Why is that a major issue? If they are banning only mining then impact should be minimal. Due to high electricity prices EU is not a popular place for mining (individual miners would probably keep mining illegaly). Therefore, we shouldn't expect a significant hashrate loses.
However, the issue is there are no positive news on the crypto market and in such moment even minor events can cause loses.

Every crypto lending service requires you to provide a collateral in order to get a loan. If you have it then everything for you should work as usual. However, without collateral it would be easier for you just to get a donation rather a non-collateral loan since there is a chance of you being killed.

Btw, how many ways of spending crypto donation do you have when you are inside a shelter?

These news have to be analyzed together with another indicators. It might be that people are gathering their BTC on exchanges in order to dump them. And once the price started to move down another people that hold  their crypto on exchanges may consider selling their coins. Have no idea why someone may consider growing amount of holders on centralized exchanges as a positive sign.



So you wanna say crypto got seasonality?

Frankly speaking I'm not sure if backing a stablecoin with BTC is a good idea. Everything seems good if BTC is at high or at least stable rates. But once the trend changes then reserves may easily fall under coin supply value.

However, the good thing is this is a big amount of BTC that would be frozen. Therefore, we get less BTC on the market and higher BTC price. Hopefully, these reserves would remain untouched (otherwise, it may dump the price even lower).

Some years ago I've been visiting some ukrainian website and it had a huge "donate us via paypal" button, so they definitely had PayPal before. Maybe they had some restrictions on ukrainian accounts but they definetely had this channel for receiving crypto.

However, the biggest problem is to make supply chains work well in order to be able to deliver purchases. Money is not an issue at this case.

Looks like you took the font from Twich and printed your logo. Hopefully, later you provide a better choice.

Since you are planning to sell metaverse closing (but it i not represented in your shop yet) later you can make a promotion where you can handout a free NFT to everyone who purchase anything in your store (i.e. let your customer dress up his avatar in his real life closes). This might be a valuable bonus.

Such exchanges already exist for a long time. I believe that you can find something like that if you go to BestChange and choose a purchase for cash in the company office. Then it will show you the list of such places but this one is a bit freaky since CEO probably wanted to get some hype from their name.

For guys from the house of Nakamoto it was a doubtful move to make a japanese design for their service. There is a high chance that real Satoshi is not asian but just took Japanese nickname.

With 6000$ per month you have a pretty bit choice. You can have a good life in most part of the world. For your purposes you just need to find a friendly place with a decent infrastructure.

For now, following options are coming to my mind:

Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand. These places are pretty cheap and friendly for foreigners. If you come in a group then it is possible to find a fancy villa. But I'm not sure if you may get a cool car there.
Cuba, Georgia, Armenia, Egypt, Turkey, India and Morocco also should be fine, at least they are actively attracting foreigners and they are safe.

P.S. In case anyone is making a group for such journey - please hit me up.

Okay, another example. If you bought a car you can travel large distances. If you bought a computer you can instantly send or receive, make complicated calculations or use various amount of different software. Of course it takes some time to implement changes but with all above mentioned innovations people got something unique. By using internet you can send e-mail to another part of the world or manage a large database. People were unable to do this before the technology is invented but with invention of crypto people got a chance to... keep money or send transactions which was already possible via bank or systems like paypal. It is still unclear for many people if they even need crypto because they are ok with centralized service.



Well, it is not that clear.

Ofc crypto is young but being young helps it to develop much faster. We can already see crypto on traditional exchanges and crypto exchange volumes are at high values. So when can we say that we have passed this early stage?
For some reason many people think that we should have 100% people (at least as a goal) using crypto. Do they need it or we should force them use crypto? It is wrong to think that getting crypto would benefit everyone.

Yes. Almost everything from above examples can't be compared since it is different things. They are different at almost everything.

All provided examples ( internet, electricity etc.) were a breakthrough. By using them, companies and individual users became able to face entirely new challenges while crypto market doesn't  provide anything completely new (people already knew how to invest, save money or send transfers) and it is unclear if most people in the world even need it. Crypto and internet have incomparably different scope and impact.

Current and previous Bitcoin pumps were different and therefore we have different types of correction.
Previously we had lots of ICOs and many of them were scams. Therefore we had more legal uncertainty and more risks. But this time when the hype is around NFT we already got a legal basis for institutional investors and strong media support from established media shilling their NFTs.

The only worthy comparison is to check whether we had a larger bubble in 2018 (we probably did) so it could help us to predict the depth of current bear run.

You can use already given link to check if any funds were moved but it wouldn't tell you if anyone gonna send a large transaction before it happens. And it feels like there is no way to get away from it. If you see that there are a few whales on any market the most likely it is immature market that fluctuates each tome they make a transaction. There is no way to foresee this unless you know these whales in person and they are informing you of their transactions.

Just avoid buying shitcoins and you don't need to worry about whales.

Just imho, but most of this data means pretty much nothing.

Electricity, automobile, internet etc. adoption are different just because these are different things. They were invented in different time, used for different purposes and have a different value for economy (even now crypto worth almost nothing for global economy while things like electricity were a breakthrough).

I also don't like the comparison of stocks, bonds and crypto. It just feels wrong to compare bonds mc (which is almost a pure money) with stock / crypto mc that change every second.

Internet usage history vs crypto users chart is just funny. This is a comparison of absolutely different things that even existed in different time.

Anyone knows how hackers can use this information? Because it seems pretty much useless.
Pictures of KYC documents are pretty much worthless, you can buy a full set of them for about 1$ or you can even order a professionally photoshopped ID picture for a small payment. Maybe they are going to send you a phishing link later after you pass "KYC", but neither private data nor email is enough to get funds out of non-custodial service.

Another question is to find where did they get the email database, but it seems like spammers might just took the first leaked database that relates to crypto

As I know, what concerns the oil and resource research is quite good. At least I've heard they got decent specialists. Also, I agree with your general statement that in globalized world you can't do shit alone (works for any country) but situation with Russia is a bit different. This time there is an external reason for that and since Russia becomes more isolated there is no fear of loosing foreign investors because they already lost them due to other reasons. This rule only applies during the times of free trade.


Venezuela's problems obviously related to their national policy but the kay problem is that the country is run by a drug cartel and they had a specific overall type of management combined with socialistic ideas. Nationalization was one of the most remarkable events but it was not as harmful as their own management.


Also, this topic is kinda overvalued. Many companies did not quit Russia but just froze their operations (just like McDonald's did). It would come to nationalization only in emergency case before getting Russia fully locked, which probably wouldn't happen.

In a current situation these actions look quite reasonable. Nothing unexpectable.
1. This was done in response for overall cancelling culture around Russia when companies are under pressure in order to leave the Russian market. And since everything was done rapidly, it is reasonable to set some limitations for capital movement.
2. Lots of russian companies have frozen assets in EU. This time even a large part if Russia's central bank reserves were arrested by EU.

In that situation the response from Russia is quite reasonable. Probably, many other presidents would do the same in such sutuation.



So you think there is no difference between oil and burgers?

Usually, americans have these plans only for themselves. They were attempting to ban nord stream for years just in order to make their european partners buy more expensive american gas. In the modern world there is almost no way to be truly independent if you don't have resources on your own territory. otherwise, you need to rely on your suppliers.

Currently, EU don't have much choice. They can buy resources from Venezuela (country run by drug cartel) or Iran (country run by terrorists) but the Idea of significant expanding of the green energy is just not realistic.


Whenever someone is asking for money right now in order to make something in 10 years then billions of $ would be wasted for nothing. This happens everywhere and every time.

Well, some points are already explained on previous post but I'd like to add that even if you are lucky with your own roadmap you gonna be very surprised when you find that real estate prices are not rising as fast as TRY inflates and since you can buy and sell real estate in TRY then by buying real estate you will get an asset closely tight to TRY rates. Ofc it is better than burning your money in inflation but it is still a bad example of investing. In your example it would be much better just to buy USD (or stablecoins) and later repay your loan.

Feels like some people stuck somewhere at 2016 when it comes about exchanges.
Binance, just like any other organization have some vulnerabilities that are unknown for the time being. But when you you work on this exchange then you cooperate with a "real-world" Binance that have a "real-world" obligation to return your money or they get problems with a "real-world" law. Also, it appears that security made a leap forward so hackers couldn't empty the entire exchange balance and Binance itself is one of the largest whales that is able to repay possible hacker damage.

Once again, when you work with centralized cervices you need to check if service itself is trustworthy. And in case with Binance it is.

The entire thread looks like a silly scam attempt. Duno why so many people replied here.

I don't know how it works in any particular country, but in many places you won't be able to use this gold. Even if you buy some and say you found it then you could only sell it for the part of the market price.
Physical gold is only useful for investments when you have it as bar with some national stamp on it (but any scratch would decrease its price).

Rough gold is not sold like this.