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1521  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Max Keiser interview prediction of bitcoin change after US election and more on: October 26, 2020, 07:48:45 PM
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Bitcoin price will 'bolt higher' if Biden wins, rise slower with Trump — Max Keiser

If he's right we can expect another big bull market because it really doesn't look like Trump is going to win this time.

Even if people believe in Biden he's not going to do anything for Bitcoin. The world and the price of Bitcoin doesn't depend on elections when both candidates don't seem to care about BTC at all.
1522  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Does Signature campaign increase ICO credibility? I see few good ICOs recently on: October 26, 2020, 07:30:48 PM
It does increase visibility. The name and logo becomes more recognizable and you're increasing traffic on the project's site, getting more people to join telegram, getting more people to download wallets and click referral links.

It does not increase credibility. If you want credibility you need to have a known dev team or pay someone to promote you. John McAfee used to sell his own name to add credibility to projects, but this made him lose his own credibility Wink
1523  Economy / Economics / Re: The Real Situation :( on: October 26, 2020, 07:21:12 PM
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18.The world is changing and not in a good way ... i was born in '86 , i seen the 90's,the 00's ,and i remember how it was back then ...sure we got nicer toys this days ,but millennial's will never understand the thing we lost.
You were born in 1986, so you are Millennial too.

2020 isn't the best year, but don't dramatize.

There's nothing that bad really going on right now.

Like in the previous years there were deaths from flu and pneumonia, now all of these are signed under covid19.

People were dying every year but once there's a worldwide fear and all news talk about the rising count of coronavirus deaths you start seeing the world in dark colors.

It's all fine, life goes on and the situation will go back to normal. It's not some ebola outbreak that we're dealing with.

1524  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: New to signature campaigns, questions. on: October 25, 2020, 10:56:49 PM
Enjoy the privilege for being enrolled in a campaign, but you can consider that as a job since there is no job security, campaign could stop anytime and it will left you hanging while you are still looking for some campaign where you can work again. I hope being active in the forum will not only be dictated by the reward of posting, that would not give a quality result as a poster.

So you're saying that jobs that don't offer security cannot be called jobs? Cheesy

At least on the forum you know you're going to get paid for the month/week unlike contractors who sometimes do a big job for 10 hours a day and get scammed by their clients. I know a bunch of construction workers who trashed a client's apartment when he refused to pay for a job that was done well. Scammers are everywhere.

I don't even remember how long I've been in a single signature campaign but it's more than 2 years for sure, all in the same campagn.
With the rates they have they probably paid me more than 1 BTC since I was admitted to the campaign, which I'm really happy with because I was planning to stick on bitcointalk anyway.

Signature campaigns are great, just don't get too eager to post or you'll end up spamming and getting kicked out. Quality over quantity. Good luck OP!
1525  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Could Tether (USDT) be really called decentralized cryptocurrency? on: October 25, 2020, 10:46:30 PM
No cryptocurrency that can be created at will is decentralized.

If you or anybody else could "make" a bitcoin and increase total supply to 21 million and 1 it wouldn't be a decentralized cryptocurrency anymore.

Tether can be made at any moment. They need a million - poof and there it is. What kind of decentralization is that? Cheesy

This is the reason why I really don't believe what they are trying to claim that they have all the assets according to their supply. When they admitted at one point that they didn't have the full backing of USD, where they are pegged at, I start to doubt the authenticity of their claims.

They don't have full backing and this was proven some time ago. I remember saying them admit it that in reality they have maybe 80% of the funds in circulation backed. So they are really not 100% backed and they hold cash equivalents so it's not all usd. They are lying about being 100% backed on their site to lure customers.

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In what could spark yet another round of controversy, the co-founder of the most popular stablecoin, Tether (USDT), William Quigley, said that it wouldn’t matter if the cryptocurrency weren’t actually backed by US dollars as long as everyone agreed to value USDT at one dollar.
https://cryptopotato.com/it-doesnt-matter-if-tether-usdt-is-fully-backed-by-usd-co-founder-william-quigley-says/

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So Tether does not have 100% traditional currency backing for its reserves. It has “cash equivalents,” which are presumably other cryptocurrencies (like pegging to a volatile asset is such a good way of ensuring stability). And some of its "reserves" are held in the form of loans that it has made to other parties. Tether has become an unregulated fractional reserve bank.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2019/03/14/tethers-u-s-dollar-peg-is-no-longer-credible/
1526  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Luno introduces interest paying Bitcoin wallet on: October 25, 2020, 10:30:19 PM
I won't risk 100% of my Bitcoin for 4% interest. If i want to earn passive income (through interest), i would rather use PoS coin or just deposit fiat on bank.

You are basically getting a risk free interest by claiming free coins with your BTC.

If you had BTC in 2017 you could get free BCH and then free BSV later on. If you sold both of these you gott more interest than you could hope for with any of these third party fund management services Wink

4% is definitely not worth it. You can get similar interest by lending to a casino, but at least they are openly saying that you're lending to them, not fooling around calling themselves a savings wallet.
1527  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Which is more important bitcoin or fiat? on: October 25, 2020, 04:10:42 PM
It's a difficult question because it depends on the investor. I'd say they are both important.

Bitcoin is important for investment purposes and as a hedge. It appreciates in value due to its deflationary nature and works as an alternative, a hedge investment.

Fiat money is important for daily use and we cvan't really live without it. We need to pay our bills and buy food and you can't expect everybody to order everything online for Bitcoin. Sometimes you have to pay fora meal in a restaurant or someone to drive you home and usually they won't have a bitcoin wallet set up Wink
1528  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: buy low sell high? (I'm a noob) on: October 25, 2020, 03:58:49 PM
For beginners I recommend buying 10 large coins on marketcap. It's easy to find buy low and sell high moments

OMG, please, not again this stupid shit!

Don't do it OP, never choose an investment by market cap. Some of those high market cap coins are shitcoins with no real use. Want an example of a high cap shitcoin, read a bit about BSV.

People who will tell you to buy each of the top 10 or top 20 coins have no knowledge of the market and think that it's better to have a lot of mediocre investments than a single exceptional one.
1529  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Will you buy BTC from PayPal now that they are letting people do it? on: October 25, 2020, 03:49:29 PM


I'm not very aware of what paypal is offering but I heard some users can't withdraw their BTC to store on their own wallet.

I may also buy is things will be different and if they have lower price. ITs easy to make transaction now out of the money earned from freelancing to investing crypto. But there is always a voice inside me also telling not to use paypal.  

I'll also choose to sit this one out for the moment.

There are many different opinions and until it's clear whether paypal BTC trading is safe and works the way it's supposed to it's an unnecesary risk.

I'm very happy that paypal took this step but it's still just another centralized exchange.


That's about where I am at.  I am glad PayPal has allowed a way to participate, imperfectly, with Bitcoin, but I have other methods I prefer.

Recently I signed on with LibertyX, they have a way to buy BTC for CA$H at almost all CVS stores and 7-Elevens.  You have to go through KYC, that's really the only drawback, but if you don't mind...  LibertyX currently offers BTC as below:

-- $20 - $500 limits IIRC
-- a $4.95 flat fee
-- They sell BTC at the "offer price", so a bit higher than, say, preev.com's BTC price.
-- Customer chooses "fast" or "slow" confirmation/miner's fee
-- LibertyX may end this October 31, check!  

libertyx.com

The above works out to about 1.8% TOTAL premium -- with "fast" confirmation for a $500 purchase, which is pretty good!  Note the $4.95 flat fee, obviously premium would be a higher percent for smaller BTC purchases.  I have done this a few times now, it's a cheap way to buy BTC without messing with exchanges.


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Looks pretty good, although I'm in the EU so I won't be using it. As for KYC, if I were to choose between a custodial exchange with KYC and a non-custodial with KYC, the choice would be obvious.

We have some ATMs and even F2F exchanges here, but they usually take a fee of 2-5% so a flat fee would be a very nice change Smiley At the moment I'm often using a F2F exchange service that doesn't require KYC. The fee is high but at least it's more or less anonymous.

We definitely need more competition and although PayPal isn't the best or the cheapest it's going to add the pressure those other businesses need to start being more competitive. This is how free market is supposed to work.
1530  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How and where invest 500€ on: October 25, 2020, 02:52:22 PM
If you want my advice, don't believe people who say you have to have a coin portfolio. By the way you describe your investment as investing into crypto you aren't sure what it is that you want to buy.

Altcoins are not Bitcoin. They aren't simply a competition, they are mostly clones of some kind.

Like when you go to a cheap store and they have all the popular candy bars, just cheaper and with different names. You see something that looks exactly like mars but has a different packaging, is cheaper and is not going to taste as good as the real thing. That's what altcoins are.

Buy some Bitcoin and think about what you're going to do next. If you have that gambling spirit in you buy an altcoin that you like, but never, and I repeat never buy a bunch of altcoins just to have a portfolio.
1531  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Exploring bitcointalk on: October 25, 2020, 02:28:50 PM
Can you explain why some of the stats contradict each other?

Like in "audience by geography" you have the most visitors from India with the US being second.
Then in "traffic by country" you have the US first, followed by Germany, and there's no India at all.
1532  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Can i post... on: October 25, 2020, 02:18:21 PM

I sold Netflix account to Coolcryptovator. He said he will pay after I give him the account. Now he is not paying. Not even looking at my messages. He is using its account to build a trust, he is liar.
With their trust rating, i doubt they would scam people. If you claim is legit, just pm them or open accusation about that on suitable section.

Anyway, your post is off topic

I don't care about his trust thing. He send me the link that leads to his profile from Telegram. I trusted him now he doesn't even answer me. Please help me. He is the scammer. He owes me $3. I only use this site for it is Digital Goods and Accounts & Invites section. I don't know how to use this site properly.

I have screenshots showing him how he scammed me. I can send anyone who wants.

The proper way to handle this is start a scam accusation thread in the proper section and put all the screenshots there.

If they are convincing I'm sure someone with default trust will help you and leave a comment in his profile and then he'll pay you to get this removed. Negative trust will probably be worth more to him than $3
1533  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Online Gambling could be used to pay for covid problems on: October 24, 2020, 10:48:50 PM
I don't know if it has been shared or not , but Europe is considering to tighten the laws of Gambling especially the online ones. They want to **regulate** it , which actually means that they want these online gambling casinos to pay up the government somehow.

You answered it already. They don't want to help in anyway they just want the money.

I see only cons of this. More corruption because casinos who don't pay the government could be closed which will limit the competition on the market and those that will pay will have to make it back somehow.

The government will get its money, casinos will increase fees to get you to cover the loss, dark web casinos will still operate without licenses, some will go bankrupt and some will have to move to other countries. Nothing will change for the better.
1534  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Could Tether (USDT) be really called decentralized cryptocurrency? on: October 24, 2020, 10:34:47 PM
No cryptocurrency that can be created at will is decentralized.

If you or anybody else could "make" a bitcoin and increase total supply to 21 million and 1 it wouldn't be a decentralized cryptocurrency anymore.

Tether can be made at any moment. They need a million - poof and there it is. What kind of decentralization is that? Cheesy
1535  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Will you buy BTC from PayPal now that they are letting people do it? on: October 24, 2020, 10:00:06 PM


I'm not very aware of what paypal is offering but I heard some users can't withdraw their BTC to store on their own wallet.

I may also buy is things will be different and if they have lower price. ITs easy to make transaction now out of the money earned from freelancing to investing crypto. But there is always a voice inside me also telling not to use paypal.  

I'll also choose to sit this one out for the moment.

There are many different opinions and until it's clear whether paypal BTC trading is safe and works the way it's supposed to it's an unnecesary risk.

I'm very happy that paypal took this step but it's still just another centralized exchange.
1536  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: What do think about skill games? on: October 24, 2020, 09:53:11 PM
Haven’t heard of skill game in casino slots, the only skill game I know in gambling is Poker. Preferably skill games are better because your chances of winning rely on your skills and experience in a particular game compared to a non-skilled games which are riskier.
Somebody could think of a kind of arcade slots like where you'd play pinball slots with combinations being selected based on the places the ball hits.

There are versions based on this idea but they aren't really skill-based like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SevQsYM1Odo

It would be more fun if you could actually hit the ball like in real slots.

The Japanese have a type of skill based slot machine called pachinko. Check it out!
1537  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Loan to buy Bitcoin? on: October 24, 2020, 09:43:02 PM
Don't go with such plans of loan. I'm a real time sufferer of the same. I started my business by getting loans, by that time I had around 0.75 btc. I could've sold that and started the business. When I started my business the price of bitcoin was above $16000. If I've sold at that price it was more than enough to set my business perfectly, but I believed it'll grow and kept hold buying loans to start the business.

To my expectation the price grew and all of the sudden started to fall. Now I'm paying monthly $200 interest for the loan and the capital I bought hasn't decreased yet. It is getting close to two years since I've started to pay interest.
Wow! It's a pity such happened. On the flip side, why would anyone take out a loan when they can easily sell off their holdings and start a business they envisage. This beats me hallow. No business is worth imposing such a confidence in the way you promoted your confidence in Bitcoin. Remember that anything volatile can't be trusted with stability. This is what Bitcoin is. However, it doesn't mean it can't hit a fresh ATH and break the record of 2017.

It's always better to lower your living conditions for a while, change the car for something cheaper or even a bicycle if you can and invest the money you have at hand than take a loan.

You should always decrease the risk if you can and taking a loan to invest is increasing it.

Most of us have unneeded stuff in the house and could technically get some money from friends and family. It's always better to do that because they will not demand interest and you can always negotiate with them. The bank won't agree for you to clean the place or drive kids of the CEO to school, but a friend might Wink
1538  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Trezor saved my after robbery on: October 24, 2020, 09:35:29 PM
That robber still did you good if he got away with all your stuff and you had to sell bitcoins to compensate.

Now that bitcoin is going up in valye you have less to profit from.

Still great that he left your trezor because it's so small that he could just take it thinking it's a fancy usb drive or some kind of car fob that could be worth something at a pawn shop.
It looks more like a gate or garage remote than a toy Cheesy
1539  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Which coin do you think will become next Ethereum? on: October 23, 2020, 06:51:37 PM
This is one of those questions like what coin will be the next Bitcoin. There will be no next Bitcoin because of the logo, the brand it built and the fact that as a program it can be upgraded.

Since the 90s people are asking what is going to be the next microsoft windows. The answer is the next windows is a new version of windows!

Not really much into altcoins but I think XRP (Ripple) or maybe EOS well this is just what came first to my mind but I don't think they will not be able to replace Ethereum since Ethereum is Ethereum they maybe their best version of themselves as of now based on their used.

No chance! These are both total shitcoins with extremely weak hands investing and large losses in the last bear market.

1540  Economy / Speculation / Re: BTC can reach $ 20000 after PayPal, Venmo accept payments in BTC, ETH? on: October 23, 2020, 06:18:09 PM
We will reach 20 thousand I'm just not sure if we can do it in this wave and before the end of the year but this move was extremely bullish for bitcoin.

Like I said a few times before there's no real resistance between 14000 and 20000. If we break 14 we'll go up even faster than we went from 11 to 13.
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