I would say that the survey that comes from the US based CEX on such a small sample does not have too much credibility. These are already old stories in which they always try to create some kind of illusion that tens of millions of people will buy something just because tens of millions of people have already done it before them (allegedly).

It's just an attempt for CEX to promote itself while motivating new potential clients to invest in whatever their platforms offer, all in order to ensure future income. If we know that the US population is about 330 million, it sounds incredible that even 75 million of them plan to invest in Bitcoin in the next 12 months, and so far only 52 million have done so since 2009.

I think the guys went a little overboard, especially considering inflation, people have less and less money to invest in anything.

Maybe math is not your strong point, but if you are already doing calculations, then you should know that the x10 profit you are talking about now means that 1 BTC should reach around $240 000 in the next two years. I'm an optimist, but I think it's still a bit too much to expect, because even $100k will be the point where many will sell all or at least part of their BTC.

Besides, I would never sell my wife's jewelry unless it was a matter of life and death, because sooner or later she will start complaining about it, and if by any chance you lose money, you better not appear in front of her. In the end, ask yourself if you have any luck at all in such matters, because it seems that you are in a losing streak that you are trying to end with one not-so-safe move.

I am not a Trezor user and I can say that so far I have not received any SMS or call, and we can only guess where the scammer got the database from. Maybe it's the Ledger database, maybe someone else, and maybe someone hacked the Trezor database, but they're not even aware of it, or they're still pretending it didn't happen.

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E-mail is the least dangerous here because most of such messages end up in the spam folder anyway, while SMS and calls are something that is far more unsettling to users and can trick them into taking some reckless action. It is easiest to block calls from unknown numbers or even SMS messages in the same way, but not all such calls or messages are malicious.

I have come across various "experts" who ask for at least 3 confirmations even for the smallest amounts, but there are also those who have heard that 6 confirmations are necessary for the transaction to be "successful". One thing is for sure, there are a lot of confused people out there, and if you try to explain to them the difference between 1 or 6 confirmations, some will be even more confused.

I completely agree with you here, because regardless of the "good intentions" of those who manage pension funds, the question is who will live to enjoy their retirement, and the even bigger question is whether it will be sufficient for a normal life. Most of the pensioners in my country live below the poverty line, and I don't believe that in 20-30 years the future pensioners will live better - that's why we stick to what is the only truth "your keys, your coins".

In addition, we already have failures when it comes to pension funds investing in "crypto" and some teachers in Canada are certainly not happy that the fund "made it possible" for them to lose as much as $95 million.

The obsession with "when will the last BTC be mined" is something I've noticed since I've been a member of this forum, but as you say, 2140 is so far away that none of us will likely be alive to witness it. Of course, it should never be rejected that people will manage to significantly extend their life span or that they will manage to find a way to preserve their consciousness indefinitely and practically become immortal.

As for these slightly less than 2 million BTC that are left, it will not take decades to be mined, but actually less than 10 years, and then only 210 000 BTC or exactly 1% will be left to be mined for the next 100+ years -> https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply


Everyone will define the term "being rich" differently, but if someone thinks that for a few hundred or thousand dollars invested in BTC in the coming years they will buy a villa, an expensive car or maybe even a private jet, then it seems to me that they are living in a dream that is not realistic. In 10 years, I hope that the price of BTC will be at least x10 of what it is right now - but it should be taken into account that then for $250 000 we certainly won't be able to buy what we can buy today. Inflation is something that spares no one, except of course the super rich who anyway have so much money that they cannot spend it in their lifetime.

I have never received anything similar, especially not on Telegram, which I rarely use and which I consider a much greater evil than any benefit it brings. Countless scammers send such messages to millions who want quick and easy money, and anyone who believes that a complete stranger wants to help them get rich will have to learn the hard way that this simply cannot be true.

Perhaps you should better read what was written by the one you are trying to defend for some reason, and if he admits that I posted a screenshot of the message he sent, what is this post of yours for? The way I see it, you (and some others) would very much like the one who sells his BTT account to become a victim, and the one who discovered this same member is to blame for the fact that the whole thing came to the public?

You are all wondering if the screenshot I published is credible, and no one has yet questioned whether the screenshot from Telegram is credible or fabricated - although even that has no significance in the whole story, unless someone decided to sacrifice their BTT account to trying to discredit me in some way.

The IMF has no power to ban Bitcoin anywhere, and all it can do is give advice or blackmail those who are thinking of doing the same or something similar to El Salvador. Their negative attitude is nothing that should surprise us, because it would be really incredible if they said otherwise.

To think that such organizations will "promote" Bitcoin in any way is not at all logical, because they will protect the system at all costs.

Let's put it this way, I hope you learned an important lesson that you only paid $11 for - a lot of other members lost a lot more, so you can count yourself lucky in a way.

As for scams on the forum, you are not far from the truth, because scams on the forum are not moderated and do not expect them to be. Trading with beginners without any reputation is completely frivolous and risky, and if you're already doing it, then don't do it without escrow - even though for such small amounts it doesn't really make sense.

What I can do is warn others about this case and tag that user, but he will continue with his scams, and it is probably not his only BTT account.

Judging by the screenshot you posted, it is possible that the ban is the result of the fact that the post contains links to something that someone has reported as malware. That's just my guess considering that the deleted post shares the same date as your ban.

Regarding the question about the year in the e-mail address, what I know is that the e-mail addresses for hacked accounts were changed in terms of the number of years in the e-mail, but I am not sure that this is the case for banned accounts as well.


Recovering hacked/lost accounts

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You didn't post a link to your account ->

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=324791
https://bpip.org/Profile?id=324791

@Cz-Silk, this is the english part of the forum, so the links you post should be in English - most of us don't speak Spanish

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I think this is the strongest sentence in the article, because it implies that Luke is the creator of Bitcoin, and if we continue in this direction, maybe all possible creators could write their opinion, so every day of the week we would have a new topic about someone's opinion about something that is so stupid and pointless that it's not worth wasting your time on. In fact, it doesn't matter at all what someone thinks about ordinals, because it's a passing thing that some people are trying to profit from, and these are the same ones who have already gotten rich promoting NTF as the next big thing.

I wouldn't really trust the data from the source you mentioned, because it is inexplicable that China is at the top, and we know that BTC trading has been banned there for years. Of course, no one will dispute that there are ways to buy BTC without the authorities finding out, but the extent to which this happens in a particular country is just speculation.

I sent several such reports, but I never expected that someone would get back to me with some information. A few days ago, I reported a PM in which a member offered me his BTT account for sale, and I asked for someone from the staff to confirm that the PM is authentic, but nothing happened. A simple public announcement in the thread I opened would not take much of anyone's time nor would it affect the security of the forum in any way - and who knows, maybe they are still thinking about it.

There was news during the last few years that some banks offered this very service, but if you ask me personally, it's a bad idea because in most cases the bank will not provide anything more than an exchange/custodial service, and that means a potentially worse situation than what we have with CEX. The advantages of banks becoming crypto exchanges would be that clients would not have to do additional KYC with various private companies, and that in banks Bitcoin would be secured in case of hacking, as is the case with deposits in savings accounts which (at least in the EU) are insured by the state in the amount of EUR 100 000.

But that kind of approach to owning Bitcoin would be completely wrong for me, because if you don't own your private keys, you don't actually own anything. Therefore, it might be better to leave banks aside, because as much as it seems that banks would be a system that would allow Bitcoin to become available in a simple and easy way, let's not forget that one of the reasons why Bitcoin exists is precisely to bypass banks.

The OP is a plagiarist, and maybe he uses an AI chat bot, so there's no point in asking him something, because he doesn't even understand what he wrote. FUD or not, we don't need to waste time on these kinds of discussions because they lead nowhere.

You're a bigger troll than I thought, but it's not worth arguing too much with such people, because you obviously have the attitude that things like this should be swept under the carpet instead of the community finding out what really happened.

My reputation is very important to me (regardless of what others think about it), and I will certainly not allow myself to be called into question by protecting someone who did something that the majority of members of this community do not approve (at least in principle).

Apart from me, only one DT member left a red tag, so that also clearly shows that the majority thinks like you - that is, they gave him a second chance.

In that case, we can conclude that a fairly large percentage of people think in the wrong way, or it would be even better to say that they want to get in quickly and get out quickly with as much profit as possible. I am not at all surprised at such an attitude of an average person who is brainwashed every day by various government officials, especially those who come from central banks and similar financial institutions. When you hear the same phrases being said with ease like "it could all collapse at any moment" or "Bitcoin price could go to zero" it's clear why most people don't want to "take risks" in the long term.

I agree, they Not Going To Make It.

It's not about whether someone needed money or sold BTC because they were curious or maybe wanted to be recorded as someone who wanted to go down in history, but about the fact that the OP is wrong when he claims that this is the lowest price at which someone sold Bitcoin. In my previous post, I wrote that back in 2009, Martti Malmi sold as much as 5050 BTC for only $5.02, which means that the price of 1 BTC was only $0.00099.