If you noticed a lot of new community and users have shown interest on cryptocurrency during locked down of course this is due to staying at home. Even now with crisis, bitcoin remain strong, even without new investors it can still stand but its not totally on bitcoin but also to other coins such as altcoin relates to defi.
Its just hurting that forsage project become known and popularity of ethereum connects with this, but this is a scam ponzi scheme.
You are missing the point here, yeah Bitcoin might have defied all odds when it was the first one to recover in majority of the asset markets out there but it doesn't mean it has been proven and tested that it can stand when the situation of this pandemic worsened. If we see more companies and businesses close and the unemployment rate rise I don't think that the crypto market will be as immune as we think. Technically Bitcoin rising earlier is a strong case of it going down due to influence of whales shorting it rather than the real affects of the pandemic as economically speaking the world isn't as bad financially as compared to where we are now, we can't really be complacent or confident because Bitcoin is doing good now. |
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A lot of people are saying that Bitcoin was born during a recession and then somehow they connected it for being some kind of safe haven during these kind of times, their statement making it stronger is this time where Butcoin quickly recovered after a sharp drop to 4,800$ the problem is this wasn't a real test on how Bitcoin will stand when we face the real economic problem this pandemic will bring. I know jobs will be cut and a lot of businesses will shut their operations and will inevitably affect all kinds of assets including crypto.
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I doubt that it will be the medical industry who will be the "big winner" here since from what I know the medical industry cannot take advantage of a pandemic just for them to profit from it. If a vaccine comes they cannot set it into a high price that only a few can be cured from it the government and the international bodies will make something happen that will be fair for everyone and make the vaccine be available for those who are affected. Yes the medical industry will profit from the research and development of the vaccine but they can't limit the production of the vaccine itself so that the price will be more expensive, this will just violate a lot of peoples' human rights.
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-snip- Note the difference. The news article suggests that Gratkowski was already a suspect, had searched his house and equipment, found a Coinbase account, and subpoenaed Coinbase for his account history. In reality, they had no idea who the suspects were, and used Coinbase to specifically identify people. While the implication is that the Coinbase records were simply another piece of evidence for them to use, in reality, Coinbase identified by name and address an otherwise unknown person to law enforcement. Make of that what you will. Technically you are right but the thing is Gratkowski is still wrong using that argument that transactions done with Coinbase is private since we all know that KYC and AML procedures apply in custodial wallets and these documents and information can be pulled out anytime by the authorities not only by the IRS for legal purposes such as this one where he bought child pornography. If bank records and transactions can be subpoenaed I don't know why he thought or even his lawyer made Bitcoin transactions through Coinbase be private since they aren't covered by some kind of secrecy privilege. |
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These are very useful tips, in general. All of them are connected to each other from 1-6, but there is something special to number 7 which is somewhat I felt during the last 2017 Bullrun. Too much optimism and confidence that the market will continue to rise that even though I already have doubled my profit still I didn't sell my holding but rather to hold it. Something that I miss about and absolutely a regrettable moment. I lost that opportunity and that for sure it won't come back. Felt that I was greedy at that time and that is also the reason why many crypto holders are often to lose.
Now that we are in uncertain, it could be better to take every chance we have even though it was just small. We should also have to be contented enough in small things not only for the big one.
There is a good chance that aside from being greedy you may have also fell in the hype of what you are seeing with the news as well as the FOMO happening in the market. For newbie traders as well as newcomers they will always be optimistic when it comes to buying and holding their crypto assets as this is there chance the grow but the wrong thing about this is they lack the analysis and research needed to see if their goal is still possible at that moment or there is just reaching it with their imaginations. If you trusted what others are saying and didn't do anything to back it up then it is your fault, maybe you should learn from it since this was really a big opportunity to be wasted during that time. |
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Ever since I've seen that ICOBench has this "premium listing" on their websites for ICO projects to ba shown more I know that they will have some kind of bias going on their website since you won't really see any kind of fairness when this happen. Way back 2019 as well SEC also charged them on having paid reviews in their website which just shows how dirty they are in showing their viewers the ratings they have in their website are not tainted in any form. Also if they are still under investigation with the SEC I don't think it is good time for you to contact them right now since you really don't want to be connected with ICOBench when the authorities are under their noses.
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This could be used in the wrong way even if you put some kind of qualification there where only a selected few has the ability to hide their posts when they report it. I agree with what OGnasty has said and you are giving these people the ability to censor posts even before the judgement of the MODs themseves, it's like you are already giving them the power to delete a post even before they are judged by a Mod. Maybe the best thing to do this is after reporting them to a MOD is just tagging the user so that people will know that there is a pending accusation against him. Still this is not the best idea but this is more better compared to censoring users while they are being reported.
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Yes I know about his argument with Coinbase being a private services but not unless we are talking about off-chain transactions happening in Coinbase he is wrong to make this an argument as still their transaction goes through Blockchain. We are talking about off-chain transactions. He deposited to an address on Coinbase, and later paid an illegal service out of a different address on Coinbase. There would probably have been no clear link simply from looking at the blockchain between his deposit and withdrawal, as the first would be to an individual deposit address, while the latter would have come from Coinbase's collective hot wallet. Presumably without Coinbase's compliance law enforcement were unable to make a definitive link between the two, which is why the went to the effort to subpoena Coinbase. According to how the Feds discovered the illegal transaction they have analyzed Gratkowski as one of the customers in the website using Blockchain. Federal agents used an outside service to analyze the publicly viewable
Bitcoin blockchain and identify a cluster of Bitcoin addresses controlled by
the Website. Once they identified the Website’s Bitcoin addresses, agents
served a grand jury subpoena on Coinbase—rather than seeking and
obtaining a warrant—for all information on the Coinbase customers whose
accounts had sent Bitcoin to any of the addresses in the Website’s cluster.
Coinbase identified Gratkowski as one of these customers. With this
information, agents obtained a search warrant for Gratkowski’s house. At
his house, agents found a hard drive containing child pornography, and
Gratkowski admitted to being a Website customer.
So definitely it is an on-chain transaction based on how the discovery went down since they have been tracking this website and have linked the Bitcoin address and traced it to the customers who have paid them using Blockchain. So yeah it would have been better if the judge said it about blockchain being a public record and the authorities have just used Coinbase to verify if the transaction was legit. |
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I say City beats Madrid, Juventus beats lyon, so its city versus juventus. Athletico beats Leipzig, Barcelona beats Napoli, Bayern beats Chelsea, psg beats Atalanta. So, city versus juventus is hard, I would say City just because they have a possibility of not going to Europe so they might want to put everything on the field a bit more extra this time around and Madrid looks like La Liga champions so they might lack the motivation.
Barcelona versus Bayern looks a bit more Bayern to me, Barcelona normally plays very well but after the break they have lost a lot of points. So, it would be city versus Bayern, and atletico versus psg. I would say city takes Bayern and psg takes atletico as well. So it would be city versus psg finals and I feel like city could go all the way this year for sake of not going there again for a while.
I don't know about Juventus but recently I can say that they aren't the best form lately. Just about last 3 days ago they conceded 4 goals to AC Milan where they could have easily won, they haven't been that careless in a long time now and also during the first leg of their Round 16 they failed to convert even a single goal even if they have the ball most of the time. Juventus basically might be in trouble of having an early exit in the CL if they keep this kind of phase going. |
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You should watch out for this, the recent price increase might just be caused by new people buying in BNB with their fiat currency so that they can trade with their accounts. If you think about it BNB has really no real purpose outside of Binance's platform so even if the price might be pumping right now it might not be because of people actually holding it but by people just buying it to be traded to another crypto. Other cause is people have sold their crypto to BNB in preparation for another trade.
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Profit is profit when it comes to trading, even if you did not have followed your plan you still have profited from it and this is what is important compared to you losing your money. Maybe the lesson for this is do not follow what you feel but follow what you have planned, the next time you buy and hold a crypto do not overthink about it but rather check about your plan and backup plan to see if the current chart is still a possibility if it's not then you should adjust your strategy, also do not listen to noise as it will always cloud your judgement.
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You can hide it if you are just holding it in your hardware wallet but when it comes to transacting with Bitcoin you can't really hide your identity with it since everything can be connected in with blockchain. Technically your friend is right when it comes to hiding your identity since right now with regulations and governments more being involved in the crypto industry with all of their AML procedures set in place your identity will be really really hard to hide, but as long as your aren't transacting and just holding your Bitcoin you are simply anonymous with other people.
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And what would you expect from a forum named Bitcointalk? We are lucky that this forum has involved and let other alts have their own sub section here and typically you will almost always see new projects popping out and there is really a few discussions going on aside from their ANN threads. From what I see aside from Bitcoin we will only see alts like ETH and the stablecoin Tether to be mentioned in other boards outside of the the alt section because ETH is the 2nd popular crypto and Tether being a stablecoin that can be traded in a crypto exchange and also its scandals. Cardano is not a bad crypto you are just looking at the wrong forum to see discussions or talks about it, maybe try visiting their subreddit page if you are looking for some content.
This is an altcoin speculation sub and Cardano should just have more attention while the fundamentals in terms of tech were always there and now the team is delivering where we have waited for over a long time. Btw, I have read every single article and Reddit post about Cardano in the past years, just the reason why I'm 100% convinced Cardano will become the future Crypto leader in terms of tech and adoption. On topic: I think a set of top altcoins will survive the next phase, which will be crypto adoption and implemented real use-cases for business and governments. Cardano and some other high quality projects like Ethereum, ChainLink, Stellar, etc will all have their share and own use-cases. And that's what I said that a lot of altcoins are not being talked about outside of their ANN threads, this just might be due to several reasons like the altcoin is not so popular, the crypto didn't do well with their marketing, or they are just under the radar because a lot of traders are focusing on other crypto right now. Most traders I have seen or speculators are mostly focusing on ripe cryptos that are ready to explode and maybe that's why cryptos like CAD isn't making a lot of noise right now. |
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If Libra is the Latin equivalent word to the English Pound, then I guess it won't fall under the royal copyright on Pound. I believe copyrights or more accurately trademarks do not cover translations in different languages.
Well, if Facebook is taken to court over the word then, as hinted by figmentofmyass, it is going to be one of their smallest legal battles.
As to the word Libra being used by scams, it has already happened a long time ago, way back when the project was still in its earliest stages.
Translations or not Libra being a brand name or a cryptocurrency is not covered by trademarked law even if it is copyrighted (refer to my post above). But if in this case the UK government will come after the "Libra" name I believe translations are not covered by it simply because the name "Libra" is the origin of Pound not the other way around they can say everything they want but translations aren't covered by copyright in terms of its origin. |
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It's a fact not a "mere saying" Bitcoin was literally created after the 2008 recession but it doesn't imply anything about it being a hedge in the next recession. The ones who have stated that Bitcoin can be some kind of safe haven in times like this are just expressing their opinion when it comes to it having a huge upside compared to stocks or other assets during the recession. But the thing is Bitcoin's price movement was not yet tested in a recession and we can't really say that this will be some kind of hedge if we haven't seen its performance when all the markets are affected by a recession.
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You can compare Bitcoin to other companies who didn't started with a bang and began slowly before being popular. Companies like Amazon and Facebook didn't have a lot of customers/users during the first early years but when the digital age started to develop this is when we see how they start booming. You can say the same thing to Bitcoin where until now we can't see any kind of mass adoption happening. It is not because not a lot of people are open to using Bitcoin it is just because we don't see the government taking the first steps on being open with the crypto industry making it hard for people to adopt it faster.
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You might be mixing copyright laws with trademark laws in this situation. Copyright is mostly about artistic work protection while trademark laws is about protection of a company's brand or business. If the term "Libra" is copyrighted it doesn't mean that they are also protected by trademark laws since they aren't related to even the same industry or have the same coverage. Basically if they want to use any word there to be their upcoming brand or product they can used it as long as it is not used by any other company or protected by copyright. Best Example I can give you how trademark law works is the Italian Company named "Steve Jobs" where even Apple didn't win in case. 'Steve Jobs' is an Italian company — and Apple can't do anything about it
After years of legal battles, a pair of brothers — Vincenzo and Giacomo Barbato — have successfully managed to win a legal battle against Apple, earning the right to call their company “Steve Jobs,” after Apple’s iconic founder, according to la Repubblica Napoli.
The fight began back in 2012, when the two brothers noticed that Apple had never trademarked Jobs’ name. The pair were already in the process of starting their own clothing and accessory company after spending years creating products for other brands, and decided that “Steve Jobs” would be the perfect name for their new brand.
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Yeah, if a person is originally from English background then it’s like whole forum is their home and they have better chances of getting merits. I mean if local board has people from same community then overall forum has English plus rest posters reading the OP thus making it more widespread and should get recognised faster for merits. Where are you going at here? OP is complaining about how the competition for merit is tough in local boards because there is a whole group abusing it. He didn't point out anything about English speaking people getting more merits compared to local board posters and besides no one is stopping them on learning English in their own and be better at it if you think that way. |
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The problem is Bitcoin transactions are even if not handled with a custodial service will still be recorded in Bitcoin's blockchain which all transactions are shown publicly, it is just unfortunate that the judge didn't go to this route but instead point out that Coinbase is a financial institution where they can legally obtain particular transactions of a person. His argument wasn't that the transactions themselves were private - obviously this is not the case since every transaction is publicly recorded on the blockchain. His argument was that his Coinbase account history was private. This guy is currently in prison, which is obviously where he belongs, but the case does highlight the fact that centralized exchanges are anything but private. It is so utterly naive to think that Coinbase, the exchange which hands over their customers' data to the IRS to harass for taxes, the exchange which employs software developers who aided dictators in torturing and murdering citizens to help spy on their users, the exchange which sells their customers' data to third parties, the exchange which has a partnership with the DEA and other three letter agencies to help them analyze blockchain transactions, would do anything other than immediately hand over all the relevant data. Coinbase are anti-privacy. Anything and everything you do involving Coinbase should be assumed to be public knowledge. Yes I know about his argument with Coinbase being a private services but not unless we are talking about off-chain transactions happening in Coinbase he is wrong to make this an argument as still their transaction goes through Blockchain. Even before this case was on the news we have known very well that Coinbase is known to comply with the IRS when it comes to handing out their customers' transaction data in trading for AML purposes. His transaction was no different and the subpoena signed by the judge is valid. |
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Yeah that's about right, Serie A teams are not known to be big spenders but they are known to be big sellers. Teams like Inter and Juve can make signing records on fees just as low as 50 million Euros as compared to other top flight leagues we have. Either way even if they aren't known to be big spenders the players they are buying as well as the players they develop can quickly contribute to the team. Although I can say as well that 200 million Euros they have spent on this season alone is something to be ashamed of compared to small spenders lik Atalanta and Lazio. |
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