Mega membership for just half a bitcoin

[nsane.forums]

Mega storage service just began accepting payment in the digital currency.

Kim Dotcom yesterday announced that the Mega storage service is now accepting payment via bitcoins, an encrypted, peer-to-peer digital currency that isn't backed by any government.

While Mega allows free access to 50GB of storage, there are payment plans allowing anywhere from 500GB to 4TB. The exchange rate for one bitcoin is equal to just under 20 euros. With Mega's membership fees beginning at €9.99 per month, that means bitcoin-paying users can get on board for a little more than half of one bitcoin. Bitcoin purchases can be made through BitVoucher, a reseller of Mega services:



There are also yearly memberships that, in Mega's words, let you "lock in the value of your bitcoin and save 17% over monthly vouchers." These cost about 5.44 bitcoins for a year of 500GB storage, 10.88 bitcoins for 2TB, and 16.32 bitcoins for 4TB. (We say "about" because they have already changed slightly at least once today.)

Bitcoin has begun to get some mainstream acceptance, with one exchange securing approval to operate as a bank under French law. But the Bitcoin currency has had its ups and downs. One major exchange shut down last year, and there have been several incidents of lost or stolen money. The value of bitcoins has fluctuated wildly.

Bitcoin touts its cryptographic method of providing security, though one analysis notes that Bitcoin "is not inherently anonymous."

Mega calls itself "The Privacy Company," a selling point given that Dotcom's previous service, Megaupload, was shut down by the feds a year ago because of alleged copyright infringement. Traditional, government-backed currency still rules the world, but Mega's decision to accept bitcoins may help it draw in some people who place more trust in the digital currency.

In an FAQ on Mega's Bitcoin payments, BitVoucher describes how transactions will be kept private.

"The Bitcoin payment system allows its users to make payments without revealing their identities or other personal information, unlike credit cards, Paypal and similar systems," BitVoucher says. "Both Bitvoucher and our payment processor, zipbit, believe that an excess of customer information is already collected through existing channels, and we like to consider ourselves a haven from the intrusive nature of most payment processors. ... We place a tracking I.D. in your browser (BVID located in the top left of your screen in blue) so we can identify you in the future; do not clear your browser data before completing your order and obtaining your Mega Voucher or you'll be unable to retrieve your Mega Voucher code."

Mega's Bitcoin prices relative to euros are based on "current market conditions," the FAQ states, indicating that euro prices will remain stable while bitcoin prices fluctuate based on changes in the exchange rate. One thing that doesn't seem to have been revealed is how Mega will turn bitcoins into traditional currency, or whether it would even plan to.

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[crackflasher11]

y pay 4 this when there is better sites then this

[pr1xsel]

y pay 4 this when there is better sites then this

Which other better storage site has managed to develop data encryption?

[R3C0N]

it's 2 expensive still and 4 what paying if there are so many free once out there or ways where u can get premium for a few popular files hosting over months or even years. by sensitive material sooner or later all can terminate ur payed account - that's to often happen in the past (4shared, mediafire,...)

[crackflasher11]

it's 2 expensive still and 4 what paying if there are so many free once out there or ways where u can get premium for a few popular files hosting over months or even years. by sensitive material sooner or later all can terminate ur payed account - that's to often happen in the past (4shared, mediafire,...)

Mega is bad for removing payed account coz of copyrights Mega is just shit nowdays

[crackflasher11]

y pay 4 this when there is better sites then this

Which other better storage site has managed to develop data encryption?

develop data encryption? do we need develop data encryption? i think not i wood never pay a wedsite so i can upload files

ill keep useing https://anonfiles.com/ or http://ge.tt/ or https://www.dropbox.com/ or http://minus.com/ or http://host.hackerbox.org/ and lots more free and for data encryption? Mega can keep that shit

[crackflasher11]

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can last for centuries, while other types of decryption can be broken

in minutes or even seconds by people who are skilled at such tasks. In

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In

this process, a perfectly ordinary piece of plaintext which can be read

by anyone is converted so that it can only be read by someone with a

key. One of the simplest forms of data encryption

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be assigned at random to make a piece of text more difficult to

decipher without the key.

An alphabetic substitution is usually fairly easy to break;

in fact, many major newspapers have a simple substitution on their

puzzles page for people to solve. More complex methods of data encryption can be used to make a code more challenging to break. With complex codes, people can try to use brute force to crack the encryption, and they may eventually succeed, but it will take a long time. Many methods of encryption focus on keeping the key secure, and allowing the encrypted data to be freely seen, under the argument that once encrypted, the data is harmless, as long as people cannot obtain the key.

There are a number of reasons to need to encrypt data, most of which rely on shielding data from the eyes of other people. Banks, for example, send encrypted data about their clients back and forth, while governments rely on encryption to get secure messages to overseas embassies. Most email programs offer data encryption

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Some encryption protocols are

standardized so that people can easily communicate with each other,

while in other cases, a key may be developed specifically for use by

particular people, and the key is not standardized to make it harder to

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