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81  Economy / Economics / Re: Any Forex Brokers That Accept Crypto? on: February 23, 2020, 12:03:58 PM
<snip> list of offshore scam "brokers"<snip>
Best of luck.

Where did you get that list of shit from?
Have you used any of them?
Looked at real reviews of their scamminess?
I suggest you think seriously about deleting that post.
82  Other / Meta / Re: The Objective Standards Guild - Testimonium Libertatem Iustitia on: February 22, 2020, 08:40:39 PM


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He has clearly explained that he has attempted to locate members with minimal frivolous tagging.

I've never left a "frivolous" tag, but I appear to have ended up on his "Guild" hit list, presumably as a member of some conspiracy or other.
The fact that I decided (all on my own) to ~ him from my trust list and he immediately retaliated is obviously purely coincidence.

Like other posters here, I don't accept the pulled-out-of-someone's-ass assertion that trust tagging has a net negative effect on the forum, so yet another gang/conspiracy/whatever to include me in.
I leave feedback based on the mainly scam investigation stuff I post for one reason only: to help awareness levels among newbies.
I would like to stay on DT so that they see that, otherwise IDGAF.



 
83  Other / Meta / Re: List of advertising shills. Mods please review and ban as appropriate. on: February 22, 2020, 07:54:26 PM

The fourthfunction account has posted 288 times in the ~8 weeks it's been in existence.

All 288 posts are links to publish0x articles.

I have reported the account to moderators with this note
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This account has posted 288 times. Every post is the same: the briefest of intros, followed by a link to media site publish0x. This is surely the definition of low quality posting and by inference paid-to-post. I request that a ban, in the interest of the forum's posting integrity, be imposed.
I'll check intermittently to see if any action is taken and post here.

84  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why we have slow steps about convincing governments to accept bitcoin? on: February 22, 2020, 03:35:43 PM

1) Is "convincing governments to accept bitcoin" a goal?
2) Malta didn't welcome crypto, it welcomed crypto's spinoff economic benefits for Malta.
3) When Binance implodes, the fallout will be immense.

85  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: ✅[ANN]CONNECT BUSINESS NETWORK - BLOCKCHAIN FOR BUSINESS. on: February 22, 2020, 01:28:32 PM
This person who posted this post extort money from the project team. Our project has nothing to do with the project indicated at this link.


Both projects are named Connect Business Network.
The other one started before yours, it was your responsibility to check.
If you provide proof that you are being extorted, I will do all I can to get them thrown off the forum.
You have made a clear accusation, NOW PRESENT EVIDENCE to support it.
86  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Honeymining.co has an auto-downloading file that is Malware. Avoid them. on: February 22, 2020, 01:13:20 PM
-snip-
Thanks for you input, just checked out Honeyminer.com and realized that Honeymining.co cloned their website and are trying to impersonate them. The files to be downloaded between the 2 websites are different

I also ran a virus total check on the file from Honeyminer.com and it has a couple of antivirus engines flagging it as a coinminer which sometime turns out to be a false postive.
I however don't know if their mining software actually works

I've dropped Honeyminer.com a message regarding this situation.
The real one's been going for a while and appears to be legitimately offering the chance of small earnings in exchange for "mining" time on your device.
The devs behind it seem to be well regarded and the whole STAX operation appears to have recently been bought out/merged.

https://www.bitcoininsider.org/article/75651/ai-firm-core-scientific-acquires-creator-mining-program-honeyminer
87  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: PAPER WALLET: FISHING VICTIM (sic)..... on: February 22, 2020, 12:58:43 PM

we might ask what is going on in the UK that people do such stupid things? Whether it is water, air or just good quality whiskey Roll Eyes

Lol, good question, but neither Mr. Collins nor Dublin are in the UK.
88  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Honeymining.co has an auto-downloading file that is Malware. Avoid them. on: February 22, 2020, 12:30:42 AM
There is a legit service known as Honeyminer.
How profitable it is, and how much toll it takes on your computer, I can't comment.

The real Honeyminer's website is Honeyminer.com.

The blind link in this post directs to Honeymining.co.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD FROM THIS LINKED SITE.
89  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: PAPER WALLET: FISHING VICTIM (sic)..... on: February 21, 2020, 06:55:16 PM
Apparently, high electricity consumption was mentioned during the case as a flag for the authorities to find out what was going on.
The yellow press have taken this as an opportunity for some anti Bitcoin Mining OMG THE WASTE power consumption bullshit.

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But we can reveal they began probing the Dubliner after noticing an energy surge linked to his “mining” of online money.

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The ”mining” of cryptocurrency online requires massives amounts of energy.
The complex algorithms and computer power used to generate one unit of the virtual currency could power 30 homes for a day.
Globally, bitcoin mining uses as much energy every year as a country the size of Ireland.

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using so much power he almost blew out the national grid.

(I won't link to these worthless rag websites)

This is bollocks for two obvious reasons:
1) Mr.Collins was a Bitcoin OG  who bought his BTC with the cash he earned as a grower. He didn't mine it at all, that I can see.
2) Growing weed is a hi energy consumption industry because lighting and a/c (and most busts are prompted by utility companies or heat signature picked up by LE helos*).

*So I was told by a bloke down the pub.
90  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / PAPER WALLET: FISHING VICTIM (sic)..... on: February 21, 2020, 03:39:30 PM

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A drug dealer who amassed a €55 million fortune in the cryptocurrency bitcoin has lost the codes to access the accounts after hiding them with his fishing rod, which has now gone missing.

The Criminal Assets Bureau (Cab) has confiscated the 12 online accounts, or wallets, containing 6,000 bitcoin. However, The Irish Times has learned the accounts cannot be accessed because the codes are missing.
It means the €53.6 million monetary value of the bitcoin inside them, which is the biggest case in the Cab’s 25-year history, is out of the bureau’s reach.
Garda officers said they were hopeful advances in technology would one day enable them to access the bitcoin so it could be sold.

Clifton Collins (49), originally from Crumlin, Dublin, bought most of the bitcoin in late 2011 and early 2012 using cash he made growing crops of cannabis. The crypto currency has soared in value since then. Collins spent some of his money buying a two-seater gyro plane and learning how to fly it.
In early 2017 he had just over 6,000 bitcoin in one account but he feared it may be too easy for a hacker to access. He decided to spread his wealth across 12 new accounts and transferred exactly 500 bitcoin, worth almost €4.5 million, into each of them.
Collins then printed out the codes for the 12 accounts onto an A4 piece of paper. He hid the paper inside the aluminium cap of his case containing his rod which he kept at his rented home in Farnaught, Cornamona, Co Galway.
But when he was arrested with cannabis herb in 2017 in Co Wicklow and jailed for five years, there was a break-in at the house and it was also cleared on behalf of the landlord with many of Collins’s items being taken to a dump in Co Galway.
Workers at the dump told gardaí they remembered seeing discarded fishing gear. However, waste from the dump is sent to Germany and China to be incinerated and the fishing rod case has never been found.

Collins told gardaí he has had time to come to terms with the loss of the money and regarded it as punishment for his own stupidity.

Much of what he has told the Garda has been supported by a range of witnesses, including those who cleared his house, his landlord and others who helped him break up his bitcoin fortune into 12 accounts. Garda believe he has genuinely lost the codes for the accounts, which had not been accessed for a year before he came to the attention of the Garda.
The Dubliner is a former security guard who briefly became a beekeeper and won awards for his honey before he turned his attention to growing cannabis for more than a decade. Collins had much smaller amounts of bitcoin in other accounts, valued at €1.5 million, that the Cab has been able to access. Those bitcoin and more than €100,000 in cash has been seized from him.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/drug-dealer-loses-codes-for-53-6m-bitcoin-accounts-1.4180182
Also
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/chance-encounter-with-garda%C3%AD-unmasked-bitcoin-millionaire-drug-dealer-1.4180140


91  Economy / Economics / Re: Any Forex Brokers That Accept Crypto? on: February 20, 2020, 11:16:30 PM
Right to both.

The only other option I can think of is for you to make local contact in your home country with immigrants who come from the country whose currency you want, and then find out if, in that immigrant community, there is any group or individual who is interested in crypto, and make personal contact.
92  Economy / Economics / Re: Any Forex Brokers That Accept Crypto? on: February 20, 2020, 08:58:47 PM


Ok so you go on a Forex and you can withdraw Fiat and actually receive the currency?

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so if you wanted to buy some foreign currency other than using a bank

You are still not being clear.
Answer these questions
1) Do you want to exchange your crypto for actual cash (banknotes) which is not your own country's currency?
2) Do you want to do this without using a fiat bank account?

If the answers are yes and yes, then a P2P transaction or a reverse ATM are the only ways, but then you will have to be in the country which uses the foreign currency you want.
For example, if you are French and you want Japanese Yen in cash in exchange for your Bitcoin, you really need to be visiting Japan to do one of those two things. Otherwise you need to use a bank account.
I don't know of any Foreign Exchange shops in my country that will accept crypto and give me cash in another country's currency in exchange.

93  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Tokens (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][ERC20] cUSD Currency $CUSD - Your Fast, Secure Digital Money on: February 20, 2020, 05:05:29 PM
@bitcointokenbtct

What do you mean with "stablecoin"? On Crex24, I can't see something about "stable"....
Maybe you should read the wikipedia-entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stablecoin

from our website:

cUSD Currency (CUSD) is a type of cryptocurrency that is in the family of what is called stablecoins. Though cUSD is not pegged to the price of USD it seeks to emulate its value as much as possible. We are essentially an digital alternative to USD. Also we believe in the end fiat USD can fail in its price and value through massive inflation. So we would rather allow the crypto market based on BTC (an digital gold) dictate our value. cUSD Currency is a cryptocurrency, built on a blockchain designed with security in mind. Delivering world-class security. Whatever you can do with digital currencies, you can now do with digital cash.
So essentially we want to be a method of currency and it is yet determined what the market will place cUSD as a asset that is trading.  We want to encourage the usuage of the currency not holding it only for speculation in price. The more people that use it the more it will find a settled price.

So CUSD is not a stablecoin, or "in the family of what is called stablecoins" in any shape or form or way.

There is a stablecoin called CUSD, which I have asked you about before, and which question you have studiously ignored
Does this thing have any relation to CUSD stablecoin, or have you just copied their name?

Looking at the market action on Coingecko, it is difficult to come to any other conclusion than that your scheme is a shitcoin of the most basic sort.


94  Economy / Economics / Re: Any Forex Brokers That Accept Crypto? on: February 20, 2020, 04:36:16 PM
I need a list of Forex Brokers that accept crypto as a means of buying foreign currency. Please list them here. Thanks.

Do you actually mean that? That you want to exchange crypto for foreign currency, as in folding notes?

Right, so how does the Forex work exactly. Do you all have any experience with that?

The Forex?
"Foreign Exchange", on a personal level, was what the name says.
E.g. if you were a German (in pre euro days) visiting France you would exchange your domestic currency (marks) for foreign currency (francs) either formally thru your bank or informally P2P, in order to buy stuff in shops etc.
"Forex" nowadays generally refers to speculative derivative trading, which is offered by many brokers and platforms where you bet on the movement of currency pairs, such as USD/EURO. As most trading is done with Technical Analysis, you could be trading in anything, porkbellies, indexes, oil etc. etc.
As in all derivative trading, it's estimated that around 75% of individual speculators lose all their original gambling pot, and you can't take physical delivery of the underyling asset by going long of its derivative.

95  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: BITCLUB NETWORK: THE MAIN SCAMMERS BUSTED (Apart from the sex offender) on: February 20, 2020, 04:10:05 PM
A couple of unconfirmed reports say that Weeks' application for pre trial release was denied. I can't find any official docket update as yet, but seemed a likely outcome.
This quite comprehensive overview of the whole situation, (including a bit too much self mythologising by the Fat Boy being taken at face value) also gives this thread a link and h/t.  Grin

The reason Weeks was such a consumate blagger is simple: he believed his own lies.
His narcissism involved having a film maker follow him around.
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“We were talking about going to Barbados for Christmas,” filmmaker Rowe recalls. “He said he was going to be handing out shoes with Richard Branson in the rainforest to some needy children.”

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Weeks now resides in a lockup in New Jersey. Last week, after a two-day hearing, his request for release on bail was denied.

Still no sign of Russ Medlin who is said to be in South East Asia, historically a part of the world that would prove attractive to a moneyed, fugitive sex offender.  Angry

96  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: IOTA on: February 20, 2020, 12:55:40 AM

Over a week now.....in that time, the MIOTA marketcap has dropped by ~$200m.
Looks like Moonpay are in the blame frame.
Quote from:  IOTA status page
Trinity users who have already updated their wallets will have noticed the removal of MoonPay services from the updated versions of the wallet. This was necessary because the security vulnerability was introduced into the Trinity wallet via the MoonPay integration.
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For now, we can only share with the community the below statement from Moonpay on this matter. Please note that the IOTA Foundation is not in a position to independently verify the accuracy of the statement

Moonpay shared some bad news
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we want to inform users who have input their credit card details into the Trinity Wallet that, to the best of our knowledge, their credit card information is unlikely to have been compromised by this security incident.
You had ONE job......

I'd think that a number of investors in/donators to the IOTA experiment will be thinking similarly to this review of Trinity/Moonpay
Terrible experience...Totally useless...
I am deeply disappointed that that the IOTA team would partner with such a lousy service provider, who is also extremely expensive. 

Victor Faramond CEO (and just about everything else) at MoonPay rather presciently retweeted these wise words recently
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As a developer, your job isn't about how much code you write, it's about how effectively you solve problems.
The best code is code you don't write & maintain -- because you're using off-the-shelf solutions, or because you're picking solutions that involve fewer subproblems.



the companies considering using the IOTA protocol and making it a global standard for machines on the internet don't care about trinity.
I'm pretty sure they care about internecine warfare and bad lapses of judgment in the bunch of (supposedly) really smart people who are supposed to make that happen.



97  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Please Identify this miner for me on: February 19, 2020, 11:12:20 PM
Thanks to all for the input.
As I say in my second post, I was asked for my opinion on a perceived investment opportunity in the UK (referring to but not naming Goldmine369), which indirectly claimed to use the above pictured miner in its operation, via an image I found (and cropped for posting here) when visiting behindmlm after a Google search.
I also found a promotional FB link (which I have posted in a reply to the behindmlm topic) all but confirming that the 369 schemers claim to be mining Bitcoin specifically.
I wanted to positively ID the machine so as to be able to quantify real likely earnings from it, as there are some mad numbers being throw about in the FB link to attract punters potential victims to what looks like yet another cloud mining MLM scam.
Once I've completed this background research, I shall create yet another of my Scam Accusation threads about it, as is my modus operandi (see my post history and here and here for examples).
Thanks again to all (including Frodo); when a concensus on the identity of the equipment is reached, then I'll either lock or move (if the machine is not Bitcoin capable) this thread.

Edit: Yup, close inspection says A9++ Zmaster.
Thread locked, please move where you see fit, thanks.
98  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Please Identify this miner for me on: February 19, 2020, 01:15:56 PM
Thank you Phil.
I've been asked for my input by a would be investor in a U.K. based mining operation using these machines.
The very cheapest electricity available here is 10 cents kWh. With the halving imminent I know there are huge unknowns, but I can't see much of a future with that (and other) costs.
Briefly, what are your thoughts?
99  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Please Identify this miner for me on: February 19, 2020, 01:56:04 AM
And Frodo, please don't delete this thread until I've had a chance to read any answers, please  Wink

100  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Top Cryptocurrency Exchanges on: February 18, 2020, 04:21:14 PM
Different people will have different priorities but, when it comes to an "objective" analysis, this may be of interest
https://www.cryptocompare.com/external/research/exchange-ranking/

Tl,dr: highlights-
Top three (AA rating):
itBit
Gemini
Coinbase

others-

Binance #12
P2PB2B #83
Fcoin #106
Yobit #158 (out of 159)



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