Please,if you want people to help you should give some more details.

-From where did you download your "old" Electrum wallet?
-Can you show us a screenshot of the "upgrade" window popping when you try to spend your coins?

Look if the coins are still in the address where you deposited your coins using an explorer,if you've been scammed, they won't be there (moved by the hacker) or give us the address so we can check it.

I also found a trading competition at Crypto Bridge.It's a daily and weekly competition though, and the rewards seem attractive; you can add this link to your thread.

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Aside from the goal of this thread,how an average person manage to get good rewards from these competitions? I mean most of the the top leaderboard are only whales that have a big capital for trading..

Simply because Traffic=Money; Having more traffic means your website will have a better ranking when looking for exchanges using Search engines like Google that's called "SEO" -Search Engine Optimization, and also to keep a good Alexa ranking of their website. They also know that even if they block US IP from accessing the website people would use a VPN anyways..

You are the one who should get his brain checked lol.Just Coincheck lost $530 million from the NEM hack back in 2018, and just in 2018 $1.1 B has been hacked according to this article (Before arguing it's fake again, check it out because they are giving referance to which hacks occured in 2018)
And yes,I believe these are numbers are relatively true,the financial loss is comparable to UK GDP.

I'm shocked to see that this much money has been lost due to crimes  in only 2 years...


Continue reading here: Article

For comparison,that's approximately 217k of BTC which is insane.I guess most of these are concerning exchange hacks, which lead to the conclusion that crypto platforms should really step up their game to reduce the losses...

What do you think?

Yes, I agree with you on this one.Coincheck did almost nothing to ensure security of the coins.

I don't think any exchange really master how to prevent hacks.Even Binance, one of the most known exchanges with a solid team of engineers was a victim of a hack.It's not that easy to perfectly master a new growing field in terms of security that's IMHO we shouldn't blame them too much.

TerraGreen announced months ago that there was no KYC needed to receive the rewards and now they changed their minds that's a clear violation of agreement that lead to loss people who joined only because KYC wasn't needed and aren't willing to submit their personal info,therefore calling it a scam.Please take time to read the allegations before defending them.

Another tip from me if you are still paranoid even after following the advices given in this thread, use a Sandbox software (Like Sandboxie, the most popular one) When you use Sandboxie to install something you've downloaded, it doesn't install it in your computer, it only installs it 'Sandboxed' which means even if it's a malware it won't affect your computer. Read more here: Sandboxie

It did happen in the past. And yes, the hacker most likely hacked the victim's phone to get into his app which is something that anyone can be exposed to if not being careful or they performed a phishing attack directly to get the 2FA code look:Article
As I said,as long as it has to do with something that is installed in a device connected (Like GA in a phone connected to Internet) it is vulnerable, that's why I prefer a physical device for 2FA.

Edit:Speaking of Authy, a vulnerability was also found on it years ago by Sakurity. See more: Authy Vulnerability

So if SMS or Email isn't the correct 2FA to use (Which I agree with somewhat) What do you recommend people to use? Google Auth? Even Google Auth can be hacked and it did happen in the past if you look up on Google. A good 2FA to me is to have a physical device with buttons like a hardware wallet that only you should own to confirm access when you logging.It already exists such devices but they are not implemented in most services unfortunately.

That's what I thought too, but when looking for the servers in common we joined me and the bot (feature displayed in his profile) there isn't any.Plus I didn't join any server recently,this is very weird indeed but somehow they managed to message people without making them join their server..

Well,it's true that it's a big challenge for a person or a small group of people but what about Governments and whole Countries.. Money isn't a problem to these entities, and as of the incentive to do so is simple -get rid of BTC.We can't deny that if governments want,they definetely can cause trouble to BTC

Not really, if that "person" or organization have enough money and influence it won't take much to perform it.

No.As far as I can tell, farms can expand their capacity to compete with attacker and not let him get 51% but they can't make him need 60-70% of the hashrate to perform it.

If the attack succeed, it won't be a waste of money.


You can't compare drugs to BTC.If they ban it, price will 100% collapse not sky rocket.

I couldn't find any server that is related to this giveway or fake exchange.They just made a bot to send messages to random people they find on Discord projects servers therefore I couldn't find anything concrete about the thread creator/author of this scam sorry.

What happened:: A giveaway thread to scam people has been posted at Bitcointalk and advertised in Discord via private messages.They tell you that you won 0.1 BTC that get deposited at mercatox.org (The real exchange is mercatox.com) and when you want to withdraw, they ask you to deposit 0.02 BTC to activate your account, obvious scam.
Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1167128
Reference Link: archive /Scam thread
Risked amount: 0.02 BTC

Proofs: http://whois.domaintools.com/mercatox.org Domain name created 10 days, they obviously wanted to impersonate mercatox.com which is another exchange.

Messages with support:


Message spammed at discord:

I-Introduction

Je vous présente un projet prometteur qui s'appelle Utopia. Utopia est une plateforme créée par un groupe se nommant 1984 Group, derrière ce groupe se cache une team d'ingénieur logiciel et en cryptographie.Leur but est de changer la façon dont les gens communiquent mondialement en proposant un écosystème sécurisé et décentralisé.

II-Qu'est qu'Utopia?

Utopia, comme plateforme, sort du lot du fait qu'elle utilise un réseau pair-a-pair pour assurer la sécurité et la décentralisation puisqu'il n'y a aucun serveur central intermédiaire. Les messages et les fichiers ne sont jamais stockés sur un serveur et ils sont cryptés pour éviter l'interception des communications.

III- Quelles sont les fonctionnalités d'Utopia?

⚝ Envoyer des Messages à vos amis et vos contacts

⚝ Envoyer des uMails (système d'email interne)

⚝ Rejoindre & chatter dans des Groupes

⚝ Pas de collecte de données sensible comme l'adresse IP des utilisateurs, la Géolocalisation, les Emails etc...

⚝ Pas de censure

⚝ Miner des Cryptons (Cryptomonnaie interne) sans consommation de CPU

⚝ Utiliser des Cryptons pour Envoyer & Recevoir des paiements  anonymement

⚝ Créer des Crypto Cartes (pour les Marchands)

⚝ Héberger un site web dans Utopia (les gens pourront y accéder grâce à un Navigateur interne)

⚝ & Autres fonctionnalités intéressantes!

IV-Screenshots:

Je vous fais une petite présentation de l'interface avec des Screenshots du logiciel:

Tableau de bord:



Le Portefeuille & les Crypto Cartes:



Groupe de chat:



Minage de Crypton (Sans consommation de CPU):


A noter que Utopia est en phase Beta,les Cryptons minés seront perdu quand la Beta sera finie.

V-Avis personnel:
Personnellement, je trouve que le concept est très bien trouvé; cela fait un moment que je cherchais un remplaçant pour Whatsapp et Telegram qui est plus sûre et qui respecte la vie privée et voilà que je tombe sur ça. Le projet est toujours en cours de développement par ce fait une application mobile n'existe pas encore.


Note:Ceci est une traduction de mon article original en Anglais

Rejoins la Beta maintenant si tu es intéressé, il y a aussi des récompenses en BTC pour ceux qui contribuent à la Beta   Le lien: Utopia Beta

The problem isn't trusting the game to continue functioning, the real problem is that nowadays there are a lot of bots that heavily farm on multiple accounts the in game gold to dump it for couple $ cents/million.There is also risk of inside jobs, and this actually happened recently at Jagex where a moderator have stolen from players their GP.All these factors and other similar ones has lead the price of GP to go downhill, which answers the question,- no, it's not a good store of value.

I got a notification in my email that I received some TGN tokens at tokpie, which is very strange because I didn't do the KYC  . Those who also transferred their stakes to Tokpie please check if you also got the tokens I'm curious why this is happening since judging from their Telegram chat they are still insisting on bounty hunters to do KYC

Yeah and Bitcoin price will be 1 million $ by the end of 2020 or he will eat his d*ck? I don't take seriously this guy , just pure bullshit. As of Privacy tokens, they surely have useful products but they are also ruled by the market therefore I don't expect them to blow up unless the whole crypto market also blows up.

Decentralized exchanges are just not convenient most of the time; it takes quite a while before your order is fullfilled not like centralized ones but you can be sure that no one will ask for KYC when it comes to these exchanges and that's a big plus for people who care about their anonymity.

I may agree with some points you've made in your post butI don't think that there is a 0% risk of getting hacked even with decentralized exchanges plus you need some technical knowledge to be able to use a it that's why most of new people prefer using centralized exchanges since obviously they are easier to use.