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@bigslimvdub. To be honest with you, I should have dumped some coins during the 2017 highs. I was so certain that the project would attain a success that might have it begin climbing up to the cryptocoin top 50. I was wrong hehehe.
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So, some type of gift card situation is what’s brewing at Starbucks.
I reckon it might be nothing but another Facebookcoin situation in Starbucks hehehe.
The big corporations are beginning to leverage their brand to issue cryptocoins. I predict that the lucky platform on which they will be issued in might hit the top prize as the highest coin in market capitalization in the cryptospace.
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Nonsense. They knew fine well the background of those Neutrino members - they just didn't care. Coinbase don't care about customers, privacy, security, or even bitcoin. They only care about greed, and they will do anything do maximize their profits. That was made pretty clear this week when they admitted to selling client data to third parties without clients' knowledge or consent.
The only reason they have made this statement now is because they are seeing people starting to leave their platform. They hoped it would all just blow over, but now their profits are going to be affected they have to take action. Don't be fooled in to thinking they are doing this for moral reasons.
Also, what happens now? Will the Hacking Team become Coinbase contractors and that are hidden from public view? That might be more dangerous, I reckon. Coinbase is also doing a good job in turning the criticism away from its acquisition of project Neutrino. |
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I reckon Facebook's democratized user dividend business model might become one of the cryptospace's biggest successes since the creation of the first democratized direct initial public offering, also known as the ICO hehehe. In any case, the interest should not be on Facebook's stablecoin. I speculate that the interest should be on which platform will it be issued? Ethereum, EOS, Tron, Stellar, NEM, Waves or something else? What platform will hit the jackpot hehehehe?  A few months back, reports surfaced that Facebook was creating a cryptocurrency for its WhatsApp platform. This project is being overseen by David Marcus, the former president of PayPal.
The crypto being developed is a stablecoin, which will likely be tied to the dollar or euro. A stablecoin is a smart choice as it negates the volatility often associated with the cryptocurrency marketplace. The Facebook cryptocurrency is reportedly going to be rolled out in India on WhatsApp as that the country boasts 200 million users of the app.
Speculation is now suggesting that the stablecoin will be used across the full spectrum of Facebook products: WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram. If so, this would be tremendous for crypto adoption as over 2.7 billion people use such platforms on a monthly basis. Even more intriguing is the idea of a “data dividend” that could be paid to users.
A recent article from Fortune discusses the benefits of Facebook paying users a “data dividend” via the platform’s stablecoin. This dividend would be derived from the monetary value generated by the social media platform as people use it and advertisers fork over cash for advertising or for the data generated.
Facebook generated revenue of $55.838 billion in 2018 alone. The average user of the platform does not get any cut of that financial pie despite the fact it’s their use of the platform that creates the revenue. The Fortune article suggests that a good way to ensure that people remain loyal to Facebook and continue to use it on a regular basis is to get a payout in virtual cash.Read in full https://bitcoinerx.com/altcoin/could-facebook-eventually-pay-users-a-data-dividend-using-cryptocurrency/Read the related article http://fortune.com/2019/03/06/facebook-cryptocurrency-whatsapp-messenger-instagram-data-dividend/ |
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Anyway, the Eastern Conference are finally exciting, competitive and unpredictable to watch. I'll be betting with the Raps, Bucks, and Celts.
Toronto Raptors is known for choking in the playoffs or some people say, that's because of LeBron. Now with Kawhi Leonard on their lineup, Im expecting a different Raptors on the upcoming playoffs. Boston Celtics, we witnessed how great they are during their playoffs run even without Kyrie Irving on their lineup. Almost outplayed the Philadelphia 76ers and sruvived the sudden death against the Milwaukee Bucks. Now with Kyrie, let's see if that's really an advantage to them. Milwaukee Bucks, their improvement is greatly seen this season. And honestly, this team is underrated prior to season opening. They suffered a sudden death match loss against the Boston Celtics last playoffs and Im sure they will not allow to happened it again this time. Also, most of the players have a role in the Raptors. You already mentioned Kawhi. There is also Marc Gasol, Slakam then Serge, Lowry, Danny Green also playing their own roles. I am only a casual basketball fan, however, I reckon the Raptors have the chemistry that might win them the championship. |
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@mich. Jon's fake humility is irritating. I reckon yes, Anthony Smith should have taken the win by disqualification from Jon Jones because it was Jon Jones. There is no other fighter that I would like to see it taken hehehe.
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@figmentofmyass. I reckon most of the volume traded in Btce, now Wex, are not from ordinary cryptocoin traders. They might be from money launderers who control many fake accounts in the site to trade with each other then withdraw the coins by using clean accounts.
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@RivAngE. Success cannot be attained overnight. It took bitcoin 10 years to be where it is today, however it has not reached where it was created to be yet. It might take grin longer to reach the same measure of success, I reckon, or it might not.
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Hey guys, looks like this thread needs reminding. Not sure what the odds are at Nitro, but I'll share today's outrights from Fairlay - not very big orders available for the favourites (just 0.023 BTC currently) but there's a very interesting addition of "Resurrected Ned Stark" at 171/1. Tempted to put a fun bet on that, but I'm probably going to go for something above 10/1. Jon Snow and Daenarys? Come on, the series won't let them sit on the Iron Throne  Someone already put a bet on Arya at 22/1, so I'm jealous cause that'd been my pick. 15.47 still doesn't look shabby. is throwing bitcoins in a black hole address hehehe. Also, there is a new trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlR4PJn8b8II also discovered that Cloudbet has better betting choices for the show hehehe. https://www.cloudbet.com/en/sports/international/game-of-thrones/c13251/outrightsWe can bet on who will die first between 2 characters and with having your coins given back if no one between them has died. This is very exciting hehehehehehe! |
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they've parted ways with Neutrino though, so not sure how will they do this analytics. Not really. They've made some vacuous, meaningless statement (here: https://blog.coinbase.com/living-up-to-our-values-and-the-neutrino-acquisition-ba98174cdcf6) about "transitioning out" the members of Neutrino who were involved with Hacking Team. They provide no details whatsoever about how many members this involves, when they will be "transitioning", or where they will be "transitioning" to. It is a token gesture at most. Agreed. The real assets of Neutrino is not the software, it is the development team that created the software. I reckon Coinbase will continue to employ the Hacking Team in full capacity but hidden and dangerous. |
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@smooth. I reckon Monero's stated policy is not a practical one. The threat of Monero's policy to tweak the mining algorithm did not stop new Asics from being produced or from the miners tweaking their Asics to work on the tweaked algorithm.
I reckon it might never end. How can a cryptocoin grow if it was not stable in that side of its development?
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@RivAngE. Hehehe well it might help in having Grin's price float above the market average if that makes you happy.
In any case, those dumping miners are not to be blamed. They also want Grin to be higher, however they have no choice, they need to get some profit where they can.
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It appears that Dana will have numerous exciting storyboards for the welterweight division after Tyron's loss hehehe.
I speculate storyboards for Ben Askren, Wonderboy, Darren Till and Santiago Ponzinibbio to fight for a championship within 2 years.
Dana has also already declared that Colby Colvington will be Kamaru's next fight.
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From the QuadrigaCX exit scam to moneylaundring on WEX and all other exchange scams, I reckon some exchanges might be working together to move different cryptocoins around for criminals. It will be hard to connect the dots, however maybe future blockchain analytics leader Coinbase can help hehehehe.  NewsBTC has reported that the controversial crypto exchange WEX, which was formerly BTC-e, has been used to launder some $6 million worth of Bitcoin acquired by criminals during a series of ransomware attacks last year under the name SamSam. The attacks are believed to have been performed by an Iranian hacker group and two men have been identified by the US Department of Justice.
The men thought to be involved are Haramarz Shahi Savandi and Mohammad Mehdi Shah Mansouri, and both apparently have links to WEX. This information comes form a report put out by respected firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers.
From the report:
"We identified this Iranian money laundering operation as having links with currency exchange WEX (previously known as BTC-e)… WEX is most notably known for its alleged involvement in the threat actor tracked by PwC as Blue Athena, and being responsible for cashing out 95 percent of all ransomware payments made since 2014."
It seems other small exchanges were used to launder crypto as well. The total the group stole from the SamSam attack is somewhere around $30 million, but only $6 million went through WEX.. Read in full https://www.chepicap.com/en/news/7889/wex-used-to-launder-money-from-samsam-ransomware-up-to-6-million.htmlRead the report https://www.pwc.de/de/strategie-organisation-prozesse-systeme/strategic-intelligence-bulletin-airing-digital-currencys-dirty-laundry.pdf |
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News update. I reckon QuadrigaCX did not do an exit scam, however, it was a scam or it was running a scam hehehe. It appears that from the reported updates, QuadrigaCX never stored all of the users' coins in the exchange but used other exchanges to store the coins. It was not clear why, however this appears to be part of another money laundering scheme or a basic scam.  QuadrigaCX, the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange that purportedly lost $250 million CAD ($190 million USD) of customer funds when the company’s CEO died, was appointed the professional services firm Ernst & Young (EY) as their monitor by court order on February 5, 2019.
The Big Four auditing firm has since released 3 reports in the creditor protection proceedings of QuadrigaCX. The third report was released on March 1, in which the firm identified 6 crypto Quadriga wallets primarily used to store Bitcoin (BTC).
What’s interesting is that out of the 6 wallets identified, all but 1 received no deposits and were inactive since April 2018. There was only 1 wallet that had an inadvertent Bitcoin transaction of nearly $500,000.
The third Ernst & Young report states:
“To date, the Applicants have been unable to identify a reason why Quadriga may have stopped using the Identified Bitcoin Cold Wallets for deposits in April 2018, however, the Monitor and Management will continue to review the Quadriga database to obtain further information.”Source https://www.investinblockchain.com/quadriga-update-wallet-empty-unused-since-april-2018-ernst-young/ |
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Bittrex might be ok if you are a miner seeking to dump your mined grins to hold bitcoin. I reckon Bittrex's grin wallet withdrawals might still be presently disabled. |
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@Hueristic. Grin and dogecoin are not wholly different in what they are today. They are both seeking to be currencies and they have a similar monetary policy in their present form.
This is not apples and oranges. However, it is a granny smith apples and red delicious apples comparison hehehe.
Also, by my reckoning the apples and oranges comparison is more between Ethereum and Grin.
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Are we bouncing or what?  Yes we are hehehe. This is not the big sustainable bounce, however. Do not neglect the fact that Grin's monetary policy emits 10% inflation for the first 10 years. Most of those newly mined coins will certainly be dumped by the miners. |
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@smooth. What is your position on the proposal?
I'm neutral and I will support either continuing to tag along with Monero's anti-ASIC strategy or ASIC-friendly and low-overhead algorithm such as SHA-3. However, in your own personal position, what would be the best way forward for Aeon's growth as a secure and usable cryptocoin to compete in acceptance and payments versus bigger coins like litecoin? I reckon, personally, we might have stayed in the no Asics strategy long enough. |
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^ Meh... There was nothing spectacular in both matches. And Askren who was supposed to be somewhat of a next attraction at 170 after Woodley was a huge disappointment. The UFC should give Lawler another go at him. Herb Dean made a dumb mistake stopping that match.
Controversial decision by Herb Dean, anyways, Lawler accepted the defeat like a man, but I think it was an early stoppage by Herb. It doesn't look that Lawler was in danger, his hand was in Ben's head so naturally he put in down and this gives the signal to Herb that somewhat Robbie was losing consciousness. Agreed. However, Herb Dean saw the hand was hanging very loosely which made it appear that Robbie was unconcious. I remember Joe Rogan was also shouting he's out!It was the wrong stoppage but I reckon Herb cannot be blamed for it. |
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