Very good question. If the banks too will start hoarding Bitcoin, the amounts available for average Joe, for transactions, will become tiny. Bitcoin will remain a store of value, but no longer a coin.
And if Bitcoin price will be less volatile, they may find out that's cheaper to hold/handle Bitcoin than physical gold.

I don't agree. They can go lower easily. (Just they don't need that). It actually depends on how many paying players they have and the competition.

As the number of them increases, indeed, at start there are certain costs for better hardware, hosting, ... but after that's done, they can go with lower house edge.
Just that's not necessary yet. The number of good casinos is so small they don't have to cut their earnings in order to gain extra customers (and for now they also have their promotions and games to keep the things interesting too).

And let's be honest, 1% is not that big either. What's the house edge at Las Vegas?

You are overthinking it. The network (or code) doesn't go by death certificates. If it's mined it's considered in circulation. And this is what OP was asking for.

Basically backups. You just buy a big enough external HDD and from time to time copy there all the data you care about.
The frequency of backups usually depends on how often the important data changes.
Also an USB stick to recover your Windows (including the serial) may help.

Or use Linux.

Woah. I opened the thread to see what does the old & dead Cryptopia exchange tells about .. the future of the internet?
Strange name indeed. But I am looking forward to watch the documentary and, obviously, tell others about it  

Most probably normal users don't need centralized exchanges. But it's not (only) us who feed them and help them become this big.
It's the (day) traders. It's the bot owners. It's those who make thousands or millions of trades every day, buying, selling, buying again and selling again. Those do care if they pay the 0.2% or 0.1% or less. Actually the fee structure also favors them. And they don't have to pay transaction fees or anything (OK, they do pay, but 1-2 deposits/withdrawals don't compete with 1000s of trades), since everything happens inside the centralized exchange.

Patterns over patterns...
I wish OP is right, but I cannot believe him. Yes, TA may support everything he said. But there's still a mix of expectation and uncertainty, and that uncertainty still can be exploited for relatively short time gains.
So the price going further down is still possible imho. Maybe it "cannot" go lower than 7500 or 7000, but that's another story.

Actually with so many big names and money behind it, it could/should have been the stable coin everybody would (have to) use, the stable coin accepted everywhere.

It's something no stable coin managed to do - actually they didn't pose any danger to USDT reign.
Libra would have dethroned USDT easily.

It is about an huge amount of power in the hands of Zuckenberg, so maybe it's for the best that the project may perish.

1. You revived a thread from March, rather old story.

2. If you read between the lines you'll see that OP has successfully traded 10k euro before the exchange "become a scam", so I suspect that OP did something fishy or something Bitstamp may have considered fishy. Such things come up now and then; they may be caused by misunderstandings or people thinking that they can force Bitstamp hand by posting like this. Indeed, if such reports start to pile up, then it's a warning. But imho it's not the case. It's indeed one of the platform with good reputation. I also can certify I did a few hundred euro withdrawal Friday without issues. All I can complain is that recently they've risen the fees...

Missed this post in the week-end, have read the news today and was quite shocked. What a blow! After PayPal now MasterCard, Visa, Mercado Pago, Stripe, eBay, Booking Holdings. are all out; yes the list is growing.
After PayPal I said that things will go on. But this is a very powerful signal and I think that the things indeed start to look bad (although they still have a lot of backers, at least on paper).

Libra future has just became uncertain.

It depends very much on everybody's finances at home, I'd say.
Even if one may have not invested much into Bitcoin and now the investment looks nice in fiat, but maybe it did look better some days ago (or in December 2017!) and then thoughts "maybe I should have sold some" come out.
And I don't even want to think on those that invested money they don't afford (at all) to lose, like the horror stories of those buying Bitcoin on borrowed money.
So even the nice (!) "sit back and relax" advice is not for everybody. And as long as there will be this volatility, some people will always oscillate between stress and happiness.

There's a service based on blockchain that does this. It's based on ziliqa and it's called "unstoppable domains".
And there's OpenAlias. And there are probably more.

And there are view-only addresses in the wallet of your choice, just to have them at hand.
And there are notes inside your phone.
And there is paper you can write or print on.

Of course, addresses without private keys can stay on cloud too, just make sure you don't put there private keys or mnemonic phrases.


... and there's this new thing that looks like an ICO.
LoL!

Hey! I apologized and wanted to stop, so I find it extremely unfair to say it was about my ego.
I stated that people already took over that specific meaning (and I happen to have done the same thing) and it's next to impossible to revert that.
And I stated that it can be easier to use any of the meanings and clear up what meaning it is (so go forward) than try to revert.
So I see it different: both of us lost.

I just happen to disagree with you. I just use the expression in the way many use and, while I understood your point, I tried to show you that there can be another point of view too.
What would be the point of an argument if I would have continued with "yes, sir" on every statement of yours? Is that what you expected? I surely hope not.

Most probably OP doesn't have a wallet for this coin and I couldn't find another exchange that accepts this coin.
And I doubt that there's any. According to the last posts in the coin's ANN thread, after 25 February (!) the project was confirmed as (exit) scam.

Of course OP cannot sell since February.

Sorry, OP, you are left with over 134 millions of coins, with each and every one worth exactly 0. The perfect definition of bag holder.
I don't think it'll do any good to install the wallet and get your coins home for eternity, but it's your coins, do as you think.

OK, but be warned, my following answer will come based on (logic based on) how I understand the things in the language I know better than English, so it can be wrong.
Also, it may get long and it's already way off-topic.


In theory, in the court, they should talk about the facts, not about a way of saying. And if needed, they can ask for clear up and avoid confusion.
Also, in court, it's no uncommon that people hand write confession of something being white (the color is chosen for being something pretty clear), and after some time retract it and maybe write it was red.
Also, the dictionaries are pretty clear about what conspiracy / conspiring means. While you also know that an expression of multiple words, "a saying", can alter pretty badly the initial meaning of those words.
So imho your explanation doesn't stand.


Neither.
Although some online dictionaries may ho a lousy job, the reputable ones are good, no matter what you think.
A dictionary has to reflect all the possible meanings, including the ones you don't agree with. Languages are not as fixed as math.


You continue to insist on one word and link it to legal stuff.

Well, I'll tell about this single word too: some definitions tell that a conspiracy is a secret agreement for carrying out an illegal, immoral or overall negative activity.
As you can see, while it's about something bad, it's not necessarily about something illegal.
But this is irrelevant, since the two word should be taken together for the meaning. This happens in all languages.



I'm not sure I've understood this right.
The term "conspiracy theory" is used a lot of times for stories about "bad things" various "parts" of the "state" do or cover up.
And of course I expect most of them be made up, only to sell certain types of newspapers or make some people famous. (Hence my first post in this topic).


This is the equivalent of asking nicely the avalanche slow down, really.
The language changes, we like it or not.



Those things you (and me in this case) call facts, if taken into court, could not make a case, because we may not be able to prove them.
And since with no proof there's no crime, so indeed we have a conspiracy theory. Life is cruel, what can I say? There's not only black and white, there are also plenty of shades of grey.

They actually can set 25 posts/week as maximum paid. Why not? Then some won't just post for the sake of posting.
Just some campaign owners want more than that. Would one think that the owners of a campaign for another crypto forum (the owners of a competitor forum) would care to keep the post quality here on high levels?!

That's why, as I said, theymos should step in with some rules for the maximum paid.

Edit: by maximum paid I meant max number of posts / a certain period of time.

Yep, this is indeed a very deep problem.
Today people can use mixers, can be careful to not reuse addresses, can be careful to not spend together inputs that can give out too much of their identity - if they care about that. Most probably most users don't do that.
It's not normal to allow anybody look into your pocket. So adding a bit more privacy would be normal.
Just this can indeed attract various criminal activities into using Bitcoin once again, which will probably make the financial services be more wary about Bitcoin.

It's hard to make everybody happy.

So "crazy story" can fit well in the description.



However, I don't want to argue more on this, I can accept that since English is not my mother tongue I do make mistakes.
If it makes you feel better @Carlton Banks, I apologize for creating confusion by not using the expression in its strict meaning. Lesson learned, I'll be more careful with this.

No! What I saidmeant is that some can imply that.

Edit: and my long post was exactly to make you understand what I meant.
More edit: the beauty of a conspiracy theory is into making people believe that something happened (or could have happened), even if nothing did happen.