Over the years we’ve become accustomed to hearing about crypto millionaires. That group of people who bought their Bitcoins when they were just a few dollars. And that after the big rally in 2017, they became billionaires overnight. But there’s also a group that, although they bought Bitcoin in the early days, ended up losing it. That’s the case with the Reddit user who found the laptop where he left 533 Bitcoin ten years ago.

Attempted robbery of a Bitcoin at an ATM

The danger of losing Bitcoin
One of the main features of Bitcoin, and what makes it the preferred currency of many people, is that if you keep your money in a wallet with the proper security, there won’t be anyone in this world who can enter it and threaten your wealth.

The problem is that sometimes this same feature can play against the owner of the money. Well, if for some reason he loses the access codes to his digital wallet, there will be no person who can enter his wallet to recover the money. This has already led, in the case of deceased or forgotten users, to millions of dollars being lost in Bitcoin.

These stories are even more dramatic in the case of those who first adopted cryptomontage. Well, on many occasions, these pioneers acquired their first Bitcoins for a few dollars, and left them in a wallet or laptop, forgetting about them for a long time.

This led to more than one person putting their hands on their head when the price of BTC shot up to almost $20,000 in 2017. Well, a lot of them never got their Bitcoins back.

So it is not surprising that large institutional investment firms did not want to even approach the crypto market. Until a company like Grayscale offered to manage their cryptosystems for them, for a small fee. For, at the end of the day, administering cryptoactives can have very negative consequences if not done properly.

The Reddit user and the lost laptop

This is basically the story of the Reddit user known as Shotukan. Who one day ago posted on Reddit how he managed to recover the laptop where he deposited 533 Bitcoin bought in 2010, when the price of Bitcoin Lifestyle was almost zero. Which were on the lost computer’s hard drive years ago.

However, the story would not have a happy ending for Shotukan, as the photo he attached to his story on Reddit shows. Although he managed to find part of the laptop, it didn’t have the hard drive. Place where your Bitcoins would be stored. Therefore, you still wouldn’t have gotten your money back.

This story gets even worse when you think about the current price of Bitcoin. As of this writing, BTC is trading at $9,906. Which means that the fortune lost by Shotukan amounts to $5,279,898. A figure that is by no means negligible, and that could increase more if there is a new post-Halving rally.

The multinational exchange platform is offering a new service to use the funds that users have. The versatility of exchanging money on the same platform in Airtm dollar crypto-currencies called AirUSD, is one of the advantages offered by this service.

The platform is characterized by offering a wide range of payment gateways and account funding methods, from cash in different currencies worldwide to the use of gift cards. Now it has announced the launch of a virtual prepaid card.

Uphold offered a similar service in the past, the cards as well as those being issued by Airtm were backed by MasterCard. Airtm is already well accepted in the crypto world.

The Covid-19’s momentum

Since the pandemic broke out worldwide, internet purchases have increased significantly, and therefore this situation generates a business opportunity that is taking advantage of the Bitcoin Circuit, Immediate Edge, Bitcoin Revolution, Bitcoin Code, Bitcoin Trader, Bitcoin Era, Bitcoin Evolution, Bitcoin Billionaire, Bitcoin Profit, The News Spy with this service. The social and obligatory isolation set a pattern in the world’s commerce, we are now more digital than at the beginning of the year, so it is logical to expect that the platforms will start their evolution to mass consumption at a distance.

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A globally accepted card with no regional restrictions is offered, which is perfect for internet shopping abroad without further cumbersome processes. It should be noted that the card once generated cannot be reloaded, because as it is not a physical card, the generation of the card codes are tied to the amount for which it is generated, and when the balance is finished the card automatically leaves the MasterCard system and therefore cannot be reused.

Service conditions and fees
Everything in the financial system has a cost, and although Airtm can operate with crypto-currency, commissions are still an associated cost and should be taken into account before deciding to issue a virtual card of this type.

The first thing to note is that there are two types of users on Airtm, if you are an unverified user, you will have a limit of use of $ 100 per card, but with the only possibility of making a single purchase per card, which invites users to take into account the platform commission per purchase that is one dollar per transaction. Despite having a maximum amount of $100 per card, several cards can be generated up to a maximum amount of $250 per month.

If the user is verified in the platform, you will have a limit of $800 dollars and the card is multi-purchase. Likewise, it is indicated that per month you can generate as many virtual cards as you require up to a limit of $2400 per month.

Crypto.com claims that its card is the “most widely available“ after its expansion in Europe
If a purchase in either case results in a balance on the card, it cannot be redirected to Airtm’s account, so it is important to make accurate purchases while taking into account Airtm’s commission on each transaction.

Aeternity hat ein kryptobasiertes Tool zur sozialen Monetarisierung auf den Markt gebracht, das es den Autoren von Inhalten ermöglicht, Tipps über einen Webbrowser oder ein Mobiltelefon sofort anzunehmen.

Die Blockchain-Firma Aeternity stellte am 20. Mai ihr soziales Monetarisierungswerkzeug „Superhero“ vor und beschrieb die Plattform als „das erste dezentralisierte Peer-to-Peer-Sofortbezahlungstool für digitale Güter oder soziale Inhalte“.

Die Erweiterung wird neben Firefox und Chrome auch von den kryptofreundlichen Internet-Browsern Brave und Opera unterstützt. Die dezentralisierte App – oder DApp – ist auch auf dem Handy für iOS und Android verfügbar.

Superhero unterstützt ausschließlich das Trinkgeld in Form von Aeternitys einheimischer Münze, AE. Superhero verfügt über ein Widget zur Integration in Blogs und Websites.

Aeternity lanciert soziale Monetarisierung

Benutzer können Gutscheine, die mit AE im Wert von 5, 10 oder 15 Euro aufgeladen sind, über Paypal oder BitPay kaufen, nachdem sie die Know Your Customer-Verfahren durchlaufen haben. Benutzer können auch Atomic Swaps verwenden, um Gutscheine mit Bitcoin Era, Ether (ETH), Dai (DAI), Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) oder USD Coin (USDC) mit reduzierten KYC-Anforderungen zu kaufen.

Der DApp umfasst eine kostenlose Browser Wallet-Erweiterung und ein Widget, um Tipps zwischen Inhaltskonsumenten und Erstellern zu erleichtern.

Die Distributed-Ledger-Technologie bietet Zensurwiderstand für P2P-Tipps

In einem Gespräch mit Cointelegraph betonte der Gründer von Aeternity, Yanislav Mahalov, dass Superhero die Autoren von Inhalten sofort bezahlt und keine Provision für Trinkgelder nimmt.

„Die Monetarisierung von Inhalten war in der Vergangenheit ein Tauziehen zwischen Drittwerbetreibenden, Datendieben, Host-Plattformen und schließlich den Urhebern selbst“, erklärte Mahalov. „Superhero gibt die Kontrolle wieder in die Hände des Volkes zurück, wodurch es einfacher denn je wird, Kreative aus allen Branchen zu unterstützen“.

Der Gründer von Aeternity hob die Zensurresistenz der Plattform hervor und stellte fest, dass „es keine Dritten gibt, die die Genehmigung oder Veröffentlichung von Tipps kontrollieren, und die Nutzer ihr geistiges Eigentum behalten können“.

Im Mai wurde Aeternity neben mehreren auf verteilter Ledger-Technologie basierenden Startups genannt, um Unterstützung von dem von der indischen Regierung geführten Blockketten-Beschleunigerprogramm T-Block zu erhalten.

Steuerreformen zur Vereinfachung des Krypto-Tippings notwendig

In einer Rede während eines Cointelegraph Talk im vergangenen Monat betonte Ian Kane, Mitbegründer und CEO des Herstellers von Krypto-Debitkarten Ternio, dass die Kapitalertragssteuer für kleine Krypto-Zahlungen aufgehoben werden müsse, um Innovationen bei blockkettenbasierten Mikrotransaktionen zu fördern.

„Für so etwas wie eine Währung, bei der es sich um kleine Mikrozahlungen/Tipps handelt, sollte man nicht 40% kurzfristige Kapitalgewinne zahlen, es macht keinen Sinn“, sagte Keane.

„Als das Internet aufkam, wenn man jedes Mal, wenn man auf eine neue Webseite klickte, eine Steuer oder eine Art Maut zahlen musste, um an Informationen zu gelangen, machte es keinen Sinn. Es behindert irgendwie den Fortschritt, der [in der Kryptotechnik] gemacht wird“, fügte er hinzu.