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1  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: leonArdo - Bitcoin Trading Bot: Binance, Bittrex, HitBTC, Poloniex, Bitfinex... on: March 27, 2018, 09:02:07 PM
I am disappointed with this announcement.

Leonardo/Margin will not fit my needs anymore as a very small investor. Sad
Its a shame I really liked it and will continue using Leonardo until it stops working altogether.

Same!

SAME!
2  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: CoinTracking - Profit/Loss Portfolio and Tax Reporting for Digital Currencies on: January 09, 2018, 08:19:40 PM
Two questions if anybody can answer them.

1.
The Pro license, I presume the 3,500 transaction is in one tax year because you can wipe the profile and start again?

2.
How is the system for handling UK tax regime, can anyone give me any pointer to their set up, changing the tax year start date is straightforward but what about other stuff that does not seem obvious?

Cheers
3  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Electrum + Keylogger + TrustedCoin on: December 23, 2017, 10:05:25 PM
I was reading this Docs on Electrum :

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Even if TrustedCoin is compromised or taken offline, your coins are secure as long as you still have the seed of your wallet. Your seed contains two master private keys in a 2-of-3 security scheme. In addition, the third master public key can be derived from your seed


So I have this question , if I have a Keylogger on my PC (Dosen't matter if it's Clipboard , Screen capture or whatever) and I make a new fresh Electrum wallet with Two-Factor Authentication (with TrustedCoin) .

It dosen't matter if I make  Two-Factor Authentication or it does not , since it says that I'am able to recover my wallet with the seed , so if the keylogger captures somehow the seed , I'am screwed ?

Because the Electrum says what I quoted above , and the TrustedCoin says this :

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you can offer a wallet that is secure even if the user's computer is compromised with a keylogger.

Surely the solution to this situation of key loggers is to generate the wallet on a fresh PC offline, then copy the .dat file over?
4  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: IOTA - the scheme is being pumped hard now don't fall for the trap on: August 31, 2017, 10:18:33 AM
> and because the 12 witnesses are still run my main dev and not other known real world entities.

There are three people at the last count.

I run a UK hub and I could enter as a 4th. Making three public people.

I just haven't got round to it yet.



Here we discuss Iota and not other actual cryptocurrencies. Stay on topic or get out.

My points about retarded iota as concept and weak security stand. Iota, more like Coordinatorcoin for correct name.

We are discussing IOTA. You wrote upthread that Byteball doesn't have PoW implying that Byteball suits IoT while IOTA doesn't suit because of PoW. My counterargument - a system without PoW can be easily attacked. So without PoW Byteball can't work (including in IoT). This is what can be demonstrated once we arrange the bet. How much are you willing to bet?
IOTA has PoW, yet it can be easily attacked, so much, that you need to have a centralized Coordinator. Why is that, PoW in Iota does not secure it? You cant just add massive amounts of PoW to secure it? But instead rely on 1 special Coordinator? What a baby.

I think you are confusing the way IOTA works with the way Byteball works.

If you can attack it, go ahead attack it, your last "attack" which stalled the network for 6h, was due to a bug in the archiving of units, not anything with the consensus algorithm of Byteball or PoW, and because the 12 witnesses are still run my main dev and not other known real world entities.

I bet you there is other flaws and bugs in Byteball, as there is in any software, and in IOTA - but IOTA has a bug which cant be fixed - a conceptual retarded mistake.  Cheesy

IOTA idea is dry water, living dead, cold hot, plastic silverware, PoW on IoT.
5  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][CryptoScalper] Trading Platform - Make small profits many times a day on: August 03, 2017, 02:34:11 PM
Can this be combined with signals from cryptoping? (http://cryptoping.tech/backend/notifications/current)

I don't think so.

Please send me the alpha version, would like to try and pay for the software.

Sign up and wait for the alpha users to be announced Wink

I think they are planning to put this in their platform
6  Other / Off-topic / My UbuntuStudio and Google Chrome Stable hacked - help please if poss on: August 04, 2016, 10:33:25 AM
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1745534/general_share/2016-08-03_work_pc_hack/Chrome%20Hack%20-%20030816%20-%2018_09_22.png

Attacker remoted in, see above.

Launched crib sheet in FireFox for total export of Chrome saved passwords

I had attempted to hit print, but I had pulled out the network cable...

The interesting next is where they had been locally on Chrome

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1745534/general_share/2016-08-03_work_pc_hack/History.pdf

NOTE: They are straight after my localbitcoins account...

Fortunately everything is 2FA apart from Amazon because in the UK they don't yet offer 2FA, but they have in the US like AWS services.
And my domain registrar. 123-reg - "arseholes".

Advice sort on finding the hole.

Suspects:

  • teamviewer - nothing in logs
  • Reverse VNC - unable to find logs

Chrome plugs - suspects
  • Chrome Remote Desktop - not used for several month
  • Splashtop - unable to find logs
  • BitBrowser Bitcoin Wallet

My only get out of jail card. Keepass left not open....

Any advice to track how it happened appreciated.

Cheers MX
10 down, 511 to go...

7  Local / 中文 (Chinese) / Re: 关于中国的交流问题 Question about Chinese exchanges on: January 06, 2016, 09:12:14 PM
Looks like it's not gonna work. You should be legal China citizen with a ID which used for authentication of exchanges(1), you also need
that ID for getting a bank card(2), the name you registered in exchange should be the same with name you used to get that card. And looks like CNY is the only one withdrawal option left to us.

you want to sell Bitcoin in Chinese exchanges?

Not particularly - I just want to be able to pay a Chinese supplier.
8  Local / 中文 (Chinese) / 关于中国的交流问题 Question about Chinese exchanges on: January 06, 2016, 02:11:35 PM

我可以开户为英国国家与中国的BTC交流和取钱美国计价的中国的银行帐户,这是不是在我的名字?
谁能够做到这一点?

感谢您的帮助。很抱歉,如果翻译软件,有趣!
Wǒ kěyǐ kāihù wéi yīngguó guójiā yǔ zhōngguó de BTC jiāoliú hé qǔ qián měiguó jìjià de zhōngguó de yínháng zhànghù, zhè shì bùshì zài wǒ de míngzì?
Shuí nénggòu zuò dào zhè yīdiǎn?

Gǎnxiè nín de bāngzhù. Hěn bàoqiàn, rúguǒ fānyì ruǎnjiàn, yǒuqù!

----
Can I open an account as UK national with a Chinese BTC exchange and withdraw money to a US denominated Chinese Bank Account which is not in my name?
Who can do this?

Thank you for your help. Sorry if the translation software is funny!
9  Bitcoin / Electrum / Electrum seeds with more than 13 words - are they OK? on: August 02, 2015, 06:47:45 PM
Hi,

I trying to generate a nice random SEED phrase with a dice and several steps to get to:

electrum make_seed --entropy=13837166324271007511266747237152016797971056575940541277777369348077195841417

It will generate a SEED PHRASE

slice kit glow spike sell honey lens gym primary festival length chapter observe slow lecture breeze stereo pride velvet list climb enjoy vessel fee act

Question:

If the SEED phrase is more than 13 words is this OK or will it cause compatibility problems in the future?

Cheers Mark
--
My tutorial as for:

http://mx.thirdvisit.co.uk/2015/08/02/how-to-bitcoin-cold-wallet-storage-using-random-dice-entropy-to-generate-a-deterministic-seed-phrase/

10  Economy / Scam Accusations / lazycoins.com - down end of July 2015 on: July 30, 2015, 07:01:08 AM
Lazycoins down end of July 2015, no reply to tweets.

Support site looks hacked. Pretty poor show. Given the UK FCA membership etc.
11  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: BlackHalo Smart Contracting Client!!! Download now! Happy Independence day! on: August 09, 2014, 07:28:03 AM
I believe he will open source it when Blackcoin has really got peoples attention. It has some great qualities that mainstream media don't realise what is important. It's "Bulmer", it's got developers, developers and developers!

When I started looking at Blackcoin a few months ago, all I could see was tick boxes, coin gen, proof of stake, block time for point of sale, and the icing on the cake, client support for all devices. Immediately.

And best of all no smug claims about it being the next generation cryptocurrency, I think that Peter Todd will have lost a lot of credibility because of that association. It's like any product promotion offering " free" something. Fuck off and don't insult my intelligence.

I currently have NO position in Blackcoin. But I am excited for it.

Mark
12  Bitcoin / Electrum / Documentation: Incorrect? How to make offline transactions using your Master Pub on: January 25, 2014, 09:14:41 PM
Hi - I think this page may need updating, the current prompt doesn't the word restore. So very confusing for the newbie. - Cheers Mark

https://electrum.org/tutorials.html#offline-mpk

How to make offline transactions using your Master Public Key

Get an offline computer. This can be a physical device or a separate installation on your current computer. I would advice a Debian installation with encrypted home folder for extra security.

[Offline PC] Install Electrum via a USB-Key.
[Offline PC] Create a new wallet. Write down the seed and memorize it, after which you should probably destroy the seed or keep it safe in a lockbox.
[Offline PC] Go to Settings -> Import/Export and copy your "Master Public Key" and put it in a text file on your USB-Key.
[Online PC] Install Electrum and select Restore in the dialog box shown on the first start up, use the "Master Public Key".
[Online PC, existing Electrum installation] See below how to make Electrum to restore or open alternative, non-default, wallet.

Should read:

How to make offline transactions using your Master Public Key

Get an offline computer. This can be a physical device or a separate installation on your current computer. I would advice a Debian installation with encrypted home folder for extra security.

[Offline PC] Install Electrum via a USB-Key.
[Offline PC] Create a new wallet. Write down the seed and memorize it, after which you should probably destroy the seed or keep it safe in a lockbox.
[Offline PC] Go to Settings -> Import/Export and copy your "Master Public Key" and put it in a text file on your USB-Key.
[Online PC] Install Electrum and select "Create a watching-ony version of existing wallet", you will then be prompted to enter your "Master Public Key". <---
[Online PC, existing Electrum installation] See below how to make Electrum to restore or open alternative, non-default, wallet.
13  Economy / Economics / Re: Isn't Bitcoin like the tally stick was and if so, is it more currency >commodity on: December 15, 2013, 12:03:51 AM
The tally stick was typically broken in half and the splintered ends proved the pair were mates.  So one person was creditor and one was debtor (or it could prove a contract between them).  The rest of the stick showed how much (or details about the contract).  The creditor could then sell the "debt side" to someone else, and the debtor would then owe it to the new owner.  One could collect a bunch of them and say "most of these people will pay me the debt" and then go into debt himself with a second layer of tally sticks on the collateral of the batch of 1st sticks he holds (a derivative).   Even without this a bubble of loans could build up on tally sticks, and with too many of them floating around, but it would temporarily stimulate the economy by people buying things.  Merchants could raise their prices if they thought people were issuing each other too many tally sticks.  Holders of lots of tally sticks could sell them out of anticipation they would become worth less from too many of them.  So same thing as money.  ((  BTW   The Fed is buying toxic waste derivatives from banks and using them as collateral against the issuance of newly-created dollars, so QE is a derivative on top of derivatives.  The Fed buying worthless U.S. treasuries is also a derivative because the treasuries were initially issued in order to get money from someone but that money also had to be printed some time in the past, so they're printing money using the original printing as the collateral for the 2nd printing.  ))

Since bitcoin is not used for anything else, it's not a commodity.  It's an asset.  Assets that are not used to generate income like machines and are not a commodity being stored have prices that are determined by public perception.  Artwork is a good example that is like bitcoin.  House prices are halfway between perception and reality.  The creditor side of the tally stick is an asset and the debtor side is a liability.

Bitcoin is an asset that can function like a currency and a contract (using its other features).  The splintered ends of the tally are a key pair.  The debtor end would have be the public key and the creditor key the private key. The ledger of bitcoin is like the public debtor side and the private key is the creditor who paid something "into the system" to obtain the "debt instrument" private key.  

If you don't like to read:
So the bitcoin ledger is a debt "the public bitcoin system" owes to each "creditor" (bitcoin holders).  It's a pretty good analogy except the tally sticks were not limited in supply.

But the King was the issuer in Britain - so he limited the supply.
14  Economy / Economics / Re: Isn't Bitcoin like the tally stick was and if so, is it more currency >commodity on: December 15, 2013, 12:00:47 AM
The other interesting thing about comparing Bitcoin to the tally stick is that:

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Royal tallies (debt of the Crown) also played an infamous role in the formation of the Bank of England at the end of the 17th century when these royal tallies, trading at a hefty discount of up to 60 percent, were engrafted into the Bank's capital stock

So surely if tally stick not wound up in the start of the Bank of England and they weren't backed by anything but the promise of the Monarch.

  • Bitcoin is currency or commodity. Does it really matter?
  • I tried to ask on another thread about whether Bitcoin would be more manipulated by derivative markets markets if it gets classified as a commodity?
  • Or does it really matter if people create derivative markets on Bitcoin as a currency anyway?

And there different tax liabilities? etc

But I got shot down/abused by some strange Swiss person on the forum for having the audacity not to be able to read German!

Cheers Mark
15  Economy / Speculation / Re: Swiss vote Currency v Commodity on: December 14, 2013, 11:47:11 PM
Ok.. I give up.
I'm swiss and you are not.

So don't take things from lousy translations as fact. Every idiot copied from the same BS source. Noone read the original statement in german.

It's a postulate and they vote to talk about. The risks and chances of bitcoin.

There is no public vote.
They vote (internally) if it's necessary to talk about bitcoin.
That's way less then the US senat hearings. We are slow in adepting new things.


That fucking shit about foreign currency drives me nuts. There is NO such thing.
Read the postulate in german as I did and stop writing utter bullshit about things you don't know anything.

Dear Mirsad,

Thank you for taking the time and trouble to explain the issue to the illiterate masses like myself who are not good at foreign languages.

Mark
16  Economy / Speculation / Re: Swiss vote Currency v Commodity on: December 14, 2013, 09:46:14 AM
Hi,

Which vote makes Bitcoin more susceptible to price manipulation and why?

And will the peaks and dips be more frequent / deeper as a result?

Cheers MX

There is no fucking vote. Absolute crap posted by a pump and dumper.
There won't be a vote in switzerland about bitcoin the next 2-5 years. It takes a lot of time in a direct democracy.

Most of the suckers here don't even know where switzerland is located.

I think you will find it is a vote of some sort:

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Politicians in Switzerland are set to vote on proposals submitted by 45 members of the Swiss Parliament for bitcoins to be legally recognised as a legitimate foreign currency, like the euro or dollar.

http://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=25521&topic=retail
17  Economy / Economics / Isn't Bitcoin like the tally stick was and if so, is it more currency >commodity on: December 14, 2013, 09:42:49 AM
According to wikip.

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A tally (or tally stick) was an ancient memory aid device used to record and document numbers, quantities, or even messages. Tally sticks first appear as animal bones carved with notches, in the Upper Paleolithic; a notable example is the Ishango Bone. Historical reference is made by Pliny the Elder (AD 23–79) about the best wood to use for tallies, and by Marco Polo (1254–1324) who mentions the use of the tally in China. Tallies have been used for numerous purposes such as messaging and scheduling, and especially in financial and legal transactions, to the point of being currency.

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The split tally was accepted as legal proof in medieval courts and the Napoleonic Code (1804) still makes reference to the tally stick in Article 1333.[4] Along the Danube and in Switzerland the tally was still used in the 20th century in rural economies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_stick

Thoughts please?
18  Economy / Speculation / Swiss vote Currency v Commodity on: December 14, 2013, 08:35:40 AM
Hi,

Which vote makes Bitcoin more susceptible to price manipulation and why?

And will the peaks and dips be more frequent / deeper as a result?

Cheers MX
19  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: bitstamp blocked by incapsula network from UK on: November 20, 2013, 10:41:37 AM
Hi Piggy,

Yup monkey business again.

I put my AML details in when it was quiet, a couple of days, but ATM, your milage may vary etc.

Good Luck,

Mark
20  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: bitstamp blocked by incapsula network from UK on: November 19, 2013, 07:09:47 PM
Hi All,

Strange thing happened when I got back to home, just now.

I refreshed my page where I was logged in before I went to out and it worked as though nothing had happened.

That would lead me to think it was all to do with front-end balancing and back-end, all was actually well today @bitstamp

Cheers MX
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