Topic: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 6716. (Read 26716886 times)

I was looking at late 60's early 70's Firebirds the other day and was surprised at how far the market has slumped. I wish I had the room to grab one but I have enough in storage and had my Vanden Plas stolen from storage in the past. Investing in vehicles for wealth storage is a very rich mans game. I think us huddled masses need to stick to hardware wallets.

I just looked at that Gemini fee schedule, and sure, the highest priced taker fees are .35%, like you said, and for those of us who are inclined to place orders, the maker fees are starting at .25%.  Maybe I will have to start trading Gemini again?  There was a period of time, maybe a couple of years ago, in which Gemini fees had gone up to 1% or something like that, and I cannot recall the exact details, but such raising of the fees seemed to have been more than double of other fees that I had been paying at that time.. so I reduced my number of trades on their platform - but now, the fees on Gemini are seeming much more competitive... so sure.. I am going to have to reconsider my activities on that platform...

By the way, with almost any trading platform I have had good and bad experiences, so I recall in late 2015 getting a bit pissed off at Gemini when they reversed some of the trades based on a fat thumb situation, and I was affected by that, even though such reversal of my trades did not cost me a whole lot, it still irritated me, and kind of messed up my system.

I had some good experiences with Coinbase in terms of recovering my account after it was hacked in early 2017.. and then at that point, Coinbase migrated my value over to another account.. so I thought that we were "all good" but then in early 2018 (I believe that was when it was), my CB account had gotten frozen based on a bank transfer of something like $500 that I had requested to have deposited into my CB account... I cannot recall the exact details, but it took CB nearly forever to communicate with me about what was going on, and they even seemed to blame the matter on my bank, and then I contacted my bank, and they said that they had not done anything to flag or freeze that $500 bank transfer request that ended up going back into my bank account.  So after a few months of waiting and my asking CB about what was going on every couple of weeks, CB ended up giving me some vague-ass explanation that I needed to remove all my money off of their exchange.. they would not connect any other bank account with me (as I suggested as a possibility), and pretty much they allowed me to trade out of the dollars that were then on my CB account and to withdraw all of the BTC balance.. (I believe around the middle of 2018) which was pretty much.. .the end of my having any value on such account. 

I did try to use my CB account after mid-2018, and it did not really allow me to do anything, and really hardly any explanation about what their supposed issue with me.. even though I had an account with them since late 2013 that had got transferred to another account in mid-2017... And, yeah, we have heard other stories about issues that people have had with Coinbase, and in my case, I just find the whole thing to be weird with the lack of explanation from them, my willingness to work with them, and even that I had pretty solid explanations for my source of funds through the times that I had those accounts, including that I had made quite a few purchase from them through the years, including in the early years, and even a lot of those were frequent small purchases, so in my seemingly normie thinkenings, I speculated that red flags should NOT have been there... but sure, there could be some desires for them to remove certain kinds of accounts - and my account fit within their target to remove definition, and they did not feel like I deserved any explanation for that.

Was just about to post this; been watching myself. Fucking amazing he managed to get out of that alive. I've never seen a modern F1 car go up like that. So fucking lucky! His head was between the TecPro barrier and the halo. I have no idea how he survived

https://streamable.com/uzgo2z

That horror crash from Romain Grosjean, that accident was the worst i've seen in along time.

His escape is miraculous, enduring 5-10 sec in flames just amazing that he was able to get out of that car.

And then he shoots himself in the foot with this reply when given that out.


https://twitter.com/PeterSchiff/status/1303011588841013249

I’ve already written somewhere that it rarely or not at all happens that small people have an advantage over big predators in something - and now some even have a 10-year advantage in their favor. I agree with PS to some extent, and I'm sure that his son is also glad that his dad softened his attitude towards BTC a bit


https://twitter.com/apompliano/status/1303010909208666112?s=21

Although I think Anthony Pompliano made the best comment on his statements

Kicking and screaming the whole way. Lol

Seems too tight to me.  What do we have?   A wee bit less than 34 hours, and the BTC price has been pushing a bit UPwardly.. in the past couple of days with the latest push from $17,8xx to $18,1xx or $18,2xx...   Even given $18,2xx that is still a need for close to 7.5% more price appreciation within those next 34 hours...

Critical^tm?.... moonshot?  or some other descriptor?

 Ah, Peter Schiff's Shtick - always good for a chuckle.  

(OFFTOPIC to wall observing)

I never had problems with Kraken.. small sums.. less than 1000eur.. (LTC to kraken, then euros to N26 thru SEPA)

I also used  BTC to charge Epayments debit card, and then top up the Revolut card. (always less than 1000 eur), and it worked ok, no questions asked.  But now Epayments is gone. Never tried SEPA from Kraken to Revolut.

Last week i asked N26 customer service about limitations on transfers.. they said 100,000 eur is the limit (whaaa?!?!) but they dont know if i may or may not be asked to provide origin of funds.


I was always afraid to ask about fiat exit ramps in this thread.
Maybe there's another place where we can chat about this, or in PM.
I asked Elwar about his 'current location' regulation on banking, but maybe my personal message was.. too personal, hence ignored.

Thanks for your replys.

Hmmmm could be on to something... slightly he’s going to the BTC side, eventually he will be saying BTC is better than gold and all the rest 

Then fuck exchanges and sell via OTC... 

im still there simply because of how long ive used it (in 2013 there wasnt much to choose from that was legit in the eyes of the land of the free) and ive run life changing amounts through them with zero issues. only exchange i havent had issues with tbh and ive used a few.

them buying up that spy software company that got that guy killed still pisses me off of course. "they didnt know" yeah bullshit. "firing" some people certainly wasnt enough and we now know with absolute certainty what their true colors are.

i always expected coinbase to rat out everyone at some point so when i happened it didnt really matter much (to me). id been paying taxes on corn long before they pulled that 1099 crap.

anyway poor excuse i know but there it is. at some point i wouldnt at all be surprised to see gemini have a few skeletons fall out of their closet. hopefully they keep the high road.

i did make an account at gemini a few years ago but when they wanted a wire transfer to initially set it up.. i wasnt gonna drive 20 minutes to the bank when i already had a working exchange that i knew worked fine, warts and all.

eventually ill finish setting up gemini (need to contact support as the 2fa i have on record doesnt work any more). looking forward to more kyc and hoops to jump through. yay

as one may of noticed im lazy af

“That car will be a house in a few years.”  It is exactly what I would say to DOGE bitches and shitcoin maximalists.  

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Financial advice:  Short Bitcoin at high leverage.  That car will be a house!

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This altcoin trader did not invest in the long-term security of a car.

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When I squint hard, I think that the sign says something about altcoins.  At least, we can pretend that it does and someone with real Gimpy skills could make it so.

Get a Maybach and it could be.

Minor question: For those using systems like Kraken, are you keeping your coin there, or just putting some pennies in every month for the auto withdrawls?

A concern is starting to grow in my mind: That exchanges will start considering bitcoins transferred from/to private wallets to be "suspect" by default.

Kind of like how email evolved: It used to be following standards, but these days Google mail will only trust mail from other large centralized mail systems (MS Mail, Yahoo, and Google) with everything else being treated as "spam" by default.

And that car will be a house in a few years.

I'm worried about my local banks more actually. As a transation of ~$10k USD/EUR raises a huge red flag for almost any bank. Get ready for the questions they're going to ask. Although I have heard that UK banks are somewhat more tolerant (or simply have higher red flag limits?).