That's a great list OP, but you might want to passthink twice on this dudes and dudettes.

I've read this an hour ago: "PSA - PIA (PrivateInternetAccess) has been bought by Kape Technologies which is known for sending malware through their software and for being scummy in general." - Reddit /r/DataHoarder thread

I'm not immediately going to make conclusions that this is automatically a bad idea and that Kape will be sending malware to their users through PIA, but this is just a heads up to you people so you can do your researches on this.

Do you actually really think the real Satoshi Nakamoto would just simply casually reveal himself on a random Bitcoin conference after a decade of hiding? I mean, go start a conference if you really can and want to, and I sincerely wish you the best of luck, but you might want to clearly think of your expectations here.

Precisely. People could also say the same not only with bitcoin, but also with stocks like Amazon stocks when it was on it's IPO. In the end, it almost always comes down to people not thinking that it would work out THAT well in the end, hence they didn't invest.

The halving or the "halvening" causes the bitcoin that's being mined to be halved. The bitcoin that's currently being generated and entering the markets daily is 1,800. After the "halvening", the bitcoin generated daily will be halved to 900. Hence, being more scarce.

But remember, not because something got more scarcer, it doesn't automatically mean that the price will increase. The perfect example would be litecoin. After the halving, the generated altcoin halved. But yea, the price dropped too after a while. Why? Simply because there's not enough people buying litecoin. Regardless how many bitcoin is being generated per block or per day, that wouldn't matter if there are more bitcoin being sold on the market than being bought. In the end, it's always supply and demand.

An article concerning this: https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-exchange-upbit-confirms-theft-of-49m-in-ether

Well, should we even be surprised nowadays? Exchange hacks have been too common for us to be even shocked. Once again, refrain from leaving funds on exchanges unless completely necessary.

Hindsight is 20/20. I'm pretty sure a lot of holders from those years also didn't expect this level of exponential growth that bitcoin had throughout the years. All you can do right now is learn from your lesson, and act accordingly.

If you did, there's also might be a good chance that you would've sold when bitcoin doubled or tripled or when it was one of it's hype/bubble cycles in the past.

tldr; people should just use password managers and use passwords that are generated from there, with the maximum amount of characters possible(depending on the website you're registering on. Some still have a maximum of 20 smh). Along with this, in-app(non SMS) 2fa. Doing both alone is going to make your accounts secure enough as long as your password manager's master password isn't easy to crack in the first place.

The problem here is that there's no way to know with 100% certainty if a question is legitimate or is just created for the sake of postcount. So I guess it completely depends on the question.

My take: If the question looks legitimate and sincere but is really really really redundant and easily Google-able and searchable on Bitcointalk(e.g. how to earn merit, where to spend bitcoin, how to rank up, etc), someone should simply just link some article or post and the mods should simply lock the topic immediately. But then again, this completely depends on the topic question.

Stablecoins actually gained popularity. Why? Simply because having stablecoins eliminates the risks of volatility through assets like bitcoin. Along with that, not everyone(or probably even majority) don't even care about decentralization and security in the first place! This is the exact reason why for some reason people still "invest" in other cryptocurrencies like XRP, and other worse shitcoins.

Hindi porke frineeze hindi necessarily ibig sabihin may maling nagawa. Ang pinag uusapan dito is mostly centralized entities and or governments. Based from history and first hand experience alone, hindi natin talaga maeexpect na lahat ng gagawin ng gobyerno at kompanya e para sa ikabubuti ng lahat(obvious na agad, corruption pa nga lang sa pilipinas).

And yes, pwedeng ma unfreeze naman talaga. Pero the fact na pwede nilang ifreeze ung funds(back to the topic about potential corruption and malicious intent). That alone should be a risk already. The main post is not about warning people na nanakawin ng centralized entities na to ung mga funds natin in the first place. It's just warning them of the risks they're taking when holding these assets.

Yes. Still doesn't change the point. Ung "future" na yan, could be tomorrow, or next week, or next month, etc. Better be safe than sorry.

HIndi natin alam. My guess? If gagawin nila ito in a way para potentially na makahuli ng money launderers and tax evaders, probably hindi. Again, better be safe than sorry.

Exactly. People need to understand that some(or probably most?) people aren't really willing to do a recovery seed backup with their "DEX" wallets, heck, I'm going to bet that most don't even use non-custodial wallets! I don't think there's any other way to get people to these so called "DEXs" unless their ease-of-use gets better significantly.

LOL. Hey, while I really don't use antiviruses(because Linux), I still have the free version of MalwareBytes on my Windows 10 OS. While it's not actively running, I still run the MalwareBytes virus scanner for like once in two weeks, you know, juuuust to be extra sure. But yea, I don't think antiviruses are really necessary unless probably for our parents that's likely to click on some random email attachment.

As for OP, probably look for a license seller on Amazon, and pay it through Purse.io so you can pay using bitcoin.

Whatever the collateral percentage is and whatever the yearly returns is, there's literally NO WAY I'm going to lend money to a telegram group. Imagine a scammer so bad at stealing money that they don't even bother to spend some money to rent a server and start a website.

I mean, what do you need help with specifically?

Probably buy some bitcoin through some reputable seller on LocalBitcoins[1], and move over the bought bitcoin to your OKEx wallet address.

While I'm not sure if OKEx Korea requires KYC, better get your documents ready just to be sure.

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[1] https://localbitcoins.com/

Yeah exactly. I mean, I personally don't like KYC/AML either! But this is one of the cases that the reputable and supposedly "secure" ones require KYC, and the ones that don't aren't that reputable. Maybe sometime in the future we're going to get a reputable lending platform that doesn't require KYC/AML, but I really doubt it.

But then again, I'm really not a fan of leaving my coins with a custodial..

1. Ask them. I personally don't run a "DEX". 🤷
2. Yes. I'm definitely not saying that "DEXs" will not have usage in the future. My point is, it has very low liquidity right now hence only a very small minority of traders are using them.

For KYL/AML reasons gaya ng sabi sa "Increased regulations" section. The same exact reason kung bakit na-lolock ang PayPal accounts ng mga tao pag maraming funds ang pumapasok sa PayPal account ng wala pang KYC/AML information na sinubmit ung account owner.

Pilipinas section, please read before replying.

There is no way to know for sure what causes a price rise/drop. It's not like you're required to enter the reasons of why you buy/sell a cryptocurrency when you execute a trade on a certain exchange, right? The dump already happened. Stop wasting your time trying to find out why.

Who not? If the lightning network ends up being successful sometime in the future, then a single crypto can definitely scale(not to mention that there will most definitely be other layer 2 and layer 3 solutions to help scalability). It just mostly depends if the governments around the world would actually allow bitcoin to be used as legal tender.