What is life without law, how would the society be like without law. Would society still exist, take a look at all lawless act committed by individuals in the society, robberies, killings , corruption and so many bad act. Even with laws all this atrocities are being done as if there's no law. people are not been scared to commit crime in the society. They do not care or think of the consequences or result of the crime been committed. People enjoy lawlessness. How would this world be without laws , can it exist.
Come to live in Argentina for a while, then you can see for yourself.  Initially, in a lawless society, bad people start getting ever bolder, until honest people get sick of it, and start finding their own solutions to the problem. In the middle, those that are not capable of coming up with said solutions become the big losers, and so does society as a whole. Kids, the elderly and the weak become society's victims. Believe it or not, the rule of law does help society a lot. |
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o_e_l_e_o: well, in the best of cases, I play it by ear when it comes to security. But keep in mind that forum was closed about 5 years ago, so the information on that thread is bound to be outdated. Just thought it'd be a good starting point...
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This does, though I'm sorry if I looked rude, I re-read my post. You're right about the statement, I hadn't noticed it, I had just given it a glimpse. Don't worry about it, you didn't. You did look somehow offended, though, which puzzled me for a moment. My outlook is very simple: I provide options, to the best of my knowledge By outlook, I meant the general attitude to life. What's ethical and what's not is subjective. For instance, one may say that encryption shouldn't be an option without the government's approval. Or that our civil liberties should be inordinately curbed in the name of counter-terrorism. My point is that you don't have to hide something that's unethical to require privacy. And in my opinion, even if you do, they can't seriously sacrifice every innocent person's privacy with the alibi to catch you. Oh, I see. Well, you're talking to a guy that survived a couple of years by pirating software, while I was in Miami, so you won't get any lectures from me. My position is I don't hurt people, and I don't allow people to hurt me. But I'm, above all, a practical man. If the risk is unacceptably high on something I do, I stop doing it. When I was pirating software, I started on a roommate's advice who was doing the same. Contrarily to me (and despite my efforts to make him be more careful), he was very flamboyant in his advertising, offering (among other things) "free shipping anywhere in the US" (which is considered contraband, and it's another federal offense). To make the story short, one day somebody knocked at the door. It was the cops, they were looking for him. That's the day I stopped. So, I'm an avid user of The Pirate Bay and YTS. I couldn't care less if Bill Gates has to wait one more day (or year, doesn't matter) to add an extra million to his bank account. But if the cashier at a supermarket makes a mistake and gives me more money than they should, I give it back. |
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cmg777: as usual, I won't reply to your rants. But there are a few points I wish to clear up (learning to read could help).
I never said a word (or inferred) about leaving on January 6th.. I don't really know what led you to believe that.
I don't kiss up to anybody. Not to liberals, nor republicans, nor any politician of any political party anywhere in the world. I simply stay away from politics, and (unlike you) don't let anybody tell me what to think.
And just to make it very clear: liberals didn't kick me out, Americans did.
Don't worry about "my mandate". I never thought for a second you'd be man enough to put your money where your mouth is.
I was never a US citizen.
13 years, and I know plenty about your constitution, as mine is a carbon copy of it.
Jair Bolsonaro. And there's no need to rig any election against him. Very much like your beloved former president Turd, he is his own worst enemy.
Maybe you should pick up a history book or two. Total tyranny already happened in Latin America. Many times, actually.
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BlackHatCoiner: that doesn't imply anything, other than what I typed. This does, though: ... and I gotta say that my line of work I'm looking at isn't the most ethical, and I'm looking to ensure my safety.
My outlook is very simple: I provide options, to the best of my knowledge. If the OP is stating his chosen (or about to be chosen) line of work is "not the most ethical", one option (being that he's concerned about his safety) would be to switch to another one. Not once did I say or imply he should do one thing or the other.
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cacclordx: you can hide completely online, but it implies a lot of work, not only installing a safer OS (there are a number of Linux distros aimed at that), using TOR, etc., but moving around and using public networks without CCTV, working off a pendrive, etc.
There was a thread on the Crunchbang forum, called "The Paranoid Guide to Security", or something to that effect, that had a ton of information. It's bound to be outdated, but should give you a really good starting point.
Or, of course, a much easier way would be just looking at a more ethical way of life...
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I don’t want some of the link I click to make me leave the forum, but all the link always take me out of the forum by not opening in a new tab. Any help? Like SFR10 said, hover over the link you want to open and click on the mouse wheel. That will automatically open that link in a new tab. It works for Bitcointalk as well as outside sources and links you find while browsing the Internet. If you have a really old mouse that doesn't have that middle wheel or you are using your laptops touchpad, right-clicking on the link and clicking on " open link in new tab" achieves the same results. Yep. Or right click on it if you're using a laptop. |
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uchegod-21: BBCode (or "Bulletin Board Code") is a markup language designed specifically to be used safely on forums and the like. It's true that neither HTML nor BBCode are programming languages. A programming language tells the computer what to do. HTML and BBCode just add tags to text, to aid in formatting. It's also true you can't run an attack on HTML. You can, however, call Javascript from HTML, and launch the attack using Javascript. on BBCode you can't do that. You can think of BBCode as "baby HTML" of sorts. It can be parsed by HTML, but offers limited features compared to it (the most important being its inability to run scripts within it). You can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode and here: https://www.bbcode.org/.
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When a country's monetary system breaks down, eventually, a barter system does appear as an alternative. In late 2001, in Argentina, bartering was ultimately adopted by people, due to an extreme lack of reliability and liquidity on the Argentine "Peso".
The problem with a barter system is , it may seem like an alternative to a fiat system (especially when the country's economy is crashing), but it's not. One very important feature of the fiat system is it assigns a specific value to a commodity, and establishes the currency as the means for covering that value. in a bartering system, if I own something, it becomes increasingly difficult to transact it, as you need to have the specific good I want, beside the specific amount.
So, no, I don't think bartering is a suitable alternative to a fiat system, at least not in the long run. It may help in some circumstances, but soon enough it reveals its shortcomings.
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One can only hope.
Beside arguments about the meaning of financial freedom and whatnot, at least now, I'd be very happy if I could start and Bitcoin (or any cryptocurrency) gave me the freedom to have some food on the table everyday, and not having to think if I'll have a roof over my head tomorrow. I'm sure "financial freedom" has different meanings for different people, and probably (hopefully?) it will have a different meaning to me in the future, but, for now, that's it.
A few weeks ago somebody posted a meme on facebook: "you can't have a full life on an empty stomach". I couldn't agree more.
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Dammit, for the first few paragraphs (before the exchange getting hacked, I hope), it seemed the guy was talking about me! True, I've been researching for about 2+ months, not 2 weeks, and I still can't start, but, damn! Am I so typical?  |
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Others may think differently.
Just for the record, I don't. I didn't know he had used other usernames before, but the kind (and volume) of nonsense this username is capable of producing is nothing short of astonishing. I was waiting for somebody more knowledgeable than me to say something, just to be sure... |
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When did you leave America? Was it on January 6th? Shouldn't it be Biden utopia and you'd want to stay? You can see and so can I. As an American I need my second amendment right to defend myself against the technocratic corporate government that is about to enslave the whole world. It doesn't matter what race you are they want you DEAD. Did you read the Georgia guidestones? Now that is racism against the whole human race how do you expect that 500 Million people on earth number to happen huh? You to die that is what! This isn't about Trump, Biden but about liberty and the tree wants to be watered in the blood of patriots, cowards and traitors alike. I'd say you are in the middle category but I give you this you see what is coming but you can't avoid it unless you buy an island or move to somewhere so remote they can't track you. They'll just move you to the cities like Peru did to their people. You seem to like the big cities bitching about the whole country yet never got away from the big smug cities to see the real beauty of America. Well hope you are happy because you'll see that you are like the priest that did nothing in WWII:
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Pretty soon you'll turn into Australia where they have COVID detention centers where the government can just take you away because guess why? You have no weapons to defend yourself so what does it matter right? The police will protect you more like those in power... The military will protect you same thing. Bashing Trump for social credit will get you nowhere. I wonder if he was just the good cop in this whole madness that is present day. He gave the US 3 good years then turned his back on all of us so fuck him!!! And fuck Biden too because he is corrupt as fuck probably just as much if not more than your politicians down there so I see why you fled but you can't escape this engineered storm by the corporate elite no one can. You can only fight back to expose it.
Wow, I wouldn't even try to answer to all the drivel you just spewed. Incidentally, I did notice you were very careful NOT to answer anything I said. But there are a few things I will answer: I left the US on March 27 th., 2013. OBAMA kicked me off, not Turd. As an American you need your guns to make you feel like a man, because without them you're nothing. It's not about protection from oppression: the french revolution happened with farm implements. If you had the BALLS to face life like a man, you wouldn't need any piece of equipment to make you feel like one. But I'm a "coward", right? I mean, being you don't have the balls to say it straight, even when you're hiding behind a keyboard, I will. I'd actually LOVE for you to come and say it right to my face. Then again, considering you don't even have the courage to say it when you're over 15000 miles away, I'm not holding my breath. Then again, if at some point you happen to come across a pair of balls you can use, the invite is standing. See the real beauty of America? What, little girls enslaved and molested by their fathers? No thank you, the "land of the inbred" is not for me. At least in the cities there's still some semblance of law and order. By the way, you can reply to me all you want. Come and talk to me face to face, "man". I can't go back to the US, or I'd be boarding a plane right now, but unlike your country, mine welcomes everybody, so you can come here. But you can't carry a weapon here. I doubt you'd feel safe without one, considering "some bad man can hurt you".  |
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The video is not from youtube, but from a Udemy course What kind of Udemy course talks about exchanges? Or does it just talk about Bitcoin and how it works? There's a whole lot of cryptocurrency courses (for trading, investing, robot making) on Udemy. So far I took 5 of them. Right now, I'm starting on a python course, so I can write a bot. In any case, Now I'm starting to understand reality and how idiotic my initial question was. It wasn't. You were just confused. Don't be discouraged to make questions, it's the only way to learn. Thank you. You guys are great. I have learnt a great deal from the Udemy courses, but sometimes there are things that seem to be considered a given, and are not for me. Thank you for the patience.  |
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BlackHatCoiner: Oh, oh, nooooww I'm starting to get it. The exchange wallet is not the same as your wallet. So in the exchange wallet you work only with your public key/address, because you don't really have access to your private key. So the only way you have to send your funds to an external wallet would be to use the external wallet's public key. I'm guessing that wouldn't work the other way around... Upgrade00: I'm not working with any exchange yet (which is part of the problem, I guess, as I don't have any personal experience. I'm just trying to address doubts I have before I sink any money on it. The video is not from youtube, but from a Udemy course (which, now that I think of it, would open a whole 'nother can of worms). In any case, Now I'm starting to understand reality and how idiotic my initial question was. Thank you all for the help.
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Dammit, I'm starting to feel like you guys are trying to explain a very simple concept to me, and I'm not getting it. I'm starting to feel like an idiot.  Let me see if I can make my question a bit more clear: I open an account in an exchange. Automatically I get a wallet in that exchange. MY wallet. I get another wallet. Also MY wallet. I can withdraw my coins from either one of the wallets, or I can receive the funds in the other one. To send the coins I need the private key from the wallet sending them. However, to receive the coins, I only need the public key from the wallet receiving the coins. At least that's what they show on the videos I watched. So it would make sense, so as to not expose your private key, to do the transaction from the sending wallet , which you can make with only the receiving wallet's public key. I don't know if I can upload a video in here, so as to show you guys what I mean. It's a 27 minute video, so I don't know if I can upload something that big. In any case, it shows just that, not the withdrawal of the coins from a wallet, but the sending of the coins from the other one. Please, somebody tell me if I'm making any sense at all. I'm starting to feel like I need help to count with my fingers... |
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I feel you don't know how an exchange work.
You need to know the difference between an exchange and a non-custodial wallet.
If you hold your bitcoin on a non-custodial wallet, you have full control over your fund. If you want to make a transaction, your wallet needs your private key to sign the transaction.
If you want to withdraw a fund from the exchange, you don't need any private key. Because you are not the one who makes the transaction. You request the exchange to make a transaction and the transaction is signed by the exchange not you. In this case, the private key is owned by the exchange.
Your bitcoin address is what you need to receive bitcoin.
Let's say you want to send me bitcoin. I give you my bitcoin address and you send me bitcoin.
Whoa! Hold on. Is there a difference (when talking about keys and addresses), between Bitcoin and other coins? What I've seen is that, to transfer your coins from your exchange wallet to your software wallet, you use your software wallet's public key, and to transfer funds from your software wallet to your exchange's wallet, you use the exchange wallet's public key. Basically meaning you can keep your funds safe by never using your software wallet's private key. Do you need both? NeuroticFish: thank you, I will read it. I know Exodus is not 100% open source, but Electrum is for Bitcoin only, and I intend to invest on several different coins. That's why I was interested in EToro, buy it's now out, as it offers a download button that downloads nothing, and instead tricks you into opening an account with them. Mk4: thank you, I will give that a read. |
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Ok, now I'm more confused than before.  NeuroticFish, you say you use your address, not your public key, but cygan says both are the same? BTW, I haven't started yet, I have downloaded Exodus, and I'm now trying to download EToro, as it's said to be safer. Far as I know, both are non custodian wallets, right? |
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I'm confused about the "public vs. private key" thing. I mean, I get it, you never show your private key to anybody. Easy enough. But when do you use it? If you want to withdraw your money from the exchange, you use your public key. But then, if you wanna send your money back to the exchange, you use the public key from your exchange's wallet? So using your private key would be limited to getting your money out of the system (cashing out)? Because even if you purchase something, it makes sense (at least from my completely uninformed point of view) to use the seller's public key to make the payment... Can anybody please help me out? Thank you all in advance. |
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It sounds as though you'd rather live in a country where only the government and the criminals are armed. Fortunately, you are perfectly within your rights to live that way.
Not at all. I'd rather live in a country where my kids have a chance to survive a school day. I'd rather live in a country where my countrymen care more about life than about their toys or their political agenda, or their bank account. I lived in the US for almost 13 years, mostly in Miami, but also in Orlando (Fl), Jacksonville (Fl), Charlotte (NC) and Fairfax (Va), and loved, pretty much, every minute. Ever since, HATE happened. I'm not gonna say I didn't find any racists while I was living there. I did find a few. But fortunately they were VERY FEW, and seemed to be unarmed. Most of them were dealt with peacefully, by means of a less than nice reply or two, with a small few calling for more physical methods, and a couple needing me to get really serious about it, one with a small folding knife and the other one with a machete. Luckily enough, neither of them were armed, or at least neither felt the need to use their arms. That was in the UNITED States of America. Today, in the DIVIDED States of America, where people invade the Congress because their "man" lost an election, I would've probably have to be armed myself, and would've probably have to have used my weapon more than once. Now, that may not seem important to you, but it's unacceptable to me. |
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