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  1. johnarb

    Tether: What part of this balance sheet do we not believe?

    True if in the US, but I can speak to where I'm at in Asia, usdt is an alternative to a dollar (eurodollars) bank account and holding physical $ bills There's a robust trading market for Usdt here and my guess is that a local would rather have their savings in 10, 100 or 1000 usdt versus...
  2. johnarb

    El Salvador, the failed Bitcoin experience

    It's a nice list you have there, but you should consider adding more, like how about some Rolexes?
  3. johnarb

    Strike launches global money app to 3 billion people in over 65 countries

    Competition for Strike... prolly nothing
  4. johnarb

    In Texas idling rigs make more than mining crypto

    A more detailed article in Feburary 2023 I like the comparison to Amazon data centers... there is no other industry that can be paid off to curtail power usage https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/03/winter-storm-descends-on-texas-bitcoin-miners-shut-off-to-protect-ercot.html
  5. johnarb

    In Texas idling rigs make more than mining crypto

    I'm not informed on power grid and all this stuff, but I saw a video one time that made sense to me on this grid stabilization Before and After the Bitcoin miners in Texas Before the Bitcoin miners Let's put some examples and of course these are made up numbers, but just going after concepts...
  6. johnarb

    Any tools for automation crypto arbitrage routine?

    Yea, not aware of this opportunity, either, sorry
  7. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    There's a lot of evidence that Chainalysis (the company) is a clusterfuck company that's putting innocent people in jail Money-laundering, government contractors, ex governent officials running a company that is political tool to be used for going after their political enemies My advise is...
  8. johnarb

    El Salvador to host 44 countries to discuss Bitcoin

    The global risk-free asset US Treasuries are down 30% like a ponzi while the best performing government debt is...... El Salvador! up 70%!!! Prolly nothing... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-15/bitcoin-touting-bukele-s-bond-rally-draws-jpmorgan-eaton-vance#xj4y7vzkg
  9. johnarb

    Tether: What part of this balance sheet do we not believe?

    RedDuke, USDT is digital US $ that is a bearer asset and works 24/7 As someone who recently moved to Asia, I have US $ deposits in US banks, physical US $ bills and USDT and without hesitation, USDT has been the best out of all 3 US $ US $ is performing very well against other fiat currencies...
  10. johnarb

    Tether: What part of this balance sheet do we not believe?

    Lots of brain-dead posters on here commenting about Tether when they have no idea of the SCALE of its GLOBAL business Tether USDT settled over 7 TRILLION USD value on-chain last year. This is not counting Tether-crypto trading volume I know someone who who purchased a vehicle worth over US...
  11. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    https://www.coingecko.com/en/crypto-gainers-losers
  12. johnarb

    Bitcoin BIP 300 (and 301) drivechains

    I would not support the BIPs but if they fork Bitcoin-core and put this on the fork I would support this right away and will buy miners and start mining again! LFG!!!
  13. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    iBe careful, mate, always look at the volume. CMC shows $71 in the past 24 hour volume :D My threshold volume is $2M in the last 24 hours for a good crypto pump, unless it's one of the newly issued coins, Also, 1D and 7D are good indicators if the up move came in the last 24 hours and could...
  14. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    This is deanonymizing tor, good stuff, but we're actually discussing the simpler clearnet IP's TOR is a honeypot for the 3-letter agencies and their partner nations due to their control of the exit nodes, they collect passwords and other stuff unrelated to Bitcoin But tor is useful for Bitcoin...
  15. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    I've given up on ever seeing it :D To be honest, I was excited to see it, as it would have enhanced my knowledge of the Bitcoin network operations ..would not have affected me since I run a proxy (anon vps) on my Bitcoin core wallet https://bitlaunch.io/
  16. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    Cool... Glad to hear that 2013-2014 were very good years for LocalBitcoins... I even did side hustles, easy arb 10-15% spread on the buy-sell, was hitting different MoneyGram pickup locations Until I saw on the news some arrests, something something lack of MSB license I have no advise for...
  17. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    Known issue but not a shred of info on where or how to find it?
  18. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    Haha, for shorting with a stop, I think a CEX would be the easiest way to do it There's a less risky way to short if it's listed at a borrow-lend platform but the stop would be manual (mental) And it's all through the crypto wallet interaction here are the steps and let me know if you have...
  19. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    By the way, please tell your imaginary source that she/he is a fraud and a LIAR Your imaginary source can defend him/her self by posting an image of the IP address on the Bitcoin tx details or blockchain
  20. johnarb

    Biden administration unveils new crypto tax reporting rules

    If you're such good friends, can you please have him throw us all a little tiny bone and show a snippet on where the IP address is present on the Bitcoin tx details or Bitcoin blockchain? You know full well that Google is talking about the Bitcoin blockchain transparent open ledger, same as...
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