With enough precaution it's doable, so I don't agree that we shouldn't trade in person. Just think about it for a moment. If someone wants to buy $1k of bitcoin from you, and you live in a first world country, you don't really have that much money on you. Just set up a meeting in a public place, don't come in your car, just get a taxi or ask someone to drive you, then make sure you don't get followed back home.

In a situation where you want to sell a lot of bitcoin, 100k+, make sure to go with someone that you trust. Do all the same steps to avoid being followed, meet in a place where there's security, like inside a shopping mall, in a lobby of a bank, at a post office... You'll have cameras there and people who will stop a possible assault. Let's not be paranoid. People have always traded things like cars and motorcycles for cash. I've bought a car with cash 2 years ago and it went smooth.

Back in the day there was this meme going on about playing computer games after watching streams.
It went something along the lines of watch streamer own, start the game to try it yourself, suck whole game, go back to watching the stream.

That's how I see this situation. OP got lucky, congratulations to him, but don't expect the same result. Most of you will fails trying to do the same.
I'm not saying "don't play" but don't get too hyped up about his win.

I know I'm not a disciplined gambler and if I had too much money deposited in my casino account I'd overextend my games, which is why I never hold money on casino accounts. This is one of the rules I never break. When I want to play, I deposit a certain (small) amount of money and bet that until I either win enough to quit (double?), or bet on sports which makes all the bankroll disappear instantly, or I lose everything. If I lose it all I never add to the balance, just quit for some time.

I love how fast it's back up.
Like my d when I was dating back in Uni.
Good times.

I have a better question. How come one of the best intelligence units in the world (Mossad) did not know that Hamas was preparing an offensive? They did not build all those rockets in a day.
They did not dig all those tunnels and bunkers under Gaza in a day. IMO Israel knew what was coming and used this "opportunity" to launch an offensive meant to take over Gaza once and for all, but that's just my opinion.

If they were getting military support from other countries, it really did not matter if they got some money too, be it in cash, fiat currencies, gold, or cryptocurrencies. It doesn't matter.
What matters is that they got mortars, rifles, ammunition, all that was smuggled from other countries like Syria under the nose of the Israeli intelligence. Stop blaming crypto and start looking at politicians and whole countries involved this attack.

That's true. If you need to use such "talismans" to remind yourself of money, you either are really addicted, or really poor.
A person doing this should start by getting some professional help, or at least talking to someone who is a healthy gambler, to see how they react to this. If a number of people tells you that it's dumb and you're probably entering a downward spiral, believe them. Use that as a warning that you should stop playing.

I feel like OP is using that bill to legitimize his addiction, telling himself that everything is fine as long as he keeps looking at the bill, but it's not fine.

Who's to blame then?

WSJ?
Elliptic?

IMO every single party involved made fools of themselves.
Elliptic provided false data.
WSJ wrote an article without contacting the authors of the research to confirm
Lawmakers filed complaints based on an article...

That last one is probably the dumbest. I'd expect more from elected officials... or not. We all know how dumb and biased politicians are. Just look at Elizabeth Warren.

Have you seen CBDC polls around the world? People don't want this shit just as much as they don't want to eat bugs and fake meat and social credit scores.
The global elite will try to enforce this and we only need freedom of information for them to fail. As long as people are educated and know what it is, they'll choose the right thing.

Some may say it's a conspiracy theory, but there's a clear reason for this. Just look who is spreading all the fake news about bitcoin, trying to paint it as wasteful, speculative tool for terrorists, money launderers and drug dealers. It's the IMF, World Bank, EU Central Bank... All the fiat printers hate bitcoin for some reason. Coincidence?

Once upon a time in 2020...



S&P is black.


IMO Bitcoin can experience a much larger growth than stocks in the long run, especially when all the ETFs get approved they'll have to face the lowest liquidity of bitcoin in history. Imagine your clients expect you to have x amount of bitcoin in stock, for instance 100k, by next month and the competing fund needs to buy 300k at the same time and total trading volume on exchanges like bitstamp is 2k...
We can expect the correlation to continue to be low if bitcoin begins to rally due to no liquidity and large demand.

Not crypto but bitcoin. I'd rather choose bitcoin over fiat, but if I had to decide between some shitcoin and fiat money, I'd rather take fiat. This reminds me of that funny video on youtube where a guy was asking random people if they would prefer to get $100 or 1 bitcoin and a bitcoin was more than $1k at the time (somewhere in 2017)and they all wanted cash.
If you approached me asking if I want $1k in cash or $1k in XRP or something, I'd take cash and buy bitcoin

The part about them tracking and freezing it might be, but I believe the part about the kidnapping.

There was a similar case in Russia a few years ago where a man was attacked at home and the robbers were torturing him to get him to send them bitcoin. This isn't really anything strange since people get attacked and robbed every single day. I know a few guys who were attacked at night. One was beaten, the other stabbed in the back. One guy that I know was stabbed and they stole his jacket. They were ready to kill a man over a piece of clothing, so imagine what they'd do for 1 bitcoin.

There's no correlation anymore. They've been writing about it for months. For instance, here's Coindesk in July:


thestreet.com, 2 weeks ago

I can see another reason. They ask for KYC when their license requires them to.
Many casinos don't want to do it because it's additional cost for them. They have to pay an outside company to verify clients, or pay their own employees to do it, but if they don't do it they'll have to move somewhere else because the authorities will go after them.

It's the governments that we should blame for KYC, not casinos.

I go for no KYC because it's convenient and I know that I'm not a money launderer or anything, so I see no reason why I should be required to go through KYC when I wager very little and don't abuse the system in any way. Ultimately this is a trust issue.

So I guess you don't believe there's a conspiracy at all. It just doesn't exist. There's no need to extradite Snowden and these guys at WEF talk about sharing their wealth with everyone, unicorns and rainbows.
If you want to contradict me, please prove that I'm wrong. I haven't noticed any questions or contradictions in your post that I could address.

This is basically the whole EU in a nutshell.
You're not going to be allowed to do anything, unless we approve it, but we'll go about it slow.
In the words of Klauss Schwab "you'll own nothing and be happy."

The aim has long ago been to create one big happy centralized country in Europe where you don't get to travel, unless you pay tax for your carbon footprint and carbon tax is added to every carbon producing activity. You own a pet - tax. You collect rainwater - rainwater tax. You drive a car - emission tax. You live in a house that isn't up to their standards - tax. You travel too much - tax. You cut a tree in your yard - tax, and don't forget to ask for permission, otherwise it's a fine.
They started with their new crypto guidelines last year and told everyone that these are good because they're pioneers in regulating cryptocurrencies. You'll see how that goes in a few years.

And for those who didn't know, all EU laws are above the local laws of member countries, unless you're German because they outvoted it and are now the only country in the EU where it's the other way round.

I'd say that it's sometimes better to lose someone else's money than your own. At least that gives you the opportunity to avoid responsibility and loss.
If you were to lose your own money that's done, settled, but if you lose bank's money... There's always a chance you'll go into hiding, migrate somewhere and never have to pay it back

I'm joking of course and I don't recommend you guys do that, but I don't think that we can say losing someone else's money is that much different from losing your own. In both cases you're in deep shit, just that if you lose another person's money you can also face physical pain, not only emotional

It's probably for the purpose of statistics and allows them to gather some information about people who need help, their background and all that. Also, it allows them to send people questions later if and how they've managed to recover, get some feedback about the things they could improve.

Getting testimonials from people is another important thing. Sites like this can apply for government grants and testimonials are along with user stats are an important part of that process.
Making you register = money in one way of the other. If all fails, they can sell the data to a casino for targeted ads and email spam It's the worst possible scenario, but the keyword is "possible."

That's an interesting question. First of all it was in 41 that the US joined WW2 and the date is significant, because it was in December, the same month when the attack on Pearl Harbor happened
The US did not join the war like that, out of the blue. They were attacked and in a way participated in the conflict before that by sending aid to the Allies.

OP is talking about one country attacking another to change the political system. That's more comparable to what Nazis were trying to achieve in Europe, especially in Russia, since they were driven by hate towards communism, while being socialists themselves. This is a joke when we look at it today, since communism and socialism are very similar systems, based on the same principles and in 1940s communists hated imperialists and socialists hated communists. Nowadays, socialists hate capitalism, and new evolved socialists that call themselves democrats hate conservatism. I'd say it's a comedy but it's not, it's a tragicomedy.

Isn't it that you also lack the money needed to start such business? It's like when people get fired from a job and they tell everyone that they wanted to quit anyway
Most people don't have enough money. Some got lucky like early bitcoin casinos that needed to fund a bankroll, so they bought bitcoin and that bitcoin went up from being worth $1 to $100 in less than 2 years, so imagine how much money they unintentionally made. You have to be lucky for your business to grow that much in such a short time.

We don't have anything like that here in Europe. They don't even eat tacos in Spain. You have to go to a restaurant that specializes in Mexican food. I've eaten them only once in my whole life.
When it comes to fast food options, kebabs are probably the most popular here, but there's a lot of burger and pizza joints as well. I honestly don't know if people here eat more pizza or kebabs, but it has to be close.