Yep, the one where they add you to fake groups without your permission is probably the most popular way to get scammed on Telegram, and yet again it happens because that option is enabled by default, same like it is for automatically downloading files. And as we know, new users rarely bother to check apps thoroughly.

These two options being enabled by default never made much sense to me, especially since Telegram is privacy oriented chatting platform (or at least they claim to be) and its the cause of like 90% of the Telegram scams.

Big problem when it comes to investing in altcoins is that even if everything checks out (good idea, team is experienced, whitepaper decently written etc) there is a huge chance that project will fail and their token will be eventually worthless. That's just the nature of any startup, let alone crypto oriented one that has even bigger chances to fail.

Sup @GazetaBitcoin (and other fellas)

I've been reluctant so far to tag OPs of the threads that are using bumping services as I wasn't 100% sure that they were part of it. The only time (iirc) when I tagged them if they were doing the same thing as the other bumping  accounts, like it happened recently with that bumping group that consisted of Copper Members.

What I sometime do though is that I try to communicate in their thread and explain them how bad and pointless what they are doing actually is, like I did in Ownr Ann group recently and from what I can see they stopped with that so I guess it worked.

I would suggest you to check Mullvad. Price is reasonable ($5 per month), it has good amount of available servers and speed is also very good. The best thing about it is that is very privacy oriented (probably the best one in that regard I tried so far) so if that is high on your priority list you should definitely check it out. And yeah it has iOS app, I tried it on iPad.

Hah yeah, we are lucky that people behind our main payment processors Paycek are very active and so far managed to get hundreds of businesses on board: from bars and restaurants to car dealerships, hotels, supermarkets and even couple of cities so there you can even pay utility bills using bitcoin.


Maybe, but I was just surprised to see some  people here advocating for not spending bitcoin, at least not yet and I always thought of bitcointalk as a place that gathers people who want to spend bitcoin and use for what was it initially intended for. Well, at least more than in some other places.


I used to operate that way, waiting for bitcoin to reach certain price and then spend, but now honestly I don't care and I stopped checking the price. I would of course time it if I am buying something expensive like a house or car, but for stuff like PC hardware or something in that price range I don't care anymore. Just month ago I bought new monitor and keyboard using bitcoin and didn't care that price is like 40% down from ATH.


True that. After all, crazier things have happened when it comes to crypto

Damn, that's a sneaky way to scam someone and the one that is very easy to fall for if you are doing business on Telegram as there is a lot of stuff going on there all the time. I know its not the mistake that you specifically did, but I would advise everyone to disable the option to automatically download any files as this thing is enabled by default on Telegram and I heard many stories about people getting rekt that way.


I can completely relate to your feelings right now as back in 2017 I went through something similar: my bitcoin wallet got hacked and I lost 0.1 BTC which was basically all I had at the moment. Even though the amount lost is smaller than yours I also thought about giving up and leaving crypto as it was very disheartening to loose everything. But after few days of mourning I owned my own mistakes and continue the journey, this time being way more careful than before. In the end it proved to be the best decision ever so I suggest you to do the same, no matter how hard it looks now.

Kao sto sam i obecao prosli put, evo i mjesecnog pregleda naseg boarda u nesto razumnijem vremenskom roku. Podaci uz pomoc kojih sam napravio chartove su preuzeti od @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboarda and @TryNinja Ninjastic.spacea kojima ovom prilikom jos jednom zahvaljujem.

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Broj postova  u periodu 01.01.-31.03.

U navedenom periodu na nasem boardu napisan je 351 post, sto je nastavak negativnoig trenda i solidan pad u onsiu na 2/2022 tijekom kojeg je napisano 418 postova. Koliko sam primjetio, neki dosra aktivni memberu su skroz prestali sa aktivnoscu, a i oni najaktivniji imaju manje postova nego inace sto ne iznenadjuje jer se jedno veze uz drugo. Kad se pogleda onaj drugi chart, vidi se da nam je ovo u biti i najslabiji rezultat uopce, bar otkad imamo ove podatke. U biti, jedini slabiji mjesec po chartovima je bio 12/2020, ali to je iskljucivo zato smo smo dobili nove child boardove pa su se tijekom prebacivanja topica podaci malo poremetili te je ispalo da smo bili manje aktivni nego sto smo ustvari bili.






Sto se tice usporedbe sa ostalim boardovima, i dalje smo u sredini ali iskljucivo zato sto je vecina drugih boardova takodjer oslabila. Standardni boardovi su na vrhu kao i uvijek, a isto se moze reci i za one najmanje aktivne. Jedini koji su napravili dobar pomak su pakistanci koji stvarno imaju super brojeve s obzirom da nemaju uopce svoj board nego sve piso u jednom threadu, a ni Nigerijci koji su u istoj situaciji takodjer nisu uopce losi te od njih ocekujem da prestignu i nas slijedeci mjesec.




Kao i prosli put, evo i usporedbe broja clanova po boardovima. Nisam ocekivao da se brojevi u tom chartu puno mijenjaju kroz mjesece, ali u nasem slucaju razlika je dosta velika: dok smu u 2/2022 imali 39 clanmova koji su napisali makar jedan post, taj broj je tijekom proslog mjeseca pa za skoro jednu trecinu, na samo 28 aktivnih clanova. Doduse, to i ne cudi s obzirom na nikad manji broj napisanih postova.




Ovaj chart je novitet i uveden je na prijedlog naseg uvazenog clana Fatforka te pokazuje odnos broja aktivnih clanova te napisanih postova. Iz charta je vidljivo da aktivniji boardovi imaju i veci ratio sto je logicno jer je ipak lakse pisati sto vise aktivnih membera pojedini board ima.



Analiza merita za period 01.03 -31.03.

Kao sto je vidljivo iz charta dolje, tijekom proslog mjeseca na nasem boardu podijeljeno je 118 merita sto je solidan pad u odnosu na 2/2022 tijekom kojeg je podijeljeno 149 merita. Kad se uzme nikad manji broj napisanih postova, broj merita je jos i dobar a i ne mislim da ce se drasticno promjeniti osim ako ne dobijemo neke nove clanove koji imaju volje grindati prema visim rankovima, a takvih bas i nema na vidiku.



Kao i po broju psotova, i tu smo negdje u sredini te ne ocukujem da idemo dolje. Doduse, vise zaslugom drugih koji takodjer nisu pre aktivni a manje nasom.



Na merit/posyt ratio se nemamo sta zaliti, to izgleda super s obzirom na situaciju, jedino je steta sto imamo potencijala za biti jedni od najboljih po tom pitanju, ali za tako nesto ipak bi trebali ili nove clanove, ili ove trenutne da se malo trgne i imaju volje doci do najviseg ranka. Mozda kad krene pravi bear market i ljudima ponestane posla i zanimacija na drugim mjestima.

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Lista aktivnih clanova naseg boarda u periodu 1.03-31.03

Na vrhu je zna se vec tko, ali i njegovi brojevi nisu na razini iz proteklih mjeseci, ako ni vecini ostalih, ukljucujuci i mene. Kao sto sam ranije rekao, sve jednostavno vuce drugo te manji broj aktivnih clanova neminovno uzrokujhe da i ostali clanovi manje pisu, jedno bez drugoga ne ide. Gledajuci malo situaciju oavj mjesec, ne ocekujem nista bolje rezulatte ni od slijedeceg pregleda, pogotovo jer nam je glavni spammer bez kampanje.

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Yeah of course, we still didn't reach that point where we can easily  buy everyday stuff like food and groceries using bitcoin (as a mater of fact, in Croatia we can even do that as the biggest supermarket chain accepts bitcoin through payment processor for online purchases) but I was more aiming at those that are avoiding to spend bitcoin even when they can for simple things.


That's true, but first step imho is them accepting bitcoin via payment processors and when they see that they have plenty of traffic, we can maybe see direct payments.

From my experience talking with people that are not interested/reluctant to buy bitcoin, their main concerns when it comes to using bitcoin for payments are volatility and the fact that they are responsible for safety of their bitcoin and not the bank. As I said, majority of people are ready to trade freedom for the sense of lack security and I don't expect that to change ever. If anything, its only getting worse.


Difference between sportsbet and exchanges is that sportsbet doesn't have (afaik) their own cryptocurrency/blockchain like many of the exchanges do. I would like for exchanges to focus more on bitcoin, but honestly I don't see it happening.


Majority of them will simply opt for some payment processor first and I can understand that choice looking from their point of view as even if they get crypto directly, they still have to pay their suppliers, taxes etc and all that is done in fiat. So then they have to sell bitcoin to pay all of that, and we know that fees are not negligible. But who knows, after enough people buy their stuff that way, maybe they decide to accept bitcoin directly.

Buddy, Bitwings was suspicious three years ago when they started bounty campaign (it really surprised me how no one bothered to ask them about mobile phone that can mine 2 ETH per month) and its been obvious for almost two years now (since I created this thread) that Bitwings is nothing but a scam.

Regarding your BWN tokens, you might as well forget about them and all those promises about having stabile price and being able to buy smartphones and laptops with them.

Well, if you hadn't opened a new thread I wouldn't have to ask the question. And those posts in previous thread weren't off-topic at all as people talked about your service, asked questions and share opinions so I would say on-topic stuff and pretty normal for a new service that doesn't have much info on the website. By the way, if you think that some posts are off-topic, you can always report them to the mods and let them sort that out.

Once again I am suggesting you to handle the things in a more professional manner if you want to have any sort of success here and not lock threads and open new ones after couple of tough questions.

Just the fact that they came to bitcointalk to advertise altcoin project that has plagiarized whitepaper shows that no one on their team knows absolutely nothing about bitcointalk, but I guess someone told them that bitcointalk is the place to be so here they are.


For majority of altcoin projects "decentralization" is just a buzzword in order to attract investors while in reality they don't care about it at all.


It is rare, but it's not the first time I saw project creators come to scam accusation threads and threatening people with legal suits, demanding for threads to be removed, asking mods to remove the thread and other similarly laughable stuff.

Is Bitcoin getting into mainstream slower than we would like? Sure, but I don't think that bitcoin is slow at all. Keep in mind that bitcoin is around for a little bit more than a decade which is nothing really for something so innovative and first of its kind.


While banks and governments are certainly not big fans of bitcoin and are a big reason why people are reluctant to start using bitcoin, I don't think that its solely their fault. First of all, we have to ask ourselves do we use bitcoin enough for what is originally intended for. I hear even on this forum people saying that they are saving bitcoin and spending fiat only and if bitcoiners are saying that, how can we expect that others that are way less informed about bitcoin will start using it?

Question is whether average Joe would be interested in bitcoin even without the banks/government FUD? The thing is, majority of people don't like personal responsibility, "be your own bank" thing and will regularly sacrifice freedom for a sense of false security, so for them bitcoin will always be a scary thing to some degree. That also explains why so many people keep their crypto on the exchanges and other centralizes services instead of their own non custodial wallets.


Those business have their own tokens to push so I don't expect from them any help when it comes to making bitcoin more appealing to the masses.

Yep, any that is not a bounty section, which is nothing but a spam dumpster so no wonder that you didn't get any merit in all your time here. Stick to the boards and topics that you have some interest, engage in conversations, be ready to learn and merit will find your way. This forum is so much more than bounty section where you spent majority of your time.

One important thing to add is to take your time and read Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ thoroughly so you don't repeat some classic newbie mistakes like getting banned due plagiarism.

Merit airdrop was only one time thing, at the moment merit system was implemented.


It may look hard when you got 0 merit so far, but once you start posting regularly outside of bounty section you will see that it ain't that hard at all. And no, you don't get merit by only helping others, often even asking a right question and showing genuine interest in bitcoin can get you merit.

All you have to know about merit is in the link below
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0

Pro tip:if you want to get some merit, start posting outside of bounty section.

Hah, good luck with that. Who exactly will you sue over this?


Things doesn't work like that, that negative feedback has to disappear and everything is good once you fix the whitepaper. You will find that standards here are much higher when it comes to judging altcoin projects so unless you are 100% clean(which your project obviously wasn't), you won't have good time here.


Exactly. So if someone here on bitcointalk calls you a scam and leaves negative feedback, its their prerogative and there is nothing that you can do about it.

My guess is that group probably changed the name.


Why don't you contact the TG username that is listed on the NFT Chat group and check whether offer is legit? That's probably the best way to clear this out.

I am surprised to see that scammy exchange at the top of the list as from what I know they are owned by a russian guy Yaroslav Yarovenko, who is behind another scam exchange, Coinsbit. I guess they used this as an opportunity to scam more people out of their money.


He is probably referring to this



This. People shouldn't generally keep in any coins on exchange, but if your are Russian its even more dangerous as all this can change overnight and Binance can easily freeze your assets.


All research? I don't believe it. That percentage is just Putin's propaganda and nothing else, there's no way in hell that 80% of Russians support the war. After all, can you really trust any polls that are coming from Russia, given the circumstances? Their elections are heavily rigged for decades, let alone something like polls in the middle of war.

He is certainly not offering that kind of money if he doesn't think that he will profit from it, but do you really think that he would spend 40 billion dollars as a way to promote Dogecoin, when he can do it for free on Twitter anyway? This would be extremely stupid move and he didn't make all those billions by being stupid. He for sure has some bigger plans for it and not to shill some some shitcoin.


I don't like Musk and all that stuff about him shilling Dogecoin, changing opinion about Bitcoin etc, but I am not so sure that Twitter would be any worse if he takes it over as they have been very restrictive lately when it comes to stuff that you can say and not getting banned. The only question is whether he is serious about all that freedom of speech thing or he is just bullshiting, which wouldn't be the first time.


Movie buffs will understand the meme

He explicitly stated that his topic/post is not about his 2FA issues and that's why he didn't provide more info. I guess he will do that once he opens a new one in appropriate board.

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@OP I suggest that you lock this topic since you already got the answer. You can find "lock topic" option in the bottom left corner.