And I would say that a complete newbie to bitcoin probably wants to get a wallet in a hurry, since that's the first thing you need if you want to own bitcoin.  And assuming they are in a hurry and are presented with a choice of a huge number of wallets, they might not know which ones are good and which are complete crap.

Yes, newbies should absolutely do their research before choosing a wallet, but the reality is that a lot probably don't.  I know I wasn't very choosy when I picked my first wallet and I sure as hell didn't know about all of the important features that I do now that I have some experience. 

Lists like this to help noobs are not a bad thing.  There might be some disagreement about certain things, but overall I think they're helpful to someone who's just getting started.

All of that is important, of course, but I don't think any of these things negates the importance of wallet recommendations.

I'm not, and it's only getting worse, believe me.

I couldn't read what was in that link because I don't speak Russian.  That's why I criticized you for not creating a proper scam accusation thread with an English translation.  I'm not in anyone's gang, nor am I in any of Yahoo62278's campaigns.  If this website is a scam then I would hope he would cease managing the campaign post haste, but as I said this isn't going to happen with lightning speed.  Yahoo62278 has to figure out what the truth is and then decide what he's going to do.  Just calm the fuck down and be patient.

Now that ryap12 posted a translation, it should be easier for the English-speaking community to figure out what's going on.

Maybe it's because many video games these days have microtransactions built into them, which a lot of people (including gamers) think is akin to gambling.  If that isn't the reason, I sure as hell can't think of one. 

That might be your primary complaint, but based on that statement, buying crypto is prohibited as well.  That's not a good thing either. 

I'm not familiar with how banking works in Bangladesh.  Is Bangladesh Bank the ruling body with respect to banks, or is it just one bank among many in Bangladesh?  In the US, if my bank banned me from using my debit card to buy crypto/video games/whatever, I could just ditch them and open a bank account at another bank that didn't have those restrictions--unless it was a law and not a bank policy.  So could you clarify what the situation is in your country, OP?

I hadn't read about Grayscale (but I'll check it out), but I was aware of MSTR's purchase of bitcoin, which I find to be very ballsy for a publicly-traded corporation to do.  Their stock was up a lot at yesterday's close, though I'm not sure that has anything to do with them buying bitcoin.

Warren Buffett certainly knows what he's doing, and the fact that he's ditching banks stocks has me thinking that something big is brewing, either in the banking sector in particular or the economy as a whole.  It's probably going to end up being both.  Buffett has also invested in metals before.  Some years ago he bought a bunch of physical silver if I'm not mistaken, and he made a tidy profit on it.  And if he's buying a single mining stock, it's likely not simply because he wants to invest in gold.  The business is probably an undervalued company that he's going to hold for the long-term.

This is some pretty interesting news, and it kind of reflects the crazy world we're living in right now.

It's not that he's too old.  Buffett is a very smart man and he just doesn't see it having any long-term value--plus his shareholders at Berkshire Hathaway would probably revolt if he did get into crypto. 

Seriously, and that's true for pretty much every other fiat currency out there.  The simple fact is that people are not turning to bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency in droves and abandoning the fiat system--so this is a bogus argument put forth by the Russian authorities. 

Hopefully other countries won't follow suit and enact laws like this.  It doesn't look like that's going to happen, but you never know.

It's been ten years since bitcoin was created, and the banking system is still doing its thing.  I don't think that system is in danger of being destroyed by a form of money that most people haven't adopted and that most merchants don't accept as payment.

No, it's because you're too lazy to do it the right way and just want to stir up shit as quickly as you can.  Member Paga has one negative trust, but I'm not sure if it's an accusation that the project is a scam or not--it doesn't look like it as far as I can see.  So if you have solid evidence that currency.com is a scam, you should present everything you have in a thread in the Scam Accusation section instead of attacking the campaign manager.

Eh, I doubt that.  My guess is that if this really is a scam exchange, Yahoo62278 will distance himself from it.  He realizes the importance of his reputation on the forum, believe me.  But none of that is going to be done immediately, and especially not until a proper scam accusation is leveled against currency.com.

When you're comparing two currencies, isn't the rise of one of them the definition of the other one weakening?  I'm no economist nor a currency trader, but that's been my understanding--please correct me if I'm wrong.

My take on why bitcoin is rising (along with precious metals and stocks) is that there's too much cheap money available to traders, and they're taking full advantage of it.  When interest rates are near zero, margin trading goes up and usually stock prices do as well--or any asset that you can buy using leverage, and that includes cryptocurrencies.  On top of all that, there's all of this "stimulus money" being handed out to people, and a lot of them are using it to speculate in various markets. 

No surprise then that assets which aren't usually correlated start moving upward in tandem, which is exactly what we're seeing right now.  One good thing is that bitcoin hasn't started moving into bubble territory, which makes me glad.  There's all this talk about hitting a new ATH, but I'm hoping that doesn't happen for a few years.

No, I don't think that's going to happen.  My Coinbase account wasn't nuked because of tainted coins but because of a stupid mistake I made while trying to buy a small amount of bitcoin.  There was a bank account I had linked that I had closed but had forgotten to remove from my Coinbase account.  I accidentally selected that account when I tried to do the buy, and shortly thereafter I got the "we closed your account, sorry, bye" e-mail from Coinbase. 

I don't gamble or use the dark web, so I don't think there should be any issues as far as tainted coins go, but you never know.  I don't know if PayPal/Venmo is going to be looking as closely as Coinbase does with regard to where you're sending your coins to (or even where they're coming from).  That should be interesting to see in any case.

No kidding!!  I mourn the loss of Circle, because they made it so easy to buy and sell bitcoin at a low cost.  Ah well, I guess a service that good wasn't meant to last.

We'll see about that--and I'm hoping that's sooner rather than later.

I'm not sure what JollyGood's feedback is all about, but whatever.  I've used flyp.me a few times in the past with no issues, but that was months ago and doesn't mean anything as far as your problem is concerned, OP. 

Have you tried running the transaction through a few times, and if so do you get the same issue?  I can't think of a good reason why the amount you'd receive would drop that much in the short time it takes to click a button.  It's not like you're dealing with a super volatile asset pair.

I've used them as well with no issues, and I suppose if OP has to use one of these instant exchanges, he might as well give that one a shot.  I'd be careful with any of them, even the bigger name ones like Changelly and ShapeShift.  I've rarely had trouble with any of them, but I'm still skeptical about them when it comes to customer service if I did have an issue.  Anyway, good luck OP.

Vaccine trials don't work that way, but ultimately if your question is whether I'd get the vaccine for COVID-19 then my answer would be "yes".  I'm not an anti-vaxxer by any means.

If somebody developed a vaccine that was 100% effective, it still wouldn't be a blockbuster drug that many people think it would be.  Vaccines never are, and they usually don't account for a huge amount of any given pharmaceutical company's revenue.  So no, I don't think a vaccine would have much of an effect other than putting people back to work when they feel that they're safe.  In that respect I think a vaccine would have an enormous impact on the global economy--but we'll see what the result is when one is finally brought to market. 

That could certainly be true, but I'm hoping if mistakes are made they're not serious ones.  I'm also hoping the time frame for getting a vaccine into doctors' offices is shorter than it usually takes in the world of pharma companies.

Ideally you should be, but we all know that isn't the reality when it comes to campaign applications.  And even good posters get rejected from campaigns for various reasons.  LOL at your hidden text, btw.

OP, I've noticed this in the past and I don't think it's fair that some campaigns require applicants to have the signature and/or avatar and/or personal message in place before they get accepted, especially when the campaign manager takes his sweet time reviewing applications.  Lutpin used to be guilty of this if I remember correctly, and if I'm wrong I apologize for sticking him out.  I have a feeling that campaign owners/managers know precisely the effect of this requirement is, and that's why I don't think it's fair.

In addition, if you have to have all the advertising in place in your profile at the time of application, you're basically limited to how many campaigns you can apply to at one time (assuming multiple campaigns have the same requirement).

Most campaign applicants are shitposters, let's be honest.  They're the type that don't like to complain too loudly lest they damage their chances of getting a spot in a campaign--and they're also the kinds of members that won't bother to express an opinion in a Meta poll.  I suspect more people think it's a problem than you think.

I wouldn't go that far, at least not until everyone is receiving their paycheck in bitcoin and stuff at the grocery store is priced in bitcoin.  As it stands right now, there's a very real need for fiat currency, no matter how hardcore a bitcoin supporter you are.

As far as OP's point is concerned, bitcoin could function just fine as a currency if people chose to use it as that.  Its value would have to increase significantly in order for that to happen, but it's possible.  And I would also say that if people want to keep it as a store of value or own it just for trading, that's fine by me.  Crypto as a whole hasn't caught on as far as becoming a popular payment method--there are tons of coins that function better than bitcoin does as money, yet not many people are using them either.

I'm not sure how hard these exchanges dig into the legitimacy of a coin or token they're listing.  One would hope that an exchange like Kucoin that has a decent reputation wouldn't list this piece of dung, but maybe they just haven't had it brought to their attention yet. 

Yeah, and I'm pretty sure any project like this that tries to create a coin backed by metals or whatever will fail, especially if the coin creators have to keep a reserve of the metal in question.  There have been schemes like that in the past, and not surprisingly they tend to not have as much gold/silver as they're supposed to have in their vaults.  Not to mention that there's no real need or even demand for such a coin.  If you want to buy gold, you can buy it physically.  If that's not your thing, you can buy a gold ETF or stocks in mining corporations.  I'd stay far away from any gold-backed crypto.

Ugh.  I really wish bitcoin was easy enough to buy such that you wouldn't have to jump through hoops like this in order to do it.  I've never played Runescape or used TOR, so I think this option is a no-go for me.

Not sure where the social distancing part comes into this, as most bitcoin transactions are usually between people who are far more than six feet away from each other--and they're usually doing it from home (or some other comfortable place) as well.  I get your point about not needing to use fiat, because that's usually the big pain in the ass part when it comes to buying crypto.  Though I'm not going to give this method a try, I do appreciate you posting it here as I find it interesting.

I would think it's an excellent thing in general if I believed that these large institutional investors would be owning actual cryptocurrency--bitcoin in particular.  But there's less than 21 million coins in circulation, and if you're a fund with really deep pockets you wouldn't be able to buy a huge stake in bitcoin without driving the price up and nearly cornering the market. 

What I think is going to happen with all of this money is that it's going to be invested in derivatives, like those offered by Bakkt and the like.  You can buy and sell a lot of options without affecting the price directly, so I think that's what the institutions are going to do.

This discussion sort of reminds me of this recent thread, which is about a company that decided to keep its cash reserves in the form of bitcoin--and they bought a lot of it, which I thought was a pretty risky move on their part.  Interestingly enough, MSTR's stock price is up over 6% today, so it doesn't appear that there's going to be a shareholder revolt because of this. 

I'm shedding tears as I write this--and yet I had to whip out the paint brush and go to work.  It's been a while since I've tagged an account seller.

I'm confident the account is going to change hands eventually.  Soliciting buyers for an account is the same as having actually sold it IMO.

I don't think anyone is capable of that feat--certainly no one registered on this forum.

Ah, that's too bad.  But at least it isn't a health problem or worse, though I wish him well with whatever's going on in his love life.

That's right, I forgot about that whole drama.  But isn't there a way to tell?  I haven't visited Vod's BPIP site in a long time that I forgot the extension, whether it's .org, .com, or other.  I tried those two but got nothing.

LOL.  They ought to limit their residents' keyboard time if that's the case.

Please don't make a claim that significant without providing proof and snapping at members who ask you for it.  If it were true, that would be something the community ought to know about, and as quickly as possible IMO.

Anybody know where Lauda has gone to lately?  I don't really expect an answer to that, but I'm just wondering.  He/she has taken breaks from the forum before, but I haven't seen a post from Lauda in quite a while.  I'm curious about TMAN as well.

Ah, I've been putting Bitcoin Discussion on and off ignore for a while now, so I apparently missed any threads dealing with this.  Sorry for the duplication--I was just excited to see this being mentioned in the press.

Could very well be, but personally I'd love to have an easy way to purchase bitcoin.  Before Circle stopped dealing with bitcoin (or at least stopped selling it), I used them with no problem and if I remember correctly the fees were extremely low.  There hasn't been a service that's popped up to take their place, which I find unfortunate as someone who can't use Coinbase anymore.

Oh, you mean like what Robinhood offers?  Well, the article seemed to state that PayPal was looking into liquidity providers, which I assume are exchanges, and that leads me to believe that the customer would be dealing with real bitcoin and not a placeholder.

Maybe, maybe not.  It certainly could be that he was vulnerable to a phishing attack that he's not aware of, but now I'm a bit worried and I'm curious to see what Ledger's response is.  

You guys think this is just an ETH-related thing?  I don't own any ETH or tokens, but hearing news like this is unnerving.

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I don't know exactly what I mean.  I'm just wondering whether there's a real vulnerability that could affect everyone or just this member or a particular coin/token.  Never mind my question, as it's just my ignorance of how these things work speaking.