I just noticed some questions about this topic so I listed some seven reasons why people want to have a cryptocurrency transaction rather than fiat.

1. INCOGNITO. this is the main reason why people use it. You cannot trace crypto transaction and its perfect from hiding.

2. CONVINIENCE. people nowadays are so lazy that they want to have transaction while seated comfortably on their home. With just one click , crypto can be transferred as payment to whatever they want. Well, who doesnt want that anyway.

3. TREND. basically, people want to try something new, something not ordinary , something innovative and if it was used by all their friends, they want to use it also.

4. ILLEGAL. yes, i dont want to include this but i saw many topics about this also. If you want to buy on black market or an illegal item, your transaction should not be traced as i said on our first reason so Crypto will help you hide on cops but not forever.

5. MODE OF PAYMENT. this is where some people buy an item usually using the profit they had on investing bitcoin even just holding. Ex. If you have 1btc and after a month it becomes 1.5 btc and you want to buy an item that cost 0.005btc and crypto is accepted as a mode of payment, you will use it ofcourse rather than fiat.

6. TECHY. it seems that techy people using cryptocurrency as a mode of payment see themselves as going with the flow of technology considering that bitcoin is the new technology of currency for the new generation.

7. SHOW OFF. whether we admit it or not, some people use cryptocurrency just to make their status up. Telling their friends about how wealthy they are and keep boasting for their ego.


This is what i noticed. So which one are you?

Binance users are receiving letters with an invitation to test a new application for Windows for a reward of 0.5 BTC, which 'will go to your Binance account. All you need to do is download and enter your data.

This is phishing! Attackers try to get personal data in this way, to access your money. Binance does not distribute 0.5 BTC for testing Windows applications. Be careful!

In your opinion, what are the best way to serve country economically?
In my opinion following ways should be considered.
1. Better and free education system where everyone can get better education to achieve his/her goals.
2. Proper usage of governments funds in urban and rural areas for infrastructure.
3. Building new industries and companies to create more employment opportunities.
4. Better and free health policy for everyone.
5. Better law and order satuation so that foreigner can be attracted to invest in your country and pay you taxes and give employment opportunities.
6. Raising high standard of living by reducing inflation.

It's difficult to say which is better, so let's give a look over their differences and discuss, starting with OT addresses, like bitcoin, the idea is have a lot of addresses and use one in each transaction this addresses can be derivated from a HD wallet, in ethereum we have one address and that is used for everything since spend ether to tokens and deploy contracts. So what do you think?

Hi. For people that use bitcoin mixers to mix their bitcoins, is it possible that somebody may actaully end up with stolen bitcoins? So in this case, using a bitcoin mixer could be far worse. For example if these stolen bitcoins are being tracked, then is it possible legit users using a mixing service, could end up with stolen bitcoins? If so, is there any way to prevent this or to find out if you have received stolen coins?

Then Switzerland made a revolution.  I knew Japan is the best country for crypto and even Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of bitcoin is from Japan too. In Japan, Bitcoin has owned ATM Booth if I am not wrong and many facilities have there. But now, Maybe Switzerland overcome Japan! Such a great news.

Wow thanks a lot for your comments!

I hold BTC and ETH since a year ago or so but never tried to hodl other coins before (except of fast trading).
Since I am using Cryptopia at the moment I got some CREA that is extremely low at the moment and I am sure it will go x5 when the team makes somthing to prevent mining farms. Algo got some ETN that I am going to hodl, very promising roadmap!

Where is the best exchange to get NANO?

Also, does any of you know any good Telegram channel/group for traders?

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1. Explain ICO to anyone quickly.
2. Decide if one needs ICO in their start-ups or not.
3. Understand the fundamentals of ICO very well.
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6. What is Solidity?
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Hi, I have just registered to get some ideas about good coins to buy and hodl for a long term.
I don't want to invest in coins that are now in a bubble but coins with a real project behind with a promising future and of course increase of its price.
I also don't like to invest in ICO's.
I am watching some projects that have interesting platforms already launched in beta and still don't have much media attention, and still it is easy to get in direct touch with their teams and still are not on big exchanges.

Any tips?

Bitcoin was supposed to be used as a currency, not only a form of investment. However, it's been more successful as a form of investment, a "speculative asset".

Do you guys think that this can change in the long term ?

What exactly is a bitcoin ban? I am probably assuming the ban from this forum? Also do explain your last point.

Seems like they find a new role in the market, do you see space for it ?

https://www.androidauthority.com/htc-exodus-865928/amp/

Your mental model should always be that the forum logs everything, especially since it is behind Cloudflare, which is almost certainly an NSA-backed operation. But here is some more detail. Currently there are four classes of IP logs:
 - Every time your session refreshes (about every 10 minutes while you are browsing the site), your current IP is momentarily logged. This is only kept until a new such entry replaces it, except that whenever the daily database backup happens, the current value will be captured and then possibly kept for a long time.
 - A tuple (time, userID, ip) is logged whenever you view a forum ad in order to produce ad stats. These are kept for only a few weeks, and are not backed up.
 - Every HTTP request creates an access log, but while these contain IPs, they do not contain user IDs, and so on the whole they probably cannot be provably associated with users. These are usually deleted after a few months, and are not backed up.
 - Certain actions trigger a long-term IP log. This includes posts (but not PMs), security-log entries, certain errors, and registration. Long-term logs are currently kept indefinitely.

I don't like that IPs are sometimes kept indefinitely. To prevent abuse, it would probably be sufficient to keep them for ~6 months. But keeping these logs long-term is extremely useful for account recoveries. I've been thinking about this issue, and I think that in the future I might let users opt out of long-term IP logging if they have a public key registered in a (currently-not-existing) public-key-registration system. Though, again, even then you should model this site and all sites as keeping complete logs.

Unless I am somehow required to do so by law (though I can't see how in this case), I will not assist police who are seeking to enforce any Bitcoin ban.


Try it and see how many IPs you get...

Would you ban my country's IP from accessing this forum if there is a court order? I'm not talking about crime related bans, just a pure access to information? if so then how would you suggest to avoid this?

Not to mention that you supporting Bitcoin is equal to be a rebel where I come from.

What's your opinion on buying new emerging coins that are not yet on top and cost less than 1 dollar?
How do you decide whether they have potential to grow or not?

I would strongly suggest the OP learn to conceal his true identity for all sites dealing with Crypto.  If you live in a place where you go to jail for using Crypto trust no website.  Theymos runs a decent place but the authorities can force owners/Admins to comply.  It has happened before here.  Going back a few years some PM's were required to be given and the users smart enough to have GPG'd their messages were fine, while others communicating in plain text had a harder time.  My point is not that Theymos is lacking in OPSec, but that YOU should maintain your own security.  If Theymos gave "THEM" absolutely everything his has on me they would have NOTHING.  Get it?  If I were going to make a site specific suggestion, I don't like the current sign in because the passwords are exposed (security wise).  In a perfect world we would have U2F and then I could change my now exposed password and associated email account to this username.