Cryptocurrency Monthly Skeptics Discussion - December, 2018

Monthly Skeptics Discussion - December, 2018
Daily Discussion Megathread - December 18, 2018
French crypto tax plan just got rejected. French will need to pay 60% if cashout more than 30k$. INSANE.
New US Chief of Staff: Bitcoin is Good, ‘Not Manipulable by Any Government’
The problem with some of the "blockchain" projects
Warning. Scammers are out there.
BTC Price Driven by Speculation not Utility
One step closer to mainstream: Sending crypto transactions to an email address
Substratum's Founder admits on Day-Trading with their ICO ETH holdings
Iranian Students in UK Choose Bitcoin to Circumvent US Sanctions
Not going to lie, I totally thought this was a prior year Bitcoin price chart until I caught the title.
Take a gamble on blockchain - how FunFair is building provably fair and low-cost casinos
Digital Asset Inheritance — Safe Haven’s TFC (The Family Circle) Plan - What would happen to your funds if you passed today?
This payment method is simple, fast and dynamic.
Current overview of Western Masternodes running the High Performance Blockchain MainNet. (Locations - Specifications and Pictures)
9 Best Decentralized Exchanges That You Can Use To Trade NOW
Blockchain is here to stay, another LEGEND, Stephen WOLFRAM, joins a crypto project as an technical advisor.
New US Chief Of Staff A Bitcoin Supporter
Aergo (AERGO) Gets Listed on KuCoin!
The reason why IOTA will ultimately succeed - Chris Mueller
Today: Tether supposedly has the necessary reserves
Buildings taking shape on the VR blockchain platform, Decentraland.
AERGO is Listed on Kucoin, GOPAX, Bilaxy, and HotBit. Thursday KORBIT Debut with 200k Trading Competition on GOPAX & Bilaxy
Arthur Hayes says ” 24/7 Trading Of All Types of Assets Is The Future”
Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, and the Growing Importance of Crypto in Political Censorship
Malaysia Files Criminal Charges Against Goldman Sachs
The ENTIRE crypto space only has a marketcap of 100B. Do you realize how small that is? There are single COMPANIES that have larger MCs. L’Oreal: 135B Volkswagen: 101B Adobe: 119B Nike: 110B

Monthly Skeptics Discussion - December, 2018

Posted: 30 Nov 2018 11:33 PM PST

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Daily Discussion Megathread - December 18, 2018

Posted: 17 Dec 2018 09:49 PM PST

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French crypto tax plan just got rejected. French will need to pay 60% if cashout more than 30k$. INSANE.

Posted: 17 Dec 2018 06:11 PM PST

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New US Chief of Staff: Bitcoin is Good, ‘Not Manipulable by Any Government’

Posted: 17 Dec 2018 04:24 AM PST

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The problem with some of the "blockchain" projects

Posted: 18 Dec 2018 02:52 AM PST

I am so done with those scammers, I had a really bad experience with unikoin

I signed up to unikrn a while ago because I was interested in betting on the blockchain. I know a bit about esports and I won most of the bets I did.

After just 2 days in the morning I tried looking at the last game results and it said I had no historical or pending bets. Funds withdrawal didn't work either. So I tried in private tab mode, thinking that maybe something did not work properly on my side. Couldn't log in there. So I tried logging out and logging in without private tab and could not log back in with an error asking me to contact support. So I suppose I got locked out of their platform.

I contacted support and I have to say they responded very quickly, but they were not able to tell me a reason (I wrote to Lukas B, who was very friendly, but still couldn't help). They said they would try to solve "the problem" with their dev team. My big problem however was, that I couldn't only not see my past bets or do any new ones, but since I got kicked out of their platform completely, I had no access to my funds at all. I am very anxious in this regard, because I had the same problem at another betting site and lost all my money. Thought those problems were solved with blockchain technology ☹ ). They solved this problem quite quickly after I threatened to go public with the problem.

Now, before I continue, you should know that their KYC process is the worst I have seen in the industry. It takes forever!

Now, last week (after some more won bets) they wrote me they checked my account and I needed to do some more extensive KYC. And again: They blocked access to all of my funds completely. I have done KYC, I have been playing and then they blocked me. And they want me to go through the KYC process all over again?!

I'm not sure, what I am expecting to get out of this reddit post, I guess want to see if this is a common problem at unikrn and anyone else has experienced this. I also wanted to make this public as early as possible, so I have the maximum time to react in case something goes really wrong. I am really annoyed and I start to think that all this "blockchain technology" stuff is just marketing blah-blah.

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Warning. Scammers are out there.

Posted: 18 Dec 2018 12:07 AM PST