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on: December 05, 2013, 05:22:50 AM

Does anyone know what the corporation number of CaVirtex is or what their address is?

on: December 05, 2013, 03:44:10 AM

Coming from a guy named fleabag, I don't see how this couldn't be legitimate. Please post your Bitcoin address so that I can invest in your idea right away!

on: December 03, 2013, 06:55:02 PM

This is looking more and more like a scam every day. Quote Dec. 3, 2013, 11 a.m. - VirtEx Supports Pathways to Education! We are proud to announce that we are supporting Canadian charity Pathways to Education on #GivingTuesday with a Bitcoin donation. Pathways to Education is the first national Canadian charity to accept Bitcoin donations and issue receipts for income tax purposes. Donate here: http://www.pathwaystoeducation.ca/bitcoin Pathways to Education is helping youth in low-income communities graduate from high school and successfully transition into post-secondary education. Pathways addresses systemic barriers to education by providing leadership, expertise and a community-based program proven to lower dropout rates. The results of this unique program have been groundbreaking, reducing high school drop-out rates by as much as 70 per cent, and increasing the rate at which youth go on to college or university by up to 300 per cent. Founded in 2001, Pathways operates in 13 communities across Canada. Apparently, they have time for this but not to handle my request to withdraw funds? Don't get me wrong. This sounds like a worthy cause, but associating yourself with a charity is a great way to discourage allegations of criminality.

on: December 03, 2013, 01:15:35 AM

Since I have over $20,000 waiting to be withdrawn, I would like to know what exactly verification entails. For that matter, why is verification necessary for cash withdraws anyway? It's not like I'm going to have my money transferred into a stolen bank account. If it's simply a matter of having someone look at the uploads then this delay is completely unacceptable. If there's any kind of background or credit check being done, then this is also unacceptable as I have not signed any agreement for this. What is going on?!?!

on: November 30, 2013, 08:45:31 PM

I sent in my documents on the 27th and talked to one of their staff on the phone at that time. She told me that they have to send the documentation to an outside company for verification. WTF?!?! She also told me that it would take up to three weeks? What exactly are they doing and why does it take so long to get verified through them? Why do they even need to verify for CAD withdraws? Is this whole thing a scam?

on: November 30, 2013, 07:43:42 PM

Now the other Party says that we are two Americas. Don't you believe that either. I have visited our troops in Iraq, Kuwait, Bosnia, Germany and all over the world. I've visited our troops in California, where they train before they go overseas. I have visited our military hospitals. And I tell you this: that our men and women in uniform do not believe there are two Americas. They believe there's one America and they are fighting for it!

on: November 30, 2013, 07:29:16 PM

Thanks for the tip!

on: November 30, 2013, 07:19:23 AM

I'm trying to get money out of CAVirtex and they told me it will take 2 weeks to get verified. Considering how much money they charge (1.5% plus $6 per transfer), I think this is ridiculous. Why do they even need to verify the account for withdrawals?!?! Are they worried I will send money to someone else's bank account? There's a serious need for competition in the Canadian Bitcoin exchange market.

on: November 30, 2013, 02:18:22 AM

The only way I could see this as making sense is if the neural network could crack SHA. Neural networks can be trained to create a function which correlates a chosen input (in this case a low hash target) with a specific output (in this case the input nonce). A historical example of their use is in hand-writing recognition. A neural network is provided a series of pictures of letters along with their meanings as training data and "learns" to interpret future scanned input with a high-degree of accuracy. Perhaps it is possible that a neural network could learn some sort of pattern from SHA, but if this happened I would expect to hear a lot about it from academia and for the hash standard to be quickly deprecated.

on: November 30, 2013, 02:03:59 AM

Doesn't make sense to me and I have a computing science background. If there were a way to compromise SHA using neural networks, I would expect to see something about this in computing science literature. Perhaps this isn't being written about because nothing near a full-collision is necessary to mine bitcoins, but as far as I know any reduction in entropy threatens a hashing function's reliability. Given SHA's status as a global standard, I would imagine any chance of it being compromised would be commented on heavily by academia -- similar to what happened with MD5 some time ago.

on: November 30, 2013, 01:12:21 AM

I bought some bitcoins back in 2011 at $0.50. Recently sold some on Virtex. I'm currently waiting for my account there to be verified so that I can withdraw my funds (which are over the $3,000 limit). Does anyone know what their verification entails? I was told over the phone that it would two weeks (after I sold, unfortunately) and that an outside company does the verification. Why do they even need to do this for withdraws? It's not like I'm going to withdraw the money into a stolen bank account.

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