All right, Ethereum is growing, it may be out of its infancy. But those still remain black spots in its history and many won't rule them out as easily as you do (I don't say that you or others are wrong, history will tell).
And Vitalik still has a way too strong hand in deciding this or that.



This is imho the best explained problem.
So many come and call this and that altcoin be the next Bitcoin. But those altcoins have no (or bad) history of stress over the network.
From what I know Ethereum had such difficulties after the crypto kitties boom too.
OK, the truth is that Bitcoin had its problems too during the 2017 spam attack, but I think that we are past such problems.
In the past people claimed that Ethereum code is quite a mess. I don't know if it also got better in time. Bitcoin was always an example of better code.

Bitcoin is not perfect, I won't deny it. But claiming this or that on altcoins is unfair and useless for now. Make better ones first.
(And probably the same applies in the Ethereum vs other token/dApp platforms "war".)

The title may be somewhat incorrect, since there are already VISA cards with Bitcoin rewards...
...Just I I think that they're only EUR and GBP and the rewards are available only for in-store purchases (no online).
They're sold by Wirex.

FYI: instead of replying to a problem from yesterday, you replied to something from one year ago.
(I'm telling this because you should learn to pay attention to such details).

The fact its price was rising quite nicely this year, I think that your guess can't be farther from the reality. Or you want to troll.
No. The fact Monero is anonymous coin is not something the (fiat) regulators like, since they can't track the money flow. So they tend to ban it and some exchanges, especially if they work with fiat (but it's not a rule) will have to comply.

ECB is European Central Bank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Central_Bank

There were some disruptions in the supply part and others also thought that this means that gold cannot be bought. But that's wrong. Maybe you cannot find all the products, but gold certainly can be bought.
Just go to bullion star website and look for yourself.

To answer to the topic question too - I'd vote for both - Bitcoin and gold and I'd also add that gold backed tokens can also be a headache free solution.

Why both? Because gold has limited growth and Bitcoin can be better at times, but on the other hand Bitcoin had plenty of bad moments too and then one can sell gold if needed and wait for better days for Bitcoin.

I was already on this forum when the previous halving has happened, but I didn't see it as something so important.
Back then I was focused more on altcoins and some of them had halvings which didn't meet my expectations.

I don't want to be the party popper but I think that you should not be too excited / don't get too many expectations of it. The market may not agree with you, at least not in the way you may expect.

Yup, it's a great idea, I also support it.
I was not close to any of them, but they were important / known members of the community and deserve this.

R.I.P. 

Unfortunately this happens in many industries now. Some value their employees enough to put the "only" into "technical unemployment" where they still get some money and they can count on a job when this madness ends, but many businesses probably won't do this much and that's sad (and a real problem everywhere).


It's again a situation where the rich won't lose anything (or even gain) and the poor will be poorer. Because the relatively poor ones, the workers, are expendable  
The next year(s) may be full of such stories / tragedies. And the governments are, as usual, slow and unprepared.

Actually if all the miners just go in the same time, the difficulty won't adjust, right?
The difficulty adjustment happens every 2016 blocks. If no miners, the difficulty remains high since no blocks get mined.
Of course, such situation, such synchronization is highly unlikely.

And if one transfers to 3rd party services he can also make a habit from saving a print screen with the address they show in their page to be somewhat able prove them guilty if that's the case (but 99.9% chance it's not the case).

Me too, but let's face it, Monero is only recovering now (even compared to Bitcoin) and we are quite far from where it could (should) be (.02BTC-.03BTC, heh..)
Of course, one can hope we'll get there too again.

I have 48h to.. what? feed the troll?! LOL!
Welcome to my ignore list though.

@cyptomania can't you just simply post the image or the relevant part of the image? (Of course, work with a copy, keep the original safe).
Of course, if the image also has private key info you'll have to hide that or cut it out.
I mean that if you share the image of the address (without other info) no harm is done and some extra pairs of eyes may be able to help.


PS. I hope that you are aware you'll also need the private key if you want to spend those coins.

Just a heads up: I've posted here and there this image too long ago. It's important to tell that this image / statistic is old and it's most probably based on the official numbers from China.
Since then the percent of fatalities caused by Covid-19 have more than doubled - almost triple (showing imho that the original numbers from China were faked).
The image tells about 1 in 50 = 2%. The current numbers tell 5.96%

E destul de frustrant sa vad asa putini doritori, de fapt e frustrant sa vad cat de putin activa este sectiunea Romana in general.
De fapt e greu sa dai puncte de merit altora cand unul dintre (prea) putinii activi ... esti tu.

@GOLD_official, I think that you should edit the topic/post and remove this line ^^ , since you are not newbie anymore and this may confuse other low rank users, like it did with this one:

If you look in the trust feedback you'll see your answer: "Alt account created solely for defamation and attacks."
Funny, that feedback is written exactly by Lauda.

Any campaign has the right to change, but only if at the moment of change or pause they offer a refund/reimbursement for those who don't want to wait or don't like the new conditions. That's how things should go normally.
On the other hand, unfortunately the bounty hunters may get paid in a token which is not listed anywhere, which they agreed at start and then also the reimbursement will be basically worthless and this indeed is a risk (the same risk they took at start).


If the tokens are not listed (worthless at the start of the campaign), obviously there's a problem and a high risk for the bounty hunters. But as long as some will work in these conditions, the token bounties will exist. And these cannot be escrowed.



But there are also bounties for valuable tokens with no escrow. Why that happens I don't know. Of course it would be a good advertising for the bounty, but I guess that it also comes for some extra costs (which maybe the token issuer doesn't want to pay).

Well, some will probably stick to Bitcoin. Or maybe they'll start learning about anonymous coins too.
You know that especially the wrongly done regulations can easily be avoided by people with a little imagination.

The only bad part is that crypto does an awfully poor job on "protection against bad actors".