Beware a lot of shady employment practices going on in the low-wage sector of NZ, always people getting busted for paying lower than min wage to foreigners. I've personally never seen a kiwi working at either Subway in my city, and i get it quite often.
In 2020-1 we've seen people making 100%+ returns on ridiculous investments everywhere, so i can see how certain people are falling for to-good-to-be-true schemes.
I think 'Trust the soyence bro' and labeling anything negative about vaccines a conspiracy theory is probably what convinces people on the fence to become anti vaxxers.
This is also prevalent on those very scripted SNL-type 'comedy' channels that always make it to the front page, or vaccine safety videos (YouTube keeps showing me these videos of black people taking/administering vaccines in a propagandized way because they think I'm an African-American antivaxxer?). What's strange is these channels will have millions of subs but very few views, always with about 6:1 downvote:upvote.
Fake astroturfing can be pretty effective, IIRC a tech bro had a bunch of fake Russian twitter accounts follow a republican candidate which generated significant fake news about this candidate being helped by Russia.
Transfers in and out would cause huge source-of-funds type compliance issues and fraud problems, as well as support tickets from users setting the wrong fees and getting scammed. They would've bought something like Bitpay long ago if people cared to transact in crypto. The reality is 99% are happy just to store it on paypal,coinbase, etc and be charged exorbitant fees and hope the price goes up.
So in addition to fleecing me on USD -> AUD with a rip-off exchange rate, they're adding an extra step for users of their fake BTC as well. But really multiple steps because you have to actually buy the fake BTC through PP first. The funny part is that no transaction take place on the blockchain, the BTC is just held at a third-party custodian. This is what VISA is planning too i think.
> Is bitcoin's value negatively affected by difficulty cashing out
If people can't sell isn't that positive for the price? The whole 'hodl' thing is to stop people cashing out. Since crypto has no inherent value, the price is reliant on more people cashing in than out.
My take is that needing on/offramps proves crypto (and coinbase) is nothing but a huge casino at this point. I've been involved for 7 years and i still can't spend my crpto directly or without some serious gymnastics involved. So tired of people saying the tech is new, 'we are early adopters', etc. I'm personally steering clear of coinbase if they go public.
You can redeem stable-coins like True USD or PAX to a US bank account after passing KYC, with 1 token=1 USD. You can redeem up to 60k/day on PAXOS for a $20 flat fee per redemption, on tier 1 KYC.
It also works the other way, so they are an on-ramp, just with a slightly higher fee. However i wouldn't 100% rely on these regulated stable coins as an off-ramp if the crypto market implodes and everybody runs for the exit.
The only promise of bisq is to be woken up at 6am one day with police kicking down your door. That's where criminals go to offload their non-privacy coins for Monero and to drain grandma's bank account.
Presumably you'd have a healthcare plan of some sort, one which politicians have mandated over the years to cover practically everything. You might also keep some savings for this thanks to the fear mongering on MSM, whereas it would be rare to do so in a free healthcare country.
> every inhabitant of a country is entitled to that excellent healthcare
This isn't always true..
In some of these free healthcare countries you can be SOL if you get cancer or a rare condition and don't have money for the latest treatments. Here in New Zealand the wait times are so long that a lot of people just pay for private surgery/screening. My father for example was out of work for almost a year waiting for a hip operation, he irrationally thought he was getting a good deal having it publicly funded.
Gotta be rewarded for your crypto price-boosting tweets somehow. Directly buying and selling btc would be too obvious, just get some anonymous entity to do it for you, then pay you via your silly blockchain artworks.
I'm pretty sure it's primarily poor people buying into crypto, not tech workers. Go to r/cryptocurrency and read the posts, does it look like HN (primarily tech people)? are there any technical discussions, or is it just full of get-rich-quick hopers?
hint: posts mostly consist of "<famous guy> tweeted about <my favourite shitcoin>, this is good for the price of <my favourite shitcoin>".
This must be the 4th time ive seen this app linked here and every time i go to use it THERE IS NO WORKING PRODUCT THAT I CAN USE. Also the hipster tone from the founder of this app makes me cringe every time because it seems very forced.
But that 49% is constantly being victimized by big tech. Politics aside, there's money to be made targeting products to this group. (For a company with competent devs ofc, don't need another Parler disaster.)
My experience on mobile is that after viewing a subreddit a number of times on chrome it just blocks you and forces you to download the app to view any posts at all. This can be bypassed by using old.reddit.com url.
I feel like they could take an anti-censorship, pro-privacy stance and target the 49% that is being de-platformed. Could partner with the Ben Shapirbros of YT getting millions of followers to download Firefox to avoid 'socialist google'. Maybe fund a decentralized, privacy-focused social network/messaging app. Maybe jump on the crypto hype train.
Mozilla's lameness is really the result of privilege and possibly a lack of incentives. When execs get 10m/yr for writing blogs about sexual socialism and BLM, why innovate?
Smart people don't use force to get paid. They usually obtain a pay rise through offering a better product,not through extortion scams (public sector workers striking).
Last time i checked you need a specific gene for your testosterone and dihydro-testosterone to cause baldness. So a full-head could have higher T levels and more hair. Balding MTF transgenders do often regain significant ground once they decrease T levels.
Network effects. If you're a darkweb seller you know most people want to send BTC they purchased straight from a KYC'd exchange, this is preferable as any extra friction is bad for business. You would lose 70% of your customers if you only accepted monero, which has been delisted from any exchange with a fiat gateway. You can always switch the funds into Monero later on anyway to save your own privacy. Your customers being pwned for using non-privacy coins doesn't matter, so long as they only lead back to your darkweb nickname.