I get what you mean and in the ideal situation, you're completely right. The money should still be OP's property and Binance or the FBI should not have any right to seize and/or transfer his money to another wallet without the owner's consent. But that's the ideal case and reality is far from it.

Knowing how authorities usually react when they hear you're using cryptocurrencies, I'm not surprised even a bit if FBI had seized OP's money and OP doesn't even have any idea what happened to it. It should've been the FBI contacting him if the money came from a potentially illicit source, you don't just take money out of my pocket and then ask me to contact the cops to ask what's going on. Right? But this isn't about a bank account, it's about a cryptocurrency address they cannot freeze.

As I said, contacting FBI through the emails Binance has provided is the best thing OP can do if this is all legit. If the money OP had deposited did not come from illicit sources, he will probably be able to receive a compensation for being wrongly accused AND having his money seized.

I guess there are two cases now in Africa, aren't there? I've heard and read about Algeria and Egypt just a few hours ago. If I'm wrong, please correct me:

• Algeria confirms first case of coronavirus
• Egypt confirms coronavirus case, the first in Africa

I'm from Romania and I'm absolutely calm and somehow ready for the outbreak but our system and hospitals are surely not here either. I'm honestly more afraid to visit the hospital than to contact the actual virus, because here it's like you enter the hospital with a disorder and you'll leave with 5. I don't think there's much of a difference between us and Africa when it comes to hospitalization.

Hopefully everything will be fine. It's been announced here that we have masks in hospitals stocked for up to about 1 to 1 1/2 months, and that is a very poor stock considering how many people will go to the hospitals just because they fear they might be infected. Our authorities are just now starting to purchase the needed stuff in case there'll be a virus outbreak here too.. but traffic between Italy and us is very high as a lot of Romanians emigrate to Italy, which makes me fear there might already be confirmed cases they're hiding so they can pile up the needed supplies before the panic begins. This is just a fear of mine though, but anyways..

Tests may be done in the infected countries, but my question is how reliable are these tests because there have been quite a lot of faulty test kits reported. That makes me wonder how many actual cases do we have out there in all the infected countries and how many people are allowed out of quarantine after negative virus tests using faulty kits.

Something doesn't add up

Investors who are cashing out after a 80% crash (~85% from $20k to $3k) have either had weak hands, panicked, do not believe in BTC or haven't been in the game long enough to know there have always been recoveries.

It's quite easy to recover imo from a Bitcoin dump. That is, however, a risk I assume for myself and at any given point my method could turn into an even larger loss. Here is how I would've recovered from the $20k ATH investment:

When the price reached its ATH ($20k), a $100 investment would have been equal to 0.005BTC. After the price had dumped to $3k, 0.005BTC would have been worth $15.
In order to recover, if I had invested $100 at ATH, I would've invested another $100 when the price fell to $3k. That would have brought my average purchase price down from $20k to ~$5k and with today's price my portfolio would be up by more than 75%.
If you had a +80% loss since 2018 and would've invested at $3k, even if you had invested only 50% of the 2018 investment (in my case, $50), you would've brought the average purchase price down to ~$7k. That's still a +30% overall profit at today's BTC price.

I always do this and it has always worked. I do know, however, that sometimes this could turn into something even worse. But it's a risk I take and assume..

I am not anti-Chinese either. I'm not against any race, I'm only against the way some corporations/govs spy on us.

If my post in this thread wasn't helpful for you (I don't see why having a fully-free OS would be a problem at all) and you only wish phones didn't have sideloaded apps, then have you thought about going for an Android One phone such as the Pixel? If that isn't enough and you don't want YouTube, Play Music, Chrome etc on the phone you can go for flashing a custom ROM without the G-Apps on it.

I support suchmoon's idea too that your funds might've came from an illicit source FBI had on track for a while. They way they have replied is very weird though.

You can be blamed for the source your Bitcoins came from. The thing is, you've sent your BTC to a third party's wallet. It was basically not yours anymore, they had the right to seize the funds.

If you're sure you've spoken with the real Binance support, then I guess the best thing you can do is contact one of the given addresses and see what their answer will be. I've looked up both e-mail addresses but they result in absolutely nothing on the web. It might be a very serious case they're working on.

I don't think BTC would crash in a recession, but it's just my thoughts and I may be wrong as well. Do people really invest based on Buffett's words? I haven't heard anyone follow his thoughts yet. He's a boomer & Bitcoin is worthless to him because he's most likely used to investing in tangible stuff and stocks.

Bitcoin is going through weird movements at the moment imo. We need more time and meanwhile its path will be paved.

Congrats! I wish I had not made the mistakes I've made back in the first few years of my account as I'm more than sure I missed so much important information and knowledge. But we all make mistakes, right? And hopefully I'll be able to recover & achieve as much as you did in a matter of years.

Keep up the great work, dude! It's been a pleasure to have you here on the forum.

We've had the Iran vs USA situation. We've been through the 2008 recession, but that's when Bitcoin was only starting to grow up. We've been through hacks, exploits, scams, hard times our governments have given us and all but today we're still here. Bitcoin - it is still here today. We're growing up like never before together with the Blockchain technology.

This comes with advantages and disadvantages. The only disadvantages I can think of are the way Blockchain will be used at one point against our own freedom. But now, let's talk a bit about the situation we're confronting at the moment. This is not about politics, conspiracy theories or anything else but the way Bitcoin is going to behave during and after the situation we're confronting today.

We're in the middle of the Coronavirus hysteria. Is it as much of a threat and should we be that scared about it? Both "yes" and "no" come with enough proof, so at this point we just do not know what to believe and what not to. However, for one moment, let's put all this virus part aside and talk about the hysteria it provoked all around the world.

At this point, as soon as the virus gets closer to a country, hysteria begins. It's enough to hear that one person has been affected in the country for everyone to go wild. Is this normal? I can assure you it is not. Instead of calming down, everyone is acting as if the apocalypse is here.

We've seen a pretty drastic.. let's name it "crash" in the cryptocurrency markets in the past few days. Have you wondered what has caused this to happen? I have, and the conclusion I've reached is that the markets were not only unprepared for this hysteria but we also have no idea if Bitcoin is going to be a safe haven during these times or not. Mainsteam media is provoking panic all over the Internet and a lot of people fear this virus is a real and very serious threat, so they are looking for information that denies the worst scenario to calm themselves down - I believe this is some psychological effect. Because Bitcoin has never been in this situation before (it has, but when only few knew about it), this is the moment we find out if people have woken up and found out Bitcoin is the key solution to the problem or not. Or in other words, we will just now find out whether the market is starting to reach maturity or not.

Because of the panic, people do not understand what we've just put ourselves into. The enormous amount of money poured into the economy and the immense amount of money people are spending on literally anything and using the virus as an excuse is scary and has irreversible consequences over the global economy. We're most likely going to see a huge upcoming inflation and more debt and this hysteria will eventually end up moving us from the virus threat into a huge recession so smoothly we won't even notice it.

I've posted here about the upcoming recession before. I'm not sure if I've mentioned it before on the forum, but I always say it when talking to somebody: it's not a matter of "if" it happens; it's a matter of when it will. The clock is now ticking fast, China is entering big economical issues so is Europe. I can clearly see around me that people are starting to enter a panic mode caused by the urgent necessity of cash. Unfortunately, this led to people selling their assets and investments in order to get cash for emergency purposes. And one of the investments people first think of selling is Bitcoin. Why? "It's virtual, you cannot use it physically and you cannot buy stuff with it". Let me tell you what - Bitcoin is one of the few existing assets that go against the inflation. You'll never hear the President of China say "we're creating and pouring $174B worth of Bitcoin into circulation". Even precious metals can change their scarcity negatively at any point in the event of a huge mine discovery. In comparison, we will never find more than exactly 21M BTC.

All of this means that Bitcoin will most likely always thrive in any negative scenario. Governments can confiscate your precious metals, but they cannot confiscate your Bitcoin as you can simply bury a piece of paper wallet inside a bottle under the ground and no detector will ever find it. Governments can make your fiat money worth ~$0 with only an announcement, but people will always be willing to pay a decent price for a scarce asset. Governments can warn you the banknotes may be infected with some bacteria, but Bitcoin existing only in a digital form will never come with this danger. Banks may close and seize your funds as if they were never yours, but Bitcoin is only stored and controlled by you and you can give anyone some BTC without a third party asking where that came from and why. Someone might give you an oz of gold and you'll have to trust the gold isn't fake, but you cannot receive a fake satoshi. Get it now? Bitcoin is simply a safety during hard times.

Therefore, the price crash in this market should, in my opinion, not scare you away. People need cash. In my country, I have seen packs of 5 pieces of surgical marks sold at around $100. People are willing to pay that much just for their own safety and health. Hence, they will sell anything they have to get fiat and that includes Bitcoin. Actually, because BTC has never been through such hysteric moments before, it will probably be the first thought of many when it comes to the "what should I sell first?" question. I strongly believe this crash will stay here for a bit (or maybe a bit longer) and then a huge surprise will come.

My personal opinion is we should not panic or panic-sell. If you're in a huge need of cash, commodities should probably be somewhere on the second half, towards the end, of the list of stuff you're thinking to sell. Time will prove whether I'm right or not though, and I wish I could give the best advice ever during these times but I am not willing to take responsibility for anyone's assets, wealth or life. Therefore, this post serves as a summary of the accumulated thoughts I've been having in the recent days.. any critique is more than welcome, so feel free to contradict me

Without using Tor, VPN or other methods to hide your identity and to leave no trace for your government, Bitcoin is considered illegal in your country so I don't believe there's any legit way you can do it without getting in trouble.

Bangladesh is known to be against Bitcoin, one of the few countries against it actually. By getting started into Bitcoin in your country, you'll risk being hunted by the government.

Therefore, one option I could think of (however I do not condone doing this and this is just a way you can receive money without anyone finding out) is by using Tor or a VPN to download Electrum and then installing it on an airgapped PC. You can then generate a wallet seed and have a receive address you can safely give others to send you BTC.

However, keep in mind that any little mistake could cost you a big hit from the government. I would really not risk if I was you. If you will post your address somewhere on the Internet (or if you give it through SMS or social media) without hiding your identity and IP, you might get yourself into trouble at any given time. My question is, how will you buy Bitcoin from someone without the gov finding out? One way is by buying through bank on Bisq form another person, but that's just as risky.

EDIT: You can also generate a paper wallet offline. Hell, you can even put all these methods aside, be super paranoid and create a wallet all by yourself. And there's a way of getting started without buying at all by becoming a valuable member of the forum and joining signature campaigns here. Just make sure your identity is hidden, but again, I do not condone doing this.

The thing is, by betting $10k if you lose, it's gone. Forever, unless you keep depositing and playing with the hope of winning.

Investing the same amount in BTC can turn your $10k into $1k but you'll still have the same amount of BTC in your wallet and the investment will still be worth something at any point.

If after you've lost $10k through betting you wait an year, the $10k will still be lost forever. The investment, however, could turn from a loss into a profit after the same timeframe passed.

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These Bitcoin stereotypes have been intentionally created for people to get into BTC through this imaginary profit to then find out BTC can also fall, it cannot only rise. They've been created and spread around for FUD to be produced every now and then and for those who start to believe in Bitcoin to fall trap to the stereotypes and lose money. It's the same crap probably all of us have heard from people who've never used BTC before: "it's a money-making machine" and "it's used on the dark web".

This unfortunately shows how truly misinformed we all are on a daily basis. We're relying on information coming from so many sources we simply don't even know who must be trusted and who must not. Welcome to the Internet era, where people only read article titles and create their own ideas based on the way the title is worded ..

What you consider bullshit might be the key solution to someone else's problems. Hence, I believe the 50 sMerit limit per month is fine. Some of the users here have had some priceless ideas or found critical bugs in different softwares/wallets which have saved a lot of users' funds.

It's pretty unfair if someone considers my thoughts worth 4 sMerit and meanwhile someone else finds something never discovered before that had laid for years in some software's code and you just can't give that guy as much sMerit as you could for preventing a huge exploit. The chances of receiving 50 sMerit for just some opinions are slight, so nobody would send me that much for a post that didn't deserve that much merit. Makes sense?

Mda.. din pacate multi care afla de minerit au impresia ca este atat de usor sa faci profit astfel, fara sa ia in calcul multi alti factori foarte importanti..

Ideea cu panourile solare suna bine doar in teorie/imaginatie. Daca te pui sa aduni pe hartie cat te costa toata afacerea, realizezi ca nu prea mai e afacere.. Cred ca in momentul de fata poti sa iesi mult mai bine investind bani direct in BTC decat sa te pui pe minerit..

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Will update signature and everything needed as per OP as soon as possible if accepted.

I believe the scarcity of Bitcoin is one of the reasons people are mining BTC.

If the halving wouldn't result in the ATH of Bitcoin, miners would have no more interest in mining BTC anymore imo, unless they voluntarily want to sustain the network. But considering the electricity costs, I don't think they would voluntarily do it either.

Hence, I strongly believe ATH will have to hit soon or many will lose interest.. and it will happen because it's gonna take 2x longer to earn the same amount of BTC you earn today through mining.

I personally think the situation in Italy did affect the price a little bit because we're still going through a mixture of feelings regarding whether owning BTC is a good or a bad idea during these scenarios.

I don't think the price change was entirely caused by the virus though. I'm starting to see these articles more like personal thoughts of the writers to be honest.

Any event that takes place nowadays is "a significant Bitcoin price influence" if we were to take all these articles seriously...

Hi hacker1001101001,

May I know why only 29 posts have been considered (and 25 counted) for the current week, considering I've posted a total of 47 posts from the day I've been accepted until last Friday @23:59:59 UTC?

Thank you!

Edit: I've just noticed there's also week 6 in the spreadsheet. All should be fine now.

Salut! Ai grijă de pe ce site-uri comanzi. În principiu, când ți se promite ceva ce sună prea bine să fie adevărat, cel mai probabil este.

Am găsit o acuzație împotriva promineruk chiar aici pe forum, iar pe trustpilot au +600 review-uri însă sunt foarte suspicioase... aproape toate conturile au 1-2 review-uri, deci au fost create în mod special pentru a publica o recenzie celor de la promineruk.

E suficient să îmi dau seama că review-urile nu sunt reale doar uitându-mă peste profilul lor de facebook, unde au o singură recomandare și undeva la 30 like-uri..

Am găsit o acuzație și pe Reddit.. Deci ți-aș sugera să stai departe de ei.