Has it ever been profitable? It's one of the biggest scams when it comes to Bitcoin, but apparently it still sells very well today considering that people are constantly asking questions like this. If a so-called "respectable CEX" decides to offer something like this, then I wonder if they are just greedy, or if their business is going so badly that they take money in this way.

It seems that you have a lot of free time, because if it weren't for that, you wouldn't be so focused on the forum. If logging in worries you too much, you can browse the forum as a guest. Be that as it may, I don't think you need to worry too much at this point, for most people, the "addiction" you mention disappears after a while.

There is no doubt that what the OP is asking is possible, but is it possible for a banned account to send merits? I am primarily referring to permanently banned accounts - because they still have access to their accounts and can send and receive personal messages.

I share your opinion about that, because most of the time I had (like now) an avatar and personal text that were not part of any paid campaign. I understand that whoever pays for the campaign wants maximum exposure, but it seems to me that most of those who are interested in something will still click on the signature because it is a direct clickable link.

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By the way, I'm not part of the sig campaign that I currently have a signature on, but it's one of the oldest projects on the forum I'm a member of, so why not promote something that's been around for a long time and maybe get some more referrals.

As far as I know, all sig campaigns that promote gambling require their participants to be active in the Gambling board, so it's a bit strange that someone who doesn't gamble and doesn't know the business can successfully advertise anything. However, it seems that quality and knowledge are not too important in this case, because after altcoins boards, that part of the forum is polluted with the most spam.

This is just proof that it does not mean that someone will necessarily look "smart" if they use AI, but the exact opposite will happen. If you don't understand some of the basics of what you're asking the AI, then you can't even correct some mistakes that the AI can make.

What is certain is that some will try to "disguise" artificially created posts in a similar way (but also in some new innovative ways) as they do with plagiarism. However, as long as there are those who do not like such behavior, all of them will have a problem, regardless of how intelligent the AI they use is.

Does this mean that in some way you admit that you used forged documents? Regardless of the fact that you claim that you use the same documents elsewhere, maybe those "others" are not good enough at discovering such things.

In my opinion, this whole approach deposit -> game -> KYC is completely wrong, because it should be the other way around. Imagine how much time would be saved if you were caught before you even managed to make a deposit?

It is something like a double-edged sword, on the one hand, money leaves the banks and part of it probably flows into Bitcoin, and on the other hand, for some, the rise in the price of BTC may be a trigger to sell and thus try to compensate for the losses that will occur due to the more or less everything else loses its value. It is true that no one will hesitate too much to sell BTC if they do not see another way out, but we can hope that the demand for the same will also increase and that there will be no major crashes in the near future.

Realistically, the price of BTC is approaching where it would be if Kwon&Bankman didn't happen, which is somewhere around $30k.

You wrote that well and I agree that for them Bitcoin was and will remain only a stepping stone in achieving their goals. They actually said everything about Bitcoin with their works, because if Bitcoin was enough for them, they wouldn't have created something else, which is the complete opposite of what Bitcoin represents.


Always the same old stories, but we should not forget that the audience is changing and that it sounds very interesting and new to some, because they are beginners who need advice, guidance and vision. According to CZ, the average investor is not intelligent enough to be his own bank anyway, and instead of teaching them about it, he advocates a custodial service because it suits him personally.

But even at this moment you are in some way an "influencer" because you have something in your signature, don't you? Most projects can turn into a scam at any moment, and even those that are not can be misused in such a way that someone uses them for bad purposes. In principle, I agree that we should be careful how we influence others, although it is not the tool's fault that someone uses it in the wrong way.

A few days ago I read that as much as $120 billion has been withdrawn from banks in the US since the beginning of this banking crisis. People are of course afraid for their money, especially those who have more than $250 000 and know that everything over that amount is not insured. I don't want to believe that bad history will repeat itself, but every day some bad news comes from the US, and the only positive in everything is that the price of BTC is rising, which suggests that part of the money leaving the banks ends up in BTC.

What I am particularly interested in is whether a bank will appear in the EU that will be in trouble, because Switzerland is in Europe, but is not part of the EU or the eurozone.

This does not mean that everyone should spam that board with what is not notable press news - you have recently 5 threads in that board that didn't really attract much attention.

Apart from that, no one noticed that the OP linked the article from 2022, but all in all it is a low-value/zero-effort topic that I hope will be locked or deleted.

@buasfe, did that wallet you sent coins to have something on the balance or was it empty? I'm just trying to determine at what point your wallet became malicious, because you've obviously done similar transactions before, given that you had your BTC address saved in the exchange.

What is indisputable is that the transaction reached your Electrum wallet, which means that the BTC address was still correct (no clipboard malware), but it is also indisputable that someone other than you had access to your seed/private key because he made outgoing transaction.

Can you remember if you ever saw this or a similar message in your Electrum and did you update in that way?

I saw that version 4 is coming soon and is much more advanced than the previous version (I think that topic has been moved to an off-topic). I didn't know that something like that would be integrated into one of the most popular OS, although I'm not sure if that option is something that comes as part of a paid service package or if it will be free for everyone?


I don't see that it's a bad option, because people should communicate using their brains and keyboards, and not create posts by asking AI a question and then copy/paste something they probably don't understand. Such content can be of high quality, but if we accept it as something normal, we can admit that the age of humans is over and that the age of AI thoughts is beginning.

Imagine the situation that in x years you come to the forum and start looking for old members, and you only find a bunch of unknown accounts discussing some crazy things - only to realize later that they are not actually people, but AI bots that respond to each other literally every 5 seconds

OP seems to be making a decent living considering where he lives, and I'm glad that's the case because fishing is a tough and dangerous job. I remembered the OP and his thread he opened about ten days ago and his investment in a solar panel, and I hope the whole thing works out the way he envisioned.

As for the "now or later" question, I or anyone else can never give a correct answer to such a question because we cannot see the future. Therefore, I agree that the OP should not invest everything he has at once, but that he should first figure out how he will store what he buys, that is, he should think about investing in a hardware wallet first or learn how to properly make cold storage.

If I understood correctly, then what is called "wallet allowance" has to do exclusively with tokens and NTFs, but that does not mean that someone can hack the hardware wallet in the literal sense to somehow get hold of your seed and empty all your accounts. This matter has nothing to do with hacking the wallet, but with the stupid permissions you give to individual apps that you have installed on the same device.

You have nothing to be ashamed of, because most people have no other choice but to buy cryptocurrencies through centralized exchanges, which in itself is not bad if you know that what you bought is not very smart to leave in a custodial service. There are always chances that something bad can happen with your personal data, but also that nothing bad will happen.

Your personal documents are not valid forever, so with the passage of time the chances of something bad happening become less and less. In addition, you have another choice, which is that you can always say that you have lost your identity card or passport and they will be canceled, and you can then create new documents.

If you are really interested, you should look at some of his topics, and then it will surely be clearer to you what he meant. I was hoping that he finally left those ideas behind, but it seems that he will take the credit again because the price of BTC is rising...

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People who have large amounts of BTC can influence the market, the only question is whether they want to and to what extent. Of course, when it comes to profit, whales behave like the real killer whales in the oceans, and small fish don't stand a chance against their tactics if they trade. A lot of money usually creates more money, and a little money usually leads to a complete loss. We must know that someone's loss is always someone's gain, so if 95% of crypto traders lose, that means that those 5% make exceptional profits.

I read something about it, but I must admit that I was not fully aware of the extent of the damage suffered by the bank due to their decision to freeze Russian money. Obviously, this "neutrality" has its limits, and while for some such a move is logical, for them, from a strictly business perspective, it was a bad decision. I am not aware of whether CS is the only one that has this "problem" when it comes to Russian money, or whether some other banks in Switzerland have similar problems that have not surfaced yet.

The same forum members who, for some reason, were the loudest in demanding a pay rate reduction in the CM campaign, are now opening the champagne and celebrating what happened, while widely speculating that everyone who participated in the campaign will be identified and convicted. Human malice has no limits, and if the forum is taken over, maybe some of them will be the main witnesses in the prosecution of "criminals".


Of course, everyone who participated in any way, even mentioned CM in any context, will be held responsible. Maybe even those who gave merits to members of the campaign for their good posts, because that is also a form of support