It's not necessarily because one or more certain whales are all of a sudden investing into bitcoin, in fact I am sure that most institutional investors and traders with somewhat of a high influence over the markets have loaded up as the market bottomed, because that's where the smart money went.

I do think that given all the circumstances involving halving next year, and the historical performance of bitcoin matching up nicely with the patterns we see as to the end of the bear market either already happening or is close to happening that a bull market will occur as a matter of time.

However, it's still relatively unclear in the short run where prices will be headed. There is still every possibility that a correction will come, though I do not expect anything that takes prices below $4k at this stage. The bottom is set.

Did you get scammed yourself?

As far as I can tell this site is built from some sort of template, and its unprofessional design alone gives away some real telltale signs of a scam. There are no reviews of it available on google via a search, which means that there is simply no point of taking on a risk like this even if there may be a slim chance that they are legit.


Exchange regulation is much more complex than you think and involves a bunch of countries internationally. Also, having regulations alone isn't going to do anything. There will forever be unregulated exchanges popping up that don't have reviews, or people don't know about previously. Just use your common sense, if there are no previous reputation then it surely isn't a good idea to just use an arbitrary exchange you find on the internet.

I think you're stretching it a bit too much here unless you are classifying FIAT as literally every payment if so, the only 2 payment methods in the would-be Crypto and Fiat, and the difference is huge here.

Fiat will mostly be on top for regular purchases, like buying coffee or paying for dinner at a restaurant, I don't think mainstream businesses will adopt this new payment method, especially since transactions on BTC takes upwards of 15 mins to confirm, maybe eth since that confirms within   a minute.

Bitcoin will most likely be used for new tech, and buying and doing stuff related to it, I feel crypto will dominate online payments over the next 20 or so years.

Yep, that's me!

I don't think that's real, probably just an april fools joke. Warren over the last year has discredited and flamed Bitcoin quite frequently, saying that it has no real value, isn't unique, and that it's dangerous for investors. Warren doesn't believe in blockchain technology and believes that the tech is a delusion, and is a bubble looking to burst.

Here are just a couple of videos/articles about warren buffet's views.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4vDTAelhCM
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/25/warren-buffett-says-bitcoin-is-a-delusion.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/01/warren-buffett-bitcoin-isnt-an-investment.html

Creating a newbie account to gain traction via promotion, disguised as promotional posts isn't really a good idea for your blockchain/project.

I have a couple of issues with the site, without even looking at the whitepaper. Why are popular exchanges like Kucoin, Binance and bitfinex listed as 'exchanges' which is implying that you have a partnership or at least a relationship with them? I haven't seen any of those exchanges acknowledging your project, let alone an agreement that would involve an exchange listing after your main sale.

I also don't see your lead/first advisor 'J. Michael Arrington' acknowledging that he is involved with your project.

If you are a member of the exchange team/marketing team and was asked to make posts like these around the forum to get users talking about the project, don't continue. Doing grey marketing like this isn't a good way to generate traffic, and it's quite obvious when a newbie with 0 posts, suddenly starts to spread word about X project.

What's the point of picking a shady, newish exchange that doesn't have any headquarters and most likely doesn't have a company office over other exchanges like Binance, or DEX's (decentralized exchanges)?

The lawsuits against the ICOs Airfox and Paragon had nothing at all to do with the bearish market that has been going on for multiple months now. I'd say that this mostly meant that there would be some downward change in the market, but the sec cracking down is more influential on users who want to raise funds, or are in the process of raising funds, then the whole crypto market as a whole. The crypto community always knew that the SEC, banks and other governmental organizations disliked crypto due to its freedom, and undeniable ability to fund illegal activities.

I'd say you can't really contribute the bear market to a singular reason.

Oh, I am quite surprised by this. I honestly thought that the platform would be one that had dedicated translators and would work alongside crowdfunding projects like stos/icos and translate their projects for a small fee. Sort of like a translators hub, but with each of them being verified and legitimate.

I don't think google translate is the best it can be right now, especially with the ai and technology we know they have. You'll be competing alongside one of the largest companies in the world, as startup that has little to no funds, I'm guessing?

Good luck, but I don't think just adding the blockchain to your project means it's able to compete with companies like Google, that's just impossible even for a lot of established businesses.

I don't really understand what you are trying to get across here, are you asking about transaction fees and how they are calculated, or are you confused about your wallet sending fees from blockchain.com?

Most wallets don't have any sending fees, the extra dollar or 2 that is taken away from your wallet is for mining fees, which is used in order for your transaction to confirm. If you are unhappy with the fees you are forced to pay via your wallet service, you can easily swap over to electrum, or other similar wallets where you have full reign over how much you are paying for your fees.

I think it's great overall, that mainstream institutional investors are looking into cryptocurrencies as a viable investment option. I'm guessing in the future, the young/middle-aged people nowadays that are knowledgeable with cryptocurrencies would be even more comfortable with an investment in this sector, as long as the price of bitcoin remains the same, or shows growth.

I'm assuming that for most of these pension funds, the elderly are being influenced by their children, as I don't see a lot of 60-80-year-olds, who are unfamiliar with the internet, finding their way with crypto.

Institutional investment is never bad, right?

I believe banks are always centralised right? So far, I have never heard/seen a decentralized bank (except bitcoin). I'm assuming a bank would be in custody of your cryptocurrencies, which is one of the main issues crypto is trying to solve? That you are in control of your own funds, and you can send them and receive them anyway you'd like.

I guess exchanges are the sort of crypto banks, and they are regarded as usually unsafe. You can get your assets frozen quite quickly, and they randomaly demand KYC for no apparent reason.

Pursuer said it very well.

Are you talking about making a forum dedicated to job posting, or a service like recruitment agencies offer, which is companies come over to the agencies/platforms and get them to post their jobs there, and they sift through the job applications until they find one suitable for the client?

If you are recreating, and basically making the bitcointalk services thread with a better UI, you need to actually build a reputation and find companies/users that are looking to hire people. There are a lot of people posting job offers, but not a lot of clients that need them on bitcointalk.

I'm guessing they want to monopolize the industry with their own coin, or they are scared of the decentralization of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies? If JP is able to close and restrict people that are involved with crypto frms from having a bank account, that is very powerful for when their coin comes out, especially if it is easily liquidable/transferrable with their bank.

This is either another chapter of a big company trying to monopolize a market or the typical centralization vs decentralization clash. Quote from the article says it the best.

I don't really think Bitcoin is really much of a technology, but instead blockchain as a whole is technology, Since it's quite hard to build smart contracts, or anything off bitcoin (except hard forks of it), there are a lot of other options of other blockchains to fit the occasion, like ETH, EOS, TRON to name a few.

Justin is more of a marketing guy, who's great with hyping and promotion his productions more then being a very technical guy.

That's most likely not his channel. There's a pretty popular scam going around to ICO's/STO's where users will impersonate huge youtube channels and ask for payment before making a promotional video. Don't pay these people anything upfront, and his username will usually be quite weird, with multiple typos, or letters.

Here are his official contact links. Check with these first before engaging in any service.

Transit = something that related to travel, right? I'd assume short distance travel, which is Uber on a blockchain. That's not going to happens, impossible to overtake a giant like that, especially with little to no funding.

One possible idea would be based on the idea of long-distance travel stuff though. Could make a possible platform that is mostly focused on booking train trips/flights/cruises/accommodation with crypto. Not sure if there are other competitors already, but I'd love to have the option of booking a flight with BTC/ETH.

I mean, everyone has at least a dollar in their card/paypal right? Focusing on fiat currency payments would be beneficial since there isn't anywhere near a 20% fee for 1-2 dollar transactions from my experience. Think Fiat and smaller valued cryptos are better for this.

Satoshipay looks good. And I agree that lightning network is 100 percent you best bet here.

That's a great site! I do have a youtube account on which I watch crypto influencers and debates, but I've always run out of content often, and youtube's recommended is far from perfect. I'll take a look at your videos linked, I think the last 2 sound very interesting.

Regarding your site, I'd recommend opening a thread in service announcements, I think your missing out of a lot of potential traffic here. Good luck!

I don't think anyone will be buying an item for 1 dollar, and then paying in BTC. The TX fees on their side would be another dollar. Have you tried looking for payment processors that offer a range of cryptocurrencies? I think DOGE, ETH and XRP would be the most popular options for users, as well as regular fiat payments.

You could set up a custom deposit address per user, and then ask them to send X amount to that address. I've seen it on sites before that give you credit on the site for ETH, but I guess that's not something you'd be bothered to do?