Currently I have all of my crypto investments sitting on CoinSpot, and from what I've gathered, letting an exchange control your private keys is a recipe for disaster, so I want to move them off site. The issue is that I'm not entirely sure where to move them.

Should I just move them to wallets on my PC? I have money in a handful of different cryptos - do I have to download the full blockchain for each one? Is this going to take up massive amounts of storage space?

Should I just get a hardware wallet? This applies to PC wallets too, but what happens if the drive my wallets are stored in dies and data recovery is impossible? Do I just lose everything I have? If I do get a hardware wallet, are there any options in particular that are objectively superior to the rest?

If I move them into multiple wallets in different locations, am I going to get ruined by fees?

This week, a number of PayPal users reported that they got warning messages which said that any activity involving cryptocurrency is prohibited under PayPal’s acceptance policy.

Full article: https://cryptonewsmagnet.com/fake-paypal-cryptocurrency-email-mystery-unlocked/

First it was facebook and now its google. It definitely had a huge impact on users, many panic and start selling..

All folks know that Microsoft is centralized. Bitcoin as a community that values decentralization should help Linux by using it. The best for cold storage and other advantages and tools. Besides the added security.

Just a shout out!

Thank you for you insight guys!

Welcome to the community! Keep posting and you ll learn gradually.

Guys! BUY BTC FROM MTGOX. I don't mean literally all BTC in the world. Please read the post properly.

Imagine of amazon quietly buys all the bitcoins from mt gox committee and then start accepting bitcoin as currency! If this possible? if yes, what flaws would it have?

[Edit : you are missing the FROM MTGOX part! I do not mean buy every existing coin in the world]

I believe online collaboration is broken due to the following reasons:

1. People today are open to giving time to work on small projects with global partners, but trust and ease of access are limiting factors.
2. Setting up a joint venture company is expensive, confusing, tedious and sometimes unnecessary, especially for small projects.
3. Partner relationships see conflict as the business scales, mostly over resource utilization. Removing a partner for poor contribution/malpractice is difficult.
4. The person/entity who receives the payment needs to manually wire his teammate's share - an error-prone time sink that requires trust.
5. Vesting terms in online partnerships are either arbitrary or hard to enforce.


What would you guys suggest as a solution?

It is still one of the more stable currencies! I do support

It might turn into new form of cash in future! Wallets like pay-pal, paytm couldn't cut down cash completely even though they have been running with full pace for all these years. Although, cash payemts did reduce to quite an extent, it didnt become extinct. So i feel cryptocurrency will follow the same trend or it might transform itself in a new form of cash!

Goldmoney, the world's largest gold savings and transfer network, has added two more major cryptocurrencies to its cold storage service, according to a press-release published Feb. 27.
The company, which already provides a cold storage service for Bitcoin (BTC), announced it is now adding “Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”)-Compliant” Ethereum (ETH) storage, with Bitcoin Cash (BCH) storage to follow soon after. According to their press release, Goldmoney Inc. safeguards nearly $2 billion in assets for clients located in more than 150 countries.
Goldmoney clients can now directly purchase Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”)-Compliant Ethereum and sell their Ethereum holdings back to Goldmoney in the same way they buy or sell Bitcoin and precious metals as reported by Goldmoney.
As the company explains, client-held cryptocurrencies are stored and secured in an offline cold storage, with private keys stored in a password-protected hardware wallet.

BTCXIndia and ETHEXIndia have informed all thier customers that they are stopping all trade activities after the government discouraged cyptro.

BTCXIndia and ETHEXIndia’s websites both currently display a message to customers informing them that any deposits received after Jan.1 will automatically be sent back to the investor’s bank account. ETHEXIndia customers are told they had until Feb. 28 to withdraw their funds in rupees or  Ethereum (ETH), and that trading will halt today, March 1, 2018.

The ministry of finance has declared that bitcoin transactions will not be taxed!
Instead, Germany will regard bitcoin as the equivalent to legal tender for tax purposes when used as a means of payment, according to a new document.

For tax purposes, this means that converting bitcoin into a fiat currency or vice versa is "a taxable miscellaneous benefit." When a buyer of goods pays with bitcoin, an article of the EU's VAT Directive will be applied to the price of bitcoin at the time of the transaction, as documented by the seller, according to the document.

Idea of enkidu sounds brilliant! A blockchain based platform too? damn!

Enkidu - A blockchain based platform that helps individuals collaborate globally and perform seamless payment splitting amongst team members, Just launched their bounty program! Do no miss out! Go reserve your place.

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In a shocking turn of events, an anonymous hacker has once again returned stolen ETH tokens to CoinDash – a tool aiming to help users manage, track, analyze, and “get a bird’s eye view” of their crypto assets.

On February 26, 2018, right in line with the milestones laid out in their roadmap, AdEx launched the beta release of its blockchain-based advertising platform. Improvements in the release include an accessible UI for publishers to list their ad inventory on the platform and advertisers to bid for the listed ad slots and submit their ads.

This post has covered most of the points! Try it!

Yang Chin-long, the new governor of Taiwan’s central bank, indicated in a speech yesterday, Feb. 26, that the bank would be open to exploring Blockchain technologies.

At the end of January, Taiwanese capital Taipei had announced that they intended to turn into a ”smart city,” utilizing Blockchain for providing technological advances like pollution sensors and health history tracking to citizens by partnering with IOTA.

During his speech at the presidential handover ceremony, Yang Chin-long said that the central bank will be open to “[adopting] artificial intelligence technologies and big data analysis to better predict and analyze global economic conditions:”

    “In addition, the bank will also try to explore the feasibility of enhancing the security and efficiency of payment systems using decentralized ledger technology [Blockchain].”

In October of 2017, Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) publicly announced its support for Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), cryptocurrencies, and Blockchain in the country in a move to counter the strict crypto regulations in China and South Korea.