Why do you have 6 XMR on one? Just curious, because I know you fund them before Smoothie sent them out. Also I think your asking price is a little high considering you don’t have any pictures included. After I see some pics of the coins with a time stamp I might be interested.

Darn.  Unfortunately I'm just looking at buying more gold as of right now and needing to update my 1 oz silver dollar collection with the 2017 and 2018 coins.  Anywho, thanks anyway and good luck with your sale.

Are you still selling the gold panada?   If you are I might be interested in grabbing that, just didn't know if it had to be sold within that hour window or not.

Well that was quick! wasn't expecting to get it this weekend, but I just got the package... thanks again!

I'll send over a PM in just a little bit, would like to buy if you are still have one to sell!

Like everyone has said, a large majority of altcoins that are released are primarily scams.  But, that doesn't mean that other altcoins out there aren't doing good in terms of innovation.  I'm not going to say which ones, just because it will come off as me personally trying to pump shit on my own; but I truly believe there are some out there that are doing good for the cryptocurrency space.

The end game of these altcoins, I believe, is to try and test out certain theories Bitcoin Core isn't willing or capable of trying.

The funny thing about what you are saying is that I agree with you and I really really disagree with you at the same time.

I agree with you about everything stated above in that people will inevitably need to borrow money at some point in time, which can act as a double edged sword.  But I feel as if you are missing the point.  The "root of all evil" in terms of Banks controlling your money is not the Banks you go to locally and get a loan from; but the Banks who actually control your money, the centralized banks are the root cause for everything bad about Banks and "money" as the general population knows it.  Inflation is the shit that will keep us wage slaves for eternity... they will never want Bitcoin to be used because it is more sound and backed by a known limit/scarcity like gold.

There is always going to be a human element if you are going to be transacting with other humans.  It seems as if you are trying to sell Bitcoins though because you are talking about using localbitcoins as an "escrow".  In all reality that would be cool if it was run by some non-partisan AI that would be able to help two parties come to an agreement and help the transaction along... but that time isn't here just yet; and unfortunately localbitcoins is run by humans as well.

Better to find someone who has really good trust ratings that seems to be a decent person and ask them to manage a multisig wallet to help the transaction go smoothly as possible between you and the other person.

That is insanely profound to me.  The thought that that many private keys that can generate different addresses to one wallet is mind boggling.

But my question is how secure is the hashing algorithm?  I don't know if I remember seeing this correctly somewhere, but I remember reading about how Bitcoin's hashing function could potentially be vulnerable.  I don't remember any of the arguments as to why, but was wondering how safe SHA256 is.

I started out the same way as well, and I totally understand why.  It was super convenient and easy to purchase and use, but the mere fact that you are relying on those centralized exchanges to purchase and store coins are dangerous.  Even purchasing your coins from there makes me, personally, uncomfortable.  Now and days I just use localbitcoins.com or bitsquare.io.  

Any wallet you have that is on any website is super vulnerable to all kinds of attacks, I would highly suggest you to take them off now.  For one thing, typing out your private keys to access your wallet all the time is an insanely bad idea because of the fact that there could be key loggers on your device recording your private keys and stealing them without you knowing.  Or better yet, they could log your password to get into your wallet as well... not to mention that I'm pretty sure all web wallets have your private keys; so if you aren't the only one who is in control of your private keys, you don't necessarily "own" your coins.

There are just so many security vulnerabilities, that it just sounds like that is just a bad idea to have everything you own on a web wallet. I know it's "convenient", but Bitcoin suggests and proposes the idea to let you "be your own bank" for a reason.

I'm not suggesting one thing over another... but it is quite funny/scary how quickly this sort of thinking can lead to an almost religious type of thinking that puts Satoshi on some sort of pedestal.  The wonderful thing about open sourced projects is that it's open for anyone to contribute too.  The critical and very important part of this is if someone in the project disappears from the face of the earth, the project can still continue; and therefore the project itself isn't centralized.

It gets dangerous when you try to read into stuff that's in the white paper and apply it to today's situation(s).  Same goes for Jesus fanatics...

Honestly, who gives a flying fuck about Ethereum?  Ethereum has a totally different protocol and shouldn't be compared to what the Bitcoin devs are doing, or proposing they should do, with an upcoming hard fork.

Exactly. It seems that there is no rush from the devs to do anything, and the fact that Blockstream would be hurt by the fork (probably) would definitely present some kind of correlation going on between them and the devs. There is just no reason why the devs shouldn't be worried about the functionality of bitcoin and to improve it as much as possible, rather than worried about politics, miner threats, and so on.

Yeah, definitely is pretty tough to locate that; but thanks for the links though! Everything checked out! 

When looking on https://multibit.org/ I don't see any gpg signatures or hashes I can verify with to see if the download I have hasn't been corrupted with any malware or something like that.

I know it's more of just parnoia/OCD; but that's just how I am, lol.

Well... this does make the situation better, since you were put in charge of only handling the campaign funds.  I agree that everyone makes mistakes, but it's just that when you are deemed an escrow of something like this, then you are put to a much higher regard and should never ever make those mistakes.  Escrows need to always make sure they fully understand both sides of an argument before making a decision to send funds somewhere, not to read up on one side of the argument at 1 am and then send all the funds to said person without seeing what the other people have to say.

I'll remove the negative trust, but I'll still keep it on there neutrally to "keep it on the record".

Exactly, and the funny thing is that there wasn't even a hint of curiosity to check out the spam boards or anything else on here to see what the current situation was with everyone else... I guess in his eyes, it's better to sell out and allow these guys to get away with ~17 BTC and probably get a good chunk of the cut, than sell his account to someone else straight up... because now his trust is probably going to go down from this point on.

He didn't even bother to see both sides... It seems he just saw that emailed and though, "Mehhh, what the hell... I guess I trust that guy to repay investors"... which he didn't even ask for a return address list, which there probably wasn't one.

... I mean c'mon man, are you really giving him the "benefit of the doubt" here?  He's a scammer, or just litterally incoherent with campaigns and should never given the opportunity to escrow again... it's like he didn't even want to attempt to try and do a good job.

You are a fucking joke. I mean, really? ...

If you wanted to ensure that he would keep up to his word (which he probably isn't going to do) (or maybe this is your alt account or whatever) you would have requested that you get the list of return address (which there probably isn't) and you would send them back personally (which you probably won't). 

Also, I've helped him point out bugs on his (shitty) website, as well as other people helped pitch in and was excited about this (god awful) project.

You guys are the worst...