Many members are taking it as serious warning from @theymos completely ignoring the April's fool day tradition on the forum and thinking they will be getting banned if they don't pass the 120 IQ levels    Have seen lot of such threads in different boards today but relax guys and take chill pill.

Some members including me thinks it should be implemented as well with only forum and bitcoin related questions to boost the knowledge bags of forum members.


This is one best way to increase my IQ level to unexpected levels so thanks to the @theymos for providing the bitcointalk members opportunity to show thei high IQ levels here

But you know how other genius might be feeling after looking at whole IQ scene at this time on the forum:



So we can increase it to unexpected levels if we wish to do so today but no cheating is allowed 

The second options find more suitable here because the way he is presenting his words seems he is in obvious scam opportunity worth 20k from any member.

If he has find some bug in the code of the casino he can contact them and as a reward they will automatically give him some good amount so need to ask for money from people.Second it's non ethical way to make money but I know he has not find any such exploits for any gambling website.Even if we assume he has why need 20k? He can easily start with some low amount of betting with his so called strategy without looking for crime partners.You did well by checking some of it and reaching on conclusion not to take part in his fake talks.

Have seen many people aggressively betting with this Martingale strategy betting more after each loss as it states the chances increase of win.But this should be avoided at any cost because you are totally unaware of the outcome like when you will hit the win slot so will you keep going without even bothering about your budget?The only one making profits in this case most of the time is casino due to house edge.

This whole system was started by casino owner and he might be thinking his personal profits before that:


But the system is those who opted it with modifications also tends to loose in the long run and it should not be done at any cost according to me also but still if someone prefers to play with it it's their responsibility.

Definitely it all depends on our taste how we like to play.In my circle also there are different types of players but we all enjoy the time we spend whenever we are gambling together and watch other's gameplay.It is not like that if i prefer slots i will stick to it for whole gambling life but will also try sportsbook and other games casino provides to explore each part.This is my personal way of playing but don't know about others.

You were lucky to have your funds back but the highlighted part in your post is the worst way to backup your seed phrase as having Screenshot in your mobile phone is as risky as telling them to people openly.The first rule is i would say offline storage on piece of paper or metal sheets with full safety.What if your phone was lost, stolen or damaged would you be able to get your funds back then and it would be permanently lost adding up to the shrinking supply of 21million.

Writing up but not the way he has done is the lesson for us because everyone would not be lucky like him as this is very easy way in which your seed security is compromised but don't know how people do such things.He might be lucky to sell them at good price compared to what he would have got in past but he could have lost them all.So take this lesson from him.

Yes this new system has been initiated by @theymos to reduce the spam posting on the forum as he was unable to tolerate all the shit poster on the forum but i think you have qualified it already as the limit for IQ is 120 so you can carry on your forum journey mate.

Just kidding this is the forum tradition of celebrating the April's fool day by @theymos so don't worry about it.

I am also comfortable if this system is implemented and it would be fun and chance to learn more about the bitcoin if the MCQ questions are only forum and bitcoin related otherwise if it is carried the current way some members can also participate in reality quiz show winning millions .

A warning to members below the post would be great initiative to help them and avoid such mistakes that can force them to leave the forum.But will see how it ends.

This could definitely be community oriented like for the first part the @theymos could set up few questions bitcoin and forum related that will be shown down the post reply box with options similar to we have here .This coud definitely start some motivational concept for members to increase their IQ level like they now wants to rank up with merit system.

Later on one seperate thread could be made to submit the questions or some members could voluntarily take care this job to set up some more questions time to time.This is not some burden or way to restrict new members from joining the forum but they can learn fast and with self motivation to grow on the forum with knowledge and compete with others.But in the end the decision lies with forum adminstrator @theymos and current merit system is also very good..

With time the hacking styles or say scammers have become advanced by opting for the the latest technical updations in their way to scam users out of their funds.The points you have mentioned are well good like the website structure or the team behind the project then it's all can be really good build up to attract more customers but diving into the core aspects will help you to recognise the legit projects.

The developer they hire have nothing to do with how the project is going to work if they are getting paid well and not on the team so you know there are many CSS crash course which will help you to optimise the site in good way.Even if they are spending say $1000 they have plans to scam 10x or more from people.So be sure to check all the details at minor level also before investing your funds or say if you are newbie then avoid them.


Same scammer pretending to be on different platforms with unique usernames in order to fool more number of people can be detected with this but if they are using similar attire to carry them.But it can still be verified through Google images if they are using this method:

They are just presenting this bill to end the privacy of users and keep the full record of the transactions by giving out the whole lame excuses under AML policy.They are requiring the whole lot of information from the exchanges to discharge the recipient details worth over 1000 Euros which is insane because these amounts are way too low.

See this :


The people sitting in the cabinet rejected the past bill which was against these POW coins and this was thought to be good decision but the main concern had now started for the EU residents as the crypto tracking bill is on the way.

They have stated the same old excuse of can't track the bitcoin related transaction and they are being used in illicit activities which is nonsense but they won't agree on this part and come up with such regulations which are against people's privacy.

EU new travel transactions bill

They are making another attempt to make it centralised system through these exchanges where they can track you but the fact is your funds are not safe over these exchange at the first place only so you are prone to risk already.The banking system is also their authority and they will take any decision to make it shine among the people defaming the bitcoin specially but the reality can't be kept secret from people.

In the name of regulations they are making worse decisions which needs to rejected at any cost and people needs to raise their voice against it so that they can't rule over them what they have been doing from ages.

This is not a new thing and we witness these baseless trolling in most of the casino cases where users will put false allegations without any proof but the whole community is enjoying playing on that particular casino like in this case Roobet.So the best is to ignore them and keep your regular Roobet discussions on while gambling there with the perks.

Was happy to see that time has come when you can reveal your sports rollbots to see who's getting the rare one's.Moreover the RLB airdrop on revealing your rollobot was good addition to the party as you can get exciting amount depending on the Sports rollbot you got.

They are also adding the Re-Roll feature soon whose information will be disclosed on discord soon and we can get our favourite sports rollbots with it but don't know how.So waiting for more information.

That's right because most of the newbies here don't have any idea about using different ways to store their seed safely and in that case the perfect advice is to store them safely on piece of paper only without any online storage involvement.They should note it down once they have setup their wallet and no pictures should be taken or saved as notes in the mobile phone which could be reason for loss of funds.Having proper backup in two or more places is important because if one place is compromised you can have it from other sources.

You cam trust someone close to you in case something happens to you they can use your funds but keep in mind trust is the vital factor that plays major role in keeping your funds safe.



Mixing up the words maybe confusing for the person himself and he needs to sort the words in order to use his funds or transfer them but in the case of splitting it becomes more difficult as you have to collect the words and if any of the 12 or 24 words is not in correct order or not available with you then funds are lost permanently.So why go with such complex methods when you some simple and traditional way can save you from lot of troubles.

I remember there was one such thread on the forum where member was using unique way of memorising the seed phrase like with images of Queen Elizabeth, elephant and relevant example but it sounds too complex and bad idea to many including me as human mind is strong and can have storage but there are some limitations and we should not experiment with them in such risky way.So avoid this is really bad way of keeping it safe as it this could direct lead to fund loss.

You can try different methods other than paper definitely but it's time consuming and you need to have proper metal that can survive extensive condition of heat also so that in any case of calamity or fire it could survive the damage with seed backup safely printed on it.Members could take a look at these threads:

Securing Your Seed Phrase with Washers

n0nce's Steel Washer Backup jig (customisable)

There are many such ways in which you can protect your funds but see they all are offline ways because storing them in online storage like cloud,drives or even having them stored on your device as soft copy is prone to hacks and stealing of your funds so be safe not to use them and keep your funds safe because it's your responsibility.

Thanks for saving it for me as I thought i missed the opportunity to save it for me because when i logged on the forum those 1500 merits were already crossed for me and was at 1502 but you manage to save it on time.I am assuming you have some special training classes for saving records fast from @Ratimov 

Good to see you progressing fast on the forum with your useful contribution to the forum but each time you put up your merit stats to save it here it's already been shattered with some additional merits like this time also  .Stopping on good merit stations for few minutes and then going ahead to the next one preety fast in your bullet train.Best wishes with you man.

Oh i didn't notice that little vowel mistake in your name and your notification bot ignored me for that reason but still good you come up here to embark that up so congratulations to you on making continuous number pair of 1415 @skarais  No mistake this time.Yes the next target of 1500 is on the way for you and soon anyone will be saving it here if you missed it like me.

The term privacy has been always a major concern for these government agencies and they come up with these stupid lame excuses always to shatter it down and gain the full control over it as they are having in all others monetary sectors like stocks,bonds and fiat undoubtedly.So now they want to surpess the exchanges to give them such details with complete information of users transactions to trace them.The whole damn law is some user tracking virus being injected in the people nerves.


The same old and top priority excuse for them like they are used for illicit crimes and will link up the silk road dark web case here saying so many bitcoins were confiscated during that time but how much profits the government take by selling them after having control of it?

They believe like if bitcoin was not there people could not hide their money at all but in reality the swiss banks and other sources are way too easy for people to hide their so called legal inflationary papers known as fiat.They can easily be forged but can you make fake copy of bitcoin on the network? No but for them it's not concern and they have their own way of thinking.

Only in words but if we also want we can track the transaction records on blockchain which is full transparent but is their any such ledger for fiat transactions which are made without banks involvement.If you use bitcoin or ETH each transaction goes online validated through nodes an d then accepted but no security in banks.

Only if we use mixing services for being anonymous that is different case but most of the transaction goes without it and users are filing returns over it like the taxation schemes but still they want to have the full record.


The worse fact is putting down the restrictions to as low as to 1000 Euros like the same 1000 CAD coinbase information requirements.People transferring such amounts have to disclose the information and coinbase have to report that to authorise also so they can monitor it under AML policy but even if no suspicious activity is carried out they can also track it with such laws.So where is the privacy barrier gone? Blown with single law only.



Sounds like NSA keeping the satellite track of each Individual and even listening to their conversations like in Movie Enemy of the State which seems to be true in this case also with such strict laws.The government thinks they can pressurize the people with such laws and can seek low investment in these crypto market so they can launch their own shit CDBC but that's not happening at all.Avoid using these centralised exchanges at any cost that will protect your funds and give you privacy.

See who's talking about privacy who are also don't know it's true meaning and selling the private information to the government agencies


They have already shaken hands with them and now poilitcising it for personal advantage to retain the users but themselves also do the same thing.So not surprised they will comply with the laws if passed easily.

What the hell is happening with these NFT trends as now we are seeing this Oscar slap of will smith to chris rock been sold as NFT collection which has raised $45k so far :





Another shit token made on the meme with zero utility and still people going crazy for it :


Are we guys serious about these events? The shit token creators find these as profit making opportunities and those who invest in them are more big fools around here.

chris-rock-refuses-to-file-police-complaint-says-lapd

Also don't think this was staged but many have this assumptions and you could see this oscar slap is trending everywhere and people have their own pre assumptions without going into much detail of the facts.

The Chris Rock might have swallowed it like nothing happened with Will delivering fuck twice from his mouth to the comedian.Her wife reactions were almost of astonishment as what the hell happened there in few seconds.The Comedian was not having any idea while smith was walking towards him and showed no aggression after all but we can feel his condition at the time.

Smith breaking down after winning the Oscars and apologising is not public stunt and with these they are not getting paid.Sometimes personal jokes have instant reactions which we just saw but people have turned it into more of stage drama although they are both are stage players but this time things went real.This is my opinion and we can't convince people about all the stuff because the different lens is prefect in this sense.

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Was just hoping exactly the same that magician @fillippone would swing his magic wand to with his hand on crystal balls to find the exact location with images and here he presents them to WO brothers.

But where's the rock the girl is sitting?

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More bitcoin investments are on the line with these stable coins increasing their btc reserves :

There are thousands of users logging into the forum on daily basis but they have never reported some major issues regarding the forum that you have been complaining about without giving acknowledgement to any of the above post.

It's also works fine on my end but this problem is not the forum algorithm faults but as there could be network connectivity issues but i don't think you need high speed data to load the forum pages as it's compatible in old style to load it even normal speed of internet so be sure to check it with your ISP or as indicated by @Welsh there could be CPU lag and you could check it out on performance of your desktop if you are using it to boost it and then reload the forum pages.

This is only delay on our end sometimes as have seen members reporting server errors sometimes due to network connectivity and html errors but forum not loading properly on your end have to be on your side as it's fine for us.

You can get more exposure to gambling and come to know more about different casino working you play on but there is no such experience that will always make you win on each bet which is why we need to take all the precautions ourselves.We could win if wr are lucky on slots but yes experience on other games like poker could be useful because it's strategy based game.But limiting yourself is best in gambling in order to avoid extra loss that we can't afford.

There are different types of gamblers whose gambling preferences varies like some like slots while some are sports betting fan or both so the casino requirements changes for them.I have seen many players who even like to play on non famous casino with little benefits why? Because they have their favourite game and they like it there.So we all choose it accordingly but important part is choosing the legit casino so funds are safe if you understand my point.

Few weeks back they also set off their business in Russia due to the war and it was really bold decision as they were having strategic business over there but still they opted out and stand with Ukraine in this time.They can supply to other nations to recover the loss.But yes as per reports they are stepping into bitcoin mining by using the excess waste gas to mine bitcoin and get profits over it.

They might be having so much huge cash reserves but I don't think they are putting all in this mining business as stakeholders won't let it happen easily.

They have distributed quite a lot of dividends and maybe putting good amount of money into this mining process but still won't be able to capture the full control of the market according to me.At this time the mining difficulty is hard and you need very high level of ASIC machines which many mining pools like Antpool have but still we see hashrate distribution.You can't take full control of bitcoin network with huge money inflows also which keeps it safe and this scenario is not possible.Although I am not mining expert but this is my opinion from the knowledge i have.So it's good for them if they jump into this mining business but will see when it actually happens.

They also have plans for bitcoin projects in Alaska as well as per reports:


Source ExxonMobil btc mining plans

Just heard this news today and was shocked to see the amount of hack as this is one of the biggest hacks according to me worth $625 million on Ronin bridge based on Axie Infinity NFT based P2E game.


But the experts have blamed that in order to validate the transactions fast they reduced the number of nodes to only five out of nine and this is one of the problem of POS mechanism which completely diminish the security levels.

The other thing is they noticed it after few days when users were not able to deposit or withdraw their funds on the network but there was also short of Ronin and AXS tokens but before anyone could notice they get liquidated :


As the address is known to them because it was just made a week ago from Binance which they used in hack and now holds the amount it could be possible for them to recover the funds in any manner they find it suitable but looking forward to see what they come up with next.This is the address :



After this breach they have increased the number of validators nodes to eight but seriously it is of no security with this small number of nodes to run billion dollar worth of transactions and that also in POS mechanism.So this was biggest exploitation of the network which affected their token prices also badly.

Most people don't follow this advice and simply invest in these projects who have some security bugs that can be easily exploited and then loose the money due to such hacks.Bitcoin network is secured by thousands of nodes and miners put all the right transactions within the block with full transparency.This Ronin network could easily be exploited as you need to take control of five nodes only out of nine so it's not much hard for hackers to commit the crime.

Bitcoin hacks have been there but not directly but through these DeFi, exchange and some other things which are the root cause of hacks as the same security breaches and some themselves becoming scam one so be aware of it.

Yes the chart is not showing the accurate data because there was scam of around 173600 ETH coins and 25.5 Million USDC which is over $625 million as stated in the @OP also.

Getting scammed in this crypto market is not a new thing and normally there are many cases which we encountered associated with these scams in different manners but the results are always the same loss of funds from victims walllets.This is whole technical market and you need to be extra cautious in keeping your funds safe but most of the time people become greedy or unintentionally click on malicious links which results in these scams.

But if you say scammers are earning lot through these scams then you are absolutely right as you could see million dollars worth of scam happening most of them through these shitcoins rug pull or zero utility but still investors hope of getting something from it but only hackers get their money.According to the reports by chainanalysis data these were the numbers of scams that took place in 2021:



You could easily see the period of 2017-2018 witnessed high rate of scams as there was ICO burst and other scams occuring at that time but after that there was people awareness but the numbers seems to rise now also as there are lot of NFT and meta projects out there who have rug pulled investors of money worth million of dollars.

Some top scam coins in the previous years were as per some reports :



So they are definitely earning much but if you take into consideration the amount of investment made then the market cap is more than $2 trillion and people have also earned huge profits in their investments with this bull run which cannot be ignored and the fact is crypto industry has witnessed huge surge in volumes as new one's have joined the market.So there are no perfect reports but investors have earned a lot.

At last your security is your responsibility as you would find these scammers everywhere but keep yourself safe from them by not being greedy.