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781  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: How to pay taxes? on: January 29, 2015, 08:29:19 AM
Thank you that document is dated 2014, I will read it now, my next immediate question however is that I may or may not have purchased and sold large amounts of bitcoins in the 2011 - 2012 time frame and may or may not still have some of those bitcoins. Am I obligated to pay taxes on capital gains made two years ago even though this document from the IRS is dated 2014? Would that be considered late reporting technically if i did?

I don't think that you should report your earnings from 2011 - 2012. the law is not retroactive.


They didn't make new laws, they just describe how already existing laws apply to Bitcoin. It's the first sentence in the IRS-document.

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This notice describes how existing general tax principles apply to transactions using
virtual currency.
782  Local / Off-Topic (Deutsch) / Re: DKB Antrag abgelehnt on: January 28, 2015, 05:22:06 PM
Absagegrund: gar kein Schufa-Eintrag (auch kein Positiv-Merkmal).

Mach mal:
- leg auf diese Adresse ein eBay-Account an
- registrier dich mit dieser Adresse bei Sipgate

Beides legt Dir ein Schufa-Eintrag mit diesen og. Positionen als Positiv-Merkmal.

Und dann beantrage nochmal DKB, wenn die ablehnen mach einen andere Bank.

Deutsche Banken die garantiert ohne Schufa-Einträge Girokonten geben sind:
- Sparkasse
- Postbank
- Wirecard Bank


Wenn Du mehr brauchst poste noch einmal.


HTH
Kein Schufa-Eintrag ist ein Absagegrund? Verkehrte Welt ...
Das mit dem EBay-Account werde ich mal probieren. Danke.
783  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Winklevii will become one of great capitalist barons of this century! on: January 28, 2015, 04:44:11 PM
The Winklevoss twins have a track record of betting on the wrong horse.

What were those wrong horses?
They trusted Zuckerberg to code their social network ConnectU, he betrayed them and ran away with the idea: fail.
They invested in BitInstant but it went bust as the founder got prosecuted for money laundering: fail.
They are starting an official bitcoin exchange but it's already too late because CoinBase has the first mover advantage and backing from NYSE: fail.
They invested millions over millions in Bitcoin without realizing that it is crippled by technical limitations and already earmarked for replacement by newer and better technology: fail.

The only mistake they made was to trust Zuckerberg when they were teensgers imo
They have amassed a fortune already, more money than most people will ever see in their dreams

1.2 million Facebook shares -  win
1% of the total btc -  win
Their own regulated exchange -  win
First btc etf (if approved)  - win
Made money from bitinstant but avoided the legal issues unlike Charlie - win
They also have tens of  millions of dollars in cash if not hundreds so even if everything imploded tomorrow they would be fine - win

Seem to be doing OK for a couple of young guys.... But I'm sure you could do it better, right?





elite uni - win
gold medals - win

...
I just looked them up on Wikipedia. They don't seem to have done anything besides Facebook and winning a gold metal.
I expected more ...
784  Local / Off-Topic (Deutsch) / DKB Antrag abgelehnt on: January 28, 2015, 04:17:50 PM
Hi,

ich bin Österreicher und wollte ein Konto bei der DKB anlegen.
Heute habe ich ein Schreiben erhalten, dass ich abgelehnt wurde ohne nähere Angabe.

Ich habe noch nie einen Kredit genommen, bin also schuldenfrei und habe auch noch nie eine Zahlung nicht getätigt.
Irgendjemand eine Ahnung woran das liegen könnte?
785  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Taylor Swift Twitter and Instagram Hacked: Private Photos For !Bitcoin! on: January 28, 2015, 03:29:56 PM
Could someone explain, how you hack a Twitter account?
I mean, you either hack Twitter(and would have access to all accounts or at least, the ones with bad passwords) or you try something on the user-site e.g. keylogger.
Is there a third way?

Bruteforce w/ rainbow tables would do it.

Also, it baffles me as to why someone would actually pay money for someones photos. I mean in all seriousness, I would prefer to pay nothing and watch/look at porn that is better and probably chicks that are more sexy then a celebrity's photo that is most likely photoshopped. I guess some folks have fetishes that they just can't control XD
You need the password hash to use a rainbow table. So, the Twitter database had to be compromissed for that.
Brute Force shouldn't work, since there should be a limit on login attempts.
Do they really have such weak security?
786  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Taylor Swift Twitter and Instagram Hacked: Private Photos For !Bitcoin! on: January 28, 2015, 12:24:49 PM
Could someone explain, how you hack a Twitter account?
I mean, you either hack Twitter(and would have access to all accounts or at least, the ones with bad passwords) or you try something on the user-site e.g. keylogger.
Is there a third way?
You could bruteforce the account, but Twitter hasn't learned its lesson if it thinks Taylor Swift forgot her password and tried to login 9123891723 times...
I was under the impression that every big website would be protected against simple brute force ...
787  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Taylor Swift Twitter and Instagram Hacked: Private Photos For !Bitcoin! on: January 28, 2015, 12:09:17 PM
Could someone explain, how you hack a Twitter account?
I mean, you either hack Twitter(and would have access to all accounts or at least, the ones with bad passwords) or you try something on the user-site e.g. keylogger.
Is there a third way?
788  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: McDonald's accepting Bitcoins (not really) on: January 28, 2015, 11:09:58 AM
My life will be complete once I can bring a girl over McDonalds and pay happy meals with my smartphone.
But suddenly your smartphone have only 5% battery and die when you already make order


he will leave smartphone as collateral until he find a way to pay. Or something like that
I think, the easiest solution is, that they just plug in your smartphone. They already have free WiFi, why not Free Charging

http://www.cnet.com/news/starbucks-to-hook-up-wireless-charging-stations-in-shops/#!

Hope they can solve the every-device-a-different-charger problem
You mean the "Everyone uses the same charger, but Apple"-problem?
789  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: McDonald's accepting Bitcoins (not really) on: January 28, 2015, 11:01:51 AM
My life will be complete once I can bring a girl over McDonalds and pay happy meals with my smartphone.
But suddenly your smartphone have only 5% battery and die when you already make order


he will leave smartphone as collateral until he find a way to pay. Or something like that
I think, the easiest solution is, that they just plug in your smartphone. They already have free WiFi, why not Free Charging

http://www.cnet.com/news/starbucks-to-hook-up-wireless-charging-stations-in-shops/#!
790  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Winklevii will become one of great capitalist barons of this century! on: January 28, 2015, 10:40:23 AM
Funny how they seem to manage to grab magnanimous numbers out of the air like that. Sorry if I seem too skeptical but things haven't gone as well as anyone would have hoped for bitcoin. But then these guys come up with an ETF. Bold move if you ask me but well worth the risk. Let's hope they do succeed in "building infrastructure aimed at legitimizing and securing the currency".
Are there any predictions from serious sources(not anonymous accounts on this forum) that became completely untrue?
It is not a surprise that the hopes of uneducated people(I include myself into this group) don't come true.
791  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Bitcoin Foundation Must Remove Satoshi as Founder on: January 28, 2015, 09:41:42 AM
Btw. if SN was still alive, he would be resigning his seat due to infiltration by criminals, pedophiles and other scum.

To all the believers of the "I am not Dorian Nakamoto" message: SNs Gmx email account has been hacked! Did you forget that? It was very easy for the hacker to post messages anywhere in the name of SN, but it was nearly impossible for the hacker to sign that message. Satoshi would know about the importance for a proof, if he wants the people to believe what he wrote, he would definitely sign that.

I am still pretty sure, he is dead.
Satoshi wanted to disappear forever. Coming back, just to resign from his seat, would be a really unnecessary thing.
792  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin irony on: January 28, 2015, 09:22:17 AM
Tadaa, two years later we are at that precise point, as predicted by me.

Yes we could remain loyal to the 50%< (or more precisely 100%) of the hashing power which what everyone who has half a brain would do but Gavin is Gavin.

What did you predict?  Sorry, I just read this whole thread again, and I must've missed it.
He "predicted" that Gavin will propose a hard fork. Big deal.

His exact words were
Quote
Gavin could replace the bitcoin-qt client at bitcoin.org overnight and let the stupid masses that don't know squat empower his flawed decision.
which doesn't have anything to do, with what is happening right now.
793  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Elephants in the room, both good and bad on: January 28, 2015, 08:58:04 AM
We cant have centralized mining.. its something i dont like about Bitcoin, mining tends to be centralized. It would only take a small missile to ruin a big mining facility and bitcoin would collapse.
Ideally we want it dispersed not all in the same place
No, it wouldn't.
There are lots on mining facilities around the world, taking one down, doesn't has that big of an impact.
http://opengear.com/articles/bitcoin-mining-facility-fire-highlights-benefits-environmental-monitoring-devices
794  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Winklevii will become one of great capitalist barons of this century! on: January 28, 2015, 08:42:46 AM
7 years and the estimation of Bitcoin's userbase is only 250,000 persons.  Whatsapp is newer than Bitcoin and has 600 million users.  There's actually countless examples of tech and products that all acquired more users in their first year than Bitcoin has done over 6+ years.  
I have one word for you: media
(besides other reasons, why you can't compare Bitcoin to a messenger)

Media?  Bitcoin is mentioned more than Whatsapp..

What other reasons?  Maybe you should tell PayPal who has 150 million users and they exclusively deal with digital payments.   Cheesy

Reason only 250,000 people use Bitcoin is because its' technology isn't ready for mass adoption (if we had millions of users then we'll have terabyte sized blockchains and hours long confirmations), miner whores who keep on dumping, too many crooks and scammers, et cetera.

Yes, there is more bad news about Bitcoin than about WhatsApp. Who wants to use "drug money"? Who wants to buy into a "ponzi"?
Mass adoption can't occur as long as mass media focus on bad news about Bitcoin. The masses are not tech savy, they don't look into a new technology, just because they are curious. They look into it, because mass media told them to do so.
795  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Full Node on: January 28, 2015, 08:11:15 AM
Do I understand this correctly, that asic miner aren't full nodes but "lightweight" nodes.

What does it mean? What functionality is lacking with asic miners?
Full Node means, that you have the whole blockchain on your computer.
I am not sure, if asic miners are no full nodes. I thought, you would need the blockchain to mine, put thinking about it now, it should also work with getting the needed data from a centralized server.
796  Other / Archival / Re: Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System, fed paper released 26 Jan 2015 on: January 28, 2015, 07:54:35 AM
Its pretty big. Can you summarise?

Fed: "Ohshit, we got a lot of catching up to do". Wink

Only part way through it but the gist so far is as little as they'd like to admit it Bitcoin has them panicking and they need urgent planning to bring the industry together and come up with a competitor, this was partly set in motion in 2012 with the intention of completion within 10 years but they're pulling out the stops.

It's kind of funny as they're trying to copy the community and some of their findings may have been researched actively here. It also looks like they may be setting up their own public discussion forum too, the trolling there will be epic, payback's a bitch Smiley They seem to be trying to copy open source development to a degree... but by committee with competing companies that have been trying to get the market to themselves for years. Bring popcorn, 10 years sounds optimistic Smiley
hmm ...
I always wanted to try out some trolling.
That might be fun.
797  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Bitcoin Traveller's Guide to the Galaxy on: January 28, 2015, 07:48:50 AM
The article suggests the use of https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com, which is not a very secure way in reality. You never know if they are storing your private key. A better way to create a paper wallet is to download https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org and run it in an offline machine.

https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com uses Javascript just like bitaddress.org to generate keys on the clientside.

So there is no chance that the Private keys and public are stored on their database ?? I guess we can't never know for sure
Sure, you can. Just unplug from the internet.
If you even feel more paranoid, use it from a Live OS, like Tails.
798  Other / Off-topic / Re: Age of bitcoin users. on: January 28, 2015, 07:46:48 AM
I am a girl that just became 18
(or maybe I am a dog, who knows)
799  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Winklevii will become one of great capitalist barons of this century! on: January 28, 2015, 07:43:47 AM
7 years and the estimation of Bitcoin's userbase is only 250,000 persons.  Whatsapp is newer than Bitcoin and has 600 million users.  There's actually countless examples of tech and products that all acquired more users in their first year than Bitcoin has done over 6+ years. 
I have one word for you: media
(besides other reasons, why you can't compare Bitcoin to a messenger)
800  Local / Projektentwicklung / Re: Bitcoin-Einfach.de – Infos und Hilfe rund um Bitcoin on: January 27, 2015, 04:37:02 PM
Deine Gliederung der verschiedenen Einkaufsmöglichkeiten nach Bitcoins würde ich etwas erweitern.

  • Bitcoin Börsen - a la bitcoin.de, kraken
  • Bitcoin Markplätze - Treffpunkt von privaten Käufern und privaten Verkäufern von Bitcoins a la localbitcoins
  • Bitcoin Wechselstuben - Umwechselmöglichkeit von Euro/Dollar in Bitcoin und zurück a la happycoin, btcexpress,

Was hältst Du von dieser Gliederung?

Gibt es neben Localbitcoins.com denn noch ähnliche Plattformen welche in diese Einteilung passen würden? Oder meinst du mit "Treffpunkt von privaten Käufern und privaten Verkäufern", dass auch Suche-/Biete-Kategorien in Foren wie hier in Bitcointalk darunter fallen würden?

Sofern genügend Einträge bei den Markplätzen zusammen kommen, halte ich die von dir vorgeschlagene Unterscheidung zwischen Börsen und Markplätzen für eine gute Idee. Neben Localbitcoins sind mir aber (bis auf diverse Foren) noch keine ähnlichen Alternativen bekannt.
In Mycelium gibt es ein System für den Kauf und Verkauf.
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