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Really don't see the point when you can already tip members with their profile's btc address (assuming they've got one).
Not against it either, good if there was an option to hide Changetip if implemented. At the very least it would give people a choice.
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Payment received, thanks  Going to improve the quality of my posts now that so many people are being banned for spamming. |
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Exactly. Nothing is safe from these NSA bastards. What we really need is mass boycot of any and all companies that agree to this and a mass protest of our rights and liberties being eroded because they're chipping away at them bit by bit until there's going to be little left we can do in private without it being recorded and filled away somewhere.
That going to be difficult. As I see a large part of the "masses" would sell even their own mothers to get the latest and greatest Apple, HTC, Samsung, whatever most fashionable gadgets. These lads and lasses are not used to bother about their liberties until the police/secret service turns up on their doorstep for asking questions about some aspects of their conversations/emails. This is a bold statement. You can't claim that 'nothing' is safe. Nothing is unsafe, until proven otherwise. I've always been telling people to stay away from Apple for multiple reasons, they wouldn't listen because of the iAddicted brand. I guess people with average/lower IQ need that. Anyhow a perfect example of something that is safe is https://protonmail.ch/. This is how you slowly back away from services that are being spied on. That's an encrypted email provider. P.S. Even Paypal dislikes them: http://www.zdnet.com/article/paypal-freezes-out-protonmail-asks-if-startup-has-government-permission-to-encrypt-email/Interesting....never heard of protonmail before. I see they accept btc for donations so hopefully the paypal freeze wont affect them too much. Great to see more providers offering free email with built in end-to-end encryption. Hope I can get an invite  |
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On a daily basis I consume enough drugs to sedate Manhattan, Long Island, and Queens for a month. I take Quaaludes 10-15 times a day for my "back pain", Adderall to stay focused, Xanax to take the edge off, pot to mellow me out, cocaine to wake me back up again, and morphine... Well, because it's awesome.
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I'm sure ISIS are die hard Apple fanatics, always walking around with Iphones whilst plotting their next beheading. Thank god we've got the CIA looking over our shoulders keeping us safe.
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 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/bitcoin-is-being-used-by-african-migrant-workers-to-send-money-home-10098169.htmlMigrant African workers are increasingly turning to bitcoin to send money home.
BitPesa, a service that allows bitcoins to be transferred to Kenya and Ghana for a flat fee of 3 per cent, said its user base is growing by 60 per cent month-on-month. Elizabeth Rossiello, chief executive of BitPesa, told the BBC that a shortage of payment options in Africa is driving bitcoin use.
It’s also cheaper: that 3 per cent fee contrasts sharply with an average 12.3 per cent paid to money transmitters by Africans living abroad, according to figures by the Overseas Development Institute. The ODI said that total annual fees to money transmitters amount to $1.4 billion.
In some parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, MoneyGram and Western Union control 50 per cent of the remittance market while credit cards are available to less than 3 per cent of the population. Other web solutions like PayPal are not widespread and can also be expensive. Bank transfers are no better – they can be two the three times as expensive as other countries.
Africa is fertile ground for bitcoin. It has history with mobile money services that allow users to pay for good using a mobile phone as an alternative to cash or cards. A mobile money service called M-Pesa is now so widespread in Kenya that almost 70 per cent of the volume of all national payments is made through the service.
Toby Shapshak, a technology journalist, said that M-Pesa has become a financial institution in its own right. “You can pay school fees, you can buy groceries, I’m told you can even bribe customs officials using MPesa. The most important thing is that you can do it on the most basic of cell phone because Africa isn’t a smart phone continent yet,” Shapshak told the Guardian.
Bitcoin works with this local economy. Once it is received by a transmitter like BitPesa it can be converted into M-Pesa in Kenyan shillings.
While bitcoin is on the rise, liquidity might still be a problem. As a commodity, can also be subject to greater volatility than currencies, though remittance companies say they combat this by immediately converting transfers.
Transparency can also be an issue. Bitcoin users store a record on their computer of where every bitcoin is spent that acts as a virtual ledger – but the record does not show the identity of users. “From a law enforcement perspective, the danger is that the anonymity makes it an attractive proposition for criminals to use in terms of hiding the money trail we would use to get evidence against them,” Terence Chua, Singapore's deputy public prosecutor, told the Guardian. |
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Send him to GITMO or else execution for treason. His choice.
So wait. You're suggesting he should be either tortured or murdered for sending $1 to someone? That sounds like a completely rational and reasonable response. You know, ISIS would probably approve of your methods and disregard for free speech.  I think (hope) he was being sarcastic. Surprized there hasn't been a Jihad coin made yet, good diversion to take some of the heat off bitcoin |
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You have to be careful what you run on your computer these days. Your computer is like a bank account but more susceptible to thefts.
It'll get even worse once the btc price rises again, i've always had a dedicated secure laptop for my bitcoin stuff / hot wallets and then use my main desktop pc for web browsing, games, downloading software etc |
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Seems like a crazy thing to do, no doubt he'll be added on a few watchlists Not really ideal associating bitcoin with ISIS either but hey ho, we'll always have bad apples. |
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The problem is that most faucets will not let you withdraw until you reach 0.001, which can take over a week of viewing ads, clicking around and wasting lots of time in general.
Faucets are the equivalent of those work-from-home jobs ads you see promising earnings of $1000 every week, in reality you end up spending hours licking stamps for a few dollars a days. |
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Bitcoin has already succeeded from my point of view.
No doubt there will be more demonization by governments and the media in the future but it's nothing we can't handle.
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The activity number is determined in this way: time = number of two-week periods in which you've posted since your registration activity = min(time * 14, posts) Rough summary of what this means: If you post once per day on average, then you will eventually get the maximum number of activity points that you can get. Posting more than once per day on average is useless for increasing activity. The maximum number of activity points you can get is 1 per day, but your activity score only updates every two weeks. Therefore, it will take about 100 days to get 100 activity if you post once per day on average.Activity is updated every hour. The new membergroup limits work like this: | Group | Requirement | | Brand New | 0 posts | | Newbie | (none) | | Jr. Member | activity: 30 | | Member | activity: 60 | | Full Member | activity: 120 | | Sr. Member | activity: 240 | | Hero Member | activity: 480 |
I'm not 100% sure that the membergroups work correctly. Tell me if you see any bugs. Seems like a lot of people spam the off-topic board to raise their post count, not that I endorse it Wouldn't advise you spam too much as your account might get banned. |
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I like to play slots , popular ones from Novomatic and I enjoy playing roulette.
What games you prefer?
Spend most of my gambling btc on dice and blackjack. Dice games are quite methodical, seem to be able to play them for hours (get bored with blackjack after a while). |
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i feel like bitcoin mixing is a beautiful word for money laundering. it certainly looks and feels like it though. which is absolutely illegal everywhere.
If you reuse your addresses often this could greatly increase anonymity. I'll agree on the point of it generally being used for laundering and theft. I think you meant to say 'decrease' anonymity No doubt mixers are used for laundering etc but I don't think we should associate them all with criminality. |
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I believe that each bitcoin core installation should include a prompt to backup the wallet on external media (CD, thumbdrive/USBstick, memory card, etc) with the option to encrypt with passphrase. This will assist users who are not tech savvy to at least have a protected hard copy elsewhere.
This is a good idea, surprized that option isn't already included in bitcoin core to be honest. We could also do with an secure noob-friendly way of making paperwallets. |
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Just compare the amount of 'I lost btc gambling" threads to the 'I won btc gambling!' No doubt you can win big if you've got btc to begin with, I've won ~5 btc in total but still managed to gamble it all away. The hardest part is knowing when to walk away. |
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Never had any btc stolen thankfully, my main OS is windowz 7 though I use Linux quite a lot. This thread would be 100's of pages by now had you included "wasted BTC on this bag of ponzi'd shitcoins". Amen to that |
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Purely theoretical, all bitcoin clients that do not depend on hardware encrypted keys are susceptible to these kinds of attacks. Solutions like Trezor stop these types of attacks, but the workflow is more difficult than simply using a software wallet (and they're expensive).
Hopefully, things like bitcoin will be a driving force for TPM chips, small crypto chips embedded in your computer, that stop attacks like these.
Yeah I'm looking forward to the price coming down on hardware wallets like Trezor, I'll be sticking to my paper wallets in the meantime |
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Saudi Arabia is a place where the people want to live according to the stone age rules. I don't care about them, as long as these people stay there and leave everyone else at peace. But what is happening is that every year hundreds of billions of USD is given out by the Saudis, to spread their stone age ideology elsewhere. I just hope that the falling oil prices will stop this.
Surely the US will call for regime change? Strange that one of America's staunchest allies is also one of the most backward countries on this planet. Guess money (oil) can buy everything. Regime change is only when a country with oil refuses to tow the line on US's economic policies. If Saudi decides to sell crude in EUR, you will find the US talking about human rights, support to terrorism and regime change.  Exactly what happened to Saddam Hussein, he was on the verge of turning against the petro-dollar just before the US invasion. He'd probably still be alive and in power if hadn't try gone against US interests. |
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