On November 26, 2019, I had promoted to Sr Member rank- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5204605.0& Now, it's Hero member here. It's more than a year I have joined the forum. I got the required merits for Hero member rank earlier but waiting for enough activity to reach there. On May 20, 2020, I got the activity too. Thank you all for helping me a lot while I was learning about bitcoin. Without the helping hand of you guys, I would never be able to learn probably. It was a nice journey so far; other than one incident which ruined my reputation here. I know it's something which I can't get out of at all. Nevertheless, that wouldn't be a barrier to my purpose of joining me here. To all the newbie who want to rank up- If you are here to expand your knowledge on bitcoin, crypto, you must not bother about the rank. As LoyceV said, Merit was introduced to stop the massive spam from account farmers, and I think anyone who isn't a spammer shouldn't be restricted by Merit. This forum (and Bitcoin) needs new real users to grow.
& If you are here with the sole purpose of earning, I guess you will have a huge hard time ranking up. Thank everyone, specially Heisenburg_Hunter for the 500th merit on my profile (Although he thought I was lacking of couple of merits for Hero rank while I was lacking of enough activity). It's fun to be a part of such a forum. Congratulations @RapTarX! Good the hear about your achievement. It is not easy anymore to become Hero member. I was going through your post and found most of them are very helpfull and informative. Keep up the good work and you will achieve the legendary status shortly. |
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CMC is now become centralized, whereas Coingecko is still not controlled by a centralized system. Another reason for not using CMC anymore is that is now very slow and takes a lot of time to load because of the advertisement. Coingecko on the other hand is fast and simple to use.
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I've been around the crypto scene since pre 2013 pump. Been around blackcoin pumps, pinkcoin pumps (all the color coin pumps), all the country-coin pumps (remember those?), every shitcoin known to man.
I even knew about ethereum (commented on page 4 or 5 on their announcement thread) and was a huge believer in the project. .....but instead of sending btc to their ICO site on a summer day in 2014, I sent it to nitrogen sports with the intention of making more btc to send to their ICO.
Throughout the years, I've done similar things with various alts: Monero, dark-coin (DASH), Cardano, you name it. I had them with hopes of holding onto them to watch their value grow...but couldn't...and gambled it away with 3AM challenger tennis, random soccer matches, or baseball over/unders (though, when I go on a binge, I actually start off pretty damn well, but get tilted the moment I lose a few times).
I'm a big believer in the crypto space but it's difficult for me to hold coins without gambling. The thing is, I have no issue controlling myself when I don't hold crypto. I could go to a casino or wherever and not have any urge to bet with fiat. Idk what it is about cryptocurrency. I just get so into certain coins that I want to make more so that I can get a bigger stack to hodl...but then by trying to get more the quick way, I lose it all.
Anyone feel similar?
How do you combat the urge to gamble with your cryptocurrency?
I do not have such an issue. I buy an amount of cryptocurrency every month for my gambling habit. At the moment I have stopped doing that as I do not feel like gambling because of the present virus situation. I do not gamble with cryptocurrency that I have kept for long term HODL or for trading. I keep them seperately till date I have not mixed it up as I maintain a seperate excel file for both of them. |
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I believe they must be doing it in secret. What would be the advantage for North Korea, or Iran, to let everyone know that they are accumulating/mining/HODLING?
Why would government of countries do that? When they know they can print their local currency whenever they want. Bitcoin is still not a global currency. Countries like North Korea and Iran do. It need Bitcoin but USD. They have been secretly accumulating USD by unfair means. Bitcoin is the currency for common man to break the shackles of centralisation and save his savings. It is a currency of the Internet and countries do not operate only on internet. |
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It's already been past halving, yet prices continue to fluctuate between the $9k to $9.5k range. I've noticed that each time prices try to reach $10k, everything "falls out" immediately. Is this a result of price manipulation by whales? At this pace, it's hard to believe that Bitcoin will ever get past $10k. Even if it does get past $10k, reaching a new ATH in price could be quite challenging. Since it's been only a week after Bitcoin's third halving, anything could happen in the future. Right now, we're in a level of uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Maybe Bitcoin will be able to break out to new levels in price after all of this is over? Or will it continue to rise while Fiat goes down the drain? Whichever way Bitcoin goes forward in terms of price, many people will still support it. Fees are at an increasing rate, so we'll have to wait until everything goes back to normal (both in Bitcoin and the mainstream world) for prices to head all the way past $10k and beyond. What are your thoughts? Do you think Bitcoin will ever get past $10k?  Actually Bitcoin is performing way better this time if we compared it with 2016 halving. It is looking stable and has been maintaining 9k to 9.5k price range. Considering the global economic situation it is performing way better than the stock markets. So keep on holding and start accumulating more as Bitcoin is still below 10k. It will surely go beyond 10k but no one knows when. |
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One thing that most people don't realize about Laszlo and the Bitcoin pizza ordeal is that he didn't just buy 2 Large Pizzas ( Papa Johns too, the most awful pizza you can buy here in the United States ) for 10,000 bitcoins, he stated here on bitcointalk that he spent at least 30,000 bitcoins on several purchases of pizza. Not sure if all Papa Johns or not. Crazy stuff. Some call him an idiot for this, which is simply wrong. He was the first to use it as a means of exchange and that sure is worth celebrating. If you're looking for a cool Bitcoin Pizza wallet - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5249731.0I think it would be wrong to say he was stupid considering the value of Bitcoin at that time. In my opinion he was the one who started the first Bitcoin adoption initiative. There might be others who might have done the same thing but he became famous because of the quantity of Bitcoin he used to buy those pizzas. |
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Today, May 22, 2020 marks 10 years of Bitcoin Pizza Day!
I want to buy pizza!
@CryptopreneurBrainboss Do you have any news on payments for rounds 72 and 73?
Payments are not handled by the campaign manager. It is advised to send a DM to @lightlord for all payment related query. This is one of the longest running signature campaign. Keep patience and have faith you will recieve the payment. |
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First of all the Bitcoin dump that you are referring in your post has no relation with Corona virus. The second thing is that this thread is to discuss about trading and not politics it would be better if you shift your topic here - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=34.0I think every human has the right to follow and preach his or her religion. You cannot particularly point one religion as the cause of all the issues in this world. As per me religion is personal and I believe in living in peace without any boundaries. |
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i find binance a fine exchange and also own some bnb but to beat ethereum? , not sure about that , for sure BNB can reach another ATH and binance can become bigger , but ethereum is awaiting of the implementation of 2.0 and also a lot of people own some so i give ethereum a better chanche
I think the way Binance has been promoting its native token BNB and it's exchange the chance of it reaching the top 4 cryptocurrency according to market cap is very high. I highly doubt it will be able to beat Ethereum as people believe in transparency which Binance lack a lot. |
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Biden is an awful candidate.
He is awful for few reasons: 1. He is old. 2. His son is corrupt (it's funny, because in our country, Ukraine, you can;t do any business without a bribe, so, if you want to deal with Ukraine, you need to bribe) and because all this scandal in Ukraine it will be hard to Biden get out of this. It's a trump card for Trump  3. He is democrat, but as i know, major part of americans want from president another promises, than promise to feed all Mexicans. I think he does not have what it needs to beat Trump. If Trump can change the current situation before the elections then I think he will win. Unfortunately I doubt it will happen by that time. |
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ICC seriously needs to re-start the cricket ASAP. It should be doing it in steps:
1. Get it started with empty stadiums.
2. In the next few months, start keeping little crowd, like 10k people in 25k capacity.
3. Keep improving the number of people in stadiums till the end of COVID19.
I think empty stadium is a good idea till a cure comes out. Why take a risk? Crowd will never follow social distancing, whatever kind of rules you lay in people will get excited and forget those rules. They should organise these matches without any crowds. |
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First of all this is a wrong board for your topic. You should shift it here - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=1.0Bitcoin is a revolution in financial sector. Big financial institutions are afraid of its power and that power is known as decentralisation. The technology that runs Bitcoin is Blockchain which is another advantage as it gives transparency to every transaction. Yes, Bitcoin is an internet driven digital currency. In order to access it you only need internet and a device that can run it. You donot need smartphone always. On your desktop computer or your laptop you can access this technology. |
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This is not new for CMC before they were bought by the most shady cryptocurrency entrepreneur's exchange they were playing with the ranking.
As for Binance they will be using this platform for their own benefit. I am sure most of us here will agree with it. This was bound to happen when they bought this platform. More of such petty tricks will be coming soon.
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Perhaps, the person "Hal" isn't the only one who handles the address shown above, meaning to say that there's really someone behind the move of this 50BTC. Looking upon the implication of this activity, I do not find anything wrong or bad as I see it positively, that bitcoin, even though, bitcoins mined 10 years ago, is circulating up until now. No wonder why people should really value bitcoin as it can really be profitable in the long run. Probably a lot of doubt that it is satoshi but we don't really know but holding for that long is really historic or maybe a legend. It doesn't make sense why it moves today but for sure we are going to experience the effects of this in the coming months. Everybody is getting excited about this since the bitcoin address received 50Biticoin just a week after the bitcoin is created. We never know if its the real satoshi it might be someone that is just ready to invest in bitcoin at the beginning of all of this. "The coins in this transaction were mined in the first month of Bitcoin's existence."  LinkWhy make such a big issue whether it is Satoshi or not? Some veteran transferred it and it is evident by age of the wallet and the amount when it was mined. Why poke a nose into some ones affair. Speculating whether it was Satoshi or not has to be stopped. |
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It's been almost 10 days since Bitcoin's halving ended, but I still can't see any big Bitcoin pump, how many Bitcoins I had, now I'm in a lot of confusion, what to do! I still don't understand whether Bitcoin will really increase or decrease, so there are many big Bitcoin users here who want to know their opinion. In 2016 after the halving, the price of Bitcoin took a downward dive. You are lucky it did not happen this time. At the moment Bitcoin is still holding the 9k mark. At the moment the there is a profit booking that is happening in the market. I assume it will carry on till end of this month. I do not think there will be a Bull run anytime soon. If Bitcoin goes above the 10k price point then you can expect a good pump. The bad thing about this halving is that altcoins are also getting dumped. In 2016 after Bitcoin halving altcoins had a Bull run. |
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Good to know information.
This show how the hype of IEO is diminishing rapidly. Launching a project through IEO might be good for the startup but not for the investors. There are names of major exchange in the infographic image.
Like ICO the era of IEO is now coming to an end. What next? We have to wait and watch.
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 McAfee will airdrop a new privacy coin called Ghost to holders of ESH. 25% of supply will go to ESH holders. At current price, ESH token's market cap is $17M. The valuation of ESH is merely what people expect GHOST to be worth. If 25% of GHOST is worth $17M , McAfee's new privacy coin has a net valuation of $68M. For reference, that makes McAfee's new coin's market cap: - 200% greater than Grin - 25% greater than Sero And higher than established projects like TomoChain, Aragon, and Elrond. - Source: Twitter.com/thedaomaker finally a niche I believe Mcfee would do really well. Privacy coin. Anyway, I will like to read further on the unique things that sets the coin apart from other coins Grin and Sero which are distinctively unique . He copied PIVX white paper. If you have read it then no need to read the white paper for his coin. I am sure a lot of hype will be created around this project and people will flock to buy this coin. Later on they will realise what a big mistake it was to invest in it. |
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I think these four coins will rule the cryptocurrency market for 2020.
Bitcoin
Ethereum
Link
Binance coin
The above list is my personal opinion. Do your research before investing into these coins.
We all know why Bitcoin is in the top and why Ethereum is listed second in the list. I choose Link because it has the potential to reach $10 before the year ends. It is already trading above $4 and I think it just a matter of time it reaches $5. Binance coin is trading below $20, it is the right time to take a position if you are loking for quick profit. Recently Binance has launched its Bitcoin mining pool and I think it is only a matter of time that this coin touches $50.
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My biggest lesson from Bitcoin investment is to have patience. Lots and lots of patience. There have been instances wherein I have sold my Bitcoin just before the price went up and I regretted my decision. It is better to keep a cool mind and always think about long term gain when you are investing in Bitcoin.
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Bitcoin ATMs are not available in every country but local crypto is available globally. I prefer using it than any other listed here. Local Bitcoin was good until they started asking KYC. Nowadays it is getting harder to get Bitcoin without KYC.
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