Don't you think you did everything backwards? Like, you should think of an idea first, and then buy a domain name for that idea?

Coinbase is a very generic name because it is the name of an important blockchain transaction. CoinDesk is another interesting as well... I don't see coinanc as a very generic one, but maybe you can get some money out of it.

Looks an interesting and competitive hardware wallet. With a different design, compared to the main products in the market (ledger and trezor). The concept to make it fit inside a real wallet like a card is very interesting.

I will take a further look in  your product, very interesting. And we certainly need more competition in this ecosystem, as ledger and trezor are now dominating the market completely (as their product is very good and relatively cheap).



I took a look at the website and there is no price in USD. When I clicked buy everything is in Chinese... I think it is very important to see the website in English and the price in USD.

Early retirement is my goal since I started working lol


Basically  yes. It is possible to buy a low cost ETF of sp500, but that's it.

However,  it is legal to send money abroad and invest through brokers from any country. There are costs and legal implications related to taxes and heritage , but it is still worth.

Yes, I invest mainly in Ibovespa index and a small caps index funds (biggest 80 small caps of brazil). I invest in bonds as well, as we still have a decent interest rate in Brazil. (About 4% per year real returns)

I recommend you take a look at degiro.nl , as it is a very good low cost broker from your country.

I know, I understand that. And it is still A LOT.

3% of my total merit is about 36 merits.  Imo this is a lot, and not easy to get.
3% of 10000 is 300 and so on. This is a lot.


so 0.08% transactions are consuming 2% of the total merit. 2% is a lot. Post the stats os the total merited sent in 50 merit transactions. I don't how much it will be, but it is certainly a lot. 5k merit? 10k merit? Is it still not relevant now?

Now look at the stats of the 50 merits transaction on each user total merit balance. If a guy who received a transaction of 50 merit, and that represents 70% of his total earned merit, do you still think that is not relevant?

But the distortion of handing over 25 merits is a lot smaller. 25 merit for a post from the same user makes much more sense.

I understand you want to overmerit one post because you feel lazy, when you believe that user is a good poster and deserve to earn more merits. But you can just find 3 or 4 good posts and merit 10 each, makes much more sense. While doing so, you may even find that those posts are not that good.

I believe most people who replied this thread are good posters. Lets just go handing over 50 merit to everyone? I believe this is not the correct usage of the merit system.

I just think that 50 merit transactions are doing more distortion than good.

Grats tk808 for such a rich post.


I want to disagree partially on this.

I believe marketing is not that important, specially this market on social media (twitter, facebook, telegram, reddit, etc). Depending on the project focus, marketing is not that important. Good projects may talk directly to big companies if they are their future clients.

I have seen so many shill projects like OmiseGO, which had a great market team, was over all magazines (like Forbes). But marketing doesn't really add any value to the product, unless it is a project that need marketing, whose customers will be small investors and common people.

I believe Megawatts is not that relevant, because the MegaHash can be different for the same MegaWatt as the price of each watt is different from one region to another.

Additionally, all this drama about energy costs and carbon has its days counted, imo. Renewable energy sources are growing exponentially.


source

Now with Tesla cars growing as well, the batteries and related tech are probably going to change things in this new decade, and on the next ones. This is my bet. I will try to make some money out of this, look for some ETF or companies like Tesla to invest.

It is curious how people make different analysis in the same data.
I thought 50 merit transactions were almost insignificant.  However 3% of all merit transactions is way a lot more than I expected

Your stats makes the limitation more urgent.  3% is a lot.

Just calculate how much merit are we talking about. Thousands and thousands of merits to post which didnt deserve  not even 1/20 of it. Mostly abuses, laziness, selling, etc...

I don't think that happens a lot. Merit is hard to earn, I don't think it got harder when I ranked up. This may happen, but not that often.

I think that is not a problem. Reducing max merit per tx to 20 for example and honest people (which all the sources are) would not abuse. If necessary reduce the max 50 per user per month to 30 or whatever.


They do happen a lot, although they may not be in your stats. I don't want to mention them here because there is no reason to "point fingers" at anyone. I don't agree with this merit policy,  but it is not against the rules so there is no reason to mention and expose people who do it.


I agree 100% to this. Even though, as @Lucius mentioned I do not need more merit to rank up, I would like more to be more recognized (in BPIP). There are benefits in having more merits and more recognition, like to enter better signature campaigns (for example). That´s not just me, and those Filipino indonesia russia etc merit abusers are doing that. Certainly there are way more merit sources there than necessary.


I agree with this as well, but although I think stats are not my favorite kind of posts, I like those posts and they certainly deserve many merits, but they are way overmerited imo.
Meta board is overmerited, maybe for a reason. Theymos want to incentive posting here, as we saw on the art contest for example.

No, i don't buy stocks directly.  What I told you to do is what I do: I buy funds.
The funds I buy reinvest the dividends automatically (they never arrive in my checkings account), and the price of the fund increases slightly every time it happens. Those are called accumulative funds.

I don't need passive income now because I work. I am in an accumulative phase, saving for retirement.

However,  you can find the same funds paying dividends to your checking account.


I live in Brazil and we lack decent instruments to invest. We don't have many low cost funds, we don't have access to many markets from another countries and so on...

Those threads received way more than 50 merits.  Because they were not merited by a single user.
Good posts will receive more than 50 merits anyway, because multiple users will merit it.

50 merit per transaction generates more distortions than fairness regarding meriting good posts.

I still find merits very hard to earn. Many times I make good posts, which I spend lots of minutes writing/formatting etc and receive 0, or 3, etc.

However, there are sometimes merit sources or even not-sources giving 50 merit in a single post.

I believe there are hundreds, maybe even thousands of posts here which deserve not only 50 merits, but 100, 200. However, if a post is that good, it will be merited by multiple users and not 50 by a single one.

A post which few people gave 1 - 2 merits and one guy gave 50 is very unbalanced. No post deserve all that in a single transaction. This is a flaw in the merit system imo. If you take a look carefully, you will find that most of those 50 merit transactions are for bad posts, not good ones. No need to cite them here, everyone has already saw this happens many times before.

I am a merit source, but I don't find so difficult to spend my smerits. I prefer to give 3-4 per good (or above average) post than to give 50 in a single transaction. And I certainly prefer to see 50 smerits go poof than to give an overmerited stats to someone.

Nothing os obvious here.
Even an attack is unlikely imo, and its consequences in btc and usd price are largely unknown.

Gold is the obvious winner, but we don't know if btc will be really elected as digital gold when blood is on the street

Que orgulho dessa aba local!
Sorteios, patrocínios,  quanto movimento rsrs

Vou no número 0!

Exactly.  There is nothing to recover here.
You can just play around with this high amount test net btc, but they are worthless.

Most probably a scam.
Please give us more information so the user who sold this coins to you will be properly tagged and we can open an scam accusation against him (or his website) so he doesn't scam anyone else so easily (at least here in this forum)

If you plan you making any kind of bounty or campaign here in bitcointalk forum, I highly suggest that you hire a respected manager in our community.  Someone that our community trust and that hire also respected members. This way your company won't be associated with scammers and spammer (like most companies who try to advertise here).

Buying stock through funds is a lot safer (for dozens of reasons: they know CEOs, CTOs, they have a team of people researching about where to invest, etc etc). As you said, you never bought any and you clearly don't know a lot about them, so it would be like gambling in the beginning.
You can pay like 0,5% or even less (like 0,005%) to have professionals managing your money for you.

Personally, I don't focus on dividends and neither care about them, but there are many good funds which are focused on good companies which pay dividends.

Everything depends on where you live, because some places really have problems in the financial market. But if you live in a rich country you are fine.

Vanguard would be may personal choice if I lived in a decent country, and they have low cost funds with very good returns.

Hello,

This is an amazing project, I really like it. I am glad the website is back. Congrats.

I noticed a few small glitches. I don't know if anyone noticed them yet, but I am pointing them out...

Even though I have a green trust, it still shows as 0-0-0 in BPIP.

I noticed that in this page my total activity is also different from the profile in bpip (518 against 714).

Those problems may be affecting more users.

I can't see DT2 in my profile as well, but I saw in some other users.

You are correct and your line of thinking makes sense.
But probably in the old T&C, which he agreed, gave the exchange the power to changes terms at any time and to hold his coins...


Certainly.
When you leave money in custodial services you may not only lose it if the custodial services disappear, but also have your account frozen for many reasons.
Authorities may decide to investigate the custodial service and frozen funds. Authorities or exchange may decide your account is "suspicious" until you do KYC. Or the terms may change, just like in the OP's case.

Ideally nobody should hold any funds in custodial services, only when you need to buy/sell, and immediately remove them after you complete your transaction.

0 trading fees are not sustainable.
I prefer to pay a reasonable price and have a good service, like Binance.

If they are charging 0 on fees, they are probably going to offer a bad service soon.

I really hate withdrawal fees, which are usually very expensive for BTC. I wish there was an option to use 1 sat/byte transaction even if it too 2-3 days to complete in those exchanges....

You shouldn't be asking random strangers in the internet which stick to buy.
There is plenty good materials in the internet about how to analyze stocks in your own and choose the ones that fit your needs and investing style. There are also funds of stocks focused in dividends,  where you pay professionals to choose the stocks for you.