I've personally been very happy with Exodus, but I'm afraid that it's not fully open source. Parts of the wallet are open source though and they're transparent about that fact. Source: https://support.exodus.io/article/89-is-exodus-open-sourceI do want to check out Hodler, since it seems to be fully open source. |
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You should just not play along ith them. They still need you to make use of all the services they're offering.
For god's sake, keep all your coins on a personal wallet. Use decentralized exchanges as much as possible and consider buying stuff directly with crypto instead of converting it to fiat.
Banks are free to offer as many services related to crypto as they'd like, Heck they can buy as much crypto as they want, just keep in mind that you don't need them.
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What do they mean exactly when they're saying private cryptocurrencies? That's the first time I've ever seen the word 'private' used with regards to cryptocurrency. Further in the article I also read that they're also proposing to add a sales tax to all cryptocurrency trading. That's also a bit worrying, I'd say. A proposal currently under consideration by the Indian government would apply a goods and services tax of 18 percent to cryptocurrency trading. |
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One of the most successful ICOs of all time just has to be NEO.
I remember that during the early funding phases, tokens were worth just about $0.05 and the value just skyrocketed after they launched their blockchain.
Now they're still worth around $15, but were over $100 at one point.
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It's a trading bot, nothing special really, doesn't really warrant a discussion. There, problem solved  |
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Well, it's good that you at least made this topic in all honesty to clear everything up.
@LeGaulois is completely right, the 15 day waiting period for a refund is just standard policy for credit card chargebacks
They didn't reply too fast though, so I can understand that you were worried.
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I really wouldn't say that this is because of Bitcoin, there are many many other means that these pedo-networks use to send money to each other.
Look at it from this angle, now every one of those transactions is recorded on the blockchain.
If even one of their operations gets busted, they have the tools of connecting all their transactions and they have solid evidence recorded on the blockchain that they can use to prove complicit-ness.
Let them use Bitcoin, all their transactions will be recorded for eternity, it'll come back to bite them in the ass.
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eternal gloom is right on what he said, but there is a loophole from it. You should create a website of your service first in order for you to somehow create a app version of it. Directly having a crypto investment app without any website backing it will instantly deny it to ever be published in any of the app store. You must make your service legit first by creating a website for your main business not the app first. Google and Apple is strict now and don't want to be attach on this kinds of services which solely is running from their app store.
I think that could be a loophole, but in that case you do have to make sure that the investment portion isn't included in the app itself, right? OP's app is only that, so it would be pretty much useless, I would think. |
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Also a Blockfolio user here, but I have tried other websites and apps as well, but they just couldn't convince me to switch over. I used Altpocket for a couple of weeks, but their UI eventually gave me such a headache that I switched back to Blockfolio. I don't know, I think I'm just so used to their user interface that I can't switch to anything else |
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Sorry, but I really doubt that. The response of the average person towards all the privacy breaches has just been pretty meh.
I think that most people simply do not care about their privacy, as sad as that may be.
Otherwise we'd all be using Firefox and Duckduckgo instead of Chrome and Google, yet they have such low marketshare.
It's the same with cryptocurrency, people just use what everybody else uses. Privacy isn't a main concern.
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The thing is that you're probably never going to be able to get the app published in the App Store or Google Play, right?
They're never going to allow a crypto investment app, at least that's what I would think.
Perhaps someone else could comment on this, since I've personally never released an app, so I'm not completely sure what the review process entails.
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Can't agree OP because there are so many factors and house edge has almost nothing to do with it.
Well, imagine there is high house edge, for example -snip- Here's the problem. You're creating and assuming individual cases. I am not. I realize there are a number of factors associated with gambling addiction. However, we are evaluating it from a control group (i.e. irrelevant of outside variables). Suppose our sample size is the entire population of the earth. Then, by analyzing the whole, we absolve any other factors from influencing the results. It's like stating that all organic experiments are flawed because there are random factors associated with each organism and thus the results are skewed. Bear in mind, these are also hypothetical ideas based on generalized principles. The average result will reduce overall gambling losses but there will always be variance. This is similar to gambling itself
The thing is, your first example addresses a problem gambler. The behavior would have most likely happened regardless of the house edge (upon a loss) which means there is no significant change to our calculation of total losses. I interprated individual cases to make my opinion clearer. I talk from the situation which is in country where I have lived for a long time. Young people, yeah teens and imagine, people from 12 years old usually start gambling, it's so easy to register and withdraw money online on those local casinos without verification. They want to earn easy money, everytime they got some buks, immediately deposit and play poker, sports betting, slots and etc. I know a lot of people who does that and in most cases they try to get back what they lost. Imagine, house edge is 8% on most games but they still gamble, doesn't matters. That's why I talk absolutely different, that doesn't means I don't share what you say, yeah you are right and what you say comes from big countries. You're basing your entire argument on anecdotal evidence. I.e. you're just making conclusions about your personal experiences with seeing kids in your country gambling. While that's certainly worth having a discussion about, it has nothing to do with results gained through research on a bigger scale. |
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Don't forget that you can also use Bitcoin for ordering food in a many European countries. I've been using Takeaway.com for years now and I usually pay in Bitcoin. They've accepted Bitcoin since November 2013, so they're definitely worth a mention. Just so you know I'm not just making this stuff up, here's my order from last week:  Bonus points if you can guess which country I'm from |
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Not the fact that such mass companies like google are willing to cooperate with you
Huh what? Google doesn't have to "cooperate" with you to be able to use single sign on... It's just used so people can use their gmail address to sign up for your service, nothing more than that. Any website can add that.. |
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While it's definitely great that Japan's crypto industry would now be able to regulate itself, I do wonder if that wouldn't cause Japanese cryptocurrency exchanges to basically make it impossible for new companies to enter the market. It even says this: Yuri Suzuki, senior partner at law firm Atsumi & Sakai, said the self-regulatory body’s rules are stricter than the current law and she expects them to help the industry to regain public trust. Current Japanese exchanges stand to gain a lot, by making it as difficult as possible for new companies to enter the market. |
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Really interesting series, I'm surprised to see that you've already made such a nice ROI with that kind of leverage. Maybe it would be interesting to add another investment in the future with your profits? Perhaps on a different crypto casino? Diversification is never a bad thing  |
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This is definitely not a unique situation, but it's understandable that you haven't seen it yet, since you've been here since 2014. I remember that the price was also very stable, right after the Mt. Gox crash. I think it was hovering around a couple hundred dollars for months after the even, only to slowly start rising again. This isn't a prediction or anything like that, just saying that this situation is definitely not new. Here are the charts from back then, see almost the same sort of stability as we're seeing now. Even the time-frame seems similar.  |
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And I hope that Bitcoin will continue to exist for many more years to come! The first thing that I've bought with Bitcoin was some honey through a guy who was selling it here on the forum. I think they still exist, they're called Bees Brothers. http://www.beesbros.com/ That was back in 2012 or 2013, I believe. Was very happy with the product and would still recommend them today. |
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I don't think this article really mentions anything interesting. It seems to be full of advertisements & news about new features of FortuneJack, no real new information that I didn't know already. I mean this for example: Blockchain’s infrastructure is itself inherently tamper proof. The distributed ledger makes it an impossible task to manipulate anything in the system. So your winnings and rewards are easily and automatically calculated via smart contracts. FortuneJack will also have a number of cool leaderboards where bonus rewards are given out. With special promotions we’ll incentivize new ways of playing. |
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