[So now brave is requiring KYC for everyone.]

Brave Browser slogan is: You are not a product. It is a browser with an built-in adblock that was supposed to pay you for watching ads.

Their idea is amazing. Pay for users to watch ads. This has a great potential, and certainly can impact the whole Google/facebook business model (based on their ads).

The problem is: they are demanding KYC. You are the product, after all.

First they said that only publishers would be affected by KYC, and users who just navigate wouldn't be force to do any KYC.
This is highly questionable, however we can understand: publishers are company making money, so they could do KYC to comply with their law obligations and this could even, somehow, protect customers. I didn't like, but I can understand.

Then, few days ago Brave decided to start paying for users to browse the web using their browser. I used it for 5 days and received 0.1 BAT (0,03 USD). The amount of money is ridiculous, but well, it is free.. So i tried to withdrawal it. Look at the image I faced:

So now brave is requiring KYC for everyone. If you don't do KYC, no coins for you.

Even the money I sent to my wallet is now locked until complying with KYC? this is crazy.

Weren't they supposed to protect our privacy? Wasn't I going to receive coins for watching ads, while protecting my privacy??
How can sending documents will my privacy be protect? So the documents are the product, not me?

I was disappointed with BAT/Brave, because it  was a project with so much potential.

I hope someone else, maybe firefox, could just implement their business model paying users with BTC without kyc.

[regras:]

Pessoal, finalmente virei fonte de merit

Me ajudem a gastar meus merits. Indiquem bons posts

regras:

• Para cada tópico seu indicado, indique um de outra pessoa
• não importa a data do post
• aberto a todos. Mesmo os legendary, Como girino paredao etc.

Edit: Quem desmascarar qualquer golpe (qualquer atividade enganosa, piramide, exchange falida, ICO falsa, etc) pode indicar que ganha merits tb.

[Rules:]

Hello people

I have more sMerits than time to read posts.

I want your help to spend those sMerits. I will award many merits to as much good posts as I can find. Please help me 

Rules:

• for each post made by yourself, you must link 2 posts from someone else
• Link as many posts as you like, no matter their date
• It must be BITCOIN related. No altcoins.
• The post must be within the first 2 pages of the thread. Please, no megathreads of infinite pages of useless posts. (WO is the only exception)
• If you report shitposts you will be ignored forever.
• Open to everyone participate, no matter the rank or merits

[Chipmixer]

I was thinking about different signature campaigns in the forum, and I decided to compare the two biggest and most expensive ones : Chipmixer and CryptoTalk

About Chipmixer campaign, in my opinion it is a huge success. It is certainly very expensive: this week payments costed 1.3 BTC for 60 members.

The result over more than 100 weeks:
- The most reputable members of the forum are wearing their signature and advertising their service.
- Those users are also very knowledge about bitcoin.
- Those users display that signature in the most important boards of the forum: Technical Discussion, Beginners & Help, Meta,  Technical Support,  Wallets support, and so on. Those members interact with real users and provide support.

Certainly, Chipmixer has a great community support here in this forum. And any new or old user who comes to this forum will notice their brand.

As so many trusted users are wearing their signature, if I would ever use a mixer service, I would try Chipmixer. I know it is not a scam and it is a good service, based  on all those members opinions.



Now, about Cryptotalk/Yobit
Unfortunately I do not have access to Cryptotalk /Yobit payments, but I tried to estimate it.
They are paying 0.00012 to 0.00020 per post, depending on their rank. The average is 0.00016 per post, so I worked with that number. There is also a limit of 10 posts per day.

This way, if a user from this campaign makes 50 post per week (which is not that hard, as you are free to spam or make low quality posts), this user will receive 0.008 btc per week.

I don't have the access to how many users are participating in the campaign, but I will use 200, based on this post:

I saw this post from Yahoo:

There are 500+ participants in this campaign and 300 or so banned.

The total cost of Yobit/Cryptotalk campaign is, according to my estimations, 200*0.008 = 1.6 BTC per week.
But let's suppose it is the same as chipmixer, 1.3.

So, what are the results?
- Lots of complains in reputation board.
- Lots of useless posts in megathreads where nobody reads anything.
- Only Google reads their posts.
- Controvert community support. Most of the forum members don't like or respect Yobit, while those are getting paid provide some support.
- Members who participated before in their campaigns had their reputation damaged in the past.


I know Yahoo is trying to keep it spam clean, but unfortunately the users are just dumb and don't know how to post (do not read before writing, don't have proper english, don't have any knowledge about any related topic, etc). Of course there are some exceptions and a few reputable members are in Cryptotalk campaign, but they are mostly unnoticed. Personally, if I see this signature I just skip his post.


Isn't it much better for Yobit to make a signature campaign with reputable members only? Choose users based on their participation on the forum, not in their ranks. The cost is the same or maybe even lower.

personally, based on their signature campaign, I would hardly use their service. Imo, this campaign damaged their reputation.

They could have spent the same amount of money and made a very nice campaign, with reputable members wearing their brand while supporting newbies and advanced users, instead of spamming around.

Why did they prefer this crazy campaign format? What am I missing?
50 good members posting 30 posts per week is much better than 500 spammers spamming 70 posts per week, isnt it?

User is asking for lending in btc using a pegged token, 1:1 to BTC.
He claims that this token and service as trustless and decentralized, which clearly aren't.

I think a flag should be appropriate.

You can earn interest on Bitcoin using trustless and decentralized processes.

This is not decentralized and you are trying to cheat people with misinformation

2) Deposit Bitcoin into your trading wallet by sending BTC to your client wallet. Because this exchange is decentralized, all coin information, including the private key, is stored locally on your phone. There is no exchange wallet. Make sure you obtain sufficient NebliDex tokens (NDEX) as well because these tokens are used to pay trading fees to the exchange relayers known as Critical Nodes. You can obtain these tokens through the exchange. You will also need a bit of ETH to interact with ETH smart contracts.

3) Go to the WBTC/BTC market and exchange your BTC for wBTC (which is an ETH token that is pegged 1:1 with Bitcoin).

4) Withdraw your wBTC and send it to one of various decentralized DeFi solutions (Compound.finance or Fulcrum.trade)

5) Earn passive interest and withdraw when ready. Repeat these steps in reverse to go back to Bitcoin. All steps can be accomplished without identity checks or signing up.

You are not giving the privatekeys of bitcoins to users, which they gave to you.
They have the privatekeys of a shitcoin you created which is totally centralized and not audited. Nobody knows if you have bitcoin 1:1 with your token.

I advice everyone to stay away from this because this really looks like a scam, as most of the information above is misleading.

Added negative feedback. Will create a flag.

Flag here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=937

Just discovered this
https://interest.coinmarketcap.com/

Coinmarketcap launched this new page, where you can see a list of several exchanges and how much they are paying of interest rates if you lend your coins to them.

Those are the rates per year, for bitcoin
BlockFi    6.20%   
   
Crypto.com     6.00%   
   
Celsius Network   4.60%   
   
Crypto.com    4.00%   
   
Binance      3.00%   
   
Bitfinex    0.29%   


Personally, I think those interest rates are ridiculous. not worth the risk of not holding your private keys.

THere are two coins which give some nice interest rate, but I wouldn't lend anyway:
Tether on binance, 10%
And BNB coin on Binance, 10% also.

I was going to use my ledger live today. First time I was going to make a transaction without using third party software (like MEW or Mycrypto).

But I couldn't. The minimum Gas Price ledger live allowed me to use was 3 Gwei.

I checked https://ethgasstation.info/ and the standard gas price was 1Gwei. So I just logged into MyCrypto.com and made the transfer as I always did.

How come ledger company build this new Ledger Live software, and just decided that the minimum gas price should be 3 Gwei? Or not fully customizable? Just can`t understand some choices...

Beautiful interface, but not so good to use.

I was studying a little about PGP. I am a total newbie at it.

But there are so many similarities to PGP and Bitcoin. Is it possible to encrypt a message using my public key, and decrypt it using my private key? Like PGP does. It would be something very nice to do, as Bitcoin clients are much more common and widespread than PGP related software (also easier to use).

I would like to be able to encrypt my messages using bitcoin key pairs. It would be really useful.

Maybe in future Bitcoin signatures could even replace PGP signatures? Is there any discussion about this? Or is it technically impossible ? I searched but couldn't find any.

Hello

I don't do trading or TA. I was thinking about a different approach, and I would like to be able to count how many green and red candles are there in a period of time

For example, if I look at a graphic  BTC/USD since 2012 with 1 month candles. I would like to be able to automatically count how many are green and how many are red. Also with different periods with 1 day candles and so on.

Is there any free tool available that will allow me to do this?

Thanks

Hello

I not a resident in the United States, but I have a bank account in a support state (https://support.binance.us/hc/en-us/articles/360033405572-What-are-the-supported-States-Jurisdictions)

My question in. Will Binance.US verify my account? I would like to be able to deposit/withdrawal via ACH (which they support) without being a resident.

However I would not like to send all my documents, make KYC and etc and be rejected (it happened before).

Have anyone verified an account there or found any useful information regarding this on their website?

Thanks

[How to avoid linking your addresses?]

Few time ago I discovered this website, which allows anyone to discover all your used wallet's addresses with just a few clicks.

https://www.walletexplorer.com

Just paste some any used address there.
The website will show you all addresses that its inputs were used together in a single transaction.

Paste some of your used addresses there and get surprised. Probably many of them are going to be linked together.

How to avoid linking your addresses?

Unless you are very careful and you try not to mix many inputs from different addresses in the same transaction, all your addresses from the same wallet can be linked back to you, by anyone.

So, you have 2 options:
1 - Download a good wallet (like Electrum) which let you control each input, and be careful not to use those addresses in the same transaction.
Or
2 - Use a bitcoin mixer, which allows you to always have fresh coins with no blockchain connection to your old addresses.

Be careful, even using a mixer you need to be careful in your future transactions. After you send your mixed coins back to your wallet, you need to be careful not to link those coins to your old addresses (which may still have balance).

Pessoal, recentemente fiz esse post no meu pedido de merit source https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4726098.msg52488613#msg52488613

Peguei uns dados interessantes.
O maior doador de merit da nossa aba, disparado, é nosso colega sabotag3x. Ele dá pra todo mundo, literalmente  


Comparei também com outras comunidades a quantidade de merits recebidos por mês. Podemos ver um downtrend muito maior na nossa.



Resolvi compartilhar aqui, para podermos fazer outras análises.

Todos os dados vieram daqui https://public.tableau.com/profile/ddmrddmr#!/vizhome/BitcointalkMeritDashboard/GlobalSummary, onde da pra brincar muito com os dados.

[careless.]

Hello,

I was talking to this user today, and he confirmed something that I was thinking about for a while.

A newbie received a PM from this user, which is already -7 trust. He was scammed and lost btc, because he couldn't understand/see the trust system.

This was his post explaning.

User:
dj6230
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=128222

The PM from dj6230 was:
Hi,
Mycelium uses the same bip39 standard and derivation paths as Ledger so let's use the Ledger toolkit to try to locate the address holding the funds:
1. Open https://ledgertoolkit.com
2. Where it says "BIP39 Mnemonic" paste or type your 12 word seed from Mycelium
3. Scroll down and click "BIP32"
4. For client select "Coinomi, Ledger"
5. It will show ALL BTC addresses derived from your 12 word seed, try to locate the btc address hodling the funds
Reply when you have found it and i will show you how to import it again with the funds visible.

TryNinja suggested that the scammed user create a flag. But, in this case, flag wouldn't help also, because they are "hidden" inside the trust page.

For us, veterans of the forum, we see a profile pageand we now where to look at. But there is so much useless information there (ICQ, MSN, location, website, current status, gender, Local time, wtf!!). Newbies just go ahead without looking.


I know this user was careless. But, maybe some changes would be welcome on this profile pages, especially for known scammers with flag + red trust. Maybe a flag shining in the profile page and on every PM sent?


Edit: just discovered that flags appears on PM (never received a pm from flagged user before). maybe red trust should show also? We can't flag every known scammer.

I was taking a look at interest rates around the world, specially in G20
You can check them here: https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/interest-rate?continent=g20
And you can also check their inflation rate here https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/inflation-rate?continent=g20

I crossed that data and made this table.

Country       Real interest rate
Netherlands        -2,8
Germany            -1,4
United Kingdom    -1,35
Switzerland        -1,05
Euro Area        -1
France            -1
Australia            -0,6
Japan            -0,6
Italy            -0,5
Spain            -0,3
Canada            -0,25
United States        0,45
Singapore        1,34
China            1,45
South Korea        1,5
Indonesia        2,01
India            2,25
South Africa        2,5
Brazil             2,57
Russia            2,7
Saudi Arabia        4,05
Turkey            4,74
Mexico            4,84
Argentina            31,59

You will see that first world countries are mostly with negative interest rates. Germany, for example, with a 0 interest rate has 1.4% inflation rate. So the real interest rate would be -1.4%.

This way, there is certainly a reason for all this interest in Gold, Silver and other metals. And, for bitcoin.

Millionaires and institutional investor can't put all their money on Stocks, neither on negative interest rates. Alternatives such as metals and bitcoin are certainly interesting.

Hello all,


I just found this website https://bitcoinblockhalf.com/ with some interesting data:

Today, the halving countdown is 256 days.

Percentage of total Bitcoins mined:   85.30%
Total Bitcoins left to mine:   3,086,550
Total Bitcoins left to mine until next blockhalf:   461,550
Bitcoin price (USD):   $10,750.00
Market capitalization (USD):   $192,569,587,500.00
Bitcoins generated per day:   1,800
Bitcoin inflation rate per annum:   3.74%
Bitcoin inflation rate per annum at next block halving event:   1.80%

1800 BTC per day is a lot. In 256 days we will have only 900 new btc per day, which is quite interesting and will certainly impact the price.
It is hard to price in a halving before it occurs, because it affects the supply of bitcoin on exchanges.

Inflation rate is still very low. Global inflation rate is about 3,58 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/256598/global-inflation-rate-compared-to-previous-year/)
Next year we will be about 1/2 global inflation rate. Lets see how we go.

I don't understand exactly why some governments ban gambling. Is it like a babysitter government, trying to protect citizens from themselves? Or are they worried about something else?
As gambling is highly profitable, government could make a lot of money by taxing those companies.

Here is a list I found with 10 countries where gambling is completely illegal.

United Arab Emirates
Brunei
Cambodia
North Korea
Japan
Singapura
Cyprus
Qatar
Lebanon
Poland
source:https://www.lawyer-monthly.com/2018/02/10-countries-where-gambling-is-completely-illegal/


The problem I see is that gambling is something humans always did. It is something in the human nature. We always ignore probability and think "I will be luck now, just once, and I will make money here" or something like that.

I looked at wikipedia, people gamble since 3000BC!

Gambling dates back to the Paleolithic period, before written history. In Mesopotamia the earliest six-sided dice date to about 3000 BC. However, they were based on astragali dating back thousands of years earlier. In China, gambling houses were widespread in the first millennium BC, and betting on fighting animals was common. Lotto games and dominoes (precursors of Pai Gow) appeared in China as early as the 10th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling

If government ban gambling, people will gamble illegally. Just like prohibiting drugs, people will still use drugs illegally,

I always liked Coinomi wallet, as it is a multicurrency wallet that I never had any trouble.

However I am facing an weird problem today.

I have some old TRX ERC-20 tokens, which I never traded for TRX blockchain.

Binance and Kucoin still offer the swap for free, so I was going to do it today.

I successfully added TRX erc 20 (https://etherscan.io/token/0xf230b790e05390fc8295f4d3f60332c93bed42e2) to my coinomi wallet. (the correct decimals, 6, and the contract address).

However, Coinomi doesn't recognize any past transactions of this  Token, even though it recognizes the correct balance.

When I try to send the transaction it just says "Transaction Broadcast error".
My app is updated. Any thoughts on this? I can still transfer any ethereum. Maybe coinomi is blocking transactions from this token deliberately?

I asked a question about it on their official Reddit, no answers so far...

[Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.]

Few months ago I discovered the Cypherpunk Manifesto. I didn't discover it in bitcointalk forum, but in articles that I read about crypto and technology (I love to read these kinds of articles, I read many per day).

I think more people here should be talking about the Cypherpunk Manifesto, as it is strictly related to bitcoin and to privacy. No doubt it influenced bitcoin creation a lot.

Cypherpunk Manifesto was written in 1993 by Eric Hughes. It is amazing to see something that was written almost 30 years ago to be so relevant today.

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
by Eric Hughes
Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it? One could pass laws against it, but the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech, and it will not go away merely because we might want it to.

Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages, my provider need not know to whom I am speaking or what I am saying or what others are saying to me; my provider only need know how to get the message there and how much I owe them in fees. When my identity is revealed by the underlying mechanism of the transaction, I have no privacy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must always reveal myself.

Therefore, privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy.

Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography. If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Furthermore, to reveal one's identity with assurance when the default is anonymity requires the cryptographic signature.

We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence. It is to their advantage to speak of us, and we should expect that they will speak. To try to prevent their speech is to fight against the realities of information. Information does not just want to be free, it longs to be free. Information expands to fill the available storage space. Information is Rumor's younger, stronger cousin; Information is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and understands less than Rumor.

We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.

We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.

Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down.

Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act. The act of encryption, in fact, removes information from the public realm. Even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its violence. Cryptography will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with it the anonymous transactions systems that it makes possible.

For privacy to be widespread it must be part of a social contract. People must come and together deploy these systems for the common good. Privacy only extends so far as the cooperation of one's fellows in society. We the Cypherpunks seek your questions and your concerns and hope we may engage you so that we do not deceive ourselves. We will not, however, be moved out of our course because some may disagree with our goals.

The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy. Let us proceed together apace.

Onward.

Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>

9 March 1993

Some comments:

Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. ..... I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must always reveal myself.

Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography. If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy

Now this is the part where he almost describes Bitcoin technology. Look

We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.

Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down.

Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act. The act of encryption, in fact, removes information from the public realm. Even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its violence. Cryptography will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with it the anonymous transactions systems that it makes possible.

Glad to see Bitcoin achieve those goals. Bitcoin deplore regulations, and is basically immune to them (if we manage to keep it decentralized)

Hello,

I would like to use more our drafts page. However, for now, it is almost useless to me.
I think that a better draft platform will incentive posters to elaborate their posts and topics more carefully.

For now, to save a draft we need to click Preview. It automatically saves it in this  page, where drafts are kept for 7 days only. Up to 100 drafts can be saved.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=drafts

Drafts are saved whenever you preview or post a topic, post, or PM. Up to 100 drafts are kept. Drafts are deleted after 7 days.

In my opinion, saving 100 drafts is completely unnecessary and deleting them after 7 days defeats the whole purpose of drafts.
7 days is a short period, and people may forget about a draft and lose it. I believe most users simple this draft page, because it is too risky to lose your work.

If it were possible to choose 1 to 5 drafts to be saved permanently or at least for a few months, it would be amazing and I believe more people would use this feature.

Thoughts?

[Bitcointalk is a place were bitcoin is money]

In my opinion, Antonopoulos is one of the few people that says things that makes sense in this ecosystem.
He released this video today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=GEuMVmjKAKk&app=desktop

There are so many scammers, lies, paid chills, etc, that I don't believe many people out there. But this guys knows what he is talking about and most of what I learned about bitcoin I learned with him (books, YouTube videos, etc).

He just said something that is amazing. Stop treating bitcoin as an investment. Try to see it as money. Do you buy EUROS? You earn it, to live.

I am happy to be earning bitcoins through this forum and in a few more places. Thank you @theymos for making this forum such a great place, a place where we can earn some bitcoins here in so many ways. Bitcointalk is a place were bitcoin is money, not only an investment.


Antonopoulos gave a few ideas:
You can sell things you have for bitcoin, for example.
Make translations. Services.


He also talks in the video about bitcoin being energy inefficient.
I just made a manual transcription up while hearing it (I like to write up good ideas), and I will paste here to share with you guys (transcription not entirely faithful.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=GEuMVmjKAKk&app=desktop

Bitcoin uses energy in the most incredible and efficient way and convert that energy into robust security for a nation state resistant global network that is the most secure time sequenced recording of immutable truths that we have ever build on this planet.
A monument of immutability that cannot be shut down by the most powerful forces in the world.

This looks like awesome efficient use of energy.
War and Christmas light are very inefficient use of energy.

The best way to solve war? How about take money control away from government that fund war?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=GEuMVmjKAKk&app=desktop

It is used as a currency where it is needed
...
It is not important for you to take a coffee at starbucks.
It is very important for someone to buy a bus ticket to Turkey when they live in Syria with Bitcoin, and trust me, they can.