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Re: BTC is worth $2,350 in Japan and S. Korea (2nd and 3rd largest exchange markets)
I wonder if the Chinese traders started trading on the Japan and S. Korea exchanges after the Chinese exchanges blocked withdrawals. Could that be helping to pump the Japan and S. Korea price?
Re: [ANN][KMD][dPoW] Komodo ICO - Zcash Zero Knowledge Privacy Secured by Bitcoin
Through how many after the ICO, the coin will be released on the exchange?
We will distribute the coins ~ 2 weeks after the ICO. We don't know when the exchanges will list us, you will have to ask them about it!
How much time will be allowed for the BTCD swap after the ICO? Since distribution is planned within 2 weeks of the ICO, all BTCD swaps should be completed before that right?
You will be able to swap to get the coins at the same time as everyone else.
We will reserve enough KMD so we are able to swap every BTCD. The BTCD can be swapped at any time for one full year.
Thanks for the reply. Obviously not all of the BTCD will be swapped since some will be lost etc. So what would happen to the remaining KMD supply reserved for BTCD swaps?
They would be used as working capital for development.
I'm sure BTCD was on cryptsy. Did big Vern steal them, and if he did do you know which addresses they were in? What if big Vern swaps his stolen BTCD for KMD and gets a huge stake? You would make him a whale.
I saw the same phenomenon on Cryptsy for half the new coins added to its markets. I sometimes wonder if whales deliberately buy a few sats worth at the rate of one Bitcoin per altcoin to manipulate the charts. Because of those crazy buy orders the full trading history of half the coins on cryptsy was impossible to view, it showed as a flat line at a crazy high price. Those crazy buy orders hid the first day prices on the historical charts so nobody could see how badly those coins got dumped.
It could have been the last correction before another rise.
But we don't know.And I don't care to be honest.
Bitcoin will rise sooner or later.Probably when no one really expect it to happen.The fundamentals are looking really good.
SegWit is close.Lightning winter release is within reach!
What happens short term, up or down, doesn' really bother me.
But we don't know.And I don't care to be honest.
Bitcoin will rise sooner or later.Probably when no one really expect it to happen.The fundamentals are looking really good.
SegWit is close.Lightning winter release is within reach!
What happens short term, up or down, doesn' really bother me.
Bitcoin frequently does the opposite of what most of us expect. Last November no one expected it to reach $500, most of us expected it to go back to $200 after it had reached $300, but we were wrong. We will get a 700+ breakout when most of us expect it to go back down.
Cold storage is an ongoing process where you periodically check if all your multiple backups on multiple different mediums still work. If one breaks you replace it with a copy from one of your other backups. You can't rely on anything forever because of the human factor, so the belt and braces approach is best if you expect your belt or braces to eventually break and need replacing. Keep monitoring and repairing multiple backups.
Stanford University has a course in Bitcoin engineering taught by Dan Boneh, and Balaji S. Srinivasan. They might make good speakers.
http://bitcoin.stanford.edu/
Princeton University also runs a Bitcoin course. It's taught by Arvind Narayanan, who might also make a good lecture, as he lectures for a living.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency
Re: "Bitcoin is at serious risk of becoming the MySpace of cryptocurrency" - Gavin
I don't trust Gavin any more since he said he thought Craig Wright was Satoshi Nakamoto.
First he made this statement.
After Craig Wright refused to publicly sign a message with a known Satoshi key Gavin made this statement.
After that fiasco anything he says lacks credibility. Gavin comparing Bitcoin to MySpace is meaningless because he's been wrong once too often.
First he made this statement.
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I am convinced beyond a reasonable doubt: Craig Wright is Satoshi
After Craig Wright refused to publicly sign a message with a known Satoshi key Gavin made this statement.
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Its certainly possible I was bamboozled.
After that fiasco anything he says lacks credibility. Gavin comparing Bitcoin to MySpace is meaningless because he's been wrong once too often.
Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
The short term rally is over. When you break through the lower 1D MA and return to nearly the starting point, the rally is over. The upwards momentum you are seeing now is due to brexit, which saw the GBP drop 15% and gold rise 6% over the past few hours.
I'm afraid I can no longer trade here anymore due to the issues at Bitfinex. I could lose my whole account if the site goes down while I'm on the wrong side of a leveraged trade (especially if its ETH). Hodling on-chain is a much better proposition and guaranteed to hold some kind of value. Since I'm already at the minimum amount of coins that I'm allowed to hold in a pact that I made with myself in 2013, I have no choice but to
HODL
see you next year (if there's somewhere to trade).
I'm afraid I can no longer trade here anymore due to the issues at Bitfinex. I could lose my whole account if the site goes down while I'm on the wrong side of a leveraged trade (especially if its ETH). Hodling on-chain is a much better proposition and guaranteed to hold some kind of value. Since I'm already at the minimum amount of coins that I'm allowed to hold in a pact that I made with myself in 2013, I have no choice but to
HODL
see you next year (if there's somewhere to trade).
Tera called MtFinex 3 months ago.
He didn't predict the hack, he stopped trading on it after it went offline for days as Bitcoin crashed. Half its users probably made the same decision. Knowing that your exchange could go offline for days during a price crash is a nightmare. Watching your coins go down and down in value when you can't access them is terrible, and for leveraged traders it's even worse.
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Not sure what you're trying to say here. Tracing any bitcoins through addresses is possible given enough computing power and good enough analysis software. Attaching identities to any of those addresses requires that the entity doing the tracing has access to a list of addresses for which they know the owner. Then once traced bitcoins pass through such an address, the entity doing the tracing can approach that owner and ask them who they got the bitcoins from. They can then approach that sender and ask who they got the bitcoins from, and so on until they trace back to the beginning.
Well but transactions only record "how much" btc where moved not "which" bitcoins. So if A and B give C a bitcoin each - C has now two btc. If C gives D a bitcoin there is no way i could say that this bitcoin D now has came from A or B - it could originate from both - A or B. That is the point where in my eyes it should get impossible to do a solid analysis.
Forward it is the same: A and B give C a btc each. C now has two bitcoins. C gives D a bitcoin. At this moment i do not know if C gave D the btc from A or the one from B. Atleast if i look at the protocol it should not be possible to identify D`s btc. Because in the transaction most importantly two things are checked - do i have the private key to sign the transaction - and if the sum of the future transactions from and to this address enables me to send amount X of btc to another address.
Blockchain.info and other explorers use a system called taint analysis to determine how closely the coins in one address are linked to the coins in another address. If one address A sent coins to another unused address B then the coins in address B have 100% taint from the coins in address A.
If one address C sent address D the same amount of coins that it address D was already holding then the coins in address D have 50% taint from the coins in address C.
https://blockchain.info/taint/3AbixYB8q3hHuAkFWSxUnTtqncFgRFYGDb
Re: Do you suspect Bitcoin Service providers are using Fractional Reserve banking?
service providers.. like bitpay and other retail/consumer direct swaps.. no..
service providers.. like exchanges with bitcoins altcoins and fiat.. yes..
exchanges "orderbooks" are not directly linked to funds stored on private keys. which allows them to make 'ghost' orders. and when things go bad that they have made a loss on the ghost orders because theres not enough coin or fiat to fill the withdrawals. they cry out the standard "we have been hacked" mantra. and then go into bankruptsy
service providers.. like exchanges with bitcoins altcoins and fiat.. yes..
exchanges "orderbooks" are not directly linked to funds stored on private keys. which allows them to make 'ghost' orders. and when things go bad that they have made a loss on the ghost orders because theres not enough coin or fiat to fill the withdrawals. they cry out the standard "we have been hacked" mantra. and then go into bankruptsy
MtGox springs to mind as a good example of a Fractional Reserve banking exchange crying out the standard "we've been hacked" mantra. I think some exchanges are legit, but others are using Fractional Reserve systems.
Bitpay's a service provider, it covered up its hack for over a year and might have used Fractional Reserve banking afterwards.
Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
Who else is tired of this 630 bullshit? We need 680 in the next 24h
$650 now. Perhaps someone was listening.
I'm sick of this $625 to $660 bullshit. We need $700+ in the next hour.
Perhaps some whale is listening and will do another pump. This $625 to $660 bullshit could continue up to the halving otherwise.
Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
BUY BUY BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Buy on coinsbank because its got the most bearish prices of the lot. Why has it shot from low volume to the highest volume so fast, and why are its prices so low they are dragging down the average? Is coinmarketcap lagging in getting real time prices for it?
Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
Holy shit I think some exchanges might break $600 today, we'll have to see where China wants to take the value but having the average breaking $593 means there's a lot of buying going on somewhere and this is probably going to impact all the other markets. We're going back to 2013 values bois.
I can't wait to see where the train ends.
I can't wait to see where the train ends.
China's trying to break 4000 CNY, there's a 3955 CNY 24 hour high on BTCC. Now China awakes the price is out of that range it was stuck in. We could wake to a nice surprise if China keeps pumping.
Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
china seems unwilling to break 4000 CNY atm...
so it seems like we won't go to the moon just yet
maybe it's time for europe to take the lead for once.
I'm feeling a huge bear trap incoming at ~650$ ...
By the looks of things there is a huge entity doing weird stuff ... That entity does not seem to care about FIAT ... it also buys with the right and then sells with the left to itself just to keep buying "cheap 580$ coins" LOL!
So there might be a billionaire, The People's Republic of China, or some weird China bitcoin cartel.
There was a recent pump up to ~4000 CNY which China led. Afterwards there was a pump up to ~$600 which the West led. It's China's turn to start the next pump off. I'm sure it break through 4000 CNY despite any dumps. The tug of war between the pumpers and the dumpers will end with 4000 CNY getting smashed just like 3000 CNY was smashed.
It probably won't affect the price at all. Those Bitcoins will be snapped up by speculators waiting to double or more their money when the price goes up after the halving. At the worst there might be a small downwards temporary blip on the price. Whatever happens the price is almost certain to go up after the halving.
Re: Where can I buy an SSL certificate anonymously with bitcoin?
You can buy one with Bitcoin here, but you have to buy a whole hosting package from them.
https://www.anonymousspeech.com/anonymous_hosting_ssl.aspx
You can't just buy a certificate from them. Also their prices are not cheap. They charge 49.95 / month for their idea of cheap hosting and 29.95 / month for a yearly plan (it's usually more than that but they are doing a special offer this month).
https://www.anonymousspeech.com/anonymous_hosting_ssl.aspx
They also have these rules.
https://www.anonymousspeech.com/anonymous_hosting_ssl.aspx
You can't just buy a certificate from them. Also their prices are not cheap. They charge 49.95 / month for their idea of cheap hosting and 29.95 / month for a yearly plan (it's usually more than that but they are doing a special offer this month).
https://www.anonymousspeech.com/anonymous_hosting_ssl.aspx
They also have these rules.
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Limitations
Please note that our legal advantage is not a free ticket for any illegal activities on our servers. Do not apply if the content of your website contains
Child Pornography
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Please note that our legal advantage is not a free ticket for any illegal activities on our servers. Do not apply if the content of your website contains
Child Pornography
Organized Crimes
Spam
Copyrighted Content
I'll take $500. I think the $470 barrier will be broken by the halving but I don't think there will be a new ATH until long after it. The reduced supply will take time to affect the market. Eventually it will push the price to a new ATH.
It's working again for me now. I didn't have to do any reconfiguration of my computer, or anything special. All I needed to do was access bter the way I normally do by typing https://bter.com/ into my browser.
I couldn't access the site at any time today until now, they must have fixed something in the last hour.
I couldn't access the site at any time today until now, they must have fixed something in the last hour.
Re: UK Banks Refused 6 Million Citizens Accounts, Bitcoin Doesn’t Refuse Anyone
That's a gap in the market for Bitcoin to take advantage of. With the Bitcoin ATM infrastructure rolling out across the UK and elsewhere low income people can store their money in Bitcoins, and withdraw it as fiat through an ATM. There are Bitcoin debit cards rolling out too which will assist Bitcoin in taking the place of bank accounts.