I would grateful if you can have a look at one of my thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5186907.msg52536207#msg52536207

Best Experience: Learnt a lot about blockchain and trading.

Bad Experience: Was effected with the clipboard malware:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5190776.msg52682115#msg52682115

If we go through the other posts of the OP there are posts on different sessions and even in the regional sessions of some language "Bengali" and more specific thing to notice is that OP has done only 5 post and have earned -6 trust.

I had been watching some videos on bitcoin being banned in few countries. Thus, was undergoing a though process of the pros and cons of the feature anonymity that is provided by this technology.

Pros:

• No-one has the actual stats of how rich or how poor you are
• No need for you to account your earnings or even pay taxes until you convert it to fiat
• You can have the complete owner ship of your funds Example: some banks and other functional bodies have withdrawal limit if funds are in your wallet exchange as per your wish
• Transferring the ownership is simply by sharing private key

Cons:

• Money-laundering is carried out by spammers
• Criminals can demand for funds and it would be hard to track the criminal

Welcome Sanoj,

It would be great if you could have started with some forum rules and then some crypto core technology study but, since you have mentioned that you are interested on Bounty, Check this session of the community which is dedicated for bounties: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=238.0

All bounties and airdrops are not legit so, do your research before you share any of your personal information. Try and avoid sharing of your personal information and identity or any details.

Have a great blast!!!

Welcome to the platform. Hope you are here for some knowledge gaining and knowledge sharing. You can start with the forum rules and by reading the pinned messages followed by the different sessions which would interest you. There is no need to feel shy we all are learning and growing together.

This platform does give enough anonymity thus, noone knows you in-person so feel free to ask your questions someone or the other will guide us.

The USDT you will be receiving is of no use as it is fake tokens of USDT. You can check the same by going to CMC and checking the contract address of USDT tokens:
https://ethplorer.io/address/0xdac17f958d2ee523a2206206994597c13d831ec7

The USDT transactions with the above contract address are only validate. The group are people managing this telegram channel are making us believe that we are actually getting funds by sending fake currency. It is good to stay away from this. Since the coins you received are of no value they are not asking for any initial deposit.

Small amount? the OP says he invested in jan if it was jan 2018 then the fiat value equivalent to 0.4 BTC is not small. Learning which costs 0.4 is actually huge cost for this learning.

If you are unwilling to study and cannot control your emotion then you are not a trader. If you are not able to manage to read, learn and cannot manage emotion then please do not call yourself. It is the basic requirement.

This easy money earning expectation is from both investors and the scammers and scammer is always the winner in this run. Then why do not these investors give some work to brain before getting fooled.

While scrolling through several thread on the scams. example is:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5178638.msg52258020#msg52258020
Where the OP has stated about spam ICO's.

Listing on a Top exchange is not a free job its obvious that they do charge you. Now thinking on the other hand the spam project gets a website done, whitepaper, content, promotion, listing blah blah blah and all of it comes for a cost.

One would spam only if they are getting profit, right? Which indirectly means that, even after the long list of initial cost that they bare they get sound profit. This can only happen if a bunch lot of crypto enthus believe on it.  

Just image how many investor might be there getting chopped with such spam blades. If there is no enough crowd to get chooped then the spammer won't be able to invest to create a spam project, right?

Is this all? Or there more layers to this field.

If this is the only layer then education is the only way out?

You caught me right there All my words to mean this one sentence.

And to the spammers running for merits: Keep running until you are banned or you learn to behave. If you want to be on this platform better behave that is the only way you can save your time and energy.

Even Show general statistics for this member shows error.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2541708;sa=statPanel

It states:

Even if you check the good experience you know which is the best and which one should you adopt. A exchange gets top reviews only when the users are satisfied. No exchange or service is 100% perfect there are both positive and negative experience.

Most importantly the experiences are dependent on both your knowledge and the exchange service.

Why I mentioned both was:

• If you do not known that there are certain set of confirmations required for a transaction to complete and just contact the exchange support and say, "I sent funds and your exchange/wallet is not showing it up", it does not mean that the exchange is bad, it reflects that the users knowledge is low.
• Other instance can be you miss the tag of double and blame exchange or wallet that it is not reflecting your funds and writing a review on the same is a clear stupidity and it does not mean that you should shop using that exchange or wallet.

I did not mean that all users do such stupidity. Let me explain with a instance

Check the bad reviews of binance :
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/binance.com?languages=en&stars=1

Almost all the reviews are spam. Top users of this community might have 99.99% used Binance at-least once in life time do they speak the same? No. Ask for your self why do not they because they have enough knowledge in the domain and they know what is going on.

On the other hand when you see the Excellent reviews of Binance, they have mentioned what mistake they did and how the support helped or what they feel about the exchange:
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/binance.com?languages=en&stars=5

Such statistical data speaks that the bad review givers are either the one with lack of knowledge or are spammers. This is why I also support going with good reviews but, read all reviews is the best and I do thank all platforms that help users to know the users experience so that, we know, where are we and what are we up to.

I did not get you. Do you really think one who is posting unnecessary content is run after merit? If there is some unnecessary content then noone will waste their smerits on them.

This forum allows all of us to report to the admin if we find something unnecessary. unnecessary content  = spamming. And we all know that there is not seat for spammers in this platform. Spammers may created 10- 15 comment max then someone or the other will report.

Ranking is a hole different thing necessary content can only get merit. So, one who is after ranking or merit is forced to post necessary things else that fellow member is out of the community irrespective of the merits owned or the past comments made.

OP is brand new plus this is the only question from OP. The question would have been which can be the preferred wallet as well instead of some random wallet which is never heard off.

Coming to OP question if you are really looking for wallet and a fresher here I would suggest a hardware wallet or a paper wallet. But, if you are here for a promotion then time will speak. Remember moderators/community members are not blind.

If you want to know peoples experience on different exchanges then please check the reviews of the exchanges on platforms like trustpilot, bittrust etc., There are specific platform for the same also, in bitcointalk there is a separate session for discussing about exchanges.

I agree with you and also do not have much focus on racing for the merits but, if we think from the other side of the sphere then it is probably because of the privileges that comes with merits people prefer chasing it.

I was just going through some of the Bitcointalk features and navigated to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats but, my query was is this stats the recent one?

As I can see the "Forum History (using forum time offset)" last update is Dec 2017. Also, in most if the rows of Forum History (using forum time offset) page views and most online is Zero.

If it is about trust then even asking in community and forum makes no sense. Then what is the difference in a support email confirmation and a discussion on forum. I actually did not get the point. Probably we are looking from different angles please explain.

I was addressing to the question where OP said that maximum payout of the exchange. And also payout can vary as and when the price changes thus I said of conversion to USDT.