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881  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin CEO arrested and Blockchain hacked on: August 12, 2015, 05:24:28 PM
Well the good news is that the CEO post is vacant. Anyone interested can apply to Bitcoin inc.

The post does not exist anymore, because blockchain has been hacked. Cheesy
882  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is Mark Karpeles in jail now? on: August 12, 2015, 05:22:11 PM
Apparently he will be on jail for at least 7 years, which is nothing compared to what would he have gotten in US. He will leave in 7 years
The US could then extradite him.  Put him in a US jail for another 326 years.

AFAIK, only gross negligence is proved against him. US wont charge much for this, unless Ross Ulbricht lawyers can prove that he is the real DPR.
883  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitstamp hack confidential document has been leaked on: August 12, 2015, 05:19:07 PM
Do you know any exchange where you don't have to sign with your name and address?

1. www.LocalBitcoins.com

2. www.100bit.co.in
884  Other / Meta / Re: Theymos (operator of Bitcointalk and Bitcoin subreddit) is censoring Bitcoin XT on: August 12, 2015, 05:14:36 PM
Vote Bitcoin-XT. Just because I hate people who think they are dictators.

There is another dictator waiting for you in XT coin. He wants to ignore the longest chain. Good luck with him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB9goUDBAR0

Decentralization and anarchism are good in theory. In reality, they gives rise to dictatorship. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
885  Other / Off-topic / Re: DO YOU HAVE 1 BITCOIN? on: August 12, 2015, 03:03:09 PM
21.000.000 bitcoins ever to be mined
currently around 14.500.000 bitcoins
blockreward halving next year

If you do not have 1 bitcoin stored away in a cold wallet,  I have no idea what you have been doing al those years lol

And yes!

I have at least 1 bitcoin.



Unfortunately a lot of people here arrived a bit late and you are forgetting that for a lot of people here, even at current price it's difficult to save 300 dollars that you can afford to lose.
The newbies will take at least 9 months to achieve Sr Member and more time to reach 1 BTC off sig campaigns if you suggest that.
I know people who...

GPU mined 2000+ bitcoins and then formatted the hard drive.

FPGA mined 100+ BTC and sold them < 100 USD.

Bought ASIC with that earning, mined less 10 BTC and now storing that in paper wallet.

Moral of the Story: It is not about joining early, but about storing what you have made and that requires strong faith in bitcoin philosophy.
886  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Doubts for Faucet Hosting(Help) on: August 10, 2015, 04:24:46 PM
Shared hosting will be enough. Unless you plan on having a mass amounts visitors them only would I recommend you have a vps. Just add a CDN to your faucet and you should be good to go.

Namecheap should be decent for hosting, but take a look at qhoster, I currently use them and I'm pretty satisfied.

Thanks, Hee I just thinking the same, I'll go with shared hosting & understand the things & Jump to vps.

To start off, go for free hosting. I'd recommend http://besthostfree.com. Once you make decent amount of money, you switch to paid hosting. The plus point is they accept bitcoin.

Check out their official thread for reviews & feedback: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=617213.0
887  Economy / Services / Re: BitDice.me - Signature Campaign! [STARTED] on: August 10, 2015, 11:43:57 AM
The sheet should now be up to date. Payments should also be done shortly Smiley

You have updated my activity instead of post count in the sheet against 22.08.2015 Pay Day. My starting stats for this round are given here...

Re-enrolling...

Name:   RocketSingh
Posts:   781 (including this one)
Activity:   476
Position:   Sr. Member
Bitcoin address:   1Dk4Si2w8StdGVsMW7AYMchTf99NKdVec8

Thanks for running this awesome campaign.
888  Economy / Services / Re: BitDice.me - Signature Campaign! [STARTED] on: August 09, 2015, 02:56:39 PM
Re-enrolling...

Name:   RocketSingh
Posts:   781 (including this one)
Activity:   476
Position:   Sr. Member
Bitcoin address:   1Dk4Si2w8StdGVsMW7AYMchTf99NKdVec8
889  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin CEO arrested and Blockchain hacked on: August 04, 2015, 11:43:38 PM
The mainstream media has so much to talk about bitcoin this week Wink

Who the hell is the Bitcoin CEO and what blockchain in particular? Blockchain.info or the block chain ledger?

I think OP was just trying to be ironic... Grin

Well, he has 307 activity on a Sr Member account, I would hope that he doesn't think Bitcoin has an actual CEO at this point. I think some people here still think Satoshi is the CEO of Bitcoin or something along the lines.

If it had one I would expect a Bitcoin CEO to have a legendary account here. Mark Karples was only a senior member. Surprisingly though his MagicalTux account here was last active on July 30, 2015 which is quite close to the time of his arrest. I can't think why he logged in unless he wanted to check his emails. He could have browsed the forum without anyone knowing if he didn't log in.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2134


AFAIK, this account was hacked after BitcoinTalk DB was stolen. Check the trust left by TomatoCage.

Quote
Alt of hacked account Mt.Gox Support. Be wary about doing business with this user as it may not be under the control of the original owner.
890  Local / India / Re: Second most valueable cryptocurrency? on: August 04, 2015, 10:19:38 PM
Bitcoin is undoubtedly the king of the cryptoworld.
But what would be the second most valuable cryptocurrency?

Please think out of the box.  Tongue

For me, it is Stellar. Ask why ? Because, apart from Bitcoin, I only have some Stellar, which I could manage for free with FB profiles Grin

I think, third most valuable will be CLAM. Ask why ? Because, I have some old bitcoin addresses, which I can use to claim some CLAM in future for free Cheesy
891  Economy / Investor-based games / Re: ChainProfit.com - 27+ BTC Paid | 140% Return | Running over three months now on: August 04, 2015, 05:56:33 PM
Are you people seriously waiting for 5 days to get payed less than 10 cents?
That's just beyond ridiculous.


Are you people seriously waiting for 5 days to get payed less than 10 cents?
That's just beyond ridiculous.  :DDD

Are you the same guy ? Wink

Nowi's likely a bot

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1141841.0

Just report it as sig spam.

Oops... that is something new. I had no idea about it. Roll Eyes
892  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It | Full Movie on: August 04, 2015, 12:31:49 PM
Great documentary ... will see and will send my opinion and feedback

Worthwhile documentary. They have some good shots. It's a shame that they're charging for it particularly as a lot of the footage was donated to them by various people on youtube. So it's disappointing that in turn they charge and they could've instead opted for their own youtube channel for revenue.

Well worth a watch and consider donating for sure Smiley

Yeah, if the point is making Bitcoin more known the Documentary should be free and the money would come from advertisement revenue from Youtube adsense or whatever. By charging you just guarantee that few people see it compared to the ad alternative.

I don't think it is charging to watch it though is it? I just watched it for free. If you watch it to the end it asks for donations if you liked the film. Strangely though, it doesn't give a link or a QR code.

It is a pirated copy. Hence, if they are asking for donation at the end, it is not going to the actual producer/director.
893  Economy / Investor-based games / Re: ChainProfit.com - 27+ BTC Paid | 140% Return | Running over three months now on: August 03, 2015, 06:39:35 PM
Are you people seriously waiting for 5 days to get payed less than 10 cents?
That's just beyond ridiculous.


Are you people seriously waiting for 5 days to get payed less than 10 cents?
That's just beyond ridiculous.  :DDD

Are you the same guy ? Wink
894  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: 50 BTC lost because of blank passphrase on: August 01, 2015, 11:20:25 AM
A blank passphrase creates the following Address/Private key combination.

1HZwkjkeaoZfTSaJxDw6aKkxp45agDiEzN / 5KYZdUEo39z3FPrtuX2QbbwGnNP5zTd7yyr2SC1j299sBCnWjss

Someone sent 50 BTC today to this 1HZwkjkeaoZfTSaJxDw6aKkxp45agDiEzN...

https://blockchain.info/tx/65e1ce741c6f756cf0c36b49a59ba77d7aab82b09acde63c4052bbd6bf1c7050

Within 10 minutes it was moved out...

https://blockchain.info/tx/84ef741c9178a62ca405c7addefe3805ac443dcef1ee3051e5a0a18e1a65cc30

This is the type of low-tech jiggery-pokery that is holding bitcoin back.  I'm not sure what current bitcoin devs are doing about this sort of thing but it doesn't seem like the user experience gets much attention when it comes to wallets, clients, paper wallets, and all the various ways to manage personal bitcoins.

What do you expect the central bankers to do, if someone leaves a briefcase full of cash in open market ?
895  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: Will the new invention by Intel & Micron help PCs to replace ASIC again ? on: August 01, 2015, 11:18:27 AM
I hope it would make it easier for everyone to run their own high-performance full node. At the very least re-indexing the blockchain after an unexpected system shutdown should no longer take 3 days.

So, we are going to get more stable block explorers ?
896  Local / India / Re: Can you buy BTC with credit card/bank transfer without having any legal issues ? on: July 31, 2015, 09:39:14 AM
As the topic says. Looking into the legal aspect of things. Have things been worked out ? I reckon converting INR to USD and back on a foreign exchange is the root of the issue. If we can do it, which services allow it with a credit card ? (Not asking for unocoin,coinsecure type with KYC taking a while)

Converting INR to USD and back on a foreign exchange always exposes u to AML risk. Better approach is to keep the FIAT Tx INR only. You can do it on all direct trading exchanges like LBC or 100bit.co.in without submitting the KYC.
897  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Which Block Explorer do you use ? on: July 30, 2015, 10:01:48 AM
When you check an address balance or a transaction status online, which block explorer do you use ? If you run a service depending on a third party API, which block explorer's API you rely upon ?

Update: I'm listing out the outcome of this thread here...

1. https://blockchain.info/

2. https://blockr.io/

3. https://blockexplorer.com/

4. https://www.biteasy.com/

5. https://chain.so/btc

6. https://helloblock.io/

7. http://bitcoinchain.com/block_explorer

8. https://bkchain.org/btc

9. http://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/

10. http://www.blocktrail.com

11. http://explorer.chain.com/


A few more (they all seem to work well):

-BlockCypher: https://live.blockcypher.com/

-BitPay: https://insight.bitpay.com/

-blockinfo: http://blockinfo.org/

-Coinprism: https://www.coinprism.info/


Some comments on the ones that are currently listed (did some testing):

3. Blockexplorer: Clunky, slow, unreliable. It often fails to display updated transactions, sometimes it won't even be able to load an address at all. I respect that they were pretty much the first block explorer (or the first?), but there are much better alternatives out there.

That's it, enjoy! I'd love to hear some feedback about my list as well if anyone has any.



Now, as blockchain.info is down, I'd like to add http://blockmeta.com to the list. Smiley

I'd recommend this to be added as well...

http://chainflyer.bitflyer.jp

There is another to be added to the list...

https://www.smartbit.com.au/

Australia's first blockchain explorer.
898  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: 50 BTC lost because of blank passphrase on: July 30, 2015, 09:10:59 AM
Well it's been flagged --> " Warning! this bitcoin address contains transactions which may be double spends. You should be extremely careful when trusting any transactions to or from this address. "

I see test transactions being performed, so it's going to go down the rabbit whole very soon, if it's stolen coins. How can people make a mistake like that with 50 BTC?

I hope for their sake that is not a mistake... Thats a lot of money in anyone's language. It's amazing how fast these bots are to catch up on that... or was it just a test? 

When you are not careful enough shit happens really fast. 50 BTC is a lot, but I have witnessed people being less or same careful with amounts of 500 BTCs and higher. Didn't some user of this forum guard his passwords and wallet.dat files unencrypted on the cloud and he got hacked for more than 1000 BTCs.

Luckily he managed to negotiate the return of funds with the thief. I guess that some people never learn.

Yah. Here is the thread => https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=686275.0
899  Local / Press & News from India / Re: [2015-07-30] ET: Hackathon to explore uses of bitcoin tech to build apps on: July 30, 2015, 09:02:12 AM
If someone around there, will be happy to meet fellow bitcoiners.  I ( Zebpay ), Benson ( Coinsecure ) attending the same.

Regards

May I know if there is any attending cost ? Is it going to be seminar or some kinda platform for product showcasing ?
900  Local / India / Re: How you guys are mentioning earning from bitcoin in ITR filing ? on: July 30, 2015, 09:00:44 AM
Then tell list down how you obtained those bitcoin, along with acquisition costs.
How do I list acquisition costs for bitcoins, which are earned from signature campaign, giveaways, ad space selling, social media promotion ?

Think of it as a 2 step process. You first earn money through signature campaigns (which has an INR value) and pay tax on that.
When you sell the bitcoins later, you have capital gains or loss. The INR value of the bitcoins when you earned them becomes your acquisition cost.

Do you mean I can show the INR value of bitcoins earned, at the time of earning, as my cost ? That way, those who sell immediately after earning, will never have a taxation on their earning. I dont think Income Tax authority is ever going to accept this logic. In my understanding, for something to be considered as cost, there needs to be a clear documentation of spending, i.e. debit transaction in bank account or bill/invoice for cash payment. For example, I can show my mobile & internet recharge cost as cost of running business. I have clear cash trail going out in that case. For bitcoin earned, there is nothing as such that can be shown. Though, there are some actual cost in building a website through which I earn bitcoin by ad space selling.
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