Elon has implied that he's fairly friendly to Bitcoin too which is always a plus. Although, I'm sure he didn't take kindly the recent Twitter compromise.

I'd say its pretty surprising. Amazon provides general consumer goods, which usually are bought regularly, and everyone needs. Tesla, is a company that provides a niche car company. Not everyone owns a car, and not everyone likes the idea of owning an electric car. While I do agree that pretty much everything Elon tries, he succeeds in he's also done it at a mind boggling rate. He's propelled himself forward as one of the richest people in the world in a very short amount of time compared to his competitors.  

Yeah, I believe he was co founder of Paypal, runs SpaceX, and also owns the boring company which is building "3D dimensional roads" by utilizing tunnels. Although, I probably agree with you, like I said I was quite surprised by this fact once I happened upon it. I do prefer Elon to Bezos personally. Mainly due to his success with SpaceX.

I do get that, usually reporting anything is a thankless task. I can just imagine that domain registars probably appoint a very small team, with limited funding to look into these issues which would explain the long delays. I doubt that they look into it in complete depth either.

I'm not overly familiar with Google Safe Browsing, but I'm assuming that this works very much the same way, except instead of effecting the domain, they simply blacklist in on their search engine. The only issue with that, is not everyone uses the Google search engine. Although, Google is probably massively dominant in general, Bitcoin is a little more specific, and usually means people value privacy a little more. So, I'd like to think that a lot of Bitcoin users, who are susceptible to this kind of attack are using a more privacy oriented search engine.

I don't mind advertisements, as long as they aren't the usual drab. A few places actually do advertisements well, but its not common practice. Its usually using the business model of lets make as much money as possible, and we don't care what we advertise, which is something that I can't agree on. Adverts should be handpicked, and relevant to a websites users. No advert that is unrelated should be displayed.

I don't think its frowned upon by the community, rather its frowned upon by those that own the streaming sites since they aren't getting a cut. Although, there's ways to incorporate Bitcoin into the streaming site, and allow a cut very much like you would with traditional currencies.

I personally don't think its a good idea right now. Not in its current climate, because I'm just trying to think of the demographic of Bitcoin. Most of its users prefer privacy, and tend to stay away from revealing their identity. I suppose streaming doesn't always have to reveal your identity though.

That's not suggesting that Bitcoin's demographic wont change down the line though.

That's true, but what I think Wired meant with "destroyed" is that they simply got rid of the credentials or forgot them. So, in return "destroying" them, but not something that can be verified. Unless, you consider that the coins haven't moved since, verification.

Depends on where their moral compass is at, but also their confidence tackling the legality side of things. I wouldn't know who would be considered the owner, since Wired stated they destroyed or discarded their coins, surely that's giving up ownership? Although, then there's the issue that Wired employs journalists, or writers to write about these sort of things, so they could probably argue that the employee opened a wallet on their behalf, and discarded the coins without permission.

Obviously, this is speculation since none of us know the exact situation of how this happened. I'm sure they are well aware of that situation now.

As suggested you can actually gather as much information about the website as possible, possibly even doing your own digging to see if you can find out who owns the website. Once, you have gathered enough information, you can present it to your local authorities. This doesn't usually yield any results unfortunately, but if you can gather as much information as possible, and maybe even prove x owns x, then you might have a chance.

Otherwise, your coins are lost, and you'll have to just take it on the chin, and learn from the experience. I usually, recommend during thorough research on a website, before actually using it. This can be done by searching up their name on a search engine, or even asking here. Its quite common for people to come here, and ask about a certain service. Usually, when you have to ask its usually because there isn't much preexisting information on a company, which is a red flag anyway.

I guess the only difference is banks actively try, and prevent this from happening through confirmation calls, which can be an annoyance when you are absolutely sure the company your sending to is legitimate.

Typical tabloid stuff. They make some pretty substantiated claims, and then do the shock horror equivalent by saying they are destroying their coins, trying to imply that its worthless. I imagine the employee that had to delete those articles had a good ol' chuckle.

Destroying usually means just purposely losing it. Although, there probably isn't any way of proving no one didn't keep a backup. I don't you would ever find out, since if someone did make a copy somewhere, that doesn't belong to them. I think it would probably belong to Wired. So, if an employee did, its not their money.

Although, I would like to think that someone would have piped up if they saw the current Bitcoin price, and still has a copy. I imagine Wired would give them a nice bonus that year.

Anything is life comes with effort, and therefore you'll need to put in the work to be able to get to the higher earning bracket. This usually, means several years of building your skills up, until eventually you are able to either work for someone with your skill set, or set out on your own. We all started somewhere, and there's many people here that come from poor backgrounds, and have made a living out of Bitcoin. Remember, you don't always have to do what everyone else is doing. Bitcoin, so happens to have great opportunities for various business ideas, because its still in its infancy, and therefore the plethora of businesses who deal in traditional fiat currencies, are not dominating the industry in Bitcoin.

Everyone should have time to learn, unless you're terminally ill then you can find a way. In fact, life is all about learning from your experiences, and applying that to the future.

I'd encourage you to get off the Blockchain (I'm assuming that's where you are storing your wallet), and look at storing your wallet on a local machine so that you, and only you have access to the private keys, and preferably hasn't touched the internet upon creation.

So, before you even begin to think about investing, you should look at the responsibility that you have for your coins. You cannot rely on a third party such as a bank, and you really shouldn't rely on a exchange or other website wallet. Take responsibility for your coins, learn about the different types of wallets, and make your own judgement on what would suit you the best. For example, Electrum might suit you if you want to quickly access coins without having to download the whole blockchain or perhaps you want additional security via a hardware wallet.

Unfortunately,  there is pros, and cons to each, and every method of storing your coins, but fortunately there's plenty of information out there for you to read up on those.

This reminded me of this one story I believe from the United Kingdom, and I actually think it was Wales lost his hard drive by throwing it out, and it was worth 4 million several years ago. Today, it would be worth a lot more. I don't think he ever found the hard drive, and somewhere this hard drive exists, potentially still in a good enough state to rescue. The amount was something like 7500 Bitcoin, which is worth a lot of money these days.

Honestly, I don't know how they could have verified that this guy had that amount, and wasn't just looking for a limelight. However, it must be absolutely sickening looking at the price of Bitcoin today.

You can read about it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-25134289

Depending on the format you choose to store your credentials it could still be considered unsafe. Since, if you store it offline, but digitally there's mechnical failure of the hard drive, or there's a damage risk etc. If you store the credentials on a piece of paper, that piece of paper might get lost, or damaged. No matter what format you choose, there will always be some sort of risk to it.

The best policy is looking to reduce those risks as much as possible, and having several safety ropes if things go south. Of course, this takes additional effort, so you rarely see people taking the extra precautions.

Absolutely, I wouldn't change a thing. The freedom that taking responsibility for your own money gives is fantastic. I tend to avoid third parties as much as possible, of course I do rely on some as I do believe we all do, but Bitcoin has really given a new perspective on life; that we don't always have to listen to these people telling us that we need them for a safety net.

Depends, Bitcoin seems to encourage those that seek privacy to use it. Therefore, a platform awarding Bitcoin, might not be the best idea especially since this platform would have little reason, other than providing Bitcoin compared to the competitors. I do believe, users on the popular streaming sites allow you to accept donations via Bitcoin, so there's already a place that you could accept donations via that. I think I've seen streamers at least put it in their description if not within the stream itself.

The key element for this to be successful is; Why would people use you over those that have been trading for years, and how do you plan on getting enough trust to be considered trustworthy. I'm assuming you are aiming to provide a automated system, which allows for accepting, and rejecting if a trade was successful. The only thing is; This can quickly become a shitstorm. Many sites already provide a escrow, such as escrow.com which isn't exclusive to cryptocurrencies, and can be used for most things. How do you intend on competing with them?

As for your request, we can't really give any meaningful feedback without being told the features of the site, and how it all fits together.

I've almost to the point that it becomes tedious to send or receive coins, because I have to triple check everything. I've definitely made mistakes in the past with traditional fiat currencies, and Bitcoin. Unfortunately, with Bitcoin its very easy to misplace a decimal point, since you work with decimal points much more often than traditional currencies.

I've also lost wallets because of complacency. The thing is, we are all human, and therefore we all make the same mistakes. Software tries to prevent that by being as intuitive as possible. Although, because of the nature of Bitcoin, there's no safety net to rely on. Trusting a single point system of failure isn't the best idea. Hence why seeds are generated, and hopefully kept in a safe place, and potentially even duplicated to avoid issues of losing one of them.

Although, this is true, and will forever remain true. At least, getting certain domains banned might prevent very similar names from being generated. I'm not sure the normal process of web registars when banning an account. Do they remove the domain, and put it back on the market, or do they completely ban it from everyone? I'd assume the latter. Therefore, reporting very similar, and therefore easier to fall for would be beneficial in the long run, as eventually they will have to use vastly different addresses.

Pretty much every time Bitcoin gets a lot of exposure, or Bitcoin booms in price there's a influx of new users trying to scam, and earn a quick buck. I expect to see a lot of reputation threads, and debates all over the forum in the next few weeks, if the price remains at around this value.

If Bitcoin has a "correction" or drops back down, I'd expect a ton of people claiming Bitcoin has finally died, and promote their altcoin scams. I think its the general life cycle of the cryptocurrency industry.

Check the Meta section over at: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0

There's plenty of guides over in that section, and links to the rules. Alternatively, you can use the built in search function for anything specific that you want to know about the forum. Otherwise, use a search engine with the parameter "Site:Bitcointalk.org" <search query>.

Honestly, you'll learn a lot as you go along, but navigating the forum, and learning the rules is a good start.

Checking the mining section. Mining support, if you have any specific requests regarding your hardware, and how to get started. Do note, that mining Bitcoin on GPUS is pretty redundant at this point.

Yeah, I heard it was a short turn around from his rugby career, well at least sort of short compared to how long some of these dart players have been playing.

I'd have to agree for the most part. I know he's caused some drama when losing before, and its always easier to be humble when you win, its when things don't go your way that people tend to let their character shine. Honestly, I know it brings a bit of drama to the game, but I'm not a big fan of the antics. We were discussing early how nice darts is to watch due to the more relaxing atmosphere, but Price has deviated from that in the past. Hopefully, now that hes a winner, he'll quite those antics in the future.

Now that you've already profited, you could take it out, and in the future you could take a more cautious route to prevent losing money if you so wish. For example, if you had earned 100 dollars, you could only reinvest 50 dollars, and wait until it comes up. If it never rises, you would have lost 50 dollars, but still profited 50 from the initial return. This isn't the most efficient trading method, but its a way of assuring you've always got a profit. You simply keep reducing the amounts until you are comfortable, and set a hard limit. Of course, that's assuming you want to play safe.

Well it kind of does, depending on how you take that advice. I've never heard any respectable person claim that Linux was impenetrable, but what I have heard, and surveyed is that Linux is used by a small amount of the population with Windows leading the market which means, if you want to infect as many computers as possible, your attention is likely going to set on Windows users. However, that doesn't mean that there aren't malicious code that runs on Linux, its just less common. Probably, severely less common (without looking up statistics). It also depends entirely on how the user is setup, are they operating from a root user etc.

My advice is usually based on how "paranoid" a user is. If you are very security conscious (for a better word) then assume that every device can be compromised, from all sorts of attacks. Buying used computers probably isn't recommended, and even choosing where you buy mining equipment is probably worth it. Assuring browser is secure, by preventing scripts from running, and probably by only visiting websites you know you can 100% trust.

Linux is more difficult to compromise, and there's various distributions which handle it better, and worse. By far, any operating system which uses isolation, or compartmentalization is best. Qubes OS, can isolate software into a container, you can virtually separate your  network from within Qubes OS, and various other things. However, the compatibility of this is the issue, even down to the hardware level.

Absolutely, to the best of your ability avoid changing your mindset just because a system offers better protection. Anti virus, Linux, and various other protection against viruses, can actually we worse for some people due to the fact that they'll drop their guard, and let complacently creep in.

Obviously, no one is perfect, and I believe almost everyone has some sort of security flaw in their regime, since unfortunately if you were to take all the precautions in the world, you would be severely limited on what you could do on a computer.

You can calculate how much you'll earn a day "solo" mining with your graphic cards via a difficulty calculator. (Search up "Bitcoin mining difficulty calculator on your preferred search engine). It won't be much, if anything at all. If you want to get into mining, I would suggest a dedicated mining device, specifically made for mining. Since, you'll be degrading your valuable GPUs at a much faster rate than with a dedicated mining device, since they factor in the load that mining requires, whereas gpus don't usually do so.