My experience is quite different from yours. I've seen many small businesses merchant asking which payment processor to use if they want to accept BTC, how to set up their payment processor on their own, and so on. Instead of looking scared, I think they are eager to accept crypto as their payment option. Most of the time the issue is about selecting a payment processor that accepts multiple cryptos, not only Bitcoin. I don't think they are afraid of crypto if they are asking for a solution on crypto payment processor integration.

Other than regulatory reasons, I don't see any real reason why they would be afraid to integrate crypto into their service. Volatility is easily solvable by liquidating their crypto to fiat directly after a buyer makes a purchase. Even BTCPay support that with its plugin. Setting up the process might take a while but it is more like an annoyance instead of a fear factor IMO. If you find them being afraid of volatility, you can tell them that. Not to mention accepting crypto doesn't mean ditching your fiat channel directly. They can use both and buyers have more options, so I'd say that is a win.

The price cut is around $30 if I read it correctly. Around 10% if we compare it to the previous price. Some reviewers said the card is competitive if you accept that you have to deal with driver issues here and there for gaming, don't know how it will compare to mining though. Not to mention AMD card at around the same price can give better performance in most scenarios. It is quite smart for them to compare to 3060 since the card is still a bit pricey in most region, including mine.

It's been so long that I don't recall how to unlock my bootloader and flash a custom ROM on my phone, but I don't recall hearing of any malware that uses an unlocked bootloader to attack its users. Can you share some links about it? The latest malware news usually mentions installing fake apps, so it's more like phishing attacks instead of malware attacks, and I doubt most of them are done on an unlocked phone or custom ROM.

Some vulnerabilities in the news are related to accessing some sensitive storage that is crucial for the firmware/phone to run correctly[1], and it requires some effort. If it was successfully exploited though, I can see installing a malicious system or app is way easier than ever. Some malware doesn't even need an unlocked bootloader to continuously infect a phone according to this research[2]. Luckily it is mostly older phones/system that is vulnerable to those attacks, but there is no harm in being cautious of similar attack vectors. CMIIW.

I'm still seeing Go Keyboard on Google Playstore, is this a different app or Google is just too lazy to remove them if the report is credible? I also believe that these keylogging activities are possible even if your phone bootloader is still locked.

[1] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/09/06/fur-flies-over-android-bootloader-flaws-heres-what-you-need-to-know/
[2] https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/04/19/months-of-research-finally-crack-android-malware-that-could-even-survive-factory-resets/

ICO not delivering is nothing new, unfortunately. Are they on this forum? If they do, I suggest posting this on the Scam Accusations board and posting all details related to your case there. If they are not here, then I don't think you can do much by posting here. Maybe post more about it on other social media such as Reddit, since they have a bigger audience. You can also post a comment on their block explorer page so other people can find it easily. You need a Disqus account to do it though.

As far as Telegram banning goes, a lot of projects do that nowadays with the basis of "banning people because they spread FUD", I doubt you'll get anything by confronting them there. About the team profile, are you sure that is real? Some scammers use fake profiles and delete them later when their scam is a success. If they are real though, at least you get some proof if this escalated further.

Honestly, I find it difficult to know what exactly are you looking for. If you're looking to pump BTC price, increasing the numbers of miners sounds good but they can easily quit if they don't find it profitable (even BTC price is sky high). And yes, everyone can mine regardless of where they live, and most of them don't need PayPal or something like that to receive the rewards. If you can't sell them, then store them and hold them for months or years. Not really an ideal choice if you want to get profits but better than trading it with shitcoin I guess.

If you're talking about fiat conversion, if you live in a country where there is no fiat exchange, you can try P2P or sell your coins on the forum. If you're worried about the government blocking your money because it is related to mining or crypto, I guess your choice is limited to P2P trade with a privacy-focused platform. Another alternative would be moving away, but that is rather difficult for most people. That being said, I think most governments (around my region at least) don't consider trading crypto as a crime, at most you are not allowed to pay stuff with crypto.

From what I understand, this new tool is improved and has more features. The previous one is just an API that you can use to export transactions, while the new one offers a calculation tool and probably better integration with other platforms. Since they mention availability in France as the first step, I guess the new platform is integrated with the government's latest rules regarding crypto tax for each region.

I don't think what job the trader has is related in any way to crypto taxation. I believe in most countries would still tax you even if you're jobless but you trade crypto if they ever made it taxable. So a platform or a tool like this has no need for info like that, but of course you probably need to verify their calculation so that they don't mess your taxes instead.

Instead of looking for those passive staking products, I suggest you either try to find another job that pays in Bitcoin or allocate some of your salaries to buy Bitcoin regularly. That is arguably more secure than any centralized product right now and you have control over how much you spend. Obviously don't overspend on your investment, even $10 a month is fine as long as you can take the risk if anything went wrong.

Some people also suggest value cost averaging instead of doing DCA, you can check them out if you're interested in more investment alternatives.

I think you're referring to protecting the seed itself, which might be different from the risk most people are talking about here. Using a cold wallet (not necessarily a hardware one) and good security practice to protect your seed/private key is probably one of the safest methods to guarantee that you don't lose your coins. CMIIW.

Instead of recommending them straight away to exchanges, I think it is fair to tell them about other methods such as P2P trade, faucets, etc. Your goal should not push them to buy Bitcoin because they will get rich later on, but how to tell them what Bitcoin is useful for and how can they use it. It is not a good idea to push them into an investment direction straight away when they don't even understand what Bitcoin is, if something went south they'll just blame you and think Bitcoin is a scam or something along those lines.

There's no need to go straight to cold wallet either, just tell them different kinds of wallets, when and how to use them etc. Telling them basic security practices if they only have their phone to store Bitcoin for example is still a better education than telling them what exchange is cheaper if they want to buy BTC imo.

I wonder how cost-effective it will be compared to buying a dedicated PC for mining. Even if it was cost-effective, the profit might be questionable too. Can't say anything for sure unless somebody tested it I guess. Doing some Steam Deck reselling business is probably better at the end of the day, especially in a country where a local reseller is hard to find.

OP, from your post history I found that you own a 3070 TI already. Since you already tried mining on it, what makes you believe you can use your Steam Deck to mine profitably? Do you have cheap electricity access but can't make it work with your GPU or something? It sounds like you already run your PC for mining quite comfortably for now. That aside, websites like whattomine might be able to help you calculate further.

What kind of trading strategies are you familiar with right now? What kind of accuracy or efficiency are you looking for? I don't think there is any 90% or even 80% trading strategy that will net you profit without doing any adaptation. Some traders that I know use Bollinger bands, RSI, and just RMA, while some of them exclusively use Elliot wave theory to trade. The difference between their usage is on time-frame. Since you're looking for day trading, I think those tools are more than enough. CMIIW.

I'd suggest you use the strategy you're familiar with the most and adapt to market changes and stick with your risk management as mentioned above. As far as I can see, most traders are looking for bots nowadays to help with consistency and backtesting strategy. Some of them are free and you can modify them on your own, but keep in mind it won't magically increase your profits.

True. The only thing I can think of is some kind of FAQs that answers the most important question if a user doesn't have the time to read all of the ToS. Based on my experience, most faqs are only related to the operational side of the platform, never to the sensitive information that the user needs to know.

Personally, I only read the full ToS pages when I need to translate them for a project. After reading some of them, I can vaguely guess what this or that part means if I see it in other projects' ToS so it helps me if I want to skim it. Not everyone can do or have the time to do it though.

Their claim is ambiguous, to say the least. They did say it was at full power, but the testing method is unknown, even "full power" can be misinterpreted too. I think most companies do this nowadays so that's that. Not a big deal unless you really want to find something so quiet.

What is this Trade Control you are talking about? Why did you trust them if you never hold that much money in the first place?

Also, most decentralized wallets don't have the kind of support as Coinbase/centralized platform does (resetting your password, etc). Hopefully, you can learn from this and avoid being scammed again by someone pretending to be official support in the future. CMIIW.

It applies to most things in my opinion, especially if it is tech-related. You should never use things you have no knowledge of (even the basic ones) in the first place.

I assume by "journey" you mean trying to find low market cap tokens/coins and buy them so you can profit when they do a 10x or 100x at the next bull run.

A partnership is definitely a nice thing to have, but that should not be the only factor that you consider. I'd argue that focusing only on one part is not going to help you find which projects you should follow. For example, one of the projects that I like (the idea is good, but they don't have any marketing) suffers a lot in recent months. They do have some partnerships with established projects, but that didn't help them at all. On the other hand, you can argue that Doge doesn't have any "partnership" but because their presence in the market is well-known, it allows you to get decent profits (at least in the last bull run).

There are many things you can consider. Other than what has been said above, I believe you can also use these factors to decide which projects you want to follow:
- The team (whether they have a track record of doing business before, are their words reliable, are they transparent enough etc)
- The community that follows them (is there a pump & dump channel that promotes them heavily, which can be a sign of short-lived hype etc, is their social media/marketing very active, etc)
- The tech/product that they sell (do you see them as useful or not, is there any competitor on the market, do you think they can compete with established competitors or not, etc)
- Their financial leeway (do they always ask for funding, does their main funding comes from selling tokens that can be quite a problem for their community/token holders, etc)
- etc.

At the end of the day, don't forget about luck. Sometimes just being at the right time at the right place, you can make a decent profit. Or just stick with Bitcoin and stack sats every month if you don't like gambling with your money.

Kalau dilihat di https://www.socios.com/socios-polls/ juga rata" polling/voting hanya berhubungan dengan aktivitas yang tidak terlibat langsung dengan bagaimana klub itu dikelola oleh manajemen. Artinya aspirasi untuk mereka yang ingin mendepak owner misalnya susah untuk terwujud kalau bergantung ke voting semacam ini. Kalaupun iya mereka bisa voting, peluang manipulasi juga ada (misalnya tim owner beli vote, atau memegang mayoritas power voting dst).

Daya tarik utamanya mungkin memang lebih ke interaksi fan dengan tim yang disupport, bukan ke harga token itu sendiri. Loyalty rewards, event yang ditampilkan di hompage mereka dst juga arahnya ke sana. Bukan token yang tepat untuk diperjualbelikan kalau agan ingin dapet untung lewat trading imo. Selama token masih berfungsi, mungkin volume trading yang hampir ga ada bukan masalah besar, kecuali hal itu jadi faktor apakah pihak Socios bakal melanjutkan kerjasama dengan klub terkait atau tidak. Ane pribadi sih ga bakal membeli token semacam ini hanya untuk voting, malah mungkin bakal mendesak klub dst untuk menggunakan platform lain macam Twitter poll misalnya kalau kita perlu milih warna bangku stadion.

Seingat ane setahun/dua tahun yang lalu banyak mixer altcoin semacam Smartmixer, Bestmixer (iirc), dst tapi udah pada tutup sekarang. Kalau agan lihat ada iklan mungkin itu situs phishing karena setahu ane rata-rata mereka tutup begitu saja (exit scam) setelah beberapa bulan beroperasi. Tornado cash juga sempet rame seperti yang disebutkan di atas.

Alternatif yang mungkin ada kalau agan ingin melakukan mixing altcoin mungkin ya instant swap ke coin lain yang disupport oleh exchange/platform yang mau agan pakai. Instant swap/atomic swap sejauh yang ane tahu belum support (belum dikembangkan) fitur" lain misalnya delayed transaction dst, jadi mungkin ga bakal memenuhi kebutuhan kalau agan bener-benar ingin privasi yang sempurna. Agak susah juga kalau ingin privasi tapi agan berinteraksi dengan centralized platform/pihak ketiga yang punya syarat A-Z karena mereka punya kewajiban hukum sih.

Kalau sudah mentuk ya pake BTC saja kalau mau dimix.

Apakah fitur itu bisa memeriksa address lain yang tidak ditampilkan di wallet agan secara default tapi masih bisa diakses karena satu seed (beda derivation path)? Saya rasa fitur tersebut sangat berguna untuk memeriksa address-address di wallet agan layaknya Electrum dengan derivation pathnya daripada memastikan address yang agan salin itu benar punya agan. Bukan berarti ga bisa dipake untuk memeriksa address yang agan salin, tapi lebih keren aja kalau bisa mengecek derivation path.

Does this mean you mix some coins, transfer them back to your wallet, and then send some coins to Binance? They might flag them since your previous transactions are related to conjoin transactions. I recall reading something like this in the past, saying that Binance will check your previous 5 related transactions to see if they are "suspicious". So, as long as you use a new address from mixing your coins, the chance that they would detect your mixed coins would be smaller, albeit not impossible since everything is on the blockchain. It is also a good practice to never send back your mixed coins to your own wallet, and just use the new address/wallet entirely. CMIIW. Pretty sure any decent mixer would consider this when they built their platform.

If the worst comes to worst, using DEX would be a good idea to swap your BTC after doing some mixing. Or just drop centralized exchange entirely if you don't want to deal with their false flag regardless if you use a mixer or not. Improving your privacy practice would be a good idea too.

They can definitely collect any data related to mixers by doing something like using the mixer on their own to collect some addresses and so on. That being said, I don't see them being hacked or whatnot related to their ability to track/link coinjoin/mixer-related transactions.

Agan OP, ane rasa topik diskusinya bisa ditampung di thread diskusi saran yang di link oleh om Chikito di atas. Kalau masih ada rasa penasaran atau saran lanjutan bisa dipost di sana juga. Walau post terakhir di thread tersebut sudah lama banget, tapi thread tersebut masih bisa dipakai untuk mendiskusikan masalah tentang forum. Rata" member saat thread itu dibuat dan saat ini juga relatif sama (mungkin bertambah malah). Tentu saja ini hanya opini ane, kalau mau mendiskusikan lebih lanjut dengan moderator juga silakan saja.

Ane rasa masalah child-board ini tidak akan berubah dalam waktu dekat, mungkin malah kita yang perlu lebih kreatif dalam memperluas/mempersempit jenis topik yang bisa dibahas di masing" board kalau keaktifan user di local board merupakan masalah mendesak yang perlu diselesaikan ke depannya. Just my 2 cents.

Kalau agan exchange di pasar lokal, bukankah "hanya" 0,1% pajaknya per transaksi gan? Yakin itu exchangenya gak malak agan? Saya asumsi agan trading hanya beberapa juta/puluhan juta per bulannya, katakanlah 100 juta per bulan, maka pajak yang agan bayar adalah 1 juta (bener gak nih?). Kalau dibandingkan dengan pajak P2P online yang saat ini marak di pasaran, ane rasa masih jauh lebih murah karena tarifnya di situ besar sekali. Bukan berarti ane berharap pajak kripto jadi lebih besar, cuma saat ini ane rasa masih oke.

Mungkin lebih bagus kalau term yang dipakai bukan menghindari pajak gan, tapi membayar lebih murah atau kata lain yang serupa.