Thanks for info. I was wondering whether it was an attack or something. Well, I hope it doesn't last. |
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Sh*t! It's happening again! We really need to increase that damned block size! I've been waiting for more than 6 hours for a transaction to be confirmed, and I'm shocked to see there are more than 50,000 in the queue. https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactionsWe need SegWit, or an urgent block size increase. For the sake of BTC, something needs to be done, fast! |
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I hadn't seen that coming. A quarter of the world's mining is in Georgia. Is there cheap electricity there? Does anyone know any reason to explain why there are so many miners in that small country?
It makes me confident in BTC. I used to think China and the US were the leading countries when it comes to mining, but suddenly you see a country coming from nowhere being a leader. Things can change!
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I understand this is some kind of service, but I think this is important news, so I post in main board. Got this email: We noticed that you previously used Bitcoin to purchase services on Fiverr. Effective January 19, 2017, Bitcoin will no longer be accepted as a form of payment on Fiverr. However, you will still be able to make purchases using your debit or credit card, PayPal, or Fiverr credit.
Thank you for your understanding,
Fiverr Team I had been using Fiverr for years, that will now stop. I'll be using https://www.xbtfreelancer.com/ instead. I invite all freelancers to join that service, I'll make regular requests. |
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Chinese immigrants in Indonesia, really? I wasn't aware of that. I know some Europeans working in Bali with a 30-days tourist visa, so they have to make monthly trips to Hong Kong or Bangkok to get a new visa. The Chinese are probably just overstaying, but I wonder: are they hired by Indonesians looking for cheap labor, or are they hired by legal Chinese immigrants (or do they create businesses)?
Most often, the Chinese do not mix much with the locals. They create Chinese communities.
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Well, I think BTC's so great that it doesn't need any tool. I didn't know any of the different services listed above, nor do I have any use for them. Frankly, all you need is a wallet.
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That's only the first step. Next one is to make a national registry of all wallet holders in the country, and the last step is well known to all property owners: it's called tax. |
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I was thinking about starting such a topic. We cannot hide from reality. SegWit started with a bang, but percentage of blocks supporting it isn't growing any more. It may pick up again, but it seems impossible we'll ever reach the 95% needed. So, what is plan B?
I know many people were thinking was a bad solution, but it was a solution. Blocks are full, and this problem won't go away. Something needs to be done, before we'll experience again delays to confirm transactions.
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Thanks for those pics. I had always wondered whether her breasts were natural. Now, I've seen that they were much smaller in her early pics.
Sometimes I'm afraid all white women living in America will end up having surgically enlarged breasts. That's very sad.
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If someone wanted to move $1,000,000 using bitcoins, they would need about 1,428.57142857BTC if the exchange rate was $700 per 1BTC
Anyone with that much BTC? Let's say they'll get it from an exchange. Then that exchange would have to halt trading just to serve one order. That's just for $1M... So would moving a much larger amount be possible with bitcoins provided that the exchange rate is still pegged at $700-$800?
you don't move the bulk, you script the entire amount to move in smaller pieces. you are not paying more, the fee is a percentage, so ten 1 dollar tx's pay the same amount as one $10 tx. i used an exchange earlier as an example, but if you have $1M on an exchange, it is from trading and not dirty, or you moved it there for some stupid reason. the exchange has your private key and the only scripting you can do is possibly through an API. $1M dirty is in a wallet that you control and you have the ability to move it in bulk if you want, but you should be scripting smaller moves simultaneously exactly, for it all to be clean, don't move in bulk. but laundering is equated with moving large volumes of cash from one place to another. then with bitcoin, it won't be possible move really large amounts. and with billions of people all over the world wanting to move large volumes of money undetected, would bitcoin and/or other cryptos be their option? yeah there a lot of way to do it smoothly, you don't have to exchange all the bitcoin to cash in one day right? do it piece by pieces , day by day as natural as you can. have heard some stories about this kind issue before and it's always been a tough topic to be discussed, never easy to prevent money laundering in bitcoin with its feature. There are some perfect ways to do it. First you need to know to create different wallets under the Electrum wallet. Do not link them to one another by doing transaction to each other. Name them with different names, they all should have different seeds so when creating one make sure to click CREATE NEW SEED. This is the first step. Second step is convert Bitcoin to Monero which is an untraceable currency. Wait a few days, convert back to bitcoin and withdraw to those different wallets. Now as the final step mix them through the mixer in my signature campaign which is absolutely the best one. And get them preferably in a new Multibit or hardware wallet. That's it, no traces left behind, only your IP (if you use TOR+VPN you erased these traces too). This is the most perfect way to me, but much more experienced users can have their saying too. You understand there's no money laundering in those operations, right? You start with black money, and you still have black money at the end. |
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You're funding the very government that protects your ass from terrorists and invaders. How's that theft?
Where do you live? In the countries I've been, governments do not protect people's ass from terrorists and invaders. Governments have also failed to protect the environment. At last, they've very successful protecting the interests and well-being of the whole political class. |
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these days traders are so fragile and FUDsters are using this to their advantage. someone in China sneezes and they start spreading FUD that bitcoin is dead  i just want this period passes because i am really sick and tired of opening bitcointalk, reddit,... and see another topic about price and China. Sometimes, I think BTC is run by fudsters. I bet their next trick will be to tell that using BTC will make you deaf. |
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Yes, mostly.
We shall all understand that some tax is necessary to keep streets and roads safe and clean, but it takes very little tax money to pay for this useful service. Most of the tax money goes to useless or real bad things like welfare. Welfare is the biggest crime manhood has ever commited on nature. There are probably some 40 millions people living off welfare on Europe, they should all die. The sooner, the better. Only the strong shall survive. Ethiopia is a much nicer place with gentler people. Most Europeans now believe it is a God given right to spend their whole life without working, with an allowance from the state to have a decent life. Tax money has corrupted their minds. Sometimes I wish the whole economic system would just crash. People would be forced to work, just as it was a century ago, or as it is today in Ethiopia.
Thank you for bringing social Darwinism here. This is something that is commonly said in ALL medias and that people believe nowadays. But this thesis has nothing to be based on. There is NOTHING that proves that only the strong should survive. People say that like it's some kind of magical sentence that allows them to go for a completely free market where the strong eats the weak, but that is a complete nonsense and a failure from an evolution perspective. It has been scientifically proven that Humanity is based on COOPERATION far more than on personal strength. Our entire evolution and development is NOT based on conflict but on helping each other. By the way, the correct sentence isn't "only the strong should survive" but "survival of the fittest" which is entirely different. This kind of behaviours and thinking is currently leading us to the end of our evolution. Yes, there are several formulas. I've also seen survival of the smartest, or survival of those who can best adapt to change. That last one is probably the one I like most. I don't believe the strong shall eat the weak, why? Actually, the weak is just getting more and more... Useless. 100 years ago, the rich needed the poor to work in huge factories, not anymore. Have you seen the thousands of migrants living in the streets in France, Germany, Italy? Have you traveled in Africa, or India? I've traveled a lot, and I've seen too millions in need of help. Can you help them all? Myself, I'll stick to help my family and my few friends. There are more and more people on this planet, needing more and more resources, this can't keep on going. We see thousands of animal species disappearing, I wish it would be millions of humans. What you're saying is partly wrong for one simple reason: you talk like we hadn't the means to help everyone. We do. Not only we do but we have what is needed to help everyone and to make sure everyone will have a decent life. Do you even realize that the vast majority of ressources, money and materials are possessed by only an incredibly tiny part of the population? Population is a problem that's right, but that's far from being the only one or the most important. Oh and something else important: you take care of your family, fair enough. That's how you should live. But don't act like you're not responsible for what's happening in the world. We all have a part of responsibility. Which is not something bad in itself! It's not bad if you hurt someone to make yourself better... It's a choice that's all. The worst part is that here we destroy the world and get nothing in return! We're being exploited like the rest of 3rd world, we just get more in return... That's not my point. It's highly doubtful we have what it takes to give every human on Earth a decent life, but my point is that we should not provide them a decent life. I'm a lucky guy, I've seen giraffes in the wild in Kenya. They're all gone now. They've all been hunted and their natural habitat has been destroyed. The only ones remaining are in zoos or reserves. The tigers are disappearing fast, too, and so are most large animals everywhere. Many people see nothing wrong with that, it's just a sad consequence of human's population growth. Kenya's population has grown nearly ten-fold in a single century. Man is a creation of God, so he has every right to destroy anything on the planet to support his living, with governments organizing his domination with tax money. I've seen people starving, and I've also seen a guy who seemed less than 25 driving a Bugatti Veyron, but that's not important. What really matters is that millions of people have nearly ceased to be humans, becoming unable to support themselves, because of government's various welfare policies. That's why I say most tax is theft. It's also a crime against nature, turning able men into government's puppets. |
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Interesting read, but too extreme. The reality is probably that BTC won't change much in 2017. You just need to look at the daily number of transactions to get the idea. Apple pay enjoys must faster growth, and support.
I'm afraid BTC has stalled. SegWit may change that someday, but when? Too many people are against it.
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Yes, mostly.
We shall all understand that some tax is necessary to keep streets and roads safe and clean, but it takes very little tax money to pay for this useful service. Most of the tax money goes to useless or real bad things like welfare. Welfare is the biggest crime manhood has ever commited on nature. There are probably some 40 millions people living off welfare on Europe, they should all die. The sooner, the better. Only the strong shall survive. Ethiopia is a much nicer place with gentler people. Most Europeans now believe it is a God given right to spend their whole life without working, with an allowance from the state to have a decent life. Tax money has corrupted their minds. Sometimes I wish the whole economic system would just crash. People would be forced to work, just as it was a century ago, or as it is today in Ethiopia.
Thank you for bringing social Darwinism here. This is something that is commonly said in ALL medias and that people believe nowadays. But this thesis has nothing to be based on. There is NOTHING that proves that only the strong should survive. People say that like it's some kind of magical sentence that allows them to go for a completely free market where the strong eats the weak, but that is a complete nonsense and a failure from an evolution perspective. It has been scientifically proven that Humanity is based on COOPERATION far more than on personal strength. Our entire evolution and development is NOT based on conflict but on helping each other. By the way, the correct sentence isn't "only the strong should survive" but "survival of the fittest" which is entirely different. This kind of behaviours and thinking is currently leading us to the end of our evolution. Yes, there are several formulas. I've also seen survival of the smartest, or survival of those who can best adapt to change. That last one is probably the one I like most. I don't believe the strong shall eat the weak, why? Actually, the weak is just getting more and more... Useless. 100 years ago, the rich needed the poor to work in huge factories, not anymore. Have you seen the thousands of migrants living in the streets in France, Germany, Italy? Have you traveled in Africa, or India? I've traveled a lot, and I've seen too millions in need of help. Can you help them all? Myself, I'll stick to help my family and my few friends. There are more and more people on this planet, needing more and more resources, this can't keep on going. We see thousands of animal species disappearing, I wish it would be millions of humans. |
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I guess most people do not understand what money laundering is. Mixing services and anonymous services are totally useless. Money laundering is going from having cash in hands to having money at a bank. Sure, that can be done with BTC, but that's not cheap.
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There are still ways to hide money in Switzerland, it just got more difficult, and more expensive. You can hide behind a Swiss lawyer, by example.
There are also plenty of non Swiss who have a bank account in Switzerland without anything to hide.
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I think the Op is trying to say that current users and especially the ones from India and China, do not understand btc, all they saw a loophole and they used it fully. That's a valid concern and I. Don't think he is wrong to voice it out, this has actually spooked the btc price and yes one could say users have increased, people are using but this are temporary and they shall exit leaving a hole in the Bitcoin and we all should be ready to brace for a storm.
No investor will invest their money without understanding the profits or risks they are getting into. Wrong, it's happening all the time, just like in the stock market. Some stocks are hot, so plenty of ignorant folks rush to buy from the smart guys, then suddenly, the markets changes and all the newcomers are losing. Some folks got into BTC when it was over $1,000, and they already lost more than a tenth of their investment. It's bad for BTC, because those people people will spread the word that BTC is terrible. |
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I'm surprised Liberty Reserve isn't forgotten, yet. But I guess it's worth remembering as a wrong way to do things. One single guy got arrested and the whole thing just collapsed.
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I think there is no chance to escape from tax if bought that expensive and valuable asset, the government will question you, it is impossible to evade tax if you bought a house, it is better to pay income tax rather than there will be a big problem in the future
Agree ! If you bought land/house or any that has a bigger value then you will know that the government will tax it and make you pay from it well all of the things has tax so how much more if that big amount and value. And also it is very impossible to evade twx we all know that so in the end you'll paying it . and bitcoin is a tax free currency because there is still no tax on bitcoin because we have pay tax on recognized items and bitcoin is still not a legal currency therefore there is no tax on bitcoin and therefore it is difficult to buy house or real state on using bitcoin directly. again guys. although you can escape some taxes by using bitcoin. things like houses and cars that need to be registered cant be avoided simply by using bitcoin. however by not having the house/car registered in your name. they cannot come after you. this is why the rich use financial trusts and foundations. the clintons have never paid tax in their lives for the funds held in the clinton foundation. even with the foundation literally called the clinton foundation they are legally not the owners of the assets of the foundation. they are just administrators taking a management fee.. Actually, using a trust or a foundation doesn't change much things when it comes to tax. Property tax, road tax and registration tax must be paid no matter the owner is an individual or a company. In Europe, it is sometimes worse with a company. If you have a second home, only living there a few weeks per year, that's all right as an individual, but there might extra tax if the owner's a business. |
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