Friday, October 12, 2018

Somehow, i figured that the most difficult problem faced by most beginners to cryptocurrency is how to buy bitcoin and where to even buy it without being scammed.

I guess this is also the reason why your search landed you to my blog. Well, just keep calm, because i’ve got your back completely on this one.

This post will guide you through everything about how to buy your first BTC. Along the line, i will also reveal where you can safely buy bitcoin instantly with maybe, your debit or credit card.

Before we start with how to buy bitcoin, i will like you to know one thing in particular about the whole process.

To buy btc is more like stock.

In stock trading you normally have to transfer your money from a bank account to a brokerage company. Now, through the brokerage account you might’ve already created, you can then purchase, invest, trade or manage your stock investments. And when you want, you can also pull the money back into your bank account again.

However, buying and trading cryptocurrency asset follows the same idea as well, but the only thing that differentiates it from that of stock is just the terminologies and jargons used mostly as crypto language in the cryptocurrency world and communities.

If you’re not all that familiar with the cryptocurrency terms and jargons, you will definitely feel intimidated from the start.

By the way, let me take you straight into learning how to buy bitcoin or get your Bitcoin USD account funded. Below are all the steps required to buy bitcoin instantly.

Step #1. Find and setup a good exchange account An exchange is same as the a brokerage, and signing up for an exchange account is also the same as that of brokerage account. But the only difference sometimes is that you may be required to verify your identity on exchange platforms before your account can be fully activated. Especially when the exchange platform has KYC (Know Your Customer) service available.

There are different exchanges you can choose from. See the list of popularly recommended ones below:

Changelly (Highly recommended)

Luno (Mostly good for Nigerians)

Remitano

LocalBitcoins (Widely used worldwide)

Once you’re done setting up an exchange account, all you need to do is transfer your capital amount to your chosen exchange account through ACH or Wire transfer directly from your bank account. Wire transfer is recommended.

Step #2. Purchasing cryptocurrencies Ok fine. I know you’ll be like; “I’ve created the account, so now what?”

Anyways, just know that it’s always like the normal brokerage account we all know. Except that instead of buying IBM or Starbucks shares, you’re going to purchase either Bitcoin or Ethereum.

As soon as you’ve already gotten the investment capital on the exchange platform, you will decide on percentage you will use to acquire bitcoin, or maybe, ethereum coins.

Mind you that cryptocurrencies are ordered separately for each one, so you need to buy coins according to allocations. Once after purchasing your desired cryptocurrencies, take a moment to celebrate – YOU’RE OFFICIALLY AN INVESTOR!

And that beings us altogether to the next step you will need to take immediately to secure your cryptocurrency asset.

Step #3. Transferring cryptos to a fully secured wallet Now you will need to fully secure your bitcoin or altcoins (alternate coins) investment. I personally, will not advice you or anyone reading this post to leave their cryptos on an exchange platform (unlike the stock). Leaving purchased crypto coins on exchanges can be very risky, and can be lost instantly.

Necessarily, you always use wallets to keep your fiat money and that’s exactly where cryptocurrency is kind of similar to traditional fiat currencies. You need an offline wallet to fully secure your bitcoin investment.

However, because of experience most investors have had earlier, cryptocurrency can actually be fully protected only with offline hardware wallets. This way you can have full control and access of your investment portfolios.

This is unlike the stocks where you have to hold a physical certificate to prove yourself as a stakeholder. In the crypto world you need a wallet to hold your cryptocurrency assets, and hardware wallets are mostly recommended due to its functionality and security.

One of the best and most affordable hardware wallet in the market currently, is the Ledger Nano S Wallet. It’s popularly known amongst investors, but feel free to do your personal research on wallets that works best for you.

Have it in mind that if you’re going to be using a hardware wallet as i suggested, you will also need to configure it to work with your personal computer, mobile phone and any other gadget you might have that accepts the functionality.

The initial setup of the wallet mostly starts from getting your wallet address activated, which you will be using to send or receive bitcoins or any altcoin.

Note: Cryptocurrencies are not stored on the wallet itself, but in the blockchain. What the wallet does is just storing the cryptographic codes and information needed as proof of stake to use an amount of coin you own already in the most secured and convinient way.

Storing your assets in wallet is similar to that of your SAFE box, where you keep your most important asset or money, wallets are known to be safer due to the fact that it saves your cryptocurrencies with complex passcodes and encryptions which makes it immune to viruses. Most of the cryptocurrency wallets are built based on powerful hashing algorithms.

By the way, if you leave your crypto assets in an exchange and the exchange gets hacked, you will loose all your coins instantly. But if someone gets to steal your hardware wallet your investment will still be very safe as long as they don’t have access to secret passphrase to restore your assets. This means you can always retrieve your crypto coins.

In summary to buying bitcoin instantly Buying bitcoin as a beginner shouldn’t be a scary process for you anymore as this post have discussed it fully in detail on how to buy bitcoin fast. If i were you now, i would simply bookmark this content for revisiting if by any chance i face difficulty in purchasing bitcoin or selecting good exchanges or wallet.

Let me recall the steps you need to take again:

Firstly, choose and setup an exchange account. Secondly, purchase your desired cryptocurrency asset. Finally, secure your investment with a hardware wallet to avoid loosing it to theft or hackers.

Source: https://doronize.com.ng/bitcoin-usd.html

Daily Discussion Thread - Major Announcement/News/Developments Found Here (Updated Daily!) - October 13, 2018

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Major Announcements & Updates:

MOU between theloop and Cyberdigm
theloop-Raonsecure MOU
MOU between theloop & Smilegate Stove
Beware of Twitter Scam
Clarification on Partners
ICONex Wallet and Airdrop Info
Information regarding the ICON APAC Tour in March
ICX listed on Upbit and Bithumb! - 3/22/2018
ICX officially trading on Upbit and Bithumb! - 3/23/2018
ICON 1Q Achievements - 3/30/2018

Korea Blockchainweek, Launching ICONex for iOS, Event Demo Day-July, ICONex Certificate from NSHC, one of the top financial security consulting firm in South Korea - July 24, 2018 - July 31, 2018
ICON x Deblock: An update & some context on how @Deblockvc is building the ICON Ecosystem - July 31, 2018
Ledger Officially Supports ICX - August 8, 2018
ICON-sponsoring ‘DE-FERENCE 2018’ - August 10, 2018
ICON Developers Portal Beta Launch! - August 11, 2018
ICON-sponsoring ‘PyCon Korea 2018’ - August 12, 2018
ICONLOOP’s Technology to be applied to ‘Digital Plaza for Small Business’ Program - August 13, 2018
ICON & Deblock are hosting Korea's largest Demo Day, Friday Night ICON, themed: s - August 16, 2018
The panel team is partnering with the hx57 ICON Community Alliance to launch the ICON Research Week - August 16, 2018
The first dedicated news site for the ICON Republic! - The Iconist aims to be The New York Times of the ICON Republic - August 16, 2018
We are excited to announce the official launch of ICX Station, a global accelerator program sponsored by the ICON Foundation. - August 17, 2018
Startup Grind, powered by Google of Entrepreneurs, is hosting a fireside chat with J.H. Kim, foundation council member of the ICON Foundation and CEO of ICONLOOP. The mission of Startup Grind is to educate, connect, and inspire entrepreneurs. - August 18, 2018
ICON is sponsoring ‘CryptoShift’, an event put on by Hustle Fund that brings together a community of Silicon Valley’s top builders, operators, investors, and thinkers to discuss recent trends and ideas in crypto/blockchain. Cryptoshift is NOT an ordinary public event, as it is a chance to introduce ICON more effectively as a key opinion leader (KOL) of large IT companies and investors.** - August 20, 2018
The ICON Foundation is proud to announce that on July 2018, ICONLOOP (formerly theloop) was selected by IMCLOUD as the blockchain technology consultant for ‘Building the Next Generation. Election System based on Intelligence Information Technology’, commenced by Korea National Information Society Agency (NIA) and supervised by Korea National Election Commission (NEC). This project aims at utilizing the core technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, including blockchain, artificial intelligence and big data. - August 20, 2018
ICX Station Partners with DeBlock - August 20, 2018
ICON-CertiK Form Strategic Partnership. CertiK, a smart contract auditing firm with a patented technique to automate formal verification of smart contracts. This partnership will lead to a more secure ICON Ecosystem, as DApp projects launching on ICON will soon have the ability to submit their SCOREs to CertiK for an almost entirely automated smart contract audit. - August 23, 2018
The ICON Foundation is proud to announce that ICONLOOP has been selected as an operator of Seoul’s standard blockchain platform for ‘Seoul Blockchain Demonstration Project’. ICONLOOP will apply loopchain, ICONLOOP’s self-developed blockchain engine, to Seoul Blockchain Standard Platform, used car trading system, and mobile-voting system over the next six months. Also, verification business is planned for services closely related to citizens’ living such as citizen card, mileage integration, subcontract payment, and others. - August 23, 2018
ICON Latest Release: Github Open Source - August 24, 2018
T-Bears is a suite of development tools for SCORE. You can code and test your smart contract locally, and when ready, deploy SCORE onto the ICON network from command-line interface. T-Bears provides a project template for SCORE to help you start right away. - August 24, 2018
[The ICON Foundation is proud to announce that ICONLOOP (formerly theloop) was selected to participate in ‘Cultivating Innovative Youth Talents 2018’ supervised by Korea Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) and Korea Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion (IITP). This massive-scale public project aims at strengthening national competitiveness in technologies and solving youth unemployment problem through the cultivation of 5,400 youth talents that will specialize in the Fourth Industrial Revolution with investments up to 108 billion won (approx. $96 million) over 4 years until the year 2021.](https://old.reddit.com/r/helloicon/comments/9anfo5/iconloop_selected_to_participate_in_cultivating/)
[ICX Token Swap Deadline Reminder!The deadline of the toke swap is 2018.09.25(13:00, UTC+9).] - August 28, 2018
ICON Foundation is proud to announce that ICONLOOP is sponsoring ‘The 5th Korea SW Convergence Hackathon’ hosted by Korea Ministry of Science and ICT(MSIT) and Korea National IT Industry Promotion Agency(NIPA). - August 28, 2018
ICON and the W Foundation, a nonprofit organization for environmental preservation and refugee relief, signed an MOU today to apply blockchain technology to the W Green Pay(WGP), a pollution reduction compensation system. The ICON team works with the 'W' Foundation with hopes to create a positive 'social impact' on the public in the blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystem. - August 29, 2018
ICON Key Announcements Megathread! - August 7-31, 2018
Description of ICON Developer Center - August 31, 2018
ICON Foundation is proud to announce that we are officially launching the ICON Developers Portal to foster our DApp developers community! - August 31, 2018
[1. Key Announcements: Rebranding Update -- 2.ICON x Deblock August Update: Accelerating the ICON ecosystem. -- 3. Yellow Paper releasing soon. -- 4. ICON Foundation Sponsoring for The Wall Blackchain Conference. 5. ICON-Portal Netowrk Strategic Parnership.](https://old.reddit.com/r/helloicon/comments/9ckjg8/weekly_updated_announcement_thread_september_2/) - September 2nd-9th

Remember the ICON team will NEVER ask for your ICX/ETH/BTC or individual private keys!

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Bitcoin ATMs are popping up across the Twin Cities (current BTC/USD price is $6279.40843414)

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Bitcoin ATMs are popping up across the Twin Cities

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Bitcoin Price | Blockchain | ICOs

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Ultimate Online Wrestling

To anyone who is interested…

Ultimate Online Wrestling is currently looking to expand its roster this year for Season 2 of our heavily story driven E-Fed that sort of reads and feels like a comic book. We’ve been open for 14 months and have posted 12 well written shows on the SteemIt platform. We have over 1600 followers on there and we use the platform to make a little money from the hobby that we love. We are a laid back E-Fed for adults and we only do about 1 show a month. There is a 2 Role Play limit per show with no word limit on individual role plays.

We are a unique E-Fed in that I reward my role player’s with the Crypto-Currency XP Coin which can be converted into Bitcoin on online exchanges. We also write and do our shows in a way that concentrates on an actual audience that reads our work on the SteemIt community network. So our work isn’t just consumed by people involved in the E-Fed, but also fans of our work on SteemIt and Twitter.

If you’re interested joining our roster and learning how we do things at Ultimate Wrestling you can join our discord channel link below. Our roster and staff are very friendly and willing to answer any questions you might have.

Discord Channel: r/https://discord.gg/mj6Msrf

Below are some of our shows so that you can get a feel for my writing style and our story-lines.

https://steemit.com/fiction/@ultimatewrestlin/ultimate-online-wrestling-ch-4-friday-night-clash-episode-1

https://steemit.com/fiction/@ultimatewrestlin/ultimate-online-wrestling-ch-8-ultra-slam-pay-per-view-event

https://steemit.com/fiction/@ultimatewrestlin/ultimate-online-wrestling-ch-11-friday-night-clash-7

#EFED #Wrestling #Creativewriting #Cryptocurrency #EWrestling

SpankChain Hacker Returns Stolen Ethereum, Earns $9,000 Reward - Inside Bitcoins - News, Price, Events

https://insidebitcoins.com/news/spankchain-hacker-returns-stolen-ethereum-earns-9000-reward/182541

Bitcoin Price Intraday Analysis: BTC/USD in Weak Upside Correction - Inside Bitcoins - News, Price, Events

https://insidebitcoins.com/news/bitcoin-price-intraday-analysis-btc-usd-in-weak-upside-correction/182533

South Korea Stands Firm: Won’t Legalize ICOs For Now - Inside Bitcoins - News, Price, Events

https://insidebitcoins.com/news/south-korea-stands-firm-wont-legalize-icos-for-now/182508

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Goldman, Morgan Stanley : Lisk Acceptance on Wall Street maybe Next Year

Goldman, Morgan Stanley

: Lisk Acceptance on Wall Street maybe Next Year

Goldman, Morgan Stanley : KinFoundation Acceptance on Wall Street maybe Next Year

Goldman, Morgan Stanley

: KinFoundation Acceptance on Wall Street maybe Next Year

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BitcoinAir USDAP

The act of reentry into the market will be as simple as “on chaining” your USDAP to Bitcoin Air. This event will occur through the burning of USDAP and the minting of Bitcoin Air at the current market rate. https://bitcoinair.org/

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Cdiamond Coin is going to Malta

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The last vent we visited was in Kyiv on September 19th. As we informed you before – CdiamondCoin team is attending two more blockchain and bitcoin events. If you were not able to meet us in Kyiv, don’t worry, following conference is happening soon.

So now we want to remind you that next event where people will be able to meet us is on October 23. Our team is going to Blockchain & Bitcoin conference in Malta! r/https://malta.bc.events/

This is an excellent opportunity for you to gain knowledge about our project and us

We will see you there!

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Ethereum, Ripple, Bitcoin Prices: Cryptos Suffer A Steep Decline (current BTC/USD price is $6297.26943801)

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BAT Community Weekly Update: 10/05/2018 to 10/11/2018 — AMA with Yan Zhu, Why GDPR is kryptonite to Google & Facebook, Brave & Brendan Eich mentioned by US Senate committee (video), BAT/Brave Team at ETH SF, Worldwide BAT Meetups next week

Welcome to this week's BAT Community Update! Big thanks to u/MurphD for his contributions!

BLOG: Why GDPR is Kryptonite to Google & Facebook on Anti-Trust

Brave’s submission to Margrethe Vestager, the EU Anti-Trust Chief, responding to her call for stakeholder input. Brave’s recent submission to the European Competition Directorate General for Competition describes how a core principle of the GDPR called “purpose limitation” can be used to prevent anti-competitive behavior by Google and Facebook.

https://brave.com/vestager/

VIDEO: Brave and Brendan Eich mentioned by US Senate committee

https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/9nbz90/video_brave_and_brendan_eich_mentioned_by_us/

VIDEO: Brave & BAT at Founders Fund with Brendan Eich (CEO) — Detailed talk about BAT
Brave & BAT official meetup event graciously hosted at Founders Fund, featuring Brendan Eich. Brendan is the inventor of JavaScript, founder of Mozilla/Firefox and CEO of Brave.
Brave is a new, privacy-first browser that blocks all third-party ads and trackers by default. Basic Attention Token (BAT) is a revolutionary digital advertising platform that rewards users in Ethereum-based BAT tokens for any ads they opt into seeing, and locally matches ads to user interests without any tracking or data collection required.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/9mgb9l/video_brave_bat_at_founders_fund_with_brendan/

BAT Community presents its first worldwide meetup events: “24 HOURS OF BAT” (Oct. 16th)

The BAT was first integrated into Brave in October 2017. To celebrate reaching 1 year of BAT utility in Brave, we’ve asked all of our Regional Leaders and volunteers from around the world to host meetups in their country on October 16th, 2018 and create a full day of global BAT meetups!

If you are in the area where one of our meetups will be taking place, you are invited to join in! Meetups with event pages for each region are listed below. Keep an eye out over the coming weeks for more event pages for 24 Hours of BAT meetups in other countries!
24 Hours of BAT meetup in Media, Pennsylvania:

https://www.meetup.com/BATPennsylvania/events/254956818/

24 Hours of BAT meetup in Jakarta, Indonesia:

https://www.meetup.com/BAT-Indonesia-Community/events/255078993/

24 Hours of BAT meetup in Vigo, Spain:

https://www.meetup.com/Meetup-de-Educacion-y-tecnologia-en-Vigo/events/255192626/

24 Hours of BAT meetup in Toronto, Canada:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/9kh6z5/event_details_batbrave_meetup_on_october_16th/

24 Hours of BAT meetup in Bogotá, Colombia:
https://www.meetup.com/BATColombia/events/255091430/?_xtd=gqFyqTI1ODQ1NDA2OaFwp2FuZHJvaWQ&from=ref

24 Hours of BAT meetup in Perth, Australia:
https://www.meetup.com/BATPerth/events/255358589/

And be sure to check out these other upcoming BAT/Brave meetups!

BAT/Brave meetup in Medellín, Colombia on October 20th: https://www.meetup.com/BATColombia/events/254368593/

BAT/Brave meetup in Montreal, Canada on October 23rd:

https://www.meetup.com/BATMontreal/events/255413618/

BAT Community Merch Giveaway Winners!

The winners for our BAT Community Daily Merch Giveaways for this week are:

Tuesday (Twitter): @@IRaptorI
Wednesday (Facebook): Kyle Henry
Thursday (Contributor special): Niels

Click here to see pics of previous giveaway winners rocking their BAT/Brave merch!: https://imgur.com/a/lhF1G9I

Be sure to tune in to our social media channels every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Friday to participate in our daily merch giveaways for your chance to win!

Client Updates:

Brave releases desktop client] version v0.25.2

Brave releases Beta client version 0.55.12

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v0.55.12

Brave Team Tweets:

More fiat to cryptocurrencies exchanges to come?

Ivan Buncic @ivanbuncic Replying to @BrendanEich @brave will it [Brave] supports something else than bitcoins for contributions?

BrendanEich @BrendanEich We switched from Bitcoin last year, to @attentiontoken. @UpholdInc is first partner enabling exchange to many fiats/cryptos in many regions. More to come. 3:01 PM - Oct 5, 2018

Almost 30,000 publishers/creators, and coming up on 5 million active users!

BrendanEich @BrendanEich Early October @Brave stats: 4.6M MAU 28.7K publishers/creators (23.1K verified) 1:52 PM - 5 Oct 2018

BAT Community @BAT_Community Official BAT/Brave event last night with a great presentation by @BrendanEich! Thanks to Founders Fund for providing the beautiful venue. ☁️✨🦁🚀$BAT #Brave #BeBrave @AttentionToken @brave
11:45 AM - Oct 5, 2018

Check out Brendan’s post on Hacker News discussing sending crypto anonymously to favorite sites and creators:

BrendanEich @BrendanEich Oct 6, 2018 I just commented on "Brave – A private, secure and fast browser", HN post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18154545 …

BrendanEich @BrendanEich “In this sense, all browsers insert the vast majority of ads today.” pic.twitter.com/cbyXw9GLVr 1:03 PM - Oct 6, 2018

Brave’s ad deals don’t come through exchanges.

BrendanEich @BrendanEich As noted elsewhere, we already do antifraud. I'll reply at length, but note our ad deals do not come through exchanges, they require integrity-checked Brave -- so there's no way that fork would get paid so easily. To cheat us, fraudster would have to fake users who run our code. 5:08 PM - Oct 6, 2018

Brave working on BAT for premium content… and don’t forget: Brave gives you token grants!

BrendanEich @BrendanEich Oct 7, 2018 Replying to @naval @sriramk Brave (see the Payments panel in settings/preferences) does let you take a token grant _gratis_ and pin percentages of your monthly budget to any site or YouTube or Twitch channel you want. Reddit & Twitter account support coming. As Brave Rewards, revamped & on mobile very soon.

BrendanEich @BrendanEich

We’re working with some of those sites + other publishers (e.g., Dow Jones Media Group) on “BAT for premium content” too. Everyone needs non-adtech revenue. From recent trips to NYC and Paris, it’s clear to me that publishers are waking up, like the Ents in Tolkien going to war. 10:23 AM - Oct 7, 2018

Brendan’s response to “Why not imitate a specific model (Patreon) that is working in the wild?”

Naval @naval Oct 7, 2018 Replying to @BrendanEich and 2 others

IMHO too oblique and roundabout. Why not imitate a specific model (Patreon) that is working in the wild? Pay USD to sponsor publishers. Publisher’s site unlocks specific content to paying subscribers. Of course this requires some module on the publisher’s side. cc @photomatt

BrendanEich @BrendanEich

If you want roundabout, try getting publishers & users at the same time, with a pitch that requires both at once. Metcalfe’s Law, Catch-22. So we start with users and now, nearing 5M MAU, we have over 23,000 creators on board. We do not centralize data or censor, unlike Patreon.

11:32 AM - Oct 7, 2018

BrendanEich @BrendanEich Last thing: most users do not want to pay, at least not at first. So we give token grants while building other models to pay the user to let paid tokens flow by default to their top or pinned sites. >430K user wallets from desktop only option, coming to mobile in several weeks.

9:15 PM - Oct 7, 2018

How is the adblock support on Brave? Sampson explains:

Kevin S. @ifandbut01 Oct 8, 2018 Replying to @Grummz @brave

How is the ad block support?

Sampson | brave.com@BraveSampson

@brave uses the same lists which power other popular ad-blockers. One exception is that we don't have a pay-to-play model (like others) which lets some advertisers through. We go a step further too, blocking cryptominers (first browser to do so?), auto-play media, and more.

10:44 AM - Oct 8, 2018

Too many browsers, Luke?

Luke Mulks @lukemulks You know you work for a browser, when you have 12 browsers installed on your machine, and at least 3 of them are from the same company. Lol. 4:57 PM - Oct 8, 2018

GDPR only helping big incumbents?

BrendanEich @BrendanEich It's a silly slogan that GDPR only helps big incumbents. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18132868 … 2:03 PM - Oct 3, 2018

Has Brave always been based on Chromium? Sampson explains:

Sampson | brave.com @BraveSampson Brave has pretty much always been built on Chromium. The current released inherited the Chromium code by way of another project called Electron. We forked Electron to improve security, but this slowed us down. Brave Core is us moving closer to the root code-base, for many gains… 8:12 PM - Oct 8, 2018

Will advertisers on Brave would be required to purchase the $BAT token?

Mike Rogers @mikerogers121 Oct 9, 2018 Replying to @BrendanEich and 3 others Sorry Brendan, I made a mistake with the first Q. What I wanted to know is if advertisers on Brave would be required to purchase the $BAT token, via Uphold or other exchange, in order to pay for ads on the Brave platform?

BrendanEich @BrendanEich Yes, the token flows from advertisers to users and publishers. It is the unit of account for attention, sent p2p in as many cases as we can do w/ anonymity, held in user wallets over 30 days of anonymous analytics, settled either via Uphold or soon p2p to optional pub eth wallet.

9:23 PM - Oct 9, 2018

From Reddit: Can extensions spy on us? If it can, how do we prevent it after 1.0 release?

Great response from Chris here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/9n5nws/can_extensions_spy_on_us_if_it_can_how_do_we/

News You Should Know:

Facebook to release first-party cookie option for ads, pull web analytics from Safari

Facebook is the latest big digital ad seller to release a solution to address moves by browsers to kill third-party cookies. The company is releasing a new first-party cookie option for advertisers, publishers, and developers to measure and optimize Facebook ads and capture analytics data from browsers that block third-party cookies — namely Apple’s Safari and soon Mozilla’s Firefox.

https://marketingland.com/facebook-to-release-first-party-pixel-for-ads-web-analytics-from-browsers-like-safari-249478

The EU’s new privacy law is starting to bite Facebook

REGULATION helps incumbents, which have the resources to comply, but hurts newcomers. Or so argue critics of the European Commission’s new rules for the digital realm and of its privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). That may yet prove true, although the GDPR makes exceptions for smaller firms. But for now these new laws are making life harder for big technology firms. Facebook, in particular, is in the cross-hairs of European regulators as never before.

https://www.economist.com/business/2018/10/06/the-eus-new-privacy-law-is-starting-to-bite-facebook

Exclusive: Audit cleared Google privacy practices despite security flaw

An independent auditing firm signed off on Google's privacy practices earlier this year after the internet giant had discovered a software bug that exposed private information on potentially hundreds of thousands of users.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/410568-exclusive-privacy-audit-failed-to-mention-of-google-plus-security-flaw

Google shutting down Google+ after exposing data of up to 500,000 users

A vulnerability in the Google+ social network exposed the personal data of up to 500,000 people using the site between 2015 and March 2018, the search giant acknowledged Monday.

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-reportedly-exposed-data-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-google-users/

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/r/Monero Daily Discussion – October 12, 2018 - Use this thread for basic questions and if you're new to Monero

Index

General questions
Wallet: CLI & GUI
Wallet: Ledger
Nodes

1. General questions

Where can I download the Monero wallet?

There are multiple Monero wallets for a wide range of devices at your disposal. Check the table below for details and download links. All wallets listed below are open source. Attention: for extra security make sure to calculate and compare the checksum of your downloaded files.

Desktop wallets

Wallet	Device	Description	Download link
"Official" GUI / CLI	Windows, Mac OS X, Linux	The default implementation that is maintained by the core team. Use this one to run a full node and obtain maximum privacy.Has Ledger (hardware wallet) integration. Current version: 0.12.3.0.	GetMonero.org
MyMonero	Windows, Mac OS X, Linux	MyMonero is a lightweight wallet, which means you don't need to download the blockchain and run a node. MyMonero was developed with the assistance of the core team. They also have web-based and iOS versions.	GitHub

Mobile wallets

Wallet	Device	Description	Download link
Monerujo	Android	Popular Android lightweight wallet that has very cool features, like integration with xmr.to which lets you send payments in BTC using your XMR. It also has Ledger (hardware wallet) integration. Website: https://www.monerujo.io/.	Google Play / F-Droid / GitHub
MyMonero	iOS	iOS version of the MyMonero wallet. All versions have interoperability.	App Store
Cake Wallet	iOS	Popular iOS lightweight wallet that has integration with MorphToken, which means you can instantly exchange your XMR to other coins and tokens. Website: https://cakewallet.io/	App Store
X Wallet	iOS	Another iOS lightweight wallet. Website: https://xwallet.tech/	App Store
Edge Wallet	Android / iOS	This is a multi-assets wallet, meaning you can store Monero, Bitcoin, Ethereum and other tokens in one single app. https://edge.app/ ⚠️ Relatively new - use with caution! ⚠️	Google Play / App Store

Web-based wallets

Wallet	Description	Link
MyMonero	Web version of the MyMonero wallet. All versions have interoperability.	Web
XMRWallet	Web wallet with TOR support. ⚠️ Relatively new - use with caution! ⚠️	Web / Onion URL

How long does it take for my balance to unlock?

Your balance is unlocked after 10 confirmations (which means 10 mined blocks). A block is mined approximately every two minutes on the Monero network, so that would be around 20 minutes.

How can I prove that I sent a payment?

The fastest and most direct way is by using the ExploreMonero blockchain explorer. You will need to recover the transaction key from your wallet (complete guide for GUI / CLI).

How do I buy Monero (XMR) with Bitcoin (BTC)?

There are dozens of exchanges that trade Monero against Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Check out the list on CoinMarketCap and choose the option that suits you best.

How do I buy Monero (XMR) with fiat?

Kraken (USD and EUR): old-school, decent exchange. They might require your documents for verification and approval of your account.
LocalMonero: peer-to-peer exchange. They have pretty much everything as a payment method and they support hundreds of fiat options.

How do I mine Monero? And other mining questions.

The correct place to ask questions and discuss the Monero mining scene is in the dedicated subreddit r/MoneroMining. That being said, you can find a list of pools and available mining software in the GetMonero.org website.

2. Wallet: CLI & GUI

Why I can't see my balance? Where is my XMR?

Before any action there are two things to check:

Are you using the latest available version of the wallet? A new version is released roughly every 6 months, so make sure you're using the current release (compare the release on GetMonero.org with your wallet's version on Settings, under Debug info).
Is your wallet fully synchronized? If it isn't, wait the sync to complete.

Because Monero is different from Bitcoin, wallet synchronization is not instant. The software needs to synchronize the blockchain and use your private keys to identify your transactions. Check in the lower left corner (GUI) if the wallet is synchronized.

You can't send transactions and your balance might be wrong or unavailable if the wallet is not synced with the network. So please wait.

If this is not a sufficient answer for your case and you're looking for more information, please see this answer on StackExchange.

How do I upgrade my wallet to the newest version?

This answer is beautifully answered on StackExchange.

Why does it take so long to sync the wallet [for the first time]?

You have decided to use Monero's wallet and run a local node. Congratulations! You have chosen the safest and most secure option for your privacy, but unfortunately this has an initial cost. The first reason for the slowness is that you will need to download the entire blockchain, which is considerably heavy (+60 GB) and constantly growing. There are technologies being implemented in Monero to slow this growth, however it is inevitable to make this initial download to run a full node. Consider syncing to a device that has an SSD instead of an HDD, as this greatly impacts the speed of synchronization.

Now that the blockchain is on your computer, the next time you run the wallet you only need to download new blocks, which should take seconds or minutes (depending on how often you use the wallet).

I don't want to download the blockchain, how can I skip that?

The way to skip downloading the blockchain is connecting your wallet to a public remote node. You can follow this guide on how to set it up. You can find a list of public remote nodes on MoneroWorld.

Be advised that when using a public remote node you lose some of your privacy. A public remote node is able to identify your IP and opens up a range for certain attacks that further diminish your privacy. A remote node can't see your balance and it can't spend your XMR.

How do I restore my wallet from the mnemonic seed or from the keys?

To restore your wallet with the 25 word mnemonic seed, please see this guide.

To restore your wallet with your keys, please see this guide.

3. Wallet: Ledger

How do I generate a Ledger Monero Wallet with the GUI or CLI?

This answer is beautifully answered on StackExchange. Check this page for the GUI instructions, and this page for the CLI instructions.

4. Nodes

How can I my local node become a public remote node?

If you want to support other Monero users by making your node public, you can follow the instructions on MoneroWorld, under the section "How To Include Your Node On Moneroworld".

How can I connect my node via Tor?

This answer is beautifully answered on StackExchange.