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2761  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Are you a gambler? on: July 11, 2021, 09:25:04 AM
I'm not required to post in the gambling section for the signature campaign, nor am I an avid gambler, thus, I may not frequently post around here. However, I started micro-gambling after creating a thread here, to receive recommendations on which websites I could use, I'm not sure if I was in a campaign then, but it doesn't really matter.

I avoid sport betting, thus, you won't see me posting in one, firstly, because I have no idea about sports, and secondly, I've no idea about how bets work etc.
2762  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is it safe to us to get Covid -19 Vaccine? on: July 11, 2021, 08:39:02 AM
History, in the past, there were pandemics also and vaccine stopped the outbreak. In today's time, the same thing will end the pandemic. What's the sad part about vaccines, companies have their own preference and some countries too but anyway, a vaccine is a vaccine.

The question that Covid -19 Vaccine (any variant) is safe or not, is irrelevant because with the passage of time, everyone will have to get vaccinated and those who will not get vaccinated will not be able to get the basic necessity of life as vaccinate certificate will be made mandatory for everything.
That's true. Some countries were already imposing incentives and basic rules about getting vaccinated and separating services from the vaccinated to the not yet vaccinated.
Whether you like it or not, it's your choice if you need those services or you want to have that feeling of security and easier access, they're giving those incentives to the vaccinated people.
Greece has imposed a rule that in order to travel (by sea, airplane etc.) you'll need to provide a valid 48hour Rapid or 72hour PCR test, in an effort to tackle the pandemic and promote vaccinations. Fully vaccinated people are exempt from this rule. On top of that, it is now being discussed to impost the same regulations to travel from one county to another, or in order to attend indoor cinema, restaurants and so on.

Only time will tell, however, vaccines are our only weapon to tackle this pandemic.
2763  Economy / Economics / Re: A message from my bank saying they will not allow me to purchase from Binance on: July 11, 2021, 08:09:06 AM
From what I've read from previous posters, banks have opposed a ban to Binance's exchange. One way you could solve this would be to use a middleman service. I've been using Revolut for quite a few years now and was my main method of depositing money on exchanges. Use your debit card to load money to your Revolut account and then transfer the money from your Revolut to Binance.

This method requires no fees whatsoever and is probably your safest bet.
2764  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Which Covid 19 Vaccine is is the best ? on: July 11, 2021, 07:12:47 AM
I've read that Sputnik V had skipped clinical trials and was distributed to Russia's citizens without even completing phase 1. I think the Pfizer one has the best efficacy out there currently, and has shown less adverse side effects, which are statistically rare in most if not every vaccine listed here. The Johnson one is a decent candidate too, it's one shot, and you're done with it.

Likewise, I got vaccinated with the Pfizer one and had no side effects whatsoever, I'm receiving the next dose in approximately 10 days from now.
2765  Other / Politics & Society / Re: We Have Passed the Thousand Deaths by Vaccine Per Month on: July 10, 2021, 09:21:00 PM
Harvard
VAERS

The weirdest thing for me is not your "creative" mathematics, but the fact that you are saying that Harvard and VAERS are reputable sources of data.
Whenever I've posted studies and data from universities and official bodies before, you've refused to accept it, and linked out to some YouTube lunatic instead.
But now you're saying that Harvard and VAERS are, in this instance at least, to be trusted. The inference here has to be that you suddenly trust them because you think they back up your pre-conceived conclusions. The fact that they don't is neither here nor there, really.
I wouldn't argue with a conspiracy theorist, I've also made a similar thread about UK's confirmed cases, and he would make stupid bold claims which had already been debunked. On top of that, he would claim that the debunking theory was a hoax and would continue supporting his initial claim.

Conspiracy theorists will question years of research and studies, with a simple blogspot article or Youtube video they found.
2766  Economy / Economics / Re: Are you making money online? on: July 10, 2021, 08:46:44 PM
Is someone grinding online poker to make money as a side or main hustle ?
Isn't that gambling, though? I mean, you can't always win, eventually you'll lose. I can't deem gambling as a revenue making method. It's way too risky and unpredictable. I can understand the concept of high risk, high reward, but I just wouldn't do that.
2767  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is it safe to us to get Vaccine? on: July 10, 2021, 09:26:46 AM
I got vaccinated last week, and had no side effects whatsoever, only a little arm pain on the shot's location, which was gone a few days later.


Which vaccine did you got last week ?  Sinovac Vaccine, as this vaccine is known that it does not have any side effects and not even have a mild fever.
People say that AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine has a lot of side effects while if you take Pfizer Vaccine, you will get a high fever in a day or two.
I'm sorry I forgot to mention that, I had the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, I'm getting the second in 24th of July. I had no side effects whatsoever, my girlfriend, on the other hand, had a bit more pain in the arm and some topical bruising on the area of the injection.

I had scheduled for the Johnson vaccine at first, but I changed it because I was having exams during that week and didn't want to have any potential side effects, such as a headache or some low fever. Likewise, I was afraid that I would be feeling a little drowsy and wouldn't be able to concentrate on my exams.
2768  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is it safe to us to get Vaccine? on: July 10, 2021, 09:10:56 AM
Getting the vaccine is not entirely safe, but statistically safe.

While there are deaths due to some complications with the doses of the vaccine, there is much more normal reactions which makes the deaths negligible if you analze it.

As of now, there are about 1.2 m vaccinated peeps in the US and only about 7k vaccine related deaths

150m double vaccinated people and only 7k deaths (0.0046%)
however diabeties is a 10% infliction(32m) and kills 270k(0.8%)
however 33m had covid and 600k deaths(1.8%)

so you got more chance of dying from food choices and covid than from the vaccine
oh and
234m have driving licences, 38k road deaths
(represents 150m would be 24k)

you are 3x more likely to be killed in a road accident than a vaccine
so if you fear the vaccine. stay off the road and have 3x more fear of cars
Couldn't agree more, after so many million vaccinations, there are only a few reported deaths (Which I doubt that they are 7,000 as the previous poster commented), which is statistically insignificant. On top of that, more than a few of those reported deaths might have nothing to do with the vaccinations, let's keep in mind that even medicine we use daily might have severe side effects, but they are rarely or never occurring.

I got vaccinated last week, and had no side effects whatsoever, only a little arm pain on the shot's location, which was gone a few days later.

2769  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Daytrading vs Holding on: July 10, 2021, 08:33:46 AM
I used to trade on an almost daily basis, most times I made a decent profit, around 7-9% of my investment. There was only once that I took a relatively large loss when Elon Musk got into Bitcoin. This wasn't the reason why I stopped trading though, its volatility was causing me anxiety and stress, and preferred to just take a break and find something else. I might get back to trading in the future, but for now, I'm in DeFi and yield mining.

Now, I only hold a small amount of BTC, which is simply set aside and not being used.
2770  Economy / Economics / Re: At least it was something great on: July 10, 2021, 08:18:58 AM
I was one of the early adopters of Bitcoin, signed up on the forum in 2014, and owned some BTC which was acquired by faucets. A few years later, I started mining and made a decent profit. Unfortunately, most of the BTC I had acquired back then doesn't exist or was sold, but I'm happy that I faced Bitcoin during its early days.
2771  Economy / Economics / Re: Cryptocurrency is the biggest investment opportunity in the future on: July 09, 2021, 09:31:21 PM
I don't think so, the biggest opportunity for a cryptocurrency as an investment wad back when the prices were still good enough that you can buy around 5 dollars a pop not this one although it's still a good opportunity, it's not the same as the last time because you have to spend more and get less in the process although if you believe in the potential, you will know for sure that your investment in that particular cryptocurrency is going to go up in long-term.

Exactly, you will never see the types of gains that have already been seen.  The law of large numbers takes over and it's just impossible to keep doubling in value at the same rate at this point. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised to see bitcoin's returns just mirror the stock market at large.

Many been hype for seeing the price way back before but this will never happen again although we have a chance when bitcoin price dump like when market season came but we cannot experience the same earnings where old dudes who hold became millionaire for holding bitcoin for so many years, maybe the least we can do for now is to ride with certain % gains and maybe you are right that maybe in future we will see the same profit we can get on stock in future when bitcoin price reach at 6 digits.
That's right, the gains that were seen back in the days are probably long gone, those who held BTC for years have earned it and are now bearing the fruits of their investments. I still believe that there's earning potential, however, in order to double your investment, the price will need to rise more than $34.000 in order to achieve that.
2772  Economy / Economics / Re: Cryptocurrency is the biggest investment opportunity in the future on: July 09, 2021, 09:28:59 AM
Bitcoin is now the biggest opportunity in society. Bitcoin has existed for more than ten years, and it has driven the development of blockchain digital currency. Due to the high price volatility and other characteristics of cryptocurrency, there is a lot of room for speculation. Now more people are researching and investing in cryptocurrency, and the accepted scope of cryptocurrency is also expanding, and it can be traded and circulated all over the world.
Cryptocurrency is the development trend of today and in the future, and the biggest investment opportunity will be cryptocurrency in the future.

I believe that it was the largest investment opportunity in the past, but, I'm unsure about now. The current situation is a bit vague, and we cannot be 100% certain about the future. Don't get me wrong, I'm positive that BTC will recover in the next few months, but I would be cautious if I were to invest now. BTC gained a lot of publicity the past few years and its price skyrocketed, turning people into millionaires within a few years from its founding.
2773  Economy / Services / Re: 1xbit.com signature campaign (open) on: July 08, 2021, 08:31:54 PM


I am not sure what else can be said about the 1xbit scammers. They are trying to use the lowest of the low members that have zero credibility and have a lot of red feedback/trust to create division within the forum.
Easy targets, I'd say, with considerably low to average post quality at most, trying to claim higher signature earnings, since no other campaigns would accept them. It's frustrating, to say the least, that they are sacrificing their account for a few bucks.
2774  Economy / Web Wallets / Re: Xapo Wallet on: July 08, 2021, 05:56:03 AM
I was Xapo user as well in the past and it was my main wallet for around a year during 2015 if I remember it correctly. I forgot about this wallet when I lost my phone in 2016. In 2018 I remember that I still have some balance although not much (less than $100) so I tried to recover it but support did not really help since they are so slow in responding. I read some similar stories and I decided to not recover it as many users get blocked after providing everything asked by support.
That's their technique I guess, I also read several reports before giving it a try. Got blocked right when I sent them any KYC they requested. Recovering funds from them is probably a lost cause.

Well I will agree to them that you need to do KYC once you are claiming something on some particular account since you really need to verify that account since its really bad for them to give the balance or the account easily without asking something since if thats the case then most provably there are so many people will do the same. But I'm still didn't like the wallet providers asking me a KYC just for storing so Xapowallet is out of my radar at the moment.
They started posing as a banking service rather than a simple wallet provider, hence why they ask for KYC. I don't mind providing the necessary verification, but not only to block my account and then stop responding. Fortunately, I was lucky and didn't have any significant amount of BTC.
2775  Economy / Web Wallets / Re: Xapo Wallet on: July 07, 2021, 09:10:34 PM
I was Xapo user as well in the past and it was my main wallet for around a year during 2015 if I remember it correctly. I forgot about this wallet when I lost my phone in 2016. In 2018 I remember that I still have some balance although not much (less than $100) so I tried to recover it but support did not really help since they are so slow in responding. I read some similar stories and I decided to not recover it as many users get blocked after providing everything asked by support.
That's their technique I guess, I also read several reports before giving it a try. Got blocked right when I sent them any KYC they requested. Recovering funds from them is probably a lost cause.
2776  Economy / Web Wallets / Re: Xapo Wallet on: July 03, 2021, 04:35:30 PM
Hello,
I used to have a wallet on Xapo, it's since 2014 when faucets were popular back then. I managed to recover my account after a quite tiring process, due to their lack of support mostly. After logging in successfully, I was asked for verification, provided my driver's license, a photo of myself and a bank statement from Revolut (It was the only one I had in handy).

After a while, my account was blocked and this is what I received, "Unfortunately, due to compliance or regulatory reasons, we can no longer provide you with our services.". That's it, I cannot even login to my account, which has a balance of a few mBTC. Just like that, I am blocked and haven't even been told why.

What can I do now? Probably nothing I guess.

Anyone should be able to recoup their funds if they just provide KYC - and I think that's pretty much all they want from you as well.

Is it shady that they are doing this? Absolutely. It seems as if they know that there is a ton of dust on their site that will never be recovered, and they will simply take advantage of that by forcing people into KYC'ing when they don't want to. Since the amount is so small, most people don't even bother doing it.

But is it illegal? Probably not. There are probably some T&C's that protect them from doing this, and some sort of regulation that they can point to.
I had a negative experience with their support, they wouldn't respond or I would receive an automated response. Anyway, it turned out that I had a petty amount of BTC so I stopped bothering after they blocked my account.
2777  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Oh dear. 105mph on: July 01, 2021, 05:45:37 PM
Difficult to say. 70 is the limit, but in all the time I've been on motorways, the fast lane is always well over 70, unless there's heavy traffic, roadworks, or a police car. So a sizeable proportion of drivers go well over 70 anyway.

If people drive at 80 when there's a 70 limit, then would they drive at 90 when there's an 80 limit? Or 100 with a 90 limit? I don't think we know. Presumably some people who are comfortable driving at 80 wouldn't feel safe at 100... so the higher the speed limit is, the fewer cars exceed it.

But if someone is willing to go 105 in a 70 limit, 50% over the limit, then I'd say he's likely willing to go as fast as his car will let him, and is probably a danger to other drivers, whatever the speed limit.




calibrated speedo.
I'd imagine they help you to swim faster, but they're probably banned in the Olympics.
That's a valid point, which I've caught myself doing too, quite a few times to be honest. If the limit is at 70 mph, there are a few instances, depending on the road of course, that I might go beyond that, 80 for example. I'm generally careful when it comes to speeding, most roads here have low limits, such as 60 kph (approximately 40 mph), which is ridiculously low, and tend to go above that frequently, but as I said, always depending on the road and weather conditions.

2778  Economy / Economics / Re: Are you making money online? on: July 01, 2021, 04:23:10 PM
Yes! I am doing signature campaigns as well as day trading to manage my expenses. Offline job conditions are not very good and majority of the business were severely hit by the COVID. I also write few article and proof read some when every I get free time.
I doubt it could finance even your weekly needs. The only thing that could ever give us best money online in my own opinion is either day trading or having free lancing. Signature campaigns nowadays are for sidelines only not for main source of income. Bounties are much worse. I just hope this will change in the near future.
It doesn't, it's just a side income but week by week, it can add up into decent pocket money. Signature campaign earnings have severely dropped, but I'm not beefing about it, it's almost a second nature to write a few posts per day. I've currently assigned a separate wallet just for that and I've gathered a small but reasonable amount of money.
2779  Other / Politics & Society / Re: UK Recording over 10.000 cases on: July 01, 2021, 04:00:22 PM
This exactly why there is no difference anymore between the no vaccinated, partially vaccinated and fully vaccinated people when it comes to travelling in high risk areas. I read this weekend that if you travel to UK, Russia or Portugal that you need to go into isolation for 14 days. That is a bit crazy, because why get the vaccine in the first place then? Also with the upcoming Euro 2020 final in London, this going to be hard.

Vaccine worked well against the original strain, because the mRNA particles were designed based on it. But now the virus is mutating very fast and the vaccine efficacy is going down. Against the original strain, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines had efficacy of 95%. The same efficacy can be achieved against the mutated strains as well, in case a booster shot is administered to those who are already vaccinated. Irrespective of the strain, the truth is that unvaccinated people have a much higher chance of dying from CoVID compared to those who are at least partially vaccinated.
And that can easily be observed through statistic data from websites such as Worldometers. UK had 3 deaths today and almost 23,000 cases. Israel on the other side had only 65 cases yesterday, with zero deaths, and today 296 cases and one death.

It's pretty safe to say that vaccines are working, however, the new Delta variant is spreading throughout the world in a fast pace.

And the other thing, observed from VAERS, is that the vaccinated people have much higher chance of dying from the vaccine that the unvaccinated do.

Check VAERS - https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data - for the number of deaths, etc., in the US so far. Then check - https://www.openvaers.com/images/r18hs017045-lazarus-final-report-20116.pdf - which shows that VAERS is getting only 1% of the reports.

Wow! 600,000 dead from the vaccines so far in the US. That's like 100,000 per month on average.

However, that per-month number will go down. Why? People have stopped getting vaxxed in the US... at 50% or so. You can divide the number of OTHER deaths in half or less, because, due to Covid, people have found that vitamin D mega-dosing will save them from all kinds of other comorbidity deaths besides Covid.

Of course, when China invades, those deaths may be going up again.

Cool
I already answered you regarding VAERS, but you continue your stupid little story. I got vaccinated today and have no symptoms at all, but answering to you just a waste of time and energy. You'll just keep posting your "research".
2780  Economy / Economics / Re: Crypto Passive Income - My Experience on: June 29, 2021, 03:55:13 AM
I've participated in DeFi projects for the past few months, the first one I was in, made me a decent amount of money, but then the algorithmic stable coins crashed, and it was over. After that incident, I only provided liquidity to Stable LPs, and would generate a reasonable sum of money each month, considering that it was almost 100% autopilot and didn't require me to do anything throughout the day.

If you have a decent sum, let's suppose over $5.000, then you could potentially achieve a reasonable profit daily.
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