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Re: X8CURRENCY Signature and Avatar Campaign
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TheBTCAlex
on 08/12/2017, 07:32:10 UTC
Btctalk name: TheBTCAlex
Rank: Member
Current post count: 186+1
BTC Address: 1DQvCXUhLt2NVrYKxuQCHEjERxF4QTstPz
Wear appropriate signature: Yes
Wear avatar: I am a member only

Just wondering if you could enroll me on probation, and keep monitoring me, as I have been inactive for the past 2 months, just willing to kickstart back up again.
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Re: [SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN] TRUCKCOIN [OPEN]
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TheBTCAlex
on 31/10/2017, 06:41:10 UTC
Link to Profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1087096
Bitcointalk Rank: Member
Current number of posts: 186+1
Bitcoin Address to send the payment: 1DQvCXUhLt2NVrYKxuQCHEjERxF4QTstPz

Bump...you didn't consider me?
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Re: [SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN] TRUCKCOIN [OPEN]
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TheBTCAlex
on 30/10/2017, 11:33:49 UTC
Link to Profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1087096
Bitcointalk Rank: Member
Current number of posts: 186+1
Bitcoin Address to send the payment: 1DQvCXUhLt2NVrYKxuQCHEjERxF4QTstPz
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Re: Criminality and Bitcoin
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TheBTCAlex
on 24/10/2017, 18:07:55 UTC
https://www.deepdotweb.com/2016/01/23/bitcoin-playing-an-increased-role-in-crime-europol-says/

Would you believe that the existence of bitcoin has increased the number of criminality in  some countries in the world. This is the issue that was being thrown by the EuroPol and the UK Metropolitan Police. According to them bitcoin has played a huge role on the increasing criminality in their area. They added that a huge number of cybercriminals were using bitcoins in their activities.

This just shows that as bitcoin develops both advantages and disadvantages will tag along.
Actually, this is in a way, understandable. Nothing unbelievable, criminals obviously don't wanna get caught, and bitcoin is the decentralized currency for all of their needs, it is anonymous, secure, and the government can't tap in or track transactions, it is totally upto the person to decide what he uses it for. And this was definitely upheld in practicality by Silkroad and other such websites that have been taken down since, but new site of this kind are emerging everyday.
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Re: is it risky to turn all my money to bitcoins?
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TheBTCAlex
on 23/10/2017, 17:23:18 UTC
Even with something that people might consider a super safe haven like gold (Aurum, not the bitcoin fork!), it's always unwise to put all your eggs in one basket. The prime rule of investment is never risk everything. Probably the only thing you could risk the majority of your savings... is in savings. A fixed deposit with a trustworthy bank. That is just to protect your lifetime savings. And don't fall for what people say about Bitcoin. I believe in it, but it's foolish to risk everything with Bitcoin!

Definitely agreed. Bitcoin is too volatile at this stage to invest all of your life savings into, even if you really do wanna invest into BTC, you should invest only a small part, and just buy bitcoins and hold, investing in any "supposedly-HYIP" program will lead to you losing that money, and gambling also should not be practiced. You should never, ever, risk 100%, and especially if you do that, that too in the case of bitcoins, if the value of bitcoin falls rapidly one day, you will be practically bankrupt!
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Re: What is BTG (Bitcoin Gold)
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TheBTCAlex
on 23/10/2017, 16:12:40 UTC
It is an ALT coin, a fork of the bitcoin chain happening sometime tonight. If you have your bitcoin private keys you will be able to claim BTG on a 1:1 basis after the fact.
Should I expect the bitcoin to go down? Thanks!

Definitely not much. Bitcoin Gold's community support is very poor, and it's trading volume and market cap are going to be extremely low, atleast for the time being. Thus, this should not affect BTC's value much, maybe it will go down a few 100$-250$ or so, but this is supposed to be very short term. Bitcoin Gold will only emerge as a pump-and-dump altcoin.
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Re: Zap Store Signature Campaign
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TheBTCAlex
on 23/10/2017, 16:02:50 UTC
Btctalk name: TheBTCAlex
Rank: Member
Current post count: 188+1
BTC Address: 1DQvCXUhLt2NVrYKxuQCHEjERxF4QTstPz
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Re: Is it better to save money or invest it?
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TheBTCAlex
on 19/10/2017, 05:44:51 UTC
I think its better to invest a very small part of your money into bitcoin. That way, you can reap the benefits of the market volatility of bitcoin, and save them to convert a part of it into fiat after some time. Once you have invested some money/time and obtained bitcoins, you will see that people will advise to hold (save it), as at the current rate of growth, you can double your investment in what, three-four months?
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Re: What You Need To Know To Get FREE Bitcoin Gold During The Fork.
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TheBTCAlex
on 10/10/2017, 15:27:31 UTC
This a very educative information. I want to know what you mean by desktop wallet. Is it the normal blockchain.info wallet that we all know or is it another type of wallet?
It means NOT keeping your coins in something like blockchain.info wallet, it is an online wallet.
What is meant by desktop wallets are wallets like Electrum, and Bitcoin Armory, the ones that you have complete control over our money on, and where you have control of your private keys.
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Re: Do you think billionaires invest in BTC?
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TheBTCAlex
on 05/10/2017, 16:26:45 UTC
Ofcourse they know about BTC, as it is one of the best assets for investing in, and I believe that most billionaires, like Bill Gates, own quite a bit of them, who know about it and has knowledge that the technology can be revolutionizing in the currency world. Bill Gates even declared that he understood the potential of bitcoin to be more than fiat, and since that time, many other billionaires, and CEOs of various companies and even people like John Mcafee have declared their trust on bitcoin.
This definitely shows that they not only know about bitcoin and are very much aware and educated about it, they also take a keen interest into the technology.
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Re: Bitcoin can not replace fiat
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TheBTCAlex
on 05/10/2017, 16:07:32 UTC
As a side asset, to keep along with fiat, bitcoin is definitely the best. However, at its current condition, it can, in no way, in the future, try to even remotely replace fiat. I mean, come on...bitcoin is extremely volatile, how can its popularity go beyond something that has been used for centuries traditionally, when people are not even trying to trust and use it.
Moreover, not many people are familiar with the concept and not educated enough to use it, and lack of adoption makes bitcoin's value unstable, and this cycle continues. Thus most governments aren't taking the risk to try and implement it mainstream, as if they use it as official currency, their economy's value might zero down in days along with bitcoin's if and when it falls.
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Re: Earning enough with Bitcoin without Job ?
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TheBTCAlex
on 05/10/2017, 15:58:24 UTC
Most of the middle class society won't be able to do that. Only when you have a lot of capital that you can invest into bitcoin without any risk, and with advanced trading knowledge, only with these things along with investment of time, you will be able to earn a good stable income which will be enough to stabilize you without any field job.
Also, bitcoin is very volatile and not accepted that widely, so many people won't have the courage to earn the whole of their livelihood in such kind of a currency, whose value may be zero within days, and when they won't even be able to use that much.
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Re: Is bitcoin a good way to invest your money ?
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TheBTCAlex
on 05/10/2017, 12:40:26 UTC
Yes, as traders who buy low and sell high repeatedly are making a lot of money nowadays with bitcoin, simply as more people are adopting it, and holding it in the long run will result in much more profit than any other asset in market currently. Also, I believe it is a technology which can revolutionize the way we transact, and thus it has created more popularity for itself, and it will only continue to grow.
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Re: What do you think about the legalization of bitcoin in Malaysia.
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TheBTCAlex
on 05/10/2017, 12:09:04 UTC
This is a another milestone for bitcoin, more and more asian countries are accepting bitcoin as currency, hopefully this has some reliable source, in order for us bit to be skeptical, since what we have on social media can be edited. If this is true though, more and more good news will sure to follow, i think malaysia legalized bitcoin followin india, since there are a lot of indian nationals also living in malaysia, this is a good thing though, they need not to exchange malaysian currency to rupees anymore since now they have bitcoin, they could just simply fly over to india and use their bitcoins and vice versa, this is also good for the malaysians, knowing that their country is more advance than the philippines, malaysia will sure to make use bitcoin and and gain more advantages. I hope you will also share the link,  since i haven't read news yet from malaysia, it is always china, russia and india as of the moment, still more and more malaysians will get rich because of this, and hopefully they already found a way on how they can regulate bitcoin on their end, since that is always the problem.
Yes definitely this has been a very good inspiration for people of Asia to adopt bitcoin, and specially India to use bitcoin. Due to the legalization of bitcoin recently in many Asian and other developing countries too. The more people adopt bitcoin, the more it will become stable and volatility will be a bit more predictable. The price will also be supported above a certain point and won't drop below that, which will definitely help to keep people's trust in BTC more stable.
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Re: Bitcoin rise is over
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TheBTCAlex
on 05/10/2017, 11:17:25 UTC
Definitely for some time it may have stopped, I have seen its market value lingering around $4100 to around $4200 lately, and seems to have settled there. I think there is a resistance line somewhere there, and psychologically people don't really want it to rise too far above that. However, I think that price barrier will be broken soon sometime after the 25th Oct hardfork of Bitcoin Gold, and it will start its bullish trend again.
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Re: Why Bitcoin Nosedived
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TheBTCAlex
on 05/10/2017, 10:48:09 UTC
I will like to know the reason why after bitcoin reached the maximum value this month it has been decreasing on a daily basis just at the time i wanted to invest the uptrend just changed suddenly. is there any hope of further increasing as some has speculated that it will reach $5000 by the end of this year?
Trained speculators are just nothing more than educated guessers. This bearish trend occurred in the market value of bitcoin since China is the biggest global player in the bitcoin market, and when exchanges and ICOs were banned there, naturally, the value took a huge dip as that would mean a lot less people would be using bitcoin now. However, since then it has recovered and slowly crawling back, I think by the end of this year it should hit around 4700$-$4800.
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Re: Do u agree that Bitcoin will go to 500,000$ in 2020 by john Macafee claim ?
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TheBTCAlex
on 05/10/2017, 10:40:24 UTC
How can anyone ever be THAT sure? 2020 is a very short time for bitcoin to go that high, and, even if, theoretically, it did, then it would be for a very short while, due to an overbought trend, and will start dropping like hell, that too very rapidly. It would become very unstable as a currency which would result in mass decline, so I think that it better not go anywhere near that value in such less time, for it's own sake. A gradual, slow rise is much more beneficial to itself.
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Re: Spending Bitcoins
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TheBTCAlex
on 05/10/2017, 10:37:49 UTC
People in my country, India, have only just about started adopting and understanding the concept of bitcoin, so just about nothing accepts bitcoin currently.
However, I can still use it for online payments, for purchasing stuff like eBooks and software from amazon, so it is not a big deal for me, although I would definitely like to see more adoption in the future.
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Re: NUMBER OF POSTS DECREASING
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TheBTCAlex
on 05/10/2017, 10:24:32 UTC
Just happening to me for a while, had me wondering why. Now finally have the answer. Thanks for the heads up man Smiley
However, I think BTCTalk should have notified us for each post that gets deleted due to this reason.
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Re: How to Become A Bitcoin Expert
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TheBTCAlex
on 04/10/2017, 12:09:51 UTC
It will take atleast a year of research and study if you properly wanna reproduce the blockchain, maybe more than that, you will need to learn the fundamentals behind coding, specially "C", and then study how the blockchain works and uses peer-to-peer decentralized network to verify transactions. You should also go over the numerous whitepapers out there, watch YouTube videos on the topic whenever you can, believe me they sometimes provide lots of info, and then definitely take some courses on BTC.