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Just a couple of bank stocks trading like **** coins. Cant let them dump too much though, trading halted
 
Either Jerome stops taking up rates and turns the printer on to bailout or resumes interest hikes and people do more bank runs.

Either way BTC wins
 
Slowestclock said:
Either Jerome stops taking up rates and turns the printer on to bailout or resumes interest hikes and people do more bank runs.

Either way BTC wins
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Quite so and completely expected for a highly volatile speculative asset. It is pretty well the only game in town for short term traders so it is the instrument of choice now. However, for the long term health of BTC, this popularity for speculation is probably bad because it reduces, or maybe even destroys BTC as a store of value or a stable form of payment.
 
I am having trouble verifying a new Binance account and wonder if anyone here has had similar hassles. The first problem is that my ID number can't be verified and I wonder if this is because the system has a cut-off age so if your ID starts with e.g. '5', it isn't recognised?

Does anyone know if Binance still has a registered office here in SA? The phone number given for Bianance is still just the information centre for the V&A Waterfront. Binance left those premises some years ago.
 
Wary GOM said:
I am having trouble verifying a new Binance account and wonder if anyone here has had similar hassles. The first problem is that my ID number can't be verified and I wonder if this is because the system has a cut-off age so if your ID starts with e.g. '5', it isn't recognised?

Does anyone know if Binance still has a registered office here in SA? The phone number given for Bianance is still just the information centre for the V&A Waterfront. Binance left those premises some years ago.
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Just use Bybit https://www.bybit.com/invite?ref=YYOAE
 
For those who still use Jaxx Liberty or who might still have crypto in a Jaxx Liberty wallet you should move it at the soonest. Jaxx Liberty is being retired. You have until March 27th.

I had some ZCash in mine, lol, dating back to 2017.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
For those who still use Jaxx Liberty or who might still have crypto in a Jaxx Liberty wallet you should move it at the soonest. Jaxx Liberty is being retired. You have until March 27th.

I had some ZCash in mine, lol, dating back to 2017.
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Lost a whole bitcoin with those "skelm" fnckers :mad:
 
Dimpie (COMPUTEK) said:
Lost a whole bitcoin with those "skelm" fnckers :mad:
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LocalBitcoin locked me out due to suspicious activity and I had a good balance with them. Only they know what was considered suspicious, my only guess is IP hopping due to VPN usage. At a later point in time, they said that I am not banned, but that I needed to recreate my account with the same username/email, but I couldn’t because it was already registered, and that is how it cycled until I gave up trying. There was a point I took the complaint to Bitcointalk and damn, the community shot me down good.
 
Binance has told me that they don't have South African offices. They should have or they can't say they are trying very hard to be compliant.

I am having a Hell's own job with getting verification of an account. Their system can't accept my ID number. Admittedly an old green book, albeit one of the bar coded ones which I use for any official purposes including voting and renewing driver's license.
Fulcrum29 said:
LocalBitcoin locked me out due to suspicious activity and I had a good balance with them. Only they know what was considered suspicious, my only guess is IP hopping due to VPN usage. At a later point in time, they said that I am not banned, but that I needed to recreate my account with the same username/email, but I couldn’t because it was already registered, and that is how it cycled until I gave up trying. There was a point I took the complaint to Bitcointalk and damn, the community shot me down good.
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What was their reason?
 
Back to Binance. After many attempts by Support and me, it keeps coming back to using alternative methods. I can't use a cell phone camera because Binance hasn't bothered to make its app backwardly compatible and it only works on iOS 13 or highly. I am still in the poverty stricken minority who have to keep their iPhone 6 until it actually dies. Now I am becoming more than a little frustrated and even a teeny bit suspicious. Either the ID number verification code was written by a lazy/third-rate coder or there is a sneaky way of identity theft. The innocent answer might just be that their system only recognises dates later than a certain decade, so my birth year causes the system to reject the ID. Not damn good enough. I ceratinly won't even consider using any automated trading analyses from Binance ebven if I do expend another day getting an account verified.
 
Wary GOM said:
What was their reason?
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I was locked out due to suspicious activity; it is that simple. Even when they later deleted my account due to inactivity, and only deleted accounts with a 0 or negative balance I could still log in but only had access to downloading my user data which explains why the account couldn't be recreated. I assume unauthorised access to my LocalBitcoin account was gained, but how, I don't know. This was a very long time ago.

In that same window, but without any correlation, I had a compromised MS account which was accessed through using an abandoned Webmail address used as a recovery method, my mistake, but none was associated with LocalBitcoin. The only explanation is that someone other than me had access to it.

Not too long ago this discussion popped up in a Discord channel, where I got shot down, again, but users on there claimed to have had the same experiences with other more notable exchanges. I can't blame the exchange outright, the cookie didn't crumble that way. All I know is, LocalBitcoin had loyal and very loving users.
 
Mistyping in previous due to mild fury and huge frustration. Eventually I was told that the option to just enter ID number is not available for South Africa. Second-rate plug-and-pray website.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
I was locked out due to suspicious activity; it is that simple. Even when they later deleted my account due to inactivity, and only deleted accounts with a 0 or negative balance I could still log in but only had access to downloading my user data which explains why the account couldn't be recreated. I assume unauthorised access to my LocalBitcoin account was gained, but how, I don't know. This was a very long time ago.

In that same window, but without any correlation, I had a compromised MS account which was accessed through using an abandoned Webmail address used as a recovery method, my mistake, but none was associated with LocalBitcoin. The only explanation is that someone other than me had access to it.

Not too long ago this discussion popped up in a Discord channel, where I got shot down, again, but users on there claimed to have had the same experiences with other more notable exchanges. I can't blame the exchange outright, the cookie didn't crumble that way. All I know is, LocalBitcoin had loyal and very loving users.
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Aha. I have had a call today asking why I have been inactive on my HF account this month. At least they called to check that I still intend trading as soon as I get some funds in. I guess these are necessary security measures.
 
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