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AmericanKulak says

Cash is King.

Please get into the habit of using cash, at least for small purchases, folks.

So "small business" folks can do what us, paycheck-earning stiffs, can't - avoid taxes? If I pey cash I expect a discount so tax savings are shared with me.

Voyager went belly up. When they went online earlier this year they were giving out $100 to anyone who would open an account and deposit $100. Doubled my $100 "investmnet" and GTFO the very next day.

RWSGFY says

So "small business" folks can do what us, paycheck-earning stiffs, can't - avoid taxes? If I pey cash I expect a discount so tax savings are shared with me.

Give small business a break. If the government needs more money they can print it.

richwicks says

ONCE turn it into cash, you're traceable

A late friend of mine told me that serial numbers of banknotes including US federal reserve notes are routinely scanned. He said they're scanned when we withdraw from an ATM, and they're scanned when we make a cash deposit at an ATM.

I have noticed in recent years that when I withdraw a lot of bills at a teller, those are "counted" by one of those fast counting machines before the teller gives them to me. I have also seen them use the counting machine to verify the amount of cash I deposited.

Yeah, he said, the counting is a cover story. Maybe the tellers don't even know themselves, the real purpose for using those machines is to scan the serial numbers.

But he tended to see conspiracies in all sorts of stuff.

B.A.C.A.H. says

real purpose for using those machines is to scan the serial numbers.

Interesting. I suppose one could test this by blotting out one of the digits in the serial number with a permanent marker, then see if it goes through.

Wow! Bitcoin dropped almost $1,000 this morning. Talk about volatility!

What happened to our fanboi? I hope the jab did not kill him.

Onvacation says

Wow! Bitcoin dropped almost $1,000 this morning. Talk about volatility!

What happened to our fanboi? I hope the jab did not kill him.

Nice drop. I think it has one more run and is done after that. We're talking a 4-8 year timeline. It will go back up. At some point people will be sick of being burned by a spreadsheet with no tangible value. Although most humans are morons, so I could be wrong.

Onvacation says

Wow! Bitcoin dropped almost $1,000 this morning. Talk about volatility!

What happened to our fanboi? I hope the jab did not kill him.

Hey @Bitcoin - you still alive?

Hope you got out at the top, and who knows - even if you didn't, it might recover. But I'm telling you, it's a scam. It's not workable as a currency and never will be, transaction times are way too slow and beyond that, it's far too volatile as a currency. The volatility would be fine if you could get in an out in seconds, and not hours or days.

Up $1,200 today. Traders can make money on Bitcoin if they can time the market correctly. Manipulators can make money, because that's what they do.

If you don't know who the fool is, it's probably you.

https://finance.yahoo.com/m/b260033a-5cee-3df6-8606-34e47a19ec64/%E2%80%98i-just-wake-up-and-cry%E2%80%99-.html

Voyager and Celsius bankruptcies have destroyed some crypto investors’ confidence in centralized platforms

Bitcoin trades about 9-10% of its total value every day.

No shit it is manipulated.

Thanks for the link @stfu

unless there would be worldwide government collapses and the end of commercial banking with their respective protectorates, central banks, there is little reason for cryptocurrencies, except for illegal activities.

Any worldwide collapse where Bitcoin prevails must be predicated upon electricity still being generated and firms that provide the Internet still running. That seems unlikely, except, perhaps for Elon Musk's Starlink. Individuals still would need to generate their own electricity to power their own computing equipment and Musk's Starlink would still need to generate electricity to power data centers that operate the Starlink system.

https://truedollarjournal.blogspot.com/2022/06/bitcoin-in-2022-is-massive-failure.html

Onvacation says

there is little reason for cryptocurrencies

For the most part I agree considering there are 20k+ cryptos and for 99.99% will likely go down in flames
due to no real use case and not because "they are used for illegal activities" which is a statement out of ignorance, not facts.
Lots and lots of crypto are marketed on future promises of utility of some sort however the very large majority will never amount
to anything and disappear.

The other <1% already have use case and are being tested, used and developed by the worlds governments and the largest of institutions
and besides a couple of small countries declaring BTC a currency for their countries I don't believe BTC or ETH are going to make the
cut as reserve currencies however the technology in the digital crypto space will be a much larger player across the world as time goes on,
particularly due to the worlds governments war on fiat and it won't take 20000+ crypto to get that job done.

Cash says

"they are used for illegal activities" which is a statement out of ignorance, not facts.

Without bitcoin, ransomware would be impossible.

Crypto vs Fiat: Is One Or The Other More Of A Haven For Illicit Finance?
https://regtechconsulting.net/crypto-blockchain/crypto-vs-fiat-is-one-or-the-other-more-of-a-haven-for-illicit-financing/

The total amount of illicit fiat activity dwarfs that of the total amount of illicit crypto activity: trillions of dollars versus billions of dollars. But the relative amount of illicit fiat activity is miniscule compared to the relative amount of illicit crypto activity: for every one million dollars of crypto-related activity, $3,400 is “illicit”, but for every one million dollars of fiat-related activity, only 80 cents is illicit.

Are ransomware and cryptocurrencies intrinsically linked?
https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/ransomware-and-cryptocurrencies

Without the existence of cryptocurrencies, ransomware would still be a big problem, says Nick Biasini, head of outreach at Cisco Talos. “If you go way back and start at the beginning of ransomware before it became the pervasive issue that it is today, it was actually not based on cryptocurrencies. The payment system was designed around gift cards or various other types of payment cards that you could operate.”

richwicks says

The volatility would be fine if you could get in an out in seconds, and not hours or days.

Holy cow, it takes days to complete a transaction with bitcoin?

WineHorror1 says

richwicks says

The volatility would be fine if you could get in an out in seconds, and not hours or days.

Holy cow, it takes days to complete a transaction with bitcoin?

Yes. It works as a distributed database, to confirm the transaction you have to access 1000's of computers, and that takes time AND energy plus you're in a queue.

People who promote bitcoin haven't bothered to even check to see if it's viable. It's not viable, at least yet.

This problem has existed for years, and it's always "soon to be addressed, there's going to be a fix", but there never will be.

Bitcoin is too volatile, and slow, to actually ever be useful as a currency. It's an obvious tulip.

Jesus Christ.

This really is the bitcorn MISINFORMATION thread.

Cash says

"they are used for illegal activities" which is a statement out of ignorance, not facts.

Really?

HeadSet says

Without bitcoin, ransomware would be impossible.

If there's a will there's a way.

Cash says

Crypto vs Fiat

One is fiat, the other is measured with fiat.

Onvacation says

One is fiat, the other is measured with fiat.

And ATM cash is king x3 and BTC is w/o a doubt going to be smashed 12.5k - 10k then it will be time to look at
buying utility coins at crazy discounts.

Onvacation says

HeadSet says

Without bitcoin, ransomware would be impossible.

If there's a will there's a way.

Nice bromide there, but please explain how a ransomware crook would collect without an untraceable payment?

HeadSet says

Nice bromide there, but please explain how a ransomware crook would collect without an untraceable payment?

Just Bromiding.

Are bitcoin transactions truly untraceable?

I'd say no.

Onvacation says

Are bitcoin transactions truly untraceable?

I'd say no.

Then wouldn't it be simple to find out who collected the payments and arrest them? Plenty of motivation to prosecute when the victims are large corporations, police departments, government offices, and hospitals, and the ransom payments are usually large.

HeadSet says

Onvacation says

Are bitcoin transactions truly untraceable?

I'd say no.

Then wouldn't it be simple to find out who collected the payments and arrest them? Plenty of motivation to prosecute when the victims are large corporations, police departments, government offices, and hospitals, and the ransom payments are usually large.

It's pretty well understood that the people blackmailing people is the government itself. The "equation group" is a bunch of assholes inside of the NSA. We KNOW who is doing that, but our government is the fucking criminals themselves.

Chart above is missing (at least) one important row:
Transaction Privacy: high, high, low
Transaction Anonymity: high, high*, high**

* serial numbers on bills can be tracked (e.g.: finding Lindbergh kidnappers using serial numbers of ransom)
** if a user is identified for a single bitcoin transaction, then all transactions with that address are deanonomized

Bitcoin Price Prediction: BTC Fails to Touch the Crucial Resistance
Looking at the daily chart, the bulls are struggling in keeping the Bitcoin price above the 9-day and 21-day moving averages, but the price is currently dropping below the 9-day MA. BTC/USD has been suffering since the European session as the technical indicator Relative Strength Index (14) moves to cross below 50-level. This could mean that the King coin is not yet ready for the upside.

Onvacation says

BTC Fails to Touch the Crucial Resistance

BUY NOW OR YOU WILL BE POOR FOREVER!

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nomad-hack-stolen-funds-125623615.html

Nearly $200 million drained from crypto bridge Nomad in latest crypto hack

Bitcoin Price Prediction 2030
After years of analysis of the Bitcoin price, crypto experts are ready to provide their BTC cost estimation for 2030. It will be traded for at least $776,060.47, with the possible maximum peaks at $937,274.64. Therefore, on average, you can expect the BTC price to be around $798,474.46 in 2030.

Potential ROI: 3977%
BUY
Bitcoin Price Prediction 2031
Cryptocurrency analysts are ready to announce their estimations of the Bitcoin’s price. The year 2031 will be determined by the maximum BTC price of $1,353,943.82. However, its rate might drop to around $1,117,007.86. So, the expected average trading price is $1,148,946.84.

Potential ROI: 5789%
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100k today will be worth 4.5m in 2030.

Plans in the working and I haven't bought any crypto and don't have any plans to until the good ole USD plays out, probability says DXY 121 but will see.
1 marker taking place right now with BTC that wasn't in the past when BTC was dumping is stablecoins such as USDT USDC USDD etc. are loosing market cap instead of gaining, which means that money is going back to fiat and the banks this time as it will be with just about any asset you can name due to all the over leveraged players, including the paper trades on commodities, metals and oil imo Capitulation across the board is on the way and the EPIC deals on quality investments will be historical. GL

Cash says

market cap

Can the term "market cap" really be applied to crypto?

Should be “fantasy cap”.

Onvacation says

Cash says

market cap

Can the term "market cap" really be applied to crypto?

Nope. Not an asset. Unless a spreadsheet/database of numbers all a sudden holds value. It's not even usable data for marketing or anything. It's the literal definition of worthless.

It is only worth what the next biggest fool will pay for it.

Of course there are a lot of fools out there.

People also ask
How much is BTC worth in 2025?
It is assumed that in 2025, the minimum BTC price might drop to $85,596.05, while its maximum can reach $102,438.17. On average, the trading cost will be around $88,043.53.
https://changelly.com/blog/bitcoin-price-prediction/