I wouldn´t touch any of these channels with a ten-foot pole.

Think of it from this perspective:
Why would anyone, who has this kind of insider information
share it with other people on Telegram? It just makes no sense.
If he (or she) actually had information that would lead to big trading gains
in a short time, they would just use it themselves.

This is similar to services that sell sport betting tips or stock trading
tips. If they would actually have profitable tips, they wouldn´t need to run
a service, because they would be rich in no time.

Can you add a possibility to filter the High Rollers tab permanently
for bets of a certain size?

E.g. I want to be able to specify in my account settings (or somewhere else)
that I only want to see bets that are above 1 BTC.
Besides, it would be great to be able to specify that you only want to
see BTC bets. Right now it isn´t possible to filter the displayed bets
at all and I´m seeing a few Litecoin or ETH bets in the High Rollers tab that
I´m not really interested in.

I´d argue that most people with the know how and the capital
to build ASICs don´t even have Masari on their radar at all.

I just checked the total hashrate of the Masari network, because
I was curious how all these Monero forks are doing.
If the data I found is correct, Masari has a total hashrate of
just 11.33 MH/sec, which is ridiculously low for a PoW coin.

At this level of hashing power, no one is going to store
any kind of wealth in Masari, because it would be trivial for an
attacker to attack the chain.

The hodlers are also the people that stand to lose the most
if Bitcoin never truly succeeds. Of course a holder that is sitting
on hundreds of Bitcoins isn´t really contributing to BTC merchant adoption.
Nevertheless, he has put a lot of money into Bitcoin (only very few people got
in so early that they managed to acquire huge amounts of BTC for a few dollars)
and has therefore given a huge vote of confidence for Bitcoin.

I´d therefore disagree with the pejorative "parasite", because a parasite
isn´t taking on so much risk and is instead piggybacking off the success
of others.

We can´t be sure how Bitcoin will perform during a financial crisis. After all Bitcoin
was founded after the last big financial crisis (remember the message in the Bitcoin
genesis block!).

It is entirely possible that a global financial crisis would actually lead to a decrease in the
Bitcoin price. In times of need people may start by liquidating their more speculative assets
first. I´d argue that most people still view Bitcoin as a speculative asset and therefore it is
likely that many will dump it when they desperately need fiat during a financial crisis (e.g.
after they got laid off). How many people, who just lost their job will be able to have the discipline
to hold onto their Bitcoins?

This is not 100 % correct. If you intend to withdraw more than 2 BTC
(or the altcoin equivalent of 2 BTC) per day, you will have to complete
KYC verification at Binance. Therefore Binance is perfectly fine for smaller amounts,
but unviable for bigger amounts if you want to stay anonymous.

Isn´t this just a temporary problem? After all you will know after a few
tests, which ATMs are giving you a good rate and which ATMs are screwing you with usurious fees.
Afterwards you simply stop using the awful ones and you only withdraw at ATMs
with fair rates.

Another possibility is to pay with the debit card as much as possible in order to
minimize the amount of ATM withdrawals that you need to make in a month.

@qwk
Du könntest im OP den folgenden Satz ändern, da ab der Steuererklärung 2018 eine neue
Abgabefrist für die Steuerklärung (31.07) gilt.


Siehe z.B. Punkt 3.2 dieser Zusammenfassung der Ziele des Steuermodernisierungsgesetzes:
https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/Monatsberichte/2016/08/Inhalte/Kapitel-3-Analysen/3-4-Modernisierung-des-Besteuerungsverfahrens.html

This is never going to happen.

You have to take into account the fact that most ICOs still
have not cashed out their ICO proceeds. In the end none of them
want to keep ETH and they all want to exchange their ICO proceeds
to BTC or to fiat. This is putting a lot of downward pressure on the price
and this prevents a bull run from happening.

If the ETH price would increase by 100 $ tomorrow, it would simply decline
again as further ICOs continue to use the price increase to liquidate
more of their raised ETH.

Maybe they are doing this already. You can´t really know,
who is actually running the popular mixers. It is entirely possible
that they already know way more about cryptocurrency transaction
tracking than they admit.

This reminds me of the TOR exit nodes where it is also widely suspected
that government agencies control a non-negligible percentage of all nodes.

Maybe Bitcoin is viable for something different than being a payment option
for companies like Expedia.

In my opinion Bitcoin´s two main use cases are being a store of value and being
a censorship-resistant payment option. We all know that sites like Wikileaks
got cut off from all mainstream payment options and therefore they had to turn
to alternatives like Bitcoin. No authority can shut down your Bitcoin wallet
and you can use it from anywhere in the world.

If you really want to order from Expedia, you don´t really need Bitcoin and you
can just pay using Paypal or your credit card.

Maybe it is actually a good thing for the US economy if he renegotiates
some of these trade deals. If you start to look at some of the details
regarding the trade deals, you will come to a different opinion
about Trump´s trade war.

E.g. the mainstream media ridiculed Trump for claiming that Canada imposes
ridiculous tariffs on certain goods (e.g. a 270 % tariff on some dairy products).
After looking up the facts on this issue I have to say that Trump was actually correct
and the numbers are exactly as he claimed.

I guess that this statement is true in general. However, you could
still join a mining pool. By doing that you obviously will
only earn a fraction of a BTC, but this still enables people to mine Bitcoin.
Not all people mine BTC for profit, some people simply like the idea
of contributing to the network security. Other people might just
be interested in the technical details of setting up a mining operation
notwithstanding the fact that an operation like this is obviously
unable to compete with the big mining farms.

Can I somehow switch to a brighter theme? The combination
of black and green is really hard on the eyes (at least for me).


This seems risky. People could theoretically abuse this by making a low fee deposit
and double-spending it with a much higher fee if they lose their bet. Of course there is only
a small time interval where that is possible, but still this seems like a risky decision.

They are faced with a serious predicament here. On the one hand
Bittrex is an important market for BTG. But on the other hand the devs
obviously can´t bail out an exchange for BTG-related losses everytime
that a problem occurs.

Just imagine what would have happened when they would have
paid the BTG to Bittrex. As soon as another exchange suffers a BTG loss
the devs would be pressured into another bail out.

I read that Changelly requires KYC sometimes, which is a big
disadvantage for me. I´ll go with Binance now, because the 2 BTC
limit for unverified accounts is still available and that is enough for me.

Buying XMR at an exchange that does KYC kind of defeats the purpose
of using a private cryptocurrency like Monero in the first place.

Then your ChipMixer colleague buwaytress is one of the other 1 %  

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1820529.400


I suspect that more people at least subconsciously think about the house edge than you think.
This is why many players prefer games like Roulette or Baccarat to traditional slot machines, because
these slot machines obviously have a terrible house edge in general (e.g. at brick and mortar
casinos slots sometimes have a house edge of up to 30 % in my country, which is ridiculous).

Better odds could be a reason to use another service than Nitrogen.
Even a small difference in odds can make a huge difference in terms of
winnings in the long run when you place a lot of bets.

I´d recommend going with one of the betting agents / brokers that allow
Bitcoin deposits.

I´m looking to buy some XMR. Does Binance still allow
withdrawals up to 2 BTC (or the equivalent in another crypto)
without requiring KYC? Any other exchange that is recommended
for buying XMR?

According to Coinmarketcap HitBTC is the exchange with the most volume,
but to be honest they seem pretty sketchy and the exchange subforum at Bitcointalk
is full of scam accusations against them.

This may be true in theory, but in practice most miners are part of a mining
pool. Therefore they participate in the block reward every time that someone
from their pool "gets lucky" and manages to claim the block reward.

In the long-run this smoothes out the mining income and enables mining
on a more industrial scale. Of course there is still the possibility of mining
less than your expected share for a long time, but still taking part in a mining
pool reduces the variance inherent to a system that was designed as a
winner takes all system.

I wonder how Bitcoin would have turned out if we had never seen the emergence
of mining pools. The hashrate would probably be lower, because higher variance
would have made long-term planning and therefore industrial mining much more
difficult.