Honestly am new here and with my little time that i have spent in this forum i have observed,and i wanna ask the forum mate if that is posible because i saw it happening amonge the forum mate and the person that invade this platform for me,people in this forum who are connected in one way or the other are trading on their sendable merit not only the their sndable merit but orher way of trading on merit is going on in this forum,so my question is,is it good and permitted to do such on the forum,

Bitcoin is such an uncertain future currency that no one can say for sure what will happen in the future. Hundreds of predictions are constantly being made around Bitcoin. Predictions were made about this valuable currency in the past as well but some have gone down in history by selling this precious currency at a low price.

Martti Malmi sold 5050 bitcoins for $5 at a rate of just $0.00099 in 2009, setting the record for the lowest bitcoin sale in history.

Laszlo Hanycez made history by being the first person to buy a product at the lowest price in exchange for Bitcoin. He made history on May 22, 2010 by selling 10,000 Bitcoins for just $40-$45.

Our forum admin sir has sold his 160 bitcoins at a rate of only $0.003 on exchange for $0.48.



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Not only here but also in the past hundreds of Bitcoins have been traded which is amazing to see today. Those who traded Bitcoin at that time are now only regretting it and those who bought and held Bitcoin at that time, it is amazing to think how much their fortunes have changed today.

If you could travel back in time today, what would you do?

New Scam Alert With the Use of ChatGPT

As everyone in this recent advanced digital technology is working towards the use of ChatGPT as the latest and trending development that is ongoing with the use of Artificial Intelligence in this present dispensation, it has been discovered that scammers now take advantage in this to launch a malicious physhing attacks through various social media platforms and are also targeting extension to cryptocurrency.


From the above detailed information, social media platforms has recorded several attempts with the use of this same technology to deceive people and attack their privacy portfolios irrespective of the platform they launch through and infiltrate malicious attacks on users through various means by physhing on their mails, passwords, website links, downloads and many more by taking hostages and this same attack is advancing towards cryptocurrency as serious caution needs to be made.


With all this examples and warnings, it is very important that every crypto users take a very cognitive measures, caution and security consciousness while trying to download or make use of any related ChatGPT apps or websites in other not to fall a victim of this ongoing scam associated to the use of ChatGPT malicious physhing attack now trending, this could be the latest and fastest means of loosing our crypto asset it care is not taken.

Additional Tips:

There's no app or websites for ChatGPT yet where you can download or get the verified app through an official website, some may demand money from you to make payment before they can offer you such, recommend you a link or require you to provide some information about yourself, know this that ChatGPT is meant to be freely provided from a genuine source, anyone claiming they already have this are likely to be scam because it has not been fully operational yet. read more here:
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-spot-fake-chatgpt-app-on-apple-app-store/

I have seen and witness people involving in bitcoin, most people can not stay a moment without panicking. A colleague of mine who have Minuit bitcoin has buggy me with chats and calls to update if bitcoin will survive this years, why can't people know what you're engaging into first before diving into it and start acting like a child. Different set of people are into this bitcoin, even people don't have investment are making noise of bitcoin price collapsing.

But come to think of it many have bitcoin in B figures but you can't hear them making noise but people with $30 will not allow you to rest especially if you're responsible for introducing them. Bitcoin will rise when is due to rise, remove fear and plenty rumors.

Many telegram channel telling about bitcoin should be carefully examined before accepting whatever they offer or tell you to be your benefit I believe many people are looking for a way to get there own eareview in life
The one's who get scammed are people who wants to profit in a day invest they believe in whatever they are told to do and when they are scammed they begin to develop hatred against the platform telling people it is not a profitable trade.
It is important to be careful when being introduced to a trade newly

In most part of Africa hardware wallets are not only difficult but expensive to get apart form using custodian wallets like trust wallet and metamask is there an alternative software that can help hodl Bitcoin in a flash drive. or otherwise

Today I came across a few advertisements on Instagram (I am sure they would appear on Facebook too) that promise a program can find lost/forgotten cryptocurrency wallets. For me, that was a red flag! The inquisitive me was eager to know what exactly was being offered. I went ahead and followed as instructed and found a telegram bot that was designed to install Malware on my mobile device.

Why are hackers targeting mobile devices

 

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The crypto wallet market size would explode for sure and the same would happen for cryptocurrency exchange apps in the future. How can anyone ignore this fact. We are living in ,2023 where AI bots are controlling content generation & content development.
Considering those factors, imagine on what level scammers, spammer, hackers and a normal person would work on to fulfill the desired outcome.

Sharing the advertisement screenshot



You can read the message displayed on this screenshot. If you were a newbie or someone struggling with trading or you might have lost your fiat due to the volatility of the market, scammed by someone, wallet got hacked then what will you do? You would surely click on the Learn more button.

That is what I did and went to the next screen which was a self-hosted website. Why was a redirected to a website hosted by the hacker? The reason is Facebook's advertising regulation.

Next screen, I found the hacker

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In the end it was telegram botl

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What do you think this Telegram bot will do?

Hello guys!
Today I was thinking about Bitcoin and where it will finally go up. And I came to the conclusion that I don't really understand what is the right thing to do with Bitcoin after it will "go to the moon".

So I wanted to ask you all, what are you planing to do with bitcoin when it will go to 70k, 80k etc. Are you planing to sell it or you will keep holding it?
If you will sell it, at what price are you planning to do it?

A guide for getting +Merit.

With the introduction of the new Merit system, many people have a question:
"And how do I raise my rank?"
This topic will provide you with an answer to the difficult question.

Here are the basic steps:

1. English language.
Learn and improve your English language, its spelling and grammar.
The Duolingo service will help you in this.
Also, try not to use such words as: Sir. & Mr., many do not like it.

2. Knowledge is power.
Plunge into the sea of ​​knowledge about crypto-currencies, keep abreast of the latest trends and updates.
Study popular topics on the forum and improve your knowledge and skills.
First of all, such topics as: Bitcoin Discussion, Development & Technical Discussion.
Also read all the topics that received the most amount of sMerit: Top-merited topics, all-time.
Read all the fixed topics in the English branch.
You should understand the meaning of such phrases as: Bitcoin Pizza Day (the original post Pizza for bitcoins?), 2011 bubble, Cyprus,
HODL (a little history of I AM HODLING) etc.
Also dont miss Bitcoin FAQ.

3. Write quality posts.
Become a quality poster. Remember that these are not necessarily long, boring posts.
It can be: qualitative answers or questions, themes created by you,
help other forum participants (for example TwitterAudit - Check your twitter for fakes - , then guys do a free audit, and some give merit),
you can create something that can be useful and something that will be appreciated (for example. Activity points calculator)
etc.

4. Be original and unique.
Do not repeat what has already been said. if necessary, add a link to the source in your post.

5. Catch fish in fishy places.
There are interesting topics, where for certain actions or answers give Merit.
Here are some of them:
A simple bitcoin Q/A. Learn new and interesting stuff about bitcoin - ask questions, you answer and earn Merit.
Merit System Upgrade;
Topic & Post Review - sMerit to give;
The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway;
Joel_Jantsen's Merit Distribution Thread (Newbies Welcome);
Bitcoin Forum Puzzle;

6. Give up the less for more.
Keep your participation in Bounties programs to a minimum. Initially, it can be hard financially, however, in time, raising the rank, you will earn much more. Believe me, it's worth it.

7. Purposefulness.
Set a goal, this motivates and will help to go in front. Make a plan and act.
At the same time, Merit is not the goal itself, the priority is to create quality content that will become a source of merit.
(bitmover set the goal to get 100 Merit before the activity is 120 and easily reached its goal: 101 merit and 84 activity!)

8. Activity in business will lead you to success.
Taking an active part in the life of the forum and helping it develop, you will easily raise your rank, and most importantly get knowledge that will bring you pleasure and material prosperity.

This topic is an English adaptation. Original: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3741951.0

Thank you for attention!

Have you heard of Superpicks on DSTV? where you can make predictions and win money without staking your money?

if you have not, check it out. Superpicks.com

My question is can it still be called gambling if it is not played with money?

Reading another post, it crossed my mind that AIs and particularly ChatGPT could potentially be trained with a large samples of games played by poker champions and then put it to auto-play with amateur on-line players. If this is successful, it could mean the end of human on-line poker playing except perhaps for the world masters and the like. Has anyone tried? Would it be possible??

This story is pathetic, the man who introduce me to bitcoin, his kid sis was knapped 2 weeks now and the kidnappers are asking for a huge ransom of  N10 Million Nigeria currency but the whole thing looks like a plan work from some people close to him because many people know him to be crypto dealer. Now this money is never available anywhere, the man's only option is to sell his bitcoin and even if he does is not up to the amount. Do you advise he sells and bail his kid sister?  Everybody is confuse.

Many things happens this days, putting you on a test! At what situations did you think you can sell your bitcoin and forget about bitcoin like it has never exist in your life. Knowing well the situation you're into many must have passed it and scale through without selling. What then will make you to sell even if the price is against you?

Phishing is an act of getting people's personal information like usernames, passwords, credit card details and many more through sending fake messages, fake emails and a lot more claiming they are good people and wanted to help.
Phishing assaults are a popular sort of cyber assault in the crypto realm, and they can result in considerable financial losses.

Phishing has become a huge problem within cryptocurrencies and it is getting bigger day by day. Every day new people are getting involved in crypto, while phishers are seriously engaged in scamming newbies in crypto that is why people still see crypto as a way of scamming. I create this post to help everyone, especially newbies to be careful with the type of browser and also any site that involves phishers, and also  some ways to discover phishing attacks in the crypto space.

       Ways to identify phishing attacks
Ways to discover phishing attacks In the crypto space
Identifying phishing attacks is a little bit more difficult because phishers are very intelligent to go extremely higher for the message and the website looks too real and legit.

1. Grammar error: This happened as a result of being hurried up to send the message out, they do not even have time to go through what they have written.

2. Copycatting: In this aspect, you have to get familiar with the brand, logo, and poster, of the organisation's website. All mentioned can be manipulated if you didn't recognize them from the website.

3. Check the URL: Always be vigilant of any link that requires you to insert your personal information. Ensure to check the URL, because the scammer always uses websites with URLs. After checking the URL and is legit then HTTPS in the URL, if there is S at the end the website is secure for your personal information, but if not included then run away from the site.

4. Trust but verify: if a message or email is sent to you either by your friend or someone else, you must check the message thoroughly before clicking on the link. Phishers can do and undo, always scrutinize the email and also the authenticity before taking action.

5. Use a hardware wallet: use a secure wallet that has two-factor authentication, hardware wallet is a device that can see and handle which cryptocurrencies are kept offline. Attackers find it very difficult to access your crypto, private key, using scam websites.


Above mentioned are out of many detectors of phishing attacks, there are many more apart of above mentioned but following these tips can guide you away from phishing attack in the crypto space. Any form of an idea are welcome.

Does lack of sleep make people confused and forgetful?

That's the problem of newbies who doesn't have someone to guide them especially those newbies who doesn't make lots of research. For me, I would only advice newbies to invest or whatever they want to do to Crypto that isn't new a d if ever they want to invest in new coins launched by a new company then they should invest in small amount of money rather than investing a the money they can afford to lose. There are shitcoins that looks promising but end up what you just said being a shitcoin.

Have you also have that fears before? Is holding for too long OK?

What is back testing in trading and how we do it ?

Investing what you can afford to loss! Nobody want to invest to loss, sometimes is good to take a risk, there is saying that most of the successful people in the world today are all risk taker, if one is not ready to take a risk then that person is not ready to be successful, the main ideology is investing wisely and do not get too greed, and what I mean by do not get too greedy, is no one get rich overnight, is a process. so, where most people get carried away is when they have that mindset of getting rich immediately, that is where the greed comes to play.   

I am new into the crypto world and this forum.I have been looking for reliable courses and article that will help me understand all I need to know about crypto currency block chain cryptography etc
I will really appreciate good recommendations

I wonder, how many of you work in crypto full time, and how many use this as an additional source of income?

If you want to, you can share with us what you are doing in crypto. Is it trading, aidrops, writing articles, marketing, etc ?