Hello,

does anyone know a place where you can buy bitcoins using a TOR browser and WITHOUT ID?

completaly anonymous.

thank you

Hello,

I'm looking for books about blockchain for advanced people

also looking for books explaining trading etc...

If you have any recommendations, please let me know.

Thanks!

There has been a lot of controversy regarding Tether. Many claiming it to be a scam, others the opposite.

Tether was founded by Reeve Collins (CEO of BlockV) and sold to Bitfinex in 2015. And that's where things got dodgy.

An exchange which owns a 'money' printing machine.

So Tether claims to have for every Tether in circulation 1 real dollar in their bankreserve. This however has NEVER been proven.
However Zhao Dong claims to have seen these accounts

https://news.bitcoin.com/vouching-bitfinex-and-tethers-bank-accounts-hold-nearly-3-billion-usd/

I for one do not trust what some guy says on the internet. I have learned my lesson not to blindly trust the word of a person that I don't know, how big and famous they might be. (eg. Trump, Lance Armstrong, O.J. Simpson, Bill Cosby, ....)

Tether has also NEVER been audited. No audits have ever happened by an independent 3rd party. So we have no proof of their books. Friedman LLP was going to audit them, but Bitfinex smartly canceled on them. WHY? If Zhao Dong and other claim to have seen their accounts they shouldn't be scared and just show it to the right?

https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/01/28/tether-dissolve-relationship-with-auditors/

https://www.coindesk.com/tether-confirms-relationship-auditor-dissolved/

here they claim to be the 1st project to be audited and need special regulations so that's why they canceled

"As Tether is the first company in the space to undergo this process and pursue this level of transparency, there is no precedent set to guide the process nor any benchmark against which to measure its success." - Bitfinex.

FALSE: many crypto projects have been audited eg VeChain has been audited by PwC

http://www.universalcointrade.com/pwc-backs-chinese-blockchain-powered-supply-chain-startup-vechain/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Vechain/comments/7dbsdp/10_global_senior_leaders_from_pwc_visited_vechain/

EVERY time that Tether gets printed, BTC pumps. Why is this?
So imagine if you were to buy 1 BTC from Bitfinex with real hard worked dollars. You wire 11K to them, they give you 1 BTC and you go on to happy trading. But what we don't see is what happens behinde the scene. Bitfinex, who can print Tether at any given time, buys 1 BTC but with THEIR TETHER and then gives it to you. So Bitfinex won 11K, because they gave you BTC bought with USDT which isn't 'worth' anything and they keep your 11K.
Now back to the BTC pumps during printing time. Bitfinex printed 500m in 5 days (WTF RIGHT?) and BTC starts pumping. They are buying BTC with printed Tether. Free BTC for them. And then they can happily dump it on you and take your dollars away again.


Why do exchanges even need Tether? I get it's a token on the blockchain which makes it easier and blabla. Why not just real dollars, euros, yuangs,...? Makes it easier and more reliable.


So what will happen when Tether gets exposed as a scam like Bitconnect?

- people sell their USDT for USD and cash out, but if there is MORE USDT then USD from their bankreserve, what happens then? What if Bitfinex decides to shut down like Bitconnect?
- people sell their USDT for BTC and continue cryptoing
- people sell their USDT for BTC/ALTS and cash out

In any of these conditions, the market will suffer. And every exchanges uses Tether, so imagine the psychological effect this will have when this gets exposed as a scam.
Market might crash with 80%

http://bitcoinist.com/tales-terror-tether/

PLEASE tell me your opinions, thoughts, (conspiracy) theories, correct me where I'm wrong, whatever. But this might be one of the biggest scams in cryptospace right now?

EDIT:

France based Bitfinex CEO suspected of Ponzi scheme

https://steemit.com/bitfinex/@gaitan/bitfinex-ceo-suspected-of-a-ponzi-scheme


31m Tether hack

https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/bitfinex-tether-scam/

There has been a lot of controversy regarding Tether. Many claiming it to be a scam, others the opposite.

Tether was founded by Reeve Collins (CEO of BlockV) and sold to Bitfinex in 2015. And that's where things got dodgy.

An exchange which owns a 'money' printing machine.

So Tether claims to have for every Tether in circulation 1 real dollar in their bankreserve. This however has NEVER been proven.
However Zhao Dong claims to have seen these accounts

https://news.bitcoin.com/vouching-bitfinex-and-tethers-bank-accounts-hold-nearly-3-billion-usd/

I for one do not trust what some guy says on the internet. I have learned my lesson not to blindly trust the word of a person that I don't know, how big and famous they might be. (eg. Trump, Lance Armstrong, O.J. Simpson, Bill Cosby, ....)

Tether has also NEVER been audited. No audits have ever happened by an independent 3rd party. So we have no proof of their books. Friedman LLP was going to audit them, but Bitfinex smartly canceled on them. WHY? If Zhao Dong and other claim to have seen their accounts they shouldn't be scared and just show it to the right?

https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/01/28/tether-dissolve-relationship-with-auditors/

https://www.coindesk.com/tether-confirms-relationship-auditor-dissolved/

here they claim to be the 1st project to be audited and need special regulations so that's why they canceled

"As Tether is the first company in the space to undergo this process and pursue this level of transparency, there is no precedent set to guide the process nor any benchmark against which to measure its success." - Bitfinex.

FALSE: many crypto projects have been audited eg VeChain has been audited by PwC

http://www.universalcointrade.com/pwc-backs-chinese-blockchain-powered-supply-chain-startup-vechain/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Vechain/comments/7dbsdp/10_global_senior_leaders_from_pwc_visited_vechain/

EVERY time that Tether gets printed, BTC pumps. Why is this?
So imagine if you were to buy 1 BTC from Bitfinex with real hard worked dollars. You wire 11K to them, they give you 1 BTC and you go on to happy trading. But what we don't see is what happens behinde the scene. Bitfinex, who can print Tether at any given time, buys 1 BTC but with THEIR TETHER and then gives it to you. So Bitfinex won 11K, because they gave you BTC bought with USDT which isn't 'worth' anything and they keep your 11K.
Now back to the BTC pumps during printing time. Bitfinex printed 500m in 5 days (WTF RIGHT?) and BTC starts pumping. They are buying BTC with printed Tether. Free BTC for them. And then they can happily dump it on you and take your dollars away again.


Why do exchanges even need Tether? I get it's a token on the blockchain which makes it easier and blabla. Why not just real dollars, euros, yuangs,...? Makes it easier and more reliable.


So what will happen when Tether gets exposed as a scam like Bitconnect?

- people sell their USDT for USD and cash out, but if there is MORE USDT then USD from their bankreserve, what happens then? What if Bitfinex decides to shut down like Bitconnect?
- people sell their USDT for BTC and continue cryptoing
- people sell their USDT for BTC/ALTS and cash out

In any of these conditions, the market will suffer. And every exchanges uses Tether, so imagine the psychological effect this will have when this gets exposed as a scam.
Market might crash with 80%

http://bitcoinist.com/tales-terror-tether/

PLEASE tell me your opinions, thoughts, (conspiracy) theories, correct me where I'm wrong, whatever. But this might be one of the biggest scams in cryptospace right now?

EDIT:

Do you also think that the US gouverment allows a private company to print 'dollars'?
 

France based Bitfinex CEO suspected of Ponzi scheme

https://steemit.com/bitfinex/@gaitan/bitfinex-ceo-suspected-of-a-ponzi-scheme


31m Tether hack

https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/bitfinex-tether-scam/

Tether printed 500m USDT past 5 days.
There has been 0 proof that they are actually backed by real dollars and no audits have happened yet.

Is this a scam? If so, the whole crypto market will crash (mt gox 2)

If it isn't, please provide proof of this.

So quiet in this topic...

Shame because this project is really amazing.
Smart digital contracts on the blockchain, the interface to blockchain. Like what Internet Explorer did to the internet.

Heard BlockV had big conferences these 2 weeks. Is there any more information on this? Links, articles, videos, ... ?

Are other exchanges interested in listing this? Since the CEO founded Tether I assume he has a good relationship with Bitfinex? Could they perhaps try and list it there?

Activity on GitHub? No major changes?

Partnership announcement coming soon too I heard? Speculations regarding this? Saw a Coca Cola video, could it be them? Gaming companies?

actually that's not true.
you can click a phishing link and then you're fucked...

I'm always careful if someone announces an airdrop

Let's give it a shot...

I participate in the NeoConnect Airdrop

thought it was about 12cents at ICO

hello dev

not that many followers on twitter (60 but 100% real), not that many posts on bitcointalk either...
but i'm 4 lingual (spanish, french, dutch and english) i can translate in any language if you like. filled the forms in but i'm afraid i'll get rejected for low ammount of activity.

anyways, up for twitter, facebook and translation bounty!

Please tell me from which country you are from and what your government is doing to regulate bitcoin and other cryptos.
Also what is the amount of taxes you have to pay.

interesting to see in what direction it might go.

I'm from Belgium and atm there are no restrictions that I know of. Only you have to pay taxes if you withdraw +20k of bitcoin or others.

No it will not. It will make some people rich and a lot of people poor.

it's just simple logic. You first of all have to either have a lot of money to invest in it f you're to late or you have to be early. If you bought high and panicked, sold low and then rebought you already lost money before making any. if you're to late with investing and only have little you will not earn a lot.

So in my opinion, people will win money, but not everyone can, so a lot of people will also lose. This market is manipulated by people with a lot of money who can make you do stupid things.

there are already somany platforms, I believe only few will survive.
yes you can code on it blabla... you can code on everything these days.
lisk and/or ark are way better if you're looking at coding.
if you're looking at a platform then ethereum or neo

reserve the French translation

Hello,

I'm trying to understand the difference between proof of work, proof of stake and proof of concept, but every time I think I get it I read something that completely confuses me.
could someone explain this and not go to much into detail?
and why prefer one over the other?

thank you!

Cobin Hood tokens are already selling on EtherDelta for lower price then ICO, very shady stuff... looks like a scam to me.

Hello everyone,
I am looking for ICO's who are built for cyber security. I only found Rivetz but there are probably a lot more. Any one who knows these kinds of ICO's?

Sonm (SNM), Tron (TRX) and VeChain (VEN)

Hello,
is there a specific site mentioning which alt coin has an update when?
or do you have to follow them on twitter, slack etc...?
like antshares rebranding to neo, ethereum hard fork. golem partnership with x....
these kind of updates

EDIT: there are lots of ICO websites saying when they're launching. I'm looking for this, but then for updates

thanks!