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Re: Attention all e-commerce shop owners!
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samp123
on 23/03/2018, 10:01:14 UTC
What, BTC payments in 2 seconds?

How do you manage to do that?

Yep, I'm also wondering this...
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Are ICO distributions legally binding?
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samp123
on 22/03/2018, 09:24:49 UTC
Most ICOs specify how coins will be allocated, including how many coins are given to the founding team and employees etc. Is this legally binding? Is there anything, for example, to stop a company from giving 20% of the coins to the founding team despite promising 7%?
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Re: What is nGrok, can it harm me?
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samp123
on 21/03/2018, 11:40:57 UTC
Ngrok creates a secure tunnel from one of Ngrok's web addresses (e.g. https://whatever.ngrok.com) to the developer's laptop. It's useful when developing software since we don't need to deploy code to external servers to test it with other people or third party providers. You can read more about it here: https://ngrok.com/

So in other words, no - ngrok alone can't harm you. Althought the developer could be running a malicious site on the other end of the tunnel. The risks are the same as with any other website.

Thanks that is already helping me! Since this person said that he will help me with my scam problem and is trying to find the scammer, would it make sense to send me this link? Can he gain any information from it that helps finding the scammer?

To be honest, it sounds a bit odd that he's sending you a link to his local dev environment. Regardless of whether the developer has malicious intent, it's a bit amateurish to send you that link unless he's in the process of developing software for you.

Whilst the probability is low, it is possible to catch a virus just by visiting a website so do be cautious: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/3848/can-you-get-virus-just-by-visiting-a-website-in-chrome
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Do people actually use automated trading software like Gunbot?
by
samp123
on 21/03/2018, 08:48:30 UTC
Do people actually buy into it - since if the returns were good why would they sell the software? Is there any public and verifiable evidence that it produces returns that outperform the market?
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Re: What is nGrok, can it harm me?
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samp123
on 21/03/2018, 08:37:03 UTC
Ngrok creates a secure tunnel from one of Ngrok's web addresses (e.g. https://whatever.ngrok.com) to the developer's laptop. It's useful when developing software since we don't need to deploy code to external servers to test it with other people or third party providers. You can read more about it here: https://ngrok.com/

So in other words, no - ngrok alone can't harm you. Althought the developer could be running a malicious site on the other end of the tunnel. The risks are the same as with any other website.
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Re: Looking at posts from 2010 compared to now
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samp123
on 19/03/2018, 15:24:31 UTC
Just took a little jump back to 2010 to look at what people were posting about. It kind of feels a bit sad now to jump back to the future and see every post about bitcoin as an investment. It would be nice to be in a time where people spoke and cared more about how to best progress the agenda rather than how to make a quick buck Wink Maybe after the inevitable big crash comes and the price stabilizes, who knows
What are you saying? Bitcoin is the best investment of all time. I don't know if you just wanted to become a some sort of a "funny" guy in this forum. I don't really know what you're talking about either. People from the back, they were investing on bitcoin. So it is still an investment. The hell is your idea?

The investment performance has been amazing, no doubt - I think you've missed my point. There's nothing inherently wrong with making money, or talking about it Wink Everyone likes to make money! It's just an observation about the difference in content is all.
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Re: Made a project about cryptocurrencies sentiment
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samp123
on 19/03/2018, 08:44:02 UTC
I tried your algorithm at https://bitmood.net/try, the sentiment worked well but your entity tagging seems a little off. When enabling  Entity-Sentiment Analysis it didn't pick up the entity "Bitcoin', for example.

I've used Stanford Core NLP in the past for entity tagging, it's a pre-trained model built by Stanford research teams. Perhaps you'll find it useful as well: https://stanfordnlp.github.io/CoreNLP/
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Re: what do you do when your idea is taken ?
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samp123
on 19/03/2018, 08:35:27 UTC
You actually started first but someone else does it first. do you still launch as competition or quit give up and go back in the closet ?

Don't give it up right away!

How big is the market? Is the competition well funded? Do you have a sense of how many customers/users they have?

So long as you can compete in customer acquisition and the market is big enough, there's no reason to quit just yet. It takes years for companies to reach critical mass and there's usually room for more than one player. Try and think a little bit about how to differentiate yourself.

Good luck!
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Re: How did you learn blockchain development?
by
samp123
on 18/03/2018, 09:54:24 UTC
But since you specifically mention something similar with Bitcoin, Mastering Bitcoin, 2nd Edition is perfect for you. Detailed topics, but even novice developer can understand it.

I saw somebody else mention Mastering Bitcoin in another thread, definitely going to buy it

I'll check out the other things people have posted as well, thanks very much  Smiley
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Re: Bitcoin to eliminate unemployment.
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samp123
on 17/03/2018, 20:02:33 UTC
Almost every country has unemployment problems. There are many young boys who are working unemployed. But the days of settling their turn are over. Now, if you wish, you can earn a lot of money sitting in the house.

I find it unfathomable how anyone can really think this
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Looking at posts from 2010 compared to now
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samp123
on 17/03/2018, 18:50:34 UTC
Just took a little jump back to 2010 to look at what people were posting about. It kind of feels a bit sad now to jump back to the future and see every post about bitcoin as an investment. It would be nice to be in a time where people spoke and cared more about how to best progress the agenda rather than how to make a quick buck Wink Maybe after the inevitable big crash comes and the price stabilizes, who knows
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Re: I Love To See People Panic Selling Of Bitcoin
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samp123
on 17/03/2018, 17:29:46 UTC
Agreed, now is the time that the people who were kicking themselves that they didn't get in earlier should be thinking about buying... but then again it's probably worth seeing where the price goes in the next 12 months before laughing too much Wink
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Re: Cryptocurrency bank
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samp123
on 17/03/2018, 17:17:58 UTC
It's definitely not an interesting idea.

Is anything ever really definitely anything? I think having crypto banks with deposits insured by the FCA or some other entity, just like with fiat currency, would significantly help with mass adoption.
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Re: 🤖 | BotBittrex | Profit & Order Monitoring Bot
by
samp123
on 16/03/2018, 14:04:15 UTC
BotBittrex WILL NOT choose PoS (Proof of Stake) type of altcoins.

How come you don't recommend PoS altcoins?
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Re: Cryptocurrency review site, looking for feedback
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samp123
on 16/03/2018, 13:57:41 UTC
I was a little bit confused when I first hit the site. I feel like the overview page should be the homepage, so that new visitors can get into the content immediately. The UI is also a little busy. This page for example: https://cryptreview.com/#!/detail/ETH, maybe it's just me but my eyes really don't know where to focus because there's a lot going on.
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Re: Possible new Website for Cryptocurrency protection
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samp123
on 16/03/2018, 13:47:06 UTC
A website like this doesn't require $50k startup capital. If you really care about this - create a proof of concept, get some people to use it and demonstrate some value then perhaps people will donate to keep it running.
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How do people feel about blockchain based storage tech?
by
samp123
on 16/03/2018, 09:09:54 UTC
Imo the tech is cool, but I'm not yet convinced that the blockchain alone will give Storj (and other companies) enough of an advantage to compete with existing solutions whether that's b2b like AWS S3 or b2c like Dropbox or Google Drive etc. Maybe I'm ignorant though! Will blockchain-based storage really be significantly better or more appealing than what's already out there?
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Re: CoinCheckUp.com - Cryptocoin Analysis & Investment Stats
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samp123
on 16/03/2018, 08:57:09 UTC
I thought the section on how m0/m1/m2 money will affect the price of Bitcoin was really interesting.. How did you come up with the figures for that? E.g. with 4% of m2 money in Bitcoin, how do you predict the price will be $95k?

Also love it, thanks so much for building!
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Re: What do you use to keep track of your altcoin investments?
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samp123
on 15/03/2018, 18:21:10 UTC
Is there anything any of you would change about your trackers? Or anything you find annoying?
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Re: How did you learn blockchain development?
by
samp123
on 15/03/2018, 17:04:26 UTC
Here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:Technical
there is a lot of information in the Bitcoinwiki, You will find technical information really useful to understand what is behind the blockchain technology.
To me, it is the best first step to take in order to get information.
I hope it helps you, mate

Thanks a lot - this is great