Brazil take an early leas against Korea republic, with a nice finish from Vinicious Junior and great play from Raphinha leading up to goal.
The wave of the match favours Brazil already, they've been by far the better side and would grow in confidence after getting a goal before the 10 minute mark.

Korea has it all to do now, as they were already at a disadvantage even before the first whistle.

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Edit; Goes from bad to worse for Korea as Brazil wins a penalty,

Edit 2; Neymar takes Brazil 2 nil up.

We're they recommended by the person you were trading with?
A quick search shows they've been running a scam project for many years now, and the person who suggested using that website most likely is culpable as well.

It depends on what you sent; if it's crypto currency, independently recovering the funds isn't possible, but if the owners are discovered by law enforcement agencies, then there might be a slight possibility.


This is not reported to be a case of phishing, but you can report the website here - https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en
There's no guarantee it would be brought down, but it's worth the few seconds.

They have some other options;

• They can try to replicate the network by creating CBDCs which function on the blockchain, but this would not be a popular alternative,
• They can regulate its usage within the country and place heavy taxations on Bitcoin related transactions,
• They can outrightly ban the network and make it illegal to use,
• They can try to benefit of the surge of the network and become more Bitcoin friendly to attract developers and investors alike.

They could do any of this while buying Bitcoin, and neither of it really matters as it's not in our control how the government reacts. What's in your control is how you store your bitcoins that no government would be able to control.

You can use a peer to peer exchange like bisq to maintain your anonymity. I know Ethereum is accepted on bisq, but not certain on the other altcoins.

Using a bridge between to obfuscate the trail of transaction can also help, this involves using a coin mixing service like chipmixer before sending to the decentralized exchange. This way, anyone monitoring the transaction would not know the source of the bitcoins which were inputs in it and cannot link it to an identity.

Bitcoin vision is to be a peer to peer network which would remove the need for an intermediary between transactions and give its holders the freedom to handle their finances while remaining pseudo anonymous.

Any other vision can be said to be ones personal expectation of the network and how adoption would improve with time.

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A lot is still yet to be seen about the future of Bitcoin; with the current rate of growth it looks very optimistic, and I would expect more use ases for Bitcoin being discovered and improvements being made to make it more suitable for daily purchases.

Discretion should be highly considered when storing your back ups and you can play around with it a bit to ensure that if anyone does find it, they would but be able to access your funds with only that information.
An extended seedphrase is one option, and works better than omitting one of the words when writing it down.
You can also have a multi-sig wallet and store them in different locations, so finding one of then would not grant access to the funds.

There is a small risk of that obviously, but with the way exchanges are designed, they indicate the number of trades a P2P seller has made in the past before you decide to trade with him or her, this means they would have exchanged money with a lot of people.
What are the odds that they would all be tracked down?

Alright, I was not aware of the entire scope of the regulations.

In Nigeria for example, the ban on bitcoin only covers bank transactions directly funding an exchange wallet or buying from it, but does not make P2P transactions illegal.

Yes, your hesitation is appropriate.
Best Buy allows third party purchases and anyone can try to sell an item of theirs through the platform, this makes it possible for someone to sell a flawed device or one with a set of preset keys which can allow them possibly steal funds which are sent to it, if the user does not wipe the device first.

Ledger should infact be questioned. In crypto, you do not trust you verify.
• Question how their products are closed source and it is impossible for buyers to verify the code which it runs on, leaving risks for hacks,
• Also question the durability of their products.

I personally don't use ledger and refrain from suggesting a hardware wallet to use, as it's a delicate business.
Do your own research based on what you prioritize in a hardware wallet and make your decision.

With a Bitcoin holding worth $1k, buying a hardware wallet is a shrewd decision, considering how much they are worth relative to it. If you go as high as $5k, then it becomes a necessity.

I erroneously voted 'No', while I wanted to vote for 'Yes'.
I personally think we have hit the bottom for this cycle, but do not really have some technical analysis to back that up. It's of course an unpredictable market and can still go much lower than this, or have a dead cat bounce and then dip again.

What was the purpose of the 2 transfers you made to him and through what means did you do that?

Yes, you've been scammed already and the scammers are trying to see how much they can squeeze out of you before greed wears off and reality begins to set in.
First rule of being scammed;
"If you're asking whether or not something is a scan; 99.99% of the time, it is"

You don't necessarily have to think like anyone, all you have to do is actually "think" before investing. Understand how Bitcoin works and why you plan to invest, plan how to hold your coins safely (cause when investing, privacy and autonomy should be a priority) and without the need for a third party, then you either use Bitcoins as a currency or safe it up as an asset.

Whales do not act in accordance or have a singular way of thinking, so trying to copy such a template is not really practical.

Whales cannot collapse the whole Bitcoin ecosystem in one night or in a hundred, they can only try to do so and most likely lose their holdings in the process and the market would recover after a while.

Just as with a centralized exchange, money kept at the bank, is owned by the bank, they just allow you use it, when you make a request. And, over the previous weeks, many U.K. banks have resolved not to let their citizens use it in what they consider a high risk market.
Starling bank, Santander bank and most recently, U.K. high Street banks have implemented some sort of restrictions on crypto related transactions. See more

If there are, there is a big chance they would be joining the list soon. Have you considered trading P2P?
Here you don't need to directly fund an exchange account, which the bank has to approve of. You only make a random transaction to an individual, who sends you the crypto you want to your wallet.

If there is something I did not miss about a rising market, it has to be the threads which are opened anytime there is a movement on the charts.

The Wall Observer thread is one place you can discuss intermittent price movements in the Bitcoin market.

No.
P2P is a feature on most exchanges which allows people to trade directly with another party, without having to put up a sell it buy order and wait for it be taken or buy at the market value, where the exchange would match them up with a seller or buyer.

Decentralized and Centralized platforms alike can have a P2P system, the difference is that in a DEX, they do not hold your funds and you would be trading directly from your personal wallet to the buyers address. This is not the case in a CEX where you need to find an address which is owned by the exchange and then trade directly from their with another peer.

This post is not particular to Bitcoin and should be moved to the altcoin discussion section.
It has always been the Bitcoin experience. With devs experimenting the blockchain model in-between to create some fairly useful or outrightly shitty new projects. But through it all, Bitcoin has been the one constant in the crypto space.

Hopefully a craze to use P2P platforms and get their bitcoins off exchanges. And, we get to see Lightening Network become more popular and adopted.

Satoshi needed to be covert with his activities as privacy was very high in his priority. Introducing people from your country to the new technology and to such a large extent that it becomes the most populate local board in the forum created for that technology would surely not help you to stay anonymous or private.

Possible reasons;
• They have a strong interest in Bitcoin,
• They have a connected local community which encourages users to identify as Russians,
• They had an early interest in Bitcoin technology, etcetera.

The major reason why DEX is not favoured by many is cause most have low liquidity when compared with bugger centralized exchanges, and this is a result of most users opting to use such centralized exchanges, boosting the userbase and its liquidity.

Having more people shift to decentralized platforms would make then more profitable to operate and run and also make them more attractive to other traders.

You should consider signing a signature to a Bitcoin address which you've posted on the forum, and stake that address here.
This would help you should you lose access to your account a any time in the future.

As mentioned above, it could be that you have some boards on ignore or have played around with some features which made the other boards not visible.

Most of yh active forum users (barring the spammers and bounty hunters), would have a decent understanding of Bitcoin and how it works to not need a regular off forum meeting to improve on their knowledge. And the few who do are welcome to interact here and learn more from the more experienced users; the entire purpose of the forum.

Your idea is surely a good one and would be greatly helpful to your friends who need Al the expert guidance they can get as they get their feet wet in Bitcoin, but you might not get a substantial amount of users here willing to join in.

Good luck anyways.

While anything is possible in the Bitcoin market, one can also draw assumptions from previous patterns and use that to try and predict what could happen in the future. While the ATH has been progressively increasing with each market cycle, from below $1k to as high as $20k and most recently almost at $70k, that's the same way the bottoms we've been experiencing has also been progressively increasing as well, from below $1k to $3k an now above $10k. I would be greatly surprised if the bottom goes below the 10 grand mark.

The more these scenarios occur, the more the market adjusts to it and becomes more resistant.