Yes, the same address. Here just to make sure.

1Light1BN9Lu38Jab9iqVmJXt4Rc66WAoB

Nice to see someone else with a vanity address. 

Enjoy your loan.

Loan has been sent.
https://blockchain.info/address/1CXBoyEH8C8iLnprD5YJ92kacTWDrEmSTy

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Loan Amount: BTC0.01
Interest: BTC0.001
Loan Term: 1 week
Repayment Date: 10/06/2014

Generally all loans (ala bank loans) have you incur an interest payment as a means for the lender to make a profit. I can do this loan right now for an interest repayment of BTC0.001 BTC after a week (10%). Just post/PM if its agreeable.

Please PM/post the interest rate. I am happy to fill this loan immediately once you do.

Any feature that has been added to an altcoin could just as easily be added to Bitcoin if it was deemed necessary. Most of those 'features' are just experimental options that provide niche functionality that doesn't really fit with the notion of a currency. While it can be used for more, right now Bitcoin's main directive is to become a globally accepted currency. On that note, the one thing that other coins can't replicate is the merchant acceptance and infrastructure built around Bitcoin - even Litecoin and Dogecoin don't have remotely as many businesses willing to accept them nor the ability to easily buy them as compared with Coinbase et al.

That's because no one has been stupid enough to fall for your SCAM. What your doing is considered to be economically unfeasible, so unless you are operating at a loss - your intention is to act like a ponzi and wait for a large amount of deposits to steal all the coins. Want to prove your not a scam? Please sign a message where you actually have BTC1800 as you claim. If you're legit it shouldn't be too hard - takes about 5 minutes. Else your just a scammer and a liar.

Well it certainly looks as though its been aimed at Bitcoin - what other virtual currency is big enough to qualify that developers would bother with a phone wallet? It'll be interesting to see what Apple does when the first wallet app gets sent to Apple again for approval. I wonder what made them decide to change their mind...

Read this.


If you are determined to use a faucet then I would advise you have a single address with the sole purpose of getting faucet payments - that way you can combine them all into a single output if you get enough to be usable without compromising the other coins in your wallet.

IMO, people hate Apple because of its clear corporatism that is based upon trying to shark consumers with fancy ads, offering literally zero customisation options (you can't even change your own battery), and the fact that the system is completely locked down (unless you jailbreak). Not to mention, Apple consistently tries to ensure you cannot jailbreak. It would be like a PC manufacturer forcing you to use Windows even if you didn't want to. Just because you don't have to buy something doesn't mean what that company/entity is doing is agreeable. If you didn't voice your opinion about matters the status quo would never change and we'd all have the stigma and stereotypes we had a hundred years ago.

Yes and no. The fee is in effect an incetivisation for miners to include transactions in the blocks they find. However, the fee is dictated by the adoption of the reference implementation of the Bitcoin protocal (ie nodes and miners). A single node will not be about to change the minimum fee - it is a consensus from miners and nodes that agree to have a different fee structure that will lead to different fees.

At the moment, the current minimum default fee that is accepted is 0.00001 per kB. Anything lower doesn't really make a difference, usually the transaction will either be considered non-standard and take a while to confirm or depending on the parameters it will be taken as a no fee tx and still be confirmed (depends on your inputs/outputs and size).

Highly unlikely that the private key was brute-forced. The private keys in a wallet have no mathematical relationship to one another - they are completely random (most are except for deterministic wallets, but even then you cannot determine the next private key without the seed anyway). If you want to be convinced it is unlikely to happen go search for that Dyson Sphere Sun photo that tells you you "Bitcoin is protected by the laws of the universe".

Far more probable is that his private keys were stolen and that when OP used the same address again the hacker simply stole the coins.

Only sad thing is that there are no whales (that I can see) who play with anywhere close to the max limit now offered. Also overall bet volume (in terms of BTC) has seemed to be following a downward trend in the last couple of months. Wish there were more players.

Yep, this is precisely why signatures were changed to so that for newbs they couldn't have links. It's going to be another useless spam-fest filled with poor grammar and illogical statements that add no value whatsoever. Just a note to anyone considering joining this - there have been signature advertising scams before (and it's more likely for ponzis) so be warned that you may not be paid.

Not true at all. The advantage of doing an in game trade rather than getting redeemable CD keys is that if the purchase is found to be fraudulent then Steam will reverse the trade meaning your not worse off. Except in this case, since you traded with BTC rather than in game items Steam will just remove them from your account and possibly ban it if it thinks you are an alt account. In effect, it offers you no different protection at all.

You need to do a little more research. Those prices would be for someone selling hashing power for altcoins with different algorithms such as Scrypt and X11, of which most have not had any ASICs developed for them and hence hashing power is comparatively expensive.

Nonetheless, a lower merchant fee such as the one offered by Bitcoin would help to lower the overall cost of running a business (if only marginally). I have no doubt that more merchants would use Bitcoin for this reason - the only thing stopping them is the initial cost of implementation would cost them more than they would save as they don't have enough consumers using Bitcoin to save them that much money.

I would advise against that unless those paper wallets are BIP38 encrypted that you do not give them to someone else to print out. Unless it's your family/most trusted friend that your willing to trust your money with I would just be content with a USB stored version. If you have a pen and paper you could also just write it down the old fashioned way - sure it doesn't look so fancy but it really comes to the same thing.

I wouldn't over exaggerate and say that all professors and economists are pitted against Bitcoin. While quite a lot of professors hold a traditional view of the monetary/fiat system I don't doubt you'll find a few open to the idea, at least as an experimental concept in testing (which Bitcoin can be considered as at the moment). Meanwhile most economists can hardly agree with each other about what theory works with the current system so you'll definitely find some who are with the precepts of Bitcoin.

If you have giftable AAA games that you could gift as collateral I might be willing - but accounts don't really work for me as you can easily claim them back from Steam. Do you have any other collateral and how much do you want to borrow anyway?

A flash drive doesn't really work because at some point you still have to connect it to an internet connected computer unless your willing to run it off a LiveUSB version of Linux. Still better to have an airgapped computer for this (you can buy a Raspberry Pi for $30 which will do the job).

Yes, if you don't want to download the whole blockchain you can look at Electrum.

Yes, one such example would be blockchain.info which allows you to search based on addresses and transactions.

Yes and no, if you're properly air gapped you won't have to worry about any viruses getting onto your system.