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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Methods of growing your Bitcoin?
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on: September 27, 2015, 09:39:57 PM
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I heard lending out bitcoin will make our bitcoin to grow in pace as well as securely. But, we need to verify the borrower more thoroughly before deciding a borrower. Getting a salary in bitcoin would be a more secure option :-)
Lending out bitcoins on this forum sounds like a really easy way to quickly lose some bitcoins.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Eventually the FUNGIBILITY issue of bitcoin will make headlines ...
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on: September 27, 2015, 09:39:29 PM
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If people start trying to blacklist coins I will do everything in my power to stop them and I suggest everyone else do the same because blacklisting would harm bitcoin beyond anything we've seen so far.
That would help your peers or people you are in communication with. But not everyone. You can't stop black listing. It's kind of in the gray area. I isn't in full force but it isn't something you can just squish (unless we are talking major bitcoin protocol code changes). You can fight it by boycotting any service that uses or supports blacklisting coins. That much is within your power.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Cryptonote: More Bitcoin Than Bitcoin
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on: September 27, 2015, 09:38:50 PM
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I don't trust the wikipedia page to be accurate
Good decision, it is very manipulated. Cryptonote is an alternate protocol and implementation for a proof of work cryptocurrency that implements untraceability and unlinkability using ring signatures (which satoshi called group signatures) and stealth addresses to provide resistance to blockchain analysis (which in turn helps with privacy and fungibility), along with some other improvements such a variable block size, no halving (subsidy drops a little each block), etc. The leading cryptonote coin is Monero but there are some other ones such as Boolberry (small, with some advanced featured), AEON (small, with some advanced features), Bytecoin (80% ninja premined), etc. So that's why everyone keeps spamming Monero. It sounds pretty cool but I'm not quite sure I would want to drop bitcoin when bitcoin is so much more developed service wise. I hope we can get some of those features over to bitcoin soon.
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Other / Meta / Re: Forum hacked? [Nope just kidding]
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on: September 27, 2015, 09:37:44 PM
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I wonder if this is a stock simple machines thing or if this is something theymos did when he got bored.
looks like it's an SMF easter egg. tried to search for boobs post but couldn't find anything. but not many people have 80085 posts soo.. Nobody on this forum has that many posts, one of the highest post count users is a bot that posts charts every hour.
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Other / Off-topic / Re: 2016, The Year of Bitcoin?
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on: September 27, 2015, 09:36:59 PM
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well you guys have also told previous year that 2015 will be the year of bitcoin but suddenly the prce dropped from 500$ to 200$ and we are still using it..now I hope the price will go upward again
Seriously, the optimism is great and all but let's be real, nobody really knows what's going to happen.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: dot.bitcoin or dot.btc TLD
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on: September 27, 2015, 09:32:54 PM
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I'm pretty sure OP's application, if serious, for a bitcoin gTLD would be rejected, if it gets this far, it would, probably, stop here:
3.2.1 Grounds for Objection
Legal Rights Objection – The applied-for gTLD string infringes the existing legal rights of the objector.
Community Objection – There is substantial opposition to the gTLD application from a significant portion of the community to which the gTLD string may be explicitly or implicitly targeted.
Why would that stop someone from requestion a bitcoin related TLD? I don't understand why that rules it out. Who has the legal rights for 'bitcoin'? I don't think anybody can claim legal rights for bitcoin. See here: https://bitcoin.org/en/about-us
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Other / Meta / Re: Forum hacked?
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on: September 27, 2015, 09:30:23 PM
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It seems that I've just been rick rolled by theymos. Sorry for the false alarm lol.
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Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: CoinRPG! A Bitcoin RPG Game!
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on: September 27, 2015, 09:29:21 PM
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The development was abandoned because the project was put up for sale due to the OP not having time for it/wanting to focus on other projects. No-one ever bid on it or purchased it, so the project essentially died there as no-one took up development.
That's really sad, it was a pretty old-looking game but it was still fun to play, just because it was built around bitcoin.
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Other / Meta / Forum hacked? [Nope just kidding]
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on: September 27, 2015, 09:26:42 PM
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This just appeared for my post count....what's going on? Did someone gain access to the forum's database? EDIT: It's gone, within a minute or two.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: In your own words: What is the purpose of Bitcoin?
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on: September 27, 2015, 09:25:02 PM
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(IMO) the purpose is to make money transaction easier, cos no one can forbit you to do that.
Yeah but I think no one will forbid you even care with your money transaction. There are people (Read: Government) that will stop you if you don't meet their regulation standards.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: BurtW arrested (update: charges dropped!)
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on: September 27, 2015, 09:23:50 PM
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This is why everyone must use a brain-wallet. Lets see how they can seize bitcoins from someone's mind!
(Note brainwallet.org is not to be confused with a brain wallet... the two are actually opposites)
ever heard of a waterboard ? That's why you need to have a throwaway brain wallet to give up under torture. Plan ahead, people. But it wouldn't be to the password to the same address. This is what scares me about bitcoin, although nobody can forcibly take the bitcoins from you, they can try their darndest to get it out of you.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What do you like best about bitcoin?
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on: September 27, 2015, 09:21:33 PM
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For me it's the freedom to move your money around from one place to another without restrictions. You can virtually use your bitcoin almost anywhere that you go without the fear of being taken away. With more adoption it should be universal currency. Another good about it is the fees. No ridiculous payment to the banks or losses from the spread when changing from one currency to another.
Hopefully we won't see the government forcibly taking people's bitcoins away in the future, by means of demands or otherwise.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: dot.bitcoin or dot.btc TLD
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on: September 27, 2015, 09:20:39 PM
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I'm pretty sure OP's application, if serious, for a bitcoin gTLD would be rejected, if it gets this far, it would, probably, stop here:
3.2.1 Grounds for Objection
Legal Rights Objection – The applied-for gTLD string infringes the existing legal rights of the objector.
Community Objection – There is substantial opposition to the gTLD application from a significant portion of the community to which the gTLD string may be explicitly or implicitly targeted.
Why would that stop someone from requestion a bitcoin related TLD? I don't understand why that rules it out.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why not invest instead of cloudmining??
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on: September 27, 2015, 09:17:33 PM
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Cloud mining is an investment as well. Contrary to what many people believes it can be profitable. By investing in Ghs to mine while being able to trade them at the same time you can have high returns. I won't say it isn't risky because it is, and it might even happen an investor not being able to reach ROI because he had a poor management of his mining account.
Bitcoin mining in itself is mostly non-profitable right now, so why would bitcoin mining after someone else takes a cut be profitable?
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