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8601  Economy / Services / Re: Luckybit Twitter campaign round 2 on: September 17, 2020, 08:49:06 AM
@yahoo62278 could you check why we still didn't receive payment for the week #4? If I'm not mistaken, it should have arrived at the beginning of this week.

I did receive the payment for week #4.
And afaik the rule is that if something is wrong you should PM yahoo62278 to ask LuckyBit team check  Wink
8602  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 17, 2020, 08:17:56 AM
If Apple and Microsoft announce a long term holding position in BTC

Along with Samsung ,AMD and Nvidia.

500k a coin could happen.

Something to dream about.

Grin you forgot to add Berkshire Hathaway
And I'm not sarcastic.
8603  Economy / Speculation / Re: COVID-19 Vaccine Will Cause Bitcoin Crash on: September 17, 2020, 07:34:41 AM
With that in mind, they need liquidity and turn their assets into cash. It will cause a crash once they liquidate their holdings for the buying of the vaccine.

1. I've read papers telling that vaccine is expected to be rather cheap. Under 20 EUR or maybe even under 10 EUR. And this is said by the farma companies.
This means that maybe it's expensive for governments, but not for individuals. Governments don't sell gold, they just print more paper.
2. Even if it'll be a "crash", it'll be a bear trap.
3. If the governments need even more money then the fiat will be diluted even more, so I expect gold, silver, bitcoin actually rise. Even the govts of the countries with stronger economies, if they want to get to strengthen their currency, they'll need time (good/stable/profitable working time) so I'm not worried of sudden crash.


Edit:  (I forgot to write) Most probably the vaccine will be flu-vaccine-like: you'll have to take one every now and then. I have more hopes in something like this than the currently developed vaccines.
8604  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Kraken Wins Bank Charter Approval on: September 17, 2020, 07:06:20 AM
In a world where (some) banks still do nasty things when people send or receive money from crypto exchanges, this is great news. Kraken being a bank, the other banks will have no longer reasons for their crap.
Of course, this open a new world of opportunities for Kraken, good for them.

With all the KYC rules, the exchanges were already pretty close to banking, so it's quite a natural step forward and probably other exchanges will do the same.
Then we can have proper cypto cards, then they can become payment processors (cypto->fiat, but also fiat->crypto!) and many other.

Of course, all this works under KYC...
8605  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Will bitcoin transaction fees be too high in the future? on: September 16, 2020, 02:12:51 PM
I expect the transaction fees become rather big.
But most probably the future will bring a big variety of off-chain transaction types and only bigger amounts will be moved on-chain, of which most will not have very big priority, hence more reasonable fees (especially considering the amounts transferred).
I hope I'm wrong, because if this will happen then we may have a bit too many types of KYC-tied custodian wallets too...
8606  Economy / Lending / Re: can you please help me? I'm looking for a loan. on: September 16, 2020, 02:07:36 PM
I want to get a loan

Since you didn't say a word about collateral, you seem to be asking for "a donation".
Sorry, nobody sane would give you such amounts of money just because you ask nicely.
Just think on this...
8607  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Binance sued for money laundering over stolen bitcoin. on: September 16, 2020, 12:16:50 PM
Withdrawing 2BTC / day can be risky, any custodian wallet, including Binance can easily seize the funds if they get the chance.
Binance has also some bad guys caught in their history (see here or recently here). Of course, catching a few rotting fish when half of the pond stinks, is not enough.

However, what Zaif exchange does is not so much related to Binance doing anything wrong. They try to deflect public eyes from them to somebody bigger. They want to hide their incompetence, which is .. childish.
8608  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Crypto service with Bank card. on: September 16, 2020, 09:54:46 AM
As far as I know there was a google spreadsheet which had list of services that provides crypto debit cards. They sheet had all information like country availability, if they are anonymous or not and their current status. I will post it over here if i find it.

I guess that you are talking about this one: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DRbTeMCzb4UeXI0YlAzBxMc2u2i0cN_17Ql6eMngK6E/edit#gid=0
It was not updated for long period of time and I forgot about it, but it was still there in my bookmarks  Wink
I don't know how much reliable still is after so long.
8609  Other / Meta / Re: Does Vod deserve VIP status? on: September 16, 2020, 07:33:00 AM
If VIP would be like we'd expect to be, the answer would be yes.
But here VIP means 50BTC donated and we're back to the same problem you had with the "Donator" position: it would be unfair vs the actual donators.

I also think that a special badge or status is the proper way to go. Sorry.
8610  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Crypto service with Bank card. on: September 15, 2020, 02:44:40 PM
I need to know some crypto services (if any) who issue Card to their clients so that the clients can withdraw cash using an ATM. A good one that will not suspend the account for dealing with large amount.

First of all, you should have stated your residence area.
Some card issuers are in Europe, others in US, others in Asia/Pacific area and some may be more oriented to Russia (there were 1-2 such in the past, but I didn't follow).


I can't tell how well they handle large amounts, but I can surely tell it's expensive to withdraw at ATM, at least from Wirex card. I also have AdvCash, but I didn't use it as much yet.
Revolut, as basic account, allows only very limited ATM withdrawal, it's not really a Bitcoin card (you may fund it though with fiat from exchange) and the internet is full of horror stories about locked accounts/funds.
8611  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency on: September 15, 2020, 02:29:48 PM

That's an incorrect perspective. It's not against Monero. Just read:

Those are just free audits of Monero code. It is only fair that taxes are sometimes well spent.
8612  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: $625,000 Bounty on cracking the Monero coin on: September 15, 2020, 01:54:27 PM
Now, they want to crack Monero?

I think that making the transactions traceable would be already enough for IRS.
Of course, if that'll ever happen for real, Monero will become pretty much useless.
Until then we may only receive "free audits of Monero code" from the bounty hunters  Grin


AFAIK, it's CipherTrace that's working on tracking Monero's transaction or privacy. It's not possible IMO but we'll see if they'll able to do it.

CypherTrace claims are not to be taken serious. It's more "a commercial". As somebody said, "We will have to see if this tool is going to lead to some "big" court cases". That's the only ever indicator I expect to see if the tool will ever work. ....I don't think so.
8613  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: Keepkey Wallet on: September 15, 2020, 01:24:11 PM
who doesn't have enough budget and wanted to invest on a cheap but good hardware wallet it's a good offer for me just wondering if they're good or not.

If you stay on Bitcoin only or at least don't play with many different altcoins, Nano S is just fine and imho Nano X is wasted money.
And if with the current 20% off is still too expensive, wait for better offers.

Meanwhile, especially if you know a bit more about computers, you can use a TailsOS USB stick with Electrum as cold storage (just make sure it never goes online and also make sure you keep your seed written on paper). You may need some reading to do it right and it's not as convenient as a hardware wallet, but it'll be safe.
8614  Economy / Economics / Re: re: "Warren Buffett invests $6 billion in Japan's five biggest trading houses" on: September 15, 2020, 10:14:24 AM
You can argue back or ignore it, but one thing you can't do here is delete the message because you disagree with it.  Maybe grow up a bit.

There were many others telling that it's only diversifying and it's not actually a bet against US economy. I don't think it's related to arguing against him or being repetitive.
I don't understand why it was removed (it could be smth personal or a mistake?). But as said, it's in a self-moderated topic...


Berkshire has how many hundreds of billions invested in the US market and US companies? And you think $6 billion in Japan demonstrates he’s bearish on the US market?  Buffet likes investing on favorable terms, and the five biggest trading houses that dominate the Japanese market represent exactly that- a chance to put capital to work in a group of businesses that dominate a market with few outside competitors. It’s not an indication of what he thinks of the US economy at all.


I think that Japan had some bad time and now it may recover and that's what WB is betting on. As simple as that. And I also agree: it's not related to US economy.
8615  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Has a Bitcoin Transaction ever been censored? on: September 15, 2020, 07:01:55 AM
Were there any Bitcoin transactions that were actually censored in the history of Bitcoin?

I think that you have misunderstood it.
The network doesn't care about the source of money. 99% sure the miners also don't care.
The recipient of the money, a company, may however do censoring. That's the "beauty" of custodian wallets  Grin

If you do a search for account closed gambling wallet site:bitcointalk.org you'll find that some exchanges / wallets may not allow money coming from gambling.
Also the wallets known to be related to known hacks are being watched and most exchanges may seize those coins.


I think that this is the censoring Charlie Lee was talking about, not about actual transactions.
8616  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: [Free Raffle] 🔥Win $25 in Ethereum🔥 on: September 14, 2020, 01:55:48 PM
I'll pick 4.
Interesting way to promote your exchange  Cheesy

And yep, the fees are crazy (actually if I win I'll keep the funds exactly for various fees).
I advise OP to wait and pay the winer at least in week-ends.
8617  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Storing your Crypto in Exchanges is better than using Cold Wallets! on: September 14, 2020, 01:36:21 PM
When you seriously come to think about it - storing your Crypto in exchanges is better than using cold wallets.

Of course this is correct if you only have a couple of dollars worth of coins.
If you have anything meaningful I don't think that anybody sane would leave the funds onto the hands of various businesses / exchanges or not, even with KYC. And I'll tell you why:
1. Bitcoin is not properly regulated and you may end up with your funds seized by govt.
2. Bitcoin related businesses are not properly regulated either and a hack is easy to be faked. PS. Where is Binance's "official address" this year?  Cheesy (Is it Malta, China, Singapore or somewhere else?)
3. Nothing is too big to fail / fall. A business that went bankrupt for whatever reasons will not pay your funds.
4. If the business will leave you without money, will you be able to hire good lawyers to fight for your money? With what funds? And with what odds for success?

All in all, I expect everybody sane who has life changing funds in Bitcoin will use (offline) cold storage for them.
8618  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Unstoppable Wallet on: September 14, 2020, 07:53:35 AM
The good part is that the code is there on Git ( and since OP didn't put links, here we are: https://github.com/horizontalsystems )
I'd still like to hear about 3rd party review of the code, made by somebody I trust (yes, I know that this will take time).
At least the apk is indeed made from the Git code (according to walletscrutiny.com), good!

OP, you seem to be on the right track, but it'll need time.
And a question: does this wallet work with hardware wallets? (I want to see if it's a worthy competitor for Mycelium, or "not yet").
8619  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin on Ethereum is Booming: Closing in on $1 Billion in Value on: September 14, 2020, 07:43:13 AM
Bitcoin holders continue to move the value of their digital gold onto the Ethereum blockchain, defying recent price drops in both currencies.

This is absolute newspaper-like crap. How can they move "the value"? And how can they be considered holders if they don't own those coins anymore?
"Not your keys, not your coins", remember?

It seem defi is the next big thing. Many investors are taking interest in cryptocurrencies because of defi. Manybe who know ethereum may trade over $1, 000 before end of this year.

People seem to have short memory. There were the ICOs, "the big thing" that turned out to be big thing only for scammers. Now there's DeFi which is a greed-driven bubble which I don't see how it could end up well.
Keep your eyes open and don't gamble invest more than you really afford to lose.
8620  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: CipherTrace claims to be able to trace Monero Transactions on: September 13, 2020, 08:23:14 PM

Thank you, I've read myself the news some time ago somewhere. And I didn't say the news is fake. My advice was for the safety of that guy. Sorry if it was misinterpreted.
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