Well it's one thing to not like it, and another to spread FUD about it. What he got right is the part where he said that Bitcoin is a "currency built on distrust"., but at least he only stopped by saying that he doesn't like it.

There are countless other people I could mention who would just go on and continue saying lies about Bitcoin such that it is polluting the environment or that it is a currency for criminals or other stuff like that.

I agree with him. 4% inflation per day is insane and AFAIK newly generated WLD coin going to world coin team. But it's not very surprising when they perform questionable privacy practice and hit by several law privacy.

No you don't understand (/s), it's still "the greatest transfer of wealth in history", that is half true - it's just that the money transfer is going from all the investors to the project leaders instead of another way!

But seriously though, this is another useless shitcoin that is invading the space. Why do exchanges keep listing these kinds of coins? Oh right, I forgot - for money. But they should at least delist the coins when they no longer become profitable or used and just convert any holdings to a stablecoin of some sort.

(not very timely but since I just remembered that you got infected by a crack, I have some opinions to share about that.)

Actually, I don't know exactly, but I think the main mistake was downloading crack from the Internet. I used Windows 10 and downloaded the crack for a video converter program, and then the problems started.

Although I know the danger of cracks, unfortunately I live in a country that is banned from most services and we do not have legal programs, so I am forced to download cracked programs, and although I downloaded many cracks before, I did not have any problems, and the site from which I downloaded the crack seemed safe to me. It has nothing to do with Crypto, but the incident occurred after downloading the last file, so I guess it is the reason.

That's why you should only download cracked software via BitTorrent protocol, if you absolutely have to. Not from random HTTPS websites.

Most cryptostealing malware is created for Windows by very experienced malware developers who find ways to bypass the security controls on those computers due to the fact that updates are not frequently issued for it.

P.S. Looks like the above information has begun to be confirmed. It's interesting to see what happens next. 

Whale Alert reports that Tether has frozen two addresses with a combined balance of 14 million USDT. Apparently, monitoring has indeed intensified after the news of sanctions circumvention.

Tether was never decentralized, and the privacy is so non-existent it is like walking into a room full of security cameras with microphones on them. I don't know why anyone even bothers to use it actually (besides making more money which is irrelevant to the topic of this discussion).

Besides, Tether is not even stable. You can see in the screenshots that it slips from its peg by quite a bit, often.

Quote from: Mixero.io on May 10, 2024, 04:57:43 PM

Hi, we have been continuously strengthening our platform's security and anonymity protection measures over the past few months. Enhanced encryption, obfuscation techniques, and strong operational security practices have been put in place to protect our users.

It is really good to know that you are present here.
I hope that you, who are behind mixero.io, have been sufficiently protected, it seems that in the last few days, it is a big risk to talk about the whole thing.

If there is a big risk to even talk about mixers themselves, then we have a word for that in the English dictionary: censorship. Even Bitcointalk did not go so far as to ban public speech about mixers outright,

Since I have not seen any country try to sanction people for talking about mixers (not even authoritarian states like Russia), I am led to the conclusion that such censorship is non-existent.

For now at least.

Quote from: NotATether on May 12, 2024, 12:51:59 PM

But even the normal people don't want to use CDBC. They think that it is too complicated ("why should I use that when Venmo/Zelle/Cash App works just fine for me?") and most are not at all interested in trying to learn complicated things that they don't understand like what a CDBC even is - they'll just think of it as yet another money account.

That's right, I see CBDC as just another digital alternative to FIAT... instead of utilizing cryptography and blockchain, but in reality complete control is with the creator of the coin, as well as the lack of privacy makes everyone who originally liked Bitcoin give it no respect which is a lot for a CBDC.

CBDC may be able to prevent money laundering, but it is really far from what we expect as people who value freedom and privacy.

Exactly. And if it's an alternative to fiat, do you think that normal people are going to use it? They are happy with their dollars, for now.

It is mainly intended for the banks and other financial institutions who already use all sorts of weird and strange coins, tokens, blockchains, payment methods from the dinosaur age, who are going to be the main customers of this thing. So all of these people going to events such as WEF for example and promoting this are just doing it for the sake of their rich friends at the banks to make, well, more money.

If you hear someone saying that, they are probably referring to the design of a physical Bitcoin coin, not the technology itself. I mean, why would anybody say that about a bunch of code? That would be very weird for sure.

People did try to make physical bitcoins prevalent in the early days but they never caught on, and are mostly kept as collectibles now. As they should be. As bitcoin in my opion is better when used digitally.

is there any specific reason now why mixers are shutting down? is it about the government running against them or its the people who is preventing from using mixing services ?
it looks like there are more and more of them that shutting down each year so wondering that in the coming years there will be no mixing that available for the users.

Eh, mixers have been coming and leaving through the revolving door every year. It's just that now there happen to be three mixers exiting the space versus one entering this year. (It should actually be 2:1, because Tengri was started this year so its dissolution should not contribute to the number of mixers running.)

I find it quite odd that more mixers aren't jumping in to fill the void left by their predecessors, though.