No worries. If you want to make it right, go to the very bottom left of this post, and click on "Move Topic" and move it to the appropriate board. If you really want to make it right, click the "Lock Topic" link afterwards so you don't get anymore sig spammers posting in this thread that's already been answered 

This question should be moved to the Beginners & Help or Meta board, as it has nothing to do with discussion about Bitcoin.

You'll know if you are accepted into the campaign as the topic where you applied should have a reply by the campaign moderator that you were accepted. Additionally, most campaigns have a link to a spreadsheet that you can check to see if you were accepted and added.

You can post anywhere except for boards that the campaign manager specifies in the campaign topic as being invalid for payments. Technically, you can post anywhere you like for campaigns, but you won't be paid for posts made in the boards that are specified. For example, the campaign may state "You will not be paid for posts made in Gambling, Games & Rounds, Meta, and Micro Earnings". This just means that if you post in any of these boards, your post won't count towards your payment at the end of the week/month/payment period.

False. Actually, I guess this could be true... I used to trade gold and forex, but I do not any longer. So my decision between gold and bitcoin percentage? 0% investments in gold and 100% into Bitcoin.

But seriously, it doesn't state anywhere that you have to only use gold or bitcoin as a store of value. I think you're putting too much unnecessary focus on only choosing between bitcoin or gold. Why so serious? 

Considering that you have a debit card, you probably have a bank account. If this is the case, and you are a South Korean national, you should be able to open and verify a PayPal account with your bank account. Once your account is verified and your bank account is linked, you can come back to the forums here and go to the Currency Exchange board (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=53.0) and look for reputable sellers of Bitcoin. Make sure to check their Trust ratings... Most reputable sellers already have their own threads and hundreds of successful transactions.

The only problem could be that you're a Newbie rank, which a lot of people won't be willing to work with. However, if you indicate that you will send the amount first, and that you will send it as "Friends or Family" (which cannot be charged back at a later time), then chances are that some reputable sellers may be willing to send you the Bitcoin after the conversion from KRW to USD is finalized.

There may be a slight premium rate attached to the price of Bitcoin, but I'm sure it beats the highly-inflated prices of trying to purchase Bitcoin on an exchange that is allowed within South Korea.

Good luck, and feel free to let me know if you have any questions!

EDIT: I just noticed that you want to buy Bitcoin "instantly". Be careful with that verbiage, as some people could take this the wrong way, such as indication that you may be out to scam them. The method I described isn't instant; you'll still have to wait a business day or two to verify your account with PayPal. But I can assure you that you won't pay the premiums involved with South Korean exchanges by utilizing the above method, so you could end up saving a lot of money in unnecessary inflation.

You just answered your own question.

You should be extremely weary and cautious of any service that asks you for private keys. That's like a member on the forums here asking you for your account password to verify that you're a real member...

Looking at IDEX, do you know what raises red flags immediately for me? The part where it says:


Yeah, I wouldn't touch that site with a 10-foot pole.

I tried to register a new account on Kraken last night, and I got the CloudFlare timeout error repeatedly, to the point where I could not complete my registration. I believe the exchange is overloaded at the moment, so the best advice would be to give it a few hours and try again at a later time. I wish I could give you more of my experiences with Kraken, but the attempted registration is the only one I have. Good luck mate.

I truly want to agree with you, but you and I both know that opening these payment gateways leave a risk of centralized manipulation in the hands of larger organizations. Essentially, the only organizations that can afford to run and operate these payment channels will be banks. My hope is that there will be trusted whales of the Bitcoin community that can network together to create this centralized, yet trusted, channel, but chances are that these channels will be left in the hands of greedy organizations looking out for their personal interests, rather than for the greater good of Bitcoin. Classic example? Look what's happened to the miner's fees and transaction fees to the existing chain. While I have huge hopes for LN and its off-chain 'verification', if you will, I think there will be a lot of Bitcoiners that will be weary about trusting these channels.

Way off-topic, but you're plagiarizing articles without linking the source. You've done this with every post you've made since joining the forums. The mods frown upon that here in the forums, so for future reference, you should really link the source of your article. Otherwise, it appears like you're trying to pass it off as your own.

For reference, the article that OP has plagiarized can be found here: https://news.bitcoin.com/drafting-laws-and-hodling-u-s-congress-discusses-cryptocurrency-disclosure/

There's much more than what OP has posted, so go get the full context by clicking on the link.

My favorite method of converting to Bitcoin to PayPal is by using LocalBitcoins.com (LBC). https://localbitcoins.com

Create an account there and verify it using your phone number. Once verified, you can send Bitcoin to your wallet within LBC. Earlier this year, they implemented a deposit fee, so you'll be paying a little premium for each deposit that you make into LBC. But don't worry, there's good news. You can find many buyers that offer a premium rate (usually 1%-5% over the going rate of Bitcoin) that will pay you more than what the BTC is worth.

Be patient, and only sell your Bitcoin to users that have a high volume of trades, as well as excellent reputation. There is a risk, as most sellers will only send the payment marked as for Goods or Services, which means that there is a risk of being able to be charged back at a later time. That's why it's important to find buyers who have excellent history and reputation. After doing this several times, you can "trust" a LBC buyer, and I'd recommend only dealing with buyers that you trust and have done trades with before.
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I've had nothing but positive experiences with selling BTC for PayPal on LBC.

Another method? Go to the "Currency Exchange" board on these forums (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=53.0), and look for reputable buyers that will pay you PayPal for your bitcoin. You will more than likely have to send the BTC first, as a newbie, but if this is something you plan on doing regularly, you can establish some positive trust here by being a bitcoin seller that's easy to work with.

And lastly, be weary of websites that offer PayPal for your Bitcoin. The majority of them are scams, and the ones that are not charge exorbitant fees to do the trade.

Already exists.

Is this an alt account of yours? It's kind of like the pot calling the kettle black...

But to answer your question, I started blacklisting members here who are obviously just sig spammers, and newbies who don't contribute to any form of conversation. I feel like a lot of newbies are just spam-posting to get to the required member level that allows them to join a sig campaign.

But bookmark this page: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;sa=ignprefs

That's the "Ignore Settings" page where you can add usernames of members who you no longer wish to see posts from. The method that I use? When I see a member (of any level) posting in a thread, and doesn't contribute any substance to the topic, or gives the same repetitive answer as many others, I check their profile and see the last posts of that user. If they're an obvious sig spammer, I add them to my ignore list. Yes, it takes time, but you'd be surprised at how much the quality of these forums go up after just a week of doing this.

You can also use the "Watchlist" feature by clicking on the "watch" link in the upper right of the original post for any posts that interest you. You can then click on the "Watchlist" link (or simply bookmark this page: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=watchlist) to see the topics you'd like to follow. Once you feel that the topic has been covered to your liking, and you don't have anything else to learn from the topic, click on the "unwatch" link in the upper right.

Stick around, and you'll find little ways to make this a decent experience.

Paying taxes depends on which country you are purchasing Bitcoin in. In the United States, Bitcoin is considered a property, so you're legally obligated to report your bitcoin as a property investment, and pay capital gains taxes on it if the value appreciates.

If you're talking about an exchange tax, most exchanges take a small (usually very small) percentage of the overall value of the transaction when making an exchange.

If you're asking about general taxes, it might help to know which country you're from before you'll find the answer you're looking for.

Short answer, no.

However, you may want to check out localbitcoins.com. It's essentially a service that keeps reputation ratings of Bitcoin buyers/sellers, and you can find someone to sell you Bitcoin for most any kind of payments, including physical transactions. Make sure to look for sellers who have a high amount of trade volume and reputation, and make sure that they don't have many gaps in their trading history. Most sellers will charge a premium, but lbc is currently my preferred method of buying bitcoins.

Make sure to do your own research about LN. There is no option for decentralization for LN, and it's a second layer that relies that you put your trust in payment channels that have to "vouch" for your bitcoin payments offchain until they can be verified. While LN sounds great in theory, it's unfortunate that it kind of goes against everything that makes Bitcoin (core) what it is today. LN adoption and integration would mean that Bitcoin transactions are no longer P2P.

Okay, now this is just shilling at its finest. I hardly think that any Chinese mining company is actually concerned about developing their nation or improving their peoples' lives more so than just thinking about how much money they're going to pocket by taking advantage of cheap land and electricity costs...

Well shit, is this like where sellers on eBay would post up a picture of an iPhone, and then cleverly hide in the description that people are bidding on pictures of the phone, and not the actual phone itself? Are you "AUTOSELLING" images of CryptoKitties? Or are you selling the CryptoKitties on the site themselves?

I just got into CryptoKitties, and would like to see if there is a reputable 3rd party market for them, such as on the forums.

Sounds fishy, to be honest, but... SUBSCRIBE. Let's see how this plays out.

Wow.

Interesting theory, but hard to take serious without any hard proof, such as the records of the "real" Satoshi Nakamoto who lived a couple of houses down from Hal Kinney...

I'm curious to hear from any original members of this forum to get their opinions on the interactions of satoshi nakamoto and hal in the early days of this forum's life. Are any still around? Maybe they can shed some light on how the interactions were way back when.

And can you reference any of the posts made by satoshi's account during the U.S. timezone hours? In fact, just any of the interesting posts made by satoshi's account? I'm curious to learn some documented history of Bitcoin's origins.

Illuminate confirmed.

I can imagine OP sitting in a foil hat in a dark room where the walls are lined with aluminum foil, furiously typing away on conspiratard forums, boasting about how he insulted us cryptonuts on these forums.

The best part? Some of his other theories:

Z-Coins are Israel backdoor

Apparently, USA is owned by Israel. Oh, and Israel killed JFK. Oh, and Coinbase is owned by the IRS.

And the US Dollar collapse is coming!

But the NSA created Bitcoin, and when the CIA found out about, they gave it to the CIA...

There is so much gold in this user's post history... The characters we find on the forums here

Whatever the current rate of BTC for the value of 20 XRP, using Preev.com for BTC price, and CoinGecko.com for XRP price.

At the time of this post, Preev price for BTC is $15,070 and CoinGecko price for XRP is $3.21. I will pay 0.004268BTC ($64.20) for 20 Ripple.

Dude, shut up with that fud.

First of all, a few of my friends didn't even realize they were bitcoin whales until recently. One of them was introduced to bitcoin in 2011, and he made some faucet claims back then to a wallet that he forgot about until he was clearing out his old computer and happened to find his wallet backup. He had over 50 BTC sitting in his wallet just waiting for him. The dude wasn't rich by any means. Another bought a couple hundred dollars worth of Bitcoin for online gaming, used like $20 of it (at the time, they were probably worth a buck a piece), and left the rest on a USB drive that he happened to find while clearing out his office desk when he quit his job. Instant millionaire, but before that, he was just a programmer that was making an average salary working a 9-5. Definitely not elite, or "rich".

Secondly, do you understand the implications of what will happen to the global economy if the US Dollar crashes? EVERYTHING is traded internationally based on the US Dollar. As messed up as the US economy is, for the dollar to crash is something that many countries and governments and corporations won't allow.

And how do you know that BTC was never intended to be used for pocket change? It was designed as a P2P currency without any limitations on minimum or maximum amounts.

Stop spreading fud, please, and stop saying shit like you know what you're talking about.

Ah, sorry, I forgot to include the payment method. It was with PayPal. The buyer apparently used a PayPal account with a credit card that didn't belong to him/her. My friend's account ended up getting locked while it was investigated. The lock was released within 2 days, but the payment that was made by the buyer was removed from her account. I'm not sure of the overall outcome of the situation; whether she filed a report to lbc or not. I can check with her the next time I speak with her, but that's the gist of what happened based on her fb post regarding the matter.