If I remember correctly, one of the reasons why Chipmixer was charged as guilty was because there was a chat log from one of the agents asking whether they could help launder their money, and the operator said yes. Basically, investigators use similar reasoning when they charge a mixer of money laundering. That being said, investigators can also use other reasons such as negligence in allowing suspicious transactions to be processed and so on.

Maybe we should focus on improving people's moral compass instead. Regardless of what you do, if people want to abuse something they can definitely do it.

Maybe the popularity of open-source vanity address generators also contributes to that. I don't see why you would rely on somebody else if you can use open-source software verified by the community. I do recall one or two services on the forum, but it was years ago. Even if you don't use the custom address as a cold wallet, most of them probably feel uncomfortable using it.

Sekarang juga mining termasuk mahal untuk individu gan. Diskusi mengenai reward pasca block reward habis juga sudah mulai ada walau konsensus belum tercapai. Mungkin karena waktu juga masih panjang untuk mendiskusikan masalah tersebut. Yang banyak atau sering dijadikan sugesti adalah membuat layer-2 sebagai subsidi atau mergemining untuk mengatasi masalah tersebut. Yang jelas market pasti bakal menyesuaikan. Kalau banyak yang keluar dan tingkat kesulitan menurun dan bikin mining makin murah, bukan tidak mungkin solo mining dst juga bakal muncul lagi. CMIIW.

Sip om. Kalau dipikir" aktivitas ane bisa diatasi dengan CPU kelas R5, cuma kalau mau main game sekalian record kadang terasa framedrop, entah ini karena core yang kurang banyak atau karena ada bottleneck lain.

Intel generasi terbaru apa beda jauh performanya dengan AMD om? Kalau generasi sebelumnya kan Intel menang tipis banget dengan kebutuhan daya yang lebih tinggi (afaik). Terakhir yang ane lihat video reviewnya si HU[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNDxKQP1_FQ

Kalau agan sudah memikirkan UPS ori dan tidak, nyari yang daya tahan lama dst ane rasa udah seharusnya juga agan membeli RIG baru kalau mining adalah tujuan agan. Mau bagaimanapun laptop biasanya jauh lebih ringkih daripada komputer atau RIG yang memang didesain untuk aktivitas mining. Ane rasa mubazir kalau beli UPS mahal" hanya untuk mendukung mining dengan laptop yang harganya 5 jutaan dan lebih mungkin rusak karena overheat daripada listrik yang tidak stabil.

Btw agan masih mining dengan laptop sekarang ini?

Setahu sudah dari dulu ETF Bitcoin diberitakan di berbagai media, jadi mestinya banyak orang tidak asing dengan istilah ini. Ane sendiri ragu berita itu jadi satu-satunya faktor harga Bitcoin naik. Tapi ya kadang market susah dipahami, bisa jadi memang timing untuk long dianggap pas pada waktu berita semacam itu dirilis.

CMIIW, tapi kalau agan ingin punya dan nabung Bitcoin, instrumen ETF biasanya tidak memungkinkan hal tersebut karena yang agan beli bukanlah Bitcoin itu sendiri. Entah kalau ada yang seperti itu, tapi dari paparan ETF yang ane dapatkan sejauh ini ane tidak bisa mendapatkan aset yang ada dalam ETF yang ane beli.

Selama yang menjalankan sistem tersebut masih manusia ane rasa ga bakal ada sistem yang sepenuhnya bebas dari potensi korupsi. Sistem check and balances yang selama ini ada kan juga idealnya berjalan untuk memastikan satu sama lain saling mengawasi, tapi kalau salah satu atau keduanya korup ya tetap tidak berjalan.

Membuat semuanya transparan juga tidak bisa menjamin terbebas dari yang namanya korupsi menurut ane, karena susah juga buat verifikasi secara mandiri karena skalanya terlalu besar. Jadi yang paling ideal ya individu yang ada di posisi penting punya kendali yang bagus atas nafsu mereka, yang berarti edukasi harus bagus juga supaya individu semacam itu terbentuk. CMIIW.

Who wrote it then? Is there no editing process at all? I've tried to search your authors but so far found no other info other than the provided photo profile and very obscure social media accounts. Personally, it gives the feeling that your author is hiding behind a fake profile and just spins articles from other sources. I'd suggest you add some editing processes before any article is published to avoid mistakes like that.

Yeah, I see similar arguments from those who disagree with how Gary runs the SEC. I would not be surprised if this is just another step to introduce their own regulatory framework in the near future. Maybe with the same cost or even cheaper compared to other countries to attract more business. I doubt they want to kill crypto or something similar. Capitalizing on it and earning more money from retail sounds like a better idea to me.

I just downloaded their full report, and their major use case for crypto based on that report is for intraday trading. I guess their optimism is related to their ability to keep making a profit through this activity regardless of the crypto price. I doubt their view on growth is similar to the average user's. While long-term exposure exists as a reason, the number is comparable to market-making and arbitrage activities, which are basically still trading activities. CMIIW.

The report also suggests that most institutional investors expect more regulation and institutional involvement to become the major reason for crypto growth. Not really sure what they mean by involvement other than making everything more centralized.

Some of them are quite conflicting with one user claiming one thing while the other claims another. Some speculation suggests that some accounts are closed because the users live in the states that sues Coinbase, although the proof is thin IMO. There is a long thread that basically claims the user account was closed because he uses VPN. It doesn't help that there is no clarity from the Coinbase side either. I guess you can only wait at this point, and consider moving to other platforms/P2P if they are not being helpful.

I don't think those who trade/shorts Bitcoin for news like this are fans though. Most of them are probably daily traders or VCs who want to make a profit anytime. Those who hold BTC or a fans of it will keep holding their money and ignore the short-term market movement. I'm pretty sure most of them are familiar with how the market works at this point.

This war is related to unregistered and scammy lenders, not necessarily to make online/P2P lending disappear completely afaik. At the very least, the goal is likely to make the infrastructure more mature so they can regulate online lending properly and stop scammers to collect users data illegally. The eradication of lending with very high interest should be one of its goals too. Not sure when it will happen though, since I get more lending offers lately from obscure platforms that I've never heard before.

Where did you get this conclusion from? As far as I'm aware, there are a lot more users who are fine with KYC and stuff like that. If you're talking about most users in this forum, I can see that. But I doubt the average joe values privacy more than flexibility.

That being said, not really sure it will impact any adoption. As far as I can understand it, this is basically a listing on an exchange. If the company has no plan to add more ATMs or something similar, I don't think the listing matter that much. CMIIW.

I can see that. I can't really verify how hard it is to hack iOS and build malware targeting them since I don't know coding that much, but I can understand why scammers would rather spend their time targeting the more popular OS. This is probably why phishing apps/links or something similar becomes a popular choice for them to trick iOS users. Just goes to show that the best protection is your security awareness most of the time.

From what I can understand from the Google Translated version of the original article, "buying" is probably not the right choice for this[1]. The requirement to obtain the license is basically strict so exchanges and other firms need to fill that depending on what they lack. One of them is the RO position. I'm not sure if this is accurate or not, but this RO position is mandatory for the license, and finding a suitable individual is difficult, hence why most businesses entice people with high salaries. They also need to have offices, a certain amount of registered users, and so on. This is where the spending comes from. The Web3 firm mentioned here is basically an exchange. CMIIW.

[1] https://foresightnews.pro/article/detail/36091

I don't think that is the point of OP's post (although I doubt his source). He's asking whether he can sell or buy those coins without getting into trouble, which I assume is related to an exchange or something he uses. If you don't use them and will never use any service that will need to follow regulations closely (KYC stuff like that) then I'm sure there will be no trouble. The blockchain only sees transactions.

I mean, that basically applies to anything. People don't expect to earn money without doing anything, you can't run a business if you have no tools and capital to do it, and so on. Hoping to earn block rewards but not spending the capital to do so is quite unrealistic. Unless you want to mine not for profit but to do something else.

The hash rate renting service you see is basically trying to make additional profits from the mining they already did from your pocket. If your capital is limited, why not just buy coins directly and do DCA instead? You can at least own and store your coins on your own if you do that. Renting those hash rates doesn't guarantee profit anyway and you can still lose your money. CMIIW.

As far as I can see, the recent one seems to be unrelated to the case you mentioned. Regardless of how Crypto and Gate are connected, only Gate seems to be in the spotlight for the multichain issue. If they do have some connections and both of them are helping each other to ease the rumors of Gate going bankrupt, we will definitely see some large transactions here and there. I guess we can see whether it will happen or not. Should not take that long for people to notice if one of them receives/send a huge amount of coins even if they use a new address to do it. CMIIW.

What third-party attacks are you referring to? Malware apps on the play store or something else? People should never download without doing any verification, to be honest. Regardless of what platform you use, downloading a suspicious app even from a real play store would give you unnecessary risk, especially for securing your crypto.

I've read some news related to suspicious apps being listed on App Store, like the recent ChatGPT AI. That being said, Play Store definitely has more malware apps as of now. CMIIW.