Higher education can certainly provide useful knowledge and skills for entrepreneurship, but it is not the only path to success. While academic coursework may not directly translate into practical experience, it can provide a solid foundation in business concepts, management principles, and industry-specific knowledge that can be applied in the real world.

Bitcoin is decentralized, altcoins are not decentralized.

U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Roger Marshall (R-KS) sent a letter to Binance and Binance US on Wednesday, calling for the crypto exchanges to “provide transparency about potentially illegal business practices.”

The letter, addressed to Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) and BAM Trading Services CEO Brian Shroder, asks for documents and answers concerning each crypto exchange’s “finances, risk management, and regulatory compliance as it faces investigations into potential crimes,” the senators detailed. Binance and its U.S. affiliate, Binance US, are two separate entities. BAM Trading Services is doing business as Binance US.

“Your actions have called into question the legitimacy of your business and the safety of your customers’ assets and raised concerns about the potential impact of these activities on the stability of the crypto market and the broader financial system,” the senators stressed.

The letter also notes that Binance hired French auditing firm Mazars to perform a proof-of-reserves (POR) audit on its bitcoin holdings. However, the auditing firm subsequently “deleted the webpage containing the report” and paused its activity relating to proof-of-reserves audits for crypto firms, the letter adds.

The senators concluded their letter by requesting “documents and answers” pertaining to a list of questions no later than March 16. The documents requested by the lawmakers include “complete copies of all Binance and Binance subsidiary balance sheets from 2017 to the present,” and their internal anti-money laundering (AML), countering the financing of terrorism (CFT), and know-your-customer (KYC) policies and procedures.

A copy of the senators’ letter was sent to Gary Gensler, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); Rostin Behnam, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); and Merrick B. Garland, U.S. Attorney General with the Department of Justice (DOJ).

There are several ways to calculate it, but the most famous of them is a five-point system, and therefore you need data for the high and low session with two support levels and their grooves for resistance, and therefore it is true that the different sizes will lead to breaking it, but it is difficult for the price to break a support or resistance level in the short term.

Therefore, it is a way to predict the price space, such as saying that the price is between 15K to 28k, which is true now and for a long time, but it is not a method for those who want to trade in the short term.

will not work with that. see this

Read more https://www.babypips.com/learn/forex/playing-the-breaks-with-pivot-points

The vast majority of crypto-friendly Silvergate Bank's (SI) industry clients have left or are leaving the company less than a day after it announced it would have to review its books with its auditors and warned of several headwinds. The bank's share price has fallen by more than 50%, to an all-time low, on the day's trading.
Silvergate announced Wednesday it would delay filing its annual 10-K filing due to needing to answer requests from its independent auditors and accounting firm, as well as "regulatory and other inquiries and investigations that are pending." The bank warned in a forward-looking statement that it faced possible inquires from bank regulators and the U.S. Department of Justice, and its ability to "continue as a going concern" over the next year may be affected.
On Thursday, Coinbase, Circle, Paxos, Crypto.com, Bitstamp, Cboe Digital Markets, Galaxy Digital and Gemini all announced they would suspend Automated Clearing House (ACH) transfers and other business operations with the bank, days after crypto derivatives provider LedgerX announced the same. Kraken appears to be the only major crypto exchange to continue using Silvergate, having ended some transactions with rival bank Signature (SBNY) on Wednesday.

Silvergate Bank also said in its filing Wednesday that it would have to repay Federal Home Loan Bank loans that it took out last year.
"Subsequent to December 31, 2022, a number of circumstances have occurred which will negatively impact the timing and the unaudited results previously reported in the Earnings Release, including the sale of additional investment securities beyond what was previously anticipated and disclosed in the Earnings Release primarily to repay in full the Company’s outstanding advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco," the filing said.
Crypto news outlet Protos reported in January that both Silvergate and Signature were tapping FHLB loans, receiving up to $15 billion combined.

Interest in bridging bitcoin (BTC) to the Avalanche smart contract blockchain (BTC.b) continues to swell as the supply of wrapped bitcoin (wBTC), the largest wrapped version of bitcoin on Ethereum, dwindles.
On Thursday, over 2,000 BTC ($44 million) was ported to Avalanche, the largest single-day BTC.b mint on record, according to data sourced from pseudonymous analyst 0xAcid's dashboard on Dune Analytics. That has lifted the total circulating supply of BTC.b to 8,572.
According to 0xAcid, half of the bitcoin minted on Thursday has been moved to BENQI Finance. BENQI Finance is an Avalanche-based decentralized finance protocol, which allows users to lend, borrow and earn additional yields from digital assets.

In June 2022, Avalanche added support for bitcoin on its cross-chain bridge, allowing BTC holders to deploy their coins in the Avalanche-based decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem to generate extra yield. BTC.b has seen impressive growth since then, surpassing the number of coins held in the Lightning Network.
A crypto bridge is a tool that facilitates interactions between the two economically and technologically separate blockchains. Bridges became a target of hackers last year, accounting for about 70% of the total exploits in the crypto industry last year, according to forensics firm Chainalysis.

The record BTC.b mint comes as the WBTC supply fell by 15% to 153,164 in February, reaching the lowest since March 2021. Apparently, bankrupt crypto lender Celsius, a well-known WBTC holder, redeemed a large amount of WBTC, causing a sharp drop in the token's supply.
WBTC, issued by Bitgo, is an ERC-20 token based on the Ethereum network with its price pegged 1: with bitcoin. The token's supply peaked at 285,000 in April last year and has been falling ever since.
The Avalanche community considers BTC.b a better option than WBTC, considering Avalanche offers users the ability to mint and redeem BTC.b anytime with the bridge in a non-custodial browser extension Core, eliminating the need for intermediaries. It provides more control to users, unlike WBTC, which relies on merchants to initiate the process of minting and burning.

According to Emperor Osmo, an anonymous writer for Cosmos-based automated market maker Osmosis, the investors in AVAX, the native token of Avalanche, are yet to take notice of BTC's growing use in DeFI, as evidenced by BTC.b's rising supply.
"Over $200M of BTC has been bridged to Avalanche [to date]. The BTC DeFi narrative is definitely not priced in for AVAX," Osmo tweeted early Friday.
At press time, AVAX traded nearly 6% lower on the day, near $16, the lowest since Jan. 20. The cryptocurrency has seen a 50% appreciation in its market value this year, per CoinDesk data.

Organisations, medium businesses and small businesses are accepting crypto, not rapidly but it's growing naturally. Customers are asking merchants to accept crypto as payment for services they are providing.

Well, this is a really basic reason. But merchants do have other reasons as well to accept crypto payments.

What's your reason? 

In my business, I am always open to my customers and I allow them the chance to choose their medium of payment for my goods and services, though at the moment, it's pretty hard to see a customer who would be interested in making payment in bitcoin after buying goods from me, this I understand to be because most of the people buying bitcoin aren't buying it to spend it on payment for good and services, but to keep it for future profits.
I've had a customer tell me one time that he owns bitcoin and would have loved to pay for the goods he bought from me with it, but he hasn't made any profit on it yet, so for this, he preferred to pay me in fiat(our traditional currency).

One of the mistakes traders do make which I have made in the past is to be looking for a better profit. A good example is when having $1000, looking for a way to make $100 or more daily. That would be when leveraging it will come to mind, but leveraging is one of the reasons some traders find it that they are continuing losing.

As an experienced day trader, or a scalper, if you have $1000, what profit will you be looking for? Also what amount is your stop loss? What leverage would you prefer to use?

Recently I find it more profitable to earn just $5 daily either through scalping or scalp trading that is turned into day trading. I am not using altcoins for this but bitcoin.

If you are a day trader and you are using bitcoin to trade, if you have $1000, how much profit are you expecting daily? You may not use $1000, you can use percentage and I will understand what you meant too.

DENVER — The hosts of popular crypto podcast and newsletter Bankless are raising a $35 million venture capital fund to invest in seed-stage Web3 companies, sources told CoinDesk.
Show hosts David Hoffman and Ryan Sean Adams are to be general partners in the fund, said Ben Lakoff, also a GP. The trio comprise the fund’s investment committee, Lakoff said.
The fund, planned as a separate legal entity from the Bankless podcast, will nonetheless share its brand and likely enjoy the clout of one of the better-known content platforms in crypto media. One venture capital source said the combo of platform and investing arm would mean “incredible deal flow” for the nascent VC.

It’s the latest example of crypto media striking out into venture capital. Hoffman is on the ground at ETHDenver discussing the fund, one of the sources said.
Founded in 2020 by Adams and Hoffman, Bankless has built an influential multimedia presence with its flagship podcast, newsletters, YouTube channel and its own decentralized autonomous organizatio (DAO), complete with a $BANK governance token.
According to a preliminary website, the fund will focus on early stage crypto companies and on “empowering pioneers to explore the frontier of Web3.”
The pair have also been outspoken supporters of Ethereum, decentralized finance (DeFi) and self-custody.
The move by Bankless into the venture capital sector appears to be a continuation of the brand’s foray into crypto investing that began last year. Bankless announced last November that it had acquired DeFi software project Earnifi under a newly created vertical called Bankless Labs.
“Bankless is going beyond media,” wrote Adams in a blog post at the time. “Now, we’re building tools for your DeFi journey.”

But according to Lakoff, Hoffman and Adams will put the kibosh on their private venture deals once the fund launches with capital from outside investors, at which point everything will run through the fund.
"We've all been angel investing individually for years," Lakoff said, "and now we’re putting all that time and energy into Bankless Ventures to accelerate the bankless movement and are able to bring along select LPs to participate"

I guess for someone to call him or her self a trader you need to control your emotions right, now after having that emotion in control and other basic things a trader should know you have all under control and still loss more then getting profit.

*What else is required for such a person to control,is it still his or her emotions or what next?

*And what will be your advice to a person in that position or state and what kind of trader are you going to call such a person?

Before you trade, you must control a few things.

- Capital you use for trading. If you fail to control it and assume you use all money you have for trading, you will easily lose control on other things.
- Your time allocation for trading each day, each week. If you self limit your time allocation for trading good enough, you won't trade too much, won't look at screens, charts too much. That is good for your health and emotion control.
- Control your emotion is difficult and it should be supported by your orders like stop loss, stop limit order. When you fail to control your emotion, those orders help you.

Its been a long time since I have won 5k RP and this time its on the free WOF spin we receive on mail.
This shows why it is equally important to spin the WOF spin daily that we receive on mail.
You never know what you win in the next free WOF spin.

$ 30k is the most reasonable price at the end of February, even though I have analyzed it at the end of February the bitcoin price should be just above $ 25k or touch $ 30k, but the market says otherwise and not everyone makes the right analysis and predictions at the right time also, bitcoin still need a little more time and i think waiting bet for prediction in this march .

Nishad Singh followed Sam Bankman-Fried into the high-stakes world of cryptocurrency trading. Now he could help put the former FTX chief executive in prison.

Mr. Singh, the 27-year-old former director of engineering at FTX, pleaded guilty this week to six criminal counts, including wire fraud. He agreed to cooperate with the government’s investigation of FTX’s collapse.

The deal means Mr. Singh could end up testifying against a colleague and friend whom he has known since childhood. Just a few months ago, he and Mr. Bankman-Fried were housemates in the Bahamas, living in a luxury penthouse with other executives at FTX and its sister trading firm, Alameda Research.

“I’m unbelievably sorry for my role in all of this and the harm that it has caused,” Mr. Singh said in a court hearing in Manhattan on Tuesday.

n to ethics and philanthropy.

Mr. Singh wrote software code that allowed Mr. Bankman-Fried to divert FTX customer funds to Alameda, and—along with Ms. Ellison and Mr. Wang—knew about the misappropriation of funds, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

At this week’s hearing, Mr. Singh also admitted to falsifying FTX’s revenue at the direction of Mr. Bankman-Fried.

In a statement, his lawyers said he would do everything he could to make things right for FTX’s victims.

Mr. Singh owned a sizable chunk of FTX, which was valued at $32 billion before its collapse. Bankruptcy-court filings show Mr. Singh owned 7.8% of FTX’s U.S. arm, 10% of its ventures arm and 44 million shares in its main international exchange, making him one of the unit’s largest shareholders.

Raised in California by Indian immigrant parents, Mr. Singh became senior class president at Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough, Calif. Two former classmates recalled that he was an ambitious and diligent student. At age 16, he ran an ultramarathon to raise money for charity and set a world record for the fastest 100-mile run by a runner of his age, according to the San Jose Mercury News. He later did a TEDx Talk on the achievement, discussing how he overcame childhood asthma to become a long-distance runner.

In 2017, Mr. Singh graduated with highest honors from the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in electrical engineering and computer science. He took a job at Facebook but left a few months later after learning that his friend’s big brother had started a crypto-trading firm, Alameda, and needed engineers.

Bitcoin was in the midst of a wild bull market and the firm seemed like an exciting opportunity, Mr. Singh said in a 2020 podcast interview. “I watched Sam execute a sequence of trades,” he said, recalling an early visit to Alameda’s office in Berkeley. “I knew nothing about trading at the time, but even then it was understandable that sequence of trades was superprofitable and easy to understand.”

When he arrived at Alameda, Mr. Singh was “an unfailing nice person, good team player, good cultural influence and relatively weak programmer,” Mr. Bankman-Fried wrote in a 2018 performance review seen by The Wall Street Journal.

His technical proficiency improved over time, and he demonstrated a knack for easing internal tensions, eventually making him a valuable employee, Mr. Bankman-Fried wrote.

In an email to Mr. Bankman-Fried included in the performance review, Mr. Singh told his boss: “It’s really, really fun learning about trading from you. I do feel slow when I try to learn, let alone when I need clarification ten times later. Ironically I think it’d help my fears here if you were honest with me about when I’m being a dumbass.”

Mr. Singh moved to Hong Kong after Alameda set up shop there. When the firm launched FTX in 2019, Mr. Singh was one of the key technical architects of the new crypto exchange, along with Mr. Wang.

In 2021, when Mr. Bankman-Fried relocated FTX’s headquarters to the Bahamas for its crypto-friendly regulatory regime, Mr. Singh settled in a five-bedroom penthouse in Albany, an elite gated community, with other top executives. Among them was his girlfriend, Claire Watanabe, who ran human resources and some FTX marketing efforts. The two of them owned a goldendoodle named Gopher. The dog became something of an FTX mascot, appearing occasionally in Mr. Bankman-Fried’s Twitter feed.

Former colleagues say Mr. Singh generally fell in line with Mr. Bankman-Fried’s decisions on how to run the company. He occasionally became his pointman for tricky personnel issues. For instance, after Mr. Bankman-Fried fell out with the head of FTX’s U.S. arm, Brett Harrison, last year, Mr. Singh acted as a go-between for the feuding executives, people familiar with the matter said.

With other members of the inner circle, Mr. Singh was on the FTX Foundation board. The foundation backed causes popular in the effective-altruism community, such as research to prevent pandemics and limit the risks of artificial intelligence.

In an interview last summer, Mr. Singh said his earliest philanthropic efforts focused on animal welfare, but he had shifted to favor “long-termist” causes because of the greater potential impact on humanity. “You can care about saving lives today, or you can care about saving lives in the future,” Mr. Singh told the Journal. “Over time I’ve become increasingly convinced that trying to affect the future is just higher-leverage.”

Mr. Singh became a liberal megadonor, giving $11.7 million last year to candidates, political-action committees and branches of the Democratic Party, according to OpenSecrets.org, a website that tracks political contributions.

This week, Mr. Singh pleaded guilty to a scheme that involved making illegal political contributions using Alameda funds and masking the source of the money. In an indictment filed against Mr. Bankman-Fried last week, prosecutors said the former FTX chief executive used Mr. Singh as a straw donor to back left-leaning candidates. Referring to Mr. Singh as “CC-1,” the indictment said Mr. Bankman-Fried pushed the younger executive to give at least $1 million to a super PAC that would in turn support a congressional candidate associated with LGBT issues.

That episode appears to refer to Mr. Singh’s role in Vermont’s contested Democratic primary for its sole House seat last year. On July 7, he gave $1.1 million to LGBTQ Victory Fund Federal PAC, a huge contribution for a group that had only about $150,000 of cash at the end of June, according to Federal Election Commission filings. Over the following weeks the PAC spent $990,000 in support of Becca Balint, the candidate who went on to win the Aug. 9 primary, FEC filings show. Ms. Balint won the general election, becoming the first openly gay person to represent Vermont in Congress

Ms. Balint didn’t solicit funds from Mr. Singh and only learned he was behind the donation from news reports, said Natalie Silver, her campaign manager. Ms. Balint’s staff did meet with Gabriel Bankman-Fried and his Guarding Against Pandemics PAC, Ms. Silver added. A spokesperson for LGBTQ Victory Fund indicated it was ready to return the money, pending guidance from authorities.

In November, after FTX suspended customer withdrawals and it became clear that billions of dollars had gone missing, Mr. Singh fell into a psychological crisis, according to colleagues who saw him at the time and worried about his mental health. He sounded remote when colleagues tried to speak to him, and he was gaunt and unshaven the night before FTX’s bankruptcy filing on Nov. 11, people familiar with the matter said.

He and Ms. Watanabe left the Bahamas for the U.S. soon after.

A national survey commissioned by Coinbase suggests that about 20% of U.S. adults currently own crypto. In addition, 29% of U.S. adults plan to buy or trade crypto in the next 12 months. “The vast majority of Americans want to see the financial system updated and they believe crypto can be a powerful part of the solution,” Coinbase said.

Crypto Survey Commissioned by Coinbase
A nationwide survey of 2,202 participants from the general population was conducted by Morning Consult from Feb. 10-14. “The data were weighted to be representative of U.S. adults based on age, race/ethnicity, gender, educational attainment, and region,” the market research firm described. “The purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of the global financial system and how U.S. adults and cryptocurrency investors view the future of the crypto market and exchanges.”

Citing the survey results, the Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, which commissioned the study, commented:

The vast majority of Americans want to see the financial system updated and they believe crypto can be a powerful part of the solution.

Noting that “80% of Americans think the global financial system unfairly favors powerful interests” and “67% of Americans agree that the financial system needs major changes or a complete overhaul,” Coinbase wrote:

The survey found that 80% of respondents believe the current financial system is unfair, with the overwhelming majority expressing frustration with the current financial system and a hunger for change.

The crypto exchange added that the survey further “indicates that most Americans remain optimistic about the future of crypto and understand its potential to be part of the solution to bring about meaningful change to the financial system that would benefit society as a whole.”

In general, IMO it is a good thing to add a layer of privacy regardless if you're trying to mix or not. If your ISP provider tracks you and logs the websites you visited, it can be a nightmare if those data got leaked and abused by other parties, or even your ISP in general. Such as blocking your access to some websites, an increase in scam e-mails, profiling, etc. On the other side, you can also argue that hiding your real IP address, in general, allows you to keep being trustless in the sense that you don't need to rely on the hope that Yomix or other mixers don't abuse your IP data or something similar. It is a win-win solution.

Nice suggestion. That being said, most users who use service like a mixer is usually well aware of how important privacy for their activity is. So using ToR is usually a requirement for them.