It is obviously easier to buy merit than to write a good post, and if you have more alt accounts, then you should write more good posts, which requires much more time. Besides, even good posts don't always get merits.

Spammers may not be the brightest, but these kinds of accounts are mostly used in bounty campaigns, and the criteria for such campaigns have become so low that some managers don't even look at where the merits come from or whether a member has negative feedback.

@NurseHub, every forum has a board called Off-topic, so if your medical topics really have to be somewhere, I would suggest that they be there. Of course, such topics also appear in Politics & Society, but I suggest you focus on the topics for which this forum exists.


Newbies can't post there, but obviously you haven't read the rules of that board yet

It is hard for me to understand that people have the need to share such things as personal finances with other people who are not even family members. It should still be a personal thing, because other people shouldn't know about such things, not only because we can get them to do the same thing as us, but also for personal safety.

@AVE5, $55 000 or even $60 000 is not much cheaper than the current price, so if both of you didn't intend to buy significant amounts of BTC, you can't really talk about a missed opportunity. If you had talked about it 1-2 years ago and you bought it then, you might feel some guilt, but it actually turned out well for you.

I suggest you let your friend do what he wants with his money, and you do the same with your money without anyone else knowing about it.

Bitcoin stopped being what Satoshi had in mind a long time ago, but we can't blame companies, funds or governments for that, but the real blame lies with ordinary people who didn't accept that idea. There was enough time for ordinary people to own most of the Bitcoin in circulation before powerful people and companies started buying them, but even if that happened today, those same people would be very happy to exchange their BTC for good old fiat because the profit is simply irresistible.

There is no doubt that over time millions of BTC will end up in the possession of those who care about nothing but profit, but I also think that it is the responsibility of each of us to prevent them from buying everything. If they want Bitcoin so badly, then we must want it even more.

I already wrote to you that you should report the case to the police, especially if you suspect that the fraud came from a company that you believed to be legitimate. It is possible that someone from that company stole your personal data and used it for this scam, or that the whole company was actually just a cover for collecting personal data that they then used for their dirty business.

Maybe one day you wake up and realize that this so-called stablecoin is frozen in your wallet, or that the whole scheme collapsed because the authorities finally proved that the tether guys "print" their tokens without being backed by anything. You know what's worse than keeping your savings in fiat? The fact that you keep it in some kind of tokens backed by a private company that can fail at any moment...

GPTZero -> We are highly confident this text was ai generated (92%)
ZeroGPT -> Your Text is Human written
CopyLeaks -> AI content detected
Scribbr -> Chance that your text is generated by AI 100%
Quillbot -> Chance text is AI-generated 100%

I don't know why ZeroGPT doesn't detect AI, but everything else I've tried says the opposite.

As far as I can see, you are active on the forum, and if you see a really good post, why not reward it with 5 or 10 (maybe even more merits) and that way you can share a lot more than you do through private reviews. There are also people who will never ask anyone to review their posts, and all of them somehow remain out of your reach - and I know there are a lot of good posters who don't get nearly the merits they deserve.

There is no doubt that your intention is good, but you yourself have doubts about the sincerity of those who send you PMs.


Every merits source is in some way a person of interest, especially those like you who offer private reviews - because unlike those who do it publicly, it is much easier to hide bad intentions (alt accounts) when no one but you can see it.

I'm not at all surprised that people do everything to get merits, because for a good part of the members, this forum is, as they say, "a place for work", and nothing more than that.

OP, if you have any faith in what JPM puts out to the public every now and then, it might be wise to sell now and wait for their "prophecy" to come true. I, on the other hand, do not listen to what bankers, crazy politicians and old entrepreneurs say, because otherwise I would invest in gold, stocks and bonds, and not in Bitcoin.

The same JPM published another "spectacular" analysis a few months ago

J.P. Morgan Thinks the Big Crypto Rally Is Overdone

No offense, but you sound like a beginner who doesn't understand what Bitcoin is and what potential it has in the digital world. $14 trillion seems like a lot today, but $1 trillion seemed impossible 10 years ago, right?

I do not claim that such a thing will happen 100%, but by the end of this decade we will have almost 99% of all BTC in circulation, which means about 1.4 million BTC more than today and maketcap could very easily reach $5+ trillion which is not half of what gold has today, but it would certainly be a great success.

@Alana Arden, you are every scammer's dream (unfortunately), because instead of doing one of two possible things - block the number of the person who calls you and claims that you won some money or report the case to the police, you decide to waste your time and ultimately money.

For a successful scam, it is necessary for the scammer to have good tactics, but also for the potential victim to be naive enough to believe the same story. The lesson of the story is that it is not only scammers who should be blamed, but also all those who trust them. It's good to warn others publicly like this, but if you want to do more, warn everyone around you - and why not report the whole case to the police, because it's a bank transaction that can be tracked, and possibly even the money can be returned.

It could be one of the two things you mentioned, and the third possibility that comes to my mind is that the users to whom you give merits may communicate with each other and thus find out that you have become active again. I don't think you can be sure what it is about, because the "community" we are talking about here does not have very high moral principles when it comes to using alt accounts, plagiarizing or using AI.

I already wrote it, but I still think that the best way to reward a post with merit is the natural one, which means that you read the forum and then reward the post that you think is "good" according to your criteria. For me, it makes more sense to use your monthly supply in a way to reward 10-20 posts you come across by using the forum normally, than to wonder if someone is taking advantage of your kindness - and I'm sure some are doing just that.

I wonder if people will ever stop comparing Bitcoin to something it is not comparable to at all? It is not at all "crazy" that Bitcoin is worth more than silver or that perhaps one day its total value will be greater than gold - because there are silver and gold in undetermined quantities on our planet + who knows how much more on other planets and asteroids.

If something exists in very small quantities, and 21 million BTC is actually a very small quantity, and at the same time there is a great demand, then it is quite logical that it will have a great value. Gold&silver bugs will find it a little harder to accept, because those who listened to just such people in the past may feel a little disappointed today because they believed that investing in precious metals would somehow protect them from inflation.

There was a question as to whether investors would show great interest in this way of investing in Bitcoin, and now it is unquestionable that they have firmly bitten the hook and are not letting go. BlackRock as an intermediary obviously instills great confidence in Bitcoin, and the difference between gold and Bitcoin is incomparable - because there is gold in undetermined quantities, and Bitcoin is very limited compared to how huge the market is.

A few years ago, someone compared the number of millionaires with the number of BTC (then there were only 46 million) and concluded that if each of them wanted only 1 BTC, it would not be enough for everyone.


That is interesting information, and it will be even more interesting to see if we will have similar corrections in this bull run.

Is CB so poorly liquid that it cannot support the purchase of 12 000 BTC? I recently looked at a list of CEXs and it says that CB have about 400 000 + BTC - and I wonder if Saylor causes one CEX to start having liquidity problems, where do all the spot ETFs buy from? As of March 8, ETFs hold slightly more than 400 000 BTC + about the same amount if we consider Grayscale.


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I just hope that his goal is not to create a seed with Trezor, and then use it for desktop/mobile wallets. Some people usually do this because they want to have the same wallet on their computer and smartphone, which is of course completely wrong and risky. That's why we have cases where people claim that someone hacked their HW, only to find out later that they saved their seed in the cloud/e-mail or that they used it in some other wallets.

Unless there is no other choice, seed generated in a secure environment should not be entered into any desktop/mobile wallet, and especially not into any online wallet.

It is not surprising that we have such a bull run considering that the SEC finally approved spot ETFs after a year of rejection, and when BlackRock entered the game, it was a sign that things would change. All those who knew how powerful that company was already then had a clear sign that they should start buying BTC, and today we see that they were right.

Even if there is no halving this year, I believe that we would have the same effect on the price, but I also believe that nothing happens without a reason, and that this year was chosen for the perfect combination of favorable events that will result in a significant increase in the price of BTC, and accordingly to that the huge profits that investors and companies will make.


Who could have known that a scammer named Do Kwon would appear almost at the same time as the incompetent Bankman and that together they would cause damage that was measured over $100 billion? Without those two, my personal opinion is that the price of BTC would have stayed at around $30 000.

@zazarb, if I may be curious and ask how it happened that you sent BTC to the wrong address - was it because you typed the address manually or was it due to clipboard malware that changed the address? The latter does not seem like a realistic option to me, because hackers usually do not use deposit addresses on CEXs, but of course there are those who are not very intelligent.

Today, most people want to become rich overnight, and this especially applies to young people who think that cryptocurrencies are some kind of magic money that falls in the form of airdrops and is shared by some rich people who simply have too much money and don't know what to do with it. What seems to me is that people are becoming less and less intelligent, which is not surprising considering that they left "thinking" to computers a long time ago, and with AI apps this is even more pronounced.

If today, on a social network, you would ask a simple question in the following form:

I give you $10 000 to invest in Bitcoin and in 10 years that investment will be worth $100 000 - or you can choose 10 altcoins to invest that money in, but the risk of losing everything is greater than 80%. I wonder if at least 10% would be smart and choose the first option, although it is certain that the majority would decide to gamble, especially since someone gave them money.

I have a feeling that this year will be very special