Well of course that some description helps, I don't remember ever leaving the comment blank (at least not intentionally) instead letting moderator to figure out what's wrong with the reported post. Thing that helps us with that is that forum "remembers" the comments that we use so it's not like you have to enter the description from scratch, at least not when you are mass reporting thread bumping posts as when you click on the comment space, you get descriptions you used offered.

What you might consider using is suchmoon's [HACK] One-click mod report, not for the faint of heart that makes reporting faster, even though many of the active spambusters are still doing it standard way.

Yeah I know, it's much harder than it looks, to find something that ticks both of those boxes. Before settling with ExpressVPN few years ago I tried few other that were supposed to be very good (like NordVPN and ProtonVPN) but all of them had some issues when it comes to streaming services. Either it was speed, Netflix reliability (NordVPN) or low amount of servers that work with Netflix (ProtonVPN) or not working with Amazon at all.


I am looking at their website now and it seems that they improved a lot compared to the last time I checked (iirc it was 2019). I see that they have wider selection of servers now and  since 1 month of their "Plus" package costs only $10 I will definitely give it a go.


I will give it a go if ProtonVPN turns out not to be good for my needs, and it seems like its even cheaper than the one I am using at the moment.


Not really interested in free versions as from my experience free VPN versions are good for only the most basic browsing purposes and nothing else and I have no issues paying something 5-10 USD per month if it means it will work hassle free and without any restrictions. You know the saying, "if something is free, you're the product".

I reported dozens (if not hundreds ) of fake wallets on Google Play and I know for a fact that they don't verify that info at all. Those that submit fake apps can write anything they want there which of course they are exploiting as much as they can.


Keep in mind that people are also more prone to leave a negative review than a good one (you know, why would I bother with writing a review if everything works good) so you get somewhat distorted feedback how good some application actually is.


That's also a possibility, given how easy and cheap is to get fake reviews and ratings, and how slow Google and inefficient Google is when it comes to removing those.

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Rule of thumb; 4,9-5 rating on Google Play= fake app/fake ratings

I've been using ExpressVPN for a couple of years now and so far I haven't had any issues with them whatsoever. My subscription ends in 2 weeks and I see here that some people raised legit concerns regarding them and privacy they provide so now I am looking at the competition and seriously thinking about getting something else.

Since one of the things I use VPN for are streaming services (Netflix and Amazon mainly), are there any VPNs on the market (other than ExpressVPN which I know works very good for this) that can handle 4k streaming without issues, with high amount of available servers that consistently work for streaming sites?

Sup fellas (this should really be the mandatory thing to write here lol)


Looking at the posts, I can understand why some of those reports are marked bad. Don't get me wrong, they are mostly not very constructive posts and I have nothing against posts like that getting deleted, but they don't look like a regular bumping spam either but just a bunch of people arguing and complaining. From my experience, posts like that often end up as unhandled

To be honest, I prefer mods handling cases like this, rather than leaving reports like that as unhandled which is extremely annoying, at least for me. I mean, if its bad then its bad, as unhandled post that is older than 2 weeks is euphemism for "soft bad" but I guess mods sometime don't wanna ruin people's reporting percentage which could cause people being reluctant to report posts. At least that's how I see leaving posts unhandled indefinitely.


While that sounds good on paper, would it actually work? I mean, do moderators work like that or this is just your suggestion how this could be sorted in the future? Iirc, I tried something like that year or two ago, with no success so I just gave up on that approach.

For me it it all depends on the competition each year. In some years I would agree that Don't Look Up ain't good enough to be nominated for Best Picture award, but given how kinda weak the last year was, I am not surprised that it ended getting nominated and same thing goes for last year which was also kinda weak. Covid really affected film industry and it will take some time before studios starts producing movies at the speed they were prior to 2020.


Yeah I think its a good bet, given the odds and how good he was in the role. Then again, I wouldn't put a lot of money on that bet as I doubt that underdog will win two years in the row.


You can copy a whole script word for word, as long as you credited the original creators of the movie and that's exactly what creators of CODA so all is clear there. It's not like they copied the idea and then "forgot"to mention original writers. Same thing happened with The Departed: they credited original writers as we could see the fact that it was remake didn't stop them from winning Best Picture Oscar.

Piece of trivia from movie history: Akira Kurosawa earned more money from the rights that he got for A Fistfull of Dollars than he got for Yojimbo, the movie that was the basis for Fistfull of Dollars. What happened is that Sergio Leone basically copied the idea and script from Akira Kurosawa, but he didn't pay for the rights to use it, nor he mentioned it. In the end Kurosawa sued him and he got certain percentage of the films profit which in the end was much higher than he earned from Yojimbo.

I am with you on this, and as I said I liked the movie but I just don't understand what is so controversial in the movie that would call for ban of any sort or that we should be lucky that it didn't get banned. It's a good satire, but it's definitely not touching any hard subjects. A-list cast tells you that this is a mainstream movie and not some subversive indie film that might actually upset someone.


Yeah I heard about the case and we all know which one would be the favorite, unfortunately. I hope that all this agenda pushing might cause counter-reaction, like it happened in the late 60s that brought us New Hollywood. These things happen in cycle (at least for now) as then we had the 80s that were kinda purist, which was followed by much darker and more violent 90s. We just need some directors with balls.

While I generally liked the movie I don't see anything controversial going on there that would call for censorship of any sort. Unlike some other countries, United States don't have much issues with filmmakers criticizing and ridiculing politicians. For example, remember Fahrenheit 9/11 that won the Oscar back in 2005, or Vice that was also made by McKay and that also won Best Picture nomination.

After all, Don't look Up is not going against mainstream narrative at all, and instead is just ridiculing politicians and general public. If this was truly controversial film that goes against any sort of currently popular narrative, you would never see Hollywood A-listers like Meryl Streep or Leonardo Di Caprio being part of them.

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Looks like I will skip "betting on a "Best Actor in a Leading Role" category as 1.13 on Will Smith is simply too low and not a good bet to take. If it stayed round 1.3-1.4 like it was in the beginning, I would definitely put some money on it, but this is just not worth it. Having watched the movie, I honestly don't understand how in hell is he the clear favorite as imho Benedict Cumberbatch did a much better job in The Power of the Dog. In King Richard we see a classic Will Smith, nothing extraordinary but I doubt that we will see yet another upset in this category like the last year when Hopkins won over late Chadwick Boseman.

While I understand that there are people who don't have anyone they trust enough to share something like seed phrase/private key due life circumstances (no parents, wife, kids, siblings etc), the thing that baffles me is when I hear that people don't even trust their own wives when it comes to that. If you can't trust your wife with something like that, why would you even stay married with that person in the first place? Yeah I know that many people got rekt by their spouses, but more often than not it's a matter of a bad character judgement.


Why is that a problem? Inserting seed phrase is not a rocket science and anyone can do it provided that you left them instructions how to do it. My wife & parents know nothing about how crypto works so they have clear instructions what to do in case something happens.

These guys are not giving up it seems. After I tagged their shill account Maxxx07 he stopped with promotion so they came now with the official thread  If anyone is still unsure whether they are shady exchange, they should check their Telegram group.

Like there are services that offer thread bumping, there are those that offer similar thing for Telegram, in which they use bunch of sock puppet account and talk among themselves, giving an impression of an active community. I've been long enough on Telegram that I can recognize something like that, and that's exactly what is going on in Fybit Telegram group.

The thing is that people tend to look at the past through rose-tinted glasses, often focusing on good memories and blocking the negative ones and same thing happens on this forum. I haven't been here long enough that I can talk about "good ol' times" but I've been on some other forums for ~20 years and I am definitely guilty of that when I look at the past. Then again, it makes sense to remember good stuff from the past better as we were younger, and on top of that its a kind of defense mechanism since dwelling on bad stuff ain't healthy at all.


I kinda disagree with that. Situation was maybe like that ~2 years ago (I remember very good members fighting to get into lowest paid Bitcoin signature campaigns) due low amount of sig campaigns but situation now is completely different and it's a sellers market. There are way more spots in Bitcoin signature campaigns than there are decent members interested, resulting in managers lowering the bar as they have fill up the campaign.

While this may true, the whole Dune world is extremely complex and it's very hard to put all that in 2 movies like Villeneuve is planning, but I still think that he did a very good job. While you may debate whether it deserves Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay nominations (I say it does), you can't deny that nominations in tehnical categories & production categories are very well deserved. Speaking strictly about visuals, I haven't seen a movie that looks so good since Revenant.


Belfast is definitely a decent movie but for me the best one that deals with all those Northern Ireland issues and "The Troubles" is Bloody Sunday (I re-watched it recently). It's fair to say that is a different type of movie, shot almost in a documentary style with hand-held cameras etc, but its a brilliant and very tense movie so you might wanna check it out if you haven't seen it already as It's even more relevant with all these things going on at the moment.


Yeah I think that was pretty obvious what's the movie messages. I do think movie should have been more subtle in a way it conveys the messages but its a very solid movie nevertheless. I am generally fan of Adam McKay though and his style so I expected at least a solid movie.


CODA was a pleasant surprise for me. I expected very little since I knew that it was a remake of a french movie called The Bélier Family and as you know Hollywood usually butchers originals. But every once in a while we get a good remake (remember Scorsese's The Departed that won Best Picture Oscar back in 2007?) and it might even get an Oscar, probably "The Best Supporting Actor" one.

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Since I finally watched majority of the movies nominated in most important categories, I plan to share who I think it will win an Oscar and who I would like to win an Oscar in each category and invite you to do the same. So, I plan to do it like this:

Best Picture:
Who I think will win:
Who I think it should win

etc.

It happened almost 2 years ago, on March 25th 2020 and it seems that the main reason was gambling promotion, more precisely Bitstarz casino scamming people. They basically banned the whole forum over one topic. You can find more info in this thread.


Haha yeah, our numbers would be much lower if it weren't for him. Then again, almost every local board has its own slackovic that is way more active than everyone else.

To be honest, trusted individuals sounds better than relatives in this context as just because someone is your relative (or even a family member) doesn't mean that he can be trusted.

You don't have anyone in your life that you trust enough to share them seed phrase of your cold storage in case something happens to you?


There are better ways (automated) to do that if you don't trust nobody with your bitcoin while you are alive other than writing in some notebook. First of all, how will that person know what to do if you don't tell about it, and if you let that person know about some notebook with seed phrase, he/she might wanna steal that from you.

True, people are too lazy to read, I know a few people that have very decent BTC bag yet they couldn't even bother to read Bitcoin whitepaper. Says a lot about the time we are living in. Regarding extra the charts, we can look the other way: why not add moreif people are asking for it as that means that there is an interest for those. So yeah, might keep adding charts as long as they make sense and can help provide clearer picture of what's going on in local boards.


Keep it up, your reports are amazing! As a matter of fact I read them every month (via Google translate) even though I am not active in your board nor I speak Italian so that says a lot. I considered being as detailed as you are for my local board but I think that I am too lazy for something like that. 


Cheers bud!


It's true, Russia banned access to bitcointalk some time ago so every user coming from there has to use VPN in order to access it. That makes their numbers even more impressive and I wonder how many people from my country (Croatia) would bother going through hassle like that just to access the forum.

Sta ne pise u pravilu da se ne moze nositi avatar/osobni tekst od konkurencije, znaci neki drugi mixeri? Po toj logici ovi koji nose Sportsbet avatar ne bi trebali imati problema jer oni nisu konkurecnija. Bar sam ja tako shvatio to pravilo.

edit:kad malo bolje razmislim, moguce da promjena pravila ima veze sa ovom novom Jambler kampanjom, posto je to isto mixer pa su onda mozda neki dobili ponudu da nose njihov avatar. Doduse ovo je samo neka moja spekulacija, cisti guesstimate.

Yep, obviously fake reviews as well. Just another confirmation that they should be avoided at all cost.


They are ignoring my questions in their thread as well which is no surprise as they can't give a good excuse for lying a`bout being partner with someone.



Well, they are aware of the fact that Lucpey used their name but yeah I agree, it wouldn't hurt if they tagged them as well. Then again, these 2 negative feedback and a flag should be enough of a warning for everyone.

Best of all is that he would probably achieve the same result (getting more merit) by simply bumping his old threads from time to time for "visibility" purposes as people like to say but in most cases its just an euphemism for a merit fishing tactic.


Same here, but this definitely makes him fall in a shitposter category that should be ignored and kicked out of signature campaign.

True, that's why I put "Warning" tag in the title instead of "Scam", even though their behavior is very suspicious as if they are willing to fake the partnership in order to attract the users, who knows what else are they willing to do.

Anyway, I wouldn't trust them with my money and I hope others won't as wel;