One funny thing about WEX is how Pavel Durov, the creator of Telegram, has lost 2,000 BTC to it by storing his coins there - https://forklog.com/smi-osnovatel-telegram-pavel-durov-hranil-bitkoiny-na-birzhe-wex/

The guy has been in tech industry for so many years, but apparently he didn't bother to do 20 minutes of research to know that you should keep your coins in your own wallet. Or maybe he's so rich that he forgot about those coins or didn't care.

This is hilarious, blockchain technology was invented like 4-5 years ago, while Bitcoin was created 11 years ago, but you tell us that crypto can't do without blockchain? And blockchain it yet to be used beyond trial applications and experiments, while Bitcoin is used as a currency, an investment and a tool for achieving freedom. And a lot of the "blockchain technology" hype has vanished when crypto entered bear market, which shows that it's actually blockchain that depends on crypto as of now.

I've been a member of this forum for nearly 4 years and my initial goal was to earn Bitcoin here, which I was doing here all this time with different ways, but frankly it's not the smartest idea, because there's not much good opportunities here. Altcoin bounties used to be great while we were in a bubble, now they are simply not worth your time, selling your services is always a good idea, but the market for it is very little, and signature campaigns don't pay as much as they used to.

My advice is to find a real job and invest your earnings in Bitcoin, you'll earn much more coins this way than chasing coins directly. And I'm not talking about real-life job, you can also work on the Internet if your jobs don't pay much in your country.

I don't think it's that certain, alts were suffering greatly ever since the 2017 bubble has popped, more and more people start to see that altcoins = shitcoins, and even coins from top 10 like TRON and XRP get criticized more often than they are praised - this is something that wasn't the case a few years ago.

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There's nothing interesting about it, anyone who reads the news at at least a little bit familiar with this Craig Wright character knows that he is full of shit, so there's no Tulip trust and no 1m BTC, just like there was no critical vulnerability that CWS promised to publish. This dude can't even be a good clown, despite his hardest attempts at trying to be one, so let's just forget about him, okay? We're entering a new decade tomorrow, let's leave this scammer behind.

Bitcoin is 11 years old, it witnessed so many crisis' in this decade, and there never was strong correlation between them and Bitcoin's price. If they have any impact, it's so small that it's effectively unnoticeable in Bitcoin's volatility.  Just stop spreading this myth already, it creates false expectation in newbies, and frankly it's just inhumane to be enthusiastic about someone's suffering because it might cause the price of your investment to go up.

Many people on this forum tell bounty hunters and sig campaign members to get a real job, and they are right, because those things are unreliable and don't have a future. People who discourage you can also be right in some sense - crypto is extremely risky and volatile, things like mining or trading can easily bankrupt you, and there's a lot of scams in this field. Safest thing you can do is become a developer, but this takes a lot of time, and you should already be an experienced programmer to enter this field quickly.

Same way as with cash - punish people for evading taxes, or introduce VAT that makes merchants direct targets of taxation. Bitcoin right now is less private then cash, so it would be quite hard to use it for tax evasion. Crypto isn't inherently anti-tax, it's anti-middlemen in payments and that's all, it's up to users to decide how they want to use crypto - follow the laws and regulations or not.

Because investing is the biggest use case for Bitcoin right now, and people normally don't cash out their investments just to make purchases, they have fiat for that. So many people here say that fiat will soon die and Bitcoin will take over, so isn't it logical that people would try to get rid of their fiat first and should prefer using it as a currency for their daily transactions?

Are you saying that the price follows hashrate? Because that's not true, while hashrate is very important, it's not very strongly correlated, you can see it by how the hashrate kept growing all throughout the bear market in 2018. And we already had two halvings and the price didn't fall according to your reasoning, so what should makes this halvening different?

How can regulations kill the bullishness? Stock markets are much more regulated than Bitcoin, and big tech giants like Facebook and Apple are almost always at their ATH because they keep growing and growing. If it were like you say and the whales could no longer manipulate the market, it would be a good signal to investors and the price would grow in long term and eventually reach a new ATH.


Those things have zero long-term impact on Bitcoin's price, and even in short term they are barely noticeable.

Who said that you aren't free? People are doing all sorts of illegal stuff on the Internet without ever getting caught, that's all the proof you need to know that you can do anything you want if you know how to stay hidden. 

You can pick any of the big youtube alternatives - Vimeo, Vevo, Dailymotion, etc. - I'm sure they won't delete any videos for just being crypto-related. But the whole Youtube drama seems to be over already, or will resolve itself soon. I wouldn't expect content creatores abandoning Youtube anytime soon, other platforms have much less users which means less profits for them.

You are correct, I saw some working prototype of such machine on Twitter last year, it was selling candies with LN payments. However, before we'll have widespread vending machines, we'll more likely to get LN Bitcoin ATM's. Currently Bitcoin vending machine wouldn't be profitable, since there's so little people who could pay with Bitcoin, and not everyone who owns Bitcoin wants to spend it. But buying/selling Bitcoin for cash is much more common, and Bitcoin ATM's are already popular, so adding LN to them would greatly help them by reducing fees, improving speed and allowing to operate with smaller amounts.

Can you elaborate? As I know, the Internet network is still largely decentralized, and thanks to tools like encryption, ToR, VPN, proxies it's impossible to control users. It's impossible to make a "turn Bitcoin off" button, so I wouldn't worry about it. There are problems with lack of competition between Internet service providers in some places, but it doesn't have any strong implications for Bitcoin.

It's really the only way to use paper wallet as physical coin, since it's essentially just sharing private key with an untrusted third party. This can be done if the user doesn't have a mobile device to conduct payment but can somehow print or write down a private key/seed on paper - something that could happen in a poor third world country.

My guess is that they unleashed some algorithm that was meant to take down the crypto investment advice videos, but for some reason it has nuked the whole channels - maybe there's some sort of autoban which removes all videos from a channel if it already removed a lot of videos from it.

Also, you say "Bitcoin video purge" in the title, but the article says "cryptocurrency videos", and it's a really big difference, cause as far as I'm aware, educational Bitcoin videos weren't removed.

Yeah, a shitcoin that no one has ever heard about is going to take the biggest video hosting platform in the world out of business, sounds totally legit. No one is going to abandon youtube because of their action against crypto videos, outside of crypto community no one cares, and inside of crypto community almost all people would be unable to boycott youtube for long, because youtube has complete monopoly.