Trading isn't easy to make a profit we know that thing because the market is unpredictable and I think there's no such rules to follow as long as you have a trading plan you have the potential to gain profit in the market.  Those consequences might occur unknowingly so you must be prepared for it whatever happens, instead, learn those mistakes and don't let will happen again.

All I can suggest here is don't be harsh in making money in trading if you don't have enough skills on it, I prefer to have an investment in the long term for the less risk but of course, not the same potential of gaining profit.  Knowing the fact that trading isn't a game or a job but it's a sort of gambling that anytime your money will wipe out in just a matter of a short period of time.

Most likely, they were found in the Local section.  You haven't found it there?

Yes, there is, AFAIK, there's someone making a thread about the Gangs of BitcoinTalk .
Let me name it here their gang name.

• Foxpup Merit Cycling Club
• The Thick-Skinned Gang
• The Nullian Cult
• The Clowns Cartel
• The Mods Gang
• The Wall Observer Gang
• The SpamBusters Gang
• The Scam Busters Gang
• The Collectors Gang
• ..and etc. just check the link above

Or there are outside forum groups like Telegram and Discord, you can choose where to join and by the way, welcome to Bitcointalk.  A Bitcoin community where talk about Bitcoin and crypto stuff in general.

IMO, when you have satisfied and find the right answer to your question that is the right time to lock the topic.

For me, there are types of topics to consider.  The first is the sensitive topic that purely asks a question, this means that you need a concrete answer, not a discussion and the second one is all about other's opinions and it needs discussion.  We are here in the forum with various opinions and suggestions, not unless if someone goes off-topic and you can report to the moderator in that way if ever there is.

Locking discussion topics might result in making another one in the future when the events will happen again and I tend to agree with what @DdmrDdmr said, so let it be open and report if there are spammy posters in your OP thread not unless if you will make your own Self-moderated thread upon creation so that you have a capability to delete that you think someone spamming in your thread.

Seeing your deleted post that was posted above by @DdmrDdmr was totally meaningless and deserves to be deleted.  If you're contrary to Bitcoin you should have a concrete answer and the reason why for your debate, it seems you didn't know well how Bitcoin works, and obviously, that was a shitpost that might there are many users who reported your post.

We should be thankful to our moderators here in the forum, they had maintained the cleanliness and delete all those spam, imagine if there are hundreds or thousands of members who posted the same on your post that has been deleted, no one will visit here and read those post and topics.  Learn to post quality posts and avoid low-quality topics which will most likely be deleted.

Glad to know not only Bitcoin has been improved, but also authorities have now the capability to seize Bitcoin that come from fraud, each month or years we have heard the news that there are criminals who have been caught by the authorities and there's more, a third-party service that can able to trace and track down Bitcoin transactions to those fraudsters and they even think that using Bitcoin is fully anonymous, they're wrong.

I witnessed from 2017 and until now Bitcoin has a great improvement, even though there's a struggle when it comes to mass adoption just because the governments wanted a regulation towards Bitcoin but it proves that this isn't a barrier at all to have mass adoption and becomes the price hit into a new all-time high.

Sad to say, I'm not prepared yet.

There's something wrong that you need to figure out because trading isn't all about making a profit, there are sometimes you also have experience losses.  But I think if you aren't getting a profit and decided to stop isn't a good idea for me, you have been there and learn from those mistakes that you had.  Quitting is not a solution instead, encourage and motivate yourself to learn more on technical and even in fundamental analysis which gives you more chances and potential of making a profit.

Bear in mind always that trading isn't an easy way of making a profit, learn your mistake and don't let it that will happen again, losses are normal in trading most especially if you're a beginner.  It requires a lot of work, study, and research.

Try to figure out the bolded part above, the reason is that the crypto market price is unpredictable and no one really gives a correct prediction.
Most of the trading signal group is a pump and dump group which is the most likely to manipulate a coin that has a low volume because it's easy for them to manipulate since they had many members to execute manipulation.

I suggest you avoid this group or joining them with a high risk because if you didn't know only the leader of the group and other close to the leader will most likely benefit most.  You've mentioned that you've learned technical indicators, just continue with that and do your own research, and don't rely upon other's opinions.

I tend to agree but it needs more technicals skills before using this, it's totally convenient way of trading because you have on behalf of trading.

You need at least a Member rank before you can join a signature campaign.  Your now a Jr. member rank a little bit more you will become a Member rank, you can head up on this thread, Overview of Bitcointalk Signature-Ad Campaigns, all currently running paid signature was listed there including the signature campaign information and participants needed.

But if I were your place, forgot in while on joining the signature campaign and be an established member.  Becue this forum isn't only intended only regarding that matter, we're here just to learn and share our idea of what we learned.  Joining a signature campaign is an extra bonus of what we learn and you're able to join.  Just learn more and you will be there someday.

We had heard a lot of criminals getting caught upon using cryptocurrency and running Ponzi schemes, it might they think that using cryptocurrency is fully anonymous but in fact, you can't.  Probably this is also related to Bitcoin since she was running her own coin and investors night invest using their Bitcoin.

That's a huge amount that has been confiscated, I hope those who had been victims will return the money to them because that's their money.  For sure there are more unrevealed amounts because the investigation is ongoing.  But my question is why the British authorities didn't disclose what cryptocurrency it is.

Trading needs a lot of reading and research, you should always be updated on the trend upcoming through the news forecast.  This belongs to the fundamental analysis, there could be an impact on the market price of what's news comes out and there are too many social media to subscribe regarding this matter.  Regarding the coins that you pick to trade, you should also know how engaging those developers are with the community of investors, it means the less activity it could be there's the chance that they had no progress and potentially becomes a shitcoin.

This...a very important when you're in a trading field.

So this kind of strategy scam is very common in telegram because I experienced the same as you too.  I almost scam but it's a good thing I have a habit to always check the site when it requires transactions and "Who.is" is the perfect tool to use on determining how long the site has been in service, if that is fresh made account like weeks or days, that's another sign that the site is sam.

From the start, OP can sense that is a scam but he didn't do research first, sorry for @OP's loss and he just learned from this mistake and not let that will happen again.  We should always be vigilant at all costs rather than say sorry.

If you have noticed, all of them have a hidden agenda, they run something a business or any illegal activities.  How many of them claiming to be Satoshi, but none of them can prove that they are the real Satoshi but instead, they introduce and run their own projects.  How poor Satoshi always has been used people like this, they deserve that they got in jail and I hope those early people who claim Satoshi will also be arrested.

Good to see Andreas give a statement that he doesn't know that fraudster, a selfie image seems to be true as well, what's a good edit.
We hope that there are too many of them will get arrested, they molded a bad image on Bitcoin not only in Satoshi because it used in a Ponzi scheme or a giveaway scam.

No, if you watch the video, it was coming from on this site "https://freebitcoins.appspot.com" which is now I can't open the site.

Oh, that's it, it means you will get 5 Bitcoin?  I can't imagine if there are generous people who are willing to run a Bitcoin faucet and give that big amount.  But AFAIK, there are still websites that still running a Bitcoin faucet.  Freebitco.in still giving free sats per hour.

Seeing those large amounts, how I wish I discovered Bitcoin that year, but unfortunately, I discovered it in the year 2017.

It could be also the reason thousands of failed altcoins are just because once they had already exited the scam, they keep coming back with a different name and other promises that will lure investors and scam again.  If we don't have proper research on it, we will always suffer from losing our investment.

I don't understand people why they give a chance a new project will potentially scam again, instead, you can give full support to Bitcoin and invest as many as you can since it is proven and tested when it comes investment, you're safe if you know how to be patient.

AFAIK, once that username was generated and created, there's no way that can take it.  It will always be there and as I saw, there's two Coolcryptovator user name in telegram now, the all upper case and the lower case username.


I'm trying to replace the uppercase username with a zero number, it also looks similar to the real Coolcryptovator that could be used by impersonators.

I think the only way is to contact first on Bitconintalk before dealing on Telegram.  

I don't know how they get scammed but I think, they don't blame you because if they had further research they won't end up like this.

It's possible because back then that is a very small amount if you will be compared to the dollar.
The comment above was right, the first Bitcoin faucet was named, "The Bitcoin Faucet" and that was developed by Gavin Andresen.  I don't know how exactly the amount he gives but that is a whole number of Bitcoin.

The Bitcoin faucet before is really worth it because you can possibly get a large amount compared today because the value is very cheap.  But now, probably it will also worth it if we are in another 10 years of existence of Bitcoin but for now, is just wasting time for us.

How about a pizza guy that bought Pizza using Bitcoin?  That's a huge amount too, just because before the value of Bitcoin is very cheap.

Remember that anything in online third-party services providers is also prone to hack and we don't know they still running their system very well after how many years.  So, I don't think this is a good idea, it might a terrible idea.

It's very simple and I tend to agree with this, hire a professional lawyer that will organize and legalize your will.  This is the safest method to inherit your Bitcoin when you will pass away and your other assets aside from Bitcoin.  But all of us have preferences, if they think using Google to keep your Bitcoin safe, it's up to them, they are lucky enough once they didn't being scammed or the service provider will not stop in the future when the inheritance will need it.  You must think first about the possible consequences.

I tend to agree with it because it doesn't mean you created a topic and it deserves to get merit, still, it will vary how quality it is.  As repeatedly mentioned above, merit was subjected to the quality post that gives information, it doesn't matter if this is a reply or an OP thread.

It's being said by @DdmrDdmr above and it's explained very well, I hope this enlightened you now and try to give a better shot next to your posts and to potentially get merit.  If you keep making such a good and helpful discussion, you will never know that someday you will have merited one of your posts.  

It's expected that most centralized exchanges required ID verification before you can buy and sell cryptocurrency or in Bitcoin, not unless, if you will choose decentralized exchange but I don't know if they are supported by Paypal which is Paypal is a centralized company and for sure any third-party decentralized exchange isn't allowed.

Alternatively, you can find transactions here in the forum from Paypal in exchange for Bitcoin, but of course, there's an escrow.  To avoid chargeback, it might good if the escrow will hold both the fund after several days (it sounds funny, how many days before the chargeback isn't effectively initiated) or why not you will use another method of payment not through Paypal.  IIRC, 180 days can still file a chargeback which is very risky using Paypal payment for the Bitcoin seller even though we use escrew.

Have you tried using other devices or PC when you were login your account?  I suspected that it could be your device use and next is your internet connection.  To be honest, this is a rare issue and in fact, I just now heard about this, it's totally buggy site that's why I hate using web wallet.

there's no reason you to stay on that wallet, find a better wallet and follow what they said above.  Import your wallet into Electrum or any open-source wallet that supports BIP39 and it could compatible to import your seed phrase.

Yes, please.
I just curious about this issue.  I open my eyes to this thread.