Listen to what he just said because he is right on.  When investors know where their money is and can see the value of the share today it builds great confidence.  I'm also interested in investing in your IPO.

Rather than giving your whole wallet over to someone, just extract one keypair, preferably one for an address with 0 balance.  They can then crack it, but won't have access to all of your funds when they succeed.

the cases are custom made, anybody can order them from synology and use them for what ever.

after a few mails with their support i found out that i can also pay in cash at their office. to me it doesn't seem to be a scam to be honest. suspicious yes, but can't say something for sure. don't know how you people are so sure. tomorrow i'm going to their office and pay in person cause they are just a few miles away.

i'll be back with details.

In an ideal world we would love to kill all these intermediaries (Banks and equivalent) that are in fact making things more complicated and more expensive... But until then we do not have much choice.

Some really good advice - and much appreciated!
Anyone have any thoughts on Mpex and the trustworthiness of the person who runs it?

This is the sort of paranoia we need more of around here!

In this case, a less trusted forum member (me) was leveraging the trust of someone who was much more trusted. Michael Hendrix met all my requirements for how to choose someone to trust if you must (listed above), except obviously he had no insurance himself. In that forum thread I was telling the people placing bets that they don't need to trust me if they trust him, since he was holding my bond.

We could have been in cahoots, but there wouldn't be any point to doing that. Michael already has a lot of trust - he doesn't need my help to scam people if he decides he wants to do so.

I researched it. It had moved to PoS only, so I bought based on no new coins. The devs fixed the PoW by dropping one or several blocks without discussion. They were silent until the fix came in. You can't research what the devs will do if they are silent.

They shouldn't have fixed by dropping blocks or forking. It destroys the integrity of the coin.

This seems to be the central discussion area for all things related to cryptocurrencies. The board format is a little old-school but while it continues to serve as the main repository of related information, I'll continue to visit. I've lurked here for a couple months now and haven't felt the need to post until recently, so my account is fairly new. I originally came across the site while researching bitcoins, mining hardware, mining software and altcoins. I found that this site kept continually showing up as the top search result for topic after topic related to those things; so here I am.

nice work mate

Are there any app to monitor profit of crypto coins for ios or android?
I think that the new coins are opportunities for newbee.
Checking on mobile (phone/tablet) is more useful to know and more convenient.

same thing happend to me with coinbase. i made an order, my account was charged but no bitcoins. after 2 weeks and a lot of mails sent i got my money back and no btc. coinbase is not a scam for sure. only thing they have a stupid policy.