So you're asking us if we have a Ponzi scheme WordPress layout? Lol!
Might I ask you for what type of "research purposes" you're desiring such a filthy thing?


He's not asking if he should invest, he wants to create one of those websites, for others to invest!

It is an investment if you're a country in which the currency is going downhill, so if you have and you get paid in Turkish Lira, Argentinian Peso, or Rial,  yeah, USDT could be considered some kind of "investment", as you basically invest in foreign currency, of course with the said risks of owning a token that might be worthless tomorrow.

But if you're in the US or EU this makes as much sense as any other of this guy and his clone accounts ideas! Just think about how he solves all the liquidity problems caused by the forex market by connecting USDT to all ATMs!  

He said it himself:

I've turned once ublock to see what a favorite site of mine that I use to check prices looks like as it showed 12 blocked ads, and surprise surprise, who had the banner right on top? 1xbit! They trick a lot of users with that 7 BTC bonus or the one with 100% bonus on your deposits.
They even get some paid articles in different crypto news outlets, like this one, so if somebody is not doing his own research deep enough and only gets though the paid reviews, and there are dozen of them pretty high up in google search results, and well, this happens.

I lost hope with this one, seems like it will not end until they've scammed every single person in this world, maybe some of them even twice!


Maybe because if you search just the name of the casino you end up with a ton of fake positive reviews in google (at least on this IP I'm using now), but once you're getting tricked and you ask yourself "is 1xbit a scam" bitcointalk is the third result.  

The whole what a government has to lose thing again? 
Peanuts! That's why all cryptos are compared to a huge economy.
The whole thing started with nearly the same argument, what has China to lose from all the mining fleeing abroad, even if China would be mining all the bitcoins right now, there would be no cost with the electricity and all the miners would give all their coins to the government which is impossible, it would be a $6 billion if we assume a tax on profit of 10% with a profit margin of 50% you're down to 300 million, what can that mean for a 14 trillion economy? And if we consider revenue from trading, it's even worse depending on how you look at it so let's touch that a bit!


Let's explore a scenario with 3 guys from different countries!
A has purchased coins long ago at 6k cost and it's selling at 20k.
B has bought coins from when it was 60k from somebody and it's panic selling it also at 20k!
C decided to buy their coins at 20k.

How does this look from the government's point of view? Two of them are actually fucked from the investment as they've seen a capital outflow of 40k and maybe those coins will never be exchanged in the next decade so no tax, no increase in consumption no nothing while somebody is laughing his ass out! Now mister C decides to sell his coins to his neighbor for the current price of 40k, thus earning 40k in profits and paying let's say 4k, so the government has earned 4k in taxes, but still has a -40k capital outflow. Is this an accomplishment for the last country? 

See how this is way more complicated from a global and not personal point of view than a simple everyone makes money slogan? Not only do you need to tax your citizens but you have to make sure they make profits cause even if they are just holding coins it's not good for the budget at all!

Bitcoin was created so that you can be your own bank, it was not created to raise the tax income in Malawi!


Oh this again, how many international payments does the average Joe make in a year?
I know a ton of people who barely make a bank transfer a year to some relative in the next town and we're talking here like everyone depends on international instant payments.

Haha, brutal!!!
But seriously, looking at the guy's history, I understand what a broken record means, but even broken records at one point simply stop they don't keep going forever! And the worst thing is that all the topics will end up with the same replies debating the same thing that nobody knows for sure.


So you admit what you're doing here is the most stupid thing one can do with his free time?
Cause right now I feel like I've wasted my time answering your questions the other day!

Hihi, not only that:
So if you don't plan on buying an ASIC you can join a mining pool, probably with a discord invite, I mean, it would be hilarious for a mining pool also to require an ASIC! What kind of conspiracy is this? 

Sometimes I wonder what's going in their heads while trying to make it look like they know a thing about what they type when they don't even understand the meaning of the words they are using.


No idea what he's talking about and no clue what he's trying to picture here!
And more frustrating is that for sure in a week or two there will be another newbie that will quote this guy and make a post like as if he perfectly understands the above text. I miss frodo!!
 

Probably you're using a custom app for your messages, either from the manufacturer or the carrier, and the file menu is probably hidden somewhere. This is how it looks on my work phone with both the normal sms options and the Samsung one side by side:



Don't you have send file option? That's what I used to select a pdf file.

Anyhow, it doesn't really matter on the subject as these spammers are not using their phones to manually send those links but automated services.

The moment somebody screams how FUD destroyed their business it means there was no uncertainty and doubt, it was as clear as the sky is blue that things were moving in the wrong direction. FUD is the scapegoat of every single failed "project" here, I sometimes feel like slapping people who only know to yell FUD!! FUD!! at everything!


Probably what really happened was they sold the valuable coins and backed them with their own coin till the deficit became too big to be covered by something that was losing value faster than everything. I wonder what the 95% ratio really means, they have 95% of the BTC, or the deficit is 95% and they have only 5% left?


What I've learned with all these so-called projects is that a lot fail because they start spending like crazy, they got free money for some tokens in an ICO so they don't really care about the sums or the expenses, they just won the lottery, but as they run out they touch a few of client's coins thinking they will be able to put them back once the business grows, then a bear season comes and the business doesn't grow, people are withdrawing the little they have and suddenly there are no coins left.

I can't claim for sure that's what happened here but I would still bet on this scenario!

Probably I should have added a bit more on that.
He said user, the moment you qualify as a user you're somebody who at least buys coins from that exchange or sells them, so you either send $ to that exchange to buy some coins, or send coins, sell them and wait for the $ to hit your bank account! The FDIC insurance was for the time you have $ in that exchange, the be your own bank is when you grab the coins as soon as possible and you stuff them in your wallet, but that won't help you if you're having only $ on that CEX waiting to buy the dip or whatever when it goes down.

So, extended version, FDIC for fiat, cold wallet for coins!

I don't know about others but this doesn't sound like mental awareness to me and more like self inflicted torture!
Why would you do this over and over and over again, the moment you have secured your wallets you don't need to go through the same steps of securing the keys for every coin from your add to your stash. You just send them to one of your already-created wallets and that's it.
Creating a new pack of cold wallets for every batch of coins you acquire will at some point end with a misplacement.


If I were to lose one of my wallets probably the first thing I would say is Thank You God I didn't put all my coins in this one!  
If you follow the same procedure for all of them the risks of losing one is almost the same as losing your single wallet, but I agree that if you start experimenting with 100 methods and 100 places and you try more and more weird and untested ways some will definitely fail.

You simply got extremely, but extremely unlucky!
If you would have sent it half an hour earlier it would have got confirmed immediately,  block 772777 that was mined at ‎2023-01-20 07:31 so about 3 hours ago was not full so it would have included it. After it we had a period of very slow blocks,7 mined instead of 15, and a dump of transactions.

It's still early morning so once the pace picks up again with blocks it will get confirmed probably in a few more hours, but nobody can anticipate if somebody drops another 10k transactions with higher fees than yours.

Make that 2017
https://apnews.com/article/d0e1efce41bb42ba9cdf1f34dc3f7e5c


The same conspiracy theories that make no sense, all that gold stored at Fort Know would be around ~200 billion, just the classified U.S. Defense budget is at ~100 billion, and the US has just issued 1.5 trillion in free money, how hard would have been for them to actually print enough to buy that gold back if it had ever been spent? And why would they spend it in the first place when they can just print billions with ease?


Yeah right, cause Russia is known for its history of peace and not for land-grabbing wars nearly every decade.
I love how people on Bitcointalk throw all the shit possible at the US while ignoring that right now it's still the best place for development and the top spot in adoption, mining, batms, business accepting and people actually spending it, everything. But no, who cares about that?

Luke is one of those guys that won't back down even if deep down he knows he is wrong about something, I've seen enough of his ideas that he clings so desperately and won't accept any criticisms over it so I wouldn't be surprised for him to shift the blame but saying that nothing can be done when you're targeted that's beyond going overboard!  As if wasn't bad enough that a core developer has lost his bitcoins in the hack, now the same developer hinting nobody can be really safe it's just too much!

The only good thing is that the media hasn't cached up with this or it's not paying attention at all, and hopefully it never does as it will turn into a real shitshow.

FTX was short for Futures exchange, what's GTX standing for, Garbage exchange?
I can already see people nicknaming this in every possible way, Grand Theft Exchange is probably the best one yet!

As I already mentioned in a topic, it wasn't the model of FTX that was problematic and triggered the collapse, it was the idiots that made a mess of everything and loaned and spent funds without thinking twice or even once, in this case, it starts with the problem, the guys in charge of it being the same that caused the problems, so a new exchange with the same people is just as worse. FTX without them and SBF is one thousand times better than any clone launched by the former teammates.


And since we live in a world that sometimes resembles a madhouse, probably they will get that money immediately! When people throw million at Ponzi schemes, investor bail out three times in a year a company with no product whatsoever, what's $25 million on a project like one hundred others? Just wait for it, in a few months we will get the news about successful funding and I would not raise an eyebrow if in the list of those backers you'll see companies that have lost money over FTX.

Oh ****
I didn't pay attention to the name as when I see an -ov ending name I'm sure I will forget it the next second, but when you mentioned in that quote engineers and mining, this legkodymov, oh yeah! The guy has one hell of a history book with bitcoin!


This now brings the question, (one that probably nobody can answer) why would this guy who could have literally swum in coins like Scrooge McDuck would be laundering money? Was a really a case of defiance against the state and or just unlimited greed hidden behind claims of freedom?

Oh really?
https://cointelegraph.com/top-people-in-crypto-and-blockchain-2020/bobby-lee



Again, see the above link, BTCC was BTCChina at that time it's normal it looked different.


So you just search for the term BTCC, didn't bother to read the topic to see if it's about some coin using the name of the exchange to gain attention, and decided it's about this exchange? You've been lately on a witchhunt that is starting to become a bit too much!

Seriously, is Wikipedia good enough for you guys?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTCC_(company)

It depends a bit on where you live and what type of illegal activity we're talking about and the sums involved!!
Under the civil forfeiture law or which has led to a lot of weird shit and abuse as long as there is any kind of suspicion your money has been earned through an illegal activity they can seize it. So if you're unlucky, you will have to provide beyond a doubt that you have provided service without knowledge of the activities of the said company and you haven't been involved in anything illegal yourself, which might prove difficult in this context!

But not the case with some signature campaigns on the forum!


There is no such thing, the guy woke up on the wrong side of the bed or posted after ten beers too many.
Probably copy pasted that from somewhere since I see in the modlog his reply was deleted.

Just as NotATether said, you don't need to know the actual image width and height to make it look good when you're adding one
Here is your image with just the width you measured and two random ones:


Do you see any real difference or any stretching happening or are the two not "decent"?

I had a laugh at this, for sure the green arrow was needed, some could have mistaken SBF for the other two guys with police hats!
It's like in those crash videos where there is only one car visible but somehow the author still finds the need to point a red arrow at it, to make sure you don't look at the sky or something like this!  


The main reason was CPI data and speculation that FED will finally change its policy on interest rates.
The biggest hike during this bull run happened exactly as the numbers were released:
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/12/13/bitcoin-as-november-inflation-data-shows/
A lot of shares also had a bump on that day, even Tesla managed to get a 10% back, the whole Nasdaq index went from 10,305 to 11,095 and shares are far less volatile than crypto.

The recovery of funds from FTX just kept the fire burning but alone they wouldn't have meant much.
Overall positivity is what brought this pump, not SBF or CZ or anyone else.

Hmm, it's more like a recovery pump after the previous one faded away.
Indeed it went up nearly 300% from the one-month low of 0.8$ but it's still only $2.4 compared to $25 before the crash and peak of $77. Of course, the news of a possible restart from a damaged company would for sure trigger a pump with every kind of asset be it coins or shares but it's a long way up to recover even a few of the losses.

The bright side with FTX is that the reason it failed was an individual, so if that guy and his roommates are removed from any kind of decision-making job the exchange itself has no reason to not be economically viable.