wow. I just send a small amount of BTC to the mixer and was surprised about that I paid almost half of it on fees...  last time I used bitmixer, it cost only 0.0005 BTC per transaction and now 0.001 BTC... why did the fee explode like this? for small amounts the mixer is now pretty useless unfortunately  The btc network is bogged down so the fees needed went up, so the mixer has to use more to mix and well it probably partially protects against double spends. The clogged nature of the BTC networks is indeed slowing things down, but bitmixer.io's service still works pretty well (I have used them many times). I would suggest waiting to send somewhat larger amounts of BTC to them for mixing, at least for now, that way the fees (bitmixer's and miner's percentages) will not be so high, and your trx will likely go faster. If you send very small amounts (say BTC0.1 or less for example), the miner's fee will be very high (on a percentage basis). |
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I am looking for a partner to trade on the Korea Exchange and other country exchanges.
Please contact us if you are able to find a way to deal with each other and find a coin in another country other than Korea. Telegram ID It is convenient for you. You can also have your gmail address.
If there continue to be higher prices in KOREA for Bitcoin than in other countries, for whatever reasons, you will likely find partners willing to send BTC there. I am traveling at the moment, but if you would be interested later on in trading BTC for dollars (etc.), send me a Private Message with whatever it is you have in mind. I might be able to get my hands on small quantities of BTC (say, up to 5.0 BTC) in the coming days/weeks. More BTC later on. EDIT: I have a business partner, almost a friend now (he is an export manager for an auto parts company) who *maybe* I could get interested in BTC. |
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... When you look at blockchain.info's home page, there is a graph showing several months worth of BTC price (scroll down a little): https://blockchain.info/The drop we had from nearly $3000 to nearly $2600 (now, of course bounced off its recent lows) is not that steep compared with BTC price drops in the past (percentage basis). If we go below $2000 - $2100, then it may turn into one of BTC's classic crashes, which if THEY FIX the scaling problem (with Segwit2x is the latest idea I suppose), then BTC at those prices would probably be a BARGAIN. |
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That's a good question, and I can only offer observations not answers. We are touring Italy, since I was not sure which devices would serve me best during our fairly long trip I brought them ALL along: -- iPhone (with a temporary "plan" for overseas use) -- iPad Mini4 (the littlest of the iPads, better resolution & screen than the phone, but mine is WIFI only) -- my Wintel laptop (that I am writing on now) No docking mechanism. For traveling, it might be that we will be stuck with something with at least 12" diagonal screen measurement as I cannot efficiently type or even work the 'Net on my iPad Mini4. The iPad is too big to carry in my pocket (like my cellphone). I think that for my next trip I will leave the iPad at home, I have used it the least. My cellphone is good enough when not in my hotel, and who CREATES anything while walking the streets of Italian cities? So, my guess is cellphone for when walking around (not in hotel or meetings) and laptop for serious use. Docking? Perhaps not in m y case, as I can email myself pdf's (etc.) if I need to print something from one OS to the other. |
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... 38 days, 3 hours and 52 minutes.  Since I own Bitcoin (enough to "have skin in the game") and am grateful to my Signature Campaign (whose service is very good), yeah, I'm here a lot. When home (USA) I check in some two - three times per day. When overseas, I check in when I can, like today! We are in Italy now, and I have not seen nor heard ANYTHING re BTC, but we're just touristing, I know no programmers (etc.) here. * * * One very good thing I read a long time ago here: People in Signature Campaigns commenting from developing countries actually earn REAL MONEY (for their situations), so even if many of us find the Signature Campaigns to not be lucrative, it IS meaningful to some from LatAm, India, Nepal, Africa, etc. This is great IMO. Helps to build a world community based on our similar interests. Bravo to bitcointalk and the sponsors of the Campaigns. |
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Well it sure looks more optimistic than a few weeks ago when the two camps were close to going nuclear on each other. If all goes well, I would go along with ebliever's probabilities. Then, it's likely that with this BTC problem solved (for now), BTC price could move up nicely.
If they screw this up (Developers or Miners), then all bets are off, and BTC may crater. But, I feel better about the likelihood that BTC's future outlook has improved over the past couple of weeks.
I hope that I am right...
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Price volatility is normal process for bitcoin you should now that by now. When did you see that price is constantly climbing up without any dumps? This was just minor price correction and at the moment the price is more or less around 2500. Nothing to worry about or panic for, just relax.
Relax anyway even if the price goes under $2000 (or try to!). As long as the Developers and Miners can work out a solution to the scaling problem (maybe they can and are), then Bitcoin will be just fine given some time. Bitcoin is famous for its HUGE volatility, so consider buying it and HODLING for as long as it takes. Even if you buy at $2500, and BTC goes down to (say) $1700, HODL ON! The price would likely go back up to record highs (again, given time and resolution of the BTC scaling problem). IF they do solve the problem, and BTC goes down to (say) $1200 - $1500, then it's probably a GREAT buying opportunity (but do not speculate with money you cannot afford to lose). |
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Risk, that's unfortunate that Armstrong's organization would not let you pay what looks like a very good way to access their services. Hmm. Inexplicable to me. Maybe they have HUGE money behind them and can afford to be snobs...
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Risk Mgmt and CoinCube
I have mentioned Steven Pinker's book that I am plowing through now (had a chance to read over 20 more pages at lunch during our busy vacation). The part I am reading about now is about genocide. And like other violence that Pinker has discussed in the previous 345 or pages, genocide deaths are getting lower and lower (with ups and downs of course, but the TRENDS are there).
Metaphysical Christian author Emmet Fox ("Friends of Bill" know about him!) wrote back in the 1940s or so that we will ALL be saved in the end, that God will not consign His children to permanent death nor hell. He is an author who has influenced my thinking a lot, before I joined bitcointalk.
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I want to try a new Bitcoin debit card with no verification and registration without mobile phone number. A year ago I tried Cryptopay which was very good for me. Registration was easy without phone number and plastic card was sent very quick. Since my life time cash out limit (without verfication) was reached, I am looking for another debit card provider with similar properties. Any suggestions? WireXApp for instance needs to be activated by providing a phone number. Since you have tried and tested one provider and seems to be satisfied with them, why don't you purchase another from them with the same features? As you say they don't need any verification, you can take another one at ease with a different account. That must be a simple solution to OP. Those anonymous debit card provider definitely will not track IP address to track down duplicate accounts. Just trying with another family member from friend's home or with mobile are helping in the case of IP tracking too. (on reading OP, I assumed Cryptopay got shut down, but reaching limit and looking for another services does not sound relevant). Someone, somewhere, sometime is going to make a FORTUNE when they solve this one (freely & anonymously offering buy/sell BTC via cards and being HONEST). I know that the .govs will fight this tooth-and-nail, but someone will get really rich doing this. Apparently the .govs cannot find the two latest malware attackers infesting the world's computers... There is a GOLD MINE waiting for an honest outfit that will find the Magic Key... |
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Since I'm Polish, I tried this service paying with Bitcoin. Pizza was delivered to me and I think Bitcoin ATM's will become wide in my country. But even of this, it's easy to buy bitcoins. We can top up our local exchange account on the post office and withdraw bitcoins from normal ATM.
Do you have any links as to where you can buy Bitcoin in Poland? The only two BTC ATMs that I have seen on the 'Net are in Warsaw and Katowice: https://coinatmradar.com/country/171/bitcoin-atm-poland/If you can buy or sell BTC at the Post Office and/or regular ATMs, that is wonderful news! Very advanced too. "Polska jest najlepsza!" Please do let us know more. |
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CoinCube wrote:
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"Sooner or later it will be possible to choose the skin color of your child and a variety of other things before conception."
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That will open up many cans of worms.......
I wonder what the percentages of skin colors (and other traits) would look like when that comes...?
Intelligent. Handsome/Pretty. Strong & Healthy.
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Not trying to be racist or anything here, but I once remember reading years ago THE PRICE ($) that a typical white guy would have to get to "become" an African-American (you know by magic or whatever). Pay me THIS, and yeah, OK, I'd change over to become black.
And what was that price? A cool $1,000,000 was the average. I am unable to provide a link to that, perhaps someone who is not as lazy as I am would (or would otherwise comment).
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Hmm, big price differences in BTC prices from sites that I follow:
ounce.me: $2579
blockchain.info: $2555
preev.com: $2488
kitco.com's tool: $2459
That's over $100 in price differences between the high and low. Checked them all in the last two minutes. YES, I know that kitco and ounce use averages.
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Abuse of trust is a way of looking at what our governments (and almost all others as well) that I have never thought about before. Nice insight.
Any particular BLATANT abuse of trust (your "qualitative") that can be seen by almost everyone in its naked ugliness indeed will burn itself out pretty quickly, as people are cheated and word gets around. Robbery, thumb-on-the-scale, writing bad checks to your friends, etc. would be examples for me.
Your "quantitative" abuse of trust is of more interest to me in this conversation. Yep, inflation is perhaps the prime example, in that most times both governments and their Central Bankers both benefit quietly while most others pay the hidden "inflation tax". Exchange rate manipulations, gold price manipulations and other similar tricks by TPTB also fall into this camp of trust abuse. Manipulations of interest rates certainly count too (but that is a fiendishly difficult topic to write about for me), yet is largely ignored -- more quiet abuse.
I would also consider schemes to stop ObamaCare and stop the efforts to (presumably) positively change our bad tax system as other trust abuse. Perhaps also including .gov (and MSM) crime cover-ups to be trust abuse too, subtle, but seems to fall into your "quantitative" category. On the other hand these last two statements may reveal my own bias here...
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I do not know much about ethereum, so take my comments for what they worth (extremely little).
Ethereum is, to some degree or other backed by THE BANKS (including JP Morgan), which just by itself makes me a little queasy. Ethereum also performs other functions (it's designed to not "just be a currency"). I like simple things, that is, Bitcoin is meant to be used as a currency, it makes no claims to preserve copies of contracts, etc. (although there are some clever programs that somewhat have the BTC Blockchain do that).
So I will stick with BTC as long as there appears to be progress on solving the scaling problem.
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Anyone here - can share latest Market Projections by MA.
Are we expecting some serious corrections in the Market from DOW / NASDAQ / CRYPTs/ GOLD/ OIL etc. over next few months.
Or is everything is to continue as in current trend
Risk Mgmt Armstrong is not very precise (IMO) when it comes to short-term predictions. His specialty is looking at the cyclical nature of economies through long periods of time. He does not like EUROPE or Socialism. He thinks gold will go down (perhaps to $800) before jumping much, much higher later (2020 or so?). He is pessimistic on The West as it lurches towards Socialism. I read Armstrong for his IDEAS, not his predictions. He has a fantastic record of looking at economic history, and has made many predictions into the future (loner-term, say to 2030 even). Our resident expert "iamnotback" has not been around for a long time, he greatly respects Armstrong and his ideas on the cyclical nature of things and how "any single thing" affects everything. Here is a link to Armstrong's daily blog, he typically puts up about two pieces per day: https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/blog/* * * FANTASTIC piece you quoted, CC, re the Dead Sea Scrolls, thanks for posting it. |
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I think so, tons of investors flooded into cryptos over the last few months spiking the price at all time highs. It's only natural that prices would settle down after awhile.
Yes, while always painful to see prices drop as a HODLER of Bitcoin, I think this is completely normal. I have been through three of BTC's majestic price cycles, it goes way up, then comes way down. It isn't quite predictable, but almost seems to be... In general, if you wait until the decline "seems to be mostly over", then BUY & HODL, you will do very well. Even if you buy "high", and just hold it long enough (can be a long time, say two years so be prepared if you buy at peak prices), you will do OK. |
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Money is not really based on supply and demand, but on political power and banking manipulation, in the modern world.
If something will benefit the political and banking elites, they will promote it and it will do well. It's that simple.
Most of the comments above (thank you for taking the time, BTW) are focused on supply and demand, while my original post was based on politics.
If you doubt the power of politics, just look at silver. It's easy to argue silver is a better money than gold, but because Britain didn't have it, and it was a British world in the 1860s, all major countries promoted gold, and silver has been on the outs to this day.
Well, FOFOA would say that money (in addition to its three main properties as Unit of Account, Store of Value and Mechanism of Payment) is a "shared thought" as to relative values of different things. FIAT money, especially well-enforced, counts as "money" (in popular use), and is indeed POLITICAL. So, "money" as I sort-of defined it above is a "concept"..., how much of that fiat a gallon of milk is worth in paper (or electronic) dollars. And, yes, it's a GREAT SCHEME for the bankers who control money (in cahoots with .gov). I like the Store of Value that gold (and silver, though I prefer Pt to Ag) have (and even Bitcoin though volatile and has other risks) have outside the FIAT system, which will likely fail at some point like almost every other -- although the UK Pound has a pretty good longevity so far. |
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Btw. In the last few years german scientist researched the topic of why different ethnicities integrate better or worst in the german society.
It's called...The Bell Curve... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_CurveAnd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Science_on_IntelligenceThere's a saying/principle that two people with more than a 20 IQ difference are unable to communicate on any meaningful level. It applies to things like marriage, but in building a civilization as well. If two different groups lived apart and mud huts were the only thing one group could build while the other could build space stations, they aren't going to integrate. In Australia they have Aboriginals which are literally modern day cavemen. Their govt has bent over backwards to try and integrate them into society, but they have the lowest IQ on the planet (something like 60-70), so it always fails miserably. A bigger factor is that children from third world placed in first world generally excells when given similar opportunities because natives feel sense of entitlement while immigrants relish the chance to participate freely. I believe that the outperformance (by kids from poor countries like India, China, and perhaps Pakistan & Bangladesh) seen at US universities can be explained differently. It is VERY hard to get into US universities on scholarship for poor kids from poor countries. The ones who actually DO make it in are typically ONLY the very smartest and hard-working ones.An example: I was studying statistics, had just started the second semester class at the Masters level. The professor was from Bangladesh. I had a health problem come up at the end (herniated disc at 48 years old), it was BAD, and I was unable to study for the Final Exam (50% of the grade). I asked for a day or two longer to better study as I was on painkillers, it hurt (later I had to be operated on, ugh). He said NO. So, improperly prepared I took the Final, failed it, and got a "C" for the class (equivalent to an "F" in grad school). At other earlier times I had heard stories about lots of whiny undergrads bugging their professors about papers or exams. So, I have to believe that my professor was likely TIRED of hearing about student "problems" and just decided that I was a whiner too. Naturally I was pissed-off... Later on it occurred to me that this professor from BANGLADESH had probably busted his ass for many years to get trained up, learn English, then win a US scholarship to get a PhD, then land a hard-to-get position as a prestigious professor. Perhaps clawed his way out of some shit-hole ghetto (perhaps not). Almost surely that professor had to pay higher dues than I did. He succeeded whereas I did not. Of course, he would almost surely be a definite minority, "off the charts" guy from a dump like Bangladesh. |
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The best website i can suggest you is preev.com. It gives you a real time statistics on different assets exchange
You can check current bitcoin rate to your preferred currency.
This is specific for the price checking of bitcoin and this is what I've been using most of the time. Real time updates and it's very fast in accessing. And also you can check coinmarketcap.com for the whole crypto market and specific with bitcoin market. I too use preev.com, I also have read that it is very quick to pick up price changes. That might make it extra-volatile though if you just want to know what your BTC that you own a re worth. I also like ounce.me, it's BTC price is based upon some kind of average, which might be just as well. ounce.me also shows the four precious metals prices, crude oil price (WTIC), the US dollar index and the S&P 500 index. Very handy! kitco.com (the gold site that most US coin shop retailers check for gold pricing) has a BTC price link too, it is also an average price. blockchain.info and MANY other sites show BTC price as well. ounce.me and preev.com are my two favorites. |
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