I have always used FF over Chrome and Edge for banking-related services and browsing that I need for the last few years. Never have encountered a single problem with them. I'm just wondering if I'm at risk considering that I did browse my bank and logged in using FF yesterday? I have already updated to the latest version and just wondering whether online-related services are also exploited. Good thing is I don't store wallets on my online machines, not even once.

It seems that the government (the US in particular) is ready to jump on whatever things that might get uncontrolled knowing that a lot of people would surely support it. In the case of Facebook and Libra, they have stressed that Facebook Inc. has already been fined a lot of times due to their malpractices with their tech, but seriously is that enough grounds to lay waste on their new tech? I think not. Also, their regulators are one of the worst in the world and doesn't seem to have any sort of plan to even help the rising demands for a comprehensible regulations on new Fintech such as cryptocurrencies. The US government has always been a bully to everyone, so it's no surprise that they would want to shut down Libra before it goes big.

I don't think Facebook's cryptocurrency talks has anything to do with the actual happenings in the bitcoin market of recent times. Even before the launch of Libra Coin was realized, bitcoin was already in a craze and has been hitting the greens for months. If anything, the launch perhaps helped people trust in cryptocurrencies more, or at least know that giant companies are also on the verge of introducing more to the table, especially cryptocurrencies of their own.

No reason whatsoever to adopt bitcoin into their systems knowing that traditional payment methods are working well for them and their merchants and honestly, not a single thing would ever change for the company even if they decided to use bitcoin the next day. This is not being pessimistic, this is just being frank of the things at hand. I also love large retailers and merchants accepting bitcoin but with the current state of the said cryptocurrency, most are just busy speculating and making profit than using it as such, and I'm pretty sure Amazon doesn't want the hassle of having to convert coins into cash and losing potential profit along the way.

I view Roger Ver as a somewhat passable man sans the shots he had been firing bitcoin ever since he had this miscommunication with the core devs. All of what he does is basically just him trying to prop his failed iteration of bitcoin, just like a telemarketer trying to do outbound calls on uninterested prospects. Anyway, he could go on and rant all he wants, but we all know the story: BCH is a failure and only those pump and dump traders together with his die-hard fanatics and close friends would ever be interested in BCH.


This. Knowing that a single entity could cause a major problem in the network, why would anyone even use your creation? 

Usually, you can spot a liar in the open because they themselves screw up their stories, and this is the perfect example for it. CSW just keeps getting himself in the prying eyes of the media and the onlookers, and every single thing he utters that reveals his fake identity as satoshi, the more it gets interesting on how would he cover up the lies he made. I'm thinking that this man won't have the decency to admit that he lied every single time even when it's him on the court. Anyways, a true gold of a clip right there.

Pretty legitimate question to be honest. The first things that come to mind are David Chaum's works on 'electronic cash,' Wei Dai's 'b-money' and Nick Szabo's 'bit gold,' all of which are somewhat related to the cryptocurrency that we know of today. The first time I read something about cryptocurrencies is in 2015 in a Coindesk article relating to Ethereum and the rise of other altcoins, and it's strange since I started this journey on 2013 December and registered in this forum on 1 April 2014.

We had it worse back in 2014-2015 when a whale can literally buy tens of thousands of coins in a single go and dump on all of our faces, hence, the many 'dead-cat bounces' during that time. Right now, as prices continue to rise and as more people come in on the market every day, the number of whales are actually becoming less and less. Like any other traders, they do not hold for a long time when there's not a potential profit to be made, and are just offloading too in order to move around funds and whatnot.

Also, decentralized ≠ distributed. Our choice of words sometimes alter what we really want to say.

To what extent are they planning to use the blockchain, I wonder? Perhaps there's more to this than just "using" the blockchain. Personally I don't see this as somewhat a full-pledged development for cryptocurrency in Bangladesh as nowadays, the blockchain and bitcoin with crypto are separate entities  ever since people realized the potential application of the former. Anyway though, the term 'blockchain' seemed to be loosely applied on a lot of things right now even though it's not apt to call it as such. Let's just hope that Bangladesh puts the tech into good use whatever their projects may be.

Epochtalk is in the process of getting released and seriously, I'd like to stick more to this current UI than upgrade it to something else knowing that it gets me the vibe of the retro webpages and mailing lists. Also, I doubt you'll get any support into changing the theme of this forum into something new, as most of the users in here currently are in it for the content and not actually the design of the webpages. Perhaps once epochtalk is released, theymos would allow customizing the forum personally (like what Friendster and Myspace did) though I doubt that it'll get that funky and flexible than what we currently have.

We can do it here, it's just not fitting.

No. Bitcoin cannot stand alone without blockchain since without the said technology, bitcoin is just a series of algorithms put together but of no use in reality. Whereas blockchain can be a stand-alone tech integrated into some other program/systems and help record data by putting it all together in a block forming a series of chains. Essentially, bitcoin is not bitcoin without blockchain but blockchain can be a blockchain even without bitcoin.

A topic that has been discussed countless of times here in this forum and other places. Seriously, the World Bank creating bitcoin just doesn't fit the bill. The people behind Satoshi Nakamoto would certainly not be in the ranks of the government nor bankers, given how deep and wide Satoshi's understanding on the intricacies of anarchy and libertarianism. It has been theorized even before you that the government created bitcoin as an experiment to see how much power would a decentralized, anarchic currency would pan out in a world of centralization and authority, but it doesn't really click no matter how you put it.

So yeah, your theory is just one of those truly far-fetched from what we have right now in front of us.

Any profit is a profit nonetheless, but if you see the market is going well and the trend is heading towards positive directions, you just leave it as it is or place a sell order on a price point that you're comfortable taking profits in. Say for example, price is @ $8000 today, you bought in @ $7900 but the market is posed to get more gains which is projected to be somewhere around $8300 - $8400. The logical thing to do here is to not be greedy and gauge whether the market can do a push. How? Check order books in exchanges and volumes. Personally I'd put my sell @ $8100 and just wait for another entry point should my target be met early. I gained $200 easy with no stress and that's a profit already.

They are real assholes, mind you. If I were you I'd take all of my funds out of their exchange and go elsewhere. Not that they are scamming you or something, but they basically just wanted you to get off of their exchange. They have been doing this for years now and I'm sure you're not the only one who got their account closed without prior warning or even an explanation whatsoever. They just.. close it whenever they like. They're not the only exchange out there so take your business off of their platform.

Having a picture of the coin would be a nice reference on how to help you. Either way, I believe that sweeping the private key off of the physical bitcoin is always the way to go, though I'm entirely not sure how since I don't know what type of physical bitcoin you have. You can use mobile wallet devices to sweep off the private key and import the said wallet into your own wallets. In that way, the coins would be spendable and you can keep the physical bitcoin as a memorabilia.

A very basic yet very useful advice. I myself have been into situations where panic never really do any good to me or to my trading ventures. I remember that one time in Mintpal (yep, 2015) where a certain coin was being pumped at ridiculously high rates. I have already profited a lot from my initial buy in but I have never thought of putting a stop-loss on my trades because I thought that it's still going higher. Fast forward just an hour after, I see the charts painting red everywhere and my profits have then disappeared. The panic in me immediately sold at an extreme loss, only to see that the price climbs back again to a range where I could have profited still.

From then on, I learned how to use stop-loss and accept a small profit than to have no profit at all.

If the funds are frozen from their end, technically it isn't even sent out from their addresses and you don't have to wait for the blocks to confirm because no withdrawals are ever authorized. The two things you have said are somewhat contradicting each other. Upon checking the balances tab and withdrawals, do you see whether there is a 'pending' on any of the tabs or your balance was unchanged? If none of these things appear, contact their support immediately and watch out for emails regarding your issue.

This is inevitable for a government that doesn't listen to the woes of the minority and just proceeds on to bully the rights of other people including other countries as well. The current administration of the US government is proactive in denying facts and science and building a wall than to fix domestic and international relations that they have disrupted. Even if there are lobbyists with great points in regards to crypto trading platforms, I doubt that the legislators would listen one bit. Binance's move to just blacklist the Americans for the mean time is the last thing they can do for now in order to avoid complications with the US government and sadly, it further divides the cryptocommunity and market even more.

I haven't read CZ's official statement regarding this but as I have seen on their Terms of Service, they cannot serve/cater to customers who are residing in the US and is covered by UN Security Council sanction list:


Sure Binance operates on an essentially lawless state for crypto but how about those who they are serving and those using their platforms? No other choice but to block US residents for the mean time and just create the region's own exchange than to incur a lot of penalties and being issued a cease and desist order if someone gets caught doing something fishy on their trading platforms.

This is taken out of context. CZ has announced a year ago that he is planning to create 10 crypto exchange in total, 2 for each continent that is, which means that the US will have its own dedicated platform. It seems that Binance is geographically isolating traders, or just complying to regulations for each region they are working on. Honestly though, it's hard to work on a platform and consolidate regulatory compliance since one rule might differ from region to region and perhaps that's what CZ and the team is trying to avoid. Anyhow, I see it as an okay solution for the rampant manipulation still going on. Traders can still use other platforms for cross-region trading though, so I don't see anything wrong with this.