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1001  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Kremlin vs bitcoiners. on: May 23, 2020, 08:08:29 PM
According to a report by the local news outlet RBC on Thursday (May 21, 2020), the State Duma, Russia’s parliament, received a fresh set of draft bills on the regulation of cryptocurrency and crypto activities. The bills are an amendment to Russia’s criminal code and Code of Administrative Offences.

As contained in the draft bills, individuals and crypto businesses guilty of cryptocurrency violations will be made to pay hefty fines or serve jail terms. Also, the amendments will prohibit initial coin offerings (ICO) in Russia.

I can understand the jail terms and fine being implemented for every illegal actions made by individuals and businesses since it will be part of their amended criminal code but what I don't understand is why ban ICOs in general? News in Russia is certainly unclear since it is always back and forth of the Russian government in one day supporting crypto and in another they are opposing the crypto industry hopefully this news isn't true since if the ICO market lost Russia then it is another top market country not being able to take part of the demand.
1002  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2020-03-31] This Crisis Is Good For Bitcoin, But Beware of Recession on: May 23, 2020, 05:46:27 PM
Crypto was born out of a financial crisis, accompanied with a vision to upgrade the world to the better financial system, so "the more dysfunctional the existing system becomes, the more there's an opportunity to showcase to the world that there is a better way to do it," Swanepoel told Cryptonews.com

So are they assuming that just because Bitcoin was created during the recession it will be invulnerable because of it? I don't think so, Bitcoin's true supple and demands right now has been never tested during the recession if you think about it Bitcoin was essentially valueless during that time and I don't think a lot of people know it or a lot of people will be selling their .01$ BTC during that time. Suppose to say if a recession happens now BTC will be tested for the first time and I don't think it will be safe especially if their investors as well are also affected by unemployment and generally a lost of way to earn money, during this time I know that a lot of people will be liquidating their assets so I don't think Bitcoin will be safe if that happens.
1003  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: May 23, 2020, 04:22:40 PM
According to recent news Inter may accept from PSG a lower price they are talking for 50+10 instead of 75m € for the final sale of ICARDI.

They will accept this if they can convince Cavani, a free agent from 30/06, to going to Inter.

Inter will need 2 strikers probably, Sanchez will probably go back in Manchester, and Lautaro probably will be sold to Barcellona.

Is this true? I mean from what I have seen Icardi's wife admitted that he wants out of PSG and he isn't even in good terms with Thomas Tuchel so I really doubt that PSG wants to keep him, also from earlier newss I have seen there are rumors are saying that he isn't really a good fit in their locker room. With the contradicting news being fed to us by the journos I even doubt that a negotiations are even happening with regards to Icardi right now. This might just be all buzz without even a single truth out of it.
1004  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: CoinMarketCap Changes - Broken the Trust of the Crypto Community? on: May 23, 2020, 02:52:28 PM
I mean who do you think will be the number one and keep up with Binance's global presence? Upbit? Huobi? Kraken? I don't think so Binance as of right now is the only crypto exchange branching out of it's main business and is trying to monopolize everything in the market they are planning to create their own mining pool, they have offices in several countries, they have bought a website for a ton of money.
I really do not like the idea of anyone having a superior power over the market and then they will start manipulating the market and with the purchase of the popular CMC and they already shuffled many things including the exchange rankings and now binance is listed as the number one exchange and glad that we have CoinGecko which represents factual data than CMC.

We don't really have any choice but to accept that Binance is monopolizing the crypto market since they have the money to do so and there are no laws stopping them from acquiring and acquiring other businesses.  Also we cannot just demand them on changing anything in the data/results they are showing in CMC right now, the only thing left to do is not use and visit Binance hoping that the decrease in traffice will make them more honest with their data.

By far Binance is one of the most popular exchanges and I don't think its a suspicious thing to see them in the number one spot.
When you purchase a popular site and magically you appear number one after the purchase you do not consider it as suspicious.

Well I explained my thoughts perfectly on my first post here. I already said that they are not only one of the most popular exchange but they also have a global presence which could easily back the data they are giving.
1005  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Gaming development around crypto on: May 22, 2020, 08:20:27 PM
Reading their website as well as their pdf file for their staking model all I can see is a in-game currency disguised as a cryptocurrency because it is an ERC-20 token. If you read their description on their "REV" token you will see that is a requirement for users to play.

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REV is the currency that powers F1® Delta Time. It is required to play the game, used for entering the Racing Game and put in extra Time Trial laps. REV is also generated by Staking. Staking is where players can use their Car Collectibles to generate REV. The rarer the Collectible, the more REV generated by Staking.

They might just be a pay to play type of game who just wants this "staking" to make it feel like it is free to play.

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About F1®
 Delta Time
F1® Delta Time is a blockchain game licensed by Formula 1®, developed and
published by Animoca Brands. The game consists of a collectible component
based on non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as well as a racing component utilising
those NFTs. The collectible component has already begun releasing with a
number of Car Collectibles being put on auction, and the racing component
will launch later in 2020.

In F1® Delta Time, owners of any Car Collectible NFT can earn REV by Staking that NFT.
When players Stake their Car NFTs, they temporarily transfer the ownership of the
cars to F1® Delta Time. Players are not able to use or race the Car NFT while it is
Staked, but instead receive REV based on the Staking period and other variables.

So the bottomline is if you want to start staking you must buy and buy these REV tokens in order to gain some NFTs to be submitted in through their staking program, how long will you ROI? They didn't answer and I don't think it will be rewarding since this cryptocurrency is dedicated to the game designed to profit from its players.

1006  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: CoinMarketCap Changes - Broken the Trust of the Crypto Community? on: May 22, 2020, 04:28:11 PM
I mean who do you think will be the number one and keep up with Binance's global presence? Upbit? Huobi? Kraken? I don't think so Binance as of right now is the only crypto exchange branching out of it's main business and is trying to monopolize everything in the market they are planning to create their own mining pool, they have offices in several countries, they have bought a website for a ton of money. This shouldn't be really a surprise anymore since they are eager to be present globally and it is evident on how they brought their operations back in the US. By far Binance is one of the most popular exchanges and I don't think its a suspicious thing to see them in the number one spot.
1007  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: about whales entering and leaving exchange on: May 22, 2020, 02:47:49 PM
here is the question,
Lets say i get a message that there is a transaction of 100BTC to the exchange i'm currently using.
I can assume that it can affect the trade in some way ,
can look for changes in this amount of BTC in the order book but is this info can tell me somehow if the intention of the whale is to pull up or down the market ?
How reliable this type of data can be ?
Same scenario can be of leaving the exchange..

No you can't assume that this transaction is in any of the market order, chances are it already have been bought or sold that's why it is reflecting in the whale alert. Assuming that this order is in the market order will just make you be vulnerable to market manipulation through fake buy and sell orders which commonly happens a lot in the crypto market to put in some influence in the orders. Basically analyzing Bitcoin just by using market orders will just make your analysis inaccurate since it is not reliable, what you can do though is to analyze the charts first before looking at the market orders since if you want to see the through volume you must look at its charts rather than the market orders.
1008  Other / Meta / Re: Affiliate program as a signature ? on: May 22, 2020, 01:11:49 PM
Not sure where to post this but if my future service has an affiliate program this is ok to do a signature   campaign with in this forum right?
Yes, you can. There's no restriction of what kind of link you can put on your signature except for scam websites, link with malware.

There is an issue about this way back. I remembered some people part of a signature campaign where there signatures have links containing their own referral links got a negative feedback for promoting the service at the same time using their referral code. I don't know if this thing cleared out already but definitely having a service here with an affiliate program is still good but what is unclear is about members having their signatures altered with their referral links on it.
1009  Other / Meta / Re: Account Ban Appeal / Reason For account Ban on: May 20, 2020, 03:35:29 PM
Thanks for the explanation. I really appreciate.
I hope someone will attend to me soon and the ban will be removed..

Ban Appeals don't work this way, even if you created a thread about appealing the ban you must show how you contributed in the forum in a good way. And judging the two accounts banned under your name you mostly posts and participate in bounties which I really don't think can be considered as a "good way" in contributing in the forum, other than that you also have committed ban evasion which I don't think will help in your case.
1010  Economy / Economics / Re: Oil price: June futures contract nears expiration on: May 20, 2020, 02:42:58 PM
So are we witnessing the ability of the oil market to rebound, or will we go through a completely new crisis, as happened last month[3]? "Brent oil prices fall by more than 24%."

I cannot say that it is some kind of rebound, the spike in oil prices might just be investors trying to be in the market early in preparation of normal activities resuming after months of lockdown. It's the same thing that happened in the stock market where prices starter falling earlier even before any lockdowns or experience of full effect of the pandemic happening. Surely the price increase we are seeing now isn't cause by any kind of growth in terms of the demand for oil.

What are your expectations for oil prices in the second and third quarters of this year? Will we be back to $ 60 levels before the end of this year?

It will depend on how our world will be "normal" during those quarters. If we started seeing airline companies having full operations as well as factories continuing their production 60$ might be reachable this year assuming we are back to normal.
1011  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin network knowledge poll on: May 20, 2020, 01:17:06 PM
Honestly you should be separating a Bitcoin user using it as a payment as well as a Bitcoin user using it as a payment at the same time contributing to BTC's network. In the first place Satoshi created Bitcoin as a P2P solution and I don't think he said anything about Bitcoin users in order to be a true user he/she needs to run their own full node. For one not all Bitcoin users have the capacity both financiall and intellectually to run a full node by themselves, yeah sure it would be easy if we read some guides to remove the "intellectual" part but that will only solve the problem for people who have the financial capacity to run a full node. IMHO using Bitcoin as a consumer and accepting Bitcoin as a producer is enough to show that you fully support Bitcoin as a currency.
1012  Economy / Speculation / Re: Will Bitcoin ever be 20K USD again? on: May 20, 2020, 12:29:01 PM
When Bitcoin got up to 20,000$ nobody even think it was possible and BTC surprised everyone with it's bull run. What I'm trying to say is there is a possibility it will happen but if you are asking when and how we won't have an exact answer for that since we aren't even half way to the ATH. So what can we do if we don't know when it will exactly happen? You have no choice but to always monitor Bitcoin's activity through its price chart and see his price action if it is considerable to make a move to 20,000$ again.
1013  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: BIG SCAMMER on: May 20, 2020, 09:41:36 AM
This guy is really crazy. He open new telegram @winsportsx or J. Sparrow. Again same guy scam. Be carefull. He have over 5 accounts on Telegram. He send table tennis.


Scammer:
@winsportsx


https://imgur.com/WLwXOr7

https://imgur.com/HXObBUR

https://imgur.com/LyXKQoF

So what did you do or how did you know that markbaya and J. Sparrow are the same guy? Maybe they are just offering the same scam as it is typical to see a lot of scammers doing the same scam in Telegram. Not until you have further evidence linking these accounts are being controlled by the same person I doubt you can put another neg trust to YohannHermann, what you can do now is to block this J. Sparrow and winsportsx user in your contact list.
1014  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [Warning] New Bluetooth Vulnerability Exposes Billions of Devices to Hackers on: May 19, 2020, 08:34:16 PM
I personally use BT very rarely, and mostly in a home environment between known devices. I don't remember the last time I used it to send something to someone else, because there are much quicker and easier ways to share photos or videos nowadays. However, I can agree that a smartphone is not a place to store large quantities of crypto, unless it is cold storage.

I was thinking about this as well that I barely turn on my phone's bluetooth but I just realized that my earphones automatically turns on my phone's Bluetooth when it is in close proximity, the downside is even if I am finish using my headphones it won't turn off my phone's Bluetooth so there is really a danger here with these vulnerability. Not until this is solve with my phone's security patches I think I will always now keep an eye on my current connections to see if my Bluetooth is open even if not needed.
1015  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: China's Lower Court has Ruled Bitcoin as a "Digital Asset" in one of their Cases on: May 19, 2020, 07:27:45 PM
~snip
The point I wanted to make is about whether Bitcoin is legal in China or not? I wanted to make it clear that legal means that it is acceptable as "legal tender[1]*" just like all other securities such as the dollar, EUR, and others, and so far Bitcoin is illegal in China.
The court’s decision is to classify Bitcoin as an asset and therefore it is protected by law (since Chinese law protects those assets) and the asset according to the legal definition is anything that has value and is not required to be legal tenders.

There is a big difference between defining digital currencies as Digital Asset and legal tender.

I know that when it comes to Bitcoin being classified as an "asset" like stocks or real estate it will be subject not only to income tax when earned but also capital gains tax when that crypto asset appreciates in value. The argument of the defendants about Bitcoin not being an "asset" is wrong in the first place and what I'm trying to point out is the judge confirming the recognition of BTC as an asset in China which I have highlighted. Also I like to clarify some things like I already know that China has no legal issues with cryptocurrencies aside from big Chinese crypto-related companies dominating their market like Bitmain and Huobi they also have a plan to make their payments digitized and also have one of the big mining pools in the Bitcoin network.
1016  Economy / Reputation / Re: “Join Roger Ver @ Bitcoin.com for non-cencored bitcoin discussions” on: May 19, 2020, 03:32:46 PM
I mean can r/btc be saved at this point? Like what can we do to make it more transparent and overpower the trolls using it as a pro-bcash subreddit page? If they aren't that too many and  they are only downvoted by two or three people in his team I think a dozen or two of us upvoting what we think is right can save BTC's subreddit page. I wasn't aware that there is some kind of censorship going on in r/BTC
1017  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: China's Lower Court has Ruled Bitcoin as a "Digital Asset" in one of their Cases on: May 19, 2020, 02:00:13 PM
I do not think there is anything new and to explain what is happening we must look to define the word "Asset" according to Chinese law:

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An asset is anything with a monetary value attached. Assets may be real or personal property, which may be used for payment of debts. Assets may also include intangibles, such as business good will, trademarks, and rights to market a product

Source ---> http://www.npc.gov.cn/zgrdw/englishnpc/Law/2011-02/15/content_1620615.htm

Therefore, anything that has monetary value must be seen as assets, including Bitcoin.
The real change if the court has dealt with Bitcoin as if it were "securities" that are defined according to the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC).

Thus, the news was not accurate in defining the word "illegal", as according to CSRC, Bitcoin is not considered legal financial papers, but this does not mean that it is completely illegal (It is treated on the basis that it is a "Digital Asset" and therefore the law must protect it..)

Well securities in the first place are assets too so I really don't think they dig deeper into that since the argument of the defendants are about Bitcoin being an asset or not. Securities on the other hand are another type or classification within an asset so if they labeled cryptocurrencies as "Securities in the first place this ruling hasn't change anything with regards to how CSRC defined cryptocurrencies' classification of an asset. However we all know that not all cryptocurrencies acts like securities as we either have utility tokens and security tokens so this might be another topic the Chinese court will be handling if not their departments.
1018  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2020-05-16] JK Rowling Asks About Bitcoin on: May 19, 2020, 12:30:46 PM
I just hop into this thread again and I didn't knew that Rowling is still continuing to joke around with people in Twitter. It might be his way of getting back by not receiving any proper answer during the first time she asked around what Bitcoin is. Right now I'll see here continue doing this kind of tweets as long as she gets attention or some kind of backlash from the Bitcoin community. I didn't know Rowling was this active trolling people in her Twitter account with the followers she have I think she can cause a FUD in the market.
1019  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Do you feel this pressure on physical gambling? on: May 18, 2020, 09:38:17 PM
I only get pressured when the bystander or the crowd are starting to spectate my table I'm playing. Usually this happens a lot in Blackjack and Baccarat tables as they are either waiting for a sit or they are just interested with the recent strict of some players. I'll start to get pressured when they are staring at my bets as well so it makes me uncomfortable. So what I do is if I get two or three bad bets straight I'll just move into another table with no crows watching. Actually this is one of the disadvantages in casinos that lets crows observe games people who don't like crows tend to get uncomfortable including me.
1020  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Looking to build a Crypto Casino on: May 18, 2020, 08:30:56 PM
Look for developers in freelancing websites like UpWork since I don't think Bitcointalk has a job marketplace for developers like that here commonly what jobs we have a related only within the forum and not for external jobs like this. Also a tip for looking a developer online is to find either someone who is trusted or reputable since we are talking about a gambling site here you don't really want your site to be messed around by an untrusted and unreputable person. Aside from the script of the gambling site I would also plan ahead in obtaining a gambling license which crypto gambling sites need in order to operate legally, a license like the one being offered by Curacao can be identified as the standard in the Crypto Gambling industry.
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