I can attest that I live in a business area. I can't remember how many coffee shops and restaurants closed, or how many didn't even last a year. And there are three junk shops in the same area, and they've been there for decades. Junk shops can be considered a stable business because there will always be junk materials coming in.

If you are not particular about the smells and the mess associated with junk shops. If you know how to handle this business, you can have it running for many years.

Used goods sellers are not taken lightly especially by looking at the shop which is shabby because it is full of junk... but do not know how the money circulation there is much greater than other shops, the owner also has luxury items that others do not have, this is what I see in my own area.

People sell used goods there, they also buy used goods in that shop too, plus if there is an active item then it will have a high value and become a bone of contention for consumers who want to buy it.

The article reads that $4m is the amount they can reasonably pay. I believe that means that DOJ were never getting $112.5m off Paxful. Pleading guilty would surely also have had a part to play in the reduction of the penaties.
That is a difficult one. I don't think i would ever want to trade my BTC on social media, neither would i recommend it. I also hope that us not the where we are headed with the everlasting attack on privacy services.

They still have asset since issue is not about lacking of funds or insolvency.

They are so smart to do counter action towards the situation they are facing and they just plead guilty just to lower down their penalties and other obligations.

What's crazy is there's none criminal charges filed against Youssef, but rather the charges has been filed to his co - founder which he admit that he fail to implement proper KYC control.

Restaurants, coffee shops, and luxurious shops after years get outdated, old-fashioned, and very competitive. If the owners do not upscale into the latest trends, they get kicked out of the market by other competitors. But junk shops, on the other hand, are less competitive, and people feel the business is a dirty business, they dont want to do. Such a business doesnt get saturated, and it lasts for a long time.

In my country, this business is no longer considered trivial, given the reality of luxury homes on an island where the majority of residents operate junkshop businesses in other areas. So there's a joke: "To clean up a war-torn country, leave it to the junkshop businessmen."

If the manager also has repair skills, especially for electronics, that's another advantage.

What is interesting is how these junk shops are not too many across the streets that it creates that much competitions which threating the existence of some others whereby terminating them in the way that the restaurants, tea shops and what have you are littered across the streets and are turned to memory.

And with these thrift shops selling second hand goods and merchandise the price are pocket friendly for buyers and most durable than those high-end stores with high prices that very few people can afford to patronise.

Not just many of us, but all of us are drawn to bitcoin, primarily because of its profit potential. But as Darker45 said, there's nothing to be ashamed of because we live in a pragmatic world where money is considered the top priority.

The problem is that there are too many hypocrites, people who not only pretend to be Bitcoin believers or feign interest in the technology, decentralization, or the philosophy of financial freedom. But ironically, they are ready to attack anyone who dares to openly say that Bitcoin is primarily a tool for speculation and making money.

The truth is, we all love Bitcoin for its profit potential, and all those lofty ideals are just a facade to cover up our own greed.

This is what actually the goal of people for using Bitcoin. You can track the sentiments of people towards the discussion happening in this forum, many point out that they are really for investment and aiming to get profit for either trading it or holding this coin for long term. We can't blame everyone to think that way since Bitcoin volatile movement is promising and can deliver those results what people look forward to happen.

Technology would just come up and later on people will adopt on it changes especially if it happens that merchants and other institutions would adopt it and use Bitcoin to be their one of alternative currency accepted on their platform or shops.

In all honesty, a lot of us here remain for bitcoin due to the fact that it potentially build us to be profitable in the long run. That's everyone's target here, and I must say even those higher class in their society, they still stick to bitcoin to accumulate more wealth by increasing their bitcoin portfolio until it reaches their goal target.

But if you are here for technology alone, you're one of an ideal, but I can't think how long you will be able to stay that way while majority are already enjoying the profits they gained from bitcoin.

If the person know his or her right, he should sue the gambling site, especially if the gambling site did not allow him or her to withdraw his winning. I know some gambling site can be that dubious. Value bet is not something wrong at all, it is the gambling site that should amend loopholes instead.

If it were part of a money laundering network or a larger mixer, it would have been managed more professionally (UI, good marketing, creative ideas, zero fees, etc.), but it is more like those phishing links that are created daily in the hope of a $10 or $100 scam.

Just like on our forum, the crypto community on other social networks is also divided into two sides. One group believes in the 4year cycle and argues that Bitcoin has risen x8 from its 2022 lows, and now is the right time for BTC to enter a bear market again. Meanwhile, another group including Grayscale, CZ or Bernstein Investment Company believes that the market structure has changed and the 4year cycle is no more. Many believe that Bitcoin will reach $170k to $200k in the next 6 to 12 months.

Overall, the market remains the same, there are always conflicting opinions, and each person simply chooses to side with the viewpoint they believe is correct. Only time will tell.

I think in the near future, we will have more prediction platforms similar to Polymarket, and they will be specifically for the cryptocurrency market. Many projects are preparing to launch.

That is excellent point that not only so-called HODLers are the only heroes of Bitcoin, but early sellers, traders, and platform builders were equally important since without them, no one would have succeeded in making Bitcoin successful. It is almost impossible to find early user who did not sell, and system needed those who sold their cheap coins to give liquidity and to set first market price. These first sellers and people who created first exchanges were heroes of action and use since they showed that it was possible to truly use Bitcoin and it stopped being simple idea and became working world money.

Bitcoin hit ATH before the halving in this cycle and the reason is because of ETFs involvement. That somewhat makes the bitcoin cycle no longer true but to assert this model is outdated and old. We need more data, and more precisely, we need to wait until the end of the year to see if bitcoin is really entering a new cycle or is simply going through a temporary change.

Many people like you believe this time will be different and we will reach ATH in 2026 instead of bear market like other years. However, I think that although things have changed, it is not significant and the market cycle will repeat itself.

Let's wait and see who will be right.

This makes me wonder if it is easy to obtain a platform exchange script without needing to build it robustly, otherwise how can this wave continue? What i see is a trend of lunching exchangers at the point I think either it's easier to do so without any background expertise or they are all lunched by the same group since we see the same design even in ANN threads.

I find it necessary to rise red flags in every thread belonging to what called "exchange pandemic".

Even if they were months apart, they could still easily get noticed

All these 4 exchangers are probably under the control of one person or the same group of people. Even the way they are designed almost looks the same
1. badalpay.exchange - ANN --> BadalPay.exchange - Secure, Simple, and Accessible CryptoExchange
2. sahalwallet.net - ANN --> SahalWallet.net - Fast and Secure Crypto Exchange
3. Kamilexchange.com - ANN --> KAMIL exchange - Best Courses, USDT / MoneyGo / EVCplus / SAHAL / ZAAD ect.

Notice the posting patterns in all those threads. It kind of reminds me of this exchange pandemic

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Disagree. I don’t think it’s hard to practice at all. If you believe only a few end up addicted while the majority are just having fun, that’s because most people actually do gamble responsibly. It’s not our problem, and not even the government’s problem, if some still fail. That’s on them. They made the mistake, not the system.

I wasn't referring to you, it was a general statement address to the sore losers.

If that’s really how people felt and how governments saw it, gambling would already be banned worldwide. But the truth is only a few actually complain, not because casinos are harming them, but because they caused the problem themselves. Responsible gambling really is a simple principle, only bet what you can afford to lose, yet many gamblers still ignore that. That’s why they end up with consequences.

You can’t put all the blame on the casino. It’s like liquor. The bottle literally says drink moderately, but if someone drinks too much, gets drunk, drives, and crashes, you can’t blame the liquor itself.

The mistake if you do business in a business that has a short trend, I mean you need to analyze the business itself in the long term or in the short term, someone can see the potential period of time the trend will last according to demand and supply then balanced with needs, there are many variables that must be studied before deciding to invest in a business like this, if you have a good calculation that will create a large profit in a short period of time that is the advantage, just like the narrative hype in the crypto market is in the same concept.

In the analysis, it needs to be added whether this business will produce products / services that will always be needed by the community or not in the long run, it must be a sharp mind, because it will determine how long you will maintain the business to be developed to be even bigger, or vice versa it will be in a short number hype scheme then it is necessary to be aware when the bubble is very large then there needs to be preparation to not lose more.

Its hard to stay in profits when everyone around is already riding the trend and doing business. You may be in profits when the trend is still alive, but when it dies, businesses end up struggling. That is why its risky to build a business just to please the trend, because it always come and go. You're lucky if you have made life-changing profits when the trend is at its peak, but if you're still in the process of recovering your investment funds when suddenly the trend vanish, that's when big problems arise. Get a business that is for long term trend, not just short-lived trends that suddenly enter and leave the market.