My main concern with it is that I'm worried about getting hacked and all my coins stolen. I really have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to anything technical like that, and I was wondering if I should be using any other programs besides virus scan software and spybot to keep myself safe when trading bitcoins.
You need to do at least 2 things to make your bitcoins safe (not 100% safe, but safe enough for everyday usage). 1. Switch to Linux or BSD (or at least switch the computer having Bitcoin installed) 2. Use Truecrypt. 3. (optionally) Don't install anything outside of the official repositories of Your distro. Otherwise You risk potential downloading of some malware. And i mean it not because I'm some kind of Linux fanboy. I say that deadly seriously: if you want Your bitcoins safe, don't use windows. |
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Liqpay is not chargebackable. Go to the site and check it for yourself!
I just checked it. Seems to be true. |
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It's been this same old story since we started e-gold back in 98. There is one particular nationality of people who just can't seem to understand the difference between cash and credit.
Actually, I'm not talking about "credit" cards, but "payment" cards. In my country, "payment" cards are very popular, while "credit" cards not so much. The only difference between both of them is that you cannot take credit with "payment" card. I do not want to have anything to do with "credit", I just care about easyness of money transfer which is given by credit/payment cards & paypal. Few minutes after making the payment money are avaiable on the receiver's account - that cannot be beaten by anything at the moment (except bitcoin). |
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This is silly. "Extremely large scale speculation"? How am I not seeing the billions of dollars of BTC derivatives?
Wait, i meant "extremely large" on bitcoin scale, not on world scale. This is relative. It's strange to have a problem with someone thinking bitcoin is going to be huge and puts their money on it. Anyone buying is "speculating" that it will work out well for them.
Actually, by "speculation" i mean repeatedly buying and selling large amounts of bitcoins in a short amount of time. Don't hold your breath for 'stable' BTC/USD either. It probably won't be stable until you can't get 1BTC with all the worthless dollars ever printed.
Agreed here. |
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to witchspace: You can buy bitcoins directly from me using Liqpay.com to transfer your money from Visa or Mastercard to my acc. It will take you 5-15 min to do it. All you need is CC and mobile phone to receive SMS with one-time password. If interested send me PM for detailed instructions.
Isn't Liqpay a soft currency with reversable transactions the same as Paypal, MoneyBookers or Credit Cards ? Or am I wrong ? So this doesn't solve the general problem. |
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However, first I change browser for 1-2 days.
I have a lot of plugins in it. Once was so that the plugin prevented switching to Tor, and this time some such reason may be.
problem is still persists. Anyone else seen it? upd: Now do not opens topics that changes were just made. Can be a problem in the database? Do not leave me! No i haven't seen it. The servers are blazingly fast for me. Perhaps your proxy/tunnel/vpn/tor/whatever is malfunctioning. If you're getting bad transfers from russia, perhaps You should try tunneling to some fast-internet country as USA, france or germany. There are some VPN's & SSH accounts for tunneling for sale there. Also, check Your DNSes - the problems may be caused by slow domain resolving. |
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At the moment, bitcoin prices are not governed by free market, but by large speculators. Speculators always need to sell eventually, which guarantees the "little guy" a chance to buy in. Yeah, but that time is not the case at the moment. We need the "little guys" to come in and buy out enough of bitcoins - only then the extremely large scale speculation will decrease and prices will stabilize. But i guess that's completely natural with every rising market/currency. |
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yes, its related to the size of the sell orders. If one really wanted to sell that many coins soon, one would not put so many orders in at the same time , but would let the market move higher and then skim it.
we may never find out exactly what's behind , and clearly this is all allowed, but I guess this is someone or a few people who know exactly what they are doing, and there must be some deeper objective behind (an objective that required keeping the market under 0.30$ for quite some time)
This is why i dislike large scale speculation. There is a relatively small group of people with server farms & multiple radeon cards who own most of bitcoins and they can almost completely control the market. At the moment, bitcoin prices are not governed by free market, but by large speculators. We need more of small players, so the bitcoins can diversify between another nodes some more. |
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A poll perhaps, somebody ?
Or perhaps just wait until someone comes up with a solution good enough that everyone starts using it. If somebody makes something better, another poll can be added. People should know what is the most popular option - that will make decision easier. |
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Hey, there's an idea. Maybe Satoshi is *really* a government agent, and bitcoin is *actually* Big Government's latest attempt to regulate and control the world's trading. Shoot me down folks!
We already discussed this issue extensively. Satoshi is definately *NOT* a government agent. Well they control all the money now .How could it get any worse?
Good point. |
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@satoshi
Does this version contain new blockchain "checkpoints" to secure the "official" chain ?
Could you please inform us about every checkpoint being inserted in news such as this ?
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Have we arrived at any conclusion ?
A poll perhaps, somebody ?
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This awesome, thx. How come i haven't noticed it earlier ? |
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I have noticed that there was large traffic increase on the forums lately.
I was wondering - is it just caused by naturally increasing popularity of Bitcoin, or did we get some large press/blog/reddit/digg coverage again ?
BTW,
Can somebody confirm or deny that the forum has increased traffic in last 3 days ?
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Having child pornography on your computer is by itself a reason to have you arrested with a felony, get labeled a child sex offender with a legal
Solution: Use Truecrypt. Using bitcoin without encrypting the wallet is at best irresponsible anyway. Money should be kept in safe => bitcoins should be kept on an encrypted hard drive. |
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Sorry matonis, let me bring this thread back on-topic by adding another entry to your list of ways that law enforcement will utilitze bitcoin data.
They will simply get a court order to seize someone's computer. Upon running the bitcoin client they will click "Address Book" where they will find a nicely-tabulated list of bitcoin addresses and names.
Thanks ribuck, but a fully-encrypted hard drive, like http://www.truecrypt.org/ will solve this issue. Now, I also know that a person in the UK went to jail for "not" revealing his PGP private key password, but i suppose you can always say that you have so many passwords that you forgot. Also, see similar case "UK teenager jailed for not disclosing password": Not a problem. Truecrypt also supports hidden hard drives inside encrypted "standard" hard drives. This gives You plausible deniability - if asked, You can give the password to Your outer volume, and there is no way of detecting if there is another hidden volume in the outer volume, because the data has enough entropy to look completely random. So they can't put You in jail for not disclosing password anymore. |
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13 years of government propaganda and brainwashing is most to blame for the inability of people to see clearly.
Actually, it's more like 97 years of propaganda and brainwashing... 1913 - creation of FED. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System#HistoryAs long as the FED lobbysts and propagandists exist, i wouldn't expect the situation to change. They just have too much power. |
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Update: i have installed fresh AMD64 gentoo on my VM.
The things left to do is update it and test if the ebuild works.
I think i should be done in 2 days.
EDIT - update:
Unfortunately, my bigger (750GB) hard drive just died, so there is no chance of doing anything at the moment...
I will try to sit on it next weekend...
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At least it looks like more and more people are able to see through the bs now, judging by the comments.
>90% of people are still completely unaware of what we are talking here. They will only understand it once it is too late. |
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