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Old 26th March 2021, 11:56     #601
Ab
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This morning I was thinking about the moneyswap DrTitus and I did to help his friend out the other day, and remembering what it was like to move money between AU and NZ banks only a few years ago. The time and expense of having to talk to a bank manager and order a telegraphic transfer and getting reamed in fees and it taking days if not weeks.

And now it's just "here's my address" "sent" "yeah got it" directly from person to person, with no bank middleman, for free. I just had a moment of realising how amazing that is.
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Old 26th March 2021, 17:38     #602
Redneck
 
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And now it's just "here's my address" "sent" "yeah got it" directly from person to person, with no bank middleman, for free. I just had a moment of realising how amazing that is.
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Old 26th March 2021, 21:41     #603
Nich
 
A smart criminal would use USD cash and an account with HSBC and never touch an immutable ledger record of their criminal activity
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Old 26th March 2021, 23:36     #604
Ab
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Quote:

The KiwiSaver Growth Strategy Fund, which had NZ$350 million (US$244 million) in assets at the end of December, first began investing in crypto last October.

New Zealand Funds Management Ltd. (NZ Funds)’s KiwiSaver growth fund has invested 5% of its money in bitcoin (BTC, +1.06%), according to a report by local news outlet Stuff.

The KiwiSaver Growth Strategy Fund, which had NZ$350 million (US$244 million) in assets at the end of December, first began investing in cryptocurrency in October 2020, according to a company product disclosure document.
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Old 27th March 2021, 09:10     #605
Ajax
Architeuthis
 
^ Yikes.
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Old 29th March 2021, 10:24     #606
Ab
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"don't use money you can't afford to lose"
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Old 29th March 2021, 10:59     #607
blynk
 
Based on that, 5% they invested -$15m would now be worth $60m
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Old 29th March 2021, 13:46     #608
Ab
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If they'd taken the money to the casino and put it all on black, they could've made even more!
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Old 29th March 2021, 16:18     #609
blynk
 
Quote:
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If they'd taken the money to the casino and put it all on black, they could've made even more!
Well technically no. They would have had $30m.
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Old 30th March 2021, 02:13     #610
Ab
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Credit where it's due, that's GAINS baby

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Old 30th March 2021, 10:56     #611
Nich
 
If it's not on a log chart, can we really call it gains?
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Old 30th March 2021, 11:16     #612
Nich
 
VISA settling in USDC on Ethereum. No multi chain strategy, just Ethereum. Probably bullish.
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Old 30th March 2021, 12:03     #613
Ab
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That'd explain why ETH is up about 10% overnight. Not that I'm complaining.
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Old 30th March 2021, 17:20     #614
Ajax
Architeuthis
 
Basically Visa is trying to set themselves up as middlemen in a system that was designed to supersede them.
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Old 31st March 2021, 10:44     #615
Cyberbob
 
Worked for Netflix.
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Old 31st March 2021, 11:44     #616
Ajax
Architeuthis
 
Comparison with Netflix doesn't make much sense.
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Old 31st March 2021, 12:52     #617
Ab
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyberbob
Worked for Netflix.
What? This is exactly the OPPOSITE of what Netflix did. Netflix went from being a middleman to being a content creator.
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Old 31st March 2021, 12:55     #618
Ab
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Paypal launches "Checkout with Crypto", enables PayPal customers in the U.S. to checkout with cryptocurrency alongside other payment methods in the PayPal wallet

https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/202...ut-with-Crypto
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Old 31st March 2021, 14:07     #619
Ajax
Architeuthis
 
If I understand this correctly, PayPal will:

*Sell you crypto from their own private stash.
*Allow you to convert the crypto back into fiat to make a purchase.
*Pay the vendor in fiat.
*Clip the ticket and tack on conversion fees at every opportunity.

PayPal won't:

*Give you your private keys.
*Let you transfer crypto into or out of your PayPal wallet. You can only buy from them or sell to them at their rates.
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Old 31st March 2021, 19:41     #620
Ab
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looks like it:

https://www.newsbtc.com/news/bitcoin...l-fiat-crypto/
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Old 7th April 2021, 12:19     #621
Nich
 
Crypto marketcap ticked over $2T!

Another use for NFTs: Ticket sales (set resale royalty to 75% or so to discourage scalpers)
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Old 7th April 2021, 13:54     #622
Ab
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https://decrypt.co/?p=64135

Privacy Chat App Signal Rolls Out Cryptocurrency Payments

Summary: Mobilecoin (MOB), private blockchain, in beta for UK Signal users only at the moment.
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Old 7th April 2021, 20:14     #623
Ajax
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Old 7th April 2021, 21:17     #624
Ab
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I must confess I don't get it either. It's not like an inability to perform digital transactions is a glaring shortcoming of Signal. And why a premined shitcoin that's only available through one exchange?
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Old 8th April 2021, 10:57     #625
Nich
 
It's a way to support the developers maybe? A very unoriginal way.
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Old 10th April 2021, 18:30     #626
Ab
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Bitcoin and Ether both just hit ATH. WTF
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Old 10th April 2021, 19:47     #627
Lightspeed
 
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Old 11th April 2021, 10:44     #628
Ajax
Architeuthis
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ab
Bitcoin and Ether both just hit ATH. WTF
It's the same old story. Huge Tether pump on Saturday.
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Old 11th April 2021, 14:50     #629
Ab
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Oh glub, really?

In other news:

Coindesk: Signal Founder May Have Been More Than a Tech Adviser to MobileCoin

Edit update: god the more I think about this the more I think that this is just a terrible terrible move by Signal.
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Old 13th April 2021, 21:05     #630
Ab
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ab
Bitcoin and Ether both just hit ATH. WTF
and again
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Old 13th April 2021, 21:25     #631
kRAdENkO
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ab
and again
And Ripple/cripple/XRP up 52% this week. wow.
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Old 14th April 2021, 09:39     #632
Ab
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... and again overnight...
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Old 14th April 2021, 14:39     #633
crocos
 
Pump & dump you think?
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Old 14th April 2021, 15:58     #634
Ab
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Who the fuck knows these days. Ajax has me cynical about Tether print runs, Binance is about to burn a percentage of BNB, Coinbase is listing, Ethereum has the Berlin update, Ripple is still in court. If I were day trading I’d be losing my mind.
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Old 16th April 2021, 09:37     #635
Nich
 
Rothschild is a hodling BNB & ADA...

https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/#/q...ddt=2021-04-15

jks just BTC & ETH
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Old 16th April 2021, 12:58     #636
Ab
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I made a bit of money out of ADA when it listed on Coinbase, but the community is just mental. They're cultists.
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Old 16th April 2021, 20:40     #637
blynk
 
BTC with a little dip, eth with a little dip, xrp with a little dip.

Why has my portfolio gone up.
WTF is doge doing. Lol
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Old 16th April 2021, 21:15     #638
blynk
 
Oh, I see Elon made a random post yesterday. That will be why
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Old 17th April 2021, 12:13     #639
Ab
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This all makes crypto look super credible and not at all deserving of government regulation.
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Old 17th April 2021, 14:42     #640
Lightspeed
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ab
This all makes crypto look super credible and not at all deserving of government regulation.
To what end?
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