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look around at any thread that contains the name Satoshi. there is always at least one poster who replies that he/she is satoshi. always one line. usually with a smilie too.
report him for shit-posting
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and stick to that list justinetime posted above. Use only trusted members for escrow. too many scammers out there.
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you wont make money mining. its true, even cloud mining is not guaranteed (although some do ok, if you sell your hashes at the right time-still risky) best to buy and hold btc. any honest member here will tell you that.
btc is money, digital money. yes it is intangible, but I ask you this; What do you think using your bank card or credit card is? it does a transaction digitally and is intangible money.
most money is digital already and has been for a long time. BTC is just more efficient, not to mention transparent.
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And whats wrong with ledger exactly? I dont leave it lying around or take it out in public even. I use all the precautions I use for my trusted home computer. I just consider it 2fauth for my wallet. pretty much what it is, isn't it?
it's more than 2fa as it allows you to check what is signed and actually does the signature they dont get enough press, since "search" is disabled here, I have trouble finding their threads.
we're pretty active IRL, through conferences, partnerships, and so on can someone tell me a "worst case scenario" "what could possibly go wrong?" sort of critique of their product? I've heard very confusing technical explanations as to why there are vulnerabilities with it, but can someone ELI5?
worst case scenario today is some specifically designed malware that would sniff enough data of the security card to be able to rebuild it after several transactions are done, and bypass this security. This issue will be closed by the new second factor method used in the upcoming firmware, using your smartphone as a secure screen and making the full transaction experience smoother, or if you don't have a smartphone or don't wish to use it, by being able to print multiple security cards. security is important to me, should I be worried about my BTC in my ledger?
no concerns so far. great, thanks! especially "worst case" because I rarely plug it in, I just send coins to its receiving address. I'm really happy with my ledger! At first I thought the case was a little off, but it was just sticky and now it folds out smooth, no worries. That was the extent of my complaints! At 1/4 the price of a trezor, and no "moving parts" meaning, it doesn't have a led screen etc, there's nothing to break down. And with this new trezor license baloney I am doubly pleased. This Hardware wallet is everything I need (yes I am singing your praises, youre welcome  ) Still, everyone else seems to be in love with the trezor, until recently at least. lol. So, to all you out there looking at hardware wallets. forget trezor (over-priced, overly-complicated hardware, sketchy devs) and pay less for more with ledger! caveat - I am in no way affiliated with the good people at ledger, just a happy customer. |
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"big news coming" or "we don't want to spoil the surprise" usually means "no actual news here, but don't let that stop you from watching our superbowl ad, thinking about McD's all week, and talking about it too" It's called "viral Marketing" and we are helping the evil clown right here and right now! If you want to pay 5$ for a stomach ache, come on over to my house, gimme yr fiver, and I'll punch you in the gut. Believe it or not, it's actually a lot healthier option. McScrotum's accepting BTC would be a huge BTC event, normalizing BTC usage for the great unwashed, but it will not affect the price b/c they just cash out every sale immediately. see; overstock.com. Still, I will believe it when I see it. Until then...Think about those delicious burgers!  |
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Of course readership can be less then distribution, and yes I am the subject in the article. Vancouver and the GVA in general are really turning into a strong point for BTC in Canada. I didn't hear about the Victoria unit but our's are doing fine, we don't take a salary from them , just cover costs so theirs alot less pressure.
Trev
cool. yeah, I didn't mean to sound cynical, like I said (prolly should of just erased first line there, sorry) but yeah. There's a little free paper in every community, and I know they get read, I read them always. good press! I heard the BTC ATM at Uptown Mall in Victoria went out of business, but it was merely hearsay. Just commenting that with BTC price in the dumps right now, I think any BTC related business is going to have their work cut out for them. Sounds like you're covered. Kudos! +1000 & all the best. Hope I get the chance to use one of your machines some time soon. Peace |
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yes, because obviously I can't tell which posts are bunk and which are ok. 0 out of 3 correct in my reportings yesterday. The weird thing is, I see these threads, that look like throw aways, and maybe they are, meaning; some puppet throws out some generalized statement or question, like "do you like bitcoin?" and it looks like shit, but all of the sudden dozens of users are commenting and a discussion crops up despite the weak starter. Like I said before; who's to say the average gold-farmer can't think of relevant things to say? EDIT- 2 seconds after I posted this, looky what I stumbled across in the main discussion https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=12156.msg10311836#msg10311836The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.) looks like they have an instructions sheet now |
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I don't understand how it is bots? I am seeing tons of new accounts who put questionable posts, but they seem like they are controlled by a human at least. Is the bot merely used to generate the account?
Its hard for me to report, because most of the time I'm busy actually trying to follow what the adults are saying in the threads, and it is very distracting trying to figure out if these goofs are spam-puppets or just totally stupid? I'm going to go back over my today's activity and try and find the few ones I've seen this afternoon and do some reporting. It's Time!
P.S. There have been these weird "I lost my coins to website x" threads popping up too. Real users are suggesting that these are controlled by organized crime, trying to get help with hacked coins (?) I'm sure the MODs are aware of these.
let me go and report some of them now. You all should, we need to be more vigilant, clean this place up a little, protect our community. Its becoming embarrassing, and not good for BTC's image. And, maybe you've noticed, I'm REALLY hard to embarrass
UPDATE- ok, I just reported a few, mostly thread starters. It is hard to tell sometimes, because, I really feel that it is ok to go for lulz sometimes, and if you do, keep it brief, so serious readers can skip it easy. I just dont always know, seems like a lot of the threads in main discussion are frivolous, but some have substantial and/or thought-out content. Of course, a well trained gold-farming slave poster would be able to construct posts with a little meaning at least. I think the gold-farmers could be getting wise?
anyway-bed time for me. will do my part to report every new instance I see here tomorrow. g'nite
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yeah OP, maybe if you give us the addy's and tx of those coins' movements we can look at the blockchain and help you out. I would be very interested to see where they came from...
I realize organized crime people are "Strong like bull, smart like streetcar" but proper gangsters should stick to shaking down old ladies and pimping 8 year old girls. Leave the magical internets munies to the people with 23 pairs of chromosomes, ok?
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...until the inevitable Big Mac Hack Attack TM.actually, this stupid and untrue story went viral fast. My non-tech-savvy, non-interested in BTC wife told me Mickey Deez was accepting BTC a few days ago. dafuq is that? Disinformation is better circulated than actual news now? and McDon's is bad for BTC IMHO, I don't even like to use their washroom, and I only have to smell the fries from across the street to get diarrhea. It is good if you are in a hurry though. You can just hand your buddy 5$ and say "Hey man, I can't break for lunch. Would you mind flushing this down the toilet for me?"  "I will control all your cereals private keys" |
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I see your point, and it reminds us that we as humans are out of place in this world. Of all the animals, we alone need money.
In fact, a carrot is a close as a rabbit gets to a diamond.
Now that made my day. |
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And whats wrong with ledger exactly? I dont leave it lying around or take it out in public even. I use all the precautions I use for my trusted home computer. I just consider it 2fauth for my wallet. pretty much what it is, isn't it?
they dont get enough press, since "search" is disabled here, I have trouble finding their threads.
can someone tell me a "worst case scenario" "what could possibly go wrong?" sort of critique of their product? I've heard very confusing technical explanations as to why there are vulnerabilities with it, but can someone ELI5?
security is important to me, should I be worried about my BTC in my ledger?
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I was looking at my AM spreadsheet tonight.
There are 2 shares of AM I bought for 4 BTC each.
And, 1 share for 4.2 BTC.
I died a little inside.
I didnt do quiet so bad as you but I certainly "bought high, sold low" I felt a little better after I was able to recoup my position due to dive-bombing prices, still... now its "bought low, sell even lower?" man, I sure hope not! I've been beaten black and blue in this securities game. Labcoin, ActiveMining... ugh! I'm really pulling for AM to save my bacon, at least partially, but things do not look great here. I do not expect to see 4BTC/share again. That is simply unrealistic, you know, but if fuckin FriedCat would do us all a little tiny solid and fuckin turn on some self mining for the benefit of AM holders...just a bit of divs... I am convinced share value could approach 0.5, even 1 BTC if the divs are ok and regular. Instead any hope of this is gone due to AMhash getting all the hashes. I really would like to see the financial breakdown of that deal, because I know AM needs to reinvest, BUT, I don't especially trust their business acumen, even if mine sucks. EDIT-yeah! either that^^^^, or what xhomerx10 says, below \/\/\/\/ |
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so the tri-cities is Port Moody, Coquiltlam, and Maple Ridge? I've lived here for years in BC, heard the term, but only had a vaguest notion of what tri-cities is supposed to mean. I lived in Vancouver, now Victoria and Tri-Cities always made me think it was 3 USA cities. It just sounds American to me  750 000? yeah, I could see circulation being that high, doesn't mean every paper gets picked up and read, but good for you! I always flip through those sort of rags when I see them! If I lived in the Tri-Cities I'm sure I would have already seen it today at the coffee shop! The pacific north west seems to be a bit of a BTC hub, eh? This is a good article, I'm sorry I sound cynical, I've been arguing and stressing all day, but good on you (I'm assuming you are one of the subjects of the interview, not the publisher of TriCity News) I hope you manage this well, I've heard a BTC ATM here in Victoria just went bankrupt... not an easy market right now. hope you can weather the storms and hold your position! If things go well you will be very well positioned indeed! |
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yeah, cough syrup is for poor people. The Wealthy Elite only reach for the best...  100% pure AND a priceless antique, maybe pick up some nice collectible works of art while your at it   |
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Is that what the "Wealthy Elite Gentleman" is reduced to now? Cough syrup junkies?
Jesus man, get a hold of yourself. I'm hurtin' too, we all are. It's bad, but it's not that bad.
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@albert11
I love this idea, and also how you think! I have been saying for a while that there needs to be a way to get the consumer to use BTC without having to even think about it. Without even necessarily knowing they are using it. It is the "killer app" and so far, your dead simple idea is the closest thing yet.
There are hurdles to pass though, not easy ones either. Two I can think of are;
a) Regulation. Arduous, expensive, painfully slow, could run up against better funded opponent lobbies... regulation is huge and tough. Never mind the banks...Many true BTC believers, even, will hate hate hate the very notion. regulation could very well strangle your baby to death. just sayin~
b) The "holding $ on an exchange" part. This could be very problematic. None of the exchanges seem to be able to actually hang onto your "held" funds. I try to never leave anything on there for long, you are always taking your chances, if they don't get hacked, or shuttered by the (ach) regulators, then they outright abscond with the $ and that's the end of that. Not saying you have anything of the sort in mind, just that it has happened so many times that nobody has any faith left, BTC believers and non BTC users alike.
I like your enthusiasm, its the start of many a great career, but I'm also betting that these sort of apps are already in mind by the big players, they simply need regulatory approval and security0.2 first.
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true runpaint, and, of course, sentiment is at an all time low, maybe, at least it's down there anyways. Sentiment can make or break, and there's a lot of wonky news, good and bad, plus there are many who bought waaaaay high and are most likely losing sleep/hair/mental health right now. The tears are louder than the success stories. I'm really hoping for the moon, its why I got in, SPENDING WAY LESS THAN I CAN AFFORD TO LOSE, unlike like many a many crazy ATH adopters who are no doubt pretty sour on the whole crypto scene right about ... the last year or so! This is what I see in my crystal ball; BTC is not like the internet. BTC is like mobile phones. They existed, at the consumer level, in the 80s! they were prohibitively expensive, unwieldy huge, you could only call other people who owned one, they became the butt of jokes. The general public was loath to accept the idea, no one wanted it except insane yuppies (see American Psycho) Now every single last one of you, your parents, their parents, your kids, everyone you see or meet... they all have a mobile phone. The very meaning of the word "phone" has changed. the world changed. give BTC a few more years of trials and tribulations. If it survives...moon. If not...c'est la vie. Its only money...  |
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I use a ledger, but looked at trezor first. Tbh I chose ledger because price, both seemed to be very secure.
Today on reddit I am seeing trezor running into some problems. They put their software on github; open source, and now some manufacturers in Asia are creating very cheap knock offs. Trezor wants to change their license now.
Boy am I glad I chose ledger. The very fact that trezor put their stuff out there as open source then turns around and complains that someone else is using it, this alone ruins any good will I might have had. If they didn't expect this to happen, what else are they not expecting?
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