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Travelers keep up with currency exchange:
An article about currency in Argentina where cash is king:
https://www.milevalue.com/argentina-...atm-bank-cash/
I actually plan vacations around weak currencies to get the most bang for my USD. I've been to many world "hot spots" just prior to huge international events. And sometimes during. Being tear gassed isn't fun. Learning about killings a mile from your vacation/apartment isn't fun either.
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At least with a good exchange rate you didn't pay much for the experience.Originally Posted by TheFu
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I haven't been able to trust bitcoin or any crypto currency and often I get the sucky feeling I'm missing out on something big for being too cynical. However, here are my reasons:
a) I've gotten hacked myself with one "alt" coint losing around $1.5k. I have a honors degree in Computer Science and I am pretty good security wise, yet I still fell for it.
b) I know another CS guy who got hacked for $10k+...
If we above the average computer literate people fall for this, how is the laymen ever gonna be protected without some sort of centralization? And if things are centralized and one big company holds all the coin.. does that not defeat the bloody purpose?
Thoughts?
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Welcome. What's an 'alt' coin? Were you using Bitcoin or no?
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Bill proposed in US to have all visitors declare their bitcoin holdings, even if the blockchain isn't traveling with them:
"Travelers To The US Might Soon Be Required To Declare Their Bitcoin"
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2017/06/tra...clare-bitcoin/
Don't know if people are following Venezuela financial crisis at all - lots of people there are moving from the local currency into bitcoin.
though mining bitcoins is not illegal in Venezuela.Miners who have been arrested have been charged with tax fraud, money laundering, electricity theft and other crimes.
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Reversing the posts I'm responding to:
+1. While I don't see my response as political rather than technical, any moderator should feel free to modify my post to remove offensive material. I don't want to be "that guy."
Technically speaking, this sort of monitoring and regulation would require a level of government paranoia yet to be acknowledged so far in the world. I'm positive that right now, at an international airport, your passport gets scanned and they get data held by the country of origin's database AND by the database of whatever country the traveller just entered. I'm positive they also search some sort of terrorist watch list and criminal/interpol/whatever database. I'm reasonably sure that some countries add a few more searches into the mix, especially with respect to political activism or some such. All of this can be easily done in the name of national security for pretty much any country.
To hook into financial holdings is a whole new level of searching. Aside of the invasion of privacy (which I'm not addressing but simply acknowledging) the complexity of this would be stunning. The way I understand it, determining a billionaire's net worth is a huge undertaking. Presumably doing so with a less wealthy individual might take just as long, unless the cryptocurrency network has some sort of global search engine connecting all cryptocurrency to a single site. While I confess to not knowing how it works I seriously doubt it would gain traction if that were the case. If it were then I can imagine theft would be much simpler too.
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I think you should not. It's highly risky since the price of bitcoin is rising so fast in such a short time. Do you remember tulip mania?
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Hi, thanks for the welcome!
Yes, I used, held, bought, sold bitcoin. When it was around $170 to $700 up and down. Then a bit this year but got out of it (not much time).
Altcoins are the smaller coins that claim to offer improvements and to be the next big thing. Many of them that I could have held and according to todays prices made a small fortune (probably including the one that got hacked!).
ETH was one such altcoin, and last I checked it is now probably going to be the new main coin.
All my concerns are still valid, how is a non CS degree going to hold crypto without getting hacked and without giving up the money to some central control which again could turn out malicious/hacked. In my time at least two trusted crypto exchanges I used had huge drama.
Thoughts?
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I guess I don't know whether you intend to use cryptocurrency as a pure currency or as an investment target? It probably matters.
If you're just trying to bank your money, you generally want something that's both stable and predictable. IMO this makes cryptocurrency a bad choice. If you want to invest/profit, then volatility is a good thing, to a certain extent.
If you're investing and depending on that volatility, then you're certainly going to need to pay attention or you'll be disappointed.
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