There were some green candles but now again they have turned red once again so the market is floating in between the same range from few days like we were facing in last month when they were flowing in $45-48k range and now it's $19k-$21k price levels.

But these prediction contest are good and fun way to have the speculation game for bitcoin and we still have more than two weeks to reach the final stage of prices for the contest but will see and thanks @Karl for bringing these up

They don't have time to scrutinize these twitter accounts to check the bot activity and they are willing to giveaway to these random users and you would see them in most of the casinos and not too much worried about the issue and happy to focus on gameplay and enjoying there only.

The crypto scams have been prevailing in the market from a long time and billion dollars value have been transferred to the scammers wallets through these and you can see with the launch of new technology there is hidden bad actors that want to take advantage of people's greed and unawareness about that technology.

Like in past 2017 during ICO burst there was so many scams which continued after that time also and then DeFi scams in recent moves for example the Ronnin bridge scam worth $600 million without noticing.

See the image below to have a look at how these scams are for all these years :

   

If you say lack of resources to make them aware then you would find that most of these scams occur due to their greed and you need to apply common sense why would anyone be giving you free coins or double your investment with these manners and moreover there are many resources to make them aware about different ways of scamming but they didn't read them or ignore it.

For more scam information read this Chainanalyis Blog

Yes absolutely we should be using different mails for different purposes and it should not be like that you are using the same mail you have logged on your device on all places which is risk exposure.Creating new mails isn't hard so you should be having unique one's for the work you are doing and more security features enabled on the important ones.

Speaking of password then creating one yourself and then remembering it is hard for so many mails so pasword managers are good option in these case and can be utilised effectively to assist you and generating strong password.


Sending them on exchange or trusting any third party software is already like giving them full access for your funds and control over your privacy also.


Was really not aware about this so thanks for letting me know about it and have found about the same that proton mails also generate random 12 words seed for recovery and we can also download recovery file but that should be stored on safe place so in case you need to change your password you will need that file to be uploaded.



That's nice feature addition to proton recovery methods but remember still you need to safely backup the recovery phrase and don't open recovery file.But you have option to increase your security with it.

So another merit record for you I am seeing in this thread and now it's already ruined with additional 10 merits creating another nice numbers of 2939  but not worth saving here so you are heading towards your next goal of 3000 but you know there are many in between milestones that will be good to save here like next one approaching with 2400 mark

Yes you could get some good laptop at relatively cheap amount in third world countries also and it's no big deal.You don't need to spend too much on these gaming laptop with extra RAM and NVIDIA graphics card so you could buy good laptop under your budget.

But will suggest if you can then new laptop are best as they don't disclose full information on these OLX like platforms and many cheating are done so best buy is new one.

Submitting your KYC documents is really risky and I would never do that as your privacy is in your hands and I am not comfortable with it but if you are submitting for playing then go through legit manners as these casinos have strict policies to freeze your account if they found something suspicious in your documents.

Yeah that would be nice addition to the list and making comparison between the traditional market and bitcoin growth for all these years like have seen some blogs regarding this correlation but not having a specific site for it and will definitely search for it.

Like this one article explains the correlation among bitcoin and traditional market and it shows bitcoin adoption is increasing as people understand it and the traditional market is seeing little downtrend in the graphs due to less return associated with them : Correlation of bitcoin and traditional market

But one such site with different ways to make comparisons based on different means would be really good option.

This issue has been prevalent over the dark web from long time and your personal information is being sold for different illegal activities and we are aware about these issues so that's why we need to remain anonymous and there are different ways in which security is compromised and this thread throws light on it.

Ledger hack is another example that like they have your personal data outsource to third party software but it's really risky as we have seen some Employee Id being compromised of Mailchip and your data is at risk.The scammers will have full access to your mails and then start the phising scam attempt with fraud emails and you will be giving them away your funds with entering your seed phrases.So there is risk in these ways also.

Mostly these things occur when your are storing your coins on exchange and they ask for these KYC norms ending up your privacy and then also they will have eyes on you putting restrictions on your account to withdraw the funds.

The NSA related movies are inspired from these things only and they want to keep track record of everyone with surveillance and you can see most of the exchange providing them these data of the users and whole work is done by them but you know the reality.Like the last news of Binance selling data to Russian agencies was in talks.

Proton is really cool alternative but remember the password as recovering it is hard because it's not your normal email that can be reset with anyone.

Depends on the level of KYC you are into like level 1 is very normal and this can be faked out by members but if you are playing on the casino then avoid these things and play genuinely as if caught your account could be freezed and funds will be locked so try to be original and follow the rules while gambling.

I think all of them are merit sources and they have spend quite a big amount of smerits over these months like you can check the stats for the previous month for their smerits and here is list for them all :

The list is rank vise :

Merit Source	|	Smerit in past 30 days
fillippone	|	1095
hugeblack	|	1003
El duderino_	|	999
ETFbitcoin	|	976
Welsh	|	923
JayJuanGee	|	816
The Pharmacist	|	785
LoyceV	|	769
1miau	|	751
xandry	|	662
o_e_l_e_o	|	660
vapourminer	|	589
Klarki	|	484
LFC_Bitcoin	|	464
pooya87	|	463
DdmrDdmr	|	451
nutildah	|	442
EFS	|	404
NeuroticFish	|	357
qwk	|	4

But if you are saying about these past 9 days then i will have to look for the same but see how much they have given in the past month only and that's why they are in top merit tree list and we can never match them but you are earning quite lot of merits so you might be able to cope up with them at some point.

Frankly speaking I don't care for these giveaways much and focus more on game wins or other big events that don't have these bot army and you could win something in reality and if you are lucky enough you could get some high rollers also on small wagering amounts only as small gambler wants.So you can't do anything about these twitter giveaways so it's better you try them and if lucky you could get something or forget about them.

There is one such thread by @Ratimov in which if you are eligible to apply or have the little amount of merits left for your next rank : [Merit] ]Help newbies and those who have a little left to the next rank

These are big merit lags and you see merit sources could help you to reach next rank if you are having little amount of merits only but suppose if a full member is having 110 merits so he still have 140 merits left so will they be dropping out such numbers at once? The merits will be send on quality based only and sometimes the members has left few left so that can be helped by sources but not these numbers.Those who are quality posters think they are unnoticed they can post their threads here

So there should be fixed criteria for these applications as shitposters will spam this thread as soon as it's open for all with no restriction so you need to review your criteria.

Make your mind first that you want to invest and be sure that are you willing to loose $100 in this market? Ask yourself first these questions and then you will be ready to enter the market or stay away from it.

Okay so now if we say about your $100 investment you will get the following amount of coins with it :

0.00459BTC - $21780
0.0813 ETH  - $1228

So you might be seeing that ETH is cheap at this time and you would get more coins but then there are many things on which you should focus that gas is so much high that you would spend relatively high amount for your investment also and then bitcoin is really good return investment for newbies.

But you amount is low that you would get double returns also of $200 when the prices are doubled for both of them so generally saying that if you can try to do DCA investment with small amounts monthly that would give you good returns.

Telegram scams are the most obvious types of scams we have seen recently as you would be added to some fake groups without your wish and then they will promote some shitcoins there or send you links with lucrative offers and under greed or carelessness you click on them and rest work is done by them by taking control of your funds or you yourself deposit in their wallets.

So just have the settings that only your contacts can add your to group as by default it's set on for everyone which is risky as you are paraded by scammers in your telegram account.

Telegram>Settings>Privacy and security>Groups>My contacts

This is safety step along with 2FA with TOTP methods but also remember most of them have authenticator installed on same device and in case it's gone your security steps also fail so be sure about the same.

Have never seen the identical artwork submissions in these contest and why should we worry about the same if we are not copying someone else's work? You have something in mind and that cannot be same as in other's mind and you are right these are not classes where you have same object to paint on the paper.So be original and rest you don't need to worry at all.

Everything can be faked out if you wants to do it and bypassing these KYC norms is not much difficult but the thing is they have set a rule at their end to avoid minors falling into this gambling addiction trap but it's the guardian moral responsibility to have look on activities of their children and guide them to avoid gambling at this age instead of helping them in faking out things.

The irony is that they are always free and have made the accounts for to take part or claim these giveaways as soon as they drop from their all alt Twitter accounts and there are hundreds of them as you can see the above tweet is retweeted by 602 people and many are the one's mentioned above so your chances are less.

Was also interested in knowing the price and searched for it on their site but didn't find out the pricing manual and on other sites also they show that we need to ask for quotation after filling a form with our details

Industry Plaza e-mark machine

So it seems we have to ask for quotation or the man here can tell us the exact price for it.

This machine is really cool like the lithium ion 18V battery with capacity to mark on the metals like steel upto 62HRC and you can plug in USB cables also for file transfer and then choose the options from screen on the beast and have watched this video from SIC official YouTube channel

SIC e- mark machine This is cool and was out of our sight for so many years and thanks @TheBeardedBaby for bringing this up and would like to see more detailed review about it's usage from you once you are back.

You should be storing your seeds phrases offline in multiple places with extra copies but be sure they are accessible only by you.You don't need to have any SS for it on your device also and don't share it with others also.To add extra layer of security add passphrase to them but remember you also need to backup it in case you have added them with seed phrases.

But if you want to save them on metal devices to protect them from extreme conditions then you can have a look at this thread : Securing Seed phrase with washers

That's the best practice but find out the coins the wallet support in case you are looking to store some altcoins in them so to be sure beforehand.But if you are planning to have Ledger Nano Model X then don't buy it as there are many technical bugs and battery issue with it.

If you want to loose control over your funds and don't care about them at all then leave them on these CEX who will put restrictions on you for using your funds only.Enjoy giving away your coins to them.