Zidewinder

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by Zidewinder 13y ago
People have speculated that this is an attempt by some attacker to correlate ownership of older and newer addresses en masse. Some wallets give the user no control over which address(es) are used as the source for any given payment. When a
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by Zidewinder 13y ago
Fuck off. So he used an extreme example, doesn't mean his point is invalid. Godwin's Law is not supposed to be used as an excuse to shut down uncomfortable conversations.
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by Zidewinder 13y ago
Edit: Just noticed you live in Europe. They do have a SEPA option for European customers, but I imagine the process is somewhat different, and SEPA listings are relatively sparse. Sorry! www.bitquick.co Prerequisites: A bitcoin wallet to re
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by Zidewinder 13y ago
If you want to keep things simple and maintain your privacy, you should check out services like BitQuick ( http://www.bitquick.co ) and Blue Sky Traders ( http://ok2yri46aaptiu2d.onion ). These services allow you to buy
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by Zidewinder 13y ago
These sites don't participate in the DNS. They (theoretically, at least) keep their IP addresses secret by sending and receiving traffic only through the Tor onion routing network. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_
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by Zidewinder 13y ago
That is not a capitalist society by any definition I know of. Capitalism involves things like land ownership and interest-bearing loans, things that eventually lead to significant inequality in the distribution of resources. In a capitalist
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by Zidewinder 13y ago
Is there a limit on the depth of comments here? I can't seem to reply to cjh_'s adjacent post. Anyway, he's correct that it's possible to keep all your coins on a Gox-hosted wallet. I kind of forgot that people actually do that. It's a real
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by Zidewinder 13y ago
No, actually, it isn't. You're quoting a piece of marketing material for chrissake. They handle 80% of all Bitcoin TRADE. As in Bitcoin-to-USD-and-vice-versa trades. Not Bitcoin-to-Bitcoin transactions. You clearly don't have even a basic u
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by Zidewinder 13y ago
It seems a bit fallacious to equate a Dollars-to-Bitcoins exchange with the Bitcoin currency itself. I know it's easy to forget amid this speculative frenzy, but conversion into USD is not really Bitcoin's ultimate purpose. None of these at
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by Zidewinder 13y ago
At least some of these incidents appear to be actual DDoS attacks. It's true that Gox's trading engine sucks and is prone to lag during sudden spikes in activity, but many of these incidents have shut the whole service down very abruptly wi