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5041  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin transactions confirmation time. on: February 23, 2017, 01:56:00 PM
Recently I've sent $20 for a trade but even after 48 hours its not confirmed yet. Are you guys too facing this issue with bitcoins?

Yes, Bitcoin confirmation times and rates has been the headache of many in recent weeks and I'm tempted to say that it is making our beloved cryptocurrency unpopular by the day and I hope the developers come up with something quick to remedy this situation so that the delays and monetization of Bitcoin will cease.
Probably due to recent price pumping that increases the number of transactions were made thus make the delay occur to the network. Pretty disappointed by the speed of confirmation nowaday honestly, but there's nothing I can do. The best way is just making your fee higher than usual, it's sure working.
5042  Economy / Speculation / Re: How Will It Affect The Bitcoin Price, If Satoshi Tell The Truth ? on: February 22, 2017, 09:40:03 AM
If Satoshi Nakamoto tell the mysterious truth about his Bitcoin and Blockchain invention and all the secrets to the media, how will it affect the Bitcoin Price ?
If someone just prove himself as satoshi nakamoto by signing a message with bitcoin address that are supposed to be of satoshi, it will be enough to create so much panic in the market which may lead to massive price dump due to fear.
But why? what's the reason behind your statement that said if satoshi reveals himself then the price will be hardly dumped? how if the thing goes the opposite and bitcoin hardly pumped?
Your statement that saying the price will be dumped is just unreasonable and pure speculation.
The price indeed could decreasing, but only if satoshi does something which may really affect bitcoin as a whole such as selling his bitcoin at a sudden.
5043  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I have found a wallet with 40 BTC on: February 20, 2017, 11:00:38 PM
Such a funny drama. Today you said you've found 40 BTC probably tomorrow you will say you've found 100 BTC for the sake of getting attention due to lack of attention I guess Roll Eyes, whether you're lying or not, who knows?
but 1 thing that I'm very sure of it, your post is a damn bullshit, LOL.
Have fun with your http://directory.io, just waiting for people here murmuring and say "he played us like a damn fiddle" LOL


I was in the forum where you were, and I also found a private key that contains 150BTC, last transaction dated 2010, I wanted to post here but as you just done it, I will just see the reaction Of poeple before reacting.
Had found private key that contains 150 BTC but have defaulted loan?  Roll Eyes.
5044  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BIT.AC :: MULTICURRENCY WALLET :: BUILT-IN INSTANT EXCHANGE :: Affiliate Program on: February 20, 2017, 03:00:49 PM

I have not yet used the platform myself but from what I have read about bit.ac; above comment; and checking the platform itself, it seems to me that it is an instant exchange where you receive the coins on the other end as fast as possible and with this type of service the risk of "going rogue" is pretty low and practically non existent because you can technically never have your money out of your pocket for more than a couple of minutes tops!
Well, they're offering an instant exchange alongside with wallet make your activities a lot easier with this one, if you've ever got complicated of converting your altcoins.
It's a really convenient way for those who don't want to wait for a long time only to convert/exchange their coins, really recommend this one.
When you're using this service, you have the chance to reduce few minor mistakes such as mistyping an address and so on. There are many things that you don't need to worry furthermore after starting to use this service.
5045  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Do you think Bitcoin can ruin a Country? on: February 20, 2017, 02:01:35 PM
Yes, For Me , I Think that  Bitcoin Can Destroy Countries !
I think so too because if a country can't collect money from the tax system it loses out on revenue and the economy just might collapse and for this reason bitcoin can't run independently as people just might invade paying tax.
Just if the government could make a right regulation then it won't be destroyed. blockchain is actually really transparent because it will keep every transaction which people have done and will never delete it.
I could say that it's far more transparent than the local currencies ever existed (cash).
There's still possibilities that the people will find some way to hide their footstep, though. Means the government will be forced to give additional efforts regarding this matter.
5046  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin "The end of inheritance tax" on: February 20, 2017, 01:54:37 PM
If there is one Tax that really pisses me off it is inheritance tax.  you work all your life and save alittle and then the fucking government comes along when your dead and takes a cut off what you leave your kids.   Angry  seriously fucking pissed even writing about it...   


ps: sorry for the curse words but that is how angry that tax makes me.
I'm sorry to tell you this also but it's impossible to eliminate the tax system in our world. We have the government that we trust to maintain the peace and order by implementing the law strictly, also, their task is to build infrastructures to give convenience to the people and that entails money, where will they get to realize those things, without tax they are useless. The least we can do is to minimize the tax but not to eliminate it.
That's right, the kids who actually deserve your inheritance and have been cut off its wealth also actually use the services which offered by the government that you have cursed earlier such as road, public transportation, and much more.
Government at its finest actually make their citizens' life easier by giving support and facilitation, not talking about the rest (corrupt government, and so on).
5047  Economy / Economics / Re: Passive Income on: February 20, 2017, 09:58:58 AM
HYIP strategies can also be profitable.
If a person has enough money for a serious investment, it can try to multiply them in HYIP. But it is dangerous
To the HYIP owner is profitable but not to the investor or user.
Its very risky in investing in HYIP because the HYIP owner can take your money in instant.
That's right, some people might say that HYIP can be profitable if you know the right time to withdraw and the right time to invest, but, it's actually not true, the owner of the HYIP could easily make the website offline and run away with the money even before the first ROI were reached or the first withdrawal from the website. There's no point on risking your money into such kind of business that give you unworthy profit with very high risk which in my opinion as high as gambling.
5048  Other / Off-topic / Re: Who controls the Bitcoins? on: February 20, 2017, 09:50:11 AM
Normally we can tell China control Bitcoin. Most of Miners are china, mining hardwares from china, network is centralized day by day.
Doesn't mean China has controls over it as a whole. They're having the majority of mining powers indeed, but, other countries also have, I can't argue that China could affect the network and give pretty big impact.
Just hope that things will get more decentralised in the future.
5049  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Difference between Bitcoin and real money? on: February 20, 2017, 09:32:52 AM
Bitcoin is a online currency It can not be used for our daily usage . For our daily use we have to depend on our national currency. For online transactions we can use bitcoin because it is safest one for online transaction. 
in fact bitcoin is a online currency and it is also used in local shops also. and specially in such area where the user of bitcoin are comparatively more. i think that if the users of bitcoin will increase more then bitcoin facilities to be use in local shops will also be available.
The thing is that people still have no intention of using bitcoin because its coverage is still small and pretty much their struggling their activities while in other hand, the local shops also waiting for vast majority of people in their locals start to use bitcoin, if it's still continue, we'll not going to see the local shops accepting bitcoin or people start to use bitcoin in their local either.
5050  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Who is Satoshi? Why did he hide his identity? on: February 19, 2017, 11:39:22 PM
IMO you are looking at this the wrong way! Why don't you put yourself in Satoshis shoes and think of how many people,agencies,governments would want him/them.
If that's not enough,imagine what drug lords or terror groups would do with such a brilliant being like Satoshi with a gifted mind. Respect the unexpected, think through your risks.

^Exactly that. You nailed it man, enough said. Satoshi did the right move staying anonymous, I'm sure if his/their identity was known he would've been assassinated by now, that or he's hiding from the world in a high security prison in a sealed out cell for the sake of his own safety. Both those endings are horrid, lucky he/they stayed anonymous.
Definitely, as I've heard rumours from some sources that Satoshi is now currently owned 1,5 Million bitcoins and it's a damn huge number that makes people getting triggered to do criminal things against satoshi.
It's a wise move that satoshi keeps on hiding his identity and have no intention to reveal it by himself, a wise decision that not all people know.
5051  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The reason why people do not get Bitcoin. on: February 19, 2017, 09:50:11 AM
Lack of knowledge is the main reason I believe for people not getting bitcoins as if people have never heard about bitcoins then we cannot expect them to start using bitcoins they will start using it only if they are made aware about it about how to use it or how to earn it and if that is shown to them then they will surely start using it.
Lack of knowledge plays an important role, but the fact that Bitcoin isn't a good enough alternative to fiat currencies for day to day transactions on local level makes it less usable for them.

Barely any merchant adoption is another thing. If they have Bitcoin, then they can't spend it anywhere in their city, and they are subject to the volatility. It's a combination of everything that makes it very difficult for the average joe.
Can't argue with that. The slow confirmation sure becoming an obstacle for those who want to transact bitcoin in their real life and make them struggling, hence they're thinking twice to use it and come back to their ancient option which is local fiat.
Lack of knowledge is sure a thing that keeps bitcoin from spreading among people, but, how you can expect that majority of people will know bitcoin while people who are connected to the internet currently just 40
% of total population and people who know well about technology might be even far below?.
5052  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: you need to overcome your fear of losing money on: February 19, 2017, 09:44:52 AM
The title of this thread is the whole thing. "You or WE need to overcome our fears of losing money" because if we do that then we can be sure of giving all the 100% of our best in doing different things like trading and investing. If we overcome our fears like losing money then we will become risk takers and it will give us a lot of results that can lead to be a successful person.

You're right. Fear of losing money would make us hesitant and that i think should be avoided if we want to earn in btc. When you're hesitating, you tend to think more about what if's and consequences instead of coming up with a good plan or strategy.
As long as you still thinking and use your logic then it's fine to overcome the fear of losing money. In another hand, if you just investing your money everywhere without thinking and just pretending you will lost nothing but have a good return then you will be eventually doomed.
Sometimes you need the fear of losing money to protect you, though.
5053  Economy / Economics / Re: Is Paypal a scam? on: February 19, 2017, 08:27:54 AM
Yes paypal is very strange. I lost many $$ due to their 180 days limit luckily we have bitcoins now to avoid problems.
I think if you were to obey the rules of paypal and do not violate tos from paypal. of course they will not do freezing and limit on your account, I was 5 years using paypal and I'm still comfortable
That's right. But, the ToS from PayPal itself sometimes just too strict that couldn't make us justify ourselves even if we've done a fine transaction such as cryptocoins transaction which I noted was done without any scamming activities involved.
I've experienced on using PayPal too and have decided to get away from this service due to its complicated requirement.
5054  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: In what situation would Bitcoin die? on: February 19, 2017, 06:30:44 AM
When the bitcoin block reward is over and only transaction charges are paid out to miners then bitcoin will die. To fix this they will need to add a tail emission to each block, thus breaking the 21 million limit. Otherwise all of those large mining farms will be turned off as overhead will cost more than what is being mined

I don't see much plausibility behind this claim

If miners are not happy with just the fees they receive for confirming transactions, they may leave. And if many of them leave the mining difficulty will readjust in a matter of a few weeks and the fees that the miners which decided to leave will go to remaining miners thereby boosting their earnings. Since it is highly unlikely that all miners (or the best part thereof) are going to leave simultaneously, the adjustment will go smoothly and mostly unnoticed

Agreed with this, not all miners will leave at once. Also, at the point of reaching the 21mill bitcoin for sure will moon so, mining fees will be profitable if not,  there would be and equilibrium point between difficulty/reward where it will be profitable.
Well, if the bitcoin's price is rising because the bitcoin block reward is over and make the transaction fees could cover any costs to maintain the mining rigs and still make some profit then I guess this is not going to be the end of bitcoin.
As you've seen the latest halving giving pretty big impact to the current price and as for now I can say that after halving I haven't seen the price of bitcoin falling below $400.
5055  Other / Off-topic / Re: Who controls the Bitcoins? on: February 19, 2017, 06:22:27 AM
No one controls Bitcoin. Some miners control its price. No government or organization can control Bitcoin fully. Some countries like China can partially control bitcoin , because most of the miners are from China.     
The miners can't control the price or even "some" as you've mentioned, the price depends on the demands from the market and could only affect by the market, though the miners are also part of the market if they're doing some activities such as buying or selling bitcoin.
I know china is where the most of the mining powers come from but they still can't really give a big impact to the whole system.
5056  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: How to know about next pump? on: February 18, 2017, 11:23:09 AM
I have a friend of a friend that has made a lot of money hanging out with developers of major coins at bars and finding out information before it is main stream. Perhaps you can hit them up on Twitter and offer to buy them a beer!  Grin
Well, I think that those developers have nothing to do with the pump or dump activities, it's the market to decide whether it's the time for the specific coin to change its price or not, unless the developers are going to pump the coin with tons of money which they've gained from the ICO. but even with tonnes of money, it's still hard if the coins were having big volume, and most of the developers are holding few percents of the coin.
5057  Economy / Economics / Re: Bitcoin is no longer a currency on: February 18, 2017, 10:46:28 AM
Bitcoin is no longer a currency but for me its kind of business that most of the users earned profit from the investment of digital crypto currencies. We now have the strongest foundation of digital currency, and will continue to soar higher in time.
Many people also investing into dollar or some kind of currency and waiting its price to increase and then sell it when the time comes. Does it make the fiat I've mentioned no longer a currency? I guess not.
In my opinion that as long as the currency still hold its primary features to be used for transaction and as a trading tool it's still a currency.
5058  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Investor Bitcoin (investorbitcoin.com) a scam? on: February 18, 2017, 10:30:37 AM
By looking at their investment plan, it's obvious that this website is scam, 250% return within 7 Days is just too dreamy and it's there only to lure those people with lack of knowledge
Just get away from this kind of site. You're probably getting impressed by their website interface when the truth is that to build this website you just need only damn 0.5BTC.

And fake street address as a normal practice which usually have done by those scammy websites : https://www.google.co.id/maps/place/5+E+Market+St,+Corning,+NY+14830,+USA/@42.143385,-77.0541358,3a,75y,25.33h,104.75t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swf7-3RCinZ0_06bxVcMDIA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x3659e1d79f1594c3!8m2!3d42.1435074!4d-77.0541238!6m1!1e1
5059  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Altcoins with fast confirmation time on: February 18, 2017, 07:51:11 AM
It's weird to see that almost every Altcoin that is built and presented on Bitcointalk has a faster confirmation time than Bitcoin for some reason.

I think that Dogecoin is faster than Bitcoin and I remember using that coin back then when Cryptsy was online and functioning without any issues, the confirmation was within 30 minutes usually with a really low transaction fee.

Wow I haven't actually checked Dogecoin till now, the price is at 0.00000020 BTC. There was many millionaires when I viewed the richlist but now I don't think the same people retained their positions.
The slow confirmation in bitcoin is because the network is crowded and by the time, the number of bitcoin users is increasing significantly. You may conclude that those altcoins seem to have better network and speed if you compare to bitcoin, there's nothing wrong with it, but, if those altcoins are having as many users as bitcoin have had, then I'm sure their speed will be as slow as bitcoin.
According to this site:https://blockchain.info/charts/transactions-per-second  Bitcoin are now generating about more than 300,000 transactions a day which is overwhelmingly above any altcoin ever existed.
And I say that majority of altcoins are having fast confirmation with below 5 minutes as an average.

And 1 thing, as I said that the number of bitcoin users increasing by the time means it's not right to compare the speed of bitcoin back then when Cryptsy still "alive" and now.
5060  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoins Everywhere? Not yet... on: February 18, 2017, 07:40:38 AM
At this time bitcoin is already starting to be used for online payments and this will continue to grow, even direct payments in some countries have started using bitcoin. But I think bitcoin might not be the main currency in the payment because every country has a currency of each, if used for payments bitcoin will become an alternative currency of each country. I actually prefer the bitcoin as a commodity, because fluctuations can be very profitable.
Well, bitcoin is not "starting" to be used for online payments but it's has been used for years ago. I would agree with your point that bitcoin shouldn't be used for the main currency of a specific country due to its fluctuation and the various problem it can bring. You may find that the fluctuation giving you a profit but if an organisation or an instance using bitcoin and then fluctuation occur, it's indeed a big problem for the whole instance's economy.
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