If people start using Bitcoin to show their wealth, I personally expect the price of Bitcoin relative to other currencies to become stable, or even increase depending on how inflation goes. But regardless of that, if people want to use Bitcoin to trade, there will be trades happening around the world, and I'm pretty sure sellers won't sell their BTC if the price is terrible (in most cases). There won't be any liquidity issues since people can simply buy again if they need to unless I misunderstood some of your points.

Others have mentioned it already, but there is no way people can own Bitcoin without spending/investing in something, just like how people can't own gold if they don't buy or mine them on their own. Do you expect everyone to own gold without any cost? I bet you don't think so. The same thing applies to Bitcoin, or any asset in general. Their limited nature is what makes them valuable, to begin with. CMIIW.

Apakah om yakin ini bukan fitur khusus di iPhone karena iPhone menganggap cloud drive sebagai folder di perangkat om? Ane menggunakan macbook juga memiliki fitur yang kurang lebih sama. Tapi untuk terhubung ke jasa cloud drive popular seperti Google Drive, Drive, dst butuh pengaturan lebih lanjut. Lebih tepatnya mungkin fitur ini bisa mengexport file ke direktori tertentu, jadi bila direktori yang digunakan terhubung ke folder cloud bakal ke cloud juga, walau harusnya sih jangan diarahkan ke sana dan gunakan direktori offline.

Bayaran per user tidak di publish oleh manajer gan, jadi kalau agan mau cari tahu opsi yang ada adalah dengan memeriksa address reviewer satu per satu dan dilihat berapa bayaran yang mereka dapatkan. Yang jelas kalau hanya sekedar menceritakan pengalaman menggunakan tanpa analisis yang lebih dalam bakal susah untuk dapat bayaran gede. Btw, sekilas ane lihat reviewnya sepertinya dipause sementara karena mau ada update[1].

Kemungkinan review masih jalan pasca adanya update, tapi yang jelas bakal ada perbedaan nantinya. Kalau agan mau review dan sejauh ini review agan ada kesamaan dengan user yang lain, bisa juga nunggu dulu adanya update supaya agan bisa ngasih feedback atas update yang dilakukan.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5447322.msg62060873#msg62060873

Setelah saya baca ulang, sepertinya apa yang om chikito katakan lebih tepat. Mereka memang bilang untuk memindahkan dana/sats yang ada di custodial mereka karena dana tersebut ga bakal bisa diakses lagi setelah tutup (ane rasa cepat atau lambat withdrawal pasti bakal ditutup juga karena tidak mungkin mereka membuat resources untuk membuka jasa tersebut kalau sudah ada kepastian mau ditutup), tapi tidak ada anjuran yang sama kalau user menggunakan self-hosted node. Kalau om refer ke bagian alternatives, solusi self-hosted node dan sejenisnya juga disebutkan lebih dulu. Yah tinggal tunggu saja nanti apakah bakal berubah atau tidak.

Itu GPU yang agan temukan apa aja gan? Setahu ane dari beberapa bulan yang lalu harga GPU udah mulai turun, bahkan GPU terbaru dari AMD saja sudah dapet diskon lebih dari $100. Walau di Indo mungkin karena pajak harganya masih agak mahal dibandingkan beli langsung di market luar. Eniwei, bisa jadi GPU bekas itu murah bukan karena bekas mining, tapi karena harga GPU baru sudah pada turun semua, jadi market secondhand pada menyesuaikan.

Judging from how many exchanges went insolvent, I think it is fair to say that at the very least they need to provide proof of their sustainability. If they do that, users can see whether they have the ability to sustain their business if all users withdraw their BTC or coins at the same time. Even if they do that though, they can still lie or deliberately be misleading to avoid further questioning. I mean, even the latest FTX case can be solid proof that 'reputable' exchanges need more than just name and marketing to survive the market. You should not underestimate how scammy exchanges can be regardless if they are popular or not.

AFAIK, trading volume should not be a metric for reserves anyway. Exchanges can fake them anytime, or at least manipulate them to some extent to hide their insider trading or something similar.

Is there any documented case of this? I've never heard of exchange freezing accounts because someone uses mixers to send money from the wallet they own. If you use a mixer or tainted coins to deposit, then this one is common. As far as I know, most exchanges are only concerned about incoming deposits since they need to practice KYC/AML or whatever regulations they need to obey (or use). Even if their users are funding hackers, they are free from legal obligations as long as they don't accept transactions related to those services.

Are you sure this is not a scam exchange? I'm not familiar with Bitrue, but as far as I know, they never mentioned having other domains other than the com you mentioned. Even if it is true, I don't think any tier-3 or 2 exchange such as Hotbit asks you for a 20% deposit for verification. At best they would just close your account without saying anything else other than they were allowed to do so because the user is breaking their TOS. Still shady as hell, but not as scammy as this one IMO. Either your friend registered into a scam exchange that will serve its users for a while before they scam them, a phishing website, or a very shady exchange that should never be used regardless if she does copy trade or not.

Hmm, so they were trying to keep their image clean, more or less? Looks like this is the norm for Binance operations for overseas users. AFAIK, they also have no license to operate in Indonesia but still accept registration from Indonesian users. Their domain was banned, though ineffective since a DNS encryption or VPN can still bypass it.

That said, they tried to enter the market by investing/acquiring (not sure which term is the right one) one of the popular exchanges here. Most of the top executives seem to be related to Binance. So far it seems to work in their favor. It is interesting to see if their affiliated exchange here will survive if Binance gets into troubles like FTX. Hopefully, the money doesn't go overseas.

I don't think you can be a source of third-party feedback[1] if you're running and developing the platform yourself. It is like seeing an FTX employee saying FTX is the best exchange that is impossible to hack. No one would believe you regardless of how you convince them. You can try to run a review campaign if you want to market your product here. I'm sure you know one or two things about marketing on this forum from how old your account is.

Also, what you listed above are just protection measures that are more or less common on other platforms with different names. It is definitely not an exclusive feature that you can sell and sway potential business from using your gateway IMO. But yeah, you should also consider security measures available to protect the sellers/business too, as others have mentioned many times.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5205257.msg53202200#msg53202200

What do you mean by this? Are you suggesting that the government is the one who controls the Tor network so they will record all of your activities?
How do we verify this? I'm not familiar with the tech you mentioned, but if what you said is true, then it should be possible to provide the data for each transaction after the user does the trade. Looks great, but will need more tests to see if it is easy to verify or not.

Btw, is the circle/swap symbol between the coin/token just a decoration? At first, I thought it will allows me to easily swap the coin I want to buy/sell but I can't click them at all. I also notice there is a withdrawal fee on the fee breakdown. What does this withdrawal refer to? I don't think it refers to an exchange withdrawal since you have a separate fee for that, at least for the ETH-BTC pair.

I think most of us don't expect something like that to happen anyway. I mean, who would be able to trade if you need to carry gold or oil in these modern days? What is clear is that they always fall back on those assets when the fiat crisis happens, and I don't think it will change since the system is not changing either. There is a reason why people buy gold and so on. Fiat values can evaporate overnight if the government decides to do so.
What do you mean by the salvation of things here? Your statement can mean many ways and I'm not sure how to interpret it. If you're talking about how Bitcoin is not the first choice for payment, I don't think that is not that bad. But things slowly change, even my family who doesn't follow tech updates knows about Bitcoin and how it is useful if you want to pay for something over the internet.

I'm quite confused, you already agreed that it was a scam transaction and many people already told you the reason on that thread. If that is really the transaction you're referring to, why are you asking it again? What changes your mind? Did the sender convince you with something? You can also bump that thread if you want to ask more about it, even though I don't think anything will change.

Yeah, that's why I mention disabling those tokens unless you refer to something else. I don't think you can hide them from Trust Wallet even on the latest update other than doing that. For ERC tokens and its derivative, it might not be a pain in the ass to handle, but you'll definitely find some trouble if they attack your Bitcoin address or something similar. It is better to use other wallets to manage your addresses if you got attacked by them.

As far as I can tell not everyone agrees on this either. I don't think we can find the answer anyway since one of them could simply answer ambiguously, or even lie if it fits their current narrative. Even if we did find the answer, things can change pretty quickly if the market demand to do so. Who knows, the company that hates crypto right now will change its tune after they prepare its best to reap profits from the market, and vice versa.
This is too far-fetched IMO. At the very least, I can't imagine satoshi working at some corporate that produce so many overpriced products and being so privacy-conscious at the same time. But well who knows, unless we got internal info all of these theories might as well be true.

I no longer use international centralized exchanges years ago due to their data breaches, ridiculous KYC requirements, and so on. Binance even sent me a notice saying my account will be locked if I don't update my KYC. If they ever went bankrupt, I don't think I'll be affected. As of now I mainly use my local exchange, and P2P to reduce my dependency on centralized services. So far so good, as long as I don't dabble in altcoin trades or something similar.

If you use Binance as an all-in-one platform to interact with crypto, I can see why you'd find it a hassle to find alternatives. But you should never rely on a third party in crypto. I'd be more than happy if Binance got closed and the market become more decentralized, even if it might result in a short or even medium-term bear market.

I think they can use this same argument to answer your question. Since doing something like this can damage their reputation and potentially make them lose customers, there is no need for them to cheat their customers. Plus it is easy and probably hard to prevent since anyone can be a white hat hacker even though they seem so greedy. Not to mention the cost to cover any giveaway is probably not that big compared to all of their expense.

Obviously, they can simply lie and the owner can simply lock out any access to sensitive data for his workers. Not the best answer to hear, but probably the one that will likely be given if you ask them directly. Snce they probably won't give any data about this, if you're suspicious about something like this, the only thing that you can do is probably do the data digging yourself or hire a white hat hacker to do so.

So basically all exchanges that serve Japanese customers right now are operating based on following ambiguous rules (or no rules at all)? Else, how do they define operating without proper registration? At least they don't just fine exchange and people left and right without providing enough regulatory basis. So it makes sense that some exchanges are stopping their services for Japanese users if what I've heard about strict regulations is real. Looks like they believe following the regulators is a pain in the ass and not worth the effort.

If their rules regarding customers' fiat are true[1], I guess we'll see more and more exchanges interact closely with banks. I won't be surprised if banks or government will launch their own exchange for full control if a private entity can't do this. Would be interesting to see if P2P trades will happen more or not if there is no good centralized platform that can serve the demand for Japanese crypto trades.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/01/26/japan-embracing-crypto-industry-web3-dao-nft/

Salah satu hal yang mungkin dilakukan oleh pendiri mixer adalah menolak visit/penggunaan mixer dari negara yang sering melakukan penutupan terhadap mixer seperti US. Kalau mereka menggunakan tor, kemungkinan lain adalah dengan menggunakan data chainanalysis untuk memfilter transaksi yang dinilai mencurigakan oleh pemerintah negara tertentu. Walau ane ragu mereka bakal melakukan hal sejauh ini kecuali mereka sejak awal merupakan sebuah honeypot. Yang jelas mereka pasti bakal lebih berhati-hati kalau ada user yang terang-terangan bilang ingin melakukan money laundry.

Salah satu risiko menggunakan mixer ya memang seperti ini gan. Meskipun ga ada penutupan paksa sekalipun ane yakin bakal ada satu dua oknum yang lari ketika mereka sudah dapat profit cukup banyak, apalagi kalau nama usahanya sudah masuk radar penegakan hukum. Kalau tidak mau menerima risiko semacam ini ya alternatifnya menggunakan coinjoin (atau solusi on-chain lain kalau nantinya ada) kalau mau bertransaksi menggunakan Bitcoin.

Alasan utama adalah karena closed source gan. Hal itu berarti publik tidak bisa memverifikasi apakah kode yang menyusun Trust Wallet bebas dari niat jahat atau tidak. Selain itu bug yang berbahaya bisa saja tidak terekspos karena developer tidak pernah memberitahu publik akan adanya bug tersebut, yang berarti agan harus mempercayai developer ketika mereka bilang bug krusial telah diperbaiki.

Rata-rata wallet closed source punya risiko yang sama. Walau sejauh ini belum ada berita Trust Wallet dan sejenisnya mencuri uang dari dompet usernya, ada baiknya jangan menggunakan wallet tersebut sebagai wallet utama untuk menyimpan dana agan.