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destrekor

destrekor

Lifer
Nov 18, 2005
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DaveSimmons said:
Mr. Bill Gates of Microsoft will pay you $80,000 cash monies for every bitcoin you send to this wallet address: 178.294.32.108. Please forward this message to all of your friends.
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I mean you could at least have put out a real bitcoin wallet address (it's like a public key in PKI, no harm in giving it out, in fact it's necessary). You can't even get any coin that someone sends to an IP address! Not even sure if a wallet will let you send to an address that isn't remotely close to looking valid. It's possible. The fools just lose it forever and yet you get nothing for it.

You'd never make it as a scammer, my friend. ;)
 
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Fritzo

Fritzo

Lifer
Jan 3, 2001
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ultimatebob said:
Do you really think that the Bank Of America is going to invest in something regularly fluctuates in value by plus or minus 20% a week?

If so, give us some advanced warning when they do it so we can dump their stock. They obviously lost their minds.
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Not really now, but sometime out. In December they even looked into setting up their own exchange.
 
ultimatebob

ultimatebob

Lifer
Jul 1, 2001
25,135
2,445
126
destrekor said:
I mean you could at least have put out a real bitcoin wallet address (it's like a public key in PKI, no harm in giving it out, in fact it's necessary). You can't even get any coin that someone sends to an IP address! Not even sure if a wallet will let you send to an address that isn't remotely close to looking valid. It's possible. The fools just lose it forever and yet you get nothing for it.

You'd never make it as a scammer, my friend. ;)
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Yeah, I don't know why people don't publish their public Ethereum wallet addresses in their signatures if they have one. I can't send them cool stuff like Atotcoin without it :)
 
pete6032

pete6032

Diamond Member
Dec 3, 2010
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I didn't buy at ATH but I did put some money into BTC and LTC in later January after I got my ledger, but it was only a few hundred dollars because I'm not stupid enough to gamble with anything I can't afford to lose. I hope that both recover but I'm not worried about the short term because I will hold for at least 1 year to avoid short term capital gains tax.
 
Tweak155

Tweak155

Lifer
Sep 23, 2003
11,448
262
126
pete6032 said:
I didn't buy at ATH but I did put some money into BTC and LTC in later January after I got my ledger, but it was only a few hundred dollars because I'm not stupid enough to gamble with anything I can't afford to lose. I hope that both recover but I'm not worried about the short term because I will hold for at least 1 year to avoid short term capital gains tax.
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Lucky for you, you need gains in order for them to be taxed! You're off the hook!
 
Ns1

Ns1

No Lifer
Jun 17, 2001
55,413
1,570
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AznAnarchy99 said:
Can I transfer from another wallet to RobinHood BTC? Did some light mining and would like to withdraw my $10 lol.
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It would seem that such features have not been implemented in order to achieve zero fee trading, but I just started on the RH Crytpo thing today.
 
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Staples

Diamond Member
Oct 28, 2001
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Ns1 said:
No fee trading of ETH on robin hood is kind of amazing.
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I never understood why this is such a big deal. Trades on Binance are 5 basis points and GDAX is free for limit trades. I am sure there are others that are as cheap. I doubt anyone using that app are making million dollar trades.
 
Ns1

Ns1

No Lifer
Jun 17, 2001
55,413
1,570
126
Staples said:
I never understood why this is such a big deal. Trades on Binance are 5 basis points and GDAX is free for limit trades. I am sure there are others that are as cheap. I doubt anyone using that app are making million dollar trades.
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because coinbase charges 4% to get money in and 4% to get money out
 
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Staples

Diamond Member
Oct 28, 2001
4,952
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Ns1 said:
because coinbase charges 4% to get money in and 4% to get money out
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None sense. It is 4% if you are buying with a credit card. I transfer money to gdax, use limit orders including selling crypto for cash. Transfer cash to my bank. There is zero fee.
 
Ns1

Ns1

No Lifer
Jun 17, 2001
55,413
1,570
126
My fault for picking coinbase I guess. And it's 4% with debit too.
 
Red Storm

Red Storm

Lifer
Oct 2, 2005
14,233
234
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ultimatebob said:
Yeah, I don't know why people don't publish their public Ethereum wallet addresses in their signatures if they have one. I can't send them cool stuff like Atotcoin without it :)
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True, but linking your address to a forum account opens you up to potential targeting (particularly if your wallet is worth quite a bit). I guess you could use another address for that, but why bother?

I have 200 ATOTcoin, so I'm now in constant fear of hackers targeting me.
 
ultimatebob

ultimatebob

Lifer
Jul 1, 2001
25,135
2,445
126
Red Storm said:
True, but linking your address to a forum account opens you up to potential targeting (particularly if your wallet is worth quite a bit). I guess you could use another address for that, but why bother?

I have 200 ATOTcoin, so I'm now in constant fear of hackers targeting me.
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Heh. 200 times 0 value is still 0 value :)

You can set up separate "throwaway" wallets for that. The Metamask wallet that I set up for Atotcoin and Coolcoin (the generic Atotcoin equivalent, just in case the mods throw the ban hammer at Atotcoin) isn't the same one I used for Ethereum mining.
 
OverVolt

OverVolt

Lifer
Aug 31, 2002
14,278
89
91
This is too complicated if its not going to make me a millionaire for minimal effort anymore :)
 
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Staples

Diamond Member
Oct 28, 2001
4,952
119
106
OverVolt said:
This is too complicated if its not going to make me a millionaire for minimal effort anymore :)
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I've come to realize that if the market ever comes back, this will never be a buy and hold market. The best you can do is buy and then set stop sell orders. I spend literally hours every day looking at the market at reading news. It has occurred to me that unless you stand to gain 100k a year (and you won't in this down market), it is hardly worth it.
 
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DaveSimmons

Elite Member
Aug 12, 2001
40,730
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Staples said:
I've come to realize that if the market ever comes back, this will never be a buy and hold market. The best you can do is buy and then set stop sell orders. I spend literally hours every day looking at the market at reading news. It has occurred to me that unless you stand to gain 100k a year (and you won't in this down market), it is hardly worth it.
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I earn less than 10% a year from my index funds, but I also only need to spend a few hours per year to buy more shares to hold. I'd guess 2-3 hours tops.

I spend the other 1,000 hours you lose to market-watching on important stuff like binge-watching Netflix, playing computer games (currently Pillars of Eternity), reading books, posting here....

Neither choice is wrong, some people enjoy playing the market more than casting fireball :)
 
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PricklyPete

PricklyPete

Lifer
Sep 17, 2002
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DaveSimmons said:
I earn less than 10% a year from my index funds, but I also only need to spend a few hours per year to buy more shares to hold. I'd guess 2-3 hours tops.

I spend the other 1,000 hours you lose to market-watching on important stuff like binge-watching Netflix, playing computer games (currently Pillars of Eternity), reading books, posting here....

Neither choice is wrong, some people enjoy playing the market more than casting fireball :)
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I choose to spend my time mountain biking or with my family...did a bit of both in Moab last week...
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I definitely would recommend it over reading crypto sub-reddit...but to each their own.
 
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Fritzo

Fritzo

Lifer
Jan 3, 2001
41,884
2,124
126
PricklyPete said:
I choose to spend my time mountain biking or with my family...did a bit of both in Moab last week...
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I definitely would recommend it over reading crypto sub-reddit...but to each their own.
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Wow- that's breathtaking!!!!
 
ultimatebob

ultimatebob

Lifer
Jul 1, 2001
25,135
2,445
126
PricklyPete said:
I choose to spend my time mountain biking or with my family...did a bit of both in Moab last week...
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I definitely would recommend it over reading crypto sub-reddit...but to each their own.
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The Redditors would tell you that the reason you don't have a LAMBO in that picture is that you didn't HODL the crapcoin they were pumping like they told you to do ;)
 
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Crono

Lifer
Aug 8, 2001
23,720
1,501
136
Nimiq countdown to mainnet is up on nimiq.com :

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There's a spreadsheet with mining hashrates for anyone else interested in browser (or node.js) mining after mainnet launch, though if you have hardware already you can also check your hashrate on the testnet (keep in mind it's still play Nimiq until mainnet launch).
 
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