... I just realized something else about that many bolivares valued at just BTC0.037. bitmixer.io pays up to 0.035 per week in their Sig. Campaign if you max out the 50 posts (which I have yet to do, close though). That's roughly $15.00 at current BTC prices. A Venezuelan in their campaign could make almost that WHOLE set of bundles of bolivares (OP's picture). Each week. The mind boggles... Hyperinflation, as we can now see with our own eyes, is a killer. |
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A popular Signature Campaign (I assume for this comment that it is a POPULAR one) would perhaps best be done with both a bot and a Campaign Manager.
The bot to make sure that the posts have the signature and have the right character length (75 or more), and are in the threads that the payer wants.
The Manager could do spot-checks, I doubt that any Manager would have to check ALL posts.
I have no idea how many Sig. C. active positions are up and running for bitmixer.io, for example. LOTS I'm sure. bitmixer pays for up to 50 posts per week. If their average is (just sayin') 20 or more, that would be a lot of posts to check, even for someone getting paid to do it.
"Three gets you five" a Campaign Manager could likely spot-check, say 30% of posts and find spammers/abusers relatively easily.
Just my opinion, FWIW.
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lahm-44 raises a good point just above. A Manager would have to check for spammy posts put up by other bots. I remember seeing those weird little robot posts a couple of weeks or so ago in "Bitcoin Discussion" with the weird words in the subject line. The mods were pretty efficient at killing them off.
So, maybe a Manager might have to check, say, 60%, who knows. But 100%, that would probably not be necessary.
Disclosure: I have never been a Campaign Manager nor even know one.
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Does Mike Tyson need the Bitcoin people could send him? Is he short of money?
Sarcasm aside, yes, you are right. The more visibility Bitcoin gets, the better it is for the BTC Ecosystem.
it wont matter how much fiat you have when people are only accepting crypto he is likely well aware of that  it brings to mind something like outta madmax Well.... For most of us who have extra wealth to save, I would suggest putting some 3% - 10% in gold, and 1% - 5% in BTC, according to how comfortable you are with each. BTC and gold move relatively independently of each other, so they make good diversification. On the other hand, Mike Tyson would not HAVE TO BUY anything in a SHTF (Mad Max). If he sees something of yours he wants, he could just PUNCH YOU OUT and take it! * * * I doubt very much that people will accept ONLY crypto at least in the near future. For a "Mad Max" scenario, CA$H/FIAT$ would work better at first. Perhaps silver (pre-1965 US dimes & quarters) next. Gold and BTC later. BTC, IMO, not alts. |
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Does Mike Tyson need the Bitcoin people could send him? Is he short of money?
Sarcasm aside, yes, you are right. The more visibility Bitcoin gets (especially among the young), the better it is for the BTC Ecosystem.
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Got your message. First one was "modified". Don't change anything in between the ---BEGIN and ---END parts.
For German and Italian, while I am not fluent, I recommend looking for Pimsleur. Actually, for most languages. I have not tried the others so I have no experience with them.
I will send you another encrypted message.
Yes, that's where I messed up in my message, I probably executed a "Cut & Paste" wrong. (Whoops, I just lost my Queen to a stupid mistake!) For Italian, all I have to do is talk w/ my wife. She was born in Peru but has been taking Italian on-and-off for 18 years, she's pretty good at it. German? That's hard, declining nouns, adjectives and articles... Reminds me of Latin. Ugh! Spanish I have down pat though: "Si no practico español en la casa, me PEGA la jefa!" (Peruvian self-deprecation for men) |
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Hello. Gave up after reading the thread, but gladly this has been resolved. The Bitmixer support team sent me a mail which is "Sorry again for the issue, all admins were on vacations. I've transferred 30 + 5 btc as a compensation. Thank you.". They gave me a happy new year present  Thank you. Daaamn, 5 BTC extra for nothing? Why hasn't someone else tried it yet? Seems like easy free money to me A very happy ending, that's great! I am going to *guess* that bitmixer is subject to attacks/scams of various sorts. I do not know that though. I have learned (the hard way) that you must be careful and deliberative when dealing with Bitcoin. And to follow directions! It's easy to mess up, even when you have some experience. |
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Sorry for the delay, we've sent back all coins and compensation. And THAT is very decent of bitmixer, and why I am in their campaign. I messed up once, and they took care of me. Even if posts here on this thread do not count in their campaign... |
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That's why you hold the coins / bars yourself.
But many people are dumb or just "lazy". Or just afraid of securing them themselves? however i get your point i would not trust my gold or silver or bitcoin to anyone else. You need a good place (or places) to hide your gold/silver/platinum. At least so "the kids" or casual visitors don't find it. Even better if you have a really good hiding spot, or a safe bolted to a concrete floor. My favorite humorous suggestion that I read is storing your gold in the frozen spaghetti sauce there in your freezer... The "Ann Barnhardt Option": having lead (and lead delivery devices) handy. <--- Recommended if your wife will let you... * * * I like the Trezor and Ledger Nano for storing my larger amounts of BTC. blockchain.info wallet and mobile for small amounts ("lunch money"). |
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... Dabs and Ayle56You both have a message, although Dabs got one that might be incorrectly formatted (the LATTER message is probably the right one). * * * xmaxI suspect ANY puzzles here at bitcointalk are WAY beyond my capability! I would bet that only highly-skilled programmers or other experts in BTC can break such codes. As mentioned ( ad nauseam?) above, I am not any kind of expert here. * * * For the moment, I am learning email encryption as part of my 2016 efforts to learn a few technologies of interest. My new website will give me ample opportunities to learn (by struggle) new technologies... Maybe pick up a little more German and Italian too. See Europe again before it all changes... |
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Yes, go and make a few private keys, play around, revoke them, publish them, etc. Make small ones (1024 bit) and large ones (3000+)
Then when you think you are ready, go make larger keys if you want. (4096 is the largest practical key.)
Dabs, you have (will soon) a message! Maybe I did it right? I used Ayle56's link to get another set of keys, but I think I have a better understanding of importing keys, etc. Now I have to figure out how to find my public key number two... Does this ever end? (Ah, I already know the answer)Ayle56, I'll drop you a line (PM) sometime too. |
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That's why you hold the coins / bars yourself.
Yes. + $55,000 Ann Barnhardt (ex-commodity broker, she commented extensively on ultra-sleazy Jon Corzine) said (bolding mine): "Anything that is on paper anything that involves a promise or a commitment is no longer valid because as we said there isn’t a rule of law anymore. People can steal from you. Your money can be confiscated. And think how easy now it is to confiscate people’s wealth. Most of our wealth in this society exists as zeroes and ones on a computer server. It takes no effort whatsoever to steal zeros and ones on a computer server. So what I have been telling people is you need to get into physical commodities. And the rule of thumb is if you can stand in front of it with an assault rifle and physically protect it, then it's real—it's a real commodity."Link from 2011: http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/2011/12/02/ann-barnhardt/interview-transcriptMs. Barnhardt has her own chatty and irreverent (but reverent in its own way too) blog here: http://www.barnhardt.biz/ |
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Sure, but I have never used GnuPG, are you going incognito or something?  Naah! I have a big, big project (by my standards) in mind for this year. I want to builds some skills, and launch my new website that I hope will be of use. Non-commercial. Encryption is a subject that should be more widely available to anyone who wants to use it. Gold information should be out there. LOTS of other information should be out there, easy to get as well. I want to do my part. Why, even our pal TPTB says that we should enter The Knowledge Age. This year will be my Year of Entry! |
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There was a short documentary on bitcoin released last year? 2014? Or something. Some really old stuff in there, but it's good to know a little history, plus it was entertaining to watch. Try here: http://bitcoindoc.com/ I think I found somewhere else where you can get it for free (may be not legal, depends, dunno. hehe. didn't care at the time.) As for GPG, https://gnupg.org/download/index.htmlhttp://gpg4win.org/download.html for windows http://gpgtools.org/ for mac Go send me an encrypted email and I'll reply. I'll leave it as an exercise for you to find my public key and my email address. Or you can encrypt a message and send it in a PM. A lot of bitcointalk members do that. As for other skill sets, I think, if you managed to do okay with SQL, you'll pick up bitcoin fast. All my resources were from this forum or anything I can find in google or the wiki. The rest, well, I believe a lot of old timers were basically self taught. While this forum has a lot of noise, you'll find good stuff around here. Thank you, Dabs. My evening's work (um, after the New Year's celebrations) yielded only a GPG/email working withing my new website's boundaries only. I run windows, so I will try that http://gpg4win.org/download.html for windows. Then: Saturn643's comment: The simplest way to encrypt emails with GPG/PGP is to just write the email in another text editor, encrypt that text using whatever GPG software you are using, and then copy and paste the encrypted text into the email as the message.So, I will do some homework and be back... Try using gpg4usb from this website. http://www.gpg4usb.org/download.htmlIt's portable and easy to use. All you need to do is unzip the zip file and double click the exe file in the unzipped folder. It's got a built in text editor and simple buttons on an intuitive GUI that do almost anything you need. I tried gpg4win but found this easier to use. Thank you Ayle56! I will try that one out too. "Easy is good." It looks like I can have as many Keys as I want, so I will play with a few and pick my permanent one once I get the hang of everything. Besides, it looks like my current password may be compromised, in that I sent a close version to a friend. But, one thing I have learned here in Internetbitcoinistan is that you cannot be too careful. Standard Disclosure: I am trying to learn all of this myself (with all of your help, and again, my sincere thanks to you all), I did not study Computer Science or related, so my skill set is not so great. And I was always one of the slower students, just ask any of my teachers/professors, they would tell you the same if they remember at all... |
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... My guess is just a guess, but I think mobnepal may have it right, at least at first. In a financial crunch, people flood to liquidity, they dump many things so they have MONEY to buy necessities. Hyperinflations, typically in history, happen after deflation. I like Bitcoin a lot as a fairly small hodling of one's net assets.. It's good diversification. Might its price go very high? Possible, that would be great for many of us. But, its price seems to move somewhat independently of gold, the US$, stocks, real estate, oil...... That is what diversification is all about, having assets whose prices do not correlate too much with each other. There will be not any big impact on bitcoin price with all those your predicted financial crisis, in financial crisis people have to worry about several things to sort our their life so don't think they will roam around bitcoin. They need fiat to buy bitcoin and in crisis there will be shortage of fiat in pockets and banks.
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... Over the past week or so, Zero Hedge has broken a huge story, not reported ANYWHERE in the Western MSM about a company called Gold.AE, a BIG gold trader that looks like it was helping Turkey smuggle gold to Iran via Dubai. The connections of that company, and related companies (very complex) run right up to the second most powerful man in the UAE. And now the gold is gone! It is apparently a LOT of gold, though upon my first reading they did not say how much was missing... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-01/trail-dubais-stolen-gold-client-breaks-silence-and-fascinating-detail-emergesOne of their tentacles has even reached Peru (map of the company's activities worldwide is at the ZH article), they apparently helped fund gold mining (Peru is No. 6 in world gold production). * * * [Libya and Ukraine may have had their national gold stolen in the past three or so years under other murky circumstances...] |
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Ok. I don't know what you're trying to do yet, but go ahead. Now send me an encrypted message or sign one and I'll verify. BTW, your email in your profile is hidden. Either email is OK. My website has nothing on the Home Page now. Reasonably soon (hah...) I will put up material for public interest (maybe a GnuPG tutorial, gold information (coin properties, etc.), Peru pictures, Bitcoin matters, etc.). While none of that sounds impressive here, most people I know are not that computer literate. I have other plans too for the website. Perhaps a (free) "club" for people with similar interests. And of course private areas (like a mySQL database or two). Thank you very much (again) for your help, I'll get a message back to you before really long, but it's past midnight, and I need to eat dinner....... EDIT: My email is now visible at my Profile. |
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That's a very interesting and high quality article, litecoinguy, with lots of information I have not seen elsewhere. I hope that you will consider writing more articles!
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BTW, the estimates of Chinese national gold that I have the most faith in (which is not much faith, China IS secretive) is 4000 - 8000 tonnes. One idea floating around is that China will wait to announce their NEXT stock holdings of official gold (there is always a lag time between when they acquire gold, then announce how much they have) when they exceed the USA national holdings of +/- 8100 tonnes. Most American national gold is at Ft. Knox, Kentucky.
That 8100 tonnes (total US) probably does exist, my best guess is that the conspiracy theories are wrong.
(Small amounts of US official gold holdings are in Denver, West Point and a little at the FRBNY, see below.)
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Also note that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York also holds gold, around 6000 - 7000 tonnes (depending on how much Germany and Holland have taken back home), which is mostly FOREIGN owned gold, there is a little bit (400 tonnes) of American national (government owned) gold there.
Note that the Fed does not hold any gold of their own, they own Gold Certificates (non-transferable, bummer!) issued by FDR's government when they confiscated the gold in 1933. The Fed values their "gold" at $42.22 / oz (that artificial total value is some $9 billion IIRC), but that is paper gold only...
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(Copy of my post in another thread, but probably relevant here)
When you get time, TPTB (I know, LOL...), let me know and I will send you my new Public Key (GnuPG) if emailing me via PGP encryption is of interest to you.
Same for you trollercoaster. Anyone else, PM me, and we'll see. Maybe I'll invite CoinCube to join in as well, maybe AFTER I get better at using this...
I have a new website that I am working on, my first one. Right now there is nothing at the Home Page, in the next week or two or three I will start adding material for public enjoyment (a GnuPG tutorial (!), gold information (coin sizes, etc.), Peru photos, some basic Bitcoin info, etc.).
I will also (likely) have a "club" for those interested in "alternative investment", privacy ("for Dummies"), Bitcoin, and related topics. NO, I will not ask for money, smile,,,
And, I will fairly soon set up a mySQL database with our company sales info (private of course). Maybe other databases too should I go off in THAT direction...
So, there is nothing there now, that will slowly change.
Once I have an acceptable Home Page, I will announce my website.
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(Copy of my post in another thread, but probably relevant here)
When you get time, TPTB (I know, LOL...), let me know and I will send you my new Public Key (GnuPG) if emailing me via PGP encryption is of interest to you.
Same for you trollercoaster. Anyone else, PM me, and we'll see. Maybe I'll invite CoinCube to join in as well, maybe AFTER I get better at using this...
I have a new website that I am working on, my first one. Right now there is nothing at the Home Page, in the next week or two or three I will start adding material for public enjoyment (a GnuPG tutorial (!), gold information (coin sizes, etc.), Peru photos, some basic Bitcoin info, etc.).
I will also (likely) have a "club" for those interested in "alternative investment", privacy ("for Dummies"), Bitcoin, and related topics. NO, I will not ask for money, smile,,,
And, I will fairly soon set up a mySQL database with our company sales info (private of course). Maybe other databases too should I go off in THAT direction...
So, there is nothing there now, that will slowly change.
Once I have an acceptable Home Page, I will announce my website.
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(Copy of my post in another thread, but probably relevant here)
When you get time, TPTB (I know, LOL...), let me know and I will send you my new Public Key (GnuPG) if emailing me via PGP encryption is of interest to you.
Same for you trollercoaster. Anyone else, PM me, and we'll see. Maybe I'll invite CoinCube to join in as well, maybe AFTER I get better at using this...
I have a new website that I am working on, my first one. Right now there is nothing at the Home Page, in the next week or two or three I will start adding material for public enjoyment (a GnuPG tutorial (!), gold information (coin sizes, etc.), Peru photos, some basic Bitcoin info, etc.).
I will also (likely) have a "club" for those interested in "alternative investment", privacy ("for Dummies"), Bitcoin, and related topics. NO, I will not ask for money, smile,,,
And, I will fairly soon set up a mySQL database with our company sales info (private of course). Maybe other databases too should I go off in THAT direction...
So, there is nothing there now, that will slowly change.
Once I have an acceptable Home Page, I will announce my website.
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