I do not think that a downtime this long has occured in the past on the exchange. According to Binance, there was a disk issue in one cluster. Binance also mentioned that it will be fixed shortly. However, it has been 2 hours. Should this be concerning or is the skeptical me being anxious again?



Disk issue with one cluster. Will be fixed shortly. Thank you for your understanding.

Should not have sent the last tweet. Slapping myself now.

Source https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1359691526511595520?s=21

@Yamifoud. The billionaires who are shilling Bitcoin might also be similar to the ordinary investors in this forum. They buy bitcoin quietly then shill it to make the price pump hehehe. Is it not what we do?

We were lazy. I was lazy. We never made the needed preparations for this bull market. I wanted to compile a list of grey market exchanges and their email addresses for listing inquiries last year. I always procastinated on this until I forgot.

This is an old article I just read. Everyone should read it also.

I am afraid that we have become very distracted because of the billionaire hype and the pump to all time highs. We might have forgotten about more concerning news on bitcoin. I like the pump, I hope it does not stop, however, this should also be concerning.



Crypto wallet providers aren’t the only companies adjusting to the prospect of a more stringent regulatory environment. Two of the largest Bitcoin mining companies in North America, Marathon Patent Inc. and DMG Blockchain Solutions Inc., recently joined forces to create the Digital Currency Miners of North America (DCMNA) nonprofit trade group, the first North American mining pool with a legal entity. Together, they're pledging to only process transactions that comply with American laws.

Read in full https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7anmv/the-era-of-government-friendly-bitcoin-miners-is-here

@Theb. Agreed! However, from bitcoin’s price today, how much is it to maximize their returns? Triple the price? I speculate Tesla is expecting not less than 5x profit from the trade. This might only be beginning. Other billionaires are also beginning to consider bitcoin. The bear market will be intruiging, however hehehe.

This appears that Michael Saylor and Elon Musk were only the beginning. I never gave much consideration to the prediction of $100k, I am a realist. However, with more billionaires pumping this, I might need to adjust my imagination on where the present bull market might end hehe.



Mexico’s second wealthiest man, Ricardo Salinas Pliego, has just changed his Twitter biography to Bitcoin. He joins the ranks of many rich folks who brandish their allegiance to BTC with pride in their bios, including MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor, Skybridge’s Anthony Scaramucci, and, for a brief spell, the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.

Salinas is the founder and chairman of Grupo Salinas, a Mexican media and retail conglomerate comprising TV Elektra, the country’s second-largest broadcaster, and Grupo Elektra, a home appliance and electronics retailer.

Read in full https://decrypt.co/56900/mexicos-second-wealthiest-man-changes-twitter-bio-to-bitcoin

I have not seen this movie mentioned, titled Bookies. This is about 3 college students who always lose in sportsbetting but created their own sportsbook in their dorm room. This might be a similar story on how some of the sportsbooks began in the cryptospace hehe.

@orions.belt19. It can be argued that they might invest in bitcoin with their cash on hand if Apple was not looking for a partner automaker to build the Apple car. However, it is also speculated that Apple wants to buy into an automaker and get an ownership stake with it. This will require all their cash on hand within their control before they can commit this to other investments, I reckon.

Agreed. However, most newbies’ reactions to this is to buy other cheaper cryptocoins. Ethereum would certainly be the first receiver of discouraged bitcoin buyers hehe.

In any case, the next bear market will be an intruiging one if considering that Tesla is also a bagholder.

Hehe that would be a good story, however, it will certainly not happen. Apple is busy looking for automakers as partner with and to build its Apple car. I reckon they will not invest their billions in something that does not produce anything.

@South Park. I predict Brady after witnessing how this game was played by both of the teams. If it was a much harder game for Tampa Bay it might be different. I reckon Gronk or someone from the defense like Shaq Barrett. There were only 2 MVPs from the defense in the last 10 superbowls, however.

It appears that this is game over after the sack and the interception. I am certain that the Chiefs are presently shattered psychologically and emotionally already.

Congratulations to Tampa Bay bettors out there.

It appears that the best propbets were all the Tom Brady overs. I remember the over rushing yards for Tom Brady was 0.5 in sportsbet.io. This might win also if the Chiefs do not make an adjustment.

Prediction. Travis Kelce to be this Superbowl's MVP if the Chiefs gets the victory!

Also, how would the drunk driving incident of Britt Reid affect the team's play as a whole? The skeptical me thinks this is a mafia type of set up and game fixing hehehehe.

@DireWolfM14. Be careful of that invitation. After this bull market many of us might make much money and fly to wherever you are and each bringing our own microbrews hehehe.

@suchmoon. What drinks are those?

Agreed on The Big Short. It depicts the stupidity of people who gamble on derivatives or also called bets derived from the market. It is also a depiction of how markets can collapse during a situation when everyone does not expect it. Is the cryptospace in a similar setting hehehe?

@zasad@. I might be better to tally the hacked and stolen amounts in no. of coins instead in dollars. The value of those coins might be more than double than their value on the day of the hack or less than double 2 years after the hack.

In any case, what is your speculation for hacked Defi projects for 2021? Will 2021 be more than the hacked amount of 2020 or less hehe?

@zasad@. You should add the grand total of the hacked amount of coins in total no. of coins itself for 2020 and compare this with the grand total of hacked coins for 2021 during the end of this year hehe.

The future of Defi or any idea in the cryptospace will depend on security.

There is no possbility of this. Bittrex is a banked exchange. They will always demand for KYC before you can withdraw unless they decide to remove real fiat deposits, withdrawals and real fiat trading from the exchange and only offer USDT similar to what Poloniex an other unbanked exchanges have done.

Has anyone in the forum tried to buy bitcoin through Paypal? Can you post your screenshots of the interface? Thank you.

I read a news article on Coindesk where it mentioned that users log in twice as much after users bought bitcoin. This might imply that Paypal has gamified the buying and selling of bitcoin and other cryptocoins and have created a new generation of gambling addicts.

Another reason not to use Paypal.