Official Cryptocurrency Thread: Skepticism to Speculation to FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

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  1. user15000

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    You absolutely won't get fucked over. Fees are a little high.
     
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  2. Cabs

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    i wouldnt go this far. if you look at the coinbase subreddit its nothing but people having problems withdrawing, getting no response from customer service, etc

    https://old.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/
     
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  3. Penguin The Duck

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    Coinbase support is terrible and the IRS is all in their business. So be prepared to report whatever you send through those exchanges in the future and definitely answer “yes” when the irs asks if you’ve invested in crypto when filing.
     
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  4. Wee Bey

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    Use Coinbase. It's perfectly fine.
     
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  5. dblplay1212

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    That's any company on the planet. People bitch when they have issues and don't say a word when things work correctly.
     
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  6. momux

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    For what it's worth, my hunch on the Coinbase stuff is that it's a lot of people who got coins prior to some of the more stringent Know Your Customer/Anti Money Laundering rules out there.

    Now that BTC is in a huge run up, they're logging in and looking to cash out, but Coinbase has a specific process that requires verification prior to conversion to fiat and withdrawal. Given the high volume, they are probably running a bit behind.

    Feel like a corporate shill here, but I've never had any issues depositing/buying/withdrawing.
     
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  7. southside

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    I mean coinbase crashes every time there's an ATH. There's no denying that. The first big dip back on thanksgiving weekend they were down for 10 hours.
     
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  8. Baseballman86

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    Re: Coinbase

    last week I got an email from them saying they had accidentally duplicated a recent purchase I made and sure enough the amount came out of my bank account twice. 2 days later they had refunded the amount and all was well. Customer service was fine for me
     
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    Coinbase has had it’s rare bugs for me (today when Bitcoin hit 40k for example) but otherwise I’ve found it’s incredibly easy to use and user friendly. Fees are a tad high.
     
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  10. user15000

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    Hint: it will be worth more than all of these
     
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  13. Cabs

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    :laugh:
     
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  16. Ty Webb

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    As a banker, no doubt this is causing them a ton of headaches. Not sure people outside of the finance world fully understand the amount of BS involved.
     
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  17. Penguin The Duck

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    Which if you use Bisq, you’re bypassing all that headache and get your cash immediately deposited from Zelle, among many other options.

    Coinbase claims their wallets are 99% safe at all times, but someone can still hack your login credentials and steal your funds and get your account info. Not your keys, not your wallet. If any of you are using Coinbase as your wallet then that’s a different story.


    Don’t tinfoil hat me. For those saying Coinbase is fine, you’re correct. There’s just better, safer, and quicker alternatives.
     
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  18. War Grundle

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    If I wanted to start investing in Crypto where is the best place to start?
     
  19. kentucky_dawg

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    Such as?
     
  20. Wee Bey

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    Other than dbl selling 25k ago, who else is selling now? You think you can time the market?
     
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  21. Penguin The Duck

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    BISQ

    Safer in the sense that you don't link your personal info, and the funds are sent to your secured wallet. Your keys, your wallet. You hack my coinbase account, you have my info. You hack my laptop or computer with Bisq installed, you don't have my private keys and I lose nothing.

    Quicker in the sense that buying/selling is instant once both parties fulfill their end of the exchange. And if you're selling, it comes over as a Zelle transfer, which is again, quicker than Gemini or Coinbase doing ACH transfers.
     
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  22. Guns

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    I’m holding out for another 10 years. Need that $1 million BTC
     
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  23. Penguin The Duck

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    It's really not that hard to use. You'll have a limit at first. GUI looks like Napster or an early 2000s software program. It is peer-to-peer after all.
     
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  24. Wee Bey

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    BISQ is an exchange that has a built-in, offline wallet?
     
  25. kentucky_dawg

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    But this assumes you have a secure wallet already, correct? Can't you just transfer to your secure wallet via coinbase as well?
     
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  26. Wee Bey

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    Those new to crypto, I think it's best to think of yourself as a broker, a bank, a bank teller, and the depositor.

    1) Broker = buys crypto via exchange
    2) Depositor = deposits crypto into an account
    3) Bank = offline wallet (account)
    4) Teller = sends crypto to offline wallet
     
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  27. Penguin The Duck

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    But read the first part of the sentence. The part you didn't bold. You're buying/selling on a website that ultimately controls your wallet and access to that wallet and all your personal info.



    Bisq does not hold your bitcoin or cash.

    And yes, everything should be moved over to a hardware wallet.

    https://bisq.network/faq/#how-bisq-different
     
  28. Penguin The Duck

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    Also, I don't plan to sell in 2021. Watching Square closely. They are in acquisition mode and also big investors in the BTC market right now. Worldwide POS platform and payment processor investing in Bitcoin, and integrating with Quickbooks and other sales platforms.
     
  29. Heavy Mental

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    any of you gentlemen know if there is way to increase the transfer limits into Coinbase Wallet?

    right now it is saying i am capped at $5,000. transfer would be coming from Coinbase (not Coinbase Wallet), if that makes a difference.
     
  30. user15000

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    Guys, they’re still on parade
     
  32. kentucky_dawg

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    So, essentially you're saying for auditing purposes they wouldn't be able to pin point transactions to you personally through Bisq (where they could through the other exchanges), correct? Not dismissing anything, either, just trying to get a better understanding of what's out there.
     
  33. Penguin The Duck

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    Correct. But I wouldn't be using Bisq solely for this reason.

    Bisq can't record or send your transaction history to the IRS. Coinbase can and has done so in the past.
     
  34. Whammy

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    So many people are going to lose money as a result......frothy doesn't being to describe equities or Crypto at the moment. Caveat that I'm invested in crypto but doing so very cautiously
     
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  35. user15000

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    On a long enough time horizon, I don’t think anyone is losing money in btc, nor do I think it’s particularly overvalued or frothy right now.

    The CIO of Guggenheim says they think the fair price is $400k. I’m perfectly fine buying at $40k.
     
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    eli5 why I should move crypto to my wallet versus just leaving in coinbase?
     
  38. Guns

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    someone hacks your account and sends Bitcoin to their wallet. Bitcoin gone.
     
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  39. Guns

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    you should absolutely have 2FA enabled on your Coinbase account at the minimum
     
  40. momux

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    I mean someone could hack your Wells Fargo account too, but you still leave money in your checking account. I'm not saying I'd leave coins on any random exchange, but I think the fact that Coinbase and Gemini are the front runners who are complying with government regulations (i.e. IRS notifications) is a stronger reason to just leave the money there.

    Taking your coins offline has risks too. Losing your passkeys, misplacing the wallet, etc. It's the digital version of burying gold bricks in your backyard.

    I do agree with you for sure on the 2FA though.
     
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  41. wes tegg

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    You're talking about tax fraud here, FWIW.
     
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  42. Penguin The Duck

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    No, I'm not.

    I said this is not a good reason to use Bisq. And have said to mark YES on your tax return at least once, regardless of how you acquired your crypto.
     
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  43. zachary

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    now that i got my stimulus im hesitant to invest it into bitcoin. someone talk me back into it
     
  44. Guns

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    can you doing anything to secure CoinBase’s default wallet?
     
  45. momux

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    You can transfer to your own wallet or pay Coinbase to put it in cold storage.
     
  46. burnttatertot

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    Those spams that threaten to release the videos of you masturbating lay it out pretty well.
     
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  47. user15000

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    I got off the bus today at 41. May jump back in later. -dear diary
     
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    Cash app and PayPal are super easy for Bitcoin buying and selling for those less tech savvy. PayPal isn’t really a wallet so you can’t deposit or withdraw the coins there(yet) but still gives you access to Bitcoin investing in a simple interface.

    cash app in general is a great app with lots of nifty features that are kind of fun, specifically boosts. Right now I get 1 percent return on all my purchases w cash app as btc. It’s capped at like $10, but it’s fun nonetheless. I use my cash app digital debit card for different subscriptions so that I don’t get boned after cancelling and what not. If you don’t have cash app lets party
    https://cash.app/app/BQGTKQH

    FYI I don’t exclusively use cash app for btc trading, only specific times and places. It’s fast and simple so it does the trick in a pinch. But I’m also on Gemini, Binance, and have an old Coinbase account collecting dust.

    Also my apologies to the thread, in November I said I expected ~25% increase in btc price by end of year. That was beat and idk if it’s actually going to slow down much until a few more key numbers are broken through. And I’m still of the mind that this settles at at least 100k and likely closer to 5x that than anything less.

    also funny that there is much less condescension from random drive -bys in this thread when we are at all time highs. Makes me think the fomo bump will also be buttressing this institutional investor run.