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No. Coinbase has a $15k / week withdrawal limit and charges a 1% fee. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I started mining Bitcoin years ago. I currently have around $9 million worth at today's price. I'd like to cash out. Can anyone provide some info on the best way to do so? Coinbase has a $15k / week withdrawal limit and charges a 1% fee. I'd be nervous to do business with some of the offshore exchanges on anything but a piecemeal basis for fear of getting Goxxed. I'm open minded though so if you have better options then go ahead and post them. |
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The concept of bitcoin is highly suspicious, at least it is to me. You have a program that "mines" for bitcoins, when your program finds a bitcoin, you get to keep it or trade it. Imagine replacing the "virtual" mine that "someone" created with a real mine. Lets say you had an island with 10 acres of land, and you had 21 million metal coins in the form of laundromat tokens, and you called each one a thingcoin. Then, you buried each thingcoin in your ten acres of land. First you dig super deep, drop some coins, then bury it. And you drop more coins, and bury them, and you keep on doing that until all 21 million coins are buried. Then, tell people to mine the coins, physically. As people find the thingcoin, they get to keep it or trade it. Its easy at first, and gets harder as the easier ones are found. Now, you have people trading laundromat tokens/thingcoins and the valuation is rising up to where one laundromat token is worth $1,800 US Dollars. That's bitcoin. Now, the thing I think is the catcher in this scheme is that the creator of the bitcoin project has the ability to create more bitcoins just by running a program and it just generates it and puts it in his wallet. Now going back to my laundromat token mine, lets say the value of the thingcoins reaches $2,000 US dollars. The creator of the thingcoin happens to have 10 million thingcoins he kept outside the island and in a safe in the living room of a house in New Jersey. He can just sell the 10 million thingcoins on the market in exchange for as many US dollars as possible, thus draining all thingcoin banks. View Quote |
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Ok, well how about we actually have that intellectual discussion? The problem is that you are trying to view it from the perspective of being another type of currency and therefore it's usefulness depends on how it behaves as a currency in a traditional sense. That's the reason why you are having trouble with it. The best way to really describe cryptocurrency is as an internet protocol for currency. Email, FTP, and The World Wide Web are all applications that operate on the internet. Cryptocurrency is just another one of those things but instead of sending messages, files, or webpages, it is designed for sending money on the internet. You have to think of Bitcoin as a transport mechanism for currency and not currency itself. I don't see Bitcoin as a replacement for traditional currency but rather something that very much goes hand in hand with it. The analogy would be that you can send a message via a physical letter or you can send it via email. The message is the same, but the method of delivering it is different. The other thing people have to understand is that cryptocurrency is a new concept. It may have characteristics of many other long established tools but it's not going to necessarily fit into any of those particular molds perfectly. It's the mix of things that it can do that make it interesting. Yes, you can send money over the internet using PayPal but can you seamlessly transition between currency types instantly in a nearly fee free manner? Yes, you can use a bank to store value but can you put that value in a brain wallet beyond the reach of any individual or organization and retrieve it simply by remembering an alphanumeric sequence? Yes, you can buy something person to person with a check but can you ever have near 100% certainty on the spot that the check won't bounce or isn't fraudulent? Bitcoin is not the best at everything but it has some interesting features that are both useful now (as described above) and could be built upon in the future for applications that have not yet been envisioned. As far as the fluctuations go, it matters less than you think. You don't actually have to hold Bitcoin for any significant period of time to use it. Retailers who accept bitcoin can (and do) have it automatically converted to cash the second it hits their account so that they never carry exchange rate risk. Individual users can be in and out of Bitcoin only as long as they need to be to facilitate the transaction. Holding on to significant amounts of Bitcoin long term is only for speculators, it is not essential to the usefulness of Bitcoin. The one thing I will grant is that it's still at a very immature stage and it's got a long way to go but you can't ignore the 8 years of history already behind it and the numerous stress tests it's survived to get to this point. The bubble has been popped several times now and it's still here. Any reasonable person has to admit there is more to it than just tulip mania at this point even if it does eventually fail. View Quote The point I was making is that all of these threads I have seen for years could have been written by an automated Insist-O-Bot program and nobody would know the difference. These discussions consist of people insisting on stuff. Insisting that it's good, insisting that it's bad, angrily insisting that everyone else is wrong. Like this whole thread and all the 100,000,000 bitcoin threads that preceded it. |
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I appreciate the explanation. The point I was making is that all of these threads I have seen for years could have been written by an automated Insist-O-Bot program and nobody would know the difference. These discussions consist of people insisting on stuff. Insisting that it's good, insisting that it's bad, angrily insisting that everyone else is wrong. Like this whole thread and all the 100,000,000 bitcoin threads that preceded it. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Ok, well how about we actually have that intellectual discussion? The problem is that you are trying to view it from the perspective of being another type of currency and therefore it's usefulness depends on how it behaves as a currency in a traditional sense. That's the reason why you are having trouble with it. The best way to really describe cryptocurrency is as an internet protocol for currency. Email, FTP, and The World Wide Web are all applications that operate on the internet. Cryptocurrency is just another one of those things but instead of sending messages, files, or webpages, it is designed for sending money on the internet. You have to think of Bitcoin as a transport mechanism for currency and not currency itself. I don't see Bitcoin as a replacement for traditional currency but rather something that very much goes hand in hand with it. The analogy would be that you can send a message via a physical letter or you can send it via email. The message is the same, but the method of delivering it is different. The other thing people have to understand is that cryptocurrency is a new concept. It may have characteristics of many other long established tools but it's not going to necessarily fit into any of those particular molds perfectly. It's the mix of things that it can do that make it interesting. Yes, you can send money over the internet using PayPal but can you seamlessly transition between currency types instantly in a nearly fee free manner? Yes, you can use a bank to store value but can you put that value in a brain wallet beyond the reach of any individual or organization and retrieve it simply by remembering an alphanumeric sequence? Yes, you can buy something person to person with a check but can you ever have near 100% certainty on the spot that the check won't bounce or isn't fraudulent? Bitcoin is not the best at everything but it has some interesting features that are both useful now (as described above) and could be built upon in the future for applications that have not yet been envisioned. As far as the fluctuations go, it matters less than you think. You don't actually have to hold Bitcoin for any significant period of time to use it. Retailers who accept bitcoin can (and do) have it automatically converted to cash the second it hits their account so that they never carry exchange rate risk. Individual users can be in and out of Bitcoin only as long as they need to be to facilitate the transaction. Holding on to significant amounts of Bitcoin long term is only for speculators, it is not essential to the usefulness of Bitcoin. The one thing I will grant is that it's still at a very immature stage and it's got a long way to go but you can't ignore the 8 years of history already behind it and the numerous stress tests it's survived to get to this point. The bubble has been popped several times now and it's still here. Any reasonable person has to admit there is more to it than just tulip mania at this point even if it does eventually fail. The point I was making is that all of these threads I have seen for years could have been written by an automated Insist-O-Bot program and nobody would know the difference. These discussions consist of people insisting on stuff. Insisting that it's good, insisting that it's bad, angrily insisting that everyone else is wrong. Like this whole thread and all the 100,000,000 bitcoin threads that preceded it. |
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You can request a limit increase from what I understand as long as you can meet some of their documentation requirements. A 1% fee would not dissuade me from working with a reputable company. I'd be nervous to do business with some of the offshore exchanges on anything but a piecemeal basis for fear of getting Goxxed. I'm open minded though so if you have better options then go ahead and post them. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I started mining Bitcoin years ago. I currently have around $9 million worth at today's price. I'd like to cash out. Can anyone provide some info on the best way to do so? Coinbase has a $15k / week withdrawal limit and charges a 1% fee. I'd be nervous to do business with some of the offshore exchanges on anything but a piecemeal basis for fear of getting Goxxed. I'm open minded though so if you have better options then go ahead and post them. |
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This is the big part you're missing - it's mathematically impossible for anyone to create more Bitcoin outside the mining reward. View Quote Think of a datasource (the mine in bitcoin world) as a database with billions of records but only 21 million are the magic records (bitcoins). Each one has a unique key. You as the creator of that database can format the key so you you know what the key values are going to be. So with bitcoin, you have this "value" to search for which results in a bitcoin. There is this virtual world where all these values are mined. But if you created that virtual world, you could alter the program so 1. no one ever finds a bitcoin. 2. everyone finds a bitcoin every 5 seconds. 3. only certain miners are able to find bitcoins and everyone else can't, and 4. you can generate bitcoins on the fly. The developers have the backdoor key. They can make you think that its mathematically impossible, just like in a video game. I can't have endless life option. It's impossible. That's true. I can't. But the developer who created the back door, knows how to. |
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I'll stick with greenbacks, gold, and silver. People are stupid with this cyber, made-up crap. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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I bought a 1000 when they were absolute trash novelties. I'll cash in at some point.
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The creators of Bitcoin and everything that has to do with it, can create how it works "from the beginning" when they designed it. You can create Call of Duty with an endless life option if you wish. How? Create a cheat code. Who created the cheat code? The developers. Why? For the software testers. Why is it in the code? Someone forgot to remove it before it got to the production version. It's a back door. Think of a datasource (the mine in bitcoin world) as a database with billions of records but only 21 million are the magic records (bitcoins). Each one has a unique key. You as the creator of that database can format the key so you you know what the key values are going to be. So with bitcoin, you have this "value" to search for which results in a bitcoin. There is this virtual world where all these values are mined. But if you created that virtual world, you could alter the program so 1. no one ever finds a bitcoin. 2. everyone finds a bitcoin every 5 seconds. 3. only certain miners are able to find bitcoins and everyone else can't, and 4. you can generate bitcoins on the fly. The developers have the backdoor key. They can make you think that its mathematically impossible, just like in a video game. I can't have endless life option. It's impossible. That's true. I can't. But the developer who created the back door, knows how to. View Quote |
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The creators of Bitcoin and everything that has to do with it, can create how it works "from the beginning" when they designed it. You can create Call of Duty with an endless life option if you wish. How? Create a cheat code. Who created the cheat code? The developers. Why? For the software testers. Why is it in the code? Someone forgot to remove it before it got to the production version. It's a back door. Think of a datasource (the mine in bitcoin world) as a database with billions of records but only 21 million are the magic records (bitcoins). Each one has a unique key. You as the creator of that database can format the key so you you know what the key values are going to be. So with bitcoin, you have this "value" to search for which results in a bitcoin. There is this virtual world where all these values are mined. But if you created that virtual world, you could alter the program so 1. no one ever finds a bitcoin. 2. everyone finds a bitcoin every 5 seconds. 3. only certain miners are able to find bitcoins and everyone else can't, and 4. you can generate bitcoins on the fly. The developers have the backdoor key. They can make you think that its mathematically impossible, just like in a video game. I can't have endless life option. It's impossible. That's true. I can't. But the developer who created the back door, knows how to. |
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you didn't fucking invest wisely, you got lucky, just like the degenerate gamblers at vegas that "wins" every one in a while. You guessed correctly, thats it. If you would have lost 10K you sure as shit wouldn't be posing about it now would you. "investing in bitcoin" is dumber than "investing in gold" View Quote |
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The creators of Bitcoin and everything that has to do with it, can create how it works "from the beginning" when they designed it. You can create Call of Duty with an endless life option if you wish. How? Create a cheat code. Who created the cheat code? The developers. Why? For the software testers. Why is it in the code? Someone forgot to remove it before it got to the production version. It's a back door. Think of a datasource (the mine in bitcoin world) as a database with billions of records but only 21 million are the magic records (bitcoins). Each one has a unique key. You as the creator of that database can format the key so you you know what the key values are going to be. So with bitcoin, you have this "value" to search for which results in a bitcoin. There is this virtual world where all these values are mined. But if you created that virtual world, you could alter the program so 1. no one ever finds a bitcoin. 2. everyone finds a bitcoin every 5 seconds. 3. only certain miners are able to find bitcoins and everyone else can't, and 4. you can generate bitcoins on the fly. The developers have the backdoor key. They can make you think that its mathematically impossible, just like in a video game. I can't have endless life option. It's impossible. That's true. I can't. But the developer who created the back door, knows how to. View Quote |
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Whats arfcom thoughts on Ether? View Quote Large announcements in the next 1-2 weeks on new companies joining the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. Beyond that, the tech is solid and it's the first blockchain post-Bitcoin that actually brought new and worthwhile innovations (smart contracts -- i.e. programmability on top of the blockchain) to the table. |
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The creators of Bitcoin and everything that has to do with it, can create how it works "from the beginning" when they designed it. You can create Call of Duty with an endless life option if you wish. How? Create a cheat code. Who created the cheat code? The developers. Why? For the software testers. Why is it in the code? Someone forgot to remove it before it got to the production version. It's a back door. Think of a datasource (the mine in bitcoin world) as a database with billions of records but only 21 million are the magic records (bitcoins). Each one has a unique key. You as the creator of that database can format the key so you you know what the key values are going to be. So with bitcoin, you have this "value" to search for which results in a bitcoin. There is this virtual world where all these values are mined. But if you created that virtual world, you could alter the program so 1. no one ever finds a bitcoin. 2. everyone finds a bitcoin every 5 seconds. 3. only certain miners are able to find bitcoins and everyone else can't, and 4. you can generate bitcoins on the fly. The developers have the backdoor key. They can make you think that its mathematically impossible, just like in a video game. I can't have endless life option. It's impossible. That's true. I can't. But the developer who created the back door, knows how to. View Quote |
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The creators of Bitcoin and everything that has to do with it, can create how it works "from the beginning" when they designed it. You can create Call of Duty with an endless life option if you wish. How? Create a cheat code. Who created the cheat code? The developers. Why? For the software testers. Why is it in the code? Someone forgot to remove it before it got to the production version. It's a back door. Think of a datasource (the mine in bitcoin world) as a database with billions of records but only 21 million are the magic records (bitcoins). Each one has a unique key. You as the creator of that database can format the key so you you know what the key values are going to be. So with bitcoin, you have this "value" to search for which results in a bitcoin. There is this virtual world where all these values are mined. But if you created that virtual world, you could alter the program so 1. no one ever finds a bitcoin. 2. everyone finds a bitcoin every 5 seconds. 3. only certain miners are able to find bitcoins and everyone else can't, and 4. you can generate bitcoins on the fly. The developers have the backdoor key. They can make you think that its mathematically impossible, just like in a video game. I can't have endless life option. It's impossible. That's true. I can't. But the developer who created the back door, knows how to. View Quote |
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Does anyone have thoughts on Ripple? It seems like it has a following and the Japanese banks are getting behind it.
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100% buy right now. Large announcements in the next 1-2 weeks on new companies joining the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. Beyond that, the tech is solid and it's the first blockchain post-Bitcoin that actually brought new and worthwhile innovations (smart contracts -- i.e. programmability on top of the blockchain) to the table. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Whats arfcom thoughts on Ether? Large announcements in the next 1-2 weeks on new companies joining the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. Beyond that, the tech is solid and it's the first blockchain post-Bitcoin that actually brought new and worthwhile innovations (smart contracts -- i.e. programmability on top of the blockchain) to the table. |
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Think of a datasource (the mine in bitcoin world) as a database with billions of records but only 21 million are the magic records (bitcoins). Each one has a unique key. You as the creator of that database can format the key so you you know what the key values are going to be. So with bitcoin, you have this "value" to search for which results in a bitcoin. There is this virtual world where all these values are mined. But if you created that virtual world, you could alter the program so 1. no one ever finds a bitcoin. 2. everyone finds a bitcoin every 5 seconds. 3. only certain miners are able to find bitcoins and everyone else can't, and 4. you can generate bitcoins on the fly. The developers have the backdoor key. They can make you think that its mathematically impossible, just like in a video game. I can't have endless life option. It's impossible. That's true. I can't. But the developer who created the back door, knows how to. View Quote This is what I do for a living - I have audited the Bitcoin Core codebase; I have submitted patches to it, and I have written alternate implementations of several portions of it (blockchain parsing, transaction generation and validation, a multi-coin mining pool command & control protocol, etc.). I know what the fuck I'm talking about here, and you don't. Pretty much every part of what you've said above is grossly incorrect. You are completely ignorant of what Bitcoin is and how it works. Just stop. You're embarrassing yourself. I'm done being nice about this. |
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Whats arfcom thoughts on Ether? View Quote The first is that the creator, Vitalik Buterin, is what Arfcom would consider the classic Autist. He's the most intelligent developer I've ever seen, bar none, but his ability to grow the community around Etherium that it needs to succeed is lacking. I don't trust that he won't make a terrible decision because it makes sense technically but damages the coin's reputation. The second is that Etherium's central purpose - encoding contracts using formal logic - is something that I think some people believe they want, but no one actually wants. Consider that a judge's job is often about the intent of the parties and determining if one of them is acting in bad faith. With an Etherium contract, intent is irrelevant. If you write a contract with buggy logic (and no code can be written that is free of bugs), you're betting every penny you put behind the contract that it cannot be exploited. That's terrifying. |
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I have two reasons why I'm not in the Etherium camp. The first is that the creator, Vitalik Buterin, is what Arfcom would consider the classic Autist. He's the most intelligent developer I've ever seen, bar none, but his ability to grow the community around Etherium that it needs to succeed is lacking. I don't trust that he won't make a terrible decision because it makes sense technically but damages the coin's reputation. The second is that Etherium's central purpose - encoding contracts using formal logic - is something that I think some people believe they want, but no one actually wants. Consider that a judge's job is often about the intent of the parties and determining if one of them is acting in bad faith. With an Etherium contract, intent is irrelevant. If you write a contract with buggy logic (and no code can be written that is free of bugs), you're betting every penny you put behind the contract that it cannot be exploited. That's terrifying. View Quote |
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I've been calmly and rationally responding to threads about Bitcoin for the past six years on this forum, and the same people keep repeating the same ignorant assertions over and over. This is what I do for a living - I have audited the Bitcoin Core codebase; I have submitted patches to it, and I have written alternate implementations of several portions of it (blockchain parsing, transaction generation and validation, a multi-coin mining pool command & control protocol, etc.). I know what the fuck I'm talking about here, and you don't. Pretty much every part of what you've said above is grossly incorrect. You are completely ignorant of what Bitcoin is and how it works. Just stop. You're embarrassing yourself. I'm done being nice about this. View Quote |
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I have two reasons why I'm not in the Etherium camp. The first is that the creator, Vitalik Buterin, is what Arfcom would consider the classic Autist. He's the most intelligent developer I've ever seen, bar none, but his ability to grow the community around Etherium that it needs to succeed is lacking. I don't trust that he won't make a terrible decision because it makes sense technically but damages the coin's reputation. The second is that Etherium's central purpose - encoding contracts using formal logic - is something that I think some people believe they want, but no one actually wants. Consider that a judge's job is often about the intent of the parties and determining if one of them is acting in bad faith. With an Etherium contract, intent is irrelevant. If you write a contract with buggy logic (and no code can be written that is free of bugs), you're betting every penny you put behind the contract that it cannot be exploited. That's terrifying. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Whats arfcom thoughts on Ether? The first is that the creator, Vitalik Buterin, is what Arfcom would consider the classic Autist. He's the most intelligent developer I've ever seen, bar none, but his ability to grow the community around Etherium that it needs to succeed is lacking. I don't trust that he won't make a terrible decision because it makes sense technically but damages the coin's reputation. The second is that Etherium's central purpose - encoding contracts using formal logic - is something that I think some people believe they want, but no one actually wants. Consider that a judge's job is often about the intent of the parties and determining if one of them is acting in bad faith. With an Etherium contract, intent is irrelevant. If you write a contract with buggy logic (and no code can be written that is free of bugs), you're betting every penny you put behind the contract that it cannot be exploited. That's terrifying. |
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you didn't fucking invest wisely, you got lucky, just like the degenerate gamblers at vegas that "wins" every one in a while. You guessed correctly, thats it. If you would have lost 10K you sure as shit wouldn't be posing about it now would you. "investing in bitcoin" is dumber than "investing in gold" View Quote |
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Spoken like a true Bitcoin maximalist. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I have two reasons why I'm not in the Etherium camp. The first is that the creator, Vitalik Buterin, is what Arfcom would consider the classic Autist. He's the most intelligent developer I've ever seen, bar none, but his ability to grow the community around Etherium that it needs to succeed is lacking. I don't trust that he won't make a terrible decision because it makes sense technically but damages the coin's reputation. The second is that Etherium's central purpose - encoding contracts using formal logic - is something that I think some people believe they want, but no one actually wants. Consider that a judge's job is often about the intent of the parties and determining if one of them is acting in bad faith. With an Etherium contract, intent is irrelevant. If you write a contract with buggy logic (and no code can be written that is free of bugs), you're betting every penny you put behind the contract that it cannot be exploited. That's terrifying. |
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100% buy right now. Large announcements in the next 1-2 weeks on new companies joining the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. Beyond that, the tech is solid and it's the first blockchain post-Bitcoin that actually brought new and worthwhile innovations (smart contracts -- i.e. programmability on top of the blockchain) to the table. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I researched it quite a bit back in 2012. Tried convincing my dad to diversify 1% of his portfolio into cryptocurrencies. He actually yelled and screamed, threatened to kick me out of the house when I brought up the rational arguments posted here to the ignorant ones; which come from nothing more than decades of institutional conditioning under the USD. Its amazing how people can get violently emotional over something that shakes their understanding of the status quo. I wanted to buy my self but I was a poor college kid and unable to do so. Litecoin was affordable but I didn't fully understand purchasing.
Now I have some cash to play with. I've been gearing back up on my stock market research, almost completely forgot about crypto. I'm thinking now I should restart the gears on understanding this market once more. Lots has come about and changedn that I need to catch up on. I used to get a lot of my research links for thedailypaul.com (now gone). Currently zerohedge is useful; anyone have any good sources for research points? I'm looking to invest 1000 FRN's. I might just play a full spread on some altcoins instead of mess with stocks. What are good strategies? |
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Whats arfcom thoughts on Ether? Large announcements in the next 1-2 weeks on new companies joining the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. Beyond that, the tech is solid and it's the first blockchain post-Bitcoin that actually brought new and worthwhile innovations (smart contracts -- i.e. programmability on top of the blockchain) to the table. It's cheaper to just purchase ETH directly now. Even back then it would have been the better play (courtesy of hindsight). But, things were also a lot more risky back then, so I at least had the hardware to sell off if things completely tanked. |
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so for those of you who are experienced trading/buying/selling/withdrawing.. tell me if this is how it works:
Lets say I bought 10,000 litecoins 5 years ago. I sat on those coins for a few years and decide I want to cash them out today, all $240,000 usd worth. I make an account at an exchange, say poloniex. They welcome my 10,000 LTC deposit with open arms, and I promptly exchange them for bitcoins. Now I have $240,000 worth of BTC, roughly 137 of them. I want to transfer to coinbase so I can convert to usd. Now what? poloniex has a withdraw limit of $2,000 usd per day though. So I'm stuck doing $2000 withdraws for the next 120 days? Ok say I verify now it's 10k per day. Now it'll only take me 24 days of withdrawls at 10k. All the while the price is fluctuating like mad. So it finally gets to coinbase. Now I have to verify some more and say I'm at 25k per withdrawl. I still have to wait another 10 days of 25k withdrawls to get my money out of coinbase. Is this really how it works? How in the fuck does anyone get any money this way? |
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so for those of you who are experienced trading/buying/selling/withdrawing.. tell me if this is how it works: Lets say I bought 10,000 litecoins 5 years ago. I sat on those coins for a few years and decide I want to cash them out today, all $240,000 usd worth. I make an account at an exchange, say poloniex. They welcome my 10,000 LTC deposit with open arms, and I promptly exchange them for bitcoins. Now I have $240,000 worth of BTC, roughly 137 of them. I want to transfer to coinbase so I can convert to usd. Now what? poloniex has a withdraw limit of $2,000 usd per day though. So I'm stuck doing $2000 withdraws for the next 120 days? Ok say I verify now it's 10k per day. Now it'll only take me 24 days of withdrawls at 10k. All the while the price is fluctuating like mad. So it finally gets to coinbase. Now I have to verify some more and say I'm at 25k per withdrawl. I still have to wait another 10 days of 25k withdrawls to get my money out of coinbase. Is this really how it works? How in the fuck does anyone get any money this way? View Quote Most people aren't moving that much at a time, so the 25k daily limit isn't an issue. |
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I believe in the arfcom rule of investment:
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Bitcon (call it what it is) has no long term value and has repeatedly lost 80% of its value every 2 years since is popularity.
Bitcon is the next silver, only worse. Silver is a suckers bet... Bitcon can make you broke. |
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Bitcon (call it what it is) has no long term value and has repeatedly lost 80% of its value every 2 years since is popularity. Bitcon is the next silver, only worse. Silver is a suckers bet... Bitcon can make you broke. View Quote I remember when "dollar parity" was the bullish dream. We just passed "gold parity". |
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I have two reasons why I'm not in the Etherium camp. The first is that the creator, Vitalik Buterin, is what Arfcom would consider the classic Autist. He's the most intelligent developer I've ever seen, bar none, but his ability to grow the community around Etherium that it needs to succeed is lacking. I don't trust that he won't make a terrible decision because it makes sense technically but damages the coin's reputation. The second is that Etherium's central purpose - encoding contracts using formal logic - is something that I think some people believe they want, but no one actually wants. Consider that a judge's job is often about the intent of the parties and determining if one of them is acting in bad faith. With an Etherium contract, intent is irrelevant. If you write a contract with buggy logic (and no code can be written that is free of bugs), you're betting every penny you put behind the contract that it cannot be exploited. That's terrifying. View Quote |
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Nice post. What are your thoughts on Ripple (XRP)? It looks like it's climbed into the number 2 spot over the last few days. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I have two reasons why I'm not in the Etherium camp. The first is that the creator, Vitalik Buterin, is what Arfcom would consider the classic Autist. He's the most intelligent developer I've ever seen, bar none, but his ability to grow the community around Etherium that it needs to succeed is lacking. I don't trust that he won't make a terrible decision because it makes sense technically but damages the coin's reputation. The second is that Etherium's central purpose - encoding contracts using formal logic - is something that I think some people believe they want, but no one actually wants. Consider that a judge's job is often about the intent of the parties and determining if one of them is acting in bad faith. With an Etherium contract, intent is irrelevant. If you write a contract with buggy logic (and no code can be written that is free of bugs), you're betting every penny you put behind the contract that it cannot be exploited. That's terrifying. |
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I researched it quite a bit back in 2012. Tried convincing my dad to diversify 1% of his portfolio into cryptocurrencies. He actually yelled and screamed, threatened to kick me out of the house when I brought up the rational arguments posted here to the ignorant ones; which come from nothing more than decades of institutional conditioning under the USD. Its amazing how people can get violently emotional over something that shakes their understanding of the status quo. I wanted to buy my self but I was a poor college kid and unable to do so. Litecoin was affordable but I didn't fully understand purchasing. Now I have some cash to play with. I've been gearing back up on my stock market research, almost completely forgot about crypto. I'm thinking now I should restart the gears on understanding this market once more. Lots has come about and changedn that I need to catch up on. I used to get a lot of my research links for thedailypaul.com (now gone). Currently zerohedge is useful; anyone have any good sources for research points? I'm looking to invest 1000 FRN's. I might just play a full spread on some altcoins instead of mess with stocks. What are good strategies? View Quote what you do is make a speculation that sounds reasonable. Like so: "The Chinese are using a lot of resources, it would be wise to invest in lumber companies." Then you insist on the speculation over and over and over again. Then you say that people who don't agree are closed-minded or pussies. Then if your baseless speculation pans out, you declare yourself to be King of All Investors If your baseless speculation doesn't pan out, you ignore it and move on to the next one. Or you can add a modifier to your theory: "Well, investing in lumber was a great idea, but the Chinese overheated their currency and so it's best to wait until next year before the stocks really start to move." I know tons of people who live in 3 bedroom tract houses who think of themselves as mastermind investors. They're like a guy who bangs away at a tin can for 200 rounds, then he finally hits it and declares himself to be a master marksman. The index 500 fund outperforms 85% of all private investors and 75% of all managed funds. That is remarkable when you consider that a portfolio made of 15 different random stocks will start to mirror the index statistically. The reason that the 500 fund does better is because it never makes the classic investing mistakes: it doesn't time the market, it is properly diversified, it doesn't jump on the bandwagon, it doesn't get nervous and sell everything, etc. imagine a race on a racetrack where 75% of the piloted racecars were outperformed by a bus that makes slow loops around the track on autopilot not exactly an impressive display of race car driving, is it? that's the reality. |
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I vaguely remember researching it several years ago and deciding that the company that was pushing it had way too much control over it for my liking. View Quote |
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