A couple of persons got intrigued by my winnings and started gambling but, stopped after few weeks. They'll bet and loss, so the motivation derailed, forgetting how long it took me to win. Although, peeps may run out of money as a result and move on instead of waiting for the jackpot. On the other hand, I'm not pushed to spend above my limits because of another person's win. It doesn't stop me to keep an eye on the platform that paid them huge.

Such scene is not bad for a fiction movie. Movie directors and script writers insert different flairs normally to attract people's attention. Recently, Bitcoin is considered a digital gold so the movie is directed towards mining Gold and since mining is a term for Bitcoin it's not a bad idea to speculate bitcoin in a smart way like the director did. Saw viral tweets about the movie because of that particular scene. Now, I just viewed the movie through the link you shared. The aim of the director has been achieved and he/she did a great job for promoting Bitcoin and at same promoting the the movie through Bitcoin.

Transacting through the internet has some risks attached regardless of the method. Cyber criminals even go as far as replacing QR codes in stores, banners and billboards. Like @Solosanz said it's more secured to use QR code in stores as it'll be easier to catch the criminal that tends to change their QR code to a malicious one.

However, scanning a random Qr code is not advisable because of “quishing and QRLjacking" these two scam techniques are used by cyber criminals to redirect victims into a phishing site after scanning a QR code and trick victims to scan false QRL different from the real one. Once the QRL is scanned it'll retrieve your password and the device will be hijacked.

“ Under the right circumstances, hackers can even use QR codes to initiate a payment from the user's device or force the device to join a certain wifi network"

These are ways to prevent Quishing and QRLJACKING

• Do not scan a QR code to receive money
• Avoid logging in to an application or service using a QR code
• Do not initiate any payment if you are notified about putting any sensitive information like your private keys after scanning a QR code
• Avoid scanning random QR codes from suspicious sources
• Do not scan QR codes that you receive via email from unknown source

https://www.infoguardsecurity.com/how-cybercriminals-exploit-qr-codes/

To keep the comparison clear, this questions would help; would you sell bitcoin to buy a land or sell a land to buy bitcoin? They both have disadvantages and advantages but, the comparison would have been better if both are digital properties like Bitcoin and domain names. The issues with bitcoin include volatility, fud, fomo, loss etc and land may have an earthquake, flood and market crash too. The advantages of owning a land may not be compared to the advantages of owning bitcoin as the bull run can yield massive profits. While the price of land increase too you'll have to settle the land broker, lawyer and sometimes the government after selling a land. Such doesn't occur in selling bitcoin, a little fee and you are good. I'd go for both like everyone else.

Before Elon bought twitter I'm sure of services that charged 2k - 4k dollars to get a twitter account verified! Brands, celebrities and influencers didn't hesitate to pay for this kind of service. Though it was a one time payment where the money is used for press release to meet the requirements of getting a twitter blue tick. Some used the blue tick to stand out while others utilized it for illicit businesses. Now Elon is charging 8 dollars per twitter verification to fight bots and people are complaining. I think influencers feel bad to have a twitter where anybody can get a blue tick. He wants to determine real members from bots using this method. Unless business men move ahead to purchase a subscription for their bots which will add more funds to Elon's bank account. However, He owns twitter and nobody should tell him how to do his business as it won't add up, he doesn't care.

Good and bad habit lies on your self-concept, its like the processor of the human body and it controls how we think and behave. The things we say to ourselves records on the subconscious mind and as well affects our habits. If you think about good habits or repeat this to yourself " I won't eat junks again"  4-5 times everyday. It'll trigger your self concept through the subconscious mind to stay conscious of eating Junks. In the past, I had an addiction on women, I fought that bad habit for months to no avail. But, after spending a month with friends that rarely discuss women or indulge in sexual activities the urge in me stopped and for 3 months now I've never felt like going back to that habit. Same thing applies to everyother habit you may be fighting. Get closer to people who are not in the same condition with you and soon your self-concept will change towards the way those people think.

Indeed, one word is enough, it's a good volition to appreciate the person who changed your posting experience in the forum despite he is not here to see your thank you message. The best part of your post is the line that advise newbies to abstain from bounty threads. They're no harm in passing along the same message that changed you and improved your knowledge of cryptocurrency. But, you could have done more by elaborating the advice so that it'll be understandable by the newbies. Next time when you decide to create threads try to keep it simple and easy to understand. The topic and article doesn't match, I thought you had a detailed advice to share but it was more of an appreciation thread.

Don't stop creating contents but stop if you can't keep it quality as it'll make no difference from your bounty days. Keep posting quality thread as an atonement to the spammy bounty threads you made in the past.

I'd say the site is a limited Bitcoin obituary site; the available stats of Bitcoin obituaries on the site are restricted to two requirements. All bitcoin is dead submissions must meet these rules  before it'll be published: the website, blog or social media account that created a Bitcoin is dead article or thread must have good following or traffic and the articles must focus on the failure of Bitcoin mainly. Which means that if all the Bitcoin is dead articles or tweets were recorded they'd be more figures than what we have today. But, yet, despite the limitations the numbers are still high. Bitcoin triumphs from both bad and good publicity.

I'm seeing the site for the first time and the idea behind it is excellent.

It's a common story, but the story behind this "using bitcoin for bribery" by Chinese intelligence officers who exert schemes to get information from the US law enforcement agency may not be relevant to what I have to say. If you wish to read the complete details of the story the link is below. Moving on, I disagree with what a coindesk correspondence had to say, in this Video, about the bribery with bitcoin.

One correspondence pointed out that the bribery was traced because it was issued with bitcoin and the FED should be happy that bitcoin transactions are traceable; including that those PRC intelligent officers would have gone Scot-free if the bribe was given via fiat.

It's quite interesting to have such a view, but in this unsuccessful criminal occurrence, it's not relevant to take sides of which currency would have been used to avoid traces. Because I was pondering about what happened with the bribed officer. Read further and discovered that he worked as a double agent for the FBI. So he divulges every business he had with the PRC intelligence officers. Imagine that the bribery was issued surreptitiously; the GE-1, as he's referred to in the article, if he was a bad cop or kept the bribery a secret from the FBI.

Would they still be any possible trace of the business behind this particular bitcoin transaction? Considering that 60k is not too large a transaction to grasp the suspicion of the FBI. Indeed, there is a ledger for every peer-to-peer transaction, but the reason behind the transaction remains the decentralization if nothing is disclosed to a third party.

I know of two possible ways the FBI can trace a bitcoin transaction

1. Hacking into an exchange
2. If one part of the transaction reports to the FBI as the GE-1 did.

Please, I'm I By any means not getting this right? is it possible to suspect a bitcoin transaction like the one above without being told or given details of what led to the transaction?


https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/two-chinese-intelligence-officers-charged-obstruction-justice-scheme-bribe-us

The volume of BTC decreases as the stock market plunges down the hill. Since bitcoin is broadly used by many people, the price of bitcoin is rapidly correlated with the price of traditional assets which is now affected by macroeconomic factors like inflation, fiscal policy, employment level etc. 

I like the position of the adverb "totally" in the topic you created and they are other shorter formats like "incredible! 5000 MIT students received $100 each in 2014" Starting the sentence with the adjective "incredible" explains how wonderful the project was in 2014 and how interesting it'll be to recent readers of the article who wants to dig further about the distribution of 100 dollars to 5000 students. Definitely, they'll discover that not all 5000 students claimed their airdrop.

The better title you suggest I should put there is too long to enter the space provided for title in this forum. However, the article stated that each student got $100. Title even on newspapers is made in a short form to attract people to read the article. Titles like this; Mother of 4 dies of pleasure" many people will go through the article and realize that what happened is different from the topic.

I don't think they is a means of tracking the addresses of participants as the link to the survey is down. And its possible that those who held bought more bitcoin making it impossible to see an address with the exact balance. Moreover, how does your site operate? is it possible to go far back to 2014 transactions? or it searches generally on all addresses with a particular amount you want to check?


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They had the fireflies application that enabled them to crowd source goods and services for bitcoin. But on the other article it was stated that some stores in the school stopped accepting bitcoin. However, as at 2014 bitcoin was getting more adoptions unlike the 2010 - 2011 era. I think for the school library to accept bitcoin then they'll be other means of spending bitcoin in the campus as bitcoin won't be a new term to them. Remember, MIT is a tech school and their students are IT geeks. They all spent their bitcoin, only few held even the fireflies programmer stated that he got his degree that's what matters when he was asked why he didn't hodl.

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In 2014 two students of MIT Dan Elitzer the founder of MIT bitcoin club and Jeremy Rubin a computer science student launched a project aimed at making bitcoin a case study by students and professors to birth an ecosystem for digital currency in MIT. To begin the project the founder of MIT bitcoin club coupled with Jeremy Rubin was curious to know how students will spend bitcoin if given the chance to hold bitcoin. So they raised more than 500k with the assistance of the bitcoin community and MIT alumni which was enough to distribute 100 dollar worth of bitcoin (0.290272 BTC) each to 4,528 enrolled in the institution. This free bitcoin distribution made MIT campus the first place in the world to have widespread access to bitcoin.

On the 29th of October 2014, a survey that lasted for 5 days was hosted by the MIT Bitcoin club to enable students to claim their bitcoins. Students who received the free bitcoin had the option to spend it on books at the school library where bitcoin was accepted. And on Fireflies a program that enabled MIT students to crowdsource products and services for bitcoin.

A link below shows how students spent their money and the few who held the free bitcoin.

https://news.bitcoin.com/thousands-mit-students-free-bitcoin-2014-6-year-holders-13000-gains/


Giving-away free bitcoin to thousands of people is the best vehicle to Mass adoption.

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2014/10/29/mit-undergrads-can-now-claim-their-free-100-in-bitcoin/

Did you hear or read about the origin of the world “hodl"? Today I saw a post on Facebook that the forum member was drunk when he wrote hodl instead of hold. Generally I learnt that mistakes go viral online. I'm not sure about his condition that day whether drunk or typos but, sharing ones thought at any moment, mood or condition can make a difference in the cryptocurrency market.

Those that moved to POS because of the energy consumption of POW know little about POW, and it's the only reason people complain about POW. To maintain the decentalized nature of Bitcoin POW should remain. POS looks childish, unlike the POW that requires mathematical knowledge and good amount of power to mine a block. This is actual work and it's more secured than the POS. I think it'll be difficult for the government to regulate bitcoin with POW in place and easier if BTC uses POS.

Having a new skin for a new hw is not necessary and to some its not important to change the skin of an old looking hw but, on the other hand, the brand is targeting people that love fancy things and their hardware wallet has to look new to them always. Alot of people will not bother to renew the skin so far their hardware wallet is still in a good condition -- that is what matters. And I belong to such category of people not only for hard ware wallet even phones the skin don't matter so much to me.

Nigerians are positive about cryptocurrency trading. And since it was introduced to Nigerians many of them who were into sports betting solely for money switched into cryptocurrency. However, many Nigerians have trading bots that is viral and used by many traders around the nations. The population of Nigeria is too high but bitcoin is a house hold name both old and young people know about Bitcoin. So the number there can be said to be incorrect compared to the total population in Nigeria and the number of youths In Nigeria who learn, trade and buy Bitcoin.

Well your opinion is good but the way web2 works it's almost the same everywhere. They is no huge difference between this forum and a social media because social medias like twitter have special interest boards which is what a forum means in the networking terms. And if a user don't post or answer a question their account won't be visible in on the board or forums. Web2 is Web2 no difference. Reddit has upvotes and karma, webhostingtalk has likes, namepros has ranks etc. Unlike Web1, Web 2 allow users to post and share information on the internet which is how every other sites works including this forum and social media. They is no much difference just the Interface and how people utilize the niche they want. So if a person have an interest of ranking on any site including this forum they must be consistent to get visible and impressions in form of likes or merits. We are all here to learn and to learn you must acknowledge what you have learnt by creating threads to help build more knowledge into the subconscious. Sugar-coating the forum for newbies will end up having a forum where no much information will be shared when many of us stop using the forum due to businesses or other things. I think being consistent and learning truly is a good advise for the newbies and everyone cheers.

They are no difficulty in managing that which we can control, it's all over the web2 kind of internet, and one thing is under every creator's control  — post count. If done the right way with good and valuable pictures, write-ups, or videos the account builds, and the likes start coming in every day. The same applies to the forum. We can only control the post counts, and the result of our account growth depends on how well that which we can control is been managed. Think of the forum as another social media and apply the same method. Create good content and remain consistent from time to time. Most people post once a week or twice a week on social media even on their blog and maintained that frequency. I think if a person who wants to rank up in the forum is frequent with the number of times they visit the forum and make good quality content they will always strive, so far the content is quality.

Since we can't control the amount of merit a post is to get for us, then the right thing to do is worry about the one in your control if it can make good out of that which you can't control.