That's a bunch of crap, and it's not the real reason she wants to "curtail" crypto use.  My best guess is that the IRS is concerned about tax evasion (also a bunch of crap, since most of that comes from business owners) and has influenced her opinion on crypto. 

I can't say I long for the days of Trump's presidency, but I would have preferred a libertarian candidate winning, or another republican--though I realize that would have been impossible in the 2020 election.  The government keeps those printing presses running 24/7 and even on Christmas, yet they don't want the average citizen to have any control over the purchasing power of their money.  Fuck those democratic goons, especially a hypocrite from New Hampshire, the motto of which is "Live Free or Die".

Answer to the first question: NO.  Answer to the second: yeah, probably.  Trump is a billionaire and has good relationships with lots of banks, and I don't think he's ever going to have a problem with money.  And this sounds like some banks are trying to distance themselves from Trump because of the violence at the Capitol--but memories are short, and those banks might very well reverse their positions in the future after things have cooled down.

At least Trump doesn't have to deal with shady crypto exchanges that unexpectedly throw in a KYC requirement when you want to withdraw funds.  It's not like any banks have stolen his money or that he has to put up with all the petty shit that we crypto investors have to put up with.

Yeah, value investor my ass--at least Miller isn't being one in this case:



Note the P/E of 5048.  Usually, value investors don't chase stocks with P/E's as high as that.  Warren Buffet probably hasn't purchased a stock with a P/E higher than 18.  So yeah, MSTR is massively overvalued--even more so than the rest of the stock market right now.

Also, it's no wonder Miller didn't buy MSTR stock outright.  There aren't that many shares outstanding relative to other companies.

Good point--I didn't read the article, but I got the general gist of it by what you posted.  It sounds like Miller wants to hedge his bitcoin bet big time and might be interested in MSTR itself as well as the bitcoin they hold (even if that's not what he's saying). 

Kind of makes me wonder how many other investors are buying MicroStrategy stock "for the bitcoin".  Based on their stock's performance since they started buying BTC, my guess is more than a few.  Crazy.  And I don't really have a problem with that; some folks don't want to buy actual bitcoin.  They'd rather buy shares in a company that owns a lot of it.  I can understand that as a stock market nut myself, but as a bitcoin nut I see your point completely.

Bro, I and many others agree with you about HitBTC being a scam exchange, but you don't have to necrobump multiple threads dealing with that issue.  There are already more than a few active right now, a couple of which I've posted in due to getting a dose of their dishonesty recently.

My ass you are.

That's a great saying and it's true--but with respect to bitcoin, there's no blood anywhere to be seen on any streets.  Blood was a-plenty back when COVID-19 hit and bitcoin fell below $6k, but all of a sudden after it's hit its all-time high it's a brilliant move to be buying bitcoin.  To me that's insanity.

And frankly I couldn't care less if it were MicroStrategy's CEO buying bitcoin with his own money, but he's not--he's buying it with his public company's money, and boy are they going to be pissed off if bitcoin doesn't keep performing well.  Of course I'm hoping it does anyway, but I question whether he should be buying more at these prices.  It's kind of like big companies that buy back their own stock when it's trading at a P/E of 90.  In hindsight, it's always viewed as a stupid move.  But we'll see.  I'm hoping for the best for MSTR. 

I swear by Newegg, though I have had problems with BitPay (although I have to take some responsibility for that).  One thing about them is that you can only pay with bitcoin if the item is sold by Newegg, so keep that in mind if that was your intention OP. 

I'd imagine they'd have everything you'd need, and they ship very quickly too.

I rolled the dice (so to speak) recently and tried to buy some Curecoin on HitBTC, never having used them before--and I knew about their awful reputation before I made a deposit, but I thought I'd give it a shot.

What happened was exactly as OP described.  They took my deposit just fine and allowed me to trade....and then hit me with the KYC requirements when I went to withdraw my coins.  Granted, I didn't read their ToS but Jesus, if there's any kind of KYC required on an exchange, that exchange needs to let you know up front and in big bold letters that it's a requirement.  Anything less than that is just being dishonest, especially given that most people won't go through with a KYC requirement--and as OP stated, HitBTC no doubt knows this and is using it to their advantage.

I'm not sure I'll complain, though I really should. 

I think we all agree on that (with exceptions of course).

If you want speech to truly be free, you have to protect speech that you don't like; that's offensive; and may not be true.  Anything else is just censorship, and I think any claims that BSV is bitcoin or that CSW is Satoshi should be countered with facts (or requests for proof in the case of the former).  I don't think any censorship needs to be employed here--and remember, this is a forum where outright scammers aren't even banned, much less bald-faced liars.

I'm absolutely confused as to what you're referring to--but I'm damn curious.

Anyway, I need more source sMerits.  They were getting replenished very quickly for a while, and then it just kind of stopped.  Fortunately I have plenty of personal sMerits which I'll probably have to tap into within the next week or so if I don't get a top-up from Theymos.  I'm a-still tryin' to be a good merit source, and I think I've gotten off to a good start this year and I'm going to try to do even better as far as distributing the merits far and wide (though I'm not lowering my standards).

I tend to agree with you, especially since I saw that there was a large number of merit sources who dropped out in the past 6 months to a year or so.  Hopefully Theymos isn't having second thoughts about the merit system--you never know, because he doesn't give his thoughts on the matter all that often.

That's goddamn ridiculous.  Similarly, I had a problem logging into my Robinhood account and I couldn't receive an SMS text from them because I'd changed my phone number and didn't update it with them (I rarely log into my account).  They told me they can't make a simple phone call to me to verify my info.  They wanted the front and back of my driver's license, which I submitted to some 3rd party site--and Robinhood said they never got it.  I just said "fuck it" and gave up. 

I didn't know Binance was such a ball-buster, but it sounds like they're completely inflexible.  And then there are shitty exchanges like HitBTC that hit you with KYC when you want to withdraw funds.  They have no problem with you depositing funds or trading, but even for a small amount of crypto they want all your dox.  They're another one I just gave up on and took the loss. 

I'm getting tired of this crap, too.

Just based on the above quote, it looks like Biden is just taking a wait-and-see approach to things he probably doesn't know much about--and remember, he has to unfuck a lot of what Trump fucked up in the country and that's going to take some time.

But privacy?  Sad to say, but it's dying.  Not just in the US but all over the world--look at how many CCTV cameras England has, and how much power the governments of N. Korea and China have over their citizens' data.  Unless people revolt, that trend isn't going to reverse itself, and in order for people to revolt, they actually have to care.  Seems to me like most people don't give two craps about their privacy.  Look at all the stuff people post on FB and other social media sites.  You think the government/law enforcement isn't watching all of that?

Yep, I got scammed by them about a week ago when I registered and placed an order for a coin....and then I found out that they don't let you withdraw anything unless you go through their KYC procedures.  I think I even got an e-mail from them about "suspicious activity" but I promptly deleted it.  Luckily I didn't get scammed for a huge amount, but it was enough such that it pissed me off for a few hours.

They are a lousy exchange, and my guess is that they won't be around much longer with behavior such as they exhibit.

OP, you really seem to be fixated on all this stimulus money the US is giving out.  Are you even a US citizen?

Ah, to the contrary.  If the USD were to suddenly experience a hyperinflation scenario, my guess is that assets like bitcoin would soar--along with gold and other tangible assets.  But as much as I'm a fan of bitcoin, I don't want to see any such thing happen to the USD or any of the major world currencies, because that would mean the world economy is in serious trouble.

And yet....I don't see how we're going to be able to avoid at least very high inflation with all of this money printing and stimulus, unless the government raises taxes like crazy once the economy is stable, or if they figure out a way to cut spending without whacking the bee's nest that is the US government, where nobody wants their own funding cut.  We're in 2021; it should prove to be a very interesting decade.

I'll give it to you: those two are definitely good candidates based on your criteria.  

Man, I'm so bad remembering bitcointalk members' names--especially when they're shitposters, but I've always thought Khristian (I hope I got his username right) was one of the worst, though I don't think he'd meet your criteria, OP, since he doesn't seem to be that active anymore.  All of his posts were generic nonsense, and they used to drive me up a wall.  Sorry, I just had to mention him.

I think cryptoboss2020 is an alt account of some other shitposter, probably one who's banned, though that's just conjecture on my part.  I don't have any hard evidence.

OMG:

And if he invests in bitcoin now--right when it's very near its all-time high, he might look like a complete friggin' taxpayer money-wasting idiot in a year's time. 

Hell, I applaud his sentiment and I'm a fervent bitcoin supporter myself, but if you're looking to use bitcoin as an investment, you have to get in at the right price.  That's true of any investment, and I'm not sure Mr. Suarez is being wise by making this statement or if he's seriously thinking about buying bitcoin with taxpayers' money right now.  Imagine what the outcry would be like if bitcoin dropped by 50% in the next year.  The dude would probably be impeached and no doubt wouldn't stand a chance come re-election time.

Lol, is that his middle name?  I confess I don't watch the news and hate politics, but that's an interesting one if true.

IMO Biden won't be any worse than Trump for business or anything else, although I don't know about his tax policies or how much he likes war.  One thing that Trump didn't do was get the US involved in any massive conflicts.  But in either case, I think Biden will be fine for the economy/business as long as his policies can get the coronavirus outbreak under control.  That, I think, is the main variable as far as the economy is concerned.  We can't keep businesses closed and people out of work and still expect to be a prosperous country.

Time will tell.  I'm just ecstatic that Trump is (almost) out of the White House.  I was afraid we'd be in for another four years of that BS.

This is a silly thread, but nonetheless I'll play along:

"Buy low, sell high".  That something a lot of investors don't do.  They wait until the price of bitcoin/whatever to start to skyrocket before they begin buying it instead of buying it when it's already beaten down.  Not that I actually trade bitcoin much, but I certainly don't buy it when it's at levels like this.  Now's the time to either sell it if you're a trader or to be sitting on a big pile of it for the long term.

And as a runner up:  "Don't invest money into bitcoin/whatever that you're going to need next month".  That's yet another mistake I see a lot of people make, and it's also why I think a lot of them sell at prices that aren't ideal.

Big time grain of salt, especially when you're talking about Binance.  I haven't used them in at least a couple of years, but I haven't exactly seen any scam accusations against them in that time either--and they were one of the best exchanges out there when I was using them.

People complain about a lot of exchanges, but a lot of time what you won't see is any followup as to whether the issue was resolved or not, so it's really hard to tell what's what sometimes, even with notoriously shady exchanges like Yobit.  But OP if you're on the fence about whether to trust Binance or not, I'd say go for it.  They're legit and they have a customer service department that's actually responsive in case trouble does arise.

I'm 99.9% sure they were all the same thing, and there were other "wesell..X" domains that functioned as instant PayPal exchanges before they all just disappeared. 

OK, so I did click on that image above and it looks great and all (except for that "become verified" part), but where's the site?  OP?  Got any more info you'd like to share?