Trap is ready, c'mon dumpers!
Bring us your coinz  !

None of these accusations are true but I have locked the VPN thread and will take down the servers in a couple weeks.  No point if the false claims make people too scared to use it.

But I will say this:

If you tried my VPN service and you have no other, then PM me and I will set you up with something like Private Internet Access, or another commercial VPN of your choice.

Its a fucking car.

I have an unmolested 69 mustang. I can't exactly go buy a new one, even similar ones are hard to locate. With drum brakes on each corner, bathtub like handling and 400 hp, my gf still mostly drives it and there have been a few close calls.

And yes the more we drive it the more scratches it gets..big deal, that's what paint is for.

Your IP address identifies you on the internet. It will tell those you are connecting to your geographical location, and your ISP will have a record of who you are. So, let's say you copy some music album you're not allowed to copy over torrent. There might be companies working for the music industry that records all the ip-addresses of torrent-clients, and monitors traffic. Later on, they can use this information to get a legal order to get your real life identity from your ISP, based on the ip-adress.

However, if you use a VPN, they will have the IP of the VPN, and if this is an operator in an obscure jurisdiction, that's not even logging your activity, it will be a big hassle for the law firm identifying who you really are, so they will most likely drop trying to figure that out, and they will go for the low hanging fruits, that is residential users will get slapped with a substantional fine, and thus giving revenue to the law firm and music industry.

Likewise, if you give a very negative review online of some company, and the owner of that company is an ass, he can go pretty much the same route, and learning your identity.

In addition, Google and other companies will collect and store information about your surfing habbits, so if you just surfed on electric tools sites, to see what you want to buy for you next project, once you want to relax and see some funny movies on youtube, you get served commercials for electric tools.. And also, if you happend to surf some 'questionable' websites, and your sister later on uses your computer, there will be agressive ads about dating services all over.

If you hide your real ip, collecting information about your surfing habbits will not be that easy. As far as the ISP is concerned, usually the ISP can see every site you visits. And they are most likely logging this.

So in the logs of the ISP if you use an unprotected residential IP address, there will be entries like:

Thu Oct 23 02:05:36 CEST 2014 [YOUR IP ADDRESS] http://www.sketchysite.com/forum.php
Thu Oct 23 02:05:36 CEST 2014 [YOUR IP ADDRESS] http://www.anothersketchysite.com
Thu Oct 23 02:05:36 CEST 2014 [YOUR IP ADDRESS] http://www.localnewspaper.com

If you use a VPN, all connections will go through that, so from the view point of your isp,
it's really nothing more than:

Thu Oct 23 02:05:36 CEST 2014 [YOUR IP ADDRESS] vpn-domain.com

That's all your ISP can see. Now, you can surf any site, without the isp knowing which site you visit.

Also, if you get sketchy links in your e-mail, spam, or otherwise people who want to figure out your geolocation, then use a VPN, and they will see their site being accessed from another IP than your real one, so they cannot learn where you are from.

For example, if you want to post something critical, esp. if it associated with a local business or otherwise, or even if you want to edit the wikipedia entry of a politician, hiding your real IP address can protect you from a lot of trouble.

When you use a mobile phone, this is tracked at all times, and it's basically a freecard for any entities with sufficient power to track any move of your phone. And these records might be used in the future, for example, you could be called in to the police for questioning because you were in a certain area one night when something bad happened. Even if you were never involved, you need to be 'checked' out of the case.. And something like that's never fun.

Likewise, you might be called into the police if you happened to surf on a site with questionable content, even if it was not intentional, all because there's a link between your real life identity and your ip address.

Would you like to announce to your neighboor everywhere you went? Off to buy groceries, off to work, off to pickup the kids, off to visit your mistress? I guess no. In essence, you're broadcasting that very information to your ISP when visiting various websites, not in a literal sense, but instead of the ISP learning that the residental user is using the broadband connection (which is all they need to know), with the default setup, they know every site you visit, and when communications are unencrypted, they could very well collect all of that by themselves or in collaboration with a 3-letter agency.

So you might say, I don't have anything to hide, so why worry? Well, you might not have anything to hide, but would you be comfortable with the fact that any random person could sit next to you and see your every move? Would you be comfortable with the fact that if you read about some controversial political subject, that you researched your health problems, issues relating to other personal issues, it would be recorded, collected and analyzed?

If the answer is no, then you should hide as much as possible both from your ISP and Google. If you go for a walk in the woods, you can smell a flower, sit beneath a tree, swim naked in a lake etc, without anyone knowing at all. That's freedom. Essentially the same freedom should be present online. It's not. So if you care about these issues, you should protect yourself.

For example, at your workplace, the ISP is essentially your company, and you never know what kind of analysis they do on their traffic. So if you surf some questionable sites in your lunch break, or if you surf job-boards, these are actions that might land you in trouble. Not that I condone VPN-usage in the workplace if it's against company rules, perhaps much better not to do any such surfing at work at all.

But the point is that there are many reasons and use cases for concealing your identity online. Many of which are legitimate, and some which are not. But you can never point to the tools and ban them and think that will stop crime.

Being spied on electronically is much the same as having somebody sitting next to you all the time, and watching your every move. Most people would find that uncomfortable, and the reason most people do not care more about information security online is because they do not feel that they're watched. Out of sight, out of mind, seems to be the issue. And besides, most people have more than enough to cope with to be concerned about such issues as well.

If you are talking about a percentage of total coins need to be kept, such as if I have 1000 coins, I need to keep 25% of that in my wallet all the time, that is certainly one alternative. That is doable, although that could add to a bit of confusion when it comes to payout time (such as someone buying a ton of coins before payout, then wondering why they aren't getting rewards that month).

If you mean keeping the entirety of your coins in the wallet 100% of the time, for any reward, I'd be against it. For an extra bonus, sure, it's fine ... just shouldn't be a requirement for payout though.

There are other things they could do too, if they have the funds available. Such as contests -- perhaps those who keep the majority of their coins in their wallet for the entire month could be entered in a raffle for nice items, or something like that. That would fall under the 'bonus' idea I mentioned, where it's sort of a nice extra, but not a definite requirement.

I sort of haven't been paying attention to alts or this forum for a little while... and see there is a new thread now. Mixed feelings about that, as I tend to think it's best to just stick it out with the original thread, or go moderated from the start, than switch after several months. But what done is done.

Anyway, just wanted to comment on the idea of requiring folks to hold coins for a longer period to get a payout. I'd suggest instead that the timeframe remain the same for base rewards, but adjusting payouts so that those who hold longer receive a greater bonus. That way you don't necessarily lock up coins in wallets seemingly forever, yet still provide an incentive to hold. The idea behind any crypto should be so it can be used as a currency in some fashion, and yes, I'm of course aware this coin is probably closer to a mutual fund than a currency... still... just wanted to comment that if a longer term hold is put in place, it shouldn't be so restrictive as to make people never, ever, want to use their coins or take them out of their wallets.

is linux hard? whats so great about linux..

And then was born Ubuntu, which distro is far user friendly than any other..
Its only because OP is more familiar with Windows. A linux user will have some trouble at the first sight on Windows aswell.

For months all the idiots here were praying for cheap coins. Every crash was amazing news. Best thing ever.
They expected that as soon as they bought a few "cheap coins" the price would move to 1k again.

Now they found out those days are over and the price isn't going anywhere but down.
People are getting out. There are no big players waiting to get in. There is no Wallstreet. There is no secret accumulation. It all turned out complete bs.

Bitcoin is dying. The party is over. The only thing it's good for are daily pump and dumps.

Nobody in real life is interested in Bitcoin. Apple pay did in a short time what Bitcoin couldn't achieve in years.
Unless you want to send money overseas and often there is no reason to use Bitcoin.
Average Joe doesn't give a shit about fees or decentralization and all the other Bitcoin selling points.

It's over.

hmmm i wonder how much mint was lost. all those sell walls wiped out lol

that "ryan kennedy" guy is cruising for a bruising when the SEC, or others, catch up with him 

And wrong. Period. Thank you for sticking up for what is right.