This one worked  

Payment hash 65109e8e0a6d9882674787c282bbc797684ce3a8665fb2836086113af8d6c605

I like the concept and the speed of LN transactions but I feel like there is still a lot to improve before we can think of mass adoption. Setting up an incoming channel should be a lot easier and it's not very convenient to need to have the client running all the time if you want to receive something. Also, 6 hours max expiry for a payment request is not enough.

In any case, thanks for a great trade!

Failed again 

Payment failed for some reason. I tried it twice with the same result

I'm ready 

Received! 

I didn't realise I could set an amount, I just saw that setting now.

Let me know how I can repay 

Applying again 

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Let's see if this one works

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Without cash trades, not many reasons. There is still the possibility of using other means of payment for people who don't have a bank account (as is the case on many 3rd world countries), or if they are in a country or have a bank that bans crypto transactions.

Hmm that's really weird, I don't see errors in my client. Maybe my phone went offline at some point?

Very interested in trying this out. After some fiddling I think I managed to open an inbound channel for payments.

Amount: 0.1 mBTC (0.0001 BTC, or 10,000 satoshi).
Duration: one week.
Interest: 1% (0.001 mBTC (=0.000001 BTC or 100 satoshi)).

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Cheers  

If you are not the customer, you are the product. Period.

A company needs to make revenues to survive and if they are not charging you anything for the usage of the platform, it inevitably means that your data will be sold or at least used for their own profit. And 99% of people either don't realize this, don't know what consequences this can have or simply don't care as all they want are "freebies" and being able to share the latest cat video with their 2000 "friends".

However, the monetization of our data is not the worst part. Selective censorship (for political/ideological reasons) and sharing of your activities with the authorities is a way larger threat, and there have already been cases of people prosecuted for inappropriate comments or even for liking someone else's comments.

Apart from BTC of course, I like IOTA a lot. Volkswagen and Audi are betting strong on its technology and when the first blockchain-based cars come to the market I'm pretty sure there will be anther bull run.

https://cryptoslate.com/iota-and-volkswagen-will-launch-blockchain-enabled-cars-in-2019/

Hace poco conocí al CEO Ramón Ferraz en un evento en Madrid, un tipo muy inteligente y que tiene las ideas muy claras. Les queda todavía camino por recorrer pero han logrado muchísimo. Eso sí, han tenido que irse a Malta a pedir una licencia porque al parecer en España no les ponían las cosas fáciles.

Otro proyecto interesante es Flixxo, también lanzado por argentinos. El CEO Adrián Garelik fue uno de los cofundadores de RSK y su socio Fernando Abad fue el creador de Popcorn Time.

Of course, they will be anywhere they see they can make decent profits. And more so in such an illiquid market, where anyone with a few hundred million $ can push the price in the desired direction. They are not so much investing or even trading, they are effectively manipulating the markets in their favour, something they can't do (except some of the megawhales) in the stock market or much less in forex.

I will follow this project with interest. It would be good if you could set up a mailing list so people like me who are interested in knowing about updates, airdrops, etc. can be informed without needing to pay attention to Discord or social media.

Most likely they failed to liquidate all the crypto they raised when ETH and BTC were at their peak and now the funds are worth a lot less. This same mistake has been made by dozens of companies that raised funds during the bull market.

Apart from this the main handicap at the moment for security tokens is the lack of liquidity. There are only a bunch of countries where an STO can be launched, very few regulated exchanges for STOs, even less security-law compliant blockchains and hardly any users familiar with these and registered in the aforementioned exchanges. Of course this will change with time but at the moment this is lagging the market.

And in general how good an investment is doesn't depend so much on whether the company is launching an ICO, STO or IEO, but the strength of the idea, the team behind it and the tokenomics (this last part is way too often disregarded and it plays a key role).

I had some MAIDs in there of which I had completely forgotten until now... oh well, shit happens. It's the first time I got coins confiscated by an exchange since I got into crypto back in 2013 so I can't really complain 

Es que por mucho que haya subido BTC en los últimos años, sigue siendo un mercado de poca liquidez. En la bolsa de valores o en Forex con 200 millones de USD no mueves nada, es calderilla. Sin embargo en el mercado cripto con esas cifras se puede manipular precios con tremenda facilidad (y si nos metemos en el mercado de las altcoins muchísimo más).

Esto ya se veía venir. El año pasado ya me bloquearon fondos durante varias semanas con la excusa de "sospechas de actividad ilícita". Tuve que pasar un KYC tremendamente intrusivo y además justificar el origen de los fondos. Por suerte eran BTC que había facturado a un cliente pero si los llego a obtener minando, en algún casino o en alguna venta o intercambio no registrado no habría tenido manera y seguramente se los habrían quedado.

En fin, acaban de poner el último clavo en su ataúd.