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81  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Paidverts ® - 155% Profit Of Every Investments | 120% Return if you get Scammed on: November 08, 2014, 10:13:16 AM
up for today
Thanks for the reminder. I thought I might as well cash out the few cents I made. That's when I stumbled over another little gem when I wanted to add a Bitcoin address:

You cannot cash out less than $5; and when you have more than that, they demand a 5% fee plus another $0.25. For a transaction which is essentially free of charge.

Here's a list of the minimums from their FAQ:
Perfect Money: $1.00
EgoPay: $10.00
Solid Trust Pay: $10.00
PayPal: $2.00
Payza: $2.00
Western Union: $250.00
Bank Wire: $250.00
Bitcoin: $5.00 (5.00% + $0.25)

For fees they link to their parent site, mytrafficvalue. Minimums and fees from there:
Perfect Money: $1.00 (5.50% + $0.25)
EgoPay: $10.00 (7.00%)
Solid Trust Pay: $10.00 (3.50% + $0.25)
PayPal: $2.00 (2.50% + $0.25)
Payza: $2.00 (2.00% + $0.25)
Western Union: $750.00 (5.00% + $50.00)
Bank Wire: $250.00 (2.00% + $25.00)
BitCoin: $1.00 (5.00% + $0.25)


Looks too much like a pyramid scheme.
82  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Find Trendon Shavers in person thread... [BTCST, BTS&T, pirateat40] on: November 07, 2014, 12:02:24 AM
If convicted, he could face up to 40 years in prison.
Nice
83  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Paidverts ® - 155% Profit Of Every Investments | 120% Return if you get Scammed on: October 30, 2014, 10:34:36 PM
Its bullshit.

I invested 1 usd plus 0.05 for recycle ads.

Now I have 270 ads to watch 0.001-0.0005$ each.  Its gonna take around 4 hours non stop clicking Cheesy so its not able to click this ads. For this ads I lose about 1200 points. So after 3 days, you back to start when you have no points plus no balance.
It looks like another pyramid scheme. They limit your free points as an "incentive" to invest and there are paid upgrades everywhere. For something like a filter to get rid of the $0.0005 ads you need to pay $10 (or better, you pay every time you modify the filter). You can also play games and bet points to win more. Of course there is no way to check if the results are rigged or not.

Excerpts from their FAQ:
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You must interact with the ads that are sent to you within 18hours
So don't sleep or work.
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You'll receive 16* 25BAP ads each server day until you have viewed 100 BAP ads in total. And from then on you'll receive 8x 25 BAP ads each server day
Realistically, in the end you have only 4 instead of 8. Because every day you pay 100 "Daily BAP Tax", leaving you with 100 points each day. A point is worth $0.0005. So $0.05 in total, and if you're really lucky, you need to watch 100 ads for that.
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You can also earn Bonus Ad Points by purchasing advertising with us.
Oh how convenient!
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maintianing a big BAP balance is key to receiving the highest value ads
"Constantly giving us money is our key to success"
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But just because you have a lot of BAP, doesn't suddenly guarantee you're going to earn a fixed % daily revenue.
"But we might not give you any money back (and still tax you)"
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As currently free users are leeching too much money from the system.
Seriously? Leeching too much money? For clicking up to 100 ads, wasting a minute each time? $0.05 a day for 01:40 hours of work?
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you can purchase a vacation
Yes, you should pay if you can't log in for a few days or your points are gone.
84  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Paidverts ® - 155% Profit Of Every Investments | 120% Return if you get Scammed on: October 29, 2014, 10:10:53 AM
Here are some of my stats for today:

400 points made with 16 ads
70 points lost because I didn't click two ads ($0.035 total) and they timed out. Apparently you're not supposed to have a daytime job. Or sleep.
100 points get lost each day for their "daily tax"
~100 points lost in total for receiving ads (not included the 70 points from above)
50 points lost for buying extra ads

So right now I piled up approx 500 points over several days
During my test I opened ~400 ads
I made the amazing amount of $0.45
If you assume 1 minute per ad (30 seconds waiting, captcha, copy&paste, page loads), I invested ~6.5 hours

That's an hourly income of $0.069

With that, I'll quit my test.
This is totally useless unless you pump in your money.
Nothing I would remotely consider since it still looks phishy (even more now with the above screenshot)
85  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Paidverts ® - 155% Profit Of Every Investments | 120% Return if you get Scammed on: October 28, 2014, 08:51:15 PM
Paidverts doesnot only supply $0.0005 or $0.001 ads

look at this screenshot..
i already told in my article.. you don't have to invest to start earning..
i told if you want to earn bigger... you have to be higher baps either by purchasing ads or by gambling


Only told what I experienced. The highest value I saw was around $0.0125. By far the majority is $0.0005-$0.001 only.
Yes, you don't have to invest, but then you only accumulate something around 100 points or so per day. Their FAQ mentions baps of tens and hundreds of thousands and more.
There's no way to achieve this level without investing.

Are you seriously saying that, judging from your screenshot, you get paid $200 for spending 30 seconds on some adpage?
You make $980 for spending 10 minutes on some ad pages each day? How much did you invest?

Imho, it sounds fishy: invest money to view ads to make money.
86  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Paidverts ® - 155% Profit Of Every Investments | 120% Return if you get Scammed on: October 28, 2014, 09:27:46 AM
My opinion...

First, you need to collect so called "BAP" by viewing ads. The points are converted to ads you can view, used as some sort of tax and you need collecting them to keep getting ads.
So, you need to view ads for points to view ads for money.
You make only tiny amounts with the ads. I've seen $0.0005-$0.001 for viewing a 30 second ad. Ad that includes 3x copy+paste and solving a captcha every time.
Also, it looks like you cannot sign up without a referer (defaults to some admin it seems). That means 5% of your earnings get lost to that person.

Different boards suggest that you buy an ad yourself to get more points. The more BAP you have, the higher paying ads you are supposed to see.
However, you can make only a few hundred BAP per day, which are used for tax and showing more ads. So you cannot really collect them easily and it seems like you need 10,000 BAP and more to get decent paying ads.

But "luckily" you can buy BAP for $, as well as other things like ad filters and vacation time (because BAP get lost if you don't view the ads).

So, the "revolution" seems like like: "give us money so you can view ads".
You cannot really make much without putting money into it first.
87  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Litecoin daemon on linux server, need some help .. on: October 28, 2014, 07:59:04 AM
Not a Deb user, but here are things I'd check on a RH system:

Is Litecoin listening on rpcip:rpcport? Use "netstat" to find out.

Is SELinux running?
Use "getenforce" to check, and "setenforce 0" to test without. If it works then, adjust SELinux (probably by setting httpd_can_network_connect to 1). Do not disable it permanently!

Does the firewall block it?
Check your ruleset to see if packets are allowed between both daemons. I hope you're running Litecoin on 127.0.0.1 and not the public IP (usually localhost connections are not firewalled by default).

Check the logs for errors/warnings.

Run tcpdump to see if any packets are send.

Run strace.
88  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: 25MB wallet with 16,915 addresses on: October 20, 2014, 06:31:00 PM
It doesn't really matter much if you *re-use* addresses for change
For you. It causes bloat. Bitcoin could/should by default just send change back to the origin.
89  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Was Ripple ahead of its time? on: October 01, 2014, 08:34:06 AM
afaik Ripple still owns 71,010,747,718 XRP and that's about 70% of the supply

You don't think XRP would go under if the authorities seized 70% of the total supply?
Not really. Price would crash and all, sure, but I think it would stabilize at some point. BTC went over 1000USD before and now is around a third of that. It still exists.

You do realize that Napster back in the day had huge investments from private funds and banks, correct?  It doesn't matter what banks or funds are backing what, it's what the FBI thinks.

If Ripple gets too big and gets too much attention it is inevitably going to be raided by the FBI on accusation of money laundering, tax evasion, drug facilitation or enabling crimes, it's almost guaranteed.
From what I understand that doesn't matter. You can run your own rippled and the network stays up even if Ripple Labs goes down.

90  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Was Ripple ahead of its time? on: September 30, 2014, 07:50:44 AM
Ripple is not a cryptocurrency

This. It's numbers in a database. It has value because ripple says it does. If Ripple goes under, so does its currency. Pass.
That applies to practically everything. If the US goes down, nobody wants your USD anymore. If Steam goes down, so do your games. If Facebook goes down, you lost contact to your "friends" there.
Bitcoin only has value because some people think so. There is nothing backing it physically. Heck, even gold is worthless in catastrophic times. Just look at post-war black markets: you could get lots of gold for some food.
91  Other / Off-topic / Re: Secure messaging on: September 22, 2014, 06:01:03 PM
I wonder why the Ricochet developer has chosen to use tor again, i have strong doubts about its security, add to that it doesn't seem to do anything different than the already existing torchat.
The I2P protocol would have been a much more interesting and secure choice imho.

I'm impressed by the Tox effort, going to keep a close eye on that one, open source, multi-platform, very good initiative!

Bitmessage is great, but slow as #@$! and not available for mobile devices.

Bleep is out of the question, closed source proprietary spy junk.
If you want to use I2P-Messenger, you need to have I2P installed (and last time I checked, that required a JRE too). Tor appears to be easier to implement. As far as I understand, I2P connects users directly through the network, while for a Ricochet chat, both sides work out a random rendevous point in the Tor network. That means there are 6 hops between both users.

Tox looks good indeed. You can add another layer by tunneling it through Tor too and maybe a future release implements it directly.

Secure messaging has to be as simple as possible because your everyday WhatsApp/Snapchat user does not want to invest time into security.
92  Economy / Services / Re: [Bounty] [Currently: 68.7 BTC max] Bitcoinmax / payb.tc / Ian Grice on: September 20, 2014, 02:45:04 PM
No thats not it, Ill give him 5 days to respond if not willl give your real info out, I want 35 btc to my address or I will expose your true Identity,  My BTC address in profile.
Then contact him, work out a solution and earn more. Extortion is not endorsed in any way.

93  Economy / Services / Re: [Bounty] [Currently: 68.7 BTC max] Bitcoinmax / payb.tc / Ian Grice on: September 20, 2014, 01:08:50 PM
If someone, by some miracle, managed to recover all the funds you'd be lucky to get 10% returned to you.
Why?
Imagine you convince Ian to pay 687BTC back to the investors participating here, then he needs to send 618.3BTC to our addresses (split up correctly of course), and 68.7BTC to yours.
If he wants to pay less (and participants agree), then you get 10% of that. Easy as that.

I actually know who he is, his alias,  He should Pm me before I give his info out to the public.
This info?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=235823.msg2624840#msg2624840
94  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Pirate@40 fined $40 million dollars on: September 20, 2014, 07:12:18 AM
Well many BCST investors went indirectly through passthroughs because they were getting better rates at up to 7% a week. The problem is that many of the passthrough operators were anonymous and are now long gone. I just don't see how these investors could ever make a claim and get something back as Pirate does not have their individual records.
Many, not all. The operator of the biggest one (BitcoinMax) is known. I wonder if Ian is still thinking that burying the head in the sand is a long-term solution.
95  Other / Off-topic / Re: Secure messaging on: September 19, 2014, 03:19:30 PM
Don't forget BitTorrent Messenger.
Isn't that Bleep? Both come from BitTorrent Inc.
Bleep would be the last of my choices.
A thread at their forums about open-sourcing Bleep gets pretty much shot down with ridiculous arguments (like closed source is better because security by obscurity).
Their security approach boils down to "trust us".
Somewhat funny because only thanks to the open and freely accessible protocol specs, Bittorrent became so popular and widely ported.
http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/30924-open-source/
96  Other / Off-topic / Secure messaging on: September 19, 2014, 01:47:41 PM
Here is a short list of IM clients which are (or promise to be) secure.
Feel free to add others, discuss and vote for your favorite one.

Bitmessage
URL: https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page
Clients: Windows / Mac / Linux
Open Source: Yes ( https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage )
Notes: Currently has problems with spam/abuse/dos ( https://bitmessage.org/forum/index.php?topic=4136.0 )

Bleep
URL: http://labs.bittorrent.com/bleep/
Clients: Windows / Mac / Android
Open Source: No
Notes: The company behind the closed source is US based
Notes: EULA grants BitTorrent Inc very broad rights to collect (and share) data about users

Invisible.im
URL: http://invisible.im/
Clients: None yet
Open Source: No / Not yet
Notes: Currently re-basing to Ricochet

Ricochet
URL: https://ricochet.im/
Clients: Windows / Mac ( https://ricochet.im/releases/latest/ )
Open Source: Yes ( https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/ )
Notes: requires OpenGL 2

TorChat
URL: https://github.com/prof7bit/TorChat
Clients: Windows / Linux / Pidgin plugins
Open Source: Yes ( https://github.com/prof7bit/TorChat )
Notes: Dead? Last commit was back in January

Tox
URL: https://tox.im/
Clients: Windows / Mac / Linux / Android / etc ( https://wiki.tox.im/Binaries )
Open Source: Yes ( https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore )
Notes: -
97  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Coinbin - Earn BTC (pastebin alternative) on: September 12, 2014, 08:04:25 AM
Looking good.

Can you add an expiration option (1 hour, day, week, month) too?
98  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Talkera - Earn BTC (like Pastebin) on: September 10, 2014, 08:53:29 AM
Well obviously you earn more with more views.
Isn't there an average value which you can expect for 1000 unique views?
99  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Talkera - Earn BTC (like Pastebin) on: September 08, 2014, 10:56:16 AM
What are the average earnings? Like, per 1k clicks for example.

For how long are the pastes stored? Pastebin for example allows you to let pastes expire what can be really useful.
100  Economy / Digital goods / Re: [WTB or Bounty] Services of web developer to fix a website script. on: August 31, 2014, 08:07:36 AM
Altogether about 2.5MB. not very big, What doesn't work is the Hit/Stand functions. It links those 2 actions to the gameAction javascript function in the main.js file but i've looked through there and fixed a few syntax errors and nothing yet. Also an issue with the emulated cron he setup to check for deposits but i have no knowledge on emulated cronjobs... It worked even when the hit/stand functions didn't work so i assume it's just a syntax error in that file that's causing the cronjob not to read.
For Javascript debugging, open the browser console and look at the errors (ctrl+shift+k in Firefox).
What OS are you running it on? On RHEL/CentOS the webserver is blocked from making calls to other servers by default.
Also, tail your httpd errorlog to see what's wrong.
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