Banning mining isn't the same as banning Bitcoin. It's basically what happens when electricity prices go up: miners move to another country.
Here, taxes are high enough to make Bitcoin mining not profitable. That makes a ban on mining useless.

That will depend on their withdrawal fees, many exchanges use high fees to deter people from withdrawing, and many people don't even care about having their own wallet.

Paypal used to be the standard on eBay and Chinese webshops. Those days are gone already, the large webshops (think Amazon and Aliexpress) use cheaper and more reliable creditcard payments. I can't believe both of them have my card details on file, and I'd love to see them accept Bitcoin LN instead, but I don't expect it as long as the majority of their customers doesn't use it.

If they add Bitcoin LN, their users will realize they don't need Paypal anymore

This guy has a point:
You're missing out on so much of "the Bitcoin experience" by not using it! Try it, send it, test some wallets, get the feel of how it really works. Fund a Lightning channel, make a few payments, see what works for you. If you ever want to use it (to buy a jet or something), it comes in handy if you know what to expect.

You lost me here already. Why do you need a centralized exchange for P2P trading? That defeats the entire purpose of using P2P!

Easy: get a VPN. Mullvad.net (currently my favourite) accepts crypto payments at any amount, you can literally pay a few cents for only a few hours.

FWIW: if you haven't made a backup already, before funding the wallet, you're one defective hard drive away from losing your Bitcoins.

To add to this: for the size of the blockchain it doesn't matter if you use a new address or one that was used already. In short: don't worry about it, use as many addresses as you want.

There are no "dollars" in Bitcoin. I assume you mean amounts around 3000-10,000 sat. Consider switching to Bitcoin Lightning Network, or make larger transactions when possible. You'll save on transaction fees.

A 51% attack can't change the rules. All it can do is orphan existing blocks and create new ones.
The rules are enforced by consensus, and won't change until people accept the altered software.

You should read how transactions work. Short version: it's not measured in dollars, and it's not measured per transaction.
Priority is decided based on the highest fee rate in satoshi per vbyte (transaction size).

Poor scammers come up with larger and larger numbers, trying to impress people. The funny thing is that they only ones interested are other scammers.
Sign a message or STFU.

And that's indeed another thing I don't like about EU. They're incompetent because they want to please everyone for their moral high ground agenda. China doesn't have that "problem": they do what's best for China.

The new inputs are dust, which is either spam or meant for tracking. It doesn't prove someone has the private key.

Bitcoin is fungible. Stop trying to convince people it's not, and stop using services that treat Bitcoin as if it's not fungible.

There's the case of bitcoins from a forum treasurer who died, after which the 250 Bitcoins moved. You don't have access to the Investigations board, so you can't read the most recent information.
I think the reward theymos offered is 20% of anything recovered. How's that for a chance to prove your skills?

Thanks. So what tax is OP taking about?

Pour it in concrete, put it under your floor boards, hammer it into your wall before you put wall paper on, hide your seed words in different continents....
Or just make a very nice paper wallet that you really don't want to break open.

What's the catch with that symbolic price?


I know nothing about buying cars in the USA: what taxes does the seller have to pay?

My kids are a bit younger, but I already teach them about privacy. That's more relevant and more age appropriate than cyber security. They use a fake name as email address (to register their tablet/phone), and at home we use a code word for Bitcoin, so they don't mention it at school. Code words also work for sex, so they don't know what we're talking about.
When they're a bit older, I'll tell them about magic internet money. Until then, their allowance is in euro. A piggy bank is much easier to understand.

It sounds like USDT, but running on the Lightning Network. The "tokens" can be non-custodial, but the dollar peg can only be centralized.