Thank you for the article. It's necessary to talk about that and should be doing so often. Pump and Dump is really a decease and so negative for cryptocurrencies...

Good article! All of this could be condensed into "don't trust random people on the internet with your money", but people don't seem to want to follow that rule, so I guess all that can really be done is to help them stay informed.

Your steps to recognize pump and dump groups are on point, but I feel like it should be noted that you shouldn't be following investment advice if you can't analyze the situation yourself. Even the "legit" trading groups could be shilling for some altcoins and you'll never know. McAfee himself has said that there are plenty of them (shills lmao) and he's the only one who came out.

In my own view, OP put his referral in his article which is outside bitcointalk so I guess it's now on the part of the viewers if they will used his link. For an internet guy, it should be an obvious thing to know that the link there was referral. And almost all article are somehow like that.

Anyways OP, since your referral link was on article, maybe you can put a note at your post here stating about the ref link. This forum is really strict about referral links although you didn't post it directly here, it was linked however. No harm following in the first place.

Your guide is a good reference for newbies out there. Keep it up.

Probably this one (if someone found any faster, please post it)

http://www.innosilicon.com/html/s11-miner/index.html