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7381  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Hashrate is dropping on: May 15, 2020, 09:37:56 PM
After halving, we can say some miners have left. What do you think? More miners will leave too? And what if hashrate drop more?

Who cares, difficulty will adjust sooner or later and we'll go back to 10 minutes blocks soon. There's nothing extraordinary or unpredictable about halvings, everyone knew about them, everyone who needed prepared for them. There won't be any "death spiral" or whatever other FUD people may be spreading these days. There's nothing to worry about it.

I guess it's too early to say, why not give at least a week to see how it goes for the miners. The decline might indicate that some miners have turn-off their rigs and shut down their operations because it is harder for some of them to make profit, but it doesn't mean the 'capitulation'. And rainy season is coming to South East Asia (we just have a typhoon here), which, and as we all know that Chinese miners is generating power from hydro-electric, so maybe we won't see any death spiral post-halving.
7382  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Who owns the bitcoin trademark? on: May 15, 2020, 02:24:43 PM
And if you're wondering about the Bitcoin Logo (BTC), it is part of a public domain:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bitcoin_logo.svg

I thought Mark Karpeles had something to do with trademarks at some point and this seems to confirm it - https://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/05/28/mt-gox-operator-looks-to-sell-bitcoin-trademarks/

I'm not sure what powers or rights it actually gave him or where. He is of course long gone now. Couldn't think of a more responsible custodian so let's get him back on board.

Interesting to note that that the trademarks will expire in 2021 in EU and 2022 in Japan. And we don't know if Mark Karpeles will renew it or not.
7383  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Halving 2020 on: May 14, 2020, 11:55:53 PM
Hello guys anyone know what is the price of 1 btc will be in 2022
Why do you think there would be someone over here who would know what the price of bitcoin will be in 2022? No one knows what the price will be in 2022. If someone tells you he knows what the price is, he is just lying to you.
You know, if we knew what the price would be, we all would be rich by now.

Unless that person has the crystal ball to predict and see the future.  Cheesy

I think everyone should move on now, halving is completed. So it's about time to see what it will bring to the market in months or years. @mk4 posted 3 possible scenarios, and what we can do is that the scenarios will be on our favour.
7384  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Why You choose Crypto Trading instead of Forex Trading. on: May 14, 2020, 11:35:51 PM
The simple answer is that there are more profits in crypto because of its volatility. Individuals can go to an exchange, buy and slowly learn to trade and make money specially that the market is open 24x7 . Forex is somewhat stable and if you are person that doesn't have the patience then it's not for you. So I would say that it is somewhat related to our lifestyle. If you have the personality that want more risk more reward then crypto trading is for you.
7385  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: 2 New Fake Chipmixer website on: May 14, 2020, 10:47:16 PM
Alternatively, you can report the abuse on the following:

(1) https://www.namesilo.com/report_abuse.php
(2) https://support.namecheap.com/index.php?/Tickets/Submit

Reported both of them.

From Namecheap:

Quote
Your request has been received
We have received your request and our team will get back to you shortly. You can log in to the helpdesk to review the status of your request, or check your email for further updates.

General Information   
 
Ticket ID    #PWA-170-71983
First and Last Name    xxxx
Email    xxxx
Type    Issue
Priority    High

From my experience reporting sites from both domain registrar, it usually took 2-3 before they take it offline. Crossing our fingers that no one will fall for this trick.

7386  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Boxing Betting this June? on: May 14, 2020, 02:50:23 PM
^^ That would be great if Arum will get Inoue so that we can finally see the fight that we all have been waiting for this year. Yes, this will be just a trial basis for Top Rank, I'm sure that they are boxers on the lower tier willing to accept just to earn in this new boxing norm. Boxing authorities (state athletic commissions, boxing organisers and bodies) should come up with a clear guidelines and regulations before allowing this to happen.

Though this bout is not only promoted by Top Rank but Arum has a lot of influence in the US so it's really good for Manny to team up with Arum in promoting the fight. His statement seems very convincing, then for sure we can expect this to happen.


I'm not just talking about boxing promoters, What I mean is that all bodies, (WBC/WBC/IBO/IBF) and athletics, (Nevada State Athletics/Los Angeles State Athletics and others) should come up with a clear guidelines on how they are going to stage not just small fights but name fighters who are fighting for a belt.

Yes, Bob Arum's sphere of influence is big and maybe he is the right person to bring everyone in the table and everyone agreeing. So that we can see the likes of Canelo or our very own Filipino boxers in the ring again.
7387  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin popped $10 000 on: May 14, 2020, 02:15:18 PM

Although we have completed the halving, it seems that we're still in the momentum so we may reclaim $10k soon, before the end of this month.

It's at 9.3K as we speak, up we go!

$9500-$9600 as I type this reply.

So I'm still optimistic that we are going to hit $10k very soon. I think whatever you call it, bubble or something, bitcoin price is cyclical, we hit some ceiling before going down again. It's just the nature of it, the good thing is that we still have a lot of leg room to see the price going into another bubble, it might take years again before we can finally see that all-time-high again.
7388  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: [SCAM] Avrobit exchange (and all yellow clones) Alert on: May 13, 2020, 11:15:22 PM
Another one reported it this thread, Biggest bitcoin "giveaway" scam I've ever seen...

Usually these cyber criminals uses Discord and Twitter as their main platform to scam people. So just like the OP, I received this kind of message. So that's how I was able to track and report them here.

And it feels good that the sites that we have reported have been shutdown for good. And with this latest scam attempt, I think they may have to drop the *bit keyword in their domain name.

Code:
https://tradefry.com/en


It seems that we spoke too soon. A new series of attack of the clones.
dkbit98 don't give up! Grin

Code:
https://tradefry.com/
https://electrabit.com/
https://yaubit.com/
https://meyus.ru/
https://homybit.com/
https://hohbit.com/
https://kroxbit.com/
https://iostbit.com/
https://maubit.com/
https://alamar.pro/


Oh boy.
They are back Sad
Updating data in first post (some of the links are dead) and not giving up.
Thank you both for contribution.

LOL, maybe they just take a break and watch bitcoin halving unfolds, then once it is finished, those cyber criminals went back to work and spread new sets of this fake clone sites.

I have reported those websites reported @FatFork, let's see how long it will take to get this sites offline.
7389  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Boxing Betting this June? on: May 13, 2020, 10:49:15 PM
^^ That would be great if Arum will get Inoue so that we can finally see the fight that we all have been waiting for this year. Yes, this will be just a trial basis for Top Rank, I'm sure that they are boxers on the lower tier willing to accept just to earn in this new boxing norm. Boxing authorities (state athletic commissions, boxing organisers and bodies) should come up with a clear guidelines and regulations before allowing this to happen.
7390  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin popped $10 000 on: May 13, 2020, 10:23:32 PM
I was happy seeing this gain on 7 of May 2020 only to wake up this morning to see another heavy lose of above 12% within 24 hours. It seems some one or one of the big whales plays smartness on others.
12% increase and 15% decrease is very interesting, as experts say in 2017,
Bitcoin is a bubble that may still be valid, $ 10,000 and drops back to $ 8600

As of now, I wouldn't call bitcoin a bubble, we're still in the 4 digit, I'm sure you have seen the what happened in 2017 started that year ~$1k then reach all time high in December @$19k that is a bubble.

Although we have completed the halving, it seems that we're still in the momentum so we may reclaim $10k soon, before the end of this month.
7391  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Better clarifications on the "Activity" function for brand new members on: May 13, 2020, 02:41:07 PM
You may also want to visit this thread by @LoyceV specially Low Ranking Top Merit earners in the past 30 days.
7392  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: SEC vs Telegram Group Inc on: May 13, 2020, 11:47:53 AM
It's toast. Telegram have announced that they have thrown in the towel - https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/12/telegram-abandons-its-ton-blockchain-platform/

It looks like they're pinning its demise entirely on the legal meddling they experienced from the US.

I'll go straight on the source:

Quote
For the last 2,5 years some of our best engineers have been working on a next-generation blockchain platform called TON and a cryptocurrency we were going to name Gram. TON was designed to share the principles of decentralization pioneered by Bitcoin and Ethereum, but to be vastly superior to them in speed and scalability.

We were very proud with the result – the technology we created allowed for an open, free, decentralized exchange of value and ideas. When integrated with Telegram, TON had the potential to revolutionize how people store and transfer funds and information.

Unfortunately, a US court stopped TON from happening. How? Imagine that several people put their money together to build a gold mine – and to later split the gold that comes out of it. Then a judge comes and tells the mine builders: "Many people invested in the gold mine because they were looking for profits. And they didn't want that gold for themselves, they wanted to sell it to other people. Because of this, you are not allowed to give them the gold."

If this doesn't make sense to you, you are not alone – but this is exactly what happened with TON (the mine), its investors, and Grams (the gold). A judge used this reasoning to rule that people should not be allowed to buy or sell Grams like they can buy or sell Bitcoins.

Perhaps even more paradoxically, the US court declared that Grams couldn't be distributed not only in the United States, but globally. Why? Because, it said, a US citizen might find some way of accessing the TON platform after it launched. So, to prevent this, Grams shouldn’t be allowed to be distributed anywhere in the world – even if every other country on the planet seemed to be perfectly fine with TON.

This court decision implies that other countries don’t have the sovereignty to decide what is good and what is bad for their own citizens. If the US suddenly decided to ban coffee and demanded coffee shops in Italy be closed because some American might go there – we doubt anyone would agree.

And yet, despite that, we have made the difficult decision not to proceed with TON.

Sadly, the US judge is right about one thing: we, the people outside the US, can vote for our presidents and elect our parliaments, but we are still dependent on the United States when it comes to finance and technology (luckily not coffee). The US can use its control over the dollar and the global financial system to shut down any bank or bank account in the world. It can use its control over Apple and Google to remove apps from the App Store and Google Play. So yes, it is true that other countries do not have full sovereignty over what to allow on their territory. Unfortunately, we – the 96% of the world’s population living elsewhere – are dependent on decision makers elected by the 4% living in the US.

This may change in the future. But today, we are in a vicious circle: you can’t bring more balance to an overly centralized world exactly because it’s so centralized. We did try though. We're leaving it to the the next generations of entrepreneurs and developers to pick up the banner and learn from our mistakes.

I am writing this post to officially announce that Telegram’s active involvement with TON is over. You may see – or may have already seen – sites using my name or the Telegram brand or the "TON" abbreviation to promote their projects. Don’t trust them with your money or data. No present or past member of our team is involved with any of these projects. While networks based on the technology we built for TON may appear, we won’t have any affiliation with them and are unlikely to ever support them in any way. So be careful, and don’t let anyone mislead you.

I want to conclude this post by wishing luck to all those striving for decentralization, balance and equality in the world. You are fighting the right battle. This battle may well be the most important battle of our generation. We hope that you succeed where we have failed.

https://telegra.ph/What-Was-TON-And-Why-It-Is-Over-05-12

One thing though, it looks like they spin everything to look likes they are the victim here and blame everyone, including the system but themselves.
7393  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing]: WBC Explores Possibility Of Remote Scoring For Upcoming Fights on: May 13, 2020, 12:43:22 AM
I forgot to include this one, we all know that boxing is business and there are a lot of politics behind it. Mauricio and his father the late Jose Sulaiman will not have in power if there are no boxing politics. So maybe this is one reason why they want to protect their judges first and have them score outside of the ring. Let's see how they will overcome this kind of scoring if ever they stage a fight during his pandemic.
Is there any major fights they are planning to put together, but having judges score via video conference is not that bad but we need to have regular judges too, most of the time the judges in boxing comes out with shady results and hence extra judges via live video feed would be a perfect situation to overcome all these shitty judges issues, but putting everyone behind a live video feed will be a bad decision.

I'm not sure if there's any major fights using this scoring method, but there are talks about Golden Boy Aims For July 4 Return, Would Consider Canelo Fight Behind Closed Doors. This is going to be interesting as we all know that Canelo is the new cash cow in boxing. WBC has it's form of guidelines, but there should be at least a unified rule if ever boxing continues in this pandemic.
7394  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: [SCAM] Avrobit exchange (and all yellow clones) Alert on: May 12, 2020, 11:53:00 PM
Another one reported it this thread, Biggest bitcoin "giveaway" scam I've ever seen...

Usually these cyber criminals uses Discord and Twitter as their main platform to scam people. So just like the OP, I received this kind of message. So that's how I was able to track and report them here.

And it feels good that the sites that we have reported have been shutdown for good. And with this latest scam attempt, I think they may have to drop the *bit keyword in their domain name.

Code:
https://tradefry.com/en


7395  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Biggest bitcoin "giveaway" scam I've ever seen... on: May 12, 2020, 11:25:13 PM
A classic fake-giveaway scam. We have been tracking this kind of theme attacks for many months now, you can refer to @dkbit98 thread, [SCAM] Avrobit exchange (and all yellow clones) Alert.
7396  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Coinbase down again during crash, is the exchange doing this on purpose? on: May 10, 2020, 09:36:28 PM


They have a history of crashes when BTC goes down or up, but by this time, they should have adjust their servers to the volume. But why is it still happening? probably it is being rig by someone inside and they don't want people buying the dip, LOL.
7397  Local / Others (Pilipinas) / Re: Home based jobs to grow in PH on: May 10, 2020, 09:16:16 PM
~snip
I agree as well but the competition on LinkedIn was totally huge especially if you're not on a premium account subscription. So far marami ang mga jobs rito but mostly sa mga napag-aaplyan ko they still required to have you walk in on their company or on-site especially if local lang yung inapplyan mo.

Upwork, Freelancer, Toptal and most known freelance site ay hindi mga beginner friendly or yung mga walang masyadong karanasan o experience and what I am annoyed by their site was their reviewing of application to sign up on them kasi mostly they chose those who has experienced or has lot of experience. I don't know if others experience it as well you can share it here if you have the same story.

I'm not really sure kung talagang beginner friendly, pero nung nagsimula ako sa odesk years ago, wala talaga akong alam, basta nag apply lang ako sa mga easy jobs lang copy and paste this and that. Natatandaan ko pa yung unang job ko dyan, may pupuntahan ka na website na mga movies etc at may kokopyahin ako at ibigay s employer. Hanggang nag evolved rin ako, natuto ng konting skills lalo na SEO na during that time patok na patok, then mga research, tapos maintain ng website, etc. So masasabi ko na naging friendly sa kin kahit bago pa lang ako. Siguro one advantage eh hindi pa masyado crowded that time ang Odesk at maraming jobs na available. May kaakibat lang siguro rin ng tyaga at swerte lalo na kung makakuha ka ng long term at maganda gandang sweldo that time.

Kailangan din kasi natin i-consider na yung Odesk is part of a smaller and old platform ng isang kumpanya. Last 7 years ago nagka-merger yung Elance at Odesk which we now know as UpWork, considering that their databases are all combined now and lumalaki na yung freelance market alam mo na na malakas na yung competition para sa mga spots. Kaya siguro sinabi na din ni rhomelmabini na mahirap makakuha ng mga trabaho yung mga konti o walang experience para sa trabaho, idagdag mo pa yung katotohanan na baka hindi pa tayo yung preferred choice ng mga employers pagdating sa mga available spots nila. Siguro before nuong nakapasok ka sa Odesk medyo konti pa kumpara ngayon yung mga freelancers na naghahanap ng trabaho kaya madami kang napapasukan na trabaho pero sa tingin ko right now hindi mo na siguro masasabi yan lalong-lalo na madami tayong nasa bahay lang ngayon due to the pandemic kaya lahat ngayon ng tao hahanap ng diskarte para kumita.

Yup, kaya nga ayaw ko sabihin kung kelangan ako gumamit ng Odesk kasi ito ay nung panahon na hindi pa masyado sikat sila, (2009) at lumalabas ang edad ko na naman.  Smiley at kaya hindi ko rin matawag tawag na Upwork yan para sa kin Odesk parin. I know may nagkaroon tayo ng maliit na competition with another nation, hindi ko na sasabihin kung sino sila dahil cheap ang offer nila, pero pag dating sa work output mas  maganda parin ang sa Pinoy base dun sa mga feedback na nababasa. Siguro nagbago na rin talaga, pumutok ang mga home base jobs. Ang huling nag login ko nga pala may nag message sakin na bibilhin daw account ko, Lol, dahil nag aged na talaga to at hindi active. Pero siguro wala naman mawawala mag apply kahit wala kang experience. Lahat naman nagsimula sa wala, malay mo swertihin rin ang iba. Nagsimula sa mababang pay at unti unting gumanda ang career dahil naka kuha ng long term project.
7398  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Fun Facts about Bitcoins on: May 10, 2020, 04:09:15 AM
If anyone wanted to familiarised themselves specially on what @mk4 have said, you can go and read it here, Gavin will visit the CIA.

And yes, the very first bitcoin transaction is between Hal Finney and Satoshi himself, you may want to see the transaction,

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/f4184fc596403b9d638783cf57adfe4c75c605f6356fbc91338530e9831e9e16
7399  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: [SCAM Alert] Fake Tesla Giveaway. on: May 10, 2020, 03:09:13 AM
Good catch, I already reported it to the domain name register, Namesilo, https://www.namesilo.com/report_abuse.php. Let's see how it goes, I hope that we will get a positive response so that it will be taken down immediately as to not harm any more crypto enthusiast specially beginners or newbies.

Thanks for reporting. Hopefully they will take action against these scammers. Nowadays fake giveaway websites are coming in large numbers, which is very dangerous for newcomers. The main reason for these websites to come is the rising price of Bitcoin. We have seen before that when the price of Bitcoin goes up, the number of scammers increases. So now we have to be very careful.

So far no reply from Namesilo, I will make a follow up if they didn't reply or will try to find out who to escalate this kind of issues. Yes, I agree that this is really dangerous, specially that newbies just blindly believed everything they see specially earning very easy money. The attack became rampant because of the block halving itself.
7400  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Celebrities Will Have Seat in Poker Tournament for Covid-19 Charity on: May 09, 2020, 11:37:25 PM
I agree, I like the idea of putting celebrities in seat for this Poker tournament for Covid-19. As we all know that there are a lot of celebrities who's into gambling so it makes sense for them to have some fun and at the same time raising money to help those who are affected by this pandemic.
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