Not really anything new. These sort of schemes have existed even before bitcoin existed. Just instead of being a purely fiat-powered investment scheme, they just plaster things like "bitcoin", "blockchain", "crypto", "decentralized", etc and they use websites with great looking UIs to hopefully trick the newbies.

Depends kung anong wallet gamit mo. Pero kung nasa kataasan ang amount ng bitcoin mo, I'm telling you— kahit tingin kong well adept ako sa larangan ng security at privacy, hindi parin ako komportableng nasa mobile wallet lang ung coins ko.

It will always be a work in progress. I'd imagine Bitcoin wouldn't have a sort of "final form".

Literally everything you see regarding Bitcoin is a development and improvement since the whitepaper was released. Heck, the day the whitepaper was released, the software and source code wasn't even released yet.

Adoption is increasing, but time will tell.

True. Pero looking at their posts, may decent engagement sila. Possibly rin na boosted ung mga social media posts nila kaya mejo marami raming reacts at may mga nagcocomment.

Along with what tranthidung suggested, you could also add statistics on how much the word "bitcoin" is being searched on Google from people in Bangladesh, using Google Trends:

If we're going to take it by it's definition, Bitcoin is actually the only real Decentralized Finance project. Even Ethereum itself, the platform that these tokens run on, isn't even decentralized.

But yea, not bullish on any "DeFi" projects at all.

If you're referring to the quite-recent price rise, I'm guessing that the rise and pullback was because of the boom and bust of the "dEfI yIeLd FaRmInG" thingamajig. Lots of Ether are being used for farming and buying up those yams, sushis, kimchis, and other crap some developers think of.

Mostly online services. VPN/proxy services(Mullvad, PrivateInternetAccess, etc), server and domain hosting services(NameCheap, Vultr, etc), gaming black markets(Sythe, etc), computer hardware(NewEgg), sports betting(NitrogenSports, etc), and such.

I'm not really sure what you mean here lol.

Yeap, that's what actually makes this news relevant, as the alternative exchanges were the newer or the "shady" ones(besides Abra, which immediately revoked the btc/stock trading pairs just after a few months probably due to regulations) that I definitely wouldn't trust with my money.

One thing's for sure though, liquidity and the order book is going to be shite(at least for now).

Or better yet, just move some of your gold allocations to bitcoin.

Man, I'm personally a huge bitcoin bull, but this is definitely not it. While bitcoin can rise 10-20% in a day out of nowhere(just like it just did recently), the opposite is just as possible(just like what happened a lot of times earlier this year).

"Past performance is no guarantee of future results".

Don't really expect prices of some altcoins(in BTC) to be the same this year. While I don't think coins like Ether(ETH) should be priced at $379 or BTC0.0285, to be fair, Ethereum had a really really small community back then and now has a far bigger one.

It's completely up to you. Do you personally think that bitcoin will be worth more in the future? If so, then hold. If not, then sell. It's that simple.

As always, bitcoin could go either way(up or down). Probably put yourself in a situation whereas you can take advantage if bitcoin either goes up or goes down. Probably buy in with 50% of your cash and have the other 50% ready for when bitcoin drops. Again, only you can answer this because we don't have a single idea on your financial situation.

In general though, for people that have little to no idea with investing, Dollar Cost Averaging(DCA) is probably going be the best choice.

Based on Coinbase's card page, it seems like you can choose the "crypto" you want to pay with, and it converts that crypto to USD at point of sale. Pretty much like how Xapo did it with their debit cards in the past which is really really convenient.

Pretty much. This is just good in a way that current Coinbase users won't be needing to again submit KYC/AML information on a separate custodial service; and it makes it more convenient for them too.

This has probably been suggested a thousand times already, but I'm going to mention it again anyway.

For storing passwords, use open source software such as Bitwarden[1] and KeePass[2]. Just make sure to use a really secure master password for your database.

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[1] https://bitwarden.com/
[2] https://keepass.info/

Back in the day when I was still using my Android phone, I was mostly using the investing.com app widget. While it's not the most sort of "modern" looking widget(and it's annoying as I'm a person who likes good UI), I also liked to track and observe the prices of other assets like the S&P500 and other blue chip stocks hence why I preferred it.

While this is very true, it's only going to take probably one person(or a few people) that can read code to publicize it if ever a certain wallet software has some malicious code in it. Only one Twitter/Reddit/Bitcointalk post would probably be enough to expose the nefarious wallet's developers.

You probably need to calm down a bit. Just a single problem with a withdrawal and were already talking about freebitco.in being a scam? Technical problems such as this happens to every other company dude. While you have the right to complain, probably don't come to conclusions that quickly.

Also, probably send a message to TheQuin: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=143168

I'm guessing it's because of the liquidity problem. Yes, there might be demand, but it will most likely be really really small as bitcoiners(understandably so) likes to hodl their coins.

Cool implementation though, I'd give them that, and it's a feature that I'd personally use if my broker has it available.

Of course there is a possibility. Heck, even a typical transaction regardless of address format could also be a hack. But then, can we really do anything about it? And can we even know for sure if it really is a hack in the first place? Unless the address owners actually publicize what the transaction is actually about, then nope. Probably spend your time on something more productive instead.

Err, because the owner probably just wants to? Maybe probably for privacy reasons? Maybe because the owner just paid a number of people? And the list goes on and on. How is this simple moving of funds "suspicious"?