It wouldn't be bad if you posted the address where the BTC that was stolen from you is located, because someone might be able to connect that address to some centralized exchange, which would give you the possibility to block those funds. In addition, if you don't want to give up on trying to do something, first write a letter in which you will describe what happened to you and send it to all centralized exchanges with all the relevant information.

The chances are of course minimal, but considering the stolen amount, it is always possible that the hackers will be found one day.

You gave an example of transactions that are below $200, and now you mention transactions of $3 that are in the category of micro transactions and it definitely does not make sense to use Bitcoin on-chain transactions for payment in such conditions if the fee is in the amount of 5-10% of the total amount and if you do several such transactions per day.


In such situations, we have the option to pay using LN, which is instant and cheap, and in the examples of El Salvador or the island of Boracay, we see that it works. Of course, users need to be further educated with such a payment method, but the payment process through LN has already been simplified quite a bit when it comes to certain wallets that support it.

It seems that August was a positive month only in the years after the halving, (2013, 2017, 2021), and mostly negative in the other years. It is possible that this trend will continue this year, which means that we could expect the price to drop, although it is impossible to predict whether it will be only a few percent or something more serious.

Anyway, it seems to me that the chances of sliding down are slightly higher than any significant progress in the next 2-3 months.

If @Faisal2202 managed to find the answer to your question, I doubt that you couldn't do the same, it's about the basics of using a search engine.

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I will not repeat what is already on the links in the previous posts, but as far as the EU is concerned, the Dutch city of Arnhem is known as Bitcoin City and they say that you can buy almost anything for BTC there, including food.

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On the other side of the world, there is the island of Boracay (Philippines) where Bitcoin has become a common means of payment, so you can also buy food for BTC there.

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The value of the transaction has nothing to do with fees, but depends on some other factors such as the number of inputs/outputs (the size of the transaction) and the current state of the mempool. This means that if you were to buy food for $200 now (paid in BTC) and it was a standard-sized transaction, you would pay about $0.70 for a priority transaction.

Read carefully what the OP wrote and you can get an answer from that :


If the same question is still bothering you, then I will tell you that the internet is full of stories about how people got rich because they invested in BTC when it was worth a few tens of $ or maybe a few hundred $ - and some who read those stories think that maybe they too could realize their dreams with the help of Bitcoin. In other words, why work 7 or 10 hours a day and not be able to earn enough for a decent life, if there is something that has changed the lives of others for the better.

Of course, stories are one thing, but reality is something completely different. Everyone's life can change overnight if they win the lottery or find a treasure chest. Maybe you should check what is buried under an old tree

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/02/california-couple-finds-10m-buried-treasure-in-back-yard

It's true that things are much better in terms of security than they were a few years ago, but when you lock up over 70 000 people in prisons (which is 2% of the adult population) then you definitely increase the security on the streets. However, what Bukele is doing has its other side, because when you implement repressive measures, the innocent often suffer, and that means that innocent people are also convicted, which again calls into question the state of human rights in that country.

Therefore, I would not agree that El Salvador has become the safest country in Latin America, but if they continue to implement such measures, perhaps they will deserve that title in the future.

There is no doubt that BR is an incomparably larger company that is also globally positioned and, if I remember correctly, has offices in 30 countries and provides services in around 100 countries around the world. But it doesn't make much sense to compare BlackRock and MicroStrategy because they are two completely different business models, and Saylor is still one of the people who has the biggest influence in the company and is also completely crazy about Bitcoin.

I assume that BlackRock does not just go in this direction without having insight into the wishes of its clients, but we cannot know how much of an effect it will actually cause.

So you start from the assumption that all these companies will invest in Bitcoin at some point (perhaps when the spot BTC ETF is approved), and from 2009 until now they have not done so, even though there are no obstacles to it? What are the chances for such a scenario?

Of course, if something like that were to happen (for some reason), then only the sky is the limit - but here we are talking about a radical turn from thinking "We are not interested in Bitcoin" to "Let's invest $500 million or $1 billion in BTC".

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The first question is whether BR will get approval for that ETF at all, and the second, if it gets it, will their clients be interested in investing in BTC? What if the interest for that ETF is similar or only slightly higher than that shown by investors for futures BTC ETF?

In my opinion, it is wrong to assume that they will invest the most just because they have the most assets under management.

Maybe he just liked playing Blackjack, and maybe he was 21 at the time he started Bitcoin

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Of course, he will certainly appear after 10+ years to clear up the mystery behind the number 21

When copying the data, you must be careful not to mix up the numbers, because at first glance I noticed that Portugal's GDP is not correct, simply too little for a country in the west of the EU.

Furthermore, if we look at the data from previous years, we can see that the Swiss GDP has changed only a little less compared to 2021, while the Portuguese one is quite uniform except for 2020, which was a pandemic year. Panama has some $10 billion more than before the pandemic, but can this be attributed to the fact that trading with BTC is not taxed in those countries?

https://tradingeconomics.com/switzerland/gdp
https://tradingeconomics.com/portugal/gdp
https://tradingeconomics.com/panama/gdp

I wonder what happened next - RFK bought BTC for his dogs or a turtle or RFK ordered a pizza and paid for it with BTC? I think that too much dust is being raised about this man who has a chance to become president only if the current president does not live to see the next election or the one who attempted a coup ends up in prison.

Personally, I don't like such avatars too much, but I have nothing against them existing as an option for those who want to use them. In addition, I think that from an advertising perspective, avatars are far less effective than signatures, a direct link is still a direct link.

As far as I'm concerned, the OP posted this job advertisement very frivolously, because serious people would at least provide the company name, e-mail or LinkedIn, and here we only have a bunch of requirements that the candidate needs to fulfill and Telegram for contact - not at all suspicious, right?

I don't think things like this have much purpose, because it's an exam that takes 20 minutes, it's done online and anyone can cheat (regardless of the short time). Furthermore, it is necessary to answer at least 70% of the questions correctly in order to receive a certificate, which for me is an insufficient percentage in determining that someone has enough knowledge to receive any certificate.

In addition, the price of one certificate is $100 + certification fee of $39.99, and the certificate is only valid for 2 years. We can think that someone is doing this because they want to help others, but in the end it all boils down to the fact that you have to pay $140 to get something that doesn't really have any value when you're looking for a job.

Maybe because these people want to be anonymous considering that they own significant amounts of BTC - and why do you think that someone would want to be a walking target considering that it has already happened several times that some people have been kidnapped or robbed in their homes because they are too much talked about things that should have been private?

Unfortunately, most of those who come into contact with cryptocurrencies do not care about anything other than profit, and they do not care what a cryptocurrency is called, who is behind it and whether it has any purpose at all. Therefore, the reactions to this kind of request from the SEC are mostly negative, and people like CZ are becoming even more popular because they actually provide the greatest support to all these nonsensical projects within their platform.

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I would never dispute the right of someone to invest their money in whatever they want, but I would ask everyone who does so to sign a statement that they cannot ask for any help from state institutions for any possible loss. If people don't want the state to regulate the wild west when it comes to altcoins, then let them be prepared to bear the consequences of their decisions.

This is no news, at least not when it comes to Bitcoin. If China wants to become some kind of crypto hub, it will only be about projects that it can fully control, or it will only be about the fact that it will start to use blockchain technology more. Some still live in delusions that China will return everything to the old way, but Bitcoin will not (officially) have a place in China as long as the communist party rules there.

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What kind of statement is that? Is anyone preventing the average American from investing in Bitcoin today? Again, DeSantis said something without consulting his wife first, and it really sounds stupid. This picture says more than enough, of course for those who know how to interpret it.

There is a good saying that I have heard countless times in American movies that says "assumption is the mother of all fuc*ups", and if you think that something can't happen to you (and it happens to a lot of people every day), then you already have a big problem at the start.

Feeling comfortable and at the same time convinced that you are untouchable is a very dangerous combination.

That's really good advice, but the world is full of naive and greedy kids who just want what their idols have, which is a luxurious villa with a pool and of course some great car to brag about. However, only cases when someone grabs a few million come to the public, and in fact the biggest scams are those that do not attract the attention of the public, because a few tens of thousands of $ are no longer even worth mentioning.

That's why such things should really be regulated in such a way that not everyone can make their own token and put it online for sale. In other words, people should be protected from such fraudsters, and those who do this should be severely punished as a message for all others who think of such things.

Until now, halving has been a very important factor when we talk about price increases, and probably the halving effect will not be absent the next time it happens either. Fresh money will flow into BTC just like every time, and maybe this time investing will be even easier for institutional investors who will have at their disposal a spot BTC ETF, of course we are talking about the US market.



I think that the halving is one opportunity for profit that no one wants to miss considering that it happens every 4 years, in fact it is the only sure thing that investors can rely on. And as for money, there is quite enough of it that is not actually invested anywhere and is just waiting for the right moment. Most of those who have profited from BTC in the past will surely be able to recognize that moment again.