If you mean you're "excited for it" I pity you, and if you ever buy Facebook's shitcoin, I will double that pity. 

I wouldn't go so far as to say only suckers use Facebook, because that would be insulting people I know who aren't suckers, but man....people who use it just don't value their privacy at all.  Facebook is probably worse than google in that respect, and I try not to use google's services when possible, but they're everywhere.

As far as FB's coin goes, I'm not sure how much of a splash it's going to make.  As I said in another thread, the best thing I see coming from it is that it might get people interested in real cryptos like bitcoin.  I don't know many details about it, though.  At the very least it'll be interesting to see how it works, if it catches on, and if it's just another privacy-destroying tool Facebook is going to add to its armament.

Update:

Changelly refunded me 0.004688BTC, neglecting to refund the extra 0.0001BTC I sent as mentioned in the OP, but I'm happy to be done with them. 

I got nothing but excuses and stonewalling from them, and I will never use their service again.

By the way, the TxID of the refund is: c1e337f718227e0f804231b280a09978cad99cd6b009190ba53c38449b952904.  The address I received the funds at is 18jgCW4WX3kqZU6cacgGEReGc7nZJf7S29, and you know what?  It's my Binance deposit address.  I got my trade done on a real fucking exchange, thank you very little Changelly.  You can rot in hell.

Ugh.  I think I just wanted the coins quickly--I was being irrationally impatient.  Normally I do use Binance and believe me, they're the only exchange I'm going to use from now on unless something better comes along.

And yeah, lots of alts are at very low prices and though I'm not passionate about them in general, I really like the interest-earning (or whatever you want to call it) properties of coins like NEO and PIVX.  Gotta buy low and sell high, right?

By the way, all I can think about Changelly is this.

I have used Changelly many times since 2017, and have never had any problems with them.  Not even any delays that I recall.

But oh boy, I have to relate my recent shitty experience with their customer service.  This is not a scam accusation yet, since they tell me the issue is going to be resolved, but I will fill out a formal scam accusation form if I don’t receive my coins within a week or so.

I sent Changelly 0.004688 btc to exchange for 3 NEO.  After waiting about 4 hours or so, the NEO still had not arrived in my wallet.  I figured I might not have sent enough bitcoin, as Changelly advises customers to send a little extra when buying NEO (I forget the reason, but the statement was there when I did the exchange).  I then sent 0.0001 btc to the same Changelly address just in case.  More hours went by, and still no NEO.

The e-mail correspondence between Changelly and myself is as follows:

5/22, me:
5/22, Changelly:

5/22, me:
5/22, Changelly:
5/25, me:
5/25, Changelly:
5/28, me:
5/28, Changelly:
5/28, me:
5/28, Changelly:
5/28, me:
5/28, Changelly:
5/28, me:
5/28, Changelly:
5/28, me: (I was writing this in a Word document in between these exchanges and sent them a draft)

5/28, Changelly:
5/28, me:
5/28, Changelly: _______________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________

So the bottom line here is that immediately after I sent my bitcoin to exchange for NEO on 5/22, they took NEO down for maintenance and have not resolved this issue since.  

They offered a refund and then immediately reneged.  

They have no idea how long NEO is going to be in “maintenance mode” and their method of providing customer service is to basically stonewall their customers with generic responses.

No reputable exchange would have customer service like this.  I would think twice about using Changelly, because you just don’t know if they’re going to pull some shit like this on you.  I'm not looking for pity or "I told you so's" in this thread; I'm just fed up with exchanges that think they can do crap like this.  

Again, this isn’t a formal scam accusation since there’s still the hope that I’ll get my NEO, but I wanted to warn the community and advise people not to stand for garbage the likes of which Changelly is serving up.

Edit:  As a huge, belly-laughing LOL, this is their response after I sent them a link to this thread:


Fucking morons.

Yeah, it's frowned upon but if the posts are actually good and you don't overdo it, I don't think anyone is going to tag you for it.  And yes, you will certainly have a bias since he's your friend, and that's not something you can eliminate entirely.  IMO I probably wouldn't do it if you want to be morally pure (by bitcointalk standards), but if you're worried about consequences I don't suspect there would be any.

Merit abusers rarely get tagged anymore, and if they do then they've usually distributed merits to a slew of alt accounts or friends/family, and it's done for the purpose of helping them rank up.  Or they'll get tagged for selling merits--and even with all of that, it's still hit or miss.  So I wouldn't worry too much about it.  Others might disagree with me, but that's just my opinion.

I'm bumping this thread because I'm considering using Coinswitch to buy some RDD (don't laugh at me, I beg you).  I can't use ShapeShift as I'm in the US, and none of the other big exchanges offer the coin except Yobit, and I don't feel like using them.

Has anyone used Coinswitch recently and if so, what was your experience?  Anyone have any problems with them?  I did read the link to the Reddit thread above, but that was pretty useless.  I don't feel like getting ripped off by some fly-by-night exchange and I'm skeptical about crypto exchanges in general to say the least.

Thanks, everyone.

And people use Tor for all sorts of nefarious purposes, and yet it was designed by the US government (if I'm not completely mistaken).  In any case, nobody has tried to shut it down yet.  If everything that could be used do help criminals got shut down, the world would come to a screeching halt, and what this recent action looks like to me is a witch hunt.

I certainly wouldn't want to see the Chipmixer campaign end, but it wouldn't be the end of the world for me if it did.  I've been in numerous campaigns, and with the exception of 777Coin, they've all ended.  I have a life outside the forum, but I do like earning bitcoin as it gives me some extra dough to experiment with trading and/or holding bitcoin.  It's a pain in the ass buying bitcoin with fiat.

I imagine it is, but I doubt any of these mixer services are going to fight back.  And a lot of laws are overarching and can be used to prosecute things you wouldn't think were possible.  So if I'm not mistaken, this is a European thing right now with the shutdowns.  Are the remaining mixing services all based in Europe?  I don't even know where Chipmixer is incorporated.

I rarely ever post in the mining section, but I did yesterday or the day before in response to one of philipma1957's posts.  If I didn't delete the PM I got, I'd post it here, but my post was (I thought) on-topic.  I basically said that I found solar mining fascinating and wanted phillipma1957 to post a link to a Youtube video that he had made reference to in the post to which I was responding.  But my post got deleted.

I'm assuming that moderation in the mining section is very strict, but if that's the reason that OP and I got our posts deleted, I think it's way too strict.  But anyway, I sent phillipma1957 a PM instead and got an answer from him.

OP, in general you're going to have your posts nuked from time to time, and there's nothing you can do about it.  It's just something we all have to accept.  There's no need to start threads when it happens.  And believe me, every section is different as far as strictness of moderation. 

As stated in the title, I need $150 worth of bitcoin at preev 1:1, which right now would be 0.017073BTC.  I can adjust the amount I'm offering if the rate changes.

I will not send first unless you have significant green trust or if I've done business with you before.

This will be a neutral feedback transaction.

Send me a PM if you're willing to help me out, as I might miss seeing this thread if you post here.

Local rule:  Please do not post here unless you're interested in doing this deal.  PayPal is very risky because of the chance of chargebacks, but I have never done this and won't ever.  Also, I won't deal with anyone under Full Member unless they're willing to send first.

Thanks.

Edit: Deal done with Wapinter (again).  TxID: e7961cebb9e2a6ba12adbc73c02306ba8b15b2b684e582265a4162deee67a335

Locking thread now.

Personally I would not (and didn't) leave you any negative trust--for the same reason I haven't tagged cryptohunter, Thule, or any of that gang.  But after reviewing your posts, you're doing exactly what Lauda said you were, which is perpetuating untruths about DT members.  You and all the other DT critics are lumping all DT members into this big, imaginary cabal that's all-powerful and evil. 

And that's not true.  May I remind you that Lauda is just one single member of DT.  Don't paint all the other members with the same brush, because not everyone agrees with Lauda.  In fact, there are many disagreements among DT members about a lot of issues, and it's supposed to be that way.  Theymos expanded DT1 for a reason, which was to give it more diversity of opinion. 

I don't think trolls like you should be tagged for spreading falsehoods, but that's just my opinion.  I have no control over what Lauda does, but obviously Lauda doesn't trust you and has given you a neg accordingly.  And frankly, a lot of us are tired of hearing this same old bullshit being recycled with alt accounts.  It's time to stop; if you don't like the structure of this forum, leave it.  Theymos obviously isn't listening to your tired-ass, threadbare criticism.

It's the only other one that I know of, but I'm no expert about the mixing business and don't know how many services are around.  Aside from the fact that I'd hate to not be in their campaign anymore, I would hate to see another coin mixing service bite the dust because I think they serve a good function (and yes, I'm well aware that a lot of criminals probably use them too). 

Well that's sort of reassuring.  I'm not quite sure which coins qualify as strict "privacy coins", but I know some are far more anonymous than others, and I do hope governments don't go after them eventually.  I plan on holding my PIVX for some time (I think that one could be considered a privacy coin, right?).  And as to the bolded part above, I picture the US government using privacy coins to mask their financially deviant behavior, e.g., funneling funds to rebels overseas and all sorts of other shit.  Of course there's going to be a need for crypto with a very high anonymity factor built into it.

Hell yeah--I'm not sure how bad I'd be freaking out if I were Hhampuz and I'd been working for a company that had just been shut down by the government (even though it's probably not his government).  However, I also don't know how vigorously the authorities would pursue a campaign manager, but if they're looking for every penny to be accounted for they might want to know where the leftover funds from the campaign went.  Who knows?

Yeah, the only one who can provide the truth is Hhampuz, and it's so far not clear whether he's going to comment on this.  I think it would be good if he did, but there may be reasons why he won't or can't.  And as much as I don't like Quickseller, I don't think he's wrong for bringing attention to this.  If this was something jamalaezaz or Quickseller did, I'm very sure there wouldn't be such a fuss if the same evidence was presented.

Just don't concern yourself with crap like that, because although that gang can't seem to grasp it, no one is taking anything they say seriously.  But because they don't get it, they keep repeating the same nonsense over and over, and the list of members they attack just keeps growing.  It jumped the shark when they went after Hhampuz.

You're not a shitposter and you're a trusted member here.  Those dick knobs aren't going to change those facts no matter how much blabbering they do across however many threads they create and/or post in.  Their criticism is extremely "loud" by virtue of it being so prolific, but it's the bitcointalk equivalent of yellow journalism.  People read it for entertainment, but if they actually believe it they're probably morons.

Because we have a gang of idiots that have a serious problem with DT based on jealousy and resentment, and they're trying to smear anyone who's on DT or disagrees with them about the trust system.

I don't know how off-topic this is, but since this thread is about me I'll ask the question.  What is this feuding with bill gator all about?  I can see there's obviously some disagreement about negs being left, but I suspect they would not have been if there weren't more factors involved.  Can anyone give me a tl;dr version of why he got booted from DT1 and got all the tags?  I know he bought the account a while back and got the plagiarism ban reversed, but I'm sure there are threads and posts I've missed where the animosity originated from.

Hopefully we can agree to disagree on opinions of bill gator, because he's never shown any untrustworthy behavior to me and in addition has always conducted himself as a polite gentleman in the few PMs he's sent to me.  So what the hell did he do to deserve this much hatin'?

I don't see any tinfoil hat on you, my man.  As to the above quote, I agree and currently I'm not using any exchange that requires KYC (I have used Coinbase and Circle in the past).  I'm not so much concerned about the data an exchange can collect from me, but I'd like to keep my crypto dealings a wee bit private if possible--but FB and Google?  Oh hell no.  I don't use FB and I stopped using google as a search engine, though I can't say I've stopped using all of their services.

Those two companies are like big brother from George Orwell's 1984, and both of them freak me out.  I don't know how successful FB's crypto will be, but it might spark some interest in real cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.  But we'll see.  I don't know much about what they're planning and how their coin is going to be implemented--and I'm not very interested in the details either.  Fuck Facebook, that's my general opinion about them. 

I don't know what you meant by the bolded sentence above, but I think governments are going to start regulating crypto.  They already have, in fact, in the form of those KYC requirements and so forth.  They won't be able to destroy it, but governments have more power over it than most people realize.  They have a bazooka in their pocket that they just haven't fired yet.

Your account was registered in February of this year and somehow you've gotten so concerned with forum politics that you're asking why a single account didn't get tagged way back in 2016?  Yeah, I'm sure you're not an alt account of one of the troll posse members.

To answer the question: I have no fucking clue why I didn't tag him back then.  Maybe I didn't notice it.  Maybe I removed the tag, which I tend to do for members who've shown themselves to be trustworthy over time.  Don't remember, and at this point I don't care.  I'm not going to tag anybody in 2019 for an account sale in 2016. 

That's the only response you're going to get from me, so if that satisfies your question (or not), you can now lock the thread.

Reminds me of something I wrote not too long ago:


If you're doing a bounty for inherently dishonest people who are looking to screw their investors (which is unfortunately the case with most ICOs in my opinion), be prepared for them to take advantage of you if they can make extra money by doing so. 

The current state of the ICO market is just abysmal.  Show me one project that's caught on and actually provided value to an industry.  Even if you could point out five examples, the ratio of beneficial ICOs to scam/worthless ones is infinitesimal.  People need to stop investing in them and stop advertising for them.

OP, I hear what you're saying, but it's not true for every job.  I made $11/hr in 1996 at a hospital I worked at for a few years (with no raises, by the way), and the starting wage for a related job that I know of that somebody took:  $11/hr.  So yeah, some wages do stay the same while the price of goods & services continue to increase.

On the other hand, I've held jobs where I got yearly raises that well outpaced inflation.  It really depends on what kind of work you do.  And think of this:  if wages never kept up with inflation, every single person would be living in poverty.  So what you're saying does not hold true in all cases.  Not by a long shot.

Yep to both.  But there are a lot of newbies coming in to the crypto world right now, likely because of the recent price increase--just like from 2009-2014, and 2017.  So there are going to be members of this forum who aren't quite accustomed to bitcoin's notorious volatility, and boy will they learn that in a hurry.

Pullbacks/corrections are normal and are healthy for the market, not just bitcoin but any market.  You can't have the price of something just keep increasing exponentially (or even linearly) without dips.  It just doesn't happen.  Traders do periodically sell and take their profits, and that causes the dips.  To those who haven't been around bitcoin that long:  be patient and don't freak out when the price drops $1000 (or pick a number) in one day.  It's happened many times before and those events will happen many times again in the future.

Bingo, bro.  The cost of electricity or whether the mining equipment is already paid off only makes a small difference--and it's an unlikely scenario in most cases anyway that power is going to be free and mining has produced enough profit to pay for all the hardware in full.  And if you're talking about a solar-powered mining farm, that just isn't going to happen if people don't pay fees (or very small ones).

I'll admit I'm not expert in mining.  I know very little about it, in fact.  What I'm wondering is what would happen if bitcoin's price reached a level that was so insane that 1 satoshi was something like $5 or even higher.  Would that not screw up the entire bitcoin system?  There would be no way to send small amounts of bitcoin or very exact amounts, much less pay a fee to the miners.  Am I missing something in that hypothetical case other than the fact that 1 satoshi will probably never be worth that much?