Well, assuming that what you say is true, because in this section there are many invented stories and we have no way to verify that you are telling the truth, and considering that you are only looking for profit, surely now is a good time to buy because we are at the beginning of the bull market. If you buy now and keep the investment for a year and a half or so you will most likely get good profits.

The only thing I would recommend is that if $11K is all you have, don't invest it all. It is more basic for example to have an emergency fund for 3 to 6 months of expenses. Once that money is set aside, you can invest the rest in Bitcoin.

Correct this, as I am sure it is a typo and you are referring to the year 2024. And as for reaching that figure, it is normal that we will reach it at the beginning of 2024 or maybe even earlier, it would not be unreasonable to reach it this month. It is clear that we are starting a bull market, although as is logical and with the volatility of Bitcoin, there will be ups and downs.

That is the view I have as well, but it is not widely shared on the forum, which does not mean that others are right. I also had a similar view about mixers some time ago, very little shared, and look what has happened. And what you say about quantities is what is going to happen. In the same way that cash payment limits have been imposed and have been lowered lower and lower (with the recent exception of Italy, which will change downward again as soon as the government changes), the same thing is going to happen with this. The goal is total control of the population, first financial and then in general, with the help of CBDCs and European digital identity.

You didn't get the irony, did you? If the murderer had been a white Frenchman who voted for Le Pen we would have his face all over the media explaining how the ultra-right has committed a murder, but in cases like this the media always find an excuse to downplay the drama of what happened, in this case saying that the murder has nothing to do with his radical Islamist views but that it was a poor fool who killed because of his madness.

They will find other places to advertise for sure. They would prefer to continue on this one because it is the largest Bitcoin forum and the one founded by Satoshi but at the end of the day there is a lot of money at stake and they will move their advertising elsewhere.


Right. Mixers will continue to work as they do now until there is legislation that prohibits them, which between the slowness of the administration and the steps that the laws have to follow to be approved can take years.

Lol. What happens with this guy? Is this an account created specifically to troll JJG?


I suppose we could take advantage of this depending on the personal moment we find ourselves in. If we are at retirement age it would be more reasonable to have a higher withdrawal rate and just try to maintain the value of the account, while if we are not retired or if we are but we do not have other assets, as we talked about in the previous post, it would be more logical to withdraw less and try to make the account still grow.

This is not uncommon for certain amounts, but the best thing to do would have been to talk to your bank and tell them to allow you to make the payment. They cannot block a payment of your money to buy a legal asset.

The moral of the story is that they are blocking money that is yours, which means that the money we have in the bank is less ours than we think.
 
The paypal option is not bad, but in any case if PayPal discloses what the money is for, they will send it to the tax authorities in your country, not to the bank.

The problem I see with this is that it is just one more step in saying goodbye to privacy in Bitcoin. Mixers have been banned here because it won't be long before there will be regulations expressly prohibiting them. I said it some time ago: services that serve to obfuscate the origin of funds cannot have much future.

The casinos that have been so important in the history of Bitcoin and Bitcointalk will have to end up operating like fiat casinos, with everyone perfectly identified from the beginning among other things.

We are on a seemingly unstoppable path of loss of privacy in general, and Bitcoin is not going to be an exception.

Sure, better to emphasize that he was French and was a man, only to then when the news says that he was a radical Islamist to qualify that he had mental problems. I do not know what happens that Europe is full of murders due to mental problems of that kind, because of course, Islamist radicals do not murder unless they have such problems.

I was thinking that what happened in the forum would be enough to write another chapter of the book, even if it were a corollary, being a gloomy episode in the history of Bitcoin. That the forum Satoshi founded bans mixer advertising is no small matter.

I think the answer to the thread is summed up in two of the answers already given:


This would be the correct answer for EV-games, such as slots. The only way to make it a profitable profession is to be on the other side. Not of those who bet but of those who offer the service.


This would be the correct answer for games of skill. The only thing is that people often underestimate the time, dedication and effort involved. Nowadays it is very professionalized and it is more and more difficult and takes more time and effort to become a professional, but it is possible. Although what is easier and within everyone's reach is to earn a little  monthly extra income with games of skill.

Not only casinos. There are also exchanges that advertise on the forum, such as Best Change or eXch.cx, although they advertise much less than casinos.

For January I would expect a drop in available signature campaigns, but I think that little by little there will be a reorganization, and maybe some casinos and exchanges will take the opportunity to advertise more, and also other services that are not advertised now or advertised currently as mixers that will be reinvented to meet the new rules, such as bitcoin to monero exchangers or non custodial wallets with coinjoin.

People tend to see the speck in the other's eye, and in Og's case he sees a lot of problems with mixers but apparently sees no problem with living in Arizona and advertising in his signature an illegal casino in the USA:

Why is Stake Illegal in US? | Alternatives

Back to the central theme of the thread, it's a bummer, but probably necessary to prevent greater evils, although it leaves the outlook for the future looking very bad indeed. Bitcoin transactions are on their way to becoming more and more like banking transactions, where the authorities know who is sending the money and who is receiving it. It's a thing that will take time if it eventually ends up happening that way, but that's the trend we're on.

There is no flag, as far as I can see.


No one. The fact that no one from his campaign has protested demanding that he be paid is significant. If I were the OP I would simply lock the thread because leaving him open looks like it will only garner more opinions against him.

Lol. Well, as you may know, in the end it seems that the imperfect and improvable algorithm favored me, achieving DT1 status at the bottom of the list.


In any case, once reached, personally nothing changes, but I did not expect to reach DT1 so soon.

Well that's on the one hand, the part of individuals, but legislation on the way from the EU also wants to force all service providers to KYC to the maximum, although it seems that some have some brains left and leave a €1,000 cap:

EU lawmakers impose €1,000 cap on anonymous crypto, cash transactions

Regarding this particular legislation, the "foreign" thing is a bit of a laugh. It seems that they assume that everyone has cryptocurrencies in exchanges, but you would have to see what they consider about people who have HW, because technically speaking they are neither in a country nor abroad, you from your HW have the private keys with which you manage those cryptocurrencies that are on the internet.

In my opinion there is nothing wrong with leaving negative feedback on that account as long as we don't know that it really belongs to FIOD from the Netherlands, which could be easily proven. Another thing is that it seems likely that it is, as JeromeTash comments, and that is a bit of a concern. Can you imagine the FBI creating an account in a similar situation?

That's what I'm afraid of. We are heading towards societies where the public authorities will have total information about the population in real time with tools such as CBDCs and digital identity. It is only a matter of time before laws against mixers are passed. Since the administration is slow and passing laws takes a while, it's not going to happen tomorrow but I won't be surprised if in a couple of years or so we see the first anti-mixer legislation.

Yes, in general it is a bad idea. It is one thing if you are in El Zonte (El Salvador) or Bitcoin Island and wear a Bitcoin t-shirt there, but wearing a t-shirt or other merchandising item with the Bitcoin symbol is putting a bullseye on yourself that all it has are risks and no benefits, so for me the decision is clear.

This thread is another of several around the forum that is based on a false premise which has already been dismantled:



Within the total percentage of holders I do not deny that some may do this, but they will be a minority who do not act very intelligently with their investments, to say the least.