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61  Other / Meta / Re: Get Donator status by donating 10 BTC on: August 05, 2017, 08:26:05 AM
I don't think theymos will ever lower the current donator ranks and has previously stated it wouldn't be fair,  but that's not to say there couldn't be additional ranks which would be pegged to fiat. When I initially proposed it he seemed to think it could be a good idea but I've brought it up several times recently with no response which is a shame because I think it could severely restrict or even stop account farming if bigger signatures were included in the perks.

You are in a bitcoin forum, and having some perks from any donation measured on a static fiat value (even if you donated bitcoins) would be nonsensical, might as well create a fiattalk forum too. And again, the donation required to attain these perks wouldn't be lowered in any way as again it could be a cheaper gateway to scam from other users of the forum.

Also, why would lowering the donations restrict account farming in any way? Idk how will it be possible.

Lol, c'mon. Seriously? It's nonsensical not to peg it to fiat. Do you really want another situation where it costs tens of thousands to donate (or if the price falls it being much cheaper)? No. The current situation with donator ranks is ridiculous and if it was pegged to fiat then we wouldn't have this problem. Pegging to fiat is the only way to do this and everything here doesn't have to be in a static bitcoin value. Do you buy hardware wallets or anything else in a fixed btc value? No. Pretty much every place you use bitcoin pegs the value to fiat because it's illogical to set a fixed bitcoin price for obvious reasons.

And it will stop account farming if signature sizes are removed from ranks and the only way you can get a signature is to pay for it. It will also stop people having dozens or hundreds of accounts without paying the fee. People farm dozens and in some cases hundreds of accounts because it's absolutely free to do so and this is why we have people botting and farming accounts en mass. They then join lazy alt coin campaigns because they can easily exploit them to rank up their accounts and get paid in the process. If you have to pay $50 or whatever for a signature then these people would be severely restricted in the amount of accounts they can have. It also essentially stops account sales because it would be pointless buying them.

Not pegging the donator rank to fiat is about the most ridiculous thing I have ever encountered!

Should I get donator rank on bitcointalk, or should I buy a modest home in a small town in the USA?  I'm pretty sure the original donator members didn't have to make that choice  - it was probably should I get donator rank on bitcointalk or buy my GF a nice dinner.
62  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Any new airdrop coins? on: August 05, 2017, 08:14:21 AM
Any new airdrops coming for Newbies?

Not specifically for newbies but anybody can get in on the Bitcore (BTX) airdrop. Just requires 10 BTX and you can instantly claim. Wallet has nice UI too

I question please if you can help.

I have signed for Byteball and waiting for the coins.
Can i sign a message to get BTX too, without loosing to get my Byteball ?

Thanks

You can participate in Byteball and BTX both - they are not mutually exclusive.  You can also do Deeponion (though that requires you to maintain a signature campaign).
63  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Any new airdrop coins? on: August 05, 2017, 08:08:09 AM
WCX – Low-Cost Crypto Exchange built by Apple & Wall St team

10 WCX = 1 USD at ICO

As a holder of WCX tokens, you're entitled to a portion of WCX's revenue.

20% of all revenue generated by WCX is automatically paid out to token holders, in amounts based on each holder's share of the total amount of tokens.

As an exchange, WCX collects fees in many digital currencies. That means that holding WCX tokens is equivalent to holding a passive income portfolio of diverse digital currencies.

WCX is an ERC20 token. The WCX ICO is planned for September 9, 2017.


You yust have to sign up here: https://wcex.co/
or use my ref link if this post was useful for you: https://wcex.co/?ref=adDVgvP4

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2026078.0

Can you provide a press release from Apple (not ICO promoters) stating they are behind WCX?  I am very....skeptical...this seems very unlikely to me, and  such claims are a red flag in my eyes.
64  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Bit Cash can reach 2000$ on: August 05, 2017, 08:05:38 AM
Bit Cash can reach 2000$

BCC is just a clone of bitcoin. Not a fork and nothing special. People though it is an alternative to bitcoin and the price should be high. So whales used it pretty well. they increased the price and when there was enough volume they started to dump.
Price is going to be less than 100 USD very soon.
We will know after a while, for now there are few users who have no knowledge or still in curious of BCC,as for me I didn't have any of it yet and I don't think if I will have any this week, maybe next month Cheesy

Time for a title update maybe...Bit Cash can reach 20.00$  (yes, the decimal place there is deliberate!)

either way - I think 2000$ looks pretty unlikely.  I'm liking 3000$ for BTC though!!
65  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Deep Onion on: August 05, 2017, 08:00:43 AM
Hey guys, for those of you who can't keep up with the volume in the ANN thread..make sure you vote to get onion on this exchange:

https://novaexchange.com/addcoin/

Let's get thing on the free markets and see what they have to say, give those not eligible for the airdrop the change to buy!
66  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BYTEBALL: Totally new consensus algorithm + private untraceable payments on: August 05, 2017, 07:58:14 AM
This is one of the best airdrop concepts out there... I enjoy getting the free byte and blackbytes each airdrop.  Hopefully there are a few more left.
Well no sh!t Sherlock. Who doesn't like free money? Things couldn't be better at the moment. Got BTC for these Byteball airdrops, got BTC from the Lumen airdrop, got BTC from the Bitcoin Cash fork and to top it all off BTC has hit a new ATH!
These are great times my fellow crypto buddies.

I know it's freaking awesome right?

I'm generally conflicted with the desire not to sell BTC, and the desire to get fiat to spend - with all these free airdrops I don't have to make a choice:)
67  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: ⚡ [ANN] ⚡ DeepOnion TOR Integrated ⚡ No ICO 🚀 FREE Airdrops 🚀 4th of 40 Rounds on: August 05, 2017, 07:53:45 AM
so much airdroped users but only 62 votes in Neva (and can say 61 i voted second time today )realy sad for this i thought we will reach for 250 for an hour or little but it s second day and we are here Undecided Undecided

I'm sure we will get there soon - most of us had to register and then wait a day before we could make our first vote.  This means there is a bit of a lag.

I registered for Nova yesterday, and just voted now.  Will be back to vote again the next few days (like a lot of us I'm sure!!)
68  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: ⚡ [ANN] ⚡ DeepOnion TOR Integrated ⚡ No ICO FREE Airdrops 4th of 40 Rounds on: August 04, 2017, 08:00:05 PM

We are on the vote board of novaexchange,
please help us to vote to get listed:

*** VOTE for DeepOnion on NOVAEXCHANGE ***
https://novaexchange.com/addcoin/

you can vote daily


I also supported you in this vote! If you really can vote from one IP once every 24 hours, then I will happily do it every day!)

Registered and tried to vote, said something about not having NVOTEs.  I'll try again tomorrow, may be a new account issue and I just need to let it age a little first.

Good to hear an exchange is on its way!
69  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Bit Cash can reach 2000$ on: August 03, 2017, 07:35:57 AM
I'll be kicking myself if it reaches $2000, I'll have missed out on a lot of money when I sold mine off!

Still - it was free.  So I can't complain too much even if it does.
70  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Bitcoin Cash - hold or dump? on: August 01, 2017, 11:11:56 AM
I'll hold a day or two at the very least.

Maybe thru the 2x part of Segwit2x...if the 2x doesn't happen BCC might some value for a while.

It's a bit of a crap shoot really, fingers crossed I get some free money out of it - free is good...
71  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Deep Onion on: July 31, 2017, 09:46:26 AM
When is this coin supposed to go onto exchanges?

Dev said he´s working on it and there seem to be 2 exchanges interested and hes hoping that
onion will be listed on one within the next weeks.
It’s is tough for him to get onion in the list again. Even those exchanges that are interested in listing it down, soon will give up on it. People are not going to give it the same support as it was enjoying formerly. When a coin like bitcoin is available and going to give ride to moon; why would anyone go after this coin?

By that logic no exchange would have ever listed ANY altcoin, Bitcoin predates all of them!

At least this one isn't an ICO scam, the DEVs don't get any money for their Onion unless it is successful enough that people are willing to buy it.   I prefer this to 'enough cash up front for all the coders to retire' model of Tezos.
72  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BYTEBALL: Totally new consensus algorithm + private untraceable payments on: July 30, 2017, 07:53:32 PM
I really do have to make a point and say how truly wonderful it is to see something like the flight insurance bot added.

There are so many projects discussed/promoted on the forums that never seem to actually have any useful functionality developed, good to see Byteball is better than that!
73  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BYTEBALL: Totally new consensus algorithm + private untraceable payments on: July 30, 2017, 07:17:48 AM
Now we have flight delay insurance bot.  It's already added to the Bot Store.

[...]

Who funds the bot? I mean the bot can be profitable or loosing money depending on the probability and randomness of flight delays. I wonder who will eat the loss or profit?

Anyone who wants to take the risk

I don't think so. I think the bot owner is going to take profit or loss.


Imagine if someone insured flights from Qatar Airways a month ago.
The bot or the bot owner could have gone broke?!  Lips sealed

Actually, this is a very good question.

If I take out an insurance policy on a flight a month from now, does the smart contract system place my (potential) payout in some kind of escrow account at the time I take out the policy - or am I just hoping the Bots wallet has enough funds remaining in a month to cover what it owes me?

74  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: New to mining: Bitcoin, Litecoin, algorithms, hardware on: July 29, 2017, 10:41:53 PM
I ended up playing with some rented hashpower from nicehash.

Not something I'd do regularly, but a good way to get a quick chunk of coins on anything that has just opened for mining.

Quite fun really!
75  Economy / Economics / Re: Spend Bitcoin as Fiat from Phone? on: July 29, 2017, 03:11:32 PM
Seems like all the debit cards require various form of account verification, was hoping for a phone solution that does away with those requirements....if you know what i mean....
76  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why do you invest in ICOs? on: July 29, 2017, 02:50:51 PM
Better to ask why we don't?

There may have been a couple of decent ICO's early on, but now everyone realized they have an unregulated way to raise immense sums of money simply by making promises.

Contributing to those is just asking to lose your money - if the DEVs are made rich before they even start coding, they have no incentive to complete the project even in the best of circumstances.
77  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: The meaning of BTC+BCC=$3000 on: July 29, 2017, 01:24:08 PM
It's a coincidence, noone knows how the BTC/BCC price ratio will playout over the next few weeks.

I personally hope BTC will rise over $3000 once segwit activates, so that would require a negative value for BCC - does not seem likely:)
78  Other / Off-topic / Re: Electric cigarette yes/no/maybe? on: July 29, 2017, 01:21:14 PM
Its an upgrade  Cool I'll try to describe my experience:

I switched around 4-5? years ago. Bought a pack of cigs just before buying my first e-cig, just in case, ended up never touching that pack.

To be fair, I was kinda negatively disposed towards regular cigarettes at the time. At some point they had started making me drowsy, I also wasn't a fan of the whistling coming from my lungs when I exhaled deeply.

I had been cutting down the nicotine/tar content of the cigs, I used to smoke marlboro red's(1.2mg), by the time I switched to e-cig I was smoking silver phillip morris(0.1mg). All though, I started doing that way before I even heard of e-cigs, just happened to be a lucky coincidence which I think helped me transition.

Anyways, the first e-cig I got was a piece of shit (didn't know it at the time), came with 18mg/ml juice that was really nice though.

Smoking e-cigs is somewhat different, you don't get the instant gratification as you do with the first inhale of regular cigs, rather you get that 30-60 seconds later. To get closer to the regular smoking experience though, I got myself 100% PG juice which has a harsher "throat hit", that successfully masked the lack of instant nicotine delivery for me.

After that it was a month of bliss, literally. I guess this depends on your body chemistry but on most people, smoking has a mild depressing effect, mostly from the various monoamine oxidase inhibitors naturally found in tobacco. Take that away and substitute with more nicotine = smiles all day, at least for me. This didn't last forever though, the effect wore off in a month of two, I'm guessing due to my body chemistry adapting. I think I still ended up more cheerful on e-cigs than I was on regular cigarettes though.

Some other improvements I noticed were increase of stamina, no more canker sores, no more wheezing and a better sense of smell. Those came slower though, I think it was around a year before I fully got rid of my wheeze.

After that I got more into researching e-cigs and their juices, started building my coils and mixing my own juices.

Fast forward to today - I still build my own coils, I find the prebuilt atomizers sold locally to be kinda shitty. I don't mix juices anymore though, mostly because I get "vapers tongue" really easily - its when you can't really taste the flavor of your e-juice after a while. Its not permanent of course, wears off in a day or two and you can vape a different flavor meanwhile but I just got so used to flavorless vaping that that's what I decided to do - vape unflavored liquid. Hella cheap too, 1L of unflavored PG costs ~€40 and lasts me for a year.

Also, 99% of the bad things you hear about e-liquids are about some chemical in the flavorings. Truth is, most chemicals used to flavor e-juices are merely food grade and usually not extensively tested for inhalation. Ironically, the safest chemicals to flavor your liquid with are tobacco flavored ones because those have been tested, for decades, in cigars.

I think I should also note that I never intended to quit. I just like the activity and the nicotine too much. All though, e-cigs certainly seem to have a lower physical addiction, I don't get nearly as uncomfortable on a long flight as I used to.

Also, e-cigs are certainly not for everyone. Around 20% of the population is mildly allergic to either VG or PG, results in temporary wheezing and shortness of breath. Severe cases are very rare but not unheard of. I've also heard of a handful of cases of people getting popcorn lung which is permanent lung damage from bad juices containing dangerous flavor sweeteners. Also, there is a huge disparity of nicotine tolerance depending on age and species. Children are 12 times more vulnerable to nicotine poisoning than non smoking adults, cats/dogs up to 100 times more vulnerable so definitely a good idea to keep that stuff out of reach because unlike cigarettes, e-juices don't taste that bad.

Anyways, that's just my story. Whether that encouraged or frightened you, you can't find out what it'll really be like unless you try, if you want to try  Cheesy

If you don't mind me asking, have you tried the new Philip Morris IQOS cigarette that they have started selling in various countries around the world?  I don't know any smokers, so would be interested in your opinion of that!
79  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Bitcore - BTX - SEGWIT - BLOOM - ONLINE - CORE 0.14.1 -142000+ BTX Claimed on: July 29, 2017, 01:09:53 PM
Has anyone had their coins show up on Cryptopia yet?  I'm getting very frustrated with that exchange, not sure how they stay in business honestly!

I can get a few hours delay, but not days...that is ridiculous.
80  Economy / Economics / Spend Bitcoin as Fiat from Phone? on: July 29, 2017, 12:50:19 PM
Are there any usable options that allow us to load BTC to a phone wallet (only a small amount, so not real worried about security) and then walk into a store and pay for groceries (priced in the local Fiat) using part of the BTC balance?

Clearly there would be no card, so it would have to be some kind of NFC, Android pay, other contactless solution.

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