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1  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Hacker Returns $26 Million in Ether Months After ICO Theft on: February 27, 2018, 12:06:10 AM
I remember the Coindash hack, I would have been one of the investors would I not have gone to the beach on that day. It is quite amazing that the hackers have returned part of the money. Maybe negotiations have been hold since the hackers were afraid to be caught. A nice mystery.

You think the reason the hacker hasn't returned all 43,000 Ether is because he struck a deal with the team? I find that hard to believe, because they're still looking for him:

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· We have notified the Counter Cyber Terrorist Unit in Israel.

· The hacker’s Ethereum address will continue to be tracked and monitored for any suspicious activity.

If he isn't confident he can't be found he would either never touch the Ether or return everything hoping they let him off the hook.

But if he's sure he'll never be caught why return any Ether at all?

Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle. A hacker who didn't realize the consequences of his actions at the time and is still in a state of confusion.
2  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Today's news: Chinese gov restricts Crypto again... on: February 26, 2018, 11:45:10 PM
Good news for the Chinese people!! DeepOnion is here to provide a great tool to send and receive hidden transactions using the TOR network so Government cannot control your money anymore! This DeepOnion project added recently these layers of security and anonymity  (TOR, OBFS4, and MEEK) new releases coming soon among them Android and Mac wallets! Total privacy via DeepSend!

Bad news for the Chinese people!! TOR barely works in China.

Maybe do some basic research before you shill your bags.
3  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: KYC - Passports and documents for sale on Dark Web on: February 26, 2018, 11:39:45 PM
KYC in its current incarnation is no good. The documents you have to send are required to be unretouched scans, so it's trivial to steal your identity. If you're going to do KYC at least allow people to watermark their passport and mask unnecessary information. Regulation works both ways: the current method of KYC is a breach of privacy laws. Proper privacy protection should be enforced.

There are already projects in development that allows identification without having to send a passport over and over again. It's a shame there wasn't a standard like that before.

We could go deeper and ask ourselves what's purpose of KYC in the first place. They say it's about preventing money laundering and funding militants. First off, cryptocurrencies are by nature traceable and as such really bad for those purposes, in stark contrast with cash. Second, if it's about evading taxation maybe governments should look into fixing tax at the fundamental level.
4  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is there any possibility of building smart contracts using bitcoin? on: February 26, 2018, 12:13:20 AM
don't think of smart contracts as something weird or advanced. they are pretty simple actually. and they can be done on bitcoin but bitcoin is designed to be a currency so the functionality will be limited.

but the good news is with side chains such as RootStock (a project that was being developed for a long time) smart contracts will not only become possible but also will become an easy, cheap/free, and fast thing to achieve. because it is no longer on chain and it will be super fast and ultra cheap unlike what ETH is offering.

The block time of RootStock is still 10 minutes, right? And Ethereum 15 seconds. That is huge difference for usability. The average time on the Ethereum network is 2 blocks now, but in practice it seems to take about 1 minute to execute an instruction on a smart contract, that is 4 blocks. 2 to 4 blocks worth 10 minutes each on RootStock would be painful if you want to trade on a dex or play a game.
5  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 🔥New Bitcoin Hard Fork coming soon. How do I get it? on: February 26, 2018, 12:03:50 AM
It's a lot cheaper to buy ZClassic before the snapshot date compared to Bitcoin. ZClassic is less than $130 and Bitcoin about $9500. You get 1 Bitcoin Private for each ZCl or BTC.
6  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: When will banks start a war against bitcoin on: February 25, 2018, 11:57:38 PM
Some of you guys are so naive. Of course banks know about Bitcoin, they aren't ignorant. It's just they have a huge slow company and outdated systems so it's very hard to make big changes. What else can they but try to slow down Bitcoin while they change the direction of their mammoth tanker? Else they risk the birth of new financial paradigm that puts them out of a job.
7  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Has the Bitcoin Price Bottomed? on: February 25, 2018, 11:52:09 PM
I think it's because of the hard fork that bitcoin price is bottom but we should not worry about what we know about the bitcoin price situation, but focus our attention on the good bitcoin for us, if the bitcoin the sauna has a ($9k) USD we also hope to return it to a good amount.

You mean Bitcoin Private? And they sell before the snapshot? That's an interesting point of view, I thought people were nervous about the world leaders getting together to talk about Bitcoin clampdowns.
8  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Polymath blowing up!! on: February 19, 2018, 10:07:49 PM
For $300 amount I won't do their KYC there's a lot of campaign and airdrop ongoing and besides if this coin has a strong future I will just buy it on exchange than participate in their airdrop in exchange for my privacy, anyway it's an individual's preferences

Kind of agree with you. If exchanges can't even protect themselves from hacks that lead to the theft of hundreds of $millions, you think strangers giving away tokens for free are going out of their way to protect your name, address and passport? Just a matter of time before that data leaks.

9  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: eBITCOIN (eBTC) merchant gateway on: February 16, 2018, 01:28:53 PM
No fucks given on this forum, lol. I´ve been buying this token at $0.17 and will sell them for $100 when the noobs join in.

very constructiv post ... vey happy that btt have created merit toi avoid people like you

There's also an often ignored but very useful ignore link.
10  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Is EtherDelta.com gone? on: February 15, 2018, 02:09:39 PM
Hi

I can't see their official twitter and also can't see some volumes of all tokens on exchange.

https://imgur.com/a/uewz0

Is etherdelta.com really gone?

Here are some relevant account, but I don't think these are official:
https://twitter.com/EtherDelta
https://twitter.com/EtherDEG
Etherdelta is good for now, where do you get your information, its good to do is make research before you post.

Take your own advice. EtherDelta isn't functional at all. The last transaction displayed on EtherDelta was 6 days ago!
11  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Do you like airdrops? on: February 15, 2018, 02:05:14 PM
There are way too many airdrops now and not enough money to go around to make them worth a lot. Airdrops have become vapor.
12  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Litecoin to go down big dip on: February 15, 2018, 02:03:23 PM
I agree there's a big chance Litecoin will pull back in a few days. It increased a little too fast. Like they say: easy come, easy go.
13  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Can BitConnect recover? on: February 15, 2018, 01:25:17 PM
How much regulation does it take to stop people from being stupid and greedy? This is why we can't have nice things.
14  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Is EtherDelta.com gone? on: February 15, 2018, 12:58:55 PM
There's this puzzling account promising EtherDelta 2.0. But the deadline already passed.

https://twitter.com/EtherdeltaL

ForkDelta is up and running independently from EtherDelta, but are they trustworthy?

https://twitter.com/ForkDelta/status/964084892723240961
15  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: any opinions regarding MyEtherwallet.com? on: February 15, 2018, 12:53:12 PM
Check out the last Tweet.

https://twitter.com/myetherwallet/status/963941339002937344

AFAIK Taylor/MyCrypto gave back the MyEtherWallet Twitter handle to kvhnuke/MEW.
16  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: any opinions regarding MyEtherwallet.com? on: February 10, 2018, 04:02:56 PM
Just download a stable release from the MyEtherWallet Github repository, run it on your own computer and let the drama over capitalizing the MyEtherWallet.com website pass.



17  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Future crypto in Europe on: February 10, 2018, 04:00:00 PM
Now that BitcoinTalk has banned shitposters is it still possible to get merit legally? I don't want to stay a Jr Member. 
18  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Is EtherDelta.com gone? on: February 10, 2018, 01:03:32 PM
Maybe it's time we start supporting Forkdelta instead of Etherdelta?
19  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: "Hard Cap and Soft Cap" on: February 10, 2018, 01:00:58 PM
Nobody really explained or discussed the hard cap.

A project has a maximum number of coins or tokens. The developers can't create more coins, although they can split the total amount of coins into portions. A portion for public sale, another for salaries and expenses, a portion for marketing, etc.

Let's say a project has 100 coins. 50 coins are reserved for the public sale. Each coin is $1. The hard cap is 50 coins = $50.

But why would you limit your project to a fixed amount of money? You could also develop a scheme where each sold coin increases the price of the next coin, up to a just shy of infinite hard cap.

Coin #1 = $1
Coin #2 = $2
Coin #3 = $4
Coin #4 = $8
Coin #10 = $512
Coin #15 = $32,768
Coin #20 = $524,288
Coin #30 = $536,870,912
Coin #40 = $549,755,813,888
Coin #50 = $562,949,953,421,312


20  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: Ledger Nano S on: February 10, 2018, 12:29:29 PM
SECURITY

Ledger Receive Address Attack

If you’re using the Ethereum App – Treat the ledger hardware wallet the same as any other software-
based wallet, and use it only on a Live CD operating system that is guaranteed to be malware-free. At
least until this issue receives some kind of fix.

That sounds really bad. So much for security. What's the point of a hardware wallet if it is just as vulnerable as a software wallet?

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