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1201  Economy / Economics / Re: Vaccination Started in India | Impact over Indian Economy & World? on: January 24, 2021, 09:42:31 AM
I could be wrong ...

I think vaccination is a very stupid idea.  Different countries use different vaccines (these vaccines have a fundamentally different algorithm of action).  In my opinion, this will lead to a very rapid mutation of the Covid-19 virus, and humanity will be forced to conduct massive vaccination campaigns twice a year. Many inhabitants of the Earth will have significantly reduced immunity.  

Influenza and colds have already become a seasonal illness.  Now the coronavirus will be added to them.

Vaccination makes sense in the case of diseases with 80 -90 percent mortality (plague, smallpox, etc.)

The Inquisition is the use of religion to rule people.  However, not only religion, but also medicine can be used to control people.  This is the worst thing we can face in the 21st century.  There is a risk of losing both civil rights and your health.  IMHO.

I couldn't agree more. We are talking about a disease that does practically nothing to those who are healthy (who have a strong immune system). What we are seeing is the business of fear, thanks to which pharmaceutical companies are going to make a lot of money:

The British Medical Journal: Will covid-19 vaccines save lives? Current trials aren’t designed to tell us.

"The world has bet the farm on vaccines as the solution to the pandemic, but the trials are not focused on answering the questions many might assume they are." [..] "But what will it mean exactly when a vaccine is declared “effective”? To the public this seems fairly obvious. “The primary goal of a covid-19 vaccine is to keep people from getting very sick and dying,”" [..] "“Ideally, you want an antiviral vaccine to do two things . . . first, reduce the likelihood you will get severely ill and go to the hospital, and two, prevent infection and therefore interrupt disease transmission.”7

Yet the current phase III trials are not actually set up to prove either"
Pharma is a big business, I would say the biggest one. Why do I think so? Almost every available medicine is created in order to work as a bandaid instead of actually curing the disease. And if we talk about Pfizer as a great escape, then I want to remind everyone that Pfizer invented alprazolam and there is roughly 26 million prescription written in year in USA. This med makes you addicted in just two-three weeks. Also, they invented epilepsy meds that cause even awful dependence than anything else. Why? When you are addicted and feel bad without it, you'll pay last bucks to feel good. Without addiction, their meds wouldn't be sold so well.

Also, doctors hesitate to prescribe TRT (Testosterone Replacement Therapy) for those who lacks test because they claim that despite the fact that there exist researches for 20-30 years, they don't know what will happen after 60 years. But... They give vaccination that was made in one year like a meal to everyone and aren't afraid about side effects. But... They close GYMs, swimming and other places where you boost your immune system and naturally fight the virus with success.

Eh... Business is business... After all, this is the world we created, we have to blame ourselves, higher percentage of people want to be slaves, it's deep in your bones, in blood. In a society where everyone is ugly, being beautiful is unacceptable.
1202  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: BitPay -- KYC is here! on: January 24, 2021, 08:22:19 AM
There is BitPay and there is BTCPay with zero fees. Why would someone use BitPay over BTCPay?
BitPay allows a merchant to accept bitcoin on their website, but receive fiat to their bank account. BTCPay, by virtue of being self hosted and non-custodial, does not. BTCPay users (at the moment) have to manually set up automatic fiat conversion using an exchange or other third party.
Yeah, you are right but I think this is the moment when "Pros" don't outweigh cons. Personally, most of the times I have seen Bitcoin accepted on websites where they sell some for example, sarms, cbd, something that's in the grey area for purchase. So, idk if it's still beneficial for businesses use BitPay as their payment gateway provider, I believe they'll lose high percentage of their users, even BitPay will be left without significant users.

I see that it's becoming a trend for businesses to hold cryptocurrencies, that's why I hope they will move on BTCPay and exchange manually or with the partnership of other crypto service providers.
1203  Economy / Economics / Re: The recent rise in prices, temporary or more long term? on: January 24, 2021, 07:55:58 AM
It was december 18th, 2017 when bitcoin hit 20K USD. Halving was in spring, 2016. We had the same situation this year, right? Halving happened during quarantine, bitcoin didn't fall and went high. As it was expected, bitcoin's price significantly rise in winter, as we reached 40K USD. I was hugely hoping that we would reach 50K and was holding my coins but decided to sell them at 32K (but still kept half). I don't have a hope that price will rise but there is still a good chance, we may hit 50K but after that, personally I wouldn't risk to hold coins.

If we have a look at previous statistics, then obviously this recent rise of bitcoin's price was just temporary and it's time to sell.
1204  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How about a currency with expiry date...? on: January 23, 2021, 11:23:28 PM
If there is validity or expiry for every currency same as day to day life needs, then people will make use of it and exchange to new currencies at the right time. This way everything can be made to be in circulation rather than getting accumulated for years. Here black money can also be avoided.
How can everything be in circulation? You just change old paper with new paper, that's all, it has nothing to do with the circulation. If we think about something like spend your money or it will expire, then it's a terrible idea because with that law, investors won't exist (you have to collect money before investing in something). And money exchanging very often the way you mention is terrible too, there was such thing in some post-soviet countries because of inflation and bad politics. From what I have heard, it didn't boost circulation, was just a terrible idea to make people's hard life even harder.
1205  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: My Bitcoin Got Hacked From My Wallet on: January 23, 2021, 09:21:33 PM
So, just don't use blockchain.com's wallet for long term or for storing your coins. Or then get a prescription for calm meds.
I've used blockchain as my wallet since 2015/2016 until now and never faced any problem. I've secured my wallet with email login and also 2FA, so i disagree with your opinion based from my own experience.

3 years ago happened but now you just ask us, OP?
Do you know what you say now? Something like this: If I haven't seen cheetah then it doesn't exist.

I have been using blockchain from 2016 and have an account on this website but as I already mentioned, later I created another one. After some months, I wanted to log in into that second account: Password was correct, was receiving verification on email and even verification was approved when I was clicking it but somehow I was still unable to log in (cookies/cache has nothing to do here, I am not a newbie). Seems it was a very strange technical error on my account and if I am not wrong, one guy had the same problem here years ago. After that accident, I personally don't give a recommendation to their wallet and services (First of all, customer support experience was terrible, very, very late replies and blatant answers).
1206  Economy / Economics / Re: How long will it take banks to phase out physical cash completely? on: January 23, 2021, 09:02:26 PM
Nowadays most people use electronic money instead of banknotes, so the process of eliminating cash has already started. Developing and launching CBDCs will take up to 5 years. It will take above 10 years to become finally cashless.

Indeed, we already use digital money anyway. But in order to fully pass, I think it takes one generation.
Are you really sure that in 10 years we will become cashless? In certain countries, maybe - yes but not everywhere. Cash is still preferred money for some people because they have full control on it. You can't control your banking account because they can lock it anytime they wish if there is something wrong. In overall, not your keys - not your coins applies to those who own bank account and cards, not your cash - not your money. Crypto is a great deal in digital world when it comes to money but I think that both, cash and crypto has so unique pros and cons that it's hard to say (for me) the actual winner here for our welfare.
1207  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Thailand government seeks measures to tackle the problems of illegal gambling. on: January 23, 2021, 08:26:31 PM
Nothing can fix this kind of problems and to be fair, these restrictions does more harm than good. People always do what you want, so none restriction can fully prevent it. What do you think, are most part of people seriously staying at home? People still workout secretly, still offer some services secretly, people still do things that they were doing before secretly. But if we return to the subject of this topic, it's hard for me to believe that people go in underground casinos because nowadays online gambling is highly developed and popular too, there is done everything for customers comfort.
1208  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why did the bitcoin fall? on: January 23, 2021, 07:30:12 PM
Now people might have actually seen this news and at the same time they might have sold the bitcoins in a panic but at the same time this didn't have much problem since this didn't happen in reality therefore people started buying again.

2. It could just be a market manipulation done by the big companies which would mean that they sold their bitcoins at a high price tempting the people to sell to and at the same time they now would have brought the coins at a much lower price. This is inevitable with the whales.

3. Plus this is normal after the market increased in price in a couple of days therefore give it time and it would become stable again.
I think that that news caused this fall, otherwise we hit 40K and psychologically, expectation and aim for people was to hit 50K, it was hard to believe for me to imagine so high fall.But this news played it's role despite the fact that double-spend didn't happen. Once the panic selling started, it wouldn't stop even after revealing the truth because of psychological factors again. The same thing happened back in 2016 when one exchange suddenly stopped withdraw for two days.

On market, the higher percentage of people are those who don't actually read the news but there are the ones, who really read, so, imagine: Those who read news started selling that caused price fall and those who don't read news, followed their action. When price significantly went down, more and more people started to sell and it become impossible to quickly return the process back to normal.
1209  Economy / Economics / Re: Does Bitcoin Help The Poor on: January 22, 2021, 10:50:00 PM
1. Please can you explain what does the following proposal means? ->who cannot qualify for a bank account
What does it take to qualify for a bank account? From personal experience, I can say that all they are looking for is to make their cards cheap and attractive for you or in the worst case, you have to pay some insignificant bucks, you won't even notice how tiny amounts you have to pay unless you are using visa gold and similar ones.

2. I think the easiest way for them can be western union and similar companies. I don't use money transfer services in overall but still, without doubt, they are the most popular ones for immigrants, at least that' what I see. Money transfer companies are extremely profitable in my area. I think buying/sending bitcoin and withdrawing of it via different methods can be far better and comfortable but mostly, poor people are far from bitcoin and technologies, that's sad.

3. Bitcoin can't help Africa, we have to change our behaviours. We don't have to build our happiness on the cost of their livings and yeah, I mean things that we get in normal price because in Africa people are working day and night to just survive. Military dictatorships and corruption is another problem. In overall, there is a problem in US.
1210  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Blockchain ideas on: January 22, 2021, 10:03:45 PM
You still have time to think twice before making a final decision. You are 16, when you turn 17, you'll understand that you are absolutely better than you were 1 year ago, same will happen when you turn 18 and during this timeframe, your visions may change.

I don't know where you live and what's the university you want to enter but consider that in 90% cases, you'll see two type of lecturers: 1. Who doesn't know anything about bitcoin and 2nd - Who will claim that this is the coin that's used in darknet, to fund terrorist, etc. But prove to them that you know more and they are wrong in this case!

Btw for ideas: Blockchain technologies can be implemented in many things and they can be extremely beneficial (for example land title registry).
1211  Economy / Gambling / Re: BITDICE.ME ⭐NEW v5.0⭐ | Daily & Weekly Competitions | Exclusive Games & Lottery on: January 21, 2021, 09:13:22 PM
Exclusive means simply something that has been developed by BitDice and isn't a third-party game. It's not meant to suggest that a game is 100% unique.
Okay, good )) I just thought that including "Exclusive" games under casino's section would be a better choice and easier to find from header menu. Btw since you are going to implement more and more amazing features, is bitdice going to update their financial analysis on a medium channel? I think it will be very interesting if we have the analysis after the end of 2021 to see how things have changed from 2019-2020 to 2021 (I took 2021 since you plan to implement new features and you already redesigned the whole website).
On another hand, good luck, it's a good website and feels sad when I see low activity here.
1212  Economy / Services / Re: [FULL] ChipMixer Signature Campaign | Sr Member+ on: January 19, 2021, 12:12:38 PM
Just want to state my opinion about the things that are happening around this signature campaign.

First of all, highest percentage of Chipmixer's signature participants are very good persons who really take care of this forum, do a lot of things to make the user experience better (Loycev's tools), they try to make this forum free from scammers. There are a lot of good things that they do.

But at the same time I see that as bitcoin's price went higher, if we calculate, they get a lot of money in USD (if we convert bitcoins). A lot of users here are envious. They don't like it when they get some bucks by spamming and hate when others earn more money, even if they put a lot of work in it.

As I see, a lot of users posts things like these: Bitcoin is number one currency, bitcoin over USD, bitcoin's value shouldn't be calculated in USD, etc. But their behaviours show a different opinion. It's clear that for people Bitcoin is a shadow of USD and not really Bitcoin.
1213  Economy / Gambling / Re: FORTUNEJACK.COM |Deposit 777 play with 1777 mBTC |Live Casino, Slots, Betting on: January 18, 2021, 11:38:05 PM
I thought they had already come up with an explanation?

Their "explanation" doesn't make any sense, and after I responded back to their latest "explanation" addressing all the points they made about their reasoning, they haven't replied back to me since after over a week.

Just read a few posts above to see my response to their explanation to see exactly what I mean.
Sadly it was written in their TOS that in case there is a wrong bet, they are able to cancel the bet but there is another, ethical side.

FortuneJack
Dear Fortunejack?? There was an accident on Black Friday, Amazon had some technical problems and it was like their customers get certain items in a very cheap price. Amazon was able to cancel their orders according to their own TOS but you know what they did? They got losses and still proceed the order. Hope you'll understand why that happened.


Hope, you understood the point and analyze that it's not good behaviour.

Edit:
Hhampuz
When did they cancel the bet? According to TOS, FJ is 100% correct but at the same time, the situation is a little bit hazy. When you bet, catch a good odd and then it's cancelled because of their technical issues, doesn't sound right but again for sure, it depends when they cancel the bet. If bet was made hours earlier before the match and if the bet was cancelled immediately, then yeah, seems there is nothing wrong with FJ but otherwise I wouldn't like that.
1214  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Stable coins are not actual fiat on: January 18, 2021, 10:28:53 PM
I hope it's not hard to understand that stablecoins are backed by USD, i.e. there is USD behind them and Stablecoins are just masks. Imagine USD on blockchain with name "Tether". If one does, another one dies too. Your speach looks like if my PC is turned on and electricity goes off, it should remain in turned on position while there is actually no supply. Same applies to stablecoins.

Btw I was really wondering about true stablecoin backed by USD where we would pick one "normal" and after that if USD rises or falls, stablecoin will fall/rise to balance the things and remain truly stable.
1215  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Why would anyone use a betting broker? Have you tried it? on: January 18, 2021, 09:52:44 PM
If anyone is really paying money to "betting brokers", then all they want is cheap and easy money with little to no effort. You could pay money to those who provide detailed statistics about certain teams, their recent matches, historical moments between team A and B, how these two team compete, who wins when match is at home/away, etc. In this information, I think that it's quite logical and good to pay money, this information is very beneficial for the bettor. Otherwise, anyone offering such proposal is just a scammer or a young boy who recently won some bucks in tickets and now wants to make more money.
1216  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: My Bitcoin Got Hacked From My Wallet on: January 18, 2021, 09:15:18 PM
When did they change from .info to .com?  Now that you mentioned, I think when I registered the account, it was still .info, but now when I clicked the Support menu in the wallet app, it took me to .com.
Oh, blockchain.info redirects to blockchain.com since June 2018.

I suggest everyone to not use Blockchain's wallet, it's terrible. I created some wallet (account) on their website and on one account it happened like I was somehow unable to login. Password was correct, was receiving email and verifying it, everything was correct, even there was green message box on blockchain.info but somehow, login was still impossible. I couldn't login, guess it was a bug from their side or idk. Contacted their support multiple times, they are the worst, no attention. Glad my balance was zero on their website.

So, just don't use blockchain.com's wallet for long term or for storing your coins. Or then get a prescription for calm meds.
1217  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Reinvest initial investment, or keep profits? on: January 18, 2021, 08:53:38 PM
For long term safe investment, probably you could choose Binance's 6% annual earn on flexible TUSD deposit, or directly gold, etc.

If you can really afford the long term investment in bitcoin, then this last one is better choice but remember, long term may be one, two, three or even four years. But as statistics and history shows us, bitcoin always proves that it's the best long term investment option. You have to be very patient, if you see that price went from 36K to 15K (for example), this is the case where your patience should shine. Imagine, even if you bought bitcoins back in 2017 in 20K USD, still you had a chance to do 100% profit (price was 40K recently).
1218  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: txfee.org neat bitcoin fees estimator and tx checker on: January 18, 2021, 08:11:54 PM
Seems the whole website is in JS...

How does it estimate the transaction confirmation time? I always use bitcoinfees.earn.com and I have never had a problem every time I followed their advice. At the moment, according to them, 102 satoshis/byte is required to get the transaction confirmed between 0 and 30 minute. According to your website, you need only 83 Sat/B. There is a quite good difference between your and their stats.
On another hand, like this simple design, it's a good website for quick use with brief information, good luck!
1219  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: BitPay -- KYC is here! on: January 18, 2021, 07:52:21 PM
Found a response on Reddit from a BitPay staff member: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/kvujzq/fck_bitpay_use_coingate/gj0w8se/. It seems like they have introduced or are introducing mandatory KYC for all EU customers, regardless of value of transaction.
If only more people would care and ignore them. They can probably afford to lose a small percentage of their customers, but if they'd lose 95% of their business, they might change their requirements.
If it's for EU: would a VPN in Mexico work? Cheesy
I think it would be better to choose other countries than Mexico Cheesy
Personally, I can't understand the one thing: There is BitPay and there is BTCPay with zero fees. Why would someone use BitPay over BTCPay? I think BitPay also knows that BTCPay exists, so there is higher competition for them but instead of making things easier, they are making everything very hard and crypto unfriendly. Logically, this should destroy their business. Asking KYC for transactions is very unethical and disgusting. Isn't it my right to protect my privacy? And then governments tell us about how your free will is protected by the law.

Conclusion: This world is shit (most likely we make it shit), full of lies where people are still slaves, where people are just a toy for marketers and data analysts, eh...
1220  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Netherlands pilot scheme to allow women to play in senior men's team on: January 17, 2021, 08:00:27 PM
Never going to happen imo, they’re smaller, weaker, slower, just not going to happen imo.
Yeah, "women are equal of men" and similar feminine things are getting really terrible. There is nothing wrong with things like men and women both have to take care of their children, women are as good in math and technical subjects as men, etc... But women into a squad where men play is a terrible idea.

Just imagine when women play football in men's team and also imagine that in the opponent team squad includes Ramos, Pepe and other rough players. Women can't be physically as good as men, they just don't have similar possibilities in this aspect. Well, if steroids will be legal for women in sports, then maybe they should compete.
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