I think I also heard similar services making sure that Bitcoin left by the deceased can be transferred peacefully and conveniently to the rightful heirs. Well, we will die anyway so why not get prepared for it as we do not really when we can be taken away. This story is illustrative of the problem when there is no proper strategy on the eventual passing of the cryptocurrencies left behind:

"Michael Moody, a 26-year old who died in a tragic plane crash in Chico, California in 2013. Before his death, Michael was a Bitcoin miner, in the words of Michael’s father, “my son was actually one of the earliest people to mine it. He used his computer at home to mine bitcoins when you actually could do it that way, and he had a few, we think.” Two years after the crash, the father started exploring ways to retrieve Michael’s cryptocurrency assets. He has succeeded in piecing together information about his son’s stash of Bitcoin, but he been unable to access his crypto wallets because of the decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies."

I am sure that Casa is providing a very good service worth looking at. I also saw similar service providers like TrustVerse with its Proof-of-Death which can a little bit spooky, Safe Haven and DigiPulse. Whatever can be the choice, we are assured that our digital assets and the hard work we put into them will not just evaporate like nothing when it is the time to say goodbye.

This problem has been going on for years and it is only now that it has been exposed to the light? Wow, that can be a big testament to the genius of the people behind the distribution of the fake TOR browser. People usually associate the TOR browser with privacy, anonymity and of course safety. So it makes sense for the perpetrators to fake the whole thing and lead people to believe that they are downloading the real, genuine TOR when in fact they are not and they are now victimized. How  many people and how much cryptocurrencies have been stolen by this malware remains to be seen. I am not using TOR but I am quite thankful that this infection has been brought to the open. We should really be careful with anything we are downloading.

This conference is just like any other and nothing substantial came out of this except that they got Craig Wright to be on the limelight again with all of his lies and illusions. At least, with Nouriel Roubini he conceded that Bitcoin can be a "partial" store but still maintaining that he dislike the digital asset and all cryptocurrencies are crap. Next year, they should be prepared with more colorful guests and better topics making things more exciting and with new things to learn. and I am wondering how much an ordinary audience of that conference have to pay to see those unattractive guys blabber. PS: That video is a waste of your 45 minutes better play a video featuring the song Señorita.

I could not help notice the background picture of that article's title. They are laughing while eating pizza. And it is just apt to the story. The man is now desperate in trying to prove that he is the real Satoshi Nakamoto and so he and his battery of attorney are manufacturing documentary evidence to make the point. Craig Wright is just exposing how big of a fraud he is and that we should never ever trust him. He thinks that it would be easy to fool the court of this evidence just because the staples are already rusty and there are coffee stains in the document when even a boy aged 6 can do the same? Oh man, this guy is really crazy and he will never get tired of investing so many things just so the whole world will agree that he is the real one. This is actually another interesting case to watch involving Craig and see what will be the final court decision. And I bet he will be roasted like a pig here.

There is no need for the use of this so-called Crypto Rating Council for regulators to soften their stance against Bitcoin because this is already settled a long time ago that Bitcoin has not been and will never be a security.

SEC Chairman Jay Clayton has clarified that bitcoin is not a security. “Cryptocurrencies are replacements for sovereign currencies…[they] replace the yen, the dollar, the euro with bitcoin. That type of currency is not a security...”

However, this CRC can be helping a lot those altcoins which the SEC has eyed for possible violations of issuing securities without undergoing the usual legal framework much more so if they accepted investments from American citizens within and without the USA.

Among the list of assets listed in the site, it is Maker and Polymath which both garnered the highest score of 4.5. Polymath did not hold an ICO or something because they distributed their coins by airdrops so maybe it would not have any problem with SEC. After Polymath and Maker, XRP got 4 points.

You are afraid that this 2010 story can be repeating itself and when then is no more Satoshi Nakamoto who can prevent the death of Bitcoin via hacking then everything will be gone in hours. We should be happy that the incident happened at the early stage of Bitcoin so that solution was immediately found and no damage whatsoever was inflicted to its whole ecosystem. I don't there will be such a thing again and right now all possible scenario can already be covered...even the so-called quantum computing.

Now, it would be impossible to unite all governments and have a single stand to kill Bitcoin. That can never happen as this is not a case of the election where majority wins. Governments have never been united on any issue before...there will always be those who will dissent and will not follow any majority's decision. You can witness this disunity even in the floors of the United Nations. Oh, yes, governments can work to kill Bitcoin but they won't success and since they know it they are not going to waste their time and resources to do so.

Don't worry too much. Just relax, be happy and enjoy the roller-coaster Bitcoin ride.

I am sure that eventually the Chinese government will be opening the huge market in China even just for Bitcoin, but it is going to be hard to predict when this can be. Right now, the government sacrificed the opportunity to collect revenues from possible cryptocurrency transactions in favor of not allowing something that it can never control because of Bitcoin's decentralized nature. I am sure that Binance is trying to communicate with some financial regulators in China for the possibility of doing good business in the country. So when this market can be opened again? Only time can tell.

What OAC? This is indeed just a joke and just a mere look at the site you shared here made me realized that this token must be made by somebody who may not have any connection to that controversial  socialist-leaning politician-cum-activist named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She is quite a figure in the congress though she is still young but I don't admire many of her convictions and actions. There is something sinister with this woman who is harboring the ambition to one day be the POTUS. Anyway, I don't see any iota of a value with the OAC token and can just be another scam. This must be made by a die-hard fan of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

I believe that centralized coins can have a role to play in the overall cryptocurrency market but we should always remember that this is not the step forward we are all wishing for, in fact can be a step backward from where we are now. Maybe you must be referring to market realities that we also have to contend with, we could not get away from big organizations (like Facebook and Telegram) that have the resources, clout and influence to make a project really works.

Facebook's Libra can definitely improve on the adoption rate as the very social media platform itself is representing billions of people, the same thing with Telegram. But is the only we can push forward the adoption...not other viable way? Should we sacrifice decentralization for adoption? These are the things running in my mind right now.

In the same way no one is holding the patent for the blockchain technology, I think anybody can make ASIC-like mining equipment as long as one is not copying the very products other manufacturers are producing and selling. It just like the technology on computers, what can be patented is your own brand of computers, specifications which can not yet be found with what others are offering and many improvements on what you are offering. This can be reason why there are a number of cryptocurrency mining hardware.

And this good news for Facebook's Libra even if there is only one showing up with the party. Mark Zuckerberg is hoping that an avalanche of support from legislators can suddenly and magically appear right before his eyes...



Well, its good to see that a good senator is bucking the trend. From time to time, it is also nice to hear a different opinion, conviction and conclusion in relation to the launch and subsequent operation of the Libra coin platform which Mark's minions are hoping can be done as soon as possible. Maybe Mark and Marcus can conduct an information and PR campaign to convince more members of Congress and Senate to allow Libra operate maybe provisionally before they make a conclusion that it can severely affect the traditional systems of the land.

Assuming that you are in the big shoes of Mark Zuckerberg, what are the changes you plan to execute with Libra to make it more digestible and palatable with the angry regulators and legislators?

Wishful thinking or not, I believe that the perceived bull run in 2020 can be a self-fulfilling prophecy as the market sentiment is agreeing with this projection. You see, market sentiment can be the force that can push any coin up or down. As far as Bitcoin is concerned, it would be easy to conclude that a growing number of people are looking at 2020 as the year when Bitcoin can go "to the moon" experiencing some good jump. We actually need this break otherwise there can be a wide negative reaction to Bitcoin. As to whales, it is within their own right as the owners of those Bitcoin to move, to sell, to buy more if they want to.

In other words, we don't have any business whatsoever trying to intervene and influence to do the opposite of what they think good for them. How would you feel if there will other people telling you on what to do, when to do things and trying to make you explain why you are doing it? That would be disgusting, in my opinion. Don't' worry though, I am not yet a whale and I am just a small shrimp in the water pond left by the rising tide.

There are some guesstimates that Satoshi Nakamoto is actually just a code for a group of people working for Bitcoin but certainly there must be someone acting as leader of that group. While some can be assuming that Satoshi is a young Japanese guy or someone with a Japanese background, one article I read posit the ideas that if Satoshi Nakamoto can be a British man based on the way he was writing the WhitePaper of Bitcoin. Well, as far as this man/group goes, anybody's conjecture can be good as yours and mine.

With Satoshi achieving the "larger than life" stature, there is now a big following of the things surrounding the creator of Bitcoin and there are many sites dedicating a big portion of their spaces just to talk the details of this man (or a group of people). To them, the search for the real Satoshi Nakamoto is an ongoing project that can only stopped when the real guy/group has already surfaced into the eyes of the public.

But why is there this continuing fascination with Satoshi Nakamoto? Your opinion is as good as mine.

I am sure that there many more facilities serving the public whose computer system are infected with mining malware taking advantage of free infrastructure and free power to gain something. This is akin to producing money out of thin air as the mining malware is just piggy-backing the existing workstations. Now, there a need for a more sophisticated detection system so that nay attempt to do free mining can be monitored and thwarted. This is definitely unacceptable and can pose some security risks.


Yes, this thing should not be tolerated. I think all facilities public and private should now start monitoring and tracking their own system for possible infection of the mining malware. The big problem is when it is an inside job and there is no one looking closely at the IT department. This is why there should be a good software that can easily recognized this malady.


CPU mining can actually be a good opportunity for us to participate with as long as we are not doing illegally by just using those computers we legally own and connected with. However, for the sake of solving this problem, I agree that Monera must update via forks their platform. We can not allow this thing to continue.

Looking at your list of the top 5 most crypto-friendly countries, if I were to start my own cryptocurrency-related business I would go for Malta or Bermuda as definitely these places are tax haven and known for protecting their locators away from the onerous regulations and burdensome policies. Japan is definitely the top big country when it comes to accepting Bitcoin but it also has one of the most regulated environment so doing business there can be a difficult one. Same with the USA where SEC has become so powerful and can be a big pain the ass if one is not careful.

In the list, I would like to add some European small countries/territories like Liechtenstein, Estonia Slovenia, Gibraltar and Lithuania. In Asia, we can add North Korea, Thailand and the Philippines to be viable places to do crypto business. These countries are attracting many fintech locators as they are offering many perks and benefits other countries are not doing. There seems to be a good competition with these countries and that is actually good. As they are saying: "The more, the merrier..."

I would opine that Libra has been a big concern for many countries including those which are regarded as very friendly and open to innovations of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. However, in fairness, we should not lay all the blames to Libra as there are many stablecoins operating in the market right now and there are always related concerns when we talk about cryptocurrencies. As a disruption force to banking, finance and economy, it is the duty of any country to always monitor things happening and developments that can possibly affect the pillars of one's economy  so they can react and manage things effectively and timely.

We know that Libra Association had chosen to be headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland but this does not mean that the Swiss government will be complacent in its monitoring and watchman job. The government is always looking at things including the Libra project. This interview with Mark Branson the director of the Financial Market Authority (FINMA) can give us some glimpse on how the country is looking at Libra and the possible risks (as well as opportunities) that it is posing to its economy and other traditional systems. 

Bitcoin (BTC) bull and co-founder of Gemini crypto exchange Cameron Winklevoss has noted that the volume of negative interest bonds accounts for $17 trillion and has urged the public to buy Bitcoin.

Earlier in October, Tone Vays, a veteran trader and Bitcoin expert, expressed a stance similar to Winklevoss’ saying: “As more and more Developed nations try to eliminate cash and implement negative interest rates, this can drive many people into Bitcoin.”

In mid-August, Deutsche Bank reported that 27% of global bonds traded were negative yield at the time, so expected to pay out less than their initial cost. This represented $15 trillion worth of debt, or as VanEck digital asset director, Gabor Gurbacs, commented, that was 75 times the total Bitcoin market cap. “It’s time for Plan ₿!” Gurbacs added.

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I am not an expert on "negative interest bonds" so this definition can help us understand: "Bonds have a negative yield when the total amount of interest an investor receives over the life of the bond is less than the premium they paid for it. Investors who purchase bonds with a negative yield and hold them to maturity end up losing money on their investment." In essence, if your investment is classified as a negative interest bond then you are essentially losing money.

Why would anyone invest (or continue holding) in a bond that can make him lose money, in the first place? And in that case, according to Cameron, you should be shifting to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency because, even with its extreme volatility, the yields can be much better. Now, we are hoping many would be listening to this guy as he is surely speaking based on his experience and wisdom as a longtime Bitcoin supporter and billionaire.

Assuming that you are holding "negative interest bonds," will you consider this suggestion pushed by this man?

This is a good idea that should have been done by protest organizers. However, I am not so sure how tight is the organization behind these waves of protests in Hong Kong as it seems to me that there were actions that just came spontaneous and not really that very organized. Anyway, anybody from the protesters can start a crowdfunding appeal using Bitcoin and any other cryptocurrencies in the market so they can accept financial support not just coming from within Hong Kong but also outside, though I am sure this can also be a hot area of concern as the mainland China may interpret it as an unnecessary meddling in their own affairs. China has been watching closely everything happening in Hong Kong as the government does not wish the same rebellious spirit spreading to other territories under its control.

I for one can donate a little for this cause. Still, I am wishing that both sides can sit down and spend talking to each other peacefully as there is no other solution to this problem but an honest-to-goodness negotiation. The strings of protests have been a big bane to the economy of the territory and all Hong Kong residents including those protesting are going to be affected.

Not anymore. Bitcoin can now be considered as a "public" cryptocurrency. And though this may not be good news for the criminals, I am actually happy with this because from now on no one can be claiming that with Bitcoin criminals can flourish. In fact, using Bitcoin, there can be more criminals that can be traced, tracked and be incarcerated compared if these people are using the usual fiat money. Maybe it is time that we weed out these people from Bitcoin so as to improve its "shady" image to the general population and the regulators. Our society has no place for child pornography or even illicit drugs.

I would like to agree with this good US lawmaker. Had Facebook instead develop the infrastructure around Bitcoin, it would have been much easier and can be a big boon to the Bitcoin movement. But then again, just like the Facebook set-up, Mark can never dream of something that he could not totally control so we now have Libra as one of his many gifts to humanity. While I don't sense any desperation on the part of the Libra team and no let-up in the support of Mark for his pet project, we know that this is going to have a hard time with regulators. Libra has to pass through the eyes of the needle and must be tested in intense fire before it should be allowed to operate.