Bitcoin mixers, especially the obscure and unknown ones are sure to fall under the 'unsafe' category. As for the criteria of 'safety' being used in the article, it only mentioned a handful and not really all, and I know for a fact that Chipmixer uses a different approach in mixing apart from the methods of those included on the list.


Aren't most mixing srrvices centrally operated anyway?

'May be' is an understatement IMO as surely they are the ones who were behind the intlitial stages of the said run. FOMO only caught up lately and up until now they are doing some manipulation on the back lines that's for sure. Right now, there are a lot of factors that can be attributed to the said bull run, one of which is several merchants finally accepting it, Bakkt's tease of launch this coming July and the growing tensions yet again between Beijing and Washington D. C. (trade wars yet again). Halving is also nearing partnered with the projected 2020 economic crash, so yeah.

Calling a rather conservative $50000 for the said price peak as I still can't wrap my head around the thought of bitcoin reaching insane heights (but I'm not saying that it's impossible, though.) with respect to the past bull runs that we have had, figures like more than a hundred thousand USD is very possible, but then again we need a lot of money injected in the crypto market for that to happen. Perhaps USDT-induced pump can suffice just that, but then again it will be totally unstable and we're sure that someone will easily get nabbed by law enforcement in the end should that happen.

Just went to the Starbucks just around the block and the store manager didn't know about such news just yet, and perhaps only the higher-ups of the said company know about this and the information is yet to be disseminated. This might help me with my caffeine addiction and to uae my bitcoins finally on something sensible for me. I just hope that they don't pull the silent takedown of crypto payments once bitcoin again find its way towards the 'dying' part of this pump.

Justin Sun's statement of buying over $40M worth of coins using USDT somehow supports your theory but I don't think we can already assume that exchanges have conspired in order to make this pump happen. If they do then they are subject for market manipulation which already is in place in some areas particularly the US, and so US-based exchanges would have been nabbed by now if this is to be proven. But yeah, I don't think the sudden influx of money in the cryptospace is done by real USD but rather mostly USDT. The only ones who will lose in the end though are exchanges left holding the token if people are intelligent enough to actually withdraw funds immediately after profiting.

We're yet to see a working social media platform that peruses the blockchain on some of its services, though Facebook has already announced its involvement in the said tech, I still don't think that they are really thinking of launching a service connected to the blockchain in the soonest of time. Also, I can see no probable and suitable integration of the said tech in social media platforms. Perhaps its better to leave these platforms as is and not just ride the hype of the blockchain as nothing will ever change except for marketing purposes, of course.

For some people, it already is a great value reserve and serving other purposes aside from what was mentioned. I'm not so sure about 'deterministic sense' though the past cycles of bitcoin suggest that we are always heading north (if that makes any sense) but still, not in a definite fashion/manner. Anyway, it is now changing the financial world in ways one can only imagine back then, and I think that's more important more than anything else, and a subtle break from the constraints of banks helped some nations, too.

No one really knew that this would blow out of proportion and so everyone was caught aback when we suddenly crossed multiple crucial resistance points. With Bakkt teasing their launch sometime in July, this would only get better and would even propel this thing further. Personally I think that the 1st of April boost was really a planned date and event and is just the starting point of this run. $10,000 is just around the corner and with more positive news coming in, FOMO would surely kick in and do its thing.

Eh, no. Just because China banned miners doesn't automatically mean that the demand will be rising. Mind you, similar actions were taken a while back by China and constituents yet price remained stagnant and demand is somewhat dead. Perhaps this has something to do more with direct manipulation and Bakkt teasing the market rather than China again, for the market has since matured ever since China started playing games in 2015.

He never did, but he sure lingered on the fact that bitcoin could very well be a great contender for a digital currency, which bitcoin is used today. From the quotes and posts you linked in here, it clearly state Satoshi's oversight of what's to come given the nature of his creation. Free from banks, anonymous, deflationary and of course, peer-to-peer, this is what he really had in mind and not overthrow the current financial system that we have right now.

Whatever he created, it's working real good and we are reaping the bemefits off of it.

Physical thefts would soon occur rampantly, and the possibility of governments hoarding bitcoin as a substitute for gold in reserves is possible too, though the scenario of bitcoin reaching $1M a piece is somewhaf improbable unless hyperinflation struck the USD in our lifetimes (which is definitely not going to happen.)  Up to now it has always been a question that has posed many answers, though in reality we'll never know unless we get there.

He's a great economist and an experienced trader, I'm pretty sure of that. But when it comes to bitcoin and other disruptive fintech that has been introduced recently, I don't think they have studied the said subject matter quite well to throw shade just like that, and to think that they are vaguely stating things just like that in order to cause a buzz. Either way, bubble or not, I'm pretty sure bitcoin already helped in the wealth redistribution somehow (I'm one of the lucky ones) and will continue to do so as long as people get to know about it. Peter Schiff can rant all he wants, but then again he knows that the stock market scene is going to collapse any time sooner and the only viable option is to hold other assets such as bitcoin.

It's funny and a shame at the same time that a country boastfully owns gold for its reserves, only to know in the end that they don't fully have the rights to spend it or use it on any things they like or wish to since they need to ask permission first for their own property. I wonder what would be the reaction of other countries if they found out about this. To be fair though, everyone under the European Central Bank would have the same treatment, or would have the same process if they'd like to use that gold in reserves (CMIIW, thank you) so Italy is not alone on this ordeal.

There isn't anything to recover, IMO, as the prices that we all saw the past few days are just the results of an over-inflated and over-hyped bitcoin with FOMO on the side. Correction would surely find its way before we see any grand push within the next few days, and I'm pretty sure correction has long been overdue for bitcoin as we are already 10+ weeks in the greens, and it has to come down somehow. $10000 is very plausible at this rate, though I wouldn't expect it to happen within just the next few days.

The only thing that I don't like with bitcoin (or bitcoin wallet clients, I think is more appropriate) is that it doesn't tell the user whether the address that I've pasted on the 'send' tab is something that can really receive bitcoin or not. I know there are ways to discern whether the address is a bitcoin address or not, but it's not being implemented on most wallet clients just yet. I've been seeing multiple users, especially beginners who are quite confused on how things work for bitcoin and so I think it's nice if the devs can come up with a way to display 'incompatible address' if one user pasted a wrong address on the wallet client.

Volumes on exchanges has since calmed down and the buying side seemed to have softened up too, so I don't think we will be seeing an extended version of this bull run unless the bulls have gotten some more steam and support from the community. At this point, the price has since subsided sub-$7000, though I'm pretty sure a lot of people have already made quite a fortune out of that crazy run towards $7400. I'm just afraid of the incoming correction since we rose like crazy over the past few weeks, but I think that's inevitable at this point.

You could say that, but if that is indeed the truth this price rise is somewhat precarious in nature and someone made a lot of profit by using the long questioned Tether tokens. Personally I think Justin's move made a domino effecy, and if that $40M buy is true, most traders used it as a signal for themselves and collect profits as they please, too. Right now the reason for the rise is somewhat vague, though I don't think it's just Justin and Tether that is at play here.

It seems that Liechtenstein already learned some lessons by studying the ill effects of ICOs on ogher countries who first started the trend. It's actually a great move considering that they already have a basis on their decision, moreso an actual figure to work with in order to draw a reasonable line for regulating the cryptospace and traditional investments. This is what should be done by other countries, checking all relevant parameters and figures set by those who already hopped in on the trend and try to use those numbers in order to come up with a better framework, not outright banning nor letting the market free from everything.

It's not only the scammers but also the number of greedy and gullible people believing anything regarding false promises and exponential gains in just a few days/weeks. I guess it's pretty normal for any financial-related ecosystem to be plagued by scammers, and even in fiat you'll see numerous scams and con artists lingering around, no matter how hard and aggressive regulations are and how strict rules can be.

Market cap is just the total value of all coins mined and nothing else. It does not hold a huge significance on our stride and can easily be changed once the price changed. For some, it signifies strength and dominance over the market, but personally I find it as an aimless metric something that can easily be manipulated at will. Nevertheless, it can still tell us something about growth and the current state of bitcoin, and reaching $200B is something that most people back then believed would take a long time to break once again.