Once again.
There is nothing about trust to Bitcoin here. The economy of a country simply won't work with a currency, that can suddenly deflate 10% per day (or the same thing with inflation). In such conditions export of the country would be more expensive and less competitive on a global market and the economy will stop working.
Making BTC the main currency is an extremely retarded idea.

In some cases education is always a bit outdated because your bachelor studies last for 3-4 years and you can't be sure what technologies in this sphere will dominate by the time you graduate.

Only lack of education would make you a slave in the modern world. Get a good education and you will easily become free and independent.

What's the difference between normal smartphone and another one based on blockchain? The only obvious reason is only the price. And it still won't make our data safe. Simply because sometimes we give permission to use our data to dozen apps at the same time. So even if we get a safe blockchainphone our data is still vulnerable to those, who developing our apps.

That's only for now. I bet that as soon as this exchange becomes somehow popular and legit then the government would push them to make KYC/AML stuff. For now no one just cares about them but later the exchange may be easily either shut down by the government or some jurisdictions (like EU) would ban this service on their territory. In this case service would lose much money (considering they are earning on fees) and would lose the fight anyway.
So hurry up before it is too late,

Holy crap. This point is devaluating the entire list.

Crypto whales, exchanges and some other financial institutions may play bank's role in crypto world. Literally every market is developing on similar patterns. The same types of analysis are appliable to stocks, bonds, currencies and cryptocurrencies. No one had to rewrite all books for a new market.
Your statement is stupid and cryptocurrencies won't bring any significant changes there.

All those micronations totally depend on the legit countries, on which territory they exist. I think that even many EU countries won't tolerate any attempts to build some other nation inside their border.
To make a true micronation you should be sure that property rights are fully secured in your country. Not only Thailand is that bad, it feels like only US and some other countries may allow to make a micronation inside their borders.

I won't take those news serious until I see a confirmation (with some dates and details) from NASDAQ. Crypto community has been waiting for BTC futures trading in CBOE but those futures had almost no support and ended up delisted with a tiny volume. Nothing tells us that there is some interest in cryptocurencies from the side of major investors. Also, no one knows if people would buy crypto or it would be some contract, attached to BTC price.

Holding over 100 of shitcoins is a pretty retarded idea. You need to have enough time to follow all changes in the projects, in which you are invested. Even professional investors in investment banks don't make such a big portfilio despite having the entire working day in their possession to evaluate their holdings.
About 90% of my portfolio is in BTC and the other 10% are in ETH. It is also not a smart move to pick shitcoins and wait until they pump. It worked in 2017 but it won't work now.

Nothing. Many exchanges are already faking their reported volumes. For example, volumes from almost all asian exchanges are obvious bullshit and their administration is totally satisfied with this.
The other point is P2P exchanges are completely different from the ones, that allow margin trading and give its users a leverage. It is two completely different things that only named with the same word.
In P2P exchanges people are just buying or selling their shitcoins in order just to get this coin, while when you deal with margin trading people are constantly buying and selling the same coins to get some profit out of price fluctuations.

Many people consider India as a shithole country. Maybe shithole countries have shitty governments? There is nothing surprising that politicians, that are not able to evaluate the risks of cryptocurrencies blindly deciding to ban it.
By the way, many ponzi scams, fake ICOs and just shady services were related to some countries like India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Maybe this ban is a blessing for crypto community.

I hardly remember the situations when BTC is rising and altcoins are falling down. Usually BTC is growing when there were no bad news for a long period of time and sentiment analysis is telling us that the entire crypto market is calm. In this case BTC growth is usually boosting the other major cryptocurrencies and some popular shitcoins. The same picture we see every time bitcoin is rising for the las times.

Vote for democrats if you don't want them to make scandals. If democrats are in charge then everything is calm.
It seems like a kind of political blackmail.

The other thing is that the America is the main ruling power in our world. American elites are the most powerful in the world. And when you are the strongest then you are the one who chose what is a law and what is corruption. Both inside and outside of a country.

Merkel doesn't really care about that. German economy is getting a huge benefit from all those european slave countries, especially after they enter eurozone. Euro is a modified german mark. The problem is that strong german production boosted the price of their mark and they couldn't sell their stuff abroad. So they just decided to unite some more shithole currencies with yourself, which would slightle deflate euro and give germany a huge economic boost.

Another problem is that if you force people to stop "wasting" electricity on mining it doesn't mean that this power, that is now free, would be used on something usefull, that wouldn't be considered as "wasting" energy. For example, I think that using 6 TV sets for a house with 3 rooms would not be a wise electricity spending.

1. 10% annual property tax is a pure robbery, especially for people who live around the silicon valley.
2. UBI is shit by default.
3. This UBI shit only seems reasonable in you are going to eliminate the other welfare. But in this case you are just choosing a better of two evils.
4. Elimination of work-related regulations is an extremely naive idea. US bureaucracy has been creating itself for loooong decades. You won't eliminate it just because it is a cool idea.

No it is not. First of all 10% looks like a wrong number but even if it is true then it doesn't tell us that people perform only 10% of trandsctions online because os lack of payment methods. Bringing to the market a new payment system like LN you are competing only with those systems that people use only for these 10% of transactions and not the other 90%

Please name all those hedge funds that borrowed money in crypto. That seems to be one of the most retarded things they've ever done. If you work somewhere in USA or EU then it is much easier to take a usual bank loan with 0-3% instead of borrowing cryptocurrencies that may easily increase their value by 5% in a single day (despite the interest, earned by genesis).

It feels like Bitfinex foresees some possible withdrawal problems and tries to warn users about that so that possible situation wouldn't look like an exit scam or that user funds would be locked like it was during issues with btc-e exchange.
The question is why is USDT is still keeping #1 in stable coin market with all its legal complains and other shady stuff with their audit. It seems like some other altcoin could overtake it million times.

Bitcoin is getting its adoption not because he is recognized. In 2017 everyone in the world heard about bitcoin but no one started to accept crypto.Interest from the side of financial institutions does not brings us adoption. Those organization using cryptocurrencies only to get their own profit. The more of them joins the market the larger market cap we will get and the more people would think that BTC is getting its adoption.

I guess you would still be able to send on chain transactions if it is needed. But I agree that all those shitcoins will keep existing. There are a lot of coins with faster transactions and lower fees and they are competing with each other and none of them yet got a serious market dominance.


Emm, that's what LN is created for. It doesn't seem like someone wants to buy an expensive car and he can't wait some minutes and pay an extra dollar as a fee.