Do you have any knowledge about what kind of protection is applied to the assets owned by the forum, and what exact AV/antimalware would be a logical step in protecting those assets? It is true that such programs can sometimes really save you in the form of stopping or quarantining a file that is judged to be malicious/risky, but even that is sometimes not enough for those who do not know what they are doing.

In other words, you can't stop a skilled hacker from hacking any system that has online access, you can only make it harder for him if you have a good defense, and that would first of all include a properly installed firewall, and only then some of the top AV.

I believe that the coins in question are secured in a fairly safe way, i.e. they are not in a hot wallet.

Yes, in some ways, investing in altcoins can be called a kind of gambling, except that we can throw out the part that connects gambling with entertainment. What I have noticed in general in my environment, but also on the forum, is that there are a lot of young people who are still supported by their parents, and who still do not appreciate money in the way that they might appreciate it one day when they start earning it themselves.

There prevails the old saying that roughly says "easy money is easy to spend", and with all these social networks that young people use today, they are very easy targets for scammers. Some people know how to deal with risks, but the majority are completely unprepared and therefore have nothing but financial loss in the long run.

In that case, good luck getting accepted

I'm not surprised at all, people are greedy or desperate and you can sell them whatever you want, and what's even better for all those scammers is that people are not only naive, but you can take advantage of them several times until they finally realize that they've been scammed.

Bitcoin is of course something much different, but I still cannot be indifferent when I see that people are absolutely convinced that only by investing in Bitcoin they can count on a better future. I already recently wrote in another topic that there are various risks that should be taken into account. Here we can always refer to the old advice that says "don't invest more than you are prepared to lose".

I just did this but another link led me to your post, unfortunately another person lost $200 from the same scammer. I hope that more DT members will join to at least try to warn others about this serial scammer.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5424667.msg62863436#msg62863436

The scam on the forum is not moderated at all, so you should not expect any reactions from the admin or moderators in this regard. The only way to protect yourself from such things is not to trade with those who do not have any trading history, or to use a verified escrow. Otherwise, you donate money to scammers who take advantage of forums and naive people.

@DVlog, places are open for an avatar campaign, and considering that you are in another sig campaign that promotes mixer, I don't think your campaign manager would like it if you have an avatar from a competitor

If you know German and are intelligent enough to find their site, maybe the answer you're looking for is there. If you want to save time, you should read what others have written on this topic, because if you had done that, you would surely have seen two links posted by other members.

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A country where you pay 0% tax if you sell Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency for a year or more after purchase is not friendly enough? I don't know what is your version of a friendly country when it comes to Bitcoin?

B is anxious to get to 27, and maybe he needs 7 in a row to do that - for some it's a very lucky number

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7

I don't see anything positive in the fact that a bank that has been in big trouble for years will offer a service that, at least when it comes to Bitcoin, not only makes no sense, but is also potentially risky for anyone who uses such a service. Those who are not able to install a digital wallet or buy HW should not even engage in such investments - not to mention that storing Bitcoin in this way loses its true meaning.


Their assets under management are about 10 times smaller than BlackRock's, or 4-5 times smaller than Fidelity's - and besides, we are talking about the EU, where Bitcoin is nowhere near as popular as in the US. I do not believe that this will be the case even if a large bank offers this kind of service.

Besides, who in their right mind would allow their cryptocurrencies to be kept by a bank that constantly appears in the media in a negative context?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/business/federal-reserve-deutsche-bank-fine.html
https://www.nestseekers.com/Guides/MarketReports/deutsche-bank-crisis-glance
https://www.usnews.com/news/economy/articles/2023-03-24/meltdown-in-deutsche-bank-shares-shows-banking-crisis-is-not-yet-over

Bitcoin can be banned as a currency, which is, for example, the case in Turkey or Thailand, but at the same time it can be allowed to trade with it, which could be called a partial ban. However, some countries may introduce a complete ban on paying, trading, and even owning Bitcoin, but this cannot prevent an individual from carrying out all these actions in a way that does it all in the background, away from the eyes of their authorities.

In other words, you cannot on an individual level prohibit someone from doing anything with Bitcoin, but you can only try to make it difficult or discourage them from doing it. After all, did Satoshi ask permission from anyone to start Bitcoin?

There is no special guide on how to use TOR on this forum or anywhere else, it is a browser like any other, with the difference that by using such a browser you get a certain amount of privacy. Some will say that it is much easier for them to use a VPN, but that is only because they have never even tried TOR - which is not a problem if they have an attitude like yours.

Most people generally have no need to protect their privacy, and if you do something very bad, even with the use of TOR, there is a high probability that you will be located by those who have the resources for such things.

You can read more on this link -> About Tor Browser

1. People lose their cryptocurrencies regardless of how they store them, whether it's hacking a CEX, downloading a fake wallet, clipboard malware, or exposing their backup or maybe losing it after a while. When it comes to HW, there is always the possibility that at some point someone malicious did something wrong, which means that it could be someone in the factory or the one who delivers the package.

As far as I know, none of the companies that have gained a reputation have ever been accused of such things, but when it comes to HW, people mostly lose their cryptocurrencies because they enter seeds into fake wallets or are victims of clipboard malware that changes the coin address without them knowing.

2. You can't know that, the only thing you can do is trust that the company you bought the device from has no bad intentions. However, if the device is open source, then I think there is a possibility to verify the method by which the seed is created, i.e. that this method is safe and random.

3. For me, Ledger lost its reputation a long time ago, which you can read about in many threads in this board, and as for the second choice, I can't say anything because I'm not familiar with how good or bad it is. The prevailing opinion right now is that best HW for Bitcoin is Passport, which of course has a price that you should be ready to pay.

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WO gathering in 2033

I don't know if it's just a typo or if you use the wrong names for some things, but before you publish a post, I would recommend you to use the "preview" button and check the content of the post

As for the whole idea of wallets becoming friendly even for grandmothers, I think we have to be realistic with the fact that Bitcoin will be used mostly by people who have a solid level of education and are interested in new technologies. All these stories about mass adaptation are for me just one big fantasy that has little to do with reality, although some persistently push it as something that must happen at any cost.

In addition, the whole idea of the already famous Ledger recovery project was allegedly born from the fact that some geniuses within the company thought that this would bring "crypto" closer to their mothers and grandmothers.


If by some chance we manage to simplify Bitcoin to the point where it's as easy as using a bank card at an ATM, I'll just ask question - would that mean the average Joe would start using Bitcoin because of it? I am of the opinion that the reason why so few people use Bitcoin is not that it is too complicated, but that the general attitude promoted by the media is still negative, and people still believe in what they fill their brains with all the time.

However, such a number of years is a sentence that makes no sense to me personally, because as I have already written, it would be enough if they sentenced him to 100 years in prison without the possibility of a pardon, or even without the possibility of a pardon until 2/3 of the sentence has expired, which would be approximately in 66 years.

In any case, this would mean that the convict will remain in prison for life, of course if he does not escape from prison or the law is not changed in the meantime and, for example, he receives a pardon from the president or prime minister, as is usually the case in some countries.

The very fact that such a board exists allows some people to become members of this forum because someone put the bug in their ear that this is a place where you can make money. Furthermore, it is no secret that most of these bounty campaigns promote very questionable (not to mention scam projects) and that all those who you claim have no experience and knowledge are actually naive victims who are left at the mercy of those who exploit them without stopping .

If we are already talking about bans being bad, then those who run such campaigns should have been at least forced not to accept beginners and Jr. members, so every member would learn something until he becomes Member rank.

For me, that system is generally bad, but it obviously suits the forum and those who make a profit out of it, and that means that everything will remain as it was. In that case, it is not fair to put all the blame on the backs of those beginners, they are only doing what they are allowed to do.

Who the hell is this QuantRant that such a tweet should be considered worthy of discussion? @Tytanowy Janusz wrote an excellent post and there is hardly anything to add, except that those speculating about a new ATH before the halving have only one thing in mind, and that is the possible approval of the spot BTC ETF in the US.

Given that the deadline for the SEC to make its decision is sometime in early 2024, it is logical that all these "experts" compete in their speculations, which in the end are nothing more than that. I really don't want to speculate too much about the prices, it is realistic to say that it will be somewhere between $70k and maybe $150k at the peak, although there is a possibility that it will be much more.

I wonder then why this reply of yours is not in that thread, but you opened a new one? After so much time on the forum, you still act like a beginner who doesn't know what thread spamming is...

It seems to me that the OP has no problem only with that he claims that Passport HW is not available in his country, but that the price of the same is about x4 higher than SafePal if we take into account the total price with shipping and customs costs. Regardless of the fact that Passport is perhaps the best choice when it comes to HW at the moment, only those who are exclusively interested in BTC and have significant value in it will buy it.