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5421  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2020-04-04] Class-action lawsuits filed against 11 Bitcoin companies on: April 09, 2020, 04:19:12 AM
Why has no one filed lawsuits on the most centralized platform in the cryptospace? Ripple. I reckon XRP is the easiest token of all to be classified as an illegal security.

The answer might be political connections hehehe.
5422  Bitcoin / Press / [2020-04-09] Hacker Exploits Flaw in Decentralized Exchange Bisq on: April 09, 2020, 03:01:17 AM
A small commentary.

This is the type of power decentralization a real dex gives everyone as an equalizer. This is also what the people sitting on the very top do not want you to know. They want to have all this power only for themselves under the present system.



In most cases of an exchange hack, the attacker can be booted off the trading platform for good. Not so with Bisq. One of the DEX's associated developers told CoinDesk that although the flaw was fixed, there was nothing to prevent the attacker – whose identity cannot be known – from accessing and trading on the platform again.

"Anyone can use Bisq, there is no censorship," the developer said. "Just like anyone can use bitcoin, there is no way to ban someone from bitcoin."


Read in full https://www.coindesk.com/hacker-exploits-flaw-in-decentralized-exchange-bisq-to-steal-250k
5423  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] AEON: Cryptonote privacy, efficiency, decentralization, and stability on: April 09, 2020, 02:45:07 AM
50k usd to pump 500 % ?

i.e. less than 10 btc ?

Yes, it does not take millions of American dollars to pump Aeon hehehe. Its liquidity is so low and dry, it smells like my grandmother without her bath hehehe.

In any case, what are the rumors? @smooth?
5424  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] AEON: Cryptonote privacy, efficiency, decentralization, and stability on: April 08, 2020, 04:08:20 AM
Hi all! Please help me
I cannot run the GUI wallet   Sad

aeon-wallet-gui: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

But on the Ubuntu 18 there is only newer libpng16 already installed.
What would you do?

better ask the question on reddit.com/r/Aeon

I reckon we need an easy wallet for newbies similar to mymonero.

@jwinterm. The americanpegasus might be back with us again hehehe. She is pumping with her savings from driving on Uber hehehehe.
5425  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: [NEWS] Did Binance just help Justin Sun take over the Steem network? on: April 08, 2020, 03:18:15 AM
@layer1gfx. Changpeng Zhao is Justin's best friend in the cryptospace. He will not list Hive on Binace, I reckon. Also, not 1 of the exchanges that has business relationships with Justin will not list them also.

In any case, I predict more Hive holders will dump Hive and return to Steem after this war. Justin is not yet finished.



Tensions between Steem (STEEM) and the Hive (HIVE) community continue to escalate, with Steem executing a soft fork to freeze up to 20 accounts owned by the network’s former witnesses.

The frozen accounts hold 17.6 million STEEM, worth approximately $3.2 million and equating to nearly 5% of Steem’s total supply.

On April 4, the soft fork was proposed in a Steemit post authored by the new account "softfork2288."
In response to the purported “uncertain threat that the leaders and main influencers of [Hive] represented to the Steem Blockchain,” the fork sanctioned roughly “no more than 20 accounts “ that meet three criteria:

“Accounts that ran the version 0.23 during the Hardfork on Steem and were still in the Top 20 rank, shortly before the Hardfork. Accounts that proxied or directly voted to more than 10 witnesses running the version 0.23 on the Steem Blockchain during the hardfork with high influence. Accounts directly associated with operating these accounts.”


Read in full https://cointelegraph.com/news/steem-soft-forks-to-freeze-176m-tokens-held-by-former-witnesses
5426  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: US Presidential Election 2020 on: April 08, 2020, 12:50:45 AM
And Trump do have a fair chance in some of the "battleground" states, such as Florida (29 electoral votes) and Ohio (18 electoral votes).

What Trump "did" in 2016 was just amazing, if that word makes any sense. He won a) all swing states and b) won states that had a long-ish history of being won by the Democrats.

That was the entire fault of President Obama. The people were not happy with his presidency.

Also, the information on the internet may have informed them to not listen to mainstream media anymore. Mainstream media is only another type of brainwashing, or to use facebook terminology, fake news to put you on the side of the people who create and run the storyboards.
5427  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2020-04-04] Class-action lawsuits filed against 11 Bitcoin companies on: April 08, 2020, 12:23:23 AM
@hv_. Agreed, the American government can do a lot, however, why have they not done anything to the more than 1000 cryptocoins, altcoins, scamcoins, ICO tokens and more?

I reckon a lot might only be few.

Ramping up - get them educated,... they do a lot, but they are split quite a lot SEC, CFTC, NY BitLicence, ....

And sure, they need to adjust / collude a bit with EU / ... to make  things happen global. That all takes time and is coming next 1-2 y

Many people also said that it was coming in the next 1 or 2 years on 2015. However, the next 1 or 2 years saw the biggest pumps in the cryptospace hehehe.

On 2018 - 2019, the SEC begun accepting payment as fees to continue from EOS and other ICO projects. It never came. It would only give power to the SEC to choose which projects they like to continue and which they do not like, however hehehe.
5428  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Is KYC bad for crypto? on: April 07, 2020, 03:21:05 AM
Yes that is the official reason why they say that every service should require KYC. However, the real reason is to monitor each person's movement. I reckon next would be to create an artificial intelligence algorithm to predict your every movement on the internet.

Also, do exchanges declare that they do not share or sell your personal documents to advertisers and other 3rd parties in their terms of service?

I don't think exchanges will be able to protect your personal information from advertisers or other third parties. They could do anything once they notice suspicious activity on your account. Centralized exchanges could easily notify the authorities against any transaction (trade) they see suspicious performed on the exchange platform itself. In the case of advertisers, central exchanges wouldn't want to miss some "extra profit" so they wouldn't care more or less sharing your personal information with them. The mere fact that KYC poses a security risk to crypto users, has a lot to tell. I know that governments want to tackle illegal activities performed on centralized exchanges, but KYC is not the way to go. Maybe there's another way to do this? After all, your ID verification documents stored on centralized exchanges' servers could be easily exposed by a hacker. Instead of submitting personally identifiable documents, governments could require exchanges to biometrically scan your fingerprint or even iris to confirm your identity. I believe it's much safer to do this than sharing your ID documents to an exchange. With WebAuthn on the works, something like this could be made possible.

Anyhow, crypto users have a variety of options to choose from if they're skeptical about KYC. There are many alternatives to existent instant exchanges (like ShapeShift), which don't require KYC. The same way, there are many decentralized exchanges that don't require KYC and are a great alternative to popular centralized exchanges on the crypto space (like Binance and Bittrex). Additionally, you can trade crypto to Fiat or vice versa in a P2P manner (in-person). The real problem is that the newcomer into crypto is not aware of these workarounds, leading him/her to submit his/her ID verification documents on a centralized exchange. As long as governments are requiring KYC on centralized exchanges, there's nothing we can do to prevent malicious actors from stealing your identity. Just my opinion Smiley

Agreed! These people who accept KYC as a standard procedure assume that giving their personal privacy is acceptable in exchange for security. They were scammed. They always end with neither hehehehe.
5429  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [AMA] The Life of a Professional Gambler on: April 07, 2020, 03:07:41 AM
@tyKiwanuka. What news websites are you reading? 1.20 odds for yes is a very positive view, I reckon hehehe.

It might also be impossible because the situation is only very unpredictable. Human to animal transmission of the coronavirus might be happening everywhere.



A TIGER AT the Bronx Zoo in New York City has tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19, and six other big cats are exhibiting symptoms consistent with the illness, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Sunday afternoon.

“It’s the first time, to our knowledge, that a [wild] animal has gotten sick from COVID-19 from a person,” says Paul Calle, chief veterinarian for the Bronx Zoo. The Malayan tiger, named Nadia, likely contracted the coronavirus from an infected—but unknown—asymptomatic zookeeper. “It’s the only thing that makes sense,” Calle says. The zoo has been closed to visitors since March 16.


Read in full https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/04/tiger-coronavirus-covid19-positive-test-bronx-zoo/
5430  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: US Presidential Election 2020 on: April 07, 2020, 02:44:13 AM
But as days or weeks passes by and Trump able to find good work or solution to control the outbreak, except that he will be on the Favorites again.
Come on people. Do you seriously expect Trump to not be one of the favorites at any point of time? He will remain the favorite despite his falling approval ratings in my opinion.

I am certain that the Trump haters on this thread forgot what occured versus Hillary during the 2016 election. Trump was given worse odds on 2016 than what is given today, however, he won.
You do realize that he has messed up on a cosmic level when it comes to controlling the COVID situation in his country, don't you? Literally, everyone hates Trump these days though he will still probably be re-elected.

How has he messed up? Should you not consider that it was really China that messed up? Also, if everyone hates Trump, why do you speculate that he might win again?

I shake my head.

In any case, there are some commentaries that the Democrats are underestimating Bernie Sanders' ability to gather independent votes. Many independents who might vote for him might not vote for Biden.
5431  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2020-04-04] Class-action lawsuits filed against 11 Bitcoin companies on: April 07, 2020, 01:32:58 AM
@hv_. Agreed, the American government can do a lot, however, why have they not done anything to the more than 1000 cryptocoins, altcoins, scamcoins, ICO tokens and more?

I reckon a lot might only be few.
5432  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2020-03-31] This Crisis Is Good For Bitcoin, But Beware of Recession on: April 06, 2020, 05:12:07 AM
Crypto was born out of a financial crisis, accompanied with a vision to upgrade the world to the better financial system, so "the more dysfunctional the existing system becomes, the more there's an opportunity to showcase to the world that there is a better way to do it," Swanepoel told Cryptonews.com. Based on the available data, one can speculate, however, where the current situation can lead, he added.

However, it might never showcase as a better way. Many and more of us in the cryptospace are using cryptocoins more as speculative investments than a better way.

Also, many of us want to conform to the government's financial rules than have our own way. This will lead to failure together with the financial system's failure because the cryptospace is a part of it.
5433  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2020-04-04] Class-action lawsuits filed against 11 Bitcoin companies on: April 06, 2020, 04:36:28 AM
Big thing / diff link https://www.theblockcrypto.com/amp/post/60930/top-crypto-exchanges-token-issuers-named-in-friday-barrage-of-u-s-class-action-lawsuits

.... "They separately name Binance, Civic, BProtocol, Status, Block.one, KayDex, Quantstamp, BiBox, TRON Foundation, KuCoin, HDR Global Trading, and many of their principals, including crypto notables such as Brendan Blumer, Dan Larimer, Vinny Lingham, and Binance founder Changpeng ("CZ") Zhao. "

How many of them have the funding to pay for good layers and reduce the case into a settlement and a fee payment for the SEC?

Such cases can take years if aimed at local companies. When you're suing offshore firms it's going to be a pain for the court to be able to schedule hearings and such and for the prosecutors to go through all the translations. They must be aware that defendants will hide behind their local laws and will keep delaying everything.
This case is just for show IMO, unless they want to keep coming to court for the next couple years.

The main problem of the US and their law is that while all countries believe that if your citizens go somewhere and buy something, they need to check if it's fine with their local law. So if you buy a gun in an online store and your country doesn't allow guns, you will have to take responsibility for it and possibly face a fine and lose the gun.
The US law makes it so that if someone buys a restricted item online, it's the fault of the seller. The seller should have asked where the client is from and be aware of all the US laws and regulations. Tell me this isn't crazy.

The latest case around telegram coin say sth different, it's not enough to just exclude US tax payer

However, the developers have declared that they will still turn on their platform and issue the tokens. What can America do?

Source https://cointelegraph.com/news/ton-community-no-one-can-prevent-the-launch-of-ton
5434  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: US Presidential Election 2020 on: April 06, 2020, 03:45:33 AM
@DarkStar_. It might appear higher, however, the sportsbooks may have taken considerations on open unknowns that might occur. The situation under this pandemic is very unpredictable.

There should be a bet if a 2020 election would continue or not hehe. The pandemic might become worse on November.
5435  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: US Presidential Election 2020 on: April 06, 2020, 02:58:35 AM
I am certain that the Trump haters on this thread forgot what occured versus Hillary during the 2016 election. Trump was given worse odds on 2016 than what is given today, however, he won.

Also, I am always skeptical of the mainstream media. If they hate him, why and what is their agenda?

@tyKiwanuka. Lupus meds? What is on the data that it works and what is on the data that it does not work? What are doctors saying?

It is the year of the election, he will be more careful and avoid to make false assertions.
5436  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2020-04-04] Class-action lawsuits filed against 11 Bitcoin companies on: April 05, 2020, 03:32:09 AM
I reckon the defendants will invoke their right to delay their replies by invoking the coronavirus pandemic hehehe.

Also, the article mentioned that plaintiffs included Chase Williams, Alexander Clifford, William Zhang and Eric Lee. Who are these people? I would be skeptical if they are investors of other competing cryptocoin projects.
5437  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / [NEWS]Factom begins dissolution. Which development teams have adequate funds? on: April 05, 2020, 02:49:16 AM
In this bear market, I reckon dump all your ICO tokens that have their development teams low on funding and invest on ICO tokens of fully funded developers hehehe.

@everyone. What are the ICO token projects that have adequate funding for a 5 year roadmap?



Blockchain firm Factom has begun the process of dissolution following its failure to solicit additional funding to address its dire financial situation, according to a key investor.

Established in 2014, Factom offers data provenance and integrity solutions built on a trustless layer on top of the Bitcoin blockchain. As one of the first projects to conduct a token sale, the firm raised $140,000 through the sale of its Factoid tokens in 2015. Since its founding, Factom has collected approximately $16 million in funding.

On Thursday, the firm's biggest investor, FastForward, disclosed that Factom is now facing liquidation after unsuccessful attempts to secure additional funding.


Read in full https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/60885/blockchain-firm-factom-begins-dissolution-process-after-failing-to-source-additional-funding
5438  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Bitcoin is breaking the law and will be sued by Craig Wright on: April 04, 2020, 03:36:12 AM
I am shaking my head. This person is one of the most annoying people that I have seen in the cryptospace. Is he paid to do this? Who is paying him?

He also said that the lightning network users are thieves hehehe. He is clearly only paid to annoy everyone.



One of Wright’s most mind numbing posts is essentially about how Wright is going to sue Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) for changing the underlying protocol.

Essentially, Wright says that under the MIT license Bitcoin (BTC) was created with, people are allowed to fork the protocol, but they are not allowed to change the underlying protocol and claim that it is the original. Wright says the underlying protocol and registry of Bitcoin (BTC) is his intellectual property.

Wright goes on to specifically mention that Bitcoin (BTC) has violated the Database Regulations law of 1997 and the Computer Misuse Act of 1990. Also, Wright says SegWit is the breaking point where Bitcoin (BTC) began to break the law.


Apparently Wright did not get the memo, despite claiming to be Satoshi, that Bitcoin (BTC) is decentralized and cannot be sued out of existence. In general, his article about this is filled with hate, rage, and veiled threats, but does not seem to hold any water, since Bitcoin (BTC) cannot be sued.


Read in full https://cryptoiq.co/craig-wrights-ramblings-everyone-using-bitcoin-and-the-lightning-network-are-thieves-binance-is-a-criminal-cartel-bitcoin-is-breaking-the-law-and-will-be-sued/
5439  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Is KYC bad for crypto? on: April 04, 2020, 02:45:12 AM
KYC have advatanges and harm the user of the crypto, for the advatange of this once a a user do something bad he is possible to locate where they came from and who is he, but the bad effecrs of this a person who wants to be unknown will not anymore because they requiring KYC a user need to follow because if they don't they did not able to use their platforms for sure and another disadvatanges ofthat is once a system hack the details of customer possible to see of the hackers and use to the illegal activities and the user will be sacrifice in the future.

Yes that is the official reason why they say that every service should require KYC. However, the real reason is to monitor each person's movement. I reckon next would be to create an artificial intelligence algorithm to predict your every movement on the internet.

Also, do exchanges declare that they do not share or sell your personal documents to advertisers and other 3rd parties in their terms of service?
5440  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: The UFC Info and Prediction Thread on: April 04, 2020, 01:09:54 AM
@eaLiTy. Agreed! Why is Dana always forcing the fight on schedule? Is this about money? Is he trying to make history that his show was the only one during a pandemic?

I reckon he should take all main event fighters in 1 event on August and lock them in cage and let them fight similar to the Royal Rumble hehehehehe.
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