That's true, but I get what he means, and maybe OP is new to the game.

People are trying to do what OP suggests with USB stick miners, aka "lottery mining".  There's no harm in doing it, but you'd be better off playing Lotto every week, and I'm pretty sure the chances of mining a block with an ASIC in your home are still very remote.  IMO it's far better to join a pool and at least earn something rather than be disappointed constantly by earning absolutely nothing--all while using up electricity at your own expense.

But good luck, OP.  Solo or pool mining bitcoin can be fun, but it's just not profitable for individuals these days.

Well, when they ask you for a phone number it's because you have to enter a code into the ATM from an SMS text they send you.  As to why they need to do that, I have no idea because that's not KYC.  It's easy enough to either use a burner phone or get someone to receive the SMS for you, so they're not getting any reliable identity info from you that way. 

My guess is that they sell the phone numbers to spammers, the same way a lot of websites and other organizations that ask you for your e-mail address do.

The Bitcoin ATM space is still like the wild west these days.  I recall reading an interview from the owner of CoinFlip saying that they do things legitimately but that other ATM owners may not, and nobody is really paying attention to it as far as the government goes.  I totally believe that, because there's obviously no standard in place as to what information they need to get from their customers.  That'll probably change, but right now it's a free-for-all.

What in the hell are you talking about?  Since when were any of them linked to bitcoin in the first place? 

I was hoping that it would be you leaving the forum like you said you were, though for some reason I can't find that thread where you said you were going to--I'm 99% sure it was you, but I am 100% sure you know damn well members don't understand a thing you're saying since you made a thread about that not too long ago.  Why don't you stop it with all of these threads and just post in the ones that already exist?  You're not sparking much discussion by creating threads with topics that are all over the place.

I don't doubt anything you've written, nor have I seen any evidence of Voskcoin trying to scam anyone in his videos.  The stuff he shills I don't use, so I can't even say he's vouching for shitty products.  I just can't stand his videos, because he comes off as a braggart (especially in the titles of his vids, like this one, [url]this one[/url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDNAouHV9G0], and others).  There's something about his whole "I make so much money doing X" that really bothers me, and his smarmy tone of voice probably contributes to that.

Nevertheless, I do agree OP's claim is a false one until proven otherwise and this whole thread should probably be in the Reputation section rather than Scam Accusations.

LOL.  My feelings exactly.

I am no fan of emojis and rarely use them, not on this forum, not on my phone, not anywhere.  They were cool back in 1997 when I started to use the internet regularly, but they're just silly to me now.  But that's just me--if other members want to use them (and want a wider variety), why not?  On the other hand, as pointed out by BlackHatCoiner, LoyceV, and Charles-Tim, there are ways to insert emojis that aren't necessarily available from the forum.

There's a very thin line between ice cream and poop.  And keep in mind that the end result of eating ice cream is evident in your toilet about 16-24 hours later.

No doubt; I've certainly never heard of it, and most new coins/tokens are pure shit anyway.  It's unfortunate that they named it after your bitcointalk moniker, but I doubt it'll end up being much trouble for you.  The only way it will is if it became a popular project, in which case your posts here might show up on a Google search and people might think you're linked with the token.

Not surprised someone contacted you on telegram, but what can you do?  I don't think it was anything intentional on the Little Mouse project's part, just coincidental.

Yeah, it's the right section but obviously you've done zero reading before suggesting changes to the forum.  I would suggest you do so, and if you had you would have realized that there are many threads from members asking the same thing you're asking--and there are no new answers at present.

There's not going to be a mobile-friendly version of this site, at least until that fabled new software gets rolled out, and even then I'm not sure if that's part of it.  So right now just deal with it if you have to access the forum on your smartphone.

Yeah, I'm not holding my breath for it to be released, and I'm also not looking forward to any change to the forum.  I very much like it the way it is and don't see any reason to fix something that isn't broken. 

By the way OP, everything that was written in this thread has been written in all the other threads dealing with gripes about forum updates.  I don't think Theymos is paying attention to any of our comments.  If he is, he's certainly not acknowledging them.

That's what it looks like to me, because mods usually don't call out scams or potential scams like that.  It's definitely unusual, though I have to say I applaud LZ for doing that.  One of the things I've always found so bizarre about bitcointalk is the fact that scams aren't moderated, because on most other discussion forums if there's even a whiff of dishonesty, you'll get booted with no option to appeal.

Do you know that to be true for a fact?  I honestly have no idea how much discretion moderators have when it comes to situations like this.  If scams truly aren't moderated, then I would think Theymos wouldn't approve of what LZ did on this one.  I'd be curious to hear from a mod (or Theymos) for clarification.

"Jesus" "Christ" or "Jesus fucking Christ" has been in the lexicon of millions of people as an expression of frustration for many years.  It's not a trend. 

Did I piss you off or something?  You left this on my trust page: "The Pharmacist, A very valuable and objective member. His messages are always pleasant to read and discussions with him are satisfying. Doesn't miss any of Foxpup's parties 🦊".  Do you now think that I think I have an inflated ego on the forum?  Believe me, I don't--compared to a lot of other members here who know a lot about bitcoin and those who've been here much longer than me, I'm a complete nonentity.  I do think I make better posts than those common shitposters you mentioned, but so do you.  That's something to strive for, not be ashamed of. 

Also, I'm proud to be in Foxpup's campaign because it's exclusive.  I don't even know how many members Foxxxxy has in it, but I don't think it's all that many.  When people think enough of me to offer me a slot in something like Foxpup's campaign....yeah, I'm grateful and I'm not hesitant to say that.  As far as being an "influencer" goes, I'm not being modest by saying I'm not one.  I don't think I'm influencing anyone on this forum--and it's not like bitcointalk is Youtube, where those influencers have thousands or millions of subscribers listening to every word they say and buying whatever the influencer is selling.  This forum is just a discussion board and I'm just an avatar and a username with no following whatsoever.

Sure, but why in the world would you want to do that (and no disrespect to you, mprep)?  It's not going to make the mods do any more moderation than they already are, and if it's not an anonymous donation it could be seen as a bribe--or could be a bribe, in fact. 

I've no idea how much Theymos pays the moderators here, but the forum certainly has enough money to pay them well if he chooses to do so.  Having a donation fund specifically for mods would be a waste of money.  Bitcointalk probably needs more moderators, given how much spam and how many shitposts slip through the cracks, and Theymos could hire more if he wanted to but apparently he doesn't.

By the way, the term "a modest proposal" is supposed to refer to something written as satire, and I'm not sure if OP meant his post as such.  It didn't come across as satirical if that's what he was going for.

I don't think Coinbase allows a single person to have multiple accounts, nor would they let someone open an account on behalf of a minor (though I'm certainly not 100% sure).  The suggestion that OP share the dad's Coinbase account seems like the best one--but it depends on whether the father trusts the son enough with it.

In the US I believe minors can open savings accounts (though I'm not sure if they need a guardian to cosign).  I'm not sure if minors can open checking accounts or not, which would be what OP needs in order to link with PayPal or any other payment processor.  I had a savings account when I was a minor, but that was a looong time ago.

OP, I wish you luck.  Be sure to save for the future as much as you can--and I'm talking about fiat, stocks, crypto, or any other asset or currency class.  Believe me, you'll be very, very glad that you did when you're older.  You might not be thinking about having a family or a house or any of that right now, but as you get older you and your priorities change.  Having enough money to do what you want to do is super important.  Good luck to you!

It sounds like the lead developer left the company and negotiated a deal that allowed him to take the code with him (as dkbit98 said).  Obviously the details of that aren't available, but it looks like that dev wasn't able to use the Cobo name, so he had to brand the new devices using a new one (Keystone).  

It's an interesting situation and one that I hope doesn't ever happen with Ledger or Trezor, which are the HW wallets that most crypto owners use, if they use a HW wallet at all.  

The thought that came into my head is that the Cobo wallet might be a good thing to buy as a collectible, since they're no longer going to be manufactured.  I might be interested in buying one for just that purpose.

Edit: I just took a look at their website, and it doesn't appear that they have any version of the Cobo wallet for sale (as RickDeckard mentioned).  I did notice that the Cobo Vault Essential and Cobo Vault Pro models use AAA batteries, and the fully rechargeable model (which costs almost $500....WTF?  What HW wallet in this day and age uses AAA or any store-bought batteries?

I myself don't care one whit about "random investors".  However, it's hard to argue that Elon Musk's comments weren't worth talking about in the context of bitcoin (and dogecoin for that matter).  I agree that there were way too many threads about him, but I don't think they all should have been moved to Off-Topic--the ones I saw here and there were focused on his influence on bitcoin, which is a real thing whether you like it or not.

But hey, let the mods do what they want to do as long as it's not something egregiously unreasonable, which this wasn't. 

Is the concern here that posts made in the Off-Topic section don't count toward signature campaign earnings?  OP is in the 777Coin campaign, so I'm assuming that might at least be part of why he's complaining about this.

Somehow I doubt OP will grace us with his presence again.  Frankly, if you can't formulate a question in a way that makes it clear what information you're after, your writing skills probably suck--and since OP probably wants to use bitcointalk as a place of employment, if I were the hiring manager I'd toss his application into the trashcan so fast, Einstein would be rolling over in his grave.

Excellent way to point out the obvious, bro.  Wouldn't be surprised if you're an alt account of OP, getting in two posts in the same thread.  Or am I just being way to cynical?

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And here's another complete noob who flocked to this thread right after registering....more evidence for my argument.

That's an interesting statistic, and I won't even ask where you got it from.  It's proof that most of the early adopters of bitcoin outgrew this forum--I just wonder how long it took on average for them to do so.  Betcha it was right around the time that signature campaigns started to wreak havoc on bitcointalk in the form of shitposting, when the signal/noise became so low that it became obvious that no one was reading anything.

I wonder how many members registered in late 2017 are still active today, because that time period saw tons of accounts being created and I think a lot of them went inactive after the ICO boom went bust. 

Surprised you're congratulating OgNasty, suchmoon.

Indeed.  Look at this nonsense:

Though the post is written in English, I have no fucking idea what he's trying to say.  The post makes absolutely no sense.  This thread didn't need to get bumped unless someone with something significant to contribute felt like telling their story.  Seems obvious that the two members you mentioned are alt accounts, since they wrote the same "Thanks zasad@ for giving me chance for an interview" thing.  Jesus.

Whaa?  I'm a proud member of Foxpup's Merit Cycling Club and I don't consider myself an "influencer" (I hate that term with a passion) on the forum or anywhere else.  What I am is a merit source, and part of that "cycling" is handing out merits to lower-ranked members who make good posts so they can rank up in a reasonable time.  I think you're painting a lot of members with a very broad brush.

Kucoin, maybe?  They don't seem to ask for any KYC, though I don't know if that's true if you want to trade with fiat (I'm assuming not even if they deal with fiat).  Kucoin might not be one of the biggest exchanges, but they have a decent reputation with very few complaints that I've seen--and they have tons of altcoins to trade.

As mentioned, all the big exchanges are heavily regulated and are going to require full KYC.  That's just the nature of the game these days and it's only going to get worse as time goes on.  P2P exchanges might not require KYC, but the only one I've ever used (BTCPop if I remember correctly) had lousy liquidity and I wasn't impressed with them at all.  Not sure how the other ones are.

I'm in the same boat and was just talking about how much USD value I would have right now had I kept all the doge I once had when it was worth a fraction of a cent.  It really is unbelievable and I too never thought it would get as high as it has recently.  Oh well.  I try not to think about it too much.

As far as what OP is talking about, that kind of behavior from Yobit doesn't surprise me whatsoever.  They went from being a legit exchange with awful customer service to an outright scammy crypto exchange over the course of 5-6 years or so.  It's a shame that there are so many people still use them.

I'm actually glad this thread got bumped, as I hadn't seen it before and I've been watching a lot of Youtube videos about mining lately and Voskcoin's channel is one that frequently pops up in my searches.  I can't say I particularly care for his style of delivery (though I have to say that there are one or two other popular mining Youtubers who are way more annoying), but some of his content is informative to non-miners such as myself.

That said, being paid to promote products (or getting said products for free) kind of gives a person a biased slant when it comes time to review them, and I definitely take everything I see and hear on his and other channels with big grains of salt.  It's unfortunate that smaller miners either don't make videos or they don't show up in the search results--like Philipma1957's.

All I see when I search for crypto mining vids on Youtube are thumbnails with whiteboy faces typically with a [shocked/confused/angry] look on their faces or with their hand covering it to convey an attitude of [dismay/disappointment/whatever].  Youtubers nowadays all follow the same script, and it's fucking annoying.

It surprised me that bill gator made it onto the list this time around--not because I distrust him or have anything against him, but because apparently a lot of other members do.  Plus I don't think he's been all that active as of late. 

Carlton Banks is another head scratcher, as he doesn't have a lot of positive feedback and has a DT negative as well.  I can't say I fully understand how the DT list is picked each cycle, but it's damn clear to me that it ain't what it used to be.  I think the forum should seriously consider going back to the way it used to be, where it took a lot of time to establish community trust before you could even get on DT2.  True, that depended on how DT1 was selected, but back then it was a major deal to add even one new member to DT2 because of the power it gives an individual.  Now it's more or less no big deal.