The world health organization warns us and does the government force us to wear masks to reduce the spread of covid Was that a bad thing for us? I don't understand why you think we are manipulated in this way. If wearing a mask and getting vaccinated were on the agenda to make a profit through business then what will you say about those unnecessary medicines doctors prescribe us when they can be controlled only by following good food consuming behaviors? Most of our illnesses can be cured through good food consumption practice and doctors know this and still prescribe medicines that can affect our bodies in the long run. We are being manipulated every day.

It is true that china uses its economic power to get influence over a country but we can not blame only them for a countries financial instability. China didn't force any countries to take loan from them and they do something similar that the IMF and world bank do. They charge interest over their loan and if that country can not pay off their debt then they use it as a soft power to control that country's geopolitical decisions.

What happens with Sri Lanka is because of their corrupt government. Their loan was for a sea port that can not generate enough profit to pay off its debt. Corrupt government and politicians have done this and there can be chinease influence as well. But what I can see is china has a great contribution to many 3rd world countries infrastructure development like bridge, school, port, road and many others. They don't do it for free nor the western power. So it is the countries responsibility to use the money in the best way possible so that it can generate enough money to pay off the debt taken from china or other country or institutions.

What we have discussed here is mostly the old methods that scammers are using. These are some new types of scamming methods that I have encountered, and it was a totally new experience for me. If even a few people know about this type of scam method that scammers are using they can be more careful if any similar scenario occurs when they are exploring the internet. 

Even lower tire exchanges will not list this type of token. They are mostly scam and I can see your token is from the pulse chain. The owner of the pulse chain is filing a case with the SEC. I can not remember what the charge is but i know it's for fraudulent activity with user funds. The concept of this blockchain is ridicule. They just issued all the available tokens in other blockchains that don't have any real value in the pulse chain. Anyway if you still want to trade that token try to use CMC to find a trading pair or drop a message in their community to get a response from their community admin.

I don't want to compare a national bank-issued digital form of fiat currencies to cryptocurrencies. They saw people disliking CBDC, so they are making publicity for their CBDC as cryptocurrencies so that people can think it is just like bitcoin which is not. If they are launching an experimental version of their CBDC then I guess it will not be available in the open market shortly. Most of the countries are trying to promote their CBDC as good as crypto or better in some cases but that doesn't make any difference.

Exactly my point of view. I always try to find the best product and then look at the price. If the price is out of my budget then I try to look for the one quality that I can afford to buy. It is just one of the myths among the lower class people that rich people won't look at the price tag. What rich people don't do is bargin for price for a product. If they like the product's quality they pay the price if it's reasonable.

You can use DEX which has no limits. For testing purpose you can try to exchange amounts lower than the gas fees to see if it works or not. For any centralized exchange it's minimum 10$ I think. They will charge some trading fees too though they're very small for a 10-dollar trade. Using a dex doesn't require trading fees you only pay for the approval and transaction fees.

Then what is the point of using Linux on our smart phones if we can not use mobile applications? Though I think you are right a smart phone won't be able to install such a large file. I am not sure about this either but using a heavy application can make things slow and the capacity to run an application like this can be limited. I do understand that even if we can manage to install one it won't be as convenient as using an android application.

My phone supports OTG but it has only 4GB of ram which can slow my device I guess. I have the android version and storage if you are giving the correct answer regarding this. May be OP can shed some light on this and clear things up for both of us. I have used Linux on my computer before and it was Kali or Ubuntu, which I can not remember. It was few years ago but the experience was amazing. 

Exactly what I was looking for. The law and enforcement agency in my country has been very strict about crypto user and they are investigating peoples phones if they suspect anyone of using crypto. So I was looking for an option where I can use two OSs on a single device where I can use my regular android version of the phone and on top of that Kali Linux can give me a hideout for my crypto related applications. Do you have any list of devices where such setup can be used normally without any issue or just share the details of the phone's configuration that is needed to set this up?

I found your topic title a bit misleading. We all work our whole lives for financial stability so does that mean you don't have financial stability in your life? You can talk about how many years it would take for a average person to achieve financial stability. There isn't any right age as we all have different stories, life and surroundings. All these are vital factors for our financial status. It can be very different for each of us.

This business idea might be beneficial for your country but this is a global board and we have people from all over the world here. This is the first time I have heard of this product you are talking about. Do you know why? Because this is not available in my region so how i will be able to benefit from this business idea of yours? I think this business idea is based on your country so it should have been within your local board.

A transaction of this size is not possible to complete on a centralized exchange. It would crash the market on that exchange and cause panic throughout the industry. These exchanges are a kind of broker so they contact potential buyers or they themselves buy those assets through an OTC deal. This way there won't be any impact on the market and usually in a transaction like this buyer makes the transaction below the market price so that both parties can benefit.

I already suspect this and even criticize it on our local board. This guy will reveal their true color one day for sure. We already have some eagle eyes in the forum so what they are doing will be caught eventually one by one. I also saw how these accounts were circulating merit from one account to another. So if somehow one of them got a merit from the global board these people would earn them eight merits by circulating them through all of these eight accounts. 

I blanked the project name so that curious people don't try to join that projects discord and lose their discord ID though the project name is visible in the OpenSea listing page.


Here you will get the download link of VirtualBox and documentation about how you can use it. I am pretty sure there are many tutorial in youtube how you can setup and run that application as well.


They were in a hurry so that i can't carefully examine the phishing link they want me to use so that they can get the details of my discord account. They wanted to inject a script in my browser so that they will be able to receive all the data i will use in the future or something like that.[/list]

If you are a community moderator by profession then you will understand the purpose of my post. All these phishing attempts have been used mostly for community moderators. A stranger can be a scammer or he can be a legit user you can not say that without having a conversation. And it is not uncommon to get a job offer from another project if you are doing a moderation job in a project and scammers are using it to target moderators in different discord servers. If you are a moderator you can not ignore messages in your DM as you are responsible for community support as well.

The purpose was to give an introduction to the community about the new phishing methods scammers are using these days and how they can protect their account and their server from being compromised.

Crypto is an unregulated space that's why crypto users became obvious targets of scammers. We have seen different methods used by these scammers repeatedly to scam people who were not careful enough. When a method became popular and commonly known by the community they came up with new ideas of scams. I want to share with the community some new phishing attempts and how a user can protect themselves from it.

By profession, i am a community moderator and a social media security expert. I am working on a few projects and i am responsible for the security of those project’s telegram and discord servers. Till now there have been countless phishing attempts to take control of my social media account. Most of them were using the same methods but some of them are unique and different from one another so they need to be shared individually.

• Story 1: I got a message in my inbox and as a community moderator i start taking the initiative to respond to that user's message. He offered me a job right away and wanted to know if I had any interest or not. I already suspect a possible scam attempts but I still wanted to see how he would try to convince me to fall for his scam. He shared the project details with me and for being a NFT project he shared its OpenSea URL so that he could convince me it was a legit project. You can see from the screen shot below that this NFT project has a nice fake volume. At the end of the talking i told him that I was interested and how we could start working. He told me to join their discord server first so that we could proceed with our negotiation. So i went to their discord server to see if they had one. When i tried to verify my account through dyno bot it redirected me to a phishing UI of discord you can see from the screenshot below. A new user would think he needs to log into his Discord account to get access to that server but the URL in the address bar shows us this is a phishing URL that has been placed very carefully through a popular discord bot.

• Story 2: One day i got a message in my telegram account with a job offer. A guy told me that they are a team of P2E game developers and that they are looking for game testers for their upcoming game. When i asked him how he found me he gave me a reference to one of my telegram friends whom I had known for a long time. He said that he and my friend had worked on several projects before. So started to contact my friend to verify this claim In the meantime i start talking about the job he offered me. I was convinced that this guy is legit as there is no way he knows about my friend if my friend won’t tell him about me. So I kept the negotiation ongoing and at the end that guy told me to install the game they developed and start playing so that they could collect my review of the game. I downloaded that file and installed it in my virtual box as a precaution, though I wasn’t aware that this file contained malware. My precaution saved me that day and I am still waiting for my friends responses about those guys! I guess my friend's telegram got hacked and that scammer found my contact information from there.

• Story 3: One of the similar stories starts with story number 1. I am going to tell only the part that doesn’t match with story no 1. I have shared this story before with a topic you can read that topic as well. [Scammers are getting innovative.] After getting interested in their job they told me that they wanted to take an interview with me so I agreed to that and they have created a group with their so called CEO to start making a call. They start a voice call so that their identity won’t be revealed. After the interview and all the negotiations about the salary and work they told me I needed to fill out a form with all the details so that they could put that into their employee documents. When I tried to fill out the form and click submit it said there was some problem with my brower and I needed to drag that link to the bookmark bar to submit the form. There were clear instructions with images too. When i tried to drag that i have noticed there was something written in JavaScript, so i tried to figure out what it could be. In the meantime those scammers were pushing me to submit the link quickly which i didn’t. Sometimes i figured out that it was a phishing link.

• Story 4: A few days ago, in one of my communities, I saw some unusual conversations between two accounts. Those conversations weren’t like regular ones, so it turned red in my mind. After a long conversation where they were talking about the football championship suddenly they started talking about a crypto project event where one guy claimed to get $200 worth of tokens. So the other guy asked for the event URL and he shared a website where he could get that token. That was a scam site and as soon as the victim connects his wallet scammers will drain all the funds from that wallet.

1.If you are using social media like telegram and discord then always use 2FA features to add extra security to your account.

2. If you are an admin in any discord community then from your server safety setup permission turn on “ Require 2FA for moderator action”. This feature will not let your community moderator do any moderation action if their 2FA option is not activated. This is extremely helpful to protect your community in case one of your community mods account is compromised.


3. Keep your server security bot above your community moderator role so that those bot can keep track of moderator behavior and take action against any fishy action.

4. Always use a virtual box in case you need to install any application or open any URL.

5. Don’t rush for any offer or anything. Be calm and cross-check everything no matter how legit something seems to you.

The only difference I see is that you don't need to pay for the gas fees for your transaction. Actually CEX has most of the capabilities a dex has and on top of that CEX provides some extra benefits like massive liquidity and excludes the necessity of transaction fees. Perhaps this is a reason why CEX is still more popular than dex even after incidents like Mr.Gox and FTX where their users lost millions of dollars worth of assets.

This term is true for the altcoin market. Though there are other factors that are also responsible for the massive rally of some altcoin. The problem is that if any token is pumping without any trend going on for that category of altcoin then it is being manipulated by the whale or someone who has insider news. That's why most retail investors have never been able to take entry at the exact bottom before the pump if they haven't already invested in that project by that time.

When there is an ongoing trend, usually all the altcoins in that category start pumping no matter how good or legit that project is. This happens because retail investors start looking for projects that haven't pumped yet in that category. That is the reason all the projects in that certain category start pumping eventually.

I want to do both but not like most others. What people do is when they have some extra money in their hand they go to the market and buy expensive things which brings more liability with them. Most people don't know the difference between assets and liabilities which is the biggest reason they can not progress financially and end up in debt. The right approach is to make investments in assets and the profit that assets generate can be used to buy expensive things if you want to. I think if someone understands that it is more fun to make wealth than to have an expensive watch or car then he won't have those expensive liabilities anymore.