I knew CoinBene was shady the moment the late John McAfee was promoting it on Twitter like every single day.  2017-2018 was definitely a different time. I kinda miss his ridiculous antics weirdly enough. |
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Centralization and being custodial aside, obviously the only way for bitcoin to be in the Ethereum/alt-L1 ecosystem is to be through the likes of wrapped bitcoin(WBTC). There's really no way around it as far as I know.
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And I also played a lot of games and were making money off them, and I still say that "play to earn" is unsustainable. When Diablo III was released, it featured real money auction house for all in-game items, and while some players made a lot of money from it, the majority of the community hated it and it was soon removed.
You really can't make conclusions based on one or a few examples though. Yes, D3s auction house was totally scrapped, and a few other game economies that failed, but at the same time we have the likes of RuneScape whereas their economies are still running decently. Most of the gamers are not interested in making money from games, in fact they are very much against the trading of gameplay items - if you played WoW, you know how much the community hates gold sellers.
Idk about you mate, but if I quit playing a videogame, I definitely want to sell my items so I at least get something in return for all my time. Now imagine if Blizzard turned their WoW token into a blockchain token - now there's suddenly an extra huge incentive to run bots, scam people, hack accounts, etc. because there's an easy way to turn in-game money into real money.
Goldfarms and all those hacks/scams have existed on the RuneScape MMORPG since like 10 years ago. And here it is, still alive. Bitcoin also incentivizes hackers and scammers to steal money off people. But yet here we are totally loving it because the positives heavily outweighs the negatives; same thing with games with more "open" economies. AAA gaming industry is already making stupid money with their gambling mechanics and lazy-ass $60 releases and extra DLCs, whatever they can make with play-to-earn model just pales in comparison to that. But I believe this model isn't even profitable, because it pushes players away from the game.
Mate if you hate those cashgrabs, then you should actually probably be pushing for NFTs. Because instead of paying for untradable skins(which looks like what the current games are moving into e.g. Valorant), NFTs are actually easily tradable(blockchain fees aside). |
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I suddenly have a question to ask now and we all know the guy from his adventures with Bitcoin but why does anyone not want to create NFTs on Bitcoin? Or is this not possible or easy to do? As far as I know sidetokens have been made before but maybe they were all not non-fungible?
Anyway, I do not think people need to be angry with him,,, if it is for charity, why should anyone be angry with it?
Because the Bitcoin "sidechains" like Sovryn and Stacks has their own token; and the vocal Bitcoin maximalists aren't fan of such tokens. Or the more likely reason: maybe Ross Ulbricht and etc just prefer to run the NFT auction on a chain that people actually use for NFTs — Ethereum. It just makes more sense if the goal was to actually pool money. |
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Maybe tell us which coins you're looking at in particular? Pretty hard to judge these subcategories because there are always good and bad bets on every project subcategory.
I tend to think that the mEtAvErSe coins pretty much topped already though.
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Otherwise, NFTs are just a digital file sitting on your computer's hard drive.
You can like or hate NFTs and call it nonsense or "innovative"(and I understand the arguments of both sides), but if you think that NFTs are digital files on your hard drive, you need to do a bit of reading mate. |
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You either:
1. Sell the physical paintings in the Marketplace section, or on social media
2. Controversial: sell them as NFTs on OpenSea
Take note that you're going to need to tell a really compelling story if you actually want people to be interested. You aren't going to get attention just by solely telling people that you're selling paintings to help your grandmother.
Best of luck, and best wishes to your grandmother.
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"Play to earn" will never be popular, a large precentage of gamers are middle class people who absolutely don't need to collect pennies for hours of repetetive tasks.
Funnily enough, that's what actually makes the "Play to earn" games sustainable economy-wise. With people in poor countries farming in-game currency and items, while the middle to upper class people are the ones purchasing these farmed items for their own enjoyment — to either upgrade their characters, or for cosmetic purposes. |
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In brave browser BAT you can sync settings & bookmarks saved in the browser that claims to be decentralized non custodial so how is that possible then?
Brave browser(not talking about BAT) isn't and doesn't claim to be decentralized. It's just a privacy-focused browser that has some cryptocurrency-related stuff integrated. |
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Quick note: while this may be fitting on Altcoin sections, I'm placing this on the Bitcoin Discussion section because I'm mainly interested in the opinions of Bitcoin-only people.
Various Bitcoiners on Twitter have shown mixed reactions — some showing obvious disappointment, while some showed support. Curious on what Bitcointalk thinks. “Decades of incarceration stretch out in front of me. As I face that future—my eventual old age and death in this cage—I find myself looking for meaning and purpose. Why am I here? What good can I do with the time I have left and from where I am? I hope that helping my fellow prisoners through my art is one way.”
“With proceeds from this NFT, we are starting a donor-advised fund called Art4Giving, dedicated to relieving the suffering of the incarcerated and their families. There is a lot we can do, but one idea I am committed to is to help kids travel to visit their moms and dads in prison.”– Ross Ulbricht   The art: https://freeross.org/nftMy NFT by Ross Ulbricht: https://rossulbricht.medium.com/my-nft-f2b4a9f1955cTweets: https://twitter.com/RealRossU/status/1465390447958839302 | https://twitter.com/RealRossU/status/1465788108461514756 |
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What matters most is what the information being distributed in the first place actually is, rather than what this "giving" vs "sharing" stuff is.
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Debit card without verification.. yea.. you're definitely going to have a hard time finding such a platform. If there's such a platform, the authorities would immediately be in their asses due to the number of purchases using stolen debit cards.
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"Harassment" lmao. You know you could've checked the blockchain explorer to check if your wallet actually received the funds, right? Could've just been a quick bug on your wallet software. Also I've some horrible experience about bsc chain. When it was started it's journey it was so fast and reliable. But now every transaction made delay. I'm so disappointed on bsc chain.
What do you expect from an Ethereum fork that just has some constants changed lol. Almost no different than BSV/BCH forking BTC and increasing blocksize for faster and cheaper transactions. What do you think guys? I should made a tweet and tag CZ Binance?
Yea, like he's going to notice you. |
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but I doubt much people in the Bitcoin community actually care about NFTs lol. At least you can do something with Ethereum. Eth 2 will sort fees out. Hopefully.
You're comparing a protocol optimized for features, vs a protocol that's optimized for security/decentralization/privacy. Dumb comparison. |
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I do not think getting a hardware wallet for a young baby will be right when only the seed phrase is enough to have access to the coins, I do not have to repeat what has been posted, follow BlackHatcoiner's post is the best. Just run Electrum on an airgapped device and generate a seed phrase, its keys and addresses, and send bitcoin to one of the addresses. All needed to access the coin is just the seed phrase.
True! But just to add for OP: if you already has a hardware wallet(lik everyone should), you can just: 1. reset your hardware wallet(make sure you have your backup!) 2. generate a new wallet for your kid, write the recovery seed down, and grab a wallet address 3. reset the hardware wallet again, then restore your main wallet That way, you ensure security even if it's the case that you're not confident enough to create an airgapped device; because I think probably only a minority are capable and should create an airgapped device. |
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1. Grab a hardware wallet from Ledger[1] or Trezor[2] 2. Generate a wallet 3. Write down the recovery seed or etch them in steel 4. Send the bitcoin to the wallet's address 5. ? ? ? 6. Profit! (for your grandchild)
[1] https://ledger.com/[2] https://trezor.io/ |
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It is still rocking like crazy in the freelance market. Not just creating a blog site or forum, but also creating plugins.
Yep, I've personally spent a few hundred dollars on plugins a few years ago just to quickly solve some problems without going too deep into the code. If OP is clever enough to create a plugin that easily solves a certain problem that a lot of people have, he/she could easily make life changing (depending where he/she's from) amounts of money. |
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That would be a casino if op is actually good with web stuff and also starting a service for those who also want to start a casino. I could also say that it's worth your time if op always spend time doing word press or what op is very good at then that would be a good start. @OP, if you decide doing what mk4 suggested then good luck but if not then tty visiting marketplace snd services.
Even having expertise in WordPress can be great money actually. WordPress is one of the most used CMSs, hence we can easily assume that it has a high number of potential customers. Even creating themes itself is good money if you know what you're doing. |
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It can plummet the price of Bitcoin to zero if that will happened. BinanceUS drop price to 9K before by just a mistake of some institutional trader to drop 500 plus worth of Bitcoin so what's more if a million will be liquidated on an exchange. But this is impossible to happened since an exchange has limit on deposit and I believe no one that in the right mind will deposit huge tons of money on exchange and drop it at one go.
I believe OTC transaction is the only way Satoshi can liquidate his BTC into cash. He just need to use mixer before he do the transaction for his privacy.
Satoshi could dump literally every single coin he/she/they have and heavily FUD bitcoin at the same time and it would still not reach zero. As long as nothing has changed astronomically to the protocol in a negative manner, you'd be damn sure that there will be a lot of bidders down the price charts if nothing has changed to the protocol. |
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I don't see it coming anytime soon. Even the euro(€) and the peso(₱) doesn't exist on your keyboard after decades and decades of existing and with high levels of adoption. Why do you think they would immediately add a bitcoin symbol as a standard on keyboards?
But yea, like jackg said, it's likely to indirectly get into keyboards through emojis.
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