From what I know VISA may allow in the future crypto payments, accepting Bitcoin and a couple of major altcoins.
.. and that's all. Not something specific to Ripple. But as usual, the fanboys make (up) big news in a hope to trigger yet another pump and dump.

Keep in mind that one of the investors in that company is Roger Ver (the one selling bcash as Bitcoin).
Also, it's not uncommon in business/advertising do such (dirty) naming-to-trigger-confusion (mom's pickles, grandma's sunflower seed oil, countryside whatever product... I don't know the En/US version of them, but my country is full of such products, with basically fake names, but they're in my language..)

So keep in mind to research and never believe just a name.

Welcome to the world where many choose Abibos instead of Adidas because it's cheap.
Do you think that the newbies understand that crypto is different than the goods where buying the cheaper can be an option sometimes? Or do you think they understand that they don't buy the correct Bitcoin when bcash is advertised (there) as the real Bitcoin and comes up as the first option when one wants to buy Bitcoin?

Why would they do that? Selling this sharply means losing money.

I think it makes more sense that many Europeans sold at around 10k (a good psychological level) and that's all. Maybe this caused at some point the condition for some big automated sell orders get hit (increase over 10k then starting to decrease)?

Decades ago people called Internet Explorer (and then all the browsers) "the internet".
Now they do similar by confusing blockchain (and Blockchain.com !!) with Bitcoin
We have to live with the fact that some don't know and don't care how "the thing" they use is called.
Of course, this kind of confusion can lead to problems and money lost. But only then they may (not 100% sure even then!) to try to understand the difference

You may be forgetting that the bigger donations (as amount of Bitcoin) were made when Bitcoin was small, most probably under 200$.
Many of the spent Bitcoin may be also at low prices. This means that if you calculate everything at today's price of Bitcoin you'll be awfully wrong.

Also, as TryNinja said, quite some of the later income should be from advertising and maybe copper membership too.

The trend looks beautiful now, many have already started dancing, still, anything can still happen and we cannot foresee the future.
As long as the price goes this nicely, most will predict great future, in which 15k and 20k before the end of the year is easily possible. (I am tempted to do the same, but I won't do that yet.) Again, keep in mind that predictions mean nothing, since noone can foresee the future.

19 - NeuroticFish

Thank you.

The point also was that since it's a made up story, the "nailed" part and the use of that could also be made up (and may not be realistic enough).
But I won't interfere more.

I don't know what is SysInternals live. I've always downloaded it and kept it on my computer.
SysInternals was bought by Microsoft many years ago, so make sure you download it from Microsoft, not from some strange website.

I've said it multiple times: if you use Windows, get Process Explorer (SysInternals/Microsoft) and put it start with the system.
Also make it always visible in tray.
It will show if CPU is used too much and who is using it. It should help find this kind of malware.

Sorry, I don't believe this.
MtGox was all over the news and since then Bitcoin kept getting into the news. And its price too.
So 30-40 BTC would have been 3.5-4.5k in 2014 and from that point no way you would leave your coins unattended.

Nice SF though.

PS. Also quite interesting that basically only me and Gazeta were concerned about the truth of the story.

Let's start with the basics:
1. Are you sure your Electrum was downloaded from electrum.org ?
2. Do you have the latest version?
3. Is your Electrum connected (bottom-right big green dot)?

BTC is not "inside" the wallet. BTC is "on the network".
The wallet has only the private keys you need in order to spend those coins.
The modern wallets (re)create the private keys based on the seed.
So... if you've lost the seed, you will not be able to spend those coins. Ever.

If you make a new wallet, with a new seed, that will be a new wallet. Of course, you will still not be able to spend from the other old wallet.

I hope this answer your questions.


Now, depending on the wallet, you may be able to see the seed if you still can open the wallet. What wallet you use? How you know you have the coins, are you looking in a wallet or a blockchain explorer?
Did you write down the seed onto a paper? Maybe you can search more for it?

Keep in mind that as long as the coin is not listed, all your gains are "monopoly money".
There are scam accusations in this direction already. Everybody is told to be gaining, but all you did was to give up personal info (the phone app can get quite some info) and received .. promises.
Some even fear that in order to cash in people will have to fill KYC info, which can be even more problematic.
Search and read more....

19 - NeuroticFish

Thanks for the raffle and HAPPY BIRTHDAY Hhampuz !

The users come and go. Especially the scammers, sooner or later they become history.
However, a good post has to stand out, no matter who has written it.

I guess that we don't agree on this and from what I see on current poll result 1/3 of the people answering do agree with you. More than I would have expected.
I don't want to be mean, but I believe that these people misunderstood (at least partly) what merit is for.

This sounds very wrong imho.
Merit is for worthy posts, not for users.
OK, one can be nice towards an user now an then an help him out. But that's an exception. The rule should be to merit posts. That's why I've merited even users that are not here anymore or users which have negative trust: because even such users can be capable of good posts.

And this being said, .. why would I check the history then?! Nope, I don't check it for deciding if I should reward the post or not.

This thread is from January... 2019. The 30 + 30 days have passed long ago. More than a year ago. So ... yep, it's "already" down 

Subscriptions are tricky, some may end up paying it in the following months or years too automatically from their card. I don't know if it's the case, but this kind of problem makes people avoid this kind of deals.
This being said, you may consider checking services that offer Visa/Mastercard debit/prepaid cards you can top up with crypto. AdvCash may have virtual cards too.