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21  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Athiest are the ultimate free thinker? on: October 13, 2020, 12:06:06 AM
I think becoming an atheist in a time where religion is still the majority definitely takes some capability for free thinking, but it isn't the only important aspect to living. Control systems like government and monetary systems also need to be called into question, as well as ways we live that are commonly accepted.
22  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Investigate, assess news. Don't simply read and make wrong decisions on: October 13, 2020, 12:00:51 AM
I mainly read to stay informed on technology updates or adoption, the effect on price in the short term doesn't matter to much to me since I will keep transaction BTC daily.
23  Other / Off-topic / Re: Zodiac Signs and Their Personality Traits. on: October 12, 2020, 11:56:25 PM
I don't believe that the dates people were born necessary relates to their personality, the Zodiac is definitely not based in any evidence.
24  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The impact of the SQUARE and MICROSTRATEGY purchase on: October 12, 2020, 11:47:11 PM
I think it is a great thing that larger companies are buying BTC. This is actually a small percentage of the amount that has went through the Square app though, they sold over half a billion in 2019 versus the 50 million they recently invested in.
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/57083/square-sold-over-half-a-billion-worth-of-bitcoin-in-2019-and-outpaced-broader-crypto-exchange-volume-growth-in-4q
25  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: How many bitcoins are there in DeFi? on: October 12, 2020, 09:28:20 PM
I like the idea of wBTC a lot to basically allow BTC trading on the ETC platform.

Apparently there are also direct atomic swaps between ETC and BTC as well:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/btc-eth-dai-cross-chain-atomic-swaps-launched-by-liquality-on-mainnet
26  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Thoughts on recent move of 1000 coins mined back in 2010? on: October 12, 2020, 09:25:52 PM
Its becoming obvious that after 10+ years, virtual currencies just aren't going to take over the world.

Long term hodlers have to sell at some point or what was the point of buying in the first place?

Usage has been increasing year on year and major institutions are getting involved. Cryptocurrency also doesn't have to be what takes over, but a useful alternative option which its becoming better and better at.
27  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is bitcoin truly moving forward? on: October 12, 2020, 05:16:27 PM
I look at the usage cases as being most important than the price, but BTC is definitely moving forward in both, remember that the price has risen 600x in the past 10 years.

There are some new developments on the horizon:
https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoins-future-exactly-how-a-coming-upgrade-could-improve-privacy-and-scaling
28  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Where do you store your seed? on: October 10, 2020, 12:01:20 PM
At the moment I don't store any of them. I would probably use a safe to do so or have them encrypted on a computer if I stored them.
29  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Cryptocurrency Scams and Government on: October 10, 2020, 11:57:33 AM
The government making way to regulate the spread of cryptocurrency as many claims that they have heard about scamming issues. I may think this the best solution to minimize the level of scamming but somehow we don't want also to be controlled by the government as we wanted not to involve in corruption. If the regulation may not take place, we can't also think that we can stop these frauds and scamming issues.
It is absolutely normal for the state to want to regulate cryptocurrency. Otherwise it could be simple money laundering and tax evasion...
Money laundering and tax evasion shouldn't be crimes though, they are just people deciding they would rather keep their money than have the government take it.
30  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Start your own Bitcoin ATM business on: October 10, 2020, 10:49:45 AM
I want to look more into doing this. It could be very helpful in third world countries to increase adoption.
31  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Sixty Coinbase employees take buyout offer after no politics at work rule on: October 10, 2020, 10:04:28 AM
I think that people should be able to talk about what they want to at work, but I also understand the reasoning for making the decision. A 6 month payout is also a pretty good offer and gives a lot of time to find additional employment.
32  Other / Off-topic / Re: [RANT] 1Tb SD card on Amazon for £9.99 on: October 10, 2020, 10:00:18 AM
It definitely seems too low cost to be real, especially when HDD for computers at 1TB costs more.
 
I found 512GB for $99.99, this one also has over 80,000 reviews at 5 stars:
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-microSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B07P7M6K35
33  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I just discover possible reason why btc is safe heaven on: October 10, 2020, 09:46:35 AM
BTC has been one of the best performing investments with returns of 600x over a 10 year period, it's very likely that price action will continue upwards for a while.

I do think that it can be thought of as a safe haven both as an investment and for security purposes. In Venezuela people have mentioned that the government was able to seize their gold and physical assets, but not their BTC.
34  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitfinex hackers move another $30million on: October 10, 2020, 09:43:36 AM
I think that they could transfer it quite easily without being traced. By using unknown wallets and mixers it would be very difficult to locate the funds, and even then it would be hard to tell who owned it, much would likely eventually be mixed with real transactions to.

They could also swap it for XMR and then back to BTC, making any detection virtually impossible.
35  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Litecoin Confirms MimbleWimble Test Network on: October 10, 2020, 02:45:42 AM
I thought that this was pretty cool, I've wanted other coins to adopt more privacy features like Monero but I thought it would occur on a much longer scale:
https://blockchain.news/news/litecoin-confirms-mimblewimble-test-network-set-later-year-ltc-price-predictions-high

There's also some potential of Charlie Lee collaborating with Charles Hoskinson.
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Last month, IOHK CEO and Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson announced that Cardano has allocated a cross-chain communication team to build a network enabling interoperability between blockchains.

Cross-chain communication could enable users to use Hydra to send value to and from other major networks including Bitcoin and Litecoin.

Earlier in July, Charles Hoskinson said he would “love the idea” of testing cross-chain communication between Cardano and Litecoin, and Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin responded with, “Sure!”
36  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 12 years and no country has approved Bitcoin ?? on: October 09, 2020, 04:24:19 PM
The great part about Bitcoin is that it doesn't need the approval of any governments. Even if they attempt to tax it, ban it, or censor it, it is always usable and accessible by its nature.
37  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Virtual trading before actual one - pros and cons on: October 09, 2020, 09:56:52 AM
One problem with virtual trading is that the trades won't reflect on the supply and demand like with real trading. Every buy and sell order has actions on the price.
38  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: bitcoin and crypto and fiat currency on: October 08, 2020, 08:09:16 PM
you cant fake fiat currency and if you do you got problems with law.
how we know the btc and crypto is not faked...it means the creators can create any ammount of crypto as they want as there is no law to legit forces to check over btc and crypto creators
The supply of cryptocurrencies is backed by consensus algorithms so that no one user can simply generate it. To do so would require a 51% attack and this is incredibly expensive to execute on the main coins. Also even in such an event, users can fork onto a new chain and deem that one as the legitimate one.

Here is more about the Bitcoin supply:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply
39  Other / Off-topic / Re: Which company's phone and laptop do you use? on: October 08, 2020, 12:35:38 PM
I'm using a Lenovo Yoga from 2016 and the iPhone 7, but I'm looking to upgrade both of them probably next year.
40  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Outrageous trading fees, should I switch to stocks? on: October 08, 2020, 10:51:15 AM
5% seems pretty high, Binance overs 0.1% and I found that Uphold is doing commission free trades now:
https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/81281/uphold-introduces-commission-free-cryptocurrency-trading

It looks like on the right platforms you can get similar rates to stocks which also have commission free platforms.
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