I know binance is the most popular exchange, but binance and other exchanges such as okex, huobi, ...and others forced you to hold their token to participate in IEO, so i list exchanges do not forced you to buy token.
Okex, Binance and Huobi are pretty big exchanges and their IEO's are very scuffed - they force you to invest in their own project, before you get access to pretty well done IEOS that always go 2x, due to a lot of the pumping that the companies do themselves. As for the other exchanges: Latoken is a scam, they basically ask for 10k upfront and then they won't help the IEO, or anything at all, their IEO's almost never do well and you see a bunch of shitcoins on there. On the other side of the spectrum, Probit is a great new korean exchange and they've helped and held a bunch of sucessful IEO's for their clients, I'd recommend you to take a look there. |
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1) We need to go back to the roots
2) We don't need institutions to back us up
The roots would be back in 2012 or something, where we didn't really care about adoption, it was a smaller community with little to nothing in terms of money, and it was mostly a p2p system where users would buy items for BTC. Not sure if that's the best world for bitcoin - having companies like Amazon, etc being able to take bitcoin as a payment method, and having a world that is partially bitcoin-friendly is great, and provides a lot of convenience for people. 3) We need to apply the decentralization through getting the nodes out of the centralized servers firstly(aws, google cloud etc.)
4) We may delay the mass adoption thoughts until we fix some centralization issues
5) This forum needs to be decentralized too
It'll be hard to turn this forum decentralized but it's a good idea and does fit the theme. How would you recommend we solve centralization issues with BTC, and delay adoption though..? |
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I think your looking at this in a wrong method, I wouldn't argue that Bitcoin freelancing is dead as a whole, but instead freelancing as a whole has been going downhill ever since everything has become a lot more professional.
The only companies that ever really hired freelancers are the new startups that would like to save a couple of bucks and go with a design/marketing/development agency, or a regular person who can't afford that much.
With the industry becoming a lot more professional and less start up and crypto start ups that are popping up, we are obviously going to see the market shrink.
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If you're looking for IOS wallets, your best 2 bets are likely:
Mycelium: pretty safe, but not as attractive as apps like Coinbase and blockchain.info, I believe they have support for bech32 addresses.
Absolutely no one should consider Mycelium for Apple. It's been abandoned for several years now. It's great for Android but it should really be pulled for Apple as it's a liability unless they start to develop it again. My apologies then - haven't really been researching a lot about IOS wallet, been too much of a samsung fanboy in the recent years, and mycelium has been working great during that period. Have you tried Breadwallet OP? They actually have a very enjoyable to look at UI, and they have several currencies, I used it for a couple months back when I had a lot of ETH and BTC, and also was an investor of their coin which pays fees (BRD). |
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What if all those big corporates and businesses starts using crypto as a mode of payment just to avoid tax which will cause a direct loss to the government which uses tax for the betterment of the country. This might not affect corrupt countries as it doesn't matter because tax money goes to politician's coffers but what about developed nations?
Your thinking way too 1 sided. There is no way where you just avoid tax when you use cryptocurrencies to pay, or sell your goods or services for cryptocurrencies, it's still money and it will be taxed. A cryptocurrency is still a form of money, it's similar to other investments that hold value, and if you got paid in gold, or bonds for example, those are still able to be taxed - it's impossible to avoid taxes in our world... Crypto-currencies will be able to boost the income though, we will have a lot more freedom with money and it's an entirely new market sector where people are able to start new businesses and find new jobs - really expanding our markets. |
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I don't believe it's actually that hard to actually get into a fund, there's a bunch of investment firms that have decent turn-overs and all you need is to be a high-net-worth individual or be willing to chuck down funds to enter their firm.
Could you please explain some of your terms, are you describing an investment firm that purely operates in crypto-currency, so you'd only be pricing and investing in crypto-based projects? What is meant by a partnership with bigger investment firm, and liquidating the blockchain?
Do you have any funds to get this off the ground? Otherwise, it's going to be a steep hill for you to climb.
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This is only 40 million wallets based on a single service, correct? Are the statistics per person, or can someone have a Bitcoin, Ethereum and Stellar wallet and it would be counted as a 3 different wallets? Interesting statistics, I'm taking it with a grain of salt though, I don't think it actually reflects 40 million new crypto users, probably something more like 20 million - still huge though, especially since it's not even the biggest mainstream wallet provider (Coinbase probably is). A better indicator would be mobile wallets. This is the major factor to consider instead of some random browser numbers that can be created by bot scripts.
They have a blockchain app, don't they? Are stats for how many downloads on that specific wallet available? From checking the wallet stats on google play, it only looks like it has 5 million + downloads.  |
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Knowing BitPay has been hacked perhaps 3-4 times already I wouldn't be surprised if the breach comes from their system again even if BitPay does not hold the card number. Wait some hours and be sure it will hit Coindesk and co.  Since it's a re-loadable prepaid card, depending on the systems BitPay might not even have access to the number. They are just running API calls to the providers back end. That was how it was done when I was dealing with selling them at my job. When you activated or looked at your transaction information or anything else we never had the data. It looked like the front end of our site, but it was not. We were just displaying data that was provided to us. If there was an issue the number you called was for the card provider, if there was fraud it was between you and the provider. It looked like us, but it was not. No idea of the BitPay deal. -Dave Ah, that does make a lot more sense - I don't think Visa would be giving out their back end access to any other companies, so I think bitpay would be in a similar one with your's. As I said before, it's likely an issues on Bitpay's network, they sent out cards to the wrong place, or some of their users got hacked and now their debit card numbers are displayed, and the best way for them to fix the issue if it really is widespread, lock all cards that seem to be hacked, and then resend them all out and replenish lost funds that seem to be hacked previously. Difficult course of action but keeps people safe. |
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God, what a fucking clown. Making predictions is fine and it's his life but he's just being stupid now, not the most professional way for someone to get some attention with their predictions and it's definitely going to be subjected to a lot of ridicule.
It's really saddening to see someone saying they are going to eat themselves become a hot topic and widely discussed everywhere, pointless and we are just giving stupid celebrities attention.
I guess all we need to do now is wait for the inevitable to happen and see what he ends up doing when Bitcoin doesn't go 200x in a year's time.
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When was this added? And does anyone have the exact dates of Bitcoin and crypto-currency when they where added. I'll bet 0.01 BTC that it was right after or during the meteoric rise to 20k.
It's interesting, showcases some form of adoption but the English dictionary accepts a bunch of words and popular slang has even been added to the dictonary.
Please stop saying this will affect prices, being listed in a dictionary isn't going to make people want to buy Bitcoin more, it's just a cool thing.
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Most people sees china stopping their miners from mining as a threat to the existence of bitcoin, but I must say that I really do not see it much as threat, first you have to see from the aspect of most investors as they will never react to such news as we can see form the time that we were first threatened by the government of china to stop all miners, and the market never reacted negatively to this.
If china stops mining now, I think it will only end up giving power to some other countries that will see it as an opportunity to boom by giving chance to miners to do so in their country. If you see how much mining gives to some of these miners, you will understand that it is not really easy to give up the mining just like that as some of them would rather prefer to relocate than staying in china.
I am personally not under the opinion that if China's miners dropped off the grid, Bitcoin would be screwed and the coin would be dead essentially. How did Bitcoin survive in the early stages? It was fine during then, maybe it'll revert back to that and transactions won't be as fast as nowadays (avging 15-20 minute blocks), but it'll chug on. If China completely died as an industry we'll see a lot of newer companies enter the market in order to make up for the lost market share. We'd instantly see a bunch of new companies try and capitalise off the huge gap in the market and it'll be filled quite easily. |
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Interesting idea mate. Had a fun read through it all. Bitcoin's relative success has generated a considerable amount of excitement and venture capital similar to the dot com boom. Everyone is looking for the next crypto silver bullet that will propel technology to new heights. Creating innovation, value and wealth. We've seen attempts at incrementally improving bitcoin whether by utilizing different algorithms or variations on proof of work.
What we have not seen are many attempts to get back to the roots of what made bitcoin attractive to many, initially. Which is creating a store of value/currency which is designed to address problems society has faced throughout history like hyperinflation.
There's definitely been a lot of "Bitcoin V2"'s over the recent years, but none of them are ones that are exact clones of bitcoin, with all the right things changed, because there's nothing in the bitcoin code/coin that can be changed and just make it better, without compromises. Most of the other spin-offs we've seen in recent years will improve in one aspect (eg, maybe privacy), but then they let the user down in another one. Imagine for a second if it were possible to design a cryptocurrency that was resistant to poverty or wealth and wage inequality. What if it were possible to design a cryptocurrency that was resistant to corruption, predatory business practices, unfair taxation or other negatives which have negatively impacted the world forever.
These goals may not be attainable utilizing paper money, gold or hand carved rocks as currencies of exchange. The internet era however opens doors which were previously closed. And so perhaps it is possible to combine facets of game theory with crypto to create a hybridized form of currency which is designed via default to address issues like wage and wealth inequality which represent a foundation for negative societal precedents.
Wasn't this what bitcoin was meant to do? And hasn't it accomplished it (to some extent), obviously market manipulation is a thing, but if you think that's an issue we can easily think, I'll be saying that you are dreaming. Offhand, I can think of ways this could be achieved. I would like to hear other ideas people have and if people feel like it, start a discussion on this topic. It seems like it could be a cool and futuristic thing to talk about.
None yet, going to go think for a bit. Nice thread. |
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Bitcoin in Africa: Insights from the Continent’s Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
Isn’t it absurd that nearly 326 million people representing 80% of the adult population in Africa do not have access to bank accounts? This wretched situation denies countless of people financial freedom in the so-called dark continent. Bureaucratic tenors and economic exclusion inter alia have paved the way for the current phenomenon.
The problem here is though, with no disrespect intended, a lot of those people in the 80 percent do not even have access to the internet, likely doesn't know what bank transfers and what the banking system involves. I haven't seen exact statistics, but I definitely think you make the assumption that there are as many bank accounts in Africa as there are bitcoin wallets. Not that far-fetched, but will need exact numbers to confirm. I believe that Africans just prefer using crypto-currency, they can avoid the hassle of setting up a bank account and wait ages for their application to get approved, and instead they just grab their wallet address and bam, it's solved. - Sorry for necroposting, it was too interesting a subject to avoid, and can't believe it didn't get posts when it was posted. |
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skoll.io is a open source crypto wealth tracker that runs in your browser. All data is stored on your device (except if you create a online backup). skoll.io supports over 5k coins. You can manually add coin balances and it can also automatically track address balances for enabled coins (your addresses will be submitted to open block explorer APIs if enabled). It will automatically scan you ETH addresses for tokens and add any that have any value to your portfolio. Features List: -track your balances and value of 5k+ coins -automatically track the balance of your addresses (btc, bch, bsv, eth, btg, ltc, nxt, doge) -automatically detect ethereum tokens that have any value -online backup (generate a unique URL for your portfolio, no personal data is stored) -theme support (currently 4) -works on mobile This doesn't need your private keys, right? You just put your eth address and any other addresses and it will just monitor the balance of the addresses, and give you a total portfolio value? Pretty neat for people that have a hardware wallet they keep stashed up (I know for one, I'd love to use it because it's hard to keep track of your ledger, and block folio doesn't track transactions from the wallet). Are there transaction notifications though? There are some wallets (samurai for example) that will give you a notification for received transactions. |
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It's a good attempt by a smaller company/single person to combat washed trading/market making/market manipulation, whatever new word they are using to call fake trade volumes - It seems like you are making a valid attempt to not counted the millions in faked volume, and even though I'm sure there will be some exchanges that can slip through, I congratulate you on your effort!
I do enjoy the design aspects of your listing site as well. Although I do get the feeling that text is hard to read, especially in dark mode and when you click a coin - the 4 boxes that are all black (black text, black background, etc) is really distracting and I don't enjoy it at all, maybe try it with white text?
Good luck mate, as long as this keeps being updated you'll have a banger on your side!
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Guys, please realize that OP posted a link to an article that was posted almost 6 months ago. Both of the articles where from late march of this year, and might not be as accurate as nowadays due to the changing nature of crypto-currencies.
Then again, this is pretty true and it's almost common knowledge to most traders that a lot of volumes is faked or manipulated, when you go on CMC and you see these crazy numbers from Asian exchanges, it gets quite obvious.
Even popular exchanges like Binance and Huobi have been accused of market washing/market manipulation, and it's commonplace in crypto.
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Do we all have to reach a ground ZERO, such as a situation like Venezuela. For everyone to trash their FIAT and accept a crypto system?
What do you think would it take for a switch to happen?
It would be horrible to think that all of us need to end up in poverty and below in order to have a mass acceptance of crypto?
what are all your thoughts on how a switch to crypto could happen?
I don't think all fiat currencies will end in death, what happened to Venezuela because of a very weak economy and bankruptcy due to mounting debt and interest. many Venezuelans are not switching to bitcoin, but to the dollar US. I think switching to crypto does not save them but increases risk, although there is no inflation, crypto has fluctuations that are far more violent than inflation #IMO Correct - we can't really see what's in the future to come, but has history has showed us even as far back as the batering days, people will like to use portable things that are easy to give it send across. People often used items like eggs and bread to barter way back, then we went to cash, and now are are seeing growth in 2 different things actually - mobile payments and crypto-currency. Mobile payments are in fiat and the majority of the population tend to enjoy paying in them better and crypto-currencies are hard to use in a real life situation but fare very well as a secondary option to accomply fiat payments. |
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I'd be curious to see who they surveyed. All I can find is this: ...according to a survey of 2,068 participants commissioned by Finder. 14.4% of Americans seems awfully high to me. I wouldn't be surprised if the results are skewed because the respondents weren't representative of the population. Some demographics will definitely have a higher propensity to use Bitcoin -- Millennials, internet users, etc. Exactly what I was thinking - going through a sample size of 2,000 people isn't a lot at all and can easily be inaccurate with a lot of factors, age, location even (people in New York will probably be more interested in Bitcoin then in other cities) and I don't think anyone should be using this metric as something really accurate. As a result, about 36.5 million Americans own some form of crypto asset.
The Profile survey also revealed that Americans holding crypto assets have an average of $5,447 in digital coins Hmmm, 36.5m x5.447 $= 198 billion, total market cap of all coins is 234 billion, ...Satoshi owns another 10 billion... Yeah, legit! Lol, nice catch mate! These statistics are very skewed and a more accurate survey that has people from all the regions if America, in different age groups and a fair range of internet users would be much more accurate and these previous studies are just estimates... |
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It is incredible how many cryptocurrency investors and enthusiasts are using this spyware, Chrome... No doubt the best browser for privacy and security is Firefox, with some addons installed (Like Ublock origin and HTTPS everywhere) Take a look at this topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5156114.0You cant blame people not to use up Chrome but i agree with your point here this is why i dont exchange Firefox with Chrome and now im considering Brave browser to make it as an optional browser if i do multi tasking. For Cryptotab browser i dont know for this browser exist.For op just stick out on whats being mainly suggested.Chrome looks like the typical choice on here. It depends on mate - a lot of people use chrome due to how simple things are with it, and there's also the google ecosystem which just works amazingly with Chrome - and there's also the factor a lot of people don't know that Google actually keeps your user data, and it isn't an issue to those people. If you want to go full privacy out, just go for a firefox browser with the duckduckgo search engine, install a VPN like private internet access or tunnelbear and you'll be fine. Some people just can't be fucked though. Is it really useful to use this app as your main browser or what can you guys suggest?
Just here it from you now, is this site just about cryptocurrency? Waiting for the review form the other user because it seem like I have to be carefull to use new platform so I can avoid the undesirable things. I have some browser in my phone or in my PC but I just often to use chrome and brave browser. And I just suggesting, if you are a crypto user then you should choose brave browser as your main place. Because the platfrom is using cryptocurrency to give a reward form its user and have high security as well. No... It's not a site about cryptocurrency, it used to be a browser extension that let the browser hog up CPU useage and mine BTC, but now after they got blocked, they made their own browser. Please look at the item you are talking about before posting. |
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It depends what a lot of people do with their income, there's no avoiding that they are people who require their signature funds to actually survive and buy food and water for themselves, 150 or so USD a week is a decent sum in some countries, and I am sure that those people would much prefer weekly/daily payments that where set in the USD value (can't buy essentials with BTC just yet!).
As for some of the more fortunate people, I enjoy acquiring some free BTC in my spare time as it helps fuel my trading addition and also gives me a bit more bankroll when it comes to trading, and even makes me feel like I can spend the extra 500 dollars and get the higher-spec model laptop, if that makes sense?
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