Yup. End to end just means nobody can intercept it as it travels between the two, but encryption doesn't matter if you've got some sort of keylogger or spyware on your device. They're even commercially available these days with many parents buying them to "monitor" their child's phone usage, but even adults are now using them to nefariously spy on their partners.

He did not survive by jumping out of the plane. He said the part of the plane he was in broke off and fell down the side of the building and he climbed out of a hole in the fuselage. Still remarkable but not as remarkable as jumping out of a crashing plane.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd901xn4001o

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/12/india/air-india-crash-survivor-vishwash-kumar-ramesh-intl-latam

 

It's a double edged sword. If you want bitcoin to be recognized by the state then you're going to have to play by their rules and generally speaking I'd rather them be pro bitcoin than anti bitcoin and therefore try to ban it and we'd all be screwed then. The good thing is is you can still choose whether you want to comply with AML or other such procedures and if you don't there are ways around doing so so you can still have and use bitcoin in the way you politically want to do so, but be aware there may be legal consequences for doing that. One positive aspect of them accepting or legalizing it properly is that the price is likely going to continue to rise in terms of dollar value and without government acceptance I don't think it would be where it is now.

It's probably just the same as remembering phone numbers. I just break them down into say 3 or 4 character combos until I have them all memorized. There's no way in hell I'd trust myself to solely rely on remembering an entire seed phrase though. I'd be terrified of forgetting. A safer backup way though maybe to split your seed into 2 or 3 parts and leave those with trusted family members or a friend. Maybe don't even tell them what it is or even conceal the phrase in some sort of text and tell them to keep that safe. At least if worse comes to worse and you did forget or you die you or someone else could restore them (and you could leave instructions with a lawyer on how to access them).

Where does this guy get all the money from to keep pouring it into bitcoin??? Does he borrow it or is it from new investors??? I remember years ago saying Saylor is either going to become of the richest men in the world or broke  . I admire his tenacity but looking at how bitcoin behaves I don't know if I'd go all in 100% on bitcoin as it can fall faster than it rises and often for very little reason.

It was probably pure chance that he survived because of that specific seat and I'm sure there were lots of factors as to why he survived. Statistically I think it's generally considered the best to be seated near the back of the plane in the event of a crash, but that would not be the case if the plane crashes by the tail hitting a building or the earth first. The tail end of this plane looks to have remained intact too, but only literally the tail end. I also wonder what the outcome would have been had the plane not crashed into a building. Maybe they could have landed it successfully if there was an open field or on a road etc.

Dang, you got over 100k back? I lost a small amount of bitcoin -- around 0.1 -- on Celsius and last year I got some of that back through their redistribution, but I'm so glad I never had any more in there. I think at one point I was considering holding all my crypto and bitcoins there as I was a long-term holder and didn't plan to sell anytime soon but luckily I was overly cautious and went with the mantras don't put all your eggs in one basket and don't invest more than you can afford to lose. I don't know what I would have done had I lost all my crypto or even a significant amount.

American Football has always bored me to death. It's just too stop/start and they celebrate getting the ball up the field 20 meters. Not to mention the game can last hours. Apparently games typically last around three to four hours but the action is only in play for 60 minutes. Ain't nobody got time for that. I've tried to give the Superbowl a go numerous times over the years but I'm lucky if I even make it to the half-time show. Rugby gets it somewhat right but I don't really care for that either.

They have found both them now. Looks like the electrics probably went out and the plane lost power.


Where have you heard that because I don't think that's what happened??? I think that would have made it even more unbelievable.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/13/saw-people-dying-british-survivor-describes-air-india-plane-crash

"Vishwash Kumar Ramesh said he thought he was dead when the plane crashed into a building, before realising he was alive and escaping the wreckage.

The aircraft wasn’t gaining altitude and was just gliding before it suddenly slammed into a building and exploded. At first, I thought I was dead. Later, I realised I was still alive and saw an opening in the fuselage.

“I managed to unbuckle myself, used my leg to push through that opening, and crawled out. I don’t know how I survived,” he said. “I saw people dying in front of my eyes – the air hostesses, and two people I saw near me ... I walked out of the rubble.”

It has always been my understanding that the things in the Bitcoin Marketplace must be paying or accepting payment in bitcoin. If it's paying or offering a service not in bitcoin then it belongs in the Alt Coin section. Whether something should be in Services or Service announcements seem to be a bit of a grey area or has some overlap with each other, but generally it looks to be Services for individual people offering various services and Announcements for companies to announce their presence here.

What do you define as peace??? Peace can mean many things. Peace in the political sense of just no war? Or peace as in a state of mind? One could be in a war zone but also at peace with themselves or their reality, though of course that's easy said than done when you live under the terror of war and all the troubles and dangers that come with it. I often hear other men say that all they truly want from a woman is peace, but what does that mean??? Peace just a lack of conflict??? People often need several things to be happy or content. Money, food, family, a home, relationships, stability etc, but when any of those things are threatened or lost that can bring turmoil and disturb your peace, but I don't think there is any one thing in life that will grant you peace or happiness ultimately. Much like happiness peace is often temporary or fleeting. You could have the most peaceful life living in relative luxury ibut some person or event can always come along and ruin it for you.

Absolutely remarkable that one person survived. There's probably going to be movies/documentaries made about that guy. I'd love to know the logistics of how he survived. He even came out relatively unscathed. I wonder if he was in a part of the plane that broke off or the seat was ejected from the plane and thus shielded him from the fireball.

He was sat near an emergency exit but I don't know what that use would be in a crash:

But you can also argue that bitcoin is only the king because it was the first. Technically, there's nothing really stopping another coin from coming along and doing either the same thing or even better, and many coins have been created offering arguably superior tech or speed etc, but Bitcoin has that "brand" recognition. It's like why buy a Rolex when you could buy a 1:1 Chinese clone for $300, or just buy another brand that is the exact same quality but doesn't have the Rolex name on it. Rolex have both scarcity and heritage, much like Bitcoin. Tudor was a brand created by the Rolex founder to offer an affordable alternative, but both watches are almost identical in quality and both do the exact same thing, but only one has the prestige and heritage associated with the name. 

Have you seen the BS that crypto.com is getting rid of the MCO coin?

https://twitter.com/cryptocom/status/1290174946732175362

What sort of bs is that to just eradicate a coin out of nowhere. The only reason I signed up to crypto.com was to get the visa card so I could rack up some MCO because I saw the potential in it with it's fairly limited supply and the demand was there because you needed to buy it to get the cards so I could see the potential in it as crypto.com grew and people signed up for the card and their various rewards. Now they're forcing us to swap it for a coin that has billions in supply and is never going to be worth as much as MCO could have been.

Has this ever been done before? I guess this is the problem with centralized coins as they can just do whatever they want with them. I wonder if they'll be lawsuits over this as they're essentially just deleting an entire currency on their own whim.


I saw that and thought it was really cool. Houses are damn cheap there though.

Does anyone know about the MCO staking to get better interest rates? It says if you have 500 or more MCO staked that you can get better interest but does that have to be when you stake for the card and not in the regular 'crypto earn' -- if that makes any sense? When you stake for the card initially it seems that goes into a separate MCO pot which you have to lock up for six months and doesn't earn interest -- unless I'm mistaken. If you then staked 500 MCO in the crypto earn would this then quality you for the higher interest? I'm thinking it doesn't but locking 500 MCO for six months when you could have it in the regular crypto earn feature earning you interest every month doesn't seem worth it.


It looks like he's saying crypto.com charged him that not Paypal. If you pay through Paypal they usually show you the fees and what it costs before you click submit.

How I get ads on Brave is really inconsistent. I downloaded the android browser and I get much more adverts than the desktop version. Often they even pop up when I'm not even using the browser which doesn't happen on the desktop. Hopefully the advertisers that use it will grow quickly because I'm getting kinda bored of the same old adverts popping up time and time again  .

Yah, it's apparently working again now. Gotta admit I thought it might be one of things that takes forever to sort out.

Does anyone know if you can easily set up direct debits on the card? I'm assuming you can as they offer you cashback on subscription services like Netflix and spotify, but does anyone know if you would get the cashback rewards on paying a credit card balance with it? I have an amazon credit card and I like to use that currently to collect their reward points but it would be great if I could pay the balance with the crypto.com card every month and collect the crypto cash back for that direct debit as well.

I would imagine that the cards will need to be reissued by the new company, but it only effects users in Europe I think. Maybe there's someway to transfer accounts since the cards are issued by VISA but it probably depends on how operative and cooperative the defunct company is if at all.

When are you do to go and how are you traveling there? Airplane? Are you insured for cancellations? A friend of mine had a holiday booked for around about now but they managed to get it cancelled and refunded because of covid. Now the various world governments have started to relax the restrictions it might be a bit more difficult to do so, however. If we have a so called second wave you might end up stranded like a lot of people were initially. As for traveling abroad I think there's minimal chance of catching the disease home or away and even less chance of dying from it if you do but if you're very worried about it it's going to put a big dampener on your holiday and if you can't relax there's probably not much point of going.

It seems not:


https://twitter.com/Kris_HK/status/1276467556014886912

Full statement here: https://blog.crypto.com/our-statement-regarding-wirecard-uk/

I'm really in two minds whether to use them at all. I'd like to but something just seems wrong. I think there's certainly potential in the exchange and even their own coins which would become quite valuable if their site grows and becomes as big as Coinbase or Binance (who also have their own coin which is worth a nice chunk of change now), but holding coins on their site for so long makes me anxious. I'd really love to know how they can pay interest on all the coins people hold there. Their CEO seems also to have been involved with a company called Ensogo that shut down and many are calling it a fraud but details seem murky and unclear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensogo