Tom Lee has always been bullish for bitcoin despite the prevalence of bearish sentiments lingering all over the market even though his predictions are a bit off from the movement of the market, yet he never swayed position, ever. BMI was created in order to gauge the market sentiment for bitcoin at a given period in time, and maybe this is just me but I think the said index is biased towards the side of the bulls that's why things don't favor the bears on this one. Anyway, the market seems to be shifting towards a bullish movement lately, and that is evidenced by the thinning sells and aggressive buys (though it's a shame that we haven't crossed $5500 resistance yet after so many attempts recently.)

This would happen if people were to become too lazy and just create machines in order to do work for them. That might be happening now though I don't think we will see the day in which everything is made by AI. For sure, great minds know that such a scenario could happen at any given time and are doing things to avoid just that, and are setting limitations on what they can build and what they cannot. I'm still aware that mankind is still pushing its limitations harder, though still knows the boundaries of their abilities and respects that in order to not create something stupid (though let's be honest, there are quite a few people who are really stupid enough to go beyond things that shouldn't be done, but the majority still knows what's good.) Bitcoin does not do that, nor will ever do that, until, again, people become too lazy and create robots to do work which needs full human intervention and governance.

Cool thing to know that Coinmama's ToS extends well beyond their grasp. I mean, once people bought something from you, shouldn't consumer-merchant relation already end there once people paid something "in full" from you? I think in this instance, Coinmama still wants control from the coins they released to people and that's somewhat scary. Not that I'm with the dude gambling or anything but it's not Coinmama's business anymore on where will the coins be used.

Perhaps those who want to gamble wants to use the aid of privacy coins or mixers just to avoid getting banned from exchanges.

I just hope that what they're doing actually brings something and someone to justice. It's about time that prosecution chase those who erred against the law yet still does it because they are not facing jail time. Should this case go in favor of the prosecution, I hope that this serves as an example that cryptocurrencies are not safe havens for illicit activities such as money laundering, fraud and scams.

One thing and one thing only: governments wouldn't allow this. No matter how intense people's desire for this to come to fruition, of course governments and banks simply wouldn't allow this knowing that they don't have total control over bitcoin. If debt continues to grow and things started to go out of hand, perhaps they'd just write-off debts or make even more money and create even more debt, until such time that they couldn't take it anymore that they'll have to resort into hostilities once more. Bitcoin's deflationary status defeats the point of fiat being inflationary, and in no way would governments and banks would want to deal eith things they can't control at will.

Bitcoin can exist with fiat, but never will it be integrated on financial systems to aid a country's economy. Perhaps as a payment scheme but not something over-the-top to replace fiat currencies.

Ahh yes, the generic website templates can also be grounds for Adsense to not accept a website in their platform. I've seen a lot of sites with generic wordpress templates with nice traffic but still didn't take the cut. OP's website seemed to be not one of those generic-looking sites but apparently after @mjglqw looked for it in the web, views are somewhat sketchy, and must have came from some bots because you don't expect your traffic to come in 100% by directly visiting you. Anyway OP, try again after you have your views sorted out and perhaps you can get adsense into your website.

LBC is a dead platform after stricter KYC and AML compliance were put in place. Also, the liquidity in the said platform isn't the same as those from binance and the likes. People want action and want to be a part of it, and they simply can't get it on LBC that's why they moved into exchanges where they can participate on the run as it happens. Don't get me wrong, LBC is still a nice platform for P2P trades, but in the fast-paced world of cryptocurrencies, LBC is just an ancient relic that can't keep up and might die in the next few years or so.

Nowadays, people only want investments with high returns for a short amount of time, and they find it on cryptocurrencies even without conducting proper research and background checks. Ultimately they end up with losses they can't bear because they have invested on the wrong time, and could only sell to a loss in order to lose more money. Those who came in before them who actually knows what they're doing end up taking the fresh money from unknowing users, resulting for the latter to not come into crypto ever again no matter what happens.

Target market is low or perhaps your views are not organic. Adsense knows if your traffic is inorganic or not, and could therefore be grounds for you to not get accepted in their platform. Also, clicks matter and not just views, for clicks pay a crucial part into getting those ads up and running and useful as well. Are your views organic and not generated by some random stats producer/generator? If so, I couldn't see why Adsense won't accept your site.

CipherTrace and Binance's partnership seem to be fruitful knowing that they have already gotten one prosecution successful. Bitcoin seem to be not that anonymous after all knowing that there are tools out there that could verify where does the coin end and to whom it might belong to albeit not having direct connections to anyone or to any identity. This is a double-edged sword for bitcoin, but if it helps to prosecute people who did wrong to the government and to the people, then perhaps it's a welcome compromise for the sake of justice.

You could say that, but apparently it seems that the miners from China are not really doing that evidently, or if they are, they did a great job of making it masked from the general public. China's plan to ban bitcoin is just the result of them trying to keep things for themselves, especially the flow of money that should be limited to China but comes out of the country due to bitcoin's nature of becoming exchanged into some other currency (especially USD.)

Once bitcoin mining is out of China, I expect some promising results from countries that can sustain efficient and clean mining just like in China, and to finally decentralize the mining power that has long been clumped in China for years.

I beg to disagree. We have had a lot of high-ranking members here in this forum that ended up being scums and did scams to a lot of people. Being a good and trusted member is earned by doing trades and doing good for the forum, not for the time they spent here nor the activity of their accounts. DT2 shouldn't be that strict, and AFAIK ranks only matter when voting for someone to be in the DT1/DT2 and not necessarily staying in the said rank.

Seems like they really are against cryptocurrencies even after some groups in India have already lobbied for the legalization of the said financial tools/assets. This is the second time the draft and framework was reviewed, and also the second time they have rejected or showed negative signs of accepting the said proposal which sucks since there aren't anything really that could harm India's economy should they accept the legalization of crypto. Perhaps people of India need to show more interest regarding cryptocurrencies before RBI and the government of India see this venture as somewhat gainful for their end after all.

I can think of a lot of things but the infamous Mt. Gox hack was, for me, the biggest crime made in the cryptoworld. Not only does it expose a lot of flaws and vulnerabilities of the then young cryptocurrency but it also projected the dangers of having to entrust one's funds into a centralized exchange/entity. The next in line would have to be Silk Road, which was operated supposedly by Ross Ulbricht, which, again, informed the world about the possible use of bitcoin in the criminal underworld due to its pseudo-anonymity, hard to trace transactions and its overall qualities which is pretty much helpful in remaining anonymous while transacting with other people.

Another of McAfee's antics which I gladly wouldn't buy. There are a lot of things in his posts in the past that doesn't seem to be right, or just generates hype and nothing more. It'll be interesting though if he really comes into a single man that has the credentials, the qualifications and the intelligence that has crafted the whitepaper and can explain it thoroughly in front of the world (though we know that that will not happen). For sure this is just another trick of McAfee to make his name ring again and not really help the community into identifying Satoshi.

At this point, only the newbies are interested into knowing who Satoshi is.

I always use the said button religiously, especially on cases wherein the thread is improperly posted on a board where the OP doesn't fit with the general rhythm of the said sub-forum. I still continue to give out my opinion and after submitting my reply, I always make sure that I will report the said post in order for it to get transferred over to the correct board where it will get the much needed attention for a particular topic. As for spams though, it's automatically reported by me whenever I have free time, and I'm currently standing @ 96% successful reports (not that it's important or anything.)

Yeah 2FA works well, and perhaps if you have a spare machine, use that when transacting with something sensitive such as financial accounts, personal emails, storing wallets and whatever that needs additional security. You may have visited a phishing site, but that may not be the end of it, for they can still inject something into your computer that you may not have known. That was a costly lesson learned, but a lesson nonetheless.

Bitcoin's rule on countries with troubled economies is probably one of the best research topics for now. With the addition of Argentina on par with Venezuela having troubles with their own fiat currency, you will have a wider scope of study plus the fact that you can compare the two and establish a working hypothesis as to what can bitcoin actually do aside from being an asset for investment or a hedge against inflation.

$7-B volume of transactions per day is already a large number, but we all know that it's not purely linear transactions that are happening in the whole network. There are multiple cases in which coins are just condensed into different addresses for obfuscation yet always ends up into one single destination ultimately, and if they added that into the $7-B volume, it could ultimately be a lot lower than the actual volume of coins being transacted into the whole bitcoin network--but the figure already is a staggering one even if it boils to $2-$3B actual volume.

I'm doing this on some markets. If I happen to see that there isn't a buy order that goes with my plans, I'd easily snuck in a measly amount to transfer the crypto to a friend or to another account which I control. No confirmation times, fast movement of funds and works like a charm. Or it could be a bot that may have screwed up along the way insta-selling something and someone already has the buy order waiting.

That's why it's also handy to place buy orders on the lowest end of the market just in case.