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701  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Your thoughts on bitcoinfog.com in KYC/AML concerns? on: March 22, 2015, 11:49:30 AM
I've used Bitcoinfog quite a lot over the years, never had that many issues apart from the occasional delayed deposit/withdrawal. Only had to contact their support once and they got back to me within a few hours so on the whole I'd recommend them. Personally if I were mixing that amount of btc I would do it in smaller amounts then exchange through several alts at various exchanges.


Might want to check their thread for more info:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50037.0
702  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why didn't the government leave Silk Road open... on: March 22, 2015, 10:59:13 AM
I did wonder whether legit sellers on Silk Road might have case for getting their btc back if they could prove they weren't engaged in any illegal activity.

Suppose it's guilty by association with the darkmarkets...
703  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Any Tips for getting a Start with Bitcoins? on: March 22, 2015, 10:50:19 AM
Heyyo, Ive been around bitcoins for a while but it's still very confusing for me. Ive only managed to gain $.18 in BTC. Any way you guys know how to safely invest and gain, Or just gain?


never invest in any ponzi scheme unless you want to risk losing your BTC.
also try not to invest in cloudmining. most of them are scam and others are not profitable.
you can lend your BTC to gain some interest. but be careful not to get scammed.
i personally like trading, especially altcoin trading.
Trading is not profitable. It is like gambling, after sometime, you are bound to lose your BTC. Even faster if you don't have experiences.

Hmmm dunno about that. I've found trading fairly profitable, managed to invest in the right alts at the right time (also bought into a few shitcoins along the way). As long as you've done your research and don't get too greedy I'm sure most people can make a reasonible profit.
704  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Display summary data from different crypto currency wallets on a Win7 pc. on: March 21, 2015, 10:42:21 AM
You could check out Cryptonator on Google Play (assuming you've got an Android phone)



https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aev.cryptonator


Question is "only" how safe is that one. I don't trust to any wallet that comes up.



Yeah this app isn't really a wallet, so there's no need to worry about trusting them with your private keys. As MZ said, you just enter the amount of coins owned and it calculates the value. Saying that, you'd be right to be concerned if app did function as a wallet, I personally wouldn't trust any android app with my keys.

@OP Glad you found what you were looking for.
705  Other / Politics & Society / Re: US police shoot homeless man dead in Los Angeles on: March 21, 2015, 10:34:14 AM
what is their problem in america Huh the american police should calm down a little ! i dont know, ymabe they all like to shoot people , maybe they are always looking for a chance to shoot their weapon , maybe they like the sound of it ... i dont know but someone haw to do something about it !


I'd say US cops are very trigger happy, can appreciate they have a dangerous job but that doesn't entitle them to be judge, jury and executioner.
Lost count of the number of unarmed civilians killed by cops over the last few months, can only see it getting worse as the police get more militarized.
706  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Adoption in terms of users on: March 20, 2015, 03:12:57 PM
We see articles guestimating the number of Bitcoin users. A general average seems to be about 1.5M currently.

We have also seen an article from Juniper describing about 5M users by 2019.

What are your general thoughts on user adoption per year, over the next 10 years, and why?

What will the curve look like?



Would be interesting to know the true amount of bitcoin users. This forum alone has nearly half a million registered members, problem being that there's no quick way to count how many sockpuppet / throwaway accounts have been made.
707  Economy / Services / Re: Graphic Artist Needed For PICISI Project on: March 20, 2015, 02:52:33 PM
To be honest I think there should be more people like MaliceRed here keeping this section honest. I offered my services here at the end of 2013. People then were prepared to pay normal living fees for high quality jobs. Now in 2015 the going rate for jobs has got so ridiculous I wouldn't offer to work here. Not only that but the quality of submissions and portfolios I see here, on the whole are really really amateur.


It doesn't help that we've got members here who offer design services for just a few satoshis (not mentioning any names Wink)

Going back a year or so people were often awarded more than 1 btc for design work, now it's dwindled to a few members competing for the lowest paid gfx services.

Anyways, back on topic. Hope the designs work out well for the PICISI Project.
708  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Which Bitcoin Client do you use and why ? on: March 20, 2015, 02:42:25 PM
I use core on my desktop pc and electrum on my laptop. HD wallets like electrum are great for quickly setting up a wallet (don't have to wait days to download the blockchain Wink) even more so now it's bundled with Tails OS.

https://tails.boum.org/doc/anonymous_internet/electrum/index.en.html
709  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: [Free] Keys CyberGhost VPN Premium - 3 Months on: March 20, 2015, 02:29:58 PM
Nice one, I'll take a cyberghost premium key if there are any left. thanks
710  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Under US Pressure Paypal Nukes Mega For Encrypting Files on: March 20, 2015, 02:09:36 PM
Sad to see how quickly payment providers will bend over to US 'interests' (ie. being able to spy on all your data and communications).

Kind of reminds me of the payment blockade against Wikileaks, it was futile in the end as we can still donate bitcoin to this very day.
711  Other / Meta / Re: Madness - Banned once again on: March 20, 2015, 01:39:08 PM
That's not true .
Pretty sure I have the right to re-enroll as far as I know , was speaking with Marcotheminer on Skype and asked him if rules changed etc ... he said no , all I need to do is re-enroll and that's it (and he know I was banned) . so you are wrong


The mods, and some campaign managers, are clamping down on prolific spammers so it shouldn't be much of a surprize if you are denied payment.

I think it's great we can earn a passive income from making constructive posts but if people (not necessarily you) keep clogging up the forum with spam posts the sigs may get removed completely and then nobody benefits.
712  Economy / Digital goods / Re: Avg internet security 2015. Protect your bitcoins of virus. on: March 20, 2015, 01:22:19 PM
I use it, and it works correctly in my computer.

Yeah sorry didn't mean to derail your thread, I'm sure avg does work properly on a decent machine.
713  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Display summary data from different crypto currency wallets on a Win7 pc. on: March 20, 2015, 01:14:47 PM
You can simply use MultiBit.
"MultiBit is a secure, lightweight, international Bitcoin wallet for Windows, MacOS and Linux"
https://multibit.org
So you can 2, 3, 30 BTC addresses in one app, stored and ready to use.
But one app for many crypto currency in one, did not came out as far as I know.

OK, thanks. On my Win7 pc I have the Electrum wallets for my BTC and LTC, I have the Darkcoin wallet and the Doge wallet. I'd love for someone to create an app that allows me to see the summary balances from each of these wallets and the current USD value for each of the coins. That would save me some time when I do my quarterly financial summary.

Is that impossible to do? Or pretty easy? I'm not a coder so I can't even guess how hard it would be.

Thanks, -Advait

You could check out Cryptonator on Google Play (assuming you've got an Android phone)



https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aev.cryptonator

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Supports 500+ cryptocurrencies, Conversion & Portfolio tools, Winners & Losers 24h/week/month, Widget for the home screen

Cryptonator is a simple and user friendly cryptocurrency exchange rate calculator and conversion tool, which enables conversions between 500 digital currencies, and fiat money.

MAIN FEATURES:


    Easy and smooth conversion 500+ cryptocurrencies and fiat @ actual rates across 40+ exchanges

    My Rates for tracking favorite currencies

    Portfolio tool for tracking value of owned coins

    Cryptocurrency Winners & Losers for the past 24h, week, month

    Widget price ticker for the home screen



Or you could sign up to a site like this one:  http://www.countmycrypto.com/
714  Economy / Digital goods / Re: Avg internet security 2015. Protect your bitcoins of virus. on: March 20, 2015, 12:52:25 PM
In past, I remember that AVG was torturing my CPU. It was working and working and working ... like whole day.
Sometimes it even knew to make a "Blue Screen". Bad expirience with this one from past.
Anything new about it? As I didn't used it like 5-6 years now.

Yeah my pc had issues when I last used AVG, seemed to slow everything down to a snails pace.

Since I switched over to using avast I haven't had any problems (using the free version).
715  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Any Tips for getting a Start with Bitcoins? on: March 20, 2015, 11:14:07 AM
Easiest way to get yourself started is to buy some from an exchange. If that's not an option you could have a look through the various bitcoin freelancer sites on this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=985550.0

Also make sure to check the services board, lots of opportunities there to earn some btc:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=52.0
716  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What type of system would it take for you to regard it as a threat to Bitcoin? on: March 20, 2015, 10:27:08 AM
A system that is easy-to-use, self explanatory, media friendly and doesn't involve any geek jargon.

One problem I see with bitcoin is that it can (to some people at least) be over-complicated.
717  Economy / Speculation / Re: Do you think 1.00 BTC will worth more than $10,000.00 USD at any time in 2015? on: March 20, 2015, 10:05:35 AM
Do you think 1.00 BTC will worth more than $10,000.00 USD at any time in 2015?

I doubt very much the btc price will get anywhere near that during 2015.

A gradual growth up to say $400 - $500 would be better IMO.
718  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: PoS coins on: March 19, 2015, 03:16:47 PM
Hello. Could someone explain or give a link to read about it - why PoS coins are popular and some people say that's the future of cryptocurrency? I understand PoW/PoS hybrid - this is really nice, but just 100%PoS? Why the hell anyone would need this? Why there is this hype about NXT, f.e.?

There's a decent write-up by mullick on PoS here

https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/700-proof-of-stake-explained-rough-draft/

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So overall what are the benefits to POS?

First off proof of stake is the most effective way of preventing 51% attacks. The malicious person would need to invest a lot of money to gain a substantial amount of the currency. Through either purchasing 51% of the entire currency or mining with 51% of the network hashrate for over 51% of the blockchain life.. Costing them lots of money in hardware and electricity.

Secondly is encourages miners to hold there coins and earn what people like to refer to it as interest. Which can make for a much more stable market value. It encourages a sort of storage of your "digital wealth". Where you know the market value should be more stable ( after the initial dump phase of course refer to the NVC price over the last few months )and you will earn interest on your coins just by helping secure the network on which the coins are stored. Its self reinforcing in the idea that you get rewarded for POS minting. On many different fronts. Not just your POS rewards.


When the POW block reward rounds to 0, The only reward miners or "nodes" will receive are transaction fees. People might lose interest in mining. Dropping the difficulty leaving the network open to 51% attacks. Proof of stake minting will still earn users the extra income. As they can mine for tx fees at a pool and POS mint at the same time. POS will take over as the main security for the network and help give incentive to miners also further stabaliizing the marrket vaklue. If pos reward is too high everyone will POS mint and the currency will become too rare. Either skyrocketing or plummeting in value. Too low and miners will lose incentive and the network will be open for 51% attacks again. It is a fine balance.
719  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Do you trust yourself to manage your own private keys? on: March 19, 2015, 03:00:09 PM
I took a while to study everything but now I can say I trust myself 100%.


There is a learning curve when it comes to being in control of your own wealth, problem being most of us are used to having other people (banks etc) look after it for us.
All we have to do is convince more people of the financial freedom bitcoin provides.
720  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Google ‘experts’ to screen Play apps and updates... Dangerous for Bitcoin apps?? on: March 19, 2015, 02:28:36 PM
I don't think additional screening will affect bitcoin apps, if Google wanted to remove any btc/crypto related apps I'm sure they would have done so by now.

Getting rid of most the useless apps on Google Play would actually be a good thing Wink
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