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2781  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.
2782  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.

2783  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.
2784  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".
2785  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.
2786  Other / Politics & Society / Re: UK Recording over 10.000 cases on: June 28, 2021, 08:12:34 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.
2787  Other / Politics & Society / Re: UK Recording over 10.000 cases on: June 28, 2021, 02:35:16 PM
Im talking about vaccinated and not vaccinated people. Vaccinated people thinks: they are okay  there is no problem for them but they might be infected and also they can spread the virus. On the other hand people who not vaccinated people thinks: Everyone getting vaccinated so no need to mask or vaccine bla bla bla. So everyday number of vaccinated people is getting higher and higher but its not meant to we must lower our shields  Wink This situation seems like herd mentality. But in this time we are own by own. We must be in alert all the time till this fucking virus gone Smiley
My thoughts exactly, I rescheduled my appointment for the Pfizer vaccine on Thursday. Despite getting vaccinated, I will continue being careful and wear a mask, for the exact same reason you specified.

If you die, be sure to get your death reported to whatever adverse effects reporting agency you have in your country.

Cool
Don't worry because it won't happen. I'll report back here for you to see it. I find it amusing that you make such claims in public.
2788  Other / Politics & Society / Re: UK Recording over 10.000 cases on: June 27, 2021, 11:43:26 AM
People aren't care their protection like before because they trust the vaccine. Therefore it will be worse than before. I hope everyone realise the matter and care themself and their relatives.

If we are talking about vaccinated peeps being infected, then it is negligible as they are only having the least alarming symptoms such as mild flu and such.

Though I will agree that they need to care about others as some are still not vaccinated, and maybe some of their relatives are not either
Vaccinated people can also get infected, the percentage of it happening isn't that high, however, as you've mentioned, if they aren't careful, it can happen. More importantly though, vaccines decrease the risk of having major disease's symptoms and will possibly save you the trip to the hospital (And reduce the risk of death).

This can be seen by observing UK's Covid-19 statistics, they are having 10.000 daily cases but only 15-20 deaths.

Im talking about vaccinated and not vaccinated people. Vaccinated people thinks: they are okay  there is no problem for them but they might be infected and also they can spread the virus. On the other hand people who not vaccinated people thinks: Everyone getting vaccinated so no need to mask or vaccine bla bla bla. So everyday number of vaccinated people is getting higher and higher but its not meant to we must lower our shields  Wink This situation seems like herd mentality. But in this time we are own by own. We must be in alert all the time till this fucking virus gone Smiley
My thoughts exactly, I rescheduled my appointment for the Pfizer vaccine on Thursday. Despite getting vaccinated, I will continue being careful and wear a mask, for the exact same reason you specified.
2789  Economy / Economics / Re: Are you making money online? on: June 27, 2021, 11:14:53 AM
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.

If you are able to get in to a good signature campaign, then good for you. Nowadays, it is not very easy to get a slot. And payment rates have gone down as well. Even if you are living in a third world country, you can't count on such campaigns to take care of the daily expenses. You need a regular job as well. And it is possible, since you only need 1-2 hours every day to make posts. Income from signature campaigns may act as passive income, to supplement your income from the full-time job. But these campaigns usually run for 3-4 months and after that you need to find a new one.
Signature campaign earnings have decreased dramatically after BTC's price went downhill. I'm not complaining, since I keep my earnings in the form of BTC (Haven't converted any to fiat yet), but also because it's still an extra income I can set aside. It's almost a second nature for me to make a few posts per day, there are some weeks though that I'm extremely busy and may not have enough time though.
2790  Other / Politics & Society / Re: I will never buy a Tesla car on: June 27, 2021, 10:40:48 AM
I don't think that's a wise statement. I was also frustrated with what happened to the market, which was influenced by Elon Musk, however, BTC's price was approximately at $35-40k mark before Tesla invested in Bitcoin. It's like we're back at point 0, before Musk.

Tesla has the patent for electric cars, which is open to use by any manufacturer. In my opinion, they build the best EVs so far, except a few cases I do not like, regarding their policy for example.
2791  Economy / Economics / Re: Amateur Traders Cause Bubbles on: June 27, 2021, 10:18:01 AM
A study done by the New York Fed suggests that when trading in an asset becomes dominated by amateur traders, it tends to form asset bubbles.  The study further noted that amateur traders do not aggregate private information well and show lower levels of strategic sophistication than professional traders.  It pretty well explains the volatility that dominates the Bitcoin market without being a study about Bitcoin.

Fed Report:  https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff_reports/sr939.pdf


I would agree with that since there are a lot of newcomers here in the cryptocurrency or like for example here in bitcoin, After crossing the ATH of 20k$ the market just exploded and that is the time when the bitcoin is trading and a lot of newcomers are also investing in bitcoin.

Bitcoin just exploded up to 60K$ which is pretty high from the past ATH of around 20k$, newcomers that don't have enough experience and just new to bitcoin are not used to dumps, because they think that the market will just continue to go bigger and bigger. That is why a lot of newbies lose a lot of money after the Tesla bitcoin announcement newbies easily panic sells dropping the price to around 30k$.

So I think Amateurs are a huge cause of these bubbles but at the same time they were needed to reach new Heights and increase the marketcap as they gain experience, the growth was huge and the next time the market comeback it will be a huge bubble again. We could totally reach even a 1million dollar price in bitcoin but it will be a big bump of the pump and dump that is going to happen before reaching that.


We can't forbid newcomers though, they were one of the reasons cryptocurrencies became popular during the pandemic, everyone wanted to buy BTC after it exploded in December, crossing $20.000. This movement might have sparked a larger hype that lead us to crossing new all-time highs. Of course, they are the ones who lose first too, I bet there are people who got involved with Bitcoin when the price was $60.000.
2792  Other / Politics & Society / Re: UK Recording over 10.000 cases on: June 27, 2021, 09:49:06 AM
People aren't care their protection like before because they trust the vaccine. Therefore it will be worse than before. I hope everyone realise the matter and care themself and their relatives.

If we are talking about vaccinated peeps being infected, then it is negligible as they are only having the least alarming symptoms such as mild flu and such.

Though I will agree that they need to care about others as some are still not vaccinated, and maybe some of their relatives are not either
Vaccinated people can also get infected, the percentage of it happening isn't that high, however, as you've mentioned, if they aren't careful, it can happen. More importantly though, vaccines decrease the risk of having major disease's symptoms and will possibly save you the trip to the hospital (And reduce the risk of death).

This can be seen by observing UK's Covid-19 statistics, they are having 10.000 daily cases but only 15-20 deaths.
2793  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is Bitcoin rebounding? on: June 27, 2021, 09:35:47 AM
Bitcoin is not currently rebounding, the price have been between $30k to $40k for some time now. Which I think I the right time to invest, if you have want. It current price today is around $31k.
But I believe Bitcoin will definitely rebound before the end of the year, it will probably hit a $100k.
I'll be honest, it is tempting to buy now, and I'll probably regret it if I don't. However, I'm pretty conservative regarding this matter, BTC has stabilized at approximately $35k mark for quite a while. I'm unsure on when it will recover (I believe that it will, but it might not be in the near future), thus I've decided not to buy, due to being in a budget right now and couldn't afford to have a few thousand standing there, in hopes they gain value.
2794  Other / Politics & Society / Re: UK Recording over 10.000 cases on: June 27, 2021, 09:02:20 AM

Over 100000 protest in london, enough of this hoax
https://youtu.be/j4eF8MsFDX0

I'll show you 2 articles.

1- From plague to polio: how do pandemics end? - Financial Times

Quote
   Like Influenza A, Covid-19 will probably never be eliminated. Instead, the perceived risk is likely to reduce over time. Pandemics end when they “change from something that we as a society deem to be unacceptable, into things that can be fatal, but just in the background”, said Erica Charters, associate professor of the history of medicine at Oxford university.
...

"What smallpox teaches us is that a vaccine alone does not eradicate a disease,” cautioned Alexandre White, assistant professor of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
...
   “Women and children were often pulled out from under beds, from behind doors, from within latrines,” wrote Stanley Music, a senior WHO epidemiologist sent in 1973 to Bangladesh, where some citizens were still refusing injections. “When they locked their doors, we broke down their doors and vaccinated them.” *
...

*This sounds fucked up.

2- How the Covid pandemic ends: Scientists look to the past to see the future - statnews.com

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That probably sounds bleak, but don’t despair. The truth of the matter is that pandemics always end. And to date vaccines have never played a significant role in ending them. (That doesn’t mean vaccines aren’t playing a critical role this time. Far fewer people will die from Covid-19 because of them.)

With or without taking vaccines or lockdowns, pandemics always end.

Maybe vaccines do work, however lockdowns are indeed delaying the inevitable (the end of the pandemic) and to me, somebody desperately needs that delay.
Isn't that the point, though? Yes, all pandemics came to an end after some period of time, that doesn't mean that Covid-19 isn't serious, though. Vaccines are here to minimize losses (In deaths mostly) and the spread of the disease. Looking back, many pandemics ended by infecting every single one and resulting in millions of deaths, back when modern medicine wasn't a thing.
2795  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is Bitcoin rebounding? on: June 26, 2021, 05:25:41 PM
It can be somewhat called rebounding since we are getting back, close to the price from one week ago. But that's all.
Overall it's still sideways and it's rather normal: we have about half of the price from April and about half of the hash rate from April.
And although the good news are piling up (yeah, I know, the "OMG China" FUD is still loud) I don't expect a proper recovery until the hash rate recovers too (probably after the relocation).
Of course, I may very well be wrong too Smiley
I wouldn't call anything below $40.000 a  rebound to be honest, the past few months it has been fluctuating between $30-$35.000, its range has been pretty stable. I'm positive that it will recover, but it will take quite a while, the $65.000 mark was achieved due to increased hype, (See Elon Musk etc.) a slow and steady growth is what we're thriving for.
2796  Other / Politics & Society / Re: UK Recording over 10.000 cases on: June 26, 2021, 04:34:34 PM
Science only works so fast. They just haven't uncovered all the other variants the vaccines have produced.

Mutation occurs due to copying errors. This is as true for viruses as it is for humans. The more common a virus is, the more mutations there will be. The more instances there are of a virus replicating, the more mutations (copying errors) there will be. This is extremely basic science. There will be huge numbers of CV19 variants out there. The ones we hear about are the ones that have been identified as being of especial concern, whether due to high transmissibility, immunity to the vaccine, severity of symptoms, etc. Are there other variants that we don't know about? Yes, of course there are.
But vaccines do not cause mutation. Mutation occurs naturally.

If you understood how mutation arises, and also accepted the concept of natural selection through 'survival of the fittest'... then you would understand how evolution works. That's what evolution is, mutation plus natural selection... it occurs by itself, without guidance. This is how both you and I came to exist.

That's right, a virus mutates because it acts through the simple principle of natural selection. It mutates in order to survive. We need to achieve herd immunity via vaccinations, but EU's percentages are still pretty low. (Of fully vaccinated at least). I don't get why people get so frustrated about mutations, even the common flu goes through plenty of them during the last few years.
2797  Other / Politics & Society / Re: UK Recording over 10.000 cases on: June 25, 2021, 06:59:49 PM
I have been noticing the same thing. Conspiracy theorists like f1 constantly talk about people who have a different view of things, and call them conspiracy theorists. Yet, the only evidence and proof you get out of the f1 types, is that they say things like: "We told you so," or "We said you are debunked, so you are absolutely debunked."

Any two people who get together and talk about something, are a conspiracy. The group that gets together to call other groups conspiracy theorists, are a conspiracy themselves. Blab, Blab, Blab. Find the proof for what anyone says, since all groups are conspiracies and conspiracy theorists at the same time... especially if they denounce other groups who have proof when they themselves don't.

Cool
Previous posters have displayed statistics proving their point. A quick google search would also show you that your theory about vaccines creating new Covid-19 strains is false. On top of that, you haven't presented anything to defend your claims.

https://www.euronews.com/2021/04/05/experts-debunk-claims-that-vaccines-cause-new-covid-19-variants



I know, I know. Your stats are right, and mine are wrong.

For starters, slowly and carefully read the VAERS and Harvard (Lazarus) stats at https://www.openvaers.com/. Think and apply the other stats of the world to them to see that there are a whole bunch of contradictory stats out there.

If you want to believe the CDC stats after that, or the UK stats from their excuse-for-VAERS organization, go ahead. You simply have a religion going for yourself, know it or not.

Cool
That has already been debunked too, VAERS' data isn't confirmed and is also mentioned in CDC's disclaimer "The reports may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable". Anyone can report to that website, thus, it could be coincidental, inaccurate or even fake. 
However, I don't think there's much use in replying to you, you believe what you want to believe.

If you think that you're an expert, just because you read some crap on the internet, well guess what, you are definitely wrong. I highly doubt that you have the credentials to doubt people in the medical field.
2798  Other / Politics & Society / Re: UK Recording over 10.000 cases on: June 25, 2021, 05:49:06 PM
badecker is a number 3
though its the hardest idiot type to break. it becomes a task of not actually trying to cure him of his perpetual adverts of lies. but to speak down to him and debunk him so that he doesnt recruit more idiots
in short if you can show other readers that badecker is an idiot. other idiots wont b so quick to believe badecker

badecker doesnt think viruses are real probably more so because his adverts dont go viral and he has never experienced fame. so he feels because he cant spread lies. biological viruses cant spread either
I highly doubt that conspiracy theorists ever change views, no matter what you tell or present them. However, it would be interesting if BADecker was infected with Covid-19, I do not wish that to anyone, although I'd like to see if he/she would then change his mind.

I have been noticing the same thing. Conspiracy theorists like f1 constantly talk about people who have a different view of things, and call them conspiracy theorists. Yet, the only evidence and proof you get out of the f1 types, is that they say things like: "We told you so," or "We said you are debunked, so you are absolutely debunked."

Any two people who get together and talk about something, are a conspiracy. The group that gets together to call other groups conspiracy theorists, are a conspiracy themselves. Blab, Blab, Blab. Find the proof for what anyone says, since all groups are conspiracies and conspiracy theorists at the same time... especially if they denounce other groups who have proof when they themselves don't.

Cool
Previous posters have displayed statistics proving their point. A quick google search would also show you that your theory about vaccines creating new Covid-19 strains is false. On top of that, you haven't presented anything to defend your claims.

https://www.euronews.com/2021/04/05/experts-debunk-claims-that-vaccines-cause-new-covid-19-variants

2799  Economy / Web Wallets / Re: Xapo Wallet on: June 25, 2021, 07:06:54 AM
Has anyone received the latest email from Xapo, basically they will close the service and give 30 days to withdraw, unfortunately my account is blocked.

What's next?

Withdraw your funds within 30 days of this communication to avoid being charged a $50 account closure fee (in BTC or other account currencies). If funds remain after this fee is charged, we’ll debit a monthly fee of up to $50 until the balance is depleted, or has been claimed by contacting us.

I don't understand how they expect you to withdraw your money, yet the account is still blocked Embarrassed

This is broad daylight robbery. In all my years trading crypto. I have never seen an exchange or casino charge a closure fee and monthly fee for the unclaimed assets.


Have you tried reaching out to their customer support?
Probably requesting a bunch of documents, like they did to me, and then proceed with withdrawing your balance to another wallet. Their support, however, sucks, they often wouldn't reply, and when they did, it was something irrelevant from what I asked.
2800  Other / Politics & Society / Re: UK Recording over 10.000 cases on: June 24, 2021, 06:53:16 PM
badecker is a number 3
though its the hardest idiot type to break. it becomes a task of not actually trying to cure him of his perpetual adverts of lies. but to speak down to him and debunk him so that he doesnt recruit more idiots
in short if you can show other readers that badecker is an idiot. other idiots wont b so quick to believe badecker

badecker doesnt think viruses are real probably more so because his adverts dont go viral and he has never experienced fame. so he feels because he cant spread lies. biological viruses cant spread either
I highly doubt that conspiracy theorists ever change views, no matter what you tell or present them. However, it would be interesting if BADecker was infected with Covid-19, I do not wish that to anyone, although I'd like to see if he/she would then change his mind.
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