That's quite tricky to achieve. Tried searching continuously on Google once--and that's without the aid of any spam bots whatsoever--and every so often, a captcha appears out of nowhere to prove that I am not a robot. If someone effectively bypassed that, then that could explain the latest peak, but no.
It can be very costly(depending on scale), but this can be bypassed by using catpcha recognition services like 2Captcha. Now, it doesn't make sense to fake the search volume of a certain keyword, but if this is really an attempt to manipulate the prices through the indicators of certain bots like DdmrDdmr is speculating, this can be worth the cost. It just completely depends on how much money they could potentially make by pulling off something like this. |
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Using different browsers and using containers could work, but I used to handle more than a dozen emails. And now that I'm mainly using Brave now, for the privacy features and for webdev stuff, these are not options right now. The easiest and the best(in my opinion at least) is still Gmail's and Tutanota's email switcher. It's just far more handy and convenient. |
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Huh. Quite weird that the spike up in search volume is for "btc" search query and NOT "bitcoin". I know that search volume for "bitcoin" is always going to be a lot higher than "btc" hence the "btc" search query is a lot more sensitive in terms of search volume movements hence the huge spike, but I was expecting at least a small blip higher than the average on the "bitcoin" search query. It was pretty much almost flat.  |
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As for the movie itself, it's a bit slow for me... I've watched the first couple of minutes and then became bored and did something else.
Eh I completely understand why a lot of people here get bored of it only in a few mins. I mean, a lot of us here have been reading and researching about bitcoin for years already; and the information on the short documentary are pretty much information that we've mostly known for a while already. |
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It's all down to money. Google and Facebook look slick because they can afford to spend on development after making billions selling data. Privacy respecting companies have cut off their most lucrative income stream, and largely survive on donations or the few users who buy their premium services.
Pretty much, and it's really unfortunate. It won't be impossible for these privacy-respecting service to beat Google, but it will surely be very difficult. I don't agree with this on proton mail.
I am a proton mail user for years, and their service is better than Google mail. Gmail ads are becoming annoying to me, also
I'm also a Protonmail user for a while now. The UI/UX in itself is fine, but the hassle comes in if you control multiple email accounts(not aliases). You'd have to manually log out and login on Protonmail to switch emails, whereas in Google and Tutanota you can easily switch between accounts. This might be a limitation due to Protonmail's better security though; but I'm not sure. |
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You're welcome. Seriously though, try watching the whole thing if you really don't have anything better to do. I don't see anything spammy and MLM-y at all, besides the clickbait title like I said. Though it lacks a bit of Antonopoulos, I honestly became slightly more bullish(as if I wasn't bullish enough). |
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It turned out well but some aspects I think were missed
Well to be fair, the scope of Bitcoin is really really huge. I definitely don't think a short 44 minute documentary could cover all of Bitcoin's aspects. I think this short documentary could be a decent gateway for people who have little to know idea on what Bitcoin does and why it's very important in this day and age. |
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YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARKcHZ45y_kHas anyone watched this documentary? Like a month ago I was bored and was just looking around low budget bitcoin documentaries on YouTube, and stumbled on this one. While the title is so clickbaity and I didn't like the short scenes of Robert Kiyosaki, I find the documentary to actually be good(or is it just that my expectations were low). Especially for a documentary that's just made by a random YouTuber. Any opinions? |
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Should we expect a senate inquiry similar to what happened with Facebook? Google and die hard supporters will try to shrug this off but I hope this really blows up.
While Google already had one senate hearing last year[1], I sure damn hope that they get questioned and pressured a lot more. The privacy issues with Facebook and Google needs a lot more publicity. I just wish that DuckDuckGo and Gmail alternatives like Protonmail and Tutanota would step their game up. Gmail is still miles ahead of the privacy-focused email clients in terms of UI and UX.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nSHiHO6QJI |
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In other news.. water is wet. Bloody good investigation by Johnny Ryan though. Not only did he fire shots at Google, along with it, it's also a great low-key promotion for Brave browser. If anyone's interested more on the accusation, I grabbed a screenshot from the cover of Financial Times. |
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There's very little you can do unfortunately, besides the "ignore" option. Even if there's a "block" option, remember that your harasser can always create a new account after his/her account get's banned, so blocking every single one would just be a waste of your time. Also, take note that your harasser can stalk your posts and threads here on Bitcointalk without creating an account. Simply just report the posts being made by the person, and you should be fine. Why would you want to block someone?)
Maybe read the main topic. |
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So.. if I found the right website, Akon is creating his own coin, Akoin. From their website[1]: "AKOIN IS THE EXCLUSIVE CURRENCY OF THE AKOIN ECOSYSTEM". Great, another unnecessary coin. I'm not saying that Akon is a bad person, but if he really wanted to help, pretty much every use-case indicated on their website can already be done using BTC and ETH. I'm guessing that some people just proposed this idea to Akon and asked for permission to use his name. Pretty much the same with Manny Pacquiao's PAC token.
[1] https://www.akoin.io/ |
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Bitcoin is supposed to work like a payment system but is too slow to compete with the Banking payment system.
If only you knew how slow and expensive the settlement layer of banks is. If regulation comes into existence than the Banks will be able to control and own Bitcoin as they did for Gold.
Banks can only regulate the ownership of bitcoin, but they definitely won't be able to control it. If banks will be able to control bitcoin, they probably would've done it in the past already, and that would automatically make bitcoin a failure. As time goes, it only gets harder and harder for them. |
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Definitely a little bit too much panic from the community. While it's understandable for the daytraders to panic, I'm guessing that a good percentage of people still leave their funds on altcoin exchanges like OKEx. Exchanges should probably pre-announce that they're planning on moving funds next time though, to prevent FUD. |
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I tried Qwant but I quit after 5 minutes. Their results are horrible, searching for something and the second result is Google and thrid is Instagram? Common!!! Also, the duck might be a choice if searching for English results but in my language, it simply sucks, the results are either irrelevant or articles older than the internet.  This is pretty much why I'm still forced to use Google's search engine. Their algorithm is simply just better due to the huge amounts of tracking they're doing. Brave browser's privacy features helps in this case I guess, to prevent cross-site cookies. As with DuckDuckGo, it has the potential. But if I understand correctly, for it to have better and more relevant results, more people need to use it. But then again, not much people use it because the results relevance isn't that good. 🤷 |
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You can try buying bitcoin through Bisq[1]. While trading volume is really bad there, it's one of the best options right now if you want something that's non-custodial and peer-to-peer. If you don't like the prices listed, you can create your own buy offer and wait for a while.
[1] https://bisq.network/ |
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Is this even possible and why should IRAN buying Bitcoin in the country higher than what we have online? Because of the volatility, we may have some arbitrary opportunity or wide in the gap of bitcoin's pricing across the exchange but that doesn't mean it should be up to 100% different. Bitcoin is decentralized and if such opportunity exists the arbitrage traders will take the advantage and make huge money from IRAN by buying from USA exchange and sell at IRAN exchange.
While I don't know where OP got the information that bitcoin in Iran is worth 50%-100% more(not saying it's fake news), trading bitcoin is banned[1] in Iran. Meaning, it's going to be very very difficult for you if you're interested in holding some bitcoin hence why there's probably a huge price premium. Yes, Bitcoin is decentralized, but you're still going to need to buy it from somewhere; and that's mostly going to include fiat on ramps.
[1] https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2019/07/08/2049108/trading-bitcoin-illegal-in-iran-official-warns |
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Now, Firefox 69 also blocks web-based cryptocurrency miners by default,
Nice.Anyway, Firefox has always been a privacy advocate for as much as I remember. It looks like they're catching up towards the Brave browser in terms of privacy. Chrome is pretty much spyware at this point. Firefox is superior by pretty much every metric.
Unfortunately, Chrome has sort of been the "standard" browser to use for a while now as people have been very used to it's UI/UX already, and because it was the sort of "faster" browser back in the day. The typical person simply just doesn't give a crap about privacy unfortunately. |
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Can you be more specific on the "unclear answers" they're giving? Just for us here to know for sure if who's more on the wrong side in this case. support stops answering.
How long have you been waiting for a response currently? If you really legitimately own the money, I don't think you should be worried for now. |
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