I dont get it - how can I get one merit?
Hello and welcome to the forums I guess. Start by reading the first posts of the threads you're replying and at least the last 10 (if not 20) comments before you post. I've check some random posts of yours and it seems you visit thread by reading only the title, then ask things which are answered in the opening post. Don't do that! Also think of a subject you're familiar and experienced with and find threads related to this subject. Posting helpful posts is the only legit way of receiving merits and you can only be helpful to others if you have knowledge of the subject. Making a new thread (ONLY) if you have a good idea is also good. If you're not good with the English language, then stick with your local board, the chances to receive merits with broken English are thin. |
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Hello, dear Yahoo, Let me start by saying that I've read the rules and I have some comments. - You've wrote "Link to Spreadsheet" in the OP but there's no link.
- I've put the signature as requested in the rules, but I'll monitor this thread and change avatar immediately after I'm accepted (if accepted).
BTCT Name: RivAngE Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1453007Rank: Full Member Current Post Count: 1380 Current Merits Received: 120 (started from 0, so ~2.5 merits / week counting from when Merit System was introduced)BTC Address: 3Q2H35QnJMHNnzZGFAZ7D5T5Gj9NEi4KcF Wear Appropriate Signature: CHECKWear Avatar: After Acceptance |
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add another dead shitcoin to the list.
I don't think that it's a shitcoin when the community and the team are really active...well if you just want to talk about prices, it's not the right time right now  (but I bet that it's only spleeping right now  ) lol sigh...there they are, the famous words of bagholders world wide (don't worry buddy I have some too, but not ARK) Right ... right ... You seem like a person whose post history is worth checking, so excuse my intrusion but I had to find out what altcoins you like! Initially it looks like you spent money in random ICOs and you still go around their dead threads... maybe you confused ARK as one of these dead projects? I'm not sure but I guess you like "Wagerr - The Betting Blockchain" and Cardano? Let's compare ARK to Cardano then... https://bayne.github.io/github-compare/#!/compare/neo-project/neo/ArkEcosystem/coreIf we don't count the "stars" and "forks" which are purely based on the hype and the price of a coin (mainly dictated by marketing), what do you notice? I'll let the number speak for themselves! |
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I came here to participate for a merit as well, but then I read the OP about having limited merits to give and if users are usually receiving merit they'd better give room for others to participate and maybe give an advice... so here I am for an advice! Dear erikoy, I understand you're trying honestly to be active and friendly in the forums. I read this thread you made, it's "okay" but not as good as it could be if you'd spend some more time to research it. What you did was to post an image an comment on it, but did you check the facts? I'm not a specialist but I have some knowledge on the subject and those numbers seemed exaggerated to me... 10 days to crack "looksstrong"? How? Using an i5? Even a consumer-level high end CPU should be able to crack it much sooner. I tried this site: https://howsecureismypassword.net/ and this site: https://password.kaspersky.com/It always depends on the power of the machine used, but as a rule I'd say that Kaspersky's estimations are closer to reality (just 55mins for "looksstrong"). My point is that you should do your own research and add more content to your posts. You don't have to be always correct, you can't know everything, but you could have researched the subject in order to add more links and resources to your thread. While you were at it, you'd probably notice that something was wrong with the seminar! |
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In 2017 if you bought BTC at $700 you had almost 3x profit. How is 4% interest better than that?!? In 2019 and 2020 BTC will make at least 5x profit starting with the current prices. So for me there is no point keeping deposits in banks for interest. I also had 4.5% interest but widthdrew all of it to buy bitcoins in the Summer of 2017.
Now compare that with the 0.50% (at best case) we have in Greece, from which they then subtract tax!  |
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You know what I've been thinking?
Would it be possible for a totally private blockchain like Grin which uses the Mimblewimble protocol to have a Smart Bridge?
I don't completely understand how this works, but the transactions are not exactly broadcasted in the blockchain.
Instead if user A wants to send coins to user B, then both of them exchange some signed files and then broadcast a totally unreadable transactions which requires both users' (private?) keys to decipher. At least that's what I've understood.
There are also no public addresses, users have to manually exchange the tx files through any mean.
Since this is totally different from what we have seen so far, I'm curious to know if it can collaborate with ARK's ecosystem.
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Cool one! I'we started to mine it. But how/where to mine 31 on windows?
I also want to know but nobody answers. Cant find a proper solution anywhere!?  No, because there's no way to do that for now unless you're an ASIC developer. The Cuckatoo31 (C31) is an ASIC-friendly algorithm but I don't think there are any ASICs at the moment. Maybe in theory people would be able to use GPUs to mine C31 until ASICs appear, I don't know but the difficulty of C31 could be that high that even if fewer GPUs mine it compared to C29 it's not as profitable... I repeat MAYBE... I don't know. What I know is that C31's hashrate is 0 at the moment. lol wat??? https://www.grinmint.com/pages/network-charts.htmlTons of people mining c31 already - mostly nvidia on linux. Wait... riiight... I was looking at my personal hashrate when I said the hashrate is 0! Sorry! |
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Okay time for conspiracy-theory! This is mine, They want to use the ETFs to manipulate the price by buying futures before buying millions of $ in BTC to raise the price, then they short the ETFs and sell all their BTC to crash the price. Finally they cash out on ETFs. Combine this with the manipulation of news and you can see how the rich can control everything. Their only problem is that Bitcoin's futures don't have much volume right now, so they can't do a multi-million manipulation... they would only trade against themselves. This could change with the approval of ETFs, but before that they want to buy as many cheap BTC as possible to have something to sell after they short. So what I'm seeing right now is that we're in the phase they're accumulating, but in order to keep the prices low they're playing with the news and control the SEC's approval. One way with which they might have managed to drive us in this situation is by making people believe that ETF = Moon. This propaganda was easy to spread, they were ready to buy a lot of Bitcoins the moment the news of an imminent approval to raise the price and ready to dump them when they'd release news of delays. After a while people started believing that the Bitcoin's price is relevant to ETFs, but as it's already said.... We didn’t need an ETF to see the price close to $20,000 so I assume we won’t need one to touch the next ATH. Fuck the SEC & fuck authority. They fear the beast that bitcoin will become.
In any case, people will keep selling their Bitcoins cheap based on irrelevant news. Unfortunately, THIS IS A WAR and if we want to win this, the first step is to accept there's an enemy; then realise the weapons in the enemy's arsenal and finally finding counters to these weapons. |
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On another thread I did an amateurish search to see what's Cryptopia's BTC wallets look like... I don't like what I see but could someone more experienced than me check my findings and let me know if I've made a mistake somewhere or if indeed the Cryptopia's BTC wallets were also hacked alongside ETH? Okay I think I found the Cryptopia's BTC wallet. My deposit there is kinda old and I can't recall 100% if it's the address I deposited was Cryptopia's or another exchange's, but I traced the movement and since the wallet's movements stopped on 14th January I'm 99% sure it's Cryptopia's. This is their wallet: 3ALZ4ALw2T4jebXXUy8GMv2rLB7JpFL1JDAfter many hops between 1-use addresses, I find a big amount of funds consecrated here: 12YBZCaPe45LFbvgYWP5AVm3pvZTtHTiNYThis was a new address created on 13th January. It seems that after gathering BTC from different Cryptopia's wallets, summing 392.31 BTC, they sent a "test" transaction of 3 BTC on 14th January and 10 minutes later they sent all the amount to the same address. From that point on, it seems like the funds were split to multiple addresses, probably many of which are exchanges. Your thoughts? Anything I missed maybe? that may have been cryptopia consolidating and securing its bitcoins into new wallets. the "test" transaction followed by full consolidation of the funds is indicative of that. that would be my first guess unless you're seeing the split funds enter other exchanges. every report i've seen says it was ETH and ERC20 tokens---not bitcoin---that were stolen. I though it might be wallets controlled by Cryptopia as well, but if you trace the next transactions you'll notice that the funds keep moving and splitting between multiple wallets. Shouldn't the funds have been frozen while the police investigates if it was in Cryptopia's control? This action looks more like hackers splitting the heist to multiple wallets and multiple exchanges. ... On a 2nd though... there's also the possibility that Cryptopia sent their funds to another exchange for security. Being unsure which of their wallets are safe, they might decided to send them to a 3rd party who is then moving the funds like usual. |
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Cool one! I'we started to mine it. But how/where to mine 31 on windows?
I also want to know but nobody answers. Cant find a proper solution anywhere!? No, because there's no way to do that for now unless you're an ASIC developer. The Cuckatoo31 (C31) is an ASIC-friendly algorithm but I don't think there are any ASICs at the moment. Maybe in theory people would be able to use GPUs to mine C31 until ASICs appear, I don't know but the difficulty of C31 could be that high that even if fewer GPUs mine it compared to C29 it's not as profitable... I repeat MAYBE... I don't know. What I know is that C31's hashrate is 0 at the moment. |
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This would be amazing if not for the infinite supply and stupid emissions policy.
Doesn't ETH also have infinite supply though?  And the emission might be considered low... well... I can't judge it yet since the price and the interest on the project fluctuates wildly. I'm not saying I disagree with your points, I'm only saying that we can't draw any conclusions yet... whether the supply and emission policies are correct or wrong. |
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I applied early the next morning but I still had no chance in a first-come-first-served campaign.
Dude, I think this is not a first-come-first-served campaign. If you look carefully there is a Full Member who applied very late but got accepted. Sure, applying early might increase your chance to get accepted but what matters the most is your post history I believe. Don't get discouraged by this, I'm sure Hhampuz will be happy to accept you when a spot comes up. I didn't check everyone who was applied, when did they apply and who was accepted, but if you did then I'll trust your word! I applied 6 hours after the announcement and the list was already full for Full Member by that time, which is why I mentioned in my post that I'd accept a Member rank too. |
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On another thread I did an amateurish search to see what's Cryptopia's BTC wallets look like... I don't like what I see but could someone more experienced than me check my findings and let me know if I've made a mistake somewhere or if indeed the Cryptopia's BTC wallets were also hacked alongside ETH? Okay I think I found the Cryptopia's BTC wallet. My deposit there is kinda old and I can't recall 100% if it's the address I deposited was Cryptopia's or another exchange's, but I traced the movement and since the wallet's movements stopped on 14th January I'm 99% sure it's Cryptopia's. This is their wallet: 3ALZ4ALw2T4jebXXUy8GMv2rLB7JpFL1JDAfter many hops between 1-use addresses, I find a big amount of funds consecrated here: 12YBZCaPe45LFbvgYWP5AVm3pvZTtHTiNYThis was a new address created on 13th January. It seems that after gathering BTC from different Cryptopia's wallets, summing 392.31 BTC, they sent a "test" transaction of 3 BTC on 14th January and 10 minutes later they sent all the amount to the same address. From that point on, it seems like the funds were split to multiple addresses, probably many of which are exchanges. Your thoughts? Anything I missed maybe? |
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Okay I think I found the Cryptopia's BTC wallet. My deposit there is kinda old and I can't recall 100% if it's the address I deposited was Cryptopia's or another exchange's, but I traced the movement and since the wallet's movements stopped on 14th January I'm 99% sure it's Cryptopia's. This is their wallet: 3ALZ4ALw2T4jebXXUy8GMv2rLB7JpFL1JDAfter many hops between 1-use addresses, I find a big amount of funds consecrated here: 12YBZCaPe45LFbvgYWP5AVm3pvZTtHTiNYThis was a new address created on 13th January. It seems that after gathering BTC from different Cryptopia's wallets, summing 392.31 BTC, they sent a "test" transaction of 3 BTC on 14th January and 10 minutes later they sent all the amount to the same address. From that point on, it seems like the funds were split to multiple addresses, probably many of which are exchanges. Your thoughts? Anything I missed maybe? |
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I don't understand why hasn't the community found out if Cryptopia's BTC wallets have been emptied as well or not.
I hadn't deposited or withdrew any BTC recently and I don't think I can find my last transaction with Cryptopia and track it, but I'll try it.
Wouldn't someone else have it traced and found their BTC addresses though?
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This was filled overnight in my timezone in not time ... I applied early the next morning but I still had no chance in a first-come-first-served campaign. I'll watch the thread and hope a spot will be freed. Will I need to reapply if a spot open or will you keep my application in a priority "line"? I don't want to promote gambling-related signatures for personal ethical reasons and there are few BTC-paying campaigns of other kinds like BitBlender. |
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Why no motion of all coins from the hot wallets to cold, as a security precaution?
Has this been done?
This would be the first move to make if keys are compromised.
If we think about it, whichever wallet was compromised would be emptied; for example why would the hacker get 1000 ETH if the wallet had 2000 ETH? So what's stolen is stolen. I don't think it's possible to hack a new wallet while the exchange is not operating. |
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An example to better understand the situation, You want to buy some tokens on said exchanges, the exchange shows the last trade on that specific pair was at 0.00001255 price and it was a sell , Let's say you put your buy order on orderbook on exactly that price so the order maybe can go through quicker, You wait for a while and you will notice that your order didn't get filled but at the same time you notice there are same or lower bid prices than yours that are going through on trade history even tough these orders are nowhere to be seen on orderbooks before execution, Then you put a higher bid than that and again nothing will happen, This will continue until you decide to just take an existing sell order from the order book and get done with it.
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My problem with Cryptopia as well! Unfortunately there's no way to know until you try use an exchange for a long time. Even if there was a way to know if a trade has happened for real, it could be trades between fake accounts owned by the exchange trading between themselves. My only solution to this problem is checking the site traffic, google searches etc. For example that's how I'd check your claim about Upbit, Upbit (#26) vs KuCoin (#79) (KuCoin has about 2.6 times more traffic) https://www.similarweb.com/website/kucoin.com?competitors=upbit.comUpbit (#26) vs Kraken (#39) (Kraken has about 2.4 times more traffic) https://www.similarweb.com/website/kraken.com?competitors=upbit.comKuCoin (#79) vs Kraken (#39) (Similar traffic) https://www.similarweb.com/website/kraken.com?competitors=kucoin.comFrom my interactions and experience with Kraken, I'm 90% sure they're not faking their volume or doing anything shady at all. But I can't know. It's obvious though that Upbit is likely faking a hell ton of volume. PS: The rankings are taken from CMC: https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/ |
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I haven't try on a new phone, but I imagine they'd be as good as any PC CPU ... "not good enough".
I had tried back in Oct. 2017 the MinerGate software but no only was the hashrate low on my mid-level phone, MinerGate is stealing a lot of coins from the miners... call it "fees".
Right now I have the Mate 20 Pro, I suppose it's as fast as a phone can be today, but there's no legit miner I can try. PlayStore wouldn't list any such app and I won't take the risk of using non-checked apps from 3rd party sites. I'm pretty sure no coin will be profitable to mine, especially if you consider the burden on an expensive phone.
Maybe if there was an algo that somehow is only CPU mineable and used by a coin likeable from investors, then a phone miner could make some sense. But AFAIK something like that doesn't exist.
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