I've been previously locked by Google as well. I hard bricked my phone and in order to prove that I'm the owner of my account, they requested me to log back into my old phone and give them a One-Time Password from it. And as I had it hard bricked, there was no way I could log back into it..

Google truly is a nightmare. Thanks God I got rid of their services entirely now.

I've also been locked out of Bittrex. In order to prove ownership of my account, they request KYC although I never completed it. Thanks God I have also gotten rid of their abusive exchange.

Interesting to see the story of a now-billionaire, but I can't say I can truly praise a man who wanted to basically attack the Bitcoin network to his own company's advantage, the same man who also wants to centralize as many of the largest Blockchain-related companies as he can to his own control. He did create a huge business out of this, but there are missing pieces. For example, where is Binance's Headquarters located precisely? Why did he want to roll back blocks if he truly likes BTC that much? etc..

I usually share my view over BTC and crypto, but I am starting not to give a damn anymore about those threats since too many people just take them so seriously word by word.. it takes only a few brain cells to notice that any currency has a very significant amount of money laundering done through them, be it Bitcoin, Gold, USD or anything else.

People are too brainwashed by certain strangers they have no relationship with. If a stranger can influence your life so much, then sorry but you don't deserve a proper opinion of mine.. this is how I take it. Negative sentiments will always be there where the rich are threatened.. it's the easiest way they push away potential investors from their threat.

Doesn't seem like a sustainable growth tbh. I wouldn't invest in anything during this WSB thing, since stocks all of a sudden go up hundreds of % within hours/days. Too risky.

I hate XRP and I don't regret not having invested in it. It's just a shitcoin. Period.

People are usually skeptical about new stuff.. probably why they put "Sci-Fi" stuff in movies that are actually technologies we're going to get commercially within 5-10 years. If the human brain isn't ready to accept a new idea, then trying to spread it around is gonna be a burden.

What's more sad is that the kid might have actually been influenced (and convinced) to move their interest away from BTC since the comments were negative.

You know what, I have avtually thought about this. The GameStop thing seems too close to what a crypto bull run looks like not to suspect that they're trying to make stocks be as volatile as cryptocurrencies in order to make crypto less appealing.

It's quite weird that, all of a sudden, the entire damn Reddit is effectively filled up with GameStop and WSB posts, isn't it? To me, it looks like they're planning something to make crypto seem less attractive to the average person. We're giving them freedom; bumping GME is just making the rich richer since what we're doing is still pouring bucks into the riches' pockets..

If by "the same amount" you mean every single citizen should pay a specific, fixed sum of dollars, then is that called fair when you have someone earning billions vs someone living on a paycheck-to-paycheck basis paying the same amount of taxes and the poorer guy cannot even save a hundred bucks a month?

On one hand, I wouldn't mind it since the millions/billions have probably been earned the hard way. On the other hand though, it only allows the rich to earn even more while the poor are not allowed to progress anymore. This is why I call fairness impossible in society between the rich and the poor. It just cannot really happen. You can't steal someone's wealth just because they have it and you can't let the poor only get poorer. By going in between, it only opens up a large door for underground, black markets. No one is going to be fine with the idea of being a milli/billionaire and having their money casually and legally stolen by the poor.

At this point, it is almost impossible to bring the poor to the rich or vice-versa without being discriminated and having your money stolen. It's too easy for the rich to progress while it's becoming harder and harder for the poor to do the same as the economy is trembling. Wealth inequality will always be there.

Being taxed more just for being rich is unequal but not doing so creates inequality as well. It's double-edged. Like, would it be fair if you made a million bucks for the gov to take a larger % of your earnings than they would from someone who's earning $2k a month? Why so? Maybe the $2k/mo guy has a very easy job while you've earned your million through hard work. How's that fair?

There'll always be hoarders. If larger sums equal larger taxes, then a lot of people will prefer to rather illegally cash in their bucks. That is also bad.

Creating a world where equality exists means going after some communist/extremist principles one way or another, and let's not forget that lots of governments take so much money they do nothing with besides stealing it and throwing it into their own pockets. It's almost impossible to do it peacefully.

For someone who's been around since 2012, I think they are probably more like dreaming than rationally thinking if they still hoped that Amazon would end up accepting BTC. Amazon is thriving off the decentralization and monopolization, so are most of those other corporations. If Bitcoin gave them any opportunity and advantage (for control, not monetary advantage!), they'd get into the game as well. I guess it's hard for someone like Bezos to choose between letting the poor get into a better social status and his corportation making an even larger fortune by supporting a decentralized system. Must suck to be the owner of a corp during Bitcoin's boom.

I've been watching Dogecoin in the past 24h continuously, but made no move on the market for many hours straight. But then, I decided to finally make a move and sell the remaining coins I had in my Ledger Nano S.

Binance suspended DOGE deposits. RobinHood went crazy as well, but believe it or not.. they both go crazy whenever DOGE goes wild as well. Binance finally unsuspends the deposits and I decide to make my move. I go over Ledger Live and try to send my DOGE, but I meet the Service Error 503 message every single time I try to spend my coins.

Cryptocurrencies are supposed to be decentralized. But the fact that multiple platforms suspended their service with DOGE specifically or turned into sudden errors makes me believe it's a plan between them all to manipulate markets.

Been around 9 hours and I still cannot spend my DOGE through Live. This is what Ledger has turned into: weak database security, adding centralized exchanges to the user-friendly Ledger Live and now suddenly DOGE goes into "Service Error" once prices go wild.

Fuck Ledger. I'm moving out all my coins ASAP and might start supporting an actually decentralized hardware wallet, not something that centralizes what's supposed to be free.

EDIT:
2 API rate errors, 15 DOGE downtimes in under 24h and still counting. See the errors and downtimes here: https://status.ledger.com/

So the rich are finally starting to get it! Or did they get it a while ago but kept their lips sealed?

I doubt someone who's been around the crypto area in 2013/2017 as an investor did not take a few days off their time to find out what Bitcoin is all about!

Now that Bitcoin is truly going mainstream, 2021-2030 looks like it's going to be a legendary decade for all BTC investors. And that's because if the rich don't get into BTC, they'll lose the train and wealth will be distributed among the non-rich! And since BTC can't be beaten by corporations and centralization, you know what they say.. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!

Came for the money, stayed for its principles and technology. I see blockchain to be the future in most industries, Bitcoin being about the farthest you will be able to go in the next few years/decades to get financial freedom. With cash going out soon, this is tbe best we can get. Lots of people are here for the bucks, but not few of them stay for what Bitcoin truly offers.

If they wouldn't and the BTC they gave you were false, then at some point they would not have enough liquidity to fulfill the withdrawal requests. It'd probably also be illegal. what I'd doubt more than that is the "Bitcoin" they have on the Binance blockchain instead. Never looked into it, so I have no idea whether it's backed by real BTC for sure or not.

What you should be worried about is how PayPal does it tho. Since they never let you withdraw to personal BTC wallet, their "BTC" might actually be non-existent coins created to inflate the market artificially. Especially since their terms and conditions clearly mention that, as a customer, you are not holding any specific recognizable cryptocurrency on their platform.. so what are you holding exactly? Just a number

If you're hoping for a bank to create a cryptocurrency you'd get rich from, good luck turning that dream into reality! We're talking about banks! When did they ever help humans really?

They keep failing because so far nobody's been able to create something better and bigger than Bitcoin. It's just too strong and with too nice principles to be overtaken by the currency created by an enslavement system.

I highly depend on the trust of other auditors. The best thing I can honestly do is just verify the signature of a file before installing it into my system. To protect myself from day-0 exploits and malicious codelines, I usually just wait a few days/weeks after the release of a file before downloading and running it. Other than that, as I know nothing besides basic stuff about coding, I can't do much to protect myself and my identity.

I have also considered learning programming languages to audit codes by myself.. but never found time to do so.

If these guys are lying, it's honestly sad. Why would you do that, besides getting a few kids on the internet preaching you about your fake fortune?

Have you ever lost something for so long you completely forgot about its existence? Think of being a teen and finding out about this new project called Bitcoin. You download the Core, you mine it but after a while you get bored of it. Many years later, you find out about this new currency called Bitcoin which topped >$1k, you find the name familiar but you have no idea why.

It happens. In fact, I found some old Bitcoin paper wallets that were still loaded a few weeks ago. The paper wallets were dated years before. This is the non-perfect human brain at work... that's it.

I'm seeing it in Europe as well. Things are going wild in a quite short timespan. Food and services are becoming more expensive, and I expect it to happen everywhere...

I've been calling this ever since the pandemic began and they started artificially inflating and stimulating the economy. You can keep doing that, but not forever! And once they stop doing that, things will blow up.. All those trillions will hurt within months, years at most..

Well, it's quite weird that billionaires sold their stocks and left their company's chairs in the past few years while Bitcoin institutional investments are going up. One thing I highly suspect is that they're selling what they have so that when the huge crash comes, Bitcoin remains as one of their safest and best investments to still hold onto.

In my opinion, the next bubble burst will make Bitcoin fly in the sky. Considering the inflation, all that money pumped into the economy through checks and so on, it has to crash wildly soon.

Banks need waaay higher TPS capacity than BTC is currently limited to. It wouldn't work as a global currency used between banks. Moreover, banks hate freedom. They like the exact opposite.

Between themselves as banks? Yeah, maybe they'll send BTC. But not between banks and citizens or just between the latter. Banking system publicly integrating Bitcoin is a wet dream of many, but it'll likely only remain a dream.

Thanks! Moved it. Offer still up.