It's always the difference in how people see some news.
Some analyze what is happening, some are predicting what's going to happen and some are wishing something to happen because of this.
The Bitcoin adoption triggered by this mess is in the 3rd category and with small chances of changing to the second, as it lacks a lot of things.

Unfortunately, it's obvious is not happening right now, if any kind of migration would have happened since January from cash to BTC it would have been easily seen in the blockchain, there is no pick-up in transactions pace and the only increases happened exactly when the price was going up.
We have 200 000 000 people, assuming only half are getting some kind of payment and assuming again only 1 in a thousand would use BTC instead of $ you would still have 100k extra transactions in the chain or a lot of increase in LN funding, that ain't happening either.

Way to early to claim victory over traditional systems, when people area already familiar with digital payments the plan can be ste in motion but with them craving that much for cash I doubt they would want to embrace anything that is digital, be it CC or BTC


Pure curiosity, why 80% and why not 90% or 70%?
Also, if my clients would come each with a 80% chance of paying me I would probably close shop and think of a different career.

Never used Gemini so I don't have an account there to check if the video is up to date but you can give these instructions a try:
https://koinly.io/integrations/gemini/
Also this is from Gemini:
https://support.gemini.com/hc/en-us/articles/360031080191-How-do-I-create-an-API-key-

As for actual balance, it doesn't matter, they are required to keep your data exactly for this purpose so you'll probably be able to get all your history with no problem.

It's easy, have him give you the tx id!
I have a feeling this might be either a case of scamming or somebody had his computer infected with some clipboard malware.
Every transaction that is valid will appear in the blockchain, if he sent coins to somebody it will show where those coins went!

That aside, there is not possible to build a program that will automatically detect if the address you want to send coins to is the address your friend sent you via telegram or email, or any kind of new address generated by your exchange, in order to make sure you only send coins to selected addresses you will first have to insert them in that program's database so it will know them, which brings us to the address book NotATether mentioned.

It was already posted, here is the announcement
https://localbitcoins.com/service_closure/
Also the Twitter announcement a few hours ago:
https://twitter.com/LocalBitcoins/status/1623683223178862593

With a quarter million views in a few hours, it did trigger quite the reaction so it wasn't like LB was a deserted place, it still had users but probably they saw that the end is near and they have no chance of growing their activities even with a price increase. And maybe thy;ve made enough and had enough BTC stashed aside that any future gains from fee would simply not make sense compared to the headaches from the regulations they had to follow.

Still, not the news one would want to read.

Everyone is talking about Salvador but there is almost no interest here from the other country that has adopted Bitcoin, little news coming from the Central African Republic, and I was quite surprised when visiting a topic I happened to come across this piece of news:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/central-african-republic-eyes-legal-framework-for-crypto-adoption

All nice and so on but, wasn't Bitcoin already legal tender here, so what kind of "framework" do you need to approve?
And then, this thing :

https://african.business/2022/07/technology-information/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-central-african-republics-adoption-of-bitcoin/


https://www.theafricareport.com/226880/car-backs-down-from-implementing-cryptocurrency-law-in-exchange-for-beac-engagement/


There is a complete gap in news from July and I really can't find anything about the current situation, so what is from a legal point of view the situation right now there? I know we have quite a few users from Nigeria and other countries in the area but do we have members from CAR around? Would be interesting to hear from somebody who lives there!

Since the numbers I've quoted came from Russia itself:
https://tass.com/economy/1572381
double or triple them for the deficit, cut them in half for revenue and you're close to the truth.


Again it seems like you're missing the important point here.
If it's hard for you to buy stuff from people just because of the ruble converting issue, won't be just as hard to buy bitcoins with the same rubles?
It's simple logic, if I don't want to accept litecoin in my shop for coffee no way in hell I'm going to sell you my bitcoins for litecoin, right?


Trading volume is meaningless, you can have a look and compare the daily volume of Forex markets with the actual value of goods traded each day.
Forex does around 8 trillion a day while all global annual trade is 22 trillion, so 1/100.
Besides, those would be on-chain events and for on-chain volume in $ value is still the lowest since 2020.

Ok, I know from the start I'm biased here when it comes to a list of mixers, for obvious reasons, but I'm still curious how and why did you pick those three as examples. Let's go over the fact that you previously ignored the biggest and oldest, which makes this look like writing a review on e-commerce websites without amazon, but again, out of pure curiosity why those 3? I've never used them, I can see they are not the oldest around, not the cheapest, it's obviously not alphabetically order so...

Don't get me wrong, I just want to know to understand what people look at when reading or exploring a website what made them more attractive than others, and had you pick them from LeGaulois list?

One more thing, Tornado for example is not for BTC so you might update the lists by differentiating the coins they support

There was a topic about quitting your daily job to do bounty hunting, I can't remember the exact title and the keywords are not helping me but there is another funny one with Pain of bounty hunters
That's one hell for the topic, with some claiming that was the hardest job they've ever had! It's hard work clicking the same button over and over and over!


Probably a few years ago it was working but I really wonder nowadays if all those re-tweets and likes and posts with zero real engagement are actually helping even one bit, I've checked lately what Twitter is doing and it seems they are trashing these kinds of activities and hiding them at the bottom of the pages even if they have the tags you were searching for. Maybe as long as you pay them with money you print yourself at no cost probably they don't care about the results but those must be minimal.


Let's just hope it will be small scale one, the fact that they are not paying the promised share makes me think they haven't got enough money from "investors".

Nothing mysterious is BNB TokenHub used for cross chain
https://docs.bnbchain.org/docs/learn/system-contract/


They should contact Binance not post comments on a website.

Koinly for example works by providing it with your API key from Binance or Coinbase or other exchanges, at one point least some of them had also the possibility of a full dump of your transactions, but never ever entrust some random app downloaded from Gplay with your username and password.


If it was a single event even with multiple cryptos involved I don't think you need one, but if the purchases are spread and you also used different exchanges, yeah just go for an aggregator. There are a bunch that offers a free plan for under 100-1000 transactions.

Well, it's petty simple then.
Add your current revenues in case you would liquidate all your assets, I'm pretty sure a portfolio manager app could do that in a second and then compare with the results of purely holding Bitcoin. If your gains in $ are far larger than what you could have gained by simply holding BTC, or if with the alts you hold you could buy more coins then it means you did better than just holding. The problem in this that you have to look for is that the majority of your gains shouldn't be sourced from one single coin because that means you've simply gambled and one of the dark horses you picked won.

That being said, trading signals, meh! It's more like those old pump and dumps groups, really hard next to impossible to trust one with more than peanuts.


Enhance the skills of seeing lines and dots where there are none to be seen? A bit of weed would do the same! 
I still can't figure out why everybody is so focused on this TA when every damn week we have a move that breaks all previous rules and charts.

You should have done this before opening the topic. You see the reaction of other members, right?
With this topic where you accuse somebody of scamming but you have no proof you simply shot yourself in the foot and everyone will feel tempted to not believe your story and think it's something completely else as it happens a lot around here.
And this is not helping you either:


OKX just decided not to list your token or coin or whatever, FTX played with people's money they've entrusted to it, it's a completely different story, and to be honest, I simply couldn't care less about "projects" that have to pay to get listed on exchanges. I don't know if your "project" has someone working in advertising or marketing but it would be better to let somebody else be in charge of this.

Well, he did add a disclaimer that he isn't the one managing the campaign or in charge of it, so at least this one is clear:

but the thing with the fake profile is concerning.


I wonder how did this thing slip through, it's not even that much of a changed image, a simple google reverse search will return tens of results.
And the whole thing is really fishy: https://www.egold.farm/
So you buy plans of virtual hashes like in Farmville and this is supposed to earn you some virtual money that you can exchange only on their platform.  This is going to end badly.

The most important thing in all of this is right there in the middle of the text:


So, when you can do all this without some tokens or some blockchains, why even use tokens and blockchains?
To have something to sell to investors and to trick people into buying because there is nothing else?

How many times do we have to again start creating tokens for things that are working with them just perfectly, firth there were national coins, then all kind of smart contract coins, then the so-called utility coins for replacing Uber or DoorDash, then medical coins, then coin for properties, IoT, then art and NFT, then the whole Defi fiasco and now just another trend while we look back and there is nothing left of all the previous tries. Nothing!
Look at them:
https://cryptoslate.com/cryptos/ai/
and find one that has delivered something!

Again, this is Bitcoin mining, if you want to mine altcoins this is the section:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0
Just a head's up, the video card you're looking at is worth around ~$10k and is mining you 80 cents, so do the math for the ROI, is around 30 years!
/end shitcoin discussion


The first and most important thing, that will probably nullify all your future plans or make them far more attractive, the first thing you need to mention, is how much you pay for electricity in kw/h and how much can you get at those prices.
Because having free energy but a cap of 100kwh a month is not the same and far worse than 5cents/kwh and unlimited consumption.
If you want help, start providing us with info, otherwise, we're just guessing here.

Creeping up a bit in pace but still losing for the previous difficulty each day, probably indeed 3% if anything special doesn't happen. I keep checking the revenue per TH but it's still disappointing, I wonder how things would have looked if we didn't have the price jump at all.

For the first time, I (more my parents) actually used the heat from the miners, we got -12C , something that was normal a few years ago but completely weird now, so helping the gas and wood bills a bit on top of those few cents they make, but in two days is back to 10C. That said I doubt anything fantastic would happen because of changes from cold weather to hot weather and the other way around, and things like this will count more:

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/07/kazakhstans-president-signs-legislation-to-limit-energy-usage-of-crypto-mining/


More migration to texas?

Unless you're doing it with an undercover officer or you're always doing it in the same place with cameras all around and you start drawing attention from either bank employees or security guards it's probably the safest thing. Really hard for somebody to even start tracing you and on what grounds at all.
The hard part is trying to hide your wealth cause if you buy a 50k car while unemployed, then all your secret dealings were a joke.


He's not doing any of that, he accepted bitcoin for his business and now he stopped!
There is no solution for him, moving out of the country means losing his customers, and decentralized exchanges are of no help when you plan on accepting the currency as they don't protect you at all, there is simply no chance of him avoiding this the moment the authorities will enforce a complete ban and do punish lawbreakers. Again, this is only for the scenario where they actually care and enforce such a ban, but then all that is needed for him to get busted is a police officer coming into his shop asking him if he accepts bitcoin and there he has it, the moment he says yes it's game over!

I think some people are too lenient on those issues, it's not like they tried to build a rocket and this failed at launch, they, well, they did nothing! They issued a token (2 minutes), and they put up a mock-up of a shop website without even filling in basic parts, another 5 minutes. If I plan on taking payment from you with the promise of building you a house while I know nothing about that, I don't have any studies, any machinery, or anything but the first thing is to pay my friends and relatives out of that money is a scam from the start!


Are you sure about that?
On the last whitepaper the CTO is called Glen Huang
The image matches this:
https://www.theladders.com/expert/glen-huang-598f6f
and this:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/glen-huang-14b76358/

No sign of  any icechain mentioned anywhere, same for other team members that I got a hit on the images, so are you sure those people even know they are involved in this?

Then why use bitcoin in the first place? Why not rubles?
If a bank is accepting your payment in bitcoin as long as you're sanctioned it will obviously accept your payment in rubles also.
If someone is willing to sell you for crypto they will sell you for any kind of currency as long is convertible.
If your currency is not convertible, how do you plan on acquiring bitcoin with it? 


Heard that in '88, the USSR had no debt, a ton of oil and gas, and gold, we know how it ended.
And it was involved in a war in Afghanistan, not Ukraine, at a time when Ukraine was a part of the USSR.


A bit hard to not get their point, it has been like this since Lenin, the west is eating hamsters and burning rat dropping to keep warm while Russians live the best life on this planet. I've said it before, if you would have listened to the radio before the fall of the Union you could have sworn the US is fighting in a civil war and French men are cooking frog legs because they have no wheat or corn or meat left.

That's the thing with different cases, the completely free movement without control is only for the Schengen area Bulgaria, Romania, and Cyprus still have full border control, and passing from Romania to Hungary in theory should be just like entering Italy from Tunisia, the fact the controls are more relaxed for EU citizens doesn't really matter, and since OP is from Romania, things are different than for the rest of us. He will have to go through those controls, thus the risks of running into an imbecile that wants to make a quota of seized...something.

As for the Bitcoin issue, it's pretty simple and once they will take their time to adopt clear laws specifically for it it will most likely be required to declare it just as cash and gold, the logic is pretty simple (for them)
- you enter with cash, gold, bitcoins, nobody can track where you have spent it and whom you have given it to
- you enter with 1 million on a debit card, it still can be tracked, ATM, resort hotel, shop, casino it's there

That's all they care about, they will not listen to logical things like the fact that you could send those coins while you're over the Atlantic ocean, toss your phone in the Mediterranean, and still those coins would get into the country without them being able to stop, it's far easier to make other do something.


Doesn't work like that, all the money is seized in that situation, but again, seized and not confiscated since confiscation is possible in the EU only with a final decision on individual cases, so even if the border guards do seize your cash you still have a chance to get them back. If the court decides you haven't provided enough evidence of ..a lot of things, lol, like source, the fact that you did this without ulterior motive and so on, then they get confiscated and are gone for good.

That being said I've traveled before 2007 a few times with sums over that amount into Germany and Austria, and they didn't give a damn, never bothered to actually check the amount, signed the papers and get out of here already!