Has anyone successfully transferred their QORA from poloniex to OpenLedger DEX recently ? ( In the last 3-4 months ? )
If so, can you respond/ PM me ?
Thanks

You mean the QORA on polo is stuck ? How can one transfer these coins ? Any leads ?

Not sure if Iam jumping the gun, but none of the BTC service providers ( including exchanges) which were hacked have refunded the user's money in the past . The closest any one has refunded user money was nicehash  ( which has given approximately 50% of the user money till date - thats almost after 7 months ) and is still in the process of refunding the user money that was hacked.

Regarding coinsecure, am not sure about their plans of refund - whether its a phased refund or account-wise. At the moment, they dont seem to have a plan ( or atleast a published plan )

I agree . While we were there last month ... it was hovering between 3.8 to 4.1 and the volatility was huge . I was wondering how much the money exchangers on sultan ahmet region were making out of this volatility  !!

Thanks for this information. I guess this came slightly late for me !
I hope this will be of use for someone in the future.

By the way, do you have BTC to TL conversions ? I see from your website that the conversion is from BTC to USD.

1) Unfortunately , I didnt find any place that directly transact using BTC. Though i used egifter.com to get some of the coupons codes and used it in most places which accept coupons. Warning : Govt of Turkey has blocked egifter.com site. ( Some other sites are also blocked in turkey - Beware if you are overly relying on sites )
2) The kiosk in the Ataturk airport no longer exists. 

I have used nafa.in in the past . I DONOT find it reliable.
I have received bogus coupon codes which donot work - and have lost good amount of btc on the site because. Though I have got working coupon codes 70% of the times. Getting coupons which do not work 30% of the time is NOT a reliable transaction.

I would dissuade people from using the site for the following reasons.
1. Non existent support. Their support email ID is unresponsive. I have written to them atleast 5 times. Their support ticket mechanism also is unresponsive. ( I haven't used the watsapp number given there - since I wanted to protect my privacy )
2. If you are transacting using bitcoins, there is a delay of around than 30 minutes ( due to waiting time for 3 confirmations from network). During this time , the coupons are still listed and subject to double transaction. ( eg : if use A transaction using bitcoin and then user B  buys the coupon using cash transfer, it gets credited to user B first - since it is instantaneous - but then user A has already transferred the bitcoins - he gets the same coupon code- but thats a duplicate )
3. There is a 7%-11% cost markup  ( post conversion from INR to BTC value ) . ( this site is supported by unocoin - so you can imagine the lopsided exchange rate )
4. If something goes wrong with the bitcoin transactions , there is NO REFUND. You take a risk here .

In a nutshell AVOID nafa.in if you are using bitcoins .
I know this is bad for the bitcoin community in India - but unless they address these issues, its quite unreliable.

Nope. I think that's not right.

LTCG is applicable for these assets
A) immovable assets/property ( land, building and house  )  - if held for more than 24 months  ( before FY 2017, it was 36 months  )
B) movable assets ( jewellery , gold , etc ) - if held for more than 36 months
C) equity/bonds/ securities ( held for more than 12 months )

Exceptions on taxation are applicable -
For A under certain scenarios ( eg : selling a land/property to buy another land /property , sale of agricultural land etc * Some conditions apply. )
For C) from 2018 - if gains are more than 1 Lakh , else it is flat 10% tax

Crypto-currencies does not fall under the exemption category of LTCG.

I tried going to the  unodax site .... it greeted me with this :

Error 1006  • 2018-05-09 12:12:11 UTC
Access denied
The owner of this website (www.unodax.com) has banned your IP

Okay .. They are back after 3 days !!!

Just got me scared . After coinsecure episode ... I am quite paranoid with every 'bit' of uncertainity ( pardon the pun )

I have been seeing this message onthe unocoin site for the past 3 days .

We have a scheduled System Maintenance/Upgradation. The duration of maintenance is expected to be completed by end of the day.All functionalities provided by Unocoin including our Website, Mobile Apps, Merchant Gateway and Partner Services will not be available during this time. Once the maintenance activities are completed, all our services will resume to normal and you will be able to access the features without any issues. All your pending orders will remain unchanged during the transition

And my associated payment gateway has stopped working ( since i enable using unocoin  )
Any idea whats going on ?

Whaaat are you talking ? Statements like these are the start of misinformation.
XAPO ( for all non-european  countries ) stopped its debit card services in October 2017. Also did Bitpay and spectrocoin ( by Jan 2018- for non-european residents)
( Infact ,  Visa cancelled all Wavecrest cards. ( Wave Crest Holdings Ltd. is the one that issued these btc debit cards )

I dont know where you get all these information from !!

Thanks for the reply. Iam still in the search for businesses which transact in bitcoin, If i am successful in finding any , I will post it here .Thanks.

Iam visiting Istanbul for 10 days with my husband on vacation. Wanted to know if there are any list of places which accept bitcoins in Istanbul,
I saw these locations in istanbul that accept BTC for transactions ( http://coinmap.org/#/map/40.88652441/29.03411865/10 ) . Are they still using BTC .
I saw news that there was a travelbox / Bitcoin ATM in Ataturk airport. Is it still present ?

Any links would be helpful.
Thanks

Thanks .


I have tried the browser mining option when it was released as an experimental effort long time back ( just out of curiosity). But since it uses the CPU ( and not the GPU - even if you had one ), it will definitely be not worth the power / time . ( IMHO)
If you are using chrome, Shift + Esc will show you what component in your browser is using up your CPU - and if you are mining using the browser, it will show that its eating up most of your resources.

Some good news , though its just a ray of hope . I hope it takes some force and goes ahead ... !

Okay - Just an update on my Reward Points redemption .


I got my egifter.com coupon which I test-redeemed ( to my mail ID) . So it works .. My only grouch is that it came after almost 3 weeks after I redeemed.  ( I understand ( hear) that the admin at freebitco.in is super busy )
Thanks 'TheQuin' for being patient on my nagging request .
My trust quotient went up one notch.

If you search for "credit-risk models for the unbanked telecom repayment data india" or something similar to that , you will find enough links to this practice.
Excerpt from one of the sites .
"....using increased computing power and new sources of information and data (including mobile-phone usage patterns, utility-bill payment history, and others) to build better risk models. With these assets, and with scrupulous attention to privacy laws and customer consent and preferences, banks, retailers, utilities, and telecommunications providers can make responsible lending decisions in low-touch and low-cost ways."

I know people who have worked for an NBFC in the past making risk models who have used such data in their credit-risk models. Airtel was one of their prominent data partners. Cant give you more details though.
Take away - Next time you take a mobile connection, read the fine print. - especially about data sharing.



Any direct transaction of bitcoin to get gift coupons (* like the few we have in US ( egifter.com , gyft.com , jmbullion.com ) and the ones in india *site removed* ) and the numerous other e-com sites which allow btc payments are direct pointers to link your physical address to the fact that you used bitcoins for transaction  ( and also to your bitcoin address and therefore your transaction history - if you dont shuffle your BTC address ( point #1 ). If amazon buys this data from the third party ( and surely they have the money to do so ) , they can easily build a network of well ascertained data streams to point to all ( or atleast most of  the btc transactions )

purse.io is more indirect since amazon cannot know if the amazon gift card used ( by buyer A ) to send the consignment to ( spender B) was acquired by a bitcoin or not ( unless purse sells the data to amazon or their kinds )

I have been interested for quite sometime about the IRA trying to traceback all the bitcoin transactions - and link to people - for taxation of their hoildings. Iam pretty sure the RBI and the IT department would definitely get the ecom sites in india to divulge the data to them for the purposes of linking all transactions to people - under the guise of Anti-Money Laundering act ( 2002) . And there would be no commercial organization ( or ecom site ) that would hesitate in sharing the data.

Take away - There fore, in a nut shell , if you link your purchases to a physical address, they can get you.

This is definitely not good.  It undermines the basic tenets of crypto currency ideologies.

But similar data 'sells' have been rampant in the past too.
Airtel ad other telcos have been doing this for years in India - without any formal consent from the consumer.
Airtel sells the bill payment patterns to NBFCs to build their financial risk models for consumers based in rural/sub-urban localities ( due to the lack of other consumer data). Based on their telephone/mobile bill payment patterns , the NBFCs can gauge the riskiness of a customer with respect to loan disbursements .

As far as amazon US is concerned, the patent is a formal way or recognizing it as a law.  In India, it is possibly a sandbox.
This will only be possible if ISPs and third party vendors  ( where you transact using bitcoins ) sell the IP addresses linked to each btc transaction. ( which they would easily do )

Having said that, this is disturbing . A few steps towards avoiding this from the users side would be
1. To always shuffle the bitcoin address for all transactions
2. Use a VPN/ be behind a proxy server.
3. Avoid transactions that are linked to a physical address . ( avoiding delivery of goods to a location )
4. Needless to say , avoid transactions which are linked to personally identifiable information  (PII) , like PAN, bank account etc
5. In case of buying coupons/goods Try using transactions which give you the option of going to the store in person and physically collecting the goods.