People still don't understand how much damage Kwon&Bankman did with their scandals, and combined we are talking about even over $100 billion in losses, along with the tremendous psychological pressure that is still present. Fear and disappointment have penetrated deep among investors, and considering that FTX was connected to many companies, everyone is wondering if it is over or if some very ugly news will appear.

As you say, all this happened in the middle of a bear market and further lowered the price of Bitcoin, which would probably have been at least 25-30% higher if all this had not happened. I just hope that everyone has learned something from all this, and the most important thing is that you should not trust people who present themselves as some kind of crypto messiahs, but in fact they are ordinary scammers who wear expensive suits and live in million-dollar mansions.

I can only say that before the situation was much better in this regard, most reported phishing sites were blocked in just a few days, which meant that most browsers showed a red warning about a dangerous site and blocked access to it. Something has definitely changed in the way Google handles everything that is reported, and it has to do something with mixers.

I think I already wrote it somewhere, but it seems that they don't want to protect people from such things and that in this way they want to create as much pressure as possible on the mixers in terms of their elimination.

I also checked what the search engines will show, and in the first place I get a fake page that ends in cx, while in the second place there is a legitimate page. Unfortunately, scammers use various techniques to try to position themselves at the top of the search, and it's not just through ads anymore - because all these phishing sites have nothing to do with that and we see them as normal search results.

I advise everyone to save a legitimate website in their favorites, and also to be aware that mix only works with an onion address, so all sites that offer you mix through clearnet addresses are 100% fake.

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The TorV2 link you provided does not work, and the only real addresses are found in each CM signature, although everything should be checked considering the possibility that someone's profile can be hacked and the links changed. See here -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1935098.0

That's your feeling and I guess there's a reason why you think so. In addition, if you are only interested in Bitcoin because of the price, I would say that you will be very disappointed in your life many more times.


How can someone explain to you if something will happen when no one can predict the future? If you are interested in speculation, then visit that board, there you will find various theories, although they are more or less all based on the personal feelings of individual members. In short, someone could write countless pages on this topic, but even if you read them, you wouldn't be any smarter than you are now.

Then maybe this is a sign that more and more ordinary people who invest in cryptocurrencies are starting to realize that CEX are ordinary exchanges, and not at all what their owners promote them to be, i.e. that they are some kind of crypto banks. However, as much as I think it is wrong to store cryptocurrencies on CEX, for some investors it is still the simplest thing, considering that all they need is to create an ordinary account, which is no different from, say, creating an e-mail or something similar.

It would be ideal if people understood what they are investing in, and if they don't, then they are easy targets for fake crypto wallets, seed stealers or clipboard malware. We've all seen how big the risk of storing coins on CEX is recently, but it's still the method that many use because of its simplicity.

However, people need to be educated to understand the risks that threaten them, and how they can safely be their own bank, which is actually one of the ideas that came with Bitcoin.

Not everyone is a trader, and not everyone has bought Bitcoin in the past 2 years so that he would now be in a panic or add up some losses. Bitcoin has existed much longer than 2017 or 2020, and I remember when I invested in it at a price of only $200, so the current price is more than good for me and for many old members. No one needs to predict the future to be successful in trading, they just need to follow a pattern that has always been repeated until now.

Anyone who sold only 1 BTC in the last bull run for only $50k could buy 3 BTC and calmly wait for the next bull run - you don't need to be a genius or a prophet for such a thing.

It is not clear to me why someone promotes this kind of story if it is only $25 000, which is certainly not of great help to those who need help - by publishing it, they only did more harm than good. In addition, no Bitcoin was hacked, but the account with which the BTC was transferred - and that is a big difference, especially for those who after reading this may think that it is so easy to hack Bitcoin.

They are not rich enough, they are just dealing with something that they largely do not understand, and the consequences of that are financial losses. Let's take for example the OP who is a Member rank with the potential to become a Full member, and asks such a banal question about whales, as if it is impossible for someone today to have 1000 or 10 000 BTC or even much more.

The Winklevoss twins reportedly have over 100 000 BTC, and MicroStrategy has over 130 000 - and I'm sure there are those who own even larger amounts that are not publicly exposed. Regardless of one's opinion about it, I think that such things should be private as much as possible, at least when it comes to private individuals who can become an easy target for hackers, as well as ordinary criminals.

The OP has strange ideas, it's enough just to look at what he has proposed in the last few months, but personally I don't expect anything meaningful from him. I'm also not one of those people who look too favorably on someone reporting their own or others' posts in order to reward them with merit, especially because those who see such posts probably don't have time to read the whole thread, so "good post" can be completely out of context, or just repeating what other users wrote before that post.

There will never be a perfect system, but I think that the current one is not as bad as some may think - of course, except for those who think that they should have much more merit than they currently have, but that is a problem that cannot be solved by changing the system in any way.

Are you even aware of how meaningless what you wrote is? And even more so considering that yesterday in this same thread you wrote that you are a newbie... You are not a newbie, just a merit hunter who spins several identical sentences in every post👎

For someone who is not intelligent enough to find his old topic and opens a new one every 20 days with the same questions, I can only say that I do not hope that the whole thing with investing in Bitcoin will be successful. No one can give you the perfect answer, nor can they take you by the hand and lead you in the right direction - be a man and stand behind your decisions

I can't say anything else that would make more sense than what you wrote, because such things have already been proven in the last ten years, but there are millions of naive people to whom you can sell anything, as long as it is nicely packaged. The recent statements made by CZ regarding how CEX are safer than non-custodial wallets in the sense that most will lose their coins if they keep them themselves is just a confirmation of the direction their game is going.

I have never invested in a stable coin or token in my life because I consider it completely wrong and risky, and in just a few months Kwon+Bankman cost their clients over $100 billion, almost 1/3 of all mined BTC if we were to take into account the market cap. It is stupid to even ask the question of whether the lesson has been learned, because we know the answer to that question...

I already commented on his post in another thread, so although I can agree that he considers himself a beginner, persistently repeating the same thing will not help him become any more experienced. Knowledge is all around us, you just need to have a true desire to adopt it, and if something is not clear to you, you can always ask the search engine, ask a question on the forum or what is very popular now, ask AI

Let no one be offended, but how stupid do you have to be to copy a coin address from a list of transactions, and still blindly believe that it is your address? In addition, in most cases (whenever possible) for privacy reasons, it is recommended to use new addresses, but I believe that many people are not even aware that they can have an unlimited number of coin addresses, because they might compare it to opening a bank account.

However, as we can see, this is aimed more at altcoins users than Bitcoin users, and it seems to me like a fairly trivial scam that only relatively inexperienced users can fall for.

Does it make sense to cut someone's sentence in half just to write something that I know very well exists?


What a naive way of thinking, as if anything other than filling all the spots in the campaign is important these days. If most managers looked at quality, most campaigns wouldn't be able to fill even 50% of spots, and that's a truth that everyone knows, but we can pretend that the rule of "5 merits in 120 days" is something that makes a good poster.

You obviously don't know the case of a user who abused the CM campaign with 3 accounts for years until it was discovered?

You want something bad to happen too much, so you look for the slightest sign of something that would indicate that it will happen. London is in the UK and is not part of the EU, and the Nordic countries are a story by themselves, while it should be emphasized that Norway is not a member of the EU. From Eastern Europe, only Russia freezes, that's why I asked you that question and posted a map with temperatures.


Again, you want to believe that only bad things happen in the EU, but I understand your reasoning considering that your country actively supports Russian aggression with drones and who knows what else. Fuel, gas and food prices have been falling for months, and all countries are actively working to boost their economies through various measures.

In addition, they are actively working on more and more alternative supply routes for gas, and be sure that the EU will endure another 2-3 months of winter (which is actually not the case), and that by the next heating season it will be completely independent of Russia.

By the way, I hear that the air quality in Tehran is so bad that even the schools are closed, I wonder who is to blame for that...

No matter how stupid someone thinks Saylor is, the man just invests in Bitcoin in various ways and is responsible for his actions, which is the hallmark of adults and responsible people. Regardless of the current price of Bitcoin, in the long term it is a better investment than any altcoin, especially the one you mention, and especially after it moved to POS. This made the centralized project even more closed, and also subject to various internal manipulations that could result in a disaster at any moment.

Furthermore, do you know what gives the project its size? The fact that Vitalik does not even know what the max supply of his token is, and although he said it was 100 million, it is currently 122 million, and now he claims that it will still be 150 million. In other words, x6 more tokens in circulation put it in second place by market capitalization, which is pure manipulation and nothing more.

It's strange that you still consider yourself a beginner, so even though you don't have too many posts, you still registered on the forum in 2017. Unless you bought an account (I hope you didn't), you should have learned at least some basic things that would be in line with your rank.

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It's never too late to start learning something new, you just need a little time and perseverance, and in that case you can reach some older members in knowledge or in rank. Let's see what you can achieve this year

Edit : it seems that this is the alt account of user @fennic, now I remembered the very obvious merit abuse between those two accounts - unfortunately I hoped in vain

I think it would be fair to all other users of the forum who have only one account and may not be able to get a place in a sig campaign because someone uses their alt accounts in 4 or 5 different sig campaigns. Of course, that rule will not change, nobody wants to officially be a policeman on the forum and investigate such things.

The problem is that you cannot impose such a rule even if you wanted to, given that people use VPN and TOR to hide their real IP addresses. Of course, many come across the evil fee, which is in some way a defense against the creation of large bot farms, but this fee can be paid, and some members have the option of removing it upon request.

I, on the other hand, would like to see a rule that one can participate in signature/bounty campaigns exclusively with one account in one campaign, not as we have the case now with multiple accounts in multiple campaigns. Sometimes it's funny to see how one and the same person has a discussion with himself using alt accounts.