to find more of it.

Since exchange volume entirely takes place on private databases then how could anyone else possibly know the slightest thing about it other than what's displayed? You could possibly look at the in and out flow of known exchange addresses but that still won't tell you anything about actual trades.

Ripple is not a cryptocurrency. To this day I still don't understand how it managed to sneak into this space, let alone eat up so much of everyone's money. It's one of the great mysteries of our time and looks like it's always going to be one.

A five year old account is asking this question?

Sold account much?

Plenty of them are pyramid schemes. It has enabled ponzi schemes in ways that weren't possible or easy before.

As for the entire concept, I think it's possible that all the thousands of companies and millions of people might not be here if it were.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=652553.15

There ya go.

https://www.facebook.com/ourNEM/posts/sadly-today-utopian-future-was-accused-of-having-a-sock-puppet-account-he-has-ad/251908745000131/

I don't get why he didn't just claim a certain number openly for himself. I seem to remember him saying he did it to keep interest going when the sign up thread was very young.

Five years ago now. No one should give a shit no more.



I have never seen one human being make more sig campaign applications.

I'm not disputing future popularity. The bottom of a plunge is just as irrational as the top of a bubble. Sentiment will turn. What I do have a bit of an issue with is the certainty of the timing that some people seem to have. The late 2020/21 peak in six figures is rolled out more often than any other guess.

I think it's pretty easy to wind up going bonkers pondering such things. They're unknowable. And that works in the opposite direction too. You don't know who's buying and who's selling. It's not credible to think there's nothing but the same money batting back and forth. There'll be people buying or selling once and never coming back again.

You may also decide scarcity has arrived just as Grayscale decides to sell their 200,000 BTC at the same time as the Winklevii sell their 100,000.

Within a few more halvings if you want more than a fraction of a coin you're going to have to buy an existing one from someone. Mining is still an abundant source for coin buyers. That's going to dwindle to negligible levels. The effective end of inflation and the start of deflation is more arousing concept than scarcity.

Well I never. It seems to have taken this world by storm. I'll wait 5 years before getting a chubby on.

I instantly abandoned the idea of ever going anywhere near gox the moment I read up on it. I didn't know anything about crypto, I was capable of recognising a time bomb.

Looks like this geezer was instrumental in getting people paid back in BTC. You only get fiat if you request it.

I've been using it for several months now with crypto and GBP. I have no complaints whatsoever. It's always worked totally fine for me. The fees are a bit much but not too insane. I am but one person of course. Others may feel differently.

Humongous fees. Now Coinbase is doing GBP going here really doesn't make much sense. EUR customers are already spoilt for choice. This is a good insurance policy for Brits if it all goes tits up with minaland UK exchanges. It's not much more at present.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six-days/2019-01-13/the-sunday-times-magazine/how-i-lost-a-fortune-in-the-great-bitcoin-robbery-g5n3v0wnr

Since this site has the paywall from hell here's the text.

https://pastebin.com/2R6ai9Rm

Just goes to show incompetence and laziness is an infinite resource no matter where you look.

https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1085511601665368065

Binance have managed to freeze some of it. I presume the hacker knows a thing or two so may be able to move faster than certain exchanges. I always find it weird how rapidly they run towards an exchange when it's still super hot.