Long tail.

The market will be bigger and bigger, that's what we have to bet on. And if the market is really big, we'll have options for everyone. Probably exchange deregulated, do not ask for KYC or even completely decentralized will exist.

But Binance wants to attract more and more institutional investors. And for that it has to conform to some regulations.

The problem here is not with Bitcoin, but with the OP. How does someone buy a car like that? Even if he had used another method that could be reversed, what OP did would be extremely risky. If you had transferred money into the seller's account, sent money in the mail or even used the card. The problem is not the method, but the lack of research on who would be selling the car for you.

"Blandina’s primary focus will be to develop use cases for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in the real word. As a digital payments specialist, Blandina served as head of payments and credit engineering at PayPal and director of engineering for Google Wallet at Google."

That completely changes my perspective on Bakkt. They are investing in hiring people with a high degree of knowledge about creating technology products. It seems to me that they have a much greater perspective on the future of Bitcoin. Not just another speculative product. But something that will be used.

Honestly, looking at the company website does not seem to me to be the UK's largest travel company. But it is very important to note that it is a company that provides services to the corporate world. That is, if they are accepting Bitcoins, it means that other companies are willing to use Bitcoins as a means of payments

At some point, Putin will be considered one of the most successful thieves in history. It is impossible to have the dimension of the wealth that he has accumulated. And I do not think Bitcoin will be the solution to this problem. Nor will be more harmful.

Hiding money is not the hardest. Changing its origin is what it is. Money stained with blood, oil or cocaine will never be clean.

It would be interesting if other forks that have little innovation over Bitcoin were also gradually forgotten. Bitcoin gold, diamond etc. These are projects that bring far more benefits to developers than to the community.

Because there is a driver in Argentina who accepts Bitcoins. And because you have the possibility to buy e-cards using BTC and several conversions later use to pay for Uber.

But the reality is that it is just a clickbaiting. Another one. Websites try to turn random comments into news.

I can not believe I did not see your topic. If I had, I would have made you an offer.

But it is imperative that an escrow is used in negotiations like this. There is nothing the forum can do to help you recover the money; As the payoneer does not offer the opportunity to dispute, it is very difficult to recover the money using their services. But it is still possible to lock the user account if you provide enough evidence. And make DT1 member negative the scam profile here in the forum.

"It would have been nice to get this attention in any other context.  WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet's nest, and the swarm is headed towards us."

I will always consider that phrase a great enigma left by Satoshi. I think it's possible to draw a number of conclusions about Satoshi's positioning. Were his fears about Bitcoin not yet ready for massive use, or about government and society having the wrong impression about the use and possibilities offered by Bitcoin? Was he afraid they would put Bitcoin in the same category as the Liberty Reserve? Or that it had the same fate?

I believe that at least 30% of the Brazilians who at some point said they had traded Bitcoins were actually participating in some HYIP. And the number of people who said they were mining Bitcoins, but were actually part of a HYIP, should reach 80%.

There are only a few, very few who have a real idea of what Bitcoin was all about. Most want to invest fiat into something that will give you great returns in a short amount of time.

Some people are being very radical. The interesting thing about this proposal is that you can only have Bitcoins in your "savings account" and still buy practically anything. You no longer need to have fiat, for ordinary purchases, if you live in a country served by that card. It is one of the first steps, not the last one, to use Bitcoin as a store of value.

Companies that already offer various trade options and are licensed in the major markets do not have the means to operate accepting deposits or withdrawals using Bitcoins. What they offer are papers. There is no interaction with Blockchain. This occurs not only with Bitcoins but also with gold and several other products. There is no obligation to own that good to negotiate.

That is, it is just a comfortable way to speculate by complying with all legal requirements and offering low risk to the company.

If you want to withdraw or deposit Bitcoin at a trading table and speculate with them, you will have to take a number of risks including depositing Bitcoin in a company whose owners and headquarters are completely unknown.

I think it's fantastic, I'm against banning. And I hope more people will be able to produce posts so good that companies are willing to pay for their brands to be exposed there. But of course, that everything should be done in a transparent way and with the proper permission of the admin.

Some time ago, I had even suggested that we had an exclusive section for long reads. A place where people could create texts in the style of those that are posted in Medium and that they could receive "sponsorship" for their texts in that section.

Bitcoin should flow...

Esse ponto central acaba sendo importante para atrair investidores institucionais e pessoas inseguras. Era complicado e arriscado investir em ICO. Precisava entender muitas coisas, pesquisar demais.

Uma empresa que deseja fazer o seu IPO muitas vezes utiliza um banco para trabalhar a parte burocrática e fazer todo o trabalho de relacionamento e propaganda.  Acho que eventualmente teremos algo assim, que não é uma exchange, mas um HUB. Isso para os projetos que não se propoem a "substituir" o Bitcoin. E com isso poderia começar a concorrer com os IPO.

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Infelizmente o tópico foi movido pro limbo das "moedas alternativas". Não acho que discussão sobre ICO e IEO é tão off-topic em relação ao Bitcoin. Mas entendo pq moveram o tópico.

What I would really like to see is that these discussions were not legal disputes. With lawyers and laws being used.

It is the only possibility that fraud is recognized as true. Since lawyers can distort everything. There are ways he can prove to be Satoshi that they would leave no doubt. Since he never succeeded in any of these attempts, let us forget him and move on.

I'm active in the Portuguese section. But I recently became Hero receiving most of the merits from well-respected members of the community in different sections of the forum. I received merits in 25 or 26 different sections.

Apparently it's an altcoin, or a token. There is a section for this type of discussion, which is not this one. And it sucks that kind of post here. Because it forces you to research what the hell that is. Since it could be something new related to Bitcoin. Then you find out you're a spamer posting something useless.

That would not be easy to do. I do not believe there is any link between the IP used by a person to create a Wallet and the Bitcoin address that he used to receive resources. Much more information would have to be used. And it would be so time-consuming and so many steps and authorizations that it would be easier to investigate using another method.

I'm still waiting for a test to find out where the resistance is. Many alts have made big gains, and it is likely that we will have big sales. This will give Bitcoin liquidity for a few days until the resistance is tested. As at the weekend the volume is minimal, it is very likely that we will see abrupt movements of speculators.

It is very unlikely that I install this wallet. While understanding what they want to offer, a wallet that does not serve on-chain transactions is of no use to me either now or in the near future. I would have to have at least two or three wallets on my smartphone and be sending funds between them while I was going to use them.