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61  Economy / Services / Re: PROMOTE your ICO/product/Service and boost your sales! on: February 20, 2018, 05:06:33 AM
There are already plenty of signature campaigns available for users in this same section of the forums. I do not see the need for you to create your own thread especially when you are a relatively new member and do not have much to provide on top of what equally and higher ranked members have. Furthermore, how do you even keep track of the number of impressions of your signature? The closest thing I can think of is to add up the views of the threads that you post on, but even then, that is going to include the views that the thread got before you posted on it as well as the views that the thread got with a viewer that might not even have scrolled down or been in the same page as you. I do not see anyone taking you up on your offer anytime soon, but feel free to prove me wrong.
62  Economy / Speculation / Re: Do you trust chart analysts? on: February 19, 2018, 04:25:04 AM
I believe more than anything that demand and supply run a market in the long run. What happens in the short term is up to people trying (and some being successful) to game the market. In reality, it is quite hard to read the market correctly and only very experienced day traders would be able to do it successfully. Chart analysts follow patterns mostly and try to make sense out of what seems to me to be following the weak-form market hypothesis (https://www.investopedia.com/exam-guide/cfa-level-1/securities-markets/weak-semistrong-strong-emh-efficient-market-hypothesis.asp). Because Bitcoin is much public, it usually reflects all market information except in a few exceptions (see Coinbase in the Bitcoin Cash fiasco). When all the information is present, chart analysts are able to identify patterns with more accuracy, but in the end it all still comes down to just having a best guess. No one can predict the future value of anything with complete confidence.
63  Economy / Digital goods / Re: SHARED/RESELLER/MASTER RESELLER WEB HOSTING, RDP AND VPS HOSTING FROM $4.99/YEAR on: February 19, 2018, 03:56:17 AM
Do you have any RDP or VPS options that are more focused on storage space rather than memory and processing power? I am most always in need of extra boxes to back stuff up at and am willing to pay a fair price for whatever helps get my redundancy network going. Your prices and specs lead me to believe that you do not offer any of these, but if you happen to have any sort of alternative service with really any operating system (no need for Windows) then we could get a good deal going. Feel free to PM me.
64  Other / Meta / Re: Merit Data from 503 Randomly Selected Altcoin Bounty Hunters on: February 19, 2018, 02:53:43 AM
Wow what a nice statistic you got there, i guess this is not a hard job if it is done by an experienced manager.
This statistic really negate all the whiners who said that merits not given in some section and only meta's people getting a lot of merits. I dont know how does people's brain works if they are still denying the facts while we got some nice statistics here.

This is actually really interesting. While I do believe that there are some valuable posts in the altcoin section and by some altcoin bounty hunters, I think it is rather obvious that a lot of spam happens in the section and I do not believe it is as strictly moderated than the rest of the forum especially with all the coin pumping going on in there. This is mostly the main reason I try to stay away from it.

This does, however, bring up a very interesting question: how is merit distributed across different sections of the forum? It would be interesting to know which sections tend to produce the most quality content in the forums. This would probably be very hard to do considering that you are getting rate limited yourself with just 500 users in the sample size in a single section of the forum, but there might be an alternative way such as scraping the last x number of posts from the section and adding up the merit from there. However, with the number of sections in the forum I can see this being extremely slow. I do not have much experience with Sheets/Excel when it comes to scraping, but I might eventually write a quick script to do it and post the results myself.

If you interested on finding out how the no 1 merit giver merit distributed, you can find it here on my thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2947171.msg30272338#msg30272338 , but i made it about 4 days ago, so it is not an updated version, but it can gives you a glimpse on merit distribution based on board.

I just took a look at your post and it is truly amazing. I was actually very surprised to find that the board with the highest amount of merit sent was Bitcoin Discussion, but at the same time, it is the most popular subreddit as well. I would have believed that the merit density of the subforum would be pretty bad considering all of the megathread spamposts in there. In fact, this might still be true since your data is based on raw data rather than merit over posts, which would also be a very interesting metric to explore. Furthermore, it would also be interesting to analyze the same statistics if any instance of giving merit is given a value of 1 rather than the number of merit given in that instance. This might help prevent the data from being skewed towards alts.
65  Other / Meta / Re: Merit Data from 503 Randomly Selected Altcoin Bounty Hunters on: February 18, 2018, 06:13:56 AM
This is actually really interesting. While I do believe that there are some valuable posts in the altcoin section and by some altcoin bounty hunters, I think it is rather obvious that a lot of spam happens in the section and I do not believe it is as strictly moderated than the rest of the forum especially with all the coin pumping going on in there. This is mostly the main reason I try to stay away from it.

This does, however, bring up a very interesting question: how is merit distributed across different sections of the forum? It would be interesting to know which sections tend to produce the most quality content in the forums. This would probably be very hard to do considering that you are getting rate limited yourself with just 500 users in the sample size in a single section of the forum, but there might be an alternative way such as scraping the last x number of posts from the section and adding up the merit from there. However, with the number of sections in the forum I can see this being extremely slow. I do not have much experience with Sheets/Excel when it comes to scraping, but I might eventually write a quick script to do it and post the results myself.
66  Economy / Digital goods / Re: .EDU Email + Google Drive Unlimited ( BULK / 20 Quantity )( CHEAP ) on: February 18, 2018, 05:55:34 AM
Do you have some other contact method other than Skype? I would like to talk through some means other than that or PMs here. Just talking through PMs would work, but they will of course be slightly slower. At the moment I just want to try something out, but this is mostly because of future needs I may have. Also, do you have all accounts of a single domain name or are there multiple domains that you have accounts for? I am currently looking for the most redundancy possible for backup options for my data. Feel free to PM me with any answers if you would rather not post publicly or with your alternate contact information. I will make sure to post back in case you need a vouch and everything goes right. Thanks!
67  Economy / Digital goods / Re: [Auto-Buy] EXPENSIVE GAMES FOR 1$!!! | Cheapest Steam Keys OnLine on: February 17, 2018, 09:28:52 PM
Our keys come directly from the creators. By paying us, you are supporting them too  Tongue

I highly doubt that the keys actually come from the developers themselves. Usually these random keys are gotten from bundles or the sort. Unless you have any evidence to prove otherwise, I advise any potential buyer to use the same kind of consideration applied to other random Steam key sellers. I'll leave the following which I have said before and am tired of repeating:

To elaborate, buying from any random Steam key seller is always a bad idea. The way these people make money is that they obtain keys at low prices through various means. These means can vary depending on the seller. Some use keys they obtain for free or from bundles such as GOG or Humble Bundle-- these are usually the better (yet, still bad for the customer) dealers. Then there are also the gray-black market dealers, which use keys stolen from some developer or publisher database to make people believe they are getting a legitimate copy. The latter most likely results in the keys being revoked by Steam (yes, this is entirely possible but most people don't know it). Furthermore, while most sellers say you can get AAA games from their random keys, this is pretty much always a lie. All you will ever find in these keys are low quality or low cost games. I can guarantee you will never get a copy of GTA V or PUBG.
68  Economy / Digital goods / Re: [CHEAPEST EDU EMAILS $1] Selling .edu Emails - BULK and SINGLE - $1 - PayPal/BTC on: February 17, 2018, 09:16:54 PM
Do these accounts work with Google Drive unlimited storage?

This should be fairly easy to check. Try logging into the Google account of your email if it exists and go to drive.google.com. To the bottom left it should say the amount of storage that you are currently using. If you click on more details, it should tell you if it has unlimited storage or if it doesn't then it'll say how much you have used out of your quota. Please let me know.
69  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Rocketr: Sell your digital goods for Bitcoin, Ether, and more with auto-delivery on: February 17, 2018, 06:53:12 PM
Can we sell digital services on rocketr? like programming or writing services?

While it is possible, I would not use them for selling services. The platform itself is focused on selling products or goods that are able to be delivered electronically in an automated way. This makes it so that items such as product keys or guides are the ideal items to be sold through this platform. For selling services, a freelancing website would probably be much better, albeit I have not heard of any reputable one whose main focus is Bitcoin clientele. What you could do is find any reputable freelancing website and market yourself there in such way as to make it obvious that you accept Bitcoin payments on top of, optionally, fiat. The disadvantage to this is that it is not automated, but when it comes to services, automation is usually not what you are looking for anyway.
70  Bitcoin / Press / Re: 2018-02-16 US Government Not Passing Bitcoin Regulations Anytime Soon on: February 17, 2018, 08:02:45 AM
Haven't they already passed regulations on it? Making the exchanges have "bitlicense"?, if so what are the implications on the currently passed laws.
I do admire their actions though. It's true cryptos are poorly understood. They have pros and cons. It's better to keep observing it than to dismiss it in a snap.

I believe the BitLicense is only a local law, not a federal one. The processes required for bills to be passed in the federal government through the legislative branch and then to be signed by the president is a very rigorous one. This is probably one of the reasons why no significant Bitcoin or crypto regulations have been put into effect by them along with the heated political climate that has surged because of all the debates around President Trump and the partisan fights. Passing local state laws such as was the case with BitLicense in New York is easier as it is faster to find support for ideals since ideologies tend to be more biased within the local scope. I do believe, however, that any talk about crypto or Bitcoin in any legislative agenda would help promote the legitimacy of these as real currencies that can be safely use to transact with others.
71  Economy / Digital goods / Re: 💠$5💠ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD 💰All APPS💰💲CHEAPEST💲🗽Your Personal Account🗽 on: February 17, 2018, 07:21:25 AM
As a note to any potential buyer out there, there used to be a few people selling similar products to what OP here is trying to sell, and while there do seem to be some slight differences in the methods involved, I still am not very convinced of the longevity of it. A few of the previous sellers eventually quit and no longer sell it because it is no longer working, and the same could happen here. Also, do note that while you can use the Adobe products with your own account with this method, your actual account will not own the product. It is usually sold as part of a volume license that means that more than one user can use the software. When the license gets revoked, you will be out of luck. As a disclaimer, I have not actually tried the method being sold here myself.
72  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: How many nodes blockchain.info has? on: February 16, 2018, 06:53:59 AM
This is the first time I have heard about this wallet. I just checked it out and it seems to be pretty good except for the fact that it looks like it requires you to have their side be able to provide you with their side of the signature given that they have a signature for your addresses as well.

It's a little more complicated, but it's for security. Greenaddress can't send your money themselves with this design, as you hold 1 of the keys needed for sending from your Greenaddress wallet. That means your money can't be stolen from Greenaddress if their website is hacked, the attackers would need to hack your computer too to get your signing key.


How long have you been using them for and how much can you say for their reliability and their security? I am currently a blockchain.info user but certainly not a fan of them and would appreciate an alternative.

I've not used GreenAddress (I run a Bitcoin node myself to access the Bitcoin network), but they've been around for a few years now without controversy. They're reputation is, as of now, that of a good actor in the Bitcoin industry.



I see. That is quite interesting. The main reason why I am still not fully convinced by them is because of the negative reviews that I happened to come across when I was looking for their application in the Android app store. It would seem as if a significant number of people have had negative experiences or have lost access to their bitcoins. Other reviewers, however, claim that this is mostly out of their own neglect and not knowing how to manage their bitcoins correctly and securely. To be fair to them, other reviewers also claim that it is actually quite simple and that there are even people who complain about basic things such as thinking that the network fees go to GreenAddress themselves. Another reason I have not tried it out is that it would seem as if they might not support bech32 addresses yet, even though they say they do support SegWit. I could be wrong about some of this, however, since I have not actually used them yet.
73  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: How many nodes blockchain.info has? on: February 14, 2018, 09:14:52 PM
Probably none,  they frequently have displayed invalid transaction and block data that suggests their service operates without validation.


Maybe the OP should ask how many Bitcoin Cash nodes does Blockchain.info run. Hahaha.

It is one of the of the biggest services that fill up the blocks, they should be running Segwit and should be doing batch transactions if they cared. But they don't, so time to leave and we should start encouraging everyone to use Greenaddress.it instead.

I believe Blockchain.info is under Roger Ver's control.



This is the first time I have heard about this wallet. I just checked it out and it seems to be pretty good except for the fact that it looks like it requires you to have their side be able to provide you with their side of the signature given that they have a signature for your addresses as well. How long have you been using them for and how much can you say for their reliability and their security? I am currently a blockchain.info user but certainly not a fan of them and would appreciate an alternative.

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Not sure what that question mark is about. You mentioned that you should start encouraging everyone to use Greenaddress.it, so I assume you have some experience with it. The questions I wrote were related to that. Regardless, I did some research and figured out some of the answers to those questions and it turns out they also have a 2 of 3 option for address signing which would resolve the issue I had with it about what could happen if their service did go down.

I was not aware Roger Ver had any influence on Blockchain.info.
74  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2018-02-13] Few Americans Reporting Cryptocurrency Trading to IRS on: February 14, 2018, 01:19:46 PM
This isn't really very surprising as many of the people in bitcoin aren't exactly accepting of the big power that governments hold and would not like to use their bitcoin to support them (even if it is technically legally required). There seems to be a similar post at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2914963.0 which is somewhat related to it. Governments know that bitcoin owners are not paying up and they are trying to figure out ways to get them to do so. Each person's position on this might be different from the next, but reality stays that it is all rather flimsy and more research is going to be needed on their part to start enforcing tax payments to governments because of the nature of Bitcoin itself.
75  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: How many nodes blockchain.info has? on: February 14, 2018, 02:54:46 AM
Probably none,  they frequently have displayed invalid transaction and block data that suggests their service operates without validation.


Maybe the OP should ask how many Bitcoin Cash nodes does Blockchain.info run. Hahaha.

It is one of the of the biggest services that fill up the blocks, they should be running Segwit and should be doing batch transactions if they cared. But they don't, so time to leave and we should start encouraging everyone to use Greenaddress.it instead.

I believe Blockchain.info is under Roger Ver's control.



This is the first time I have heard about this wallet. I just checked it out and it seems to be pretty good except for the fact that it looks like it requires you to have their side be able to provide you with their side of the signature given that they have a signature for your addresses as well. How long have you been using them for and how much can you say for their reliability and their security? I am currently a blockchain.info user but certainly not a fan of them and would appreciate an alternative.
76  Economy / Invites & Accounts / Re: NETFLIX ACCOUNT 0.8 USD EACH on: February 13, 2018, 04:25:43 AM
It is starting to feel repetitive with the amount of people that keep posting these on here. I am almost considering just creating a single megathread with all of the information about these kind of sales. For those who are not aware, the accounts you would be buying from OP and other similar buyers are most likely either hacked accounts or carded accounts, both options which could be considered illegal. If you buy from sellers like OP, you will most likely not have any sort of real guarantee and should not be expecting your account to last long at all. The only official way to actually watch Netflix shows is to get an account yourself from Netflix rather than getting one from bulk sellers such as this one. It is ultimately up to you, though.
It is not carded nor hacked. I used a method I've known and I'm sure it will last.

If it is not carded nor hacked, does this mean that the accounts you would be providing would be completely legal in nature of origin? I understand that it might not follow Netflix's terms of service (if it did, then what would the use of the standard priced accounts be?). If they are still illegally obtained, however, then you would be breaking forum rules. Assuming all is fine, though, how long do you expect these accounts to actually last? You only give a guarantee of one month of the accounts working, which seems really fishy for accounts that are not hacked or carded like others. Could you provide some details as to where these come from?
77  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Coinmarketcap Telegram Bot on: February 13, 2018, 04:21:42 AM
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Could you also make an iOS Plugin, like the one from coinbase?

As for now we have not resources and time to develop such iOS Plugin

For what it's worth, I do not think that a plugin/app (what exactly is it that you are asking for?) with the same functionality as the bot would not really convey any of the information or data from CoinMarketCap any more efficiently than the bot already does. Creating a bot simplifies the development process significantly and results in development time being spent on features rather than on supporting different operating systems or platforms in which to run, something that Telegram already does beautifully. The notifications system would not really be any different from the one currently in place since the notifications from the Telegram bot would already show up in your lock screen and you can selectively mute different chats. For there to be a dedicated app for it, there should be something bigger that required the dedicated resources.
78  Economy / Invites & Accounts / Re: NETFLIX ACCOUNT 0.8 USD EACH on: February 11, 2018, 07:36:57 AM
It is starting to feel repetitive with the amount of people that keep posting these on here. I am almost considering just creating a single megathread with all of the information about these kind of sales. For those who are not aware, the accounts you would be buying from OP and other similar buyers are most likely either hacked accounts or carded accounts, both options which could be considered illegal. If you buy from sellers like OP, you will most likely not have any sort of real guarantee and should not be expecting your account to last long at all. The only official way to actually watch Netflix shows is to get an account yourself from Netflix rather than getting one from bulk sellers such as this one. It is ultimately up to you, though.
79  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Mycelium or Electrum? Best bitcoin wallet on: February 10, 2018, 05:24:31 AM
If you install a proper public, stable Linux distribution in a laptop that has been properly formatted with no hidden partitions or anything of the sort, then you should be fine. I see no way that your wallet could be compromised by malware in this way [...]
I ask of you to explain how it would be possible.

A laptop will quite a bit of software in it even when you've erased the drive:

There's BIOS/EFI. Any operating system you install will at some point be interfacing with this code.

The hard drive controller has a CPU running code in it. Perhaps it has malware in it that looks for sectors containing wallets. If such a sector passes through the controller, maybe it alters the seeds/keys/addresses. This would be operating system agnostic.

If the laptop has WiFi and Bluetooth, that's two more processors running their own embedded code.

Keyboard controller. Trackpad controller. Power management chip. Even batteries may contain a CPU.

Almost everything on this list can have reprogrammable "ROM" these days. If there was ever malware on the computer, how do you know it didn't leave something behind?

Well, I notice this is an interesting question. Are there cases of malware spreading between the resident processors in a modern computer system?

Note. Let's not seg over to trying to refute the irrefutable hypothesis here (EG "Well can you prove it couldn't happen?").

This is a straightforward question. Should we be worried about malware spreading between subsystems in a modern PC?

Sorry, did not see this until now.

To answer the original question (codewench), I think you are missing the context of the original post I was referring to. We are talking about a device being used solely for the purpose of holding coins as a cold, offline wallet. That means all network devices would be disconnected or in some other equivalent way disabled. Without these hardware components, there simply cannot be network connectivity in any form. The only other memory that could hold a significant amount of persistent storage would be the BIOS which would have to be intentionally flashed with the malware-infected version while still be signed by the original manufacturer. This is incredibly difficult to accomplish for obvious reasons and even if a hacker did try to do this, they would still have no way to actually contact back their own servers since there is no network connectivity. The only attack vector I can even think of is a variant of ransomware with a pre-stored encryption key to which only the attacker would have the decryption key. But we have already ran way past the plausibility point, so it is mostly worthless and purely hypothetical.
80  Economy / Goods / Re: [WTS] Physical Gift Cards (Amazon, eBay, Apple, Visa / Amex / MC and other) on: February 10, 2018, 05:05:23 AM
You could just use Gyft and get a discount with BTC yourself lol.

You don't even need to use Gyft at all if you are wanting to spend bitcoins to purchase items on Amazon. Services such as purse.io take bitcoins in exchange for whichever Amazon items you would like to buy and you get very significant discoubts of up to around 20%. The one time that I did use them I got a 12% discount on the coin, which is much better than any other exchange rate you can find anywhere else. Of course, this comes at a cost for the buyers of bitcoin, but it does make this service kind of useless, not to say that OP doesn't have much of a reputation.
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