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1  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Dark use of Bitcoin on: January 17, 2018, 08:09:34 AM
If indeed the country has been legalized bitcoin, it's good we aimed the all efforts made only focused on the things that are legal. Anyhow I don't think bitcoin is worth using for the things that smelled illegal. To me personally in the country where I live, although bitcoin is still said not legal completely.. but I personally keep doing things more positively and avoiding things that smelled negatively, criminalized, or illegal activities like for example made into a dark business.
There are people who are using bitcoin for legal stuff but it doesn't change the core issue that bitcoin is in the hands who prefer illegal activities. The dark market which is tor supported which is solely financed through bitcoin. The same is used for more dangerous activities than drugs and arms dealing. Bitcoin is facilitating psychopathic groups which humiliated humanity. Payments are received in bitcoin to watch live abuse and murders. This is the scariest aspect of bitcoin.
2  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Do We Need Social Media Promotion on: January 17, 2018, 06:59:06 AM
Does Bitcoin Need The Social Media's Help To Promote Itself?

Well, Bitcoin needs all the help that we can get. With its current situation, Bitcoin Foundation is just thinking out of the box to help Bitcoin recover and might even succeed.

With the help of Social Media, bitcoin can attract new and young users. Learn about bitcoin and eventually adopt it.

Maybe this is the first step of mass adoption.

What do you think?

Yes, you are correct that we need social media so that we can attract Bitcoin users. But I believe not only the social media platform can help. Advertising ads, gatherings, and teaching potential users can help Bitcoin growth.
People are already well aware of bitcoin through social media, through electronic and press media. All the reputed news channels are covering it and has dedicated special program time to bitcoin discussion. The newspapers are printing news and articles about bitcoin increasing it's popularity. It further needs volunteers to make it understand their countries to promote and accept it.
3  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Dogecoin Will you invest now the price is going up ? on: January 08, 2018, 04:46:03 AM
It's altcoin time, mostly altcoins are gaining price nowadays. As the people are looking to explore new opportunities to gain profit so, dogecoin was a good option for them. The price has reached to quite a high level that I will not try to invest in it personally at this level.
4  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Offline Wallet Newbie Question on: January 06, 2018, 02:00:17 PM
Hi guys, quick question. I'm hoping to buy some coins today. The plan is to try and store them in an offline paper wallet. Long story short, I'm not sure how clean my laptop is as the anti virus I use is free so I doubt it's gonna be as accurate as the higher paid anti virus brands. Anyway, if I was to do all the offline wallet moves in safe mode on my laptop, would that make it safe to do in terms of viruses being an issue? Cause as far as I'm aware, viruses don't work when in safe mode so I assume that should make it ok to do procedure. Any help, advice? Thanks

Your solution is in either
  • VMWare Player
  • Oracle powered VirtualBox

Both are working good. And u can install either Linux as that is free or if u have Windows then install that too. Both supports almost all OS present in market.

If this not works for u then i will suggest BlueStack to install , then install a Webserver on Bluestack.

Download Walletgenerator Paperwallet generator from Github, Unzip in webserver , access it in localhost with 127.0.0.1 and make wallet , copy the address and privatekey then Uninstall Bluestack. That's it.

I don't think this much safe anything is possible at the moment.

 Grin
Is It necessary to uninstall bluestack? Just a question came to mind as it could help me too to get a paper wallet.
Thanks
5  Economy / Speculation / Re: John McAfee Bets His Manhood that BTC will reach $1 mil by 2020 on: January 06, 2018, 01:50:01 PM
Kinda wish he would bet on something realistic.
Eating his dick is just not realistic anyway, sorry.

So far, the guy's been reliable with the things he's saying. Though it's too high to imagine for regular people, mcafee has so much btcs that you can't take what he's saying lightly. Hope he and his member stays connected after 2020
It is a sort of extreme enthusiasm. I don't say he be wrong but I think the time he is said may not be the suitable one, he may needs to review his prediction. There is a huge time gap and crypto is too vulnerable to face a dip anytime. Before the end of 2017 people used to bet for $20,000 but it didn't happened.
6  Economy / Marketplace / Re: "Bitcoin mining is a Big no!" on: January 04, 2018, 01:54:04 PM

bitcoin mining is good and can make some profits from it and No for newbie.

Bitcoin mining isn't profitable either for the far majority of the people, so it's pointless even mentioning that. The only entities managing to make actual profit are those with hundreds of thousands worth of equipment at minimum, and even they need to invest in more gear from time to time. If you don't upgrade your gear, the increasing difficulty will make sure there is no point in keeping your operations running any longer. People for once should understand to put mining aside completely, because it doesn't bring you anywhere -- the far majority of the people regret having invested into anything that's mining related, so why continue to go through all this?
Actually mining is a time consuming and they need high amount of investment. Because this projects are needed a lot like tools, electricity and others. Maybe mining was depending to the capacity of the users together with the location.

Location will play a vital role because its possible that electricity would be very cheap at that place and on other hand many countries have the high cost thus this difference would kill your profits as the level of difficulty will keep increasing to mine any of the coins. So people avoid nowdays mining instead look to invest directly.

Bitcoin mining becoming expensive, consuming high level energy could enter bitcoin into dark age. Being avoided by miners is a threat to bitcoin's future. One of the report says that bitcoin mining will consume more power than the whole world by 2020. If it is true then Bitcoin will face a lot of new problems than it have today.   
7  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: My 700 TH/s Bitcoin Farm, LEH, J&K,INDIA on: January 04, 2018, 01:27:28 PM
It been over two months now, the ventilation work will be over but no pictures from the OP yet.
I think OP was more interested in the advertisement of the 4G internet devices.  Grin
8  Other / Off-topic / Re: Is bitcoin dangerous ? on: December 29, 2017, 06:53:34 AM
First - It is dangerous if you put all your money in it because only two things can happen: It can either increase your wealth substantially or it can zero all your assets. Hence, in this instance, you have to be wise by not putting all your eggs in one basket. You have to scatter your investments so as to divide possible losses.

Second - It is dangerous if you have Bitcoins already yet you have exposed your accounts to others. In this scenario, the security of your Bitcoin accounts/wallets is at risk of getting robbed. What is more is the fact that it cannot be easily traceable once your Bitcoins have been hacked or robbed from you.

Third - It is dangerous if your country of jurisdiction have made all possible measures to ban Bitcoins. Well, in this case, you can hardly encash your Bitcoins. Neither can you do any transactions involving it.
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First - It is dangerous if you put all your money in it because only two things can happen: It can either increase your wealth substantially or it can zero all your assets. Hence, in this instance, you have to be wise by not putting all your eggs in one basket. You have to scatter your investments so as to divide possible losses.
Putting all the money at a single place is always dangerous, professional investors don't practice it.

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Second - It is dangerous if you have Bitcoins already yet you have exposed your accounts to others. In this scenario, the security of your Bitcoin accounts/wallets is at risk of getting robbed. What is more is the fact that it cannot be easily traceable once your Bitcoins have been hacked or robbed from you.
There are few other ways to make bitcoin safe like by using cold storage, no one can access anyone's bitcoin when using a cold storage.

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Third - It is dangerous if your country of jurisdiction have made all possible measures to ban Bitcoins. Well, in this case, you can hardly encash your Bitcoins. Neither can you do any transactions involving it.
Yes it is dangerous when your country bans it but still there are people who can do it somehow by using VPN.
9  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Potential Portfolio Analysis on: December 24, 2017, 04:50:57 AM
Hello everyone!

New member here. I have been following crypto-currencies for years now (not super close, but aware of them). I had the opportunity to buy BTC at $100-400 and passed it up. I am not going to let them happen again! I have about $1k to invest in crypto. I want to diversify to an extent. I don't want 8+ currencies because it will be impossible to keep track of all the wallets and keys. I have done a little research and have come up with the following portfolio:
ETH 25%
XVG 25%
WAVES 25%
XLM 25%

I am open to changes and modifying the percentages. I currently own .5 ETH and 1.4 LTC that I will use to buy some of the other cryptos. Does that portfolio look pretty strong to you guys? Feel free to tear it apart! I would appreciate any input.

Thanks!
You have picked them nicely to make your portfolio strong but a little modification to your portfolio will make it stronger and probably more profitable.
BCH 15%
ETH 10%
ADA 20%
XVG 15%
Waves 15%
XLM 15%
OX 7%
The remaining 3% invest in any potential ICO. Before choosing any ICO look at the theme and team of it, it will help you choose the best.
10  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Bounties (Altcoins) / Re: [BOUNTY $1,125,000] 🔥🔥 MDL Talent Hub 🔥🔥 on: December 21, 2017, 06:59:27 AM
No signature yet to update.  Sad
11  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Bounties (Altcoins) / Re: [BOUNTY $1,150,000] 🔥🔥 MDL Talent Hub 🔥🔥 on: December 20, 2017, 07:58:25 PM
I am interested in your signature campaign.
12  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin is DEAD for small payments, Bitcoin Cash is the FUTURE on: December 20, 2017, 07:36:30 AM
This has to be happened. Sooner or later the transaction issues, insane high fees and long-time taking confirmations is annoying. The best alternative for transactions is to choose Bitcoin Cash. It will grab the market cap slowly and gradually. It will go high.
13  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Good alt coin to mine on: December 18, 2017, 06:27:18 PM
It depends on your rig: AMD or Nvidia.
AMD: Ethash (ETH,ETC,UBQ... ) or Cryptonite coins (XMR, ETN...)
NVIDIA: Equihash (ZEC,BTG...)
More like, it depends on your target coin's alogaridm to mine.

In addition, are you dedicated to GPU or CPU mining? You have to research the coins you want to mine in order to have an efficient Hashrate using the minimal energy consumption available. Some coins doesn't even getting a lot of benefit from a powerful GPU like Monero/Electroneum unlike when you use the rig for Etherium.
CPU mining is underrated it's underestimated by mining community. GPU rigs are trendy nowadays for dash coin and Ethereum. I am planning to spot a mining farm for one of them. How could I get an effective tutorial for mining?
14  Economy / Economics / Re: May Or May Not any Digital Currency disturb Any country's Economics?? on: December 18, 2017, 01:00:40 PM
Huh

It depends, probably in a small country if everyone start using a crypto currency and left over creditcards, they economy may collApase.
No It is not easy to break a country rule to the level that it's currency will collapse. It can only happen in a country where the hold of government is weaker. The central bank of a country will not this all to happen.
15  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What is the craziest thing you have ever done while trying to invest on crypto on: December 17, 2017, 10:28:36 AM
I was an escrow for a bet between two guys and holding their  money until one party is able to fulfil a mission before i can release the money to him and so i after learning of bitcoin and how my cousin was making little bucks from his altcoin rig decided to buy some old graphic cards with that money and i succeeded in holding them off  for a month before i could raise the money back and by then i already had an altcoin mining rig.
That's intelligent up to some extent unfair too  Grin
It is the benefit of being an escrow. I want to know about altcoin mining, with cheap mining tools so I can some benefit.
16  Economy / Services / Re: InsurePal Signature and Avatar Campaign on: December 16, 2017, 06:00:50 AM
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17  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How to reply multiple posts in a single post. on: December 16, 2017, 05:22:53 AM
Thank you seniors. I really appreciate your support.
Thanks
18  Other / Beginners & Help / How to reply multiple posts in a single post. on: December 08, 2017, 07:28:55 AM
How is it done by the campaign managers and other users? Reply to multiple posts in a single post.
19  Economy / Services / Re: FastInvest Signature Campaign on: December 04, 2017, 09:38:49 AM
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20  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why invest in bitcoin on: November 28, 2017, 09:28:40 AM
Investing in bitcoin is better than investing in stocks because if you hold bitcoin in long term you will earn astronomical profits in shortest time since bitcoin gained 800 percent since january 2017 so if you invested this year then you are lucky. But still bitcoin is still good for short term since bitcoin price is always fluctuating but if you are a risk taker then use it in long term. As for stocks investing with it is sometimes risky since the price depends on the company's performance so if you invested on poir performing company then you wasting your money
Bitcoin is nowadays less used as short term investment by the ordinary or common users it is used as a long term investment where they don’t have to sit in front on the computer all the time to check for bitcoin price to trade. Bitcoin investment is now easy with minimum risk involved. If it don’t give you high profit in long term, you will not lose your investment at least.
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