There are two admins on the forum, recent years:

• theymos
• Cyrus

The assignment for a new moderator can be done by admin or sometimes, they will ask for community opinion, poll but in the end, admins make decisions for assignment or not.

Example

• Who is able and willing to moderate the Politics & Society section?. It is a topic created by theymos.

Trading is bad by multiple reasons

• Most of traders are in loses, not in profit. About 5% of them can earn profit
• Most of traders spend too many times on computers, laptop, on chair, in front of computer screen that consequently result in some health issues: physically and mentally. Physically, some issues can be Herniated Disc, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, etc. Mentally, lots of stress.
• When you are in loss, you will make next worse decisions and kill yourself.
• Don't use large part of your capital for trading. It's better to use Spot trading and please don't start leverage trading if even with Spot trading, you can not manage your position well enough.

Altcoin discussion is the best. There is Speculation (Altcoins) for price speculation but generally, there are not considerable meaningful discussions in Altcoin board. Most of them are spam posts and there are many similar topics but with low quality posts inside.

Electrum is not good for your anonymity and privacy. If you want a better wallet, let's use Wasabi wallet.

Electrum is more easily to use, lighter in storage and in my opinion, it is good enough for simple people who only need to make Bitcoin transactions. That wallet has changed addresses to use as well. However, if you are serious with anonymity and privacy, Electrum wallet is not for you: no Tor, no Coinjoin transactions.

If use Electrum, remember to verify it before using

• [GUIDE] How to Safely Download and Verify Electrum

Best to use Linux, not Windows.

Think? Why do you click on links from strangers at beginnings? Do you know there are hidden risks from such links potentially?

Protection is better than cure so let's be careful and never opening links from strangers. You will be safe even without any free or paid Internet Security or Antivirus softwares. Another thing, such softwares can not completely protect your devices and there are false negative so you should never totally rely on them.

There are pros and cons when you use DEX or CEX.

On CEX, as a user, you don't own your private key for your wallet that put your capital under risk of scam exit, hack, exchange seize, shutdown, whatever. In general, without key, you won't be able to control your coin.

On DEX, you own your private key and sometimes, you will have to approve access to your key for swap, trading, etc. When you done, you should revoke such access approval, with tools such as

• https://app.unrekt.net/
• If you receive strange tokens from strange addresses, don't touch them. Just to be safe

However, for people who are bad at security for their devices, passwords, wallets, etc. Using DEX means some risk, even more than on CEX. Because if they lose such information, there is no second, third protection layer for them like on CEX. So their coin will be more easily be stolen than on CEX in such cases.

I have some links to support your post

VPNs

• https://www.safetydetectives.com/best-vpns/
• https://www.privacytools.io/#vpn

Password managers

• [GUIDE] How to Create a Strong/Secure Password
• https://keepass.info/
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?hl=en&id=com.android.keepass (Keepass for Android)
• https://bitwarden.com/

Two-factor Authentication app

• Aegis Authenticator, a decent alternative to Google Authenticator and Authy

Others gave you some good wallets to choose. In crypto, you must practice decentralization for your capital. It is not only applied for investment but also for how you store your coin in wallets.

If you have Bitcoin, let's store your Bitcoin into different wallets. Don't store your coins in multiple addresses in one wallet because it does not make sense to protect your capital at all. If that wallet is compromised, all coins in all addresses inside will be stolen.

If you have your coins in multiple wallets, when one is compromised, others can still be safe.

Better, let's use multi-signature wallet that means to steal your coins, hackers will have to hack enough co-sign wallets. That sounds very impossible if you secure your wallets well enough.

Don't reuse password
Use strong password

• Password softwares
  
  • Keepass: https://keepass.info/
  • Keepass Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?hl=en&id=com.android.keepass
  • Bitwarden: https://bitwarden.com/
• [GUIDE] How to Create a Strong/Secure Password

Let's see how difficult a password can be brute-forced. Remember that when you set up a password for your wallet, it serves as a protection and barrier for accessing your wallet private key. So in case you lose your private key somewhere else, that password does not protect your coin. Because a person who get your private key can import your wallet and steal your coin, even does not know a password for the wallet on your device.

I strongly believe there are always good people in any nation so does Russia. The war, this invasion was triggered by the obsession on power and Great Russia of only a single person, Putin. Why does he have such obsession?

Because he grew up under the Soviet Union and after taking over the power from Yeltsin, he has been given too much time on top of Russians. He has been given power and time to change Russian Constitution and the political, governmental infrastructures there. Russians have to do something to stop it. Else they will live under dictatorship, after Putin will be another one.

On this forum, you can not have full investigation and screening process on good or bad members on moral aspect and others. To over response by locking the Russian local board is too harsh and unfair for them.

I don't support Putin, his war, his invasion, his war crimes but this proposal is unfair, in my opinion.

When you are talking about leverages for your trading, you should calculate at what price your position will be liquidated at specific entry price and specific leverage for that position.

It helps you to imagine clearer about what might happen with your position, capital and have appropriate plan. Sometimes, if market has Cascade effects and your position can not be closed above liquidating price, you will lose most of capital by liquidation.

Each exchange has different formula for collateral and liquidation, make sure you read it carefully.

Total posts, total pages don't make sense in terms of quality. Many pages in Vietnamese local thread is from years ago and full of spam. That's why that thread was locked (originally locked permanently) years ago (2018 perhaps) before I successfully asked for unlock it. After that, it is very inactively.

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I guess the main reason why Ukrainians post more often in Russian local board is firstly that is a local board, not a local thread that makes it better organized, more easily to find what you need and discuss with. Secondly, almost similar language.

However, I do see the point that the terrible war and invasion from Russia that triggered by Putin changed all. I am sure that it has changed all communication among Russians and Ukranians. Therefor, Ukrainians will have more reasons to request for their own local board.

Let's use Wasabi wallet but make sure you read their tutorial carefully on how to use inputs, anonymity set, outputs and practice it appropriately.

• Download: https://wasabiwallet.io/#download. Don't trust, verify
• FAQ: https://wasabiwallet.io/#faq
• Some notes from theymos in [Guide] Decent mixing methods

Elon Musk is only one of whales on the market. There are not many whales that own 1000+ Bitcoin according to https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html

However, it does not mean Elon Musk is the only whale who can have more than 1000+ Bitcoin. Honestly, I don't care whether he owns more than 1000 Bitcoin or not. He can be one of most famous whales because he has 2 big and famous companies behind: SpaceX and Tesla and huge followers on Twitter. Fortunately, if a nation in which very high hash power of Bitcoin located like China can not shut down Bitcoin network, Elon Musk can not do it. What people believe in is his tweets (do you can verify the truth of such tweets) and react or over react with his tweets because they are too vulnerable mentally as well as too speculative on the market.

Keep it simple with Bitcoin: invest, DCA if possible and HODL as strongest and longest as possible. You will see good price to take profit.

• Guideline on posting images (with size adjustments), hyperlinks
• You can add link by url code block if the image you use is from any source which does not belong to you

Source link in url code block
Width and/ or height option if you want to display image smaller or bigger

Will they warn the whole world?

If Finland and Sweden show the same intention to join NATO like Ukraine, will Putin start other wars in those nations? Will he use the reason to denazification in those nations to legalize his war in his distorted perspective?

Putin is suck and he is destroying himself as well as Russians. Dictators often don't have happy endings if they are mad. Putin is mad with his power now so I expect an unhappy ending for him.

If communism is good, the whole world accepts it. In fact, only a few nations now have communism and Putin wants to bring it back in Russia. What for? For his dictatorship mainly.

You can bookmark [self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source and take some reported unmerited posts by forum members[/url]. It saves your time but sure not all good unmerited posts are reported there.

Or in The future of Bitcointalk: Low Ranking Top Merit earners in the past 30 days

I am thinking of another way, if you want to aim at a specific member. Check their merit distribution over boards/ sub-boards with Ninjastic.space; get their most merited boards; check their posts in that board in which the user earned most of merit.

Example:

• Your most merited boards https://ninjastic.space/user/id/2836461?merits
• Then I go to your posts in Economics board: https://ninjastic.space/search?author=Poker%20Player&board=7

Probably it is one of methods scan for potential good posts.

OP should read [Unofficial Guide] Reporting effectively (by @Welsh) to understand and practice reporting more effectively.

Moderator usually handles report in either good or bad. There are few cases when moderator marks reports as unhandled. Sometimes, if you re-report a post, another moderator might be assigned and results can be different.

You can get list of available stable coins on ether Coinmarketcap or Coingecko.

• https://coinmarketcap.com/view/stablecoin/
• https://www.coingecko.com/en/categories/stablecoins

There are many FUDs and bad reports on Tether USD (there is a given article above too) so it is risky if you store all your stable coin in USDT. I mean you should decentralize your stable coin budget into different stable coins that can be USDT, USDC, DAI, BUSD.

BUSD is centralized as same as USDT while DAI is decentralized. However, BUSD is the second largest stable coin just after USDT. In addition, the growth rate of BUSD is very steady as pointed out in Stable coins - Price, volume history and changes with bitcoin fluctuations

For me, USDT, BUSD and DAI are my choices and my strategy is never put all my stable coins into a single stable coin.