The "third party" that's eliminated is the requirement to have your funds held by a custodial company; because with Bitcoin, you can just hold it using a non-custodial wallet and no one can take away the coins from you. It's nowhere near realistic to expect that literally every single "third party" platform will be eliminated. That's just wishful thinking. We're always going to need third party platforms here and there; and what matters most is that you're not required to use them.


Look. There's definitely manipulations in the market, but that's with ANY other market. And it seems like you seem to think that these types of manipulation maneuvers are something that's guaranteed to work well for the "wHaLe" or something, because it's definitely not. It can definitely work well for them, but it could just as easily go south for them.


Seriously dude, imagine if we could lmao.


Demand is what will dictate bitcoin's price, not on-chain metrics. This should be pretty obvious.

You're pretty much stuck with using separate apps/platforms for receiving payments if you want to remain "private". Accept dollar payments as you normally do, and use non-custodial wallets(like Electrum) for bitcoin payments. Pretty much any custodial platform that the IRS isn't "privy" to yet will also be pursued by them sometime in the future anyway.

I mean, that's definitely one way to make bitcoin and cryptocurrency industry as a whole to seem like a get-rich-quick scheme. But whatever, adoption is adoption I guess?

Tbh I'm only excited for the halftime show lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3NhX6-5mO0

Besides using peer-to-peer exchanges like HodlHodl[1] and LocalCryptos[2], it's pretty unrealistic to look for exchanges(or any financial service in general) where you can withdraw fiat but without KYC lol.

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[1] https://hodlhodl.com/
[2] https://localcryptos.com/

He and his team at Alameda Research are top-tier quantitative traders, and there's definitely no incentive for them to be sharing their trading strategies. Them sharing their successful strategies is like digging their own grave lol.

Apparently they're working on it — but don't run around celebrating just yet, because it doesn't mean that it's already guaranteed to happen. And if it does happen, it could mean that they really are just going to legalize it, not necessarily use it themselves.

Probably an unpopular opinion but I'm fine with this. So much hateful opposition propaganda against Bitcoin/crypto on typical "news" sites that at the very least this should bring a little bit of balance. Fighting fire with fire.

This is the perfect example. The mass majority of people will only realize the importance of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies only when they actually get deplatformed and when they're already out of choices. I could guarantee that most sex workers have been ignoring bitcoin back then, until recently.

Duplicate thread, requesting merge: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5385443

You can also send to mobile numbers and email addresses, but that's only for sending the bitcoin to other Coinbase users. For any other wallet you use a BTC address.

Mate you can just test it out yourself and you'd immediately have the answer. I don't have Coinbase so I don't know how it exactly works. But it should be the same general process as any other exchange; or at least very close.

As for the fees, it should be only be one or a few dollars, but I don't know how Coinbase calculate's the fee so you just have to test it out yourself. As for Binance, they demand a flat fee, so the fees are going to be different.

It could be any method, tbh. They could end up asking for some collateral, they could ask for special authorization access to your admin panel, they could end up giving you a fake loan requiring you to create an account on a scam exchange then asking for a "withdrawal fee" to access the "loan", etc.

Re-read my previous response: look for the "send" option if you want to get your bitcoin out of Coinbase.

Here, I Googled it for you: https://help.coinbase.com/en/wallet/sending-and-receiving/how-do-i-send-and-receive-crypto-through-wallet

And again, as per Coinbase's fees page, you're only going to pay for the on-chain transaction fees. You know the fees you pay for sending bitcoin using a non-custodial wallet? That fee. The average fee changes like every few seconds.

OP said: "But most of them have only a few coins, those are in the top 100 coins list."

So I assume OP is looking for lending the less-liquid coins. Whereas these exchanges only accept lending only on specific coins — most(if not all) of which are in the top 100.

tldr for OP just for more clarity; it's pretty much like eBay — but instead of selling random stuff, everyone's buying and selling crypto. Exchanges really don't sell anything, they just charge an exchange fee for people buying and selling coins to each other. Just like eBay!

I could see a potential bullishness if it's the case that Ukranian peeps buy bitcoin due to the economic uncertainty or if some actually plans on exiting the country; and with people all over the globe realizing the power of a decentralized currency/asset because of this macro event.

In the end, this is uncharted territory. Only time will tell how this will pan out. If I were to bet though, I'm probably going to be neutral — neither bullish nor bearish.

I don't have a Coinbase account so I don't know for sure, but I assume the "withdraw" function is for withdrawing the actual dollars to your bank account. I assume they have some sort of "send" button for sending out bitcoin?

As for the fees, you're just going to pay for the on-chain transaction fee.

There's Paradigm, 3 Arrows Capital, Jump Crypto, Delphi Digital, Alameda Research, and a lot more. Twitter is pretty much their sort of "main" public communications channel so you might want to be active there.

In hindsight, Artificial Intelligence as a blockchain product seems dumb in the first place.

As for cloud storage, I haven't been hearing anything about the likes of Storj, Sia, and Filecoin. On the other hand Arweave seems to be the one that's actually being used it seems. I've heard it's being used to store NFT files; in contrast to the typical Amazon Cloud or IFPS.

As the price and marketcap goes higher, potential profit drops. But at the same time the investment risk drops as well.

Bitcoin doesn't have any competitors — while Ethereum has Solana, Avalanche, Cosmos, Near, etc closely behind; with them pretty much at war with each other. And to add to that, Ethereum is supposedly going to move to PoS this year(assuming no delays), hence posing a significant risk.

2x-3x is pretty much just $1.6 trillion - $2.4 trillion in marketcap. Do you really think that's the highest that bitcoin can go lol? Even gold alone is like $10 trillion in marketcap.