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1001  Economy / Exchanges / Re: LBC on: February 04, 2020, 02:55:15 AM
On LBC we can find the real name of trader once we initiate the trade if they registered and if payment was done from different account then don't release the bitcoin and start dispute the trade mentioning your issue.But this is possibly only if you mentioned these terms while creating that advertisement.

Localcryptos don't ask for KYC so it will become scam fest if bank account hackers find this.

LBC is still a scam fest despite KYC, KYC-verified accounts to scam get traded all the time. Best just trade in-person and LBC has made that impossible by banning this type of trades altogether.
1002  Other / Meta / Re: Report to moderators - A more efficient way on: February 02, 2020, 04:19:12 AM
I do not know how mods see reports for one post which is reported let's say 20 times? Do one handled report for such post solve all other reports?

It's not a problem needing solving - most reported posts have 1 report only, and if a post is reported more than once it's still usually a low number like 2-5.
1003  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: A case against using Avast on: February 02, 2020, 02:33:47 AM
Your mentioning of Quebes seem to be ignoring the recent security flaws of speculative execution in most modern CPUs; virtualization is NOT a silver bullet. If you want a "safer" system then get something like the Pinebook pro or some architecture without these flaws.

Or get an AMD CPU, they're less vulnerable than Intel to these attacks while still having very good performance.
1004  Economy / Exchanges / Re: LBC on: February 02, 2020, 02:15:56 AM
And also these alternatives of LBC got insane price tag for bitcoin which is 10% higher than the actual market value so if someone wanted to buy bitcoin with decent amount would choose LBC for better and cheaper price or the exchanges where we can make bank deposits.

That's because most of them have very few users at the moment, the upside is usually no KYC, but if you're accepting bank transfers from strangers better be sure the other party isn't using someone else's stolen bank account, on LBC that should be more difficult.
1005  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2020-01-31] Senior Adviser / Operator Of The “Silk Road” Website Pleads Guilty on: February 02, 2020, 01:57:13 AM
I don't know how mitigating circumstances work in a guilty plea but Variety Jones is already 56 and assuming that the judge will only sentence him to half of that sentence with no possibility of parole he would be around 66 or 67 that time since the sentencing will happen on May 29, 2020. Him being 66 or 67 years old at that time and maybe also being broke I'm only assuming that he'll only do this AMAs or Interviews if he will be fairly compensated for it.

Many have done AMAs without any compensation or to promote a book at most. If he a 10-year sentence, and gets credited for time served since his arrest, he'll be out in 5.5 years. Since he bragged about bribing cops in Thailand I'm guessing he probably has some money stashed away.
1006  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: WOLF.BET ⭐️ Lucky Number 3rd Edition ⭐️19 Prizes 🍀 $100 Prize pool 🍀 29 Days on: February 02, 2020, 01:53:09 AM
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1007  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2020-01-31] Senior Adviser / Operator Of The “Silk Road” Website Pleads Guilty on: February 01, 2020, 02:00:45 AM
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CLARK, 56, a citizen of Canada, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute narcotics, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

So unlike DPR, Variety Jones at least has a chance of dying outside prison walls.

Since he was arrested over four years ago maybe we'll see him making an AMA on /r/Bitcoin in the near future if he gets sentenced to time served only.
1008  Economy / Exchanges / Re: LBC on: February 01, 2020, 12:57:45 AM
Both are the same now, that is, both have scammers, both require KYC, both ban nationals from entire countries.

List of alternatives to localbitcoins (yes, most aren't very active):

https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/dyclf8/list_of_bitcoin_persontoperson_p2p_bitcoin/
1009  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: A case against using Avast on: January 31, 2020, 10:59:46 PM
A case could be made not just against Avast, but against AVs in general. They can often allow for privilege escalation:

https://www.google.com/search?&q=antivirus+privilege+escalation

One of the drawbacks of Linux is probably its gaming and design capabilities. For those who're not aware of their privacy & security risk, the 'inconvenience' also provides some challenges. On top of that, news like this does not come into headline every often.

As far as gaming goes, nowadays with Lutris/Proton/DXVK/etc. most games, AAA games included, run fine. For design it's not as good but that depends on your needs.

1010  Local / Polski / Re: [Film Instruktażowy] Jak wypłacać z bitomatów on: January 31, 2020, 09:31:34 PM
Albo jak ten koleś-nie nadarzający odbierać pieniędzy i rozsypując na pół galerii (fontanna z banknotów) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrQlWOmzREA

W nagraniu jest Bytom, ale na mapie coinatmradar nie widzę tam żadnego bitomatu, pewnie przenieśli. Ale coś felerna sztuka musiała być, bo bitomaty shitcoins.club nie mają takich problemów. W Londynie w zeszłym roku podobnie jeden bitomat działał:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQQpgmMqrmY
1011  Economy / Web Wallets / Re: Instawallet claim on: January 31, 2020, 07:39:45 PM
The 90 days deadline was set mostly arbitrarily so they could pocket their users' unclaimed bitcoins. It's very likely that it's too late, but your only hope is in contacting a lawyer based in France, or someone familiar with French laws. But if it's a paltry amount, like 1 BTC, I wouldn't even bother.
1012  Other / Meta / Re: Don't you guys think it's time for LN to have it's own (sub)section now? on: January 31, 2020, 07:14:47 PM
However I'm in favor of having another place to discuss all-things-lightning than https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5158920.0 which keeps growing  Smiley

It grows at a rate of ~1 post per day.  Tongue

Right now at least with LN topics being found in several different boards more people can be exposed to it. If all of these topics are to be corralled into one place, mostly only those who know what they're looking for will learn of the section and visit it, especially if it was to be a child-board of Dev & Tech.

edit: if it's common for newcomers to closely look through all boards and child-boards (at least those seen on the front page), then perhaps an opposite case could be made.
1013  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Exchanges are now potentially banning btc sent to a mixing/conjoin services on: January 31, 2020, 12:55:43 PM
Now, i hope i've made my point that both person A and person B have added benefit when mixing, coinjoining or exchanging to an anonymous coin. I hope this makes it clear that it's NOT the act of mixing/coinjoining/exchanging is illegal. There are, in fact, perfectly legal reasons to mix/coinjoin/exchange. It's NOT up to the exchange to lock users because they want privacy. It's up to law enforcement to track illegal gun sellers down, and only get warrants for people that are doing illegal stuff. An exchange, even if it's looked upon as a financial institution, is NOT a valid form of law enforcement. They do not have the right to meddle, track, block, ban,... The only thing they are allowed to do is keep the KYC information SAFE untill law enforcement comes around with a legal warrant to request this information. A warrant based on concrete evidence that the person that's being investigated has a high probability of having done something illegal, a warrant signed by a judge.

If exchanges are forced to do act like law enforcement by the law of the country they operate in, we should switch to exchanges that are located in countries where the laws aren't completely retarded. If exchanges took it upon themselfs to play "world police" they should be dropped, shunned, avoided, sued,...

Would you like it if you FIAT bank decided to block your account because you worked for a brewery, and since drinking and driving is illegal, they no longer accept the money of people that have anything to do with alcohol or tobacco? Would you be OK if they blocked your bank account because they saw you walking out of a pub at night? Would you be OK if they blocked your account and did not want to release your money before you gave them an absurd amount of personal information? Would you be OK if they plain blocked your account and did not give you any way of getting your money back?Huh
The answer is: NO, you would not be OK... If this happened to you, you'd be searching a lawyer by now, you would have contacted the newspapers, you would be calling your relatives to withdraw all their money from said bank... Why on earth do people think this behaviour is not OK with FIAT, but perfectly fine with crypto?

Unfortunately, it appears that because coins can often be feasibly tracked, Bitcoin has on numerous occasions been lauded for its transparency, and because the user has to go out of their way to maintain a semblance of privacy, we have arrived at this place where strict surveillance is slowly becoming something most have gotten used to. Changing the direction we're heading to might be difficult, unless Bitcoin/wallets undergo some serious changes.
1014  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Exchanges are now potentially banning btc sent to a mixing/conjoin services on: January 31, 2020, 04:24:17 AM
If crypto exchanges include such "anti-mixer" rule in their Terms of service,we have no choice but to follow this rule.With all the regulations and KYC,the crypto exchanges don't want "dirty money" in their wallets,so it's normal for them to ban transactions coming from BTC mixing services,because someone,who uses a mixer service clearly has something to hide.There's no other reason to use a Bitcoin mixer.

You yourself have put "dirty money" between quotation marks, why then are you normalizing their behaviour?

And there's nothing wrong in wanting to maintain some privacy.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Privacy#Examples_and_case_studies
1015  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2020-01-30] Bitcoin Has Lost Steam. But Criminals Still Love It. on: January 31, 2020, 03:58:25 AM
bbc.reporter, why do you post such stupid news? "Bitcoin Has Lost Steam" is an incredibly stupid title given that it has increased its price by almost $3000 in the last month and a half (around $6500 in December 2019), and all this with some alleged research based on first three months of 2019?

The journalist who wrote the article is clearly on a mission to portray Bitocin as something only criminals use, so are we all criminals in this forum because of the fact that we use BTC? It's really amazing that they portray us as criminals, and as environmental destroyers when it is so far from the truth.

The article is an exaggeration, but less than 6 weeks ago the price was as low as it was back in May 2019. It still hasn't recovered after it dived after the bull run from $3k to $13.8k. It's too early to be unusually optimistic.
1016  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: How is KYC enforced in Bitcoin ATMs worldwide? on: January 31, 2020, 03:20:40 AM
As in the case of Philippines, there are currently only two (2) bitcoin ATMs available and I heard that the system seems to be buggy with errors. Most of the time, it is unavailable and out of service but if you stumble across one, I would suggest to avoid it. The rates and fees are too high in order to withdraw some of your funds. If you are really desperate, I would suggest to check first your local bitcoin exchange platform and see their available services for withdrawing.

I just checked on coinatmradar, there actually are only two Bitcoin ATMs in the Philippines. Are there any specific regulations which make running such as business next to impossible? In a country of >100M there must be demand for more of such ATMs. And one of the two seems to require a bank account...
1017  Local / Polski / Re: Signature campaing - regularnie płatne pewniaki on: January 30, 2020, 03:23:20 AM
Manager: Murat
Nazwa kampanii: DAVID CHAUM's XX Coin
Rangi: od Sr. wzwyż.
Ile do zarobienia: 0.00014, 0.00018 i 0.0002 BTC/post dla Sr./Hero/Legendary.
Dodatkowe info: min. 90 znaków/post, max. 50 postów/tydz. Działy loklane się liczą, ale trochę działów jest wykluczona.
1018  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin upgrades and FATF (Travel Rule) on: January 28, 2020, 02:25:42 PM
but I have never heard of one asking where users send their funds to. That's probably what FATF will require exchanges to do once the travel rule becomes mandatory.

Binance Singapore made the news a couple weeks ago when they suspended a user's account just because he withdrew his coins to Wasabi.

I think Bitstamp was known for asking what a user intends to do with their coins, too.
1019  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin transaction dispute on: January 28, 2020, 07:04:11 AM
Ask your client what wallet or exchange he's using, preferably with a link to the wallet he downloaded or to the website if it's a web wallet.
1020  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin upgrades and FATF (Travel Rule) on: January 28, 2020, 06:35:36 AM
These upgrades would give Bitcoin users more privacy when making multisignature transactions. An exchange can still ask strange questions about the provenance of your bitcoins, or where you're sending them off to, and/or freeze/ban your account, and these upgrades won't change that, especially if the FATF travel rule ends up being enforced.
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