A CONTAGION of COVID is spreading across America as pilots, police, firefighters and other workers say, “Take this JAB and SHOVE it!” FTFY.  Remember, don't give them attention. Don't feed the troll  I'm not quite sure if he's a troll, I'm pretty positive that he believes his sayings. He and a few other conspiracy theorists here post this specific website as a source, which is citing itself as a source of its articles. Completely ridiculous. Although, Boeing has made the vaccine mandatory for all its workers, with limited exemptions, which I do find logical, if you're serving people from all over the world. |
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Just read it a couple of hours ago, I'm not against such move, since many of those games were a mere scam attempt anyway, it's a measure taken in defence of both Steam and cryptocurrencies themselves.
What I'm against though is that Steam isn't accepting Bitcoin payments. If I'm not mistaken, it used to accept but has now stopped, not sure why, haven't investigated it.
Yes they did accept BTC and ETH I think it was in 2015. I have not used BTC to buy on Steam but it was posted I believe in this forum where they are accepting BTC. They aren't supporting play-to-earn games in the blockchain is likely because they won't be earning from it any more of course developers will have their own tokens and will not even use the Steam platform anymore. According to a Twitter post from "Age of Trust" game, Steam's point of view is that items have value and they don't allow items that can have real-world value on their platform. While I understand their point of view, doesn't CSGO and quite a few other games have similar in-game purchases? Epic games stores is now claiming that it's going to accept such Blockchain games. |
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Just read it a couple of hours ago, I'm not against such move, since many of those games were a mere scam attempt anyway, it's a measure taken in defence of both Steam and cryptocurrencies themselves.
What I'm against though is that Steam isn't accepting Bitcoin payments. If I'm not mistaken, it used to accept but has now stopped, not sure why, haven't investigated it.
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anything can happen in the future. Although China is currently a country that prohibits bitcoin, it does not rule out the possibility that in the future this country will legalize bitcoin. bitcoin is growing rapidly and has an increasingly large community, it is likely that in the future many countries will accept bitcoin. no need to worry because in the future bitcoin will break ATH which is much higher than this year's ATH.
True. Anything can happen in the future. Since they have already used thr CBDC, they need to gather the data of all their citizens and probably open their economy for BTC this time. With the CBDC that they have, they can do everything with just clicks. CCP is looking for ways to get a hold of the Chinese people, they'd have to make the people happy enough not to revolt against the government while also maintain fear to the government. Adopting BTC will make people happy. Anyway, with the rate of increment and if it continues, reaching $65k is just two weeks away. China is one of the countries with the strongest economy in the world and many of its citizens are bitcoin holders, so I'm pretty sure the leader of this country in the future will legalize bitcoin because bitcoin can help support the country's economy. the limited amount of supply and coupled with clear legality will make bitcoin the best investment object in the future. Despite China being a country with one of the strongest economies, it's not known for its good worth ethics and living conditions. Most people, especially in the poor suburbs of the country, are factory workers, with poor salaries. China is generally known to be against cryptocurrencies, if I were to make a guess, it would be due to them providing some sort of freedom, something China is not very fond of. |
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Today's highest recorded price was $61,839.98, pretty close to April's ATH, which was approximately $65,000. However, I highly doubt that a new record will be achieved later this month. Some sort of resistance is likely to occur now, and slowly back down to $58,000-$60,000, before it reaches a new all-time high.
As another poster mentioned, surpassing $70,000 is highly likely to happen before the end of the year.
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The world has changed considerably recently. China is no longer a communist country, but has become an oligarchy, and it has been recruited into the long established anglophile/anglophone empire. There are many who believe that the virus was leaked from the Fort Detrick research centre in the US, and it spread to Wuhan via a number of infected US marines who were transferred to the US army base near to the Wuhan laboratories. There is no doubt that gain of function research was being undertaken at Wuhan, Fort Detrick, and Porton Down. Obviously the restrictions on reporting are intended to conceal the fact that the virus was an American ( sorry, I mean Washington ) creation, and an attempt to preserve the myth that it was created by horseshoe bats. I think that the latter hypothesis is batty horseshit.  The virus was designed to be highly contagious, but not very dangerous to most people. Over 80% of those undergoing serious treatment for Covid are obese, and vaccine status doesn't seem to make much difference. When you couple this with the fact that poor people used to be thin, and rich people were fat, and today the reverse is true, you start to see a pattern emerging. Covid vaccination is not a health improvement tool, but is another engine to facilitate the transfer of wealth to the controlling dynasties. You are completely out of context, do you have any valid proof for what you're mentioning? Nope, it's just some conspiracy theory. Yes, there is a suspicion that it could have leaked from the Wuhan laboratory, but till now, no scientific proof has been found to back that. Everything else, about the USA transferring infected US marines etc. is utter bullshit. Vaccine does make a difference, and it can be seen in the statistics of those countries with high vaccination coverage, it's proven that it has reduced both the transmission and mortality rate from Covid-19. Covid won't necessarily kill you, but it may have its toll on you, just have a look at what, Long Covid is, and educate yourself, no one designed anything, that's the ultimate conspiracy theory. While most Covid-19 deaths are older people with underlying conditions, that doesn't mean that you are immortal if you're young and healthy. Just have a quick look at USA's deaths by Covid, sorted by age. The percentage might be relatively small, but it's definitely not unimportant. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-from-covid-by-age-us/ |
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People who are against science should not receive any medical treatments and not be allowed to buy anything that science produced.
Go back to the Bronze Age where you belong.
Church for a long period of time was against science. You think church and religion are bad? Church and religion is one of the main causes of evil in humanity. Not only do they belong back to medieval times, but also was and still is one of the main causes of hatred and wars, which can be easily proved. Just take a quick look at crusades, or Jihad. On top of that, religion often collides with science, and was frequently showed during the pandemic, where churches refused to wear masks or abide by the measures taken to tackle the pandemic. The Christian gospel doesn't preach hate so can you elaborate on which specific faith, religion you are referring to so as not to generalise like the former commentators? TIA I'm an atheist myself, religions themselves promote hate and was the cause of many wars. If we go by the bible, a lot of things that now are considered perfectly normal are condemned. Gay people are condemned, sex too, if it's not for reproducing purposes, or even divorces, while there are many extremists, but that's a phenomenon that can be seen in all religions. The God concept itself is very naive, too. I don't like the whole concept of religion, God will punish you for your actions, or that a lot of people's morals are solely based on religion, not on simple logic on what's good or bad. |
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In the last couple of weeks, I have been wondering what are the political undertones as regards the origin of covid-19 and why China will reject access to a laboratory in China by the world health organization. Why are countries making vaccines mandatory for their citizens?
Vaccinations are our only way to tackle this pandemic, there are quite a few examples of countries that have successfully managed to contain the disease, through a high vaccination coverage. I was one of the first one to do it, when it became available for my age group. I actually can't understand anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists, when there is scientific proof that they are safe and efficient. I can't take a stand against mandatory vaccinations, what I know is that we need a larger coverage to end the pandemic, and if that's the way, so be it. |
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It is really annoying to pay big amounts as transaction fee. Today myself encountered a pathetic situation. I was in need of money, and my wallet had $400 worth of TRX. I wasn't able to change it directly to fiat, and for this reason I deposited the entire TRX in an exchange and traded against bitcoin. Now on withdrawing it exchange took a transaction fee of 0.0009 btc and what is left is around $350 worth bitcoin.
If this is the scenario surely then we can't make a plan with what is available in the wallet.
Please post the exchanges with the low transaction fee and good trading volume. Maybe next time it'll help me.
Luckily some of the institutions here that can convert crypto to fiat has XRP in their trading options. Super fast transaction with this guy XRP and low fees of less than a $ worth of withdrawal as well as trading fees. The problem is the conversion where 4-5% less than the market itself but still low compare to what other financial institutions are offering. I haven't use many exchanges, so my feedback is limited to only a few. However, finding alternative currencies in order to move/withdraw funds is one way to save money. I used Stellar Lumens, as it was the most (or one of the most) efficient and profitable ways to move my funds (Approximately 2-3k dollars worth of Bitcoin), from Bitstamp to Binance. I only paid a mere amount of XLM, compared to a few mBTC that was required to withdraw as Bitcoin. Despite the high trading fees, it was still worth it. |
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People who are against science should not receive any medical treatments and not be allowed to buy anything that science produced.
Go back to the Bronze Age where you belong.
Church for a long period of time was against science. You think church and religion are bad? Church and religion is one of the main causes of evil in humanity. Not only do they belong back to medieval times, but also was and still is one of the main causes of hatred and wars, which can be easily proved. Just take a quick look at crusades, or Jihad. On top of that, religion often collides with science, and was frequently showed during the pandemic, where churches refused to wear masks or abide by the measures taken to tackle the pandemic. |
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Firstly, why , on this planet, any one ask, WHO DESIGN the virus?
Second WHY corrupted WHO stil is speaking that virus is from the bat.
How to possibility that in china, people are etating by thousend years some kinds of animals, and there were no "virus", and suddenly one people eat something and all world are infected.
Why Pharma doe'nt want take responsibility for the vaccine?
Why all corrupted goverments of world are doing everything ,even broking democracy, to push this vaccine in your body?
Short answer, control and money. Second there is no virus, there is sick people, lying corrupt media and a scam test. €1.5 million reward to prove in a court of law virus exist. https://www.samueleckert.net/isolate-truth-fund/I've already replied about this, Samuel Eleckert, but you tend to replicate the same stuff over and over. The virus that causes the disease Covid-19, is Sars-Cov-2, which has already been isolated and is being used as a basis to the vaccines that are being distributed now. On top of that, Eleckert is a known conspiracy theorist, who is mainly targeting young people, mostly underage, which is ridiculous to say the least. Not only that, but also, it's not the first time he's theoretically "paying" a reward for the isolation of a virus, the same thing also occurred for the Measles virus, by one of his close associates, Stefan Lanka. The most ridiculous of all, he doesn't even have to pay, due to a German law, even if he's been shown any kind of scientific proof, which is what happened with the Measles virus. You conspiracy theorists are a complete sham. I'm also citing the sources, not that you'll take them into account. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-isolated-idUSKBN28E2SBhttps://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/masern-wette-impfgegner-muss-nicht-zahlen-a-1077601.html |
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Well, they sure want us to abandon fossil fuels and this all seems to me, an orchestrated move. Fuel prices are doomed to go over the counter as this will be a way to force people to move from fossil fuels onto electric energy-powered vehicles. The problem is that electric energy-powered is not the future. The future of mobility is Hydro. LOL... this is the most ridiculous justification that I have ever heard. The oil prices are going up because of production cuts from the OPEC+. The oil consuming countries have no reason to spike the prices, because they suffer in the end as a result of high trade deficit and inflation. And it is funny that you think that Hydrogen can be the future of automobile industry. Hydrogen is extremely difficult and risky to store and no matter how much the technology advances, it can't be directly used in automobiles. Even if that was the case, I don't think that automobiles and vehicles in general are accountable for the majority of the fossil fuel usage, which is essentially oil. Despite the EU promoting EVs, we have a long way till those are sustainable and accepted from the mass public. On top of that, we're still using oil to produce electricity, thus, even if we have 100% EVs on circulation, we'd still be using a tremendous amount of oil to keep up with the charging of the electric vehicles. |
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Depends on the exchange, haven't made a withdrawal for quite a while, however, I haven't seen any extravagant fees on Binance at least. I've faced it on Bitstamp though, it's basically the main reason I abandoned the exchange. It was pretty ridiculous, withdrawing in stablecoin, such as Paxos or USDC would cost 20 coins, or basically at least $20, same goes for Bitcoin and Ethereum.
I'm not sure if it's just me, but these fees look way too much for a simple withdrawal. Bitstamp also had excessive trading fees, compared to other exchanges.
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I discovered Bitcoin at a quite young age, I was approximately 15-16 years old at most. I didn't quite get its concept back then, only understood a few basics, while the lack of funds and ability to signup and purchase Bitcoin due to me being underage rendered it difficult to acquire. Likewise, I was only using faucets or PTC sites that paid in Bitcoin just to acquire some.
It didn't take long to find this forum, in 2014, didn't pay much attention to it though, was mostly a lurker and slowly abandoned it. However, I had obtained a decent amount of BTC (For today's standards) just by using faucets, some of which were still in my possession a few months ago. Long story short, I didn't do much back then, till I returned to the forum in 2016, being active and obtaining BTC from Altcoin mining and signature campaigns.
I mostly fall in the first two categories, I had some BTC, I wish I would have bought, while most of it was sold at a much lower price. Can't keep beating myself for something I couldn't have predicted, not only that, but I was extremely young back then. Bitcoin and this forum has been a wonderful experience, in terms of acquiring knowledge and money.
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I recently stumbled upon an advertisement for a free course from the University of Nicosia (UNIC), featuring an Introduction to Decentralized Finance. It's entirely free, no strings attached, and if I understood correctly, a verified certificate is also being distributed upon completion. The official starting date is tomorrow, 11th of October and is consisted of 6 weeks in total. Course outline: (In weeks) 1. DeFi Fundamentals Professor George Giaglis 2. DeFi infrastructure: Ethereum and other L1 protocols 3. DeFi Applications I: Stablecoins, Lending and Borrowing 4. DeFi Applications II: Decentralised Exchanges, Synthetic Assets, Oracles, Insurance 5. Algorithmic Governane and DeFi Tokenomics 6. DeFi and Beyond https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/free-defi-mooc/Another free course about Digital currencies is also offered for free, you might want to check it out as well. https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/free-mooc/P.S I am in no way affiliated with the University of Nicosia.  |
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Does nobody remember this from 18 months ago: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/21/839522390/u-s-oil-prices-fall-below-zero-for-the-first-time-in-historyAnd now it's the flip side of it, production / extraction was slowed to prevent that from happening again. But, now that demand has increased to ABOVE pre-pandemic levels it took a bit of time for the producers to get full capacity back up they would rather sell less crude for more money then stare at a supply that they can't find storage for. So, the price has gone up. AND with the transportation issues that exist moving the oil, and then moving the refined product (gas /diesel) takes longer and costs more. -Dave During the quarantine of 2020, the price of crude oil per barrel had plummeted, down to $20 levels. I haven't seen petrol and diesel being so cheap back then, it was actually the cheapest I've can remember in my lifetime. Unleaded 95 petrol was as low as €1.318/liter and diesel €1.03/liter. Unfortunately, due to the quarantine measures, there wasn't much use, since everything was closed and transportations were banned by any means. |
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We are now experiencing the aftershocks of Corona. During Corona, oil companies massively cut production capacity. We remember that in the meantime buyers even got money for taking oil because there was no storage capacity. Now that the economy is back at full speed, there is a lack of production capacity that cannot be ramped up as quickly. In addition, there has been little new exploration in the last two years. All of this is a dangerous mix for very high energy prices. Especially if the winter in the U.S. and Europe will be harsh.
If I remember correctly, during the previous pandemic, oil prices had plummeted, costing as little as $20 per barrel of crude oil. I recently read that oil drillers are trying to recoup their losses during the pandemic/quarantine. |
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Plot twist: the thieves stole the ATM with the intention of stealing the bitcoin rather than stealing the cash.
Jokes aside, if they actually chose the Bitcoin ATM, they must know that the Bitcoin ATM was totally in demand (hence there's likely to be a lot of cash).
I wouldn't be surprised if they actually believed the first one. However, I'm not exactly sure if the robbery of the ATM being a Bitcoin type one was intended, or just grabbed the opportunity to steal any random ATM. Clueless on how popular they are elsewhere, but they are a pretty rare sighting where I live. |
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I believe that it is highly likely, we're two months away from the end of 2021 and Bitcoin has already recovered back to $55,000. We're not that far off the all-time high, which was slightly above $60k. There will be some resistance right before that happens, probably at $57k-$58k, but it won't take long to surpass that.
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