Probably the biggest setback to merchant adoption at this point is price volatility... Price of BTC and all other cryptos moves up and down too much for businesses to do anything other than sell it for fiat right away, which usually incurs some kind of fee between 0.5% - 3%. So by accepting crypto, merchants take a bit of a hit because they must calculate business expenses in terms of a more stable currency (fiat).

Most of my income has been crypto-only for a few years, so I can tell you there is still some friction when cashing out to fiat, no matter how you do it. My customers obviously use crypto for payments as well but we are pretty far from the "mainstream."

On one hand, I think CZ is a sociopath and I'm glad he's out as CEO. On the other hand, its impressive that Binance could absorb this fine and keep going. They've obviously been good at doing what any good business does: continue to make money no matter what, but the problem is they hold (held?) too much sway over the entire crypto industry and its good to see them taken down a peg.

I'm just wondering if you're getting paid to shill Blur and Bitget, or just one or the other... Blur is listed on like 7 other major exchanges already, so it must be for Bitget.

BTW, your posts are 100% AI generated, and once I realize they're not written by a human my eyes just kind of gloss over them.. I can't be the only one who feels like that.

RAREPEPE Back to $200k Floor

The face of the Rare Pepe series on Counterparty, S1C1 RAREPEPE has once again surpassed a floor price of $200k, rendering it one of the most expensive NFTs on Bitcoin.



The last sale of a Rare Pepe on OpenSea took place on Aug 31st, fetching 55 ETH. This equates to a relatively-massively discounted price of roughly $90,475 at the time. Once one or more sales takes place on other marketplaces, the new floor could be as high as $400k, signifying a return to greatness for the Historical NFT scene and all Rare Pepes, as well.

Amazing number of scammers in these lists 

Here's some of the most famous ones:

zhoutong - believed to be behind the hack of Bitcoinica, one of the 1st BTC exchange, Roger Ver famously lost 100s of BTC
pirateat40 - architect of the 1st major Bitcoin ponzi scheme, actually served time in a federal penitentiary over it
Goat (now El Cabron) - ran a mining ponzi, a heavy promoter of the pirateat40 ponzi, welched on a few bets
MemoryDealers (Roger Ver) - ran a famous campaign designed to trick the world into mistakenly purchasing BCH by claiming it was "the real Bitcoin"
🏰 TradeFortress 🏰 - already mentioned here, ran at least two different projects in which the loss of 1000s of BTC occurred

There's a bunch of different accounts that have used the same address as http://Moita22, some of which have been previously red tagged:







We can see that a few different accounts, including Moita22 and Amar jaan, have used the afruja317 twitter handle, so whether Amar jaan is an alt or simply taking credit for Moita22's tweets, they deserve to be tagged as well (oh, they are already tagged).

By listing ORDI, Binance helped legitimize BRC-20, so it is very much their fault. But they knew the demand was there, so they listed it, because making money is what they do best. They're already making millions on trading fees because it is the current hot thing at the moment. Won't be surprised to see them list other Ordinals tokens in the future.

For a long time coins.ph was the only game in town and for most of that time they've charged a flat 3% fee... This has now come down to ~2% because within the last few years a bunch of competitors have come onto the scene.

Its still better for the money to go to local companies than behemoths like Western Union... now people only use WU if they have no clue about how to move money at all.

I'm sure its been mentioned already but for me its been the freedom from banks. I'm no longer at their mercy anymore and have the freedom to move around my own money as I see fit. I don't really even have to use exchanges anymore, and the last time I transferred money from a bank to an exchange was 2014.

Of course every service I use charges a fee of some sort, anywhere from 1-3%, so using BTC isn't necessarily as frictionless as fiat, but the peace of mind I get from knowing that my own money is mine, can never be frozen or controlled, makes it worth it.

The only upside is not every country feels the same way about this issue. All of the giant surveillance state governments do (US, Russia, China), but there are some countries that have taken a more laissez-faire approach because they see Bitcoin as being able to help their people save money by not having to pay it to remittance companies like Western Union. For example, the Philippines has made it rather easy for e-wallet providers to support crypto -- why should they care if it takes a chunk out of profits for Western Union and Moneygram? If it can help their overseas workers send more money back home and into their own economy, they're all for it.

You received a bid of $1M for 49% of the collection and you didn't take it? 

The ERC20 tokens being from 2017 is a good start, and it appears the images are also from around that time, but last I looked at it I didn't see anything that necessarily connected the art with the tokens on the blockchain or elsewhere.

What would help is links to something that proves the "off-chain provenance" of the artwork being associated with the tokens.

Damn bro, that's rough. WingFtpSperver seems to be a legit application, but perhaps you downloaded a virused version:

https://www.download3k.com/Antivirus-Report-Wing-FTP-Server.html

I don't know much about it but it sounds like it could be mis-used in a variety of ways.

If you know the exact name of the voice changer software it would be helpful to post it here.

Also, following the path of the BTC might help. Feel free to PM me if you need help with that, or paste the hacker's address here, if you're comfortable.

I use Dogecoin for transactions just about every day. Its both cheap & fast, and you don't need to invest in it in order to use it as a currency.


You and the guy above you (I'd be surprised if you're not the same person) both responded to a quote from July... Are you really that out of ideas for shitposting?

You really think Dogecoin "has lasted for decades"? I'm curious: when do you think Dogecoin started? 1998?

Yes I remember that canned spiel from her about how criminals are finding "new ways" to perform transactions, including the use of self-custodial wallets, which are, and I quote, an "evermore sophisticated cryptocurrency technology."

I don't believe she is actually this stupid. I do believe she is a sociopath who will say anything to further her own career, including telling bold-faced lies to the nation, but this was written by one of her handlers who thought by saying this she could push her agenda in the right direction. The more people that find Bitcoin, the harder this will backfire on her.

I still highly doubt it. Even if it did, why would you start a topic about it? This belongs in Off-Topic if anywhere at all.


Mmmhmm... And where do you think Microsoft has its headquarters?

This is the stupidest topic I've seen posted in this section in a long time, and the bar is already quite low. Hope this doesn't start some kind of IQ-lowering precedent.

So every time you want to use Bitcoin to buy a gift card, pay a bill, buy any physical or digital good, cash it out in a fiat currency other than the US dollar, its a capital gains event.

Stupid as all hell.

Clearly the government is not getting our best and brightest. To be frank I've only ever met a handful of "smart" government employees. And their jobs were incentive-based, not just a flat salary, which partially explains it.

I understand part of it is they want to make Bitcoin as inconvenient to use as possible so people will stick with the dollar, but in the long run I just don't see that happening. They can attempt to do it through threatening legislation, but its simply not going to work, mark my words.

What do you think about Litecoin adding MWeb? It's like an opt-in privacy feature... transactions don't use it by default, but if you want to use it, its there as an option.


I never thought to check the average size of XMR transactions before but you're absolutely right... Doing some rough extrapolation based on the statistics here, the average XMR transaction over the last 24 hours was 2.82 kb while the average BTC transaction was about 0.2 kb (note this is a rough extrapolation).

So even if XMR txs confirm 5x faster, they are still over 10x bigger, on average.

Regardless, I see the world moving toward a place where Monero will come in more and more handy in the future, despite its negative connotations.

The Eloncoin sig campaign continues to prove it hired some of the dumbest posters to ever have accounts on this forum:

^^^
all of the above accounts were banned, lol

Here's another idiot posting in the long-dead INVECH scam bounty:


The thing is he shares this address with another account:


That account also uses this address:


These accounts also use it, both of which have already been tagged as bounty cheaters:



This warrants tags for the first two accounts.

Here's an update of the biggest Bitget spammers for the month of November:

1. Bitcoinpoly [25]
2. Cryptoababe [17]
3. Best-mary [13]
4. ShayLegal [8]
5. Joseph-P [5]

So its not as much as it used to be, but for the biggest spammers I am just going to leave them a neutral tag that says "part of Bitget spam campaign."

Some of the posts aren't really spammy (compared to the average shitpost on this forum) so they may not be deleted as spam or low-value. Anyone can feel free to try and report them if they want... I just hate amassing Unhandled reports for some OCD reason.