I don't think that anyone offers that kind of service.

Credit cards are purely based off your credit, and there is no collateral required. You can probably get a $7k limit quite easily if you have a good credit score without even having to provide your $10k security.

Or, you can simply take out and refinance collateralised loans on bitcointalk. Although that would be p2p and will not involve any fiat.

Exaggerated. Never have they said that bitcoin has failed, but rather they mentioned that bitcoin 'failed to provide' a good 'store of value'.

Which in itself is absurd. I think that they are way more focused in the short term volatility of bitcoin that disguises its long term properties as a store of value in their statements. It's obvious that BTC fluctuates drastically in the short run, but in the long run its intrinsic value should make it a safe haven asset.

Besides, are they really just going to ignore the fact that bitcoin transactions is at an all time high, and still call bitcoin not as a viable form of payment? 

I swear I've seen the exact same site layout somewhere. Initially thought it was Binance but then there are some subtle differences between the two.

Does anyone else have the same impression or is it just me tripping?

OP, I suggest offering stronger incentives if you're serious about getting experienced beta testers. Zero trading fees or a low liquidity market isn't really that attractive, if we're being honest.

You shouldn't be keeping any balances on any exchange in the first place.

Just because someone is well known isn't a guarantee that they will continue to uphold security anyways. But of course track record is a key indicator.

I think you're missing the point here - Binance's security has nothing to do with whether or not they charge higher withdrawal fees. They can clearly at least reduce the fees by letting the user choose their own fee level. Even at 10k sats per withdrawal, they'd still be making a very sizable profit.

Sounds like some scare campaign but this actually may happen.

Banks actually have leverage here. Facebook's Libra is centralised, unlike bitcoin being decentralised. As a result, there is a central point of attack for anyone that is trying to censor their network, in a multitude of ways including banks ceasing co-operation.

Central banks especially are very wary of anything that threatens their ability to implement monetary policy, and I'd say that they see Libra as more of an enemy than even BTC right now.

Definitely. I hate it when people talk about their portfolios on public forums, because it exposes them to a much greater chance of getting hacked and scammers being able to specifically target them.

Besides, why give up your privacy when you have the option to keep it intact? I don't understand.

Share this information anonymously if you must. If some unscrupulous dude sees that you've got a hefty portfolio, and sees that you are of a low rank, you could easily be the target of a well orchestrated scam attempt.

Update: Sold everything on skinbay without issues. Withdrawal was processed by coinbase and done almost instantaneously (<5 minutes). Highly recommend them.

I found that if you lower your prices to around 30%~ under market on skinbay you are almost guaranteed to have a sale within 24h. So don't use their instant sell function since that's usually 50%~ under market price.


It's more "credit" than it is money. You can't transfer steam balances.

Sidechains have been around as a concept and advocated for for a long while now.

There is really no evidence that they will bloom into something major any time soon (even though I do think that it'll be done, just in the long term) that will replace the entirety of altcoin markets.

But it would certainly make a lot of sense to integrate decentralised services and whatnot directly on top of the bitcoin blockchain, as opposed to have an alternate chain to do the task. I just don't think that the markets are ready for this yet.

No. I don't think that any BTC fork is worth investing in at this point, firstly because the fact that they most likely aren't going to succeed in the long run since bitcoin core is still what the majority of bitcoin users know as "bitcoin".

Secondly, Bitcoin SV and BCC have already had their fair share of bull runs and I don't think that there is much more upside left based on their fundamentals.

I wouldn't say that ETH's upside is that high either, but its support at 0.02 BTC should hold up relatively well and there is very limited downside risk. Besides, ETH 2.0, if it goes successfully, can definitely spark another bull run.

Bitcoin dominance climbed drastically in comparison to the market share of alts. Mostly probably due to the fact that institutional investors are less inclined to invest in alts as opposed to BTC which is more stable and established - and they are the driving forces behind the previous episode of bull runs.

Your strategy now honestly depends on what your entry point is.

I'd think that unless you bought at 2017 peak price levels, major alts like ETH and LTC will recover as a matter of time. But if you have bought worthless ICOs, then it's a different story.

Very interesting news. Obviously Malta is known for their very lax regulations on crypto businesses which is a reason why a lot of exchanges have started to base themselves out of there in recent years.

It's not good news to see exchanges now trying to actively move out, especially not one the size and influence of Bittrex (even though they did decline quite a bit after they removed legacy accounts). It almost certainly have to be attributed to at least some sort of regulatory tightening in the country, or at least uncertainty.

I never knew that Liechtenstein was also a crypto safe-haven though. But as I said for a business to leave a country as pro-crypto as Malta, there has to be something major.

I don't see any reason for LTC to enter a state of FOMO any time soon, imho.

The 0.007 BTC barrier has been tested a week or so ago and wasn't able to be breached, which hinders the chances of a short term bullish breakout. There also isn't much fundamental to back up a potential bull run since segwit and halving in LTC is already over.

Personally, I think prices will consolidate, but will pick up once again as it approaches its next halving which is quite far away still.

Would honestly make a lot of sense for a new competitor to enter the market. Skinbay I think could also be one of the frontrunners at consolidating market share based on my experience with them this time.

I honestly don't see OPSkins as an alternative. They are trading something completely virtual and unrelated to actual CSGO skins here. Who even is VGO issued by? OPSkins doesn't claim ownership yet they heavily endorse it.

I personally don't believe that DEXs are going to necessarily bloom into widespread adoption all of a sudden.

The fact is that cross platform and fiat integration is still lacking despite the best attempts of DEX providers to create their own stablecoins or token representations of altcoins that are not on their platform. Thus, it's difficult for people to turn down very mature centralised technology and move to complete decentralisation in this field within just a year.

However, I do think that in the short run, they can generate some hype. Especially in the case of a potential broad based bull market in 2020.

I honestly do not believe in stablecoins solely based on the fact that it adds another layer of centralisation to fiat.

Fiat itself is already created by a centralised entity, and its intrinsic value is zero or close to it. Yet, people seem to blindly trust in it and create stablecoins that reflect its value. Now, not only will you have to face the consequences of the value of fiat dropping, you'd also have to essentially trust that the stablecoin issuer is not doing anything shady in the form of fractional reserves, etc.

It's definitely not something I'd want to hold in times of economic despair, where bank runs and liquidity issues are widespread.

I'd suggest you do some research beforehand. Not all mixing is done to mask "questionable" transactions.

For instance, whales who wish to protect their own privacy may choose to use such mixer services. Or, people may be concerned that coins that they receive is tainted previously by someone completely unrelated to them. Mixing increases privacy, and thus increases the fungibility of BTC as a currency.

You could also try Dash/XMR/ZEC where they are anonymity centric, although the hype for these coins have died down drastically.

I honestly expected ETH to go up alongside BTC as well, based on how it performed in previous BTC bull markets.

But what I think most investors, including myself didn't take into factor is the fact that institutional investors are much more likely to invest in BTC due to the relative perceived stability that it carries, as well as having more liquidity, as opposed to the smaller market coins including ETH (which has a large market cap, but small relative to BTC).

And this bull run can be viewed as fueled mainly by institutional investors. Besides, the ICO hype dying down didn't help.

Clippers are the better team if health was a given.

Lakers simply have more central pieces right now available. James and AD are probably going to be both playing while PG13 is out, which would be a huge blow to any team he's on.

Championship prospect wise clippers are superior imo given their defence and consistency, but for opening night, I'm going with lakers.

Didn't make sense the amount of hype that was put into circle's acquisition of poloniex in the first place. People somehow saw it as an opportunity for poloniex to really expand their horizons, when in reality they pretty much did nothing after the acquisition.

The damage had already been done with the incompetence of their support as well as the constantly pending withdrawals, etc. beforehand and never have really been fixed.

It's really a non-issue. Poloniex will most likely continue their current business model and not change anything drastic regardless of what happens to ownership.

15% is a lot.

Bitskins tried to charge that much at faced essentially what is instant backlash from the community.

UPDATE: 3 skins sold on skinbay. They seem to have decent turnover/volume as far as I can see at this stage. The 3 that was sold were all of low monetary value though, and I'm still waiting for my knife and an AK-case hardened to sell.