So he agreed to turn himself in so it'd help bolster publicity for the upcoming elections and not because he was actually guilty of the crime? That's a shit way to handle things. So if they knew they were going to let him go after paying some form of bail money, why prolong the case then? Honestly, the way I see the whole situation, it's a case of the wealthy and influential in the society covering up their evil deeds with hush money and appearing in court just to fulfill righteousness.

Я несколько удивлен тому, насколько равнодушно отнеслось комьюнити к новой кампании ройса с рекордными выплатами. Всего 30 заявок и ни одной заявки из топовых кампаний, я имею в виду, из mixtum, зеленых зон синбада, йомикса, итд. Ни один пользователь из топ-20 most-merited не подал заявку. Ну а про остальные ранги и так понятно, кому понравится за 75$ строчить аж 50 постов? В общем, это хороший пример того, что еженедельная оплата не всегда имеет первостепенное значение при выборе кампании.

Okay, so I'd appreciate some helpful insights on this. Ex US president, Donald Trump has turned himself in at Fulton County Jail just as the heading reads after facing 13 counts of felony tied to his supposed involvement in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
On Thursday, he made history by becoming the first president( sitting or former) to ever be detained or have his mugshots taken in a police file.

Won't his going to jail, even though it was some few hours thanks to a $200,000 bond affect his contesting for a presidential spot? I don't really know how the American law works but could this hinder him from getting a shot?

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/21/1195080489/donald-trump-georgia-booking

Well, P2P is one of the best and quickest way to convert your bitcoins to fiat and vice versa and it is the only option in parts of the world where the bitcoin is not legal.

To minimize the risk, one can deposit a small amount at the centralized exchange, perform a P2P transaction with limited funds only (many small transactions instead of one big transactions) and then (in case they have bought bitcoin), get the bitcoin withdrawn from the centralized exchange to the personal wallet. If one has a large amount to do the conversion, they should follow the process over and over again without exposing too much money at a single time.

За совет спасибо, но нее, читать чьи-то мрии с прицелом на 2 года (которые в эфире могут на 10 лет растянуться легко) не вижу смысла. У меня подход простой - потребительский, если хлеба нет здесь, то идем в другую булочную.
Масштабирование за счет Л2 это на мой взгляд неверная оценка - это костылирование. Масштабироваться должен сам эфир.

I do not think that the futures BTC ETF is more risky than the spot ETF, because with the former, the risk is lower in that the fund does not contain actual BTC, that is, the fund does not buy BTC in order to issue shares in the fund based on it, which is the case with the spot ETF. The spot ETF has additional risk because it is exposed to the risk of buying and storing BTC, although the SEC probably has some other reasons for taking such a negative view.

In addition, if we go into conspiracy theories a little, then we could conclude that the SEC wants to approve the first such ETF to someone who is still much closer to the government than to any other company. From this we can draw the conclusion that the most likely candidate to receive approval is BlackRock.

You are missing criteria regarding technology applicability in reality and not investing in last season's tokens.

I hope you have read this news last year. TVL is something that is closely related to DeFi, so what if the project doesn't have DeFi in its ecosystem like the previous coins (Litecoin, Dash, Monero etc.).

For now, in looking at the fundamentals of a project, I still use observations regarding communities, developments and ecosystems, that has helped me so far.

А пока что отсутствие законодательства полиция иногда просто пытается использовать в качестве обоснования для того, чтобы спихнуть с себя неинтересные дела. Вот, скажем, начальник отдела управления уголовного розыска УМВД России по Псковской области подполковник полиции А. А. Полатовский заявил:

«Если бы ущерб выражался в эквиваленте валюты любой из стран мира, то его можно было бы просчитать по курсу Центробанка. Но криптовалюта не признана в России средством платежа, и оплата труда ею равносильна устной договоренности. То есть, она ничем не подкреплена».

В итоге, на уровне полиции могут не захотеть заниматься расследованием мошенничества, если оно было совершено с использованием криптовалют. Неприятное заявление ИМХО. Понятно, что есть практика, когда подобное мошенничество всё-таки расследуется, но заявление достаточно крупного чина из системы МВД всё равно выглядит неожиданно. Цифровые товары типа игровых мечей можно оценить, а криптовалюты никак?

As it is recently, altcoins' selloffs were largely driven by Bitcoin, and there is contradictory news about the dump of the coin that triggered the selloff across the crypto board.

Now, by various personal analyses, I believe altcoins would not sell pretty much further, and the reason is simply that it would be difficult for Bitcoin to breach below $24,700-$25,000. And since Bitcoin was the cause of the recent fall and has also bottomed around the quoted levels with a sign of a bullish return. This highly suggests that altcoins have bottomed already and the correlation could cause them to reverse higher in response.

If you pay attention to the Binance platform, in the p2p section, there is always a warning aboit fraud and not releasing your coins until you confirm your fiat payment. And again, if you check the adverts section of the Binance platform, you will understand that there suspended or restricted accounts which I assume are accounts that violated binance terms or accounts that involved in scams.
So, it means that there are different kinds of scams. As long as the cryptocurrency industry is concerned, there must exist scam, that is the reason everyone is supposed to be careful.

News update.

This has cleared the question on XRP's status. I had an argument with someone in the forum where he said that XRP is sometimes a security, sometimes not a security depending on how it was sold. I shake my head on this because the ruling clearly said that XRP as a digital token is not in and of itself a contract, a transaction or a scheme that embodies the howey test requirements of an investment contract. These are the judges words.

In any case, this is another victory for the cryptospace.



In a significant turn of events, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has publicly affirmed the nonsecurity status of digital assets, including XRP. This announcement comes as part of the regulatory body’s motion to appeal the Ripple victory ruling.

The SEC stated in the newly filed motion:

“The SEC does not seek appellate review of any holding relating to the fact that the underlying assets here are nothing but computer code with no inherent value.”

Source https://coinedition.com/us-sec-officially-acknowledges-xrp-is-non-security-in-new-court-filing/

Above all that is being discussed here regarding how a P2P trader whose country didn't legalize bitcoin can seek redress if he was scammed, well IMO I think the whole of the bunk of retrieving the coin should be on the exchange that guaranteed the transaction as escrow. That should be the right position if the party scammed have done all necessary registrations and verified. If the transaction is in binance then they should ensure to retrieve the coin . This is like other off line P2P services, the escrow does the best effort for the transaction to be successful and in a case where it doesn't then the escrow or guarantor is held liable.

However, in the case of P2P in exchanges, I could suggest a deposit fund or reserve by each trader (based on their level of amount) where an exchange could dip in to repay a defaulting party and with that, the scam issues will have a natural death .

Agreed. Sam and Caroline were also rumored to be lovers. This implies that they trusted each other. I would not be shocked if they had a scheme on how they can move the funds of FTX's customers around to cover Caroline Ellison's trading losses in Alameda.

Can Sam testify in court that he was being manipulated by Caroline through sex and drugs?

Warren Buffett is still a Bitcoin sadist till today and he doesn't believe that Bitcoin have any monetary value at all but that one is left to him. There are many people that had been asking for the regulation of Bitcoin by the government because of so many big scams that had happened before now. If Bitcoin ever get regulated, it are not going to be the same again like we used to enjoy it. Bad projects and exchanges that had crashed is making the government have a rethink about the fear of there citizens getting scammed by fake projects.