The well known businesses in crypto industry, BitGo, BitPay, Bitrue, Bitso, Bitstamp, Blockchain.com, Brave, BTC Markets, CipherTrace, Coinone, Crypto.com, Huobi, Independent Reserve, Liquid, Ripple and many more are doing a partnership to bring an universal PaymentID system where users be able to send and receive cash and crypto interchangeably and globally.
If anyone can make global crypto adoption possible, it's this partnership. What impact do you think this would make?

source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/ripple-brave-and-huobi-join-instant-global-payments-network-payid

I haven't seen anybody post about what would be my biggest worry if I were trying out alternative block chains. I realize this may be perceived as "Gavin is FUD'ding anything that isn't bitcoin!" (FUD == Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) But I think some of you might be forgetting some basic computer security fundamentals in the excitement to be early adopters.

When I first heard about bitcoin, my questions were:

1. Can it possibly work (do the ideas for how it works make sense)?
2. Is it a scam?
3. If it is not a scam, could it open my computer up to viruses/trojans if I run it?

I answered those questions by:

1. Reading and understanding Satoshi's whitepaper. Then thinking about it for a day or two and reading it again.
2. Finding out everything I could about the project. I read every forum thread here (there were probably under a hundred threads back then) and read Satoshi's initial postings on the crypto mailing list.
3. Downloaded and skimmed the source code to see if it looked vulnerable to buffer overflow or other remotely exploitable attacks.

If I were going to experiment with an alternative block-chain, I'd go through the same process again. But I'm an old conservative fuddy-duddy.

If you want to take a risk on a brand-new alternative block-chain, I'd strongly suggest that you:

1. Run the software in a virtual machine or on a machine that doesn't contain anything valuable.
2. Don't invest more money or time than you can afford to lose.
3. Use a different passphrase at every exchange site.

Followers = Referrals. That's mean that you can get money saying people to visit some page, for example an Faucet, or an Exchange that gives you money for referrals.
Or you can try another ways, for example:

• Connect with advertisers that are willing to sponsor influential Instagram users.
• Earn commissions for selling other companies’ products or capturing leads
• Or promote Your Business, Products Or Services
• Sell Your Photos
  Or the last thing you can do is:
• Sell Your Instagram Account
  Any way good luck!

Followers = Referrals. That's mean that you can get money saying people to visit some page, for example an Faucet, or an Exchange that gives you money for referrals.
Or you can try another ways, for example:

• Connect with advertisers that are willing to sponsor influential Instagram users.
• Earn commissions for selling other companies’ products or capturing leads
• Or promote Your Business, Products Or Services
• Sell Your Photos
  Or the last thing you can do is:
• Sell Your Instagram Account
  Any way good luck!

I realized the little friends I have are valuable to me cuz we understand each other and I appreciated it by calling them rather than being the usual me who doesn't normally care much about the friends that he does have and instead tries to win over new friends.

not that I don't care I'm usually a depressed person and focus on things that are not there and I believe this way I will never be satisfied and have to live my whole life waiting, while if I just see the things I have I can immediately plan to build them and refine them.

when we focus on the things that are not there we are always missing something but when the focus is on the things that we do have, we actually have things.

All in all, I think we can become much better and satisfied people in our lives if we focus on the things that are already there for us and build them, refine them.

Have a good day!

Owh felling very excited to me even almost every more free time i love BIKE drive. Personally i have no car but i am happy for traveling long in my bike.

Good news for people who love privacy and security! Bad news for black-hat hackers and government surveillance agencies. WhatsApp, the wildly popular messaging app, has partnered with the crypto gurus at Open WhisperSystems to implement strong end-to-end encryption on all WhatsApp text messages–meaning not even Zuck himself to pry into your conversations, even if a court order demands it.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/18/end-to-end-for-everyone/

I need suggestions to new nike sneakers...Any ideas??

I am well aware of coins with controlled inflation like BTC, where a finite number of coins will be generated at a controlled rate. Very recently I came across deflationary tokens where coins are destroyed whenever a transaction is made and they will end at some time.
My question is what is the purpose of creating such coins? Are they worthy enough to be invested?

I am big-time follower of ethereum from initial days I was holding ethereum even the price less than 100$ and also I was holding ethereum at the price of 1200$. But based on recent development i am highly speculative ethereum price after 2.0 release. Once POS introduced the problem of scalability will be solved Maximum supply will be fixed. So I am slowly investing on ethereum from my savings part by part reasons are below

1. Inflation in global currency or fiat currency ( ethereum and bitcoin is the best alternative investment solution )
2. Ethereum is the best Smart contract creation platform holding major DAPP's in market
3. Real-world use case

Do not rely on this, it's just news that could or could not happen. Yesterday news broke regarding the strong possibility that PayPal and Venmo, the two notable fintech companies are both moving to add direct crypto and Bitcoin trading capabilities to their users, what do you think will happen if this comes true???
I like the fact that this is happening and DeFi projects are doing their thing too

So I've recently seen a video and read an article that explains how to host a lightning node on raspberry pi3.

Aside from the benefit of strengthening the ecosystem and helping the technology in general, is it financially worth doing?

Has anyone done it? Can you share some info on gains?

It is a simple yet not easy question to answer: why does bitcoin have value?

Bitcoin has value because it has both scarcity and utility. It is a limited and useful resource. It is important to note that something must be BOTH in order to command a market value, NOT either.

Bitcoin is limited to the software-imposed hard limit of 21,000,000 bitcoin units ever in circulation. It is useful because it allows payment information to be secured by a decentralized computing network backed by magnitudes of raw hashing power. That raw hashing power is energy (electricity) converted into digital utility. Each transaction must compete (fee market) to be included in the next block of transactions which has a limited [block space] due to the block size limit (2MB) imposed on each ~10 minute block.

We can expect both the value to increase and the number of users to increase exponentially so long as the current technology maintains itself and remains both useful and in a limited abundance.

Bitcoin will always retain market value so long as miner nodes are actively contributing their hashing power to secure the network (proof of work).