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Re: Is Xapo a scam??
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AshCoiner
on 17/04/2015, 01:07:29 UTC
I did ask for help and was assisted soon there after via email.  While she's been very helpful, I question one thing she's asked me to do to verify my info.  She wants me to remove my adblocker and antivirus software to for it to work.  Is that normal? I'm not really comfortable with running my computer without ad-blockers and definitely not without anti-virus.  Is turning off that software just for the verification process or for the life of the Xapo wallet?  This advise seems a tad fishy to me.  Can any techies speak to the veracity of this advice?
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Re: Official Xapo Service Discussion
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AshCoiner
on 16/04/2015, 15:10:30 UTC
David from Xapo &/or anyone who can answer this:

In doing my due diligence and checking out the feedback on Xapo first, I'm seeing that it seems to be a favored wallet for Faucets.  Some, like Moon Bitcoin, make direct deposits to Xapo wallet while those with other wallets have to wait until collection day.  I'm curious.  Why is this? 

link for moon bitcoin is http://www.moonbit.co.in/


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After posting the above message, I went ahead and started an account with Xapo.  The wallet set up fine, but I had trouble verifying where I live.  It didn't seem to accept my City, State, Country answer.  Sent an email to support from Metaminder.....  Could someone please look into this for me?  I really want to try those faucets. 

Thanks in advance for your help.   Smiley

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Re: Is Xapo a scam??
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AshCoiner
on 16/04/2015, 15:02:16 UTC
David from Xapo &/or anyone who can answer this:

In doing my due diligence and checking out the feedback on Xapo first, I'm seeing that it seems to be a favored wallet for Faucets.  Some, like Moon Bitcoin, make direct deposits to Xapo wallet while those with other wallets have to wait until collection day.  I'm curious.  Why is this? 

link for moon bitcoin is http://www.moonbit.co.in/
It would be wise to ask this in their service thread.

There is another thread for Xapo Service Discussion here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=902526.0
Please direct any comments about our products there.

Awesome.  I will.  Thank you!   Grin
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Re: Is Xapo a scam??
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AshCoiner
on 16/04/2015, 01:45:02 UTC
David from Xapo &/or anyone who can answer this:

In doing my due diligence and checking out the feedback on Xapo first, I'm seeing that it seems to be a favored wallet for Faucets.  Some, like Moon Bitcoin, make direct deposits to Xapo wallet while those with other wallets have to wait until collection day.  I'm curious.  Why is this? 

link for moon bitcoin is http://www.moonbit.co.in/
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Re: Is Xapo a scam??
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AshCoiner
on 16/04/2015, 01:23:36 UTC
I don't know if it's a scam or not..
Why don't just use the original wallet where you'll have full control of it?
because with the full wallet you cant go to like walmart and buy stuff or cant go rent a hotel room right on the spot. I dont want to have to like hey wife lets go on a trip i will sell some bitcoin to coinbase and wait 3-5 days for coinbase to send me money to bank account lol. I want fast transactions and real time use like a normal credit / debit card  Grin

While it's not as convenient as a debit card, you may want to check this out.  https://www.gyft.com/bitcoin/   Gyft sells you gift cards to various stores for Bitcoin.
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Re: Which BTC wallet are you using
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AshCoiner
on 11/04/2015, 02:23:14 UTC

If you are using a bad/poor client, I suggest you not to reuse addresses. Reusing addresses when using a bad/poor client will put you in danger as it exposes reused R values which will make a person easy to find your private key.

Thank you for your advice, Muhammad.  Being new, I'm not quite sure I understand this part of it, though.
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Re: Which BTC wallet are you using
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AshCoiner
on 10/04/2015, 23:13:17 UTC
I use only blockchain.info. Other than that, I use my bit-x wallet to collect my sig campaign earnings : )

OK.  That's helpful.  To what amount would you let your bit-x wallet fill up before you "poured" it into blockchain wallet and started with a clean bit-x wallet? 

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Re: where you get bitcoin every day?
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AshCoiner
on 10/04/2015, 22:05:36 UTC
One of my writing clients likes to pay in BTC so every week I get sent some more BTC Smiley don't know what to do with it though, I just sell it ..

In my research, I discovered this "Gyft" site.  Gives you usable gyft cards to well known places for Bitcoin.  This could come in handy. 
https://www.gyft.com/.  That or saving it in a wallet.  Nice client to pay you in Bit[Suspicious link removed]d luck!
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Re: Which BTC wallet are you using
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AshCoiner
on 10/04/2015, 21:56:44 UTC
I'm researching wallets as well.  One thing I am hearing from some of you is to store small amounts in some sort of mobile wallet and larger savings in an offline more secure wallet.

So might a good practice with Bitcoin be to collect it in a mobile/online wallet up to say 1 bitcoin?  After it reaches a bitcoin, move it offline to the more secure wallet and start collecting again with the mobile wallet? 
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Re: Beware of Increasingly Sophisticated Malware Infection Attempts
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AshCoiner
on 31/03/2015, 03:52:25 UTC
I just received something like this an hour ago.  I was surfing Ebay and laughed when I saw PimpCash.  Having to see if it was real, I went to pimpcash.com. Immediately something like what you showed came up.  However, for me, it pretended to be my service provider and gave me a number to call.  I confess I did try to call but the ring didn't sound right.  Sounded like an old telephone.  I hung up and rebooted my computer.  Things seem to be ok now.  I ran a quick scan and all seems to be okay.  Is there anything else I should do to check to see if my computer is okay?

Any thoughts ?

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SPR, ORB and at least one or two other coins are using this faucet/ block explorer site.

BE VARY WARY OF THE MULTIFAUCET BLOCK EXPLORER !

I searched an for an address and was left with having to fight virus scan pop ups for a few minutes.