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      "body": "First off, I’m not that technical of a guy. I just tinkered for several hours until I got this to work. I used this process for 3 bitcoin addresses I have on ledger and it worked each time. If this helps you then help me by using my link to claim your hex, you get an extra 10% bonus I also get a bonus we all win. Ok here goes my process. You will need your ledger of course, a text editor and the old ledger wallet bitcoin chrome extension. The new ledger live app does not have a function to sign transactions. If you don’t have this extension already installed it won’t work. I didn’t find it on the chrome store anymore even when using the ID number. I did however see some shady ledger extensions on the chrome store with misspelled words. Please don’t use any of those unless you like losing money. If you don’t have an old ledger wallet bitcoin chrome extension you may need to download the electrum wallet and follow similar steps. FYI at this point I do not recommend buying any hex with Eth but you should free claim if you can. You never know what the future holds. \n\nStep 1: Open the ledger wallet bitcoin extension app and connect your ledger. (Sometimes I had to exit and re-enter the bitcoin app on my physical ledger a couple of times to get the app to connect). You will be asked to choose bitcoin or bitcoin cash. Choose bitcoin of course then choose segwit.\n\nStep 2: Click on the bitcoin account you want to claim then click on see all operations. Depending on how active your account is you may have several operations listed.\n\nStep 3: Click on an operation to pull up the operation detail. At this point make sure your text editor is open.  You will now see the “From” and “To” sections. Highlight all of the “To” addresses copy and paste them into the text editor. You may only have one address or you may have \nMultiple. DELETE all addresses that do not begin with a 3.\n\nStep 4: If you had multiple “To” addresses under your operation detail, now comes the time consuming part. Click on settings, then tools, then sign message. Click on address under sign message. Now in the search field copy and paste an address from your text editor list into the search field. If it’s an invalid address it should say “No results match”. Delete that address from your list and repeat the process with another address until you find an address that returns a match. (One of my accounts had 87 address. It took 10-15 mins, not to bad, but still annoying. If anyone has a better process please share to help others out.)\n\nStep 4: Shameless shill….. use my link which will take you to hex.win. Then click on the link go.hex.winn. Click the claim tab. Enter the valid bitcoin address from your text editor list into the bitcoin address field then click claim this address. \n\nStep 5: Click the copy icon to copy the message under the “please sign this message with your Bitcoin address” field. Go back to sign message in your ledger wallet bitcoin chrome extension. Make sure you have the valid address you found selected and then paste the message in the message box and click sign. Confirm sign message on your ledger device. \n\nStep 6: Highlight and Copy everything between ----BEGIN SIGNATURE---- and ---END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE---. Then paste this into the signature field on go.hex claim page and submit. Congratulations you’re done. \n\nTip: If for some reason you run into an error message in the ledger wallet bitcoin app. Make sure your nano ledger is unlocked. You many need to exit the app on ledger then re-open it or even close app extension and disconnect ledger and reopen everything. This happened to me and it worked. \n\nReferral Link: https://hex.win/?r=0xE724C36eDECF661eaec729211FE18065C7f39086",
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      "body": "Congratulations @andwhat! You received a personal award!\n\n<table><tr><td>https://steemitimages.com/70x70/http://steemitboard.com/@andwhat/birthday2.png</td><td>Happy Birthday! - You are on the Steem blockchain for 2 years!</td></tr></table>\n\n<sub>_You can view [your badges on your Steem Board](https://steemitboard.com/@andwhat) and compare to others on the [Steem Ranking](https://steemitboard.com/ranking/index.php?name=andwhat)_</sub>\n\n\n###### [Vote for @Steemitboard as a witness](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=steemitboard&approve=1) to get one more award and increased upvotes!",
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      "memo": "Dear @andwhat. I hope you don't mind this little memo. Every week I'm trying to help and promote content published by few selected authors and today I would like to share with you post published by my friend @honarparvar: \"WARNING: This might not be a trend!\". I'm curious if you believe in TA and what's your opinion on using indicators while trading crypto. Share your opinion, I read all valuable comments. Piotr // LINK: https://steemit.com/trading/@honarparvar/warning-this-might-not-be-a-trend"
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      "body": "I think this is a possible approach that could be explored. Blockchain is still early and everything is really still an experiment. I still believe having a voter account that could cryptographically verify a user that then could be linked to multiple accounts or just one account but only having one vote is something that should be explored if not on a main chain then a side chain. One person one vote in my humble opinion is still the strongest governance model we have. I gives people hope that their voice matters. The name of the game now is mass adoption and  as more people  join crypto and eos and the price of eos increases (hopefully) most new comers will not be able to own as many tokens as early adopters, but they still want to have a voice and feel like their vote makes a difference. Crypto has a hard enough barrier to entry adding fancy algorithms on top for a simple task such as voting is just a turn off. Everyone can understand one person/entity one vote, most of us has seen this used all our lives for many different reasons. Also the marketing behind this concept of being the most fair blockchain in crypto is priceless. If block producers are doing good work and keeping the community informed then people will vote for them.",
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      "body": "Where is the incentive for investors to do risky investments, if they have only one voting rights regardless the amount they have staked?\nEOS is not a country. It's a decentralized computing network that owes its existence to the investors.\nBut I agree that the current EOS governance is failing. I wrote also a proposal but no one here seems to read it:\nhttps://steemit.com/eos/@metin/voting-power-decreasing-dpos-voting-approach\nIt seems, that there is no active EOS Forum, where we can discuss issues like this",
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      "body": "So in one of my previous post I wrote I thought $5,000 would have been the bottom for bitcoin and I was wrong it was closer to $3,500 but I started  to dollar cost average (DCA) around 4.5K and it has clearly worked out well. With the halvening less than a year away I will continue to DCA BTC but at this time my allocation will shit to 40% BTC and 60% ALTs.  Now why put more in alts than BTC because everyone seems to be hyper focused on BTC at the moment so I will do the opposite. Institutions if they do show up aren't just interested in BTC they are interested in chains and dapps that will drive value. \n\nMy main focus will be at the protocol level with a few possible dapps. The protocols I think have a good chance of making it in no particular order are Eth, Ada, Eos , Xlm  and to a lesser degree Trx. I started out a fan of Eth and I still am. I think Eth will keep it leads at least for a year as long as it continues to deliver small continuous improvements  but I don't see their grace period lasting much beyond this if other well know chains continue to evolve. \n\nToday strictly on fundamentals I think EOS is the best block-chain. Well let me rephrase that I'm not talking about the EOS mainet token per say but rather the entire EOSIO ecosystem. I think the EOS main net community was a little to hasty in burning the 4% interest and it could be a mistake to stop it all together. I feel a few loud voices drown out healthy contradictory thoughts. Contrary to today's popular crypto beliefs I think bitcoins max supply is a con rather than a pro and a controlled mathematical easy to understand yearly interest rate is a good thing,  but even with that being said I think EOS has one of the better crypto communities. I’m looking forward to BEOS, Worbli, RUON https://ico.ruon.io/?ref=25a1ae3. I think June 1st will involve more sister chains news than mainet but we shall see. I also hope we get some news on identity and being able to switch to a system of one unique identity (even if they have multiple accounts) one vote. If that happens I’m supporting whatever chain that is.",
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      "body": "I think this is a good strategy. A few months ago I really did not like bitcoin compared to other cryptos and like you I favor eth but I've only been in this space a short time. What I've learned is that the crypto market has not matured enough for alt coins/tokens to stand outside of bitcoins influence. Bitcoins fees and transaction times are a problem but I look at the transactions times like the connection speed to the internet back in the 90s when we waited a minute or two for dialup to get on. Now nobody thinks about it today we just pull out our phones or open our laptops and we are connected.  In the same way I think all the coins/tokens will solve this transaction time issue in the next few years. Also this is a programmable asset which means it can evolve. If bitcoin updates it protocol to be able to conduct smart contracts then I think it's game over for many coins. I don't care how much greater the tech might be. Bitcoins adoption rate is far superior and it would take enormous efforts to take its users. The best tech doesn't always win. Apple is a perfect example of this. That's why you can never count bitcoin out because I think of what it can become not what it is now.",
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      "body": "Didn't know this. That's why I love you guys always giving good information.  This will help me craft my strategy. I will definitely be talking to my tax guy also about things I can do..... If anyone is reading this comment go check these guys out they have really useful info on their youtube and steemit channels.",
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      "body": "Nice article and reflection of your experiences. I agree with this part strongly, “I’ve gained in knowledge is much more valuable”. \n\nThe whole experience you’ve described helps insulate you from future disasters. Better to get the pain out of the way quickly and early! \n\nRegarding offsetting gains for tax purposes, you mentioned this, “Even if that means buying back right away.”\n\nAre you familiar with the “Wash sale” rule? \n\nSomething to keep in mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_sale",
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When life gives you lemons make some delicious lemonade. By selling I will lock in my loses which I will use to offset the capital gains I made from selling my traditional stocks at the beginning of the year. Plus deduct up to $3,000 in loses and transfer any additional loses beyond $3,000 to the subsequent years if they’re any there. I then plan to buy back once I feel I have a buy signal. Even if that means buying back right away. I’m not leaving crypto, but strategically I think I have an opportunity, if you can call it that, to save some money in 2019 so I will take it. \n\nI believe in the concept of blockchain technology and its future. 2018 I believe is the year when innovation in this space will explode and the conspiracy theorist in me feels this was a well coordinated attack to drive the price lower for better price entry for certain individuals or entities. \n\nAll in all this has been a great year for me. 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