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RabbitWizard posted:Found a bitcoin folder from 2013 and I think I have 0.0055 Bitcoin and a wallet.dat file maybe? After researching for a whole 5 minutes, do I really have to download the 5 Million Billion Exabyte Blockchain to transfer them to be stolen by an exchange? Or is there a website which will make the process of getting ripped off easier? Binance is the most reliable one you can find and they have a million guides on how to do this i assume. Don't sure anything outside of Binance. It's sketchy enough to use an app from a company based in Malta with servers in Xinjiang, the others are even more sketchy.
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Greenplastic posted:https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilymason/2021/06/23/south-african-brothers-disappear-along-with-22-billion-worth-of-bitcoin/?sh=107f09621a60 DB Pooper
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Mans posted:Binance is the most reliable one you can find and they have a million guides on how to do this i assume. Binance isn't available in the US. Clearly you should use local bitcoins dot com, and take whatever the highest offer is. No one has ever gotten ripped off selling bitcoin in person for cash in a dark alley.
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Binance.us exists for Americans, binance itself (non-us & pancakeswap) exists for Americans with vpn
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Binance and other exchanges don’t allow you to upload wallet.dat files as far as I know so suggesting those isnt helpful If you know programming there is a module called pywallet that can extract the private keys which you can then import in a thin wallet like electrum You can also use the core bitcoin client in prune mode which means it will only use like 8gb of disk space but it will still need to download the full 300gb+ of blockchain data ymgve fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Jun 26, 2021 |
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It's not the real Bitcoin experience if it doesn't involve meeting a guy in a Wal mart parking lot, IMO.
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 "The founders of crypto platform africript promised profits of up to ten percent per day. Now the founder brothers have taken off with over 1.8 billion dollars in bitcoins. Could the customers have suspected anything?" I don't know? could they? Could they?? People are goddam stupid it's just incredible.
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Fame Douglas posted:It's not the real Bitcoin experience if it doesn't involve meeting a guy in a Wal mart parking lot, IMO. walmart in the streets bag of amazon gift cards in the sheets
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Mans posted:Binance is the most reliable one you can find and they have a million guides on how to do this i assume. drk posted:Binance isn't available in the US. Clearly you should use local bitcoins dot com, and take whatever the highest offer is. No one has ever gotten ripped off selling bitcoin in person for cash in a dark alley. ymgve posted:Binance and other exchanges don’t allow you to upload wallet.dat files as far as I know so suggesting those isnt helpful Just as terrible as it was 8 years ago. Truly the Star Citizen of online payments. Son of Rodney posted:I don't know? could they? Could they?? People are goddam stupid it's just incredible. RabbitWizard fucked around with this message at 11:57 on Jun 26, 2021 |
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RabbitWizard posted:Luckily I'm German so they would allow me to use their service after I gave them enough information to steal my identity. strange that it havent gone through because the transaction queue is pretty short right now though I guess if you paid the lowest possible amount it might take a while if you used electrum you could try using RBF (replace by fee) to increase the fee edit: or CPFP (child pays for parent) if you didn't send all your coins to the exchange at once and some of it went back to you in a change address ymgve fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Jun 26, 2021 |
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RabbitWizard posted:Yeah I found the way to use my old bitcoin client to dump the private keys and import them into electrum. Luckily I have 2 addresses with a few bucks to test it, my transfer to the new wallet still hasn't gone through after 12 hours and I'm not sure it ever will, I keep getting pushed back in the queue. Can't wait to read about transfer fees to make it useable. Then I will probably convert it to money by buying some poo poo from a retailer taking bitcoin and sell that via classified ad. Totally normal.
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wait so the transactions are process not first come first serve but.. highest fee first or something?? It does sure get stupider the more you look.
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Vashro posted:wait so the transactions are process not first come first serve but.. highest fee first or something?? It does sure get stupider the more you look. Yep! Fractal stupidity. Not only that but if you put the fee too low you can't even hope that your transaction gets put into a non-full block because all the miners have agreed to just drop any transactions that have a fee below a certain threshold. This is thanks to someone figuring out an actual use for Bitcoin as a random number generator for a gambling system.
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were it first come first serve the network would have ground to a halt like a literal decade ago lol. remember "enjoy sochi!" memories 
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Alan Smithee posted:A fool and his money are soon apartheid  
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ymgve posted:if you used electrum you could try using RBF (replace by fee) to increase the fee Vashro posted:wait so the transactions are process not first come first serve but.. highest fee first or something?? It does sure get stupider the more you look. I'm pretty sure there was a time once when you couldn't adjust the transfer fees after you sent your transaction. So you better made sure to pay enough or your bitcoins are basically lost or take days/months/years to transfer.
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Personally I would hodl those bitcoins. They can only go up from here.
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RabbitWizard posted:I didn't send any yet to the exchange, but glad those are options. I thought you could always just spend them again with a bigger fee that will be processed sooner. Or do the miners drop conflicting pending transactions?
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salt shakeup posted:Personally I would hodl those bitcoins. They can only go up from here. There's a noticeable distance between their current value and their real value that is desperately trying to collapse
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Klyith posted:the FT knows that people can easily duck the paywall. same as every website where you can read 3 articles in private mode, close the window, then read 3 more. if they can't get you to pay they'll show you ads, and if you have ublock you're at least reading the article on their site and pushing traffic numbers. Probably late to the party on this but it's definitely not unavoidable. Change your user agent so you look like Google's indexer.
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a hot gujju bhabhi posted:Probably late to the party on this but it's definitely not unavoidable. Change your user agent so you look like Google's indexer. if only there were a way in Firefox to Bypass Paywalls, or even to Bypass Paywalls but Clean
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You can bypass most paywalls without an extension by putting text.fish/ Infront of the address, eg (random example from NYT today) https://text.fish/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/26/style/cryonics-freezing-bodies.html
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blunt posted:You can bypass most paywalls without an extension by putting text.fish/ Infront of the address, eg (random example from NYT today) https://text.fish/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/26/style/cryonics-freezing-bodies.html woah nice didn't know about that
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blunt posted:You can bypass most paywalls without an extension by putting text.fish/ Infront of the address, eg (random example from NYT today) https://text.fish/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/26/style/cryonics-freezing-bodies.html How the fu…? I get that it’s useful and awesome, anybody wanna take a stab (or link) at just how this works? PM is fine if it’s too off-topic for butt discussion.
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Text.fish is a web site.
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salt shakeup posted:Personally I would hodl those bitcoins. They can only go up from here. You joke but to be honest, you might as well hold them for now. Bitcoin is at 29k euros and it'll probably be 40k until the end of the year. If keeping them isn't costing you money, just hold it until it eventually goes up again. And it will because these people are mentally sick and will reinflate the bubble.
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DerekSmartymans posted:How the fu…? poster above said it allows access if user-agent is set to the google scraper, one possible way to do is for text.fish to read what site you want to go to and then scrape the pages for you and present the results to make it coiner related text.fish could also insert spam and ransomware download links into the pages and start a javascript miner
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Text.fish is a web site. Yeah I wasn’t trying to be lazy just like (and folks are helpful here) getting a start to my own research into the new stuff. I followed a link from FT.com and got too the site, but on reader-mode on phone there was no “how this works” link or anything. Edit: Vesi posted:poster above said it allows access if user-agent is set to the google scraper, one possible way to do is for text.fish to read what site you want to go to and then scrape the pages for you and present the results Dammit. I usually don’t click links from butt-related sites, but do feel safer on my iPhone than Win10 machines  .
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blunt posted:You can bypass most paywalls without an extension by putting text.fish/ Infront of the address, eg (random example from NYT today) https://text.fish/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/26/style/cryonics-freezing-bodies.html "outline.com/" is also useful (but not perfect) for this purpose
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Binance has been banned in the UK:The Guardian posted:Britain’s financial regulator has ordered Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, to stop all regulated activity and issued a warning to consumers about the platform which is coming under growing scrutiny globally. This is probably good for Bitcoin.
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I don't think there was any question as to whether this is good for bitcoin. In fact, if more exchanges were to be banned this would be good for bitcoin because
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Loonytoad Quack posted:Binance has been banned in the UK: Funds are safu, mate.
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Space Fish posted:"outline.com/" is also useful (but not perfect) for this purpose archive.is does a decent job as well
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Dumb question but this is the best place for it: I've heard "BTC is falling because China is cracking down on mining." If most of the world's mining supply is going offline, shouldn't the value of BTC be going up due to reduced resources mining the remaining coins?
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Craptacular! posted:Dumb question but this is the best place for it: In a world where cryptocurrencies weren't being propped up by wildcat bank scams such as Tether/Bitfinex (under current investigation), this might be a possibility
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Craptacular! posted:Dumb question but this is the best place for it: you're trying to apply any kind of reason or sense to the situation. classic mistake
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Craptacular! posted:Dumb question but this is the best place for it: I have no idea how Elon Musk managed to liquidate that way. Did Tesla/Musk sell all his butts to some credulous other billionaire, or an exchange? Did they actually just move that money into Musk's private wallet at "market" "value"?
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If you accept the principal that people will get bitcoins the cheapest possible way, a bunch of mining disappearing would lower the price because it's now cheaper to mine instead of buy. So why were so many Chinese people mining if buying was cheaper or equal before? Because bitcoin mining was a way to avoid China's currency control laws that limit the amount of yuan that can become dollars every year. Miners saw a chance to acquire USD, by way of turning yuan into GPUs first. Bitcoin was a reasonable tax to pay before getting a useful currency
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Craptacular! posted:Dumb question but this is the best place for it: Not really. The amount of coins emitted is fixed - you dont get any more minted each day by using a billion miners than you do by using a single dusty PC in a basement. So as miner supply decreases, each remaining miner gets a higher number of coins per day. This means they can afford to sell for lower prices.
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