As much as I hate it when people spread fud, I'm actually kind of grateful for it, at times, because it's a good way for the community to get together and prove fallacies in the fud itself. It's often countered with much better research and alternative links to learn more about why the fud is bullshit. As much as unwarranted fud hurts crypto, I think it helps crypto as well for two reasons:

First, it shakes out the non-believers. The greedy bitcoiners who heard about how it's going to moon, and wanted to get in before it really pumps...

Secondly, it makes the true enthusiasts that much more willing to fight to disprove the fud by providing facts, as well as opinion. But all-in-all, it allows us to come together as a whole to build up the crypto community even more.

With that said, this video is HILARIOUS. I especially love the part where he narrates the scenario:

"Your toast just popped out of the toaster... At the same time, the familiar whistle of your teakettle hints that you're ready to pour the hot water into your instant coffee... The sun is shining through your kitchen windows, casting a slight shadow across your island. It's 7:13 a.m., Tuesday, April 17. And what seems to start out like any other day of your life... Is about to take a wicked turn you'll never forget."

  HAHAHAHAHAHA oh man, this guy's life just sounds so sad.

But realistically speaking, in order for Bitcoin to hit $200? It's very unlikely that this can happen, even if the US government makes Bitcoin illegal, as this douche is claiming. He's also claiming that the entire markets will crash on this day?

I don't know about you guys, but it sounds like Bitcoin and cryptocurrency will actually THRIVE in this type of economic disaster. If and when fiat currency turns to shit, and you can't use a stack of hundred dollar bills to buy a loaf of bread, guess what will be able to be used to buy that same loaf of bread? Bitcoin.

This douche obviously has no idea what he's talking about, or the effects that Bitcoin actually has on global economy. He may know how fiat currencies operate, but he has no clue about how cryptocurrencies do.

This is pretty well-written, and I couldn't find it as being sourced/copied from any other website. It's written in an article format; are you the author? Or is this a copy-and-paste? If you, indeed, wrote it, welcome to the forums. You're going to do pretty well around here! Otherwise, if you did copy and paste it, can you post the source and link to it, please?

Great content, either way!

Just a word of advice. If you're planning on opening a scam accusation against someone, you should at least get their username correct in your accusation.

Reading through this dialogue between you and @flooren, yeah. Definitely some shady shit going on here, or it's a huge misunderstanding. You guys need to communicate better.

No. Quit being lazy and read it for yourself. All the information is already there if you look for it:

Newbies - Read before posting

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Forum ranks/positions/badges (What do those shiny coins under my name mean?)

For future reference, you should click on a person's profile, then click on their trust rating link. Then click on the "show untrusted feedback" link and see what's there. The user you paid has 10 negative feedbacks from the past several months where he's scammed other users for something.

What option did you use to send him the payment? Friends or Family? Or Good & Services? If you sent him payment for goods or services, you can dispute the transaction with PayPal and chargeback the payment. If you sent as Friends or Family, you're pretty much screwed.

Consider two things for future trades. First, only trade with trusted members (or use an escrow), and secondly, keep your trade discussions transparent. I personally won't trade with someone unless they've posted in the thread. If a user sends me a PM regarding a trade, I let everyone know publicly (in my thread) that the user reached out to me via PM.

I'm sorry you had to go through this, but it's your own fault for not doing your due diligence. Consider it a lesson learned (hopefully).

Seeing that you've generated your own address on your own computer, your private key was likely never stored anywhere. I don't believe that it's less safe to use a vanity address. Besides, brute force attacks would target your private key, not your hashed public key (your address), so I really don't think it matters what your bitcoin address is when it comes to safety.

For anyone else reading this and wanting to generate their own keys, http://bitcoinvanitygen.com has been generating custom vanity BTC addresses for years, and as much as I wish I could clearly state that there is no risk involved with using that site, no one knows for sure if your address and private key are stored on their servers or not. I have a few vanity addresses that I've generated using their site, but I only use them as hot wallets that are imported into my Blockchain wallet, which I then use to send to my cold-storage wallet or a mixer. I don't store any bitcoin in any of my vanity address wallets.

You have 6 followers; what do you need an audit for? Read the original post... You have less than 50 followers. Either way, you're audited now

Honestly, I don't deal with Twitter campaigns much, as I respect my followers and don't want to inundate them with spammy links from ICO's or crypto companies that I personally do not endorse. And honestly, you're not going to make a living doing Twitter or Facebook bounties here. We're only talking a few bucks a pop.

Signature campaigns, however, are a great way to earn. Just don't be a shitposter, and look for some high-paying campaigns. Make sure that your post quality is up to par with other participants, set a goal for yourself, and try to rank up. You will generally earn more as you reach higher ranks, and unfortunately, you're not going to make a lot as a Jr. Member. High-paying signature campaigns for Bitcoin are pretty rare here, but you will find a lot of new signature campaigns that offer a small payment in Bitcoin with an additional payment for their altcoin. Some of these can end up extremely lucrative, especially if the company of the signature you're wearing actually makes it to ICO and provides a valid and legitimate value of service for their coin... But again, you're only looking at making approximately $50-300/month from a signature campaign (with a Jr. Member/Member rank), and I don't think you'll be able to survive off that. As a Sr. Member, Hero Member, and Legendary Member, you can make upwards of $1000+ per month from wearing their sig.

Oh, and don't discount Steemit. My friend is an article writer, and he does posts here and there for SEO and he's averaging about $40-50 per post at the moment. If you understand social dynamics and how to engage with your audience, Steemit can be an amazing platform. Be creative and engaging

Just as a 3rd-party observer to this thread, you're a fucking retard. Your account is OBVIOUSLY recently purchased. And as someone looking in on this thread, you look like the fool here, not @alia_armelle

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Alia, can you do a deal to buy $50 worth of bitcoin right now? I'm willing to conduct a trade out of escrow for the amount indicated to help provide you with a bit of credibility. I know I'm taking a risk here, but I really can't be arsed to find an escrow for $50... Whatya say? PM me if you can buy some BTC at the moment.

I used to think that deals like this were obviously scams... But this is not that uncommon from Asian countries, to be honest. I was recently put in touch with a buyer in South Korea who wanted me to fly in with a dozen Trezor wallets filled with 5-25BTC each on a bi-weekly basis. He asked if I could bring more, but I figured that anything more than that would tip off Customs at the airport. We had a lengthy conversation about how the regulated Bitcoin trading market is so inflated in Asia, and that he wanted to start a black market selling Bitcoin at lower prices than what they're available for in Chinese, Japanese and South Korean exchanges. He also indicated that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals that do not trust the banks and have access to an insane amount of cash and gold.

I ended up feeling uncomfortable with this method of arbitrage, and the way that I was to move the fiat cash was kind of shady (Asian banks regulate and keep track of EVERYTHING, so to get caught with their fiat as a foreigner would bring a lot of question and investigation), so I turned down the offer. After that conversation, however, I don't doubt that there is a HUGE (black) market for Bitcoin in Asia.

Of course, do your own due diligence, but this could very well be a legitimate request.

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I'm looking to purchase iTunes gift cards in the amount of $50-150 in Bitcoin. Please let me know if you have any physical cards you want to sell. US store only. Message me the value of the card and your rate that you'd like to receive for them.

I'm not looking to deal with account sellers for risk of purchasing carded gift codes. These cards will be used by me personally and I have no intention of reselling them. I do not want to risk having my account jeopardized because you sold me codes that were purchased with a stolen credit card.

If you have any red trust regarding any form of sale or exchange on bitcointalk, move along.

Hey MiLkz, do you currently have any iTunes gift cards in stock, and if so, what value and how many do you have? Either PM me or message me here, please! Thanks!

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Following the debacle on Twitter is hilarious... It's just a big circle-jerk of a bunch of high school kids playing the blame game...

I just find it funny that VISA is treating Bitcoin like currency and adding a "cash advance" fee to all purchases made on Coinbase. WTF VISA  

Anyways, here's an update to this whole debacle: http://fortune.com/2018/02/17/visa-worldpay-duplicate-coinbase-fees/ (Visa and Worldpay Are Refunding Duplicate Coinbase Fees)

This is quite obvious, but you're absolutely correct. Some scammers have the gift of gab and can easily trap someone into releasing the escrow before the payment has been made. I'm adding this to my original post; hope you don't mind.

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I hope you don't mind; I'm going to add this to my top post, as well. It sounds to me like the account was purchased from the original owner. I've had a few acquaintances that got scammed by account buyers. Without giving too many details, they basically continued operating like the original owner for a few months, and then apparently claimed identity theft. He started conversing with the actual person that the hacker was using as verification for the purchased LBC account and together, they sourced the crime back to a family member who had sold the information to some Indians overseas for 1BTC (at the time, it was worth about $1,000/BTC). Can't even trust your own family...

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You just answered your own question.

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For me, it's because although I'm a U.S. citizen, I live abroad and no longer have a U.S. bank account. And none of the exchanges have options for any of the banks in the country that I'm currently living in. As far as the rates, you'll see some advertisements for trades up to 10% over market value. I've even seen instances of 20% over market value (for small trade amounts). I personally do not deal with anyone that offers more than a 5% rate. My average trade is conducted around a 2.5% premium.


One of my friends deals with $25,000+ transactions on a regular basis from LBC. He has an armed off-duty officer buddy that goes with him every time. He has a cash counting machine and it's very easy to check every bill to see if it's counterfeit or not. Just fan out the stacks of money and draw a big line across the bills.


Banks can reverse charges anytime if you can prove that you didn't authorize the transfer or if you can show that you never received a product or service that warranted the transfer. Every bank has different rules, but reversing bank wires is an option that happens more commonly than people think.


Use your best judgment. The way that I sort the list of buyers on LBC now is by trade volume and feedback score. I could give a shit less if they're buying at market value or at a premium. I have a private buyer that I now work with, so I've really slowed down on my trades on LBC.

That's not a virus. That's a code that's injected into a site's autofill functions and cookies. For instance, if you're going to a website (let's use a faucet, for example) where they use a cookie to store your Bitcoin address (after you've claimed and submitted your address previously on the site), they're susceptible to this "hack". Yes, it's convenient for you to go to the site and not have to copy and paste your address over and over again. But sites like those are pretty easy to manipulate if they're written in php and have any kind of form submit action on the page. Not a virus, just a quick little hack. And it doesn't change an address during a copy and paste; it changes the browser cookie's store value from your autofilled address to the hacker's.

The only time I ever sent Bitcoin to an incorrect address was because of an error on my part with copying and pasting the wrong address. It's not because I mistyped a few characters. And those people who have stated that? They're idiots, just like me. I'm willing to bet they copied and pasted the wrong address, too. And I'm also willing to bet that they didn't sit there and type out someone's address in the address field. Either way, if an address is mistyped but it's a valid address, yeah... you're screwed. But again. Very rare. It's definitely not 1 in 4.3 billion but you still have a better shot at winning the lottery.

What does your post have anything to do with the original post? Take your generic shitposts to another website, please. Sorry to pick on you, but you're a newbie with 5 posts. Save yourself the trouble of getting in any deeper here; you're wasting your time.

I really wish there was a demerit option

You'll get a much better response to this by posting in the Technical board, or even in Beginners and Help.

It's extremely rare if the scenario is similar to what you've positioned as a question... If mistyping a few characters in an address, most (if not all) wallets won't even let you send the transaction, as the address will return as invalid. You'll get a warning asking you to enter a valid recipient. If the address is valid, kiss your transaction goodbye and then go buy yourself a lottery ticket; you'll have a better chance of winning the lottery than randomizing a character or two of an existing wallet address into another valid address.

If, however, you do manage to send Bitcoin to the wrong address, I would recommend you immediately initiate a double-spend with a high fee to another address that you control.