well, they have always been a bad service with long delays from their support and all other kinds of problems from the start. but these issues have only gotten worse, actually i have recently checked their announcement thread, it looks like the creator no longer checks the forum anymore.

this is such a big news, the regulations are always good in a sense that more businesses will come forward and feel safer to accept bitcoin because it is legit now and on the other hand more people will start using it for the same reasons.

well, i think it is good that you are investing your coins and you are earning a profit on them but that is not a safe way to keep most of your bitcoin at an exchanger. after what cryptsy did i don't trust any exchanger anymore and it is really hard for me to even keep less than 0.1BTC at an exchanger because they can all run away with our money.

it depends on your views on and investment. bitcoin is some kind of investment itself and since the price is pretty low now in comparison with the time it gets more adopted then it become a good investment with a decent ROI. also there are not enough good investments for bitcoin itself so that doesn't lead anywhere.

it doesn't matter if we are holding our coins or not. in order to become more expensive and popular more services have to start accepting bitcoin. for example things like steam will automatically make us spend our bitcoin no matter what the price is.

i am going to have some stages in my mind for the price, and here is how: any price lower than $1000 i will only hold and accumulate as much as i can. but above $1000 i will start spending a little of my coins and still hold and accumulate along the spending.
the real price in my head is $5K and above that would the real value of bitcoin for me but we'll see how much higher it can get.


wow, that is a nice find but sadly it is not block #1
it is block #2 : hash
and there are two more blocks before it #1 and #0 which pay the reward to different addresses

you should read the topic body text instead of only the topic subject! there are a couple of things that i will try to summarize here for the lazies:
1) he is not satoshi until he signs a clear message with the current date and clears his identity.
2) he (who claims to be satoshi) said i am going to move some coins from early blocks. which is not a dump and it is not proof of his identity unless it is from genesis block.

ok, in this case you are going to have a very hard time gathering referrals and earning money through it. don't go for any of the advertising networks like a-ads,.... because they charge you more than you can earn through the referral profit. but you can test a pay per click banner advertising service, that way you may get better chance.

other than that you can advertise it in your signature space, on your social media like twitter or facebook if you have bitcoin related followers.

also there was some faucet rotators a long time ago (like landofbitcoin) that let you put your referral link in their rotator and advertise the rotator link itself and get referral on all the faucets listed there.

correct me if i am wrong but even authorizing that login attempt will not lead to losing your wallet because they will still need your password in order to login. because in order to access the wallet you need to have identifier or alias plus login password and in case you have enabled it 2FA code.

OKCoin is a Chinese company mostly working as an exchanger but also as a "a mobile consumer payment and lending app" whatever that means i am just quoting the last part!
ANX if i am not mistaken is a Hong-Cong based company which does debit cards, don't have any info about their legit or not.
Bitpay is a payment processor which is big and legit.

but none of these are any good option for a bitcoin wallet (what this topic is about) so i have no idea what he is posting these here.

and i also want to add that with the recent new hot stories about satoshi there is a lot more media coverage than the past and that is a good thing (so far) because it will expose bitcoin to a lot more people.

i just hope this doesn't come back to bite bitcoin is the ass in case the claims turn out to be scams from a big scammer.

scams are always in any business, and bitcoin is no different either. and most of the people know not to trust a brand new company that is issuing these cards with their money. there are some old and trusted services already.

but anyways i don't like them because they add extra fees for something that should be easy and free to use. bitcoin was created so we won't need any third party for transactions.

pyramid scheme is a different kind of scam , although there are similarities but it is different nonetheless. i don't want to go into so much details here but in pyramid scams the investors have to fool others into investing (their referrals) so they can get their money back. the more they fool the closer they get to their money.

this topic is a little old, by the time of the starting post it seemed like a good idea to go all in with bitcoin (it is still not a bad idea) but as i have also said before i would never go all in anything. and always keep a part on my investment in other things. and altcoins like LTC are the best choice at the moment.

you can set the meting place with the person who you are dealing with, just make a contact and meet anywhere you feel is safer. but i think all those who deal with cash they are dealing smaller amounts not 10K$.

if you don't care about using exchanger then use them. any service that operates with credit card or bank transfer i think you can use coinbase too.

this is all wrong! paypal has higher fees but it is not safe at all when you compare it to bitcoin. you have to do everything online whereas you can deal with bitcoin offline and only broadcast tx online. and don't forget about the frauds that are committed with paypel charge-back feature. besides fuck up with bitcoin is not common, you have to be an idiot to make a mistake while sending bitcoin.

the fact is that all the people who you can see posting here about bitcoin reaching 10,000 USD in price, will sell their coins with the first rise to like $550 and right after the first FUD hits the media about bitcoin, they will panic sell.
that is why we can always buy at any price dip from these weak hands

even if the halving was not enough to make this year the year of bitcoin, the huge news about steam is going to make this year the year of bitcoin.
a big company like steam which is dealing with a lot of online money transactions is going to make a huge change in bitcoin adoption.

i think you are overthinking the situation. this is more like a shitty photographer's fault than Coindest releasing this photo with the purpose of removing the woman out of the photo, and it doesn't look like a photoshopped picture either.

it is not just hoping for a price rise. it is analysis and speculation of bitcoin price that leads to believe that bitcoin price is going to rise. so it would be logical to hold bitcoin for the future years that it becomes more popular and more expensive then sell or use it.