Read my comment again. I´m not making most of the claims you are saying. I´m not claiming that criminal activities with fiat money are not happening. My 1% and 40% are not meant to be taken as a fact but as illustration. To give another example. Most of the guns owned by people are used for totally legal purposes. Yet depending on the country there can be a lot of crimes related to gun violence. This means that for politicains it can be useful to consider restrictions on guns. Of course even with gun ban crime can and will continue with other deadly weapons. Just so you would not misunderstand me again. I am not saying that guns and bitcoins are the same. Example of guns is just a useful example in this case. Even if 1% of gun purchases lead to gun violence of some sort, it can still be enough for countries to consider bans or restrictions. Likewise I am not saying that ban on crypto is a good idea. I am merely stating that it is obviously an argument in the discourse.

As far as criminal activities are concerned countries percieve the impact of crypto to be rather significant. So even if 1% of crypto transactions are related to criminal activities, but 40% of all relevant criminal activities are handled in crypto, it is still a problem. I will not take a stand on wether banning crypto is effective in alleviating that or not, but it can certanly score some political points to be tough on crime and therefore be tough on crypto as well. So yeah, some calculations in banning crypto are related to criminal activities. Though it is certanly not the sole or even the most important consideration

There are subforums here for different nations. I´m not sure about the rules but it might be worth a shot to look around a turkish subforum to see if anyone local can help you out

I do believe that the name of the topic is misleading in a sense that it states as a fact the opinion of one person. More than likely there are similarly high-profile investment people who would disagree strongly with this prediction one way or the other. I personally don´t disagree with the idea stated in the article, although I am unsure about the Bitcoin as a complement to gold angle

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I agree that in many ways this has been blown out of proportion. However I do think that there is value in this article reminding people that you don´t strictly own the money on sites such as Coinbase. Mostly I think that some people live under the impression that sites like Coinbase etc are similar to a bank in sense that yes - Coinbase and bank could go under, but it´s purely theoretical.

A number in a database which you tried to buy with real world money just few moments ago :I

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/11/investing/coinbase-stock-bitcoin-cryptocurrencies/index.html and https://fortune.com/2022/05/11/coinbase-bankruptcy-crypto-assets-safe-private-key-earnings-stock/ are the articles I'm refering to.

It seems that Coinbase is having hard time currently. Their stock is at all times low and at a time like this the company started reminding users that all the currency stored on Coinbase may be part of the bankruptcy pool. Since I am assuming that at least some amount of people hold their crypto on that platform I would suggest looking for alternatives as you really don't own your money there.

To add to the previous posters I am mostly a lurker in these forums posting only here and there and have managed to get fair amount of merit. So to get merit you don´t have to be very active or prove that you can use crypto for other things aside from asking it. Meaningfully engaging with other members is enough to eventually get all the merit you need. If you indeed spent your own time writing tutorials (and you didn´t plagiarize them as some have pointed out) then I am sorry that your hard work wasn´t rewarded with merit. Still it´s a good first step in connecting with the people here.

I´m not sure how realistic it would be but I have always been fascinated with wooden coins. A well done wooden coin would be extremely pretty. Most likely a pain to produce in large quantities though.

Hah! I see what you did there

Do I understand correctly that is essentially just a piece of paper which is easily reproducable?

How much THC is in the oils? From my understanding some CBD oils do contain some (albeit very little) amount of THC. There are a lot of countries where CBD is legal, yet your CBD oil could be considered illegal due to the amount of THC in it

I really like Telegram. It strikes a nice in-between ground for me. It is easy enough to use and I believe it keeps my data safe enough. Definitely better than some popular alternatives out there (looking at you Messenger). I would not use it for super-sensitive conversations, though

It´s too big of a topic to get it covered with a single post. Start reading here: https://www.coindesk.com/learn/minting-your-first-nft-a-beginners-guide-to-creating-an-nft/ after that google around a bit, there are helpful tutorials out there

Does anyone else get the vibe that smoking nowadays is much less popular than it used to be? I remember that in my very first job smoking was a soft-requirement because everyone did it and important decisions got made in the smoke-corner. Nowadays in all work collectives I have been part of, there are perhaps a few smokers

Aside from high inflation and energy prices there is really nothing new here? Apple has had great sales before, most of the crises listed have been with us for a long time (ie climate change crisis). Some crises are very much regional (ie food crises). Sure, the situation is not ideal, but is it really any worse than before?

The strange thing is that the original poster himself points out as well that the last similar coin was sold for around 30 000$

I must say that this is such a delightfully specific thread that I seriously chuckled when I saw that this topic really was about five species of nuts that slow-down ageing. Thank you for that

Cyberwarfare has been in Russias tool box for a while. It has already been used against Ukraine and no doubt it will be used again. I do believe that as a result of sanctions cyber attacks could follow. Although it is unlikely that it would be seriously targeted against the US. Some government pages could get taken down temporarily, but a serious and impactful attack against US would be too costly and achieve too little. The difference here is that a small-scale attack could easily be denied. A cordinated attack would just risk bringing US more strongly into the conflict where Russia does not want the US to be in the first place.