I think the promotions via services like Discord might be a bit too complicated for most people. Why do they have to go through a 3rd party service to host these promotions and giveaways? These third party services just complicates matters and it should be a one-stop action to participate in these promotions.  Some of my friends <referrals> had a hard time understanding the concept and they are also complaining about having to install third party applications <resource hogs> to participate in these promotions. |
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I don't see the reasoning in why the market needs to necessarily operate through OTC orders.
The institutions or the investors with high capital will do whatever that is best for themselves. If they decide that they want to conduct a private trade without moving the market too much in the short run, then they will do it over the counter potentially.
But I don't think that there is any tangible benefits that would arise through incentivising or promoting the use of OTC orders necessarily. If there isn't any utility in OTC trades for a certain purpose then traders would simply avoid it, it's not up to the market to control. If traders do decide to go the over the counter route on a large transaction then it could prevent flash crashes and have a more stable short term BTC price, but if their objective is to move the market, there is nothing we can do to stop them from doing it.
We do not want to stop them from doing that, we merely hinting that some of them should "bump" the price now and again with a large trade, to stimulate the growth. A slowly rising price is good for everyone and not just for them.  Before 2017, we had a continuous stretch, where the Bitcoin price steadily went upwards and that was one of the best times in Bitcoin's history, because most people were positive about it's future and that stimulated the development of new innovative Bitcoin companies and ideas. We want those days to return to Bitcoin. |
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The moment when you can pay your taxes directly with bitcoins in a country, then I would agree that it is 100% Crypto currency friendly. I think most of these countries are doing this, because they want to replace fiat currencies with centralized Blockchain solutions. They also desperate for international tourism and they know Crypto currencies are borderless, so people can flood their struggling economy with Bitcoin and other Alt coins and this will create more job opportunities.  |
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someone mentioned this tweet, If a coin joiner is build inn and become the norm trackers and 3rd party mixers wont stand a chance anymore. Why? People still use more than one Anti-virus program on their computers and they will also use more than one coin tumbler method to mix their coins. You get very paranoid people out there and these people want to make sure that a single solution will not compromise their security and/or identity. Just imagine if you donate money to an organization like Wikileaks and your government gives a 5 year jail sentence to people who donate money to sites like that, would you trust one mixing solution, when you donate to them? |
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Do you really consider that Jack Dorsey should step in and take some kind of action?
That would be satisfying in some ways, but it's a slippery slope. Who is supposed to have authority over that handle? Who will Twitter/Jack give it to if they do take action? Bitcoin isn't a corporate brand, so it's not a trademark issue. What terms are being broken? I think people should just get over it. Satoshi didn't care that bitcoin.com was already taken when he started the project. I feel the same way here. Satoshi did not care about the Bitcoin.com domain, because Bitcoin.org was better suited to this Open source experiment and it was never a commercial venture for Satoshi. So, this is why the @Bitcoin handle should also not be an issue for us. The most important thing would be to keep it away from people like Roger Ver, because they like to hijack Bitcoin <BTC> related domains to confuse people into buying Bitcoin Cash.  |
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It was a dream come true for them but ended up as a nightmare instead of happily ever after. I also have a question for them,why did they choose seastead instead of a yacht or a houseboat? Nope, it was a Libertarian experiment. The Thailand government say they saw this as an attack on their sovereignty, but I think they are worried that this will become a trend and that their coast will be flooded with like minded people and this will not be good for a country with a dictatorship government. <They do not want their citizens to think for themselves and to be free> People living in international waters also do not have to pay taxes to a specific government and Thailand need those taxes to sustain their government salaries. |
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stats dont also account for spammers
EG
i send out
1MeFr4nky1Addr355 (2btc) -> 1MeFr4nky1Addr355 (1btc)
1MeFr4nky1Addr355 (2btc) -> 1MeFr4nky1Addr355 (1btc)
then next block
1MeFr4nky1Addr355 (1btc) -> 1MeFr4nky1Addr355 (2btc)
1MeFr4nky1Addr355 (1btc)
then next block
1MeFr4nky1Addr355 (2btc) -> 1MeFr4nky1Addr355 (1btc)
1MeFr4nky1Addr355 (2btc) -> 1MeFr4nky1Addr355 (1btc)
then next block
1MeFr4nky1Addr355 (1btc) -> 1MeFr4nky1Addr355 (2btc)
1MeFr4nky1Addr355 (1btc)
the stats show that in 40 minutes 8btc has moved. but in reality i still have and always had just 2btc so reality is only 2btc ever moved
take some exchanges that like to refresh their cold store. they start with say 60,000btc and end up with the same 60,000btc but they pushed the 60k coins through 10 layers of spam transactions (600k volume)
which statistically would be $3bill volume. but actually only 60k moved to a new final cold store that day($300k)
But isn't it the way banks also measure the transaction volume. When we say volume, it considers the exactly same thing that you mentioned, while the final settlement amount is different! I do understand, a certain percentage of the entire volume may be inflated, but the volume calculation method is correct and it is the practice followed by the industry as well! Exactly, I for instance have 3 accounts at one Bank and I transfer money between the accounts. Let's say my salary gets deposited into my transmission account and I opened one account for expenses and one for savings, then I shift a percentage of that money to these accounts, then the Bank still count that money as transaction volume. So the argument is flawed, if you cannot count the actual transactions between different entities. So you have to look at the total volume and compare the total volume to other payment options. |
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It does not count when you buy at Amazon via a payment processor, because that is not merchant adoption. Amazon should host their own Lightning Network nodes and accept Bitcoin payment directly for it to be significant news. Moon is just another risk factor, because it is an exploitable centralized service with no reputable history and credibility behind their name. So this can even be dangerous for people to trust these kinds of services. <even worst, through browser extensions> |
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I am with #Ranlo with this, you need to put actual screenshots or game play demos in your videos to get people to support your project. How can we give inputs on a project if you only have introduction vids with no actual game play? Will this be something like Augmentorsgame.com where you just use the Blockchain to track assets or will people actual deal with Bitcoin within the game? <Do not tell me that you are also going to create your own in-game token?> People should make games like "Forge of Empires" to cash in on it's popularity and game play. |
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This is a bet that cannot be won. You cannot send any coins from the Genesis block, so McCormack's money is safe.  People should identify Satoshi's early addresses with coins that was mined by him and then offer a large reward for anyone that can sigh those addresses. In my opinion, not even Satoshi has access to those Private Keys anymore, because I think he mined it and lost it or even dumped it. <It was just a experiment back then and he/she/they just mined those coins to see if it would work or not> Satoshi was not into Bitcoin for the massive profits, but rather to change/disrupt the financial world. |
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Greetings to all friends. I have such a problem. I am writing a term paper on cryptography analysis. I need to find at least one private key out of 10 million Bitcoin Addresses. All these Bitcoin addresses have a zero balance. My goal is not to make money. That is, do not enrich themselves at the expense of other people's money. This is a course and research work on cryptography. Now I can not explain everything in more detail. But to continue my research I need to know one or two private keys of 10 million Bitcoin addresses. For your help I will thank you with a certain amount of money. I uploaded these 10,000,000 bitcoin addresses to the Google Drive cloud service. Help me please. Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KFTPpH8fmw_44Ns0F3mEOFXXjzOQecVGScreenshot:  Contacts:EMAIL: pokgoip@gmail.comVK: https://vk.com/mistercooperFB: https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.bazhenovskyI have all the private keys. I have the key to every one of your addresses. If you want the keys, please PM me. Send me your email? Do not waste your time on RawDog, because he is the local forum troll. He will re-direct you to a site on the internet where there are millions of Privkeys been generated and posted online in the hope that someone might spot a key pair that has actual coins in it. It has been a while since you responded on this thread and I am curious on how your project turned out.  Did you manage to accomplish the impossible yet? Who is validating your study results? |
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I think it would have been a lot higher. The fork that caused the most damage, was Bitcoin Cash. This fork used clever tactics to confuse potential investment in Bitcoin <BTC> by hijacking Bitcoin <BTC> domains and re-directing traffic to platforms where they sell Bitcoin Cash. Most people bought Bitcoin Cash by mistake and only realized this when it was too late. The snake oil salesmen like CW and Roger Ver knew that would happen and they targeted this segment of the market by marketing Bitcoin Cash as the supposed "real" Bitcoin.  |
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The North Korean hackers are not just targeting the South Korean Bitcoin owners, they target every country in the world. <The easiest target are individuals with little knowledge about security and also smaller exchanges with weak security> Also remember that North Korea has some allies and they circumvent these sanctions via their allies, so they are not just using technologies like Bitcoin to circumvent sanctions from their enemies. They are always one step ahead, when it comes to things like this. |
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Coinbase does this exact thing if I'm not mistaken. Crypto gambling is illegal in the states to the best of my knowledge, and if they see you depositing bitcoin from a casino or withdrawing it to one, Coinbase will delete your account. That was true as of a couple of years ago when I heard it was happening but I don't know if that's still their policy.
It should not come as a surprise to anyone that exchanges do this. Just like with kyc policies they have to protect themselves and comply with gov't regulations. They don't advertise the fact that they track you, of course, but most of the big exchanges are probably doing it.
Yes, it is illegal and one of the reasons why a lot of people have lost all their coins or access to their accounts on Coinbase. This is also one of the reasons why you do not use exchanges as a wallet, but rather a way to buy bitcoins to transfer it via a mixer service to another wallet. You then spend the coins from that wallet and not directly from the exchange wallet. The same goes for the bitcoins that you received from gambling, do not deposit those coins directly from the gambling site. Send it to another wallet and then channel it through a mixer, before you send it to the exchange. |
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I usually split my browsing habits to prevent these attacks. I use a "clean" OS for payments and accessing my wallets and I use virtual sessions to sandbox "unknown" websites. When you get these attacks, you just stop the session and reload a new virtual session with a clean OS. Another way to do this, is to boot with a Tails boot disk and to "experiment" with unknown sites within that environment. When you run into problems like this, you simply reboot and Tails will start again, with no problems. <No browser ad-ons needed.> |
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Well they are actually not printing physical fiat money anymore, because with fractional reserve banking, they simply create money from thin air. <changing ledger entries when they borrow out money that was deposited> The Banking system have learned nothing from the 2008/2009 near economic collapse, because there was no repercussions for their bad behaviour. <Some got huge bailouts from the tax payers money to balance their books and others even got huge bonusses for supposedly saving these Banks from bankruptcy.> The third world countries like Argentina and Venezuela and Zimbabwe have to take desperate measures to save their economies, but they are just digging the hole deeper for their own demise. |
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Hey, if you are too stupid to cover your webcam when you are surfing porn and if you have to do that in secret, then you deserve to be a victim of this scam. Watching normal porn is not a crime in most countries and it is a fact that most of these so-called recordings are false, so just ignore this blackmailing from these criminals and just go on with your life.
A lot of people "hide" their porn surfing from their partners and then they make themselves targets for these attacks. These criminals are just waiting for you to respond to these emails and then they start with their extortion, so do not even respond to their emails.
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What a hidden gem! Thank you for posting this, I just love the geographical listing of Bitcoin companies, because I have browsed over to my own country and found several Bitcoin related companies that I did not even know existed. Unfortunately there are not a lot I can add to improve your site, because it is perfect just the way it is. I would add a quick 'add URL" option for people who browse to their country and who wants to add companies that are not listed there. |
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Well, they will have to regulate it properly to prevent other problems too, which is the North Korean hackers targeting South Korean Bitcoin owners and companies to get more money for their political and military cause. We have seen recent reports that the North Koreans are using Crypto currencies to circumvent economical sanctions against them, so they will increase their efforts to get their hands on bitcoins in the future, if this is true. |
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