Marketing means that one wants to sell things. Marketing is more like advertising. I think that it's an inappropriate section. I think that most need to understand money, not how to sell crypto.

So most of the people may need actual financial courses, not marketing. People would need to know how to handle better their money, no matter it's fiat or crypto. And this kind of courses are missing in most schools.
However, I think that even if this kind of courses would exist, they may be highly biased towards fiat and against crypto, since those teaching them would have a certain age (i.e. most not open to new) and a certain background/education (and I keep telling that people into finances/accountancy don't understand bitcoin).

Hence unless there's a teacher with a lot of willingness and open minded, this cannot bring anything good.
And such teachers do exist, but too few; @titular is one such example. He taught his students how to use Electrum and more: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5378518

This sums it up perfectly.
And I think that the only reason he didn't get banned yet is because a huge lot of high rank users simply ignore the entire P&S section (imho this is a very important missing point in the Poll too), allowing that user fly under the radar.

As said in another post, most (or all?) fiat has traces of drugs.

"Tainted" is widely subjective. Indeed, at some point most of the circulating inputs will be tainted at some degree, if you are 100% purist. But services already consider coins tainted only if there are problems somewhere in the last few transactions back. I think that in the future this view will be adopted by everybody, there's no other choice.

Downfall? Au contraire, mon ami
Imho the fact Bitcoin transactions can be tracked on the blockchain makes them being seen as acceptable/okay by the authorities.
They will understand that it's better leave us with our bitcoin than give us ideas to move to Monero and give them even worse headaches

1. A malicious software can "send home" your Electrum wallet and the associated password, allowing somebody else spend your funds.
2. A malicious Electrum clone can "send home" your wallet and the associated password or even directly the seed.
3. A malicious Electrum clone can directly make a transaction sending your coins away (it has your keys, remember?)
4. A clipboard malware can change the address you send to and trick you into sending funds to different address than you intended to (and also HW doesn't fix this!)


As said, VPN doesn't make your computer more secure.
Verifying your Electrum download may help much more than just being careful.
I also think that using a Linux, together with the other safety measures, could, for now be pretty much OK. Still, for very big funds I will not use hot wallet, no matter what.

I guess that "under 30k" is my answer.
Although I usually sell parts of my sig earnings for the daily expenses, at this price I didn't have the hearth to do it.
I do hope a jump will happen rather soon, but no biggie even if it'll take more than a year (although then, unfortunately, I will not be able to hold all my earnings for so long).

I was thinking more to something like some percent, to not take forever.
And maybe I live in a dream world, by buying merits is not so wide spread (as buying accounts) and risky (or riskier) too. And if it's risky and expensive it may not worth the price (one can hope...)



Reporting does help, but I feel that it's an underused feature.
Ignoring them helps them; the shitposts don't get reported, the signatures get spammed, the newbies get scammed. You know the drill...

You're right, but somebody coming back can pretty easily ask around for his post get reviewed and (some) merited if it's the case.
I don't know if there are so many users coming back after 5 years (again, without being hacked or sold).

I have the feeling we try to fix a problem we don't have instead of fixing one we have.


That's what I tried to say, but maybe my choice of words was not the best.
The difference is that I proposed to diminish that slowly, since then:
* users getting some smaller amount of merit will not be demoted instantly and get one more chance
* on the other hand users who didn't get any merit for so long will be demoted, starting to solve this problem

But yeah, any of the two will do

Imho you are only partly right.
An old account posting useful stuff has probably received some merit already, even if the posts are ancient.
An old account coming back after 5 years may not be interested in signatures / earning (unless sold or hacked!), may probably be more interested in the actual discussions (which will probably get him merit fast).

So yes, you are somewhat right, demoting users would be "not nice". But it may solve more problems than it would create.

Maybe Theymos would start thinking at least on slowly decaying the airdropped merit (and related rank), and that's for everybody, no exceptions.

From what I know, Charles have never finished yet the Monaco grand prix. So the odds are not so much in his favor, although his car is the best.
Even more, it's raining now in Monte Carlo. This opens Pandora's box. The track is overly dangerous even on dry track; I fear there may be more Red Flag than actual race.
So pretty much anybody can win today.

^^ I find these already important enough for a minor release; and the improvements to LN also matter.
I think that's not only about KeepKey

Learning is already a benefit. However, let me help you a little:

Some want to benefit from this forum by learning how to tackle best the cryptocurrencies.
Some want to benefit from this forum by advertising their businesses.
Some want to benefit from this forum by selling things (usually art or collectibles).
Some want to benefit from this forum by trying to do tasks for coins.

Think of this forum as a community. Many people. Many goals. All benefit in a way or another.
How could one give you an answer that works for you if he doesn't know your goals?

I think that you are not being completely honest with us (or yourself), I think that you may have heard that some friends of you are earning money and you thought you'll give it a shot, but don't know where to start from. Is that the case?

It's not so easy to find out a scam, even legit altcoin project can end up as scam. On the other hand, the right coin, bought in the right moment and (very important!) also sold in the right moment can give nice profits.
On the long term altcoins have disappointed me. So selling is just as important as buying.
But can you find out those moments? I'm not so sure. You have to be either very lucky, either very experienced. Or both.

So you better step back and get on learning. Crypto is not a simple "get rich quick" world. Altcoins, especially, can easily be called "get poor quick".



Just to make sure... stable coins is a term used for coins pegged to certain value (usually USD or gold), so Bitcoin, Ethereum or BNB are not actually stable coins.
And if you want to call them good coins, I will agree on Bitcoin, but not on those altcoins.

Just another idea/direction: for only getting the balance of an address, maybe using a local block explorer (maybe also with its own DB), connected to the same Bitcoin Core daemon, would be more useful?

My guess that this lovely novel is a simple attempt for fishing for some newbies to be mentored scammed.
I mean, come on, somebody trading 300k is coming to post like this?  

The best case scenario is that a newbie will pay for the service, but most probably won't learn anything that's not already written here.
The worse case scenario will be that a newbie would pay for the service and also lose his money for some shitcoin or scheme.

PS. Needless to say, I hope I'm wrong, but be wary.

Although I don't really have one good pick for the next winner, I would be afraid to bet on Leclerc because:
* he is kinda building up a history of blowing it when the crowd is on his side
* Ferrari's last upgrade seems to be a bit too "unstable" (it was not only Leclerc abandoning at Barcelona)

At least Verstappen and Russell also want to prove this or that, maybe even Hamilton too, and they can easily be better picks for winner in Monaco.

I've said it before: don't believe what the big companies say, just because they pinky swear it.

Greed is big. The investors want results, i.e. trucks of money.
Policies change over time and they may tell you or they may "forget" to tell you about that.

Users' data is a hugely valuable asset. And, believe it or not, the related legislation is so thin, we can say we're still in the times of wild west.

In my country Children's day is in June 1st.
But indeed, it depends greatly on the country / region.
Still, don't minimize the importance of June 1st, the list of countries celebrating Children's day then is not small.

Really?! This is the way to secure the coins? Get PC from "good" sources? Aren't the components built in the same few factories? Will the malware avoid the computer if certain brand names are on it?
This is just a small drop in the inaccuracies (and I'm being generous with the choice of words) from your post.

VPN is very small part in the equation.
PC maker most probably doesn't matter at all (unless you buy infected second hand and you don't know what to do).
And in what universe does the look/layout matter or is related to a hack?!

If one wants privacy then he has to use Tor and his own server/node and avoid KYC platforms.
If one wants to secure his coins he needs cold storage, or hardware wallet, or, if he knows how to properly do it and doesn't spend, paper wallet.
As simple as that; 2 lines.

While teaching them, like a game, this or that (I've thought my son to use hardware wallet, but he doesn't know the implications), I think that pushing financial information too early will not really help (it's too much information, too much background to be told and can easily become boring). The technical info can be even more boring.
Yeah, starting a miner and seeing it hashing can also be fun.

But no, getting kids take care of a mining farm looks as child labor to me; that can break and needs fixed (i.e. needs technical skills) or can get on fir if not done properly. Heat and noise (in case of Bitcoin miners) can be also not suitable for kids.

My opinion is, especially as Children's Day is near, is to let the children be children. Let them enjoy their childhood, even if that means a bit bigger effort for you.
There will be time for teaching them these things when they'll get bigger. Now it's their time to play.

Just read my post, just a few before that address was posted.
It was only a test. Why are you getting freaked out for everything?!