Trust No One

[Dxx]

Any advice on these marketplaces:

• Vircurex;
• Bitcoin-24;
• Mt.Gox?

Also, are there mining pools to stay away from? (Right now I'm getting acquainted with Slush's pool, Mt.Red, Triplemining, Eligius, Bitpenny, ABCpool.)
I'm fairly new with Bitcoin the mining and so on, you see.

[petersodm]

Thanks for the info

[crookedfingers]

sage advice. i suppose it just comes down to you doing your due diligence and treating bitcoins as if it was gold or something

[Peleus]

Thanks - Yep use common sense.

[vitalemontea]

Thanks

[deadweasel]

sage advice. i suppose it just comes down to you doing your due diligence and treating bitcoins as if it was gold or something

They are easier to steal than gold. 

[BIT4BRAIN]

Well if you want to trust nobody its up to you...

I trust all, or give the chance, i risk little or a lot depending on many things...and if I take a loss, i consider it a small one and move on.

Never risk too much but then again a scared investor doesn't make money.

We are new and our group has done 3-5 times our BTC

Still with a few bucks only we are experiment and testing services/exchanges and trading post.

[tesl4]

Thanks dacoinminster

[ToWS]

They are easier to steal than gold. 

And they can't be made radioactive either (James Bond, Goldfinger).

[ToWS]

I'm thankful that there are a few people who I do trust absolutely. And I hope that they trust me equally in return. (Mind you, few is a low number).

[spul1]

thnx for the guidlines..
the whole wallet security thing is still kinda blurry to me, but hey, that's why I'm in the newbie section

[honeyguy]

good post you should trust no one

[kcz123]

thanks for the reminder

[naphto]

Yes, but don't be paranoiac

[sycorex]

Hard leason eveyone will learn soon

[TreeFrito]

Good points, all. Trade is a tricky thing when it only goes one way!

[zenrith]

We all have the option to create a wallet on our home pc.  Either in BTC or LTC.  No need to use an online wallet carrier if you do that.

[ivebeenshangheid]

man I was looking for a place to store some bitcoins while i updated my wallet on my PC.

I found a site claiming to be instawallet at a hidden onion address: 3rlqkicvauds47ch.onion i clicked around until it gave me a fresh URL not the first one from the link on ahmia.fi. 

I did everything it said and i kept a written record of the url to save and i sent to the address my bit coins.  The transaction went through with 39 confirmations and it has been hours since the transaction. I checked       blockchain.info and verified the transaction.

From:

16U7oGXbGZrMPcExLH4X3znG7eqTuFkKfM

To:

1L9LtdNgS9fsbkenEszHNHBthuZMGgJUok

in the amount of 1.0169586 BTC.

it has been hours and the funds still have not appeared.
There is an email address at the bottom of the site that i actually took time to write to but was returned as invalid. that email is instawallet@tormail.org.
can someone help me or did i just get screwed.

[Nejuf]

Thanks for the advice.

[Tekkna]

Trust is not something that should exist in business, in life, yes, but look at all the U.S. laws regarding how a business must operate, because customers should not have to trust the business they're buying from. Of course that means they have to trust govenrment, but that is another matter entirely  .