I would call "active" any account which someone has logged into in the last ~2 weeks.  They don't have to post to be active.

It would still be hard to weed out all the hacked and farmed accounts though.

The person who's made all the Kraken threads that I've seen is here, but he hasn't been active in a long time.

No exchange is 100% reliable and safe when the price goes up very quickly - Coinbase has had similar issues/complaints recently.

If I were you I'd move to Bitstamp.  As Bitcoin exchanges go, they're pretty reliable.

Nice to see one of the rare cases when a Bitcoin company shuts down without obviously stealing everyone's funds.

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IMO Bitcoin lending is a bad idea for any business which doesn't earn all its profit in Bitcoin.  The price fluctuations mean that the interest rate for any business dealing with fiat ends up having to keep up with the price, which is a good 100% or so that most companies can't keep up.

Bitcoin lending will be great when the liquidity and price are high enough for the price to stabilise, but for now it's going to be pretty tough, especially since even people who verify their ID on these services usually end up defaulting.

USDT is a centralised altcoin which is supposed to be pegged in value to the dollar (it's called USD Tether).

The idea is to be able to exchange your cryptocurrencies to USDT so that you have something stable to trade against.

However, USDT has been off the rails since this crypto boom started a couple of months ago, and is no longer pegged to the dollar at all.  Actually it's been all the way to $0.92 and all the way up to about $1.10 (higher on some exchanges).

I personally wouldn't trust it with your funds and would trade with dollars directly if you want to trade altcoins to fiat (through Kraken for example).

The problem with the media mainly paying attention to the price is that of the price then moves down, we start losing the hype and momentum.  If what they spoke about was more meaningful then we wouldn't have so many Bitcoin Obituaries.

Even that comparison wouldn't show the insanity of suggesting that Bitcoin is worth more than gold because if you held all the Bitcoin in existence, it wouldn't actually take more than a million Bitcoin or so to make the price and market cap tumble dramatically, whereas the same sort of scenario with gold is unlikely (people still like it in jewellery etc).

Also, the amount of Bitcoin that's lost is basically unknown and it could be quite a significant amount.

Market cap with cryptocurrencies doesn't mean very much in this context, and it's basically impossible to grasp just how much more valuable gold is.

So you started a new account and the first thing you did was ask for people's money.

We know perfectly well that presales should never be done without a proper ICO, and even when there is a proper ICO we should be doing due diligence on your coin and why it's actually worth buying for anything other than pumps and dumps.

With no actual concept or information here, the only logic that I can use to decide whether to invest in threads like this is something like:

if costofcreatingthread > suggestedinvestment
    invest = true
else
    invest = false

No one sells Bitcoin for PayPal unless they're an idiot.  Chargebacks are possible for months - people like COINMAN1 who traded with PayPal for a while on here could keep going until he's had his service running for several months and still chargeback every last PayPal transaction he sent.

As long as you pick a pool with relatively low fees, you're good.  Kano has fees of 0.9%, compared to Antpool's 2.5% + transaction fees (in practice, well over 10% which ends up being extremely high compared to your profit margin).

Kano also has the ideal amount of hashrate.  It's enough to make the variance pretty insignificant on a monthly basis, but not so much that it contributes to pool centralisation.

Wow.  It must be terrifying for all those faucet claimants, knowing that their payment of 0.0005, which is basically worthless due to the added fees, might not get sent unless they moan about it.

To be frank, faucets are dead now that you have to trust both the faucet and the faucet cache not to steal your funds during the extremely long time you spend getting enough to mean something.

This doesn't mean "use faucethub.io", it means "here's yet another sign to do something that's actually worth your time".

Bitcoin is very hard to track down if they've run it through mixers and spent it by now, which is almost certain.  It's also near certain that if they exchanged it to fiat, they used a peer-to-peer service like LocalBitcoins instead of one in which you have to verify your identity.

OP, I'm sorry but unless you have shitloads of money and/or police level abilities, it'll be hard to track these people down.

Moving between your own wallets involves the exact same process of moving from your wallet to someone else's wallet.  All you have to do is get an address to receive to from your Exodus wallet then copy and paste it into Coinbase (or scan a QR code if it's on a different computer) then hit send.  It should happen instantly, and you do it separately for Bitcoin and for Ether.

For security, I'd have a paper wallet.  The best way to go is usually to expose it to the Internet as little as possible.

I'd say that the convenience of a TREZOR is very competitive.  They market it to newer users and you can use it with other wallets which are also convenient, like Electrum.

Blockchain is far less convenient than a TREZOR because you have to spend most of your time figuring out what fees to pay with their crap estimation.

The size of YoBit's transaction was many times higher than most transactions. I assume that they've received a large number of small deposits recently and didn't want to pay for you, so for someone to accelerate it for you you might have to pay a crazily high fee.

You could also try another paid accelerator and I think ViaBTC offers a service for their customers as well.

You could also try not using YoBit.

Actually, it's not even about gambling with other people's money.  I highly doubt that he genuinely did that - it's much more likely that he just stole everyone's money and then tried to reduce the amount of investigation and hatred coming his way by making a pathetic excuse.

Obviously it would be evil of him to bet with other people's money, but this is the kind of language scammers like to use to disguise their tactics.

Right, let me clear it up about your GPU and mining from your PC.

Mining Bitcoin was originally done with your CPU and/or GPU.  As the value of miners' rewards increased, so did the computing power that they were willing to dedicate to the network.  Eventually specialised machines called ASICs began to dominate the market, so currently you need to buy these and handle them properly to make any profit from them.

But the reason that people mentioned mining with your PC now is because you can "mine Bitcoin" indirectly by mining other cryptocurrencies and then converting them to Bitcoin.  Many of these cryptocurrencies have different mining algorithms which means that ASICs have not been developed for them yet - furthermore, many of the mining algorithms are designed to make ASICs hard to develop.

I know mining altcoins and converting them to Bitcoin sounds hard but it's not.  Search for services like Nicehash, where you can buy sell hashrate for different mining algorithms and you can automatically mine the most profitable coin to receive Bitcoin.

Even the most regulated and legitimised exchanges have to have extremely suspiciously timed outages and potential scam attempts (e.g. BTC-E). 

Unless you're a whale who has legal power and has done extreme due diligence on the exact exchange, or you're a very good trader that makes the risk of being on these crazy exchanges during crazy price fluctuations worth it.

I'm sure Coinbase is pretty "safe" from actually taking your funds but any exchange can be pretty damn annoying and/or suspicious.

Personally I just take my Bitcoin off exchanges when the price goes too crazy.  It saves me from making poor trading decisions due to greed and emotions.

1.  Blockchain.info is a private company and is completely and utterly separate from any development team.

2.  Blockchain.info does not have to be a fully accurate representation of the blockchain.  The only way to get that is by running a node.

3.  You (or let's say, the Blockchain.info wallet) set a low fee on the transaction.  You should set your fees based on this page, based on the assumption that your transactions that have one input will be 226 bytes and each extra input will add at least 148 bytes to the transaction.

Not a lot of lessons to take except "don't buy after the price has just gone up loads unless it's in a dip".  Now/right when it dropped is the time to buy, or possibly if it drops a bit lower.  The time to buy is whenever newbies are convinced that it's time to sell.

Unfortunately Adsense offers pretty high revenues and convenient systems due to its monopoly over advertising.  I say "unfortunately", because it's unhealthy for blog users to feel like they don't have enough other options or can't effectively try advertising themselves.

The difference is that income from blogs is cumulative just like the user base.  The longer you run it and the more quality blog posts you produce, the more people begin coming to your site which you can use for referrals and sponsorships.  So for many people they end up being far more profitable than more accessible tasks.