Well if I were to add something, I'd say it's still safer to type out website addresses than bookmarking them. Viruses that could alter your bookmarks into malicious sites isn't out of the realm of possibility, so you could still be phished that way. Bookmarking is safe, don't get me wrong, it's just that typing out addresses manually is still a bit safer.

Is bitcoin available for  online gaming??

Hi All.

Increase in the  popularity of crypto currencies attracted lot of investor but also lot of scammers too.

Below is the common  traps/scam in crypto currencies that should be avoided and safeguard your crypto investment.

1. Free Bitcoin generators:
 I came across the variety of sites that say that they have find security flaw in bitcoin code/or bugs in mining pools and they are able to generate the BTC for free. You put your bitcoin wallet address and they will generate from 1 to 3 BTC within minutes.The real scam starts now, when they say to send .2 BTC to them as miner fees to claim your generated BTC. I never tested them but it is clear scam when someone is asking you to send BTC to give you back the BTC. Why do not they send that generated BTC minus miners fees in BTC instead of asking  first to send miner fees?

2. Cloud Minings:
There will be variety of sites that promise you to provide hashpowers to generate/mine bitcoins,litecoins/ethereum and in return of some 30 to 40 Dollar packages. These sites will be newly created and offering promising returns.But they last for few weeks only(A quick cash grab and shutting down the business). Even the sites that were existing for years , not all investors are happy.So investing in Cloud mining as a newbie is a big no.


3. Fake Twitter/social Media accounts:
a.) These fake account impersonate a famous personality in crypto world (like John McAfee) and will ask you to donate some small amount of BTC to them and in return they will promise  greater amount of BTC(Like you send me .02 BTC and in return this impostor promise to send .2 BTC).
b.) Sometime it will be fake account of some popular website/exchange to scam the users.

4. Scam airdrops.
Although airdrop looks safe bet but in scam airdrops you will be requested to give some donation to receive the airdrops (like .01 Ethereum). Be careful in these airdrops and do not send your money to them.

5.) Scam coins and ICOs.
Although a full proof method cannot be guranteed to identify the scam coins and scam ICOs, but still following point can be taken into consideration before investing.

a.) Developers promise very high returns on investment, Giving too much referral bonus or whole setup look like a ponzi scheme.
b.) Coin/Token is ready without any whitepaper or poorly written whitepaper.
c.) Coin is not solving any problem or implementing any new idea.
d.) Website look poor, Hosted in free platform like "Wix" or there is no https for website.
e.) Dev reserved too much coins for them, or too much premined or any other scheme that is giving undue benefit to development.
f.) No source code available.
g.) Roadmap putting emphasis on listing coin in exchanges instead of doing some real development.
h.) Team members are not known at all

6.) Do not beleive others without DYOR .
It is quite possible that person advising about coin/token is associated with pump and dump, or getting some personal gain like referral bonus so it is better to do your own research.

7. Precautions while buying coin/token in Exchanges.
a.) If you have no intention to trade your coin in near future then it is best deal to transfer your coin to your own wallet.
b.) If coin is forked recently then also check that exchange is having coin from new fork.
c.) Do check if exchange wallet is available or in maintainence mode before buying coins.
d.) Check the exchange withdrawal fees beforehand the purchase of specific coin.
e.) Send small amount to your wallet to verify transaction instead of sending all coins in one transactions.

8. Password security.
Create strong passwords by using combination of letters (uppercase/smallcase) numbers and special characters.If possible then use 2FA authentication.

9. Phishing attacks.
Do not open the suspicious links. Bookmark the original links, instead of searching the internet for link of sites.

10. Wallet safety.
a.) Do not give your wallet private key to anybody.
b.) Always backup your wallet.dat in some external device.
c.) Private key of wallet should be safely stored in some other place or external device. Do not save private key in same device (In case of Trojan or virus attacks). Save your key in other device/place because if you forget your key then you will lose your investment forever.
d.) Keep your wallet locked if possible offline too.

11. While copy pasting your wallet address , recheck the address that is pasted is same what you copied. (you might be affected by Coin RPG malware)


Last but not the least, Never invest the money  that you can't afford to lose.

Update from XP team on Discord (Disclaimer : I am part of  XP official team).

Dr. D. - Last Wednesday at 6:18 PM
XP Global Onboarding


There are 6 leads in this department (1 Australian, 2 American, 1 Korean and 1 Japanese). They all report directly to Dr. D. and will be in charge of creating community events (game related), running and moderating servers and advising on game integrations.

Here are five tips for turning the inherent volatility of Bitcoin trading in your favor:

1. Become fluent in technical analysis
2. Adopt a sustainable pace
3. Stay aware of news items
4. Implement stop losses
5. Use prudent leverage

Are you related to Daniel? https://www.danielstrading.com/2017/12/11/5-key-bitcoin-trading-tips

Hey Guys I really like the Steemit network. Ive always felt that there should be some sort of compensation system built into likes, and shares and all that stuff. I am interested in finding other people that have and write original content on steemit because i want to see what they have to say. So i dont really want a bunch of re-posters, i want to read blogs people on here have written.
 
Also, what are your thoughts on Steemit? Do you think it has some fatal flaw?

The social media that is more commonly used is being monitored and censored more and more, and quality content has no choice but to adapt to the new networks. I feel like any real information that will come out in the future will do so on platforms like dtube and steemit.
What do you think? Do you still trust what you see on FB and Twitter?

I'd love to hear what you all think.

I am not satisfied with the quality of all the posts. However, in the same way, I am not dissatisfied with the quality of all the posts either.

"favours" is my younger brother's account, we both live in in the same house, and sometimes use each others' accounts. He is 15, I am 19.


I am not an alt of favours - there is no need for people to lie in my trust ratings. As for my legitimacy, I invite anyone to Skype me when I return from college today, and I will prove that I am who I say I am. Please see reason and do not fall for the mob mentality.

It will now follow a long post from me, but first I have to collect some information!

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Edit:

My post should show you all, what climate prevails in this forum. Triggered by a few DT members. Yes, this account is obviously an old account. No, it is not an old account of OS, OG or anyone else who often appears. I will not say what my other account is called, because I'm afraid of hostility from Lauda and her entourage. This only shows me that I can not trust Lauda and her entourage. But I also do not trust OS and OG, because they also seem very suspect to me!

At this point I would like to thank the user "ibminer" as well as the user "Vod". ibminer, because he got the thing rolling.. I would like to thank Vod, because in one thread of her he advised against doing direct business with her. Unfortunately, I can not find his post anymore.https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2846750.msg30922676#msg30922676

From here I would like to warn against aTriz and nullius.

nullius write as much as you like, but I can remember a post in which he wrote that he met alia in person (I'll look for this post, but maybe someone could help me.). Suddenly he writes that he has never had contact with her except in the forum. Therefore, please be warned and question his actions especially!

aTriz I do not buy it, that he did not know about the scam and I think he is involved, so I advise you to be careful when doing business with him. I'm sorry, I've found you to be very trustworthy, now you've proven to me that you're the opposite!

I find it "surprising" that all who defended and supported alia before now suddenly act as if they did not know this person and only call them "user". In addition, they now all pretend they knew it. Of course they have never warned you before. Super smart seem to these people (some unfortunately also DT member) probably not to be.

As I said, I will collect more information. Take care that some people do not suddenly delete / change posts to cover their tracks.

Have I a risk if I post my pablic key in airdrop?

I got caught out by commenting on those merits. My point was that it was a necro award though, and I think that merits should be awarded to new, or at least fairly recent posts or threads.

I have heard from friends who invested in Bitcoin and read in some blogs that 1 Bitcoin is equivalent to 1 Million in Philippine Peso.  However, considering the inflation rate, as well as the law of supply and demand, does the value of a Bitcoin change? How much is 1 Bitcoin worth?

Hello Crypto Community,

As the title says, do you believe in Dogecoin future?

Do you also believe that it will be able to reach $1 by the end of this year? Or from now on will it just go down?

I ask all these things because I own 100,000 Dogecoin and I see how the whole crypto market is down for weeks.

I bought Dogecoin when this was almost 2 cents. Do you think there are still chances to make a profit?

Not ‘Member’ He had enough time to be Sr. Member [Date Registered:   March 29, 2017, 08:17:00 AM]

maybe he is alt of  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=96014

You seem to be too generous, Lauda. Plagiarism, in my opinion, should be dealt with a perma-ban hammer at the first offense.
There is just no excuse.

In this case however, it is not an isolated instance.



https://www.investing.com/analysis/how-cardano-muscled-its-way-into-the-cryptocurrency-top-10-200291919

Andrey Solovyev, a software engineer with an academic background in applied mathematics who is also co-founder and head of product for mom.life, explains that Cardano utilizes a multi-layered infrastructure. The accounting layer is separate from the smart contract execution layer. This is a signifcant innovation, he says, since it allows for absolute flexibility in protocol utilization, app development and security systems.


Another example

http://fortune.com/2017/12/21/bitcoin-travel-cryptocurrency-bookings/

Accommodation

• Travel agencies CheapAir and Destinia also accept Bitcoin payments for hotel bookings.
• Expedia doesn’t accept Bitcoin for flights, but it does for hotel bookings. The travel giant uses an online platform called Coinbase to secure transfers of the digital currency.
• Gyft.com is a digital gift card platform that lets you buy gift cards in Bitcoin to Hotels.com, which offers bookings at more than 150,000 hotels.
• 9flats.com, Airbnb’s European rival headquartered in Berlin, accepts Bitcoin payments for its short term home rentals.

Brief Announcement: Creation of Shopomy Reserve Account

In preparation for the launch of the Shopomy platform in a few weeks, 300 million tokens will be moved from the Goodomy wallet to a account reserved for Shopomy users on or before March 1, 2018.

More information regarding this reserve will be made available along with the next public release of Shopomy.