Many politicians went through Covid without any serious health problems. UK prime minister had it months ago.
There's 2 things we shouldn't forget:
1. Many tests are inconclusive and may also show a person who had covid a week prior to being tested as positive.
2. Trump is a public person. Meets many people, shakes many hands. It's easy to get infected, but it's not a death sentence.

Ok, the majority doesn't trust the banks, but what does the majority use every single day? Fiat money, bank accounts, credit cards. The majority takes loans, keeps money on savings accounts, pay social secutity. They don't trust politicians but they vote for them. Trust or lack of it doesn't change much these days.

I have to agree here. As bad as trump may look with his idiotic ideas like that one with the president of Mexico financing the wall, but socialist ideas are much worse.
Most of the EU is already liberal socialist because it's fashionable. Socialist ideals are the best when you want to buy your voters in a democratic system because the majority usually doesn't earn a lot and people are greedy in nature. You offer them some money for free they'll sell their souls.

Most people are dumb and most criminals are also dumb so the use of crypto will always be limited.
Just think about it for a moment. White collar crimes are maybe 1% of all crimes. The majority of criminals prefer to mug you in an alley tahn carefully plan a ponzi scheme or a bank fraud. Those muggers who have eyes on your wallet, phone and watch will not play around with cryptocurrencies. They don't need to.

Melania seems to be doing everything she can to stay away from Trump and he managed to give her the virus
It's not like running away can help him in this case.

I've avoided taking loans my whole life. I don't want to have to submit reports and kneel before the allmighty bank because of a debt that I cannot repay because they suddenly changed the rules or something happened in my life so that I'm no longer able to pay as much as they want every month. Life is so much easier when you don't have to worry about these things.
I don't agree that the restrictions will be lifterd if we just take loans. Most of these restrictions are not doing anything to stop the virus anyway.

I store mine in a fireproof safe that's bolted to the floor. Basically there's no way it can be damaged or stolen, unless someone has the time to get an angle grinder and just cut the thing in half. Me and my both neighbors from each side have cameras facing the road, so there's no way someone could just walk in and steal everything.
In most neighbourhoods a camera and a dog is enough to keep burglars away, unless you have a very flashy house with expensive cars on the driveway.

Since you know so much OP, I have a question for you.
When I palyed monopoly as a kid, I used to steal money every time I got to be the banker. Would you say skills acquired by playing this game would help me make a career in banking, economy or politics?

Exchanges that take 10% in fees? That's something new. Usually it's close to 2%.


You're talking like that's a fault of the site, or cryptocurrency. If you don't want to pay taxes, don't convert it to fiat and you'll have one less problem on your head.

But at least you keep your hands clean and don't even have to leave home. Would you rather clean toilets for $5 per hour? $4-6 is a minimum wage in many EU countries.

I like that they're pushing the boundaries but don't see a point in making robot walkers like that. Machines built like that don't have the best center of gravity and can easily fall. If they want to make walkers it's best to keep them look more like spiders or crabs. I know that giant knight looking robots have this vibe of power to them but a future when they're widely use in military, expoloration will never come.

I never look at years as periods in Bitcoin's history because the charts don't seem to respect months or seasons. The same month can bring a pump on one year and a dump on the other, nothing is certain and even that one year 2015 proves that there can be an exception to the rule. It looks great when put this way with every low being higher, but we can have a turnaround at any point, don't you forget about it.
That said, I don't believe we'll fall to lower lows this year.

I would. When you give someone a gift, you don't think of all the things that could go wrong with it. At least most people don't.
For instance, when you give someone a phone you don't think they could drop and break it or get brain cancer from calling people all day long. When you give a kid a console, you don't think what will happen if he gets addicted to gaming. All things are meant to be used, not abused!
I wouldn't give a gun to a child, or a snowboard to an 80 year old granny, but most people are capable to learn the basics of bitcoin.

OP can't even quote an article without messing it up  


With Ross they had a lot on him and that murder for hire was just one of the many. They usually try to get a video or a voice recording.
In her case they had transcripts of messages sent between her and a guy pretending to be a killer for hire.


This one is real.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Kristy Lynn Felkins, 36, of Fallon, Nevada, was indicted today for a murder-for-hire plot, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
According to court documents, Felkins sent 12 bitcoin (valued at approximately $5,000 at the time) to a darkweb hitman website to have her ex-husband murdered. (...)The website turned out to be a scam, and Felkins was not refunded the bitcoin she sent to the site, which is no longer in operation.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/nevada-woman-indicted-hiring-hitman-darkweb-kill-her-ex-husband

Cash is untraceable, doesn't require technical knowledge to use, doesn't require Internet, power, electronic devices. Can be spent at will immediately.
Imagine that you want to do a very fast, risky transaction, like buy a gun. You meat up at night and exchange within 10 seconds and it's over. With Bitcoin you'd have to know the address to deposit to, be in a cell phone or wifi reception range, wait for a confirmation... Nobody is going to do that and sending a gun via mail is risky. Packages are screened all the time.

You're asking a strange question because, for instance, I can't recall a case in the EU where the Internet was shut down. It would paralyze the banking system because it wuold stop ATMs and electronic payments and as a result paralyze the country. Even politicians know they'd be affected by not being able to pay for a hotel room or a rented car with their card, unable to buy plane tickets and fly home to their families. There's not going to be any Internet shutdown in any country that isn't run by a crazy regime like North Korea or Venezuela.

They've been talking about this second wave for at least 4 months now and I don't see anything like that happening. Their so called second wave is probably taking into account the fact that they have trouble finding the difference between covid and normal flu and those test that they have aren't worth the money they're paying for them. If people start getting normal flu and reporting they feel bad so it might be covid, many will get quarantined anyway and added to the list of covid cases.

Most people don't understand it. I don't even claim that I fully do because I'm not an expert in encryption protocols, hashes and all that math stuff. I don't even know most altcoins. There's so many of them that you have to be working with them every single day to keep track.
What I've noticed over the years is most people who are tech savvy and see the value in electronic money, domains, software, will value bitcoins, but people who are not tech savvy get repelled by technicalities and prefer to say "it's worthless shit" than admit they don't understand it and don't invest in things they know nothing about, which would be fair and honest.

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I'll add that just the single use of automated cars (robot drivers) will revolutionize transportation. Think of how many people around the world work as taxi drivers. It may take another 50 or 100 years but sooner or later they'll all be gone along with all truckers and train machinists. What will those people do?
You can see them having problems already with widely available eletric vehicles. Why would you get a cab and have to ask the driver if he'll wait for you at every stop when you can get a cheap EV car for an hour, go shopping, pick up kids from school and leave it parked anywhere you want when you're done?

Thieves usually don't care about the damage they cause. Think of him like that guy who breaks through a security glass worth $1000 to steal a few bottles of whiskey and some cigarettes worth $100. These guys get tunnel visioned when they see an opportunity. They don't think of the damages and consequences of their actions. As a contractor he would've made more than 9k a year and now with a record he'll be washing dishes in a diner.

I hope you wanted to write "cold wallet"



Your account either was not hacked into or your coins were not held in the wallet or on the server that was hacked. Maybe they just got into one of the employee accounts and managed to create false withdrawals there?

The way exchanges and all custodial wallets operate is they have a number of wallets hot and cold (sometimes all hot which is asking for trouble) and all the coins are mixed there. You don't have your individual user wallet but the database holds the numbers and everything goes to one bag, like in a bank vault.
To gain access, a hacker has to either hack your user account, but then he's only able to withdraw your coins, or hack an employee client machine, which allows him to change the numbers in the database and either create a fake balance on his own account or create a number of withdrawals from many different user accounts to his own addresses. It's very rare that the machine with a hot wallet gets hacked directly, but also possible if the security sucks on the exchange.