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What was your most worst decision in cryptocurrency?

I paid 25 BTC to be a lifetime member of the Bitcoin Foundation ~7 years.
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Holding all my crypto funds at the peak of the bubble in 2017. I should have sold / used some.
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That's the thing about -NOT- using cryptocurrency - if there's a major price correction you may regret having too many of them - bought all of my precious metals with crypto with gains
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I'd be more interested in hedging in gold if it could be tokenized as an SLP or ERC20 token instead of me jumping through flaming hoops to get mailed bullion.
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Try uphold.com.
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Does uphold let you withdraw?
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Or is crypto completely custodial there?
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It's a custodial service. It's like a far better "robin hood" app. But buying precious metals is made very easy. Literally one click from BTC to gold, silver or titanium.
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So you cannot withdraw or deposit crypto there?
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You can withdraw/deposit crypto. It's also a BCH friendly CEO. Precious metals are also fully backed. Don't know if you can withdraw those metals, though. I think not. But crypto, yes.
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"BCH friendly CEO"

I use it to get my website's Brave rewards. I have ~0.3 BCH ($9), the withdrawal fee is 0.01 BCH and the "network fee" 0.0003 BCH. What a joke!
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0.3 is more like 90 or did you mean 0.03?
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Yeah 0.03 my bad.
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Sometimes a preview before sending would be good to avoid storing messages with typos, additional or missing words and numbers on blockchain
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Yeah, if that's the case Coinbase is definitely stronger here. Only the standard 226 satoshi withdrawal fee.
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Also, it doesn't support cashaddr! "BCH friendly CEO".
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dude.. calm down. I didn't say it is the go to BCH wallet. I'm talking about buying precious metals. I never saw a place, where you can get your hands on gold that easy. calm down.
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I have to receive my BAT using Uphold and they charge me a 30% fee to withdraw it, that's why I hate them haha.

I just bought some gold (assuming it is backed) to do sth with my BCH.
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30%? ... ok, that's bad.
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Why do you *have* to use Uphold? If you have coinbase, you can swap the BAT for USDC and there are no fees to sell the USDC when you receive it in the Coinbase account.
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Do you know if it's possible to convert USDC to Euro? My problem with USDC is that I couldn't find an option to convert them to Euro and there is no BCH/USDC trading pair
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If you have Coinbase i think you can just sell for Euro or USD in the app. Although I'm not entirely sure.
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You can't buy or sell USDC on CB or CB Pro with EUR and there is no trading pair for BCH/USDC, but it looks like a conversion on Coinbase is possible

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As a publisher I have to: "Before you can redeem BAT you will have to connect your Brave Rewards account to Uphold"
Source: https://brave.com/publishers-creators-privacy/
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That's fucking ridiculous!
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Yes it is. That's why people were complaining about KYC a few months ago.
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Bitstamp has an option to "withdraw gold" if you're in Europe (delivery or pick-up in Slovenia)
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cool!
Simon Van Gelder
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It seems a popular option is hedging in the MTG reserve list.
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This was a good move!
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The best part was using it directly - not after exchange (crypto PM sellers)
Fnuller15
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Financially, I would have been better off if I had not converted my BTC to BCH a long time ago. Emotionally, I feel much better holding BCH.
Calm_down_stupid 15kFCL
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Deciding not to mine this crazy new magic internet money with my laptop incase it damaged it ( was a nice laptop cost me a fortune at the time, live and learn lol!)
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I tried mining in early 2011 on a laptop - Intel Celeron -> not single block - pooled mining and the first GPU miners already on it...
Calm_down_stupid 15kFCL
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Mine was a core 2 duo, had a Nvidia GPU as well and a massive 4 GB ram, 17 inch screen, was already a couple year old by then but was still my pride and joy :-)
Calm_down_stupid 15kFCL
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Still have parts of it in a box in the garage ! My son wanted to take it apart after the heatsink didn't sink enough and it melted !!
Calm_down_stupid 15kFCL
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Just been to see lol !! https://imgur.com/a/wveMUPC

The guts of it are in there along with other electronic things he's taken apart! Fair play lol, I used to like taking stuff apart 2
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"most worst" ... changed the wording clicked "Post Reply" too fast and now it's on the blockchain
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happens even with the best of use. :D
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*use = us
😅
jarmuzceltow
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Lost ~2.5 BTC last year, tried to claim BSV and dump but the splitting wallet turned out to be a fake one despite fact I got the link from known early adopter.
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1.) Bought a miner from Butterfly labs.

2.) Left 10 BTC on SR

3.) Donated ~100 BTC to bitcoincore (between 2011-2013)
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donated 10 btc to theymos
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Buying a Blake 2b miner

Siacoin is a scam project, the only ASIC manufacturer for their new algorithm is owned by members of Nebulous, the core dev deam
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I lost some value investing in RLC which doesn't seem to be going anywhere at the moment.
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LOL. scammers tricked me and lost 5 btc... - 3 years