The mentalities have changed, so did the world.
Women were all used to be just housewives once, who are now equally responsible decision makers of all the major decisions being taken in their families. They do almost everything from cooking to gymming to sports - just like men do, while giving no excuses and doing their job very smoothly. The biggest industry of all time - Porn has adopted cryptocurrencies where many women ask for BTC and/or major altcoins and their customers who used to give Fiat and were able to being traced, are now getting their hands on to beautiful women without the fear of the same through using dark cryptocurrencies. I've just spotted out a specific niche but crypto has been spread to an all new level after the demand surged, and women are equally important for crypto economy just as men.

Pros:
- Gets you higher limits to trade over an exchange
- Gets your service provider to know you well
- Less chances of getting scammed by someone when everyone's KYC data is available at the exchange you're dealing with

Cons:
- Ends up decentralization (exchange-by-exchange basis)
- Gives exchanges (and somehow, Govs) the power to break your privacy if at any point, they decide to sell your KYC data
- You can still get scammed if the exchange's intentions are to scam you


Even if these countries follow the KYC procedure, that's just another thing to allow you to trade crypto and it's not bad at all. One another thing is, there are still DEXes working without any KYC involved, and even if CEXes ask for KYC, your thinking is wrong about them being able to control you. But yeah, they do have a watch on your trades and everything you do there.

If the wallet is still untouched and the coins are there without being moved, you may had the chance to get back your coins if you'd have stored your privkey somewhere else as a backup instead of just relying on that paper thing.

Maybe you forgot where did you leave your wallet? Why not have a brief checklist to check it almost everywhere on that list before you declare it as "stolen"? Stories of paper generation issues are also being screamed out nowadays that BTC is gaining traction, the only thing I'd advise is to generate a paper wallet offline (cut any connections to the internet while generating it/them) even on the most trusted sites, so at least you'd be safe just in case the website goes the wrong way! Just a question:

Why didn't you create a paper wallet by getting a wallet (maybe Electrum, maybe Bitcoin core), using an address out of it, storing your coins there and writing it down directly on a paper? It'd have definitely saved you from the hustle and your 1 BTC too.

One more reason for any seller to sell it cheap is that, we don't really get potential buyers for some specific amazon.xxx gift cards (where xxx could be any domain extension depending on your country and/or type of rewards you get based on the same) and the impossibility for a seller to be able to find a buyer quickly if he's in need, he sells with some discount after negotiations.


I also wish to know about this from anyone who belongs to India, i.e.; can I also obtain amazon.in gift cards through Bing rewards program?

Even when there is demand, there were sellers available who were selling for cheap (as mostly they were carded ones) but due to it, the market got slump even for the real sellers and sellers like me just sold them cheaper due to being unknown about how we could use it, while others sold it not too cheap but yeah, somewhat cheap.

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So, were they sold at huge discounts? I didn't get a summary of how they actually sold them off, but WoW! A lakefront home and a Tesla vehicle? Shit, I used to sell gift cards too that I always used to get from a friend living in USA who used to do some tasks over some apps advertised there (I discussed this already) and he used to give them to me to use and as I previously said, I never got the right opportunity to utilize such cards so I only sold them, but my bad I couldn't even make 1/10th out of what was shown in the article.

One of the most important questions I want to ask:

What if I store my privkeys and all these wallets over CLOUD services?

Based on this, 2 more questions:
- If I store on an online cloud service!
- If I store on an offline cloud service!

And if I keep them over telegram (through their saved messages feature) but somehow lose control to my number (or else it gets automatically allocated to someone else)? Will I still be able to get back my telegram ever or is it gone with all my data I used to bookmark and save in it?

Wow, a correct example here.
But I've got a question here myself, except the carding issues that everyone's discussing here, what about those apps that give you free gift cards for doing some easy tasks provided there?

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This carding issue isn't limited to just gift cards but sellers also sell some EC2 and SES accounts making them in a same way and also, the same things could happen as I told in the first post that they may run away, this time with very big amounts in BTC as SES costs you between $100 - $200 (depends on seller) and if they demand you to send BTC first, I believe chances are you'll surely get scammed as I was a victim of 3 people namely Huke Xavier, selling point (both sellers from Skype) and 3rd one was some138 (telegram). All of them will speak to you like professionals at first, and once you try to inspect more about the product they'll start abusing by telling you slangs and bad words like fuck you, get lost, etc. It made me feel like I was his slave and I didn't do his job, lol!

Through the way he's giving people those kiddish trust ratings?

@Game-protect, how self-absorbed a person you are who didn't even try to get off the flag by providing evidence that you're not guilty, but accused all of the community with your stupid and laughable ratings to prove that you're the innocent one alone and we're all fools here? What a great act of trust abuse by you, thank God you're not a DT, man!

I mean, I abused some children who were in my contact? Seriously dude? It means you're a 5 year old kid whose extremely huge ego got butthurt when we people decided not to give you the toy you want, so now you want us to ask  you to please take a class action against "responsible" participants? Go and buy yourself a lollipop, kiddo!

Yeah, it's actually called the sportsmanship spirit kinda feeling we need to keep with Bitcoin investments. That's because, those who bought at $20k are still holding (I'm talking about retail investors) whereas weak hands have sold off theirs. This shows that they believe in the future of BTC and are waiting for the right time. It is true that there will be a loser for every winner and there needs to be one, because without a loser how can there be a winner? You can't sell if nobody is buying and if people are buying it, it means the hype is working out so just chill and let it work - this is all I told him the last moment when he wanted to hodl deeply but sold (obviously, without asking me) and even I didn't get a feeling that he's going to commit suicidal mistake towards his capital while trying to tabulate things to a better level but actually ruined it for himself (at least saved his Dad's money).

He committed a mistake? He became a loser and it was his choice to be one. He didn't wait.
I salute to those who didn't sell a cent worth of BTC during the doom of 2018-19, a bigger salute to those who had the chance to get on the train very early during 2009-10 and are still one of the early hodlers. They're the definition of patience and motivate us to follow them and hodl at least till it reaches back our purchase value.

What about Blu-ray DVDs?
I used to play with these things way before but now less likely to store on them as I find them too much vulnerable towards getting corrupt or damaged. Any simple yet favorable to any conditions kinda device that'd actually deliver to store these kind of things without having to fear a lot about it? I don't want to think a lot saving my entire savings into a device I believe I could rely upon.

Actually, there's a lot of demand regarding such digital and/or physical gift cards which gives thieves a chance to make their move and lay down a trap for newbies and even experienced guys with a great need for this thing. You should be extremely careful while dealing with these sellers and only look for the most trustworthy person who is actually in business whether you try to find one over this forum or somewhere else. Although, I've seen even most trusted users turning into scammers, let's talk about how they can scam you:

- By either giving you a used gift card number
- Or giving you a gift card worth less than what's promised
- Worst would be when they leave you without giving anything to you and just run away with your BTC,

And as you know, BTC is irreversible so you can't even claim anything back. So, be very much aware of the purchases you make and always look for a very trustworthy guy to purchase such things. I won't advice about any escrow because my experience says that nobody will accept to become an escrow for such deals due to the fact that they can't check the gift card for you and they won't bet their dignity for some bucks where you may come up and say that the escrow cheated you by redeeming the code himself.

First, what the heck were those websites about? I've deleted them from the quote.
Second, who told you that we're completely stopped from using our money to buy BTC? The banks have stopped every means to not let us buy BTC through exchanges, but exchanges are smarter as they've bypassed this since by providing a P2P solution (which was already existing since the invention of BTC) which made it easier to know our local buyers and interact with them and sell directly through banks without any major interferences.


I'd have believed your words to be true if it was 2017-18, but it isn't. BTC is going hand in hand with our currency and I don't believe that you need to go for black purchases (however, even if you buy through banks currently, the only problem is that you're not assured that you'll get your BTC so better to trade with trustworthy people only). Even if you want to go the cash way, ask those traders only as they're able to manage such deals for you but the minimum purchase amount will change to a bit higher.


Even if they do, we are "JUGADU" people and we know where to keep our shoes and how to save them from being stolen away.


As I said, it never reached such high premium rates (not even 10% high this time as I'm an active manager of a very big Indian trading group).


Panic selling? Are you serious, my friend?
We're still getting much better rates here on exchanges like instashift and localbitcoins. It's your fault to believe such seller as you let him make a fool of yourself. Be well informed before making unsustainable claims that don't even exist. When we know about the CEO of Google - Sundar Pichai who is an Indian, I believe we don't really need to beg our Gov every now and then as they should know how reputed India is in terms of technology at worldwide levels.

This is what came to my mind.
Would it be really fair to cheat on faucets? Really?
I mean faucet was the first thing that brought much more attention to crypto and it lost steam nowadays because the dispensable amounts have become very low as nobody helps these guys to keep doing the good work, while people like OP come up with ideas to cheat on these faucets just for the sake of adding some extra (too many) bucks to their profile by looting these innocent faucets which are there to help newbies earn some small chunks of BTC.

About term 1.5, I'd be really happy if coinpot actually realizes about the cheat going on and immediately dismisses such accounts and stops them from withdrawing even a single Satoshi out of there.

@OP, I wish you failure in your project. 

I believe you're being mistaken here as I can agree with "they control the mining pools" but the fact is not true if you say that they are in control of BTC too because many investors of different countries have bagged themselves great chunks of BTC during its doom and these countries have got very high % in terms of holding BTC against China alone and I believe Japan gives a fair competition to China in same regards.


None of them gives a damn to environment or any such thing when it comes to making money over it and they've got many sophisticated ways to mine BTC by powering their miners through solar energy. None of us would think about destroying BTC if we are a country because it helps aid many financial issues (not at a country level but) in people's lives generally and it is making a lot of difference to them while also teaching them the importance of BTC as an asset and cryptonomics.

https://news.bitcoin.com/the-best-responses-to-donald-trumps-claim-that-bitcoin-is-backed-by-thin-air/

You should definitely watch this out, I ROFL'ed hard while reading to some of the most irritating, yet informative comments for our favorite arrogant US President Donald Pump Trump. My favorite one was this:



Image source - https://news.bitcoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/screenshot-2019-07-12-at-09-16-53-1068x895.png

Let's stop reacting to him, it has become these people's daily routine to try to manipulate the markets through their "influencing"words. I'd say Mr. Trump has got the disease of crypto influenza and is now waiting for a vaccine to be injected in him till he goes normal.

It'd be nice of you if you could list out a few more campaigns (even with less pay) which turned out to be scams (although, no bounties please) and / or didn't pay their users while declared as scammers.


You're right. Actually, this thread is more focused on high-paying campaigns as it's easy to find them because more or less, these campaigns have been a part of our community and were always looked for by us at least once in terms of enrolling ourselves into them. I'm glad I was not a part of those projects that turned into scam sooner or later.

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Throw 'em on, I'm waiting for more.


Lemme leave all old campaigns and take the most recent campaign as an example and ask you something (related to the bold part in your comment):
Hhampuz was managing the Livecoin campaign, should he be considered equally responsible for what Livecoin did?

You must be aware of forex, indexes, commodities, shares, stocks, etc. right? Don't tell me that these such things can't be manipulated? Then why not crypto when it is still very early for many users to understand the basics of trading in crypto? Anyways, it was long ago when people used to do it, but now investors have gone smart and they know that the sentiments can't really be controlled due to the fact that this crypto sphere is being spread at a wider margin and they can't really get to pay the price it takes to manipulate it. A recent example was when a trader tried to keep BTC stable at 12100 on Binance with a huge 1.5k BTC sell wall over there while other exchanges were having its value going in surplus with more than (at least) $400 extra on each exchange. What happened? His BTC got eaten up by other whales who wanted the markets to stay up. So, we've got a very strong buyers' base here if we've got shorts.


I'd vice-versa your question on you and would like to ask you if you've got the data to prove us that there are such whales who got the guts to still control the markets?

I'm not against high-paying campaigns, seriously but history has witnessed something different, something that tasted bitter in the end. Let's begin here:

1. YoBit.Net - Signature Campaign - Realtime Payouts (daily)

A campaign that started in 2015 which gave everyone the opportunity to earn up to BTC0.18 each month while letting the users spam the hell out here for years. It came back in 2019 with the same intention (probably) while allowing the same amount of BTC earnings per day here - YoBit Signature Campaign (Bitcointalk) Unofficial thread which got many spammers banned for spamming again to earn more. There are many scam accusations against this exchange to date.

Status:
Website - On
Signature campaign - Over


2. [BetKing] Signature Campaign | Fixed | Full Member - Legendary (Over/Closed)

One of the highest paying campaigns during 2016 paying up to BTC0.04 each week, Betking had their campaign closed due to some issues with their players. They came back later but went off early due to the fact that its admin scammed a lot of investors.

Status:
Website - On
Signature campaign - Over


3. ❃❃ ▶▷ BETCOIN.ag ◁◀ ❃❃#Signature Campaign-High Pay, Monthly Bonus, Special Award

Began in 2015, it gave everyone the opportunity to earn up to BTC0.26 (which lowered down later when it was turned into a fixed pay campaign but the pay was still good considering payments up to $170 per month. Everything was going smooth until a user won an exceptional amount and Betcoin changed their terms of service immediately so not to give the winnings to the winner, and are now proven scammers.

Status:
Website - On
Signature campaign - Over


4. [CFNP] LiveCoin Signature Campaign | Hero/Legendary Members | Up to 0.02BTC/Week

I don't think I need to give any big description about this as it's the most recent one that doesn't need an introduction. Livecoin started off great by giving the users of its signature an amazing BTC0.02 few days back, but the campaign went off once the curtains fell down off their villainous behavior.

Status:
Website - On
Signature campaign - Over


Do you believe that most of the high-paying campaigns have wrong intentions set behind their back and they start becoming shady after being set up fully?

Not bragging about, but I'm really glad as well as proud to be a part of one of the highest paying campaigns - Chipmixer as they've got no issues or scam accusations against them till date.

How do you bring it out to be actually bumping the threads based on providing their services or are purposely doing it just for the sake of such threads being removed due to competition? What measures are taken when people are found who do it purposely? Are these guys banned or just warned to stop what they're doing?

Wallet - Electrum.
It helps you save a lot on fees by allowing SegWit addresses while using it without downloading the whole blockchain (unless you want to download it completely and run a node).

Coins - I'd advise you to stay away from trading alts ATM because alts are losing steam day by day while we are all waiting for a parabolic bullish move by BTC. Actually, BTC is the only coin to be traded in my views, but you should only do it at 1x and trade with 1/10th of the capital you want to use over Binance and learn through your experience and move to higher leverage only after some experience is gained and don't go for more than 5x leverage per trade even if you're 1000% sure about the move because leverage can be dangerous to your capital if not traded properly.