Ehmm.. I'm kind of facepalming indeed, yes.

The quote goes like this, right?:
I'll break it down for you:
Here [[Author]] states he wants to try something out:. (He goes, what you probably would describe as: "offtopic" from his main question in the OP)

Here [[Author]] States that he wants to destroy 0.1BTC using various transactions.

To which LoyceV replied:

Which is a "perfectly valid" reply considering that the Testnet lets you do EXACTLY this: Play around with various Bitcoin-like amounts in an environment that is exactly the same as the real bitcoin network.
Thus the perfect place to try and destroy 0.1(t)BTC among various transactions, for whatever reason [[Author]] may have. (without it actually costing him 0.1BTC)

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Or have i gone crazy.

I've never argued against this particular point you're making.

I just think that even someone with strong particular views can still be a good and well-functioning forum moderator.
Obviously, if their views cause actions that infer with the somewhat "standardized" content moderation policies, eg "censoring" opposite views, action should be taken.

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This was not what i argued in the first place, so +1 for misquoting me.. I probably shouldn't even legitimize you by responding to this, but whatever.

But.. But.. it is.. the only thing that matters... (andd oh so slightly)?

I think we've had this discussion in the political section as well a while ago where, i'm not sure who it was, maybe TECSHARE? accused mods of bias, mainly due to them supposedly (maybe they were, i'm not sure, it doesn't matter anyway.) being on the opposite end of his political spectrum, and thus would have some sort of bias. Nothing ever came off of it, (and perhaps, probably rightfully so, as almost everyone has their own opinion about certain things..?), so good luck with this attempt of yours where you can't even conclude *subjective* examples of bias.
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I don't see what someone's political affiliation alone has to do with his functioning as a moderator (or any public function really..). Is he trashing all of your Bitcoin cash/contrarian topics? No, right?

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This thread to me feels like you just want to be some sort of contrarian again for attention, but that might just be me.

Wait; Why wouldn't you simply increase the gap limit on one wallet?
What do you even mean by: "i have 10 wallets with 100 adresses"? That sounds... Highly inefficient?

Simply run this in your console:
And it'll set the gap lim to a 1000 addresses in a single wallet, which you can then... do whatever you want with?

I have to say though, for the purpose you're using this for, (assigning some kind of deposit address for each user of your site, correct?), Electrum might not be the best solution to scale this with, or really, to use at all. (?)


I guess i'm lucky this isn't my project because i'm already getting anxious from just reading this. How exactly are you assigning a deposit adress to each user? "randomly"? I just don't see how you can do this efficiently with electrum... anyway... just curious.

Emails are usually not answered that quickly. Best thing you can do probably is if it's a ban (or an old account that got locked due to the DB hack
(not sure if that's the case here though, what's more likely is that; someone correct me if i'm wrong here, you used a (wrong?) security question to recover your account (?)),

is to open a thread like this, but with more information as to why you were banned/why your account got locked.

Cyrus/whoever will probably take a look and see if it's a mistake or will be able to explain your locked account further/ask you to prove ownership.

(If it says locked in the ban message, you'll probably need to prove account ownership somehow..?)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5089777.0

Well, i doubt yobit themselves are scamming people, although, this could be a possibility (?) (as they are definitely not shy from deceiving their "customers"), but they are in fact facilitating it with these kinds of weird-ass systems.

If they would just remove their "code" system, these scams couldn't happen in the first place. I mean, really, what legitimate use cases can you think of where they would be used? Come on. nobody uses yobit as their primary wallet.

No exchange other than yobit has such a system in place that, quite obviously, facilitates scamming. (Really makes you think huh?)

I'm not sure what fees yobit is taking from these codes being used, (I mean, withdrawal fees at the very least.), but still...

I mean, you and your friend are really being overly dramatic here, and if that's what it takes for your friend to be dissuaded from "crypto", i doubt he would've lasted very long anyway.

although -- you do have a bit of a point.

I mean.. It's 2019. Bitcointalk is already using cloudflare-- why not remove evil ip fees for database IP's/IP's that have already been used before, and simply keep them for the IP's of banned accounts + tor exit nodes?

Or am i misunderstanding here that database IP's are in fact not detected as evil IP's by default?

I think i've read somewhere that this is/was the case, and i also think that most phone networks (3G/4G) in countries such as India are detected as datacenter IP's (as opposed to it being residential ones.), which might cause unnecessary "Evil IP" fees for a lot of newbies?

Are you serious? Why would anyone be hyped over this? It's simply another copy pasted exchange that offers nothing new. Zero. Nada. If anything, you're running a custodian exchange without any form of "trustworthiness" - for a lack of a better term, with what, 10 altcoins?

On top of that, you also require KYC? Who the hell would hand over their KYC data to you? You're (as of right now) a "nobody" and shouldn't be trusted with any data until you've proven to be trustworthy (which is extremely difficult if not impossible if we're talking about such documents.)

And then... Where are you getting your volume from..?

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/nominex.io - No traffic

https://nominex.io/markets/
Already over 4 million dollars in volume... For an exchange that in now way, shape or form differentiates from it's competitors (from what i can see atleast..), well, that's pretty remarkable.
I'd say you're probably faking your volume, unless it is linked to another exchange? But that doesn't seem to be the case.

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Edit: Sorry if i came off a bit harsh- but there's just so many copy paste exchanges that i wouldn't tell the difference,- using a third-party such as netverify to do verifications is indeed a step in the right direction. .. Still though. I don't think you're going to get a popular exchange by doing what everyone else does. (the same altcoins, using almost the same script, the same "refferal earnings" every exchange offers.)-- I wish you all the best though.

Well, i mean they do have a couple of threads here on the forum, and (perhaps due to my lack of searching..) a lack of scam accusations.

See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5168505.0

So, for small amounts they might work well. They look a bit like Bestmixer though, so not sure how trustworthy their mixing process actually is.

(And they seem to use stuff like cloudflare, so privacy is relative.. although, isn't Chipmixer also using some sort of anti-ddos company by now?)

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Other than that- i gotta agree- @OP, if you're unexperienced, or already have doubts about a certain service- why try to use it when there are objectively better solutions out there?

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Edit: just remembered that SmartMixer made use of bumping services for their ANN thread in the past. OP may very well be one of them.

Wait; did they actually offered money to someone who would dox him? Is this for real?

Add that to the pile of shit yobit has been pulling if that's actually real, and i wouldn't understand why anyone still uses them.

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Slightly offtopic: i received an email from them like a week ago that they were restarting signature campaign again, but haven't seen them popping up.. Was it so short-lived? Anyone know what happend?


Cloudflare can investigate all they want, but they'll never be able to confirm whether it was yobit or not, (unless yobit is actually braindead and DOS'd them using their own servers or something)

Without proof of someone on the inside, all that it'll ever be is that it's just a strong coincidence. They could endlessly argue that it wasn't them.

Doesn't really matter for me whether or whether they did not DDOS though, to shape an accurate image of yobit as a company, considering the other facts -> (Pump & Dump schemes, no support etc), but i neither would be surprised at this point if they hired someone to stir some shit.

There is a huge difference between it being possible, and it being likely.

I'd say that, unless you're specifically targeted, the chances of someone tampering with your hardware is extremely small.
Although i also doubt someone would be able to "hack" a processor to spy on you, even if you were to be specifically "targeted". I think it has happend/is possible, but then we're really talking about government operations 95% of the time.

This would be more likely, and much easier for someone to do. But a simple factory reset where you override the previous partitions really should be sufficient. Except of course if the previous owner of your harddrive has worked at the NSA and knows how to create such a persistent virus. -- aka: extremely unlikely if not impossible .

I think you might be severely underestimating how advanced most techniques are that services such as netverify use to check whether a document is real.

Even if you get away with that, you are, correct me if i'm wrong, looking to use a fake ID on the exchange, but use your real bank account to send money to the exchange?
I'm not sure where you're from, but if it's anything like an IBAN or SEPA(?), they'll start asking questions real soon, maybe not for 50$, but for bigger amounts, you might very well get investigated -- not to mention,

you essentially linked (on purpose) your name (with your bank account!) to "an identity" (fake id) ...that is committing identity fraud.... You're not anonymous in any way, if anything: quite the opposite?


I don't think you've really though long and hard about this? Why go through all this trouble just to purposely commit identity fraud? They already know everything if they'd wanted to due to your wire transfer, (i assume)

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This, ofcourse, is aside from the fact that it's just stupid to defraud an exchange for all the reasons listed above...

No, that's normal, depending on the amount, you should receive your chips almost always after the first confirmation. (Or vouchers)
When you restore/check your session->

If it looks like this, while you're 100% certain you've sent a transaction which is now confirmed to the chipmixer deposit adress, you should indeed contact their support.

There has been a couple cases recently of Chipmixer not recognizing certain transactions(?), so that might be it.

(Or, you have been phished/ clipboard attacked? (Let's hope not!))


That happens from time to time, it shouldn't matter.

I highly doubt that. I'm pretty sure KYC is required (for trading at least!) for all jurisdictions Coinbase operates in.

Imagine how easily abusable that would otherwise be? Residential IP of X country with an EMI/throwaway PP account?

Found this:
Makes sense that you don't need KYC to use them as a wallet (I'm assuming this is also the case in EU/US jurisdictions (?)).

What doesn't make sense is why they would ask OP for KYC if above is the case... Hmm. Something must've been triggered i guess? (weird IP login or anything of the kind?)
Or Coinbase is just messing with OP to get him to verify his KYC info...


It sounds like he's simply using coinbase as a wallet, although, now that i think about it, that's quite weird? Why would you first receive BTC on your coinbase wallet adress, only to then send it to electrum?

Just use electrum in the future.  

Don’t NEXO and SALT fall in the same category?
Nexo: https://nexo.io/ (6.5% interest?)
Salt: https://saltlending.com/

And of course celsius? https://celsius.network/

Edit: yeah i was half asleep making this post. Above are obviously not decentralized, but still might be worth looking in to if you’re interested in these sorts of platforms.

I myself think they’re pretty weird. AFAIK, your funds (with most platforms at least), arent actually insured, and these interest rates seem way to high for such collateralized loans imo (but the interest rate goes down dramatically if you put more than x BTC in such platforms, (which is kind of weird because, with a rate cut from 6.5 to 0.8%, i’d either multiaccount in a legal way or simply find another lender, right?))

I think it’s kind of a lazy way of utilizing capital at this point, and i can’t (if they’re actually legit), again, see how they would keep up such rates.
Perhaps i dont fully understand their business model, or the interest for such loans.(?)

I can't "vouch" for them personally, but i've heard good things about them; https://cryptovoucher.io (It supports BTC/STEEM/BNB/ONT, whatever the hell that is  )

If you use SEPA, no KYC needed ( i think?)

If you're in the EU/ or use IBAN, you can try https://igiftcards.nl/cryptovoucher/giftcard?c=eur&v=10 - again, i haven't tried them myself, but i've seen them being recommended a lot. The latter also seems to be accepting paypal? (Only verified accounts though i'm pretty sure, otherwise they'll immediately refund you, they have a lot of feedback/antifraud in place.)

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If you want to "gift" someone bitcoin using a "voucher"-format - the options above could work perfectly fine, but you'll be depending on a third party. See some of the  other recommendations given if that's not something you want. It's somewhat unclear what you're asking here to be fair.

Meh. I don't think it matters much for these kind of P2P services. Fox.exchange will probably just keep operating, and as soon as an investigation is launched, they'll probably just close shop, - or open a new company using another shell on another island.

US will never catch them, or atleast, it will never be really worth it to do so.

Bitmex though, yeah, that's a different story. I could see some compliance issues real soon.

Yes, it seems to be banned. -- https://www.comparitech.com/privacy-security-tools/blockedinturkey/

Why? I don't know. (Well, i could make an educated guess- censorship driven nation etc- but no particular explanation about Bitcointalk can be found anywhere it seems.)

Edit: *blocked by some providers, not banned.

I have a feeling you corrupted your wallet.dat somehow? (Or, obviously, derived a different dataset of adresses.)

Can you check if you still have the keys for the adress you originally got your funds on?

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/3P2UsEAdCWAKNzLNqxybcELB78ihGsmP5n

This one? (I'm guessing you do- otherwise it wouldn't display the transaction data at all- still, this is very weird. I'd love to see an answer as to what the problem might be here, although i suspect it somehow will be extremely trivial...)

If you do have the keys for this one- there's likely a problem regarding the change adresses(?)- if you also don't have the private key for this adress anymore - you most likely don't have the same seed/(impartial wallet.dat) as you did before(?)

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Anyway, this is a really weird story.

I don't think that'd matter much. The wallet could just monitor the adress for transactions.

Would that even matter at all as to which change adress is used?

I think you can also just use a third party such as https://btcpayjungle.com with almost (if not) exactly the same functionality. Atleast- that's what i've read about it.

And they run on a donation based model-- so, 100% free. Of course there's some trade offs versus running your own node. ->
https://docs.btcpayserver.org/deployment/thirdpartyhosting#are-there-any-limitations-in-features-when-using-a-third-party-host