Not sure where you get your ideas from, but you might want to rethink this one again. You say there will be an economic reset and yet corona is not important? All of the negative economic impacts this year are coming from corona. Except China basically all nations are not growing this year - how is that not important? And which currency are implying? Yuan? Cryptos? I guess your post wasn't so serious. But how can you say it's an important issue after 6 months of everyone just being affected by the pandemic?

I would assume that crypto currencies just don't qualifiy as "value" for Warren Buffet. His very strong value orientated investing style always looks for hard assets. That's probably why he went also for the mining company instead of buying physical gold outright. He will still be a shareholder and has asset behind the company, like offices, land rights, equipment.
Even though bitcoins are the future I believe Warren Buffet would classify as too risky, as their is no government behind it or other form of security. 

Yeah there is still so much room for bitcoins to rise. And the March drop in prices was because of the worldwide pandemic, no one knew what was going to happen. A classic panic sell - which is not justified. One day it seems the world is about to end and once the government reassures everyone with the printing press, people relax again. It feels like the OP is a little mad the prices keep going up. Maybe he sold all his holdings in March and was hoping for the price to drop further. I would not worry so much about the prices every day. Long term outlook for bitcoins is upwards. Better to hold than sell in my opinion.

Apparently there is a vaccine available, but I don't think it's fully tested yet. Who knows about the long term effects of the vaccine? I don't want to be the guy to test any bad effects of the vaccine. I mean Russia offered to help USA to develop a similar vaccine but they outright refused. Something must be not right with this one.

In my opinion most people will wait for more information on the vaccine and see what are the long term effects.

I agree with you many people seem very ignorant about corona and only change their approach once they know someone who is infected. If everyone would follow the social distancing safety measures we would be much better off. Let's hope there won't be a 3rd wave.

The chances are small you will get a back but you should try.

Unfortunately contacting the receiver of your funds is not really possible you would need to go via coinbase directly. Honestly I would just keep asking the support staff and see their reply. If they don't really want to help you I would retry the support team at different time and maybe you get more lucky with a different person on the support desk. Good luck, I know this really hurts. Happened to me too.

In the future better to tripple check the adress. I guess it's a mistake you will only do once.

Bank investments don't seems very good at the moment. You get almost no interest on your cash, after fees and inflation you are losing money. Buying stocks doesn't seems so good either. Prices are very high but the economicy is trailing due to corons. I would go for your other options.

I don't know much about starting a real life business so I can't give an opinion here. But is $20k really enough to start a business? I guess it depends on the country you are living in, I would assume you need more money. Especially if things don't go as planned and you need to cover expenses for a few months.

Crypto investments would probably be my plan. Bitcoins price is fairly high so I would only put a fraction of the money in Bitcoins  and ETH. The rest I would use for altcoins.

Hätte es nicht weit gehabt komme aber trotzdem nicht. Jetzt mit steigenden Corona Zahlen wieder ist es mir einfach zu unsicher. Warscheinlich gibts noch mehr Leute wie ich die Ihre Tickets doch nicht annehmen, dann sollte über die Warteliste einige Leute nachrücken können. Hoffe im nächsten Jahr siehts wieder besser aus mit den Messen.

Same here, having the VR headset on all the time is just frustrating because it's not really that conformatable, atleast for me. Among my friends I have only 2 guys who have a VR setup and only one of them plays regularly, the rest just prefer the good old desktop PC or just a console. Also don't forgot that the VR glasses are still very expensive. I would prefer using 1000$ to gamble than just to buy some hardware. But let's see, maybe in the future it well become cheaper and more comfortable.

As far as I see the tax aspect of cryptos it's very similiar to investing in stocks. You should not report any unrealized gains in change of our holdings. But if you sell your coins and make a nice profit you should definitely mention it in your tax returns. For me my online wallet is similar to the hidden swiss bank accounts from 50 years ago. No one knew you had them and governments couldn't check it either. But if you start keeping everything a secret you might be in trouble in 10-15 years down the road when you want to get some money back into FIAT. For me it's just not worth it to try and hide everything from the government.

This sounds wonderful. With more love in the world we wouldn't see any wars anymore. All this unnecessary killing could stop and people try to help each other instead of only looking for their personal benefits on the cost of others. But it just sounds too good to be true. The world is such a dark place  


God won't save us. We must do it ourself. He gave us the tools to be independent and take care of ourself.

You said it yourself that you shouldn't care about it. Especially if the loss is less than $1, it's just not worth it to get mad about small things like this. In my country it's pretty normal that people try to rip you off for a few cents on the markets. It's just standard practice I guess. You either have to tripple check everything directly at the market or let it go. You don't really know how hard the life of the seller is, maybe he really needs the money. Better not to get mad about such small things. Life is hard enough.

The first Shaw Classic tournament is going to take place in Colorado on December 12th.

The lineup sounds amazing for anyone following world strongest man competitions in the past.
https://fitnessvolt.com/lineup-for-shaw-classic/

So far the news are still pretty fresh and the organizations seems still at the start. Corona restrictions on travelling will probably be a bigger concern but let's remain optimistic.

It's probably to early to find any betting on this but I would love to bet on this event. Anyone else interested?

Mateusz Kieliszkowski is still so young and yet in such a great condition, I think he has one of the best chances to win this one. But then again Brian in his home Gym should definitely offer a great show.

As technology advances we will see crypto currencies be more valuable than gold. Gold is heavy and needs a lot of security to be stored en mass. Moving large quantities of gold is such a security risk that governments use planes and submarines to move them to different locations. The cost of that compared to the transaction fees of crypto currencies ist just not feasible enough in the long run. Compared to crypto currencies you don't have all these problems, sure you need cyber security and internet access but still it's only a fraction of the cost compared to storing gold. Don't get me wrong commodities and gold in particular are still very valueable and will keep being so in the future. I would recommend holding some precious metals in every portfolio.

Also the Yuan is still controlled by government and not trading freely which makes chinese millionaires who have all their wealth lagging behind in comparison to other FIAT currencies. The chinese government doesn't want their currency to appreciate so they will keep it low. Which makes it very interesting to invest outside of China. All around the world rich chinese investors are buying land, apartments and houses in so many different countries. For example in an apartment complex here in Germany half of the apartments where sold to Chinese investors, without them ever seeing the apartment in person. They don't even live here or plan on moving here. The apartments also won't be rented out, they are just empty. It's a storage of value for them in a different currency. Since you won't get any interest from the banks you it's better to just buy real estate because it will likely keep their value or even go up.

I agree most people wouldn't send it back. It similar to finding a lot of money on the streets. Who would honestly report it to the police? If you don't personally know the person that lost the money, humans tend to not bother about the misfortunate of a random stranger. Personally I would probably just keep it and wait what happens. It would be very hard to contact the sender with the huge anonymitiy in crpytos.  In the end I probably would exchange half of it into Bitcoins and keep the rest.

With a mindset like this you should get very far on this forum. Everyone started somewhere and if your goal is to learn more about crypto currencies rather than only make money, you will likely be around in the years to come. People who only join this forum to make a few bucks and are not fully interested in cryptos usually disappear after 3-6 months. With bitcoin prices as high as they are today the chances of earning a high return are not so lucrative anymore as they were 5 years. Just stick around and good things will happen.

Also the baltic nations are highly advanced in terms of internet. Due to adopting the EUR and being heavily funded by the European Union the countries got their infrastructure completely newly build in the last years. It's very good for the small nations with a small population to be in the EU because they get proportionaley higher benefits and voting rights.

Estonia is rank #13 and Lithuania rank #21 in the Digital Quality of Life Index.

https://en.delfi.lt/lifestyle/lithuania-rises-to-21st-position-in-digital-quality-of-life-rating.d?id=84998193

No wonder that crypto currencies become even attractive for the presidents.

I think similiar, if you live in the West with high standards of living it might not be enough the 1% return to really earn a living. But if you cost of living are much lower these returns can really be a lot if you can easily conver them into USD.

Investing into the house is a good way of diversifying your investment. And in the current low interest rate environment 1% is not so bad at all. Casinos are pretty save and people always want to gamble especially in times of corona where most of the physical casino have a lot of restrictions.

Being honest is definitely a good virtue but in business there is a lot of ruthlessness involved. I would not recommend to lie explicititly but I would also not recommend to always tell the full truth no matter. Imagine being in a job interview and your future boss asks you about bad things from your past. Do you really want to be 100% honest here? I think there should be differences between things you tell your family, things you tell your friends and of course things you tell your colleagues.

How is Bernie Sanders still first in this poll and Andrew Yang second? With his Chinese/Taiwanese background I didn't expect Yang to be so popular here.

The elections this year will definitely be very interesting. So far my money is on Democrats with this huge lead at the moment.