AFAIK there have been a couple of incidents where people managed to get their coin back but it was only because they managed to get the thief's dox and threaten to post them publicly. However in general for people who lose coins to an anonymous thief it is hard to track them down and hassle them to return the stolen coins.

I'm not sure if any clarified you on this but I'd bet my last cent that it was as a result of a flaw in security on you're end rather than a collision with someone attaining the same private key as you. I'm sorry for your loss but if you still have a significant sum of coins I would suggest you look into cold storage for safekeeping and a smaller hot wallet for day to day spending. I'm doubtful anyone would need 60k worth of liquidity in Bitcoin for their day to day transactions.

Keep only minimal amounts that you can afford to lose on something like coinbase or blockchain. Personally, I would strongly advise you guys look into 2FA - while a good pass is generally good enough if you don't want to lose coins having 2FA is a good way to bulletproof you against possible idiotic mistakes on you're end or server side security holes.

I too would recommend localbitcoins - easy place to find reputable buyers. The currency exchange board here is OK, although I would advise against accepting PP unless you know what you're doing. I'm wondering why you're concerned about fees - unless you're selling tiny amounts they shouldn't eat up too much.

I'm doubtful you'd be able to use 'YIN' unless you're lucky enough to find someone willing to buy into such a coin. Generally the big alts are accepted and not much else in the way of cryptos. It also depends on how much you have and how much you wish to borrow.

I would tend to disagree with this statement, at least from the events of the past. Haven't really seen the expected uptick of adoption by major techies. Honestly, a guess here would be a stab in the dark - most of the giants (i.e Newegg, Amazon) have said they are 'looking' into it but I'm not that expectant that they'll follow through. Even if they do - it'll be converted back to fiat.

Sorry, couldn't really help myself but I found this statement to be so amusing. You do know that VIPs simply pay for the 'privilege' of having that tag - and that TF there is well known to be a thief/scammer who has stolen over 4K BTC. Rather ironic statement IMHO.

Depending on how open and transparent you guys would be regarding the holding/use of funds and obviously the % return on investment. I'm not too sure how people would be willing to invest large sums at least initially so if you're using this as a means of generating capital you might want to look at other options. If it's just in the name of raising the max profit on the site you may have more takers.

Payment received. Thanks RGC.

https://blockchain.info/tx/a38671da573c0f1b36e47c7d756c127f34f81b806516e80f2bf39f7b53dec992

Will be continuing with the next month. I don't need to signup again do I?

Please don't waste your time. Unless you can actually prove that 1=2 you will never be able to 'beat' the house in the long run (try running a simulation on any 'strategy' at more than 1 billion rolls and I'd bet my life on it that you'd be in the red) as the premise of it is probability mathematics. Long term the edge will get you - your only hope as a bettor is that variance in the short term is good o you.

No, as long as you have access to your private keys (in any format not necessarily WIF) you should be fine. Just open a new client and import those private keys and you'll be good to go.

Actually just out of reference I'm pretty sure it had a working reference - I do remember looking at it was some months back. Considering that it's missing now (and the thread is not self-moderated) the only logical conclusion would be to assume you deleted it. Would you mind explaining why? Also, if it was an innocent post I don't see why one would delete it or at least raise the issue then (three and a half months ago). I dunno, seems a bit suspicious to me.

If necessary the confirmation time could be changed by updating the client and having the nodes and miners accept the change - provided there was a significant reason and basis for the change. On an offhand note, if I were you I'd do a lot of calcs as scrypt mining can be very volatile depending on the price of the scrypt vs BTC.

@RGC: Is it necessary for me to change my signature over to the new one now or is it for the next month?

Depends whether market saturation is an issue - if I sell it will it be used to the point where I myself am no longer able to use it? Not saying it is, but it may be such a case. One might 'sell' a means of revenue if the initial capital gained from the sale was of a reasonable value - for example the sale of leashrig.net earned the owner quite a lot but the new owner is likely to make that back and more in the long term. He's making quite a good profit and the hosting/management of the site isn't that costly.

Wow, this is totally new! Oh wait, it's a copy paste....


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=258188

Yeah man, creating an alt just because you got flagged ain't gonna work. Still a SCAMMER.

IMO, the conditions necessary for intelligent life is extremely rare. Despite this, given the vastness of the Universe we should still be able to find this 'other' life right? Well, from what I can see - there could be a number of reasons for our failure thus far:

1. There is life but the lifeform is not advanced enough to send us or receive our messages
2. The lifeform could simply be a microbe which we would have no hope of seeing given our supreme distance from any noteworthy planet
3. Life exists beyond the observable Universe and as a result of space expansion at greater than the speed of light we will never see nor reach them

I'm personally inclined with the latter - either that or since we're getting light from a planet like 500 million years back the lifeform may exist now but at that time didn't.

There are always people out there who will pump and dump for a quick buck. This is where I place most altcoins. For a Bitcoin 2.0 to actually work it has to offer functionality unavailable in the current reference implementation - and if it's big enough Bitcoin will adopt the idea anyway. So unless there is an inherent problem with Bitcoin I'm doubtful any of altcoins will be remotely as big.

IIRC, you should have gotten an email or something which tells you why and where you can go for an appeal (although those don't happen often as most bans are justified).

From what I can see from you user here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=238447) it seems like the only logical explanation would be spam. Have you been warned prior to this?

Best thing to do would be to wait for one of the mods to tell you why and if its warranted not to ban evade - as that'll give you an extension.

Last time I check folding@home doesn't give you a 'reward' for the efforts of your computer/ASIC. Not to mention they do completely different things - folding maps protein folding while Bitcoin mining involves brute-forcing hashes until you find one below the target. They really aren't the same thing - you'd be better off simply explaining what mining is.