I currently think that these are investments with long-term returns. You mention the swap, I agree at the moment but in 5 years?
In the short term, as improving the user experience yes I fully agree. Then they may have also other priorities such as security or compliance, and also their partnership, with banks or others. idk. In general, this is where the weaknesses are regarding exchanges.

At the same time at the UX level, what more is needed to add? I am not an extensive user, but for example:
*the withdrawals/deposits: you mean fiats or cryptos? Both are independent of the company. And if your withdrawal hits your bank account in 24 hours, isn't that enough?

High TXs fees for cryptos: to not get people (newbies) starting to say 'I don't get my payment from XXXX company' and all the useless support tickets opened.
High TXs fees for fiat: I'm not used but in my case, it costs me 0.09€ per bank transfer and hits my bank within 24h and often the same day.
*APIs I have no idea and no use so can't comment

I would have been more interested to know who these billionaires are. The article seems to be more of a promotion than anything else, which is not so surprising coming from Forbes. It is not surprising and not new that the riches go through institutions/firms.
That said, if they really have a customer interested in buying a quarter of the bitcoins on the market, I have no idea what ATH will BTC hit:p.

Funny you mention Venezuela, did you read the news about its inflation? The government hasn't published any information related to it for 3 years and now claim its inflation is at 103,000%. IMF replied the percentage is a lot undervalued and the real rate is surely at 1,000,000% approximatively and will go up to 10 million. How crazy it is, see, printing more money and citizens now can't even buy a bread.

"
Yeah like many countries btw, but they have no problem to host banks, the most used platforms when it comes to money laundering, whatever illegal activity.
I don't get why someone would run 2 mixers under 2 alias. Unless 1 would be used for an exit scam or something...
BitBlender.io is hosted in Malaysia

Bitcoin is explained literally in thousands of languages, not even talking about the local TVs, it's not a valid argument.

Some countries are still resistants to any digital form of payment, Germany is a good example, as a country that still uses banknotes a lot more than payments cards. (It's maybe a reason they still have the 500€ banknotes while others countries don't or are any process to remove it).
Not a valid point everywhere.

Anyway, folks don't need to understand how Bitcoin works up to become a dev themselves. There are so many solutions offered easy to use, Coinbase is an example. So again, not a valid argument.

Done, I added the dates for the websites I knew about. I will also categorize to differentiate the scams from discontinued projects.
And surely add the servers location and logs policy as DmrDmr suggested some days ago

That's a reason most of the old bitcoiners use to say Bitcoin can be surprising. It does some stuff a few times a year when the only thing you can say is "LOL". Often I stop to even wonder what can be the reason, too many theories, analyses, predictions, etc. Fuck that, let's enjoy the market (with the ups and downs). I don't deny analyses but let us be guided by the magic of Bitcoin. (Sometimes it's black magic) 

Right not exceptionally but I was mainly thinking about a feature that others don't have. Well like you posted and for the same reasons. Why should I use another exchange while I've already the ones I stick with. Only for something that I don't have. Me too I don't get it how it works so no use for me but if I'm correct Kraken also has it.

We've never got any evidence before but it's something we all knew or suspected. At least I'm and I'm surely not the first and not the last.
3 or 4 years back I remember when I posted here to say some mixers aren't effective and TXs can be tracked if someone has the resources, people replied I was trolling but I wasn't.

Now the thing is, Mixers improved with the years, but not all. While it wasn't a problem before now it is and authorities are after the broken mixers. And I can think of ~2 other mixers as a "good target" for them

Perhaps because N26 asked them to provide evidence for where their money comes from before to release and they were unable to provide any. But legally it does not have the right to hold the funds indefinitely, especially in the circumstances where the customer account is closed. (different than suspended)
Currently, you don't really have any possibility to speed up your case. Only once the delay of at least 2 weeks (or even a month) then you will have to turn to a consumer agency or a bank mediator.

It's possible with Ethereum. Someone posted a 'how to' in this section long ago, I don't remember how but I tried and it worked. I'm unable to find his topic again, nor I know what query to tell you to search but I know it's possible.
It's just visible by browsers, not by bot crawlers, etc.

$500,000 per hour just for electricity and $1 billion in equipment. It's not worth it.
Back in 2014, GHash had reached something like 40% of all power and people started to complain on Twitter/FB. Then miners moved to other places. After this GHash published a PR to say they had no intention for a 51% attack.

I posted a thread a few months back The Cryptocurrency Job Market Is Exploding (Infographic)
Statistics showed that 80% of the jobs are in The US (California state 30% alone) and 10% in The UK. Most of the jobs are IT related with an increase of +200%. And there are companies paying (some of) their employees with cryptocurrency/token. You can ask to Kraken for exemple, it's one of them.

What we don't see is the number of jobs reduced, some companies do

N26 randomly closes accounts, once asked they point users to their TOS (which literally says they can close your account at any time at their own discretion). The European banks have to give customers a deadline to leave, which is your case. Right now it's normal that you haven't received anything. It can take up to a month to receive the remaining funds and in your case, you will get the funds after the 2 week period.

To cope with exchanges such as binance, you need to have a lot of money to start with. Not all exchanges are interested in becoming as big as those currently in the top. And to reach the top, the idea must be more than original and offer an attractive product to attract people.
It's possible to see a new corner on the top in the future, it could be a  company already established with resources (ie banks)

Not the Dex's fault if people trade centralized money there. There is not always someone to deal with disputes, but in the case of Bisq if a decider is not fair he can lose a good amount of money so it's unlikely to happen. LocalBitcoin isn't decentralized, even when you remove all centralized payment methods.

Forget the signature campaigns man, that's not what we're interested in. In the near future, you will understand why to use mixers, dexs, and privacy-centric crypto, etc.

As long a mixer is able to do a job correctly there is nothing to be afraid. Mixers have been here for years now. If authorities successfully tracked the TXs guess what, it's because the mixer hasn't 'a so great system'

Thanks, I updated the list and removed also another mixer. Ghostmixer is gone as well, the domain name expired and the guy looks inactive forever. I will try to monitor the sites more frequently because I'm pretty sure we will surely find a few others mixers following the same path shortly.

Privacy fucked without vaseline:/

Damn, look like there is a mixers hunt. In 2 years we got Bitmixer, Bestmixer and this one. Coinmixer, I don't remember to read an explanation but I suppose they closed for the same reason as Bitmixer and Bit.blender. They felt the wind blowing in the opposite direction.
I suppose too now the Darwin theory will apply: only the effective mixers will be able to survive.

He may have wanted to secure what was left, but above all, he may have wanted to hide it by being afraid of the rest of this story in media. He thought he might be subject to problems or something. Maybe not in the right way but there is no need to make a big deal out of it, nor is there any need to justify it

I don't defend any gang but you guys need to take a break with your soap opera. It would be great if people could spend the same energy to participate in the forum other than the meta and reputation boards