Although @OmegaStarScream already advised it, I also advise Binance. Afaik their max withdrawal / day without KYC is 2BTC (please re-check their rules to be sure).
That would mean you'll need an entire month to exchange it all (and I advise you don't deposit all at once either), but I don't see a safer way.

Yep, that's what I thought. If that claim is genuine, that OP has to be helped in this direction (flag).


I know; that's why we have to make sure we use the tools provided.

SF and LA are extremely expensive, I'm sure you can find better examples.
I know that a couple of years ago half of a house (half-duplex) and some 100 mp courtyard was under 120k EURO in Romania. So there are options where one doesn't have to inherit a fortune for a house.
And of course, one should not compare Romania with US of A, but I am sure you can find less expensive areas there too, where you still can live good.

I guess it worth adding it here, at least for the record.
I've just read a scam accusation against gp: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5183189 (and a copy http://archive.is/H1Q4h )

Actually there's (at least) something called Mastercard Young, where the parents can make cards for the kids (6-14 years!).
You are right, it's not a credit card, it's a debit card, but somehow I expect most kids don't really understand nor care about the difference.

However, OP, if you are 14 years old, best is to ask your parents nicely to buy for you. And that's especially because Bitcoin is, after all, a highly volatile asset and a risky investment, so you may have to rely on their judgement.

At the end of 2013 I've read about something called Bitcoin, that worth money and you can generate such coins (hence money) with your computer. Back then I was using the CPU anyway for world community grid, so I thought "let's at least earn a little off this".
After about one month of useless GPU mining (I was way too late) I noticed that even if I mine an entire year, I will be way under the minimum amount to withdraw from pool lol!
I turned then to altcoins: shortly Litecoin and for quite some months Dogecoin - I caught some of the good days and most of the drama.
There were a good number of years I kept looking for altcoins, even after "meeting" bitcointalk, but at the end I turned to Bitcoin. I think that I wasted about 2 years (after reading about Bitcoin!) before becoming a Bitcoiner... quite a shame...

75 - NeuroticFish

Thank you!

Address reuse is still big and may not help in these statistics.
Always the number of trades is bigger in the FOMO period; clearly since then the things have cooled down greatly.
Binance was new and the speculators and arbitrage traders were still going there, setting up, using new addresses; now they're set and may not need new things.

OK, it's clearly a decrease. But I am sure that the numbers are not as accurate as they want us to believe; and to be fair, we have to compare the numbers FOMO against FOMO, cool down vs cool down. And clearly not jump to conclusions like there would be a decrease in interest.

I agree with this and I actually started my post stating that he's a cryptocurrency supporter and a public figure. I don't deny the benefits of thins in increasing awareness, although he's controversial (and some may link crypto with his drug days). I don't know. But I don't deny that's good to have him (too) on our side.

But this shilling business is a bit too big and too obvious imho. And I don't like it, I have the right for such an opinion.

From what I know, with pruning you do save disk space, but you'll still have to download everything (everything you didn't download).
And there are also other things to know, for example if for some reason you need a rescan, that will need downloading data again.
I've also found an interesting reading on pruning here: https://coinguides.org/bitcoin-blockchain-pruning/

He's a cryptocurrency supporter and a public figure.
But his shilling for money is disgusting, really. It was fun at some point, but not anymore, not really.
I don't know what he has said or done, but I think that both parts of the "deal" are exaggerating, probably knowing that this means more awareness, after all.
And the coinpedia "news" is so newbish I don't know if it wasn't actually written by the team of that Zombie ICO/IEO/whathever.

Since 1000% means 10x, I'll say Monero.
It's some 77$ now, it had its ATH at over 400$, it's still developed and maintained, it's emission curve is near to the "tail"... it can provide nice surprises... or not.
Of course, please don't take it as investment advice, do your own research and decide for yourself where you spend your money.

Edit: just those 7 days you talk about may happen in 2020 or 2021 though...

Only by stopping at some point doesn't make "your own version" so different, so don't be surprised that people don't agree with this.
On the other side, if you make the fun last longer, why not? You can get one day and maybe win a bigger % of the bets. No breakthrough, no expectations for super wins and, for some it may be boring.

My strategy is rather random. Basically I don't necessarily double up after a lose, instead, keeping it the same a few more bets and if I get 3-4 loses in a row then increase the betting amount 10-20 times. Sometimes it works out, sometimes not. It's clearly probably still something like Martingale because I somehow rely on the "statistics" that increase the odds of winning after a number of loses, although that's not necessarily right. On the other hand, it's more fun than yours

Although it's a good image of the ICO "season", I'll be the devil's advocate and tell that the results you are posting are not fair.
Some 16 of the last 20 months were from bad to worse for Bitcoin and even worse for altcoins and tokens. Of course that everything crumbled to dust although normally, since you didn't invest 100% blindly, the outcome should have been much better.
The biggest problem was the moment of the investment - not a good one by far - not (only) the underperforming ICOs.

I'm not convinced how will you get a list of accounts.
And also I don't know how will you check if there are no abusive new multiple accounts.

And what's the incentive for mining it?!

There's a list of banking services here: Free EU bank accounts that you can be opened directly online
I don't know if it's exactly what you need, most probably not all of them are Bitcoin friendly. But it can be a start.

All Bitcoin can do is is to force the banking system get out from the comfort zone and provide better services at lower fees.
Bitcoin will not kill the banking system. The banking system is not afraid, they are working against Bitcoin because:
* Bitcoin system can get a slice of their share/revenues in certain operations like money transfer.
* the way the businesses can operate with Bitcoin is not properly regulated (usually not regulated at all) and the Banking system will always go on the safe side (for them) in certain subjects, most known being AML.

Avast is one I didn't use. The ones I used in the past are: Kaspersky is OK, Avira tends to give a bit more false positives, but it's not bad and it's one of the oldest, Bitdefender is also pretty good.
I didn't do this procedure for quite long, maybe a year, maybe I should do a check myself these days

No. I don't make viruses or antiviruses.
But I can tell from experience that boot-time scanning can find surprises the usual antivirus may have missed or you've put them as exception and you shouldn't have done that; it may help especially if you use different company than the installed one.
(Of course, they can be a pain in the a** if you have too many valid exceptions).

On the other hand, I've seen unmoderated threads that get full of garbage from trolls.
The truth is in the middle, somewhere. Maybe OP should have to ask permission from moderators to make his thread self-moderated and the permission can also be lost under some conditions. But I don't know if the forum software allows this and it would mean extra work for the mods.