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$550 on ftx. It will pump hard 🚀

Imagine if the Coinbase people cash out then put it all on crypto.

It's currently halted. Does anyone have any info on when us normal people will be able to buy?

Can anyone point me towards why Coinbase is listing an IPO instead of doing a native coin

Cool. My bonus last year was a $2 Starbucks gift card. So I’m doing pretty good too.

that's going to be worth at least $100,000 soon.

Coin base lists Everything dumps

God I hate Coinbase

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Coinbase banned me for "illegal activity" after I sold bitcoin on localbitcoin and sent it to the address the guy gave me, years ago. Couldn't get it reinstated, ruined a great and profitable btc flipping business prior to tax laws.

That's really cool man... that's a minimum of 30k for each...

Great way to make employees feel happy and invested about them going public.

Nice move of them but it's a lot less than my gf's company handed out their employees when they went public. Coinbase being much larger, I expected them to be a bit more generous. But what the heck, still a great move on their part.

Coinbase is terrible i have reached out many times because im having issues with my account and i get no help

Must be nice

I knew I shoulda been a customer service rep from home for this airdrop!

Wow that's like $30000 worth that's insane

Employees would be better off getting paid in BTC!

Dayum, wish I worked at coinbase

Hello coinbase do you need a facility Manager! Please contact me :)!

Coinbase sucks so much

That's insane. They definitely treat their employees better than they treat they customers :))

Set my limit to 380$

Damm that's really awesome!

Coinbased

I believe the correct word here is "Paid"

thats easily $35,000

Look at mega mind over here

I wonder if this has anything to do with helping Coinbase dodge some taxes. Normally offering stock options and all that to employees is a great way of showing increased revenue but also somehow claiming a loss. This stuff is beyond me, but its food for thought.

Either way, this is really nice of Coinbase and I sure wouldnt mind being on their payroll.

Wheres there customers shares.

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Wait, what? What is happening? So Instant Messaging App is now focusing on some payments nobody wants through some shady crypto? Meanwhile, we still cannot sync history or use multiple phones. Cool cool cool cool cool, gotta love this neverending cycle of OSS going rouge.

That blog update is a joke. Not a single concern was written about, just corp nonsense.

Is IOTA compatible related to privacy with transacions, so it is able to be used in Signal? Can somebody explain or give a link?

Signal reminds me off Oneplus.

Very reasonable read. Feels like that should have been out earlier..

Dude It’s just in beta, I think it’s really early still. Lets maybe chill a bit. Maybe wait and see the situation develop, or for signal or mob staff to give us more insight.

I just wanted them to make the desktop client load faster and allow us to choose compression level / resolution for photos and videos. Instead, we got a cypherpunk platform to make Moxie rich, that'll almost certainly make Signal not available for download in ever more countries.

Signal discussion violates rule 13.

it just baffles me why anyone would use an unstable pseudo-crypto for exchanging value when buying something like a slice of pizza. They really should've gone with integrating a decentralized stablecoin like dai (or hell, even their own, stable community token that's always worth 1 USD) on their own L2 network, that would publish the transactions in a zk-rollup on Ethereum periodically to eliminate fees and still preserve transaction and account balance privacy.

Signal VCs have their shitcoin, they're not looking for anything, just doing so damage control after they've been busted with "mobilecoin".

A scam is born.

We will treat this cancer with feedbacks in the App Stores.

Every cancer needs time, Signal needs a long feedback therapy.

Read this if you still have a question 😊👌

Someone at IF should give them a call. 📞

it is better to connect with mobilecoin to solve their fee problem by using the iota network coliured coins :)

This would be awesome.

I tweeted the blog poster about IOTA: https://twitter.com/itsmontoya/status/1382104711738773505

I like how even this post doesn't mention Monero, the elephant in the room. Monero is already the private payment network for the people, with 78 times as many private transactions as Zcash and Dash combined last month. And MobileCoin uses RingCT which was invented at the Monero Research Lab.

Why have an AMA if you can write a blog post that answers 0 difficult questions?

Unbelievable that Signal managed to write all that without:

• Mentioning Monero once, which is the only integration people would actually want and the uncredited source of all the good parts of mob
• Acknowledging the financial conflict of interest involving Moxie
• Addressing the insanely greedy tokenomics of mob
• Mission drift and the resulting regulatory risk
• Why the AMA was ditched today

Oh wait did I say unbelievable? I meant totally believable at this point. Signal's reputation does one more circle around the drain

I wouldn’t say a word if they built an application for this, based on Signal’s encryption and foundation. But integrating it in the current app is not the best idea from a few perspectives. I also understand the need to raise funds, but I would be way happier with a ‘classic’ subscription fee,for Signal, I’d happily pay that even though generally being heavily against this sort of model. It’d be much more cleaner and transparent.

Complete and utter bias. In their own words, MobileCoin is:

1. opt-in, user choice
2. $0.60 transaction fees
3. wire transfer to buy / sell MobileCoin
4. price volatility

opt-in, user choice

if it's all about "user choice", why don't they add multiple cryptos and let me decide which one I use or don't use?

$0.60 transaction fees

Bloody hell, I can send bitcoin transactions cheaper than that. There are many other cheaper options (dash is a fraction of one cent).

wire transfer to buy / sell MobileCoin

Well, if they hadn't chosen some obscure low market cap coin, me the user might of found it much easier to buy and sell it for fiat or some other pairs.

price volatility

Not much to say about this, other than low market cap coins have more volatility. And MobileCoin is ranked #733.

Signal put in a list of other unrealistic requirements regarding speed and privacy. Really, you think on day one Signal is going to generate more payments than other networks that have been here years?

For speed, easy integration, fast transactions, cheap transactions and long term scalability, they could of just integrated dash or use the Dash Platform API. Dash has numerous on / off ramps and does many thousands of instant transactions every day.

Want better privacy? Beam has one minute confirmation times and very private because there is no transaction history stored on it's blockchain. Beam devs are also working on GhostDAG which makes transactions super fast.

Zcash will also be rolling out faster and cheaper transactions.

Alternatively, if it's really about "user choice", just manage the wallet and keys in the background, invisible to the end user, pass the payment details across the Signal network, and just launch the appropriate user mobile wallet at the time of spending i.e. no need to copy and paste long payment addresses, it just launches the wallet and all the payment details are automatically filled in.

All of this can be done today, but they didn't. They built a set of unrealistic requirements that met their own MobileCoin requirements and then failed anyway on transactions fees and on / off ramps.

I feel like I'm in upside-down-land. WhatsApp (!) took out an op-ed in Wired to stand against all the challenges to encrypted communication happening around the world. Signal says it's integrating a payment system that can be used to facilitate money laundering, which as u/Jaksic pointed out raises problems with regulatory risk and regulatory attention (yes, crypto-fans, I know that cash is used for money laundering too, and that there are oodles of legitimate uses of cryptocurrency that aren't speculation hoping for the next bitcoin-style rise in value, but that's not what's on the mind of most of the regulators around the world looking for backdoors in encrypted communications)

As the world stands today, the future of transaction privacy does not look great.

And it will never look great, should never look great. What's interesting to me about this position by Signal is how deeply rooted it is in the notion that "money is speech ergo free speech must mean free money." Money isn't speech, though, and money should not have the same privacy protections that speech does. Only a cryptoanarchist would think otherwise.

Let's be honest. The only reason big tech cares about eliminating privacy is because their advertising based business models depend scooping up data everywhere. Money is different. As a society we have spent decades flushing out hidden sources of money from fat cats in tax havens, off-shore banking account, and through thrid-party intermediary. Now Signal comes along and says, "whoah boy, we have a new way for fat cats to hide money. Isn't it grand!"

No, it's not grand. It's stupid. It makes Signal the free speech platform commingled with Signal the money laundering platform. That's bad for free speech, anyway you look at it.

I don't think any other coin had a chance. The story is something like CTO of mobcoin started signal so probably has some mobcoin which increased in value after Signal "chose" them:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/mm3iw9/mobilecoin_is_a_censored_monero_wannabe_premined/

Why is payment option even coming to signal what’s the big picture here? And even if the payment option does comes to signal then can we just not ignore it? Or is it going to cause some major concerns over security and private messaging?

Something like GNU Taler, which comes without its own cryptocurrency, would have left less of a bad taste.

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tldr; The Stacks Foundation is launching a $4 million accelerator program to invest in early stage teams building on the Stacks network. The three-month program will invest up to $50,000 in anywhere from 10 to 20 startups per class. The accelerator takes a small equity cut in each team with 80% of any profits going back into the accelerator.

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I want to hear how this will be different from the last time?

Last time, stacks was inundated with hundreds of abandonware apps. Better support this time? More quality control? Any lessons learned?

Woohoo!

this is great for the ecosystem!

Can't wait to see some cool projects

Great news that should bring more developers and functionality to the STX ecosystem!

why was it so safe 7+ years ago? or was it really not?

Cash is safer than BTC. Also the fees is less than BTC to transfer it..

You just need the BTC address of someone and anyone can see the whole transaction history of the account

Well if your not a noob then you tumble your coin and it is safe, don’t have dobby use a market address and your pretty safe. Point blank, if you don’t tumble your coin your pretty stupid. You can definitely be safe with BTC.

"For example, in September 2020, Chainalysis was awarded a $625,000 grant from the IRS to develop Monero-tracking software. Last November, Cipher- Trace also filed two patents for technologies related to tracing Monero transactions after working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security."

But...

https://twitter.com/davejevans/status/1330008956270374918?s=21

XD

It's not tracking if more about probabilities rather than certainties.

Edit: typo

What about coins like litecoin, ethereum etc.

It’s literally a public ledger

That was an excellent read. Thank you. Can’t believe there are still folks who think Bitcoin is some counterculture resistance, when you’ve got the CIA directly stating that they wish every transaction could take place on bitcoin, because it’s so much easier to thwart and analyze!

You misread the graph. There are different y-values for each side. Bitcoins is on the left

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Everyone knows they can talk shit but most politicians are right now using Monero to keep their money safe and private.

From the article:

“Blockchain technology is a powerful but underuti- lized forensic tool for governments to identify illicit activity and bring criminals to justice. One expert on the cryptocurrency ecosystem called blockchain technology a “boon for surveillance.””

Jesus Christ

Great post!

fantastic read thanks for posting!

this community has known about how shit bitcoin is for anonymity for 5 years. blame the media for throwing bitcoin up on such a high pedestal

first in best dressed, i guess

This is huge! I hadn't realized that monero transaction volume had surpassed bitcoin either. It implies that monero is working as intended to prevent people from seeing all transactions and can truly be used as digital cash.

Should post this to r/cryptocurrency. Newbs need to understand this

All of the experts we consulted believe that governments have been slow to recognize the forensic power of block- chain technology. This lag reflects a lack of awareness at senior and working levels, as well as the challenges understanding and working with the extreme complex- ity of the computer science associated with blockchain forensics.

Bullish🦍

Looking at the CIA's history, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if they are funding some of their activities using Monero and other cryptocurrencies nowadays.

For those interested in the questionable history of the CIA, please check what investigative journalist Gary Webb uncovered. The man literally sacrificed it all for the truth. Webb was a real journalist with tons of integrity, a rare trait to find in the business today.

If 'Epstein did not kill himself' resonates with you, so will probably 'Gary Webb did not commit a suicide by two gunshot wounds to the head.'

420$ on 4/20.

Ah the free marketing eh?

Wow ... FINALLY. Finally a govt report that gives an ACCURATE synopsis of the situation on cryptos. Finally, a govt report that doesn't say some stupid shit about "privacy coins" like zcash and Dash, and only mentions Monero. Finally, someone that doesn't appear to be coming in with an agenda and narrative to spin, and largely just lays out the facts.

One thing I found amusing:

Another went so far as to say that “if all criminals used blockchain, we could wipe out illicit financial activity.”

crosspost per request. Interesting read by michael morell, former director of the CIA, on BTC and AECs (i.e. monero).

TL:DR = BTC < Monero, Cryptospace good

Nice, could you also post in /r/monero?

Thank you! It's post like this I need to get even more confident in the project! 🙏

I have few dollars and bitcoin, I'm fucked in two currencies.

Lol, no, btc is another asset.

I've been looking for any discussion on impact of a future digital dollar on Bitcoin, but haven't found anything yet. Also curious about peoples thoughts on whether interest rates rising (and Fed tapering of bond purchases) will impact the demand for bitcoin?

Don’t worry I have converted all my fiat to tether. I am ready.

No it’s definitely not

What do you all think of China’s digital currency and how will that affect crypto?

Bitcoin is a fiat...

k

And how are you paying for your crypto right now

Username checks out.

Sigh..... Dollar isn't dying and crypto isn't replacing shit. I love BTC as much as the next person but can't believe that people buy into that mindset. Crypto is no better than fiat, it is just a good alternative

it's happening... and fast! esp. the United States seem to be really crypto-friendly. europes institutions and companys are investing too, but maybe they still think about making the EuroCoin

tldr; Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein has announced that TIME Magazine will be receiving some payments in Bitcoin. The company will hold the Bitcoin on its balance sheet. TIME President Keith Grossman retweeted the news, blessing the partnership. Grayscale is a cryptocurrency asset manager that holds over 3% of the Bitcoin.

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🎶“Tiiiiiiiiiiiime is on my side. Yes it is!!” 🎶

TIME will tell

After reading this thread, I think it's TIME we end these puns lol

• Cryptocurrency fund leader Grayscale Investments is partnering with Time Magazine on a new video series to be released this summer, announces Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein.
• Equally important, says Sonnenshein, Time has agreed to be paid in bitcoin (BTC-USD) and will hold said bitcoin on its balance sheet.
• Time was purchased by Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) founder and CEO Marc Benioff for $190M nearly three years ago. The two companies' operations, however, have nothing to do with each other.

tldr; Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein has announced that TIME Magazine will be receiving some payments in Bitcoin. The company will hold the Bitcoin on its balance sheet. TIME President Keith Grossman retweeted the news, blessing the partnership. Grayscale is a cryptocurrency asset manager that holds over 3% of the Bitcoin.

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Perfect TIMEing?

The TIMES are a changing....

TIMEs have changed!

Corporate FOMO is unreal. The catalyst started with Microstrategy’s corporate guide on entering the space. The real FOMO will begin once the FANNGs stocks enter...soon.

That's huge considering that TIME is a conservative institution. For me that's bigger news than Elon Musk's adoption. It's a clear sign that BTC is the future.

About TIME this happened

It was only a matter of TIME:

One of the most recognizable publications in the world, TIME Magazine will now be receiving some payments in Bitcoin, according to Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein. And, most importantly, it won’t be immediately converting that crypto to fiat.

Big brand mashup. That's what nft is all about.

These would be a lot cooler (cooler definitely as a relative term) if they were actual video of the company ringing the bell or like some older companies, complete with like 20th century video footage of people yelling.

I want to se them go full Topps and have trader stats like baseball cards used to. Have special digi-foil "Rookie Class of 83" cards and stuff.

NYSE

When we decided to mint the NYSE's first NFTs it was fitting that we chose to memorialize that particular one-of-a-kind moment. Our first class of NYSE NFTs celebrates the First Trades of these notable listings: Spotify, which executed the first ever Direct Listing, Snowflake, Unity, DoorDash, Roblox and Coupang, the largest U.S. IPO so far this year. We are starting with these six, but we know there will be many more NYSE NFTs to come as we continue to welcome new, innovative companies to our community.

Market Conditions

ETH:    $2,143.56
BTC:    $60,168.88
Ratio:  0.0356
Date:   Apr 12 2021

You're telling me the stodgiest of institutional money is on the NFT train now? Can this ride be over already?

Ok boomer

Great news for Bitcoin! Everyday it's becoming more mainstream.

I bet they earn enough that the fees are peanuts for them. But 80% of the worlds population is already priced out.

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"Bitcoin has no unique value at all. It is a delusion, basically." -Warren Buffett, Eats McDonalds for Breakfast Everyday

Jolly good fun this.

Over 5 million percent wrong lmao

Wow...

Dead.

Dead set on going to the fooking moon!

We see that these “experts” are simply not able to understand the BTC wave of change. One thing I’ve never heard on Reddit about the rise of BTC is the analogy with the music industry and downloadable music. Yet, to me it’s amazingly similar. Back in the days, you had an immensely rich music industry that trusted their model of music = physical records sales. Then downloadable music sites showed up and they fought against it by suing users (which was pathetic). They could not deal with the change and NOT ONE major label embraced the new tech. Not one! Adoption came through Apple then Spotify, etc. The music industry was forced to adapt eventually. I feel we see the same thing with the banking / financial industry. They are an immensely monopoly and there’s no reason for them to change. Hence all the FUD. But going back to music... how often do you buy a CD today? ... even asking the question sounds silly, right? Change is happening in front of our eyes, right now. What a great time to be riding the BTC wave of change!

I was at least 30,000% wrong. I seriously considered buying a few when the price was like $200 for fun because I thought the technology was cool. But back then, bitcoin did not have a bright future and it wasn't that easy to buy. The main uses were black market transactions and the main black market was being investigated by the FBI. No thanks, it was not a good investment with available knowledge at the time.

The next time I considered buying in I was surprised the price had jumped so much, but several exchanges were hacked around that time and people lost their money. Nope, seemingly not a good idea at $800 either.

I made a small gain in 2017, but was never a true believer. After the huge crash and the huge transaction fees it seemed like bitcoin had failed it's mission of being a currency or a store of value.

No regrets, can't change the past.

“Timothy Lee, precisely 5,000,000% wrong”

Mike was precisely 13.817% wrong*

"Why has Bitcoin failed? It has failed because the community has failed..."

thanks for the cheap coins mike ;)

First .lol domain I have visited.

How did you do the chart animations?

"A bubble. I predict this one will pop once the novelty wears off." Timothy B Lee, Tech Writer 5,212,379% wrong

Article: http://timothyblee.com/2011/04/18/the-bitcoin-bubble/

The comments are great

The tittles of the individuals are funny, but it should have their real, self used titles. I would like to be able to show this site to non-bitcoin believers and show them how wrong these "authoritative" people have been.

“Nouriel Roubini - old man that yells at Bitcoin” hahaha

Haha nice work 😂

This is such egg on face and so much crow to eat!

I wish I could give it more than 1 up-vote.

I'll send this to a negative buddy and tell him to spend 10 minutes with this. He believes every bit of crap coming out of the mouths of the ignorant and the FUDsters and takes it as gospel. I wish I could get him to calibrate his Bullshit Detector, but the years make me grow ever more pessimistic. I'm coming to the conclusion that he is unable to discern.

He'll believe a stranger on the internet before he'll believe the Bentley in my driveway. That's a metaphor. He sees me make a shit-tonne, then promptly launches into another bitcoin is dead meme. I've rolled my eyes up into my head so many times, I'm afraid they're gonna get stuck. Is there something in the water? Do they have intervention teams for this?

I just got a guy who was 53000% wrong. Anyone got higher?

Good job! This is a fun size

I hate that the graph doesn't start from the quotes date

My god how many quotes are there

I ain’t clicking that link

This site is too good. Enjoy!