I'm not really concerned about those private keys when I use an exchange, because I never plan on keeping my coins there--and you're absolutely correct; nobody should be keeping significant amounts of crypto on any custodial exchange.  That's something every newcomer to crypto should learn, but unfortunately some of them have to learn the hard way.  There was just a thread the other day about some Asian exchange called FCoin that supposedly pulled an exit scam, and that's the big danger.

Also, I don't have a problem with those traditional, custodial exchanges as long as they're trustworthy, and some are.  Coinbase, Kraken, Binance, and a few others are regulated and probably aren't going to get away with exit scamming even if they were inclined to do so.  And even though I still wouldn't store my crypto on any of those, I would feel comfortable trading with them and leaving coins there perhaps overnight.

Noncustodial wallets are just stupid, and nobody should be using them.  That's another thing newbies need to learn early on.

Bloomberg was utterly destroyed in the debate, especially over the #MeToo stuff, which Democrats are sensitive about. He looked like a lost Republican who somehow found his way onto a Democratic debate stage. (Which is in fact sort of what happened...)

Now the question is whether Bloomberg is at 16% in the polls mostly due to real support that was only sparked by his spending, or mostly due to throwing boatloads of money at very-low-information voters who won't be affected by this or any debate. If the former, this debate performance will probably sink him, and maybe Biden or Pete will take up the "not Bernie" mantle. (Note that Pete has the most delegates at the moment, even though the media has seemingly forgotten about him.) If the latter, Bloomberg can continue on, but it'll be challenging for him in the general, since a huge segment of his party will hate his guts, and it's looking like Trump will be able to tear him to shreds. On the other hand, if he can buy the Democratic nomination, I'd feel as though he might also be able to buy the presidency. One major thing he'd have in his toolkit would be that he could use his money and market knowledge to make the stock market do whatever he wants -- probably he'd be able to create a huge crash & continuous downward trend starting a few months before November.

Since I want a contested convention, I'm hoping that someone other than Sanders wins Nevada, though I'm not sure who that'd be. Maybe Biden can pull it off? He had a decent debate performance.

There's too many that accept crypto. But really, what features are you after? Anonymity? Leverage?

Each one of them has varying levels of KYC and features. I think one of the most crypto friendly ones that also has leverage is simplefx.com. They also have a thread here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1059253.0

Be careful though. Many of those platforms with questionable licenses usually also have some dodgy practices due to lack of control. Offshore paradises aren't good at caring individual user reports for fraud. They'd rather have the money from the broker.

Mostly turned into hedge funds that already exist that has a side crypto hustle as well. There was no need to have "crypto hedge fund" type of deal so they basically got less and less people and some probably closed down or maybe just exists until all their customers leave. When there are billion dollar corporation who can offer you assistance on this and have been around for 30+ years for stock market purposes that means you could trust them more.

Certainly, they are the whole reason why the world is in a such deep financial crisis as well but if they have ruined the world for more profits, you might as well take up that profit yourself and get your share of the ruinage, otherwise you only have the ruins and absolutely nothing else to show for it.

It was more comparing to previous winning incumbent results than to other options on this election..

Bernie Sanders is leading in virtually all national polls now and is now tied with Joe Biden in South Carolina in a Change Research poll - https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/democratic_nomination_polls/

Joe Biden's campaign collapsing in real time folks.

The chinese CV is not something new, it's nothing but another virus of the common cold. The only significant difference is that it contains a different set of surface antigenes which are unknown to humans and their immune system. In other terms, including infectivity, it's just another coronavirus which is not different from others. CV is not that infective to make simple touch & touch activity dangerous enough so this process won't be redundant. You know, the common cold isn't transmitted in this way. 

UV disinfection is not effective when you need to do it quickly. To be actually effective, you need to spend 30-60 minutes irradiating the notes, which would simply be a stupid waste of time. This is why I mentioned that burning and swapping the notes is more preferred scenario.

The two articles are not really contradictory to each other, are they?  It does look like one news source is spinning the information one way and the other is spinning another way -- business as usual.

I'm not sure which sites I linked to are click-bait money making types.  Whatever you say of ZeroHedge or GreatGameIndia, they're definitely not what you describe.

Do you have any other reason to think this is 'fake news?'

FWIW, China has, and Japan has announced, that HIV drugs will be used to treat the illness.  This would tend to confirm the claim that there are HIV fragments in the virus DNA.

Lol you’re joking right? The man who has a “big, a brain”. The guy can barely speak words beyond a syllable or two (bias source- but nothing faked here - https://youtu.be/UE9BXkQ-SRc ).  Anyone who constantly says things like “I have the best words” , doesn’t.

I also don’t see how this is funny OP. I for one am embarrassed for having a president whom relentlessly bullies people he doesn’t like, on twitter for the world to see, like a 13 year old teenager would do. It shows a clear lack of intelligence and shows how truly thin skinned he is. Not sure he’s ever ignored anyone famous who’s slandered his name besides Eminem ( who is a lyrical genius no one is dumb enough to battle a war of words with).

How about get off Twitter and do your job? It’s funny Melania has an anti-bully campaign when in fact she’s married to the worlds biggest bully.

It's being some time since I last used their ATMs, but IIRC the limits were high (~1500 GBP per day).

Also, KYC is pretty easy to avoid here. If you think you're going to exceed the limits, just change the phone number you're using.

UV disinfection works pretty quickly. It sounds like the 2 week storage period is just a redundancy.

1. Use Bitcoin ATMs. There are many in London. The fees are a bit high compared to exchanges but it's a great solution if you're in a hurry. I suggest using BitAccess ATMs, I've used them multiples times in the past, and I had a very good experience.

2. As suggested above, trade with other individuals. Since LBC stopped supporting the in-person transactions, LocalCryptos is a good alternative.

I just noticed that https://giftoff.com/  a UK based gift card site, are now offering lightning payments through opennode.

I've bought plenty of stuff through them over the years with no problems at all. No sort of premium either. If I were a lightning user this would be my main port of call.

I know this website is dead (I liked safedice very much) but as far as I remember owner stated that SDmod would take care of some things there. I just checked his account and as it seems, last activity of SDmod was in January 31, 2020 (5 days ago). Here is his account: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1941878
And also, since website is almost dead, why it still remains live? I think Safedice would be hosted on dedicated server and not on just random shared hosting or vps server). So it worths decent amount of money, who keeps it alive, why is it still alive?