Quote from: bitmover on May 16, 2024, 04:56:14 PM

I don't think this volatility will last forever. It is already smaller than 5 years ago.
~snip~

As long as BTC is treated (by most) as a speculative asset, I don't expect that there will be any major changes. People buy BTC in order to profit from the change in price, and at the same time they expect this change to be as large as possible.

At the end of 2022, we had a price of 1 BTC of just over $15 000, today it ranges from $56 000 to $72 000 - looking at history, the volatility remained, only the numbers changed.

Here is the Bitcoin volatility chart since 2018

https://www.theblock.co/data/crypto-markets/prices/annualized-btc-volatility-30d


Every asset is speculative. Even usd. When a war , or covid, or whatever, people buy usd for protection and the price goes up.
If you take a look at dxy (dollar index) you will see its volatility

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy

Quote from: bitmover on May 16, 2024, 08:38:46 PM

It is also complicated to work with 2 github accounts,  etc..

Yeah, I know. I use a separate github account for the BitMixList repository and pushing commits to a branch becomes very tricky from the command line due to authentication issues. You have to put the token in your URL and not use SSH keys, and so on.

I am doing something a little different. I was only able to "trust" github not to mix my IDs using SSH keys in Ubuntu.

This is how I do it, using two files to configure the env, and 2 ssh keys in the same .ssh directory:

home/user/.gitconfig
[includeIf "gitdir:~/bitmover/"]
    path = ~/bitmover/.gitconfig
[core]
autocrlf = false
fileMode = false
filemode = false


home/user/.ssh/config

#Default GitHub
Host github.com
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

#bitmover GitHub
Host github.com-bitmover
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_bitmover
and home/user/bitmover/.gitconfig
[user]
email = [email protected]
name = bitmover-studio

Details here in answer number 2
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4220416/can-i-specify-multiple-users-for-myself-in-gitconfig

lol, a pain in the ass

I figure that the only way you are going to get something in this space through is by developing it under a pseudonym, like how Satoshi did with Bitcoin.

This is  a pain in the ass for developers.

I do that. I work in some projects as bitmover and in others with my real name. It is complicated  , and my resume becomes worse. But the privacy is worth.

It is also complicated to work with 2 github accounts,  etc..

However,  developer is not my main job, just an extra. I imagine how it could be complicated for full time devs

Quote from: dkbit98 on May 09, 2024, 10:44:53 PM

Quote from: Findingnemo on May 02, 2024, 06:14:28 PM

Coinbase have option to trade Grin for USD, not sure is there any crypto pairs available at the moment on any other US based exchange.

That means nothing.
Coinbase explore page you posted can also show Monero and almost any other cryptocurrency that exist in the world, and this coins are surely not listed on Coinbase exchange.
This page is similar like CoinMarketCap that is operated by Binance, or independent Coingecko website.

My bad, thanks for pointing out. So other option are gate.io which is not accessible for US citizens then it must be a DEX where I don't find liquidity for Grin at all.

These are the biggest exchange listing grin

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/grin/

You can check any coin like this in coinmarketcap.com

This forum has been around for a long time and we can see that the popularity of this forum has increased a lot. Recently several signature campaigns are running in this forum which signature campaigns are long lasting and members are teleporting their accounts from forum to forum regularly. Since members from other forums are teleporting accounts to this forum, you can be sure that the popularity of this forum will increase in the future and this forum will definitely be one of the best in terms of popularity among all the forums.

We don't know if mixers will stay here for long... they are the main responsible for so much teleported users here.

If for some reason they shut down or stop campaigns, many of the teleported users may become inactive..

Quote from: bitmover on May 16, 2024, 02:33:38 PM

Quote from: Learn Bitcoin on May 15, 2024, 05:14:44 PM

Also, there looks like to be some kind of airdrop for users who interact with testnet coins. I don't know any of those airdrops.

Nice. I have 0.006 tBTC.

Do you think is it worth anything in the airdrop you mentioned?

I strongly advise against trying to claim any sort of testnet airdrop for ideological reasons. Testnet coins are not supposed to have value (which is why they are so named testnet), but all this talk about trading coins on altquick and airdrops is just going to reinforce the idea to other people that testnet is some kind of crypto that you can earn money with,.

I understand your point and I can see there is really a controversy.

However,  this is not simple sell tBTC and get some money back.

If you open the website,  I will have to give tBTC and then i receive an erc20 token which will be used to test thee new smartcontract they are working on.

It is basic getting paid to help testing. Anyway, as I have very little tBTC, I don't know if I will be eligible

Here's a crazy case of a dust attack that ended at the mercy of the hacker who returned the funds.
The purpose was to create confusion in the history of transactions with similar addresses, which ultimately led to the confusion of the victim who sent coins to the wrong address.

https://cryptopotato.com/71m-wbtc-dusting-attack-victim-recovers-stolen-loot/

It wasn't mercy. The hacker received 10% of them funds, millions... and now he is "clean" I guess.

The victim first reached out to the scammer on May 5, offering a 10% in return for the stolen funds. In cooperation with blockchain cybersecurity firm Match Systems and crypto exchange Cryptex, the victim threatened to trace the funds if the attacker failed to respond by May 6.

....


Meanwhile, the worth of the returned assets hovers around $66.8 million because ether has declined more than BTC in the past week. Data from CoinMarketCap shows ETH fell over 6.4% while BTC slumped roughly 2.8% within the same time frame.

Circle, a USDC issuer, plans to move its legal headquarters from Ireland to the U.S. amid an upcoming IPO.

P.S. Brave guys, such actions really speak volumes. Not every major campaign would do something like this. 

Source link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-15/usdc-issuer-circle-to-make-us-legal-home-ahead-of-ipo

I think the future of centralized stable coins is the regulation  . There is no escape. They will all have to fit in the regulations...

Usdc looks to be the safer of all of them, and the most regulated.

Usdt looks to be facing some legal problems already in Europe