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  1. johnarb

    Goldman Sachs reportedly jumps on the bitcoin bandwagon

    Morgan Stanley is selling bitcoin investments to their HNW clients, now it's Goldman Sachs. We also got other big players in bitcoin BNY, Blackrock, Guggenheim and Fidelity PayPal, Square and Visa involved in bitcoin and cryptos. Tesla, Microstrategy and Square among a number of corporations...
  2. johnarb

    Bitcoin Price Thread

    Glad you said that. You can back up your opinion in the markets, short bitcoin or the bitcoin futures or soon they'll have micro futures! Put your money where your mouth is, instead of putting all that crypto hate here
  3. johnarb

    Visa Becomes First Major Payments Network to Settle Transactions in USD Coin (USDC)

    The banks (i.e. BofA) make money on the interest. Visa makes money on transaction fees charged to merchants The issue is the $ transfers between banks and Visa take days and the dreaded chargebacks I can see a process where a bitcoin hodler would store 1 btc at Gemini, get yield on the Gemini...
  4. johnarb

    Visa Becomes First Major Payments Network to Settle Transactions in USD Coin (USDC)

    I did answer it, but you're painting a narrative that is incorrect crypto fintech companies <---> Visa (Transaction $ size for each USDC settlement is big making the Eth transaction fees negligible) There's a saying about leading a horse to the water... Also something about trying to wake up...
  5. johnarb

    Visa Becomes First Major Payments Network to Settle Transactions in USD Coin (USDC)

    Pekelo, Pekelo.... It looks liked you're doing research but only see the negatives and limits of this news, why is that? :D This is only the beginning and tbh I don't care if Visa integration stops with fintech companies and not go to the last mile (cryptos hodlers), I see the same benefits...
  6. johnarb

    Visa Becomes First Major Payments Network to Settle Transactions in USD Coin (USDC)

    It's a big deal. You can go on youtube to find out why and go on reddit and go on google
  7. johnarb

    Visa Becomes First Major Payments Network to Settle Transactions in USD Coin (USDC)

    This was already mentioned on another thread but it's an important milestone that it should have its own thread :D Visa Becomes First Major Payments Network to Settle Transactions in USD Coin (USDC) With the direct acceptance of payments in USD Coin, Visa forges new connections between...
  8. johnarb

    The Cryptocurrency Trading Journal

    I have very little Eth, but this is a nice theory on Eth that makes quite a lot of sense. May need to acquire some Eth again...
  9. johnarb

    Dalio - Bitcoin might get banned

    We're having a miscommunication. Please read my post that you replied to. Let me reword it Bitcoin will not crash in the short term due to the limited supplies on the exchanges that keep going lower as big quantities of bitcoins are being withdrawn, (presumably) by institutional buyers *Not...
  10. johnarb

    "Bitcoin sucks for payments"

    I agree with bin, for big $ transactions, native bitcoin on-chain is best due to the unbreakable, unhackable, no outage for 12 years, security of the bitcoin blockchain. You can use bitcoin for buying a Tesla EV or an Oakland A's luxury suite Michael Saylor also mentioned this, if you want to...
  11. johnarb

    Dalio - Bitcoin might get banned

    Bitcoin price won't crash right now, at least not in the next few weeks or so. Could change in the future Too much demand, limited supplies that keep getting depleted. Few understand
  12. johnarb

    The Cryptocurrency Trading Journal

    Article on Bloomberg about crypto yields... https://elitetrader.com/et/threads/crypto-shadow-banking-explained-and-why-12-yields-are-common.357287/
  13. johnarb

    Crypto Shadow Banking Explained and Why 12% Yields Are Common

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-27/crypto-shadow-banking-explained-and-why-12-yields-are-common Crypto Shadow Banking Explained and Why 12% Yields Are Common By Matthew Leising March 27, 2021, 4:30 AM PDT A severe lack of dollars is fueling double-digit interest Bitcoin...
  14. johnarb

    John McAfee indicted in connection with crytpo pump-and-dump scheme

    I see you beating yourself up everyday over missing out on bitcoin, crying in the bathroom or whenever you're alone and I start to feel sorry for you.... then I change my mind and start laughing at you BWAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH
  15. johnarb

    Dalio - Bitcoin might get banned

    Can you tell us how your really feel about bitcoin/cryptos? Please don't hodl back! j/k
  16. johnarb

    The Cryptocurrency Trading Journal

    There are no VC's in Celsius, they did 1 round at bnktothefuture, per my previous post I have no horse in Celsius anymore, I traded all my CEL tokens yesterday to other cryptos, will jump back in when its price starts to move up again edit: you are correct about risk/reward on btc. I have...
  17. johnarb

    The Cryptocurrency Trading Journal

    I think I may have given the impression that I'm a big NFT fan. I'm just dabbling in it. This is play $. I said I don't know when the top will be for NFT I'm only offering the idea that there's $ to be made. I leaked alpha, but I'm no financial advisor, but so it's clear, you can buy an open...
  18. johnarb

    The Cryptocurrency Trading Journal

    Not an expert on this, but from what I understand, it has to do with prime broker/securities lending space Cryptos trade 24/7/365 Wiring takes days between exchanges, cryptos, eth, btc, ltc, USDT, USDC, PAXOS, GUSD, takes minutes or hours at the most to transfer between exchanges Now, imagine...
  19. johnarb

    The Cryptocurrency Trading Journal

    Picked up my 5th NFT today at Niftygateway... I don't know when the top will be for NFT's, but I can tell you what I've been seeing. I buy NFT's (open editions, they are cheaper) and after a a week or 2, they are worth more all 5 of them are worth more even the 1 I picked up today (Jose Delbo...
  20. johnarb

    Dalio - Bitcoin might get banned

    Yup! https://elitetrader.com/et/threads/bitcoins-information-insurgency.357104/ So what the institutions don’t understand is that the bitcoin community has already won. Bitcoiners have infiltrated their ranks. They are the trojan horse. Each bitcoiner is rising in the ranks. They’re gaining...
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