All of these platforms require KYC, but leave the user with the ability to use it without verifying identity at a certain level and must verify it when it reaches that level.
As long as exchange between cryptocurrencies and without converting it to cash, most likely no KYC will be required.

Binance was like that, they lowered limits and then imposed full KYC^[1].

So it will happen with all of these platforms.
Unless it's a truly decentralized platform, everything will happen.

[1] Binance Expands Global KYC Requirements to Further User

It is a server error (HTTP status code 5XX) but (00) is generic error that won’t tell you exactly why this it is the problem.
There are many reasons for this problem, but you as a user (Client side) do not need to do anything, refresh the page and the problem will be solved.

Personally, I did not encounter a problem, perhaps it is related to cloudflare, so do not worry too much.

The word "DeFi" means decentralized financing, which is not supposed to be central and under the control of one company, and therefore the presence of one company managing such financing is very wrong.
But if you want to set up a company in the name of DeFi, you may face intellectual property problems afterwards, and it is difficult to find an address with that name.

In general, most of the companies are transnational, so that the registration is in crypto-friendly countries such as the Cayman Islands, Malta and others.

You should not seek tax advice from the community because we are from many countries and have different laws.

I don't know why everyone thinks that central wallet tokens are good in the long run, the only success is BNB and UNI all came after a long time effort.
Therefore, it is not good in the long run, and I think it is very similar to the KuCoin platform.
In general, the platform does not look scam and has good trading volumes, so some profits may be made in the short term.

I've always thought that trading is like learning to ride a bike or to drive a master, you can listen to hundreds of good advice, and thousands of hours of videos but unless you practice it you won't be able to do it.
The tips are good and should be applied, but the practical skill in trading, making a good plan, managing emotions, etc. needs practical practice.
I remember when I first started trading 2017-2108 and now, the difference is clear even though I haven't read any advice before.

The most important thing I can say is to learn from the mistakes, find out what I did wrong and try to improve it.

COVID-19 pandemic has made the natural levels of inflation variable, and therefore monetary policies set by governments may fail to bring inflation under control and maintain levels according to expectations, for example, most countries are trying to maintain inflation between 2%-5%.

Now we have an energy crisis and I believe that the dollar is linked in one way or another to the price of a barrel of oil, which prices most things in our lives, and with the fluctuation of energy prices, political risks and others, it will become difficult to maintain low inflation levels and a price of 100 dollar per barrel of oil without high inflation more than 5%.

Therefore, I do not think that governments will succeed in keeping inflation rates under control during the next three years.


Source --> https://talkmarkets.com/content/economics--politics/macroview-2021--a-disappointment-of-growth-and-disinflation?post=295732

Lots of platforms have been hacked yet people are still using them as an example in the last year:

 - 2021, December, 2021: BitMart hacked (Obtained access to hot wallet) with $150 million
 - 2021, August 19: Liquid hacked (Obtained access to hot wallet) with $97 million
 - 2020, September 25: KuCoin hacked (Data leak) of $275 million
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 - 2018, January 27: CoinCheck hacked (Unknown) with $560 million

Source --> https://www.hedgewithcrypto.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/

Most of these platforms have several million users who spend millions of dollars.


NFT tokens are a hot topic and such hacks will cause big problems for them especially with the increased competition and with more money flowing in, paying those sums is better than nothing.

After completing the centralization of Bitcoin mining in China, China banning mining and the hashrate still high, arguing with the rest of the countries will be useless.
We can't compare the number of miners in that country to China, so the fact that Bitcoin is centralized in one country is inaccurate.
Bitcoin mining is distributed in a decentralized manner, and therefore we need to take decisions from those countries together to affect the mining directly, and then the miners will move to another country and so on.
Do not forget that Bitcoin mining is an economic behavior, as long as it is profitable in a country, the miners will move to it.

You just need to prove the source of the money, for example, if 3 years ago you deposited $100 in a platform, you will need to prove that you made the deposit of X crypto and transfer it to Y crypto, using mixing services will not change many things as long as you have the cash, but if you want to pay taxes correctly, avoid it.


I am not familiar with the laws in Germany, but in my country there are many indicators that determine the freezing of funds. For example, if you periodically receive $50,000 from a source, you will be asked in the first time and ignored the next times as long as they are periodic & follow a certain pattern, but for example, if you receive $500 from 5 unknown sources outside the country, your account may be frozen, in short, it is related to suspicious behavior.

I don’t know what the relationship is between the different topics.

Bitcoin mining in Russia is related to electricity and political relations. There was news about Russia’s intention to ban currency trading, including the ban on mining, but the policies change dramatically. However, when China banned Bitcoin mining, the currency continued to grow.

Regulating taxes is subject to the fact that they are assets and not currencies, and therefore governments try to benefit from them and make some profits from them.

Shiba currency, with the huge quantity supplied, represents a legalized scam pump/dump model.
Therefore, all the models based on it are considered scam or an attempt to take advantage of its reputation completely, what happened from currencies such as the squid game^[1], moon coin, Elon Musk currency and so on.

Generally, who is the developer team, plans, and future development and problem solving.

[1] Squid Game crypto token collapses in apparent scam

It seems that the platform has contained the matter and paid the amount instead of jeopardizing its reputation. Such events would resonate if it was for many individuals and not for one user.
The problem is that the existence of such vulnerabilities will cause people to believe that the technology has been hacked (ETH blockchain) and not the fault of the platform.

Also, the delay in correcting the bug is not a good indicator, so the average user should not keep the money in the platform for a long time.

Generally, it is good to hide such news for the industry as a whole but it is bad for OpenSea users.

Why not buy a cheap phone, root it, remove all apps and install certain apps, blocking physical internet access? Or a cheaper option to buy a hardware wallet?


Why do you need to test the services once?
Even buying a phone and preventing it from connecting to the Internet is better than installing android simulator on the computer that is always connected to the Internet.

In general, you can get an Android system suitable for computers (Remix OS or Android-x86) and then modify BIOS to boot from it next to your main operating system^{[1] [2]}.

Anyway In brief:

 - Download Remix OS from the official site.
 - Launch the Remix OS.
 - Install it to the hard drive and Reboot.

[1] How to dual boot Windows 10 and Android
[2] How to Create a Bootable USB Drive for Windows on an Android Smartphone

You have a long journey ahead. Good signature campaigns have become highly rated people who have merits and share useful content for the community. Therefore, developing yourself will be the beginning that you will benefit from personally before benefiting from the financial return.

The price of Bitcoin is now low and we may not go down further so until then investing any surplus money would be a smart idea.
Getting merits is not difficult, you just got 4 Merits.

I don't think "soon" means "soon" because several months ago they enforced ID verification and therefore should have invested in updating their KYC system quickly.
Most likely they rely on third party applications or any tool as I don't think they are serious about identity verification and therefore would not invest in it to be accurate.
Also, I think that your friend should update his ID picture quickly because he may face problems at the airport or points where identity verification is more.

Privacy is a valuable thing. From the moment you start communicating, you lose a part of that value.

Just when you connect to the Internet, you lose some privacy and you have to learn that a small mistake may lead to revealing your identity.
It is impossible to anonymize if all the parties in the world want to track you and put sufficient financial resources for that, but the enjoyment of privacy earns you additional value.

Almost all free applications collect data about you and therefore you should know how to protect your privacy.

In Bitcoin, unless you are running a full node, connecting using Tor and VPN does not log your data, you are at the lowest level of privacy no matter what wallet you use.

Next comes disabling JavaScript data and accessing a lot of untrusted sites.

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In general, in terms of security and privacy, you mentioned a good point, which is the keyboard. In touch screens, these tools collect, record and analyze a lot of data, which happened to me in the morning, when I noticed the predictive text has become of high accuracy.

I did not understand the content of the article accurately, but as I understood it, it gives root privileges for an ordinary user, and therefore it is an account based problem (privileges to unprivileged user.)
Meaning that it will be affected by devices with multiple access or for several people and not for the average user with a single account.

In general, all systems are vulnerable to hacking, and Bitcoin provides the user with the advantage of generating keys without the need to connect to the Internet, which means that most of these bugs will not effect (if the user is able to physically remove all communication parts)

When Bitcoin reaches that value, mining hardware will develop and thus consume less electricity.
Research on renewable energy will have reached its peak, and therefore we will find more options that are cheaper and less harmful to the environment.

Bitcoin mining is a profit-related activity. Whenever it is profitable, the number of miners will increase and vice versa, and therefore mining will continue as long as people continue to use Bitcoin and as long as Bitcoin has value (certainly it will have value if the market capacity is 20 trillion)

This is a chart of solar energy costs for the past ten years.


Source --> https://rameznaam.com/2020/05/14/solars-future-is-insanely-cheap-2020/


Source --> https://energypost.eu/5-charts-show-the-rapid-fall-in-costs-of-renewable-energy/

I do not know why there is a link between Bitcoin and the carbon footprint, as Bitcoin mining requires energy from whatever source, and the continuation of research may lead us to create devices that cost less energy, and renewable energy sources will be more.

The problem of energy is global, and when more research and other things are done, we will find that the voices calling for mining problems will be reduced.

In general, the media has a role in this misconception, in the past it was linked between Bitcoin and dark activities, now it is linked to wasting electricity.

If the purpose of the topic is to know if LastPass/1Password can be hacked, it is better to assume that and therefore do not give a lot of information to such services.
In general, there are two aspects that must be distinguished, the first is privacy and the second is privacy.

If you are not interested in privacy, add a password in your brain, for example, xcvbvv, with the first three word of the service as to Facebook, xcvbvvfab, with the password that is stored in such services, which will provide you with additional protection.

But if you're talking about privacy, it's best to stay away from LastPass/1Password service, assume that it can be hacked and run self-hosted password manager.