joustmaster
offcumdun
There are a few threads on https://bitcointalk.org about people not having any cash for a long time. And one where people are willing to pay to see proof of anyone having a cash transaction from mtgox..
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pinkychukkles
Feed Your Head
What's the best (i.e. with the least transactional costs) place to sell bitcoins for GBP and get that cash back in your account?
Hi there, I've got a question too...I'm interested in bitcoins but was also wondering if there's a way to audit what happens to the bitcoins after they leave your account. Can this be done with bitcoins now? i.e. Are the transactions totally anonymous, or is there a centralized register of who has owned the coins over time?
joustmaster
offcumdun
There is a list of all transactions. But no real way of seeing who owned or made any of the transactions.
Thanks, was curious because I thought it might reduce fraud or corruption online if you could see where the bitcoins end up after they leave your account...I guess it would be like having the ability to track a real banknote after you spend it...appreciate this may not be such a great idea if you do want total anonymity for transactions but if I were able to pay some government offical with auditable coins then i could check that they hadn't just ended up in their own private account for example and if I was ripped off then I could see where the coins were spent next.
camouflage
gaslit at scale.
That's what the blockchain is, a peer to peer distributed ledger. Btc is not anonymous it's pseudonomynous.
pinkychukkles
Feed Your Head
Am using Bitcoin-QT on a mac and the blockchain is swallowing up 10.8GB of disk space on my SSD and I would rather shove it onto the HDD. Can't seem to find any definitive instructions online so is it just a matter of moving the
directory from the SSD to the HDD? How do I tell the Bitcoin-QT application to then look for and download updates to the blockchain in the new location? Thanks in advance for any pointers.
Code:
~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/blocks
Sell your bitcoins, do it now.
joustmaster
offcumdun
is it though...
pinkychukkles
Feed Your Head
Sorted - moved the directory, set up a symlink to it's new location.
Anyone?
camouflage
gaslit at scale.
Localbitcoins... abit like ebay except direct p2p trading.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/05/tor-deep-web-servers-offline-freedom-hosting
Telling you, sell your bitcoins. It silkroad next. When (not if) it goes down the value of bitcoins will plummet.
Telling you, sell your bitcoins. It silkroad next. When (not if) it goes down the value of bitcoins will plummet.
joustmaster
offcumdun
silkroad and tor weren't the weakness though...
camouflage
gaslit at scale.
That's it, the internet's over, sell your switches and your routers, cancel the broadband... there is now no further any need having things like that.
tbf I'm glad the National Political Police of USA have closed down Freedom Hosting due to child-porn. It's that troublesome balance though isn't it, the same rock pedo's hide under also lends cover to dissidents and journalists and people who just don't want to be part of the NSA's 'Long-Tail' so to speak. Obviously the Feds will use the pursuit of child-predators to justify their clamp-down on civil rights, same way they use terrorism. Who wants to stand up for a pedo's (or profiteers) right to child porn or the business thereof? Who wants to stand up for the hate-preachers right to preach hate, or distribute manuals on how to make a bomb etc.
All the above though has only a passing relevance as to the value of a wad of cash, be it in a cash-register with a neat roll of receipts (VAT included) or in a scruffy brown paper bag passed in an alleyway to a bloke in an overcoat... same thing btc.
Hoping to kick-off a selling panic means you either want to encourage cheap bitoins so you can buy more... or are in my opinion demonstrating a deficit of understanding on the subject (of money itself possibly). Love your work over on the Syria thread mind.
spacemonkey
I Love Noodles
Whenever there's an apparent clamp-down by regulators the price seems to rise. Up $6 since sunday anyway.
Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
Well the end of the world hasn't happened. Silk Road is still there and the price of bitcoins is stable. Even if the Silk Road does go down (and after two years of existence, it's unlikely) there are already a number of other existing sites on tor which will fill the vacuum.
Every Important Person In Bitcoin Just Got Subpoenaed By New York's Financial Regulator
Forbes. 8/12/2013
Looks like Google is also a "major investor"?
Meet the Dread Pirate Roberts, the man behind booming black market drug website Silk Road
Forbes. 8/14/2013
"Julian Assange with a hypodermic needle"? Drug them first?
joustmaster
offcumdun
Sell your bitcoins, do it now.
Poor predictive skills
I was trying panic people into selling bitcoins via Ron Paul memes, so to reduce their value and buy a load on the cheap. didn't work
joustmaster
offcumdun
I was trying panic people into selling bitcoins via Ron Paul memes, so to reduce their value and buy a load on the cheap. didn't work
Although it has gone up about 25% since your post..
Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
yeah I've used them loads of times without any problems. It's the easiest way of buying BitCoins if you are in the UK (disclaimer: this is my opinion based on personal experience so please don't PM me death threats if it goes tits up)
Thanks DC. After taking a proper look at this thread I'm:
a) sort of embarrassed to have walked in here with such a punter question
b) ashamed and horrified that I didn't pick up on knowledge from known intelligent peeps around here, buy a pile when they were cheap and look forward to a delightful life of leisure. Pathetic, could have been a contender etc etc A 7900% increase on investment over 2 and a bit years is pretty good...
electroplated
off minehead
One possible explanation is here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ne-of-bitcoins-biggest-exchange-in-one-chart/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ne-of-bitcoins-biggest-exchange-in-one-chart/
pinkychukkles
Feed Your Head
Even with the delays in getting your cash out of Mt.Gox, does it make it worth arbitraging between the exchanges? i.e buying Bitcoin on Bitstamp and selling on Mt.Gox.
To answer my question - I guess it can't be, as that would bring the prices quoted on each into alignment.
To answer my question - I guess it can't be, as that would bring the prices quoted on each into alignment.
electroplated
off minehead
I'm not sure - on one hand I'm sure some people must be doing exactly that on the other it seems to obvious to be a realistic proposition - I am tempted just to try but then there's the possibility of the withdrawal from gox not having been processed and in the meantime the price of bitcoins going up...
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