Both Ledger and Trezor offer USDT storage but I'm not totally sure which version. It could get messy if you have the wrong one. Coinomi seem to offer it too and they also have Shapeshift integration. You need a Shapeshift account these days but I dunno how demanding they are.

There is no reason to cut any slack to a brand new exchange. Let someone else take the risk. There are enough established options for almost anything. If whatever you have a boner for isn't on a decent exchange then that should tell you enough.

As for shitcoins, nobody can tell you anything. More than likely it's going to be a miserable failure. Approach it with that expectation and you won't be disappointed.

A relative of mine shares their knowledge to the public for free and charges for private consultation.

They probably wind up making more money and better use of their time.

The public free stuff acts as a shop window for the more detailed one on one things.

I've seen the odd 'crypto consultant' advertising but have no idea how well they do.

Going on my own lurking this feels about right. It really tails off around 22-23.00 ish and doesn't pick up until the following morning. I've always found it quite strange how quiet it is when huge chunks of the world should still be popping. Maybe they look to Europeans to keep the party going.

Since this is a municipality I presume the taxes payable are along the lines of property taxes and utilities. If that's the case they're going to find uptake will be somewhere in the region of nil. Still cool though.

The form of tax payment that would be most beneficial is the ability to pay taxes owed on your Bitcoin itself, be that capital gains or whatever it is wherever you are. The idea of having to go through exchanges and dick with bank accounts is much less appealing than one QR code you can fire at and forget.

You can't buy Bitcoin on eToro. You buy price exposure that you can hopefully profit on at some point. There's no way of depositing or withdrawing the real deal. It's no more than an entry on their ledger.

Some people won't care about that. Some will.

All us frozen heads will be bopping the night away but we'll raise a metallic tendril to you.

Stephen Fry regards his greatest achievement as figuring out Virginia Bottomley, a largely disliked British education minister back in the day, was an anagram of I'm An Evil Tory Bigot.

No invite for you in 3030 then.

It's palindrome day today, the first in 999 years.

The next will be on 12/12/2121 and then not again until 03/03/3030.

Go forth and celebrate. I would but I threw another Windows 7 party yesterday to celebrate the end of updates. It was kerrrazy.

We can talk about Bakkt's fate after it's been established for 5-10 years. Until then it's still finding its feet. There'll be dead phases. There'll be explosive phases.

Anyone who expected Bakkt to singlehandedly ignite a dead market is a twat. It's one solitary service for a small number of people. It might facilitate further bullishness when the time comes, it certainly doesn't magic it up out of thin air.

Don't be silly. There's a fuckton more risk in most other coins. Anyone putting their life savings in some shitcoin in case Bitcoin dies is a moron. Have a play with a small proportion by all means but Bitcoin is the only one I'd be certain was still here in 5-10 years.

As for the original question it depends on how big a proportion of your savings $15,000 is. If it's all of it then that's a really bad idea. If it's 1-20% that's more palatable. But no one can tell you whether it'll be the best move you'll ever make or the worst or the most boring.

I rarely mention it to people. If they told me it was a scam I'd simply wink and carry on.

If someone believes it's a scam when thousands of legit companies are building around it, the price is listed in newspaper finance columns and certain governments are legitimising it then good luck to them. I'm certainly not going to waste any of my own energy disavowing such mindlessness.

Register and forget?

I can see why it appeals to some people but since it's free for private users I'd be intrigued to know whether they pad the exchange rate and whether it's an instant buy the moment you get paid. If both have some head room that could wind up being a lot more expensive that just buying yourself.

If I were buying now I wouldn't bother with either. I got rolling in 2013. In the UK there weren't any exchanges so LBC and other P2P options were the only games in town. Now most places will have a reasonably reputable exchange to hand.

I'd be much happier dealing with Coinbase vs some random asshole operating on a platform with KYC and limited competence.

I remember reading about him in American Kingpin, a book about Silk Road. He seems like a waaay sleazier character than Ross and was instrumental in sending Ross further down the rabbit hole than he probably ever intended.

However he has the luxury of the novelty of the whole thing having worn off and his sentence will reflect that.

OP, if someone is trying to offer you something that claims it can do that they're either trying to take your money and disappear or implant a virus in the download they give you.

If they could be brute forced this forum and Bitcoin itself would not exist.

You can get somewhere brute forcing old brain wallets which are private keys derived from phrases or passwords. Most people don't make them strong enough.

I absolutely despised every version of Linux I've ever tried. I wanted to smash my machine up every single time. I'd rather quit computing than use it.

You can run Windows 10 without a licence. It's much less irritating than Windows 7 was. I think all you get in a remind in the bottom right.

As for ransomware, if you don't have everything backed up by now that says more about you than it does about them.

But that's what many newcomers who've never traded in their entire lives do the moment they arrive on the scene. It's bizarre but they seem to think it's the fashionable thing to do. I hope they enjoy their utter ruin.

Eh? I've seen plenty of blind people out and about. None of them displayed any deafness too. You'd have to be seriously unlucky to endure both.

There are apps like this out there - https://www.bemyeyes.com/get-started  and banks have dedicated staff attached to it for online banking customers.

In theory you could have volunteers doing Bitcoin stuff through it though I've no idea how you'd figure out whether they could be trusted.

But blindness is a spectrum. Only a modest percentage are actually fully in the dark. The rest have degrees of degradation. Starting off with better visibility options could help a lot of people.

Why did I know this vid would have a robotic voice before even opening it?

Show yourself and let's hear your honeyed tones, laboured breathing and sloppy chops.

As for the theme of the vid, that's lovely. Have fun.