Are there any pools still up for DIME?
Last one I used was on Cryptopia, but since that's been removed I can't find a working pool, any help? Thanks in advance!
About a month and a half ago mineblocks.eu said it had added dimecoin (on the last page). I don't have any experience of mining so I can't give a qualified opinion on the pool, but its twitter is quite active with tweets about all the new coins it keeps adding. |
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I found this near the top of a search for Bitcoin accepting charities, but it only has 8 or 9 charities on its home page. I don't know if it's reputable and I agree with other posters that some big charities spend all the donations on inflated wages. It's best to find out how much of the donations goes to the people who need it before donating. https://bithope.org/campaignsChecking a charity is not easy. Eternalgloom said you can use his charitynavigator.org link to check, ... you always have to look up a charity on http://www.charitynavigator.org/You'll see how much of the funding actually gets spent on the cause in question and how much goes into 'overhead'. However when I tried checking the thewaterproject.org link posted by Invulner I didn't find it rated by charitynavigator.org. |
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Even it's still encrypted, the hackers still could hack your account if you use weak password or the hacker have hints for your password. If you don't believe me, you might want to check this thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1544686.0Yeah, they can just compare the hashes of the passwords to a known database and if the sha256 hash matches one in the database, the hackers knows the password as well. You are quite safe if you use non dictionary, non common, non previously used passwords with such encryption in place, as it is almost impossible that it will appear in any rainbow table of any kind. That's the way, using strong passwords and changing the password with or without any hack periodically... Why bitcointalk don't use a 2FA? It would be nice for security If anyone wants extra security for their account they can post their Bitcoin address in the thread linked to here. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=996318.0Someone else quotes your address in that thread, then if your account gets hacked the hacker can't delete that quoted address. You can use it to get your account back by signing a Bitcoin message and sending it to Theymos. He will give you back your account if you can sign a message proving the account is yours. |
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So Im hearing that all US users at Bitfinex account are now frozen.
Any United States users that can confirm this?
It's unclear how many users are affected. Apparently only verified US users are affected. One of two stories is being told: 1) Synapse Pay revoked Bitfinex's access to their bank accounts and wired money held back to customers. Those users had their accounts frozen for "accounting reasons" and it's unclear how many have access to the rest of their funds now. 2) Some users had their "BitGo wallets frozen" (according to BitGo, this was actually done by Bitfinex) and for similar "accounting reasons" do not have access. Really scary stuff for these customers. There are a lot of restrictions on issue of "securities" in the US. That could be one reason with Bitfinex does not want US citizens to buy these tokens. Here's the problem: They issued the tokens to US users. These tokens are either a bond or a security -- or something in between. In any case, issuing them to US users is likely a violation of US securities law and could get Bitfinex into hot water with the SEC. They can't really argue that they aren't allowing US users to trade them either, since they are allowed to sell them on the exchange. Unverified US users can also use all trading functionality (including margin trading and trading of the BFX token). They are trying to avoid prosecution by the SEC with a rule that U.S. people can only sell BFX tokens, but they cannot buy BFX tokens. Bitfinex will argue that they aren't allowing US people to trade them because they can't buy and sell them. I don't think that strategy will work, the SEC will probably prosecute them anyway. |
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1. why are they not securing customers funds in the same manner as their own reserves, for them to think customers funds could be lost but their reserves could not be
Now this is a really good question  Another question is how can Xapo be certain its own reserve is enough to cover hacked customer funds? I doubt Bitfinex had a reserve big enough to cover the customer funds it lost. Most companies pay their shareholders the lions share of their profits, they don't save enough to cover huge losses. Most banks don't save enough to cover huge losses, and why should Xapo be different? |
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so how will the price be effected when bitfinex longs start from 0 and grow back to 40million?
and how will demand be met if everyone is busy withdrawing coins out of bitfinex? Bitfinex is talking about possibly processing withdrawals manually, and delaying the reintroduction of leverage until after withdrawals and normal trading have been reintroduced. Doing manual withdrawals will be as slow as a snail, and they can halt them (and a bank run) at any time with a slippery excuse. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4wng2j/site_relaunch_bitfinex_blog/d6as7kx |
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I don't know if the OP of this reddit thread is correct, but he says there are rules preventing Bitfinex withdrawing coins from BitGo wallets belonging to its customers until an arbitrator decides what to do. Bitfinex emptied all BitGo wallets anyway, but whether that was legal is an interesting question. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4wcspe/i_recommend_to_those_from_bitfinex_with_bitcoin/I recommend to those from Bitfinex with bitcoin left in their wallet to login to BitGo and freeze the wallet. According to TOS 5.5 BitGo/Bitfinex is obligated to no longer use their key to move funds until an arbitrator has ruled on the dispute |
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T|hat was a tiny price drop of $10, and the price has gone back up by $10 to where it started from. Until Bitfinex opens up trading and withdrawals the price will go sideways. The trading/withdrawals is the only thing that's going to move the price. |
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After the next financial crisis before halving day 2020 I predict Bitcoin will be worth $100000.
However discussing the halving day 2020 is like discussing next Christmas on New Year's day. It's a little too soon to be thinking about halving day 2020.
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=786277.0This week I bought >300 BTC (+700 before > 1000 total) If he sold then he has no profit. His average is well over 600, he was crying all way down and tried to lower his average price, perhaps he bought into ath first. He is lying. He said he was buying at 400, but he could have bought at 200 for a year afterwards. Now he says he's selling at 600, but he could probably sell at 1200+ for years afterwards. It's testing 700 now, and he shorted at 600. |
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The line between decentralised and centralised wallets is blurred. Electrum lets you keep your private key but connects to the Bitcoin network through one of a limited number of servers. Blockchain.info lets you keep your private key but you must access the Bitcoin network through its website. Coinbase is fully centralised because you don't know your private key, but Electrum and Blockchain.info are partly centralised.
How is electrum centralised when your private keys never leave your pc and you can do what ever you like with your coins. The only thing electrum needs is an internet connection. Centralized mean some central supreme authority watching over you and making decisions for you, decentralized mean no central authority, you are free to do what you like, thats the big difference between Electrum and Coinbase which don't let you know your private keys. Electrum's wallet connects to the Bitcoin network through one of a number of servers. One of those servers is what relays all your transactions to the Bitcoin network. You have to trust the server isn't malicious. If it's malicious your Bitcoins are less secure. With the full Bitcoin core wallet it doesn't matter if your wallet connects to a malicious node because it connects to multiple nodes at the same time, and ignores any malicious one. Is that part of the system decentralised, or is that part of the system centralised?
Electrum is stored on your device but relies on servers for transactions information. Some wallets store the entire blockchain but electrum does not. Wallets that do not store the blockchain locally are called lightweight wallets. Lightweight wallets have to query their servers each time they are run. So are you suggesting me to switch to Bitcoin Core, I can install it in my laptop as in my PC I don't have that much space left. Is Bitcoin core more secure than electrum, if thats the case I am giving it a try, hopefully it will run on Linux. No, I'm saying weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of all available wallets and pick the ones most suited to your requirements. Bitcoin core needs an 80GB blockchain download and a long time to sync before you can use it. Electrum is fairly secure, just not as secure as Bitcoin core. However, you can use Electrum immediately after installing it, and it's light on CPU use, unlike core. Also, Quickseller made some good points that my view of Electrum might not be entirely right.
Electrum's wallet connects to the Bitcoin network through one of a number of servers. One of those servers is what relays all your transactions to the Bitcoin network. You have to trust the server isn't malicious. If it's malicious your Bitcoins are less secure.
This is not entirely true as all that a malicious electrum server can really do is prevent you from spending your coins (via electrum), spy on you and tell you that you have a 0/unconfirmed transaction that has not been sent to the rest of the network. With the full Bitcoin core wallet it doesn't matter if your wallet connects to a malicious node because it connects to multiple nodes at the same time, and ignores any malicious one.
Also not entirely true as if a malicious entity is able to connect to your node multiple times then your node might not be able to detect that they are connected to a malicious node and would not know to ignore it. |
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The line between decentralised and centralised wallets is blurred. Electrum lets you keep your private key but connects to the Bitcoin network through one of a limited number of servers. Blockchain.info lets you keep your private key but you must access the Bitcoin network through its website. Coinbase is fully centralised because you don't know your private key, but Electrum and Blockchain.info are partly centralised.
How is electrum centralised when your private keys never leave your pc and you can do what ever you like with your coins. The only thing electrum needs is an internet connection. Centralized mean some central supreme authority watching over you and making decisions for you, decentralized mean no central authority, you are free to do what you like, thats the big difference between Electrum and Coinbase which don't let you know your private keys. Electrum's wallet connects to the Bitcoin network through one of a number of servers. One of those servers is what relays all your transactions to the Bitcoin network. You have to trust the server isn't malicious. If it's malicious your Bitcoins are less secure. With the full Bitcoin core wallet it doesn't matter if your wallet connects to a malicious node because it connects to multiple nodes at the same time, and ignores any malicious one. Is that part of the system decentralised, or is that part of the system centralised?
Electrum is stored on your device but relies on servers for transactions information. Some wallets store the entire blockchain but electrum does not. Wallets that do not store the blockchain locally are called lightweight wallets. Lightweight wallets have to query their servers each time they are run. |
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The line between decentralised and centralised wallets is blurred. Electrum lets you keep your private key but connects to the Bitcoin network through one of a limited number of servers. Blockchain.info lets you keep your private key but you must access the Bitcoin network through its website. Coinbase is fully centralised because you don't know your private key, but Electrum and Blockchain.info are partly centralised.
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$437
This dump has frightened the hell out of me. It changed me from being bullish to being bearish.
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It's suspicious, check out contact page: https://cointopal.com/contact AFAIK Moriarty is one of scammer, even the site use SSL bit it's not guaranteed if the site trustable. That site hides its DNS registrar through namesilo.com The SSL certificate might have been bought anonymously, and namesilo won't disclose who registered the domain if you get scammed. I'd stick to virwox. |
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I don't think satoshi had envisioned half of what would happen to bitcoin. He limited the block size as a temporary measure, it's unlikely he planned for the consequences years later. Similarly i doubt he realised the CIA would ask Gavin to give a bitcoin presentation to them, but they did.
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All good points for being safer thanks!
I have a windows 7 pc that I am using now for the last 2 months, before that I was always ubuntu. What is a good malware checker that I can try to use just to be 100% certain. I only started using this computer because I need to use photoshop and some other programs that only work on windows.
I'll be safer with the blockchain account and do the usb pen thing, good idea.
Malwarebytes is free forever, I have the upgraded version, still good though https://www.malwarebytes.org/For a free Antivirus scanner just a 30 day trial http://www.eset.com/us/free-trial/ but will do the job scanning the system, you can have both scanners running at the same time. Some viruses can only be detected and removed when an infected windows isn't running. You can use a live cd to detect and remove them like the one from Avira antivirus. The download link to the Avira antivirus live cd and its user manuals is here. http://www.avira.com/en/download/product/avira-rescue-systemThese quotes are from its manual. First it tries to download the latest virus definition updates, if it can't connect to the internet it uses the virus definitions included on the cd. In the first instance, the scanner updates the Virus Definition File (VDF) and the scan engine. If no Internet connection is established, the scanner searches for infections with the VDF and engine versions found on the ISO file. After its finished scanning it shows you whether your computer was infected. The Results area shows whether your system was completely cleaned and repaired. By clicking the Report button, details about the detections will be displayed. |
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I don't know when but it might go sideways for months. The price has been getting less volatile over the last two weeks and nothing's happened to pump or dump it. We got over the Hearn panic so nothing might happen to the price for months unless something else starts a panic buy or sell.
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I think he is also waiting for next halving  like us, so that even he can sell all his coins and be the richest man of the world, but I believe he won't be thinking of bitcoins at a moment, he might be doing research on some new crypto. This probably, in all reality, would never happen... the minute Satoshi takes bitcoin out of his wallet and puts it into an exchange, EVERYONE would know... especially on here. People tend to be really on top of that for some reason. But again, this poses a huge problem, and in my opinion, absolutely ridiculous. Everyone got into Bitcoin early on to be their "own bank".... Where they are financially secure and can do whatever they wanted with their Bitcoin stash. Now, the fact that the creator of the currency we love so much can't so much as lay a single theoretical finger on his stash because it would plummet the price of bitcoin and cause a mass paranoia about whether Satoshi is selling out or not, is absolute insanity. I think everyone would dump their Bitcoins the second Satoshi takes Bitcoins out of his wallet, and I often wonder how low the price would crash. It would rapidly drop below $100 and the panic could maybe drive it down to $10 or $20. It would rise back up again afterwards, but I wonder how far and how fast. |
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