Complaints from Bitcoin Users

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They are proposing acting as judicial oversight of users' funds in the aftermath of losing $60 million of users' funds. They are holding other people's money hostage and plan to force some of them to pay for losses. They are proposing giving money out to some and taking money away from others with no legal oversight. All with no proof they didn't steal the funds themselves, or even a more plausible story.

"That's as concisely as I can put it." - SnowBastardThrowaway

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The hacker has everyone's money hostage. Bitfinex is now insolvent, i.e. bankrupt. There are well-established procedures for liquidating a bankrupt company, they vary by country, but always involve taking the remaining assets, pooling them and dividing them up. It will take years to bring this case to court, where a judge will determine who gets the remaining scraps, but investors, shareholders and lawyers are typically first in line, and customers last.

"I feel for you guys, but the money is gone. There's a lot of wishful thinking going on (denial) on the part of customers hoping to get something back. The same exact thing happened with MtGox, with people holding out hope for years." - paperraincoat

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He's arguably helping them with their cover up, which would make him an accomplice.

"Unless he really is clueless and doesn't know what's going on." - guywithtwohats

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He definitely understands how to make himself look like the poor guy who's just a victim of this situation, getting sympathy for himself and for Bitfinex by proxy. And it seems to be working too.

"Your company likely just ruined my life, I dont care if you don't get your nine hours of sleep right now!" - Tvgiafi

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I hope that fuck face Phil

"is enjoying my BTC with some good Asian lady boys right now." - Illesac

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so i guess im at that point where you just don't know what to do. i'm tired of this shit, everytime i accomplish something, life just flip the table on my face, i didn't have much as probably many other people on finex, but for me it was, and i was just to withdraw almost everything this week i even opened a new fiat account these days where i could've withdrew easily...

"everything i had on finex was in usd because i sold at 780 i wanted to buy back in lower right at this point 470 (see reference http://imgur.com/a/1coz2 , it's italian: giugno is june), while leaving something for even lower, don't discount 380, just giving an advice

luckily i sent something to kraken and poloniex from there but not enough at all ... and all the profit i did in this movements were on finex still. i'm not good at anything else in life other than trading it seems, i studied and did many jobs and nothing worked well as this, and anyway i'm a very closed person, i don't interact much with others. and it's not like i did a couple of good trades. now all this nights without sleep served nothing and months staying under pressure... i'm so tired but i can't let my emotions overwhelm me because i must be strong for my girlfriend, at least she is good at something and i want to support her, she always does it for me. but i don't know if i want to stand up again.

i feel miserable i wanted to give much of my earnings to my parents because they needed it more than me, i wanted to give them some of earnings and i was so happy i could do something for them... now not even this i'm not angry at the hacker, he did his job, but i am to bitfinex and i can't do anything against them, no one will pay for this shit but us, and we were just doing our jobs while other weren't. but mostly i'm angry with myself

i should look for psychological help maybe, sure, but i can't bother with it either. fuck this life" - Fabrizio89

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Complaints from users, Day 50 (22/08/2016):

Bitcoin transaction not confirmed?

"About 4 days ago, I sent bitcoins to another wallet. I selected "trasaction free". It is displayed as "send to (xxx)", but not confirmed. And the amount of bitcoins didnt reached the other wallet yet. Will the transfer be confirmed? What can I do about it? I use bitcoin core." - 12Antoni

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bitcoins have been pending for a little over 3 hours now

"i purchased some bitcoins on 8/15 and it said i would receive them today but once it switched to pending it said that would take about 30 minutes but here i am 3 hours later. to be honest i dont care if they are a little late i just want to make sure they are still coming today." - kxb2355

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First time using Bitcoin ATM, help?

"Today for the first time ever I used a Bitcoin ATM in Hammond, IN to deposit money. I deposited $500. I still haven't received the money in my account. Deposit was made at 2:27pm central time. Can someone explain why it takes so long? I scanned my QR code with my address and it was going to be sent directly to me. https://blockchain.info/tx/c68f2c7acb05 ... b3e6fc71dd" - Safrank

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How long does it take bitcoin to confirm?

"I opened an account with circle. Bought 30 bucks in bitcoin and then sent it to myself via copay. The transaction is showing up but saying it's awaiting confirmation. So far an hour has gone by. How long does it take for these types of things to confirm?" - PmMeGiftCardCodes

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I did not realize how slow bitcoin has become because I have not used it for a long time. Right now Bitcoin is unusable.

"I am more of a long time hodler. I am more of a hobby user who liked the idea of Bitcoin. I knew about all the discussion about big blocks, small blocks, the blocks are not big enough etc... - but I thought that the issue might be a bit inflated and that I could go on using bitcoin if I needed or wanted to. An hour ago I tried to send a few bitcoins to another wallet. It's been a whole hour and there are still ZERO confirmations. What the fuck is going on and why do we still not have bigger blocks? Right now Bitcoin is just UNUSABLE as method of payment. I am sad." - Peter_Steiner

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Bitcoin confirmation problem

"I had 1.5 bitcoins in my wallet on circle and I transferred them to my electrum wallet. Immediately without thinking, before the transaction was fully confirmed, I sent the 1.5 to another wallet. I'm looking at the transaction on blockchain and it is still saying unconfirmed transaction. It's been almost an hour and there isnt even one confirmation." - littlerover

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Bitcoin Transaction Confusion can anybody help me out?

"I have been waiting for several hours for my bitcoin transaction to complete but it has not yet had any confirmations." - BIFTAWARRIOR

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The last 8-10 blocks have been full and many people are having trouble confirming transactions.

"WTF BTC!" - KingN56

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Wow. Three blocks in five minutes and they are all full.

"What is going on?" - cryptocomicon

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Circle transactions getting stuck?

"Is anyone else that uses circle still having pending payments? They have taken the money out of my account, but it has not updated with bitcoin yet. Also, I have no confirmations on a previous transaction." - stilleatingass

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Transaction at medium priority for a few hours now?

"My transaction is the first one today to be pending for 4 hours in medium priority. ID: 1ea3eb8d0c782dbe5ba3f39d19af479dc41123b3464c09f65805717abcf33103" - turtlez1231

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It takes TOO long for BTC transactions to confirm

"How much has to be paid for a transaction to be confirmed in a reasonable frame of time? I sent 0.03 to an address with 0.0001 as the fee, and more than 30 minutes later I am STILL waiting. This is a major problem when it comes to widespread adoption. Why isn't it being addressed?" - flordebitcoin

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BITGO JUST CHARGED ME 32.7% OF TRX VALUE IN NETWORK FEES.

"WTF! WTF! WTF ! I AM LIVID ABOUT THIS !! . IT IS HIGHWAY ROBBERY !! https://tradeblock.com/bitcoin/tx/a6089 ... 2df8265827 I wanted to transfer $US20.38 stored in a BITGO wallet to a CoPay wallet. SO I PICKED "LOW" PRIORITY !!! for *LOW* network fees ON THE BITGO WEBSITE. Then I get a message on the screen that BITGO had "auto-adjusted" the network fees due to high network load.. I had picked "LOW" because I didn't care if it took 24hours to transfer.... ANYWAY THEY charged me -- 0.01117444 Bitcoin equals 6.67 US Dollar (google currency convert says )..THAT IS 32.7% of TRANSACTION VALUE in NETWORK FEES...." - jalsco

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Complaints from users, Day 51 (23/08/2016):

8 months ago, many people on r/btc (and on r/bitcoin) warned that Core's real goal with RBF was to eventually introduce "Full RBF". Those people got attacked with bogus arguments like "It's only Opt-In RBF, not Full RBF."

"But those people were right, and once again Core is lying and hurting Bitcoin." - ydtm

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Are businesses ok with that? Of course not.

"But this is not a democracy, this is a cheer-ocracy. " - jeanduluoz

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On the first glance it might look good for miners to earn more fees. But it's just short term thinking.

"Bitcoin businesses will find ways to avoid or reduce mining fees to a minimum or Bitcoin usage will drop." - Egon_1

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I'll be sure to never run a Core node again.

"Thanks." - knight222

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Remember that time we invented a revolutionary transaction network, and capped it at 7 transactions per second.

borderless, trustless, fast, no third party, open source, fungible, free, and CAPPED AT 7 transactions per second.

"LIMITED to 7 transactions per second STRANGLED to 7 transactions per second MANIPULATED to 7 transactions per second" - superconfused333

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This constraint has been the most stupid thing about Bitcoin for years, and it's ridiculous that it's still in place.

"Bitcoin had a great chance to be the leading crypto-currency after it pioneered the concept, but unless it can quickly adapt, it's position as leader will be eroded & eventually lost to other crypto-currencies that progress, adapt, and innovate as needed." - DavidMc0

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In full panic mode (new user)

"Bought bitcoins today for the first time off of Paxful and everything went well. Tried to transfer my coins from Paxful to Bitcoin Core Wallet and nothing happened. On Paxful it said the transfer was successful but my wallet is still yet to receive anything. Thanks for any help or advice" - Squintz69

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Complaints from users, Day 52 (24/08/2016):

Blockstream/Core have proved again and again and again they are lying bastards

"which cannot be trusted." - paulh691

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How do people keep believing

"these compulsive liars?" - flamingboard

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I'm very much inclined to agree.

"It really gets their back up when I refuse to bend knee to their egos." - ferretinjapan

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I bet that the price will raise to at least $800

"when we get rid of Blockstream's limit and dev team." - bitdoggy