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They are the biggest exchange now, they gotta look like they care and tried to help so they can attract all the ones who need a new home

You still dont get crypto dinamics, is not about the tech, is about how much money you can extract from people trusting you

What really amazes me about the whole thing is that after celcius and now ftx, tether manages to have peoples' trust and manages to have a bunch of apologists, to the point that in this whole threat there is 0 mention about usdt or tether, while it should at least be mentioned or discussed in here, even tho it has no direct relation, they are the org with most obscure and shady things about them, even the whole business of binance was built around their USDT pairs

it's also quite funny how Binance now acts as a total legit org that has not wrongdoings when they have shown no proof of their BUSD backings and they built their empire on top of tether

Before the whole debate of electronic vote being safe or not, please considere the following:

Not all countries work the same, what you perceive as corruption in the US is nowhere near of the reality of corruption in southamerica, a place where corruption is not only a word or a definition but it's literally the force that move things, corruption is pretty much already part of the culture.

So please, don't put your own experiences from the US/1st world countries in practice here, trying to explain how things work in 3rd world countries when you are not fully aware of the level of corruption in brazil. If brazilians themselves are talking about the huge window oportunity for corruption is because they know their culture, they know their problems and they know exactly how things work in their very own coutry.

PHP its seen only as something from the dark ages when u using VC money and the more new tech u mention to them more money u get, not all the web is based on US and able to pay 5k monthly AWS bills just to even set up a silly enviroment to test stuff/learn or start launching a side/new project

that already exist in the whole Kpop scene in South Korea

Im not really sure why It has not expended to other regions of the world

UEFA/FIFA has managed to deal really good with scalping for soccer matches.

Is just matter of time.

I dont live in the US, yet I have bank accounts, credit cards, services and utilities paid (Google fi, etc) with US address, can I access?

Wise bans venezuelans, cubans

Constatly closes central americans account, perma holding with no support answers to colombians

Instant closes latin accounts of people who have emigrated to the US ilegally/refugees/asylum

Has no chile/peru outgoing transactions

Bolivia doesnt exist in wise

It seems like they are actually making an effort no serve latin america or kick out the latin america users.

So much for 'borderless accounts'

Aparently borderless for them means people living in SF sending money to people in NY

Im sorry for laughing at your comment, it was fun to read and now Im wondering how much does it affect on general population, surely chinese population must have a huge % of people with ulcers at the very least

My family is using a directv antena bought in colombia and paying service in colombia, in Venezuela, so I'm pretty sure the market will try to do that as soon as they lunch in colombia

Comming from a country where nucler power is nowhere near the radar, what is the case against nuclear power? it seems such a nobrainer for me to use

> My opinion is that players should spend time in games because they consider it to be fun rather than to be the best for the sake of being the best, and the in-game whales who spend the most $ on a game shouldn't be overpowered to the point where free to play players should feel they need to spend money to win.

this is very debateable

all games have (egaming and regular sports) have a competitive level, you always start playing for the fun, then you either become bored or you realize that you are good and want to start playing vs people with your same or more level of skill/ability, and thats where monetization comes.

You talk about whales being able to pay for the best cards/items/etc in a game, but those usually get quickly demoralized as having overpowered stats/items/etc doesn't mean you can enter competitive skill inmediatly, it's easy for people in those games ti quickly identificate players who bought their way to the pro scene of the game, usually called pay to win players and defeat them

I see it as something that needs to happen, in the past I've been the one in the other side of the trade, mostly in MMORPGS, where I was able to farm/craft/bot for really rare/unique items and sell to those willing to pay thousands of USD for them and yet, beat them in regular matches/pvp/etc, so it somehow encouraged the economy inside the game, and kept actual pro gamers happy, kept devs happy, kept the general population happy, the only ones really unhappy were the ones that paid for the items and got sad when it really didnt help

of course, I understand that it should be regulated and not to make it fully stupid, but well, at the end, all of this things keep people invested and interested in games, otherwise, they would generally just die.

This is an super exaggerated number to attributte only to sactions, our TOTALITARIAN REGIME actions killed those people and the reality is that sanctions just helped them

Before the sanctions, (that started in 2015), we had already huge economical problems (and problems of kinds), mainly due the goverment focusing on making one of the greatest corruption acts of all times [1] and focusing on systematically making the venezuelan population poorer, sicker, hungrier and dependant, in order to keep the power and keep stealing money.

The thing is, sanctions did absolutelly NOTHING in favour of venezuelans citizens and their freedom, in fact, they made it easier for the Venezuelan totalitarian regime to justificate their acts (forcing hunger, violating human rights [2], etc) and made it stronger in a way that since our country got alienated, we got more support from other totalirian regimes such as China and Rusia.

So hurting the ordinary people, as that post say, was just putting an extra nail to the coffin of every venezuelan that died of hunger and sickness.. Was just encouraging more people to fight for freedoom with rocks vs guns and died or got detained [3] [4]...

All for nothing, and 6 years later, over 300billions usd stolen later, 2.000.000% hyperinflation later, 7.000.000 venezuelans gone later, over 400 people killed in protest later, over 5,000 political detentions later, the govt is still there and... blocking venezuelans from using stripe, transferwise, etc, is going to help us haha ..

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Venezuela

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Venezuela

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_protests_(2014%E2%8...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_protests

> Disrupting the everyday lives of Russian citizens

No it doesnt because is not a democratic country, why is it so hard for people like you to understand that things work very different in a democratic country than in non-democratic country?

Do you know what happens when you are in a country that doesnt respect human rights and you go to "protest"?

Do you know what happens when you, as a citizen with no power, try to fight a military regime?

Do you really think, russians right now are enjoyinig this and will somehow march to get Putin's head because their quality of life will be miserable now? no, they wont, because the moment they start doing it, they will be repressed and killed, and there you will be, super happy sharing your support posts to those people

the worst part of all of these, is that you don't realize that one of the goals of putin is to undermine his own state, so he can keep power for the years to come, and here you are, helping him :), good job at making every russian life even worse.

As a non-russia customer, I am inmediatly moving all of my domains I host at namecheap to another provider.

this kind of stuff from private companies are useless, and downvote me all you want, they do not work, and dont come to lecture me from your SF desk while im living in a sanctioned country, how did the 2017-2019 sactions for Venezuela worked? Everyone in the world moved on and even forgot about our country, and the comunist regime is more alive than ever, all the sactions just fucked the regular people like me, for example my gf is still explaining after 2 years to those idiots at transferwise support that her money sitting on their super awesome "no borders account" has nothing to do with the venezuelan govt and that it's from her US based remote job but they just decided to steal over 22k USD from her solely based on her citizenship. Or should I tell you how stripe completely killed my friend's startup by suspending their accout because they had venezuelans IPs and venezuelan citizenship and aparently they aren't able to check that they (normal citizens) arent the people on the OFAC list, (like 5 names LOL)

So yeah, dont mind me, get your likes, get all the nice advertisiment you want while prettending you are helping and is nothing more than a PR move while messing with normal people with normal lives, struggling everyday but you won't get me as a customer anymore, we are all suppose to be professionals at our tech jobs.

Everytime news like this comes up, I'm more certain that if we ever find life outside our planet, it would take years to be announced

What's there to explain?

Tether manipulation of 'prices goes up', leads to fomo, leads to cashout of big players, leads to bagholding from retail who has no other option than joining the crypto cult to try to fomo others and move price back up

It's pretty obvious

.bing tld is theirs, is not available for the public

and even if it was available to register, they can reserve words for their own usage before launching it

and if you mean, someone else actually doing the paperwork to get the .bing tld for them, it wouldnt ever be approved.

go amex!

now seriously, his "web3" bet is naive, how much has he invested in silly crypto companies?

I didnt read much of the thread but I will assume that most of the people here is aware of how every single NFT game is just a ponzi.

But I've lived myself, what the author mentions as a "way to lift people out of poverty.", from the era before NFT or "play to earn" games existed.

I come from Venezuela, a full 3rd world country and I was "lucky" to play an MMO (lineage 2) during my young days and somehow I was good at it, i invested so many hours on it and managed to get into top tier guilds and worlds 1st event, and somehow, my character and my items were worth thousands of dollars in the market, and suddenly i went from being a 14 y.o boy sitting in pc, to bringing more money in 1 week to my family, than my entire family together for 1 year.

I could understand that, while all other people on the game were playing for fun, it became my job, a job that actually got me and my family out of poverty...

At the time (2007) there were a lot of chinese "farmers", and people used to make fun of them, not only fun but the rest of the players were blantantly denigrating towards them, at 1st I didnt understand but once that I became a non-chinese farmer, I realized how It was a really good thing to do.

Eventually I started botting, I bought more PCs and had a full army of bots, I kept making more and more money, and it helped me and my family leave the country and pretty much bought a house, a car and paid my family expenses for like 4 years out of lineage 2 adena farming.

Also, scripting the bots pretty much got me to learn programming and english, so what I am now it's pretty much the result of some guy from chicago offering me 20$ in paypal for an item i had in my inventory that i got it while killing a monster, it all started there, that litle forbidden transaction in an MMO, changed my life completely

So, even tho it was like a job for me, I never saw it like a job, even tho it gave me a lot of money, i never got into the game as a way to get money, i was just a young kid trying to have some fun..

But now, I get really sad everytime I see those ponzi NFT games, that only sell the idea of getting rich, and I get even more sad when I see tons of venezuelan youngsters fall for it, honestly, they are just playing with their desperation.

Felices Fiestas para todos en HN!

Im not holding anyone responsible, im just mentioning that, it's obvious that a lot of the money flowing into crypto its not legal, this sets a clear example of how easy stolen money was washed using coinbase without much problems, its a clear indicator for the big picture, when exchanges like binance has 10x more volume, where do u think that money is really comming from? and that is actually happening on those exchanges with money flowing?

They traced him, because, it seems that he wasn't the smartest criminal in the planet.

Just the fact that he was in tokyo (japan), instead of a non US aligned country, such as Russia or China, that he had his private keys easy accesible and that he stayed in BTC instead of going for another crypto more anon friendly, says a lot of the stupid nature of this "criminal"

But once again, my whole point is, coinbase allowed a random person to deposit 154 millions USD and withdraw 3.8k btc with absolutely no problems? and in a quickly way, according to the original article

I think its safe to assume that the banks said, okay the money went to coinbase, and coinbase just said yeah about that, he used the money to buy BTC and withdrew it to this wallet and thats about it

the guy was located cause he didnt even try to hide himself, the rest is history.

my point remains, if this, that was a such dumb crime, managed to convert the stolen funds into BTC using coinbase with absolutely no problems, then its easy to assume that real and strong money going to biggest offshores exchanges is from illicit sources.

He already had the BTC in a cold wallet, meaninig that the whole process was completed (deposit USD into coinbase, exchange to BTC, withdraw it)

My point is, coinbase still allowed 154millions USD to be washed on it's exchange. By a random guy who clearly didnt even bother cover his back, imagine what actual organized crime is doing with offshores exchanges.

so the guy went ahead and stole 154 millions from a business bank account, deposited it in coinbase and he just casually bought almost 4k btc and then withdrew it and coinbase didnt even say a word?

and then I see poeple defending btc price action being legit

if this guy was able to do that, in a company that is part of nasdaq, has sec watching it and so on, imagine whats happening on binance and all those others offshore/shady exchanges

You were 1st, you are all good

UDPR is your friend

The browser on my pixel 6 crashed, haven't seen a site lag a phone for like 2 years

Cause these factors in texas are state wide, on the state you mention are just cities and even not full cities, some areas of miami are horrible

Exactly, but it's funny how now people somehow managed to make it about politics again haha

He is just against gacha style games, as everyone should be (gambling addiction enforced by gaming addiction)

So the whole video sums up his experience in how without having to pay a bunch of money, you couldn't win/have fun properly

But this video could be about any new game (online mmorpg) nowdays and be still the same

Unless you live on a huge country (china, india, russia, etc), for an ordinary person, they will consume more media from the country that influences them, than their own country.

Big productions are in a huge % american media, national media for some ~40million population country, limits itself to talkshows, entertainment world, sports and so.. not movies, series or sitcoms