i am not sure the number of new coins created every day is as high as 500 per day but i wouldn't be surprised even if it were near that number.

i have even seen Newbie- friendly- walk- throughs for creating your own shit coin. i mean it is getting easier every day to scam people!

wow looks like blockchain.info does really ban showing these small inputs (spams) it was time they did something to prevent their service from going down so often!

i think coinbase is going to be the easiest choice for you since you just want to buy bitcoin and send it to someone.

also if the amount is not so much you can trust an online wallet like coinbase.

i would suggest bitcoin core or armory if you can download the big size of them (40GB)
but if you want and SPV wallet i suggest using Electrum.

as long as they have access to their wallet or those bitcoin addresse's private keys the dust is there maybe they can use it in a pool of other addresses to sweep them . but they dont care about those amounts since they are earning a lot more it is not even seen.

was the keys legit. i mean , i have heard that some of them might be bought with stolen credit cards and when Microsoft finds out about them in a couple of weeks they will be disabled.



what are your plans ^.^

yeah i sometimes have the same feeling about trading altcoins too.
i think it is because of all the mini whales who can easily manipulate the market and pump and dump the hell out of an altcoin.
and also predicting this crazy market is hard because it is not following conventional rules.

i think if the electrum server that you are connected to had bitcoin-core version 10 and up there was no problem. right?

and as for core, people like me who don't want to download around 40 GB of data and save it on their computer have no choice but use SPV wallets

creating multisig with Electrum has clear explanation with pictures in it's wiki. i guess it is enough.

with that logic nothing is safe and ebay should stop their service and close down the website. because people can simply create a fake document with fake paypal and scam with fiat and launder the money earned this way to cover their tracks!
but i don't see it as a reason not to use bitcoin!!

and also for the bitcoin address you should look for an old topic / reply of that person in which he has posted his bitcoin address.

IMPORTANT to pay attention to that post to see if it was not edited, because the scammer can hack an account and edit all the posts with his own address and the post date looks old but was edited.

in this forum look at the top of the post (the date and time of the post) if it is edited then there will be a line under the date and time (underlined text) and if you move your mouse over it, it would show you the time of the edit.

the recipient can not know your identity as long as you have not any record with the bitcoin address that you are sending with.
for example the users of this forum have their bitcoin address on their profile so if we send someone bitcoin with our address the recipient can google the address and get our profile that way.
other than that your identity is known to the place that you bought bitcoin from, if it was an exchanger and you have bought with credit card for example.

but i guess this can be easily prevented by forcing the sellers to give their information and register properly before doing any business with bitcoin.
this way nobody can scam when their identity is known.

i don't think it was a test. not in a conventional way.

it seemed to me more like proving a point, maybe the group behind it was trying to force increasing fees, or some say the block size.

did anybody take responsibility for the test/spams yet?

there is no guide, you have to be able to recognize scammers on your own

although there are some good sticky topics on the matter on related boards it is good to read them

Prevention is better than a cure. Please escrow.

also you have to ask for signed message from an old known address in addition of using escrow.

i personally don't like BTC-e for my trades , it is partly because of its looks which i am not comfortable with. and also partly because i have heard a lot of complains about long withdrawals, hacked accounts, bad support , ....

nowadays i prefer using bittrex and sometimes cryptsy for some coins that are not on bittrex.

i think if the steady growth of bitcoin price continues as it is like now it can be over $400 by 5 months and i don't think it can be anything lower than $300.

but at the same time there is always the possibility of price going to an all time highs especially because of the 2016 block halving.

sorry to hear that.


how did they log-in his account since it needs 2FA to log-in?


how long did this thousands of trades take that he didn't realize his account was compromised


it is a very well known fact that you should never keep your coins at any exchanger. there has been a lot of hacks, alleged hacks, and scams that makes everybody think twice before considering keeping the coins at an exchanger.

the greeks didn't have that much of an effect on bitcoin price as i expected in the first place.

so i don't think they are going to have any other significant effect in the future either. no matter if they are doing a silent exit or enter!

i agree, $2000 within year 2015 seems a large target to reach. i there is to be a rise it think $1000 and sub 1000 is way more realistic than $2000. especially that a lot of long term holders would sell their coins way before $1000 which won't let the price go that high.

i guess if it were to go to those heights the time-frame of mid 2016 would be more possible especially because of the block reward halving.

i think they will come around eventually, but it needs much longer time and a lot more mass adoption. now it is simply not enough people showing interest in using bitcoin in comparison to people wanting to use paypal and similar services.
on the other hand they want to secure their earnings via paypal and don't lose their step there.