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The bulk of paxful trades are gift cards by nigerians and indians. Has paxful staff never questioned how nigerians manage to get usa giftcards considering they do not sell giftcards of such in nigeria. Paxful boasts high volume trades of giftcards bought in the usa from nigeria users yet they do not wander how the nigerians get their cards?
These nigerians scam USA residents through various methods such as online dating scams. They target vulnerable people and Paxful help them to launder thier money. What kind of business model is this? After trading on paxful for less than a month I have realised this. The owners have not realised this in the 5 years they have been open?
I have collected proof and I will be reporting this to news outlets in the near future. From nigerians uploading images of the chats they have with these vulnerable people accidently to them putting their paxful display picture as the person they have scammed.
Paxful is willingfully doing so. They know the source of the giftcards are from scams. Many articles written by Paxful acknowledge the nigerians and indians get their gift cards from "shady sources" but still allow them to be traded on the platfrom. Paxful claims to not allow gift card brokering (the selling of giftcards when you are not the original purchaser). However in their articles they acknowledge usa giftcards cannot be bought in nigeria, most of their trades are from nigerians trading usa giftcards.
Paxful ask for something simple in the event of a disagreement , for a picture of the card with trade chat in the background. Not one of the trades I was involved in a disagreement in was nigerian able to provide the information requested. This is because they cant! They cant ask their victims to do this for them as this would make their victims aware of the scams. Surely if it is a legit money transfer from a USA citizen to a Nigerian the Nigerian could ask their USA counterpart to log into their Paxful and provide the requested information.
I am calling for the investigation of Paxful staff and its CEO Ray Yussef. Many of your staff will be arrested when you are caught. Paxful staff you should consider leaving your job. Going to prison for a company that is making you participate in illegal money laundering will not be worth the prison sentence. I will be forwarding this story to many news outlets. I have collected evidence from trades I have done. Even if I myself am incriminated I will be happy that I have managed to hinder these scammers from bringing misery to hard working people's lives.
I POSTED THIS ORIGINALLY ON THE PAXFUL REDDIT PAGE. I WANT ANSWERS AS TO WHY THEY ALLOW THIS HOWEVER THEY TAKE DOWN ANYTHING THAT DOES NOT SUIT THEIR AGENDAS.
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Article in reponse to this Coindesk Post by Jill Carlson
Hi dear Jill, My name is Sofia.
Several days ago I read your article and I tried to summarize a series of thoughts about what a "freedom tool" is for me and for you it is a "most useful tool for breaking laws"
DOCTRINES
In a voracious struggle to encompass territories and establish patterns for citizen development in a globalized world, doctrines have been erected from the most dominant empires throughout the history of societies, which have allowed, among many things, to guide and trace the individual actions in different ways through persuasion methods, which we are not all specific to identify or escape from them, possibly due to lack of education (most cases) or by omission, in a way: cultural, economic, religious and political.
Throughout history it has been seen as products created for certain purposes have been used by people or groups for another purpose, finding in these a way to obtain personal benefits. It is incredible how the detention of Ross Ulbritc is still sustainable for only being the creator of a network that was deformed by the use of a few, putting Ross's reputation at stake and to this day his freedom.
CONVENIENCE
There are countless examples about the appropriate use or not of the inventions of man, an illustrative example from my point of view is that of the telephone designed as a device to facilitate communication between people, allowing proximity to others regardless of distance . This form of communication has been used to facilitate illegal activities, extortion and kidnapping, among others. Despite this, it has evolved into an intelligent tool that allows you to control work, home, finances, among other things from a single device in real time (smartphones), its performance is no longer measured only for the purpose it was created. say make or receive calls, but as a versatile and essential tool.
A TOOL OF FREEDOM
During this social evolution, “A tool of freedom” has emerged, among its many benefits, has allowed citizens to be freed from financial systems, from the wrong decisions made by their political leaders, isolate them from Dynamite Economies and even give access to the unbanked , putting in the hands of people a system that allows them to carry out transactions in a fast, efficient and secure way, which is constantly evolving through protocols based on blockchain and without the need to expose your privacy to make daily exchanges.
Just as the BTC and its evolutionary forks arrived, a cryptocurrency series also arrived to strengthen the ecosystem. All with the purpose of being used through cryptography as a means of exchange between people, from their different stream of conception, they are additionally useful for encrypting messages, combating censorship, ensuring privacy and even establishing smart contracts through same. Among many of its uses, they have tried to evolve to make them faster and more efficient in the context of handling more information in the shortest possible time, in a decentralized way and without discrimination.
MIRAGE
It is an alternative for which a large number of citizens around the world have decided to opt, observing cases of corruption and monitoring through regular channels, which are dominated by governments and transnational corporations of different services that only want to sustain their monopoly and hegemony around world. It is incredible to talk about money laundering, financing of irregular groups, human trafficking white and selling drugs directly related to cryptocurrencies, (they have stigmatized their use, no doubt) when these actions have existed even before the existence of them and even with the endorsement of governments that highlighted their neatness or justified their immoral actions under the premise of a masked struggle for "freedom".
Here are a few examples of how everything is not what it seems:
Everything that has been mentioned before has been done since all times and is a problem of human morality not of cryptocurrencies, they have masked these illicit actions with banks in tax havens, offshore accounts and any other channel that the banks themselves have hidden and has been used for money laundering and other illegal activities. Without implying that it is the responsibility of banks or corporations. The use is the sole responsibility of each user.
FAKE-NEWS
It cannot be guaranteed that cryptocurrencies are only a useful tool for breaking laws, just because people or groups have changed from using existing means to using cryptocurrencies to launder money or make illicit payments. I am also aware that the great global banking elite has television channels, newspapers, journalists, singers and others at your service. They serve as funded puppets to sustain their model and grab attention through their great social influence.
This motivates me even more to ensure that in its evolution through cryptography, cryptocurrencies allow and allow to cover all financial spaces in an intelligent, fast, secure and uncensored way from the north pole to the south pole.
FEARS
Do you know what I'm afraid of, dear Jill?(if one day you read that article), to live in this world of espionage, monitoring and political-economic persecution towards citizens. Large financial groups have chosen to attack cryptocurrencies in the face of the obvious independence they represent, using the means they have to discredit everything concerning them.
Cryptocurrencies do not seek the disappearance of banking systems, but rather be an alternative investment and payments without implying high payment commissions and fees for their use.
I can assure you that the BitcoinCash as a cryptocurrency that I use in most of my transactions (95%) has allowed me to send collaborations to needy groups in Southern Africa and Venezuela, donate to help those who do not have clothes or shelter , thank you for a comment to a person in Japan, receive a payment from Oceania for doing a good job, send a shipment to a family member thousands of km away and everything has been completed in a matter of seconds, without moving from my home, without discriminate against me because of my nationality or how much money I have in my bank account.
Imagine doing this in the current banking system is impossible, I can not do it because my credit cards in Venezuela do not allow me to make transactions in dollars, the exchange markets are all speculative and dominated by mafias, or because I simply need to have at least 500 $ and be a US citizen to be able to open an international account, and have access to send money from one continent to another.
Reasons that fortunately still dear Jill, you have not had to experience, and let me assure you that cryptocurrencies meet all the requirements to take the forefront in global exchanges.
I fear this world where everything seems to be what it is not, where many citizens are invisible. I will not give up trying to change it!
I invite you to visit the modest YouTube channel of the group to which I belong Cultura BCH and observe that the BitcoinCash is fast, reliable and secure. Please do it before it is censored.
If you feel identified with our efforts and activities as a independent group, your collaboration will be grateful for helping us meet the goals around the BCH in 2020.
The bulk of paxful trades are gift cards by nigerians and indians. Has paxful staff never questioned how nigerians manage to get usa giftcards considering they do not sell giftcards of such in nigeria. Paxful boasts high volume trades of giftcards bought in the usa from nigeria users yet they do not wander how the nigerians get their cards?
These nigerians scam USA residents through various methods such as online dating scams. They target vulnerable people and Paxful help them to launder thier money. What kind of business model is this? After trading on paxful for less than a month I have realised this. The owners have not realised this in the 5 years they have been open?
I have collected proof and I will be reporting this to news outlets in the near future. From nigerians uploading images of the chats they have with these vulnerable people accidently to them putting their paxful display picture as the person they have scammed.
Paxful is willingfully doing so. They know the source of the giftcards are from scams. Many articles written by Paxful acknowledge the nigerians and indians get their gift cards from "shady sources" but still allow them to be traded on the platfrom. Paxful claims to not allow gift card brokering (the selling of giftcards when you are not the original purchaser). However in their articles they acknowledge usa giftcards cannot be bought in nigeria, most of their trades are from nigerians trading usa giftcards.
Paxful ask for something simple in the event of a disagreement , for a picture of the card with trade chat in the background. Not one of the trades I was involved in a disagreement in was nigerian able to provide the information requested. This is because they cant! They cant ask their victims to do this for them as this would make their victims aware of the scams. Surely if it is a legit money transfer from a USA citizen to a Nigerian the Nigerian could ask their USA counterpart to log into their Paxful and provide the requested information.
I am calling for the investigation of Paxful staff and its CEO Ray Yussef. Many of your staff will be arrested when you are caught. Paxful staff you should consider leaving your job. Going to prison for a company that is making you participate in illegal money laundering will not be worth the prison sentence. I will be forwarding this story to many news outlets. I have collected evidence from trades I have done. Even if I myself am incriminated I will be happy that I have managed to hinder these scammers from bringing misery to hard working people's lives.
I POSTED THIS ORIGINALLY ON THE PAXFUL REDDIT PAGE. I WANT ANSWERS AS TO WHY THEY ALLOW THIS HOWEVER THEY TAKE DOWN ANYTHING THAT DOES NOT SUIT THEIR AGENDAS.
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This link provides an insight into just how much money laundering is happening on this platform.
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Installed tor about a week ago as well as electrum the crypto wallet just the desktop based version where I have the seed key.
For anonymity reasons I had my electrum crypto wallet set to only connect to the Internet through proxy with tor. I don’t know if that’s the right terminology but I googled a tutorial and clicked the right settings. If I do not have the tour browser open the electrum wallet is not online
Strange thing is my bitcoin I had in the wallet was fine.
I recall when I first downloaded tor. There wasn’t a solo shortcut to tor there was a file on my desktop with the shortcut in it called tor browser if that makes sense.
Could it be some sort of strange computer glitch just for this shortcut to be created when I set up the Internet proxy with tor on electrum. I do not recall it being there when I first downloaded tor.
I assume if I was hacked it would have had to have been through tor. Which I would think means this possible hacker could have had access to my password perhaps by watching me type it in if that makes sense at all or if that’s possible.
I installed my electrum wallet before installing tor. So I believe if I really was hacked the reason I still have my bitcoins is because he does not have access to my crypto key.
I’m not the most computer savvy this is just what I theorize I’m not sure though.
My bitcoins are safe and I have transferred them and I’m in the process of changing all of my passwords from a different device I honestly don’t know what to do to fully remove any sort of possible threat.
Is there anyway I can use event viewer on windows to perhaps see when a shortcut for a browser was changed?
This doesn’t make sense at all did they just not have the means to really do anything so they just decided to mess with me? If he somehow found out my password that means he could’ve found out other passwords. He wouldn’t from my understanding have been able to remotely steal my btc because he would have needed my key which is encrypted.
But say I logged into something else he could’ve done some serious damage.
This doesn’t make sense I don’t know what to do.
So, I'm making roughly 35 dollars a day, which is not taxed before turned into fiat () I'm currently holding 0.24 Bitcoin and I would preferably like to get a larger hold in Bitcoin before the presumed upcoming uptrend. I currently have the ability of "cashing out" up to $9000, and where I live we have a tax roof at $2000 where after hitting that in yearly income you are subject to a 30% income tax. Essentially I hold $9000 in value, and would like to get more Bitcoin, however I'm a minor and I have a bit of a tax matter that should be taken into consideration. Along with upcoming events.
I'd appreciate recommendations and general thoughts! Thanks!
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HUOBI – THE EXCHANGE BUILT FOR THE FUTURE
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Leon Li founded Huobi in 2013, a former computer engineer at Oracle. Huobi Global is a digital asset and crypto currency exchange headquartered in Singapore. Huobi also has local exchanges in South Korea, Japan, and through its strategic partner, the United States.
The Huobi Group, the parent company of Huobi Global, has received venture capital finance from prominent Beijing based ZhenFund and American VC firm Sequoia Capital.
The Huobi Global exchange serves traders in 130 countries. Through Huobi Global, traders can access almost 200 crypto and stable coin assets. Huobi users can download trading clients on both mobile and desktop devices.
Huobi has traded over US$1.2 trillion in digital assets, and at one time it was the world’s leading exchange by volume, capturing 50% of all global trading volume.
In terms of security, Huobi has adopted a decentralized exchange structure, which helps to resist DDOS attacks. However, Huobi has implemented the ‘Huobi Security Reserve, in which Huobi has set aside 20,000 BTC reserved for users who have lost funds either due to hacks, or exchange failures.
Ease of use
The UI is clean, user-friendly and perfectly designed with all the basic requirements for a crypto-trader. The charting software is provided by Tradingview, which is exactly what you want.
Huobi OTC
Huobi’s OTC exchange is a good initiative. The Huobi OTC exchange allows users to trade funds peer-to-peer which doesn’t affect the market price of the underlying asset. The OTC trading-desk, with transfer options like bank-transfers, PayPal, WU, Paytm, UPI, IMPS, Alipay & many others, is an easy to use payment gateway. With a secure exchange to diversify your investment, right next door, too with effective list of Buy and Sell options for BTC, ETH, USDT and EOS coins.
Huobi Lite
Huobi Lite App provides a convenient channel for everyone to buy cryptocurrencies at the best prices. Tailor-made for beginners, traders, and users.
We can download the App directly from the respective iOS Store or Google Play Store. Alternatively, we may access via the link: https://lite.huobi.com/download
On Huobi Lite, you can buy Bitcoin with your local currencies, credit card, or exchange cryptocurrencies tokens, with zero fees at competitive prices. Huobi Lite currently supports MYR / HKD / VND / USD (Credit Card deposit only), with more to come in the future.
Huobi Derivative Market (Huobi DM)
Margin Trading
Huobi Global launched Huobi Derivative Market (Huobi DM) exchange to selected countries. It provides margin trading, with very low daily loan interest rates of 0.1%. Margin Trading allows users to increase their investment exposure given a limited base principal to enjoy multiple returns.
3-Steps taken in Margin Trading:
With the introduction of Cross Margin on Huobi, users will have to explicitly input the respective margin type before executing the above 3 steps. Balances on the Cross Margin balance does not show on the Isolated Margin balance.
Huobi Futures
Huobi Futures is a kind of digital currency derivatives. Users can make a profit from the rising/falling of digital currencies prices by going long or selling short based on their own judgment.
The Huobi Futures Contract adopts spread delivery. When the contract expires, all open positions will be closed at the index-based last-hour arithmetic average price, instead of physical delivery.
BTC/ETH/EOS/LTC/XRP/BCH/TRX/BSV/ETC Contracts are available on Huobi DM. Contracts are priced in USD, with corresponding digital currency (BTC/ETH/EOS/LTC/XRP/BCH/TRX respectively) as margin to open positions, and PnL is also settled in corresponding digital currency.
Weekly, bi-weekly and quarterly contracts are available in Huobi DM. Weekly contracts will be settled on imminent Friday; Bi-weekly contracts will be settled on next Friday; Quarterly contracts will be settled on the last Friday of March, June, September and December.
Choices of leverage: 1x, 5x, 10x, 20x
Huobi Perpetual Swap
Huobi introduced Perpetual Swaps on March 27, 2020 (GMT+8). Huobi Perpetual swap is a kind of digital currency derivatives. Users can make a profit from the rising/falling of digital currencies prices by going long or selling short based on their own judgment. Similar to a margin spot market, its price is close to the price of the underlying reference index. The main mechanism for anchoring spot prices is the cost of funds. Perpetual swap have no delivery date. Users can always hold it. Perpetual swap are settled every 8 hours. After each settlement, the realized profit/loss and unrealized profits/losses are transferred to the user account balance.
Partial Liquidation
Huobi Futures adopted partial liquidation to help position holders reduce liquidation risk. Users with large positions and high leverage bear high risk. Huobi Futures releases partial liquidation with the aim to lower possible losses due to high price volatility thus giving users better trading experience.
Under partial liquidation mechanism, when liquidation is triggered, instead of liquidating all positions at once, the system reduces positions gradually till a grade whose margin ratio is great than 0. Full liquidation will only occur when the margin ratio of tier 1 upper limit net position still fails to be great than 0.
Trading Fees
The Huobi exchange has a fair trading fee structure. Every asset traded via Huobi Global is subject to a 0.2% trade fee, for both market makers and takers. Further, Huobi Global has introduced a tiered fee system which offers competitively lower fees for high volume traders. VIP membership gives access to various fee reductions and other benefits.
Huobi Prime
Huobi Prime, the Launchpad platform which we can call Direct Premium Offering (DPO), does share some similarities with initial exchange offerings (IEO) like Binance Launchpad, but it is unique as it is not a fundraising platform, and any coins purchased on the platform are immediately deposited into the users’ wallets and tradable on Huobi Global. Huobi Prime offers its users early access to the coins of premium projects, which can be bought using its native crypto currency, the Huobi Token. To avoid dumping, Huobi has implemented an innovative idea of a period of tiered price limits.
Huobi FastTrack
Huobit FastTrack, rebranded from Huobi Prime Lite, is a new listing model. Wherein, all participants will have a direct say in what projects are listed on Huobi Global and when. In addition, winning voters will get access to quality tokens at below market rates. The program also provides much needed exposure and a straightforward listing process.
Huobi Wallet
Huobi Wallet is the official mobile wallet of Huobi Group, a leading global digital asset financial service provider. It is a multi-chain asset management tool that provides native support for various types of blockchains and all of the ERC20 tokens. So far Huobi Wallet supports BTC, BCH, LTC, ETH, ETC, USDT and all ERC20 tokens.
Huobi wallet is the first wallet to expand support to cover seven stablecoins including, Paxos Standard Token (PAX), TrueUSD (TUSD), USD Coin (USDC), Gemini Dollar (GUSD), Dai (DAI), Stasis EURS (EURS), and Tether (USDT).
Huobi Wallet is built based on the core principle of security-first. The wallet gives back its users, complete control of their private keys. In simple terms, You own your assets. The wallet is backed up with mnemonics, so in future when you want to import your wallet, it’s just simple few clicks.
Currently, the wallet is compatible with both iOS and Android devices and you can download both from here (www.huobiwallet.com/en)
Huobi Chain
Huobi launched Huobi Chain’s Testnet (“the Testnet”) on February 29th 2020 (GMT+8). Huobi Chain is China’s autonomous cum compliant-ready blockchain platform, and is committed to providing a global, blockchain-based, digital asset infrastructure. Huobi Chain is committed to providing a high-performance, blockchain-based, global digital asset infrastructure. Once the Mainnet goes live, Huobi Chain will announce HT- related events: e.g. pledge HT to be a Super Node, etc.
HT Lock & Mine (Huobi Pool)
Huobi launched HT Lock and Mine operations on 25th July 2019 (GMT+8). Users who lock HT tokens receive daily HPT rewards. Specific reward quantity will depend on lock option period selected, quantity locked and Huobi Pool’ s mining hash power and daily float.
DPOS Rewards: All Huobi Global users with more than 1,000HPT holdings in their HBG account will receive DPOS mining rewards. Currently, token reward received under DPOS mining include EOS, TRX, CMT, ONG, IOST, ATOM, IRIS, LAMB。
Huobi Support
Users of the Huobi exchange can access 24/7 live chat and Huobi help center. Those facing issues can also open a support ticket to have their issue resolved by an expert representative immediately.
The Huobi Group has a very active YouTube channel, featuring Huobi Talk, where it posts user tutorials, detailed guides, and crypto currency information for traders.
What I like the most about Huobi
An established platform that’s been operating since 2013, which is a long time in the crypto world.
Highly secured with decentralized exchange structure, which helps to resist DDOS attacks. Huobi has never suffered a large hack.
Huobi Security Reserve of 20000 BTC to compensate users’ loss of funds.
Dedicated, fast and 24/7 customer support.
Regulated in major jurisdictions.
User interface is very smooth and clean.
Over 230 crypto assets are available.
User education program is good initiative.
Separate trading desk for institution and firm size users.
Very transparent about its operations, listings and projects.
Huobi Wallet is secured and very easy to operate.
Huobi mobile app is smooth and very easy to use.
Competitive fees.
Has taken serious steps towards avoiding wash trading.
Impressive array of trading pairs.
Has given more important on community participation, like voting for listing, mining pool, Huobi Knights program etc.
I like Huobi Prime because of following reasons: -
(a) Purchased tokens are immediately deposited into user’s accounts,
(b) As projects launch exclusively through Huobi Prime from day one, all users get assets at the best price.
(c) Tiered price limits on the platform protect both investors and projects from immediate dump.
Huobi screen projects and launches which are only the best. I don’t have to worry about poor or scammy projects.
Burning of HT is a great move and it would benefit long term holders.
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Tell me why I shouldn't YOLO my entire portfolio on FAANG/TSLA Puts first thing Monday morning?
Amazon/netflix/zoom are all through the roof because people have already priced in the "rumor" that everyone staying at home will cause these companies to have increased revenue. This is all happening ahead of earnings so it's already being priced in.
What doesn't make sense to me, is how you can justify these all time highs on Amazon or Netflix, but at the same time assume the markets will continue to pump as a result of the economy reopening.
If the economy reopens, doesn't that almost entirely destroy the logic of why these FAANG stocks are pumping?
I know I know, you're going to tell me that this event will have increased adoption rates going forward. You're probably right, BUT doesn't it seem like that shit has already been priced in when a chart of Amazon looks like bitcoin on it's way to 20k?
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Leon Li founded Huobi in 2013, a former computer engineer at Oracle. Huobi Global is a digital asset and crypto currency exchange headquartered in Singapore. Huobi also has local exchanges in South Korea, Japan, and through its strategic partner, the United States.
The Huobi Group, the parent company of Huobi Global, has received venture capital finance from prominent Beijing based ZhenFund and American VC firm Sequoia Capital.
The Huobi Global exchange serves traders in 130 countries. Through Huobi Global, traders can access almost 200 crypto and stable coin assets. Huobi users can download trading clients on both mobile and desktop devices.
Huobi has traded over US$1.2 trillion in digital assets, and at one time it was the world’s leading exchange by volume, capturing 50% of all global trading volume.
In terms of security, Huobi has adopted a decentralized exchange structure, which helps to resist DDOS attacks. However, Huobi has implemented the ‘Huobi Security Reserve, in which Huobi has set aside 20,000 BTC reserved for users who have lost funds either due to hacks, or exchange failures.
Ease of use
The UI is clean, user-friendly and perfectly designed with all the basic requirements for a crypto-trader. The charting software is provided by Tradingview, which is exactly what you want.
Huobi OTC
Huobi’s OTC exchange is a good initiative. The Huobi OTC exchange allows users to trade funds peer-to-peer which doesn’t affect the market price of the underlying asset. The OTC trading-desk, with transfer options like bank-transfers, PayPal, WU, Paytm, UPI, IMPS, Alipay & many others, is an easy to use payment gateway. With a secure exchange to diversify your investment, right next door, too with effective list of Buy and Sell options for BTC, ETH, USDT and EOS coins.
Huobi Lite
Huobi Lite App provides a convenient channel for everyone to buy cryptocurrencies at the best prices. Tailor-made for beginners, traders, and users.
We can download the App directly from the respective iOS Store or Google Play Store. Alternatively, we may access via the link: https://lite.huobi.com/download
On Huobi Lite, you can buy Bitcoin with your local currencies, credit card, or exchange cryptocurrencies tokens, with zero fees at competitive prices. Huobi Lite currently supports MYR / HKD / VND / USD (Credit Card deposit only), with more to come in the future.
Huobi Derivative Market (Huobi DM)
Margin Trading
Huobi Global launched Huobi Derivative Market (Huobi DM) exchange to selected countries. It provides margin trading, with very low daily loan interest rates of 0.1%. Margin Trading allows users to increase their investment exposure given a limited base principal to enjoy multiple returns.
3-Steps taken in Margin Trading:
With the introduction of Cross Margin on Huobi, users will have to explicitly input the respective margin type before executing the above 3 steps. Balances on the Cross Margin balance does not show on the Isolated Margin balance.
Huobi Futures
Huobi Futures is a kind of digital currency derivatives. Users can make a profit from the rising/falling of digital currencies prices by going long or selling short based on their own judgment.
The Huobi Futures Contract adopts spread delivery. When the contract expires, all open positions will be closed at the index-based last-hour arithmetic average price, instead of physical delivery.
BTC/ETH/EOS/LTC/XRP/BCH/TRX/BSV/ETC Contracts are available on Huobi DM. Contracts are priced in USD, with corresponding digital currency (BTC/ETH/EOS/LTC/XRP/BCH/TRX respectively) as margin to open positions, and PnL is also settled in corresponding digital currency.
Weekly, bi-weekly and quarterly contracts are available in Huobi DM. Weekly contracts will be settled on imminent Friday; Bi-weekly contracts will be settled on next Friday; Quarterly contracts will be settled on the last Friday of March, June, September and December.
Choices of leverage: 1x, 5x, 10x, 20x
Huobi Perpetual Swap
Huobi introduced Perpetual Swaps on March 27, 2020 (GMT+8). Huobi Perpetual swap is a kind of digital currency derivatives. Users can make a profit from the rising/falling of digital currencies prices by going long or selling short based on their own judgment. Similar to a margin spot market, its price is close to the price of the underlying reference index. The main mechanism for anchoring spot prices is the cost of funds. Perpetual swap have no delivery date. Users can always hold it. Perpetual swap are settled every 8 hours. After each settlement, the realized profit/loss and unrealized profits/losses are transferred to the user account balance.
Partial Liquidation
Huobi Futures adopted partial liquidation to help position holders reduce liquidation risk. Users with large positions and high leverage bear high risk. Huobi Futures releases partial liquidation with the aim to lower possible losses due to high price volatility thus giving users better trading experience.
Under partial liquidation mechanism, when liquidation is triggered, instead of liquidating all positions at once, the system reduces positions gradually till a grade whose margin ratio is great than 0. Full liquidation will only occur when the margin ratio of tier 1 upper limit net position still fails to be great than 0.
Trading Fees
The Huobi exchange has a fair trading fee structure. Every asset traded via Huobi Global is subject to a 0.2% trade fee, for both market makers and takers. Further, Huobi Global has introduced a tiered fee system which offers competitively lower fees for high volume traders. VIP membership gives access to various fee reductions and other benefits.
Huobi Prime
Huobi Prime, the Launchpad platform which we can call Direct Premium Offering (DPO), does share some similarities with initial exchange offerings (IEO) like Binance Launchpad, but it is unique as it is not a fundraising platform, and any coins purchased on the platform are immediately deposited into the users’ wallets and tradable on Huobi Global. Huobi Prime offers its users early access to the coins of premium projects, which can be bought using its native crypto currency, the Huobi Token. To avoid dumping, Huobi has implemented an innovative idea of a period of tiered price limits.
Huobi FastTrack
Huobit FastTrack, rebranded from Huobi Prime Lite, is a new listing model. Wherein, all participants will have a direct say in what projects are listed on Huobi Global and when. In addition, winning voters will get access to quality tokens at below market rates. The program also provides much needed exposure and a straightforward listing process.
Huobi Wallet
Huobi Wallet is the official mobile wallet of Huobi Group, a leading global digital asset financial service provider. It is a multi-chain asset management tool that provides native support for various types of blockchains and all of the ERC20 tokens. So far Huobi Wallet supports BTC, BCH, LTC, ETH, ETC, USDT and all ERC20 tokens.
Huobi wallet is the first wallet to expand support to cover seven stablecoins including, Paxos Standard Token (PAX), TrueUSD (TUSD), USD Coin (USDC), Gemini Dollar (GUSD), Dai (DAI), Stasis EURS (EURS), and Tether (USDT).
Huobi Wallet is built based on the core principle of security-first. The wallet gives back its users, complete control of their private keys. In simple terms, You own your assets. The wallet is backed up with mnemonics, so in future when you want to import your wallet, it’s just simple few clicks.
Currently, the wallet is compatible with both iOS and Android devices and you can download both from here (www.huobiwallet.com/en)
Huobi Chain
Huobi launched Huobi Chain’s Testnet (“the Testnet”) on February 29th 2020 (GMT+8). Huobi Chain is China’s autonomous cum compliant-ready blockchain platform, and is committed to providing a global, blockchain-based, digital asset infrastructure. Huobi Chain is committed to providing a high-performance, blockchain-based, global digital asset infrastructure. Once the Mainnet goes live, Huobi Chain will announce HT- related events: e.g. pledge HT to be a Super Node, etc.
HT Lock & Mine (Huobi Pool)
Huobi launched HT Lock and Mine operations on 25th July 2019 (GMT+8). Users who lock HT tokens receive daily HPT rewards. Specific reward quantity will depend on lock option period selected, quantity locked and Huobi Pool’ s mining hash power and daily float.
DPOS Rewards: All Huobi Global users with more than 1,000HPT holdings in their HBG account will receive DPOS mining rewards. Currently, token reward received under DPOS mining include EOS, TRX, CMT, ONG, IOST, ATOM, IRIS, LAMB。
Huobi Support
Users of the Huobi exchange can access 24/7 live chat and Huobi help center. Those facing issues can also open a support ticket to have their issue resolved by an expert representative immediately.
The Huobi Group has a very active YouTube channel, featuring Huobi Talk, where it posts user tutorials, detailed guides, and crypto currency information for traders.
What I like the most about Huobi
An established platform that’s been operating since 2013, which is a long time in the crypto world.
Highly secured with decentralized exchange structure, which helps to resist DDOS attacks. Huobi has never suffered a large hack.
Huobi Security Reserve of 20000 BTC to compensate users’ loss of funds.
Dedicated, fast and 24/7 customer support.
Regulated in major jurisdictions.
User interface is very smooth and clean.
Over 230 crypto assets are available.
User education program is good initiative.
Separate trading desk for institution and firm size users.
Very transparent about its operations, listings and projects.
Huobi Wallet is secured and very easy to operate.
Huobi mobile app is smooth and very easy to use.
Competitive fees.
Has taken serious steps towards avoiding wash trading.
Impressive array of trading pairs.
Has given more important on community participation, like voting for listing, mining pool, Huobi Knights program etc.
I like Huobi Prime because of following reasons: -
(a) Purchased tokens are immediately deposited into user’s accounts,
(b) As projects launch exclusively through Huobi Prime from day one, all users get assets at the best price.
(c) Tiered price limits on the platform protect both investors and projects from immediate dump.
Huobi screen projects and launches which are only the best. I don’t have to worry about poor or scammy projects.
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Hi dear Jill, My name is Sofia. Several days ago I read your article and I tried to summarize a series of thoughts about what a "freedom tool" is for me and for you it is a "most useful tool for breaking laws"
DOCTRINES
In a voracious struggle to encompass territories and establish patterns for citizen development in a globalized world, doctrines have been erected from the most dominant empires throughout the history of societies, which have allowed, among many things, to guide and trace the individual actions in different ways through persuasion methods, which we are not all specific to identify or escape from them, possibly due to lack of education (most cases) or by omission, in a way: cultural, economic, religious and political.
Throughout history it has been seen as products created for certain purposes have been used by people or groups for another purpose, finding in these a way to obtain personal benefits. It is incredible how the detention of Ross Ulbritc is still sustainable for only being the creator of a network that was deformed by the use of a few, putting Ross's reputation at stake and to this day his freedom.
CONVENIENCE
There are countless examples about the appropriate use or not of the inventions of man, an illustrative example from my point of view is that of the telephone designed as a device to facilitate communication between people, allowing proximity to others regardless of distance . This form of communication has been used to facilitate illegal activities, extortion and kidnapping, among others. Despite this, it has evolved into an intelligent tool that allows you to control work, home, finances, among other things from a single device in real time (smartphones), its performance is no longer measured only for the purpose it was created. say make or receive calls, but as a versatile and essential tool.
A TOOL OF FREEDOM
During this social evolution, “A tool of freedom” has emerged, among its many benefits, has allowed citizens to be freed from financial systems, from the wrong decisions made by their political leaders, isolate them from Dynamite Economies and even give access to the unbanked , putting in the hands of people a system that allows them to carry out transactions in a fast, efficient and secure way, which is constantly evolving through protocols based on blockchain and without the need to expose your privacy to make daily exchanges.
Just as the BTC and its evolutionary forks arrived, a cryptocurrency series also arrived to strengthen the ecosystem. All with the purpose of being used through cryptography as a means of exchange between people, from their different stream of conception, they are additionally useful for encrypting messages, combating censorship, ensuring privacy and even establishing smart contracts through same. Among many of its uses, they have tried to evolve to make them faster and more efficient in the context of handling more information in the shortest possible time, in a decentralized way and without discrimination.
MIRAGE
It is an alternative for which a large number of citizens around the world have decided to opt, observing cases of corruption and monitoring through regular channels, which are dominated by governments and transnational corporations of different services that only want to sustain their monopoly and hegemony around world. It is incredible to talk about money laundering, financing of irregular groups, human trafficking white and selling drugs directly related to cryptocurrencies, (they have stigmatized their use, no doubt) when these actions have existed even before the existence of them and even with the endorsement of governments that highlighted their neatness or justified their immoral actions under the premise of a masked struggle for "freedom".
Here are a few examples of how everything is not what it seems:
Everything that has been mentioned before has been done since all times and is a problem of human morality not of cryptocurrencies, they have masked these illicit actions with banks in tax havens, offshore accounts and any other channel that the banks themselves have hidden and has been used for money laundering and other illegal activities. Without implying that it is the responsibility of banks or corporations. The use is the sole responsibility of each user.
FAKE-NEWS
It cannot be guaranteed that cryptocurrencies are only a useful tool for breaking laws, just because people or groups have changed from using existing means to using cryptocurrencies to launder money or make illicit payments. I am also aware that the great global banking elite has television channels, newspapers, journalists, singers and others at your service. They serve as funded puppets to sustain their model and grab attention through their great social influence.
This motivates me even more to ensure that in its evolution through cryptography, cryptocurrencies allow and allow to cover all financial spaces in an intelligent, fast, secure and uncensored way from the north pole to the south pole.
FEARS
Do you know what I'm afraid of, dear Jill?(if one day you read that article), to live in this world of espionage, monitoring and political-economic persecution towards citizens. Large financial groups have chosen to attack cryptocurrencies in the face of the obvious independence they represent, using the means they have to discredit everything concerning them. Cryptocurrencies do not seek the disappearance of banking systems, but rather be an alternative investment and payments without implying high payment commissions and fees for their use.
I can assure you that the BitcoinCash as a cryptocurrency that I use in most of my transactions (95%) has allowed me to send collaborations to needy groups in Southern Africa and Venezuela, donate to help those who do not have clothes or shelter , thank you for a comment to a person in Japan, receive a payment from Oceania for doing a good job, send a shipment to a family member thousands of km away and everything has been completed in a matter of seconds, without moving from my home, without discriminate against me because of my nationality or how much money I have in my bank account.
Imagine doing this in the current banking system is impossible, I can not do it because my credit cards in Venezuela do not allow me to make transactions in dollars, the exchange markets are all speculative and dominated by mafias, or because I simply need to have at least 500 $ and be a US citizen to be able to open an international account, and have access to send money from one continent to another.
Reasons that fortunately still dear Jill, you have not had to experience, and let me assure you that cryptocurrencies meet all the requirements to take the forefront in global exchanges.
I fear this world where everything seems to be what it is not, where many citizens are invisible. I will not give up trying to change it!
I invite you to visit the modest YouTube channel of the group to which I belong Cultura BCH and observe that the BitcoinCash is fast, reliable and secure. Please do it before it is censored.
If you feel identified with our efforts and activities as a independent group, your collaboration will be grateful for helping us meet the goals around the BCH in 2020.
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The great side effect is, that after completing this challenge you can now trust yourself and no shady b(ch)lockchain.com sites while waiting for your tx confirmation. Also, hands-on is probably the best way to take the red pill in the Bitcoin space and it's great technology.
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I keep coming across comments, especially in this sub, from people claiming that Bitcoin was created by the CIA or some government agency as part of the plan for the NWO and cashless society. I want to share my experience and try to clear up the confusion surrounding this topic.
I first got involved with Bitcoin in late 2016 when I heard about it and got some while at a libertarian festival. Back then it was still very popular among the agorist community and was being promoted as THE silver bullet that was going to disrupt the global fiat banking system.
Putting preconceptions aside, a new user might ask, "what's so special about Bitcoin? We already have digital currencies."
Well, you only need to read the first page of the whitepaper to discover what the original intent of Bitcoin was. It most definitely was not intended to be a tool for central banks to subjugate the world to a centralized global currency. Quite the opposite in fact. Read the full whitepaper here.
When I first learned about Bitcoin, it forced me to learn about economics, then the Federal Reserve, then one by one the dominoes fell and down the conspiracy rabbit hole I went. In 2017 (actually it started a few years earlier, but I wasn't paying attention back then) there was a very heated debate in the Bitcoin community regarding scaling.
I'll try to break it down simply:
In the very early days, when Bitcoin was just a project being worked on by a few very technical people, no one knew about it. All it took was a handful of people running the software on their laptops to mine new coins. Since there was not much computing power on the network, it meant there could easily be a spam attack where a malicious user could join the network and generate many gigabytes of spam transactions that would overload and crash the network. To prevent this, Satoshi implemented a limit of 1MB per block, to protect the network until there was enough computing power to be able to handle larger blocks.
This measure worked, and Bitcoin grew exponentially.
Satoshi vanished in 2010, after WikiLeaks attracted unwanted attention to the project by accepting Bitcoin donations. He left clear instructions for his successors that the 1MB block size limit was meant to be increased once the network could support high levels of user traffic. At the time, there still was not much use, so it wasn't until around 2014 that blocks started hitting the 1MB cap and all of a sudden users had to compete (by paying higher transaction fees) in order to get their transaction mined into the next block.
Up until then, sending a Bitcoin transaction would cost $0.0001 (hundredth of a penny) or less, no matter if you were sending $0.10 or $1,000,000. Now, since block space was limited, fees started to rise, as miners would only include the transactions with the highest fees. Over the next couple years, transaction fees went up dramatically, at times reaching as high as $100 to send a single transaction.
The solution was obvious - raise the block size limit.
But this led to a heated debate, and this is where the conspiracy became obvious to those who were paying attention. Since Bitcoin was decentralized and open source, anyone could contribute, but certain people controlled the commit access to the github repo, and it became apparent that those individuals had been compromised, as any and all mention of increasing the block size was met with fierce resistance.
There was a misinformation campaign to discredit anyone arguing for larger blocks. The argument was that larger blocks would mean users could not run the software on their low-power personal devices and laptops; that by increasing the block size it would lead to mining centralization. Well, if you read the whitepaper linked above, you'll see that Satoshi predicted this. He knew mining would eventually be left to "specialized server farms" while normal users could use what he termed Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) wallets.
But this point was consistently shot down in the community, and especially on /r/bitcoin. There was a MASSIVE censorship campaign in the bitcoin subreddit that continues to this day where anyone who questions the official narrative or even asks a basic technical question is immediately banned. /r/bitcoin today is nothing but a cesspit of price memes and misinformation. Go to /r/btc for the uncensored discussions (but beware of trolls).
In 2017 the debate was finally settled, sort of. Now known as "Bitcoin Core" (the name of the official Bitcoin software), the developers implemented a change known as SegWit (Segregated Witness) which fundamentally altered the way the software validates transactions. It was implemented as a "soft fork" rather than a "hard fork".
I'll explain the difference.
In a fork, the network comes to a consensus on new rules that all participants must follow. In a hard fork, the changes are non-backwards compatible, so all users must update their software or else be left behind on a dead network. Hard forks happen all the time in software development, but in the case of SegWit, the developers refused to make any non-backwards compatible changes for fear it might alienate users. Again, another unfounded fear. "We can't ever upgrade the technical capabilities of the network (such as the block size) because some people might not go along with it."
All kinds of mental gymnastics were performed to justify their refusal to increase the block size, and there was nothing anyone could do about it except fork as an independent project. The 1MB block limit is now essentially set in stone for BTC. So in August 2017, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) hard forked by increasing the block size limit to 8MB, along with some other changes.
Fast forward to December 2017 and Bitcoin was at its all time high of nearly $20,000. But fees were also astronomical and because of the 1MB block size limit, a huge backlog formed, and some people had to wait days or even weeks for their transaction to confirm. If anyone was trying to cash out into fiat and didn't want to pay a $100 transaction fee, by the time their transaction got confirmed the price had already crashed.
This event was largely responsible for the bear market of 2018. Everything that happened was predicted by those who knew what was going on.
A company called Blockstream had essentially wrestled control of Bitcoin from the original developers and shut them out or gained control over them, and started working on turning Bitcoin into a settlement layer for their product called Lightning Network.
LN is a complicated topic that I don't want to get into, but essentially it's a framework that recreates all the same problems inherent in the banking system that Bitcoin was meant to solve. Blockstream's goal is to profit from creating, and then "solving" those problems by charging users fees for all kinds of custodial services.
In my personal opinion, it's obvious that the original Bitcoin project has been hijacked and repurposed into a tool for the central banks. The propaganda is being pushed in some conspiracy circles that Bitcoin was created BY the central banks in order to discourage people from researching the true history. What is now commonly called "Bitcoin" is not the original project, but a Trojan horse.
The project that most closely follows the original design is Bitcoin Cash, and that is where almost all organic development is happening, and personally I feel that it's picking up steam lately as more people wake up to what's happening in the economy right now. Unfortunately most people are still unaware of how fundamentally broken BTC is now and so as new users run toward cryptocurrency to escape the dollar collapse, most will fall straight into the trap and be stuck with BTC that they won't be able to use without paying exorbitant fees and/or submitting to the very same tracking system they are trying to get away from.
This is a very deep rabbit hole but I think I've written enough for now. I hope this info helps people make sense of what's going on with Bitcoin. I know it's confusing enough even without so much deception taking place so hopefully this helps.
Read the Bitcoin FAQ over on /r/btc.
