Would they still be any possible trace of the business behind this particular bitcoin transaction? Considering that 60k is not too large a transaction to grasp the suspicion of the FBI. Indeed, there is a ledger for every peer-to-peer transaction, but the reason behind the transaction remains the decentralization if nothing is disclosed to a third party.
If the receiver of the coins doesn't move the coins to any centralized exchange, doesn't involve himself in the exchange the coins, and here do note that even if you trade p2p the other guy must know your name your bank account your Paypal address to send you money as your 3rd party service will know the amount that has entered your account, if none of these happen then it will be impossible to trace. Furthermore, what's really nice with bitcoin is that if you're smart enough to hide the keys so they can't be found even in search there is absolutely no way for someone to prove that you own that wallet and that address. I always thought cryptos are the best at getting a bribe and getting away with it, just print a QR code and have it sitting randomly on your office desk or on the table when you're hinting the guy to pay up, how would the cops ever prove you've received a bribe? Burn it after the discussion and that's it, your retirement funds are safu! |
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Those numbers, hmmm! "We keep 99% of our assets in cold storage and only 1% in hot wallets. The hacker gained access to these hot wallets." So, they have around 3 billion in coins, which is a thing I kind of doubt since for once it's quite a large sum considering their trading levels, and second, it's not like they operate and are used by the same clients as traditional spot exchanges, normally I would look at derivates having way fewer coins per unit of volume. The other thing: which are separate from the company's $40 million insurance fund.
So they hold 3 billion worth of coins insured for $40 million? Somebody rushed to release a statement before realizing what they are saying. Anyhow nowadays you don't know what to believe anymore, it might be a real hack, an inside hack, a tax purpose hack, a ready-to-disappear hack, but one thing is sure, a reminder to take care of your coins. |
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And it's easy to find out. If you have two people in your household and you consume as much as a household of six people, then you are doing something wrong at home.
And it's easier nowadays for countries (like mine) where we now have smart electricity meters (even for the water)
I always told people that mining operations at home can't be stealthy, not in western countries and not in a lot of Asian countries also. The average consumption per household in EU is 3700 KWh a year, a 3kw miner, will use 26,280 a year, that's twice the consumption in US who is on another level, and that's just one. Plus, the smart meter thing, the problem with a miner is that it goes on 24/7, there is no household anywhere on this planet that night after night after night will have this flat consumption, even with air conditioning you still have fluctuations, they top they go faster to keep temperature they shut down, but with a miner, you will have this 3kw (at least) extra all the time. I mean, there will certainly be several countries that will say well fuck, there are more important things to worry about and mining is insignificant
I seriously doubt right now that EU has more than 2-3% of the global hashrate, and a quick reminder for others, Norway and Iceland are not in the EU. |
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Not all crypto influencers probably. I don't know who these crypto influencers you are referring to, but I assume not all of them are paid shills. I suppose there are influencers that are promoting certain coins or projects only because they are heavily invested in them, or perhaps certain influencers who made their own independent and objective assessments. In other words, they're not hired to promote coins or projects. They're different from influencers who are plainly shilling for coins and projects because they're paid to do so.
Not all, 99.9(9)%. And you basically just said it yourself, if you're heavily invested in something and you advertise it for others with the obvious purpose of rising the price then, how do you call this but shilling? There is not a single "influencer" out there who promotes shittokens or NFT just for fun, they all either have a share in those or they are getting paid, it makes no sense to waste hours making videos for nothing. Just look at what happened with Kim: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5415840.0Do you see what token she was promoting? https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereummax/A 5k rank, yeah ranked 5000 by market cap shitcoin that is just a copy-paste project with the same gimmicks as 5000 others. I never though that MICA would do something good for the community but at least, this thing is one huge thing that will cut a low of shills, a lot of spam, a lot of scammy projects and money-grabbing schemes. If he has 10 billion coins as I type and drives price to 4 bucks over next few years Twitter will be well worth the money he spent to buy it.
That sounds like buying a Marriot hotel to advertise the Pretzel shop on the other side of the road. Dogecoin has a 17 billion market cap, he has spent 44 billion for a platform that had a net loss of $1 billion in 2020 to shill some coins? |
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they charge at least 10% commission +other fees trust me i asked them !...
And mybtc.ca rates are better? Current rates for card purchases are at 1 BTC=CA$ 31870, spot prices are CA$ 27739, you're already paying a 14% premium on it. Coinstation has way better rates: https://www.coinstation.ca/en/locations/$ 29888 ($ 1 + 7.8%*) Anyhow, try bitbuy.ca, they are fully licensed but be aware they require and id even for express verification. |
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I wonder if things like the Colorado river would affect mining in the U.S, specifically California, I'd assume the dam they have there produces a good amount of hydraulic power, California has nearly 10% of the total hashrate in the states,
Are you sure about that? California has the most expensive electricity rates there, and from what Foundry released they are not making even mentionable percentages: https://twitter.com/foundryservices/status/1499019700294103040Well since watt percent for my gear is
71% btc
17% gpus
10% ltc/doge
2% grin and kda
I'm genuinely curious, what are those numbers on GPU, revenue vs expenses from what I see a 3090 is making 50 cents a day before costs. Is it still worth keeping those on or you don't have sha256 to replace them so you let them burn excess power? Damn, just look at the stats once more, at 8 cents you're losing money with it! Anyhow, if anybody is in the mood for something funny: Bloomberg article (archived here because of paywall) https://archive.ph/Ynm51Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific Says It May Seek Bankruptcy
Core Scientific holds 24 Bitcoin and $26.6 million in cash
24 bitcoins! One of the biggest mining companies in the states if not the world has 24 bitcoins!!!! |
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The cost of bitcoin mining is rumored to be from 14 to 20 thousand dollars. Is it better to buy bitcoin now?
I would love to meet the guy who started this nonsense about the cost of mining a bitcoin as a sum between x and y, especially if it would be the day I carry a baseball bat with me. If the guy above has free electricity as he has bought some 100 extra soal panels for his business, he has the batteries to do so, he already has the space and his rent is zero, he doesn't need a tech guy to check on the machines, what's the cost of mining a coin? Zero?  An xp running at 7cents gets you 5$ in cost, 5 in profit, that would mean the cost per coin is 10k, way outside the "rumours". With free electricity, this ASIC will give a profit of $ 12 per day or pay off in more than 2 years, because the hashrate is growing.
With free electricity that hydro will ROI in 11 months, for it to ROI in more than two years you will need the hash rate to double tomorrow, and there is no way you're going to see 260exahash being put online not by tomorrow but not in 6 months! |
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Unfortunately, I can't recall why they asked me to reverify the past time, which was about a year ago or so. Could it have something to do with my proof of address being from Revolut?
Did they accept proof of address from a company that is not based in your country of residence? Sounds weird to me, bank statements are not accepted here anymore unless the bank that has issued your end of the month statement is from the same area as your address on the id. It might be slip-up from Binance or it's the usual, do the papers, not look too closely at them, and have an excuse that you did something. But the twice a year verification might make a few guys nervous, if they start with the selfie thing it's going to turn into a pain in the ass for those using a fake identity from a foreign country. We had a topic about a casino requesting this, now imagine you have to pay a guy twice a year to verify your account! I have seen many hotels (even in europe) which simple want to copy my passport in the check in, a clear abuse. An expiration date will certainly add some security against those bad practices
Speaking for the EU, it's not really an abuse, there are a few countries that still have laws for that, every hotel must keep a copy (12 months here) for all the foreign customers that have stayed overnight, some have banned the practice altogether, and some are allowing this only if you agree with it, this is a thing of national security and it regards foreigners so it's a country level decision that can't be enforced on EU levels. |
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The United States is in an actual recession after going through two quarters of negative GDP, BUT they changed the definition of what a is considered a "recession". Why? Because it's an election year. The government needs to manipulate economic data and gaslight people.
United states GDP has grown by 2.6% in Q3 https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/27/us-gdp-accelerated-at-2point6percent-pace-in-q3-better-than-expected-as-growth-turns-positive.htmlSo even if it was in a technical recession for the first half of the year it's out of it! we are hearing those warning from reputable people like chamath palihapitiya and his cohorts. i don't think those guys are lying to us.
Oh yeah, reputable people : The SPAC King Goes Silent With His Empire Shriveling
The guy that news the recession a coming told everyone so and yet somehow miraculously didn't do a thing about https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-spacsplosion-is-about-to-become-a-liquidation-frenzy-and-that-may-be-for-the-best-11657884798Chamath Palihapitiya, for example, is best known for buying Virgin Galactic Holdings SPCE, +3.68% with the first of his nine SPACs, and was dubbed the “Pied Piper of SPACs” by the New Yorker. The shares in his three de-SPACs, however, have since fallen, even though Palihapitiya has managed huge personal gains from the deals. In a recent report by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office, Palihaptitiya is listed as an example of the misaligned incentives in SPACs and how the sponsors are rewarded, especially “serial SPAC sponsors,” while leaving retail investors “at risk from SPACs’ convoluted structure and incentives for dilution, fraud and abuse.”
In the end, it is these sponsors, like Palihapitiya and Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson, as well as Wall Street investment banks for the initial SPAC IPO, that walk away with the big gains. The remaining original IPO investors who are still in these stocks, for the most part, will be lucky to get out with their initial investment. But for the most part, the original IPO investors are long gone. Oh, another Kiyosaki, telling others how to do their business while running their own into the ground and bankrupting every investor. |
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Putin is doing more than any European leader has managed to do for the Union, he got two brand new countries into NATO when everyone was not thinking of anything military-related, he has managed to get former CIS countries more interested in joining both the EU and NATO, now if the UK comes back he will become the laughing stock of the century. And not only as punishment in money, but also as other things to change - for example EU may impose UK no longer use their (odd) measurement units when working with international customers (which I expect to be really difficult to implement).
That's not going to happen! Let's be serious now, how are you going to differentiate between those two horse races at Musselburgh The one at 14:37 over 1 mile 7 furlongs and 182 yards and the one at 15:07 over 3 miles 7 furlongs and 108 yards! With the metric system? Get real! One pint of syrup, one gallon of milk, 10 ounces of butter, one pound of meat, half a dozen eggs it's so simple! |
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I see that OP has edited the post after the few responses, I was really curious why everyone was only referring to the IDs and not to the tx mentioned below (which is also invalid, unfortunately). 6234a3ef5ae72c222a3fb6fa4d529e387a26f74b42c7668f7e7e66e1c6 is the transaction hex or Id for one of them. At this point it's obvious the only way to see what's happening here is for OP to tell us where is he sending funds from or who is sending this to him, I hope he didn't get scammed by some website that claims it has sent the money and is giving him bogus ids and hashes. Also, just curious, why did you wait for so long? I mean, it's 4 months... |
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They all do post this but it's mostly just on the surface, just as people do manage to cancel orders and get refunds from Bitmain, as you can see they agreed to send back the funds to the original wallet, so they agree on a refund but with their conditions. Well that sucks, even if Bitmain is operating like that and I would never personally buy from such company. Why not mentioning that in TOS, that money can be refunded only to the address from where bitcoin is sent? First because in the ToS sales are final, refunds are from the strat out of the equation normally. As for the other thing, everyone is buying, because there are only a few manufacturers and because the retailers are way more expensive and you risk far more money with a scam, and most importantly, this is not a t-shirt that you order at 8 pm and at 8:05 you see a new pair of jeans and you think the t-shirt is no good anymore and you cancel the order. Most that deal with gear make their plans weeks in advance, they won't change their mind 3 hours after the purchase, this is the thing that triggered a lot of red flags in the OP story, even without the whole ledger thing. And, look at that: What if he used somebody else account and coins to pay? At this point, if as stated above Cannan refunds the payment to the address in question and we see the funds moving (which should be impossible with a broken device) then OP is clearly lying. |
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I am not surprised about stompix, as he has been an optimist for long, even since high inflation started a few years ago, before the war. If the EU starts to grow 3% and inflation goes down to 2% I don't know what he will do, build a paper airplane with that toilet paper and fly away, I guess.
You see this is where you got everything wrong First, I will raid a shop for sunflower oil for the engines, then I need a ton of wood for the structure, don't know where I will get this since Europe has cut all its forests for heating and it takes 4000 years according to some to replace it, then, need to pack a ton of molded bread since that's all we can afford, and then, with the plane being a decoy for the Illuminati and I will paddle in my tinfoil boat to Salvador! No seriously, what do you*( general question, not addressed specifically to you) get from always thinking the worse will come? Instead of being optimistic, seeing how life is full of fun moments, making everything of every second should I have spent all these years since 2009 in a cave knowing the debt crisis will destroy the world, then the Eu will split into 1000 pieces, then covid will kills us all, only to grow old and look back and see half of my life was gone thinking how I'm going to suffer? Probably this is the only good thing I've got from my farmer's bloodline since obviously, I didn't get to ride a fire-spitting donkey, the trust in a new year coming after this one, a cycle that never ends no matter what humans do, no matter what happens there will be a new beginning in spring and a new year. Big falls in the stock market occurred in October but in this one, within the downward trend, it was not a disaster, although I don't think the situation is for many joys either.
Weird, I see that every market (that counts) ended up higher than it started in October, so can you show me this "downward" trend you're talking about?    |
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I have been pessimistic but I want to hear news like that, and much better news in the future if possible.
There will be, but the good news doesn't make clickbait material, nobody is going to click a piece of news about being sunny while a million will rush to read that an asteroid has a 0.0000<50of 0> 1 % chance of hitting the earth in the next one million years. The world has been through a lot of shit, ww1 and 2, wave after wave of the financial crisis, covid and the Spanish flu , and we're still standing, I can remember how in 2009 everyone was seeing it as the end of the world. I was thinking that European nations would soon go broke because of cost financing and supporting Ukraine.
Bruh, it's a 16 trillion economy + UK at 3T against one that doesn't have the GDP of Italy anymore and has a lower GDP per capita than the poorest of the EU. It's insane to think the EU would go broke in an economic war with Russia. There was even news of protests erupting in some parts of Europe because of high cost of gas and other essential commodities. There were predictions that these protests would soon spread to other parts of Europe thereby giving an opportunity for anarchy. Protests happen in Europe all the time, we have this freedom of not getting shot like animals when we go protesting peacefully, and every party tries to get an advantage when they are not in power and organize this kind of protest to erode the government but it's still nothing, none of them had real magnitude and support for helping Ukraine is the same and growing. Some mistake protests in Europe with the anarchy in other countries, but it's not like that, Belgium went 600 days without a government, and the Netherlands did so for 9 months, it's not like everything will crash just because of a power change. |
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Once they give up fighting inflation, the investors may surely be looking for assets to hedge the value of their assets like BTC. However, if the FED still raises interest which is very likely what Pal wants, we're gonna see stocks diving again and perhaps BTC too.
From here we're on different paths. The FED will never give up on inflation and inflation can't continue like this, not with these causes which are mainly energy costs and slow rebuilding of logistic and manufacturing chains. It's not a complete meltdown like Zimbabwe or Venezuela and this will either start to be contained as more and more industries resume complete operations and energy prices are going down alongside demand destruction. If there is no demand there won't be inflation either, that's why contrary to some alarmists we don't have the barrel of oil at $300 and OPEC is cutting production after production capacity to keep it above $80. And then continue where we left off that people will all be going to tighten belts, maybe eat just twice a day and find 3 jobs to make ends meet.
This is just impossible. Inflation happened because there was a lot of money and there was no production, if you think instead of having one job people will have 3 then you will have a ton of manufacturing and services, as these jobs have to produce something, which will mean more offer and with people tightening their pouch you will have exactly the opposite, deflation, what you picture here is exactly what's been happening in Japan for a decade, there won't be any trace of inflation in this scenario. |
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While checking your TOS, I found something I haven't seen at any legit online shop. Is that really how you treat your customers, not allowing them refund at all?
https://shop.bitmain.com/product/detail?pid=00020221030110209340BlAGIXVS065E4. After an order has been submitted, a request to cancel the order, refund any part of the ordered amount or change the ordered item(s) to different item(s) or different batch(es) will not be entertained by BITMAIN. They all do post this but it's mostly just on the surface, just as people do manage to cancel orders and get refunds from Bitmain, as you can see they agreed to send back the funds to the original wallet, so they agree on a refund but with their conditions. It's just stupid at this point of course they could make an exception especially since OP is having a meltdown and is probably one inch away from a heart attack but at the same time, you just can't just send funds to a different wallet that easily, especially since the buyer changed his mind a few hours after the order. What if he used somebody else account and coins to pay? |
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Google play store is literally the worst way to download sensitive applications, as they can very easily be phished, and even after reporting, it takes ages for them to be removed, only for new ones to pop up almost immediately.
*to download everything. I was getting bored a few nights ago and had time to kill before going to pick the wife and kid and decided to what the hell, play some game, went for a puzzle type with a ton of downloads and reviews, and when to start, it needs GPS, camera, call, contacts and a ton of other permission. Really? And this is one of those that announce you they are going to screw with you, what happens with others I don't want to even think, that's why if you have the $, go for Apple and only paid apps, android and free apps launched a month ago are a recipe for disaster. I would be reporting and urge people to verify the authenticity of any app they download, especially to a device where they hold funds (fiat or Bitcoin).
I would advise against holding any sum in BTC you can't afford to lose on your phone, it's more like a lottery, in 99% of the cases you will not get infected or lose your money but when you do, you will lose everything. This one was "developed" by a company that charges $260 for a racing 10 pixel game: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=arsalgames.mega.rikshaw.stunts&hl=en_IN&gl=USWtf!!!! |
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what does this mean?
Why don't you ask him what he meant by that? I suppose there is also a language barrier here so what your friend might imply by the gold or premium thing would mean something totally different. But, what the hell, there are two possibilities: - he has some web wallet that offers interest for stacking coins and the rewards are based on the amount, or for the amount traded, or cash spent for example even Wirex had premium and elite for their bitcoin cards * Might be wrong about this but RH had a gold account and it did allow crypto trading. - he got tricked into some Ponzi-like scheme and deposited BTC to a site with gold, and platinum plans that promise 100% or 1000% APY returns. I do hope it's the first. |
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I know a lot better than 2018 so may be i can make something for myself and others. It's been a long time so it's not unusual that i can write in more matured way than before as my knowledge expands a lot Yeah that is normal, to improve both posting style and language. Suspicious thing would be if your English suddenly regressed and I was mainly aiming at that. And learn a new language since immediately after the first post gap he started posting for the first time on the Pilipinas board in 20017 and somehow forgot he's from a different continent  No way it's the same person that opened the account here and for two years talked only about trading and arbitrage then suddenly regressed to 4 lines of empty talk. That aside, he hasn't scammed anyone yet, he has no trust ratings, no business venture, and probably nobody gives a f* about this anymore. |
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I read your conversation with support, reposting the image to make it easily readable for everyone:       Sorry to say it, but with the kind of meltdown you had I would have put you on ignore too and stopped chat communication, and switched to email. You sent a payment on the 30 of October, Sunday night, on the same night you contacted them and asked for a refund to a completely different address and because they didn't do that on the spot without any verification you started calling them every way possible. Not taking Cannan's side as I've never dealt with them but how you approached this every single merchant out there would have done the same, muting you and requiring email communication. They are sending the money back to the address you have sent them the payment, they're not taking your money so it's not really a scam, at most it's very poor customers support, but you're at fault here too, unfortunately. |
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