And we need your help.

These scammers have been spreading fake news about certain big names from the Philippines saying that these people are endorsing these "trading bots" to earn money. The scam has gained too much publicity that one of these big names has to publicly announce on television(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFtbT1j4WnQ) that he doesn't endorse this scam.



Yes, I know, it's a typical scam right? Why overreact? But unfortunately, a good number(or dare I say most) of filipinos are completely unaware on what ponzi schemes and other scams are, so the best thing we could possibly do is to possibly get these sites off the web to hopefully significantly decrease the potential damage that it can do to the masses.

Sites of this scam we've found:

Even just reporting these sites to Google just to get the warning message when people open these scam sites could be a big help and could hopefully make people think twice: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_general/

Some places to report if you have the time:

• https://www.econsumer.gov/#crnt
• a quick email to acg@pnp.gov.ph
• https://www.doj.gov.ph/contact.html
• http://www.sec.gov.ph/message-us-4/
• http://nbi.gov.ph/transparency-seal/nbi-divisions/#investigationsrvcs

Thanks!

So alam niyo naman na sigurong mejo mainit tong scam na to ngayon(topic 1, topic 2), at kung ano anong fake news nilalabas nila para lang makapag scam ng mga tao.

So far, itong 3 4 5 6 nahanap kong sites ng "bitcoin revolution" scam na to:

Decided to make this thread a megathread for bitcoin scam sites na kinakalat sa Philippines; para may iisang thread tayo na may listahan ng mga website na pwede nating ireport. Huge thank you sa mga nagrereport.

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Please take a few minutes to report the sites na nirereport ng mga kabayan natin dito sa thread na ito, hindi lang para sa mga kapwa pilipino at hindi lang para sa reputasyon ng Bitcoin mismo, kundi para sa ikabubuti ng lahat. Maraming salamat!

• https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_general/
• https://www.econsumer.gov/#crnt
• a quick email to acg@pnp.gov.ph
• https://www.doj.gov.ph/contact.html
• http://www.sec.gov.ph/message-us-4/
• http://nbi.gov.ph/transparency-seal/nbi-divisions/#investigationsrvcs

Not saying that safety isn't important, but don't overthink it too much as you wouldn't need to put in money anyway. All you need is to make sure you have access to the keys as so you can sign messages whenever you need to, and that's pretty much it.

Also, you can use Electrum.

There's probably a good number(and increasing) number of crypto-related podcasts out there, but here are my personal picks that I listen to:

• What Bitcoin Did: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/ - great if you prefer bitcoin-only
• Off the Chain: https://blockworksgroup.io/off-the-chain-podcast - audio can be crap at times but he gets to interview great people
• Tales from the Crypt: https://talesfromthecrypt.libsyn.com/ - decent, but I like the interviews with the devs

Because though he is really a heavily controversial person, his name still has some weight in it for being the founder of the famous but crappy McAfee Antivirus. Especially in 2017, having his name on a certain project's team page gives the illusion that that certain project is legitimate/relevant. Fortunately, for all the stupid things he's said(especially the tweet in question), he's slowly but surely losing relevancy and reputation even in the cryptocurrency markets.

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EDIT: So it seems like on the 2 projects he heavily shilled(Skycoin and Apollo) and whereas he's supposed to be a team member, apparently his name is no longer on the team pages. Freakin LOL. Shilling failed.

Coinomi is closed-source, and I would almost never recommend the usage of closed-source wallets. Exodus has both a desktop and mobile app, so I'd suggest using that instead Apparently Exodus is only partially open-source. Though I'd never recommend holding a huge variety of coins in the first place for obvious^(smelly) reasons.

Funny how he and a few other people(a.k.a. Twitter XRP bots and ETH supremacists) call bitcoin "outdated" and "the hotmail of crypto"(from one of the Tweet's replies), but yet not one other cryptocurrency has come close to what Bitcoin is today and what it has achieved. I don't get how they could call something that people widely use "outdated", even though it doesn't even a better alternative. Not even close.

I suggest you take a look at the charts of these altcoins vs bitcoin and see for yourself if it's "rate of returns is higher than of Bitcoin". They've been getting rekt for a while now, in exception of a few alts like LINK.

As for short term, sure you could say that; but best of luck timing the markets.

I'm going to take my chances and just assume that you're genuinely asking for advice and not posting here to increase the Google searches for whatever exchange that is.

No. It's most definitely a scam.

1. You "register a wallet" on this scam site
2. He "sends" you the bitcoin, but in fact, he only changes a few numbers on the website's database to make it look like you actually have bitcoin
3. You send him the codebase of your app
4. You then realized that you couldn't withdraw the bitcoin because there was no bitcoin to start with

You'd be really lucky to actually make $3 a day with airdrops lol. Most of the time, like 99% of the time, you're going to be handed useless tokens that aren't even worth crap. And not to mention that you're going to need to hand over personal documents to some. Easily a big no.

Unfortunately, it doesn't end here. As time goes, at sa paglaki pa lalo ng cryptocurrency industry in the long term, dadami at dadami ang hackers at pagaling ng pagaling ang strategies at mga pakulo nila para maka kombinse ng mga tao. One disadvantage lang talaga ng pseudonymity is madali silang makapag scam ng mahirap silang mahuli.

Unless you're actually really knowledgeable on blogs yourself, you're most definitely underestimating the difficulty of maintaining a blog. Not only that you'd have to be decent at writing, you'd also have to be heavily knowledgeable on the niche you're writing about. Just spamming your blog posts on forums and social media isn't the right way to go if you actually want it to be a sustainable source of income.

And wait, there's more! You'd also need to have decent knowledge on Search Engine Optimization(SEO) for your articles to actually gain traction. A lot of blogs out there don't even reach even 1 organic view(through search engine searches).

Lastly, blogging and affiliate programs can overlap.

Definitely not the answer you're looking for, but don't chase for these quick bucks. You don't have any special talents, fine. But even everyone that's now successful also started as people who knows literally nothing. Instead, they exerted effort to learn. I hope you realize how lucky we are right now that we have literally a crap ton of free information on the internet, that we can learn almost anything we want.

Nothing. Because people don't necessarily need to buy it to learn about it. Though I'm extremely bullish on bitcoin, I don't tell anyone to buy it. Simply due to the reason that not everyone can stomach the price volatility. If a person I'm talking to is genuinely interested in bitcoin and does extensive research on it, chances are, he's going to buy bitcoin without even me telling him.

It's unfortunately pretty much a part of life in general; like how people touch wet paint on a wall with a "wet paint" sign; and I'm not even going to pretend that I haven't been a victim in the past. I'm just really fortunate that I got phished(hence learned my lesson) at such a young age(10 years old or so), that I've only lost an account on some online game. After that incident, never did I get phished again all my life. For some people though, they're going to experience their first scams through the cryptocurrency space, which is going to be far more painful.

Ads and in-app purchases for a notes app. Quite unnecessary.

If I were to suggest the usage of a certain notes app, I'd definitely go something that's open-source. Here's 2 decent ones that's recommended through privacytools.io:

• https://joplinapp.org/
• https://standardnotes.org/

If anything, based on the past few years that I've been in the cryptocurrency space, Vegeta memes coming out everywhere is mostly a sign for a price dip down back to the 8k's. It's pretty much a huge jinx.

I don't think so. Kahit gaano pa kahitpit ang regulations, kung may mga pwedeng maloko, laging may mga manloloko. The same exact reason kung bakit meron paring mga non-cryptocurrency scams and ponzi schemes ngayon.

Hopefully mostly regulations concerning scams pero. Hindi ung regulations na pagiging sobrang higpit sa mga bitcoin holders.

These antiviruses have always been quite shady, especially the notorious McAfee antivirus. With that said, the only antivirus/antimalware software I used back in the day was the default Windows Defender, and Malwarebytes for the occasional malware scan. These things became completely unnecessary the moment I tried using Linux operating systems though. Though things could break once in a while especially if you love tinkering stuff, the peace of mind that comes with it for having a more secure and privacy-respecting OS is totally worth it.

All that matters is that they get paid by the project "CEOs" to list their coin/token, and that they could earn money off the trading fees of the coin/token's trading pairs. I'm pretty sure a lot of exchanges don't give a single crap if a certain project is even legitimate or not, as long as they could earn money.