This is why you never bring your PC to a repair shop.

Do you also steal any credit card details and financial info you find? what about nudes? you might as well, it's the same level of scum-iness.

I looked up the manufacturer for that essid:

http://coffer.com/mac_find/?string=e8%3A4e%3A06%3A11%3A00%3A32

Comes back with a company (EDUP International Co., Ltd.) that makes USB WiFi dongles, some of which are very high power (>1000mW).....

http://www.cccme.org.cn/shop/szedup/offer.aspx

I am a paranoid guy, but I'd be very paranoid if I was in your situation...

Normally you can. I'm not sure there is a way to prevent that?

It could be a cheapo wifi extender thats badly configured, but that does look really suspicious. You could try and locate it by moving around and checking the change in signal strength.


Thats security by obscurity. MAC addresses are really easy to spoof. A MAC address whitelist gives no extra protection.

You own a house outside of the US? Thats very unusual, I've never heard of someone being refused entry due to lack of outside ties when they own a house abroad. You should talk to a lawyer.

There was a war? oh no! how many people died? was it as bad as the time the USD declared war on the Euro because the Euro claimed USD bank notes had inferior conterfeiting protections?

Scams are not allowed here, but the staff won't "hold your hand", you have watch out for scams yourself.

In the altcoin world, it appears the majority of scamcoins are made by a very small number of people with lots of sockpuppets.

I find it hard to believe that the scamcoins arent driven by greed but by a desire to push Bitcoin. Thats some conspiracy right there.

Actually I wanted to separate Bitcoin and altcoins, which makes a lot of sense.

That doesn't prove that I own Bitcoin, hence doesn't make me a "biased bagholder" I sold most of my Bitcoin when it was $30. All my points were completely unbiased.

You should also read up on the definition of the word inflation, you seem to be using it to mean something else:

I don't know why I'm even replying. But let me try this one time.


https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Myths#Bitcoin_can.27t_work_because_there_is_no_way_to_control_inflation


I don't agree with this, but people have a right to think whatever they like - even if they are clearly wrong.


I agree that POW is wasteful, however POW is the currently most tested and studied system. At least we know all of the strengths/weaknesses of POW, another scheme may have weaknesses that weren't even thought about until it's too late. I would imagine Bitcoin might one day switch to a less wasteful system once one has been tested and studied as much as POW has and such a scheme has noticeable improvements over POW.


Source on this please.

Most alternative cryptocurrencies are using the Bitcoin Core client source code and are merging all of the changes made to it. Bitcoin does help altcoins tremendulously.

IMO, people are making a big deal out of the fork issue when it's not needed. It's hardly like 1MB is some super magical number. It reminds me of the time Bill Gates said computers would never need more than 640KB RAM. The Blockchain is being used to store a lot more stuff than initially thought and Bitcoin has grown way faster than what was expected. This is the second time we've had to change the block limit.


Source please. I don't see how Bitcoin cares more about any group in particular or how it is hostile to any group. It's just an openly-developed protocol.


I really hate the "hyping" stuff, but what can I do. People are free to do whatever they want, I can't stop them. The hyping thing happens with altcoins too.

But I don't see how Bitcoin is holding back altcoins especially when most altcoins are using it's codebase.

Nope, he is on the list:


His first name is Dorian, middle name is Satoshi.

It is? Then why aren't people arrested for their participation in the traditional banking system?

No bitcointalk doesn't block VPN/Tor/Proxies from creating accounts at all. You might need to pay a small fee though if you are creating an account from one of these.

It locks you out for a year after only 2 failed attempts?! How are you able to login when you are drunk?  

If it was the right price (<$10), came in a digital non-DRM format and I could pay with Bitcoin, I would buy it for lols.

You were just very lucky, congrats!

Would've been better if you released it for free or at the very least in a non-DRM format, in the spirit of the Bitcoin/cryptocurrency movement itself.

If you repay all your loans you'll be able to get rid of most of your negative feedback and may even accumulate positive feedback.

Here you go, a blast from the past when Bitcoin was $3.20

This graph should be a meme or some shit. During every single last fucking dip since 2011 people post that exact graph, its hilarious!

Trust thingies only show up in the marketplace section.