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3501  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: One more confirmation accelerator on: December 31, 2017, 08:30:43 AM
I'm very skeptical. It is probably a scam. Anybody can set up a site like that and just take your money.
3502  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Totally confused - about buying Bitcoin Cash with Nano Ledger S on: December 30, 2017, 04:15:29 PM
It doesn't seem like you are doing anything wrong. What is the address that you are using to receive the bitcoin cash?

You can also try searching for the address at blockchain.info. If the address is not valid, it will say that it cannot be found.
3503  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Ver, Bitcoin, BCash & Bitmain on: December 29, 2017, 11:10:30 PM
Why do you have so much love for Mr. Ver(min) ?

He has done more for Bitcoin than you ever will, and I respect him for what he has been trying to do to improve the world. But, I have less love for him than the hatred you seem to have for him. I also defend Greg Maxwell from time to time, though I strongly disagree him on certain points.

Mostly, I object to ignorant people taking a side and attacking the people that aren't on their side.

You're a newbie. I recommend learning more and listening more before taking any side and closing you mind to any other perspectives.

Roger Ver thinks insider trading is not a crime. I suppose you support that as well?
He has solid arguments to back his opinion but I don't completely agree with him on that one. Still, that doesn't make him as evil as you portray.

Roger Ver tweeted: Since Bitcoin Core is no longer usable as a currency, we should no longer consider it to be a crypto currency. Is that your opinion too?

It's basic logic. If it is not usable as a currency, how can you call it a currency? If you can't eat a brick, can you call it food? Either way, it's not important. It's just words.

You are obviously a loon yourself or in collusion with Ver.
Edit: I just realized that you could be Roger. He did buy tons of accounts for astroturfing.

I'm not a loon. I'm not in collusion with Roger Ver. I'm not Roger Ver and I am not associated with him, though I have met him a few times.
3504  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Recover android phone for wallet file on: December 29, 2017, 07:06:22 PM
ftp://
Is there any software out there that can find a wallet.dat file on a android phone? I wiped it and forgot about the wallet there. There might be alot of money on this wallet, and if it gets opened with your help I will pay for the service.

I hope someone can help me.

Kind regards
Dan

You backed up the wallet, right?
3505  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Ver, Bitcoin, BCash & Bitmain on: December 29, 2017, 06:58:35 PM
I’m confused why anyone would still trust Roger Ver about anything.
Yes. You are confused.

He was caught selling counterfeit computer equipment at MemoryDealers ... While Ver was never prosecuted for it I would never buy anything at a business Ver controlled.
Amazon sells counterfeit equipment, too. Should we prosecute Jeff Bezos for that? I assume that you would never buy anything at Amazon, right?

He is a felon that spent time in a federal prison for online sales of illegal explosives.
In the post-911 world, paranoia and hysteria run rampant in the U.S. People that sell bitcoins to you and me are going to prison, too.

He lied about MtGox costing people millions of dollars by keeping them from acting sooner. “I'm Roger Ver, long time Bitcoin advocate and investor. Today I'm at the Mtgox world headquarters in Tokyo Japan. I had a nice chat with MTGOX CEO, Mark Karpeles, about their current situation. He showed me multiple bank statements, as well as letters from banks and lawyers. I'm sure that all the current withdrawal problems at MTGOX are being caused by the traditional banking system, not because of a lack of liquidity at MTGOX”
He was duped. His is not a liar, just the patsy. Have you never been sure about something that turned out to be something else?

He is a sociopath that renounced his citizenship to run to another country (a country where pedophila is not a crime btw, no proof-just sayin).
He is the opposite of a sociopath, and considering his abhorrence of the evil that the U.S. government inflicts on the world, renouncing his citizenship was honorable and respectable. Your not-so-subtle attempt at slander is disgusting, btw.

Is there some unwritten rule that you have to be a complete lunatic to be a major investor in cryptocurrency?  

To most of the world, yes. To forward thinkers and optimists, no.
3506  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin is not a store of value on: December 29, 2017, 06:39:16 PM
Most people with bitcoins can no longer use them for transactions. That means that if Bitcoin is a store of value, then it is a store of value in the same way that collectibles are a store of value.

Like a painting, the value of your bitcoins is no more than the value of having them and the value of being able to show others that you have them.
3507  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Security & back-up related to 2FA/QR codes on: December 29, 2017, 12:24:59 PM
I trade on several exchanges and I always use 2FA. I backed-up all the codes of the google autheticator.
However, I realise that I never printed or took printscreens of the QR codes from the exchanges. Is this necessary?
I have difficulties to retrace these codes on all the exchanges....

The QR code is simply a computer-readable version of the google authenticator secret.

If you didn't save a copy of the secret, you can get it again (or perhaps get a new one) by disabling and re-enabling 2fa. I wouldn't rely on the site believing you when you tell them you lost your phone.
3508  Economy / Economics / Re: outside from bitcoin is network marketing profitable ? on: December 29, 2017, 04:07:26 AM
"network marketing" is a euphemism for "pyramid scheme". Most people lose money in a pyramid scheme. The people that make the most money are the operators because they risk nothing (except the possibility of prison).
3509  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: is bitcoin address the same as Public key ? on: December 29, 2017, 04:04:22 AM
Yes, your bitcoin is the public key.

I recommend that you read more before you post.
3510  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: is bitcoin address the same as Public key ? on: December 28, 2017, 04:52:06 AM
is bitcoin address the same as Public key in my wallet's ?

No, though many people confuse the two. A Bitcoin address is a base-58 encoding of a hash of a public key.

More specifically:
1. Determine the public key from the private key.
2. Hash the public key using SHA-256 to get a 256-bit value.
3. Hash the result of #2 with RIPEMD-160 to get a 160-bit value.
4. Encode the result of #3 using base-58 encoding scheme to produce a Bitcoin address.
3511  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Question on the bitcoin holders: Cryptoeconomics after the US-Dollar on: December 28, 2017, 04:43:56 AM
How will you argue the value of your bitcoin, when the US dollar and the US empire disapears, currently people compare their bitcoins value with the us dollar they can get for it,
...
That question was answered a long time ago with this:
3512  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why is my bitcoin address constantly changing? on: December 27, 2017, 10:51:11 PM
We should have more control over changes to public addresses and i bet lots of money goes missing because of this

if i want to change my email address every day for "Security" then that's my decision and maybe i want to scan the block chain
myself for all my spending and i have better things to do than to type in 50 transaction ID's

You are focusing too much on the addresses. Let the wallet manage the addresses. There is no need for you to get involved. My wallet has generated hundreds of addresses. I have never needed to keep track of them. My wallet lists every transaction I have ever made.

Either way, you can reuse addresses if you want. Get an address from your wallet, and print the QR code on a piece of paper and laminate it. Now you have your one address.
3513  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2017-12-25] Market manipulation: reality or fantasy on: December 27, 2017, 10:18:43 PM
Unless anyone can produce any real evidence of "manipulation" (which I have yet to see) having any effect on the market, these claims of manipulation must be considered to be fantasy.

People are very susceptible to confirmation bias. They see what they want to believe and tend to ignore evidence to the contrary. Read about "street light interference" and be amazed.

... Of course, I have no hard proof, but it seems much more likely to me that it is happening rather than that it is not.

No proof --> fantasy.


That is not a good way of thinking. You are acting like this is some sort of legal case where traders are "innocent until proven guilty." The problem is that this is not a legal case. For instance, if a person gets hired at a store and the customer service reviews of the store happen to go down in the weeks following this, it is reasonable to conclude that the new employee is to blame in some part. Sure, there is no hard proof of this, but you cannot consider the possibility a "fantasy". In fact, it would be ignorant to do so. The same goes with traders and market movements.

I agree. Yes, proving manipulation would be the ideal case, but that doesn't mean we should not be suspicious or at least questioning market movements. Just because manipulation is not plainly clear doesn't mean we should assume all is fine in coinland.

I agree that the possibility is real, though actual occurrences are rare and inconsequential. However, people frequently believe that specific moves in the market are caused by manipulation without any evidence (other than the movement itself), and that is fantasy.
3514  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2017-12-25] Market manipulation: reality or fantasy on: December 27, 2017, 07:15:38 AM
Unless anyone can produce any real evidence of "manipulation" (which I have yet to see) having any effect on the market, these claims of manipulation must be considered to be fantasy.

People are very susceptible to confirmation bias. They see what they want to believe and tend to ignore evidence to the contrary. Read about "street light interference" and be amazed.

... Of course, I have no hard proof, but it seems much more likely to me that it is happening rather than that it is not.

No proof --> fantasy.

... the potential will be there to manipulate the markets.

Potential? Maybe or maybe not. Again, no evidence --> fantasy.

I would also like to note that I don't feel that many situations that some people might consider manipulation are really manipulation. Just as fee-paying Bitcoin transactions that seem purposeless can't really be considered spam, placing orders can't be considered manipulation. For example, is a "sell wall" manipulation or is it just a large order? Are high frequency traders really manipulating the market by placing and canceling orders, or are they just gaining information or perhaps using game theory to compete against other traders?
3515  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2017-12-25] Market manipulation: reality or fantasy on: December 27, 2017, 06:18:12 AM
Unless anyone can produce any real evidence of "manipulation" (which I have yet to see) having any effect on the market, these claims of manipulation must be considered to be fantasy.

People are very susceptible to confirmation bias. They see what they want to believe and tend to ignore evidence to the contrary. Read about "street light interference" and be amazed.
3516  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Growth of Crypto proved Warren Buffet wrong on: December 27, 2017, 05:09:43 AM
Warren Buffet was proven wrong.
He claimed BTC was not a currency since it was valued against the USD
...
The moron of Omaha was wrong

Perhaps you could support your opinions with some facts and actual quotes?

Besides, a large number of the people here on Bitcointalk believe that Bitcoin is no longer a currency, but is now a "store of value". Are they morons, too?
3517  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin and the decimal system on: December 25, 2017, 11:52:31 PM
One bitcoin is the equivalent of 10^8 satoshi. I wonder if someone could explain why one has not defined the factor as a power of 2,
as this would be a naturale choice from my point of view. Is there any deeper meaning in the preference for the decimal system ?
I'll highly appreciate your explanations and/or suggestions.

The number of satoshis in a bitcoin is arbitrary. People are accustomed to the decimal system and defining, for example, one bitcoin as 232 satoshis has no benefit over defining it as 108 satoshis.

From your point of view, why would a binary system be better?
3518  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: TOP 100 RICHEST BITCOIN WALLET ADDRESSES on: December 25, 2017, 10:40:55 PM
Keep in mind that these are addresses and not wallets, and there is very little that you can determine about the people holding bitcoins just from the addresses themselves.

Satoshi is estimated to have up to 800k BTC (which typically gets rounded up to 1 million), but these all remain in the original addresses, each containing 50 BTC.

Many of the top addresses, such as the Bitfinex address, contain bitcoins held for millions of people.
3519  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Cloud Mining on: December 25, 2017, 09:28:53 AM
My friend recommend me HashFlare, not sure whether it is legit

The only sort of legitimate cloud mining site I know is Genesis Mining. To answer your questions though..
Is it good? Depends. What do you mean by "good"? Good in terms of what?
Is it profitable? Definitely not.


My friend told me he invested some money a few months ago and already got the money back and keep making profit, not sure whether to trust him. Maybe another scam.

I had this conversation recently:

Him: "I bought a cloud mining contract at the beginning of the year and I tripled my money."
Me: "Well, if you just bought the bitcoins instead, your profit would have been 10x, so you lost money."
3520  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Demographic of Bit Coin Users on: December 25, 2017, 06:57:43 AM
The average bit coin user appears to

1. have no idea what money actually is
2. have a strong predicament against govermental control in general
3. prefer rationalization over reason, i.e. invents reasons for things he wants to be true like "bit coin's intrinsic value lies in the energy needed to mine it" while discarding obvious counter arguments like "the intrinsic value of my shit is the same whether I press hard or not at all"
4. Have little to no understanding of what constitutes real economic value

Anything else I missed?

1. That applies to most people. However, Bitcoin users tend to know more about money and economic value than most people.
2. Yes, hopefully.
3. A rational person would say that "intrinsic" value doesn't exist, so arguments about the intrinsic value of anything are moot.
4. See #1
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