The eBay auction for #389 ends in about 24 hours and is $400 shipped (US only)

I'm looking at a house on Saturday that is below my budget, so fingers crossed!

A bump and an update, Kialara #386 has been sold and en route to its new home!

Continuing to post with this account since it's his thread, and I've still got PMs to respond to.

Indeed I can!


I think that 14W74.. was from a web wallet or something when I was young and stupid(er).

Here is another signed message from the address in my sig as bmoconno:


Thanks for the suggestion, LoyceV

You could use shuf to randomly grab n number of rows from your list of all addresses with a balance, I've found it to be fairly quick with large files in the past.


Would give you 20 random lines from the file with all addresses.

Glad you like the idea! Obviously scaling could be an issue (20 random addresses doesn't add a lot of privacy/noise if the user inputs 5000 addresses) and there's going to be a lot of extra calls to the sochart API which could suck if they limit. I haven't looked at their API but if they give your limits in the response header I guess you could still keep it pretty quick by only adding a setTimeout when you're close to the limit?

I wonder if there's a trusted public API that lets you send a list of address instead of one address at a time? Obviously you could set one up yourself, but then you get back into the issue of sending data to your own server and thus losing trust. 

Thanks, TryNinja!

I'm wondering if mine falls under the first bolded section there though?


I guess if I still haven't heard anything by tomorrow I'll give that recoveries email address a try.

Thanks again for the heads up!

I tried to log into my old account (bmoconno) and when I do I get a message saying that because it was inactive for a long time and existed when the 2015 password hash dump happened it has been blocked. It provides an email address like reactivate...@bitcointalk.org to get it unlocked. I sent an email the other day (from the email address registered to the account) and haven't heard anything back yet... is this still the correct email address to use? Or does it usually just take some time before someone looks it over?

Any insight here would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Man this is a big part of why I got out of crypto, like has been said... I'm glad he went to prison, wish it was longer.

I doubt I did enough record keeping to get anything back from this, but I hope some of you guys can get something back. I had a few big loans that I funded on BTC Lend, would love to get some of that back... but the people would have probably defaulted anyways.

bitmover what about using a random block to add privacy?

When someone hits the page, you use JS to reach out to an API and grab a random block. Then use addresses from that block to salt the address list the user has provided. Then you get the results back from the sochain API and remove the salted addresses from what is shown to the user.

You can even show the user the block/addresses that will be used to augment the sochain api call so they know it's on the up and up.

Ohh thanks for that info, sorta wish all the info was in one spot.

I agree, my circumstances are definitely not the norm. I still think a system where a Newbie can respond to PMs they receive would be better than what is in place. That way they still can't spam, but they can also reply to people who send them PMs without the person who sent the messing thinking they are being a jerk or blowing them off.

Guess once I get my activity up, I'll see about buying Copper for this account if I still haven't heard back about my original account.

So much this.

I'm a "Newbie", because my old account was part of the password breach and since I've been out of the crypto space for so long I never bothered to get it turned back on. After being a "Newbie" for about a day, I now have an email in to the provided address when I try to log in, but have yet to hear a response.

I absolutely believe that it's important to impose limits on new members to prevent the spread of spam and malicious links, but as someone who is experiencing it right now, the system could use some improvement. For example, I have a post in the market place that is generating a lot of PMs, but I can only send one PM an hour... and a maximum of two PMs per day. This is a ridiculous system, and if I was actually someone new to crypto and trying to learn and become part of this community, I would be quickly discouraged.

Even the "Copper" paid membership doesn't help here, as it really only allows "Newbie" users to post images. Ideally the system would account for incoming PMs and allow the "Newbie" to respond via PM (on a 1:1 basis) without hitting impossible limits.

I loved the Jonathan Blow game "The Witness", great puzzles in a beautiful world... and I loved finding the quotes/audio messages throughout the game. If you make it far enough into the game, there is a fantastic timed puzzle that you need to complete before "In The Hall of the Mountain King" as performed by the Metropolitan Philharmonic Orchestra is completed (there's also another song, but I don't know that I ever knew the name of it). It really gets your blood pumping as you race the clock to this amazing song to solve the challenge puzzle(s).

I'm also a big fan of the Ninja Theory game "Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice"... the studio got picked up by Microsoft and I was real worried we wouldn't get a sequel, but then they released a teaser trailer as part of the Xbox Series X announcement at a game convention. I really hope I'll be able to play it on the PC. If you've never played, I highly recommend it. Especially if you're a fan of Celtic and Norse mythology (the story follows a mentally troubled young Celtic woman who's lover has been sacrificed by invading Vikings to their Norse gods).

boyptc,

The link in the first post of the Coinbase/Taxes thread actually has a lot of great information, and I think it basically answers my question.

Thanks!

I've been out of the game for a few years... ok, like a lot of years. I'm selling some stuff in the marketplace and will likely be taking BTC as payment for some of the items. If I receive Bitcoins at a Coinbase account and immediately sell them for USD, how does this type of transaction affect my taxes?

I'm particularly interested because I intend to use these funds to help with the down payment of a house, and I need everything to be as above board and responsibly done as possible.

Thanks for any input you can provide!

P.S. I hope this is the appropriate section to post in, as I consider this to be "Doing business with Bitcoin".. and I suppose there's an element of trading as I expect to liquidate the BTC immediately.

Thanks for the help -doubleU-

I've added another 2014 Kialara (#387) and a picture with all of them and an OG bitcointalk shirt and sticker along with my username and today's date. Is there any chance you could update your post to show these pictures as well? Since this account is a newbie, it's not allowed to embed images like that... they just show up as the urls.

Thanks, I'll consider this for the items I don't already have listed.

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To the many people who have messaged me: Since I haven't yet been able to get access to my old account (bmoconno), I can only respond to one PM per hour, so it's slow going. I'll try to get back to each of you individually, but to generally summarize my response to what most of you have been asking...

I don't have a price for the 2015 Kialara Gold or the other 2014 Kialara Originals in mind yet. My intention is to use the eBay auction as a gauge for the value of the 2014 Originals. I'm not sure what to do about the gold, I've been looking around and haven't seen one go up for sale recently, and those that have, I can't find pricing on.

I'm open to offers on all of these (the two remaining 2014s #386 & #388 and the 2015 gold #31), and I am ok with using an escrow service as bL4nkcode has suggested should you prefer to buy here vs an eBay listing. But first I need to figure out how that would work on my taxes, as I said, I intend to use this money towards a down payment for a house and this means everything needs to be as above board as possible.

I will update the original post with pictures of the remaining items in the next hour or so.

I'm trying to get money together to buy a house, so I'm going to be selling off some of my old crypto collectables.

Currently I have this 2014 Kialara Original #389/2500 up for sale on eBay at https://www.ebay.com/itm/133542311724

In addition to this 2014 Kialara, I will also be selling #386 and #388 and 2015 Kialara Gold #31