USA

PixelDu5t

I honestly can’t be arsed :D I’ll just answer the last point: our military is one of the strongest in Nato, considering it’s Finland and we’ve had to deal with Russia and protecting our independence against them multiple times, and there was no USA help back then either. Yet we survived and kept building our defense capabilities. We’ll be fine with ot without you guys. It’s the rest of Nato that should be worrying, aside from probably us and Poland.

Historical_Doubt_693

Sweet story bro. My county has more people than your country. The busboy gets fired and he can find another job, because in America small business dominates. In fact areas with high social spending and taxes (Seattle) the economy is crap because they are choking employers with fees and taxes and forcing them to leave. It also increases prices for the lower and middle class. France has generous social benefits, how is that working out for them? Stagnant economy, more dollars going to takers than providers and a country on the verge of financial ruin. I am just saying when your country has less than 5 million people you are comparing apples to oranges. No country is perfect, but for a country that takes in the most legal and maybe illegal immigrants in the world, we are obviously doing something right. I am guessing where ever you live is predominantly white, and restricts immigration or places strong qualifications on who can enter. Not to mention Putty would run over your country if it wasn't for USA and Nato. So join the club and hate America. I bet you have never even been here.

JustStopppingBye

>You guys keep babbling about "be your own bank", "decentralization" and "cutting out the middle-man Only libertarian idiots ever thought the entire financial system was going to abandon banks so everyone could "be their own bank." Institutional adoption was never about replacing the financial system with an anarchist fantasy. It's about modernising settlement, payments, asset transfers and financial infrastructure using blockchain technology. You're confusing the technology with your ideological expectations of it. [https://www.dtcc.com/press-releases/2026/dtcc-tokenization-service-goes-live](https://www.dtcc.com/press-releases/2026/dtcc-tokenization-service-goes-live) *To date, 20 DTC Participants (clients) have signed agreements to access DTS including Alpaca, Apex Clearing Corporation, Barclays, Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Brown Brothers Harriman, Citadel Securities, Citi, Clear Street, DriveWealth, Edward Jones, Fidelity Investments, Interchange Clearing, J.P. Morgan, Marex, Mirae Asset Securities (USA) Inc., Morgan Stanley, State Street, UBS and Velocity Capital LLC. Future users will be onboarded on a rolling basis.* Banks aren't abandoning blockchain, they're integrating it into financial infrastructure as we speak. They're absolutely going to use smart contracts. Tokenised securities, automated corporate actions, collateral management, settlement, compliance and asset transfers all benefit from programmable execution. If those contracts malfunction, execute incorrectly or cause financial losses, you can you can bet they'll sue over it, but this wont prevent them from using them.

urwaitisfinallyover

Btc is worth and very good, but the only issue is who accumulated it...Musk ,USA, china and other big accumulatar...so if anyone want to sell their holdings and then it's nose dive..that's why its so sensitive that with any current world scenario it's fluctuated even with USA inflation data...so it's not world currency as already accompalated by riches..i trust BTC ..but it driven by few people...

procabiak

printing more money is just injecting more dough into the pizza. if you still cut the pizza up in equal slices, then that's fair. that's what we want. but you'll find that your piece is already cut, but the pizza is still growing. you're left with an 11 inch pizza slice, while the others are still growing 16 inches, 19 inches, 23 inches... in fact the USA pizza is already 997 inches, while you still have a cold sloppy 11 inch slice. it's grown so much the initial slice cut out merely looks like a little crack. top that pizza with a standard bag of pepperonis and you'll find it pretty bland... why would anyone want it

AutoModerator

Post is by: AcanthocephalaNo6605 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1xraf76/what_broker_do_you_use_for_algo_trading/ I wonder, people sitting in mainland USA, which broker do you use to automate things? I am looking for a broker which provides a good data feed as well as robust API integration. I can see coin base as a potential option but still like to see where most of the technical traders are hanging out. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

Illustrious-Being639

2% of a hundred and all these people graduated high school. USA is dumb as …

bitusher

> but this is about bitcoin being used as a currency isn't it. Volatility is merely 1 important variable of at least 8 different qualities of a good currency. >shovel their monthly salary and their savings into BTC to 'save' them from banking collapses. In this specific situation the ideal situation is to diversify your investments and banks . Have at least 2 banks , and perhaps a money in a foreign bank if you can , have some bitcoin, have other investments if you can Why are you suggesting everyone has to have 100% of their money in Bitcoin ? > in stable countries, with surplus income to invest, sure, have at it. I am a latino and have lived in multiple latin american countries all my life and its somewhat insulting to suggest we don't have any savings . What is harder for most of us is to have access to USA equity markets , which makes Bitcoin a godsend.

Charming_Bus2484

sadly when hyperinflation comes to USA, bitcoin will go rapidly to 2 billion 3 billion next day etc. like the german currency after WW1. the US government will do all on its posibilities to confiscate, they will not only make crypto illegal, but they will confiscate all of the Bitcoin from ETF´s and public companies residing in USA, just to save their asses. Bitcoin will continue to go up even further even as the government dump those to save their country, but also to people that want to flee the country on a very liquid global asset. and you will be left with 0, learning you didnt bought any bitcoin and it is actually only then when you are gonna actually need it the most. after every single thing in the black market (which will be the only real market) reprice things in satoshis.

GalaxyDefender1x

I found this on Ledgers website. [https://www.ledger.com/academy/topics/country-guides/crypto-in-the-usa-the-ultimate-guide?utm\_source=chatgpt.com](https://www.ledger.com/academy/topics/country-guides/crypto-in-the-usa-the-ultimate-guide?utm_source=chatgpt.com) # How to Securely Buy Ledger in the USA Ledger signers are available through two official channels in the US. Online, you can purchase directly through [Amazon US](https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/ADDBEC2A-275A-465F-A28D-7F8A8813372C?ingress=2&lp_context_asin=B09W66VHFH&visitId=00995027-5319-49e7-a5e5-64117280ce43&ref_=ast_bln), where Ledger operates under the seller name “Ledger Official” — always verify this before completing your purchase, as Amazon’s marketplace allows third-party sellers to list against the same product page.  I did buy from “Ledger Official” Thank you all for your comments

Greifvogel1993

If the new wave of elected officials in the USA crack down on corruption like they promise, expect Bitcoin to fall as its most prevalent and wealthiest customer land behind bars. Bitcoin is an asset of fraud and corruption, there are very few other current use-cases

No-Masterpiece2246

Yet for some odd reason they're not freezing the private transactions laundering billions in Ukraine aid to Israel/USA?

marxlyfe

Of course it's important to vote. We need to keep voting for more DSA members because socialism is the only way we can fix the United States. The USA will be a socialist country in my lifetime. Healthcare will be free and housing will be affordable. We need to seize the means of production. We need to nationalize privately owned companies, especially Elon Musk's companies. The US government should seize Musk's wealth and distribute it to Americans. The US government should seize excess wealth from all the mega rich Americans and distribute it to everyone else in the US.

Big_Beautiful9114

Blue🤡 in USA want to do same thing

flashdurb

I live in the USA tho

Mundane-Outside8943

Just news of Taco lost half power to control USA . Remember how btc went crazy when he won . He backed crypto. 

BrilliantProcedure15

In the USA, it's going to be about the same as the last 55 years.

Chinedu-3036

I believe the tax authority employee was planted there a long time ago knowing how Bitcoin was going to be. Nothing happens by accidently or coincidently. People are planted. Look at Nigerians. There have over come the USA in every high paid field in service. Their family members are planted in a separate field and they collaborate with each other to steal from many. Do you realize how many BILLIONAIRES are in Nigeria??? Why??? It is a poor nation other than its natural resources, which held away from them. Their politicians are only from rich families and the only high from within their families. Why??? Full control. It’s a no wonder everyone is afraid.

Puzzleheaded_Sign249

Why does the CCP allow NK to just hack their own companies? This is a state-sponsored attack? If USA cyber command hack Binance, would China just be ok with it?

Chocolatecoverednipz

All of this is hog wash, out of all the shit that needs to be addressed in the USA, crypto is so low on the list of what’s actually important. 

MinimalistMindset35

Financial literacy is importance. Has anything actually changed with Bitcoin or are people like you selling because they too are scared? If Bitcoin hasn’t been hacked and hasn’t stopped working then you buy in red days. USA need to learn how to control your emotions. Buy when there is blood in the streets. It’s called cheap sats. Those of us who bought on the way down financially benefit more. You can only buy on the way down when you UNDERSTAND what you are buying. You don’t understand the value proposition of Bitcoin which is why you are scared.

Sweaty_Camel_118

I do not vote because until we decentralize our government here in the USA our politicians will always be bought.

mrnestor

You still don't get it. Your assumptions are not correct. You can rise productivity in various ways without having to print more money, for example, you can develop your products more efficiently, costing less dollars. Instead, you justify making your money less valuable, because people are naturally greedy. And, moreover, you say that this is for the poor, man, think about it. The USA, are printing more money, and making the poor people poorer, because they overspend in war, in business and in related topics that are not in any way to help the poor. We are beyond fucked and you are justifying this. Man, breath, think about it in a rational way

Decent-Treat-3298

Neither side doesn't see what's REALLY coming, the destruction of the USA dollar and hyper inflation to reset everything. Do you think anyone can stand up against it? Simply remember a few test cases on the masses and the results. EXIBIT A.) 911 : full capitulation to "security" and " surveillance" measures for the "publics safety" EXIBIT B.) COVID an extension of the 911 program on a worldwide scale to which, by and large ALL countries engaged in. Of course for similar reasons. PUBLIC SAFTEY with no real evidence the measures taken really helped anything or anyone. In fact, statistics show it was the wrong approach. World wide shut downs devastated economies, social structures and general public faith in governments, healthcare and science in general. Simply discount my post as conspiracy theories if you will. I do not care really, and I don't have to convince you. The reality is really simple math.

Alone-Dig-7002

USA you not paying taxes for mining. You paying taxes for selling.

douwebeerda

As long as the FBI isn't releasing the unredacted EipstenFiles and they claim the hack was done by an enemy of the USA... Seems all a bit to convenient to me to be honest.

Docthndr

Crypto has and always been away for money laundering. Russia needs funds, I’m sure there is some tit for tat here. But how do you give funds to them w/o making your base further hurting your polls. Oh, NK scapegoat as always. The CEO of B owed a favor. Make this transaction work. NK gives funds to Putin. Further supporting a war on both sides. - May I remind you the USA also played both sides of WW1/2 …

immersive-matthew

Just more reason I guess for Iran and others to get nuclear weapons as the lack of response is an endorsement to acquire. Not my endorsement as I think no one should have as when everyone has one, we are playing Russian Roulette as someone will get an itchy trigger finger eventually. So primal and stupid but the very definition of the word. That all said, cyberwar is happening and will continue as it is not like the USA is not cyber attacking North Korea already. What exactly who knows but there is a history of cyberattacks by all nations. Like we are in a school yard.

amsync

I have it on good authority that they routinely attack the largest banks in the USA with cyberattacks. It’s very commonplace. You don’t hear about it because they are not required to disclose attacks unless they resulted in an incident.

blahblahblahblah1011

So easy and lazy to just pin it on north Korea, did they use American AI tech to hack sonys ps5 aswell, why wouldn't it be the Americans doing this , they cut Europeans off russian oil that they'd been using even during USSR times, their energy resources from the Arabian GCC countries has also been sabotaged by the great orange dictator and they are now paying upto 5/6x for their energy resources from America their friend and ally, USA is trying to strangle the world into submission but let's blame everyone else for it, what a load of bs

Small_Branch4961

What are you on about? I don’t nag people to invest in Bitcoin. I’m not out here claiming to be better than anyone or pretending to have the ultimate solution to their problems. I simply share what I do and offer education exclusively to the people I actually care about. The argument that Bitcoin has failed as a store of value is really perspective of short-term timeline. When scrutinized over any standard 4-year halving cycle, Bitcoin has consistently preserved and increased purchasing power against inflation for millions of people worldwide in hyperinflationary economies where local currencies are rapidly collapsing. We don't feel that hyperinflation as severely in developed economies like the USA, UK, Canada etc, but countries like Venezuela, Lebanon, Zimbabwe... those guys use more bitcoin and stable coins to preserve their purchasing power.

jaimewarlock

I started using crypto back in 2013 and you are half right and half wrong. The problem is that you haven't kept up with the space. Using a centralized exchange has gotten a LOT harder. KYC & AML is a lot tougher and they are a lot stricter on who they allow. All the easy to use exchanges like Bittrex and Coinex were forced out of business. I use to have an account with Coinbase, but they banned me for living in Hawaii. After moving out, I tried to restore it, but they want proof of where I live like utility bills, but those don't exist in most countries (most use a token system not an account). They also want a mailing address, which ceased in most countries during Covid. A lot of people in this forum love Kraken and they are even located in the USA, but there is something very shady going on with that company. They have a ton of red flags (actually all of them) and there are speculations that they are faking their customer deposits to match their proof of reserves. If you just use them as an exchange, they will quickly ban you. They are very active in cleaning up their Reddit thread, but occasionally they slip up and in just a couple hours you will see a bunch of complaints about them closing accounts for no reason. Now for new paradigm and what works. Paypal allows crypto deposits for most accounts. Unfortunately, they don't allow you send to outside addresses or even your own personal wallet. They keep saying it is just temporary. Well, it's been temporary for several years. But you can buy and hold as investment. You can receive. You just aren't allowed to use it. If you want to actually use crypto, you have to be your own bank. Which means you need to know what you are doing. You should probably get a hardware device. Now for the final things that has really changed. For converting to/from local currency, you will have to use P2P. Places like LocalCoinSwap dot com. I use it all the time for converting small amounts of crypto to Mpesa, it's super fast and easy. For exchanges between different coins, you will have to use DEXs or decentralized exchanges like ThorChain and SimpleSwap. There are still some smaller centralized exchanges that you can swap between coins too. You just can't use them to convert from/to local currency. They also tend to have low liquidity or super high slippage. Kucoin is still okay, but they have an absolutely terrible interface.

RiskOnOnly

Black rock is regulated in USA and have insurance up to 500k per account.

Doritos707

if? Brother the west does that at a much larger level. We just dont give a shit about robbing legal exchanges. Anyways, hackers from USA Canada Europe Australia are the equivalent to Marvel and DC, like some super hero stuff.

hl2oli

Why not USA ?

Notyit

Plenty of people not in USA got burned Lots of investment scammers as well

pyro-electric

USA jurisdiction

king_david1999

The next 4 months it had potential of rally, but now the USA will be selling their Bitcoin off in unannounced occurrences for a huge amount of Bitcoin which will drive prices down. Interest rates and risk off sentiment will drive investors to more risk off markets. Oil prices will also drive people to risk off assets the higher it goes and cause Stock market fluctuations or drops that will cause instability and investors to hold more cash or pull from back riskier stocks or Bitcoin which is gonna all play into the trading price. It probably gonna bounce up and down and to 50k shortly in the next 6 months then back up and then rally once USA has sold off their Bitcoin and then Iran is polished off and Ukraine war comes to end would cause oil prices to fall markets to stabilize and more inflows to go to bitcoin allowing for another big rally to new record highs.

pyro-electric

Actually a Swiss bank was hacked by FBI. 15 years ago or so. IRS tried to probe the bank for tax evasion, got refused, so the USA hacked the bank, raided Switzerland and arrested the bank workers. Form this day Swiss banking is not safe anymore.

badtattoos

Id encourage you to look up what a bank bail in is if your in the USA. Not a bail out like 2008, they changed the rules to literally just take the money in the bank accounts if they so choose.

F1shB0wl816

I’m not sure what you’re trying to get at it? It’s estimated that there’s just shy of 70,000,000 crypto holders in the USA. That’s a rough 1/5th. They’re not the average person but many of them are likely just as clueless as the average, certainly aren’t leading the pack.

FeelessTransfer

Just the little wee country of the USA

pusaduva

I think a good thing in all of this is it is always North Korea in most big hacks. For me that means it is really hard to hack and you need a billion dollar investment into your tools and have 1000s of hackers at your disposal to hack something this big. NK has that but not many other criminals do so Crypto is generaly safer than it looks. Yes USA or Russia or China or most countries could hack it but they abide by the rules of finance so they won't.

wartmunger

My state (USA) forced me to take my meager crypto off binance a few years ago. I was angry then and am happy now. Sorry for those who lost so much.

Mishka_1994

They have to though right? Like if customers decide to all pull their money out at same time that pretty much crashes their whole business. They have to assure people that “their” money is safe. Its like banks in the USA are insured up to $250k by the feds. Now if there id a heist on a bank AND the government fails to pay out insured people, well the whole economy will go to shit.

ProceduralTaco

It is good! Money is meant to be spent. If it held its value you wouldn’t want to spend it. The only time there was deflation in the USA was the Great Depression. With 30% unemployment. More power to people with bitcoin, no shade. But if you think fiat inflating is a problem take an economics class.

noblsht

Thankfully, those of us in the USA in the United States are not. I’m not allowed to use Binance

FlowerBudget2065

I always use forwarding companies like PlanetExpress which give you a USA address then you can mail it to yourself anywhere. 

Minute_Disk9857

China isn't Communist as USA isn't a free market.

NiagaraBTC

The "global government" just needs to get Russia and China and the USA all on the same team. Should be any day now.

NotA_A

Crypto has been the first question after filing status on federal 1040 for a few years (USA) [https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf](https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf) u/ParticularCapital915 get info about the tax basis though for inheritance. With all the detail they (IRS) goes into, I doubt u/that1rowdyracer gets that reduced to $0 fed tax. Page 15 and 16 [https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040gi.pdf](https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040gi.pdf)

MobilePenguins

It’s prob gonna be some bs between Iran and USA. I may transfer some BTC into war time ETFs

pcvcolin

One other tidbit, the operation is probably in the USA or China, based on where the highest hashrate share is by country.

DangKilla

You misunderstand what I am saying. We're in a K-shaped economy in the USA. Regular people will be priced out of AI hardware, and cloud can be taken away. Chinese AI can be regulatorily captured. They've already started.

IndependentSpeck

So this is absolute bullshit. The fact is that productivity has increased significantly while quality of life for the average person is worse and worse every year. Keynes was a genius of his time and I truly believe that there was an era where his economic stances made sense. Providing governments the means to generate aggregate demand allowed economic activity to flourish for a time. However, the problem is that this became wasteful more and more over time until it became apparent that government-spurred economic activity resulted in incredible amounts of debt and inflation as businesses that won opportunities to contract with the government to get government projects finished inevitably took advantage of their situation and charged the government more money than was reasonable for the given project. Now, the result of Keynesianism is what we have today, the USA. We are the biggest victim of Keynesianism because both Republicans and Democrats adopted Keynesian policies and now we are essentially a failed state. The USA is burning to the ground and a civil war could be on the horizon. All we have to show for the use of Keynesian policy is a system that doesn't work for the average person. The cantillionaires (people closest to the money printer) are the only ones benefiting from the system that hasn't't really changed regardless of what party is in power. The economy is in shambles because the very idea of Keynesian economics has robbed the average worker of the benefits of his own labor.

Kriskao

Outside the USA it is the same process if you have an account in USD.

phoebeethical

If you are in the USA the cheapest way is to send it to Binance.us and convert it to usd through advanced/spot trading and then send the usd to your bank.  Dont accidentally trade for usdc or usdt 

dogoru

What if you want to come back to USA with it?

No-Masterpiece2246

Food shortages and austerity for USA sheep. Ten more years of Middle East war starring Israel. Look at the map Bibi showed the other day, they have 6-8 more Arab countries to take over with coups and their secretly funded Islamic death squads.

2LostFlamingos

Bro. In the USA, long term capital gains is 15%. Just pay it.

xGsGt

The dollar is backed by the USA and their guns

alvalladares25

That’s a good question. No currency, to my knowledge, has ever had the opportunity to let humanity find out the answer to that question although right now bitcoin is being given a shot and fighting well against the most powerful gov in history (USA). I fear the USA and it’s currency may fall because of lack of fiscal control unless they adopt bitcoin as the new currency or severely cut back on spending, which will be a tough time for Americans at large

driverepin

USA back dollar, LOL, what are you talking about?

Classic-Invite-3254

Every morning wake up to massive sell off. Like I’ve said before and got down voted by the bots. Only USA buying right now

Dramatic-Tackle-792

Two thirds of Bitcoin owners are average Joes. These guys will hodl for a long time but life and death always happen and they will sell to buy lambo and homes, pay for kids college, invest in something new. There will be a supply for years from this just like mining. Hedge funds are for investors, pension funds, banks, insurance companies, etc. They want safe solid 30% growth every year. Big money have invested billions in setting up bitcoin exposure because they know they'll make trillions from derivative products and custdy fees. Sovereigns need some form of digital gold. There are different agendas, but China, Russia, Iran and Venezuela are already using Bitcoin to bypass sanctions. The BRICS nations want an alternative to USD settlement outside the SWIFT system that can't be weaponized like it was against Russia. Russia doesn't want to hoard yuan and China doesn't want bank vaults full of rubles. There needs to be a digital gold in between. Bitcoin is at every level of most African economies from small purchase to state level finance. China has spent billions buying influence and making roadways into the whole continent and they need Bitcoin for that trade. That's why they went from trying to ban Bitcoin to using Hong Kong as their crypto proxy. That's why Taiwan has legislation in the pipeline for a Bitcoin reserve. They'd never poke the bear without a nod from Beijing. 40 countries are in talks with Coinbase. Countries like Bhutan, Norway, Czech Republic, Switzerland, China, USA, UK, El Salvador, the Ukraine, Venezuela, Iran and Ethiopia already have it. Banking apps allow everyone to buy. Younger generations are able to change their banks by pushing a few buttons on their phones. They'll have all that boomer wealth in the next couple of decades and won't be as trusting of banks and investment firms. They do like Bitcoin. Banks know this and have no choice. No Bitcoin, no customers. EFTs are being used to suppress the price while institutions and banks are accumulating quietly. But for over a year all news, good or bad news was followed by changes in ETF flows that raised or lowered the price to flush out open interest. These coins were subsequently bought and moved to whale wallets. The miners are not dudes in garages, that's true. Those guys were forced out by big money manipulating the price so they could slow the roll out of new coins and buy more on their terms using OTC deals. This has been going on for years and it becomes more and more obvious from patterns repeating and the blockchain/wallet activity. So, yes, Wall Street can manipulate the price and has been doing so for a couple of years now, but bitcoin is at every level of the global economy and is global. Bitcoin is going to be a lot bigger than Wall Street.

I_am___The_Botman

Certainly can't crack down on crypto scams in the USA 😂😂😂🇺🇸 

OutlandishnessLimp25

A 2025 BlackRock report, widely cited across outlets, states that crypto (led by Bitcoin) reached 300 million users in roughly 12 years from Bitcoin’s 2009 launch. By comparison: forklog.com • Mobile phones: \~21 years. • Internet: \~15 years. I guess it depends on how adoption is measured? What criteria makes you believe cell phones and email were faster? By the way, I’m not being argumentative, legitimately curious. I remember the old AOL CD’s that would get mailed to my house (I’m in the USA) and that was my first experience with email (circa 1996), I got my first cellphone in 1999, which then was very rare for a kid to have one. But, I didn’t start buying bitcoin until 2017 (and I felt late). For me, the barrier of entry of Bitcoin (the risk of losing money) and the complicated way to buy and store bitcoin were deterrents initially.

Rabid_Mexican

Again, this is about Europe, nothing to do with Japan or the USA

MGBitcoin

Wtf does the USA have to do with anything here? We are talking about the EU.

Rabid_Mexican

Ah, you live in the USA, this is about Europe - no one here would accept that amount of cash.

No-Masterpiece2246

Anywhere in the world? Definitely not true. You won't get to square one in any foreign country with that watch-tapping bullshit. Perhaps in urban areas in EU or USA, but anywhere in a rural area you'll do none of it. You're living in a short 10 year window when the watch-tapping works at a handful of corporate venues.

RevolutionaryPick241

In USA it's called ETF

TheresNoSecondBest

>How do you use your Bitcoin? Saving in Bitcoin is "using it" too. Anyway, here's how spending bitcoin IRL looks like: https://youtu.be/Tlhvnpi2ukA I'm "using Bitcoin" almost on a daily basis. Buying groceries, paying for meals, taxis, domains/hosting, VPN... Spend and replace is usually the name of the game so no, I'm not spending bitcoin while saving in cash. If you're thinking about spending some, here are my favorite directories: https://btcmap.org - awesome map, you can even add your local vendors in, once you orangepill them. https://spend-sats.com/ https://spendabit.co/ There's also an option of buying gift cards https://thebitcoincompany.com/ https://bitrefill.com https://www.egifter.com/buy-gift-cards-with-bitcoin - this one's least fave because they use a shitty custodian for payments but are handy for a few cards. Spend and earn some sats back: https://foldapp.com - save up to 20% Starbucks, Uber, Target , whole foods , Dunkin https://www.lolli.com – save up to 30% by spending BTC anywhere but primarily USA stores https://satsback.com/stores-list - save up to 20% by spending BTC anywhere but primarily Europe stores.

immersive-matthew

USA Demand and Supply would drop so no one in the USA could even sell to drive price down or buy. The price will be set by the rest of the world which will carry on determining the price as the globe does today hair without one country.

UmaThurmanBizca

I dislike socialism, but to think that the USA is anything other than a Techno-Capitalist with emphasis on the capitalism is ridiculous. You could even say that the USA is an Corporate Techno-Capitalist Oligarchy, but socialist???? Lmao

RevenantHaunter13

At this point it feels like the whole world is being run by clowns. Massive protests in many countries. Albania, France, Argentina, USA, etc. I would not be surprised if world war 3 is here and we're all about to perish in a slow and very stupid manner that only the clowns could have come up with. But I won't stop hodling my BTC. Dead man's grip.

Previous_Valuable873

With these diesel and oil prices, everyone will convert to fiat because the family will be starving.... Thank it to your orange clown, in general the USA image suffered so much in an European's eyes, that it's a joke now from "the land of the free".

0xSnib

Your post history has you asking about US LLCs \_and\_ how to send crypto to/from Russia And you live in the EU and are buying Rolexes 😂 Your activity is a KYC nightmare I’m not a CEX fan at the best of times but your issue is with Russia and the USA

TheresNoSecondBest

>However, those that are in it for the money revolution, what are you actually using it for? Anyway, here's how spending bitcoin IRL looks like: https://youtu.be/Tlhvnpi2ukA I'm using Bitcoin almost on a daily basis. Buying groceries, paying for meals, taxis, domains/hosting, VPN... Spend and replace is usually the name of the game so no, I'm not spending bitcoin while saving in cash. If you're thinking about spending some, here are my favorite directories: https://btcmap.org - awesome map, you can even add your local vendors in, once you orangepill them. https://spend-sats.com/ https://spendabit.co/ There's also an option of buying gift cards https://thebitcoincompany.com/ https://bitrefill.com https://www.egifter.com/buy-gift-cards-with-bitcoin - this one's least fave because they use a shitty custodian for payments but are handy for a few cards. Spend and earn some sats back: https://foldapp.com - save up to 20% Starbucks, Uber, Target , whole foods , Dunkin https://www.lolli.com – save up to 30% by spending BTC anywhere but primarily USA stores https://satsback.com/stores-list - save up to 20% by spending BTC anywhere but primarily Europe stores.

colmoreilly

USA

ZannyNanny23

I would say ur about rite, I'm looking at the ai plays because if Bitcoin and eth had a baby it would be bittensorTAO I'm so bullish on bittensorTAO and chain link plus a few others and especially eth but I would dca in there and don't forget the stock plays like treasure company and stay away from ai infrastructure because the USA is gonna default on it and bail them out to own it .. jus saying the past will happen the same way jus a lil bit different

Proxyplanet

If you are outside the distribution zone set for France your orders get routed through a 'trusted' third party in the USA. People seem to have no idea what third party logistic companies are and the vast majority of companies use them

evnsbn

You're probably live in the USA. Do you know that are another countries with different wages and stuff, right?

Jtenka

In the USA it would have been guns in your face. I remember that couple in Dubai ending up in the desert chopped up. I don't think it really matters what country you are in, this sort of thing seems to be happening all over the world.

usedmattress85

Yeah I’m Canadian. We’ve have ETFs years before the USA. I’ve always held my BTC in an ETF, mostly because you can do it in a Tax Free Savings Account so tax free profit. Whereas pure BTC you cannot. Choice is obvious. Plus I’m a dumbass that really can’t be trusted with the keys.

Whoa1Whoa1

> usbc is going to be the standard 50 years from now..it isn't Unless battery technology changes significantly, USB-C will still be perfect for all devices smaller than a desktop computer. Same goes for wall sockets. USA wall sockets are 120 volts with 15 amps or 20 amps. Those wall sockets are very likely to continue to be used 50 years into the future unless something absolutely revolutionary is discovered. Small devices don't need more than 48 volts. I really doubt that would change in 50 years. Why would small devices in 50 years from now need more than 48 volts? If anything, technology evolves to be more efficient with what it has. Not less efficient. Raspberry Pi 5's and laptops can be powered with USB-C. A futuristic device that does tons of random things, like some hypothetical combination between a coffee maker, alarm clock, humidifier, computer, keyboard, tablet, and toaster all in one could still be powered with just a USB-C cable unless you are running literally all the functions at the same time. USB-C is really a god send in power delivery negotiation in either way up a huge amount of watts. The only thing that possibly needs to be fixed is making sure every device that has a USB-C port has them clearly marked if they want to do video transfer. That isn't the fault of the cable though, that's on the devices. Only older USB-C cables that don't support 100 watts might need to be junked.

gihkal

The strategic reserve is temporary. Between the USA's ridiculous spending and the fast changes in government nobody can say what will become if the coins they hold. It wouldn't surprise me at all if government ineptitude ended up burning the coins or more likely they're heisted.

Good-Hand-8140

Nice write up I didn't catch this news. I appreciate no AI or article copy paste. Also the movie2k vase is new to so so I'm going to look into it. Honestly, the strategic reserve has really created an incentive structure for the USA gov agencies to go after various criminal organizations around the world. DNMs, Scam compounds, Russian/European stealer/ransomware groups and other crypto scams. Idk how that impacts the market, must be good right? Only ones I haven't seen hit is DPKR (obviously) and russian drainer providers. I don't know why, maybe the drainer providers are too small of a fish (7-8 figs) to attempt to extradite theme from Russia?

ahfoo

That statement is pulled out of your ass. Solar panel recycling is global. In bumfuck USA this may be true, but the EU recycles 80% and China claims even higher figures

dimwittedude

To answer the first part, from my POV PoW is not ethical. We can't "waste" energy and all the work that comes in with the production of energy, to "mine" something that produces no real good and can be replaced with something like PoS. Having said that, the concentration problem that you mention is at the end of the day the well know 51% attack. It would still require country like levels of money (USA, China).

UAP44

the USD is by far funding the most wars/violence/deaths/killing I bet you how many countries did the USA invade and get away with due to the proper PR force in place to make it all look justified in the west?

MContent_Official

When youve got out, as few years later, they'll bring it in and legalise it. Kinda like Trump putting on tariff's on anyone buying Russian oil and gas, so the price tanks and then Trump buys Russian oil and gas for the USA market. They hate and ban anything until it suits themselves and their own pocket.

Anon_kidd

Lawyer? I’m not from the USA I even tried reaching out through CFpB that was not supported in my country and explained everything Still they closed my complaint

songbolt

Isn't Ledger a French company? Good luck finding a lawyer in Small Town USA to sue them and get your money back...

Full-Sound-6269

In USA gains from every trade are taxed, tf u talking about :D

EquivalentSociety115

I imagine it has to do with it being an official reseller and not being in the USA or Europe, but se Asia . Almost certainly will be opened at customs because of tariffs giving a vector for tampering.

crimeo

> Do you mean the smart contracts that get hacked about once per week? I'm not aware of ANY of the major ETH staking pools that have been hacked. Lido Finance, Rocket Pool, StakeWise, etc all have never been hacked and have multiple auditors > You're trusting the contract to allow you to get your coins back at a future date. Having confidence in open source, heavily audited code (and you can audit it yourself too) is not "trust". Trust means having some sort of blind risk or belief without evidence. Open available code has zero trust required. Or even if you do define trust that way yourself to include open source code, then guess what bucko? BTC requires "Trust" then too, by the exact same token that it's open source code that you need to believe works securely. > You absolutely do NOT have full custody when you put your ETH into one of these contracts. Entering into a contract is non-custodial. You do not give up keys, nobody else has control over your tokens except in the ways explicitly outlined in the contract, which you're fine with, since you looked at it and agreed. And these contracts do not allow anyone to go do a 51% attack or blah blah. > Got it, you're worried about a hypothetical future. A guaranteed future by basic laws of supply and demand shown to work for hundreds of years. If a coin doesn't do halvings, then it's a bit more unsure, but with halvings like bitcoin, it's blatantly obvious and guaranteed. > Energy could be purchase in Kazakhstan for pennies of what they're paying in USA, so clearly this is not about energy cost The profit margin just isn't slim enough yet. With more halvings, it is guaranteed to get slimmer, at which point you MUST go to kazakhstan at some point to literally even be able to mine without taking a loss. E.g. if the energy price difference is 4 cents per kwh between the two places, and the margin on mining is only 3 cents per kwh spent mining, then mining in the place that's 4 cents more expensive becomes impossible. Not "non preferable", *impossible*, as you would lose at least 1 cent per kwh not make any profit at all. > Yes mining gives you influence over consensus, but buying a PoW coin does NOT. So what? Again, the equivalent to staked coins is ASICs. Talking about owning PoW coins is simply off topic and has nothing to do with anything I'm saying. Who cares?

BlueBirdsUnlimited

The USA sold confiscated Bitcoin.

_rmradziq0308

Idk man. College is a scam for a certain degree but some profession like Doctor, Engineer, Lawyer and Accountant REALLY need a college to survive. Profession that require more than : Trust Me Bro basically. Plus not sure how it was in the USA but most of the times, those who are in this fields have a scholarship. At least in my country's Uni. 9 out of 10 local student were under scholarship.

Bobbsen

That’s not true at all. Resellers exist outside of the USA lol