I'm not really sure why you said buying when the next halving is not far away is the best time. Are you assuming the profits for the next few months would be massive and allows them to get back their investment so quickly?

As far as I know, there are many factors that can influence your buying decision, including whether you have access to cheap electricity or not. If you do, anytime can be a good time to buy mining rigs. CMIIW.

I suggest you search for discussion about block rewards or mining rewards in this sub-board, or Bitcoin discussion. Your worries have been discussed many times before, you might be able to learn something new from those threads. In short, the market will always look for equilibrium. Miners will come and go, difficulty will always change to balance that out.

It mainly allows you to post images if you are still a newbie. Considering your account is already a Jr. Member account now, it is not really necessary.

I can see that you don't use HTTPS, or it is not active/automatically active if the user doesn't explicitly put https in front of your website address. I think this is easy to fix and doesn't cost you that much if any at all.

Btw, some of your claims are way too extraordinary. It is easy to see the way people would misunderstand you as a shady mining company since you claim that you can help users get to earn 9x from mining[1]. Not to mention you need your users to deposit money and lost control of their funds. I would never trust a platform that has ridiculous claims like that.

[1] https://heliosfund.io/blog/how-to-hedge-your-portfolio

If you "bridge" your token to another chain, you basically lose your Bitcoin and get a made-up token instead (like WBTC). Are you aware of the risk? You no longer control your BTC, and you rely on some smart contract or other parties, just like how you use a centralized exchange. Not to mention you also need to deal with volatility, trading volumes, etc for each wrapped token. There is no way to reduce this risk other than looking for other options. CMIIW.

If you really want to earn passive income from altcoins, allocate funds for that and just buy the altcoins directly. Keep your BTC for yourself, don't get tricked by some shady pools promising 50% gain per year when you can DCA on your own.

Sure, but the question still remains. Why do you need to launch a PoS chain if, in the end, you need to rely on another chain to make sure your transactions are not reversible? You can simply launch a decentralized database without any crypto at all and then chain the hash to Bitcoin or something similar. While I do agree that fast transactions can be beneficial if you want to use them for payment activities, from a security perspective this means the chain by nature is unreliable since the beginning. At the very least, the proposal for this project that you shared is not that convincing as far as I can understand it.

That being said, I can understand why some people like the idea of relying on Bitcoin when they can launch other coins and use PoS to get faster transactions. As long as they can make sure the attack does not happen before the timestamping on the BTC network is done, it might work for their purpose. The next question would then be how reliable it is. CMIIW.

I'm pretty sure Forkdelta and most delta-related exchanges use smart contracts to hold the funds, so not actually similar to a centralized exchange at all. I'm not sure what constitutes decentralized and centralized login either, but almost all "DeFi" platforms use more or less similar login models. CMIIW.

It was mentioned above, so I suggest you read it more. I also agree that using the term "non-custodial" is better since most of the time we're just talking about whether we still have control over our funds or not. Many exchanges use the term "decentralized" loosely and it is unclear what line they are referring to. At one point I've seen an exchange use it to describe the nature of their servers being hosted in multiple countries, but their cold wallets are controlled just by four people.

I'm pretty sure he is referring to how people sometimes don't take a profit since the tokens they trade have a low market cap and they hope the price will increase a lot more later on. Personally, I've seen more or less the same thing. The main argument that someone (most of the time a bagholder) use is that since the market cap is so low, the necessary capital to pump the price is lower, hence the price can increase faster compared to other projects with a higher market cap.

That being said, daily trading is not for everyone. You need some capital to make sure you can gain profit consistently. On top of that, you also need good trading management, a cool head to respond to market situations, and more importantly the ability to afford to lose all of your capital if your trade went wrong IMO. So, daily trading or swing trading has its upside and downside, and understanding what market cap means can help a bit in deciding which kind of trading you wanna do.

I think there is a bigger issue at hand if somebody posts phishing links randomly without knowing anything other than being banned on the forum. If that happens, pretty sure their device is probably hacked and their password/account/etc is not secured. That aside, obviously your posts will get removed/you will get banned if you share virus/malware/phishing links on the internet. That is not new, and OP or anyone should familiarize themselves with posting rules (especially since most of them are pinned) before making new posts.

I always tell beginners to read and scroll around the forum before doing anything else. There is no need to rush making posts here and there. Even if you want to rank up quickly, you're still gated by activity and merit. You need to make meaningful posts in the first place, and I doubt you can do that without being aware of the forum rules.

I think it is fair to assume that all of your wallets are compromised if at some point you accessed them from the same device. Better move all of your funds to a new wallet asap, better to be safe than sorry. Make sure you use a secure device or at least reinstall your system. We probably won't be able to find out how exactly they got your wallet, just make sure you don't rely on centralized service in the future and improve your security practices even if you feel you're doing it pretty well already.

Good question. As far as I can tell, there is no explicit mention that their partners will accept crypto. Not to mention it is basically an OTC/exchange service. Their partnership nature is not clear either. Do you find other news/mentions from those websites regarding this issue? I can't find one on Monebeeys website. On their terms[1] page, If I understood it correctly, partners just refer to those who have business partnerships and most of them are related to offering a spot for OTC transactions[1].

[1] https://www.moneybees.ph/terms

I'm not really sure I get what you're trying to say, but I think you're mistaken in calculating the money the team gets when they do a public sale vs the value of the project itself. Most public sales participants or just buyers in general would use other currencies to buy the tokens. For simplicity's sake, let's say they use ETH. It means that at the time the sale ends, the team gets $240k in ETH. They can decide to sell some of them or keep them depending on their needs, it has no connection to the token market cap at all.

In an unlikely scenario, they might convert some of them to their own tokens, but that is almost impossible unless the team is so dumb. Almost every project will allocate some tokens to the team, so there is no incentive for them to convert those ETH to their own token. In short, the team/project is likely going to be fine in the short-medium term even if the token price plummets that hard. The buyers are the ones who got screwed.

How did you post your review? If you have sufficient proof make a new thread on scam accusations[1]. Follow the proper rule to post the thread and explain your story there. Sometimes a seller will use a self-moderated thread to remove malicious posts so the fault does not lie on the moderator. Make sure to keep it in mind just in case you want to buy from somebody else in the future.

From my experience in this forum, no staff would encourage scammers. In fact, almost all members would actively try to hinder their activities with trust feedback, flags, etc.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0

That's fair, but I believe starting so many different businesses at the same time is not gonna make it. Not to mention what you're looking for might cost a lot, which might not be worth the cost compared to expanding your existing business and making it more profitable. That being said, I'm not an expert on business management either so you do you.

I think there is no other option other than following what has been suggested above. Ask for the price on the freelance marketplace or Services board if you don't know the market price. Don't just believe one source, wait for others to bid. Also, I suggest you keep it open to the public unless someone with a trade history sent you a PM. A lot of scammers are sending phishing links or even fake prices (which are usually very cheap but they don't accept escrow as a guarantee) nowadays. At the very least others can verify if someone is asking for ridiculously expensive prices or suspiciously cheap prices.

In general, IMO it is a good thing to add a layer of privacy regardless if you're trying to mix or not. If your ISP provider tracks you and logs the websites you visited, it can be a nightmare if those data got leaked and abused by other parties, or even your ISP in general. Such as blocking your access to some websites, an increase in scam e-mails, profiling, etc. On the other side, you can also argue that hiding your real IP address, in general, allows you to keep being trustless in the sense that you don't need to rely on the hope that Yomix or other mixers don't abuse your IP data or something similar. It is a win-win solution.

Nice suggestion. That being said, most users who use service like a mixer is usually well aware of how important privacy for their activity is. So using ToR is usually a requirement for them.

According to some discussions I found on Reddit and other social media, most miners agree that Mac is not the best hardware if you are looking for profit. Most of them consider mining on Mac just for fun and supporting the network, since their latest processor, while powerful for many tasks is not good enough for mining. I personally own a Macbook Air. It is a good device for office work, light gaming, content creation, etc, but I'd never consider mining on it. I don't think it changes with Mac Mini since most of the time they perform at the same range. The key differences are extra cooling and no battery.

Is this type of cooling still popular? I thought most companies and buyers prefer open-air fans or liquid cooling systems nowadays. AFAIK, blower-type cooling can be very loud, hence why it is not the most popular choice. I'm not sure about the performance but from skim-reading several articles there doesn't seem to be a big difference unless we compare it to liquid cooling. I guess the price is the key factor when a miner wants to buy GPUs since most of the time they are not that bothered by loud noise. CMIIW.

So, you're trying to host a javascript-mining website that uses your visitors' resources to mine and send the profits to your address? Or are you trying to run your own cloud mining service? Both of them are terrible services and most of the time is known for scams. I'll try to be positive here and not jump to conclusion that you want to build a malware site that tricks visitors to mine with their computers.

If you do find a free mining script, I won't be surprised if it runs other malicious scripts without notifying you. Your best bet is probably to commission some developer to build the script for you. If you want to mine and earn Monero without doing any of that, just mine with a rig and mining software.

Well, you will need to know some Javascript at least. There is no dedicated book/article that explains it since mining script is a niche program compared to other Javascript applications. If you don't want to learn from the big picture, your best option would be to find an existing Javascript mining algorithm software and then learn from there. Find out what this or that function does, ask around if you don't understand the flow of the algorithm, etc.

What do you mean by "DeFi"? Are you talking about participating in liquidity pools, staking, farming, etc on an altcoin chain? If that's the case, I've never seen one other than those mentioned above (note that I never actively try to look for one either). Most of the time these service providers talk about trades done on exchanges, at least those that I'm aware of. They use DeFi regularly, but it also strictly limits trading on decentralized exchanges.

Have you Googled it on your own? It seems like there are a decent of options right now (Taxbit, Bear, Zenledger, etc). I don't know how reliable they are since I never use one.

CMIIW, this newly announced service is limited to France for now. That being said, the Binance tax tool already exists but it only helps with exporting trades history afaik. It still doesn't sound like what OP is looking for though.

Kalau agan ingin jawaban yang memuaskan, lebih baik tanya ke orang yang punya pengetahuan baik di dunia hukum agam agan dan mixer itu sendiri. Kalau agan tanya member forum tentu jawaban banyak yang akan jadi bias. Kalau pendapat ane pribadi, mixer itu cuma alat seperti pisau/senjata api. Penggunaannya yang menentukan apakah tindakan menggunakan mixer itu jadi halal atau tidak. Prinsipnya kan membuat agan jadi terlindungi dari pihak ketiga yang bisa saja punya kepentingan yang buruk buat keamanan agan, layaknya VPN, enkripsi DNS, dst. Kalau mau lebih detail mungkin bisa ditanyakan ke grup Telegram atau media lain, daripada malah jadi offtopik di thread ini gan.

Agan masih punya link/image situs chat yang bersangkutan? Apakah percakapan itu melibatkan bukti" selain hanya omongan/posting dari user-user anonim? Kalau kasusnya yang kedua, ane tidak akan terlalu menanggapi hal tersebut dengan serius. Banyak orang yang bilang omong kosong meskipun tidak di dark net, susah kalau mau menggap info mereka bisa dipercaya kalau ga ada hal lain yang mendukung.

Fiturnya cukup banyak juga. Harganya cukup mahal juga ya, itu belum termasuk biaya import. Yang jelas jadi keunggulan mungkin baterai yang bisa diganti dengan cukup mudah dibandingkan produk lain seperti Nano X (yang dari banyak review sepertinya baterainya ampas). Fitur NFC juga bisa jadi keunggulan buat ane, sayang harganya masih terlalu mahal. Kalau ada reseller lokal mungkin bisa jadi opsi.

CMIIW, Stax itu full touchscreen kah gan? Kalau dari segi maintenance sepertinya Stax lebih ribet, mengingat desainya custom dan kalau beli di marketplace pasti susah cari yang sama. Kalau Ledger jual sparepartnya mungkin bisa beda cerita, itupun ane yakin perlu import juga. Semoga kalau pake baterai (atau sparepart lainnya) ga sejelek Nano X jadinya.

Agan dulu ngirim ke alamat e-mail yang mana gan? Dengan mencantumkan detail apa saja? Tertarik juga kalau dikirim barang gratisan dan ga perlu kirim balik pasca review selesai dilakukan. Hasil review agan posting di forum saja atau diharuskan membuat post di media" lainnya?

Kalaupun pemahaman tentang blockchain mau dipaksakan masuk ke analisa trading, masuknya mungkin lebih ke analisa fundamental mengenai masa depan proyek yang bersangkutan. Meskipun demikian, rata" yang ingin dipahami juga sekilas blockchain ini lebih cepat dibandingkan Bitcoin, atau blockchain ini lebih murah dibanding ETH, dan semacamnya. Pemahaman mendalam tentang blockchain itu sendiri jarang ane temui di kalangan trader, setidaknya di forum atau grup sosmed.

Mengingat ada beberapa program yang dilakukan di Universitas, sepertinya targetnya memang bukan benar" masyarakat awam. Kemungkinan besar sih ke anak muda plus kelas menengah yang melek teknologi plus sudah pernah berinteraksi dengan kripto sebelumnya. Tapi yang namanya program pemerintah, tentu nama programnya harus cukup ambigu dan netral sehingga tidak terkesan mengesampingkan kelas masyarakat tertentu. Agak salah juga kalau berharap dari pemerintah untuk edukasi teknologi progresif semacam ini mengingat rata" pemegang kekuasaan juga belum progresif terhadap teknologi. Kecepatan internet jadi lebih cepat saja kan sempat jadi polemik.

Betul. Beberapa hari yang lalu Stanfor juga kebobolan data yang cukup sensitif. Bisa jadi unversitas lain juga mengalami hal yang sama tapi ga diliput berita, atau tidak ingin memberitakannya ke publik[1]. Akhir-akhir ini sepertinya lembaga besar baik yang terlibat dalam bisnis kripto atau tidak pada mengalami kebobolan data, mungkin bisa jadi pertimbangan buat yang ingin memakai cloud provider ke depannya.

Btw, malware yang menarget pengguna Youtube dan Facebook tampaknya bertambah satu lagi. Peneliti malware dari Bitdefender menamainya S1deload Stealer. Modusnya sama dengan malware yang lain. Menawarkan wallpaper syur buat didownload, tapi nanti menginstall malware di komputer pengguna yang bersangkutan[2]. Penyebarannya lewat akun pengguna yang kredensialnya berhasil dicuri, iklan, pesan spam, dst. Tetap hari-hati dan jangan download file yang aneh". Kalau nyari wallpaper ada banyak situs alternatif yang lebih aman dan variatif.

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/stanford-university-discloses-data-breach-affecting-phd-applicants/
[2] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-s1deload-stealer-malware-hijacks-youtube-facebook-accounts/