When I open the site,this is what appears when I open the site


http://imgur.com/Bxy8Jpz


So .. is it safe now or not ?

He is in bitcoin forum and he asked for that. For what purpose? Is he creating a list of stores which are not accepting bitcoin? He might need boxes of papers for that for there are so many.
I really think he need a list of stores who accepts bitcoin.
Thanks to Jack for the list but I am hoping this could be updated or could be posted somewhere, maybe pinned also.

Who can help me further some online stores do not pay by btc

That certain site could help you if you want to launder your money, people can use such service to be anonymous but there are people whose real intention to be anonymous as they want to hide their illegal activities. Bitcoin is already anonymous, so why would you still have to use the mixing service, you want to hide something of course.

Since mixing service is not covered my the AMLC then they cannot enforce the company to divulge the information of their clients to them. We can be safe here as it's a good place to be anonymous and hide some shitty activities if we are doing it.

Is it possible to do money laundering via bitcoin? I mean as no one knows if you have bitcoin and how much bitcoin do you actually own, it could be used to convert black money to white right? Or at least store your black money without much hassle. But there is the risk of its value but I think for people who have lots of black money and don't want to be caught, this risk might be worth taking for them isn't it?
What are your thoughts?

So the question still is:
This website safe to store a large amount of bitcoins
I have used blockchain's web wallet for a long time and am getting worried that it will not be up one day when I want to access my bitcoins held in their wallet and will lose someday lose the substantial amount of bitcoin that I have there.

It is over folks.  The Bitcoin has now 'jumped the shark'.  

Because the transaction fee is now >.40USD, bitcoin transactions are more expensive than Visa swipe fees.  

Core has successfully forced a fee market of very expensive transactions by preventing others from increasing transaction capacity via larger blocks.  Satoshi wanted big blocks.  Yet, core has wrestled control and forced an unnecessary limit to block size thus creating their fee market.  All this with the idea of later providing relief via an off chain fee to go into their pockets.  Lightning is years away and fees are only going up from here.

Bitcoin is finished.  

The currencies of the world are affected by many different parameters such as politics, economy, wars. The value of the money also shows up and down according to these parameters.

What are the parameters that affect bitcoin?

Pseudo anonymous can be converted to fully anonymous with the right tools, VPN+TOR, Tails+Electrum, Converting bitcoin to Monero being the best options to remain discreet.

We have seen thousands of attempts at setting up a successful group-buy system.

Microsoft in 2010, Google and Facebook in 2011.


I think an altcoin that doesn't promise huge returns, and from the start has a model that follows a grassroots approach, which naturally grows as a movement, will succeed where tech giants have failed.


I am thinking of organizing the creation of a new coin. With the community powering it's' growth.

I envision those involved starting off trying to get something like trash bags for half price. Then, branching out from there. **Trashbags just being an example, but it could be a good start.

Imagine buying all common household items through a crypto platform, saving $1000s a year.

I think this may be a possibility.

What about you?

Hello Everyone,

I present to you a 'premise' and a 'proposal' for a better future cryptocurrency, I have spent a few days formulating this in my mind and then on paper. Its a long post and fairly technical, but spend a few minutes following the logic trail and let me know what you think. Criticisms most welcome!


Proof of Work (Bitcoin)

• - Energy intensive. Not ecological.
  - Centralization. Unfair wealth distribution.
  - Unsustainable, may not scale.
  - Transaction fees not mandatory
  - Reducing block rewards
  - Commercial Mining
  - 51% attack threat

Proof of Stake (Eth/Nxt,NEM):

• - Not trustless
  - No verifiable longest chain.
  - No 'work' involved
  - Blockchain can fork
  - No single source of truth, history can be re-written
  - Checkpoints need trust.
  - Economic inequality, rich get richer.
  - Centralization, attack, total collapse.

What I've gathered so far:

• - Work (wastage?) is inevitable.
  - Transaction fees are necessary.
  - Mining is essential economically.
  - Monetarism - controlled inflation
  - 100% premined will not work eventually.
  - Fungibility is essential, but so is transparency. Ideally should offer flexibility, like ShadowCash does; Monero cannot be mainstream.

Proposing a modified "Proof of Activity" (hybridized PoW/PoS)

Gist:
First shortlist lucky miners to sign next block based on stake (even distribution; weighted on stake ); next offer them a 'work' i.e. a complex math problem, (ASIC 'resistant', not asic proof), the first one to solve gets to sign the block and gets the reward.
In reality there is no prior shortlisting and handing them a math problem.
Each node is able to quickly self verify if it qualifies for the stake based lottery**( explained below) and if 'yes', it can begin solving the math problem**(explained below).

------------------------------------------------------------------

Stake based selection:

Design Considerations:

• 1 - Give weight-age to stake/investment.
  2 - Reward 'activity', securing the network.
  3 - Balance 1 & 2 such that Miners will NOT consider diversifying investment into accounts.
  4 - Prevent centralization to possible extent.

Algorithm:

• L = Chain window length , e.g. 50
  N = circular counter (1-50), changes with each block
  BhX= Hash of Block N, in base-62, 64 digit long
  BhY = Hash of Block (L-N), in base-62, 64 digit long
  A = node's address in base 62.

Each node performs,

• M (mash) =  Fa(BhX,BhY), number in base-62, 64 digit long.  i.e. Add the two base-62 BhX & BhY, apply modulo '%' to limit length to 64.
  Ss (score)= Fcb(M,A) , see link for the basic game, https://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Bulls_and_cows , but extended as below:
  - alphanumeric matching in same position will gather 3 points.
  - alphabet matching in same position but different cases (upper,lower) will gather 2 points.
  - alphanumeric matching in different position will gather 1 point.

• V = UTXOs of node's address 'A' in currency units.
  
  Dfs = Difficulty factor(stake), range 0.0 to 1.0
  
  Q = Dfs * 62 - (log (V) / log (√2))
  

Note:

• - So you can interpret Q value as number of character matches a node is able to find.
  - Scroll to the end to find a sample tabulation of V & Q values, for Dfs of 1.0 (unlikely to be used)

A match can gather either of 1,2 or 3 points. So on average a match accumulates 2 points.

if (Ss > 2*Q) then mine();

------------------------------------------------------------------

Proof of Work:

Design Considerations:

• 1 - Common everyday computers / miners should be able to participate.
  2 - Do not use existing ASIC friendly algorithms
  3 - Solving should be limited to heuristic techniques at best.
  4 - The obvious difficult to solve, but easy to verify.
  5 - Invent one, because its fun
  

Algorithm:

• Imagine an everyday number lock, only this one has 62 wheels instead of 3.
  Each wheel/dial has 62 unique digits/characters, A-Za-z0-9.
  Each wheel is NOT independent, so turning each wheel affects other wheels.
  Moving a (any) wheel by 1 step up, moves all the following (progressing to the right) wheels in different number of steps, following some (Fibonacci?) pattern ,and also alternating Up and Down. It also wraps around until it reaches the neighbor on the left.
  Also consider the wheels can be turned on Y axis too, and they have similar effects of moving their neighbors below them alternating Left and Right.
  Now, the node is supposed to come up with a short route to align numbers on the pseudo 3 dimensional wheel such that,
  

• Sw = Score for work done.
  Dw = Difficulty for work/mining
  CoR = values of a single column or row that is potentially matching to the address A, based on the scoring system described above (Bulls and Cows based)

• Sw = Fcb(CoR,A)
  
  If Sw > Dw  sign next block and claim block reward.

Of course this should be easy to verify by the remaining nodes as the winning miner will publish the path(Pt) to align the dials which contain the interested CoR,
The path could be an unoptimized string in this format:

• N = Column/Row number
  Di = Up/Down
  St = Steps to move, min 1 to max 10
  

[N][Di][St],[N][Di][St],[N][Di][St],[N][Di][St],[N][Di][St],[N][Di][St],[N][Di][St],[N][Di][St],[N][Di][St],[N][Di][St],[N][Di][St],[N][Di][St],[N][Di][St],[N][Di][St],[N][Di][St],[N][Di][St]

• Pt = Path to align the dials, limited to 16 instructions.
  pCoR = pointer to CoR, contains the column number or row number of the winning combination.

***sample tabulation of V & Q values, for Dfs of 1.0.
 

• 62    10
  61    14
  60    20
  59    28
  58    40
  57    56
  56    79
  55    111
  54    156
  53    220
  52    311
  51    438
  50    617
  49    871
  48    1,228
  47    1,731
  46    2,441
  45    3,441
  44    4,852
  43    6,842
  42    9,647
  41    13,602
  40    19,179
  39    27,042
  38    38,129
  37    53,762
  36    75,805
  35    106,885
  34    150,708
  33    212,498
  32    299,622
  31    422,467
  30    595,678
  29    839,906
  28    1,184,268
  27    1,669,817
  26    2,354,442
  25    3,319,764
  24    4,680,867
  23    6,600,022
  22    9,306,031
  21    13,121,504
  20    18,501,321
  19    26,086,862
  18    36,782,476
  17    51,863,291
  16    73,127,240
  15    103,109,408
  14    145,384,266
  13    204,991,815
  12    289,038,459
  11    407,544,227
  10    574,637,360
  9    810,238,677
  8    1,142,436,535

Im looking to invest all my money on another crypto coin

Do you guys have that can compete with bitcoin really?

Might buy 100 units of it.

first i know bitcoin, i don't think its commodity, store of value or digital currency, i think in that time, i only know that bitcoin can help me to earn money. but from time to time i learn bitcoin, i think bitcoin is store of value and include with digital currency for the future, because i see that bitcoin have this chance to be one currency that could be use by all people from all country without any difference than fiat which is need to be convert first in the local fiat if we want to buy something.

A lot at deppweb but 99% of it is a scam. Plss don't risk your money at deepweb hackers can track your wallet address and hack it or whatever they can do. Just exchange your bitcoin or trade it with the legit trading sites here in surface web. Don't go deepweb it's a big gamble to trade there

Most of the exchanges have ability to exchange your bitcoins into your fiat currency(USD), like c-cex, yobit, bittrex. when ever you have bitcoins you can instantly exchange them. When coming to deposits it will take time to get some confirmation.

Based on what it has been seen among the wide array of altcoins such as development, innovation, and security issues, what altcoins might survive in the future?

In my opinion, I think that the only ones prone to survive would be good old altcoins such as Litecoin and Dogecoin, but I may be wrong.

Nevertheless, I would like to know your opinion about this as well as any altcoin that might be worth holding onto for the long term.