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161  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Are there any Bitcoin wallet apps in apple marketplace? on: September 03, 2014, 05:30:27 AM
Blockchain.info has an app for iphone.

https://blockchain.info/wallet/iphone-app
I believe that the Hive Wallet is also available on the app store. IIRC I have also read about people using the coinbase iPhone app, so I would assume that coinbase has an app there as well.

You should also remember that there is no "apple marketplace" but rather the app store where everything is sandboxed by apple.
162  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How do you multiply with 1BTC capital? on: September 03, 2014, 05:28:17 AM
Simple: do not sell this 1BTC for 10 years.

This is the best answer.
This is not true. If you do not have a need for your money in the near future then you should try to somehow put it to use. You should try to somehow make it grow.
163  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: US Marshall's Bitcoin Auction Results on: September 03, 2014, 05:22:07 AM
I thought that there was a much shorter deadline for responding to a FOIA request (2 months? 3 months?)
Yes, it's supposed to be 20 days
Do you remember who submitted the FOIA?  What it you?
I did.  No response yet.
The response is overdue.  Now what?  Send them a reminder notice?

Duh, maybe send them an extremely polite paper letter asking whether your FOIA is still being processed...


Please see what QuestionAuthority had posted about the process. Every year agencies that are behind on processing FOIA requests make a report that says how many people are waiting in front of you.

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Each fiscal year, agencies receive and process thousands of requests.  Sometimes, an agency will be able to respond within the standard time limit established by the FOIA, which is twenty working days, or about a month.  Although agencies make every effort to respond to FOIA requests as quickly as possible, in some cases they simply cannot do so within the twenty days.  In this situation, the request is considered “backlogged.”  The “backlog” data on FOIA.gov will show you how many requests were pending beyond the statutory time period at the end of the fiscal year.
164  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin To the Moon, A Global Strategy on: September 03, 2014, 05:20:35 AM
It won't matter how many people accept bitcoin. The real adoption begins when people start getting paid in bitcoin -and- buy things with bitcoin. People should really be pushing for this instead of Amazon, eBay, or countries to accept it...
This is correct. It doens't technically matter how many companies accept bitcoin, it matter how many people use bitcoin for commerce (although more merchants accepting bitcoin will certainly help to get more people to use bitcoin).
165  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: BITCOIN CLOUD MINING IS A SCAM (noob word!) on: September 03, 2014, 05:19:13 AM
If there are enough cloud mining providers then it could leave the network somewhat more decentralized then prior to the entry of cloud mining.

Bitmantech also opened a cloud mining service today and they are in the process of transferring all their hashpower over to p2pool.

Not decentralized enough. The physical location of miners need to be located and controlled in a decentralized fashion.

We are heading in the wrong direction otherwise.

Ideally we want users to also be miners in the future.
This will really not be possible due to the small number of blocks per day. More or less all users were miners in the very early days of bitcoin, however this eventually changed when the difficulty got to even modest levels.

The way things are going and how it will continue to go is people who own physical machines will point their mining capacity at pools in a semi-centralized fashion. Granted users can easily change pools that they mine on in the event that a specific pool acts in a less then honest or less then perfect way.
166  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Scam Alert: KNC started cloud mining packages selling for 1/13 the Neptune price on: September 03, 2014, 05:15:44 AM
KNC hasn't yet finished shipping their $13,000 Neptunes, yet now they're offering 3 tiers of cloud hosting, including 3TH/s for less than $1,000 per month. (1/13 the cost of the Neptunes) Unlike the still shipping Neptunes, you don't have to pay for shipping or power costs.

Please discuss.
You are comparing the monthly cost of renting their hashpower to the overall cost of owning their machine. This is like comparing apples to oranges. It is not a fair comparison.

They are essentially trying to sell off excess miners that they were unable to sell.

I ran the numbers and you would be almost certain to not ROI at the rates KnC is offering.
167  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: OpenBazaar - decentralized eBay on: September 03, 2014, 05:10:51 AM
if they think they wont hold any responsibility for counterfeit items or any other wrong illegal activity they are clearly wrong and shouldnt go about it this way.  wasnt piratebay kinda decentralized also and look what happened to it?
Exactly what happened to it?
I'm using it this very moment.
The point of decentralized here would be that they don't hold responsibility, which is great (based on some sort of trust system from what I've read).

but that means they cant collect no profit from it whatsoever?  Also if they wanted to advertise on the site that might be the only way they can make money am I right?  But still they will have to have a team of lawyers and they will have to share or hand over the network, also it can be shutdown by the higher ups is the next question.

Who cant collect profit Piratebay or Openbazzar? I think the point of the latter is not to make any money but it be a free exchange with no fees they people are free to use.
I think the point is to be a place where people can buy illegal things from. To say that they do not take responsibility is crazy when they market themselves as being a place to buy and sell illegal items via TOR.

They made it clear it is not targeted for illegal usage but that they also have no mean to stop people doing so. I think people will mostly stay on SR for illegal purchases as a lot of vendors already have their reputation built and will not want to start over.
I have never used any of the dark net sites to buy/sell, but I have visited them many times over the years just to see what it looks like. Since SR was seized, many established vendors did advertise that they were a well known vendor on another site that is trusted.
168  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Charlie Shrem Pleads Guilty - What do you think? on: September 03, 2014, 04:59:10 AM
Why is he only one being prosecuted?

There are still a lot of people selling on localbitcoin.

I think his case is being used to set an example and make us behave. Everyone trading cash and Bitcoins without the proper license on localbitcoins is most certainly in violation of the law. I wish DnT was in this thread. He studied up on it and could explain the ins and outs.
I think it is more about buying and selling drugs over the internet. They charged Ross with the harshest statutes that were designed for drug lords. They changed that guy in FL with money laundering when he sold bitcoin on LBC at outrageous prices (huge mark up) to a undercover cop that told him he was going to use the bitcoin to buy drugs and do other illegal things.   

You may be right. It might not have anything to do with Bitcoin. It may just be a warning to anyone trying to bypass drug laws using the deep web.
More evidence to support this theory is the fact that Mark (gox) was violating AML rules for years but was never charged with any crimes. Granted homeland security did seize their bank account, but this was likely to try to become more strict for AML (to make it easier to figure out who Ross was).

Also, how many traders on LBC or craigslist do you think there are that even attempts to follow AML rules? My guess is less then 20% on LBC and less then 5% on craigslist. Same with people trading fiat for bitcoin on this forum. People are outright breaking the law out in the open (that is bitcoin related) but the government is not doing anything about it. Granted these are all very small "fish" and there are no real victims.

Charlie was doing pretty much exactly this (granted he was making more money from it) but the only other real difference is that he was profiting from and helping SR.
169  Other / Politics & Society / Re: American Health care: $10,169 for a blood test? on: September 03, 2014, 12:18:37 AM
This is how the greedy insurance companies are squeezing the hard working American citizen. Forget about the blood test, every single type of medical treatment in the US costs as much as 500 to 1,000% more than what it costs in the EU. A surgery which costs $100,000 in the US can be performed for just $15,000 in Belgium, or $10,000 in Russia. Only one solution for this. Nationalize the healthcare sector.
You also have to wait a lot longer to get the same procedures, sometimes resulting in a surgery being unnecessary because the patient has either died or the problem has become so severe that surgery would not be effective.

I don't think you understand that if you make these things cost less unilaterally then the people who perform these services will ultimately get paid less which would mean less people would enter the field and those that do enter the medical field will be less qualified.
170  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is it a bad decision to payoff mortgage early on: September 03, 2014, 12:15:27 AM
I was so eager that I paid off a 4.4% $150k 15y mortgage in a few years. now some people are analyzing and suggesting that i should have run it out.


thoughts?

4.4% is low, but I'd probably had also paid it, so I could forget about it, I don't like owing money to anyone. If you were comfortable with it, you could had invested in the stock market, which produces 5.2% real return (at least for the last 113 years!).
By this measure investing in the stock market would have been the better bet, before taking taxes into consideration. Taxes would eat up a lot of these gains, and you would pay taxes on your pre-inflation gains (not inflation adjusted).
171  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Obama on ISIS: 'We Don't Have a Strategy Yet' on: September 02, 2014, 11:59:11 PM
The right title would be Obama on ISIS: "I don't care about them".

He is spending time playing golf and going on vacations to Hawaii, while the ISIS is butchering Yazidis, Turkmens and Christians in the areas which they now control. As long as the oil flows from Iraq, Obama wouldn't mind the ISIS. And why risk alienating some of your best friends (Saudis and Qataris), who are actively supporting the ISIS?
I agree with your title. Obama is almost actively allowing the ISIS to continue to take over Iraq and commit genocide.

I would argue that the ISIS never crossed any "red line" because they were never on the other side of it. It could not be a simpler/easier choice to at the absolute least use airstrikes against them.
172  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 9 year old girl kills bloke stone dead with full auto machine gun on: September 02, 2014, 11:06:58 PM
I don't live in US and sincerely don't understand all that passion US citizens have for weapons but I guess I would get it much better if I were born in States.

What I really disapprove is teaching your 9 yo child to use a weapon (and above all a UZI).

There is a world full of things to learn and discover, sports to practice, interests to share with ourt kids and so on.

Why weapons ? Why

I sincerely don't understand all that delusion non-US citizens have against self-defense, as if they all live in absolutely 100% violent crime-free utopias where there is absolutely no need for the most effective tool for self-defense, ever. As if no 9-year-old has suffered any violence whatsoever.

Why delusion? Why?
It isn't just non-US citizens, it is also liberals that are in the US that do not understand this. If there is a greater chance that the person you are attacking is going to have a gun then don't you think someone would think twice before attacking this hypothetical person? I certainly do. Just look at the cities that have the strictest gun control laws, they also have the highest violent crime rates, one likely reason is because criminals believe there is a small chance their victim will have a gun to defend themselves.

Now for the 9 year old girl, she should really never be in a situation where she needs to defend herself with a gun. She should really never be left alone (on her own) for any significant amount of time, and there should be a responsible adult (either a parent, or some kind of babysitter) with her, or at least in the same house at pretty much all times. This responsible adult would be able to defend the girl if need be.
173  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Anyone following the ebola outbreak? on: September 02, 2014, 10:44:07 PM
surviving. This means that as the strains of the virus change and mutate they will likely be immune to antibiotics. (your have sound logic, but it is just bad for society).

Actually they do not even need to mutate, antibiotics can not kill viruses.
The fact that there is not known cure to ebola is certainly not a good thing.

Viruses are generally not able to mutate so quickly that as soon as antibiotics/vaccines are developed and distributed they are able to "fight" the treatment immediately. This type of evolution takes time, usually something like this would occur over several years, to decades, not over the course of a few weeks/months.
174  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is US Citizenship is a Curse or a Blessing? on: September 02, 2014, 10:13:02 PM
Being a US Citizen come with all kind of welfare benefit the rest of the world simple don't have access to.

Plus you get protection from the US government when traveling abroad.
Most european countries have much better welfare benifits then that are available in the US.

You do not only get protection from the US government (via acts of war), but also get some level of protection from overseas governments as they will not want to hurt a US citizen unless it is absolutely necessary. Also, in the event you are wrongfully arrested, you would likely have diplomatic support form the US government which has a lot of influence throughout the world.
175  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Your opinion on GMO's & Stem Cell research. on: September 02, 2014, 10:10:52 PM
2: Would you use these treatments if it was your last resort.

3: Should the people be able to vote what our scientist research and develop, Since a large chunk of government backed programs come from our tax dollar's.
2. It is my understanding that there are treatments possible because of stem cell research, the treatments are not stem cell research themselves. I think it would be stupid to decline a necessary medical treatment simply because a treatment was made possible because of stem cell research.

3. No people should not be able to vote about this. Scientists can do whatever research they want as long as they use their own money. When government money is involved this should not be put to individual votes, however the kinds of research that taxpayer money goes to should be part of overall public policy.
176  Other / Politics & Society / Re: CNN national poll: Rand Paul 13%, Bush 13%, Ryan 12%, Huckabee 10%, Christie 9% on: August 23, 2014, 05:09:56 AM
Dr. and Sen. Rand Paul performs pro bono eye surgery in Lousiville, KY recently.


Also, 2 of the largest local news stations covered his surgeries and mentioned his upcoming trip to do the same in Guatemala in a week or so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2CqN4amn-A

Is the Senate on a summer break? I haven't been watching the daily news much lately?
His father used to do pro bono baby deliveries back before Gov't intervention helped make medical care costs soar to unbelievable heights.
I think they are in session now. I know they are going on break in September and staying on break until the election.
177  Other / Off-topic / Re: Post your Total time logged into Bitcointalk on: August 19, 2014, 03:08:13 PM
Total time logged in: 20 hours and 48 minutes. Getting more and more...
178  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / GPU Mining profitability is a joke on: August 19, 2014, 03:07:34 PM
Can someone please let me know which algo or coin they are currently mining with their GPU?

I am currently mining x11 on wafflepool and the profitability has dropped so much that if you don't have electricity cost of $0.02/kwh you are pretty much mining at a loss. I hope that everyone to close your GPU mining rig and buy whatever alt-coin you are mining with the expected electricity bills. You would get much more coins and its healthier for the crypto-currency then to let electricity company earn...

179  Other / Off-topic / Re: Worst Movies You Have Ever Watched on: August 15, 2014, 11:05:17 AM
The last airbender, the story was really nice but the acting is so bad...
180  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: what happend with bitcoin price?! on: August 15, 2014, 11:04:37 AM
http://blockchain.info

510$$$?!?!?
What happend?

Everyone is panic selling.... thats why the price drop so much....
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