Exactly, it's not going to be the police or the authorities looking at all scammers that's going to end this, the only way out would be that users would be less gullible and far more vigilant on what they do and what they install and who they trust.

But, we all know this is not going to happen, scams like the "it's me it's me" on the phone have been happening for 2 decades, and people, thousands have been tricked into letting scammers know their bank account details or giving them access despite billions reading the news about it every month, and thousands still fall for those Ponzi schemes and get rich quick schemes every day just as they did one century ago.

So I would bet at 1:1000 odds that the FED will use BTC 100 years before we celebrate 1 day without somebody getting scammed.

Anyone here has the guts to test if this is real? 
I'm willing to bet the moment they get 5k they close shop and disappear.

Anyhow, not only is this the first casino that promotes stable and guaranteed income but what the hell is with the website design if I access the link in the desktop I see only one banner if I go directly to the root I'm redirected to an unscrollable pc.html page, was this shit design only for mobile?
Interesting that they told you what the equivalenting INR gain is, despite you ignoring the where are you from the question but how does 1800INR equal $1500? And how does $100 a day make you $1500 a month?


That's the reason I only use telegram to tell people to contact me over WhatsApp 

Can we stop with this freezing nonsense, please? I don't know why everyone has this impression in winter every country in Europe is full of snow, reindeer clogging the autobahn, and sixteen feet of snow covering each house and people using sleds to go to work.

These are the temperatures recorded this January in Berlin:
https://www.accuweather.com/en/de/berlin/10178/january-weather/178087?year=2022
This is Munchen, deep in Bavaria:
https://www.accuweather.com/en/de/munich/80331/january-weather/178086?year=2022

with the lowest at night being just once -7 and half of the nights not going below freezing and even reaching 15C during the day, don't you think the whole freezing stuff should really end? Do you know that in February this year Paris hasn't seen temperatures drop below zero?
Let's fuking stop with this, Europe is no north pole or south pole,  temperatures recorded in some skiresorts have nothing to do with the average.

As for hydrogen itself, the author in that totally biased article forgets one thing, hydrogen can be made when you have excess power in the grid and can be used when you don't have enough, just like traditional pump and storage systems work! This is a great advantage of the system.


Americans (assume Hydrogen is one) say gas, we use gasoline but more diesel or benzin here for it, that's where the confusion starts and everyone is talking about what he thinks gas stands for.

As always, your sources are good for nothing, exactly the third result in google:
Directly from South China Morning Post (owned by the CCP)
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3135883/china-debt-has-it-changed-2021-and-how-big-it-now


This's because China splits its debt, local governments, local authorities, and companies despite being owned by the state have each their own reporting but in all cases is the government that owns all of it.


I don't know what you're smoking but quit it! Lend-lease doesn't work like that, and the US has no reason to pay China's debt, if they wanted that they could settle this between them as both countries own part of each's debt.

I have zero ETH right now, I've never used TornadoCash ever, but I wouldn't mind getting all my addresses blocked with 0.1 ETH in each. 
Where do I sign up to be a pissed fof celebrity receiving unwanted money?


Since this is the crypto world and since in the last period we've seen only moves towards centralization and even worse proposals, for example, the rollback proposed by CZ after the hack of Binance we're not going to see a change in the definitions but more likely some new features, some shitcoins have already come with a proposal of individual whitelisting and blacklisting of addresses to which you can send funds, so Pandora's box is wide open.

Back to dydx:
https://twitter.com/AntonioMJuliano/status/1558088426926313472
Some people have really no shame, after blocking accounts how they are proclaiming they will fight against this till the last satoshi....

It's 20% with that territory of Donbas and Crimea, quite a funny since your marvelous prediction Russia has lost more land that it has conquered in Ukraine.


So you admit yourself that even if the country is completely shut down the GDP doesn't go to zero, and we have Russia's economy going down 5% last most, that would be like 2/3 of it being shut down, not bad. /s
Should I mention that despite all that catastrophic meltdown somehow EU's economy has grown 0.9%.


I love your laugh, obviously, it's the laugh of somebody who is on the brink of going insane, you mean that Russia is not selling LNG to India because Europe pays more even with a third party?
So the outcome for India is that they don't have gas, they don't have money to buy it, and Europe will collapse?
How many times have I told you that the one with the money dictates everything?
How many times does it take to finally get it?


You see kiddo, this is your problem, you try to find the things you want in a problem, like in this case you want this , weakness of your adversary to be the cause of the fall in price, you're not looking for the actual thing.
And it's not the "emptying" of the SPR as they only release 1 million barrels a day, and they still have 523 million only in the SPR not counting commercial reserves which the US can buy and dump, and those are, prepare for a heart attack another 400 million barrels.
So all of it will be emptied in about 3 years!

But the problem is that is not that which is driving the price of oil down but the lack of consumption, it's full US and EU driving season and the consumption is 1 million barrels below target for the US alone, at the end of the month this will come down again by at least 20%.
That's why oil is at 88$ as we speak, or 69.48 for Russian oil. 


(Collapse of the USSR - Invasion of Afghanistan) / 3  since Russia is half of the USSR and its economy globally is 1/4 of what it was


Vodka as they don't need anything else.
And btw, yeah, Russia imported both vodka and caviar, vodka from Sweden and Poland, and Caviar from Italy and China!

One dollar bill is one dollar bill, there is no way a cashier will ask you for 102 bills to pay a 100$ product.
As for the "real" and "scam" tokens, how do you know others are legit?
Have you seen their cash, have you seen their bank account statements? Tether hasn't been able to come with proofs in years, why believe them?


CBDC is like the numbers in your bank account, it's one dollar for one dollar, stablecoins are like casino chips, they are worth 50$ but only id the casino wants to exchange them for you, with no guarantee it will do so, no guarantee it will still be there tomorrow and without anyone else accepting them.

CBDC is just the digital form with fiat, with no real advantages no real disadvantages over your card, for example, stablecoins are just the worst of the worse of cryptocurrencies, they can lose value overnight, they can be frozen, they can become unchangeable as exchange delist them and there is absolutely nobody you can complain to.

One month old domain, claiming millions of users, claiming to be founded in 2013 and with offices in 84 countries and 3 billion in cold storage?
There is no exchange in this world with that many offices in the first place!
And that app with no links to google play but with 20k reviews, of course, it's nothing fishy at all.

The "trader" is most likely a scammer who will trick you into depositing BTC on this website and then he will go deaf on all your other requests, except for the moment he will ask you for money to pay for cashing in your "winnings".

It will be like Coinbase versus Binance, one that you know where it operates and where it is located and the other one operates either from Malta or Bahamas or somewhere where CZ seems fit to run. Which answers the second row of questions about feeling safer and usage as a simple poll between the two of them here will probably come with 99% for Binance as it's SAFU! I'm pretty sure an overall majority of users don't care about that, they've never read the ToS, they actually don't know anything about the company before depositing money but they go with the wave.

As for myself, I won't trust any exchange no matter the licenses it has with more than a few bucks and I still feel uneasiness when I'm forced to send a larger sum to exchange to either sell or buy coins, a feeling that goes away only when the coins are in my pocket and yeah when the fiat is in my bank account as at least that's, as Loycev covered. The money or coins on an exchange are not covered by anything, no matter the age and the reputation.

From the same website, the same authors, but things you might have missed, just as the Russian artillery does
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/world/europe/un-ukraine-grain-africa.html


All the ships that are left now till now are the ships that were carrying grain purchased before the war even started, contracted already, now that there is enough capacity to accommodate ships that carry wheat that has been not yet sold, this is going to Africa.
So, stick your propaganda where it belongs!

As for Europe stockpiling wheat, this is just hilarious as Europe exports overall more wheat than Russia does:
https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2348664-frances-global-wheat-exports-to-surge-in-junenovember


And another thing:

What a surprise, seems that after realizing they don't have bullets to shoot all the protesters begging for food in the streets Iran has switched its tactics and started buying food from whoever has it, and miraculously the exact notion in which the supermarkets were empty is keeping Iran from starving.


So it was not the capture of Rangoon the fall of Burma by the Japanese and the sinking of 100 000 tons of food as well as a navy blockade, as the Wikipedia link you've quoted actually says, noted, another re-write of the history to show how bad europeans were.

And you really believe that?
Because as always, when shit hits the fan CZ is backtracking on all statements and starting his web of lies again..

First thing first, he tells you to get your money out of Wazirx



Now, the real problem:

Binance does not own any shares in Wazirx because

the transaction was never completed despite him claiming on Twitter



Now, give me one reason to trust CZ and one reason not to call him a lying piece of you know what!

Yeah, good luck convincing the guys with the handcuffs and the guns about this as it seems they don't give a damn.

I always tried to tell people they should be really waking up and just because they are defining for their own what is financial transactions, what is copyright, what is code, and what is anything else, it kind of stops being important when the other guys that don't agree with you have all the power. Just like the $5 wrench attack vs the sha256 encryption meme, there is a really dangerous reality we might face, and hiding behind definitions won't save you when the others have their own.

But the biggest danger is that I can see how this is going to end, some will become enraged, some will scream, some will thread with x and z and one month later nobody will care till the next guy is getting thrown in jail.
Also, speaking of nonsense, I just saw this tweet:

Finally seems like there is no longer just a single case when "something" has gone wrong, the usual but it's not like that for all of them, the whole charade is coming down in flames. The whole myth of the new Defi solutions that will revolutionize banking and give your freedom back was simply a lie, a hyped word that in reality had no meaning whatsoever, everyone should have understood that from the moment the first coins were frozen or blacklisted that this was just a way to cash on the hype and to trick gullible users that they've bought something special and it's actually theirs.

But something that needs to be mentioned is that of course they are not doing this on purpose, but they are doing the same things banks do with just one thing in perspective, staying afloat and making money. They will change Defi into Cefi immediately just like a lot of them have abandoned Defi for NFT for web3.0 for everything that was bringing more money.


The ones who will read this topic probably knew it well before those are not to be trusted, the others will not even care, they are busy asking on Twitter if "Terra back to 100$?"

Being decentralized means being distributed or dispersed, your wallet is a piece of software, it doesn't mean because it can be used alone with its own configuration it is decentralized, just like my miner for which I can change the mining pool at any time or go solo mining is not decentralized either as it's one piece of equipment if it breaks this is it. Just like with bitcoin core, if your HDD crashes there goes your wallet, what you have might have left be a copy on a stick but you don't have redundancy in this case as bitcoin nodes do.

The moment an exchange says don't panic, funds are SAFU, is time to get out of there as fast as you can.
Even if it doesn't go bankrupt, you don't lose a thing, but if it does...
As for the main question, it might be just how MtGox managed to stay afloat when the Dwolla funds were freezer or when Mizuno stopped servicing them, it stayed afloat using third-party solutions but slowly it reached a point where it would have collapsed even without the hack.

Anyhow this is pretty easy to check with so many users having an account here, you can ask some friend to show you the details of a successful withdrawal, in his bank statement he should have all the info, if the payment comes from a different source than in the past it means things have definitely changed, if it's the same account then there was nothing but a hiccup.

Either way, stay away from an exchange that even its founders have problems identifying who actually owns and operates it!

Casual data, yeah but no!
This is from my other topic, it's a 15 minute graph showing exactly the moment of the CPI announcement:


The moment the numbers were released the price went up instantly, one should really stop thinking thet Bitcoin is in a world of its own where is not influenced by the others, the correlation might go up or down, as in those two threads by Ratimov but no matter how much you deny things and numbers are there.


Yes, it does but it amazes me how many refuse to accept this as it somehow breaks whatever sort of image they've had about bitcoin.
Once you start becoming a global tarded asset, with millions of investors and billions flying around, how could you even try to think it will not be influenced by such data just as traditional markets are?

You're yet to see?
You proclaimed in April that in one month Ukraine will lose half of its territory and now you fail to see this?

Their GDP dropped 4%, this with months of companies still working there for a while, with the ones retreating still paying their employees 3-6-12 wages for being let off, with most having paid rents and suppliers one year in advance, with people still having a few pennies left aside and DESPITE your claims of billions entering the economy it has still shrunk 4% with 4.9% in the last month!
And you don't see the meltdown happening?
Oil is on average 10% lower in the last 30 days than when the conflict started, Russia is selling less and for less than that, you keep mentioning gas prices at the TTF but you don't understand Gazprom is not selling gas there, those are future settlements but probably I will waste my time explaining the difference.

Your bias knows no margin, you're bragging about how Russia is exporting this and that to China and India but I haven't seen you mention this one a single time:
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/russia-defaults-on-lng-supplies-to-india/article65657494.ece
Europe will freeze to death but till then seems like we can buy what others can't afford:
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/indias-petronet-delays-plan-1mtp-lng-deal-amid-high-prices-2022-08-05/

Those are things none should speak of, right, because it breaks your narrative!! Because you don't want to see the reality? Well, good luck then, there is no meltdown in the Russian economy, Russia hasn't defaulted twice in history, the USSR has not collapsed and there was no meltdown at Chornobyl either! Oh, and India has conquered Great Britain there times also! Sorry, I forgot this! Just as how Iran once ruled all of Mars!


You might want to google "saki airbase" and visit this. Your superstars have hit rock bottom faster than Lindsay Lohan!

And, if sanctions are on the banks how is the payment going to the utility providers?
I've read the whole interview and it looks like he is definitely trying to avoid answering thi s with useless walls of text:
https://nairametrics.com/2022/08/10/nigerians-can-now-pay-utility-bills-with-crypto-rutherford-atayobo-ceo-manilla-finance/


I fail to understand this, you don't ditch fiat but you use an alternative, this is simply something that is impossible, as you can't use an alternative without actually ditching the first choice, that's what an alternative is, and somehow you magically change cryptos into fiat and you pay the companies with what? A truckload of cash and you pay one by one each bill at a PayPoint machine?


So, if you take crypto and you deal with fiat, it's not the same?
What magic does that app summons to use and not use a system at the same time?

I will never say that bitcoin is not a hedge against inflation, even if bitcoin would be dropping in price for a while it will still long-term beat any inflation unless something of catastrophic magnitudes happens. I've amended the title to high to enforce a bit what I was trying to say, if you look just at the price and not correlate that with purchasing power it's clear that it will not grow fantastically in a period of prolonged inflation, it will be able to keep on top looking at the rates but nothing spectacular.

One thing, let's not say 2009! Common, you can actually count the numbers of people who bought coins in 2009 with your fingers.


And are you sure that if the economy was doing fine and there was no inflation and no war bitcoin would still be in a bear market?
That was actually the essence of this, are you sure it follows it's following its own path and is not actually getting more and more tied to the world events?


Bitcoin is a tool, you can use it as you seem fit, you can use it as a currency, you can use it as a hiding place for your wealth, you can use it as a long, medium, short-term investment, and you can still look at it as a quick rich scheme, that's the thing I love about it, that unlike anything else it offers the flexibility of choice.

Why are stablecoins better than CDBC?
At least with a CDBC, you will know 1 dollar is one dollar, with stablecoins you find out in the morning a UST is equal 2 cents.
Besides, even if stablecoins would be able to keep their peg, they are still doing this to a currency controlled by the same government that issued those CDBCs so, what's the advantage?
Let's add the fact that with stablecoins you don't have to worry only about the government freezing your account but by the ones issuing those stablecoins on top of that like tether has been doing for ages.

So, any reason why somebody would use them over CDBC?