I am not sure if I am missing something here, but do you have any proof that moonyjope use that Scalapota2@gmail.com email  address, as that would be a solid proof of connection. From what i can see, you haven't provided that.


I don't think that evidence you provided is strong enough (even though I think that there is a good chance its the same person), but you can report your findings in [Report] Ban Evasion [Requesting Admin/mod to check those and ban] and if mods think that your evidence is good enough, he will get banned.

I wish they hired capable devs (or at least assigned enough manpower) to finally sort out their Ledger Live application, instead focusing on the hardware wallet exterior. But I guess this brings more money and that's what matters in the end.

Scammers here don't even have to use VPN as forum staff extremely rarely checks that, so that part is really irrelevant. In order to prove that two accounts are connected you have to provide a little bit more evidence, show how their posting style is the same (that is flimy evidence though), use of same social media accounts etc. I found one interesting coincidence between moonyjope and steamproject and that is that both of those accounts were active in Romanian local board.

My experience here made me not to really believe in coincidence so there might be something in your claim and its the previously banned member that showed up with new alt account but I am not sure that it is enough evidence of ban evading.

But Bitcoin is already legalized as a legal tender in at least two countries (El Salvador and Central African Republic) so it already achieved that (implementation is questionable though).


It was never Bitcoin's creator intention anyway, but instead to give us the alternative. If by "becoming fiat currency" mean replacing fiat, Bitcoin has its use even without achieving that (which is imho unrealistic anyway) and majority of bitcoiners are fine with that.

Of course they can, as long as they control the chain. For example, the way CZ controls Binance Smart Chain the government could control their own. Just because there is a blockchain, doesn't mean that it can't be controlled by one entity.

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@OP No, governments won't issue stablecoins on existing main stream blockchains. Well, not unless they take control over it. After all, they won't even issue stablecoins but CBDC instead.

Evo baš maloprije provjerio inbox i ne vidim nikakav email od Binanca. Jedino što znam da dijele u zadnje vrijeme je 10 BUSD za sve one koji odrade detaljan KYC, ali ovih 7 BUSD je baš nekako čudan iznos.

Ovdje imaš nešto više o tim Binance vouhcherima (spominje se i token voucher koji si ti dobio) pa provjeri iz kojeg razloga si to kuhao dobiti https://www.binance.com/en/support/faq/what-are-binance-vouchers-and-how-to-redeem-acb5e3f3e3024506b8f4cedefe334d0e

Newbie account like moonyjope with no reputation accusing you of scam without providing any evidence can hardly ruin anyone's reputation. I can understand that you are upset, but if you are a legit seller this shouldn't bother you much as so far its nothing but a piss in the wind. About his connections to the other accounts, you will have to provide more evidence for that before we (well at least I)  can take any action.

Just so you know, you shouldn't expect any action taken from forum staff as they usually don't meddle into stuff like this; since scams are not moderated, same goes for scam accusations against someone. As a seller here you will just have to live with those.

Aren't web wallets the worst possible option (on top of not owning key) if you are having a lot of transactions as you usually can't manually adjust the fee, meaning you will overpay?

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Honestly I didn't hear people saying that and I got impression that people rather use hardware wallets in that case. Paper wallet is fine if you wanna store your bitcoin safely and for some reason can't or don't wanna invest in hardware wallet.

About biggest disadvantage, beside obvious one (easy to destroy/loose, not practical when you want to send bitcoin) I would also say that paper wallet is only safe if its done in a proper way and taken all precautions, and that's something that many fail at.

Yep, your overview just confirmed what was obvious for some time, that it was never easier to get into a signature campaign than it is now (well, from 2019 when I joined the first one). I remember back in 2019 when I was applying for signature campaigns that competition was fierce and even a quality members had issues joining any decent paying campaign (back then $50 was considered good). Now situation is diametrically opposite and even a shitposter can get into a decent campaign, which is combination of increased amount of campaigns and decreased amount of active members.

I know its not the topic of this thread (and it was before my time here, that's why I am asking) but what was the situation during last bull market regarding signature campaigns? Was it significantly better than it was during bear?

It is not about digitalisation, its about people's mentality and what they are used to. Japan is one of the leading countries when it comes to use of cash, and its hard to say that they prefer to use cash due lack infrastructure. On the other hand, leading countries when it comes to sue of cards are Scandinavian countries, whose people are known for their blind obedience and trust in government.


And I gladly accept all those cons, just so government doesn't know every single thing I buy. The same way I accepts risk of dealing with Bitcoin and being my own bank. 

Newbies I talked to about Bitcoin often can't wrap their head about the fact that they are responsible for their own money, that no one will hold their hand and if something bad happens they usually have no one else to blame other than themselves. Being your own bank is not for anyone, people often don't want that responsibility and they don't care so much about freedom like they do feeling of being safe (even though its often false.
sense of safety).

What I would suggest you to overcome those fears is to get a little bit of bitcoin, download non custodial open source wallet (preferably Electrum) and play a little bit with it, send bitcoin from one address to other to get yourself familiar with how things work. Once you passed that initial fear of loosing bitcoin if you send it to a wrong address, you can move on start investing as planned and get yourself hardware wallet (I sleep much better since I store my bitcoin on one of those things).

Its easier to think (especially if you lost money in Luna/FTX) that there is some conspiracy involved rather than that it was just because of stupidity and greed of people in charge. And the more info comes out about the ways FTX operated, its more obvious that it was more their megalomania than anything else. CZ tweet and Coindesk article probably just speed things up but if they did a legit business and didn't mismanaged users fund, no FUD could touch them.


Problem is that even smart people (and its safe assume that CZ is a smart and capable guy) do stupid things that bring their companies down, not just in crypto but in general so no matter how big Binance is (and I often hear people saying for them that they are "too big to fail") they could still fail.

Mislim da se na ovo treba prvenstveno gledati kao neki fancy grijac (dobro izgleda) a tek sekundarno kao na nesto sto ce majnati bitcoin, a pogotovo ne treba gledati na isplativost samog uredjaja. Znaci ono zivis negdje na obali gdje cesto uopce nema centralnog grijanja, imas viska love i bitcoin entuzijast si i uzmes si tako neki gadget iz fore, da majnas nesto sitno satoshija dok se grijes.

Jebiga ljudi cesto trose hrpu love na neke vanity iteme (sto ovo u biti i je) tako da ne sumnjam da ce i ovo imati svoje kupce.

This forum may indeed seem confusing for a newbie, especially to those who never visited any other forum in the past. With that being said, take your time to go through pinned messages both in Beginner & Help to learn dos and don'ts and Meta section and generally don't rush anywhere. Let all the info sink and when/if in doubt, simply ask and someone will answer.

While high APY is definitely a huge red flag even before everything that has happened in the last six months (are there even any platforms left that offer ~10% like Celsius did ?), I don't think that exchanges laying off people is something to worry about. It even makes sense as crypto businesses (and not just them) tend to hire/lay off based on the market conditions and since we are deep into bear market that may last for a couple years and you have to cut your expenses in order to survive.

Regarding your question in the title, I wouldn't be surprised if some platforms from that list you shared go under. Anyone that still has money on any of the platforms is simply asking for trouble.

Of course you don't have to give everything. As a matter of fact you don't have to give anything as long as you avoid CEX.


And for how long that's gonna work, trader depositing few thousands in smaller batches and then withdrawing even more, on the daily basis? My guess is not long before you get asked for KYC.


If you wanna use all the CEX pro's, be ready to accept all the cons as the way things are developing , in a year or two it won't be possible to use any CEX without KYC. Small time traders may try to work around those regulations and try to avoid KYC but anyone dealing with bigger amounts (and I know few of those) will simply accept the reality.

To ensure that doesn't happen, I would suggest you to make more than one copy of your seed phrase and preferably store it at another some secure location (other than the one you are living in) in case you have it.


Seed phrase is enough. And there's no need to connect Trezor each time you receive Bitcoin when its more convenient to simply save the address instead. Well, at least that's what I am doing with my hardware wallet as I don't wanna go through hassle of getting it out of my secure place, then plugging it in etc every time I have to receive some Bitcoin.

Another thing to think about is contingency plan in case something happens to you, so Bitcoin you have don't go to waste.

The whole forum activity has been in decline for some time so no surprise that reports are in decline too. Another thing that might pad the stats are reports in altcoin section, which were very popular year ago (due Spambuster of the year award) and without it, majority of members don't have much incentive to report.


Make no mistake, whatever can be abused here will be abused, no matter how many reports they have to make in order to get one merit. All this would just burden the mods with extra work and in the end wouldn't really help removing the spam.

Imho, way more elegant solution to make people report more is to introduce some sort of badges for the most active reporters as that's what people asked for repeatedly.

Can you please make a proper scam report, preferably by using this scam report forum in which you will provide all available evidence (how exactly he scammed you, transaction hash, screenshot of messages etc) because we can't do much based on that one sentence that you wrote.

If this is the member that scammed you, why on earth you thought that it is a good idea to do a business with newbie account who already has several scam accusations?

Thing is, their targets are not experienced Metamask/Coingecko users, but newbies who don't really know what they are doing so they might connect MM to Coingecko and approve transaction which will result in money gone. Hell, its pretty common to hear newbies even entering seed phrase in similar scam attempt.

But in reality, even veteran crypto users can make a mistake, all that you need is not paying attention for a few seconds and that's it. I know a guy who lost ~100k by connecting Metamask to a phishing site, and this guy has been in crypto since like 2014, so he was far from a newbie. But, he was in a hurry and wanted to do something quick before going out and ended up losing big chunk of his portfolio.