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161  Economy / Economics / Re: Invest on your dependants if you too must grow further on: April 20, 2024, 10:09:08 AM
Rightly said and as the saying goes teach me how to fish and not give me fish if one is to attain the level of financial stability there is a great need to empower those looking up to you so the financial burden can be reduced on your part. You need to support those always depending on you so that they too can support others in the chain
Many of those that are unable now needs some helping hand. If you as a person believes about that there's no man is an island then you'd also believe that every person that are on their down times need some extra help that will pull them up so that they can stand on their own. I know that this isn't applicable at all times because there are cases that those that have been helped are not grateful and even wasted the opportunity of help that should be a life changing action for them. But it's true, when you teach someone how to fish and be skilled for employment or livelihood, if they will hone that then it is gonna be a lifechanging opportunity for them.
162  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Bitcoin halving security tips for first timers. on: April 20, 2024, 08:34:45 AM
and also how fees are calculated and payed are still the same.
Nope, the fees are dynamic.


Source from mempool.space

Secondly which is for Naive newbies, there’s no special giveaway or airdrops that is accompanied with this event. Be very wary of scammers who ask you to connect your wallets to some sites to receive airdrops for celebration of the halving, it’s a phishing scam. I wouldn’t say other shitcoins won’t run airdrops but it will be risky to connect your wallet to any site for airdrops.
For gullible ones, they might fall for those airdrops halving and giveaways, there's no such everyone and you have to remember that.

Thirdly Excess or high transaction fees payed in the past blocks are not returned to you after this halving, it is also scammer tactics to get access to your wallet.
Refer to the picture that I've quoted, that's what we're experiencing right now. But I think scammers that still use the moment to scam everyone who wants to pay cheap with fees and they have to be careful still with that.

Lastly Bitcoin halving doesn’t coherently means that the bitcoin price will skyrocket, yes base on past events they do go up some months after the halving, but that doesn’t mean you should go and invest an amount that you can not afford to lose. Past events are just speculations and do not reflect what will happen in the future.

Stay safe, accumulate your bitcoin and secure your wallet properly. May the pump be with us.
As always, invest what you can afford to lose.
163  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Happy 4th Bitcoin Halving on: April 20, 2024, 03:14:04 AM
Happy 4th Bitcoin halving everyone and mostly to those that have experienced it for the first time. It's another milestone that surely going to be seen soon but as we celebrate and welcome this 4th halving, here comes some unwelcoming fees update.


Source from mempool.space
164  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: This will be my first BTC halving on: April 19, 2024, 11:59:17 PM
and how FIAT money is basically a fucking scam in the past year.
It's actually crazy, more high inflation rates, nonstop rise of cost of goods and everything. And this is why Bitcoin is one of the best hedge against it.

It's so easy for governments to print more and more without limit, if we look at the US debt the number is just absurd. https://www.usdebtclock.org/

$99,740,755,000,000

So, i totally agree with OP, Fiat money is a scam, and nowadays we must bet on finite elements, like bitcoin or gold.
The government is the scam I guess? We get to used fiat money for our needs and there's something out of it but the ones that produces it and makes value out of it is the government. Because with the continuous printing of them, the value of it gets lower and they're the ones that creates and influences the inflation rate of it. However, government or fiat money, they're all centralized and things that are happening to the economies have been centralized and they have control over it. And one thing that they can't, Bitcoin and its continuous growth of it, they have no authority over it.
165  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: This will be my first BTC halving on: April 19, 2024, 10:15:49 PM
We live in crazy times. This will be my first BTC halving and I'm so fucking happy that I learned about BTC [...]Thanks to this forum and happy halving y'all! Smiley
That's great and just enjoy this halving because it will be historical not just for the entire Bitcoin community but also for yourself. The impact might not be as soon as possible to become visible but you know the drill with what you've been reading and hearing a lot of what's gonna next.

and how FIAT money is basically a fucking scam in the past year.
It's actually crazy, more high inflation rates, nonstop rise of cost of goods and everything. And this is why Bitcoin is one of the best hedge against it.
166  Economy / Economics / Re: Is Bitcoin’s bull run coming to an end? on: April 19, 2024, 08:18:15 PM
The price fell by 3.78% today,Current price $61748.But it’s still a price I can’t afford
We're too sensitive whenever some corrections happened. We ain't yet on the peak and we already ask if the bull run has already ended. Don't assume too much that we're going to see the end because we'd go there soon but not yet for now. Give time for the market to mature and then when you see that it's starting to drop then that's the time that you're going to have that analysis that it's probably going down and the bull run is coming to an end but again, it's not yet the right time thinking of it when you've just seen that it fell 4% currently.
167  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Stay alert and keep suspect of when someone is helping you out of your wallet on: April 19, 2024, 02:08:26 PM
This is a good reminder for most of the newbies. When some of my friends asks me about this, I'm giving a disclaimer as soon as they've asked me anything related to crypto. First, that I'll never earn anything from them unless I give them a referral link of mine which I don't usually do. Next, is that the private keys or seed phrases shouldn't be given to anyone even if the intention of the person they're talking to is good about helping them. It should be only them that must know that information because if it's given away then they should just say goodbye to their hardearned asset. It is the reason why it is important to learn even the simplest and most basic thing about wallets and newbies shouldn't trust anybody quickly if the matter is about them helping about wallets and always verify what's being taught to you guys.
168  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Look away on: April 19, 2024, 11:49:05 AM
There are a lot of methods and gateways for manipulators to influence the market. Number one of it is the use of the most known people telling something good or bad about the market. Once they've loaded the "experts say" thing and the words from these influencers, that's how they're able to influence everyone including the small ones. Next, is the no announcement action of these whales that they're able to influence the market and everyone will just follow what's happening. Like today, the news is about the halving and it's not a surprising news and from the bottom of $59k that Bitcoin reached, in a few hours it has recovered to $65k.
169  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Investing in a casino's bankroll...Still worth it in 2024? on: April 18, 2024, 11:43:37 PM
I was wondering if it's still worth investing in an online casino's bankroll? If it is, could you share where can I invest my BTC? Any suggestions and/or recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Smiley
There are questions as well like this that's been brought but it's not mainly about the bankroll investment that casinos do offer but more of their tokens. They're different ways of investing to a casino but if it's about what I prefer, it's to be with the house and that's through their bankroll. As for their tokens, it's hard to rely on it because the casino that has their own native token could have some control on it but once they're flocked by big traders, they will have no control over the volatility that it gets. So far I see only a few of them doing well but the rest, they're likely going to be seen with the lowest volume and whoever invests there might not be able to see the worth of their money.

If there's a new open casino that accepts investments with known team who had operate a successful crypto business and casino before, i will be willing to invest and i guess its still worth it.

But to the old ones, naaah, i did experience of investing to those, and i learned it my way.
I might do that as well but it's just only if the devs are known. Otherwise, if it's a random one, we'd be better be off and ignore them.
170  Economy / Exchanges / Re: In what cases does Binance asks for source of funds ? on: April 18, 2024, 10:39:23 PM
First, if there are transactions coming from a blacklisted address going to your account. But at this point, potato chips is right that there's no actual guidelines about it. They can ask anyone they think that has some suspicious activities or funds that came from those kind of activities that they want to halt the transaction. Typically, those that have larger transactions and withdrawals are likely to subject for this additional verification and there's really no clause about who are the qualified one but just expect that they might ask you one day without prior notice, so if you think your coins are clean then it's just a random verification.
171  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Have you stopped using bitcoin for small transactions completely ? on: April 18, 2024, 09:37:50 PM
Small transactions on bitcoin does not make any sense now at all. Like to make a $20 amount transaction, one has to pay about same amount, $20 in fees. This does not make any sense. Have you stopped using bitcoin for small transactions completely because of this reason ?
Yes, it doesn't makes sense if I'm going to pay with that amount and the transaction is even lesser than that. It's okay to stop for a while because the fees are going to calm down. As I type this, the fees are still quite high and the high priority is gonna cost one to pay $6 and that's still a lot. Before with the ordinals, the fees are the same but eventually it has became lower and that's why it's best to wait if you are not in a hurry doing that transaction but if you are, you have no choice but to pay that.
172  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Benefit of non additional charge on: April 18, 2024, 01:28:25 PM
Have we ever considered the advantages of Bitcoin's insignificant fees? I utilized Coinbase in the UK to send some coins to my younger brother, and the transaction was completed successfully in less than 15 minutes which is like instant transfer. Previously, I had to wait three working days for Western Union to validate my transaction. With Bitcoin, the days of going to the bank and waiting in line have vanished, and I can now send something to him without incurring any additional fees. In the past, I had been using Western Union to do this, but the extra fees were ridiculous, so I didn't have to complain because I didn't know about bitcoin. I'm happier now that i could save some extra charges.
Honestly, the fees could have been cheaper for Bitcoin but because of some network spams, the fees have increased and that only means that there's more demand to it as of this moment. But if you're looking at it as if that you're able to save more mone then so be it and that's a better outlook that you've got than most of us. Because what we think of the current fees are way to high compared in the past that we get to send transactions in less than a dollar and to be exact like 1 sat/vB. However in your case and with the use of exchanges offchain transactions, that's what you're able to enjoy.
173  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: What are the possibilities for a young web3 creator? on: April 18, 2024, 11:09:21 AM
I advise you not to duplicate posts, you've already posted the same thread on the altcoin discussions: Is there really a future for young individuals in web3 ?
Just to let you know about this rule about duplicate posting.

12. No duplicate posting in multiple boards (except for re-posting topics in the local language boards if they're translated and re-posting marketplace topics in the altcoin boards if altcoins are accepted).
Oh no it’s not same post .
It's not? I don't think so, although it seems that it doesn't look like but the thought of is the same.

I'm writing this post because I've recently discovered something in the web3 space that I wanted to share with you all.
Starting from here, I'm going to guess mate that you're pertaining to the COO program on X done by that exchange that you've mentioned on the other thread. But if not then I might be the one who's wrong here for assuming quickly and with that, I apologize but then I think that the topic is actually the same.
174  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: FixedFloat.com stole my funds on: April 17, 2024, 11:13:41 PM
When they've changed their domain into ff.io which is what they're using now, they should have given the notice and reasons of changing it. But then, if you're going to visit them now, they're in technical stuff and maintenance. With the date that you've used them OP, that's likely when they've experienced the 2nd hack CMIIW.
They did explain reasons why they changed domain name, I think they posted more information about that on their twitter page after first hack happened.
I see thanks, I'll check that out.

However that doesn't change the fact that fixedfloat is exchange with bad reputation, louse security and they randomly asked for kyc, so maybe they pissed off some wrong people along the way.
I agree. And their maintenance doesn't have any duration when it's going to stop so or when they'd be back in business, I might assume that some announcement about their closure soon could be done and if that happens it won't be surprising with what they've experienced. Or if they come back in operation again, many have already lost their trust on them.
175  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Selling BTC for foreign currencies on: April 17, 2024, 09:54:06 PM
I haven't tried this yet but is this how the debit cards work that one can purchase from these exchanges? If not, you have to convert it first into USD or your local money before converting it to the country where you're arriving to. That's explained well by Omega. I'd be careful doing it though when you're in a country that has some hot laws about Bitcoin as not every country is Bitcoin friendly. So, before doing that, just make yourself safe by doing the transaction in your motherland and just do the fiat <-> fiat conversion for that currency you're going to.
176  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: What are the possibilities for a young web3 creator? on: April 17, 2024, 08:48:57 PM
I advise you not to duplicate posts, you've already posted the same thread on the altcoin discussions: Is there really a future for young individuals in web3 ?
Just to let you know about this rule about duplicate posting.

12. No duplicate posting in multiple boards (except for re-posting topics in the local language boards if they're translated and re-posting marketplace topics in the altcoin boards if altcoins are accepted).
177  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Can Bitcoin be a full time career for investors? on: April 17, 2024, 03:20:22 AM
Let's not confuse ourselves and the newbies about Bitcoin, Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and it's sort "bitcoining" of what people are doing for making profit out of it. Being a Bitcoin investor, trader, miner and any other related trades, hassles and activities done to it can be made as full time careers if you want to. So, if you want to focus and become full time on investing on it, I'd advise you that you can still do something else while you're full time investor of it. Because you don't have to commit that much time if you're passive and planned to do long term holding.
178  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Would You Recommend Investing Binance Pays 9.70% Interest on USDC on: April 16, 2024, 07:17:33 PM
I know that it is attractive to just park your funds on their savings or earn or whatever they call that feature that allows you to interest but, yes there's a but on it. But you don't have the full custody of your $10k once you have deposited it there and I am sure that it is not new to you since you've been doing it with Coinbase Earn. If it's about the interest rate, I'd say that it's fair and fine but the question is, are you willing to do that with the risk that if something unexpected happens to Binance and your funds are there, are you willing to lose it?
179  Economy / Exchanges / Re: BingX supports Iranian users, despite sanctions: on: April 16, 2024, 05:49:46 PM
Their legitimacy might be questioned based on their compliance, it seems that they're not compliant at all and this is their business. If OFAC has already given the sanction for their currency to be traded but BingX isn't compliant at all, that's their problem and they made themselves aware of future sanctions that will hit the exchange itself. But I think that this won't be a problem anymore globally, many exchanged have stopped their support here and there and even had hard time complying in US' standards. And as for the basis of these sanctions from US, they might or might not be obliged to follow and will just leave the region that they're supporting covered by the US laws. Anyway, if Bingx doesn't care at all, why should we be?

Maybe BingX doesn't care at this point, or at least they seem like they don't care about complying with anyone's regulations, but at some point when they do care, all the damage will be on their users.
I am not their user, but I believe that all their users should be concerned.
I'm not a user either and you're right that even if they don't care about such compliance and sanctions for the consequence of this decision that they have. Their users need to think about this action that they're having right now, we're not giving them a scare but they have to think as many times as they can if they've got funds still there and we always tell that people shouldn't keep their funds on exchanges.
180  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin ETF approved in Hong Kong on: April 16, 2024, 03:38:17 PM
This will probably be good for the price of BTC if the interest in this kind of investing in BTC is approximately the same as in the US - although it is possible that this ETF will be as successful as some others in other parts of the world where investors have not shown much interest in such a way of investing.

What is bad is that China is somehow getting back into the game, and considering its attitudes towards everything that is decentralized, the only question is when it will start attacking Bitcoin again. No matter how you turn it, Bitcoin and communism cannot co-exist together, so in the long term I see only problems in these decisions, of course only if these ETFs are successful in attracting investors.
I am not worried if China is going to get back to the game of sending the entire market with some news about bans and what not because we've heard that for so long. But this is for sure going to make the new investors worry if ever they see it for the first time the "ban" of Bitcoin on them although we all knew that it's not a new thing anymore. But Hong Kong as a special administrative region of China, they function as an independent region just like any country.

Approval in Hong Kong doesn't mean future countrywide approval in China (because Hong Kong is a special administrative region), but it's still good news. It just shows that Bitcoin is becoming more reputable as an investment, and perhaps we'll see some other places follow suit.
You're right, while Hong Kong is also a haven for many businessmen and investors, this really is a sign that they can no longer ignore Bitcoin. There were news about Singapore having some application as well but they were declined but it will be bigger I guess if it's going to be from them.

At least we have good news amid global unrest, high transaction fees and a drop in Bitcoin price. Hong Kong is ranked 43rd on the list of major economies of the world. And it's stock market is ranked 4th in Asia and the 7th biggest globally. Other smaller nations around the sub-region might consider taking the same move.
Yeah, this is what we get despite all of the current ugly things that we're seeing in this world. Mainly, the high fees for transactions although it is starting to get calm but still, fluctuating and unstable and then there goes another startled war.

I believe the price will rise gradually, like what happened with US etf
It did but, it corrected quickly.

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PS: I'm not sure if this is the right place for this thread so since it includes ETH, mods kindly move where it's appropriate. Thanks!
No, it is not. It should be about Bitcoin only.

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Alright, thanks Max.

That's good news, it will bring more investors and more funds into the BTC M.cap directly or indirectly. Now I am waiting for China to do something about it, as the USA is imposing tax, and the IMF asked our country to impose tax as well, so I assume China will also make some positive move now if they really make some positive move, then we are seeing BTC crossing $150k easily.

Besides I don't think this news it the main reason behind BTC recovery, as this news has been out since afternoon (on my side) as I saw the news when it was out like within minutes, and the market had already recovered from the dip (ATL) so I assume this is not the main reason but it would have helped BTC to recover more than expected. But still I am expecting a correction to $64k But let's hope for good. Which it already did.
China has a different approach although the big mining farms are found there but they seem to be quiet for how many years after the news about ban has appeared once again. And speaking of correction, now we're back to $62k and this seems to be the support and I hope that it really is.

Since I saw this thread, I have hard the option to search out more and to also analysed the impact of the Hong Kong ETF approval on the price of bitcoin, because despite the news, the market still remains at it down trend movement still because at the moment, bitcoin is below 65k dollar, somewhere around between 62k-$63k respectfully.

This doesn't show any sign of positivity of the approval on the market outlooks, and that call for concerns.
It went to $66k when this news came but in less than 24 hours, we're back in the dip. I'm not going to look at the most recent effect of this, best effect of this is for the long term.

Crypto is not well-accepted in mainland china (read: banned) so it is nice to see that other countries are taking the step forward to accepting crypto specifically bitcoin.

This is definitely good news for crypto enthusiasts in hongkong and bitcoin investors because this means the price of bitcoin will continue to rise as more buyers are getting access to bitcoin.
Hong Kong is a SAR of China and it's like an independent country although still under China. But it has its own decision to something like this that they can't meddle so, it's a good news despite they've got connection to China.

It's amazing how one could start that kind of revolution in which  ETFs are being approved now everywhere. This is kind of advanced that ETH is also approved already because IIRC, it's not yet approved in the US SEC right?

I do hope this sparks more interest and has that increase that we want in volume.
Yeah, it's not yet approved on the US and unlikely going to approved IMO but this could be a good hint for it if Hong Kong was able to approve it.

Well seeing the market right now I don't think it has had that much of a positive impact, granted we did see the last ETF only affecting the market months after. Still, I don't think it's going to have that big of an effect as compared to the first one, just the matter that it's not the first can be enough of a factor imo. It also doesn't help that I don't think this had any publicity to most people? At the very least, this is the first time I've heard of its plans.

Might still help with its gradual growth though in the long run.
It did had a good impact if it's just a one-day effect but it's not all about that. We shouldn't look at the after-effect of it just after the approval came. There's actually more to that and the impact of it is going to be more beautiful in the long run.

Great.

Time to get drunk again? Guys?

Check all the red. I have put a "pot" under it.

BTW. Seems like I am finding a way to set the price via positions. Cheers. 4.6%..
I don't drink though but you can celebrate now if you're able to buy the dips. Cheers.

China has been an anti-crypto for a very long time already and they approved an ETF on HongKong which is basically owned by China. Cheesy Look at the irony.
Well, it seems like this news has no positive effect towards the price of Bitcoin as it tumbles down further the day when this news was launched.

I don't know the reason why they approved it aside from the fact that they see the positive effect of Spot Bitcoin ETF's in US hence, they want to do the same as well. Spot Ethereum ETF is already accepted on HK. A few months from now, it will be the US who will accept it as well. This will have a long term effect towards the price of Bitcoin, and can we expect more countries doing the same as well? Hmmm.
While Hong Kong is a SAR, I don't think that with this kind of affairs China has a say on it. But let's not look at that quick impact that the news gets. Although I think that I've got an idea on why they've approved it and that's still has something to do with their covid recovery plan about having more investors, investments and make their tourism healthy again. Yes, they're on the sort of recovery and that might still be part of the actual plan before and it's just going into fruition.

Whoa! Big moves in the crypto world! 🚀 Exciting times ahead with ETH ETF approval too! 🎉
Crossing fingers but mainly for Bitcoin, there's more and the best is yet to come.
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