A week ago, President Xi of China has urged the Chinese to seize opportunities in the crypto market and blockchain industry. The announcement caught the market by surprise and drive the price of Bitcoin up until $10, 000. I personally believe that with the participation of Chinese, it is undoubtedly that the adoption rate would be greatly increased. But, wouldn't it subject the Chinese projects to be under the influence of Communist Party of China? What are your thoughts on this one?

Reference:
(i) https://www.coindesk.com/president-xi-says-china-should-seize-opportunity-to-adopt-blockchain
(ii) https://cointelegraph.com/news/breaking-chinas-xi-jinping-urges-accelerated-blockchain-technology-adoption
(iii) https://cryptoslate.com/crypto-community-divided-over-chinas-blockchain-law/

I noticed that there are quite a number of crypto-powered social media popping out in recent years. I believe the most successful one is Steemit, which most of us can agreed on. There are also other social network platforms like Appics, Uhive and etc. I am curious to know if anyone of you is willing to switch from the daily social network app like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to crypto-powered social network. And if you could, do share your reasons for doing so.

Tomorrow (a few hours from now), it will have been exactly five years since the original white paper on Bitcoin sidechains (PDF) was released. The basic idea explained in the paper was that Bitcoin users would be allowed to move their coins between multiple, completely different blockchains that could enable a wide range of new cryptocurrency features.

The end result of this functionality would theoretically be an end to the many altcoins that existed on the market at the time, as there would no longer be a legitimate reason to create a new cryptocurrency in an effort to experiment with new features. Instead, new features that were sufficiently complex could come to Bitcoin by way of sidechains.

Today, sidechains do exist, but they come with trade-offs in the areas of centralization and censorship resistance – at least for now. At the recent Transylvania Crypto Conference, a panel of experts on the topic, including Blockstream CEO and sidechains white paper co-author Adam Back, discussed the current state and future potential of sidechains for Bitcoin.

The source is here for more reading...





The claim is that Bitcoin Sidechains can eventually make all altcoins lose value and purpose as this functionally can easily adopt all the features that altcoins may have rendering them, in essence, very worthless and inutile. "...new features that were sufficiently complex could come to Bitcoin by way of sidechains."


Now, whether this claim can happen or not depends a lot if Sidechains can be implemented soon and if the market will be reacting in the way it is expected.

Do you think that Sidechains has this potential or maybe the guys behind this proposition is just imagining things? Please share here what you may know about this Sidechains...

I’m bit surprised as no one choose to post on this topic, considering how divided American legislators were when they decided to vote in yesterday’s impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. Once the results became clear Trump tweeted that his impeachment was the greatest witch hunt in US history, and I have to agree with him.

It’s clear Democrats have no leader left that can challenge Trump in the 2020 elections, and the only way they’ll ever win is to impeach him which is really sad.

In my personal opinion Trump should not be impeached as he’s taken decisions which past US presidents couldn’t take, e.g. got China to agree to a new trade deal.

What do you’ll think about this impeachment inquiry, will democrats find a way to impeach him or will he spring another miracle and be able to complete his term?.

Sources:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50246324

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/trump-impeachment-effort-passes-first-test-in-divided-us-congress-idUSKBN1XA18X

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/31/trump-says-us-china-trade-deal-is-close-but-market-nose-dives

https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1189927952168996865

Hello, years ago I think I watched on Youtube a video of an Enterprise that give you a debit card to withdraw cash and pay online service in internet. Similar like Payoneer but in this case you can withdraw your money with your bitcoins funds.
Is there any service that works now in 3rd world countries? (I am in South america) Many thanks!

Hey all got a question.  I know you should not be sending directly from sites like coinbase directly to gambling site because coinbase can close your account.  I read this happened to many people.



Now one question i have about this.  There is one gambling site that i use.  I have sent btc to deposit and withdraw with btc with that same btc address.  Now i have a friend who i sometimes sell btc to and then he would send me bank transfer.  He would need the btc so he can deposit it into gambling site.  So what i do is then send it to his btc address.  Then he send it to gambling site.  I know what site he uses because i recommended it to him a while back when he wanted to know what site is good.  This is with btc gambling site number 1 lets call it.  He told me his coinbase account got closed not long ago... reason is pretty obvious, it was most likely because he sent directly from coinbase to that gambling site without it going through an intermediary like blockchain or electrum.



He wants me to send him btc again as he would transfer me money via money transfer.  He then gave me the btc address he wants me to send to which is directly that gambling site's btc address.  This is another gambling site but I have an account on that site as well.  Lets call that gambling site number 2.  Then i thought... well i also have an account at that same gambling site.  This was also the same with the other gambling site number 1 he use to send btc to but i would send from my wallet to his coinbase and then he send directly to that gambling site.




But in this situation, would me sending btc directly to the btc address that gambling site wants him to deposit btc into be an issue because



1.  They see the btc is coming directly from my btc address as a deposit and I deposited btc many times with this btc address?  I know btc transactions are not anonymous.  So it might look like i have multiple accounts because of this reason?  The guy likes to bet on sports which is why i would sell him btc for bank transfer many times.


Or this should not be an issue at all?


Or its best if i send the btc to another one of his btc address?  He did tell me he has an exodus btc address.  So better safe to send btc to his exodus btc address... then he send to that gambling site right?

Basic attention token also allows to tip content creators. But it offers much more than Dogecoin (e.g. a new advertising system).

What do you guys think? Can DOGE and BAT coexist (e.g. due to different user groups) or will BAT make DOGE obsolete?

When I check on google,

The market cap is the total USD value of bitcoin in circulation.

the volume is the total volume of buys and sells,

But the 24 volume isn't same as the market cap, what's the difference ?

Market cap is the exchanges between wallets and daily volume is only people buying and selling that's it ?

So doing transaction between 2 wallets does not mean you're buying and selling bitcoin that's it ?

I want to know the opinion of all crypto friends in this forum about Ethereum, because the price of Ethereum is currently unable to rise beyond the $ 300 figure. Ethereum prices are only between $ 150 - $ 250. and this incident makes me wonder, why did this happen to Ethereum ??

100% Failtoshi  




He reminds me on Dr.Evil from one comedy movie called Austin Powers.
I find all his videos hilarious and a big joke

Here is his new 3rd 'comeback' video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFuSGzLkw90

*Not possible to like/dislike his videos, and comments are censured

Some of you maybe remember this Faketoshi guy Bilal Khalid who claims he is Satoshi Nakamoto.
He has been exposed but still he is moving with his 'project' and just released his first video interview.

His website: satoshinrh.com

Maybe he can team up with his twin brother Craig Faketoshi Wrong, and they would make a perfect team




source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VcnJsRZlB0&feature=youtu.be

Why are people not getting it?its kinda annoying hearing from people that Facebook Libra coin will take over.

The first question I would like to ask such people is why are they investing in crypto?majority of us on here wants to make profits apart from supporting the technology and that clears the fact that I'm only investing in bitcoin and altcoins because they aren't stable.

People aren't getting it that if bitcoin becomes a stable currency today many investors will start using bitcoin just like they are using tether but what about those high gain?sorry guys investing 2000$ in stable coins will remains at 1999$-2000$ forever.

Either bitcoin and altcoins bring loss or gains that's what makes them more interesting,Libra is a stable coin,no more no less and no matter how good it turns out to be its not an option for investment to me,I don't know about you guys.

If Libra gets on exchanges I like using like binance yes I would gladly use it to back my crypto Worth's just like using tether or usdc,nothing more or less.

Enough of libraphobia.

Americans who own a cryptocurrency has almost doubled from 7.95% in 2018 to 14.4% in 2019, an increase of 81% in one year,
according to a new survey. That means roughly 36.5 million Americans own some form of crypto.
https://www.finder.com/how-many-people-own-cryptocurrency

In addition, the survey by Finder said,
Since US regulations make it more difficult for citizens to participate in crypto investments the growth shows an underlying interest.
If regulations loosen up in the coming year this could spur growth for the global crypto market.

What do you think?

Are there any other trading platforms on for trading cryptocurrency aside from Kraken and if there are, what type of benefits do traders get when trading on those other platforms?

Some additional questions:
Can you do C2C Trading?
Can you convert the Crypto to cash?
What countries are those trading platforms based on?

Google has already claimed that they achieved quantum supremacy. It's a revolutionary in the computing world. I think that through it could help boost the computing power of the blockchain to produce much bitcoins than our present computers.

I cheated my way thru in a job interview, for the role of the content writer of exchange, now my boss asks me to write about blockchain but I know nothing about it. Could you guys just give me a basic rundown of.... *Things?*. Anything and everything you feel would be nice to know here

Yeah, that's a question I keep asking myself these days. There's so many DEX projects, some of them not even being "Real DEX's" like the Binance "DEX". I've been wondering if another bull run could trigger a huge influx of new users towards these projects, since you don't need to own an account to use them.


Remember Q4 of 2017, when you couldn't even open a Binance account since they got too many registrations at once? With the recent influx of new trading options, some of the volume could be moved towards decentralized solutions such as Blocknet, just to name a project.

Another thing worth speculating on, is people seem to HATE KYC like the plague. Imagine all the rich and wealthy people, like celebs, and people with big time careers, they might not even want to risk disclosing what they hold should a centralized exchange be compromised, which makes DEX's the best solution.

Could 2020 be the year of DEX's? Just a thought...