None of that really matters as long as those sock puppet accounts provide legit and quality evidence that support their claim but in this case OP failed to do that (at least regarding ban evasion).

As others said, just because they used the same address doesn't make them alts but I always wonder what could be the reason behind that and how likely is that they tried to frame Murat by using his address. Having said that, I think that there is a pretty good chance those accounts are his and that he is indeed ban evading, but impossible to say with 100% certainty without stronger evidence.

What you obviously fail to understand is that none of us here can help you getting your money back. Even if you got scammed (which I don't think you is the case here), they don't have account here so its not even possible to leave them negative feedback and that way try to help you (and others). Based on those screenshots that you provided, you bumping this topic and demanding refund won't do absolutely anything. Just accept the fact that you won't get your money back and that's it. And since you paid for it, you might as well start using that service.

Question that still remains unanswered is why you waited for 2 years before asking for a refund?

But they clearly stated that you have only 72 hours to ask for a refund, while it took you 2 years and I don't see them mentioning that you not joining discord somehow extends that period indefinitely.

By the way, why did you wait for so long to ask for a refund?

It all depends on what your interests are. Take your time to learn some things about the forum first (I personally read this forum for months before even registering)  and feel free to be active where you think that you can either learn something new or share your knowledge.


OP is talking about forum here, not about specialization if the professional sense.

These numbers seem grossly exaggerated to me as I seriously doubt that almost 1/3 of Indians or 1/4 Nigerians own cryptocurrencies. I have no doubt that crypto is popular in developing countries as it helps unbanked people, but I think that all those sites are pulling the numbers out of their ass, or they do a survey on a small amount of people that results in the skewed picture like in that link/image you shared. 


Tbh, this "analysis" doesn't look any more convincing and should be taken with a pinch of salt, to say the least.

Hah yeah, I've never been less active in our local board like it was during September. Just one of those periods when I didn't have anything to add to ongoing discussions but i think this month numbers will be better.


Grats! If I am not mistaken, that's the 2nd time this year that you managed to achieve that and probably not the last given the absence of our beloved spammovic. 


To be honest, I would rather see him getting banned for ban evading than being active in our local board, even if that means less number of posts written because he is getting exactly what he wants,and that is attention.


He finally came back today after going AWOL for 2 weeks.

Some time ago I talked to one of the team members of one altcoin project that had bounty campaign here and because altcoin was already listed on some solid exchanges there was a lot of interest. After bounty campaign was over they distributed tokens and since they weren't satisfied with the results, he did some blockchain analysis that showed how in reality no more than 10 people grabbed 90% of the tokens, while ~500 people were awarded with tokens. So yeah, its definitely controlled by a small group of people.


That's the thing, they don't get good exposure as all those alt accounts usually follow each other so reach is non existent while I"m sure that bounty managers promise something else.


From what I noticed, bounty managers usually have their own Telegram groups from where they got all those bounty hunters to join, and joining that group is a must, like for example in this bounty campaign so i don't think that it would be that hard to identify them even if they use alt accounts.


Aren't managers usually paid in BTC or some other already listed currency? Well, at least those with some reputation.


Bounty hunters destroying the projects? They usually get tokens when they are completely worthless so if bounty hunters manage so i seriously doubt that.

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@yahoo62278 have you ever tried implementing this rule, of no newbies joining the campaign? If not, maybe its worth a try just to see how it will work out and how many participants you would get.

It ain't that simple as it depends in what you invested. Vast majority of coins won't either survive bear market or even again reach the previous all time high, just like it happened previous time. Another thing that people often do is that they hodl for too long and they don't have guts to sell with the loss and instead they end up being bag holders. It doesn't even matter if its "well established with experienced developers" as that won't help them much since they don't have any real utility ( Cardano is good example of that).



Let me fix this for you: keep accumulating bitcoin and you will reap rewards in the future.

It is definitely anti-bitcoin, but I think that all bitcoiners got used to that by now. And no, I don't expect it to affect bitcoin price much in the long term.



Keep in mind that in that article they count all crypto mining and not just bitcoin so the actual percentage of bitcoin mining is even lower, meaning it would be even less of an impact.

Since you said that you vouch for them, would you agree to get your account banned or red tagged in case NoorulHuda gets caught red-handed again? If you are so sure that he is a legit and honest member who just did one mistake that won't happen again. 


naim027's small mistakes? You must have missed this shitshow in which he was exposed for doing much more than plagiarism and will probably end up being banned once again.

I don't know how it is in your country, but over here if you want to watch legally top football leagues, champions league, NBA, F1 and few other sports related channels you would have to spend ~50 dollars per month as all that is scattered across several providers. So yeah, IPTV for 5-6 dollars per month (if you take yearly sub) or even $10 is not such a bad deal anymore.




That's probably more of a marketing stunt, IPTV service providers showing off with the huge amount of channels they have to impress potential customers.


Yeah, localised providers tend to be the best and were the ones I usually used.

What I meant is, don't use your main mobile phone number as you usually have to leave ID info in order to get one (at least that became standard practice in here in EU) and instead use virtual mobile phone number service to create Telegram account if you can't get another sim card without giving your ID. Well, at least that's what I did 6 years ago when I got Telegram for the first time. Trust no one, including Telegram.


I could see it being used by marketing agencies, spamming their crap to Telegram as well.

Np buddy, glad to be of some help but that's just my understanding. Who knows, maybe I got it wrong too so if you want to be 100% sure you can contact Binance or maybe ask in their Telegram group.



Well you can always go over there in the topic where he asked that question and answer him (in case he doesn't use Telegram notification bot).

If this is the project you are working on at the moment (Metaisland), no surprise that marketing is not having much effect as we are in the middle of bear market and I think that no matter what you do or how much money you pour in, results won't be good. Even if you have top product with an experienced team, its gonna be tough and I am sure that you already know that.

Looking at your ANN thread, I see some suspicious activity by 2 low ranking members that are talking to each other. Did anyone offer you so called "thread bumping" service where bunch of low level accounts write in your topic, giving impression that there's real interest? If yes, just tell them no as its completely useless and a total waste of money.


I don't think that amount of money will attract quality members, given the current situation where there's more spots in campaigns than there are quality members available.


I don't know how it was around here before 2019, but imho this is not the place (at least not now) where you wanna advertise any sort of altcoin project and even if you go with signature campaign, don't expect much. Thing is, majority of people here are bitcoiners that don't care much about anything altcoin/NFT/Metaverse related or anything else popular at the moment. Don't get me wrong, signature campaigns can be good and effective way to promote your business around here but only if there's a lot of your target audience which I don't think is the case.

Each asset is rebalanced on the monthly basis while index itself on the quarterly basis so I am not sure what's the problem here.


Loads of newbies use CMC every day to determine what to buy, and where to buy from so I expect this new thing to be popular among them as well. After all, that's their target audience and there's no lack of those.


Even though I don't use CMC (I prefer Coingecko) because there's a lot of manipulation and misinformation going there, they occasionally remove suspicious assets from their top rankings, like they did with that HEX]https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/hex/]HEX shitcoin, that is in top 200 while it should be in top ~15-20 judging by their mcap. On the other hand, Coingecko doesn't even rank those kind of shitcoins so its another reason why I prefer them. Crazy thing about CMC is that it used to be even worse before Binance took them over.


Yep, one of the most popular misconceptions in crypto is that diversification means investing in other shitcoins, like they are not directly dependent on bitcoin.



 

Yep, I use them occasionally as here in Croatia we can sell/buy bitcoin up to certain amount in physical exchanges with no KYC, and exchange fee is very similar to the one you mention (which is pretty decent and usually better than ATM ) and they are quite popular over here.


I think that you completely misunderstood OP as he wasn't asking whether he should use those type of exchanges and instead he is thinking about opening one.


There is, but the physical crypto exchanges that I used usually started online and later expanded to physical ones after they grew big enough, or they were standard fiat exchanges that just added crypto part. Another thing to keep in mind is that location matters a lot.

64% of 1 star ratings is nothing compared to Coinbase and its 78% and FTX is not any better with 70% 1 star ratings. Coinbase , FTX and other most popular exchanges have their flaws and problems and I have no doubts that some people got screwed by them, but I don't trust these Trustpilot ratings at all and I don't think that they paint realistic picture. Another thing to keep in mind when checking these pages is that rarely anyone will bother to register and leave review if everything is working smoothly while that's not the case when something is wrong.

Couldn't something more simple like a signature ban (that we already have but is imho underused at the moment) would be a sort of middle ground approach, instead of perma banning or not banning at all? People usually plagiarize because they want to farm merit as fast as possible to achieve higher ranks and join better signature campaigns, so if they can't make money but they continue to be active and helpful members their their case would be revised after some time (lets say 6 months- 1 year) and possibly signature ban lifted.

Regarding eliminating ban appeals part, I like that even less because I would like to see ban appeal process being even more transparent that it currently is, where people don't get any feedback from admins for months or even years. I realize that sometimes no answer is an answer, but how hard is to reply in one of those threads saying " we looked into your appeal once again and an answer is no" or something along those lines.

I wouldn't put too much trust (to be more precise none) into Trustpilot reviews, both positive and negative as there are so many services that offer fake reviews there.


Nope, those big players don't use exchanges like majority of us and instead they do it via OTC.

If you plan to pay IPTV subscription each month, then I don't think that you will find much cheaper service than that. Those IPTV providers usually offer big discount if you are paying for a whole year in advance and then it ends up cheaper. I do know that it is a much bigger risk as service can stop at any time, but all people I know that have one of these illegal IPTVs are using it this way to reduce the cost.


Cheap and good usually don't go together. What's the point of saving 2 or 3 dollars a month if service will be bad and you won't be able to watch anything on weekends when there's a lot of traffic.