Rather than a list, it should be basic information concerning phishing and scams in general, to teach the less educated how to detect scams for themselves rather than relying on a huge phishing site list that could end up being thousands and thousands in the long run, knowing that the list is simply going to be endless.

Are we going to create separate topics for every phishing site we find now? Not saying that what you did(OP) by posting this thread was wrong, but it's getting pretty redundant. It's pretty much the same phishing scam as what the scammers have been doing since forever anyway. I think an admin should just sticky a thread about phishing links here in the Beginners & Help section so posts like this will be unnecessary as I'm sure we're going to see a lot more of this simply due to the fact that phishing sites aren't going anywhere soon.

Anyway, thumbs up for informing the noobies.

Meh this is a pretty common(and very very obvious) phishing scam. You can easily tell by looking at the domain itself and by the huge 0.1 BTC demand. But thumbs up for informing the noobies I guess.

Not sure if we should point our fingers immediately on HitBTC, but this could well be a problem on your side. What security measures did you take on HitBTC? Did you at least enabled 2FA?

With that said, while I'm not saying HitBTC is a scam because I don't think I've used that exchange in the past, HitBTC sure is definitely very shady for the bad publicity it's getting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bp65zz/hitbtc_fraud/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ad6y1x/i_think_hitbtc_just_scammed_me_and_i_have_it/
https://www.reddit.com/r/hitbtc/comments/9ooq3m/hitbtc_scam_70000/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/aondr3/hitbtc_scam_possibly_an_internal_scam_operation/
https://www.reddit.com/r/hitbtc/comments/aojn88/hitbtc_scam_all_of_my_funds_have_been_stolen/

It really could be either. I have zero idea on EU laws and regulations, but there's a good chance that they're aware of an upcoming regulation concerning cryptocurrencies that could make operating their business a lot difficult. But at the same time, it could also be because of them not making enough money. See, I never used that exchange, but remember that cryptocurrency exchanges right now are highly competitive. A new exchange that's ran well and advertised well can easily eat out the userbase of an existing reputable exchange.

I don't think so. Lalo na sa mga mayayamang bansa gaya ng US, mejo kilala naman na ang bitcoin sa mga lugar na un, though hindi lang alam ng mga tao ang importance ng bitcoin.

Itong halimbawang ito sa larawan, tinake advantage lang nung tao ung fact na pag inadvertise nya ang bitcoin sa public, e may mga donations siyang matatanggap.

Personally, hindi. Siguro oo, in rare cases like pag may tao o kaibigan akong nag mention ng bitcoin at nagtanong ng ano man tungkol dun. Pero besides un, hindi talaga. Ayaw ko lang isipin ng mga tao na baka may hawak akong bitcoins. Kahit di ko sabihin, pwedeng pwede nilang i-assume un lalo na't pag marami akong alam tungkol sa bitcoin.

Couple of reasons:

• Pag nag bull market ulit ang bitcoin at cryptocurrency markets, ayaw kong maging utangan ng bayan
• ...at ayaw kong maraming taong hihingi ng "balato"
• Para maiwasan ang $5 wrench attack[1]
• Baka sisihin ako nung tao pag may certain tao na nag invest sa bitcoin dahil sakin, at nagcrash ang price nito

Basically, sa kahit ano, priority ko lagi ang securidad ko at ng pamilya ko, kahit baka isipin ng mga tao na mejo "OA" ung mga rason ko.

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[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5112748.0

Even if it was Coindesk or Cointelegraph that did the "contest", I'd still fully suggest against it to be honest(or use a burner email if you really wanted to join). Regardless who actually does the contest, it's fairly clear what their intentions are. They're businesses, they wouldn't just randomly be giving $1,000 if they don't get anything in return; which in this case, is a potentially huge email list.

Apologies for the late reply. I stopped monitoring this thread when it stopped gaining any responses.

Definitely a very interesting move. But instead of creating another separate and hugely unnecessary cryptocurrency, Pac and the team should've just sticked with existing cryptocurrencies. I'm 95% sure this is just some crypto project by some random team that asked permission from Pac if they can use his name for the project.

Oh definitely. I always wished the government went a lot harder into finding these no-life scammers.

As for the government being neutral, I think it just isn't that big yet for them to actually acknowledge it and somewhat regulate it. My guess that in the next bull run, there will be more laws and regulations concerning bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

The "diversify your investments" advice mostly came from the 2017 bull run as far as I remember, as almost everything is going up in price anyway. Obviously, that certain advice didn't work well if your diversification is with other coins/tokens rather than what it should actually be- with other assets in other industries and sectors(stocks, index funds, real estate, businesses, etc).

For some reason though, even with the very bad past results, I'm sometimes still hearing the "diversify with other coins" advice.

10/10

Not necessarily. With that mindset, you could end up with the same results by using your fiat profit to buy bitcoin/cryptocurrencies, if you're really THAT bullish with cryptocurrencies. It just completely depends on the business and how you handle it, regardless if it's a business that handles fit or crypto.

With that said, it's pretty hard to answer your questions. It simply depends in soooo many factors. It's almost like the classic question of "should I get a job or start a business?". We don't know what your skills are, what country you're in, what your target demographic is, what connections you have, etc. So much factors that it's impossible to get a rough answer to your questions.

Definitely one hell of a way to mas collect emails from the cryptocurrency demographic. They could just simply shut down the website at the end of 2019 and they would end up with a good sized email list. Regardless if this contest is actually legit or not, I definitely suggest using burner emails. There's a good chance that the people who submitted their email addresses would be spammed with articles, or worst case scenario, the email list would actually be sold to potentially people with malicious intentions.

Quite an unpopular opinion, but I'd say using Coinbase as a hot wallet is mostly fine, currently as developers are still working on the lightning network and making it better. As far as I know, the Coinbase app is what a good number of people(in the US) use to store their bitcoin, and the off-chain Coinbase<->Coinbase instant transactions are definitely very convenient(privacy issues aside). With that said, only store funds on a hot wallet amounts that you would store on your physical pocket cash wallet(probably <$100?). Because like you have said, some centralized wallets are quite notorious for locking up funds.

I kinda doubt it. The chinese people who actually holds and knows bitcoin(probably just a minority, but yea), would know that bitcoin is far superior than their 'allegedly' gold-backed centralized cryptocurrency, that is made and is most likely just going to be used for improved mass surveillance in the first place.

Legalization of crypocurrencies in China doesn't automatically mean that everyone suddenly puts their money into cryptocurrencies, so don't get your hopes up. With that said, if they really wanted cryptocurrencies, they would already grab some through exchanges like btcc.com; because though cryptocurrencies aren't declared legal in China(as far as I know), they aren't illegal either.

So, the receiver's bitcoin-qt wallet syncing the 'forked blockchain' through the sender's wifi? I'm really not sure, but I don't think that's really possible (apparently, it is). But if it is indeed possible, I assume that it would be very difficult to pull off, and the sender probably needs to do some stuff to the receiver's wallet for this to work. But again, I'm not sure.

Very interesting question nonetheless. Let's wait for other replies.

As far as I know, the receiver cant get tricked assuming:

• The receiver has had his bitcoin address ready(probably pre-copied address to his notes app, or a screenshotted QR code)
• The receiver is viewing his bitcoin address through a reputable and untampered app(Mycelium, Electrum, etc)

Not sure how a 'fake blockchain' can affect the receiver's mobile app, unless the sender asks the receiver to download a wallet of this 'fake blockchain'. And take note that the receiver can verify through block explorers if he actually received the funds in the first place.

In the top of my head, the only way the sender could tricked the receiver is probably through a double spend, or through a phishing site redirection through the wifi's DNS settings if the receiver is going to use a web wallet through a browser(and not a wallet app).

Correct me if I'm wrong of course.

This is one of the most important points. People are going to get scammed, period; as scams have existed since pretty much the rise of humanity, even without the internet. It's virtually impossible to eliminate all scams, as new ones will simply appear everyday, and with possibly new tricks up their sleeves to deceive more people. All we can do is to minimize the number of people that could get scammed in the future.

Yeah totally. If Binance was to make such a move, I'd expect it to be all over Reddit and Twitter. This is totally foreign to me hence I didn't even double check if there were other 'BTC's. Why did they also list it as 'BTC' in the first place. They should've at least named it BBTC or something, like how we have WBTC on Ethereum.

With that said, I don't suggest anyone to even touch that Binance BTC with a 10 foot pole.

Deleted my reply. Didn't notice that there were two 'BTC's on Binance's fees page. Woops. 🤦

https://www.binance.com/en/fee/schedule