A lot of things can go wrong, and you should know that CEX has already been hacked once and thousands of users' personal data were stolen. What is even more strange is that they claimed that CEX was not directly hacked, but that a "third-party vendor" was to blame, which means that most of these CEXs have multiple options to be hacked when it comes to user's personal data. In other words, you give them your personal data, and they can pass it on to someone else for safekeeping or sell it to interested parties.

https://thehackernews.com/2019/08/binance-kyc-data-leak_26.html

Of course, the money has to come from somewhere, as it came after the 2008 crisis and saved many who were supposed to fail. The same is happening today, although at least for now it has not reached the stage where a chain reaction has been created and everything starts to collapse at such a speed that it cannot be prevented. This is why the reactions of the authorities are very quick and effective in order to calm the panic while they still have room for maneuver. And the ECB recently declared that the eurozone is stable and that in case of any problems they can act quickly - which means that the life belts are ready in case they are needed.


Ordinary people are always the ones who pay the highest price, that's how it was throughout history, and that's how it is unfortunately today. However, I hope you are not right when you say that this is just the beginning, because after the pandemic and the war that is still going on, I sincerely hope that we will avoid a new large-scale economic crisis, although some say that we are already living in one, we are just not aware of it yet.

As far as I know, both banks will be saved, and just today I read that Credit Suisse requested help from the Swiss central bank and that they were approved for help of up to 50 billion Swiss francs, which is about 54 billion EUR. The assumptions are that this will be enough to save the bank, and I have no doubt that the Swiss central bank will do its best to preserve the credibility of its banks.

I don't want to speculate at all about what could happen next, but I don't think we should expect a complete collapse of the banking system in the US or the EU. Of course, this does not mean that the banks are safe, especially the small and less well-known ones that probably no one will save.

Think about how meaningless that request is, because the fact that you will receive coins from a wallet that has a minimum of 500 BTC does not prove your ability to, as you say, "ability to trade large amounts of bitcoins". That would only prove that you are capable of finding someone who has that number of BTC, and to me it all seems like someone trying to identify owners who have 500 BTC or more.

It doesn't seem like any honest business to me, and in any case, the request is strange to say the least.

This is certainly one of the options to avoid verification through personal documents, but you should know that whoever you trade with will still be able to see your information when it comes to the bank account to which you will receive payment when you sell Bitcoin. Of course, it is not nearly as risky as sending personal documents to a CEX, which is always at risk of being hacked, but sometimes not only in the sense that crypto-currencies are stolen, but personal data is also stolen.

Those who have become victims of identity theft often go through agony trying to prove that someone stole their data, but I believe that many are not even aware that someone is using their data in an inappropriate way.

Unfortunately, it's always like that, because everyone thinks that something bad won't happen to them until it does. Today's smartphones are much more than just phones, and most young people try out various apps out of pure curiosity, and it's not that I once cleaned such apps from someone's smartphone that simply slowed down and started freezing because countless apps were running in the background.

It is not only a matter of safety, but also that working on such devices is problematic, and the battery wears out quickly.

What I don't agree with is that you put as an example something that would be created in 2023, in the concrete example of a baseball card as something that should achieve a certain value, and I agree that this can happen over a very long period of time and in in the event that most of the cards are destroyed/lost and that there is someone who will collect them in 50 or 100 years.

To me, it is rather frivolous to put Bitcoin and baseball cards in the same sentence in that context. Show me one baseball card that was made between 2009 and today that has any significant value? Maybe there are some limited series or something like that, but as I already quoted in the previous post, the mass production of the same for the last few decades does not make them valuable compared to the old cards.

For me, the only difference between plagiarized content and content created by AI is that the latter is harder to detect and prove without a doubt. Both should without a doubt be in the same category when it comes to punishment, because there is no justification for someone wanting to present something that he did not create as his own.

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Look here and further posts, and this shows that at least one of the forum staff takes this problem seriously and that such users will be nuked/permabanned.

I personally have no problems with your decision and if you had a successful trade with that user, it is your right to leave positive feedback. I can only say that I had an unpleasant experience with the same user because he did an exit scam with the faucet he was running at the time, and then offered his Legendary account for sale.

I will only repeat that such a member should not have a green trust, because the fact that he has not been active for 2+ years does not mean that he will not show up and try something bad. However, the decision is up to you.

It seems that you are right, whoever had vouchers or chips was left without them. I checked some old wallets older than 1 year that only contained chips from CM, and they were all emptied. Yes, it's a bit stupid that I didn't spend them, but honestly I forgot about a few $ in those old wallets. It's really strange that it wasn't all deleted, but now we at least know where even 7GB of data came from.

As if they need a solid reason to do something, they can just do it for any reason. Although when it comes to CM, it would be logical that they first attacked BTT as the main source of advertising, and now that they have demolished CM, the forum will probably not be an interesting target for them. However, these are strange times, we all need to prepare that one day we will be greeted by a message that the forum has been seized.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5444988.0

Is it so difficult to check if someone has already opened a thread on this topic?

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How can you even ask if this is true? It's obviously a photoshop, otherwise Powell would have already been fired and it would be the news of the day. There are xx topics explaining what could be the real reasons for that mini pump.

Your comparisons of Bitcoin with various things with which there is almost no point of contact are strange to say the least. Those cards you mention (or any others) can not only be issued in millions, but can also be forged and produced in virtually unlimited quantities and have no value for those who are not closely connected with it - in other words, collectors and those who are interested in baseball.

Bitcoin has a maximum supply, you cannot fake it and anyone can distribute it through the blockchain anytime and anywhere in the world. While sports collectibles undoubtedly have their value, it makes no sense to compare them to something like Bitcoin. Those cards from 2023 will probably be worth something in 100 years or so, because even those that are around 50 years old don't have much value today.
 

After the switch to EUR, many people in my country started using such apps, especially older ones who find it difficult to calculate how much something costs in EUR compared to the old currency. Of course, such things can always be checked online, but most people still have a tendency to use apps for almost every activity we can imagine. Therefore, if you download a lot of apps, there is a chance that at least one of them will be malicious, and one is quite enough to cause damage.

I think that the moderators will have a hard time deciding on a perma ban in case of suspicion that it is a post that was written with the help of AI. of course, except in cases where the user actually admits (unknowingly) that his post was actually written by AI.

For now, I have chosen a different approach in the sense that if I suspect such a post, I warn others not to participate in such discussions. I'm not sure how good or bad that approach is, but something must be done against those AI bots.

I hope that he was not deceived by his "friend", because it is not too much of a problem to "fake the balance", because all you need is to create a watch-only wallet, and enter a public address that has a very nice balance that you can brag about, which of course it's not something I would recommend to anyone if they don't want to jeopardize their safety.


There are only two options, either the OP is asking where he can invest his BTC to double the amount he currently owns, or where he can borrow money to buy more BTC. Both options are a bad choice, with the difference that the first is a little less painful because you lose the BTC you lent to someone, and the second means that you borrowed money to buy BTC and it happens that you can't pay back the loan and then you lose a little more in your life, especially if the loan is from a loan shark.

What's special about $26k, and it wasn't at $25k or will it be at $28k when it happens? I have written many times that I do not expect a big bull run to happen before the next halving, and I don't think it is happening now. Not too long ago we were at $25k+ and back under $20k again, and who's to say this isn't another bull trap?

What is a little strange is that this pump is happening at a time when some US banks are failing, and especially when one of the largest is failing. I watched a program on local TV and in the context of that story, a man commented on the whole situation with the banks with the sentence "so what were we supposed to do with our money, invest everything in cryptocurrencies?"

Perhaps one of the possible explanations for why the price of BTC is rising is that some have decided to withdraw money from banks and invest in Bitcoin - because banks have proven to be a very bad choice - not only are their interest rates close to zero, but they literally collapse overnight.

I admit that this is not fair of them, especially since they do not offer any explanation and do not return your deposit. I would continue to be persistent and try to contact them through social networks, because as far as I can see, what you experienced is not what the reviews of other users show - although it does not necessarily mean that the positive reviews are not fake in some cases.


If it's an amount you can't afford to lose, why did you invest it in a casino with which you have no previous experience? $100 would seem like a much more logical first time deposit.

What kind of new bottom are you talking about these past few days? I thought you were done with your predictions which were 100% wrong and now for some reason you are still spreading FUD.


You are the first one who is completely lost and you got it all wrong, but if you want to dig yourself an even deeper hole, go ahead.

Somehow it doesn't seem to me that you wrote this post -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5444349

Of course, we can't be 100% sure that you used AI in this particular post, but looking at your other posts (including this topic), I'd say we can be at least 90% sure that you used some tricks.