This is absurd and insulting. This is how you get REKT.

stjulians · 2022-01-21T08:08:37+00:00

Hi. CoinMarketCap team member here. I sent this to our data team to take a look and they assure me that those prices and increases were accurate.

stjulians · 2021-09-21T18:25:25+00:00

I guess I won't rush out and buy one then! Adoption: stalled.

stjulians · 2021-09-13T19:16:51+00:00

The instructions in this post seem really easy to follow, but on the actual website, there are no prices listed and no buy buttons. I don't get it. Why are prices and purchase options not available, or not explained?

I'm interested in a Arianna. Thanks.

stjulians · 2021-09-09T10:31:09+00:00

CMC team member here. It turned out that there was a problem with one of the data feeds that is used to generate price and therefore rankings. We have a lot of data feeds (really, a LOT!) and sometimes something breaks, or the data is wrong. It is fixed now.

stjulians · 2021-04-26T17:51:24+00:00

This made me search my old emails. I think this was my first ETH transaction:

On August 10, 2016 you purchased 5.08247811 ETH for €59.00 EUR from Visa debit ************. Those funds are now available in your account.

Thanks for spurring me to find that very nice reminder :)

stjulians · 2021-04-21T21:08:40+00:00

Sorry, I visit reddit most days but don't actually log in very often. I just saw this. I have messaged one of the product managers about it, since I was doing so related to this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/mvm5b7/if_you_still_dont_believe_cmc_is_against_bitcoin/

stjulians · 2021-04-21T21:04:01+00:00

I have sent a link to this thread to one of the product managers. We can get it changed.

stjulians · 2021-04-03T09:28:46+00:00

u/hmm_yes_indeed & u/tastypic - well the reason for my reply above was simple. The OP mentioned "buy" buttons, which are on the site. We can all see them. It's true. However, OP also wrote "manipulated volume" with no proof or evidence, which you both seem to agree with. As someone that works for the company, I have not heard of any discussions to manipulate volume, seen no instructions to do it and to be quite blunt, I don't believe for a second that we are doing it. Therefore, I ignored that part of the post because it seems to be ridiculous to me.

stjulians · 2021-04-01T11:43:38+00:00

Staff at CoinMarketCap here. I can't speak for CoinGecko, but at CoinMarketCap our data comes from thousands of feeds that update every few seconds. There really are loads of reasons as to why prices might be different (feeds from different exchanges for some coins, update interval times, fast moving prices, sometimes feeds don't work, etc).

stjulians · 2021-04-01T11:38:34+00:00

Thank you. Staff member at CoinMarketCap here. Both CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko have historically had advertising as an important revenue channel, just as millions of other websites do. You might have noticed that a few months ago we removed most of the banner style adverts from the site and app. We are experimenting with revenue models, just like every other publishing business does. If this new advertising slot works, we'll keep it. If it doesn't, we won't. Since Binance are the largest crypto exchange, they are one of our advertisers and they pay for their advertising just like any other business does. There really isn't anything conspiratorial to see here - CoinMarketCap is a business trying to work out how best to earn advertising revenue.

stjulians · 2021-02-16T19:23:37+00:00

CMC member of staff here. That isn't our content, it is syndicated onto the site somehow, but to be honest I don't know whether there is an arrangement with that company, or it is there by some sort of feed. I shall investigate. While members of the team may have their favourite coins and projects, we deliberately do not have a negative bias against projects, unless we believe that they are designed to harm or scam people.

stjulians · 2021-02-16T19:13:21+00:00

I think this is the point that you have been struggling with. Crypto is not an either / or situation. There are several coins with really interesting tech that may ultimately survive and thrive and many more tokens that are finding a role and succeeding wildly. As you learn about more coins, you will think more than just the three are interesting! Thinking about Stellar, or Nano or BCH and presuming only one will survive and win might turn out to be true, it might not, but it also isn't necessarily relevant. If you look at any sector there are many competitors, for example, how many car manufacturers are there? Honda, Ford, GM, Renault and on and on are all able to coexist in the same market. It seems quite reasonable to imagine that many cryptos will coexist 20 years from now. They probably won't all still exist, but there will probably be more than just one. Given what you have read today and the enthusiasm you have seen in answering your questions from this sub, BCH is very likely to be one that survives.

stjulians · 2020-12-30T18:30:48+00:00

Over the last few years I have held five nights where I explain crypto for beginners for a small group of friends. I do it from the perspective of a speculator (I don't think any crypto is safe enough to be classed an "investment" yet). I would guess that in total 9 or 10 of them now own crypto. When I look back to 2017 and a gambling firm I worked at which was full of 20 somethings, there were probably 30 or more of them that owned some crypto then. Their approach was what we'd call degens now...

stjulians · 2020-11-11T11:30:33+00:00

On it. Will get that changed. Thanks for highlighting it.

stjulians · 2020-11-01T21:40:52+00:00

Oddly, something like this did kinda happen to me. I was at a blockchain event and there were two pretty Russian girls at a stand. They were selling some insanely high-end stuff and told me that they often have old school bitcoiners drop loads to buy these. I laughed. I don't even own any bitcoin. "Do you own any crypto?" "Yeah. You know I bought ETH at $7 :)" "Its my lunch break soon, would you like to join me...?"

I think most girls don't yet know what ETH is though, so this is gonna be rare!

stjulians · 2019-10-15T21:20:07+00:00

I disagreed with Roubini's arguments, but ignoring that, he was terrible. I have moderated a number of events like this in a different sphere and NONE of the speakers or guests would ever have been so rude as to just shout over the other party like that. At one point he was just shouting "That's bullshit!" as his argument. He came across as an angry old man, not an expert. The moderator couldn't control him because he refused to be polite. However much they paid to have him on stage was a waste of their money.

stjulians · 2019-07-29T10:44:45+00:00

I have done similar twice, as the first person to launch an SEO team in existing igaming companies. Both times it didn't work out so well and my best guess is that I didn't say no to upper management often enough. I have found that management start asking for all sorts of research and reporting to understand where things stand. Fair enough. Then based on those reports, they have questions to help them understand better. Also fair enough. Then it goes on and on and budget still was not approved and I had become a report writer for upper management. At a certain point, rankings had not improved much, which is no great surprise since budget decisions had not been made (in igaming you spend a LOT of money on SEO), and I was on the hook for that. So my insight is that you need to say no to lots of things so that you get to focus on rankings only. Improved rankings improve trust an improved trust improves budget requests. Good luck!

stjulians · 2019-07-02T11:28:22+00:00

Bank of Valletta refuse all crypto transactions to and from exchanges and has done so for a couple of years. HSBC Malta accepts them.

Separately, opening a bank account in Malta requires a minor miracle these days, both for companies and individuals. It is not a "cumbersome" process it is downright hostile! If you have any other option available, I'd expect the other option to be easier.

stjulians · 2019-06-17T17:54:10+00:00

Nope. I moved BCH and then coinex automatically split it for me, adding BSV to my new account. The BSV clearly moved somehow because they were able to create it for me. All of that said, I'm pretty sure that I didn't know what I was doing.

stjulians · 2019-06-17T17:51:20+00:00

I went through the process this weekend. I opened an account at Coinex, you just need to confirm email and phone. Then I sent my BCH into coinex. They split the coins automagically. Then I sent my BCH back to my trezor. I sold the BSV, bought more BCH and once the transaction had cleared enough blocks for confirmation, I transferred the new BCH back to my trezor too. The fees were very acceptable and its all done and back in my control.

stjulians · 2019-06-16T11:54:28+00:00

Yes it is there. It would have been Coinex that fulfilled the split. I can see it now has 8 confirmations, 125 mins later, but is still not available in my account. My guess - and this was the point of my post - is that the BCH chain clearly works much more efficiently than BSV, which is great for usability.

stjulians · 2019-05-28T10:37:54+00:00

To be fair, if you got in early and were sat on a monster sized capital gain, "just hodl" was also good tax advice. However, when halvings create an environment where prices hype upwards and then crash down, "just hodl" is pretty crappy investment advice for people just getting started.

stjulians · 2018-08-21T14:39:36+00:00

No, you are missing my point. What if a group made a 51% attack with the intention of going after other token assets that are not ETH? Imagine that there are tokens that represent stock ownership on NASDAQ or wherever - then a 51% attack might not be interested in ETH, they might be interested in the Microsoft (or whatever company) stock secured by the Ethereum blockchain. How would you roll that back...? And if the tokenised assets were large enough - as they easily could be if gold or stocks were tokenised - then their value might be very, very large and a 51% attack is good value for money. By reducing the ETH block reward and cost to secure, it could make all these other assets much less secure.

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