I honestly think that's just waste of time as even if he goes through hassle of doing that, scammer will just use the name of some other reputable member.


Regarding forms, you can use this link https://telegram.org/support, but I think that's what @DireWolfM14 already used. Another way to report scammer is via https://t.me/notoscam. Problem with both of these ways is that it usually won't work with just 1 report. I reported dozens of accounts, provided screenshots etc and never managed to get a single account tagged so in the end I just gave up.

The only problem is that with this business model they probably couldn't sustain that APY, so they had to do bunch of risky stuff which in the end backfired. Here is the good twitter thread that explains what they were doing with people's money  https://twitter.com/jonwu_/status/1536476104986267648


Yeah same here, I don't have anything in Celsius but I do know few IRL people that did/do have, and they are far from stupid or inexperienced. I was also considering putting something there but in the end I decided to pass as I didn't wanna bother with some smaller amounts like 1-2k USD and I didn't trust them enough to put enough money to get a solid yearly return.

Doesn't really look like a bot behavior to me, more like a low effort merit fishing technique in order to level up accounts and get into better signature campaigns. Another interesting "coincidence" is that three out of four (everyone except @wimex) accounts are in same signature campaign so it might be a good idea to check addresses they used and try to make some connections there.

Another shitty thing they do is that at first you would think that they are formatting the copy/pasted text properly but when you check the article itself it is obvious that whole topic is basically copied word for word, but they shared source link so they covered their asses. If I am you I would report their posts on that basis, just keep in mind that forum staff is reluctant to delete such topics if they have at least couple of replies. At least that was my experience so far in similar cases.

I am not 100% sure but my guess is that it would be possible to remove scam tag that way. Thing is, people change their Telegram ID from time to time from various reasons so it makes more sense that scam tag is connected with phone number used to register that account, rather than username itself as some scammer may change his username but that won't remove scam tag and it wouldn't be fair if some new user gets tagged just because he used the same Telegram ID as that scammer. Keep in mind that beside Telegram ID there is also User ID that can't be changed and I guess tag is probably connected with that rather than Telegram ID.


That's because it is not enough for one person to report a scammer, but many in order for account to get tagged and on top of that people just don't bother reporting. I've been using Telegram frequently for 6 years now and I've seen maybe few dozens of accounts with that tag meaning its extremely rare.

That's because on top of 30 activity you have to earn at least 1 merit to reach Jr Member rank which you failed so far. Read more about merit system and ranks in general here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0

Things are not that simple as even smart people do stupid things when greed kicks in and that's what happened here. While Luna has ~20% APY, Celsius was more moderate in that regard (I think BTC had 8-9%) so people automatically assumed that its legit.


Unless his logarithmic stablecoin USDD ends up the same way UST as for the last four days it has issues staying pegged.


Lawsuits are inevitable at this point. Well known crypto YouTuber/Twitter influencer BiBboy Crypto who allegedly has millions of dollars locked in Celsius already announced that he is preparing the lawsuit and I am sure that many more are planning the same thing. It's just the beginning though as Texas securities regulators have opened investigation and probably other states will do it as well.

Ne znam, promatrajuci oko sebe meni nekako ne izgleda da je ovo bottom i mislim da cemo tamo doci tek kad cijena toliko padne da velika vecina ljudi izgubi svaku nadu da ce BTC ikad vise nazad na nekadasnje razine i proda BTC sa velikim gubitkom. Bar mislim da tako razmisljaju ovi veliki koji kontroliraju trziste i koji ce pokupovati jeftini bitcoin.

Sjecam se kako su sredinom 2018 svi mislili kako je najgore iza nas i da oporavak samo sto nije, zazivao se ljetni bull run od kojeg nije bilo nista a znamo kakvo nas je otrijeznjenje docekalo pocetkom 2019. Nadam se da grijesim, a ako ne, buy orderi ispod 20k su ionako postavljeni.

Nothing smart really about this scam technique as its the most common one used at Telegram.


Telegram accounts can get scam tag but since Telegram accounts are easily disposable I don't think that its even worth it to report that. I know I wouldn't waste a minute of my time on that anyway.

It's almost impossible to completely get away from them at this day and age, unless you have no issues going completely off the grid and living like Ted Kaczynski.


This will 100% become industry standard, just the matter of time. Thing is, people (and other companies) usually laugh at Apple's "innovations" and then in a year or two they start doing the same thing.


On the contrary, Apple starts the trends. It sucks, but that's how it works.

That was the case up until now, but this is the first time since bitcoin inception that we are in global financial crisis and that changes everything. If situation was normal I woulnd't think that we can go below previous all time high but with all these things going on in the world, I am not so sure.

Regarding whether bottom is in, from my previous experience we touched the bottom when majority of people lost all hope, thinking that we won't see another bull market ever again and I think that we are not there yet meaning it can still go down. Either way, I am not interested in guessing the bottom and I am buying ever since Bitcoin went below $30K and will continue to do so. DCA FTW 

Yeah it probably will as users will always go for more convenient option, not thinking about the consequences.

One suggestion: no need to copy/paste the whole article, few paragraphs that cover what it is about should be enough and then those who want to read the rest can do it at the source.


Biometrics verification also has its own set of the problems and its far from being perfect. For me personally password protection is still the way to go, and if set properly (saomething that many fail at but that's not password problem)it is still superior to biometrics in vast majority of cases.


Yep, that's my main problem when it comes to biometrics as once you get your data leaked you are screwed. And we all know how secure our data is...

Maybe you are right, since you are scammer and scammers tends to recognize each other.



I really doubt that any project will admit that they paid trending, especially to some random people that send them TG message, and from what I can see you work before payment only for some clients so what you wrote there is not entirely true.

I think its all about the number of sunny days as solar panels works best when exposed to sunlight directly, not through clouds so if you have plenty of those you are good to go.


Dunno, I've seen in Germany (I am mostly visiting southern parts though) big percentage of houses covered with solar panels so I guess that it works good enough in those regions as well and I even heard that state is buying all the excess energy produced so during summer months can even make some extra money.

Even though I know that you are just bullshitting (unless you got scammed by impersonator which has happened many times before), care to share some proof? Preferably using the scam report format that you can find pinned at the top of this board.

You didn't, but you still claim that it's all US fault and that Russia didn't have any other choice while I just wanted to show that its their standard practice. Eastern Europe and Baltic countries rushed into NATO for a good reason after fall of SSSR, knowing how it is to live under Russian boot, but were naive enough to give their nuclear weapons and now they are paying the price.



Haha good one. Russian claims that Ukraine has US funded WMD labs is as believable as US claims that Saddam Hussein had WMD and that there was no other way other than invading Iraq.And we all know how that ended up.

Russia stopped being main US competition some time ago. And its not like Russia doesn't have a long history of invading neighbouring countries, from Poland and Finland to Hungary and Czechoslovakia. I like how people somehow think that Russia is not like all those other imperialist countries, while being the biggest country in the world. They obviously got all that area peacefully and not by conquering numerous small nations.

I don't say that United States are completely innocent in all his because they aren't, but in the end Putin was the one who decided to send the tanks to Ukraine because they don't know anything about soft power and instead extending their influence to other countries by culture and economy, all they can do is to send tanks, which is a shame.

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To answer OP; no, Russia won't become the next dominant superpower and instead it will probably end like USSR if they continue like this.

What you forgot to mention is that lightlord had a long history of lack of communication and delayed payments, its not like it was the first time he delayed payments and instantly got the negative feedback like you presented it here.

People would probably be more vocal if it was the same situation with Royse777 and businesses he promoted had similar issues before. As far as I know that hasn't been the case and that's why majority of members are willing to give him benefit of the doubt and some time to sort it out before tagging. With that being said, situation with Bitlucy doesn't look good at the moment so I am removing my avatar&personal text.

While it's true that Turkish local board is among the most merited ones (usually 2nd or 3rd most merited local board), you also have to take into consideration amount of posts written in Turkish local board which is also very high. When you calculate merit/post ratio, it turns out that Turkish board definitely has room for another merit source (not going  into quality of posts there, speaking purely about the numbers).

Below you can see local boards merit/post ratio chart for April 2022 (May overview should be out in a couple of days) and you can notice that Turkish board has below average numbers when compared with other local boards (both April and last 12 months), and numbers for May will  be even lower so I am not surprised that @xzone applied for a merit source position.

I have no idea what was the situation back then, but ever since I joined this forum and got into my first campaign (late 2019) I don't remember situation ever being better than it is now when it comes to signature campaigns. I remember situation being much tougher back in the late 2019 when even quality members that are now in some of the best paid campaigns of the forum had issues getting into any. Some even went to Bitvest that was paying like $10 per week for Hero/Legendary rank while situation now is completely opposite as there are more spots than quality members which enables shitposters to easily get into one.



No wonder that they stopped after few months as it makes no sense to pay so much for a signature. Iirc CM also payed some crazy high amount during last bull market but then soon adjusted the rates to a more sustainable ones.

Ah yes, that's the case I was referring to as I remembered I saw similar case before.


Hm I am not so sure about it, as chaser15 has a long history of activity in Phillipines local thread, while AndySt never wrote there and the only local board he was active was the Russian. The only similarity that I can see  is that they were both of part of the Stake campaign when caught doing this.