If you are doubting, do not do it. Listen to it. BNB at 0.0019 BTC is already high, at least for now. It has already risen with that price. You should have bought it at 0.0018. That was a cheaper bargain already. Right now, the line is already going up and it has already started. If you are planning to HODL it for a long time, then go ahead. But if you are just going to take a little profit from it in short term, wait for it to go down in a day or two from now.

5G is for faster internet connection. It will help in so many internet-based applications but it will not help in the confirmation time of crypocurrency transactions. So, 5G is going to be useless if the network, for example Bitcoin network, is handling too much heavy traffic. In that case, it is the network and not the connection that has a problem. Even if you are using 5G if the transaction fee you are paying is the minimum, expect a slow processing. If you are using 2G and you are paying high transaction fee in your transaction, the processing will be swift. Add to this that confirmation layers vary in different wallets, some have 5 confirmations while other reach as high as 20. 

Which economic situation? You're not specific here. It is not only Venezuela and Ghana that are adopting Bitcoin. There are many other countries that are already open for Bitcoin. This is just the beginning though. There are still countries that are not yet raising their green flag. Sooner or later they will join the Bitcoin community of nations.

The gold market does not and cannot burst the bubble because there is no bubble in the first place. And there is no necessary competition between the two. Bitcoin could be treated as a gold alternative just as it is also treated as a fiat alternative.

What you are saying is rather sad, especially because many Indians are active in the crypto community. This will really hamper their crypto activities. Do you happen to be an Indian?

The governments are seizing huge treasures in these cases. Although that Ponzi case is more than a valid reason for the police to intervene and stop its operation, I am afraid that the seized amount would not go back to their owners. I hope that the leadership of your country will soon give more tolerance to Bitcoin and accept it eventually.  

Nowadays, even those projects that do not ask for gas fee or anything at all such as KYC are mostly scams also. So those that are requesting gas fees are more scam than the rest. It is not advisable to take unnecessary risks with these kinds of projects. Always remember also that there are only a small number of projects that are really pursuing a legitimate objectives. The rest are merely taking the opportunity to ride with the current crypto waves.

If your choices of altcoins belong to the top 100, there is actually no need to explain. Their rank is enough explanation already in my opinion. They would not have climbed that high and passed by thousands of other altcoins if they are not the cream of the crop.

Ethereum (ETH) is my topmost choice. The rest include Monero (XMR), Litecoin (LTC), Bancor (BNT), Waves, Cardano (ADA), and Icon (ICX).

That is why we cannot fully compare Bitcoin with all the altcoins because they are different in the first place. The are the same in terms of being cryptocurrencies and built on blockchain but in terms of use and function, they may be world apart. It is not fair to just trash all altcoins because they are lesser cryptos than Bitcoin. There are so many ecosystems made and each of them could have its own crypto. There are more focused coins. Bitcoin is generally for overall spending. Most altcoins, on the one hand, are specialized for a specific purpose.

We have yet to see the impact of this declaration to Ethereum's price, if it has. It has been months already since this news broke out and Ethereum is still as shaky as in the past months, always in attempt to put $200 a value of the past. If the Arab nations will be more developed in terms of cryptocurrency sooner or later, Ethereum will probably benefit from this declaration. But if this declaration will be extending to the other altcoins as well, then the competition will remain the same and there is no more special impact of it to Ethereum's price.

I believe in the old solid coins more than the new ones. I mean, those that are moving forward with the development of their technology. Siacoin (SC) is of course one of them. Although they are facing new and innovative coins right now, they cannot be kicked out from the top 100 because they have already built a strong community of satisfied cloud storage users and investors through the years. I can even categorize Siacoin (SC) with Ethereum (ETH), Stellar (XLM), etc.

My memory cannot count the threads on this topic anymore. It seems there is a new Bakkt thread made everyday now.

I would like to repeat that Bakkt is already talked about since more than a year ago and people were really excited about its launching. And yet there were countless of next times just as there were countless of Bakkt threads today. And that killed all the excitement and anticipation. When Bakkt was finally launched, there is very little buying and hard selling. That has kicked Bitcoin's ass rather badly.

The whole issue has actually been severely muddled to the point that we cannot tell anymore which part of it is real news or which part of it is only the product of interpretation or rumor. I guess the Venezuelan government has not issued a clear statement on this. People are taking tiny hints and made everything explode with all their interpretations. There really are no resources released by Venezuela itself to clear all these.

If I may add, if the Venezuelan government thinks that this is going serve as the redeeming factor to their socio-economic and political woes, they are badly mistaken. They need to wake up.

What if we start quitting all these conspiracy theories that repeatedly come out?

What if we try to trace the dots and begin to realize that the CIA, FBI, US military are committing a suicide if they actually invented Bitcoin?

What if we begin to promote, understand, and use Bitcoin more rather than indulge in futile speculations?

It will contribute of course. But it will not bring back everything in the past as if the blockchain technology will halt everything that is being implemented right now by what you call as the western world, much less erase a significant portion of history that is influenced by the so called colonial masters. At the end of the day, the blockchain technology itself is most probably a product of the western world, Satoshi being a westerner most probably. 

In the level of this forum, there is a certain degree of openness. Although some scam projects are red-tagged, there is really no paid staff or moderator that looks every single project coming in. If we want this forum to be cleaned up from these scams, everyone has to do his part. Especially bounty hunters, whose primary purpose in promoting a certain project is income, they are to be more careful and investigative in their research. You don't need to find protection from somewhere else, give it to yourself. Everybody can do it if they exert enough effort.

This one is amazing!

You are literally climbing up now, huh.


But on the roof of the Bank of France?! Seriously?! Are they even aware that your painting is somehow subversive? Did they happen to get a look at the design and what else you are going to paint there before they gave their nod of approval?


I cannot seem to find it. Poor me. Is it the sinking boat representing perhaps the old fiat system, signified by the sail which is made up of, or designed after, fiat currency bills?  

We cannot be sure which particular cryptocurrencies the Venezuelan central bank are holding. It could be Bitcoin or some altcoins or stablecoins or perhaps a combination of Bitcoins and altcoins. I guess this will have an impact to the market. Every single buy order will have an impact to the market and if an individual whale could cause a movement in the prices then a central could do it several folds. A central bank will not buy a couple of BTC only or a handful of ETH or a hundred of USDT.   

Hello everyone!

75 - Periodik 

Thank you.

I come from a developing country. Although I do not belong to the bottom and I cannot speak on their behalf, I could say that 0.01 BTC or $80 is not really a big deal to the majority of us. Only that most of the people who are at my status do not have proper financial management. Yes, $80 is already a good amount to them but they could also spend it very quickly. They are spending around $2 of beer per bottle. And after calling it a night a group of poor people like me could consume 6 bottles in total, that would be roughly $16, not counting the food and packs of cigarettes.   

If only these people know to manage their finances well, and set aside daily savings, or invest a portion of it to BTC or others, they can have a good amount of profit waiting for them in the future.

On the contrary, that is an indication that people are not doing their research. It speaks a lot of laziness. These people are reading one-liner here and another one-liner there and receive everything assuming that it is what it is, which is clearly not the case. For sure, they do not even know what Libra is currently facing right now. They even do not know Libra at all.

This is not an unusual news. You try to put up a business under the bright eyes of the government, you will be asked about compliance. And if you are planning to stick to it, you've got no other option but to submit to their policies, all in the name of public protection and of the general interest.

All you can do is murmur and whine silently not so much because of what they are asking from you but because of the ever-handy protection of the general interest overused by the government.