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Forgive my petulance and oft-times, I fear, ill-founded criticisms, and forgive me that I have, by this time, made your eyes and head ache with my long letter. But I cannot forgo hastily the pleasure and pride of thus conversing with you.
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Once a transaction has 6 confirmations, it is extremely unlikely that an attacker without at least 50% of the network's computation power would be able to reverse it.
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February 05, 2016, 11:42:28 PM |
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It's not as if these guys have much choice is it? Banks and lawmakers must be itching for a reason to shut them down. I wouldn't wanna be their compliance team.
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BlindMayorBitcorn (OP)
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February 05, 2016, 11:43:31 PM |
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It's not as if these guys have much choice is it? Banks and lawmakers must be itching for a reason to shut them down. I wouldn't wanna be their compliance team.
I can certainly appreciate that. |
Forgive my petulance and oft-times, I fear, ill-founded criticisms, and forgive me that I have, by this time, made your eyes and head ache with my long letter. But I cannot forgo hastily the pleasure and pride of thus conversing with you.
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February 05, 2016, 11:46:10 PM |
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Andreas Antonopoulos was asked about the blacklisting issue BitPay blocking transactions. This was his reply we really need to address the issue of fungibility. Blacklists are inherently evil, as they seed control to the author of the blacklist and that control is absolute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak1iojpiHpM&feature=youtu.be&t=33m6s |
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February 05, 2016, 11:58:01 PM |
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Andreas Antonopoulos was asked about the blacklisting issue BitPay blocking transactions. This was his reply we really need to address the issue of fungibility. Blacklists are inherently evil, as they seed control to the author of the blacklist and that control is absolute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak1iojpiHpM&feature=youtu.be&t=33m6sSoon enough you can just stick 'em in that CT sidechain, and boom: be as nefarious as you want.  |
Forgive my petulance and oft-times, I fear, ill-founded criticisms, and forgive me that I have, by this time, made your eyes and head ache with my long letter. But I cannot forgo hastily the pleasure and pride of thus conversing with you.
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February 06, 2016, 12:17:30 AM
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Does CT hide the addresses involved? No, just the amounts. Most importantly, this scheme is compatible with pruning and does not make the verification state for Bitcoin grow forever. It is also compatible with CoinJoin and CoinSwap, allowing for transaction graph privacy as well while simultaneously fixing the most severe limitation of these approaches to privacy (that transaction amounts compromise their privacy). Ok.  Shh. That's what CoinJoin is for.  |
Forgive my petulance and oft-times, I fear, ill-founded criticisms, and forgive me that I have, by this time, made your eyes and head ache with my long letter. But I cannot forgo hastily the pleasure and pride of thus conversing with you.
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February 06, 2016, 12:33:11 AM |
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Who are they blacklisting exactly and why? I find this rather odd. They may be losing revenue by blacklisting coins or addresses... If this is true they seem to be shooting themselves in their own feet.
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February 06, 2016, 12:39:57 AM |
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Who are they blacklisting exactly and why? I find this rather odd. They may be losing revenue by blacklisting coins or addresses... If this is true they seem to be shooting themselves in their own feet.
I guess its better to reject few coins or address, rather then to anwser to feds or regulation, why, for example, they accept drug coins or something like this. Bitpay is not the only one. Coinbase also was shown to be "very be interested" in what you do with your coins: http://www.bitedge.co/blog/coinbase-restricts-users-for-gambling-transactions/ |
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February 06, 2016, 01:04:42 AM |
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It's no different than any other Bitcoin payment platform.
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February 06, 2016, 01:07:00 AM |
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It's not as if these guys have much choice is it? Banks and lawmakers must be itching for a reason to shut them down. I wouldn't wanna be their compliance team.
I can certainly appreciate that. |
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February 06, 2016, 01:10:53 AM |
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It's not as if these guys have much choice is it? Banks and lawmakers must be itching for a reason to shut them down. I wouldn't wanna be their compliance team.
I can certainly appreciate that.  |
Forgive my petulance and oft-times, I fear, ill-founded criticisms, and forgive me that I have, by this time, made your eyes and head ache with my long letter. But I cannot forgo hastily the pleasure and pride of thus conversing with you.
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February 06, 2016, 02:35:39 AM |
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I will be the first to admit that I don't often spend bitcoins like cash--I've come to view cryptocurrency as a speculation tool and as a store of value. But I did buy some precious metals from Provident last year and I do believe the transaction was processed through Bitpay. I'm not 100% sure. It was fairly painless, though for some reason I had to transfer btc to my Xapo wallet, because Mycelium wasn't allowing the bitcoin to be withdrawn.
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February 06, 2016, 03:14:33 AM |
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I'd like to know what kind of coins are being rejected by Bitpay. Can anyone shed any further details on some examples of rejected coins?
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February 06, 2016, 04:40:55 AM |
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I'd like to know what kind of coins are being rejected by Bitpay. Can anyone shed any further details on some examples of rejected coins?
Probably coins from known addresses involved in receiving stolen coins. Its hard to argue against blacklists, but where do you draw the line? It is immoral to do business with thieves. |
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February 06, 2016, 05:18:51 AM |
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I'd like to know what kind of coins are being rejected by Bitpay. Can anyone shed any further details on some examples of rejected coins?
Probably coins from known addresses involved in receiving stolen coins. Its hard to argue against blacklists, but where do you draw the line? It is immoral to do business with thieves. Blacklists are very bad! Simply because they lead to sad possibility that mine bitcoins are not as good as yours, thus value of 1 btc != 1 btc. Andreas Antonopoulos was asked already ask about BitPay blocking transactions. He said: we really need to address the issue of fungibility. Blacklists are inherently evil, as they seed control to the author of the blacklist and that control is absolute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak1iojpiHpM&feature=youtu.be&t=33m6s |
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February 06, 2016, 05:21:08 AM |
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I'd like to know what kind of coins are being rejected by Bitpay. Can anyone shed any further details on some examples of rejected coins?
Probably coins from known addresses involved in receiving stolen coins. Its hard to argue against blacklists, but where do you draw the line? It is immoral to do business with thieves. Anonymity is taking a troll on things and hard to differentiate between white coins and black coins |
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February 06, 2016, 05:23:07 AM |
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Blacklists are very bad! Simply because they lead to sad possibility that mine bitcoins are not as good as yours, thus value of 1 btc != 1 btc.
Blacklists are not evil. Only people can be evil. Don't put blacklists on coins, put them on addresses instead. |
I just registered for the $PLOTS presale! Thank you @plotsfinance for allowing me to purchase tokens at the discounted valuation of only $0.015 per token, a special offer for anyone who participated in the airdrop. Tier II round is for the public at $0.025 per token. Allocation is very limited and you need to register first using the official Part III link found on their twitter. Register using my referral code CPB5 to receive 2,500 points.
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February 06, 2016, 05:32:54 AM |
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I'd like to know what kind of coins are being rejected by Bitpay. Can anyone shed any further details on some examples of rejected coins?
Probably coins from known addresses involved in receiving stolen coins. Its hard to argue against blacklists, but where do you draw the line? It is immoral to do business with thieves. That's partly the issue -- tainting coins doesn't mean doing business with thieves. It especially hurts casual users like you or I, who don't pay for extensive taint analysis on coins we transact with. So, if we sell some Steam codes or physical coins on the forum and receive some "tainted" coins, how are we to know? ......And when we go to spend those coins? Coinbase might drop us as customers. Bitpay might tell our vendors to stop doing business with us. And maybe this is only the beginning.... hopefully LEO doesn't end up knocking at our doors. |
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February 06, 2016, 05:34:14 AM |
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Blacklists are very bad! Simply because they lead to sad possibility that mine bitcoins are not as good as yours, thus value of 1 btc != 1 btc.
Blacklists are not evil. Only people can be evil. Don't put blacklists on coins, put them on addresses instead. How this solves this issue? All bitcoins have public history. Banning some address could also ban every coin which can be associated with a given blacklisted address. |
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