Hello all, I'm officially posting Kardiachain Announcement thread as well as there updates in behalf of Kardiachain team here in the forum.

Also, as you are focusing in Vietnam & SEA, does it mean you have physical office also in this region?

It is not about local or international effect, Pakistan is not a country like USA or China that have the economic power, if cryptocurrencies is legalized in China today, the price of cryptocurrencies will increase just because of how China is, also if bitcoin is banned in USA today, the price of each coins will reduce.
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I remembered when India legalized crypto, not long that South Korea also legalized it within the same week, but crypto prices were not affected positively at the time, which can be a sign that the citizens were even trading cryptocurrencies during the ban.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were banned in Pakistan, Now according to some sources, the Pakistani government is going to unban crypto including BTC.

How BTC market will affect by this? is this charming news for crypto lovers from Pakistan?

I am interested in your opinion on the end of the bullish season ... namely, will there be another bounce, or we will go into a deep correction. Unfortunately, I did not sell all my altcoin assets, as I got the impression that the market is still hot, (in comparison with other coins from the top 100, the capitalization of the coin of which I am talking has increased only 4 times, which is pretty small if we talk about comparison).

Bitcoin halving brought the new bullish period for crypto market. Ethereum is a follower of Bitcoin on the market but it is a leader for altcoins.

• Bitcoin: leader of crypto market.
• Ethereum: leader of altcoin market.

From which, you can expect a blossom of altcoins in coming months. Top altcoins will retest (at least) their 2018 or 2017 ATHs and strong altcoins will make their new all time highs in this year (or next year ?).

It is my speculation, choose one or a few to buy at good entry prices, then hold (for 2017-2018 ATH retest) or new ATHs.

Warnings

• It is only good as investments
• It is not applied for leverage trades, gambling. Your greediness will kill you (by liquidations from exchanges)
• Along the ride of altcoins, you will see many market massacres, with Cascade effects along the journey
• Generally, take care, control your greediness, and good luck

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Any suggestions for getting more merits?

To promote with merit system and new rank requirements, you should do following things.

(1) Never begging for merits
Reasons:
- Doing this will highly result in Red Trust, it is just the matter of time. Sooner or later, if you keep begging for merits, you will get Red Trust, certainly.
- Doing this don't help you to improve yourself. In long-term journey in the forum, it's not good for you, generally.

(2) Spending most of your time to read and learn
Only start composing your posts when you have something extremely constructive to discussions, topics.
Reasons:
- You are noobs, newbies (lack of knowledge, and experience), so what you think are constructive most likely unconstructive in reality.
- When you actually have reasons to start composing your posts, after finishing it, please re-read again and again to check that your posts are good in grammar, vocabularies, and good enough to express most of your ideas. I wrote most of your ideas because sometimes it is difficult for non-native English speakers to write down and completely express ideas by words. It's a challenge for non-native English speakers, who don't have English as their mother tongue.

(3) Never copy and paste without links to sources, or without quotes
Reasons:
- It is plagiarism, and punishments on plagiarism is kind of strictest ones in the forum.
Plagiarists who got permanent bans almost won't be allowed to come back.
There are new changes by @theymos, that allow perma-banned users give proofs, evidence of their contributions to the forum to come back.
But, the probabilty to have second chance is very very low.
You should not expect that chance when perma-banned due to plagiarism.
- How to insert quote, please look at the image. It is very easy, click on the quote button at the upper corner on the right side of each post you want to quote.
You need statistics on perma-banned users due to plagiarisms? There you go:
How many banned users have you merited? (by LoyceV)

(4) Never mind of bounties, campaigns when you are noobs
Reasons:
- Campaigns are there, open then close, then others open and close, from time to time. You should never worry that you miss this chance, that chance, this campaign, that campaign, something like this.
It is the same as merits. Lots of users complain that merits are rare, I can not get merits due to it is rare. Nope, merits (more exactly, sMerits - sendable merits) are available, everywhere in the forum. There are so many merit sources, normal users, who have lots of sMerits readily to send out. They kept them partially due to quality posts are rare, not sMerits.
- Instead of paying too much attention, and time on hunting for bounties, especially bounties that have easy rules and joinable for low rank users; you should start learning, reading, and build up your accounts.
When you hit your finish lines, it's time for you to seriously think of joining bounties.

(5) Learn from inspirational stories. Learn from merited users, topics, posts
Reading and learning from most merited users, and most merited topics, posts are one of the best way to improve your post quality, coherence and cohesion when you compose your posts, topics.
I have a topic on: Inspirational stories from self-made promoted users

(6) Spend your time to improve your English, especially Reading and Writing skills
Reasons:
- If you can not read posts or topic in English well, can not get ideas of posts' / topics' authors, it means that you have nothing to do in the forum.
Remember that you have to get their ideas well enough to not misunderstand their core ideas.
- Next, after reading good enough to catch authors' ideas, it is time for you to express your own ideas in case you have something to ask for help, something to discuss, or something meaningful to help others. This is the time you need to have good enough Writing skill.
This is why I mentioned you should improve your English skills, step by step, from Reading to Writing. Of course, you can improve both skills simultaneously.
The forum is the place almost solely for discussions via Reading and Writing.
You can find available sources for English learning in the References at the end of this OP.


(7) Don't pay your attention on post-length  (Ideas that I took from theymos' Writing a welcome message)


Remember that promoting with merit system is a challenge, but you can do make it.
And, when got promoted, you are different, different from airdroped users at the same rank.
It means you will become more competitive when applying to join campaigns.

Now, let's get started with your own journey that lead to your finish lines!

I were surprised by the many people that trust banks and online "trusted" wallets to store cryptocurrencies

Wallet Basics:

Do not use wallets that don't give you recovery data; these wallets are likely controlling your keys.
Do not use paper wallets unless you're an advanced user who understands all the risks.
Do not store large amounts of value in single signature wallets.
Make sure your heirs know how to recover your wallets without you!

This is highly unnecessary. You do not need to rush while reading for you to understand someone, that article is coherently structured. Also, no need to repeat what has been posted by previous posters which I have tried and corrected. If you still insist, is the first link suggested by ranochigo short for you, or among which you will criticize along.

There could be stuck transaction, and the sender unable to pump it using replace-by-feeas the the transaction does not support replace-by-fee, what then comes to the mind of few is to use child-pay-for-parent to unstuck the transaction, but because the sender or the receiver was still using low fee in another (child) transaction, the transaction could still remain stuck, it would be one transaction (parent transaction) before and it became two transactions (parent and child transaction) that will be stuck, the other transaction is the child one.

If the original transaction hash (txid) is necessary in a transaction in certain payment, and you want to unstuck the transaction, you can not use RBF as the txid will be changed as the coin is double spent, but higher fee will be required for CPFP as explained above to create another transaction with high fee so the parent transaction can have high chance to get confirmed in a block mined

Yes, they can sell that afterward in different underground marketplaces.

If it's containing a huge database with verified customers of hotbit, then that's a big issue which shall give some trust issues against hotbit. And a simple reminder and not giving an egoed statement that everything is fine although it's not.

This website seems to be similar to reddit except with an older UI. It's obviously more focused on the topic of bitcoin but I can easily find a group on reddit to talk about bitcoin.

While I'm a strong believer that signature campaigns enrich this forum's quality and that “it keeps it alive”

Once I read the replies of a thread, I'll ignore most of the users that participate on a low-paying signature campaign, by the thought that they are shit posters. But, that may not be true. I observe a form of prejudice. I'll actually take a closer look to a post made by a high-quality signature campaign participant rather than a newbie.

A user may have thousands of merits, but he/she may create low quality posts. Someone with 4-digits post count and 2-digits merit count would be quickly rejected into your mind, either because he/she may have promoted failed/scam tokens or made shitty posts for pennies.

No offence, the post is actually extremely wordy and some better structuring would be needed.

Well it still wordy for me. I read the first few paragraphs with full attention and then just scanned the rest of the paragraphs and trusting that you will not put anything wrong. It will be better if you can simplify it more. I do not think at the current format and wording many people will be interested to finish the entire article.

I tried my best to reduce the post contents, but will result to missing of important information for newbies. Just trying to simplify it as it could be.

Your post is very long and I don't read it all. Another minus point in your post is bad punctuations. Frankly said, it is my contribution for your writing. It is not my attack.

I bet that anyone can understand your sentence

When trying to write quality posts, a lot of people act as though they're writing a book report for school: putting facts that we already know into their own words. Nobody wants to read that, and you will not get merit for it. Moreover, the length of your post and the quality of your English are only minor factors. In trying to write a quality post worthy of merit, you should offer new ideas, personal experiences, or perspectives that other forum users will actually find new and interesting.

I hope I am posting into the right section. I did a few futures leverage trades on Binance never above 4x. I wanted to ask if traders keep a long position open for over weeks and months? If yes are they paying many fees? With which option it is the best to open a position which you may want to keep open for a very long time?

Bsiq is a decentralized p2p exchange

Personally, i believe it is a good idea to sell a small percentage of your gains every time the coins make huge pumps.

You can sell about 1% every time the coin gets a 100%, or sell 10% when it makes 1000%.

I also like to sell all my altcoins when they pump to trade them back to bitcoin, so I keep track of COIN/BTC ratio all the time.