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Quote from: bct_ail on June 01, 2023, 02:50:25 PM

I do not understand this move. Hong Kong is no longer independent. It is just an island off China. China was so against it, against crypto. And now it is being allowed? I do not get it.

It's not the first time that China has used a formally different jurisdiction of Hong Kong to experiment with something or to do some business ostensibly on behalf of Hong Kong's private banks. Hong Kong for them is like a big sandbox in which they build sand castles, which can then just as easily be destroyed.

China also has a practice that goes back at least 30 years in which it has been creating various kinds of special "economic zones" which had historically been supporting the facilitation of the export industry and to have special rules that were different (some might argue discordant and even contradictory) from the rest of the country within those kinds of special zones.

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Quote from: nlovric on June 01, 2023, 07:38:46 PM

Bybit Exchange Pulls Out Of Canadian Markets Due To Regulatory Shifts
Due to recent regulatory changes Bybit Exchange has announced its decision to cease operations in Canada following in the footsteps of Binance and OKX. Stricter measures by the Canadian government including a pre registration process and a ban on leveraged trading prompted Bybit to suspend its service and ban deposits and new registrations from July 31. Users are advised to close their positions before September 30th. All remaining positions will be liquidated for withdrawal of funds.

@JayJuanGee why do you keep meriting this trash? You're just encouraging spammers to mindlessly shit in here. Some of them, like this one, buy old Bitcointalk accounts then come here for your easy merits.

This account nlovric belonged to an extraordinarily intelligent individual, now it belongs to a merit farmer. You keep meriting him, he keeps coming back for more. You're teaching him that spamming pays.

I wonder if merits could simply be turned off for the WO thread. I would rather see 10 ChartBuddy posts in a row than these sad solicitations for charity.

Yes.. propose to theymos that merits are "turned off" in the WO thread and see what happens.

Maybe, also (or as a potential back-up plan.... PlanB so to speak), you should propose that he (or anyone else who might "care") removes me (aka yours truly, aka this here cat) as a source (of problemas), since I don't seem to "know how" to exercise the discretion of my own wee widdo selfie verry goodie?
or alternatively, you may well want to proclaim that I am not able to sufficiently/adequately identify which post(s) in these here parts MOAR deserve(s) dddddeeeeeeeee wwwwuuuuuvvvvvvvssssss (#nohomo) in accordance with your own views upon these kinds of wuvie duvie matters.

Or alternatively, even to that last alternative, you might consider showing the powers that be within this here forum that this place, WO and otherwise, needs a "merit czar," and you happen to know just the right peep who is ready, willing and able to take on such duties. Wink

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Quote from: ivomm on January 21, 2023, 03:21:20 PM

If I have to describe in one sentence the price action in 2019 and 2020 it would be "The battle for 10K". I'm just curious which will be the new 10K for 2023 and 2024 - 30K, 40K or even 50K? My guess is 40K.

My guess is $29,900 will become the new $9,900.

It'll go sideways for what seems like forever, occasionally teasing > $30k only to get squashed down over again and again.

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Hot take: We are here, and my estimate is that we will remain in this range, barting up and down, throughout 2023 and possibly into 2024.

Don't see any reason on the horizon for that to change until closer to halving. There will be a number of 'head fakes' along the way.

The only thing that could really alter this range bound is if Fed rates dropped by at least 2% or more.

Oh lookie, we still here. Same price range, different day.

Get used to it guyz....

Why get used to it? because you (aka nostradus wannabe, who quotes himself twice, uie puie) happen to have said it? #askingforafriend

Cheesy