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2121  Economy / Economics / Re: 2023: What money lessons have you learned so far? on: May 05, 2023, 05:50:33 PM

What money lessons have you learned so far?
another important money lesson I've learned is the power of compound interest. By investing your money wisely and agreeing to grow over time we can harness the power of compounding to accelerate our financial development so prioritize your values and use money to support one's goals and desires in fulfilling my needs.

Compound interest has never been that rewarding due to inflation. My lesson is that saving money is like not putting money to work. As a business owner it's very important to invest money on ways that'll boost the business, instead of piling up the money in the bank. Like a thread on the discussion board that encourage people to take care of themselves as nobody knows tomorrow. It's of no importance to deprive ourselves from a certain way of living life because we want to save up money and gain profits in future. It's better to invest into Bitcoin than putting money into compound interest.
2122  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: I am only trying to stay safe by gambling less on: May 04, 2023, 09:14:36 PM
Bitcoin trading and gambling are both risky, but people have their different views of things. The gambler who is not into cryptocurrency has his reasons for saying that you're similar to a gambler because he must have heard it somewhere about how traders lose so much money in cryptocurrency trading. Excellent bitcoin traders earn more profits, same with excellent gamblers. Differentiating among the side that earns the most money isn't easy, because sometimes a gambler could see a massive profit through gambling. The fact you gamble less doesn't make you an addict, but they think so, and it's their response about you. That defines the fact that everyone's perspective of what you do differs. That's why you shouldn't bother so much and show them results like you did, I'm sure it kept them calm. Hence, I bet that when you leave that circle to a place filled with skilled gamblers they'll show you their gambling profits, which may marvel you to learn that players see such amount of money in gambling. None is far better than the other or far worse than the other. Everyone should focus on what works best for them.
2123  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Beware of such ads on Instagram & Facebook! on: May 04, 2023, 08:36:47 PM
Today I came across a few advertisements on Instagram (I am sure they would appear on Facebook too) that promise a program can find lost/forgotten cryptocurrency wallets.
What do you think this Telegram bot will do? Grin

I am still surprised why Meta does not make any effort to remove this type of content, even though they have enough capabilities, resources and technology to curb this fraud, if not reduce the fraud rate to zero.
The scammers are also lazy and their methods are easy to learn, however Meta leaves all the side to the users who waste their life effort believing these ads.


Increasing awareness will make these scammers pay Meta for free or revenue for their scam.

We have similar thoughts, but these platforms are too large to know bad actors from the good one. That's why they've got the report button, it's left for users to report malicious pages so that it'll be taken down or never approved to launch ads on Facebook. Some of the scammers when their account get banned they'll buy Facebook ad account and launch a new ad, so before they get banned again, some greedy victims must have fallen for their deceits. It's never easy for facebook bots to trace Scammers on the platform without the help of facebook users. I'd have suggested that before any Ad gets approved on facebook that it undergoes some verification to confirm its legitimacy before it gets to the phones or gadgets of multiple users on Facebook. But, the number of users and the size of the platform may make it impossible to achieve and these platforms need the money too. It's left for users to stay careful with their money and not fall for deceits.
2124  Economy / Economics / Re: Food Crisis - Improved, Worsen or still the same in your country (No Change)? on: May 04, 2023, 08:25:52 PM
Agricultural products got expensive because of increase in the price of Fertilizer, fuel, hiring machines and power consumption. Agriculture is cost effective and requires power for irrigation on lands that lack water. Hence, the processes required to get food ready takes up more money than it used to in the past. Additionally, transportation is another reason why food gets expensive and some areas lack certain farm produces due to transportation cost. Perishable foods may not remain fresh except if transported through an Aeroplane, so farmers and food vendors are facing an increase in production costs and it'll certainly affect the price of farm produce, moving through the production chains from the producer down to the final consumer. However, the increase in food cost has affected the way people eat, few Families can be sure of 3 square meal depending on their income. Food is meant to be the cheapest stock in market, but today the price keeps skyrocketing without any decline. Hoping to see a better price sooner when the price of Electricity bills and fuel declines.
2125  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Can't do something else offline, is this something wrong? on: May 04, 2023, 07:58:49 PM
It's not something wrong, keep building your online business, what matter is that you're getting some profits from the internet business. Also don't venture into a business you don't know anything about, because when things begin failing you'll run back to those that recommended the business and they may not stand to provide a better solution. Instead keep the money aside and use it to promote the online bitcoin business you're working on. If you need to expand, take the online business offline. Lecture people to understand the business or hire more people to help work on the business. Network and connect with other mining farms offline and garner business opportunities. That way, you're doing an online business offline, that's having an office, and exposing yourself to bigger businesses that'll yield additional money. If you venture into a cow business, you'll still take it online to market it, so that doesn't add up, it's better to take the online business offline.
2126  Other / Meta / Re: Proposal for AI Integration with BitcoinTalk forum on: May 02, 2023, 09:57:44 AM
  • Providing personalized recommendations and content to users based on their activity and interests

What I don't understand is this, it makes me believe the thread was made by AI. Members know their interest boards and wouldn't need any recommendations, sounds like we're on twitter where it's hard to navigate every content on the app. The forum is arranged in boards for members to easily ignore or utilize any content based on their activity. I don't think AI would achieve that for members unless through PM, a bigger red flag. What's the essence of visiting a board if AI, eliminating other topics, chooses the thread it feels would be nice for me? Basically it'll winnow out threads with little or no conversations.


  • Detecting and filtering out spam and fraudulent activity on the forum

AI will see human written contents as spam and read AI generated contents as quality. Leaving the forum moderation in the hands of bots, is not a good idea. Members devote themselves to keep the forum clean and it's been perfect without any alteration; nothing changed, same process. The AI wouldn't work like humans and they'll be lots of complains from people who their contents were filtered out by the bot, and the bot won't be on the meta board to defend why it removed the content. But, users here give reasons why they reported a content as spam, can the AI give us unique reasons?
2127  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: BTCUSA.com is live!! 🔥 plz rate it from 1-10 🙏 on: May 02, 2023, 09:12:01 AM
That's a brand-able name that can be pitched to top cryptocurrency firms in the USA, they'll get interested in buying the domain name. I'd say that the site, despite its age lacks some backlinks, now that its a blog, you can work on that to add more value to the name and also help in convincing buyers to bid for the name. Hence, such name won't be difficult to rank if the right contents and SEO is implemented on it. To stand out, that's if you wish to run the site for longer period, the theme on the site is not unique, though fine as other crypto news site. I'd recommend you use a simple responsive theme or template that'll fit on mobile version. Because such themes like the one you have won't keep people to read for longer time before they leave your site; it could cause Pogo sticking, and it's bad for the growth of your site. Look around themeforest, they've got nice templates that'll make you stand out in this niche.

However, how is the domain business moving? I've been off the business since 2016 when scammers started creeping into Flippa.
2128  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: Trust Wallet on: May 02, 2023, 08:26:20 AM
That's a standard ponzi scam strategy to let the first victims to withdraw to let them vouch for it.
Every ponzi scam that I've seen has done that.
Now, am afraid that girl (cyber friend) will ask you to repay the 70k she lended to you! OP, if this happens, just ignore her. You don't owe her anything.


Looking at it, I think the USDT lent to OP was on their fake site, I've gone through his transaction and wasn't able to see where he received 70k usdt. How will a scammer send their victim 70k? that's a risk on their end, which they can't take. It could be his account balance on the fake site was topped to 70k usdt, and he can't withdraw the money, unless he pays some tax or invests more money. Found on his transaction log, he sent the 100k+ usdt to the scammers. Op get yourself together and don't think of falling mentally ill. It's hard to forget such mistakes, but on the process of making money listen to your instincts, investments with high profits that demands so much from the investor is always a red flag.

If you ever face any confusion regarding cryptocurrency investment get in touch here, that's what the forum is about, helping people follow the right track to genuine cryptocurrency investment, and teach you to avoid losing your hard earned money to the hands of thieves. You can get a therapist, to check your health, that's what matters.
2129  Economy / Economics / Re: Saving is Wasting? on: May 01, 2023, 06:18:01 PM
As a student it's difficult to understand what's happening in the real life, and you'll feel like you're wasting time or money, but that isn't the fact.  Many people who are graduates after testing the real life after school feels like rewinding time back to school days. I've come to realize that life is not easy, so enjoy your moment as a student and understand that you're not alone. They're other students with lesser amount of money than yourself, yet their studies comes first before any other thing. Saving can be a waste in the real business world, while in school it'll help you survive some hard times and pay for your text books. So, always learn to manage what you have and read online, they're different boards online for literally any course you're studying in school.
2130  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: What would the Bitcointalk Forum be like without Signature Campaigns? on: May 01, 2023, 05:57:22 PM
I don't see reduction in the number of forum users, rather more people would join the forum and strategize a personal means of earning money from the forum. Regarding the monthly traffic of the forum its a great mine for marketers to utilize the forum. Your question should be what if they weren't any signature space not signature campaign. Once they is signature space available they'll be signature campaign. If not people can still use their signature space to promote personal businesses or rent it out. So, the forum will keep moving, signature campaign must have chased some top tech developers away from the forum, making the forum filled with garbage contents that is not adding any value to bitcoin.

The development section is not active like before and discussion is all filled with padded contents so that members could be eligible to earn. Top bitcoin early birds wouldn't enjoy the forum because of the low quality contents that keeps popping up and the lesser amount of tech related contents. In a nutshell, a big forum remains big regardless of signature campaign members must figure out a way to earn, even the marketplace section has made some members more money than signature campaign has made them in their entire participation. I see signature campaign as a byproduct and not a reason why someone will leave the forum if it doesn't exist. That's lame to see such responses.
2131  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: To Trustwallet users. Vulnerability. Repayment. on: April 30, 2023, 07:12:31 AM
A week later after doing his research he came back to me and testified that he was wrong. I understand the feeling but what you know, others don't know a tip of it. That's why when they make these mistakes they tend to leave the market because it seems complex to them.
You can see the problem stems from lack of research right, and it is the fault of the users, is there anyone who doesn't secure their money in fiat, they either put it in the bank or in other places they consider secure, they also safeguard their sensitive banking information, thus for someone who wants to use Bitcoin, knowing fully when that it's also a currency (their own money for that matter), and can be stolen the very same way their fiat currency can, why won't that person do their due dilligence and do what's right. Nobody was born with Bitcoin knowledge, so i don't make excuses for people who want to use Bitcoin, but what to skip the part where they have to research about it.

That's a good side and I don't understand why users focus mainly on the few information they've harnessed about crypto, which is how to receive and send crypto, and neglect the most important duty; how to secure the crypto. In your view, since they can protect their MasterCard details from criminals, how then do they find it difficult to practice same measures on cryptocurrency. I'd blame it on companionship, aside research, the banking system is used by many people, I mean our neighbors, friends and family use banks. So, such measures keeps ringing into many people's memory as it's discussed around them by close friends. Bitcoin is not that way, and such people may feel reluctant about securing their coins because they believe it's safe regarding the fact it's saved on a blockchain. Hence, if that person, has a friend that talks to them about bitcoin they'll feel the need to do necessary adjustments. For instance,  in the case of my colleague, without our argument he wouldn't have done his research. He felt satisfied with the information he knew without researching, maybe he heard it from someone close to him, that was why he relaxed and even argued with me about that. So, what I'm driving at is that most people don't research because nobody, physically, discuss with them regarding bitcoin.
2132  Other / Meta / Re: Is it better to have a place to discuss only about NFTs? on: April 30, 2023, 06:53:40 AM
A majority of members suggests it should be on the altcoin board, they seem right, but NFTs are arts and this forum love arts, I've seen lots of art contest in the forum. An NFT board will not only be about talking about NFTs but it'll promote the arts contests in the forum. By opening  more opportunities for users who made quality arts in a contest, yet didn't win. That section will educate artists on ways to turn their arts into NFT and also stand a chance of selling them. The board, in my view, would look like a marketplace for every art including art contest. And also open an avenue for NFT investors to feel welcomed in the forum. If everything dwells on the altcoin section, it'll be a hassle for investors to understand or winnow out quality nft threads from other altcoins.
2133  Economy / Economics / Re: What is your biggest obstacle to achieving financial freedom ? on: April 29, 2023, 09:11:13 PM
Financial barrier can be broken through and easily if only the government play their part in a sincere way. Now let me come from the education perspective. Why do we go to school, it is for financial break through, but when you finish school, there is no convenience environment to start business because in most time there is no capital to start personal business which self employ, so the government has to provide that convenience environment for the citizens. As for me governments are obstacles for most financial break through because they held back the people's money for their selfish interest. Another obstacle is the family background. If there is no money to start up your life, then you can not go further.

In an angle that's the normal view of a scripted society. Now I see why everyone who went to school dream to buy a car and have a holiday. Because that's the normal routine since the beginning of life in school, we were taken to school by car and we dreaded for Friday to come so we won't go to school. It has been registered in the amygdala of the brain, that most graduates feel threat when they can't maintain such lifestyle again, and it can't be changed until a person is strong enough to break out of such thoughts. We have the pen to change or write a different story of our life. School has withered alot of dreams and made us believe so much in the Machiavelli system. With the internet as a second world I'd say that Google update is my obstacle to financial freedom lol
2134  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: The madness of gambling addicts. on: April 29, 2023, 08:01:20 PM
My bad, I didn't go through the article, but I'd like to ask if it was recorded how much he staked from the ransome he received or he didn't receive the ransome at all? I have a reason for this questions, which is, if a drug addict gets mentally ill the doctor will blame it on drugs alone, and neglect other things that contribute to mental illness like bypolar disorder, emotional stress, fustration etc. Similar judgement can be applicable to the old man in question, he is known as a gambler that's why the press quickly tagged gambling as the reason behind his action. We all know that many things lead to kidnapping and the man should be considered a kidnapper alone, as the reason behind his action doesn't change the fact that he is a kidnapper. If he wasn't a gambler and he used the money to buy a car will it be mentioned on news what he used the money buy? My point is that, reporters don't put in enough investigation before publishing articles. They could have made more research to discover other reasons why the old man took his granddaughter for ransome.
2135  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Take good care of yourselves on: April 29, 2023, 07:36:00 PM
We can't get to the top of our goals in life without restrictions. Sure, we are in a transient life and it's always important to invest into accessible wealth. Bitcoin is a great investment for our next generation and every child will be proud of his parents if they passed on a private key filled with Bitcoin to them before they leave Earth. However, our health matters and if we don't take good care of it, illness can consume all the Bitcoin we've been saving in our entire life. Hence, it's not about saving Bitcoin, but also working on a business that'll generate us bitcoin. Such an inheritance to our kids is safer because it's open and we don't know when we'll leave this surface, maybe we may not be oppurtuned to give them the private keys before answering nature. That's why opening a business that they can use to generate bitcoin even when we are gone is better off.
2136  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Kucoin Twitter account hacked, $22k lost on: April 28, 2023, 05:45:59 PM
Isn't it supposed to be an inside job, since they claim without any proofs that they had twitter 2fa enabled?
If it was an inside job, then it was a pretty bad one. 22k is nothing compoared to some bigger hacks and somehow I doubt that someone from Kucoin would risk so much for so little. By the way, how exactly could they prove that they had 2FA enabled? You either belive what they claim, or not.


Inside job in such scam as this one, isn't one sided, it could also be from the twitter side. I could remember when the likes of Barack Obama's twitter account was hijacked and used for a similar scam, the hackers, teenage boys, when apprehended said that they tricked, through spearphishing, an insider on twitter who helped them execute the task and bypassed them to tweet with accounts owned by top celebrities. A scam, however severely, is simply bad. Hence, the stolen amount shouldn't be considered as the only reason why their twitter account was hijacked. They could be some information that the hacker needed to get on the Kucoin twitter page, exaggerating, then dropped the tweet. And I don't think they were right about how long the account was on the hacker's custody, as they judged from the moment the tweet was made to the time they were aware of what's happening.
2137  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: When Trustwallet doesn't show incoming transactions on: April 28, 2023, 05:13:35 PM
If that's the only reason why you want to quit trust wallet then you need to upgrade to their recent version 7.16.2 it has such feature and even notifies you, sent, when a transaction gets one confirmation. You also need to backup your seed phrase, for security reasons, before updating to the recent version, but that doesn't mean you'll lose your funds if you upgrade straight away. I've not heard about unstoppable wallet, do well to understand their policies before jumping to use the wallet. Good luck.
2138  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: PayPal Vs Bitcoin: Who is the Big Guy? on: April 28, 2023, 05:03:32 PM
Even up to now on which those people or marketers or even businesses does still stick out with Paypal despite of those chargebacks possibility which it is really that indeed giving off some disadvantage into those sellers specially the legit on. We do know that scam chargebacks is really that imminent on this space also which means that they should really be that strict on how to make out decisions whether
it would be viable or not. For now we've seen that companies do still stick with Paypal specially into those known and popular merchants or even on freelancing sites which these kind of
payment option is really that their main requirement but now in todays on where Bitcoin is already been known, then there are some places on which we could see that there
are really that giving off that Bitcoin payment option as an add up which is something that really good to see.

We dont need that competition because no matter how much we do hate Paypal, they would be still here to stay considering that there are lots who do still prefer the old and traditional options.

Paypal family and friend is an option that many traders now utilize for their transaction, to reduce chargeback. So, intermediary platforms like freelancing site etc, will definitely go for Paypal over bitcoin because of trust issues, they wouldn't want their customers to get scammed. But, since the money goes through them, the platform, why not integrate bitcoin and wait till everyone is satisfied with the transaction before sending out money to the seller. That way they'll work as escrow, as clients will pay the seller first and the seller is under their platform. Yet, they may not reason this way because of the volatility of bitcoin, however, those that prefer bitcoin are expected to use bitcoin marketplace and vice versa for Paypal. No hate.
2139  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: After HongKong, it is time for Taiwan on: April 28, 2023, 04:49:57 PM
When I hear Taiwan I think of Hong kong, however, Taiwan doesn't have a natural resource and focus mainly on digital assets like chips and building of automobiles. So, venturing into cryptocurrency shouldn't be new to my hearing because to enlarge their trade relationship with other countries they'll need to have different payment options available for potential prospects. Taiwan is growing and I don't think that they took this decision because of Hong Kong, between, they import lots of agricultural products from other countries, and if they decide to pay in bitcoin that'll be a better growth for the currency. Its great to see that Asian countries are beginning to accept cryptocurrency into their banks.
2140  Other / Meta / Re: Spammers and Burst Posters only on: April 27, 2023, 09:18:08 PM
Post bursting differs in some situation, if you are following a discussion on a thread, your posting interval may not be up to 30 minutes. What is considered is how quality the post looks. Post bursting seem like low quality posts published within few time intervals from the previous posts, in other word its spamming the forum for personal gains, not necessarily signature campaign. Members can post as many as they could in a day, and I've observed some quality posters who post multiple amount of posts in a day that's no crime in my view.
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