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Board Marketplace (Altcoins)
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instant exchanges like changelly
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donlogan
on 04/07/2024, 23:40:24 UTC
I've been doing a deep dive into how instant exchanges work. Does an instant exchange function like a travel website that finds airfare from different airlines?

Is an exchange amount guaranteed? For example, I put in an exchange of 2 Coin As for an equivalent of 4 Coin Bs at the set price. What happens if there is not enough of Coin B available at the set price? I've already sent my 2 Coin As to the instant exchange's wallet. Is there a possibility of not all of the amount of the agreed upon exchange to be executed? If it is, what happens to my Coin A that I sent that is leftover?
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Board Speculation (Altcoins)
Re: Will you sell Shib now? Am holding
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donlogan
on 24/01/2024, 00:24:13 UTC
They have made it so that nobody can post on their discord or telegram. At best it's annoying, at worst it's a sign that they are wiling make very unpopular moves that could jeopardize the project and benefit the centralized power holders.
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Re: T-Rex 0.19.11 NVIDIA GPU miner (Ethash, Octopus, Kawpow, MTP)
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donlogan
on 07/03/2021, 22:33:39 UTC
I'm switching to T-rex after the Phoenix miner news.

My rig is running on HiveOs. Is there any other information I need to add before running the miner? I'm using Ethermine pool:

https://i.imgur.com/PzpHnaS.png
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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN][XSN] Stakenet - The World's First Trustless Proof of Stake Coin
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donlogan
on 31/01/2021, 02:33:09 UTC
Does the amount of XSN you hold in your core wallet effect the amount of staking rewards you get?
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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Is it time to invest in Polkadot?
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donlogan
on 19/12/2020, 05:27:59 UTC
Anyone got any recommendations for a rig to do the nomainating/validating? I've never mined before. Figure this is a good time to jump in the pool.
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Re: TA gods, need your advice
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donlogan
on 06/12/2020, 00:50:06 UTC
When it comes to TA Gods then there would be corresponding possible trail on where price can shoot up but basing off on how the market move into those previous years
then that do basically shows that technicals arent always precise.To presume that there are lots of people havent expected that 2017 bull run where it is already out of
their technical analysis or not anticipated.Same goes with those technicals made in 2018 that there would be some recovery in the end of the year and it didnt happen.
People didnt even anticipate that we would be heading 19k in 3 years time which do justifies that no one can precise predict on what would be the outcome or
next movement.

Yes but the more history built up the more data points we have to make analysis with.
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Re: TA gods, need your advice
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donlogan
on 05/12/2020, 23:37:24 UTC
Probably not it goes like that, 1st and 2nd quarter is not the dumps that we don't want to happen.
Try to look at this last 2018, after the 2017 bullish ends.

https://i.imgur.com/592QdNA.png
source: https://www.coindesk.com/down-more-than-70-in-2018-bitcoin-closes-its-worst-year-on-record

Only it appears that the bearish season had come to the market at 3rd quarter until 1st quarter of 2019. This could possible that bearish will also appear once again late next year (2021), less possible during its 1st and 2nd quarter.

Appreciate the information. Something to chew on as I sit here trying to plot out my next moves.
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Re: TA gods, need your advice
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donlogan
on 05/12/2020, 23:33:15 UTC
I've heard repeatedly that Q1 is historically a bad one for BTC. Do y'all see the same scenario playing out in 2021?

Technical analyst are humans; humans are humans, there is no god anywhere; just expertise and sometimes the best analyst go wrong too. Quarter 1, 2, 3 or 4; bitcoin dips and take bull positions; how do you define historical bad? I will advise you continue to do your own research for your own capital safety.

Historically bad as in it's usually/more often than not the worst performing quarter for BTC.

Obviously I was being silly with the Gods comment. I'm trying to get an idea of what the TA folks are seeing vis-a-vis the current outlook in relation to Q1. IE. are the CURRENT charts/numbers/indicators similar to previous years where BTC ended up having a down Q1.

This thread is my doing part of my own research.
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TA gods, need your advice
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donlogan
on 05/12/2020, 16:20:06 UTC
I've heard repeatedly that Q1 is historically a bad one for BTC. Do y'all see the same scenario playing out in 2021?
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need some help, Ampleforth geyser
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donlogan
on 03/12/2020, 07:53:18 UTC
I'm not sure how to change my MOON-V1-LINK-AMPL into desired tokens.

I withdrew from the LINK-AMPL geyser into my Metamask wallet. I tried to use the 'swap' feature in Metamask to change all my MOON-V1-LINK-AMPL tokens into ETH. But when I go to get a quote it says "No quotes available. Try adjusting the amount or slippage settings and try again."

I've tried this numerous times, adjusting slippage plenty but it doesn't go through.

What are my options here?

I've tried using Uniswap and Mooniswap interface without any luck. The MOON-V1-LINK-AMPL token doesn't show up to swap out.
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Re: Insolar MainNet and XNS price speculation
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donlogan
on 12/09/2020, 02:32:31 UTC
Is XNS an ERC20 token?
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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: centralized exchanges dipping into dex liquidity pools
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donlogan
on 10/09/2020, 20:01:52 UTC
Would such a thing be possible? I know a lot of exchanges have holdings in each other's wallets. For example, Bittrex could have a store of LINK on Kucoin.

Wouldn't it make sense for centralized exchanges to utilize staking pools to increase their liquidity?

I'm a novice at understanding these technologies so I might be off here in terms of the viability of such a transaction.

It is possible, but liquidity provider takes currency risk on his arms. The main condition for the delivery of a stable, safe trading platform is to stay as far as it is possible from unnecessary risks. CEX takes fee from others taking a risk trading on CEX and it can also take fee from others taking a risk from providing liquidity in liquidity pools - binance already launched it's own swap service that allow users to provide liquidity -https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-takes-on-defi-with-uniswap-competitor-and-liquidity-mining

There's a trade off there though right? Between increased liquidity and the increased risk of liquidity pools. Does illiquidity not contribute to an unstable trading platform for CEX? Illiquidity holds back a lot of legitimate projects. And I would argue that it allows for shitcoins to fool people because they can manipulate liquidity. Because there's such a scarcity of liquidity people fall for it.

Again, I'll preface by saying I'm just a novice in understanding this technology. Hasn't Defi taken off on the principle liquidity? This is crux of the issue that we're trying to solve right? It's a fundamental problem that is always brought up by critics of this space.
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centralized exchanges dipping into dex liquidity pools
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donlogan
on 09/09/2020, 21:49:07 UTC
Would such a thing be possible? I know a lot of exchanges have holdings in each other's wallets. For example, Bittrex could have a store of LINK on Kucoin.

Wouldn't it make sense for centralized exchanges to utilize staking pools to increase their liquidity?

I'm a novice at understanding these technologies so I might be off here in terms of the viability of such a transaction.
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Re: sending tokens to Metamask (Ample related)
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donlogan
on 08/09/2020, 04:44:29 UTC
actually don't understand about this but as far as I know you can't send any erc20 there because if you want to try ample geyser you can only send ample tokens not something else, and this is a guide for managing geysers maybe you can also read this Article and asking about this questions on ampl community.

Yea I figured it out. You have to manually add the token in Metamask with the Ample contract address: 0xd46ba6d942050d489dbd938a2c909a5d5039a161
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sending tokens to Metamask (Ample related)
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donlogan
on 08/09/2020, 01:56:47 UTC
I'm new to the Dex game. I'm trying to get into the Ample Geyser. Part of the process involves setting up a pool.

I've got Metamask setup. Do I send the Ampl to the address on there? It's an Eth address. I assume that you can send any ERC20 to that address and it should be fine. I just want to make sure.
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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: quantum computing
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donlogan
on 06/09/2020, 05:49:23 UTC
Before I get into the weeds with links ITT, to be clear, if QC does reach a hypothetical power that would threaten private key security, a BTC fork seems to be the general consensus for the main possible fix.

yes, that is how cryptography has been its entire lifetime. ever since it was perceived more than 2 thousand years ago (before computers), every cryptography method had an expiration date when they become obsolete and are replaced by newer ones that are stronger before the same thing happens to them too.
as for ECC and SHA256 (the two main cryptography used in bitcoin), i don't think they would become obsolete anytime soon but when they do, Bitcoin simply upgrades to newer and stronger algorithms.

Not disagreeing with what you said but it's not like BTC has undergone that many forks of its own volition...ie. a fork for the health and progress of its own network driven by its community/devs.
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Re: quantum computing
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donlogan
on 06/09/2020, 05:03:20 UTC
I was supposed to post this link https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5157696.0 but mk4 beat me to it. Anyway, that thread, which is only at least a year old, has a rich discussion on quantum computing and how it is possibly not a threat to Bitcoin.

But please be warned in advance that the discussion is highly technical and with long, albeit very information-rich, posts which left me more confused than before. But you will certainly gain a lot from it if you have dead serious questions and anxieties on quantum computers possibly a threat to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general.

Before I get into the weeds with links ITT, to be clear, if QC does reach a hypothetical power that would threaten private key security, a BTC fork seems to be the general consensus for the main possible fix.
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quantum computing
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donlogan
on 06/09/2020, 03:34:43 UTC
I did a search and it looks like the last time a QC topic was active was more than 3 years ago. That struck me as surprising because I though that QC could pose a threat to the security of BTC keys.

Google has been making exponential progress in the power of their QC machines. I believe I read an article saying that it is possible that within five years QC might be able to crack 128 bit encryption (the stuff bank websites  use). I'm not that well versed in the technology of QC. It's just been something I've kept up with in relation to its possible effect on BTC.

Is the consensus here that QC will not be able to crack private keys?
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Board Speculation (Altcoins)
Re: Stakenet - XSN - First 2nd Layer DEX - Speculation Thread - Next 100x?
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donlogan
on 03/09/2020, 18:45:16 UTC
I got some on a whim. Are you able to stake it?
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Re: Stakenet - Next short term 10x - Here's why.
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donlogan
on 30/08/2020, 05:35:33 UTC
Any word on upcoming exchange listings?