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Okay, here's the thing. Even if they give you your Lendexcoin or whatever tokens, you're going to get scammed eventually. I'm not sure if you're dumb or just don't know about bitconnect which has recently just collapsed, but this is just a clone under a different name. Lending platforms are just ponzi schemes in disguise. I would have thought that after Bitconnect, regalcoin, westerncoin et. al people will finally come to realise that. But no. The best advice that i have for you is to distance yourself from this scam as soon as possible. They may not even be a ponzi scheme and may just run away with your money after a successful ICO. It's best to not take this risk. |
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Not a long time ago when Bitcoin reached $10,000, it was a huge celebration.Yesterday when Bitcoin was at $10,000, it was like the end of the world, I've read all kind of stuff - "bubble, scam, fraud, THE END, Melt Down...........
Van-Petersen and Mike Novogratz said : “Bitcoin could be at $40,000 at the end of 2018. It easily could,”
Lol, look at the coinmarketcap front page right now. Do you think that it resembles anything like "bubble, scam, fraud, the end, or melt down"? It may have, in inexperienced traders eyes. But in experienced bitcoiners' eyes, it's simply fluctuation in the short term. It means nothing of importance and eventually, it will recover. Even the 2013 "bubble" turned out to be a heck of time to buy. I'm not saying that $40k this year isn't possible, i just think that price will most likely settle at a lower level. $40000 may be eclipsed, but i foresee the price settling at $20k or so, after a pump takes us to a new ATH. But long term, $40k is just another random number. It will happen. |
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Do you guys see how fast the market cap is climbing right now??? its insane, all time high coming soon I predict!
Basically everything has been going up today, bitcoin especially. Already up close to double figures compared to yesterday, and i can see $13000 per coin very soon at this rate. Potentially next week we'll see another big pump taking the price up to pre-dump levels. This is why you never, ever sell into the FUD. You'll be met with a big pump after everything is over. The reason why a lot of people have weak hands is that they don't understand that dumps can happen, and it's not the end of the world when it does. Congratulations to everyone who held their bitcoins, or even bought bitcoins at a sub-$10k level. I doubt that we are going to see bitcoins that cheap on sale for a long time to come, at least for a month or two.  |
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Have you noticed the amount of threads and posts there? I've been here for 4 years and the last few months it's getting completely out of hand. I counted: in half an hour you get 4 (!) pages of new posts just in the ANN section. 4!!! Every 10 minutes there seems to be a new ICO or coin. This needs to stop, there needs to be some quality check. Any suggestions?
It's impossible to check for the quality of every single ANN thread that is out there. Otherwise there will be a huge backlog and the moderators will have to work around the clock to maintain a standard of quality for ICO ANNs. Plus, it's not against forum rules to create an ANN for your ICO, as long as you're not duplicating/spamming it across the board. If you see any ICO threads outside of the announcements(altcoins) or tokens boards, you can report it. If you report enough you may get offered a mod job.  By who? Nobody is watching apparently. One of the admins. If you report enough, then you may get offered one. No guarantees. |
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It should be showing up now, sometimes blockchain.info just has a delay in refreshing your balance. Why this happens, i don't know. Sometimes a transaction is clearly visible on blockcypher or blocktrail but blockchain.info just doesn't have it in their database.
They are not an exchange, they have no access to your private key.
Omegastarscream already mentioned, when you registered for your blockchain.info wallet there is a 12 word mnemonic that you should have copied down. If this situation happens again, simply create a new wallet with those seeds on electrum, and you should be able to access your funds.
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Is there any suggestions of bitcoin mining sites using my loptop?
It's going to be not worth it, but there are options available. Firstly, you're going to not make enough to pay your electricity bill increases as a result of your mining activities. Your laptop is going to be overheated and even may damage your laptop hardware. Based on the above, you shouldn't even bother. Just buy bitcoin instead if you want to get into cryptocurrencies. If you insist on continuing, i've heard that freebitco.in has a pretty nice laptop mining feature. You'll get paid in BTC but you're actually mining XMR with coinhive. Still it's not worth it, even though freebitco.in does not take anything from your payouts. |
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Hello guys, I am here today to share my thoughts about Bittrex being shady once again.
This last few days we suffer one of the biggest dips on crypto in the last few months, but that is ok, it is part of the game.
But here is my problem: 5 hours before the dip start, I was observing the market, then I logout. After 1 hour I tried to login... but I was unable to do that, simply because Bittrex did not send me the "IP-verification" email! So I waited 12 hours... and then sent a message to Bittrex looking to fix it, considering that is the 2nd time this happens in few months this is really annoying...
Now, 3 days later I still cannot access my account, Bittrex did not respond my message and as I failed to login, I HAVE LOST 40% OF MY MONEY because I was unable to stop-loss.
# Bittrex team DO NOT respect their customers;
# Bittrex team DO NOT care about helping you;
# Bittrex team ONLY care about SUCK you dry on fees.
If you have a similar experience please share with us!
This isn't the first time that a confirmation email hasn't been sent by an exchange and as a result funds have been lost, and the account owner is unable to actually access their accounts. I find it ironic that bittrex forces this security measure onto their customers, so that funds can be safer. But at the end if they don't send the confirmation email for whatever reason then the customer still loses out. There is really no point of having this system if it's going to be this unreliable. Their support is crap as well... It's a well known fact. I've quit using bittrex long ago. I completely lost faith in them. |
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It's not just bitcoin's ability to repeatedly recover from such losses, but rather it seems like these sorts of losses are crucial as a "go ahead" signal for pumps in the future. Every time a dump has happened, bitcoin has not only recovered, but also made profits from previous peaks.
A lot of the new people in crypto may be panicking right now, but anyone who is experienced here should know that bitcoin will make a recovery soon.
Most of this has come from FUD, and understandably. But i believe this to be a great buying opportunity, and so does OP. I wouldn't mind buying some more if i still had the fiat to do so.
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Don't know if it's just me, but i've noticed that most exchanges have been suffering stability issues
over the past few days/weeks.
Coinsmarkets has not been available for over 2 weeks ~~ who knows if it ever coming back..
In Yobit you take a gamble that the coins wallet is not in maintenance when purchasing..
Quite a few exchanges have also had to restrict new registrations due to over-loading ?
And Now... CoinExchange has just gone offline, reading "server not found" .. Updating transactions
has been extremely slow for a while now on CoinExchange...
Anyone else experiencing these issues with these, or any other exchanges ??
Definitely not just you. I feel the pain as well, bittrex legacy accounts seem to be downgraded to basic unverified now, poloniex is getting rid of legacy accounts also. So pretty much, you have to be completely verified to be able to use an exchange safely. Otherwise you're going to suffer from all sorts of issues ranging from uncredited deposits to processing withdrawals. The lag on bittrex is still pretty big, and some exchanges like yobit is only getting worse when their reputation initially was already bad enough. I don't know why. Some exchanges used to be a great place to be, and their support always active and you could expect a response within a day. But now you're lucky to receive on in a month, in some cases. I guess it's because volume and number of accounts has exploded alongside the crypto markets. |
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Hi, for a long period I've been seeing a lot of videos on YouTube of people selling FAKE scripts that promise you will earn a lot of bitcoins in 1 day (ridicolous).
I also know that there's so many people falling at this trouble, also friends of mine.
Is there a way we can report them? Like FBI or police, I don't know...
Please, help. Thanks.
If anyone actually gets scammed by one of these things they deserve to. It's pure greed and it shows that they are comfortable with scamming the site essentially(since they think that the software is legit) and pocketing the money as their own. Any kind of script or method you see on youtube that promises you guaranteed returns, are fake. Period. These scripts will only withdraw your coins, scam you out of your "subscription fee" or a combination of both. Or it could be a virus that will infect your entire computer. None of these scripts are real, otherwise why would the creator of the script even sell it to the public? And why isn't freebitco.in doing something about it? |
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The site is down. Taking a look at the archive.is page for 50btc.com you can roughly see what it is, which is a bitcoin mining pool. I'm assuming that your 64 BTC came from your hashpower which was used to mine coins in their pool.
They do still technically owe you your bitcoins, but where are you going to find them?
The about us page is not archived unfortunately, so unless you have the full details of the admin in question, you don't have a chance at all. And even then, it could be an innocent guy which identity has been stolen to operate this scam. And even IF you can be sure that it's the real admin's details, how are you going to find him in whatever country he resides in? International lawsuits are extremely difficult.
I hope for the best for you but honestly your chances are slim. Please keep us updated, though.
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No need to rush.
Some people are still suspicious that this is the final straw, but it should be clear that it isn't. Bitconnect, something that has no relevancy to bitcoin, as well as some threats of government regulation has scared the crap out of the markets and it really shouldn't have. These low levels aren't going to last long, and what we need right now is probably a few days of stability before a huge surge in price.
If you zoom into the bitcoin price from January last year to now, you'll see that every time a big pump is followed by a correction about the same size as this time. I wouldn't worry.
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I'm gonna be honest with you all , i have been trading/investing since 2017.
I earned about 110.000 by trading and basically lost it all, i decided to sell the rest and just quit. I'm gonna explain why, this cryptocurrency market
is very manipulative and can easily be controlled and it will never stop. The icos/alts will always keep sucking all the btc cash so it will always be hard for btc to grow and
dominate.
This market is made to make money and profit from noobs it's like a bitconnect scheme. Every dollar that is made by someone, someone will lose money. Every dollar that
is made in this system will be sold to fiat and if there is low btc buy power it will mean that btc will only keep going down. This market is basically made to make
money from new users like a scheme. For example can you actually believe that if you would've put 10k usd into bitconnect you would have a monthly return of about 4500
every month by lending? This is unbelievably high which again means for every btc/dollar you lend out into this cryptocurrency system = someone will lose money that's
the main reason this market won't be there for long. Because it's basically a pyramid scheme.
No shit. If you don't know what you're doing and is blindly investing in bitcoin uneducatedly then it's no wonder that you have lost everything that you've invested in. I'd like to correct you, bitcoin is not like bitconnect. Bitconnect is a ponzi, while bitcoin is a currency. Bitcoin is not a scheme that promises you infinite returns, it's a free market, if more people believe in the potential of bitcoin then the price will naturally go up. Learn these basics before you even attempt to trade anything. Cryptocurrencies have a long way to go. While the price may drop in the short term the long term price should hold up and continue to grow, in my opinion. |
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“There are great concerns regarding virtual currencies and [the] justice ministry is basically preparing a bill to ban cryptocurrency trading through exchanges,” justice minister Park Sang-ki said. [1]News of the ban follows the raiding of local cryptocurrency exchanges by police and tax authorities over alleged tax evasion, as one of the key nations driving the demand for bitcoin and other virtual currencies attempts a clampdown. [2]
The value of bitcoin plunged 13.5% in the early hours of Thursday after news hit that South Korea is planning to ban cryptocurrency trading. [3]
Do you think the price will lose more?
Source of news : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/11/bitcoin-drops-value-south-korea-trading-ban-cryptocurrencies-tax-gamblingChina, Indonesia, and South Korea has all came out with new negatives for bitcoin, and a lot of people are worried about the future of bitcoin in those countries. The truth is do you really think that these regulations are going to have such a grave impact on bitcoin at all? At worst, it'll shut down all exchanges, but not a single country will be able to shut down bitcoin itself. Obviously this news has had a big impact on price, and as a result price has essentially plumetted. Though i believe that people are overreacting to this series of news at the moment, and a wave of buyers will buy up the cheap bitcoins soon. |
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is there any ban for these kind of users? They swear all the time on local sub forum and dont get any ban? It has become irritating  As long as it's not purely for the sake of swearing and insulting but is logical in the context of a post, I don't think that it is disallowed by forum rules. You'll quite often see reputation and scam accusation posts with lots of profane language in it, but really nobody cares. If this person just swears on purpose, to insult others, then perhaps he does deserve a ban. However local subs are probably not moderated as heavily as the english boards, so you may have to PM the moderator that looks over the turkish board. It'll also be nice if a trusted turkish member can provide a translation or something. |
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When bitcoin price is going in a downward trend what's the best way to weather the storm?
get out while you still can?
Buy alt coins?
or just wait it out?
Terrible idea to get out right now. It's not like it's just a small drop and you want out before the big one comes in. The big drop has already happened. We have not seen during this bull run bitcoin drop at a single time more than 50% of its peak value and we've seen it this time. That indicates we're going to continue to go up in terms of price, it's only a matter of time before $15k and $20k are hit. Think of bitcoin as a long term investment. Don't care too much about short term movement as it will only make an unhealthy habit. Bitcoin won't die, the functionality of the $20k bitcoin is the same as the bitcoin now. Don't panic. Keep holding. That has been proven right every time. |
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Thansk for the list, hopefully it'll help some newbies make the right choice when they first come in contact with these ponzi scam sites. I know that for me, when i started with cryptos, i wasted a hella lot of money on ponzi schemes that did not pay off at all.
The only problem that i can think of is that even though you have this huge database of sites, you're not going to be able to update it in time. The profitability of running such scams is so alluring that new ones pop up every single hour.
My criteria for a ponzi is very simple: does it promise more than 30% per year guaranteed? does it have an affiliate program? If the answer to both is yes, 99.9999% of the time it's a ponzi/pyramid.
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Not sure how the hacker has done it without
1) 2FA being enabled on your account
2) Email verification on yobit's side
3) Login notification not being sent to your email
The only explanation i can think of is that all of your accounts have been compromised, your email, google authenticator, etc. Or it was one of your family members doing it that has physical access to your computer and mobile phone.
Just a heads up though, in these scenarios yobit can't do anything. Even if you contact support they won't be able to resolve the issue, the only trail the hacker has left is the yobicode. You may be able to ask the support to verify which account redeemed the yobicodes(even though it's probably a throaway).
I think not only hacker is suspected here that honestly hard to think if how the hacker got the 2fa of his account unless if he is not adding 2fa authenticator.. I never heard this issue before in yobit but the other suspected here is the yobit because no one couldn't know the 2fa code except for yobit. Or maybe the other way is someone install teamviewer in his computer to remotely use the google authenticator.. There are lots of ways honestly but if you didn't receive any notification that someone logging to your account (If the ip changes in my case before i receive notification) you should receive notification unless if you are using the same computer and ip.. Better to keep trying to contact yobit and ask for the ip and time listed in their system logs so that you can review this problem. . I checked the Google account activities and activities history. No unusual reports on account history. As for the activities history, the last one on January 4th was at 22:06 related to activities in this forum. On January 5th, the first one was at 8:37 related to reading the news. So, no one used my devices or credential to access Yobit at the time the theft occurred. I ran a sweep on all my devices to see if there is hijacker or a malware of any kind there ... and nothing. Clean. I purposely run 2FA on a separate device (smartphone). I have auto on/off set on my phone: it turns off at 23:00 and back on at 05:30. I have fingerprint unlocking on it. No way in a hell I was hacked and no way any of my devices were used to authenticate, login, create and use these codes at Yobit. As far as I see it, there are two possibilities: 1). Yobit got hacked during the massive DDOS attacks 2). Yobit or someone at Yobit ripped me off In either case, Yobit holds the full responsibiliy for restoring my wallet. I contacted their suppor numerius times now and, other than the above shaddy reply, I got nothing. You'd think that they have full responsibility, and i believe you. But if you think about it who else will be able to believe you? And will yobit even care about this? They've seen so many cases of this that they're probably not even going to reply to you let alone compensate you. You simply have no proof other than what you wrote above, anhd that is definitely not conclusive evidence that yobit had an insider job done or got DDos'd. Even if it is an insider job, don't you think that the support is on the "inside" as well? Just think of it as buying a lesson, man. Don't store money you don't wanna lose on exchanges. |
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However, why was advertisement of stake.com being displayed on the .to website? Are stake.com even paying the clones to display their ads on clone forums?
Also, OP , please remove the link to the direct .to website as someone might actually click it unknowingly, just place it under [ code ]
I asked stake about this and am awaiting a response. I suppose it's possible that they're unaware of it or didn't pay them directly and are using a third party advertising service to put their adverts on bitcoin related websites. Doubt that stake knows that their advertisements have been placed on bitcointalk.to, especially when they already have advertising on bitcointalk. It's probable that they use a third party advertiser that submits their ads to crypto related sites, and thus appearing on bitcointalk.to. But it's really not a problem, this. The main problem is still the phishing sites. Perhaps show the link that people are redirected to every time someone PMs or posts on this forum a hyperlink. Or we could filter out the obvious phishing links by doing the [suspicious link removed] thing. |
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Probably Bitconnect is like a pyramid. Maybe it will collapse. But today it does not prevent me from making a profit.  Let's see what will happen next. If you suspect that it's a pyramid(and it is, obviously), then don't invest. Because once you're in the scheme even the profits you make you will simply reinvest. Or you may get greedy and try to get referrals, which will lead to more people losing money. You're wasting your time and money, as well as others. I'm going to invest $100 dollars in bitconnect since I don't think is a ponzi scheme and the ones who think so also believe all the cryptos are ponzi scheme.....
Bitcoin had a growth of 1000% this year, and the world domination is the limit, so everybody understand that bitcoin can keep growing then why is so difficult to understand that the others cryptos can growth too by investing on bitcoin's growth, in the case of bitconnect why not understanding that the lending platform can give you a daily return better than the interest generates by having $100 on a bank, just because the bots bets on the growth of the others cryptos....
The only thing that can stop bitconnect lending platform is the stopping of the whole cryptocurrency market, so by these logic everybody holding any crypto is in dangerous waters.
Nobody here said that all cryptos are ponzis. There is a difference between bitconnect and bitcoin. Bitcoin does not promise returns. Bitconnect does, and promises exponential returns that are far beyond realistic. Your logic is flawed, it's like saying to stop online HYIPs you have to stop the entire internet. No. It does not work like that. Bitconnect is ponzi, bitcoin isn't. Simple as that. |
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