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2461  Other / Meta / Re: Five legendaries you know with the highest posts/merits on: March 24, 2023, 03:11:25 PM
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Myself I currently have no knowledge of these supposed forum members and am curious same time excited to know, and am sure there are some others like me that would be eager to know too.  So please can forum members endeavor to post a screenshot of their profiles here to enable us acknowledge them. To avoid spamming I am limiting the number of legendary profiles to five (5) screenshots per post to enable us achieve the main aim/objective of this thread.
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Knowledge is at your fingertips, and it's completely free, whether it's a forum search engine, the BPIP project or some other similar projects that analyze all forum members in all possible ways. I don't see how screenshots of any profile would be of any use to you or anyone else. In addition, the fact that someone has a Legendary rank does not automatically mean that it means anything on the forum. There are members with that rank from before the merit system who would never have reached that rank if that system had existed from the beginning.
2462  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Do Kwon arrested on: March 24, 2023, 02:37:02 PM
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What you say is possible, although we know that Interpol issued a warrant for him very soon after the collapse of his project and at the time when the news that he was in Serbia appeared, his original passport should have already been canceled and I doubt that he used it. However, it turned out that even those who have a lot of money do not have to be intelligent, because people of that profile (internationally wanted) hire a private plane/ship or whatever and disappear without having any problems with border controls.

Rich and spoiled characters like De Kwon or Bankman probably consider all this to be a game with high stakes, and time will tell if the game was successful or if they will become roommates in prison.
2463  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: how will it be? on: March 24, 2023, 11:36:02 AM
If he have that amount when BTC is under $20k, there is a chance that he already have invested and he won't be here asking this question. 10 days ago is march 13 and the lowest price that time was $21k. That was still a good buy indeed but again what if he don't have a cash that time? Only $6k to $7k is the price that he missed there and I think that wasn't totally huge compared to what we will be having later on.

It is possible that he did not have that money before, but it somehow seems to me, considering his post, that this was not the case after all. Maybe he was just waiting for another crash to happen, because after the price fell below $20k, speculations started again about whether the price will reach close to $15k or even lower again.

As I already wrote, some people are so indecisive and constantly change their minds that good opportunities simply slip in front of their noses every time. That's why I wrote that for such people it is best to practice DCA because you don't have to think too much, every week or month you invest as much as you can afford.
2464  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Do Kwon arrested on: March 24, 2023, 11:21:48 AM
Well, who is to say that Serbs woulnd't arrest him with fake documents if he tried fly to Russia? But even if he managed to reach Russia, I am not so sure that he would find any protection in Russia as he is not Snowden or someone of that caliber so Ruissia has some actual interest to protect him.

I somehow believe that he would have done much better if he had flown from Serbia than if he had gone to Montenegro. A few months ago, there were rumors that he was last seen in Serbia, and it is logical to assume that he arrived in that country by plane and passed control at the airport. The question is how the facial recognition system they use when checking every passenger didn't detect it in Serbia, but it did in Montenegro?

Serbia is a country where you can get almost anything you can think of for money, and it also has direct flights with Moscow. De Kwon obviously wanted to travel to a slightly better location than Russia, and that cost him his freedom. As for me, let him rot in prison for the rest of his life, even though the damage he caused is measured in tens of billions of $ that no one will be able to compensate for, the fact that he is no longer free is still a small consolation for the victims.
2465  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2023-03-21] Forbes: $14 Trillion Earthquake: Fidelity And BlackRock Are Quietly on: March 23, 2023, 03:14:15 PM
To be fair, I don't recall ever hearing about Fidelity Investments before, but if that's true that they introduced Bitcoin and crypto to their 37 million user base at the beginning of March, that could've surely added some fuel to the recent mini-pump.

Never heard of them? Well, it's not like we didn't mention them on the forum in the context of Bitcoin, and even last year you could read the following: https://www.investopedia.com/fidelity-offers-bitcoin-as-401k-investment-option-5267984

However, I agree that 23 000 employees and 37 million users are not the same, but the question is whether the users will just suddenly decide to invest in Bitcoin for the reason that it was made possible for them by the company whose clients they are? Offer available in the US only.

In addition, for those who do not like to read small letters :

Investing involves risk, including risk of loss. Crypto is highly volatile, can become illiquid at any time, and is for investors with a high-risk tolerance. Investors in crypto could lose the entire value of their investment.
ETFs are subject to market fluctuation and the risks of their underlying investments. ETFs are subject to management fees and other expenses.
Custody and trading of crypto are provided by Fidelity Digital Asset Services, LLC, a New York State-chartered limited liability trust company (NMLS ID 1773897). Crypto is not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Securities Investor Protection Corporation ("SIPC").
2466  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Do Kwon arrested on: March 23, 2023, 02:49:46 PM
The Montenegrin Minister of Internal Affairs also announced the news on his T account, although the identity has not yet been confirmed. However, I am not surprised that De Kown was caught in Montenegro, because his last known location was Serbia, where he hid for months. He obviously had badly forged documents and thought he would pass under the radar - and if he had been at all smart, he could have flown from Serbia to Russia without any problems and been out of reach of anyone.



Well, that is great news, right? Montenegro isn't a part of the EU and is a small, quiet country, which is why Do Kwon probably assumed it was a good place to lie low.

That it is a small country is true, but that it is peaceful and politically stable is far from the truth. The country is actually torn between the local Montenegrins and the Serbs who, with the help of Serbia, are trying to maintain their political influence. Although I would put Bosnia and Herzegovina in the first place as a potential area where war can break out, Montenegro is in second place, considering that Russia also has an influence on everything that happens there.
2467  Other / Meta / Re: Changing password and mail wrong thing? on: March 23, 2023, 02:25:13 PM
Like Charles-Tim, I wonder if signing a messages with staked address is the only way to verify ownership of an account

It is not the only way, but it is perhaps the simplest. Another way is to analyze IP addresses, and if I'm not mistaken, only admin/s have access to this data.

A few years ago, a member got a permanent ban for plagiarism and then complained that the problematic post was actually from the previous owner, from whom he bought a BTT account. Admim then intervened and analyzed the IP addresses and concluded that the account had indeed changed owners at one point. It is not something that is done every day and for everyone, but it is possible to determine the change of owner in this way in some specific situations.
2468  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: how will it be? on: March 23, 2023, 12:14:43 PM
Bitcoin price is currently 28k and I have 5k usd fund which I want to invest in crypto currency, and want to make this investment for long term, want to wait until next ATH or touch current ATH.
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Simple question - did you have that $5000 a few months ago when the price was under $20k? Even if the answer is NO, you had an opportunity about ten days ago when a dip happened and you could have made a good purchase then. The problem with people who think like you is that they always think they can buy cheaper, and while they wait for that to happen, they miss every good opportunity.

Maybe you should consider trying the DCA method if you can't decide when is the right time to make a big investment.
2469  Other / Meta / Re: Changing password and mail wrong thing? on: March 23, 2023, 11:49:25 AM
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Of course, a BTT account can be sold without anyone noticing, because I saw in some of the threads that those who sell BTT accounts offer everything, including the private key of the signed address, and the password of the e-mail with which the account is connected. The only change can be seen in the IP address, but that's not information that we can see publicly anyway.

A signed message from a staked address does not necessarily mean that someone is the original owner of that address, but that he just came into possession of the private key of that same address.



Changing your password from time to time is not a bad thing, unless of course you replace a strong and unique password with a weak and predictable one.
2470  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: FOMC Press Conference and effect on bitcoin on: March 23, 2023, 11:32:29 AM
I saw a better video - of course the AI helped a little, but this time it did a good job Cheesy

https://streamable.com/jcnk8b




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What can this meeting and this hike in interest rate can bring up to bitcoin in the short and long term?

Let's finally learn how to reduce images to the appropriate size, so it's only about changing one number... for fast loading and for those members who have slow or limited internet.

As for interest rates, it was expected to be 0.25 or max 0.50, like last time, and I think that is a good sign in general. Of course, it would be best if they stopped doing that, but considering how deep they got into problems, they have no other choice. All in all, the price of BTC is returning to the levels before Kwon&Bankman, and considering that the banks have shown their weaknesses, part of the money must have been invested in Bitcoin.
2471  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: Migrating Ledger Live to new laptop on: March 23, 2023, 11:15:31 AM
But is something like that really needed if all he has is Ledger Live app? I mean I could understand physically detroying drive if you had Electrum or similar type of wallet, but in his case where private keys never left Ledger what kind of info could someone retreive that could endager his crypto, even if they manage to restore the data?

I wasn't thinking exclusively about Ledger Live, but in general in the sense that someone wants to get rid of an old laptop or desktop computer on which they had some important data at any time. In this particular case, some information could be extracted from the disk, which could only be a threat to the OP's privacy.
2472  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Coin Gecko now a SPAM site on: March 22, 2023, 05:35:15 PM
What you are seeing is Total AdBlock, and it seems that some others have or had a similar problem with removal. Look again in plugins and check if you really removed that plugin, then check in Add/Remove Programs of your operating system (I assume you are using Windows) and if the program is listed there, remove it. Also, check in Chrome settings if these pop-ups are blocked.
2473  Economy / Speculation / Re: What if? on: March 22, 2023, 05:19:05 PM
1 min google search

When someone who does not know the basics of using the Internet asks a question like this, everything is more than clear. Even AI doesn't want to answer stupid questions, or is too stupid for an intelligent answer. Someone wrote a long time ago that Bitcoin is the smallest problem in the event that quantum computers become capable of breaking such encryption, because before BTC it would break everything else that is protected by various encryptions.
2474  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 22, 2023, 05:10:56 PM
I love bitcoin

Your post history says the exact opposite -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3525757;sa=showPosts
2475  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: Migrating Ledger Live to new laptop on: March 22, 2023, 04:47:17 PM
Is it safe to delete Live app from the old laptop now? Or how to make sure that I am safe and can get rid of the old laptop?

Of course, it's safe if the whole thing works on the new device, in fact you made a wallet/s recovery and the old laptop can only represent an additional risk. In case you plan to sell or give that old laptop to someone, I would suggest that you format the disk and maybe even try to use some additional tools that can almost completely erase the data from the disk. I usually never sell or give away such sensitive things, regardless of all methods, today's technology can save data even from disks that look completely destroyed to someone.

The good old method is still physical destruction by breaking the disc into pieces (use protective equipment), then douse it with some flammable liquid and set it on fire, and scatter the remains in a landfill.
2476  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin will pump soon? Lower interest rates in june. on: March 22, 2023, 04:30:51 PM
Hello crypto bros, it's me again with an update on my "inflation" and "the best time to buy bitcoin" topics.

After all those epic failures with which you proved yourself to be a "top expert", this is another epic failure with which you will not achieve anything, let alone help someone. Can you play your children's games with the boys from the neighborhood?

But you all should know that things won't happen in one day or month. Bitcoin will pump, but then it will start growing slowly. The economy needs some time to recover. But it will already be a starting point for us to buy bitcoin.

Excellent advice, you advise people to wait for the price to be even higher before they start investing in Bitcoin Roll Eyes What about your predictions that the price will stay below $22k or your claims that it will go below $15k?

I was saying this before and I will say it again: bitcoin will go down and it MIGHT even go lower than 15k.

So I still think that bitcoin will stay below 22k for a pretty long time and the signal that it will change will be much lower inflation and lowering of the interest rates.
2477  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Forever on: March 22, 2023, 03:45:02 PM
That's a good point, anything that the government suggests to use, then we would use it anyway. Actually bitcoin is as easy as CBDC to understand, even easier, especially for young people which they have more knowledge about recent technologies and could access any info they want, while the older people prefer to have same side with the government, no matter if the effect of the policies is good or bad for them.

I already wrote that I do not agree that we should put CBDC and Bitcoin in the same category of complexity, because digital fiat is nothing more than a visual display of one's funds in a government application - there are no fees, transactions are instant and there is no need to think too much. In addition, when the time comes for digital euros or US dollars, you will be able to pay with them anywhere, with Bitcoin this will probably never be the case.


India and Russia are trying to implement CBDC because they didn't want to consider crypto as a legal thing in the first place, and CBDC is their newest way to make their people get rid of that.

Obsessive control of people and their actions in order to control the masses results in the fact that the CBDC starts from countries that have a deeply indoctrinated population, just as is the case with China and Russia. If you can sell a nation the story that Nazism is back and that they must go and liberate Europe, as was the case in World War II - then you can sell them anything, let alone digital fiat.
2478  Economy / Economics / Re: Amazon reports its first unprofitable year since 2014 on: March 22, 2023, 12:00:40 PM
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Not like that would happen but if that happened they would cut costs and still go on, fire tens of thousands of people and still move on. All in all amazon is a huge company and they are doing fine and there is absolutely no reason to be sad about their loss, I rather cry about the worker they have who lives under poverty level wage.

Even if they fall into some serious problems, it is unlikely that politics will let them fail just like that, because it is still a company of great importance for the US considering that it is globally positioned. What you say about the workers is unfortunately true, because there are so many stories about it online that one wonders if it is possible for such a company to actually profit from such massive exploitation of people all over the world. But they are not the only company that operates in such a way that people are consumables that they use in the way that suits them best.
2479  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Forever on: March 22, 2023, 11:31:30 AM
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Bitcoin is something so extraordinary and beautiful that it managed to break the entire traditional system without turning back, it managed to remodel and change the whole human perception about capital.

We can debate whether Bitcoin has succeeded or not, but we cannot talk about Bitcoin succeeding in any way as you say "break the entire traditional system" because the percentage of people involved in Bitcoin in any way is less than 5% of the total world population. Realistically, maybe 1-2% even understand or use Bitcoin the way it should be, while for the majority it is just an investment like any other. Human perception of capital and value has unfortunately not changed much since the existence of Bitcoin and the vast majority of people still keep their value in the bank, stocks, bonds or gold.



CRBCs are hot garbage. Nobody will use them. Not even fiat-oriented people will use them, for the same reason they don't use Bitcoin - because they don't understand it.

It is not so important what people think of CBDC, it is more important how governments will gradually introduce it into the system. When (and if) classic FIAT is replaced by CBDC, people will have no other options (except BTC), and most of them do what the government suggests anyway. In countries like China, it is already a done deal, and I doubt that it would be difficult to implement the same thing in countries like India or Russia.

I am of the opinion that CBDC is still simpler than BTC, there is not much to understand except that you need an official government app and it all boils down to the send/receive button.
2480  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 21, 2023, 04:19:04 PM


What do you get when you mix Powell and AI?  Grin

Answer: A perfectly honest politician Smiley
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