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Other / Meta / Re: What is exactly the functionality of "Report to moderator"?
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on: April 19, 2020, 07:52:42 PM
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Second, in most cases deleting the post is all that is required and the reports will be automatically be marked as good (therefore, not really extra workload).
Global moderators (and admins) can have backlogs of several hundred reports, more reports means more scrolling when deciding which reports should be handled quickly. |
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Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Purse.io is shutting down
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on: April 19, 2020, 12:47:51 PM
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They wouldn't have lasted this long (six years) if that had been the case. They were a legitimate company but they have faced many similar accusations from people unacquainted with their business model.
I was not saying they were working with criminals. I was speculating that much of their volume might be from stolen gift cards. This might have attracted the attention of the government. @OgNasty. However, it can also be argued that buying worthless altcoins is also a bitcoin use case hehehe. I wasn't suggesting that this is what you were saying. I'm saying they would have been swamped with requests, investigations and accusations from the authorities about fraud or money laundering going on through their platform if these criminal acts were truly frequently occurring. They weren't some darknet fly-by-night operation so I have a hard time imagining that more than a small fraction of the volume was connected to hacked/stolen or otherwise fraudulently acquire GCs. Even developing countries go after GC scammers. E.g.: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/32-arrested-at-indian-call-centre-that-targeted-canadians-1.4690651https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-fraud-usa/callers-for-dollars-inside-indias-scam-call-centers-idUSKBN13O2XZ |
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Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Purse.io is shutting down
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on: April 18, 2020, 03:50:00 AM
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They wouldn't have lasted this long (six years) if that had been the case. They were a legitimate company but they have faced many similar accusations from people unacquainted with their business model.
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Local / Polski / Re: Pospekulujmy o aktualnej i przyszłej cenie BTC.
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on: April 17, 2020, 10:49:22 PM
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Moim zdaniem SP500 może widzieć nowe ATH jeszcze w tym roku a potem korektę do obecnych poziomów i tak przez lata. Po prostu spadki się SP500 nikomu się nie opłacają. Amerykanie postrzegają wzrost kursów jako wzrost gospodarczy. Na rękę elitom jest dewaluacja (ukryte spadki kursów jak w 1964-1980 tylko w 5-10 lat a nie 16) niż spadki i przyznanie się do politycznej porażki. A teraz wracając do BTC. Wraz ze wzrostami indeksów wróci optymizm. Wraz ze zwiększającym się dodrukiem zmaleje awersja do ryzyka. Ja jestem bykiem i to z dnia na dzień coraz większym. A co do minerów, to podejrzewam, że większość dużych graczy traktuje to jako biznes. $ wpłacony $ wypłacony i zainwestowany dalej. Większość rentownych biznesów zabezpiecza się jak tylko może przed ryzykiem walutowym a nie bawi w spekulanta. Kopanie jest rentowne - kopie i reinwestuję zyski. Kopanie jest nie rentowne - wyłączam. A nie kopię, mam nadwyżki BTC to przetrzymuje w skarpecie a jak spadnie to dumpuję by podtrzymać nierentowną kopalnię - to nie spółka skarbu państwa 
Więksi minerzy często mają umowy z elektrowniami zobowiązujące ich do okreśłonego poboru prądu, nie bez powodu elektrownie nocą taniej sprzedają prąd, poza tym niektóre elektrownie poczyniały dodatkowych inwestycji w związku ze zwiększonym zapotrzebowaniem przez kopalnie. Do tego dochodzą koszta stałe jak pracownicy, raty na kredyty czy pożyczki, podatki komercyjne/przemysłowe od gruntu, przy byle tąpnięciu niekoniecznie muszą chcieć wyłączać sprzęt. |
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Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Localbitcoin KYC reply
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on: April 17, 2020, 07:00:20 PM
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Do you think LocalBitcoins going to share information with local government? In such cases, there might an issue. If they don't have legal presence there and your country doesn't require them to share this information with them, I don't see why they would. If other Bitcoin/cryptocurrency services or exchanges start giving you similar excuses you could start digging to find out why that happens, sometimes sharing a similar name with someone is enough to receive subpar treatment. |
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Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Purse.io is shutting down
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on: April 17, 2020, 06:33:20 PM
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And their shares are at an ATH, 30% up in the last 30 days. Maybe their users are different than average Amazon users, maybe too large a part of their income was from the Amazon Associates affiliate program, maybe the most common sources of gift cards are drying, maybe they're anticipating drastically lower demand once people start running out of money / the financial crisis starts for real / etc. It'd interesting if they could share all the numbers if they're shutting down for good. |
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Other / Meta / Re: Time to cut the altcoins sections loose.
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on: April 17, 2020, 06:24:02 PM
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It looks sort of hidden medicine and many users don't know it and the efficacy of that therapy is not good.
Months ago, I saw a proposal that developers should be charged a fees to create ANN threads or bounty threads on the forum; or force them to pay for participants in Bitcoin only, but it did not catch attention of theymos; or he does not have intention to make more restrictions on newbies, new projects. The forum is opened for all, but bad guys will be punished when break rules and detected.
Similar proposals were made years ago by other people, including me. Now it's probably too late to make a business out of charging altcoiners for dedicated altcoin boards as other venues (telegram, slack, discord, twitter, reddit, dedicated forums) are more popular, but it's not like the forum suffers from a lack of funding. Newbies already have their accounts heavily restricted compared to the past (the days of Newbie jail excepted). I just 'randomly' picked 3 topics in two altcoin sections (announcements and the one for general discussions), on the most recent pages of these topics most users posting weren't Newbies, they don't seem that much of a problem. |
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Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Purse.io is shutting down
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on: April 17, 2020, 05:17:03 PM
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They had 17 employees working in San Francisco, one of the most expensive cities in the world. Combined with a crisis potentially much greater than the one in 2008 and Amazon slashing their affiliate commissions they must have not seen much hope and the numbers must not have been great before these two events. It's shame because it was the best place to buy at Amazon with a discount, all other places that I know of are shadier/have more scammers.
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Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Localbitcoin KYC reply
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on: April 17, 2020, 05:05:13 PM
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If a reputable service told me I'd been tarred with that brush I'd shit myself and go and double check with my normal options. That's something I would want to clear up ASAP. In this case they're not all that reputable and are probably using it as an excuse to be pricks to you so it's likely an isolated incident. If it isn't you might find out soon enough.
If OP doesn't have any bank or brokerage accounts in the West he might never find himself inconvenienced. I'm sure his local Pakistani banks are more business-friendly. |
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Economy / Goods / Re: [WTB] Stimulus Check
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on: April 17, 2020, 04:51:07 PM
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Can anyone post their check without any of the private information? Does it mention coronavirus or Donald Trump? France and the UK are the only European countries where I've seen them still being used somewhat frequently.
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Other / Meta / Re: Time to cut the altcoins sections loose.
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on: April 17, 2020, 04:16:52 PM
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5 out of 10 boards with the most posts on bitcointalk are altcoin boards. You should have voiced your opinions about altcoins when the first section was created, or when additional boards and child-boards were being added. Now they're like an incurable disease, they're here to stay. With good medicine, however, the disease isn't fatal. |
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Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Localbitcoin KYC reply
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on: April 17, 2020, 02:02:13 PM
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It is absurd to say that philanthropy is a political activity at the moment. It is even more absurd to be able to analyze real identities through this forum. I have never heard of anyone who can exploit true identities from people on this forum, everyone is anonymous, even IPs are not censored.
I really hope it's not that, there's nothing remotely political about this fundraising, would be a shame if LBC decided to block OP based only on him managing to collect $400 worth of cryptocurrencies for food. |
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Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Localbitcoin KYC reply
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on: April 17, 2020, 09:55:26 AM
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Most likely they're working with blockchain analysis service (e.g. chainalaysis) and managed to link your real life identity with your account on social media or forum (such as this forum). That's not what being politically exposed means, though. And why would they care that OP makes money from managing bounty campaigns? Either OP is in some way associated with someone who's politically exposed, or because he's from a 'high-risk' country so LBC doesn't care about false positives. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What is your Satoshi theory? Deceased or alive & well
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on: April 16, 2020, 12:55:31 AM
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I personally think he died.
Realistically, nobody has the willpower to not dump their 1 million bitcoins when BTC reaches $20,000 each.
He would have had a net worth of $20 billion.
I don't care if you want to reshape the world or whatnot, $20 billion buys out the morals of almost anybody. He must be dead.
He wouldn't be able to cash out more than a fraction of his purported stash without crashing the markets, and I can't imagine the markets reacting positively if it was clear the creator of Bitcoin himself wants to sell as much as possible at ATH. If he's alive and still has the private keys he's probably financially comfortable enough not to care about having more money. |
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Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2020-04-13] Coin Mixer’s Record Month Proves Bitcoin Users Want Anonymity
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on: April 14, 2020, 08:52:43 PM
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In the name of compliance, your seized funds go to the exchange's bottom line. Which, more often than not, is itself stolen by hackers in the event of an exchange hack. So we lose, eventually the exchange loses too, and the only people who win from this are the very criminals the AML system was designed to stop.
Criminals and the tax man, assuming exchanges report the seized money as income. ...unless, oh wait, they declare they have been hacked. https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/19/korean-crypto-exchange-bithumb-says-it-lost-over-30m-following-a-hack/ |
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