I tend to agree with this, you can partially being anonymous but not completely being anonymous.
Because when we're using virtual cards, you can just make up a fictitious name and address for the card holder or even your phone number which not completely anonymous.  

Totally anonymous payment system?  I think using crypto is the perfect answer being having full anonymity and then use a crypto mixer service to clean your coin and transfer it into your main digital wallet.  Whereas presumably, all debit cards aren't completely anonymous.

For sure they're weak hands and followed by FUD triggered by the famous influencer.

I consider those big institutions who invested in Bitcoin it seems like a whale too.  Just because when they will decide to sell their Bitcoin it has always had an effect on the market.  So it's normally on us that there are institutional investors rushing and investing in Bitcoin and in a short period of time they will selling their Bitcoin after they saw that they already profited, like what Elon Musk did.

But despite this negative side that I had insight into Institutional investors that invested in Bitcoin, don't forget that Bitcoin is still young and it's around 12-13 years of existence, and the network becomes more mature even though there's no infinite growth but there's potential to be more sophisticated financial products.

I tend to agree with this, and if OP will blindly accept the terrible fees or else you might be annoyed with the possible high fee especially the multi-cryptocurrency wallet mentioned above the Coinomi.  Most multi-cryptocurrency wallets have a feature of high fee in swapping coins, instead of using them just directly use an exchange and transfer to your hardware wallet which is also suggested above and I prefer the Ledger wallet.

You just have two options, if your purpose is to keep your coins for a long period of time just use a hardware wallet and if you want to swap/trade your coin use a legitimate exchange with a low withdrawal fee.  For Bitcoin, just keep this only for the Bitcoin wallet alone, it safer than using a multi-cryptocurrency wallets.

Thank you for the heads up OP, it seems those who didn't know if this phishing link will fall as their next victim.  That's why I didn't log out of my account on PC, that's totally a red flag when you open a link and ask to re-login your account while on the other tab your account was already logged in.

Not only by that but there's also a locked topic of List of scam / fake bitcointalk sites that need to update and it seems OP was inactive for a long time.

A good thread to remember upon the step of checking the potential phishing links here in the forum.

Unfortunately, I'd enter the crypto market in late 2017 and it might I don't understand technically what is double top in 2013.

But based on this thread, the historical correction of Bitcoin since day one was we're only at 51% based on the chart.

But yet, we can't predict the market price accurately so we're all here having an assumption that it will resist right after this correction, it seems there's an opposite reaction or a V shape on the market price.  Who knows, if you still have faith, just keep holding if you didn't see your profit yet.

I tend to agree and not only on the crypto exchange, but it's also in online gambling casinos.  There's a lot of review websites that aim for an affiliate's program and might we ask them how much they will earn per month or annum.  Like BTCGUSO Bitcoin casino guide and reviews, it might how many months they had run their service successfully and now, I didn't have doubt that they have a passive earning in different cryptos those who registered the gambling site under their affiliation.

That's a good mindset and accumulating even a small amount will still worth it in the future.  But, if you're free for a whole day and didn't have important work to do that has a better opportunity to earn money than collecting faucets.

I personally advise that during this time investing in Bitcoin is highly recommended.
However, before you invest you should know that you have to handle the risk.  If you heard about the person who took his life because he thought that the correction is already done and all his assets have been liquidated?  I don’t want you to experience the same.

You should agree with yourself to track the price actively, as every minute counts in Bitcoin especially today.  Bitcoin is currently on its way to recovery I should say and during this time, it’s better to invest in Bitcoin with a short term profit goal, the ATH and increases might take longer, and possibly, the correction would persist, so I think you have to take advantage of the bitcoin’s volatile market today as it still has chances to increase in the next coming days.  Good luck with your decision and don't forget DYOR.

I've done this before and they almost got me by their trick, luckily ain't greedy enough to fooled by them.  This isn't new for me and any strange people who sent PM me on Telegram will always put on ignore especially those people who will ask for financial help or offer that you think something good but that's a trap.

Presumably, you received this message through Telegram, I'm right?

Always verify any website that you may encounter and how old are them, start to doubt if that's an unfamiliar website and I tend to agree above.  Be careful always those services that offer deposit first before you will able to withdraw fund and lucky enough you didn't fall into their trap.

Back then, airdrop, faucet, and affiliation might consider as a good way to earn Bitcoin for free but for now, I don't see that's still effective since you almost spend most of your time before you will earn a tiny fraction of Bitcoin which not worth with your precious time.

If you have good technical skills and other services that you can offer and accepting Bitcoin as a payment, that's a good way of how to earn crypto.
Most likely, don't expect there's someone who generously giving free Bitcoin to random people, the fact is, don't expect someone will give you nothing in return.

TBH, if you're actively contributing a good discussion here in the forum and then you will be accepted is a signature campaign that pays cryptocurrencies, that's considerable for me the best way to earn crypto.  Because trading like scalping won't give me benefits in trading.

I tend to agree, bubble is somehow different and you can only consider an asset having a bubble if some undisclosed circumstances affected its value and mostly the bubbly is caused by the founders and the initiator's actions.

This won’t apply to Bitcoin. Not only because Bitcoin is a decentralized one, everything in Bitcoin is transparent enough not to be suspected of bubble.

The correction is justified, China just banned all the financial institutions to serve cryptocurrency-related services, not just that, miners are forced to move their mining rigs somewhere offshore, then we all know that these could affect the price generally.

People who fears of Bitcoin having a bubble are the people who should know more about Bitcoin.  We all agreed and knew the pros and cons of Bitcoin as we enter and stay.  These circumstances don’t affect that, it’s not new to us anymore.

It seems they're just a part of those big players in the crypto market.
IMO, the Chinese government is only proving that they really are control freaks, they want things under their control, even when the consequence of that is to ruin other people’s labors.

Imagine miners who just established themselves and just invested their earnings for the rigs?  What does their government think would happen to them now?  They can’t use the sudden decrease of the value as the reason why they want it banned, the truth is that they are planning something that would soon be published globally.  They shouldn’t expect that our community would support that. Never ever.

They try to find things to blame so they can execute their agendas well.  But I don’t think that would be the result, they will regret their decisions with Bitcoin in the future I can tell.

There's no infinite growth so the correction was expected but not this soon.  This is where people who have fears to miss outbreak their hearts and that’s why you should always think about how your emotions go and control it.  Avoid being impulsive and quickly make decisions without any backups (or that's they called FUD).

I'm a LONG-TERM investor, and I know that things go wrong along the way, having backups and knowing the risk is vital to having great investments.
For now, the decision I have that I find wise is to get Bitcoin with the altcoins I collected with the services I provided previously so just in case, the next correction won’t hurt me.

I think the people who lost here must learn that cryptocurrency investment is no joke and not a source of easy money.  Risk is big enough that would make someone suicide with their loss.

I tend to agree and as I can see, Tesla’s CEO is really good at framing the mass in a way that they become somehow hypnotized.  The company really is capable of having good and innovative technologies.  The only problem is that they less at execution and mass production and that is too important in the industry they have chosen.

Tesla stocks or shares are having value not because they earn good profits, it’s because the company is promising enough to convince them.  That's a too important set of skills the executives have to have on their skill sets.

It just works fine now, but when the time comes, Tesla will be forced to mass produce as if they are not able to it, then they would go down massively IMO.

I think this would only be beneficial to people who earn $1M gains per year outside the business industry like artists and sportspeople.
Business people have a lot of options in the market and ETF is just one of those.  And I don’t think that all of the businesses would reach 1$M annually on their revenue.  They might consider scaling in so they can avoid tax burdens as Uncle Joe is becoming unfriendly with capitalists.

Business people would instead re-invest their assets and gains to properties/real estates, taxes are possibly less especially with better execution of the accountant, and so on.

IMO, ETF on the other hand is somehow risky to some.  Not all of the rich have time to trade and learn to trade, they just don’t give a damn.
Aside from that, possibly that it would also make their assets liquidated really bad.  Just my two cents though.

I don't have much experience in trading and I'm outdated using Binance exchange but here's what I say.  Move your balance out quickly and find other exchanges that you didn't annoy.

I saw a lot of complaints regarding this but I think this is just because they included/charges more fees.
BTW, have you read the terms before using Binance?

Each exchange platforms have different strategies for how to gain profit and it might this token pump and dump will Binance gain more profit.  So, you need to understand first how their trading mechanism works including the fees to which way you can save on it, I've heard using their BNB coin will traders can have lesser fees than using other cryptos.

This is the problem in most micro traders, use their coin if you wanted to save fees or else, just a quick tip, stop using them if you aren't comfortable using them.

That's the reason why I didn't open emails on my spam inbox, most likely this kind of message that you will receive is in the spam inbox.

I have some questions in my mind, how this hacker know your email address?  
We should always separate the emails that have a valuable asset for us, separate to our frequently used especially in mobile that prone to hack.  Once we receive emails like this, it's probably time to change your emails or change your password.

I never heard this but it seems they are widely spreading at this moment.
I read on this article.

Trading isn't an easy way of making money, there are consequences that might you might lose or gain if you're lucky enough.
So, here's my advice.

• Have proper research for each new projects come
• Do you own research and don't rely upon other's opinion
• Study those technical and fundamental analyses, they are very useful in trading
• Study all possible trading strategies that you might be used

It takes years for me before I jumped into trading, it might be safe if you will focus on a long-term investment than trading, but it's your call.  Your money, your own risk.

Presumably, that's their hot wallet.

I'd used this wallet maybe 2 years ago and I have never been encounter such a problem until I switched to a non-custodial wallet instead of a web wallet because I feel unsafe using a web wallet.  It might once you have a problem is not just easy to fix for them, in short, they had poor customer support and you're very lucky once you get answered from them.

I suggest you guys stop using a very buggy web wallet, there are too many open-source wallets out there to use, it's safe and you have full control over your private key.

This isn't the official web portal of the blockchain wallet, it's obviously a scam site if you will use them.

It seems I heard different issues the same as yours and there's no clear answer from them if the problem has been resolved.  The same happening on this Reddit thread that I have found and it was posted two months ago, someone Kraken staff answered there but there's no clear response at the end if the problem has been fixed.

This is might very risky for them to recover your fund and might lead them to be compromised their hot wallet, if I'm not mistaken, they ask for payment for this and if you are willing to pay, probably there could be a chance.

First thing first, you should learn how to store your crypto assets correctly because that is very important and never forget the private key that under your control.  Crypto investment in the long term is a good idea and I rather say, focus on Bitcoin investment which is safe and we know that it will always have ATH every 5 years I think based on the history.

To tell you frankly, trading and investment are different things here.  Trading is very risky if you don't know the technical stuff, it won't work while investment is sort of safe because all you have to do is wait for the perfect time of selling and when your profit was there.  I may advise, learn first and have your own research before you will start in trading.