But the fact that this criminals do put up an illegal crypto exchange site, and mix their laundered money and resulted in bitcoin or other crypto, then it make sense that this news will attract or correlated to bitcoin in general. Why it's very surprising though, government agencies are really haunting down those crypto scam artist or criminals, might take a lot of investigative work though through blockchain and cooperation from a lot of sources as well.

I agree that he is fairly good in this tournament. But we will have to see how far can he go. He will be up against Fokina in the next round.

Unfortunately, Tsitsipas wasn't able to hold Ćorić after winning the first set, they battle into five set and lost at the tiebreak. Cilic vs Thiem will be fun tomorrow. I'm expecting a five set as well, with Thiem winning a hard battle. While Djokovic will have another easy on Carreno Busta.

As far as I know, no team has comeback from 0-3 deficit so it's going to be difficult task for the Bucks. They have been good in the first 3 quarters, but then collapses in the 4th. And it will be really a big upset obviously as the number 1 seed losing 0-4 in the first round, that will be humiliating, reigning MVP, ouch. They are really good in regular season, but always feel short in playoffs, something must be done.

Of course, we all know that this is coming and that it will be the biggest mistakes for majority of investors specially newbies who don't understand how everything works. And now, just barely months into this Defi hype, some have been REKT already, specially in the last 48 hours wherein we see a dramatic drop so everyone is bitching around and didn't know what hits them, and yes it's brutal. The only one that makes money here is the whales we keeps on manipulating the market.

I don't know about this, but the first thing you learn when you get involved in bitcoin is that it is decentralised, no central authority.

That is the basic tenet of bitcoin, supply and demand, and with limited supply, the price has the potential to grow overtime.

More likely you buy bitcoin in an exchange, or thru P2P. Yes, there are no government rules, but regulations are already here. And most exchanges now requires, KYC documents.

There is already LN (Lightning Network).

Or we have seen bitcoin compared to gold many times already, like in 2017 and now in 2020 wherein we are in a bull run. However, I don't believed that we need to compare BTC to any fiat currency we have right now. Obviously, BTC's supply is just 21 million, and those fiat can print as much as they can, so comparison wouldn't be fair in my opinion. Of course, the price is very unstable, we could hit 6 digits next year and pushes itself to the top 5, but then again when that bubble is burst, ranking will also go down.

1. Bitcoin slid in sync with traditional markets

- I thought that there's no correlation with traditional markets?

2. Bitcoin got pulled down because of DeFi unwinding

- There are a lot of smart investors, it they are going to take the plug off on Defi, then there is something that they need to shift their funds right? So I guess bitcoin should be the best bet for them. So this is highly unlikely though.

3. Miners sold some of their bitcoin

- This is interesting but they should have sold with the price is above $12k. At least that's the typical and most logical move for them, not that the price is already sliding down.

I think it's pretty obvious, CEX facilitates everything so definitely they can be called a bridge and most traders are really into CEX right now because of the volumes and liquidity it has to offer as compare to DEX. And this numbers just coincides with what we are seeing right now, altcoin market is on a bull run because of the craziness of Defi with billions now flowing and more to come as there is no stopping this bubble.

To be honest, I have never seen any match for this US Open 2020, it's not that I'm not interested, just the timing though. Too bad the Andy Murray is out, nothing to take against Felix Auger Aliassime, but I wish we could at least see more of Andy. Thiem is leading H2H, although they've only face twice, but I think Thiem will take care of Cilic again. Although there are reports about Thiem asking for Red Bull, but was denied because the organisers doesn't what the brand to be visible as obviously, Red Bull is not a sponsor and doesn't want to give a free advertisement.

As far as I can remember, the so called Flippening is based on price, meaning Ethereum price should be at par or higher than Bitcoin. And obviously, Ethereum is not even closed. But I do agree that the sudden dominance of Ethereum or at least some major altcoins are due to the Defi craze. Interesting to see what will happen to Bitcoin though, seems the decline has stop a bit, $10,300 is more likely we are going to settle for this week.

I disagree though, VPN won't make you anonymous, specially if you used this so called free VPN. This might be a good guide though, https://thatoneprivacysite.net/#simple-vpn-comparison. And everyone should read their TOS very carefully. Because maybe some of them are collecting your real name and addresses, just saying. The OP can find a lot of guides in the Beginners & Help.

You should understand where the people here are coming from, yes the price is going down, but we have seen this kind of movement multiple times already that majority are not panicking. Of course there are also predictions here that if the price goes below $11.200 which is the support and very strong, then obviously if we decline even further. But no need to be arrogant here, just saying.

I think snooker is not the popular though, and although Ronnie O'Sullivan is really that good, I don't think he reach so much influence as let's say compare to Fury right now or Lewis Hamilton.

Fury is clearly the the odds favorite to win and he could get it this year with his back to back wins against Wilder.

Yes, that is the fight that we have been waiting.

Casimero doesn't have a choice, he had trained already for the Inoue fight, and he doesn't want to waste it so he might as well get a live sparring fighter in the Olympic Micah.

The odds won't be that attractive because Casimero will be the outstanding favorite here.

Totally agree with you, but this time, scammers are boldier that 2017. Now, we have all kinds of criminals around, cyber actors, phishers, etc. Unlike in 2017 wherein the scams come from the people behind the projects and some fake airdrops. So times have change a bit, but the end result is just the same, crypto sphere will be plague again specially that we are in the bull run already. So I do hope that with the amount of warnings we are giving, no noobs from this community will fall for this fake airdrops.

I just stick to bitcoin, and been stacking sats here and there, whatever I can to prepare to a bigger bull run in 2021. I just this is the best strategy, regardless if you are a newbie or experience trader. Although altcoin is also good to hold at this point since they have their own bull run because of Defi, but the risk is greater. So if you are unsure then bitcoin all the way till the new all time high.

And what makes you so sure that Big Brother are going to exhaust every means, even try to used the computing power of a quantum computer to their advantage? doesn't make sense at all. Those so called problems that you are talking about can be solved by just a ordinary pc, no need to used QC. I urge you to read this: What is Pump and Dump Scheme?.

3-12 months? We are already in a bull run, we are just waiting for the right timing to really get the price to another all time high. But if we are going to look at the four year cycle, 2021 is the real target or at least majority is predicting that we might not just get to $20k, but more than that, $40k-$50k is what the conservative estimates where. So let's see if the cycle will continue, at least though, at $11k today, we are just off by just a couple of thousands of dollars unlike most altcoins which is still down like 80% from their previous all time highs.

Are you trying to hedge your bitcoin so that you won't suffer when the price goes down? In the long run though, doesn't sounds good specially if we are already in a bull run. Why not just hold on it and never swap and then wait for the price to increase again? And if you are a bitcoin investor or trader you know that there is a big risk involved. So you can either sell, then bought back at the dip or just simply hold for long term.

This is not the first time that we have heard someone losing their big chunk of bitcoin through this message. The problem is that the guy didn't even bother to check the latest Electrum version and it seems he was really out for 3 years (for whatever reasons it maybe). It's just one days, he decided to check his assets, so we don't know where he is living for the last 3 years that he didn't know what's really going on crypto or at least with Electrum. A lot of options is available for him to store his bitcoins but he didn't. Disheartening to hear this news, unfortunately there's nothing that we can do as it is a foregone conclusion.