More and more exchanges and service providers are going to ask their users for proof of identity. This is the path we've been heading for for years now.

Take precaution even when it comes to non-KYC exchanges. First of all, they could be either a scam (I'd personally advise you not to ever deposit any money on YoBit for example) or they could offer very bad prices compared to spot (instant exchanges usually do that).

And then, no KYC doesn't mean you should trust them. Always keep your money off any website. Keep the money in your wallet, not in others'. The fastest & best way you might be able to get some BTC without proof of identity could be ATMs. I absolutely love them. Visit https://www.coinatmradar.com/ and look for one nearby - just make sure you check whether they have KYC (could be KYC from a certain sum and above, say >$1k) or not.

Porci. Asa e cand ti se urca la cap si ai impresia ca incepi sa domini pe piata.. te arunci cu capu' inainte si probabil intri si in zid Eu n-am prea avut incredere de cand am patit faza cu KYC, prefer sa merg pe ceva pur (Firefox) decat sa ma bag in alte software-uri modificate.. desi folosesc Tor destul de des, insa din motive evidente


Client cu care sa mearga contul tau de Gmail, corect? Nu stiu daca are rost sa treci de la unu' la altul din moment ce tot Google e provider-ul de serviciu de posta electronica..

Eu nu ma bat prea mult cand vine vorba de mail, e aceeasi treaba ca la telefonie: degeaba schimbi tu cartele si operatori, tot esti ascultat ca vrei sau nu

Bitcoin might be decentralized, but that doesn't make it non-bannable. It's as simple as declaring any Bitcoin tx a crime (or however it'd be called). Imagine a private network created by & for drug dealers - would it be left alone by intel because it's decentralized?

You could give me Tor as an counter-example, but how many of those using Tor do you think are really using it the right way leaving no identity trace behind? Most of those downloading it are using JavaScript and logging into their personal accounts through it. Now comparing Tor with a private network created by drug dealers, we're talking about the average Joe who is unconsciously accessing illegal sites (or falls in CIA's trap by paying for some "red rooms" or "hitman" fake services created by them to catch criminals) with drug dealers who obviously learn how to properly use the private network not to get caught.

Every little backdoor we leave makes it easier for the authorities to find out who you are and what's your business. I highly doubt that at least one intel agency from US doesn't have some software that makes identifying BTC users an easier job - something like an AI-powered blockchain analysis.. They have tech decades more advanced than us, this could be as easy as 1-2-3 if they right now own the perfect tool to do this.

Monero is the best example you could've given: it's starting to lose ground, isn't it? It's a quite hot topic right now that Monero is getting delisted from big exchanges and I doubt it's a decision taken by the exchanges' will. Look at what happens when you use CoinJoin and then place your money on an exchange - you get your funds locked, don't you?

It's because using these features the right way makes you an almost invincible target for the intel agencies willing to see what's up with you.

Buying BTC is basically going against the system we are living in. This is how it helps - you're making moves against it as some kind of revolt. This has no connection to the newcomers abandoning us fast - if that's what they're willing to do, they'll do it whether they bought to protest against racism or not.

I used to think that short-term players are damaging the Bitcoin but it's not really true.. Whoever notices the real potential of it will stay and that's what truly matters.

Glad to hear we're getting at least a bit of normality back. Although I highly suspect a "2nd wave" will come in soon, but let's at least enjoy the few weeks/months we have ahead.

Casinos in Romania are open again AFAIK, but some owners placed physical mobile walls between machines that don't even allow them to communicate with each other anymore which is quite absurd.. Better than nothing anyway.

Are we going to trust the words of someone descending from Pablo's family tree? Although it's not Pablo himself, it's going to be quite hard for me and most others to trust any of his relatives. Especially after his Diet Bitcoin, which turned into a huge fail and possible scam (heard of it before the launch, but never kept up to date with it).

At this point, it's probably going to be pretty hard even for Satoshi himself to come out and prove he's the legit one especially if he hasn't planned for his identity reveal from the beginning.

Whenever a coin immediately pops up after a certain event (virus.. death..), you should immediately know it probably is a scam. A legit project doesn't take a week to launch, it takes months or even years to build something that has a possible future.

Next up we probably have BLM Token on the waiting list..

Well, that isn't necessary. You can start some online business without having to manufacture anything, for example you could try doing dropshipping - or you could offer what you already are talented at. I said it kinda makes sense as it would mean only approximately 0.1% of the population (so 1 in 1000) have started a business. That would sound good, but I don't have the number of people losing their businesses which could be much higher

Edit: here you go - according to your article's numbers, 1 in 1000 have started a business while almost 1 in 10 people are unemployed since the plandemic.

Edit 2: So according to the brief description of a CNBC article (can't open it without JavaScript apparently), 8 in 10 people have temporarily closed their businesses and 7.5 million businesses are at risk of closing. If 8 in 10 are temporarily closed, I'd expect MANY of them filing bankruptcy within months. If you take a step back and look at the bigger picture, the 345k new businesses are nothing

Edit 3: Found an article from The Guardian from 2018 stating that the real number of businesses in the US is around 7.8M... I'm giving up honestly!

If the FBI, CIA & NSA could've never traced a Bitcoin tx since they heard of it, I bet it would've been banned long ago. Bitcoin serves us as the financial freedom we need in a semi authority-compliant way and that's enough - for anonymity, as others said before me too, there are other coins out there that you can use.

But as we can see, anonymity is one step closer to extinction every day. If even prepaid cards are going to require an ID in all of the EU, then I don't know how someone could expect privacy coins not to have a bit of trouble sooner or later. On the other hand though, they do serve an amazing purpose and OTC trading will still be a thing if you're a privacy seeker.

The top pro when it comes to cryptocurrencies is that you have a choice. I mean, you have way more choices than you should've had but you do have reliable coins to cover +90% of your purposes with.

Romania's government announced that we had an economical growth in the first quarter of 2020.

345k new businesses kinda makes sense though, as lots of people lost their jobs. The first thing I have personally thought when quarantine was triggered here is that it'd be amazing if everyone would move away from being slaves of the system and start living off their own business.

Read these two parts out loud again because most of you who say these things don't even realize how fascist you guys sound - and then call out somebody who simply wants to have a little bit of entertainment for how wrong it is!

Considering I have family members who are now out of money and food because the unemployment caused by the virus, would you say the same? Let them die but don't let them out that house because you better die of ensured poverty & hunger than possibly dying from the virus? Because going to work or visiting a casino isn't much of a difference, is it.. I mean, with gambling you even have a chance to make your situation better financially while having a bit of fun too! Moreover, you can go there and earn a buck without having to be employed at all!

Here's the thing: if I want to visit a casino and play there and assume the risk of dying while you want to stay barricaded at home without ever interacting with a human again, why should I be enforced into a lockdown because you think it's dangerous to be outside and gamble? I mean, before 2020 I never knew my own government (or other strangers that never even got to know about my existence) took this much care of me and my life as if I was a little baby..

Some people voluntarily join the army and go to a war consciously knowing the risk out there is very high. Read the statement I quoted above from you once again and put it into the context of a voluntary soldier who wants to go to war. Since when does everyone care about what kind of risks I or others are willing to take..? It's you who thinks it's dangerous to be out in the nature, not me!

At that point, the thief is relying solely on trust. He trusts the paid bodyguards, the bribed judges, the pulled strings just because of the money he has. At one point, the bodyguards themselves could steal and he would never even notice as the trust is too high - or the judges could be given an even higher bribe by a millionaire/billionaire to give that atheist thief a hard to digest sentence.

It's just common sense. You don't steal something somebody else has worked hard for. It's about being fair to everyone else. I never even thought of stealing as a sin or anything related to religion. It's a society thing really. How do you convince an atheist criminal or an atheist rapist that killing people or torturing them is wrong?

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This.

We have to face reality: we'll all be infected with this virus at some point, so herd immunity is really going to claim the least number of lives. The consequences of running a lockdown for many consecutive months are way, way harsher than going for herd immunity.

Casinos reopening will actually help herd immunity happen faster. Let those who don't want to take risks sit at home and those who assume the risk gamble. But keeping everything closed down will only delay the occurring events. Some people are in a very bad depression and willing to join some entertaining activities to forget about all the crap that's happened in the past six months. I believe it's a smart, although already kinda late, move to reopen casinos and other entertainment POIs.

Part of the high-risk category of people that are prone to the virus lethality will unfortunately die from a vaccine secondary effects or from .. herd immunity at some point. It's about the possibility of dying from a virus vs the ensurance of claiming many, many lives from the adverse effects of lockdowns.

The Gold market is around (or more than) $10T. Bitcoin's is under $180B at the time of writing this reply, so we're looking at a >50x difference. 50x is a lot when it comes to how easy you can manipulate the market. Being used in so many industries around the world, Gold is much harder to destabilize than BTC which helps Bitcoin's volatility continue.

Bitcoin might be volatile right now and might've crashed once stocks fell too, but why do we always forget that BTC is still a little kid compared to Gold's centuries of history? Let's be honest, none of us knew what's going to happen when Bitcoin fell a few months ago. We do not have enough history data to know.

So whether it's a "safe haven" or not is still something that remains to be seen. Too early to ask imo.

I think the UBI is still years from happening. We first need an Universal Minimum Wage (which is in progress in the EU right now) as a half-step towards the UBI.

However, to me it looks like a double edged sword. UBI sounds great as you have a guaranteed income no matter what happens with your life, but I guess there'll be conditions to qualify for a monthly payment and it won't be as utopic as it sounds. The "Universal" part of its name very well leads me to the NWO theory where there must be 1 race, 1 religion, 1 police, universal language, universal income etc.

That's mostly speculation though, but I do start to see we're slowly moving that way.

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After the lockdown I surely won't go out and buy things like I used to 6 months ago. It's radically changed my way of thinking and organizing my financial assets and most people have started spending their savings in this timeframe or losing their jobs and relying on borrowed money from their siblings.

I don't think money's going to "flow smoothly" again for a long time.

Most of those who legit only wanted to create something out of Bitcoin were among the first persons to develop something on the Bitcoin blockchain. For example, Gavin Andresen's faucet. It gave away a lot of Bitcoins that he could've kept for himself.

The issue entrepreneurs most often encounter is that when you get the first taste of power, there's a quite high chance you get addicted to it. In consequence, the initial thought and plan of "developing something unique and big for BTC" turns into a plan of profit and control only. This is the reason for +70% of the cases where you have a website that launches as an amazing service and, day by day, starts getting one step more intrusive when it comes to your personal life.

Trying to make a profit and an earning out of everything means doing just that. And when you already have a large userbase, getting more intrusive might overpay the number of users you lose.

Google is actively working with different states and their authorities. Especially with intel agencies, which strip most of the privacy off you. Google or Huawei, it's mostly the same crap. Hell, a "free" corporation in a "free" country might have even more power than Huawei earns by working with the CCP. I'd argue that the in-depth personnel of intel is most likely as "control freak" as the front leadership of the Communist Party.

I'd rather think the owners of these "cloned sites" went to a design team that (in)directly took inspiration from other casinos. It's quite risky to clone a website and launch it as your own. If you take a look at CMC vs CoinGecko for example, it's mostly the same UI too but I don't think I've ever heard of issues Gecko had because of that.

Unique designs cost more AFAIK. My previous attempts to create online shops ended up that way. It's much easier for a web design team to work on something they already partially have in mind rather than thinking it all from zero. The more unique you want it, the more time and resources it takes => the more money you have to pay.

Now circle the ears and tell me where exactly do they look the same. Wouldn't have denied this if it was obvious the cab movie guy looked identical, but he does not.

+ it would've been kinda.. stupid to choose a movie actor that clearly has his face on a movie poster as a false flag actor. By the same supposition you could also agree that the Keanu Reeves is immortal meme is legit as he shares the same facial features as some guy from 1530.