Politicians won't send them to school, since uneducated people is easier to manipulate every 4 years...
And as long as garlic, holy water and such are still getting on TV as remedies for viral infections in the XXI-th century, I have a feeling that our expectations vs "the world" are, unfortunately, a bit high.

My feeling is that this kind of companies are pushing this metaverse idea so hard exactly because it will be a good "platform" for advertising, mining user information, do all "wild west" things for a while until the point it gets regulated. Just at that point the big companies have already filled their pockets and can slowly patch and adapt the system.
And as long as the punishment for misuse is late and only a few percents from the income, it worth it.

The laws and rules just can't keep up. And I think that this is exactly what FB & Co are counting on.

I'm curious whether the hearing will clear up anything or will make the things even worse (because, meh, politics...)
And I would not go so far to say they're "mercenaries of the banking system", at least not all of them. They're more probably manipulated than paid...

I am not sure what would "all funds are safe" mean after an "unauthorized activity", still, it doesn't look too bad (yet).
Let's see whether there will be complains after the update they're rolling out now.

I've been criticizing BitPay, not you. Actually, it was not even criticism, it was basically stating the reality.


I also use Electrum. I use it with a HW because I feel that this is the proper way to do it. And if I'd have a shop, then I'd probably use BTCPay.
There are almost always good solutions at hand. And we, those staying more online on this forum, usually know them.
Unfortunately I feel that we're a minority and the rest are going by what the news are telling, which can be in (too) many cases wrong and misleading.


It's not only you and be who will read this. Some can wait even until the week-end to send a transaction, some others find out that even 10 minutes is too slow. People are different, hence it worth mentioning it.

I guess that they can fit as well at every corner of the street, or supermarkets, or bus/tram/train stations in coffee, snacks or tickets vending machines. I can't wait!

Even more, they prefer the money stay on their platform. Also their transaction related code is usually obsolete and poorly configured.
However, I agree to OP about misleading. Most exchanges use such words related to their withdrawal fee that people think that is the network fee (transaction fee). And this makes many newbies get misled that bitcoin transaction fees are high.
While exchanges do use high transaction fees to make sure the money does arrive fast to the recipient, it's not uncommon neither to see them use less fee than the money asked from the user for that, neither pay unreasonably high fee. And of course, they'll say it's the network fee...

Bitcoiners avoid BitPay because of unreasonable requirements for KYC.
Before, bitcoiners used to avoid BitPay because they were favoring BCH and had bigger fees for bitcoin.

All in all, the fact BitPay business doesn't go so great as bitcoin payment processor doesn't mean at all that bitcoin payments would be in a decline.



If one uses custodian wallet, he pays whatever the custodian asks and - especially in case of exchanges - the withdrawal fee is big and unrelated to network fee.
I've made transaction 2 days ago and iirc the fee was under 10 cents. Now it's 5-6 times bigger if you're in a hurry, but that's still way under 1$.
Bitcoin transactions are not expensive nowadays. The reality is different than what various "friends" advertise.

And there's always LN for faster and cheaper payments.


That's correct. Also for smaller fees use bc1 addresses. And also the (legit) non-custodial wallets are usually better for your funds' safety (just you have to learn yourself to do everything correct).

You should really tell what service or software you are talking about, since Bitcoin Core has no fees panel at all.
Keep in mind that we are not telepathic and we can't guess your problem if you don't give as much info as possible. Then we can try to help.
So... what are you trying to use? And what you're trying to achieve?

You are free to do whatever you want with you money, really
The point was not that you should do DCA. It's up to you.
The point was to not call DCA something that's not DCA, since what you do now is confusing anybody reading and trying to understand

What you seem to do is some sort of hunt for buying the dip.
DCA means a clear plan and investing every x days no matter of price evolution.
Imho you should read a little more to understand DCA..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dollarcostaveraging.asp

The yellow bitcointalk example is fine only on light "theme". When a dark theme is being used, then that blue Twitter becomes hard to read.
So I agree that OP should learn to not use the colors unnecessarily and I want to mean all colors, no matter they're very light or they're dark.

Local government is a safe bet. But large company old internal web-based software, no too often used, no longer maintained, maybe too expensive to update, can be quite a good bet too. And individuals' more or less abandoned public pages are also there.

You've misunderstood. Just look again at the image at point 2:
* you can see units as .15 and as 0.07000000
* you can see price as .078 or 0.078
It looks messy. My suggestion was to put a 0 before the decimal point if it's missing, and maybe show the same number of digits (8?) after decimal point everywhere.
I.e. show 0.15000000 instead of .15, keep 0.07000000 as it is, change .078 and 0.078 into 0.07800000.


Displaying some sort of order book doesn't have to be in the same way as the users post the orders, so privacy should not suffer (so maybe that "cohesive orderbook" was in my mind, just didn't know how to express it)
But one should really know what he can do in order to get an order processed - how much to ask for his ETH or how much he should sell his BTC for.
However, it's your project and your decisions, all I can do is to post advises; whether you take them into consideration or not is 100% up to you.


Super! Thank you!

I switched from Chrome for multiple reasons, it was not only the surveillance.
Still, it's not uninstalled, since I do need it now and then, exactly because some people just don't care to make their websites work for anything else than Chromium.


As I said, many years ago. Back then I've been working also web pages and back then IE was still important.
And, well, you'd be surprised, but there are still old pages "optimized for IE" that may not even work well with Chrome of FFox, and also IE is used internally by various software without telling you it's IE. That's actually why Win10 still has it (although, I know, it shows Edge to our face, and that's Chromium-based).

Such a big city has to have quite a budget. I won't call that 1% worthless.

I've found this paper, but I don't know if it's the numbers we expect.
At page 5 (see image below) it shows at least 15000M BRL, of which 1% is 27M US dollar. I can call it a good start.
And even if this would not happen, I am still happy to see tax exemptions and basically a warm welcome to crypto businesses there. It's a good news.

1. I've got one of my orders partly filled. Nice, but the trade history is basically unreadable.



2. The prices and amounts should be shown in an "unified" way, not in the way the user has entered it. I mean.. I have some with 0.something, I have some with .something; maybe convert everything to #n.nnnnnnnn?



3. It may not be a bad ideas to add visible margins or something into the tables so one can see better what is what (like that price amounts way to the left); maybe different font or color for "table headers"... I mean it doesn't have to be beautiful, but one has to read it easy.

4. I agree with a previous post: why can't we see all the existing open orders on the platform so we don't go blindly (we see what orders we can match)?

Don't forget that at least for this winter exporting gas (well, LNG) to Europe can be a better business.
And US has started doing that. How much it affects US itself... I can't tell though.

Last time I needed that I had to check for IE vs other browsers  , quite some years ago 
On the other hand, I've noticed now and then services that work better on Chrome than on Firefox. It may depends on what (functions) they use, it may mean that some did care to make it more compatible and some didn't.

But it has just occurred to me that since now Edge is also Chromium... you may be indeed right...

Sorry, but I'm sick and tired by the number of fishy things done by various services in the name of KYC.
I don't say that OP situation is crystal clear. It isn't. But the casino behavior is also questionable.


If VPN is not disallowed explicitly, it can be considered allowed. Of course, if it's used for abuse, it's a completely different story.
Now, I've seen that "one of my accounts" wording and it can be seen as "one of my Cloudbet accounts" (which is abuse) or "one my gambling accounts" (may be one at Cloudbet and one at Bitsler).
Since Cloudbet didn't bother to come and show a minimum evidence that OP is cheating... why should I assume that?


Well said.

It's odd that the casino did come to say a word. If they would have clear evidence of anything bad, they could clear their name easily. Also paying that small amount is an option.
The fact they don't do any move rise a question imho about how much they care about their customers.