So it only took them 7 years to realize that they were wrong, and I sincerely doubt that they came to that conclusion on their own - because all those who still think that Mr. Mars did something good for Bitcoin, well look at how much damage he actually did with his idiotic statements about how bad Bitcoin is for the environment. I'm sure that at that time, under the influence of his statements, many people came to believe that Bitcoin is actually something bad, and unfortunately most still think so today.

And all this came from a man who fights for a "green planet" while at the same time buying cobalt from African mines where children work for $1 or $2 a day.

This information is almost unimportant to me, because it does not show how good/bad an AV is, but only that a certain percentage of people use it.  Even if these data are correct, it only means that those companies that are at the top have cheaper products or better marketing, not necessarily that they are better than some other AVs that are not even mentioned in the list.

The average user is not qualified to evaluate the functionality or level of protection of a particular AV anyway, and the choice mainly boils down to the fact that the software is not too expensive and has an eye-pleasing interface.

It is simply their price at which they make a profit, because if you look at the price for which they buy and sell, then you can clearly see that the difference is about 1500 CAN dollars, which is again about 1000 CAD dollars more than the average price you would pay if you were buying on some CEX. Such crypto exchanges that are of a local type and do not have a lot of liquidity usually have much higher prices than those globally positioned.

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Every "normal" crypto exchange will allow you to withdraw your coins to any wallet, including Ledger. There are some services that offer the purchase of cryptocurrencies, but do not allow users to withdraw them to their wallet, but that's why you should always read the terms of service (TOS).

@safar1980, thank you for sharing the article, it is very interesting information and just one more proof that Serbia is a country for every criminal looking for a safe haven. You can live there without fear of being caught or extradited, and for $1 you can open a company and continue what you were doing before.

One detail from the article is particularly interesting to me, because it claims that investigators from South Korea visited Serbia in January of this year, but the Serbian authorities allegedly did not know where De Kwon was, even though he had officially registered the company under his own name. Knowing their mentality, I believe that they wanted to avoid the arrest happening on their soil, which they managed in the end - and now I wouldn't be surprised if they concluded that De Kwon and his helper were in Montenegro the whole time.

You could satisfy your "concerns" in one of at least 5 threads discussing this issue, and there you could find various speculations about what may or may not be found on those 7TB of data. The only options you have are to ask those who seized the data, or to wait for further developments.

I posted a link in my previous post, but the news was allegedly leaked from an internal memo sent to employees. Everything else that I wrote in that post indicates that it is another skillful manipulation, because even though everyone is caught up on the fact that T is supposedly worth 50% less than a few months ago, no one comments on the second part of the message that the company could one day be worth at least ten times as much ($250 billion).

As for the employees, apparently only those who think like the boss are left, and anyone who had any other opinion got a kick in the ass. However, if he needs workers, he can always hire them very cheaply in countries where he has to pay much less than in the US.

@Fivestar4everMVP, I don't know exactly what you are looking for, but if you want to pay in Bitcoin, maybe you could look at a site like this one : https://spending-bitcoin.com/

Of course, there is always a risk when you buy from unknown sites and pay with Bitcoin, but it's always good to have an alternative when everything else fails.

Unfortunately, many of those who do BTC transactions have never heard of something called RBF (replace by fee), and even if they have, they still have a problem because they use online wallets (CEX) that do not have this option. For beginners, such things can be quite confusing, but as I saw on the forum, even for some older members.

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It is true that the fee may be the same, but still the total price of the transaction depends on the size of the transaction. For example, you can make a transaction in which you send 0.10 BTC to one user, and that transaction will have one input and two outputs (recipient+change address) and let's say you will pay a fee of $1. In the second case, someone can also send the same amount of BTC, but the difference will be more inputs (address from which BTC will be sent) and more outputs, i.e. multiple recipients.

The first and second transactions will undoubtedly be different in size, which means that the second transaction will be more expensive than the first, regardless of the fact that they use the same fee.

There is nothing strange or worrying in that statement, because similar statements could be read in the past from many central banks and similar institutions. On the one hand, it's smart to warn people what they're getting into so they don't knock on the wrong door later when things go downhill, but on the other hand, let everyone decide what they want to invest their money in, as long as it is something legal.

However, what can be interesting about this statement is the moment in which it was made public - and the data for March 2023 say that in this month alone, about $286 billion of deposits were withdrawn from banks, and a good part of that money went to institutions like Fidelity, JPM or Goldman Sachs. Given that some of them also have links to cryptocurrencies (especially Fidelity), we should not be surprised that such statements are being released right now.

On the other side of the big pond, similar warnings could be heard in the past.

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I would not agree that this is some kind of complete downfall of this company, but that Mr. Mars only decided on one move in which he tries to increase the value of the company by offering employees to buy so-called "stock grants".  What the OP missed was that another internal memo allegedly appeared in which Mr. Mars states the following:

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From everything we can read, it can be concluded that T is not currently worth as much as it was paid for, but I doubt that its value has halved in such a short time.

It is not realistic that this will happen, because cryptocurrencies are mostly advertised as something that can possibly bring big profits with very modest investments. Considering that millions of people live in very poor living conditions and that they see their chance for success in such things, there should be no doubt that the flow of money into such projects will continue and maybe even increase.

If we add to that no or insufficient IT literacy, then the problem becomes even bigger because for many it is no longer just a "bad investment" but also a problem with various scams that have only one outcome, which is financial loss.

Another example of what it looks like when a bounty hunter decides to be smart with the help of AI.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5446324.msg61983790#msg61983790 (https://archive.ph/OYBzT)

If you were to look at the FIFA ranking and individual quality, then Serbia has the advantage, although it should be taken into account that Montenegro has the advantage of the home field, and that it started well in the qualifiers with a victory against Bulgaria away from home. In addition, this match is a little more than football because Montenegro has been fighting against the strong influence of Serbian politics for years and the relations between the two countries are quite tense.

Because of all this, the domestic football association and UEFA declared this match as a match of increased security risk.

Maybe it's just greed, and maybe company B is doing so badly that they had to take a risk and start providing their services where they are prohibited. However, I would take those numbers with a grain of salt, because every Chinese CEX has proven to manipulate all possible data in the past.


I would not agree that China does not know what is happening, because one of the characteristics of communism is espionage at all levels, and if something of such proportions is happening, believe me they know it. If they had to detect something, it is the outflow of money that somehow reaches CEX, and that is not easy to hide.

@Victorybit1, why a new topic when the old one still exists? Besides, no one is interested in any proof of whether you have invested something or not, that should be your private matter.

I would not be surprised if there is some truth in that, after all, it is about profit - they say that the forbidden fruit is the sweetest. Considering the almost 1.5 billion Chinese, those 220 000 do not seem like such a large number, and if they are not some significant players on that market, maybe the communist party will pretend that something like this is not happening.

Even if they know and want to do something, will they put all 220 000 people in prison or will they hunt CZ around the world?

If, for example, I were to win 10 million EUR on the EuroJackpot lottery, I would pay a tax of 30%, and that is the maximum amount of tax that ranges from 10-30%, depending on the amount you win. When it comes to sports betting, tax is paid on all winnings (automatically - they take that amount from you when paying) and that tax amounts to 10% on every winning up to approximately EUR 1500, and the higher the amount, the higher the tax.

In addition, an additional 5% is paid when making a payment (manipulative cost) when it comes to sports betting.

I would not say that the decisive factor was only the fatigue of individual players, but also the fact that some of them are in a slightly worse competitive shape after the world championship. According to some data that I read, most Croatian players played less minutes in their clubs than before the World Cup.

The desire to win were unquestionable, but the concentration in the final shot towards the goal was below a satisfactory level. Wales had only 3 chances and scored one goal, while Croatia had at least 3 times more and they failed to score a second goal. What continues to be the biggest shortcoming of the Croatian national football team is that there is no classic killer striker like Mandzukic.

Whether this was just a bad episode, we will know soon when Croatia goes to a tough test in Turkey, which will do its best to win. Despite everything, Croatia is the current winner of the bronze medal in Qatar, which came after the silver medal in Russia.

They may have removed that option, but it was there for those who used the Metal paid plan. You claim that this option never existed.
https://blog.revolut.com/bitcoin-withdrawals-have-landed/

No free accelerator will accept a transaction with such a low fee, not even the one you suggested (which is the only one that works). Even if we pay a fee with which we could "speed up" the transaction, the time until confirmation depends on when that pool will find the next block. The best way is still to check the mempool before sending the transaction and adjust the fee depending on the time in which we want the transaction to be confirmed.