I'm 50-50 on who I'm siding with on this debate. Personally, while I'm a bitcoiner, I also like gold; due to the simple reason that it's one of the most stable and liquid assets we currently have. Whereas, Silbert was pretty much anti-gold on the debate. I liked Erik Voorhees' arguments a lot more on his debates with Schiff as he has a more sort of "balanced" approach on his arguments, as he also likes gold.

Seriously though, why can't we have Andreas Antonopoulos to debate Peter Schiff? Schiff would get massacred.

That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Going with your logic, you can pretty much say that if you have a job that pays you with bitcoin, it's free money, because you don't buy the bitcoin, right?

Also, you're pretty much trading your personal information when you're claiming airdrops.

To be fair, Roger Ver and other big blockers are complaining about the "high transaction fees" in the form of coffee-value transactions though, for the typical person trying to go on his day; not multi-million dollar transactions. Still great to be able to transfer huge amounts of money with just a fee of a few dollars though.

So you pretty much agreed that earning crypto isn't free lol.

You can probably say that it's "free", but the thing with PoS is, you need money to make money. There are some security concerns with it too. You have funds on a device that's pretty much online 24/7.

That's because they're probably focused on actually building software, rather than unnecessarily hyping things up like most projects do.

Anyway, you can follow Lightning Labs[1] and other lightning wallets on Twitter if you want to be updated.

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[1] https://twitter.com/lightning

If you think joining airdrops or bounties are "free", they're not. You pay the former with your personal information, and you pay the latter with your time.

Tell that to the people who bought in on the earlier years of bitcoin; or anyone who bought a lot lower than the current price.

Because proper diversification isn't throwing money to shitcoins. Proper diversification is putting money on other non-crypto assets and businesses instead. Putting money on other cryptocurrencies with higher chances of failure is actually making your portfolio worse.

Think about how unrealistic this is. What are the chances that you actually call the exact top and the exact bottom of $9,000 and $8,300? It might just be easy for you to see the top and bottom simply because it already has happened.

Ah. Margin trading. There's a reason why even some trading experts suggest against using margin trading. While it can earn you money, it can also mess you up. It might be able to work out for you, IF you actually try to learn and not just full on gamble with your money, and IF you know how to control your risk. Those are 2 huge IFs.

I'm not trying to move you away from trying, but you might want to read this recent Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/bv1kj7/i_lost_everything/

Good point. Though I'm not sure, do you think that there's a good chance that bankers would hugely accumulate a hugely speculative and very experimental asset, that's not even guaranteed to succeed in the long term? Personally, I don't think so, but there sure is a small chance; especially now that bitcoin is continuing to gain reputation.

I first thought you might have a chance due to your account being very old and it having a decent rank, but after checking your post history? I don't think you have a chance. The admins gives chances to users who have actually decently contributed to Bitcointalk, which I think you don't.

And to add to that, this:



Such a waste of an account.

The thing though is, I think the ICO functionality of ETH is actually decent. It's just that people are taking advantage of the hype and make scammy ICOs solely to make money. Because of that, are we really going to blame the Ethereum platform for that? It's mostly the people, the gullible "investors"  faults that these scammy ICOs earned money in the first place.

I mean, being online for a few more days is definitely a lot better than only an additional few hours, so.. I'd take the few more days. Also, I don't think it's just that people are "giving him a pass". Not saying that his intentions aren't to run away with the money, but there's also just that good probability that the dude is just trying to bail asap to not be potentially prosecuted or something. But then again, I have no idea. We can really only speculate for now.

I know these dudes are definitely rich, that saying "rich" even undermines how much wealth they actually have, but I don't think they can even buy 25% of the total supply. Even if they buy it all through OTC through multiple entities, it's going to pump up the price too high I think. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Not saying that this is impossible, but you're just giving people false hopes. Prices rises like this are definitely NOT guaranteed whatsoever.

"past performance doesn't indicate future returns."

But they could just open it back up for a few days and only allow withdrawals, right? Opening up just for a few hours would definitely mess some people up. I don't know though, the owner is probably rightfully paranoid.

It's actually indeed a lot. May not be that much when comparing it to the total supply of bitcoin(though 2.5% is still big), we're talking about the markets here. Exchanges. Not 100% of existing bitcoins are being traded, so there won't be enough liquidity for a 450k BTC dump to not crash the markets.

I'm not sure if I'm going to bite to this rumor. The rumor is that people on the BSV side is spreading false information to the Chinese, but Upbit was leading the pump days ago with the BSV/KRW trading pair; which is a Korean exchange. I'm not sure though.

If a certain whale is planning on selling his/her BTC stack, it would be very foolish to dump it all in one go, especially on one single exchange. There simply wouldn't be enough liquidity, and just after dumping on a decent number of buy offers, suddenly the bitcoins are being sold at half the price. The whale can simply sell slowly, in certain increments, to affect the market as less as possible.

While both can be used for fundraising, they still have significant differences. Fundraising on Ethereum is more decentralized, while fundraising on the Binance platform is no doubt purely centralized. I'm pretty sure some people still prefer the former than the latter.

Along with that, take note that ICOs isn't the only thing that Ethereum is trying to do.