BITCOIN

Zola.

Coinbase pro is great. Only minor faff is when moving coins to your wallet, you first have to move to Coinbase and then out to the wallet. Apart from that it's great.  Low fees. 

TimSynths

I'm a big fan of Coinbase pro too- looked scary at first but watched a few how to vids on Youtube and really enjoy using it now and I find other exchanges suck as KuCoin and Bitforex less scary too.

staurthag

OK with the price pretty low do you think this is a good opportunity to buy some? I can afford to lose, I wouldn't invest anything I cant afford. Was just thinking of putting in £800 because I got a unexpected rebate. Any recommendations where to buy? Preferably something with an app. I've heard Ziglu mentioned.

Scottex99

Swissborg I think has the best retail app, super easy to top up £, buy and stake your coins too. Ping me a DM if you want me to shill a ref code.

Others I've used, CB Pro, Zumo, Binance.

Ziglu is regulated but only CFDs I think, i.e you can't withdraw externally.

Type_45

It feels like this forum is being infiltrated by crypto shills to covert the people who normally read/use the forum...

eskbanker

Type_45 said:

It feels like this forum is being infiltrated by crypto shills to covert the people who normally read/use the forum...

Given the title of this thread, it shouldn't be a surprise to readers that it'll feature numerous contributions from crypto enthusiasts, and personally I don't see a problem with that - why would you open a thread if you're not interested in its (obvious) subject matter?  On the other hand, if someone blithely recommends crypto on a thread asking about where to park their equity for a year in between house sale and purchase, that's obviously less appropriate....

MoneyGeoff

China clamping down on crypto: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57549543

Scottex99

China fud? That's new 

lozzy1965

This is not meant as a "See I told you bitcoin was rubbish..." comment, but from today's South Africa Bitcoin fraud story:

"The lawyers hired by the investors found, through blockchain analysis, that coins from Africrypt’s wallets had been run through Bitcoin mixers and tumblers to hamper any further tracing. Cryptocurrency exchanges were said to be on the look out for any signs of anyone trading the coins."

I thought one of the benefits of Bitcoin was that it was totally fraud proof because everyone on the planet has a copy of the ledger saying who owns what?   Just wondering if anyone can explain what these 'mixers and tumblers' are and how they make tracing stolen Bitcoins hard to track?

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Interesting read from Evidence-based Investor newsletter

https://www.evidenceinvestor.com/why-people-invest-in-cryptocurrencies/