Die beste Alternative ist, die Schnapsidee zu begraben. Es ist idiotisch die universelle Nutzung eines Universaltauschmittels durch Kennzeichnungen einzuschränken. Vor allem wenn diese Kennzeichnung nur durch zusätzliche Regulierung ausserhalb des Systems funktionieren kann. Was möglich ist, wird gemacht. Bitcoins sind 100% nachverfolgbar und auch wenn du persönlich sowas nicht nutzt, kommt es eben nur darauf an, wie viele % von Leuten mit denen du interagieren willst das nutzen. Wenn alle Läden hier z.B. keine Eurobanknoten mit einem X in der Seriennummer annehmen (ja ich weiß, schlechtes Beispiel, da gesetzliches Zahlungsmittel...), dann ist das eben so. So zu tun als hätten Bitcoins keine "Geschichte", hilft niemandem - gerade einige auf BTC aufbauende Dienste wie Colored Coins setzen sogar explizit darauf. Es ist jedem selbst überlassen, solche Maßnahmen zu implementieren und die Annahme selbst einzuschränken. bitcoins funktionieren übrigens sowieso nur dank zusätzlicher Info von außerhalb des Systems, z.B. Info über deren aktuellen Wert un Euro oder USD. |
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You need for a dollar/bitdollar exchange that keeps 1:1 reserve ratios and charges a fee for conversion from dollar to bitdollar and vice versa. their bank account would need to be public to guarantee they are maintaining proper reserve ratios. Once you have the bitdollars you can easily exchange them with bitcoin through decentralized "wallet" that also records and broadcasts each B$/BTC exchange and its ratio.
The value of each bitdollar is tied to the going market rate for dollars.
You're just describing Ripple here, not what the OP has in mind... |
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Point: this has been tried many, many, many times - all failed.
Point: it is your time and money to lose.
Good luck!
well, virwox still sells linden dollars for PayPal and exchanges them for btc. For years now. Still for new merchants this is no longer possible. |
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then what about zynga and all the game companies that sell in game currency? they can be victims of chargebacks?
Those are virtual items too, credits which you can keep record of. (you can also keep record of bitcoins within the bitcoin protocol)
So disputing the chargeback shouldn't be hard if you have a proper business going on.
They have full control over their funds and product though, so they can either deduct the "gems" or whatever they sold from the account or likely will just ban the account alltogether. Also these things are very often not transferable between user accounts. You have 0 power over the funds at someone else's BTC address. |
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You trade on Ripple, not DR.  |
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Also.. why is this so hard? if chargebacks were as easy as everyone seems to think they are, why bitcoin? why not doing chargebacks on ebay or amazon ?
Because eBay or Amazon are not protocols but companies who can throw you out/not accept you as customer any more. |
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Sorry, I think I didn't express myself right. I know that you need the private key to access the coins. This is what I have meant:
Plausible scenario: the user "justmoon" created a Bitcoin wallet some years ago, filled it with coins (and used it) and then for some reason forgot about it. The reason why I try to contact him now is to ask him if he knows about his wallet that he didn't use for years and deliberately hasn't spent the coins yet, or if he just forgot about it. If he forgot about it and now finds out again because I reminded him, well.. Great for him (if he has the private keys backuped somewhere). And if not, then it's okay too.
I read some cases on Reddit where users forgot about their wallets filled with lots of Bitcoins and find it again years later. Maybe this is also a similar case.
I doubt that one of the Administrators of this very forum would forget about Bitcoin holdings... Anyways, he is now CTO at RippleLabs, maybe you can reach him there somehow. I am quite sure he doesn't need a reminder that he owns some BTC though. |
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You will only be safe from chargebacks after 181 days, until then you need to treat all incoming transfers as unconfirmed. Also this is very likely against PayPal/CreditCard regulations/ToS, so they won't enter a partnership with you or close existing ones.
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Well, their documentation kinda sucks. I recommend just playing around with it until it does what you want it to do... You can check out https://community.bitfinex.com/showwiki.php (the SSL certificate is expired by the way!) or the forums there for some tips and help. |
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Cute, a newbie who thinks Mark started MtGox and who repeats the MTG:O X story that somethingawful was so proud of "uncovering".  |
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I have a question, if I have an open margin buy and and want to close that position, but not as a market order can I do it as a limit.
Thanks.
Not to sound like "talking down" on you, but are you sure you should be trading on margin if you don't know that before opening a position?! Why not just trade with e.g. 1 USD and find this out by yourself? Anyways, yes, you can close your position(s) with all kinds of orders, limit amongst them. |
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I've heard all kinds of speculations, but the problem could be very simple:
MtGox sold coins they did not have in the first place, that's the only reasonable solution to the 750,000 lost coins mystery.
Another simple solution: They overengineered their deep cold wallet stuff (e.g. splitting keys up and store the parts seperately in several places) and ran on hot wallets/"warm" wallets (keys in office safe) for a long time. Now that they need to access the deep vaults, they are not able to piece the keys together agian, locking up their old coins forever. Think of it like restoring a RAID-5 and a second HDD failing while the restore is running... |
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It's hard to generate workunits for that kind of stuff on the fly, they need to come from a central repository (and these are not infinite/large enough).
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Blöd ist ja nur, dass ich ja nicht mal auf Gox verifiziert bin (seit deren Datenleck trade ich dort nicht mehr und habe alles Geld abgezogen) und denen sicher keine AML Unterlagen schicke.
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By the way can someone explain why total active USD swaps is so low? I expected it to increase a lot after the crash, with the bitcoin price going up so fast. But there's only $10.5M in swaps at the moment? Why are we so low now, compared to the $16+M of earlier this month? Is it just general bearishness? Uncertainty about the Gox situation? Or did some big traders get burned badly?
See Raphaels answer, also leverage got cut down from max. 4:1 to max. 2.5:1 - this way you need more capital at hand to actually borrow more money. |
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5K und jetzt nochmal 10K ?? Gier frist Hirn!!
Date Registered: August 25, 2013 vs. Date Registered: June 05, 2011 Manche Leute kennen Gox eben schon länger als ein halbes Jahr... .... Lust darauf zu wetten, dass MtGox wieder BTC an seine Kunden auszahlen wird? |
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Vielleicht ist der Verlust eines 6-7 stelligen Betrages nicht für jeden ein Existenzverlust, kann auch sein oder? Spielgeld ist wohl Definitionssache  Sorry, solche Summen als "Spielgeld" zu betrachten ist einfach nur saudämlich! Aber eigentlich ist es mir auch schnurzegal, ist nicht meine Baustelle. afk Diese "Summen" hier im Thread sind nur dann 6-7 stellig, wenn man sie in Eurocent rechnet... |
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Header-first syncing might help in the future, as data would likely be requested from more peers...
I for example seed the blockchain torrent and there is also sometimes little, sometimes a lot to upload, it depends on user's ability to find you, not just on their ability to connect to you.
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WTF?!
I wanted to re-do an offer that was going to expire about by now - and the time keeps increasing on the "expire in" column. I just watched it increase it from 10 minutes to 14, then 15 minutes! Right now it is sitting at 18 minutes and counting. I suspect the timer has already expired and it is counting negative time already, but for some reason the loan hasn't been closed/calculated yet.
Is lending really real-time?!
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Personally, I have no interest in daytrading. And I would never participate in anything with even a whiff of Ripple to it. It's completely centralized, and I want no part of it.
We just need to make a decentralized version of Ripple, right? Ripple = decentralized order book but escrowed fund storage. Anyone can be an escrower, but in the end you need to trust them to handle your funds responsibly. If your "alternative" does sometimg like this, Ripple probably already can do it and also probably better. It looks like many people expect Ripple to have decentralized fund storage too or think it would be possible to have trustless distributed funds storage. Nope, just look at all these threads that pop up from time to time... they all so far were easily able to be backmailable or just work on crypto currencies in the first place. |
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