I bet $1000 that you will have any coinjoined bitcoin rejected from at least one centralized exchange, Wasabi or not.

I am following the context of what's being discussed. You are desperate to take advantage of newbies by convincing them that they should use "mixing sites", which are honeypots of data that can steal your coins:

I am here (along with Theymos) to warn users NOT to use these centralized "mixers":


You can insult Theymos and I by saying we are on our periods, but we are protecting newbs from having their coins stolen or tracked. In the spirit of the 15th anniversary, you should also read the Bitcoin whitepaper and see what Satoshi Nakamoto had to say about trusted third parties:

The month of octobar remains positive mostly due to its previous month's usual negative price action. The month of november can be positive or negative but from december to march before the year of bitcoin halving, the bitcoin market shows a correction to liquidate long and short positions is mass before the bull starts its rally. This is historically accurate but this time it can be different though i think history will repeat itself this time too. I don't think the bitcoin price will exceed 40k this year nor will it go down to the $28k level.

I have been around a long time. You see some deflation in electronics and tech. but most everything else just goes up and 🆙.

Everyone dislikes inflation... It's hard to argue. But deflation is the "other side of the coin", and noticeable deflation is not a gift either. It's from the realm of "everything seems fine, but it's getting worse and worse every day"

"Deflation is a steady decline in the prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.
As demand falls, companies are forced to reduce production and lower prices. Fewer employees are needed to produce less goods, and companies start laying off staff, which leads to higher unemployment. Increased unemployment causes demand to fall because people have less money."

In this situation, I would favor low inflation, so stimulate the economy and invest the "skinny money"

There are several factors at play in that debacle. Melvin Capital CEO is well versed in trading and he increased his short positions with the confidence that he was shorting GME in much greater quantities than the free float, so even if everyone else went long, there won't be enough shares to push the price against him...

However he did not factor in his calculations that the retail community would discover this anomaly, which clearly should have been illegal and proceed to rally against hedge funds to buy all the free float and never sell. Therefore eventually, the increasing borrowing costs of holding a short position drives the shorters to margin calls and bankruptcy, even if they pull the manipulative trick of shorting beyond the free float.

Nevertheless, in another notoriously criminal example of "too big to fail", dark overlords of corporate america stepped in and this time they literally removed the buy button from the then favorite retail app Robin Hood, arguably the most sinister manipulation of free markets ever observed...

Result was GME eventually calmed down and reverted to a more modest valuation, as the holders could not buy anymore but only were permitted to close their positions, so most of the hedge funds could cover their shorts without blowing up (and even profited on the downturn), and Melvin Capital was just the token sheep that was allowed to "fail" to maintain a semblance of legitimacy. Another pure evil chapter from the history of Wall Street...

The question is what leverage the Melvin capital used ?  
And why he did not used limit orders to short ? If only using 2x-3x leverage wich i think he did used then just before the liq price to use next limit order with a bit of higher quantity Even 5x Will move liq price way up and it could be safe.
Or did Melvin capital used futures or options trading way to short it ?

Then I think the melvin capital ceo has no knowledge about much of trading ?
Did he learned hard way so next time he Will be better

Higher energy prices lead to higher prices for the rest of the products and for shipping. For prices to fall and deflation to occur, there must be overproduction of at least oil, but the oil cartel has reduced oil production. Therefore, I personally do not see any conditions for the onset of so-called deflation at the moment

Nobody should be using an online password manager; especially when it comes to sensitive information like private keys. There is no reason to trusting intermediaries when you have cryptography. Install KeePassXC on both your main computer and your mobile. Use a strong password to encrypt both password databases. Back them up. Both the databas(es) (digitally) and the encryption pass (on paper).

@STT. It might also be they do not care because they have already made much money for their needs, wants and for their retirement. The price pumping to another all time high will only be something similar to a bonus hehehe.

In any case, what does everyone think of this speculation? I only found this on social media.

I won't argue about the main part - everyone has the right to their opinion
I will answer the question about the use of weapons of mass destruction, and we understand that we are talking about nuclear weapons.

The fact is that, for example, Western developed countries are categorically against the use, because They are well aware that a nuclear war is a stick that will hit both sides, and VERY painfully and for a long time.

For countries with developed economies, familiar comfort, stability - even a limited blow to their territory will again throw them into a terrible state. They have something to lose, they are against it. But... they may be forced. Until today, nuclear weapons were weapons of DETERRENCE. But today we see that outright terrorists threaten the world with nuclear weapons.

Moreover, they degenerated to the point that they began to threaten nuclear-free countries with nuclear weapons. And it is not surprising that one of the proponents of the concept “the whole world is in nuclear ashes” was surrounded, probably in order to minimize his nuclear terrorist impulses. The second one is of course more difficult. But.. and here China is unlikely to “fit in” with a psychopath waving a nuclear baton. No matter which side China takes in a nuclear war, China will also suffer from a retaliatory strike. It seems to me that for China this is not the best way out of the difficult economic situation that has developed this year....

Why are you so determined to convince people into giving up custody of their coins when there's no reason for doing so? There's only risk added by using the "centralized mixers". Just coinjoin.

Exactly, even if there will be no more really dip, it's always good to buy because, for me, it is better to buy than to miss the opportunities to buy because of too much waiting for the dips.

For me, buying on confirmation is also better than buying with dips, at least somehow you have some confidence to continue the price hike.

Using Tor or a VPN doesn't protect you against a mixing site, they have full visibility over which withdrawal was claimed from which deposit.

You are right with the implication that 30% is a lot to be investing into bitcoin and/or otherwise saving, jossiel..

Most people have trouble saving any income and frequently, 10% of their income can be a reasonable and even a somewhat aggressive target for a lot of people (even though surely some people have more discretionary income than others and if they make a lot of money, sometimes they can live a kind of minimalist lifestyle and end up getting up to decently high savings/investing levels).  Many of the normies can make quite a bit of progress just by going from near or at 0% to 10%, and surely if they can invest/save more than 10%, then the is o.k. as long as their other financial matters are in order.

Russia to attack China?! Do you believe this? The only reason is to declare war on China and throw 1 grenade across the border to immediately surrender to China

Forget the fairy tale about the “second army of the world”, in Ukraine they have not been able to achieve any noticeable successes in two years, except for the complete destruction of a high-class strike group... Let me clarify - THEIR OWN, Russian group, which entered Ukraine in February 2022, after which collected rabble in Russia from recruits to criminals
And to organize “meat assaults” in the war with China, and there are no other options, well, this is the height of idiocy when assessing the number of people in China
What can it oppose to China with 1+ billion population, the largest military budget, developed industry, including the military-industrial complex, and... a huge number of Chinese in eastern Russia? This will be the fastest and most idiotic suicide

PS And the key question is - who then will buy huge volumes of gas and oil for any money???

I'm confused and looking for answers

If you are lonely, can you have interest in gambling simply because of your loneliness?

How would you judge someone who says they don't gamble because it's fun, is that a sign of a gambling addiction?

If you are making $600 a day, that's $20000 in a month, and because you are only you start having interest to gamble, what do you think this is?

All these questions is been asked because someone close said all these and I think he are losing money and losing himself too, of all the discussions we had, these are the points I held unto.

Later he open up to have been using $500 for gambling per day, he said all these started when his wife left him, that he isn't into gambling at all, but I can't ask why his wife left him in the first place, but does loneliness make people become addicted to gambling or it's something else.

Just stumbled onto this thread and checked the site out thoroughly. I recognised a couple of popular crypto gambling sites, but the reviews themselves are lacking and need to be more comprehensive.

Also, giving 5 star reviews to sites like 1xbit, bitstarz etc who are regarded as scam sites makes this review site untrustworthy. Not recommended as of now.

I’m not sure if this question was already raised before but I want to request for the target wagering volume on each VIP level. It only show percentage which is too hard to determine how much wager I need to do just to rank. Having an exact volume in mind makes me motivated to push gambling rather than depending only to the percentage.

It will be better too if you will have an info page on how your VIP level works clickable on the VIP page. Everything stated in there is too generic which doesn’t contain how much percentage is rakeback per VIP level and other info.

No, I understood your point and your context, I simply disproved it with economics:  Mixing sites are incentivized to be dishonest since they can profit from selling your data even after they cease operations. Furthermore, there's no way for customers to verify that their data hasn't been sold, so a dishonest mixing site that sells data will be able to undercut the fees of an "honest" mixing site that does not sell data without this underhanded practice being detected.

That profit motive also incentivizes "mixing sites" to fractionally reserve user deposits to pay for shills and incentivizes them to sell your data for additional revenue.  Coinjoins are the only way to align incentives with your privacy.

I'll try and be a little more active on here! I read it regularly, will start replying as much as I can though - glad you like the communication style, I would much rather be on the ground chatting with our users than hidden behind a PR team.


Roger that, will add for you ASAP! More promotions coming soon, we run a lot of promos outside of Bitcointalk but I'll see what we can do in adding some more forum specific ones.