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There is a reason why its still proposed and not yet evaluated and in action , there is no way that everyone can receive 2000$ per month till the economy recovers. When they don't even have enough to buy masks and PPE for the Frontline workers?
This is absurd and they are mocking the whole system itself . We don't have any idea when this corona pandemic will subside but we do know one thing and that is *it is not going anywhere for a year or two* , how do they expect to pay 2000$ per person , per month for millions of them out there ? This is what a scam means .
They would either burn their whole economy down or make false promises and become the laughing stock of the whole nation , both of them is pretty sad . Don't give people false promises when you are just cooking up a recipe for self destruction of the economy yourself.

It can for sure be done , but would people do it ?

You cannot just take responsibility for everyone , even a mistake of one person can cause problems to the whole locality.

It is always advisable to do these things even without the Corona virus , the malls , Restaurants are just taking those precautions now but it should have been a routine for them . These might as well prevent many communicable diseases and at the same time wearing masks while you are sick should be mandatory if you choose to go out.

Masks are to protect the infection from person wearing it mainly , therefore one should always take care of it . For more severe diseases we use N95 but unfortunately it's not feasible , so you can even dab while you are sneezing at least to reduce the airborne particular matter.

I am studying medicine so quite frequently we have to face situations like these even when its mandatory to touch the cadavers with gloves students often try and be cool , hold them in hands and take pictures, even though they are dipped in a solution which could literally even strip every living cell off , one should still follow the rules .

Plus if you are sick you have to actually go to the doctor with a mask , not coughing and sneezing. I agree with you 100% about doing these things even without the Corona pandemic. A pandemic should not the only one to teach you how to be hygienic .

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A little civics lesson :
The government we are talking about is Democratic parties , I do think you should have understood that by now.

China and North Korea I consider lost cases, they have been torturing their citizens , the news of government oppression is everywhere , it's not a government it's a joke.

I do not think even for a second that any governmental except *Democracy* is considered government.
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Plus , how it can be a solution :

We can directly scrap out the middle man both in terms of selling goods and both in terms of receiving payment , which would mean that the benefits are going directly to the farmers or common man who is working day and night .
I went to the factories near my house and they paid not even 1 Rs to the workers to make a mask of 40 RS , therefore what it means is that all this profit or 39 Rs is going in the pockets of rich who have 1000 factories like this .
If they start accepting payment in Bitcoins for example , no one would question them , they won't have any problems with the government and bank too if the selling volume runs high. At the same time it will make the market better for them , considering they encash after timely intervals.
People can also sell things internationally since with Bitcoins we don't have to pay this fee , that fee , currency conversion fee. One can literally take their business internationally if they want to. It was just an example but there are many more ... You can use Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies in the way you want to use them.
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Plus talking about the unfair war , what's unfair is banning cryptocurrencies overnight and giving people a small time period to sell their Bitcoins , people are encashing and having their money in their banks , then they are going to send that information to the government , from where you are going to get a tax notice which is not even reasonable. Government believes that cryptocurrencies is free money.

What unfair is forcefully taking the Mining farms in Venezuela.

Government oppression is far more worse in the developing and underdeveloped countries, some of you might be belonging to the ones where the government is good with Crypto but with most of the countries it's a very serious issue.

For government the direct definition of cryptocurrencies is : Scam.

Even right now the government of India is thinking of banning cryptocurrencies forever and going to implement a time in prison for 10 years . :3 If they do that I do think we should all at once trade our coins so that their prison cells will be filled to the brim and then they can waste their time making new ones .

It's unfair , not speaking from Google or anything am speaking from my personal experience.

At the same time I would like to state that there is a very big factor Competition, there are many exchanges out there in the market and I do think which makes it even harder for a person to invest in a particular exchange. With some of the major exchanges going down in the market over the years , I do think you can first buy a share in the exchange you are interested in and then see it's growth over the year , if you do believe that it does have a lot of potential then only you should go forth and make the investment , it is never going to be a safe bet but with an exchange that you would have worked with and looked after from the sidelines, you might know the pros and cons and at the same time you can plan it in a way that you can make use of its full potential.
Your exchange might :
Enable smart contracts
Be available offline which would even make it beneficial for traders
Might require no KYC and private information
Can even work with cash-btc 
There are so many things that you can do , you can ever start a poll and ask people what would they require from an amazing exchange platform and then filter out things and see for yourself that what might be beneficial for both the users and the company.
Its a lot of hardwork.

I do think one should understand that :
We do have full control of out governments.

The government is from the people , to the people and for the people , but we tend to forget that , we have to speak up , to ask what we need , to elect those people who are interested in new solutions.

There is a reason to start this topic again ! We cannot forget this , we do have full power to make things considerable easy for the common man and not just the people with power. We should realize that we have the right to speak up , to complain in the court if we ever see something that is not done right .

How can we do that ?
- We can start educating our friends and families about cryptocurrencies
- We can go and Vote
- We can file a petition against the government if they tried to ban the cryptocurrencies

There are a lot of things that we can do. I do think this is more of a time when we should bring this topic up again since elections are right around the corner .

Plus with KYC and all , people are paying more tax than they should on cryptocurrencies.

Central Banks should never have the control over the whole supply , they are here to help , not to dominate the market!

There have always been unfair war against government and cryptocurrencies , unfortunately now it's a time when people are realizing that the governmental authority is not only unequipped to handle crisis but it is also unfair for the common man .
 
The country I belong to has a very popular saying Only the money speaks here .

I do think the solution to collapsing economic situation in every country might be cryptocurrencies. But that would also need full support of the government and the banks , this is not the situation when they can continue to fight over who is better , I do think they should move forward and coexist.  

We are well aware of the crisis in Venezuela, what gave people hope ? What gave them power to overthrow the government ?
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/venezuela-crisis-bitcoin-trading-volumes-hit-an-all-time-high-.html

Why does the Indian government want to ban cryptocurrencies when their own economic situation is dire and it's providing jobs and opportunities to other people.
https://news.bitcoin.com/indias-crypto-trading-volume-soars-economic-crisis/

According to the source

The Bitcoin revolution in Nigeria is something that everyone knows about. There are so many examples to state but not enough words.

Every single country in the top 5 lists have crisis one way or the other . Alone in UK the GDP fell by 20.4% in April 2020.

People are exploring all their options here , even though there was a downtrend for most currencies , Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies stayed more or so stable.

Coexisting with the cryptocurrencies will not only make the economic situation of the country stronger , it will also give power to people which the current system is not fond of , it can be a win win situation for both sides.

I am aware of the fact that most of the countries are trying to figure out a way to make digital dollar but labelling them as cryptocurrencies is so wrong !

Cryptocurrencies are supposed to be free from third party , they need to be a direct link between 2 parties at the same time there is always the issue of privacy , what the government is doing is no different than the fox in the The Red Riding Hood , they might seem harmless in the shape of cryptocurrencies but at the end they are nothing but Fiat 2.0.

To make our economy stronger we need Government to give full support to cryptocurrencies

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I do think we should understand one thing that :

Even though there are possibilities of smart contracts in the Bitcoins ecosystem , they are not as developed , plus people don't want to opt for a third part solution since that would mean they would be compromising their privacy to an extent.
At the same time it's hard to design the smart contracts and it's considerably costly.

There are many altcoins which have an amazing developed smart contracts network.

For the people who really need smart contracts there are famous exchanges like KUCOIN providing the service for Crypto like BTC and ETH.

Therefore one can always opt for a third part solution and make the exchange more secure .


One can always go a step up and then use the normal blockchain protocol to make the contracts as mentioned in the following article:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/yes-bitcoin-can-do-smart-contracts-and-particl-demonstrates-how



https://blockgeeks.com/guides/smart-contracts/
^ I found this amazing article on smart contracts if anyone wants to learn more about them.

What I don't understand is :

If those 89% are worried about loosing their assets when they die , why are they not talking it out with any personal lawyer or maybe their wallet company ?

The thing is , it is advisable now a days to actually go and search your options , most wallet companies are providing inheritance plans for free. You can even add nominee in your account.

I do use a mobile wallet and few months back I received an email from Zebpay.
I will show you guys the SC of that -


Therefore I do believe that if you talk it out with the wallet you are using , you can very easily ask them to add this feature if this isn't yet added.

For people with paper wallets and hardware wallets they should give precise information to some person they trust more than anything which can be followed up upon their death.
You can also hire any lawyer to give some random things to your family upon your demise and just hide the hardware wallet in one of them , hopefully they will know what to do with it .

I don't think it will be feasible.

Even though we have seen people buying coffee and other small stuff with Bitcoins , one should realize that , no matter what you will have to give fee to the miners , even lightning network is not completely free , at the same time I don't think people will continue to use lightning network after possibility of attack by hackers and other people.

Therefore I do think before this to continue we need to have two things :
1. Improve the lightning network
2. Invent some alternative to lightning network

Then only we will be able to see Bitcoins being used for day to day activities.




https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoins-lightning-network-is-vulnerable-to-looting-new-research-explains

You can read this article where it explains how vulnerable it is ^

I do think if one would think about Government cryptocurrencies being private then they are actually going towards the wrong thing , Government can never provide users with 100% privacy , all these cryptocurrencies are just a scheme to get users to invest in their system using the false advertising of cryptocurrencies !

It is good that VISA might accept those but at the same time in some countries they are even banning the transactions in their bank account which are related to the cryptocurrencies. Then the president is making promises how he will create their own digital cryptocurrencies , the irony is wasted on people like that.

What Visa is doing is just accepting payment in form of a government backed commodity which is bound to stay intact as long as their economy stays intact.

On a different note I do think that governmental bodies should not name these fake digital assets they are creating cryptocurrencies.

First thing , these services are really important for the society , they allow some users the much needed privacy , not everyone is the same and therefore at one point of time one might now want his steps to be trackable.


These services are actually very good way to do that since normal Bitcoin transactions are transparent.

I do think you are forgetting the fact that Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies are not made for scammers, there are only 10% people using it for illegal purposes and at the same time it might be used but I do think this does not reflect on the services but at the scammers themselves.


This is no way is the fault of the mixing services . Therefore I do think your statement is very wrong .  I have even worked with some companies like blender.io and trust me they are not doing it to promote scams or illegal activities they are doing it to protect the privacy.

Why do you think that the cases are sky rocketing in the US ?

People did not listen to the restrictions which were put forth by the government and therefore most of the small businesses were open , in the small villages the life never even changed , at some places they don't care about the coronavirus now.

Most of the businesses were open , plus one's that were able to shift from office to home did have even a better outcome. Call centres , offices , schools , colleges everyone is working and was working from the day of quarantine. People who did loose customers and such , they had to find new ways to earn and therefore the economy recovered in a short while.

People changed according to the pandemic , which is natural and very important for the community as a whole for the survival. I remember the words of a famous botanist at this time : Change is the nature of nature. Even if the virus stays , we can easily evaluate that the life might be different , but it won't stop.

I do think we should realize one thing :
Both Staking and Investing comes with considerable risks but at the same time both can very easily give you a good profit margin if worked with correctly.

Staking does have its own risks but so does Investing. Plus it also depends on the user , how he plans on working towards it and how much time he can spare for the same.

Investing can be for long term or short term and does not require much time engagement. But at the same time the services or the cryptocurrencies you are investing in are mostly well recognized and for sure won't fail 80% of the time.

Whereas with staking , you might have to pay the price of heavy competition , there are so many cryptocurrencies in the market that most of them are bound to fail and remain as Altcoins that no one really knows about. Which tends to pay a negative effect on their values . Therefore I do think staking might be risky , we also have many scams in this area therefore you have to be really careful and check regularly about the company before making your move.

With staking you have to worry about :
Competitors
Scams
Popularity in the future etc. 

With investing you have to take care of :
Long term holding vs short term holding risks
Market might be obsolete in the future
Needs time for maturation and giving good profit
Etc..

:3 both are beneficial , why not do 50-50?

It is not only this wine company , there are many other companies using blockchain to eleminate the corruption , frauds and laundering of commodities. At the end of the day blockchain stores all the data which can be checked Time and again by anyone .



https://101blockchains.com/companies-using-blockchain-technology/

Walmart
Unilever
De beers
Ford
Anheuser Busch InBev 

These companies are already using blockchain in the supply market .

Not only that we also have the companies using blockchain in the healthcare sectors , insurance , energy , trade , travel , real estate ! Trust me the list goes on .

I would recommend you to look into the link and check out  they have listed 50 companies like FDA , using blockchain technology for everyday work .

It's not something that we will have to wait for the future , it is already happening :3

Well it was bound to happen , since due to having the salary of the miners were cut down to half , which meant that most of the miners weren't able to earn much to sustain the electricity bills of the Mining and at the same time continue to keep a healthy sum for their day to day activities.

Therefore the small miners had to shut down their business since it was not at all beneficial for them .

But then again which meant that it was a new opportunity for the big companies working in the Mining industry, those companies very promptly increased their work and machines which directly lead to the stabilization of the hash rate.

For those of you who might be wondering why the hash rate is important ?
In one word it's all about the security , it makes the Bitcoins more secure as a whole.

Hello

I am really sorry that this happened with you , it is not really an easy thing to go and use the Bitcoins from your hardware wallet , unfortunately I was researching about the current situation of cryptocurrencies in the UK and found this direct statement.



Since they are not considered legal tenders therefore you cannot actually go and register a complain. BUT !

You can very easily file a complain in the company which delivered the mail , you have to understand that even though they did not actually make a law protecting cryptocurrencies , what happened to you was a Violation of personal belonging , therefore the company itself is entitled to look further into it .

Plus I don't think that there was any problem regarding the government agencies , this might very easily be a work of a dishonest employee .

Government agencies won't just come forward and look into it , If they did then for sure you would have received a letter of some sort , if they thought it was problematic then most probably not a letter but police itself.

I do think you should register a complain still .

I do think that we should note one thing about Bitcoins :

•71% of the people know about Bitcoins in US , which means that people are aware of the fact that Bitcoins is a wonderful side investment , which also includes the big institutions and companies.
      Out of these institutions there are two kind of people :
         •_• One don't wanna share their Bitcoins investments publicly
         •~• The second ones are really open about it .

But at the end of the day , institutions do Invest in Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies since :

 • Some countries have tax free policy on cryptocurrencies like Bitcoins
• Volatility works amazing for these institutions , plus they sometimes even hire people to keep check on their balance sheet .

But the unfortunate situation is :
  
 × It might mean there would be more whales in the society now , which could be direct in the line of market manipulation.  

Because these institutions don't care about cryptocurrencies like Bitcoins , all they care about is getting rich which could be disastrous for us .

https://news.bitcoin.com/institutional-investors-crypto-investments/

47% of the institutional Investors are okay with cryptocurrencies shows a survey.