Hard to find a market for platinum and street value isn't really known in my country but gold and silver are some of the big ones in my country. I think that this is an opportunity to buy gold now that its bull run is over the prices is slumping back, the prices will definitely go up someday and I think that anyone who passes the opportunity to buy one now is a fool.

That really depends, if the company is a private one, I think that it will be up to date but if it is in any way connected to government, it will have a problem being up to date. But you are right, their system is old, it's just packaged differently so people think that they are getting something new when it was the same thing. It was Citi's error if I may be honest, they did initiate the transaction and there should be some steps before they could send that amount of money to somewhere, Citi has to face the music even if it is not sang for them.

Nothing wrong that you are celebrating the rewards that you earned for all the hard work all this time. The only time that you will be a target for the criminals is when you directly say what you have and where your house is located. I do agree that being lowkey is good but you sometimes need to indulge yourself a little, not doing so is like punishing yourself over something you do not even know.

Where there any corroborating articles to support that claim because that is a pretty big conspiracy if there really is although I don't think that they will be putting conspiracy that makes FBI look bad to the public in a movie.

If it is Hollywood then your hopes will be for nothing, if it fits the narrative and it sells more tickets then bitcoin will be on whatever light they want it to be. I just hope that this movie will show the highlights of the story and make it follow what really happened as much as possible.

Mt Gox is the one that is always on the headline back then, being the biggest exchange and being always attacked by hackers, they sure do love the headlines. AFAIK people buy bitcoin the same as today, the only thing that changed is the exchanges that they used, you don't even have to buy because back then the problems to solve to mine blocks are far easier so if you want bitcoin back then, you just have to mine it in your computer.

Now that it is posted in this board, I think that there will be less noobs that are going to be a likely victim of this scam although that hope is riding on the fact that they are reading this or at least referring to this board whenever there is something like this land on their lap. To the noobs out there that are still having doubts that this is a scam, think of it, how it didn't come from the mouth of Chamath that he is giving away 5k bitcoin and it is not making headlines, he is a big deal venture capitalist and I think that when he says he is doing something like this, I think that it will create news.

The reason that it is around the first page of Google is because of SEO or something like that where they pay to be on the first page. This is the most legitimate looking spoof website that I have seen and I would've mistaken it for the real thing if it weren't for the domain name. To all newbies out there, before doing any transactions on a website, make sure that they are legitimate by looking at their domain name, those that doesn't end in .com or any legit domains most of the time are spoofed websites.

Too bad, a lot of people are supporting OP in this thread and now OP has alts for scamming too? This is like a movie plot twist, it hits you out of nowhere. I was reading through the replies while ignoring the negative trust on OP to give benefit of the doubt but in the end, OP is someone who you can't trust after all. This is actually good though, with OP reporting his competitors then OP will be doing the job for the scambusters far easier.

Hopefully that is what OP did because I know Karl is an active user in this forum, replied to some of his threads in the Gambling Discussion and hopefully that this issue can be resolved.

To OP, I think that you should understand that there is a bureaucracy behind so it is taking slow. They might want to properly review your complaint or they are receiving a lot that they can't process everything at a timely manner and in your case, I think that they might be prioritizing it because the amount that you are being locked out of is a lot of money.

To be fair, those people that talk about their bitcoin and how much they own especially in a condescending manner deserves to have their bitcoin stolen, braggarts have the loosest lips so I don't mind them losing what they have.
This is a no brainer thing to do, it is your private info, keep it private as it is. It is enough that your government and those that need your info has yours.
I get it in a way but my question is why do we need to keep small amount of coins on it though?
This won't matter if the person is a tattler and careless with their devices because when opportunity strikes, the attacks will happen no matter what.

I am kind of confused in this one, there was a thread about this about the amount that the institutional investors are hodling and it was around <=1%  so I can't believe this number exactly because there is a conflict. For me, mainstream is a combination of the companies and the public adopting bitcoin. We can't really blame that they buy a lot of bitcoin because the public individually is very weak and can't afford a lot of bitcoin. Can't be worried about it though, as more of this companies continuously buy bitcoin then the more the price increase because there are less in supply.

This was back in 2009 though, we never knew that it will get this far and only a few know about bitcoin back then, it was still a talk underground and most people that were interested in bitcoin back then were programming and math people, not to mention that there are times that the people who bought those bitcoin in 2009 have sold it when it was around 1 USD or 1k USD because they didn't know that the prices will go up too. We can only imagine those what happened in the yesteryear, and this hindsight hopefully becomes a lesson to everyone that when an opportunity presents itself then you should grab it, not too late to get in the train because it is always open for everyone to hop in.

That is a pretty debatable statement, for example, in my country, wet and dry markets are not even connected to electronic payment apps that are used by a lot of people that I know which means that bitcoin transaction will be far lower than that. Remember that if you have a small circle of people then you wouldn't see the whole picture that there isn't a lot of people who knows about bitcoin. The quote above mentioned volatility which means that we need to address that first before integrating it into a local market but in regards to OP's online store, I think that you can always put it there so as to give people an option.

We can't exactly get a data so we use assumptions on that part because inactivity could mean anything. To me, it doesn't matter whether there are a lot or there are less bitcoin that ordinary people like me can get because getting even to 1 BTC is a difficult thing to do so we don't have to scramble over what to do with it because with the current numbers given by OP, I think that there is still a lot of bitcoin for every ordinary people.

It is not the future trend, it is already a trend. Companies pouring money into investing in bitcoin has been around 2013, that was around Grayscale time. The only difference is that the Fortune 500 companies are looking at bitcoin's direction. Hopefully with Musk's as a spearhead for other celebrity entrepreneur, this will drive up the prices so high. As mentioned in the quote above, with celebrities buying bitcoin the market prices will increase because not just the celebrities are buying but their fans that want to imitate what their idol does.

Sure Apple was old but the current marketcap of 2 trillion USD was only achieved in 2 years and I think doubling your marketcap at a short amount of time is impressive. But with the current scaling in bitcoin compared with the timeframe that it reached I think that given more years, bitcoin will reach bigger marketcap than Apple. The only reason that Apple has this marketcap is because they have a big market and the notion that owning one of their devices makes you look rich which is good for them because more people will buy their overpriced products that are mediocre at quality.

Diversifying helps you curtail losses, when one of your investment is doing bad then it is alright because your other investment is doing good, it is rare to see a diversified portfolio with all the investments doing bad, I would back the opinion of the quote above because I believe diversification is good way to make more money. Margin is a bit of a so-so, as the quote above says, there are risks but if you know how to trade and you can manage your risk then you might as well do it, a lot of people make money doing margin trading, some of my friends do it too and the results shows. To OP, you should move this topic to the Trading Discussion, you can see "move topic" on the lower left of this thread and click it to move it to that topic.

The problem with third world country is they are like that because the elected leaders at those countries are corrupt or incompetent. Nigeria will never be late to the party despite the ban, I think that the people of Nigeria will still be using bitcoin and other cryptocurrency. Only way that the situation will change is if the people were to act on it and choose who will lead them and that chosen leader is a competent.

There is the money but there isn't a lot of bitcoin to go around though not to mention that there are more lost coins every day, Facebook could've easily monopolized on bitcoin but they didn't chose to do so and my guess is that they didn't see bitcoin for a long term investment and they had plans to develop Libra but my guess is as good as any guess. Imagine if they were to bought bitcoin back then instead of Whatsapp, Facebook could've been the biggest company to hodl bitcoin in history but they didn't.

This will be big for bitcoin, imagine the 1.5 billion USD bitcoin did for the prices, it got up to around 10k and now imagine if 5 billion USD could do for the prices, the 100k pipe dream would surely be achieved. And that will only be this rumor on IBC group, other rumors like Apple, MasterCard and other rumored company that are going to buy bitcoin are not included.