Hmm, this line is a bit contradictory
Not a single business accepts Bitcoin but he did pay in Bitcoin, so they can still deal unless that host thing was also just extra, and the main fee was paid in cash.


I don't think it's ridiculous, it's the only way to fund that!
CAR doesn't have money to buy Bitcoin, funny thing, is they can't print money thanks to the CAF so their only way is to print virtual money and get real hard cash or coins in exchange for it. Either way, Sango is a failure.


This is what I'm asking, what was working alright since we had no news after the law made it legal tender but we had those two articles which I quoted above where it seems they've backtracked on that issue. Well, I do understand the lack of information, with the current situation as they are more interested in war and disputes than building something is no surprise the number of tourists is probably abysmal.

Exactly what I'm doing, not acting as a spectator and reminding people what kind of hyena is now spamming around here


LB was an exchange, not a marketplace, the two are completely different.
LB was used exactly because it was easy to deal with it, you would just look at the prices, decide from who to buy and which method, and at least here in EU with instant national transfers you could get your coins or funds in minutes and finish the trade.
That's why some don't get why other solutions are not getting traction, as the situation is now fewer people care more about privacy than about how fast and easy things can be done, that's why Bisq has dozens of traders and Biance p2p thousands.


Most likely.
https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/ALL
Their volume went down as BTC went down, from the 45 mils a week to 6 mils a week, at some point maybe the profit from it simply doesn't make sense anymore and you're better off just quitting. Assuming they are getting 1% of all that volume it would be $3 mil a year, with 50-100 highly paid employees in Europe as they claim just the wages and taxes and rent would drive that to almost zero. If he's an early adopter probably he has 100x more than what would be left over a year stashed in BTC already.

Oh, nice one, you made me look over at the staff name, and that one does ring a bell

BITNAKA LTD
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14170123/persons-with-significant-control
Mr Kendrew Greg
Date of birth
December 1991

BIT NOVA INC LTD
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13759030/officers
GREG, Kendrew
Date of birth
July 1991

TRADENANCE LIMITED
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12005884/persons-with-significant-control
Mr Kendrew Greg
Date of birth
July 1980

I find it interesting there are 3 ponzi schemes (two which have already exist scammed) run by three Kendrew Greg with different birthdates.
What a coincidence!




What a coincidence! Again! 

What will happen if all countries ban cryptos and prices plunge to zero?
What will happen if Theymos is arrested and the forum is seized?
What will happen if Satoshi comes back and says this is Bitcointalk, not Altcoins talk, and trashes the entire section?
What if Musk decided that all those accounts involved in bounties are against the ToS and bans every single one that is caught spamming 100 posts a day?
How have 7 billion survived to date without bounties, how is the entire world still spinning around even if "projects" are fewer and fewer and the payments lower and lower? You have some really weird egocentric view where you think this is the only way for things to still go on and the only way for some people to cling to hope for the better and a "raison de vivre". Well, it's not!

As for how can people be aware of new projects, hmm, how many bounties has Satoshi run for Bitcoin? Has Ethereum also run a bounty here?
We have 398 pages of bounties, do you think you can make more than one page of topics of coins that are still alive out of those?
You see, anyone can fire one hundred questions just as you did, do you have an answer for all of them?!


Respect is earned, not given!
LE just to make sure:
A guy that wakes up at 4 am for the crappy low-paying job he has and does this every day without bickering once has all my respect, a guy that makes clicks 100 times a day and demands respect for that will not have any of it!

A lot of the guys active here in the mining forum, who actually own their gear?
But yeah, pretty obvious what happened, and sad that it's 2023 and there are still users falling for cloud mining scams.
I don't really want to sound harsh but how have you let this happen for so long and haven't learned that "mining" where you buy packages on shady websites that promise you great returns is not mining at all and just scams?

With mining is the same thing as with bitcoin:
Not your keys, not your coins. Not your miners, not your income.

Now, about the bolded part, we can already picture what kind of site that is, but do tell us, what's the name and adress?

I've once read that hyenas are very patient, seems like the humanoid type can't even half a day before trying to get a bone, even if the victim is still moving.
I knew the name looks familiar, no surprise:


The exchange with sockpuppets bumping a dead topic, a Fiverr presentation, and photoshopped pictures did I forget something?


It's not about exposure, is dying volume overall,  far more competition and getting things even more complicated is the fact that they were dealing in BTC only, buttimes have changed and more users with a ton of coins want to swap in every kind of token, not something they built their business for.

It's not Mods who have a say in this it's Theymos and the last time he touched this subject (as far as I know) his opinion was that even if we would attempt to cut on these kinds of trading happening on the forum they will just move over in private deals, so, there you have it. And from the number of accounts we run into every day that have changed from speaking perfect English over a long break of a few years to being active only on local sub-forums, I'm pretty sure a lot of them those deals are indeed not happening through opened topics.

Besides, when you say these harm Bitcointalk directly, so do HYIP schemes as obviously it's going to be forum members who get tricked but we still have a section full of them.

You're generalizing and this is never a good idea.
There are a lot of people from everywhere that don't have savings without being gamblers, the same thing is the other way around, there are enough gamblers who have more savings than the average non-gambler:
https://www.bi.team/blogs/dealing-new-data-what-bank-transactions-can-tell-us-about-gambling-behaviour/


Also, since you're a gambler yourself, does that mean you don't have any savings also?
Hmm, look who's calling the kettle black!  

It's always the difference in how people see some news.
Some analyze what is happening, some are predicting what's going to happen and some are wishing something to happen because of this.
The Bitcoin adoption triggered by this mess is in the 3rd category and with small chances of changing to the second, as it lacks a lot of things.

Unfortunately, it's obvious is not happening right now, if any kind of migration would have happened since January from cash to BTC it would have been easily seen in the blockchain, there is no pick-up in transactions pace and the only increases happened exactly when the price was going up.
We have 200 000 000 people, assuming only half are getting some kind of payment and assuming again only 1 in a thousand would use BTC instead of $ you would still have 100k extra transactions in the chain or a lot of increase in LN funding, that ain't happening either.

Way to early to claim victory over traditional systems, when people area already familiar with digital payments the plan can be ste in motion but with them craving that much for cash I doubt they would want to embrace anything that is digital, be it CC or BTC


Pure curiosity, why 80% and why not 90% or 70%?
Also, if my clients would come each with a 80% chance of paying me I would probably close shop and think of a different career.

Never used Gemini so I don't have an account there to check if the video is up to date but you can give these instructions a try:
https://koinly.io/integrations/gemini/
Also this is from Gemini:
https://support.gemini.com/hc/en-us/articles/360031080191-How-do-I-create-an-API-key-

As for actual balance, it doesn't matter, they are required to keep your data exactly for this purpose so you'll probably be able to get all your history with no problem.

It's easy, have him give you the tx id!
I have a feeling this might be either a case of scamming or somebody had his computer infected with some clipboard malware.
Every transaction that is valid will appear in the blockchain, if he sent coins to somebody it will show where those coins went!

That aside, there is not possible to build a program that will automatically detect if the address you want to send coins to is the address your friend sent you via telegram or email, or any kind of new address generated by your exchange, in order to make sure you only send coins to selected addresses you will first have to insert them in that program's database so it will know them, which brings us to the address book NotATether mentioned.

It was already posted, here is the announcement
https://localbitcoins.com/service_closure/
Also the Twitter announcement a few hours ago:
https://twitter.com/LocalBitcoins/status/1623683223178862593

With a quarter million views in a few hours, it did trigger quite the reaction so it wasn't like LB was a deserted place, it still had users but probably they saw that the end is near and they have no chance of growing their activities even with a price increase. And maybe thy;ve made enough and had enough BTC stashed aside that any future gains from fee would simply not make sense compared to the headaches from the regulations they had to follow.

Still, not the news one would want to read.

Everyone is talking about Salvador but there is almost no interest here from the other country that has adopted Bitcoin, little news coming from the Central African Republic, and I was quite surprised when visiting a topic I happened to come across this piece of news:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/central-african-republic-eyes-legal-framework-for-crypto-adoption

All nice and so on but, wasn't Bitcoin already legal tender here, so what kind of "framework" do you need to approve?
And then, this thing :

https://african.business/2022/07/technology-information/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-central-african-republics-adoption-of-bitcoin/


https://www.theafricareport.com/226880/car-backs-down-from-implementing-cryptocurrency-law-in-exchange-for-beac-engagement/


There is a complete gap in news from July and I really can't find anything about the current situation, so what is from a legal point of view the situation right now there? I know we have quite a few users from Nigeria and other countries in the area but do we have members from CAR around? Would be interesting to hear from somebody who lives there!

Since the numbers I've quoted came from Russia itself:
https://tass.com/economy/1572381
double or triple them for the deficit, cut them in half for revenue and you're close to the truth.


Again it seems like you're missing the important point here.
If it's hard for you to buy stuff from people just because of the ruble converting issue, won't be just as hard to buy bitcoins with the same rubles?
It's simple logic, if I don't want to accept litecoin in my shop for coffee no way in hell I'm going to sell you my bitcoins for litecoin, right?


Trading volume is meaningless, you can have a look and compare the daily volume of Forex markets with the actual value of goods traded each day.
Forex does around 8 trillion a day while all global annual trade is 22 trillion, so 1/100.
Besides, those would be on-chain events and for on-chain volume in $ value is still the lowest since 2020.

Ok, I know from the start I'm biased here when it comes to a list of mixers, for obvious reasons, but I'm still curious how and why did you pick those three as examples. Let's go over the fact that you previously ignored the biggest and oldest, which makes this look like writing a review on e-commerce websites without amazon, but again, out of pure curiosity why those 3? I've never used them, I can see they are not the oldest around, not the cheapest, it's obviously not alphabetically order so...

Don't get me wrong, I just want to know to understand what people look at when reading or exploring a website what made them more attractive than others, and had you pick them from LeGaulois list?

One more thing, Tornado for example is not for BTC so you might update the lists by differentiating the coins they support

There was a topic about quitting your daily job to do bounty hunting, I can't remember the exact title and the keywords are not helping me but there is another funny one with Pain of bounty hunters
That's one hell for the topic, with some claiming that was the hardest job they've ever had! It's hard work clicking the same button over and over and over!


Probably a few years ago it was working but I really wonder nowadays if all those re-tweets and likes and posts with zero real engagement are actually helping even one bit, I've checked lately what Twitter is doing and it seems they are trashing these kinds of activities and hiding them at the bottom of the pages even if they have the tags you were searching for. Maybe as long as you pay them with money you print yourself at no cost probably they don't care about the results but those must be minimal.


Let's just hope it will be small scale one, the fact that they are not paying the promised share makes me think they haven't got enough money from "investors".

Nothing mysterious is BNB TokenHub used for cross chain
https://docs.bnbchain.org/docs/learn/system-contract/


They should contact Binance not post comments on a website.

Koinly for example works by providing it with your API key from Binance or Coinbase or other exchanges, at one point least some of them had also the possibility of a full dump of your transactions, but never ever entrust some random app downloaded from Gplay with your username and password.


If it was a single event even with multiple cryptos involved I don't think you need one, but if the purchases are spread and you also used different exchanges, yeah just go for an aggregator. There are a bunch that offers a free plan for under 100-1000 transactions.

Well, it's petty simple then.
Add your current revenues in case you would liquidate all your assets, I'm pretty sure a portfolio manager app could do that in a second and then compare with the results of purely holding Bitcoin. If your gains in $ are far larger than what you could have gained by simply holding BTC, or if with the alts you hold you could buy more coins then it means you did better than just holding. The problem in this that you have to look for is that the majority of your gains shouldn't be sourced from one single coin because that means you've simply gambled and one of the dark horses you picked won.

That being said, trading signals, meh! It's more like those old pump and dumps groups, really hard next to impossible to trust one with more than peanuts.


Enhance the skills of seeing lines and dots where there are none to be seen? A bit of weed would do the same! 
I still can't figure out why everybody is so focused on this TA when every damn week we have a move that breaks all previous rules and charts.

You should have done this before opening the topic. You see the reaction of other members, right?
With this topic where you accuse somebody of scamming but you have no proof you simply shot yourself in the foot and everyone will feel tempted to not believe your story and think it's something completely else as it happens a lot around here.
And this is not helping you either:


OKX just decided not to list your token or coin or whatever, FTX played with people's money they've entrusted to it, it's a completely different story, and to be honest, I simply couldn't care less about "projects" that have to pay to get listed on exchanges. I don't know if your "project" has someone working in advertising or marketing but it would be better to let somebody else be in charge of this.