Those who cooperated with the authorities will receive very little or no punishment, because this is probably part of the settlement that included placing most of the blame on their boss. I would not be surprised if all of them together receive a total sentence of less than 25 years, given that they will be sentenced by the same judge who, for me personally, has absolutely no sense of justly punishing criminals.

The lesson that the majority will certainly not learn is that people like Bankman should not be trusted, which means that it is only a matter of time before a similar story will be repeated with some other actors.

As you might know, Bitcoin sometimes got criticized due to relative high TX fee and small block size. Despite SegWit upgrade which allow a bit bigger block size (up to 1 vMB or 4 kWu/million weight), some people feel it's not enough and there's need for bigger block size. While other option such as LN and sidechain exist, there aren't many service or wallet which support either those. Now here are my question,

1. Do you support increasing Bitcoin maximum block size?
2. If yes, what factor should be considered when choosing new maximum size?

Quote from: Kemarit on April 07, 2024, 11:35:03 AM

Nonetheless, the effect on the market is not that significant, sure it goes down a bit. Investors though as intelligent enough to take advantage of that situation and buy it. So even if some of us see the US government moving it and selling regardless of the price, it is not enough to put a dent on the market.

It cannot be denied that there is still an influence on the market. Yes, at least, market conditions have recently experienced a slight decline, whether because of the news that continues with the sale of confiscated Bitcoins, or because of the effects of other conditions. Or a combination of several conditions. But what is certain is that the market response is not that panic, and this is very good. because perhaps most investors already understand this cycle and the possibility of manipulation to make the market down before the halving. So, the market won't drop too far because there are still many investors who strictly store their BTC without panic.

Quote from: taufik123 on March 20, 2024, 11:53:05 PM

Bounties are not very good at the moment, there are no good enough payouts for participants except signature campaigns. But you can switch to airdrops because some projects provide considerable incentives for early adopters. Usually working on Tesnet Network, I still participate on ZkSync and some other networks.

You are definitely right. With the usual bounties gone and may not even be coming back even with the bullish market in, opportunities to earn Bitcoin or cryptocurrency is getting slimmer these days. We can never go back to the 2017 days where almost all ICOs really made money, made it to the exchanges and got some value along the way (though of them eventually died and evaporated months after). Today, the market has shifted towards airdrops involving tasks and testnet but with so many new projects going on it can be hard to keep up and there is no way to know which will really make it to exchanges and gain value for their coins or tokens. In other words, risks are always following us whatever we do and wherever we go.

Quote from: bayu7adi on April 05, 2024, 08:34:42 PM

If the US government decides to sell these assets, it means they are licking their lips by confirming that the money will be a legitimate profit for them. Confiscated money should be something that settles in the burn, not to be used unilaterally like that. Even though the regulations do not take sides in the middle, I think they must still respect the existence of many eyes monitoring every case they handle.

The US government should not be able to exchange or move these assets anywhere, except to burning wallets. Panic that occurs due to BTC transactions from large wallets often occurs, and I think the dump that occurs will not last long, it will make BTC recover again after the dump due to large-scale selling.

The fact that the US government also sells this illicit BTC and adds it to the national budget. BTC is also considered a type of seized asset and there is no regulation requiring that it be burned or frozen permanently. I myself would like the US government to hold this BTC as a form of national reserve, as Gold, rather than selling it off to use the way they are wasting taxpayer money.

I'm not sure if there is any correlation between the drop in BTC price and the movements of BTC from the US government, but such events have an impact on the media and the psychology of crypto investors.

I think both are equally important for a trader.

One needs to be aware of everything happening in the market to have a clear understanding of the movements happening at any time so that they don't place their trades at the wrong time and incur losses.
One needs to have technical knowledge so that they can analyze the charts, statistics, and figures to understand the movements of the market from the past and in which direction it will move next.

Combining both can make someone reduce the risks of failure and eventually become a more successful trader.

And this is what Canelo says for his fans and detractors alike,



https://twitter.com/MichaelBensonn/status/1775939676144115840

So this is just my personal opinion, sooner or later he will go after Benavidez, but it should be at 168 lbs and Benavidez is moving up to 175 lbs and stop chasing Canelo for now.

What are your thoughts? Canelo vs Benavidez in the future or no?