When a website is seized by US Government Authorities, they are required to display it on the homepage from the day one. So when you visit the site you will see a big logo from a U.S. agency telling that Bittrex has been seized... bla bla... article XYZ bla bla
Then if the authorities need to investigate, they get the databases etc and scrutinize it outside, in their own environment
They didn't put up the seizure page when they seized that CP site on Tor. In fact they kept it running for several weeks like nothing had happened so they could catch some of the customers. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/feds-bust-through-huge-tor-hidden-child-porn-site-using-questionable-malware/Yeah I have read the article and I was wrong. |
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Yesterday I tried to use a Segwit address on Ledger Nano S, then tried to send some bitcoins from an exchange for testing, the site was telling me the address is not valid. Is there a possibility that some exchanges/web wallets don't support these types of addresses?
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Yes, it's the average fee that people are currently paying, especially if you use a web-based wallet or an exchange. It's useless to send 2£ if you pay 5£ in fees. You should take a look at Bitwala if you want to use a web-based wallet and to pay fewer fees as you can set the fees yourself, so paying less or more, or use a bitcoin client.
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It could be somehow, mixed with other things. But I don't think so much this has something to do with it because the price is going crazy for several days already and most of the people are not aware of the Lightning network tested. It's much more about something else
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TransferWise doesn't want to deal with businesses related to cryptocurrencies. I tell you this because I talked with them on chat 1 or 2 months ago and they confirmed this. Better safe than sorry.
The funds are currently in what? A payment processor? Because it's not easy to tell you since we don't where the funds are store. Funds in the usa is not helpful
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Economists love comparing cryptocurrencies to the tulip mania but it can't be compared I think. The tulip mania was 400 years ago and today we live in a totally different world, The Bitcoin ecosystem can't be compared to the past economy and so on.
(Last week I was listening to an economist on TV news trying to say how Bitcoin is bad etc. the guy didn't even know that Bitcoin can be divided. such an economist!)
Internet was also in a bubble in the '90s, look now it's not bad at all, nice bubble.
To create a socially responsible and self-regulated Bitcoin is like dreaming. When it's about money most humans become selfish and think only about their own interests
Bitcoin is now compared to an investment, so people use it as it. And the network fees are not helping in any way to use Bitcoin as a currency.
Nobody will pay 5$ fees to buy the coffee 2$. So people buy bitcoins, but they hold them, don't spend.
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I am doing the same. If you want to laugh it took me over 4 hours this afternoon to transfer some coins out of Kraken. I still have some coins to move from there but will do tomorrow. I don't want to wait too much because honestly, with the current situation it doesn't look good, I won't be surprised if something bad happens to the users.
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When a website is seized by US Government Authorities, they are required to display it on the homepage from the day one. So when you visit the site you will see a big logo from a U.S. agency telling that Bittrex has been seized... bla bla... article XYZ bla bla
Then if the authorities need to investigate, they get the databases etc and scrutinize it outside, in their own environment
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10$ is the average price used to sell those cards by other services. I think the cheapest is Advcash because the card price is $5 (If I am not wrong)
I don't find the cards overpriced compared to the traditional cards we have with banks. To compare here it costs 2 times more. But I guess in some countries we can't say the same.
There are a dozen of websites with a debit cards option, you should take a look and compare because the site you posted doesn't look trustworthy, to be honest :/
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Hi,
I re-installed Ledger Nano S(te new one) i took al the wallet apps of, disabled Adblock and on the ledger nano s i turned browser support off.
I think that,s all i cault find on forums and other troubleshoot page,s.
I faced the same problem this afternoon, I set up the wallet correctly and installed the Chrome extension turned off browser in settings etc. Still I wasn't able to open the wallet, nothing happened. You need to install the Chrome extension. I have lost 1 hour today to figure that I don't need the manager wallet app Chrome extension but the "Bitcoin wallet" extension. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ledger-wallet-bitcoin/kkdpmhnladdopljabkgpacgpliggeeaf?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-info-dialog |
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Sorry for you but there is no way, as you can't use Coinbase to exchange BTC with another crypto. It's not an exchange.
Maybe, find a friend with a Coinbase account to sell your bitcoin? (because you won't pay fees to send to another coinbase member)
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Bitfinex is evil for sure. There are 2-3 others as well to avoid like AIDS.
I am happy so far with Cryptopia, using it for some months and all is fine. I needed some help the first day and they replied me quickly. It's something I appreciated. Not like some exchanges which don't reply or send you a canned answer.
I am hearing good also about Binance these days, it's one of those becoming popular
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Since when did Kraken disable SEPA withdrawals for level 3 accounts?
It's one of the several errors messages that we get. I tried this morning and got this message as well, after a couple of F5 I have been finally able to order a SEPA. I have no idea what they are doing, or not, but I am done with Kraken |
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11,000 - 10,000 = 1,000 It's just about 10% of the value. No problem for Bitcoin, a correction is for 3-4 days only lol. As usual, people in hurry will sell their bitcoins asap and other will use the opportunity to buy more bitcoins for cheap and sell when the price comes back. Then the next week the price increase by $1,000 or $2,000  |
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Kraken should change its name to "Error 520: Web server is returning an unknown error"
I am in the same boat. Bitstamp seems a good alternative for European citizens but a little more strict than Kraken for KYC. I have a friend who tested it after also getting tired of Kraken and it looks good. If it's just to sell and to receive SEPA transfer there is also Bitwala (based in Germany.)
Didn't Bitstamp have some kind of security breach in their system, or maybe I got it mixed up with another exchange? Yes about 3 years ago, they had a security issue, they stopped all trading activities, deposits, etc until fixed. The bitcoins are stored in cold storage so they were not able to make more damages. It was a small incident compared to Bitfinex hack and the ~100 000 BTC stolen |
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Why dont you try using cryptopia? They are the only exchange who allow US citizens without providing KYC or AML verifications, i have been using this exchange to buy a few altcoins and i have never had any problems.
We are from Europe, not the USA You realize that the USA and Europe are both on different continents right? We are not concerned with the fact that Cryptopia allows US citizens without providing KYC/AML (they allow anybody without KYC not U.S. only). An American can't make a SEPA transfer, (no bank is part of the European Payments Council) they use SWIFT. There is no fiat deposits in cryptopia, no SEPA no Swift, no bank wire, nothing |
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Have you read anything about this? It seems that the European Central Bank is playing with the idea of no longer protecting deposits. Do you think it will happen? Do you think bitcoin and alts will moon even more?
European central bank? Seriously? Seems fun to know about it. Protecting deposits in the sense you mean that the treasury bills that the central bank issues to the people on behalf of the government? Because as far as I know, central banks usually don't accept deposits from general public, commercial banks do accept and the commercial bank have to separate some amount of deposits and keep it aside as a part of the SLR reserve before handing out the deposits as loans to other people. Or is it just limited to one economy and other economies have different rules on deposits and reserves? Correct me if I'm wrong, central banks never accept normal deposits, they only give out treasury bills sort of thing, right?
Let's agree to some point that if the central bank of Europe is willing to play with idea of no longer protecting the deposits of people, the people will start leaving the country . What will be the use of them staying in a country wherein the central bank itself cannot be trusted. Bitcoin will be considered later on, people care about their safety first. I'm sure there is some other reason behind the motive of playing with people's deposits, some catch is there definitely. European central bank gives directives to banks with the goal to control the monetary policy for the Euro and the Eurozone. Banks don't need to keep a percentage of the deposits for the SLR reserve. The SLR reserve exists in India only. As for the article, i think for most of us European citizen it's not so surprising and we were somehow excepting something like this soon or later. it's like the life insurances that are now dead... |
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Kraken should change its name to "Error 520: Web server is returning an unknown error"
I am in the same boat. Bitstamp seems a good alternative for European citizens but a little more strict than Kraken for KYC. I have a friend who tested it after also getting tired of Kraken and it looks good. If it's just to sell and to receive SEPA transfer there is also Bitwala (based in Germany.)
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So I'm saying payment software for Bitcoin should incorporate the fee into the price instead of having to pay the fee on top of the price You forgot to consider that, basically with Bitcoin, you are supposed to set the fees yourself. How do you want a software knows what fees you agree to pay? If the fees were fixed then, for example, merchants could include the fees into the sales, let's 0.05 fees included (0.001 BTC). However what if the buyer is ready to purchase an item but he wants to pay 0.0005 BTC because it may be enough |
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