How are they similar or worse though? Which part EU are you talking about here? Some countries in the EU seem to have different issues from one another, like energy, climate, and so on if those media reports can be trusted. But I don't think it is remotely similar to what Russia gets from sanctions etc.

I think fiat in general is susceptible to manipulation regardless of who issues it.

I believe transaction fees are independent of what software you use to make them most of the time. As long as the mempool condition is the same, any decent wallet should give you the same recommendation fees (not to mention you can change it yourself most of the time). So I don't think a cheaper transaction fee is a key feature to select your HW wallet. Maybe things will change if too many HW releases with exclusive software that doesn't allow you to change fees. CMIIW.

I think he meant to say that regulators don't need to introduce any new rules since they can just force DEX or any other platform to implement KYC or whitelisting. If they are popular and the owner is known, for example, I guess some threats could work and potentially force them to do what the government wanted. I believe DEX and self-custody wallet is not the same in this regard, I doubt they can force people to KYC to use Electrum for example. CMIIW.

I'm not sure I understood your question correctly, but I was referring to clearnet IP filtering. Stuff like blocking visits from countries or VPN IPs and so on. I do know one or two mixers that do this on their clearnet website but most people can still use ToR to access their services. So yeah, some mixers do recommend users to use ToR and apply IP filtering on their clearnet website.

I guess that's true. At the very least you can opt not to use any centralized service if you want to avoid them.

I guess we can give that leeway if we're talking with the average joe. But I don't think a government body can be that careless and just assume everything is the same thing. Even if they focus on altcoin instead of the Bitcoin market, I don't think it is that hard to see some differences between gambling and their high-risk trading process.

That being said, I think UK in general is more 'friendly' toward crypto from the news I've seen shared on this board for the last months or so. I believe they see potential in regulating the market/crypto for their own benefit instead of outright banning them or deterring people from trading crypto. CMIIW.

Looks like it has been in development since 2022[1]. I guess the main difference will be the decentralized web applications, although I don't see how much it will differ since there is no demo or something similar. As of now, I don't think it will bring benefits to the Bitcoin ecosystem in general if the technical requirement to use them is somewhat high. Some people don't level feel comfortable with a self-custody wallet, I doubt anything more decentralized and technical will attract them.

[1] https://developer.tbd.website/projects/web5/

That should be expected no? Bitcoin is only on the Bitcoin network, or lightning if you use it. Other chains are not native BTC, you're withdrawing a wrapped token which adds additional risk to your withdrawal. Not to mention it is not universally supported by other exchanges, at least for now. Even if they do support it, you should never use it since you're just exposing yourself to additional risk for a relatively small benefit.

Well, anything really. Using a database from a chain analysis company to filter out addresses so they can block out transactions, IP filter, and so on. I'm responding to the question of how a mixer might defend itself from government scrutiny. I don't think any mixer is going to implement them though, since the cost to run them is likely expensive and it might affect their branding too.

They always do that to criminal cases afaik. I don't think they will freeze people's assets blindly on exchanges, for example. Unless of course, they claim it was related to money laundering or other criminal cases. CMIIW.

So, did they give you any reason as to why you got banned? I guess it should be expected sooner or later but maybe something change. Who knows, maybe you're not the reason they decide to ban multiple accounts but some bot owners make them lose their money with this 'exploit'. At the end of the day, any abuse is likely going to get you banned. Hopefully, you'll find other works that pay you well without having you resort to abuse or cheating.

Looks like it is still live for now, according to this page[1]. Makes me wonder if there is really a demand for colored HW like this since I assume people can just mod their own with stickers and stuff like that. This doesn't solve their last problem afaik, people should not buy them just because they get cheaper.

[1] https://shop.ledger.com/pages/save-30-ledger-nano-colors

Another option is to not use tools like that and stick with community-proven tools like Electrum to generate your wallet/address. I don't think you really need additional tools to randomly create a new address or wallet, to begin with. Sure, it might add extra steps, but if security is your concern I doubt you'd think that's a huge problem.

I believe some people tend to look at one point of view and believe that is true, and then ignore or try to build arguments to prove the other point of view is wrong, hence why the debate that you saw happened. There is generally no right answer since context will always matter. At the end of the day, I guess most of us know that the country/government/community itself is the one who will likely decide whether their population is going to be a problem or not.

Are you talking about countries like Japan? Maybe they can change their work culture, encourage people to get married, accept immigration from other countries as long as they are skillful, and so on. The point is they can always think of a solution based on their condition. You can't just copy and paste what works in one country to another one, especially if they are culturally different.

What exactly are the roles of blockchain here? To make it challenging to modify the data? Maybe you can post more details on how the platform will generally work so potential customers can also learn about it. If I'm not reading it wrong, the card grading service helps people judge the value of a collection and help potential buyers to confirm if the collection is fake or not (plus its quality). Do correct me if I'm wrong. As long as it doesn't involve any new tokens you'd probably see some demand here and there.

You can set up a cold wallet with Electrum on one of your devices that is never connected to the internet, store the seed somewhere safe and you'll be free from any hijack. At the very least, you already know that using a pirated OS is risky so as long as you don't use any pirated software then there should be no problem. Follows the suggestion to verify the file and so on above. I believe you can avoid what happened to OP as long as you have good security practices.

I don't think following some security news is that difficult either, just visit this forum once in a while and see if there is any news related to any exploit. Most of the time people will post new threads if something major has happened.

I guess we can only ask them how they plan to avoid government scrutiny, and if they have a plan to implement a filter or something similar. But then again there is no ideal solution since some customers might get turned off by their rules. There is also a potential for abuse since we can't easily dispute their claims if they decide our funds are "tainted" and unsafe to mix. I guess people should realize that everything is never gonna be safe and plan accordingly or use other tools if they can't find any good mixer for their purpose.

If I remember correctly, some US states already plan to hold some Bitcoin to store their wealth. I do recall seeing some news talking about more or less the same thing, so while it is mostly a marketing ploy, the fact that some government bodies or politicians utter such words means that crypto is a good market for them. Hopefully, this doesn't turn into another situation where they claim one project is a security one after another when the regulation is unclear though.

Mungkin karena di Indo pembayaran pake kripto tidak dianggap legal juga om, jadinya relatif melihat dari segi investasi. Kalau sering make jasa online yang berbasis di luar negeri mungkin beda sudut pandangnya. Walau kemungkinannya kecil, ane masih berharap pemerintah kita melegalkan kripto sebagai alternatif pembayaran. Kalau sarananya mendukung ane rasa tidak sulit bagi pedagang buat langsung mengonversi ke fiat juga, toh ada banyak software yang support semacam itu walau rata" tidak mendukung IDR.

Username agan sebelumnya apa? Kalau ane gak salah paham dengan post agan, kalau profil agan gak ditemukan lagi bisa jadi sudah kena ban. Coba bikin thread di sub Meta dengan melengkapi detail akun agan sebelumnya seperti nama, UID, dst. Kalau agan kena permanent ban agan ga bisa lagi bikin akun baru atau nimbrung di forum ini. Kalau kedepannya ketahuan bakal kena ban lagi.

Mungkin gambarnya bisa diperbesar sedikit om, karena ane lihat sangat kecil dan sulit sekali dibaca kecuali user mau klik kanan dan open in new page.

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Dari beberapa pencarian yang ane lakukan sepertinya ini trik sudah agak lama. Sempat nemu juga kasus malware Mac yang menggunakan trik serupa walau udah cukup berumur. Mungkin ada baiknya diasumsikan eksploit sepertin ini ada di perangkat agan dan selalu cek dua kali nama aplikasi/file sebelum agan buka di perangkat agan. Apalagi kalau sumbernya dari user yang tidak jelas.

Btw apakah SS yang dishare OP dan SS di post berikutnya dari Facebook itu dari sumber yang sama/transaksi yang sama? Apa sudah ditanyakan ke CSnya juga kenapa satu withdrawal kena flag dan yang lain tidak? Dari beberapa komentara yang ada sepertinya minta klarifikasi ke pihak Tokocrypto lebih baik daripada spekulasi tentang alasan dan potensi kehilangan pelanggan mereka. Ane sendiri tidak bisa memverifikasi karena tidak punya akun di exchange tersebut.

Lebih aman diasumsikan volume transaksi saja gan. Toh ane rasa mudah bagi pemerintah atau pihak exchange untuk mengidentifikasi usaha user yang ingin mengakali aturan dan bisa jadi malah mempersulit proses transfer mereka. Tapi agak aneh juga kalau udah KYC level 2 atau yang lebih tinggi tapi masih terbatas dalam transaksi.