I already have a lot of satoshis lost around several bitcoin exchanges. I can't withdraw those satoshis because they don't even worth the fees.
Like me there's thousands of others in the same situation which would make a lot of BTC. So I take it that exchanges keep these satoshis for them.

What do you think? Should exchanges be responsible for the fees and return every satoshi to their owners?

The list is reserved for those who were instrumental in substantially ripping off folks in the cryptocurrency space. Real names only unless warranted (e.g. TradeFortress - not yet added hoping to have real name revealed). Please provide links in cementing your claim. Refrain from suggesting staff of this forum unless the evidence is overwhelming (none come to mine for me at this penning). Feel free to offer up corrections and middle names for those listed below. Apologies for not providing links for all the entries.

In Alphabetical Order (surname):

Colin Armitt   (CryptoXchange)
Ken Armitt   (CryptoXchange)
Simon Barber   (HashFast)
Ferdous Bhai   (MintPal)
Bruce Bourne   (Butterfly Labs - BFL)
John James Bridge/John Bridge/Johnny London/John MacLeod   (Bit Capital)
Shaun Bridges   (FBI)
Virginia "Ginny" Bryant   (Cryptsy)
Matt Carson   (Miner Source)
Mike Chu   (MintPal)
Eduardo deCastro   (HashFast)
Eric Allen Corlew   ([BTC-TC]BASIC-MINING)
Robert Keith Christopher Jr.   (CryptoRush)
Jody Drake   (Butterfly Labs - BFL)
Valton Eason   (FinalHash)
John Fitzpatrick   (Exascale Power Co.)
Leroy Fodor   (StakeMiners)
Carl Force   (DEA)
Carlos Garza   (GAW Miners)
Homero Joshua Garza   (GAW Miners)
Nasser Ghoseiri   (Butterfly Labs - BFL)
Alex Green/Ryan Kennedy   (Moopay LTD)
John Hammes   (Cryptsy)
Patrick Harnett   (Starfish BCB)
Leonnel Chukwuka Iruke   (FinalHash)
Mark Karpeles   (Mt Gox)
Abram Kottmeier   (HashFast)
Yuri Lebedev   (Coin.mx)
Marshall Long   (FinalHash)
John MacPherson   (Cryptsy)
Chris Morrision   (FinalHash)
Nicholas Mullesch   (Cryptsy)
Anthony R. Murgio   (Coin.mx)
Jeffrey Scott Ownby   (Butterfly Labs - BFL)
Joe Russell   (HashFast)
Trendon T. Shavers   (Bitcoin Savings and Trust - BTCST)
Jim Shockney   (Cryptsy)
John Skrodenis   (HashFast)
Alex Suvo   (Black Arrow)
Tài Tưng Tửng   (StakeMiners)
Paul Vernon   (Cryptsy)
Sonny Vleisides   (Butterfly Labs - BFL)
Yan Wang   (TradeFortress <--acting as temp placeholder) This entry needs verification!
Tom Williams   (MyBitcoin)
Amy Woodward   (HashFast)
Craig Steven Wright   (DeMorgan Ltd.)
Josh Ryan Zerlan   (Butterfly Labs - BFL)
Michael Zinck   (StakeMiners)
Joshua Zipkin   (Advanced Mining Technologies - AMT)

<That should be enough from me for now to get your creative juices a flowin'. I'll delete this line when this thread hits two pages.>

Mike Chu   (MintPal)

given the cayos happening in the world i wouldn't be surprised of nuclear war and in this case i would expect internet disruption question is what happens to Bitcoin if internet goes down?

home internet and mobile internet goes down

do not mean trade bitcoin to buy/sell i mean using it as a way of payment say you wanted to send money to someone abroad for family far away

So, i wanted to write this topic because the most noobs very first questions are "how can i earn bitcoins", and 99% of them ends up to the "investor-based games" section (aka scams).
Please if you are an experienced member of this forum, help me to complete this topic.

Pre-requisites:

• No, you will not become rich with faucets. You can play with faucets to start and study your bitcoin wallet and see how it works but, you wont earn more than some cents and propably your fingers will get tired before of that. Faucets sites are used mainly for advertising purposes.
• No, none of those sites in the investor-based games" are legit, you been warned! A lot of experienced members will warn you to not use those websites as they are scam. Please listen those suggestions and no: hashocean is not legit, doubleyourbtcinhours is not legit, ponzis are not legit: they are scam and they will eat your money and if you will continue to support/participate in those frauds, you will loose all your money or if you ROI, you would only have stolen other users money and be tagged with negative red trust on this forum. I been asked:"if they are scam, why moderators dont delete/ban them". Because moderation policy of this forum is not to delete those scammers but to let you use your brain and train you to stay away from those "too-good-to-be-true" stuff. Again: before to invest your money in anything BTC related, search for posts on this forum and listen at experienced and trusted members suggestions.
• No, scamming people here or elsewhere will not make you rich and/or you will propably end in jail. Self-explained: if you are here to scam, you are not a pro. You are a miserable unskilled guy, so unskilled that soon or later you will get caught. Despite the international use of Bitcoin, this community is close enough to find out scammers and tag them...trust me: go back home, dont even try here.

Ways to seriously earn bitcoins:

• Sell goods for bitcoins
• Signature campaigns
• Mining
• Trading

How to:

• Earn bitcoins selling goods - look around your garage, house, grandma wharehouse and see if there are goods you can sell. You might be a programmer even so you could eventually sell your own applications or services. Or maybe you have some old mining hardware or collectibles. There is a marketplace on this forum and personally i check it at least once a day. You will be surprised at how fast you can find interested people to your goods. If you have some money to invest, buy a domain and an hosting, advertise it with a signature campaign in this forum or with google adsense, and accept bitcoin only payments: if you work seriously on it, you would be propably the first case of success here...so you got a lot of room with almost no competitors.
• Signature campaigns - Signature campaigns are a unique feature of this forum. You will not find another forum with active and paying signature campaigns: signatures are those spaces you can see at the end of everyone posts and if you accept to display ads in your signature, you will get paid for each post. Some of them accept newbies but the more you grow your forum rank, the more you get paid. Please dont spam just to get paid: campaign managers will find it out and ban you from their campaign. Write constructive posts, no need to write essays, just dont spam. You have the chance to actively contribute to this community growth and get paid for it: isnt it great? How much can you earn tho from Signature Campaigns? There is a thread on this forum that is continuosly updated with active campaigns, their status and their payouts. Just search for Signature Campaigns and you will see that sticked article. Personally i'm earning 0.008 per post with Bit-X but it is not open to new members for now.
• Mining - yes mining is still profitable and the way bitcoin is designed, mining will be profitable for a lot of years, until the max number of bitcoins have been generated (IIRC about 21 millions of coins). Dont mind halving, the price will adjust itself because the universal demand/supply economic law so, the less bitcoins are generated, the more its price will go up (with up and down adjustments tho). All you have to follow is the hardware and the electricity cost: hardware builders like bitmain, bitfury and their competitors, will continue to build new hardware using new technology, so to keep mining always profitable. If they stop is ok, difficulty will decrease making old hardware still good for mining operations, so that's not an issue. Right now antminer S7, avalon and some spondoolies based 28nm chips can give you 10% of montly ROI. Anything lower than that, is a waste of money and electricity, so dont even try. No you cant profit with antminer S5 and lower right now, so dont whine, stop to say mining is not profitable and buy a new hardware  . Actually we consider electricity cost lower than 10 cents per Kw, good to mine. So anything around there or lower, will give you good chance to profit with mining operations. If you dont have that cheap electricity cost, you should cloud mine. Cloud mining is still profitable yes, but only with a few companies and hardware: actually bitmain S7 market and BW.com are the only companies that are both legit and provide an exit strategy. Both are behind the best pools and both allow you to sell your hash at user marketplace: so if you need your money, you can get it back whenever you want. I'm sorry for genesis mining and hashflare or other legit companies but, unless they provide an exit strategy, i woudnt invest one cent of mines there.
• Trading - Trading on exchanges like bitstamp, BTC-e and others is good but, please, dont use them like gambling sites: use a strategy. There is a section in this forum with very experienced members that can show you good strategies. Keep calm and pick one, you will earn some good Bitcoins. Personally i like Sampey's CAT automated trading script, if i had enough time i would get some referrals from his bot, he is even a good guy and a trusted member. To show you how profitable would be a trading strategy, i am going to show you what i call emergency trading, that strategy i use when there are those huge red or green candle sticks that cause a lot of panic  
  The strategy is to transfer your principal from fiat to BTC everytime the candle stick goes green, and viceversa: transfer back your principal from BTC to fiat everytime the candle stick goes red. So here is a simplified schema:
  
  BTC                  USD                  BTC/USD           Price         Action        USD VALUE
  1,000000           0,00                  400,00             -10%        Sell 5%      400,00
  0,900000           36,00                360,00             -10%        Sell 5%      360,00
  0,810000           65,16                324,00             -10%        Sell 5%      327,60
  0,729000           88,78                291,60             -10%        Sell 5%      301,36
  0,656100           107,91              262,44             -10%        Sell 5%      280,10
  0,721710           88,97                288,68             +10%       Buy 10%    297,32
  0,793881           66,05                317,55             +10%       Buy 10%    318,15
  0,873269           38,32                349,31             +10%       Buy 10%    343,36
  0,960596           4,77                  384,24             +10%       Buy 10%    373,87
  0,971876           0,00                  422,66             +10%       Buy 10%    410,78
  
  Look at USD VALUE column: we faced up a huge red candlestick and then a huge green, by selling 10% of BTC everytime the price ticks -10% and bought 10% everytime the price ticks +10%. At the end of the swing we got a total of 410,78 dollars worth of our assets value vs initial 400 USD.
  This is a strategy i use when i panic and i used it just to show you how you could use a strategy to not "gamble" with your money, so it is not meant for daily trading strategies. In the trading discussions sub you can learn more complex and more profitable strategies.
  
  
  This is it, actually these are the only legit ways to seriously earn bitcoins and that i personally tried with success. I hope other members will add their experiences helping everyone to make Bitcoin community better and avoid days of wasted time (and money) to newbies (and over  , me included)
  
  Hamu
  

Ways to seriously earn bitcoins:

• Sell goods for bitcoins
• Signature campaigns
• Mining
• Trading

Hey fellow bitcoiners, I would like to know if it is possible to buy bitcoins with either a vcc / credit card or paypal? if yes, what websites can this be done in. Can I use an online wallet to buy bitcoins also? I would really appreciate some response. Thanks in advance.

Sony Started Using Blockchain for Hassle-Free Education Certificates

Sony Global Education, a division of the Japanese electronics giant Sony Corporation, announced a new blockchain technology to share educational data with third parties.

Sony teamed up with Holberton School, an alternative software engineering school, and Bitproof, a blockchain notary in issuing blockchain based academic certificates to its graduates.

MIT Media Lab has also begun issuing digital certificates, and in July 2015, they began issuing ‘coins’, that serve as physical versions of their digital certificates, to members of their community.

What can blockchain bring to the table?

Blockchain has the potential to change everything when it comes to how we receive or share our educational qualifications. As an example, in a few months’ time, I will be taking the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT). If I pass this test, I will be issued with a one-time paper certificate that I can make photocopies of and share with potential employers or Japanese schools for further education. However, apart from the fact that I need to make photocopies, I also need to take care of this certificate, because, if I lose it or it gets damaged, it is difficult, time-consuming and expensive to get a duplicate. If JLPT issued a digital certificate, which could be verified through a private or a public blockchain, my life would be considerably simpler. I would have no paper certificates to worry about and potential employers and schools could just look at my results if they had access to the JLPT blockchain. There is evidence to point out that it is already happening.

“After taking an examination to demonstrate his or her academic proficiency level, an individual could direct the testing organization to share the test results with one or more third-party evaluating organizations.”

– Sony Global Education

Full read: http://cointelegraph.com/news/sony-started-using-blockchain-for-hassle-free-education-certificates

in whati nvest

The mining is becoming too expensive and none profitable. I think that will bring Bitcoin to an end. Another problems is that there is only a few miners left controlled by a few making them controlling Bitcoins. It's no longer the currency of the people but a currency of the few rich companies that runs the show.....but for how long can the continue?

I have been looking at Rimbit  instead since it is premined and therefore don't need the middleman with the expensive hardware for transaction validation. Instead the validation is done by the wallet's running on peoples computers. As I see it it's a currency for the people and it will stay that way. Sadly it's still fairly unknown.

Time will show how long Bitcoins survive but my guess is not more than 3 years......please challenge that statement with serious arguments.

If you create a poll, that would be a pleasure for me to help you. The easiest way, like suggested many time before would be to create something via Google Docs.

Your opinions and thoughts as to whether girls should use Bitcoin on webcam sites:

If you had one chance to get someone interested in Bitcoin (on a TV interview, or in private conversation with a wealthy friend, for example), and under 20 seconds...
What would you say?

So if you have any ideas of some programs that should help users of Bitcoin , please shoot ! I'm open for ideas .
(Projects that I will make will obviously be Open source so there is no need to worry , I'm not here to infect anyone. Just to help the community)

Hello.My question is how i can safely exchange/trade with bitcoin without using a middleman?
Is there something like a software which will help both sides for secure trade?

Hello,

I want to as is it possible to buy bitcoins by paypal and don't get ban from them?

I have to charge my faucet but I don't have bitcoins to do it and I stuck ;/

we start tracking down all these people moving it around

and find out *** they are doing with it, and force them to

push more Bitcoin into the real economy!!!

Earlier this week on Monday, an article was published on a state-owned media outlet in Venezuela, one which summed up bitcoin as a currency used by criminals and terrorist groups. The article was published by Corporación Venezolana de Televisión or VTV, a public network and state-owned broadcaster directly under the purview of the administration of the ministry of Popular Power for Communication and Information, in Venezuela.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/report-two-venezuelans-arrested-mining-bitcoin/


after i read this news. im confusion, why mining bitcoin is illegal activity..?