This is little to do with official cryptocurrency network fees, though they can certainly get high, this is what the company you're using chooses to charge you.

https://help.coinsquare.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004303171-Digital-Currency-Withdrawal-Minimums-and-Fees

At the moment that's about $4.50 for a Bitcoin withdrawal which is waaay above the proper network fee at the moment and that proper fee has only gotten that high a handful of times. Coinsquare may say it's been bumped up that much to make sure withdrawals go through no matter how congested the network is. I'll bet it's also a handy extra income stream as it hardly ever has gotten that bad.

Either group your withdrawals so you only pay that once every so often or find somewhere else. If I were buying small and often I wouldn't tolerate that high a fee.

I would never trust any review site related to crypto. They're all junk pieces of clickbait shit. This forum is enough. If a service is used by enough people there'll be a thread on it here. The total lack of mention of it on here is a definite red flag.

Gambling sites are one of the more solid areas of the crypto space. There are enough with long track records to be able to choose somewhere legit. Go for somewhere long established and extensively reviewed and you'll be fine. If they were screwing users the users would be extremely vocal about it. There is absolutely no need to select somewhere unknown.

I'd be more interested in whether I got paid should I win a reasonable amount. There seem to be a few cases where people have trouble with that.

I remember a great deal of talk about 'Mrs Watanabe', the stereotypical backbone of Japanese retail investment, riding to Bitcoin's rescue when the Japanese market opened up.

As with every other goddamn thing that was going to 'save' Bitcoin, as soon as she was unleashed fuck all happened.

I think the uptake for this will be somewhere in the region of - nil.

Here's a development that actually might impact the space. Twitter are removing the ability to post crypto addresses - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/71876/twitter-crypto-address-posts

No idea how much legit business takes place through there on that basis but there must be a bit, and considerably more than what these moronic scammers net. Maybe you can still DM them.

Of course not. The price hasn't budged throughout either.

I can't believe whoever did this added the same pathetic scam that's been going since 2017 or whatever.

They should've had a fucking massive short on Bitmex and coordinated tweets from all the exchanges about the Secret Service bursting into their offices and drilling their staff with machine gun fire.

The panic wouldn't have lasted long, but it would've been long enough to make millions. Instead they've 100 grand or so, and most of it was probably theirs anyway to look cool.

I occasionally send my earnings from the Chipmixer campaign direct to Kraken and that has an address with Chip in the name. They've never said a word to me about it yet. I'm not sure others will be as relaxed.

It's a pretty darned impressive haul. It's a big list of notable crypto Twitter accounts including all the major exchanges, Charlie Lee, Coindesk and even @bitcoin.

I wonder what hole all of them left open.

I see these phrases rolled out with great reverence and ceremony.

Then absolutely sod all happens yet again.

I am profoundly uninterested in hearing it now. But if it gets people through the day I give them my full support.

If it was from an authorised seller and arrived sealed then that's about as promising as it gets.

If you don't have any money tied up on it then doing a new seed is no hassle and should put your mind at rest.

I've never heard of sold hardware arriving tampered with yet, plenty of those pre printed seeds though. All of the hardware hacks require physical access to the device with the seed already created.

For some people it makes sense. For others it doesn't. A lot depends on where you are.

For a long time in the UK there were no exchanges other than P2P and banks were, and often still are, extremely twitchy about any funds related to BTC. In those circumstances a crypto debit card is perfect.

If you live in a place with good exchanges with low fees and fast banking then a crypto debit card will be a needless extra expense. Some may still prefer to keep those funds separate though.

May I ask why you have come to that conclusion?

I constantly refer on here to my skaterboi pals and twerking on Tip Tap or whatever the fuck it's called. I have also 'cancelled' my own grandmother for being rude to her coolie.

But they are fully known to you. The risk with mixing is that attitudes, techniques and surveillance will change over time. If staying put and doing nothing is a minimal or manageable risk then the path of least resistance makes most sense.

All the cards convert to fiat so they fix the exchange rate between crypto and real fiat anyway.

Some like Wirex give you the choice of when you convert so you can instantly turn it all into a fiat balance and spend later, others like Coinbase only convert at the moment you spend.

If your business accepts USDT then for starters no card issuer will let you continue if they find out you're cashing out business profits, and there are all the issues of USDT itself.

I would lend my support to driving a steam roller with spiky wheels 119 times over his face.

https://twitter.com/PeterSchiff/status/1282842502068932614

Hard, honestly you could really do with seeking out a more productive hobby. This one will not nourish your soul or do anything to change the world for the better.

If the possibility of future price increases is gone you're left with a cruel mistress with a few very useful qualities. That's not really going to be enough to keep most people on board. Traders may still keep playing with it. Most others will bail.

Well, I earn a bit of it at present so I'd continue to spend it while doing that. Once that's over then fuck no pretty much other than the odd thing like VPNs.

The volatility will still be there. If I was a trader then that may excite me. Since I'm not that was just bore me and lose money I was uninterested in losing.

The prospect of future ATHs is what keeps people engaged enough to sit through all the abuse BTC rains down on you. If that's gone then I'd prefer to direct my energy somewhere more productive.

Unless I had a gaping security hole from leaving my coins unimxed I definitely would not mix them. We've no idea how uptight third party services will get about it in future, how good the tracking tools around at present really are and there may well be much better options to add privacy in future as well.

If there was a deeply pressing need to do it then doing it now rather than later at least looks less fishy a few years down the line.

What is bizarre about the whole thing is that he blithely proposed it without either acknowledging or knowing that if it actually happened a large amount of Bitcoin's trust would evaporate. For someone with that much heft to come out with something that childlike reveals more about them than it should have.