I personally think the ban was not because of an "attack strategy". It's simply because of all those scammy ICOs and the phishing links on exchanges like Binance[1]. I couldn't even count how many phishing sites there was on Binance.

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[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7qgr90/binance_phishing_website/

It really is difficult, but not impossible. We just have to zoom in and out like a hundred times to read a long post. LOL

Unfortunately I think we just have to deal with it. The "new" or I guess the supposedly "version 2" forum software, "beta.bitcointalk.org" has been beta for years but now the link is pretty much dead. Looks like they've discontinued it.

It's your fault. If you actually read the thread on merits, then you should know for sure that merit is to be earned, and not to be asked(or begged). Also, in retaliation, you also sent him negative trust? 🤔 How is he a scammer?

Bitcoin pretty much doubled in a single month in December-Janaury. A price correction was really expected to happen. There was too much hype on the cryptocurrency space. Will it go back again? Maybe. When? No one knows. My guess is just as good as yours.

A price crash/drop doesn't necessarily mean that someone is manipulating the market. It could just simply drop because of lower demand or there's significantly a lot more people selling bitcoin than buying.

It's actually possible. Not necessarily control, but a single entity can definitely singlehandedly manipulate the price (e.g. the MtGox selloff).

It CAN definitely rise back up. You just have to be patient. Also, bitcoin will not die regardless of price. Development will continue whether bitcoin is at $k, $10k, $20k, $50k, $100k, or $100. Bitcoin doesn't care about the price.

Use the search feature next time before asking questions.



Read: Topic: Forum ranks/positions/badges (What do those shiny coins under my name mean?)

You can cash out your money anytime with exchanges like Coinbase, Gemini, and etc depending on what country you're in. If you want a cryptocurrency bank, then just use your traditional bank instead. I don't see the need to use cryptocurrencies if you prefer having your funds on a centralized bank.

It's definitely not an interesting idea.

Because why would they? Isn't "being your own bank" one of the selling points of bitcoin and most cryptocurrencies? Opening a cryptocurrency bank defeats the purpose. If you want to hand over your control over your bitcoin to an authority, then send them over to exchanges.

Read: Topic: Merit & new rank requirements and Topic: Forum ranks/positions/badges

• Don't use the same password as your other accounts on other websites. Preferably, use a password manager like LastPass[1] or KeePass[2]
• Use a password with a good length, for your account to be difficult to bruteforce[2].
• Make sure to run virus scans to be sure that you're device is free from malware/viruses. I suggest using MalwareBytes[4]

How to sign a message with Electrum: https://www.cryptocompare.com/wallets/guides/how-to-sign-a-message-with-electrum/

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[1] https://www.lastpass.com/
[2] https://keepass.info/
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_attack/
[4] https://www.malwarebytes.com/

The "accountant" you're referring to is selling the BTC for them to be able to pay the people who lost their coins on the exchange due to the hack. why would the government get involved just because a person is selling the coins?

Bitcoin doesn't care about the price. The development will continue whether bitcoin is $10k, $20k, $100k, or even $10. Not everyone in the cryptocurrency space is here for the money.

In my opinion:
bitcoin and ethereum: low risk, low reward
other coins: high risk, high reward

If you like taking those big risks, then sure, Go for alts. Though I think everyone should still leave a good percentage of their cryptocurrency investments on BTC and ETH, as they're safer in terms of price in my opinion, though everything is still very volatile.

You know what would happen if the system gave Newbies sMerits too? People would just mass create Newbie accounts to give merits to their other accounts. I mean, it's shouldn't be very hard to realize that. It ain't rocket science.

Campaigns rarely accept newbie accounts to their signature campaigns, as this could easily be abused by creating multiple newbie accounts. If you think signatures looks cool and that's the solely the reason why you want to join a signature campaign, then just add a signature by yourself. Place in a quote or something.

So we're blaming senior members now for the merit system?

Take a look at most of the threads and see for yourself who's actually doing the "shitposting". Also, most newcomers here ain't following anyone. They follow the money from bounty campaigns. Honestly, the only people I see complaining about the new merit system are the people who don't know crap about bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in general for them to actually be rewarded by merits. -oops.

You know that if that's the case then people just could spam register accounts to abuse the system right? Register multiple accounts, +merit posts on main account. Easy rank upgrade.

Because probably a lot of people FOMO'd in on bitcoin's peak price of about $16k-$20k, and they're now somewhat panicking because they expected to be rich quick. Also probably because people are finding easy topics to post on to collect postcount so they made those redundant topics instead.

Most posts on those threads are from people who only post to increase their activity; and also because those topics are pretty much idiot-friendly, whereas everyone can have their own opinion on the topic.

I actually like your topic. I haven't crossed over a similar topic for a good number of months. and ofcourse, it's good that you're curious.

Your questions should be pretty much answered after you read this thread: Topic: Merit & new rank requirements

Ah. sure. Definitely a lot less risky doing long term trades. But still though, my point still stands. You really don't know for sure how the market is going to move. But it's really good to take profits is my opinion. Probably just don't dump your coins in one go; probably just a good percentage of your holdings just so you won't completely regret it if the prices skyrocket more after you sold.