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Messages - Stompix

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Well that's bad, that means it's just another centralized pool that will want to start operations in Bitcoin mining.

What do you expect from a business?
They are in for the money and for control, otherwise, this would be the work of anonymous crypto fans over github.

What will happen when all of these mining companies combined control over 50% of the harsh rate?

First, watching the mining scene for so long and being somewhat involved in it, I think they already do, they just hide that, I have a spot somewhere in the difficulty speculation about how those percentages during the texas shutdown were so weird looking.
Second, what could be, depends on what people are in charge of it, Costco or Pfizer, Balenciaga or Ikea it could be a nothing burger or really, but really bad!.

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In fact, it is much broader than the Musk project.

It has always been!
Because basically, Dogecoin has its own characteristics to be used as a transaction tool, one of them. and also as a meme coin which is the most important and trendsetter.

Dogecoin has all the characteristics of Bitcoin except the supply change, which is an infinitesimal increase compared to all the coins already minted.
Completely different for other meme coins doge has 99% usage and 1% things about meme, the other coins are all about trends, they have zero whatsoever daily life use, dogecoin is accepted everywhere and nobody laughs at getting paid in doge. Do that with puppydogmilkconfetti token!

That's right, Doge is very special because Doge is the pioneer of all the meme coins that currently exist. Imagine that previously Dogecoin didn't have many fans until Elon Musk started giving full support to Dogecoin and made the price rise to very expensive.

Not true!
Musk's first tweet about dogecoin was in 2019, dogecoin has always been a top 20 coins even before that:
https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20170101/


 

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Username: Stompix
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Signature Campaigns / Re: [Pause] UniJoin 🌀 Sig Campaign
« on: May 05, 2024, 05:34:40 PM »
Well, it was nice while it lasted but lately seems like things are more chaotic than ever, now that I think it over it's a bit worse than when CM was seized, at least that was against one certain website, now nobody knows who or what will be next.
Yeah, shitty times, but life goes on.

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So you mean any transaction coming in or out from those sanctioned countries will be taken as terrorist funding!!! It's new for me, well, IMO that's not how things should go, as transactions should be checked thoroughly like for what purpose it was used, I mean who sent it and who received it. Does the receiver belong to a bad actor in the community and using that money for bad purposes?

And how do you think this would work?
I can see how the US government calls Iran and asks them
-Stop lobbying rockets for a while and do tell us, is Hashem Soleimani the guy who is smuggling chips or was that Masem Souleimani, we have 500k pending and we need to know if this is college money or bomb money!
It's sanctioned "countries" for a reason, otherwise, you would only have sanctioned 'individuals" who would do all those transfers with their wife/son/nephew account.

Put the question otherwise, if you know a country is against you using one of their companies, why do you still want to use it?


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I wonder if Zhao had been a poor man who had no money, would the judges have sympathized with him? :'(
That is not the case here, a 'poor man' would not own a cryptocurrency exchange that will give him the opportunity to commit the financial crimes that CZ and Binance committed. CZ pleaded guilty, paid billions of $, cooperated with authorities and gave them all the info and data they need, and that is why the sentence was light, it has nothing to do with sympathy from the judges.
It seems that you did not realize my hint. I am hinting here at the role of money in the case (under the table). A man who has a lot of money can spend some money to gain the sympathy of officials and even judges.

But it's still the same, a guy like me and you wouldn't have been accused or running an unlicensed exchange, laundered billions, facilitating transfers in billions, and so on, so how would have a poor man been in this situation?
Find one homeless person that was convicted for 25 years in prison for laundering billions and I will agree with you.

Also, according to the latest news, there are negotiations with the SBF now to obtain another reduction in his prison term if he cooperates with the authorities in exposing the celebrities who promoted FTX. In addition, we saw how he spends comfortable times in prison.

This is simply not true.
https://cryptoslate.com/ftx-investors-agree-to-drop-civil-lawsuit-against-sbf-if-he-snitches-on-celebrity-promoters/

This is a civil lawsuit between FTX investors and SBF.
The prison sentence was a criminal case between the DoJ and SBF.
SBF could win every civil case anyone throws at him, it has no impact on the 25 years sentence.

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Smart play from Wasabi team, but there is no guarantee this will protect them from anything.
Phonix wallet did something similar with removing their apps from stores for all US citizens.

I don't think that any of those teams were that stupid to say let's just ban people from US and we will be safe.
I mean, you have guys doing something similar to you getting arrested and maybe face a decade in prison and you just take an app offline for a country and get over it, no way they didn't talk with some lawyers or even asked through some channels if somebody is coming after them.

I personally would like "them" to focus more on other things when it comes to cryptocurrencies, such as for example stablecoins, or all those shitcoins that are listed on CEXs, and anyone who looks a little closer to that topic sees that 99% of all that is just a nicely packaged scam.

And the irony in this is that when they finally label a coin or a cex a scammy behavior group, the users light more pitchforks then than they would have for protecting privacy wallets or mixers. The whole thing is so divided at this point that we won't see any consensus in fighting back on those regulations and actions, as long as they package it with promises of more acceptance and being more legal thus more $ there will be no real fighting back. We've entered the stage where $ matters the most and I'm not sure this is the right way.

They Wasabi went a step further. Shutting down its Coinjoin service, effective from June 1st, 2024.
https://blog.wasabiwallet.io/zksnacks-is-discontinuing-its-coinjoin-coordination-service-1st-of-june/

Total capitulation, huh?

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Bitcoin Forum / Re: Has the bear market started?
« on: May 04, 2024, 08:55:36 PM »
As the market has dumped a lot from its peak price so far we cannot consider this market condition as a bear market.

Why it is the beginning of bear market?

Because no matter how you want to label this, correction or not, by definition, it's a bear market and a crash:

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A market correction occurs when a stock market index, such as the S&P/TSX Composite Index, drops by 10% or more from its previous peak. When the decline reaches 20%, it’s called a bear market. If that 20 % decline happens over a very short period, then it is a stock market crash.

Some get confused and try to apply the timeline of the stock market on this of months but they forget crypto is a lot more volatile and doesn't need months to reach those percentages, it can do it in one day, the moment BTC slid under 57k it was the end of the bull run and the start of a bearish period, yeah it can go back up it can also pass the ATH but that doesn't mean that it's all just one line of bullish events.

It's a normal occurrence, nobody died because of it, happened a lot of times but still it is what it is.

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price is already approaching $62K, looks like it will hit $170K next week

Got carried away a bit and added an extra 1?  ;D
Too much side movement, nothing really has changed from one month ago, if it's going to be a pump back to 70k (not 170) I think it will be short-lived, that with the exception it is based on some real-life economy change, but with no interest rate going down anywhere I don't see what could that be.

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Bitcoin Forum / Re: Phoenix Wallet to be removed from US app stores
« on: May 04, 2024, 08:30:01 PM »
When the US government has given a statement like that, it is best for those who have assets in Phoenix wallets to immediately move their assets to other wallets.

Yes, I agree, the users who currently trust and use Phoenix wallet or Wasabi wallet should move their assets to safe wallets which may not blacklist their countries even if US shutdowns another wallet that's providing similar features.

Why? Guys, do you realize those are no custodial wallets?
What is this about "safer" and what could the blacklist do in a non custodial wallet?
They can't freeze your funds, they can't stop you from moving your coins, and they can't even figure out where you are from.

Why are they worried about non-custodial wallets so much, and why did Coinbase exchange suddenly added support for Lightning Network?

You're already KYCd when you use Coinbase so they don't care about that, they care about unidentified user A moving coins without a trace to unidentified user B, it really makes no difference for them how you get that money out as long as they have your identifications, much like banks and ATMs.

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Bitcoin Forum / Re: High fees is a never ending story?
« on: May 04, 2024, 08:12:49 PM »
We can indeed consider this to be abnormally unusual, especially after considering that the just concluded halving was supposed to typically increase the number of activities that goes on in the network.

Why would it?
From the average users perspective pre halving or post halving he had the same incentive to transfer coins, there was no major price change that would have triggered transactions and besides, even it were so we haven't seen any spikes in tx even when we have in December and Janaury more than 2x.
On-chain activity has been at its lowest for years already, if it wasn't for ordinals half empty blocks would be a daily occurrence.

The transaction fee should be lower so that all types of investors or all bitcoin users can trade bitcoin with ease and not worry much about trading bitcoin.

Trading has nothing to do with the fees on chain, you don't move coins all day if you want to have coins on exchange to trade them.



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Apart from all the could, can possible in that article there is one thing that really made me raise some eyebrow

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Michaël van de Poppe, founder of trading firm MNTrading, suggests that Bitcoin’s dominance may have peaked as traders begin to shift liquidity to altcoins. Crypto trader Matthew Hyland echoed this, highlighting that Bitcoin market dominance is losing major support.

WTF is this guy smoking, Bitcoin is all over the news and there is like no talk about altcoins whatsoever, everything is about Bitcoin, Bitcoin ETF, bitcoin bonds, approval and regulations, no coin is coming even close to the spotlight and he thinks that altcoins are driving the market. One hiccup from the king and everyone is in red but lol, Bitcoin is losing dominance. Good luck keeping the market in the green with PEPE.


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You just have to love the irony in this:

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Roughly 100 pages of the documents were provided to NBC News, which reported many transactions were in small dollar amounts involving entities in countries subject to United States economic sanctions, including Iran, Russia, Cuba, and Venezuela.

In the exact same countries that chant all day for the death of the dollar and the US, you have a ton of individuals who would do everything possible including bribing and paying extra fees just to manage to either get dollars or do business with companies in the US! And I'm pretty sure that's just the tip of the iceberg, probably a lot more users bypassing that and the ones with huge money are already doing that covered by real IDs posing as either US or UK citizens.


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I would be more inclined to Todd opinion, testnet is for testing, you fix stuff that shouldn't go to the chain, if you can't fix the testnet and just reset it with new conditions then, what are you going to do on the main chain? I understand the problems are different and that they will not appear on the main one for decades but still, just as we needed a solution for the high fees 5 years ago and we still haven't got one the same could be applied to other issues. Bitcoins are divisible, there are plenty to test things, the difficulty adjustment will just be there as if they don't keep it a single guy who has nothing to do can crash it at any time with minimal gear.
So, for what?



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As I said a few days ago, the lighter the sentence the more likely he gave them everything and ratted everyone

I wonder if this means that SBF and co. will get even longer jail sentences as well as everyone else who Binance dealt with who has now been arrested.

No, it can't! He can't be trailed again on those charges, the DoJ has made it clear and the deal with the extradition would prevent him from having a second trial on any charges, including the ones that the DoJ dropped and did not go on prosecute. Same for the other guys everyone went on a plea deal on the terms they would face only a few charges against them, and the DoJ wouldn't risk making a fool out of them for a few extra months in prison.

The only thing that could bring him in trouble again would be documents revealing a new fraud unrelated to FTX but I really doubt that!

And obviously he is not scared of the United States either as Binance is not even based there.

He was scared enough to come on his own to the US, plead guilty to everything, pay 4 billion, cease every social media interaction since then, and so on.
As for being based there, common, there was a funny map on the net about US jurisdiction, with 800km from anywhere where an aircraft carrier can go!  ;D
The guy has billions, do you think he would throw away a life in luxury for himself and three generations when he could simply comply with what the DoJ demands?
Imagine you would have 100 billion, would you risk freedom and life for ...what? Let's be honest about it!






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