No issues. Somewhat busy but otherwise fine.

I acquired FreeBitcoins.com in 2015.

I believe it had been sold several times before me, but who knows.

It was originally registered in 2010... that's before Coinbase, Bitstamp and most other websites in the cryptospace.

My site has not been sold since 2018 to MY LLC, a Delaware company.  I'm the president of MY LLC.

I merged one but the later ones looked to still have some ongoing discussion. I will continue to monitor them and merge when there is consensus.

Amazing there is zero support for bcash on this forum.

Don't they know Lauda retired?

Gone are the days when one could get tagged simply for professing allegiance to a shitcoin.

C'mon back guys, bring us the latest talking points cuz we ain't getting em here.

What are you talking about?  These are not normal times.  My house is on fire and you've got an available extinguisher, can I please use it? 
Operation Warp Speed in the USA was a public-private partnership and vaccine producers were sought by the government.  It was funded with USD$10 billion the bulk of which was in the form of purchase contracts based on a lick and a promise of future vaccines!  The EU ,which cobbled together $8 billion to fund covid19 vaccine research (even Madonna contributed to it!), has already said it would not sign contracts for a Russian vaccine - you know damn well they did that for every western pharmaceutical company BEFORE any dossiers were submitted.  India approved the Covaxin for use before the trials had even been completed.  They funded and facilitated the production of these vaccines at every step along the way and you ask me if "the full dossiers of these vaccines have been deposited"?

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 Why isn't the Chinese vaccine approved for use in the US or the EU when the WHO has approved it?  Why haven't we entertained the Russian version of the vaccine which was the first-to-market and apparently very effective?  Why is the Russian vaccine still not approved for use in the EU, the USA or even by the WHO?  Is this not a global crisis?!  Are we actually following science or are we following politics here?  Even though my own government has decided not to go with the first available vaccine, they tell me that "The best vaccine to take is the one in your arm".  They also didn't follow the recommended dosage - they got 6 doses from each vial rather than the recommended 5 doses, then rather than waiting just 3 weeks between doses, they extended it to 16 weeks before the second shot to get more first doses into people until later when more vaccines arrived, they hastened the schedule but oh wait!  The safe and effective AstraZeneca vaccine is causing blood clotting issues and deaths!  They stopped using it altogether and then since the new shipments of the only two possibilities for approved vaccines left didn't match the number of first shots, they said we could get whichever vaccine we wanted for our second dose. 

You wish. The "the PCR tests need to be set to 20 cycles so as not to give false positives if they're anywhere over 30 while the FDA was recommending 40 cycles" people do exist.

The..."yes, the flu still exists" people do exist.

The..."just because you had a positive test for COVID or the flu labeled as COVID a month before you died does not necessarily mean you 'died of COVID', especially when they found that 85% of people who 'died from COVID' had 2 or more comorbidities" people do exist.

But don't let me get in your way...we're just all conspiracy theorists thinking that it's 5G microchips. Go on with your day. Get back to your MSM so you can be frightened by what is likely mostly the flu with some people getting COVID while the "Delta" variant is just reactions to the vaccine that the CDC is not allowing doctors to report (fact).

Get your booster shots every 2 weeks so you can live in society and blame the "pandemic" on "unvaccinated" people who have been vaccinated at least once in their lives but are just not vaccinated to your vaccine standards (be careful, if you miss a jab you may fall into the category of "unvaxxed" and need to walk in the gutters to protect those on the sidewalks from breathing in your air).

correlation is relatively efficient, aeon should prosper at the same time as btc

They are offering their clients access to four products from Greyscale - Bitcoin Trust, Bitcoin Cash Trust, Ethereum Trust, and Ethereum Classic Trust - and one from Osprey - their Bitcoin Trust. All are products which can be thought of as like ETFs. Shares in these trusts can be bought and sold on the open market without the buyer having to think about coins, keys, wallets, seed phrases, etc., with the obvious disadvantages of the fact that you don't actually own any bitcoin, and you must pay the trust's fees. You can buy and hold them in tax advantaged accounts though.

So in the same way you can buy exposure to the price of gold without ever actually buying gold, JPMorgan clients can buy exposure to the price of bitcoin without ever actually buying bitcoin.

@estenity. The original way intended to use strike.me for El Salvador was with tether included. For example if an El Salvadorian mother wanted to send American dollars to her son in El Salvador through strike.me, the process would be strike.me takes her USD convert it to bitcoin, send it to strike.me Lightning node, convert to USDT then send it to the son’s account.



Moreover, Strike will also list popular stablecoins tether (USDT, +0.05%) and USD coin (USDC (+0.04%)), beginning with a pilot program in El Salvador. Stablecoins were one of the crypto industry’s breakout products in 2020. The market cap of dollar-pegged tokens rose some from around $7 billion to over $30 billion by the year’s end, according to Messari.

Mallers chose El Salvador to pilot the stablecoin project because of its large availability of dollars, Bitcoin ATMs and one of the largest remittance markets in the world. The Latin American nation swapped out its native currency, the colon, in the early 2000s for the greenback. At the time, El Salvador was trying to stimulate economic activity by adopting the stronger currency in a case of intentional “dollarization.”

Source https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-lightning-startup-zap-global-fiat-pairs-stablecoins

I am shaking my head. However, it would not be very shocking if El Salvador created something similar to Venezuela’s cryptotoken.

I reckon the removal of tether from Strike’s roadmap for El Salvador for redollarization removed the intruiging part of the project. This would have given El Salvador the ability to print American dollars without control of a Federal Reserve printer and it would have also given tether a real use case.



The El Salvador government has plans to launch a native cryptocurrency consumers will be able to use for services, Latin American digital newspaper El Faro reported Friday night.

Ibrajim and Yusef Bukele, the brothers of the country’s president, Nayib Bukele, told prospective investors the cryptocurrency, which is currently referenced as the Colon dollar, would be introduced by the end of 2021, according to the report, which cited video recordings of the brothers discussing the proposal with these investors.

The president’s brothers reportedly met with representatives from Cardano, WhizGrid and Algorand at different times, according to the newspaper.

Source https://www.coindesk.com/el-salvador-may-issue-its-own-stablecoin-report

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Once in 10 year buying opportunity is about to expire, same case as waves 60 cents in december 2019:

Tracking waves $6.65-$10.8/TN 0.024 october 2020 resistance project very imminently $0.16-$0.25. In this range it is good idea to cash out some or convert to swop to hedge reversal back to $0.025 which only nets -35% loss when LP instead of -80-90% when holding.

This event is reversed H & S failure by waves if $12-$12.6 zone fails. If the H & S forms expect imminently $24.8 then continuation. In this event TN should also begin climbing towards 5 cents and then eventually 25 cents. It is possible if waves -50% to $6.65, TN also -30-40% before real uptrend recommencing.

Anyone with a few thousand $ in TN at this price (when buying today at $0.016-$0.03) will be financially independent over 10 cents regardless so it is worth this level of investment but it is still possible to lose 100% if there is rugpull or other project errors.

The risk/reward is once in a decade opportunity, last time was waves at 60 cents back in december 2019. Anyone who bought there, would also be financially independent at this point.

https://swop.fi/info/3PCdNCULgjM9ZMLEt61M45qxV26ro6o48Jj

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/turtlenetwork/

https://wallet.turtlenetwork.eu/sign-in

https://polarity.exchange/auth

http://statistics.turtlenetwork.eu/txs/

Like I said in 2019 when waves wicked 54 cents, investors who are unable to understand that they should invest here, should not continue being investors and instead take an easier job such as car salesman.

Parabolic target:

Low 25 cents

Intermediate 60 cents to 4 USD

High 34 to 100 USD similar to Raiblocks 2017 parabola which went from $500k early in the year to $4 billion market cap 9 months later.

This is a handpicked x1000 prediction, one of very few with this action potential in marketspace of 10 000 cryptos. But you only need x5 for financial freedom in this case on $0.02 baseline so it will vastly overshoot that target because everyone will want to get in on it and this will cause cascading parabola up to $100.

So what is TurtleNetwork?

- A waves clone with identical Design, Function and services valued at 1/1000th of waves native, predict 1/10 parity soon 60 cents/6 usd waves/TN
- Non inflatable supply max 100m
- Swop Fi listing worth $2m (100k swop required for listing)
- Registered European company as opposed to Waves which is Russian
- Loan Dapp on Polarity where users can borrow USDT in exchange for TN collateral up to 90 days, waves dex doesn't have this function. I used this many times but for now dapp liquidity is low and LTV is not so good becaue TN volatility
- NFT marketplace in development I think
- BPSAA member together with Piratechain (which recently did x100 and then back)
- Financial backing by top leasingpools on waves with 1m+ in pool generating thousands in weekly profit for TN team (this money is not reinvested into TN it is separate company BlackTurtleNode but it means there are deep pockets involved from this pool and BPSAA members who are very wealthy)

My prediction track record:

https://www.marquisemuseum.com/hedge-fund/o0actq7e50hji8awvhkhhim4w7k7xa

Disclaimer: I also invested in 100% failures during 2018 and as such investors must form their own opinion on this project. For high risk investors, risk/reward is off the charts. This is as good as it gets in Crypto when in 2017 completely substanceless projects were trading $100m-$1bn, whereas TN with real substance is trading now at $2m which is the substance value/NAV of Swop FI listing alone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_asset_value

P/S measured valuation is x35 on $4000 weekly income from BlackTurtleNode (77.5 waves) but this income is not part of TN crypto so must be discounted. The fact that it is even possible to apply classical valuation models on a Nano Crypto project is unmatched because 99% of high growth startups especially in Crypto are not profit generating and are 100% speculatively traded. This project actually contains measurable data points to apply sophisticated valuation modeling and this is one reason why it may be part of a very small minority of cryptos with x1000 potential.

For example the P/E traded value of waves is presently x2500 on $500 000 in annually generated platform fees. So buying TN at $0.0167 is like buying waves at 18 cents which is all time low. It means that there is x230 upside from todays value based on waves $42 recent peak. In other words intermediate target $4.

By the same account it can be argued that waves is overvalued but there are more factors to consider such as Binance Futures service and visibility factor to a large and affluent investor community and this is the majority of waves $1.3bn market cap and waves is also alot cheaper compared to some project in top 15 that are not good such as Bitcoin cash. So waves is a solid project and investment but nowhere near TN because waves already made x20 from 60 cent low whereas TN is not yet matured and as such a pristine case for consideration, and you will not find anything near this quality that was not already pumped x100.

Waves would already be $100 if Swop and Eggs were not issued to dilute waves native. However, after W4 completion there is ample case for waves $300 w5 peak it is a question what is the trigger.

Thank you for answer, to be honest I don't know what "Basel 3" is, don't mention improvements of it.

Please elaborate more on this, explain what Basel 3 is and why you think it will impact the gold price?