this is general, not specific against any website. I included it alos in my signature... to remind people to avoid to give too much information about themselves.

bitcoin debit cards websites are companies registered in London by Lithuanians who demand from you your phone, ID and utility bill, that's enough for them to make offshore companies on your name without your knowledge and they can get a bank account and make financial crimes on your name, or they can simply sell IDs. don't give to anyone too much info.
why they need more than your ID when your local bank demands only ID?

what do you thin, does ordering bitcoin debit cards expose us to the ID fraud and financial criminality?
does the law in Britain really demands utility bill or just "know your customers" or ID and that's all.
anyone visited a bank and opened an account in the last period? did they ask for utility bill?
When I made a bank account in my country, my ID was all I need.

http://whois.domaintools.com/platinumbitcoincard.com
blah blah Jonathan Blacksmith, blacksmith@cyberservices.com, 56 Shoreditch High St, London

they I used https://www.google.se/search?q=%2B44.02077291869&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=UBVWWa-cEevBgAaa7ZnQAQ....
they had website called qckcard.com
I found a thread about them, the person said they scammed him, they sold prepaid cards for 100 eur:
https://www.offshorecorptalk.com/threads/anonymous-bank-card-with-personal-iban-account-number-qckcard.19190/page-2#post-62611

and here is one more:
http://whois.domaintools.com/fastbitcoincard.com

bitcoin is more or less anonymous if you use tor,

but exchangers are not anonymous and there are even sooo crazy exchangers they can record you with a hidden camera 

beside it, when you sell bitcoins, you can get the fake money and later is too late because you gave already 2-3 bitcoins and the criminal is gone.  it happens usually in big cities in germany, etc.

I don't like localbitcoin because they prefer to publish big exchangers, if you are new, they hide your offer, so, people can see only those predators exchangers who verified their ID and they turn 1000 BTC per month and they steal from you 10% "fee/commision". beside it, localbitcoin pushes you to upload some amount of bitcoin.

debit cards are not good any more, I just checked yesterday, most of them are companies registered in London by Lithuanians who demand from you your phone, ID and utility bill, that's enough for them to make an offshore company on your name without your knowledge and they can get a bank account and make financial crimes on your name, or they can simply sell IDs.
lithuanians register 1000 offshore companies and they use it for different types of criminality, even drugs and export of arms to africa.
remember always simple thing: why they need more than your ID when your local bank demands only ID? even paypal demands only ID, but they demand and your phone and utility bill. because they need copy of your passport and the proof of your address to make offshore companies in Belize, Seychelles, etc.

I didn't use trezor and similar, but logically, if I send you even a photo, I can implement a virus in this file,
is it a photo, txt file or wallet, it can be sent together with virus, trojan, etc.
another person already mentioned seed generated in advance, only one person should know the seed,

using tor is better option.

if you want tor or bitcoin-cli or bitcoind to start automatically when ubuntu restart, you can try this:
sudo systemctl enable tor.service or update-rc.d tor enable
here is the way to start up bitcoind automatically if your ubuntu restarts/reboot:
Configuration files for upstart are stored under /etc/init/*.conf. this one is for bitcoind:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/2d782ab2ce30bf106e34cd3288c9082ac04022f9/contrib/init/bitcoind.conf
so, it should be in your computer here: /etc/init/bitcoind.conf
then run: sudo initctl reload-configuration
sudo service bitcoind start

but generally if you use linux, you can also prevent any process, including bitcoin-cli, to overtake consumption of your CPU and block your computer.

cpulimit is a simple program which attempts to limit the cpu usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time).

I just used in debian:  sudo apt-get install cpulimit
but if you can't get it, then:
wget -O cpulimit.zip https://github.com/opsengine/cpulimit/archive/master.zip
unzip and cd cpulimit-xxx
./configure
make
then maybe you need to copy it to /usr/bin

use top or htop to list all processes and find bitcoin-cli, let's say PID is 1234
cpulimit command is:
cpulimit -p 1234 -l 50
this means, bitcoin can use maximum 50% of your CPU.
you can use also the name of the process:
cpulimit -e bitcoin-cli -l 50

you can use tmux to keep proces running in the background even if you close the terminal/console:
sudo apt-get install tmux
tmux #to start tmux session
start bitcoin-cli, I suppose it is sudo service bitcoin-cli start
then you can close terminal running tmux, bitcoin-cli will continue to run, or you can just go out from tmux, bitcoin-cli will continue to run in the backgroung.
you can do the same with cpulimit inside of tmux.
to go out only from tmux: ctrl+b d or ctrl+b :detach

the biggest disadvantage is: inflatory i.e. speculative nature that brings rich people mixed in bitcoin and they can pay 1000 slaves to make fictive demand at different exchanges and change the value of bitcoin.
they can buy 100 bitcoins for 400 Eur and make small demands with high prices (1000 x 0.0005BTC for 10 Eur, for example), then the value of BTC will jump up and they will sell 100 BTC for 1000 Eur per BTC. then they let the value to fall down, to buy BTC again, and again they make many small demands on the market to push up the value of BTC.

in any case, we can be all agreed that rich predators are mixed in bitcoin already 2 years and even their regulation efforts are bad for ordinary people who don't have 100 000 eur to pay for the license to be legal BTC exchanger in Luxembourg. to become BTC exchanger, it will be hard as for example to get a license for casino. only rich people can get it, nobody else, it means, there will be monopoly who will become legal exchanger.

beside speculative nature of BTC that attracted predators and 1000 slaves to make masters richer, second biggest disadvantage is the topic called exchangers.
centralization of BTC by exchangers, NSA exchangers (coinbase), and now even regulating bitcoin by the law will allow to predators to have monopoly who can become an exchanger, only those who pay big money to the state.

Hej, for at advare dig, skiftede jeg bitcoins til kontanter på bitcoin ATM 3 gange i København (Nørrebrogade 51), alle 3 gange blev jeg fulgt af politiet selvom jeg ikke er en forbryder. De får oplysninger om ATM-transaktioner, og de følger hver person, der bruger bitcoins. De fulgte mig 5 km, de placerer spioner i mange gader flere kilometer.

De er det samme politi, der står i Istedgade, når de forsøger at fange narkohandlere. Jeg så dem tidligere i istedgade, jeg så dem at følge mig, efter at jeg havde brugt bitcoin ATM.

De taler for medierne (https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/02/21/danish-police-hunt-down-criminals-using-bitcoin/#.tnw_tN1oizPx), de kan bruge software til at spionere bitcoins og finde kriminelle, men jeg fortæller dig, at de bruger software eller operatør af ATM til at få oplysninger om transation, og de følger hver person, der bruger bitcoins.

Så ser de, hvor du bor, din adresse, de ser hvem du er, de tjekker deres database med kriminelle for at se, om du er registreret som kriminel osv.
De kriminaliserer alle brugere af bitcoins, og de bruger software til at gøre det, eller de bruger operatør af bitcoin ATM til at kriminalisere os alle.

if you have any kind of business, would you accept any unsteady currency?
no.
it is like that you accept African always changing currency, the only difference is that BTC can inflate not only deflate.
BTC is good only for speculators, therefore it is not only about blockchain, it is about unsteady nature of BTC. therefore wall street managers and investors mixed themselves in bitcoin, because they are speculators. but to change the price of BTC, they must popularize it, advertise it, etc. in other case, people will keep it, instead to use it.

so, shortly:
1) BTC is unsteady
2) mostly speculators use bitcoins and some people who believe in marketing of speculators
3) ordinary people keep it instead to use it, hoping they will make some money from changing the value of BTC
4) newest news about blockchain problem and wall street mo-rons mixed in bitcoins can push away those who started to use bitcoin before 6 years, it is similar effect like when punk became mainstream, true punks refuse green day, green day is for wall street mo-rons and fat American kids (consumers without brain), it is the same with people who started to use bitcoins in the early period, they can go away because of bitcoins developers (foundation) that sold themselves for money.

7) even the creator of bitcoin left the project as I said, developers, foundation, are now rich guys and they are in Washington DC, corrupting, lobbying, etc.

in general, only big business mixed in crypto-currencies will profit from regulating bitcoins, therefore they lobby (corrupt) politicians to open discussion about it in different parliaments. in switzerland you will need 300 000 Sfr to get license to be an exchange. it means you can be prosecuted if you make an exchange without to register a company and pay taxes and satisfy all money transmission rules. the bitcoin exchange will become a privilege of the wall-street managers. CH is the bankster country.

I think Austria refused to regulate bitcoins, Denmark doesn't accept it as money but they will tax those who make business from BTC. Austria is also not part of NATO and they are not part of 14 eyes of the NSA. denmark belongs to 6 or 9 eyes of the NSA. all of that is important if you want to protect your customers privacy when you make an exchange website (rent a server in some data center).

it is interesting to see this first document of the state of Illinois, I think it is made for comments, it is still not the law:
http://www.idfpr.com/news/PDFs/IDFPRRequestforCommentsDigitalCurrencyRegulatoryGuidance2016.pdf
shortly, if the real money is not involved, if you just exchange different crypto-coins, you don't need to follow/satisfy all transactions regulations. so, if I exclude fiat, I can rent a server in chicago. but they still didn't make it to be the law.

PayPal can confirm and check whether you are telling the truth or not by checking if recipient BTC address got bitcoins or not.
I could say I paid some product (not BTC) with paypal and didn't get it, there are poor countries where postmen can steal the package, the same as your traveling bag can disappear at the airport. there is the way for paypal to see if you got BTC or not, every transaction can be checked at blockchain.info.

peter thiel and paypal are NSA company and they blocked wikileaks, that was clear politics and not business.
nsa and cia doesn't make companies by themselves then they use some people for that (coinbase, ycombinator, in-q-tel, etc).
they don't hide it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

Hi,
I am interested to start an bitcoin exchange website,

when bitcoin was not regulated, it was not a problem, but now, if I make bitcoin server, for example in the US (there are cheapest dedicated servers, I could get 64GB RAM for 30-40 USD per month), I could be charged for running a node without to have a company and without to follow transaction's rules that usually applies to banks.

so, if bitcoin is regulated and accepted as money or assets, can we get prosecuted for running a bitcoin/electrum server without to have a company and without to pay taxes? it means also without to record trades?

I would choose peatio but possibly I will have to look what country didn't regulate bitcoin. I am not interested to register a company and pay taxes. but making a server and transactions with the help of that server means I am included in bitcoin/assets/money transactions and in theory I could get prosecuted.

so, I have 2 questions:
1) can we get prosecuted for running a bitcoin node?
2) for running an exchange website?

I need to decide what country to rent a server to be sure I will not get problems. unfortunately, the cheapest servers are in the US and the FBI snitches all BTC servers.

if an exchange is not possible without bank account, I would exclude fiat. still I don't know if peatio could let users to use paypal or some other method (not bank account) to deposit money and buy bitcoins.

if they get 10M bucks for marketing, it will not be a failure, even sh** product can become trendy with a lot of money. twitter had 80M bucks investment and they could bring well-known people who can gather many followers.

beside it, bazaar is similar to django project, it is made that people must pay to get normal functional django website. similar like joomla and "pay to get more than just the core". django never became popular, people are not python programmers and they will not pay 100 times to some developers to do some task. django is good for rich customers, not for ordinary people, and many "internet people/generation" are young, without salary.

I checked background of the bazaar team, so,
Brian Hoffman, Founder OpenBazaar worked at booz allen hamilton,
it is the nsa company.

spies promise to us: open source means there is no spying backdoor and "accidentally" we can help to the cops to find you out (your IP). and "we don't give backdoor secretly to the fbi, we are not like tor developers"

but hey, the cops hunt people even for avoiding taxes, not only for drugs. so, if you sell something legal and you don't pay the tax, bazaar team can't abolish your shop, but they can help to the cops to arrest you... ehhhh, spies are always good for the gov.

Hi,
one man is offering big money to break btc wallet password, he says he forgot it.

he tried rubby script and his pc is not doing it well, so, I was thinking to advise him to rent server for 260 bucks:
CPU Intel Xeon E5-2650v2, Cores/Threads 8/16t (the best processor)
with RAM 128 GB

and then I was thinking what is the best method to attack wallet password... I suppose it is bruteforce attack.

what software is the best for brute-force attacks if wallet is uploaded to debian server? he is from english speaking country, so, I suppose english dictionary for bruteforce would be good option.

cpu or ram is important or not? servers usually don't have graphic card, so, I suppose attack can be made with processor power but server can be cheaper if RAM is not important. it is possible to get 2x e5-2650 instead of big memory, maybe it would be better?

and what do you think, one month of running attack would break password or not?

oooo man, your spambot question for registration is tooooo hard for me:

TOR is an abbreviation for "The Onion [...]":

I answered:
network, domain, software, world, ... what is the answer?


beside it, blogspot is part of NSA and comments are not anonymous. the same as deedotweb which is using cloudflare and they snitch all users of deepdotweb. even bitcointalk forbid proxies and they can catch IP address of all users of bitcoin. useful for NSA. they make database of bitcoin and tor users.

we need one earthquake at NSA's headquarters in Ft. Meade, Md.,

but here is one nice news "no water=no nsa data center":
http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/6/5183060/anti-surveillance-activists-want-to-shut-off-the-water-to-the-nsas

I have diopter -8 ... maybe I will buy it. what is your btc address?

I believe it will be 600 bucks.

ask NSA, they know everything
but I am sure, he is swimming in the pool full with money.

mamma mia, you have to learn about methods of work of secret service.

They infiltrate human rights organizations and privacy organizations, your strategy is wrong from the beginning.

and those who work for secret service surely have money to employ very fast servers. ordinary users who are not working for the gov, they employ slow servers. some of ordinary users can be snitches but many are not, they employ server from their pocket, they don't get funding from the gov or from riches who work for the gov.

solution is in employing thousands of small servers, not choosing the fastest ones. therefore tor network need more users who will donate bandwidth and servers.

by the way, there are 9 eyes, not only 5.
so, 5 eyes + Denmark, Norway, France, Netherlands.

additional material for reading (How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations): https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

what they do at internet, they do the same in reality.

visa and mastercard made problem for wikileaks too. don't use them, they are front business of people who are against bitcoin.