I just noticed and realized that I have never heard of a certain Christian terrorist, all I hear is that when a terrorist is in the news, he/she is a Muslim. I am not saying that Muslims are terrorist, so don't get me wrong.
Muslims are entirely different from Islamic terrorists. Their ideology is to kill everyone who is different from them and their religious fanatical notion of restoring moral order on earth by killing maximum people because Quran/god said so is pure madness. Quran has nothing to do with these terrorists, they have just twisted and distorted it to fulfill their kill for thrill/chaos. Islamic terrorism is an organized network. They readily have access to convince innocent children that terrorism is the way of God and recruiting them to do heinous crimes. And because of these few lunatics, millions of Muslims are labelled terrorists. Media is responsible for portraying Muslims as terrorists because they put no effort on covering non-Muslim related terrorism, but amplify their coverage when a Muslim is involved. Islamic terrorism has increased since 9/11, but before that if you look at the stats majority of terror attacks were committed by non-Muslims.  What has happened in the world is crime is perpetrated. If it is perpetrated by anyone who is not a Muslim, it’s called a crime. And if it’s perpetrated by a Muslim, it’s called terrorism. http://aboutislam.net/counseling/ask-about-islam/why-are-most-terrorists-muslims/ |
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First of all if anyone can see from my recent posts in legal and economy my view since the growth has been optimistic, and they still are. The only problem is the the average working joe doesn't have a clue about bitcoin, doesn't have a time with a wife and family to look into it not to mention the people (at least where i'm from, U.S south) with real equity simply dont' need the money.
I've been very passionate about this as of late and when thinking of graduate schools and how to further my education as well as the future I just too much risk involved in BTC as compared to real equity over time such as land, or more important more advanced degrees and titles which no one can strip from you. I've been talking to my dad about this, he is a neurosurgeon who got his M.D at 26 then surgical license at 29. He thinks this growth is bound to be a bubble as a very practical man because doesn't it seem like the old saying "if it's too good to be true it's most likely not"?
Also let's be just realistic for a moment and agree most people here are the overzealous portion of bitcoin users who WANT to see it grow. It is a bitcoin forum. I'm wondering what post-doc level economists are saying about bitcoin.
Plus there are disadvantages and may or may not be worked out such as legal protections (legitimate ones) against scammers and there are no reliable exchanges out there. I've had awful experience with coinbase and LBC.
1. Looking at the last few months bitcoin price, a 200% growth, practically or statasically it could be said that this growth is bound to be a bubble. Is speculation the sole reason for this or bitcoin is really getting adopted especially after Japan legalised bitcoin? 2. For a moment, let's consider that this tech/internet bubble would burst, but it would definitely rebound because of its working model, a decentralized currency. Bitcoin has done that in the past. Bubble burst or not there would not be a lack of users who prefer to use a decentralized currency. 3. Yeah, bitcoin lacks laws against scammers especially if it is a small scale operation. Lawsuits against Mt gox and cryptsy prove that laws can be enforced on big scams, but still this area needs a lot of improvement. This is one of the drawbacks of using a decentralized currency. 4. Coinbase is a centralized exchange. Since they do not have buy/sell option for my country, I have not used this feature and just few months ago they had blocked my three-year old account without any valid reason. They have weird rule and regulations, banning, blocking account with funds. I would not recommend it to anyone. Apart from LBC and Coinbase, there are many other exchanges. Even if Bitcoin is a bubble I do not think it would be bursting anytime soon because more and more countries are planning to legalise it including India and Russia. As users increase bitcoin would get more stable and less volatile and people would stop getting too skeptical about it. |
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As far my knowledge there is lots of sites are getting business because of bitcoin like faucets ,PTC , and games which will be having huge payout of small micro earnings to the customer.Is these websites and apps affected because of high transaction charges??
Faucets, games, and PTC sites adjust their rewards according to BTC/USD rate so the price is not a barrier. As far as fees are concerned, some microearning sites have the option to withdraw through Xapo, here no fee. Rest either use Faucethub or pay directly. About 95% of faucets use Faucethub and if I am right the withdrawal fee is not more than 1.5%, a 300 satoshi fee for a 0.0002 BTC transaction which is not bad and some direct paying PTC sites use the same 1.5% fee. Yeah, unlike earlier because of high fees now, microearners are not withdrawing small amounts, but that has not affected the popularity of microearning sites. |
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For now, somewhat. But the week before Aug 01, especially the few days before Aug 01, the money will flow back into alts...mostly the top 10 alts.
I'm bullish on Bitcoin and Monero long-term.
You are wrong. If 80% consensus could be achieved for SegWit (it is at 79.9% right now), then it is not going to matter. What happens in August 1 will be like damp squib. I expect Bitcoin to eat in to the market shares of the alts and rise to somewhere around $5,000 to $10,000 per coin by the end of this year. Most bitcoin users moved their funds to ETH or other alts expecting a chain split in August, but with Segwit2x getting 80% support and if they signal Segwit before August 1 then the possibilty of a split happening is very minute and Segwit getting activated soon is very high so right now money is not flowing to alts, what was flown is coming back to BTC. Yeah, a hard-forking event might create another cloud of uncertainty in the future, but there's enough time to ponder on that. |
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Why do you guys think Bitcoin is declining in popularity? Looks like Ethereum will pass it. What can Bitcoin do to maintain number 1?
 Segwit2x is a compromise, but with 80% of miners signaling Segwit2x, in the last 24 hours the price of ETH and all other major alts have dropped. With the scaling solution near at hand, what do you think would happen to ETH when Segwit gets activated? I guess some sensible users have already started moving their funds from alts to bitcoin. |
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omg!!
blockchain transaction fees killed my entire 2 days earnings on bitcoin 40$
i never know and wanna try exodus wallet so i transfered frm blockchain to exodus 40$ and they cut 16$ as transaction fees.
HOLY MOM!! Wth is this fees???
anyone experience the same...
There is an option to choose custom fee on blockchain wallet or you can use their fixed fee for regular or priority transactions. You might have chose the priority option otherwise it would not come around 0.006 in fee for a $40 transaction. https://btc.com/stats/unconfirmed-txAlways use custom fee on blockchain wallet, their recommended fee is always three times more than the standard fee. |
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Wow, this has been announced for quite some time! Almost two years ago, I remember really well... It's finally here!  A great step for Bitcoin, indeed. You really think the common person missed the fact that Bitcoin exists in the past couple years? There are probably quite a few people that do not know it is out there and there are even more people that simply do not care. Bitcoin is simply not that big of a deal in the deal world and while it may be one of the building blocks to a new age of commerce and currency, people will not give a second thought to it until it happens. Until what happens? I guess bitcoin is happening for quite some time. It went mainstream a couple of years ago. Yeah, not everybody in the world knows about it, but a few years ago Japan would not even have thought about legalising bitcoin, Russia and India would not have been planning to regulate bitcoin, Venezuelan's would not have been turning to bitcoin to escape hyperinflation, and there are many more things to add, but the point is it is happening. Microsoft recognizing bitcoin and now Unicode adding bitcoin symbol proves that bitcoin is steadily moving forwards on its mainstream march. |
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Did you notice that derivatives basing on ETH together with ETH may create a centralized role of ETH? This model is called 'creeping' war - step by step dethronement of BTC. Nothing will be the same. Graham's Law in force: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_lawGresham's law is a monetary principle stating that "bad money drives out good". For example, if there are two forms of commodity money in circulation, which are accepted by law as having similar face value, the more valuable commodity will disappear from circulation. This law is similar to natural selection. When bad money has a survival advantage over good money it drives out the good money. I guess BTC is the good money and ETH the bad. One practical application of Gresham's Law and perhaps the most important is to avoid becoming part of systems where good behavior cannot win due to the nature of the Law.
And that's what exactly bitcoin is doing, being a decentralized currency, it is staying away from becoming part of a centralized ecosystem and thus avoiding the natural of law, the governments. So I do not think Gresham's law applies to bitcoin and as far as ETH is concerned, just wait and let a couple of big ICOs scam and then the blame game begins and being a centralized organization it would be logical to put the blame on at least one person. https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2009/12/mental-model-greshams-law/ |
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https://coin.dance/blocks 76% blocks mined today support segwit2X bitmain is raising an ICO to make sure they can buy enough hashrate to make sure a hard fork. But it seems that miners are supporting the compromise approach segwit2X now. Yeah, looks like segwit2x is going to happen. Bitmain is also in favour of it, the hardfork idea was their plan B (if segwit2x fails and UASF gets traction). What ICO are you referring to?? If you mean Giga Watt, that's a scam: https://blog.bitmain.com/en/gigawatt-infringement-announcement/We have never authorized and will not authorize Giga Watt as our official hosting facility or our service center in the USA. We have never supported and will not support Giga Watt’s ICO. We have never authorized and will not authorize Giga Watt to use our BITMAIN trademark in any circumstances. Mr. WU Jihan has never been and will not be a member of Giga Watt team. Yeah, Segwit2x is going to happen, Segwit would be activated and then three months down the lane hardfork is coming, that was Bitmain's plan A. The August chain split is just getting postponed for another three months. And once hard-forking is done, it would force the entire network to upgrade to the new consensus rules, there is no backwards compatibility, upgrade or just get kicked out of the bitcoin network. Obviously in terms of the size of bitcoin network, a hard-forking would definitely have a deep impact. Guess there is no use putting hope on BIP148 to activate Segwit as a soft fork. I guess what Vitalik Buterin is to ETH, Bitmain/Jihan Wu is becoming to bitcoin. |
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Why isnt Bitcoin traded on Nasdaq
Is there a possibility that this will happen down the road?
Nasdaq is a stock market where shares and stocks of companies are traded. It is impossible to directly trade bitcoins on Nasdaq, but there are two indirect options, GBTC stock by bitcoin investment trust and XBT bitcoin tracker. XBT Provider manages Bitcoin Tracker One and Bitcoin Tracker Euro. With these instruments anyone can invest in Bitcoin as ETN:s, exchange-traded notes, from anywhere in the world. XBT Provider's prospectus is approved by the Swedish FSA (Finansinspektionen) and our products are listed on Nasdaq Nordic in Stockholm. https://xbtprovider.comIt is possible to trade bitcoin as a commodity. GMO, world's largest forex brokerage had launched a bitcoin exchange in Japan last month so the question is would forex giants like GMO and forex.com enable bitcoin trading. |
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Yahoo was the first (?) search engine at the time when Internet started. It was the pioneer in its field. In the late 90's its market cap reached to a high closed to $120B. Three and a half years after Yahoo started, Google came out and gradually took away market share from Yahoo.
After 22 years, Verizon bought it for $4.8B. Would Bitcoin ending up like Yahoo in the future and got beat up by new competitions?
What do you think? Please provide your reason(s) to support your view.
As far as Yahoo and Google is concerned, the latter invested a lot to expand it's operations while the former failed to reinvest in its core business and focused on buying stakes of large companies, for example Alibaba and with this its popularity declined. Bitcoin is the grandad of all cryptocurrencies. Would bitcoin suffer the same fate as Yahoo? There is a minute possibility of that happening, but a few good reasons that would not happen. 1. Store of value/limited supply. 2. Fungible. Even after 21 million bitcoins have been mined, there is a possibility that you could buy a cup of coffee with 1 satoshi. 3. Popularity. Bitcoin has been around for about 9 years and it took some time for it to go mainstream. If a new cryptocurrency has to overtake bitcoin then it would have to beat its popularity, but an advantage of 9 years is not a thing to be simply ignored. 4. Decentralized. Yeah it cold be argued that there are many other cyptocurrencies that are decentralized, but they does not have the above three features including ETH, centralized organization and mining. |
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Do you believe in god? If you do, why do you believe? (give a few reasons)
I do believe in the concept of god who has no religion. I think as far as you are not a religious fanatic, a belief in god would not hurt. It helps to keep the conscience clear and once in a while gives hope. Science says there is no god and arguments from the religious fraternity are much more dubious. No one is going to live forever, choose that which will give you hope at difficult times, an atheist will say he survived the bad times because he believed in himself, a person who is too much into god would say god saved him and would save again without him doing anything, and a person who has faith in one higher being knows that he got out of the situation himself because the higher being would not help him, but would give hope by cheering for him. Albert Camus had said: I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
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 According to ARK blockchain, India has contributed to 10 percent of global monthly BTC/USD trades. Since the government is planning to regulate bitcoin, India's biggest bank SBI has taken the initiative to implement blockchain technology with the bankchain project. SBI has partnered with all the major banks to enable sharing of KYC, ALM and CFT details through permissioned blockchain. The main purpose is to prevent anti-money laundering, countering the financing of terrorism, and to reduce fraudulent loans where a borrower takes a loan against the same asset from multiple banks. With over 500,000 downloads Zebpay has become the 7th most popular app in India in finance category. |
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An antidote for the garbage article. That article was entirely focused on volatility, but this guy has pointed why bitcoin is not a garbage, including the store of value aspect. Bitcoin is a viable medium of exchange.
Bitcoin does not have a central bank diluting its value.
Ease of use is making Bitcoin into a more accessible currency.
This point is worth noting. Because there is a central bank that “backs” said fiat currency. And, that central bank is moving society forward by wasting away said fiat currency by deflating the currency.
But, as a store of value, Bitcoin has fiat currencies beat all day long and will continue to do so. There are 7,000,000,000 people on the planet that potentially could use Bitcoin. There are only 21,000,000 coins in existence. That is why the value keeps surging.
Bitcoin is indeed a viable medium of exchange, but to become a dependable one bitcoin needs to be embraced by more people which eventually would happen. |
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I would like to know what experiences did you had when you first started with Bitcoins. As for me, I had many that I would like to share with you. When I began in the Bitcoin world, I was a complete rookie with no proper knowledge of how did mining worked or anything about cryptocurrencies. I just thought about Bitcoin as another payment processor like PayPal. But when I joined the BitcoinTalk community, I learned so many things along the way. In my process of learning in the first days, I decided to invest into cloud mining services. Since I didn't knew much about it, I invested a plenty amount of Bitcoins to start my journey into it. During that time, I had gotten into many different services. Those were GAW Miners, then Cointellect, cloudminr.io and finally Hashnest. After getting scammed many times by the services mentioned previously, (except for Hashnest) I have lost many Bitcoins. As a result, I decided to never invest into cloud mining and thus dedicate myself into learning more about the cryptocurrency and look for other ways to earn Bitcoins. It was then that I enrolled into the signature campaign that I am currently into and during all that time I began to earn Bitcoins as well as diversify my investments into different alt coins. Now I am dedicated to trading Bitcoins and other alt coins, as well as working for it (like the signature campaign and working as a freelancer) in order to earn coins and build up my portfolio along the way. Anyways, what would be your experiences with this exciting cryptocurrency?  One of my friends told me about bitcoins in 2014, decided to start a bitcoin related website and bought my first bitcoins from Localbitcoins, but the site was not profitable, loss Then came to know about cloud mining sites, invested in PB mining and BCS, both turned out to be scams, loss. And at this point I realized I was doing something wrong. Back in 2014 there were hundreds of cloud mining, HYIP, and other ponzi sites, a newbie does not go through the scam accusations, it is just the profit that makes sense and that's what happened with me. After losing a substantial amount, I decided enough of investing and started spending time on this forum to understand the basics of bitcoin, trading, where not to invest. My first experiences with bitcoin were a bit bad, but learned a lot from it. |
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For those innocent and negative thinkers, I certainly can prove to them like a comparison between their activities doing nothing on their home and comparing also what I've done saving my bitcoin in my online wallet. We can make an agreement just to monitor my investments, and to him/her doing nothing and just wasting the whole day watching movies. So the best thing on this is we gonna check each other's progress on whose going to generate an income? Will I be the one having profit from my invested btc or for them who just did nothing? I guess they've missed it out and the reality happening here is, the profit which I have earned through bitcoin which those people ignored. That's how we prove them the reality how bitcoin works on our lives today and they really needed to absorb the learnings we have.
Mate your whole idea of proving seems a bit out of place, absurd. Doing nothing and saving bitcoin, one hell of activities to compare. It is like you are conveying that saving bitcoin is a full time job and the only point you are proving through this post is bitcoin is a get rich quick scheme. Awesome way to prove. |
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They provided fee less service for about three years. Charging for incoming transactions is not good, but still they have set a very low limit, 0.00120985. And most importantly Xapo to Xapo transfer is still free. So if you are receiving funds from Xapo faucets it would not be an issue.Their debit card and vault features are good so users who prefer these would continue using them in spite of the fee which is now somewhat the same no matter what wallet you are using. |
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Hi, There are two things I wonder. For example, can a blockchain project developed for copyrights be used as cryptocurrency? Can a project developed as cryptocurrency be converted into a different blockchain project? I do not know whether this completely answers the first question. But I think a project developed for copyrights protection/registration could be used as a cryptocurrency. Copyright registration is effectively creating a form of ownership of that content while timestamping it and then tying that record to the person/group responsible for the creation of the content. A new platform can be built on top of the blockchain. This platform could then issue a token, serving as proof of authenticity, in which a timestamped copyright registration is contained. Once that token has been issued to a certain person, it can only be transferred to someone else when the owner signs off on the transaction with their private key.
https://news.bitcoin.com/future-use-cases-for-blockchain-technology-copyright-registration/I am assuming that this token could be used as a cryptocurrency, something like this, if someone wants to obtain the ownership rights of a copyright or want to get permission to use the content then a price can be put on a token. I did not find any information regarding modifying a blockchain project, guess it is possible. I will update this post if I find anything. |
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I'm already a member for many years on bitcointalk but have just done 20 post! For the ICO of my coin i think its not good idea to do it with a newbie account!
Thats why i want to buy your account but only member or higher!
Member account
Full Member
Sr. Member
Hero Member
Please only with good reputation and no loan apply threads?
I'm selling popup traffic from one of the most popular altcoin exchanges (poloniex, bittrex etc) and coinmarketcap and whatever other popular bitcoin website you want the traffic to come from! How does it work? When someone visits Poloniex a popup will be triggered over the website of Poloniex! This happens because this person installed a toolbar! What countries do the visitors come from? All over the world see stats: http://iturl.nl/snR7az2This is a very effective way to sell Tokens, Coins or ICO's! Ofcourse your website should like good and eye catching! I sell packages: 10.000 visitors for 0.09 BTC 20.000 visitors for 0.17 BTC 50.000 visitors for 0.40 BTC 100.000 visitors for 0.75 BTC PM me for details! Based on his last post, I wouldn't trust him, Tried to buy bitcointalk account from full member to hero member. Most likely scammer. I recommend to avoid this people. Never ever trust him or someone who'll give him review about his services. because people feels more relaxed buying services from a full member or higher with good or neutral reputation! Since i'm willing to invest 0.06 Bitcoin in a account you think that i will just use it to scam people and get bad ratings? And why shouldn't they trust a future review what if that person is actually a full member? They shouldn't trust that review? Its very nice you don't want people to get scammed and you warn them! But calling me a scammer needs more proof! Untill then you can better let me know how i can improve my service so that people will trust that i will not dump this account and run away with the BTC! From selling ICO targeted traffic to for the ICO of your own coin, that was quite a jump. You created your account on June 10, how does it make you a member of bitcointalk for many years. People here have the tendency to label newbies as scammers without giving a second thought and you can't blame them for it, that's what majority of newbies did and will do on this forum. And you have made a contradictory statement. If the services you are offering is worth it and people are interested, it would not matter if your account is newbie or legendary. |
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