I highly doubt it that BTC would go on such a bull run, but perhaps a small increase in price could be feasible. However, there's still quite a bit of resistance.

I believe there isn't sufficient support at the moment and there are quite a few market forces that would rush to take in profits if prices rose any higher. The levels reached not so long ago probably pose as heavy resistance given that many newcomers might have had that as their introduction to BTC and could currenty be in the red.

TBH, I'm sure regulation is going to show weaknesses of stablecoins. With no institutional clearing house to support large volumes, they'd collapse or at least would not be able to serve the number of people the do today. Regulators could bring any stablecoin to its knees if they so desired. If it's backed in FIAT, it's just as sizeable, no matter how tokenized.

It must be a false positive. I know Paste.ee. It is one of the more reliable and also convenient alternatives to pastebin and I've been using it for years. Its owner isn't after profit, and the site even allows direct linking to raw text files uploaded (replace /p/ with /r/). Sadly some bad actors must have been abusing the service. Virus protection software tend to flank hosts along with actual malware websites and this must be one of such cases. Anyone could upload bad stuff to a paste site. That doesn't mean the site itself is bad, or that ralle14 would be a bad actor either for example.

Anyway, long story short, known website, IMHO it's safe.

There are numerous things Trump did and are commendable in my own personal view, but his way of addressing Greta has been very undiplomatic for a head of state no matter how you look at it. I get that America has a lot to lose from slowing down its industry for environmental purposes and it makes good sense to stall more even if the entire world calls for measure to protect the planet. And maybe even Trump truly, deep down from the depths of his heart, honestly doesn't believe in climate change and global warming. But I think it'd be safe to say that calling a girl names isn't the way to go. And that's without any exaggeration. In my view, his stance would deserve to be scrutinized even more.

If his goal is dismissal at least remain silent IMO. It'd help save face.

It's one thing to utilize cheap production for everyday use products via international trade and another to invest in tokens... Guess which one is more tangible.

Maybe multiple accounts isn't against the rules but to be honest, creating accounts automatically and attempting to pass their post as normal usage is very clear abuse. The forum should be very clear in auto banning and nuking such accounts if it's clear that they are automatically created.

And also, from the moment even one of the accounts created by the same person is banned, all others are considered to be evading the ban and are therefore breaking the rules.

@franky1
Would you trust in the ability of projects whose development team is based in china to make independent decisions?

If we consider tech companies, the Chinese GOVT has been especially pushing for installing government officials directly into them. To my knowledge, this isn't the case to many countries other than China.
We have very clear indications that this is actually happening actually:
https://www.ft.com/content/055a1864-ddd3-11e9-b112-9624ec9edc59
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/23/china-to-place-government-officials-in-100-companies-including-alibaba.html

I'm wondering, if this is happening to some of the strongest private companies operating in china, could cryptocurrency projects keep themselves out of it? I doubt that they could. In my view, any crypto project based in China is in danger to lose its ability to make decisions independently, and being more prone to censorship whether this happens in an obvious or non obvious way.

We've seen huge and successful companies that operate out of China doing this to their user generated content. TikTok is a prime example: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-how-tiktok-censors-videos-that-do-not-please-beijing

You didn't understand me... If you set the forum's time to +5 hours it'll be in par with Yobit's signature campaign cutoff time. It's much easier if you see the time within the forum.

I've heard varying opinions on China's political system and I've also had many things told to me by my Chinese friends. Everyday life is not what concerns me in this topic though.

We also know from western businessmen as well as in many cases, local ones, how the CPC oppresses opportunities and how favoritism affects entry to the heavily controlled market. We know for a fact that for any foreign company to open up shop there, they would have to take in government agents to overview their activities. With that level of control, could cryptocurrency projects operating out of China escape the controls? Would those cryptos remain free and untamed, with their network remaining decentralized and immutable if the government suddenly changed its mind on crypto? It's a tough question. But if the answer is that those currencies could be used for anti-government activities at any point and in any way (as BTC could), then I con't see why the communist party would support them

Just to be safe I've adjusted my forum time to be at +5. You can go here and do it yourself: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;sa=theme

This way you'll know within what timeframe you have to make your posts so they count in the current day.

The zerohedge is a nice place to source ideological discussion, they raise some nice points. But other than that, I don't see much value in using them as a news source.

FIAT money brought to the western world positives that a gold backed currency could have never. Of course, there are the bad apples of bad central bank management but any tale of overtaking the US dollar now is an alternative reality.

Nigel Farage agreed with the torries that he wouldn't use his brexit party to compete with tories if they promised brexit was not postponed again. He has a lot of bargaining power on this, see his numbers on EU elections. It's happening for real this time, and the deadline is 2020.

Read the first paragraph here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election#Campaign

Yes, it can be addressed by each user in their profile but that's not a solution. Also, if the char limit allows for such, I don's see why long strings shouldn't be in that text field. Spaces make addresses and links less useful.

Moreover, on your second point about valuable posts, I wouldn't consider the example I presented as a representative one for any reason. If from the forum's side all it takes is just a couple of lines of CSS, then I don't see why we shouldn't have a fix. It might not be a big deal or not widespread, but I'd take into account how easy it is to fix also, even if it's not super important.

Edit: spelling

First of all, selling of BTC isn't usually taxed. It's the profits that are taxed as capital gains. You could do some accounting tricks to claim you acquired them with certain costs, even if it's cost of labor. Nobody would advise you to tax yourself at a virtual 100% profit, except maybe your local tax authorities. Gifts on the other hand, are very much taxed.

I don't want to make it look like I'm caught up in the craze myself. There are aspects of climate change activism that I personally despise and believe that are very misled. For example I hate that people are calling for a ban on single use plastics, which would effectively make all grocery products more expensive. And I dislike how 'green' parties occupy seats in the EU parliament, overshadowing more important issues with their single cause parties.


I'm really curious as where the sentiment for denying climate change with such passion stems from. If this forum's members are more intelligent, then why are people here acting like coal industry executives when faced with discussion related to the issue of climate change? What's to gain from sounding like a conspiracy theorist to most people? Not to say that appeal is all that matters, but conspiracies are part of the reason that the bitcoin community gets a bad wrap from the general public.

I feel like people not fond of climate change activists should meet others in the middle and try to be more productive than just deny everything. Presently, many faulty policies are being promoted to politics only because appeals to emotion sound better for most people. There are both faults but also positives in environmental policies. If we're to deal with the issue more productively I think engagement in this discussion should focus on the negatives and try to influence how public dialogue moves forward. Denialism on the other hand, sounds very unappealing to the general public.

We could be talking about how China is leapfrogging investing in renewable energy by instead building nuclear power production plants. Nuclear power also has zero emissions but the uneducated public's sentiment drives bad decisions around it. For example in Germany, electricity prices shot up within a year due to decommissioning of nuclear power plant.
Or we could talk about how banning single use plastics could act as inflation by making every single grocery item more expensive to end consumers overnight.
Maybe we could talk about how burning trash with new technologies is now more efficient and saves more energy than recycling certain kinds of them.
Or perhaps we could talk about how recycling materials costs more than burring them, and for certain materials also produces more emissions.
Or to talk about how "recycling" plants in some countries simply forward what they collect to Asian countries where the materials are likely dumped in open fields or rivers...

Instead of that, many people critical of how climate activism proceeds, instead spend their time attacking a teenage girl. Disregarding that by doing that, people at the other end of the horseshoe just get what they want and they become  even less likely to listen.

How would stablecoins be a solution against the bear market? Whales can still go on exchanges and dump, maybe this could be made even more easier with stablecoins as now DEXs can also take part in this process with higher volumes and even less KYC.

It's like Bitcoin, but loaded with features that make it doomed to fail.

I honestly can't understand why there seems to be an abnormally large percentage of climate change deniers in this forum, especially when compared to the average population. What is it that makes bitcoin enthusiasts scream and shout when they hear about climate change?

That is true and the CSS line of word-break: break-all; can actually also address that. In my image ago I tried to target only the personal text but caught them also and the results can be seen. I think it'd be ideal if all text was forced to wrap under a certain max width instead of it affecting the unset width...

I think that the profit margin might already be quite low for a new exchange. The need for employees grows while profits might never do. Many new small exchanges rely on listing bitcoins to earn profits but this is only a task with diminishing returns as the volumes dry up very soon. Many crypto exchanges in fact close down within their first year of operation... It's easier to open an exchange now with the white label solutions, but to make it innovative and capture insterest is still hard.