I am increasinlg of the view that the "bitcoin" being "sold" on centralised exchanges are mostly fake, that is fractional.

Let's be honest, most so-called long-term holders are right now thinking "I could have sold at 60k buy now 3 times more BTC"

USDC is (supposedly) actually backed 1:1 with the US Dollar. The only reason to not use it if you're skeptical that the company behind it(Circle) is doing something shady or is insolvent.

I always wonder why people that publicly say they hat bitcoin, then continue to comment on it. To me it seems more that he in reality trades bitcoin and tries to manipulate the price, since there would be no reason at all to recommend people to sell and buy later again if he doesn't want to buy himself.

But if it really happens, I can't imagine what will happen to the market because a lot of people feel hopeless because the price has dropped so drastically. If people could be more patient at this point, they would see an opportunity to buy bitcoin at a lower price, especially since it's already at $20k and $19k is almost touched. Let's just hope the bitcoin price doesn't plunge to a lower price.

Keep in mind that the very top of bull markets, and the very bottom of bear markets, the narrative rhetoric is all the same:

Near the top of bull markets, the MSM and the "expert analysts" will all give you 1000+ reasons why the markets are going much higher. The uber bullishness hopium is off the charts.

And it often doesn't reach their lofty predictions.

Near the bottom of bear markets, the MSM and the "expert analysts" (often the same ones) will all give you 1000+ reasons why the markets are going much lower. The uber bearishness doom-and-gloom is off the charts.

And it often doesn't reach their lowly predictions.

This is all by design.

They want you to be "all in" at the top (because greed), and "all out" at the bottom (because fear).

Bit coiners community can create a guild or certification body, which sets some rigorous mechanism to review and rate the new projects

I am interested to know why some people just never care.  I am too tired of the 'nothing to hide' argument and need a real reason someone should not worry about being spied on.  Because at the end of the day, most of us are looking for freedoms and democracy and it makes no sense then to accept surveillance.  To me there is a clear, distinctive line between freedom and surveillance.

But even that doesn't get rid of the problem that someone somewhere has to be trusted with printing the words on the cups.

If you make them from four different shops, I don't think anyone can guess you are doing something stupid to secure your Seed .

The system is for handling trade risk, not for flagging people for good/bad posts/personalities/ideas.

Although I also find it harsh, our opinion doesn't worth much in the matter. Trust feedback is not moderated.

It may be an unpopular opinion but I fear that if your red tag will be removed you may start spamming the forum just to meet your posting quota.

Please quote and verify.

As customer, i would avoid merchant which only use BitPay to accept cryptocurrency. There's exception when i really need service/goods offered by that merchant and can't be found elsewhere, but it never happened so far.

I'm a little envious at this kind of people. They have the luxury to be picky when it comes to job. They could choose not to work if they don't like the job.

Here just around 1.5% of the population pays income tax.

If you want to check the list of ban countries check this https://www.coinpayments.net/help-restricted