And how do you think most people get these giftcards at such a discount? Right. Through carding/scamming.

I wouldn't order at all from OP unless he clearly explains how he can offer an arbitrary 8% discount on every product. That seems too good to be true, especially on high volume goods (electronics etc)

Or are you simply using something like purse, and essentially dropship their service? (But; if so; you could never 100% garantuee the product would arrive.. It would be a hassle anyway with all the carded giftcards on those platforms..)

Also, why exactly do you post random shipping confirmation logs? What's that supposed to prove?

No.

Fiat needs inflation to ensure people keep spending their coins but it needs a balance so its worth saving (I. E you can buy 2 bags of rice today but only 1 tomorrow with the same amount then the currency would be too unstable and probably would be replaced pretty soon) .

The government's would rather you didn't invest in their currency and instead invested in the economy or "yourself" (spending).

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I don't think any government sees crypto as a threat and I'm not sure many governments are happy with the fiat system as it stands now...

Sounds like a de-escalation of tensions to me.

You're asking a difficult question. Yes they should inform you but what if the client database was encrypted? What if they did not yet process all of it?

In the US they usually steal seized dirty money by filing for forfeiture. This is basically stealing because you cannot contest it. The way it works they seize your money and if they want it they say it's dirty (crime money) and file an asset forfeiture document in court. That gets approved in 30 days which mean the money is being taken from you before the case and is independent of the case. Even if you win the case you won't get it back.

I don't know if that is what they did with BTC-E money but it's possible. This would explain why they did not inform you about it because they only informed the owner of the exchange. In such case he now has a debt and you won't get the money back from the government agency but have to sue the oexchange. Get a lawyer and make him get all the case documents to clear all doubt.

Everyone saying banks have "no choice" in this matter. They must obey the state & government.

How do you explain the following.

#1  Banks regularly laundering money for drug cartels contrary to laws made by governments.
#2  Banks taking action, punishing entire nations like the UK for their pro brexit stance.
#3  Banks closing the accounts of US workers in the adult entertainment industry.

There are countless examples of banks implementing policies which go directly against the national interest.

I think what people are missing is banks having their own agenda and blueprint for the future which they collectively coordinate and cooperate with the media and others to enforce.

The bottom line here is china promised hong kong autonomy. That's the agreement china made. Now china seeks to bring hong kong under its own iron curtain and it would appear that banks support this. Rather than acknowledging the sovereignty of hong kong as a self governing place.

It makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside attacking a source because its popular to doesn't it? Almost like a little mini version of virtue signalling. How many times do I have to explain to you Zero Hedge is primarily an aggregator linking stories from all over, in this case Politico. Of course if it was just Politico linked you wouldn't be able to take that opportunity to virtue signal for your dopamine hit now would you?

Hey didn't that work for the tv show Mr. Robot?   

If debt is wiped out across the board. It could also wipe out retirement plans, food stamps, welfare, pensions, health insurance and other state funded programs people rely upon for survival.

There was a reason behind a sharp increase in fatalities after the USSR defaulted on its deficit. Russians lost their state funded pension plans and had no alternatives.

There appears to be confusion as to what happens when a state cannot pay its debt. I think the best analogy is a bank or large corporation going bankrupt. Whatever side effects or outcome, they may not be pleasant.

I didn't suggest it was "wrong" or "fake." I'm just agreeing with what Stiglitz et al. are saying:

This is a obviously a serious problem with regard to public policy. GDP shouldn't be treated as the end-all when determining the health and prosperity of a society, but it often is.


It's not about better or worse, just that growth shouldn't be the only metric that matters. Governments should be more concerned about economic inequality, wage stagnation, growing healthcare costs as a portion of wages, etc.

If I remember right. George Bush increased the deficit by $5 trillion. Obama succeeded him and increased the deficit by $10 trillion.

We had a massive expansion of the deficit on our hands and the media completely ignored it.

Nothing was said about the deficit until Trump was elected. Now the media which completely ignored Bush and Obama is crucifying Trump for expanding the deficit far less than his predecessors did.

Its a shady and bizarre situation.

Blaming others and starting an unnecessary war is a tried and tested way to deviate the focus of nation out from the internal problems.
There's no any place for ethics or reason in the way a superpower bullies. Though this time, the US might be loosing Europe.

I very much agree with most points you're making. I'd however like to place a footnote here;


This is still a scenario which one -- who takes his privacy *extremely serious* --  should consider. We have yet to see any proof Chipmixer isn't a honeypot per se either (Though- it'd be pretty much impossible to prove or disprove anyway-). While I might believe that Chipmixer is acting in good faith- it'd be weird for me to tell others they actually are, without any immutable proof.

Therefore, if one is using Chipmixer for anything other than unlinking their inputs for the commonalty and some improved privacy, i'd highly suggest he thinks twice about such a scenario.

Over the last 16 months, as I've debated this issue around the world, every single time somebody has said to me, "I don't really worry about invasions of privacy because I don't have anything to hide." I always say the same thing to them. I get out a pen, I write down my email address. I say, "Here's my email address. What I want you to do when you get home is email me the passwords to all of your email accounts, not just the nice, respectable work one in your name, but all of them, because I want to be able to just troll through what it is you're doing online, read what I want to read and publish whatever I find interesting. After all, if you're not a bad person, if you're doing nothing wrong, you should have nothing to hide." Not a single person has taken me up on that offer.

I don't know why people are getting so upset and scared recently.
Life was never safer than it is now. When you consider that there are hundreds of millions people in Europe, you get a picture that these cases are very rare.
Perhaps this is simply because we live in an information era and we can get a lot of information about any bad thing that happens in the world in real time.

Yeah, policeman get killed. It is dangerous job. They kill and get killed, it is a brutal nature of their job.

It doesn't. Think of it as a copy of Paxful/Localbitcoins where KYC is not required and you have full control over your funds (you can export the private keys).

Quite contradicting. First BitPay is one of OP's best bets, then you warn him that they don't have a good reputation. 

Another point of importance is that BitPay doesn't allow anyone to accept Bitcoin without KYC. Most people looking to accept Bitcoin on their site aren't willing to go through such requirements, and that's perfectly understandable.

In case OP isn't interested in BTCPay, Coingate accepts Lightning payments and a variety of altcoins. They do not require KYC to accept crypto, but do require KYC to have the crypto be converted to fiat and sent to your bank account. If you just stick to accepting crypto you'll be fine. Coingate offers free Bitcoin withdrawals too, which is pretty neat.

Try Venezuela. Philippines haven't seen anything like it since the 70ies, last time you had your coin pegged. At least we share the same kind of tropical weather, except without the typhoons. We are doing so bad now, i know some people even went there, to Philippines, to earn a living. There are people from here going everywhere in this world, but indeed even there you can live better nowadays.

So thank God instead, you don't have to deal with Maduro and Maduro, and your wage isn't equivalent to 2 USD a month.

In the meantime the "first" world has actual things to worry about, such as the latest smartphone model. We cannot be worrying them with menial things like human rights, such things are overrated anyway.

Still no plans for P&S unfortunately. Mostly just a reshuffling of the amount of exposure we're getting in the sections that we currently pay for.

There will be removals, which is where new slots will come from. Been planning to restructure the campaign a bit.