I also believe in Bitcoin but I'm always trying to be realistic and support my faith with at least some facts.


Unfortunately, it does not guarantee that Bitcoin price will grow that high.
I also have some BTC savings but as I said It is better to be realistic without any blind faith in wealthy future that will come from nothing.

Currency is not growing just because its users got a positive mind.

Unfortunately, Tesla is too bad (starting from the product and ending with production and management issues) and Elon Musk is a doubtful and overhyped businessman.  While traditional auto concerns are making better cars.

Our economy should collapse that much that we should get back to the stone age.
In the modern world, people only use cryptocurrencies if their economy is totally dead and the annual inflation is higher then Bitcoin can loose. So if you are not resident of Venezuela or the other communistic country then you probably won't see see BTC as one of your main currencies.

1. First of all, it doesn't seem that bitcoin will rise that much. Most people still not willing to use it and probably will never start.
2. Why this piece of garbage called Tesla is a car of the future?
3. People already can pay with smartwatch and maybe some other stuff that could be put on their wrist. You have to be more creative to show the future.

Tbh it is pretty funny to see someone's wet dreams about how his satoshies will make him rich in a couple of decades.

It is possible to add more addresses to the channel? For example, if a user sends a transaction via an opened channel to the mixer and then getting a transaction on another address via the same channel?
In this case it seems like mixing information will be stored only on mixer. Or not?

The only advantage of Skrill is that in some countries PayPal is not working or sometimes accounts are only allowed to send payments to ebay while Skrill still works fine.


Approximately a year ago they suddenly forced their KYC and locked all funds on unverified accounts.
I successfully passed KYC but I remember it as a shittiest KYC that I've ever seen. They required to send scans of my bills (where my name is no included) or documents that do not exist in my country. So the only way for me was to make a new bank account and provide bank contract to Skrill. That was a fucking hell.

In most countries including russia voting process is private. Only result is public.
There is plenty of ways of using blockchain in the voting process but if with private votes we will publicly see only the amount of votes given for each candidate. In this case you can still cheat with token distribution and some other things. Anyway, you will still be able to buy votes.
With this voting stuff, you have to remain private and get some benefits of blockchain. Which is pretty hard to test on such big country like Russia.
Don't take this news serious.

Most of the issues with votes are not really related to centralization of the voting process but more about making a decentralized ecosystem for the country so the government could safely issue a new voting token without having control over the vote distribution and control over user wallets.
Russia is a too big country to test such things because in case someone loses his vote then he won't be able to get it back. While remaining of control in the hands of the government won't change anything and will allow them to cheat.

I'm not an accountant but it seems like in most countries governments usually are making new taxes and regulation for crypto faster then they set up some general rules about using crypto. And from my experience, if you are communicating with any tax services then truth will always be on their side and you are the main person that suffers of the lack of clearance in the taxation system.

So is it a service that is sending messages via bitcoin network or separate service that is sending messages by itself, accepts BTC and taking some fees in cryptocurrencies? At the same time there is not much information in the article about how it works and why should I be sure that my messages will go directly to space and not to project devs.

If people are not familiar with cryptocurrencies they won't use it. Why should they buy Bitcoin for fiat currency and then buy whatever they need for it when they can just buy what they need for fiat without messing up with anything else?
LN supposed to be a great thing for offline payments but the only existence of such technology won't make anyone to use cryptocurrencies.

Unfortunately news like this one have zero impact on the crypto community because it is not related to BTC and don't give any volume to cryptocurrencies.
About voting: governmental authorities can still cheat on elections and use blockchain. It will go the same way as it goes with traditional votes.
Meanwhile, in Estonia, everyone is using a centralized online voting system and everything works awesome. Estonian e-government is the best in the world.
So the things that really matters is current political institutions in the country and not what blockchain are they using during elections.

Bitcoin was not really a big threat to the banking system and the amount of lost profits was low for them. Meanwhile, their loud announcements were made during the crypto hype. And tbh they were right because cryptocurrencies were overpriced.

His strategy is to buy something underpriced and sell it on the normal price. This is one of the safest way of investing which can be used to invest huge money. If you invest billions into cryptocurrencies then you are probably retarded.
Once again. BTC was overpriced on that time and Buffet was right.

In case with cryptocurrencies volatility usually goes along with trade volume. For example if your coin have about 1000$ of daily trade volume then if someone sells hit 100$ worth of tokens then he will probably dump the market, what could be way harder if the trade volume was about 100000$.
It can be an investment tool even now. Like gold or fiat currencies but it is still lacking mass adoption to become useful for payments.

Tesla is sweating during its entire existence. Elon Musk already admitted that he has made several serious mistakes as a manager. Their shares were always concidered as speculative and risky and the company could get bankrupt many times without governmental support.
Meanwhile, traditional companies like Volkswagen are developing their own cars with way fewer expenses and without getting money from the government.

Coinbase is commonly used just when users are willing to buy or sell their BTC on a single transaction while on Binance there are more people speculating on rate changes. In this case with their money, they usually perform more than one transaction. Total volume can be high without trading much coins.

Looking backward on those ICOs and other projects, endorsed by famous actors / sportsmen and other kinds of celebrities in most cases were shady. It feels like someone just had decent contacts with celebrity managers and decided to get rise some easy money.
The only safe usage of cryptocurrencies related to sports, for now, is betting.

No matter how secure is your wallet. If someone knows that you own some big amount of money then you won't be so resilient to physical violence. If some of you will get big amount of BTC then don't be greedy / stupid and use a good bitcoin mixer.


Even a gun won't be that useful when someone performs a planned attack when you are not expecting it.

Emm, I did. And that is one of the reasons why I think it will fail.
The story seems to be taken from one of the hundreds of ICOs. And most of them are way overrated. The idea of the decentralized film studio and movie token seems stupid and uncompetitive in the real world.
In this movie we will see a compilation of cliches about cryptocurrencies and ICOs. Already now it seems hackneyed and I can only imagine how it will look in some years after the movie comes out.

It becomes a bit more complicated if you are making an offline payment.
If you are buying something online then the transaction time even now is not a really big deal. The other problem is that in the shop you have to pay and go.


That will be hard if your customer is not using BTC. THen you will have to convince him that he need to use it.

LN won't replace visa because visa customers are not using cryptocurrencies and vice versa.

Generally, you can use any exchange. Just pick one with a good volume and other things like KYC etc. You can choose one from the CMC list.
150-300$ is not really a bad start in crypto. You should also pay attention to the funding method because not all exchanges accept bank transfers (ofc if you are going to use it) and many other specific things.