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1221  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: What is best bitcoin lending platform? on: October 21, 2018, 12:48:38 PM
Check out this new company called Loano offering instant cash against your crypto holdings (no credit checks required). They let you choose the amount you want, the interest rate and the loan term.

Check it out: www.loano.io
Assuming that this platform is actually real (which i am pretty doubtful of); i still wouldn't use them.

They offer a 1:0.7 $ ratio. So a 1000$ worth of crypto gives you a 700$ loan. Combine that with an APR of 16% (Yes, seriously, 16%!!).

One must be crazy to take a loan there instead of just selling the crypto you have. You're just wasting your money using them....



1222  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: btc transferred on: October 21, 2018, 10:31:34 AM
there is no way that you can know how much bitcoin is going where unless these exchanges publicly tell you that they have received 5000, 10000 bitcoin in their wallets which obviously is not going to happen ever. so what you are telling us here is either a lie you are telling for whatever weird reason that might have or you saw some transaction on a block explorer and your imagination started running wild with it.

There are services which index the wallets of exchanges, thus it is pretty possible to see how much they're receiving, although you're usually overtaken by events, and it indeed really doesn't tell you anything..

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the other funny part is that these numbers aren't even realistic. if you think about it 10k bitcoin is equal to $65 million. and you can NOT even trust an exchange with that much money not to mention you can NEVER withdraw that much money from an exchange, the banks won't even allow it.
I'm pretty sure that there are certain exchanges, Coinbase et al, which let you trade with such amounts..?

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the funny part is that every couple of weeks we see a topic like this one be created talking with confidence about how a large amount of bitcoin was moved to an exchange and they usually say it is moved to be dumped and crash the market. then weeks go by with price being the same as always.
I have to agree indeed, it's mostly people spreading FUD for w/e reason...

The exchange rate had gotten higher, that means people are being more frequent in exchanging, it's a good sign for bitcoin. Also, more transfer doesn't mean that it's being manipulated or something bad would happen, but even if something bad happens, the crypto is in a very stable position for imposing any loss to the investors.
What exactly do you mean by this? I think volumes compared to previous year have decreased significantly?

The traffic surely has decreased, and is still decreasing...
[1] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/coinbase.com
[2] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bitfinex.com
[3] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/binance.com
1223  Other / Meta / Re: Editing posts on: October 20, 2018, 08:04:51 PM
It'd be great if the new forum implemented Stackexchange-esque comment edits.
Not in the sense that everyone can edit your comments, but that there's some kind of changelog containing all the edits you made to a post, visible for everyone who's interested in it.

Is this actually a feature in the new forum?.

I don't think you can prove it. IIRC, theymos (or an admin/mod) said that the "edit history" only shows up after the 5 minutes, so they can't see what was the post if the user edits it before that time.
That's pretty shocking if that's actually the case. Shows how outdated some of the parts of this forum are, and how lacking some admin features are...

1224  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Bitcoin address hashing? on: October 20, 2018, 05:50:29 PM
Don't be so quick about that! I might be misunderstanding your question.

Could you link me the recovery service you're talking about, and their "instructions".

Also, what data do you still have? What wallet did you use to store the 1.5 million on?
Is the only thing that you have left your bitcoin adress?
1225  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Bitcoin address hashing? on: October 20, 2018, 05:29:39 PM
Does anyone know how to get the complete hash of a regular bitcoin address? Trying to recover my old old wallet and the recovery service needs the hash.
Almost all of the functions used to generate a bitcoin adress are a "one-way function". Otherwise, one could possibly reverse it and generate a public -> private key out of it and thus steal your funds.

I don't really see what you're looking for here. I think the furthest you can go is to the binary adress of a bitcoin adress.

Which means that you know the  RIPEMD-160 hash + the added 4 SHA-256 hashed bytes used as checksum?

See; https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_version_1_Bitcoin_addresses

The example given by the wiki;
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Code:
1PMycacnJaSqwwJqjawXBErnLsZ7RkXUAs
in http://lenschulwitz.com/base58

Gives;

Code:
00F54A5851E9372B87810A8E60CDD2E7CFD80B6E31C7F18FE8

Which
Code:
00f54a5851e9372b87810a8e60cdd2e7cfd80b6e31
is the final RIPEMD-160 hash.

And
Code:
c7f18fe8
the SHA-256 checksum.
I doubt you can go any further than this...?
1226  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Can jr.member post pictures? on: October 20, 2018, 01:45:08 PM
As in topic, when I'm trying to post a photo via BBC code nothing is happening, the source code shows code line but in preview is nothing.
Is it caused because new restriction was installed or what?  
I don't think that there are any restriction on Jr Members when it comes to posting images.

Could you try to show us where exactly it is going wrong?

Code:
[img]https://i.imgur.com/70hxrGG.png[/img]

Actually, a lot of images are not correctly loading for me right now. It might be a forum-wide problem. See this topic; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3252007.0

Are any images at all loading for you? They aren't for me for some reason. I think there might be something wrong with imgur?


EDIT: Andddd... They work fine again...  Undecided Undecided
Huh
1227  Economy / Services / Re: Where can i find DICE script or is anyone selling one? on: October 20, 2018, 12:47:51 PM
If they're anywhere, they're probably in this section; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=93.0

There's dozens of topics;
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4877462.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5053451.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4921643.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1389526.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4917447.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4931835.0

(I personally wouldn't trust any of them!)


However, i would advise you to be extremely careful when buying any sort of code/scripts.

The code can be extremely bad, outdated, or full with vulnerabilities and backdoors.

It's never a good idea to cheap out on these things, as usually with dices/exchanges/casino's there's massive amounts of money involved. It's better to do it yourself and right, then buy a cheap script and get scammed/hacked.
1228  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] Bitwebz.com - Buy or Sell your Websites and Domains with Bitcoin on: October 20, 2018, 12:11:56 PM
Just one question :

How can one sell their domains anonymously? Like they have their domains registered using some legit info and if they have to transfer that info, don't they have to reveal those details? Moreover, the buyer is likely to get those details from who.is information? I can be anonymous while selling a domain but can't hide from the details I used to register the domain with. You also forget to mention your service fees.
You can use a service such as https://njal.la/#about to register your domain "anonymously". I guess you can then transfer/sell it to someone, who then either has to fill out who.is data or use it in combination with njalla.

But yeah, if you don't use such a service as mentioned above, i'm quite curious as to how exactly this is "anonymous" in any way at all.
(It simply isn't?)
1229  Other / Meta / Re: Cookie error on Brave Browser login on: October 20, 2018, 11:16:42 AM
Looks like I'm getting an error that should be more common for registering or something, which I'm not. I'm trying to login using this account. Same results even with all shields down.
You're trying to login on bitcointalk using the Brave browser?

I just downloaded Brave, and was able to login with it on bitcointalk just fine. (I was even using a VPN, but no extensions!) So, no, works fine here.
(All the default shield settings are up too!)

Code:
Brave is up to date
Version 0.55.18 Chromium: 70.0.3538.67 (Official Build) (64-bit)
My version.
1230  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: What would the math be behind these claims? on: October 20, 2018, 10:15:06 AM
I was reading up on whether it was possible to get faster performance on key generation and came across this post https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/29885/can-a-billion-elliptic-curve-keys-be-generated-on-a-laptop-in-less-than-an-hour

The very last post claims pretty high numbers and wanted to know if it was bull or real. If it's real what would the math be for those kinds of speeds? And what is referred by "symmetrie" of seck256k1?

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And what is referred by "symmetrie" of seck256k1?

An elliptic curve in theory will always look like this;


In bitcoin, it's just slightly different. https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/21907/what-does-the-curve-used-in-bitcoin-secp256k1-look-like

Which means that there are (obviously) 2 "solutions" for every X(?) (Which i think are the compressed vs uncompressed keys he is referring to?)

I have no clue what the difference between them is, apart from the different byte sizes (resulting in only the compressed version being used in bitcoin nowadays(?)).
(EDIT; http://learnmeabitcoin.com/glossary/public-key)

This is really were my (already limited) understanding of it all stops. I'm not entirely sure how credible his answer is, (or mine  Tongue) especially since he is doubling the number twice for "symmetry"?

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I mean: 30 million uncompressed public keys, or 60 million (if you accept both uncompressed and compressed format) keys in 1 second.

If you exploit then the symmetrie of the secp256k1 curve, you can double this number for free (120 million public keys in 1 second). If you use endomorphism too, you could get over 220 million of public keys in 1 second. Only via CPU.
Aren't you already exploiting the symmetrie of the curve by using both uncompressed and compressed public keys?

How can he just double that number for uncompressed v compressed keys as described in the first sentence of his answer...?


As per http://learnmeabitcoin.com/glossary/public-key;
This is an uncompressed key
Code:
04fe53c78e36b86aae8082484a4007b706d5678cabb92d178fc95020d4d8dc41ef44cfbb8dfa7a593c7910a5b6f94d079061a7766cbeed73e24ee4f654f1e51904
This is a compressed one;
Code:
03df51984d6b8b8b1cc693e239491f77a36c9e9dfe4a486e9972a18e03610a0d22

I don't get how he just comes up with these out of thin air as per his answer of "simply doubling/"accepting" them"....?
I feel like i'm completely misunderstanding this...






Per Pieter Wuille;
From an EC point of view, you have one private key with one corresponding public key.

The problem is, public keys can be serialized in two ways - compressed (33 bytes) or uncompressed (65 bytes). One is slightly harder to deal with, but as storage space is more critical in Bitcoin, we prefer to use the compressed one. Thus, we now have one private key that corresponds to (from Bitcoin's point of view, as we deal with the serialized versions) two public keys. Each of these public keys has an address (as the hash is calculated from the serialized public key). So, 1 private key, 2 public keys, 2 addresses.

So when you want to import a private key, the software has to know which of the public keys (with corresponding address) should be used. The solution is to add a flag bit to the base58 encoding of the private key, notifying the importer whether or not to use the compressed public keys. Typically, these get called compressed and uncompressed private keys - but it's really just a bit saying whether the corresponding public key is compressed or not.

The only reason not to use a compressed public key is that not all software supports it (they were introduced in Bitcoind/Bitcoin-Qt 0.6 only).

@MoonShadow: EC public keys are actually not numbers but a pair of numbers (X and Y coordinate), and the Y coordinate can be calculated from the X coordinate. That is how "compression" works - it's just a somewhat less redundant encoding. Testnet is unrealted to this.
1231  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Opinions needed about marketplace - HODLbazaar on: October 19, 2018, 08:39:27 PM
You mean something like https://openbazaar.org/download/, but in a web-version or something?  What's the difference between you and them exactly? Conversing your money to Fiat?

I personally don't/wouldn't really use these "openbazaar"-esque marketplaces for a number of reasons;

1. Scams. An enormous amount of the listings are fake or w/e.
1.1 "But, but that's what escrow is for" I can't be bothered to go through the disputing process either. It takes ages and usually ends up being not worth your time. Which brings me to my next point;
2. Ease of use/User-Friendliness. Amazon is 5x easier than most of these exchanges (OpenBazaar) (IMO), even with/when using bitcoin (which they don't even accept.) That should be pretty telling.
3. An extremely limited amount of goods/services available in comparison to Amazon/eBay.
4. The goods that are available are usually really trashy and not interesting.

If these issues were to be solved i'd possibly use them over Amazon/eBay, but for now it's just not possible. I also doubt you'll be able to "fix" these issues overnight, as they require enormous amounts of capital. I feel like it'll be very difficult for you, but also other markets (OpenBazaar) to gain any market share at all here. (That's just my opinion though.)

- Shapeshift
- Crypto/Fiat conversions
- KYC for merchants
- Escrow
KYC for merchants wanting to sell on your platform or KYC as a "tool" for merchants on your platform?

The rest seems like pretty basic stuff. Nothing too excited?
1232  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Best exchange Market on: October 19, 2018, 08:09:37 PM
I'm sure that this is part of a big farm accounts being paid to bump projects. If in the next couple of days we see newbies bumping Mercatox, its obvious that they're being paid and should be at least red tag or worst ban them in one full sweep.
Yep. I've come to the same conclusion as you.

I made a post about it here; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5051632.msg46957815#msg46957815 but apparently it's quite hard to do anything about it.

Mercatox is just the tip of the iceberg. There's multiple exchanges doing this. Just take a look at this thread and how obviously it is being constantly bumped.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4971628.360

The site has no traffic but almost thrice the volume of Cryptopia - It's an obvious scam trying to lure newbies in with the constant bumping...




https://www.coinhills.com/market/exchange/coinsbit/
https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/cryptopia/

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/coinsbit.io
https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cryptopia.co.nz
1233  Economy / Digital goods / Re: Any TRUSTED member looking to sell Amazon UK vouchers? on: October 19, 2018, 06:43:30 PM
I found something on amazon I wanted and I want to top up my credit there, I'm looking for about a £100 voucher for an amount of bitcoin (make me an offer).

Trusted members only please (and by trusted I mean ones I've seen that have contributed to the discussions of the forum I would have seen and ones who have been here for a while, not necessarily some trust you have from the trust system but everything helps)...
Might it be an idea to use a service such as Bitrefill?

You pay what, a 2% premium? https://www.bitrefill.com/refill/amazon-uk
Could save you the hassle of going through/(finding) a (suitable) deal. I've used them once myself for ~50$, worked perfectly fine.
1234  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: escrow ripper here guys warnnning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! on: October 19, 2018, 04:10:44 PM
Literally who? I've never heard of someone with such a username before.... He certainly isn't a trusted escrow provider, or i must have missed something.

guys please any good admin pm me here pleasee
i have all proof
Scams/Scammers are not moderated. (That means that even if he scammed you, he won't get banned.)

If you want him(who?) to get tagged by DT, open up/(move this thread) a scam accusation with some references to his profile and the proof that you claim to have.
(HERE; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0)
1235  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN][EXCHANGE] Zironex– The Exchange of the future is coming on: October 19, 2018, 02:05:05 PM
Is this exchange is fully working at the moment? Just registered but I can see any volume maybe this platform needs some marketing campaigns inorder to be more popular to traders there are so many new exchange right now which is good to traders for more choices. 

Yep, looks like they have no volume at all. I mean there is also not really any incentive to use them over an exchange such as binance.

I guess it's a good thing they're not washtrading on their exchange, but this also means that it looks pretty dead. Ah well.
1236  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: New service of mixing BTC (MIXERCOIN.CO) on: October 19, 2018, 01:02:46 PM
This means only one thing you do not understand in the field of security and only writing posts for getting money from another service
That must be it. Shit. You got me.

Too bad the other thread in which you completely failed to give ANY answers to my questions got deleted.
I'd love to rephrase some of them but i'm pretty sure my efforts will go in vain, considering how you laughed them away last time and called me an idiot.


Also, if you don't understand that routing all your traffic through cloudflare isn't/couldn't be damaging to privacy/anonimity or ≠≠ to giving data to "third parties", well, i don't know what to tell you. I guess you, again, know better than me. Good for you. I for one won't be using your service.

At the same time you are talking nonsense about claudflare.
What exactly is/was nonsense? Seriously, enlighten me. Unlike you, i'm pretty eager to be proven wrong.
1237  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: blockchain.com via Twitter: "Something "big" is coming" on: October 19, 2018, 12:11:12 PM
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blockchain.com via Twitter: "Something "big" is coming"
Which translated into layman terms will probably come down to the following;

 "We've thought of another idea to squeeze as much money as possible out of you fools still using our outdated, limited, web wallet. Stay tuned!"

Blockchain.com must cost a ton of money to be kept working, servers et al, while they don't really have any business model at all..?



It's primary function right now is to serve as a beaconing tool to show how ''shitty'' bitcoin is, by not implementing segwit, RBF. I neither would be surprised if they're trying to push BCash even harder somehow.


For those who follow BCash 'development' lately, it's clear that one of their highest priorities right now is to have ICO's and other applications be hosted and built on top of BCash. ViaBTC raised $30 million (very likely that most of these funds were coming from Bitmain, lol) with it's ICO on top of BCash, and I'm sure that that more will follow. He also said that he expects BCash to have a higher market cap than Ethereum, so we'll see where this goes.
That's a nice way to launder money. ICO-"washtrade-esque" it.  Roll Eyes
1238  Other / Meta / Re: Can Someone Tell Me why My Account Get Banned? on: October 18, 2018, 07:37:56 PM
It looks like you used some kind of article spinner.


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I surmise that it is conceivable in quite a while, not presently on the grounds that it is hard to change the standard conventional framework. Individuals need to acclimate to this thought. Some are against crypto yet they are few. The vast majority see the colossal potential in Bitcoin
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3405691.msg42235369#msg42235369

Those words absolutely do not represent the level of english you actually have.

The best time is the point at which you are in a benefit and your speculation demonstrating to you an extraordinary benefit on the grounds that along these lines your advantage will stay same and you can procure great from showcase since this is the best time to exit and makes you ready to be a trader.

Huh

And this post of yours;

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You should first discover why it is restricted. May be you can even now get to online trades and manage it without the administration knowing. Quit managing nearby bitcoin dealers and spotlight on outside exchanges.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4047518.msg42619308#msg42619308

This might just be me, but it really looks like you copy pasted this, and then found synonyms for "Restricted" - / banned? "Administration" - / government? "Managing" - / dealing? "Spotlight" - /  *dealing??


Also, LOL. you're using a hacked account? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3368284.0

Not sure how credible the accusation is, but after April 12th, you haven't made a single post in the Indonesian board, while that previously was the only board you were posting in...  Roll Eyes

1239  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Bitcoin tumbler - Blender.io introduction on: October 18, 2018, 06:38:53 PM
Might be an idea to escrow a certain amount of bitcoins by someone that is trusted within this forum to improve your reputation just a little bit.
IIRC, there was a mixing service that used a trusted forum member to escrow a certain amount of coins, all to ensure that in case the service doesn't pay out, the escrow funds would cover that amount. So yeah, this is basically the only way to prove that you're here to conduct fair business as mixing service.

Code:
min 0.003 BTC, max 112.52129268 BTC
Too bad that there's no way to verify you actually have 112BTC  Undecided
Considering the fact that no one will ever entrust over 100BTC to a freshly started service, why not have a chunk of these funds be held by an escrow? It would definitely give future users of your service a peace of mind.
And they exit scammed at the end LOL. If someone is going to use an escrow to gain trust, they NEED to let everybody know that they will remove the escrow several days before they do it. Otherwise, they can wait until they get a good amount of coins, get the escrowed coins back and run.
That seems extremely clumsy if not borderline untrustworthy from the escrow provider. I've vaguely heard about this story, but i can't remember what mixer/escrower this was about?
Do you, by any chance, have some sources?

Seems like the whole point of the escrow in this case was to NOT give back the coins... Huh.
1240  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: BitkopExchange introduction on: October 18, 2018, 06:13:52 PM
I don't really grasp what your exchange is.

You state on https://bitkop.com/exchange?lang=en that you have a 6000 BTC/ETH VOLUME. That's quite a lot. (38.330.000$ in just your Ethereum Pair.) For comparison, Binance has ~7000 BTC volume in their btc/eth pair. https://www.binance.com/en/trade/ETH_BTC

However your traffic clearly does NOT depict this fact. The opposite actually.

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bitkop.com
(Binance for reference; https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/binance.com)
You barely have any visitors at all.

Are you using some sort of third party to trade on top of or what exactly is going on here? You're also not listed on coinmarketcap, or any site at all which indexes exchanges.

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BitKop’s core team consists of many professional experts who have track records of global renowned international financial and internet enterprises under our belt. Most of them have experience in global market operation and R&D in cryptocurrency exchange. Adhering to the principle of self-discipline, Bitkop will insist on ecological value to promote industry development and dedicate to provide its users the world's most featured projects. BitKop has opened up the BTC, ETH, USDT trade market.
You mention this, but yet there's no proof whatsoever that this is actually the case. There's 0 information about any of the people in your team.
Oh and blabla ecological value. Sure.
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