And it's beginning. I don't know how big this Vast.Bank is and I don't know if they actually allow withdrawal to customers' crypto wallet, but it looks like an actual bank working (also) as crypto exchange.
Probably it will be more expensive than at actual exchange, but clearly easier, cleaner and more trusted for the average Joe.

I hope that you've read the sticky.
I'll post something relevant:


Now, think, would you send those items to an escrow? If not, they're not collateral. Also keep in mind than I don't know if you'd actually find an escrow that'll work with physical goods.
With physical goods you may do better at a pawn shop.

At least from the first look, I find it the first fair proposal for taxing cypto.
Well done, Slovenia, now get to transform it from proposal to actual law without destroying it.

Unfortunately I do expect that the channels will be opened between custodians. Indeed, not a great future for Bitcoin-as-a-currency, I know that too.


He-heh.. I've been thinking on such scenarios in the past and sooner or later all led to dead-ends or things we just cannot foresee. So I've stopped worrying and making scenarios.

So you are worried about things that could happen in the far future based on assumptions from today. You can almost only be wrong.

Just a quick scenario: average Joe will use off-chain transactions and basically only companies will send on-chain transactions, worth millions of $ per transaction. Now think again, do such transactions worth 100$ to be confirmed?
I don't say that my scenario is more accurate than yours, as I said, in 100 year a lot can happen. But I would not be worried now about such scenarios.

Indeed, @bakasabo has exactly the problems I used to have with another Contis card: getting declined here or there for no reason.
So yeah, while Binance card is not bad at all (and cheap too!), I totally agree with this:

The topic you linked contains a link to a Coindesk news that tells "The online voting system, based on Bitfury's open-source Exonum blockchain and built with the help of Kaspersky Lab"
So it's indeed a different blockchain. And yes, there are indeed a lot of details to be taken into consideration and made correctly when voting is done with a public blockchain.



Wow, quite a list indeed! My example was also not country wide (only 2 regions in Russia), hence the list from ^^ that thread is better.

From what I know, blockchain was already involved in voting and, although I have no idea how it was implemented, I am almost sure that some sort of smart contracts were involved, since that blockchain does support them.
It has happened on Waves blockchain in 2020. In Russia (!).

True that. Just in that case allow me to not see it as a "wow" news. 
Still, I do hope it'll be better, see below.



On another topic @dkbit98 said that there are more options and wallets mentioned and this Strike solution is there basically while they do testing.
And they did say "for now" (one can hope, right?); I'd say that they may actually do better at some point.
Jack (&Co) is developing a HW too. I see it as a sign that he's not so keen to drive everybody (who wants a tip) into custodial wallets.

Exactly. And if one doesn't understand the markets/charts, doesn't understand (nor show) those indicators and just goes only "by hope" may be fooling himself that he has a strategy, while in fact he doesn't.
@Charles-Tim understood, at least partly, what I meant before (thanks!), but this post covers even more.

I did a bit of trading in the past and imho some do even normal trading like gambling. I basically did the same myself until I realized that this is not how to do it and I stopped.
If one has no proper basis, doesn't know TA, doesn't know how to read the charts, and just traded based on the hope that price will go in this or that direction is imho just gambling it.
And I expect this happen also in margin trading. So I think that your list is incomplete.

I don't say that this news is fake. I know it happens for real.
What I was telling is that bitcoiners should avoid backlinking that one website and instead just read/show one of the other news sites showing basically the same info.

Although many are telling that altcoin season is ongoing or about to start, my long time experience taught me that bitcoin, on really long run, is usually more profitable for holding.
So my advice is 100% bitcoin.

However, please make your own decision and invest (or not) when and where you think it's best for you, don't just follow advises from people over the internet.

It's also because we have already witnessed almost 65k and our expectations have build up (and were built up!) to expect 100k soon^TM.

I use a method I know it's not perfect, but it's better than backup on SD, especially because if your phone gets stolen, also the SD is gone.
My method is to backup to cloud. Of course, it's not sensitive data. And of course, the data goes automatically to my laptop HDD from there.

I have an older setup and I backup to Dropbox; that may no longer work that good and backup to Google Drive would be easier to find.
I'd say that's a direction you should think about.

That for now may mean anything. As I wrote yesterday too on a similar topic , while strike is custodial, the news is not that great, not yet, not "for now".

1. It was presented/discussed briefly here yesterday: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5357685
2. The link you provided is from BCash website; and since BCash website has a history of misleading people into buying altcoin and making them believe that they've bought bitcoin, I wouldn't trust/recommend those news and find an alternative.

Of course. Isn't this how commercials are made?

Those making the commercial are not those making VISA. For them, VISA worked everywhere they went (probably only in cities), hence for them it's "correct". The fact that in many remote areas VISA doesn't work doesn't even matter much, since the AD is not targeting those anyway.

Also people just love the small nice lies that make them sleep easy, hence VISA not working here and there, cards declined for no clear reason, the reality that many people are unbanked.. they don't matter for most of the audience.



The only truth there is that VISA is indeed a signature. Certain people look for the VISA symbol on shops like others look for "Bitcoin accepted".
But in reality, I don't understand at all why they paid for the commercial. They have to convince only the banks emit VISA cards, the customer doesn't care much if he gets VISA or MasterCard as long as he wants a card and he receives one internationally accepted. And the payment processors will accept any major card anyway.

If a topic was deleted, the forum doesn't notify you.
If you want to be notified even in such cases, I think that external tools, like TryNinja telegram bot is what you need. You can use the tool also for getting notified about merit and mentions, it's really useful if you do use Telegram.

Indeed, very fast!


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