I absolutely agree that the average person cares very little about their financial privacy because they think that the authorities know everything anyway and that there is nothing to hide. Therefore, most people don't care whether they use stable coins or CBDC, it is important that the transaction is fast and cheap. As I already wrote, if you have to choose between two evils, it is logical to choose the one that has more legitimacy, and the CBDC of a stable country is probably less evil (risk) than some company that prints tokens as needed without being backed with anything.

Speaking of USDT, some speculate that they have already bought their own state (El Salvador), so I would not be surprised if they move their headquarters in that direction

It's not one year, but 7 years of this way of life - how else could he save so much money to pay a student loan debt and buy a house in Los Angeles where real estate is extremely expensive. Yet man needs to be acknowledged for his perseverance in reaching his goal, for persisting in such an intention for so many years is by no means an easy task.

Imagine if he knew about Bitcoin at the time, a man would surely be a real rich man today

As soon as I read the title, I thought about it, because no matter what someone thinks they have found a way to play the system, all that cheap (free meal) will still be paid dearly, and in this particular case fast food is bad for everyone's health. I remember watching some documentary about someone who did an experiment on what happened after eating only junk food for 1 month, and the results were not pleasant at all.

However, I must admit that I did not know that such services exist, and for someone who would, say, eat one such meal every week, it is really more than a good offer. Many must have been angry when the theme parks canceled such an offer, and all because of one man - he certainly no longer visits theme parks after all

Since this is a very popular mobile crypto wallet used by many beginners, I want to warn everyone who uses this wallet or will use it in the future that there is no verification and do not fall for this cheap trick that scammers have been using for a long time.

A new phishing campaign is currently underway, so if your email leaked somewhere you can expect to receive a message identical to the one I personally received. If you get it in your inbox, report it as spam, and in no case click on the link in the message - it may just be a classic seed stealer, but it is possible that at the other end you will find malware/virus.

Why are you surprised if I showed you an example in which one member of the forum also got a replacement in the same way? Personally, I was more surprised that you want to repair a device that is under warranty, but considering what @SFR10 wrote, if you are in one of the banned countries, you will have a problem with delivery.

A possible solution is to send the new device to someone who is not in the banned country (friend, relative), and then they send it to your address.

If he really helped terrorists, then he really received too little punishment, considering how the USA treated terrorists until it declared the Taliban good guys. Maybe such punishment is somewhere on the trail of a softer policy towards such things, because there are fewer and fewer terrorists, and the machinery to fight them is massive.

Besides, by what definition is North Korea a terrorist country, because that’s what the mighty US says? Each country has the right to develop its own defense mechanisms that guarantee its security, otherwise it will be attacked and occupied.

It would be nice if Mr. Mars hasn't created all that confusion among people with his tweets about various things when it comes to cryptocurrencies, which he himself admits he doesn't know much about. To say that it would be good for Twitter advertisers to be able to pay in Bitcoin, and at the same time to say that his company will not accept that same Bitcoin as a means of payment is not only hypocritical but also completely stupid behavior.

Even if such an option appears, as others have already shown in the examples, the average person who owns Bitcoin is not inclined to use it as a currency, but as an investment.

Since the price was below $40k at one point, the buyer could have had an even better purchase if he had followed the market a little better. But in the long run this is very likely to be a very profitable investment.


DEX or CEX, fees cannot be avoided because everyone wants to make money, and after all, intermediaries are not charities. The only way for people to avoid such high fees is to trade in person, but it always carries certain risks. Fortunately, as I have already written, the person who bought the BTC and paid that fee probably knows that it is a small price considering how much potential there is in the purchased BTC.

I share your opinion, because if I’ve learned anything through all these years, it’s that I don’t use the term “never” when it comes to Bitcoin. However, the probability that the DJ will collapse by as much as 80% is something that is hard for me to imagine, just as the price of 1 BTC could fall below $10 000.

The latter would very likely happen in the event that the most powerful countries in the world take coordinated action with the aim of shutting down all centralized crypto exchanges and putting Bitcoin on the black list. But then we’re talking about an open war against Bitcoin, and that would be like a fight between David and Goliath - given the tools possessed by powerful states, let everyone judge who would be who in that story.

Here we can talk about a lot of people thinking that there is too little Bitcoin (max supply only 21 million) for someone to allow that after someone’s death it happens that his BTC practically goes to the grave with him. The OP says it would be mandatory to avoid this in some way, but fortunately there is no law to regulate that problem in crypto, even when it comes to assets in banks to which no one is entitled. In Germany alone, it is estimated that there are between 2 billion and as much as 9 billion EUR in such bank accounts, with the difference that sooner or later the money will go to the state if no one responds and claims their inheritance rights.


This has become quite common, so sometimes we can say that it is better for family members not to be familiar with some things, because a lot of money means a lot of discord, quarrels, and even violence.

China is a specific country where the government does not ask people if they want something or not, but simply puts them in a situation where they have to use something. Their CBDC is just a continuation of what has long been popular in China, such as WeChat Pay, which they say has about 800 million users, which means that people are already very familiar with digital payments.


Central banks have not recently started using blockchain, but have been doing so for years because they have realized that the potential is huge and the whole thing is completely free. There is information that China entered such research in 2014, and thanks to that, they already have a functional CBDC that is used by almost 300 million people.



I don't have a very good opinion of stablecoins, but I'm not too thrilled to replace them with CBDC - because the question is which is less evil than the two, shady private companies or corrupt governments and their centralized anti-private digital fiat. I agree that this would simplify the matter, but at what cost when it comes to privacy?

If you have a bank account and you have a certain amount of money in that account, in case someone robs the bank, or steals your bank card and steals money that way, the bank will reimburse you in full. From this point of view, the bank looks like a pretty safe place if we would make a comparison with any non-custodial crypto wallet where each user has their own bank.

The key question here is how well the average individual is able to protect their bank from theft/hacking, especially if we consider that in the event that someone steals digital assets from a non-custodial crypto wallet, the chances of recovering such stolen funds are minimal.
 

If the crypto wallet is open source and the code can be checked, and if the user knows what he is doing - then we can say that the security is quite high. If someone doesn’t understand how things work, then hackers happen to have a very profitable business as was the case with Electrum a few years ago when a vulnerability in that wallet was exploited to trick users into downloading a fake wallet and thus losing their BTC.

@Oluwa-btc, how about discussing one topic in one thread?

No matter how excited some are that one city has introduced Bitcoin as a legal tender, we should not exaggerate with enthusiasm and stop reading the forum in order not to open duplicate threads.

Madeira and Prospera "adopting bitcoin"

And I really thought there were intelligent people when it came to Mozilla, but it seems easier to move a thirsty man across the river without him drink water, than to explain to those in the delusion that Bitcoin POW is no disadvantage, quite the opposite.

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I'm not surprised, Bitcoin is often used as bait, and when you bite, instead of the taste of freedom you feel the bitter taste of CBDC.

Given that life is unpredictable, and that almost always happens something that seemed least likely, in case I do something like that - my wife would get involved with my lawyer, and a lawyer's cousin would work in a bank where I opened the safe deposit box. By the time I realized what was going on, my BTC would have disappeared, along with my wife and lawyer - and they would have set me up for the murder of the banker who was involved in everything

Of course, I'm kidding a bit, but when it comes to Bitcoin, I don't share private keys with anyone, no matter how much someone says it's maybe selfish.

I think that's the only good thing that can come out of this kind of research (if we can call it that at all), and some would agree that it's a lot harder to make someone laugh than to do this kind of research


It may have seemed like I was generalizing about universities, but this is not the first research coming from so-called highly educated people who should contribute to society in a positive way, and they are among those who poison society with various nonsense like claiming the world will remain dark because Bitcoin will consume all its energy - because it is difficult for them to calculate that it consumes a total of 0.14% of the world's total electricity production.

In addition, from my own experience, I can say that I had very big problems when I explained Bitcoin to highly educated people, from those who have never been to university. Perhaps we can look for an explanation in the fact that some use this period of life mainly for some other things under the pretext that they are actually studying. Too much alcohol, drugs, and various other things sometimes really create rotten apples in the end.

Before you start posting your guides, it would be a good idea to look for similar content on the forum and not cover topics that have already been covered. It's not that I'm discouraging you or telling you what to publish or not, but some things like "how to install Electrum" or "how to make a cold wallet" are already topics with countless open threads.


Anything related to wallets or is of a technical nature would belong in Development & Technical Discussion -> Wallet software, and some crypto wallet security tips also in the same boards or maybe in Beginners&Help. What you need to know is that the threads can be moved as needed, either by you as the one who opened them, or if the moderators think it is necessary.

Tip for longer stay on the forum -> plagiarism is punishable by a permanent ban, so all content that is not yours should have a source

I used to think that people at universities were doing some serious things, but I'm starting to believe that there are a lot of rotten apples in that system, and as a result, there are even more rotten apples coming out of the system in the form of so-called highly educated people. Given where the research comes from, I am not surprised by such an attitude and thinking towards anything that deviates from already well-established values and uniform attitudes in society. By that, I mean the incredible scenes of violence that came from Australia when they terrorized ordinary people walking in parks or when they didn’t have a mask in the open.

Furthermore, this kind of research is nothing more than a continuation of the agenda "Bitcoin is bad in every sense", from consuming too much electricity, polluting the environment, and being used only by criminals.

If some independent scientists did research on these researchers, it somehow seems to me that on many of them would find exactly the same characteristics that they labeled Bitcoin investors.

I don't believe that she is such an evil and grumpy old granny who would take revenge on a personal level because of such things - because she is in the service of politics, and she only says what is the official position of the same politics. I'm not aware of what happened to that guy, although I was convinced that two people were responsible for that incident. Either way, dismissal is the least evil that could have happened to them given everything that is happening in that country.

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Why not, every opportunity should be taken, and when that evil woman realizes what Bitcoin really is, the force would become stronger in her and she would come out of the darkness

You have a good memory, so even though it may not be the same person - there is no doubt that it is someone who is on the same mental level. What may be a little different for this user (if I'm not mistaken) is the posting on various boards, so it's hard to avoid him unless someone puts him on ignore.

As far as I can remember, I only recently posted in one of his threads, but only because he announced that he was leaving for a while - and that post reminded me of some others who were in the style of "Bitcoin is boring", which reminded me of another possible alt he used before.

Regardless of freedom of expression, I think Newbie and Jr.Members should be limited to 1 thread per day, although that might not be enough to stop someone from making 10 profiles and spamming again.