Trolls wants attention, and that's exactly what he is getting here. Last time I checked his latest thread had 10 pages, so I would say mission accomplished. That guy started his "career" on one popular Croatian forum years ago but since they have far less tolerance for such trolls and ban his alts instantly, he moved on here where he can freely spread his nonsense to even wider audience, knowing that he won't get banned even though one of his accounts is already banned. In a few days he will get bored, go away and resurface with yet another alt that will do the same thing all over again. Arguing with him is nothing but a pigeon chess, but I guess people don't mind.

For the reference here is marloboroza's thread about his case, Ban evasion (account fxsurfer).

Yep, I saw it and I don't remember seeing that somewhere else and it's nice to see that even people who don't want to pay with crypto (or simply don't have it) can still keep their anonymity. Kudos to Mullvad, not many services would bother with that at this day and age.


I tested it today and it seems like bet365 still blocks all Mullvad servers I tried to use, while some others like Sportsbet (which is banned in the country I am currently living in) works without any issues whatsoever. Either way, that's not an issue for me as as I am kinda old school guy and bet online only if I really have to.


I know, and it was the reason why I tested speed with servers that were at the max distance for me, like Australia, New Zealand and West Coast of the United States. If those servers can handle 4k streaming (and they could) then those in Europe which I occasionally use should be even better. And they were when I tested them today.

Maybe for you and few others here on the thread, but for me Power of the Dog is probably the best out of nominated. With that being said, I do understand that slow burn dramas are not everyone's cup of tea and its a type of movie you either like a lot, or not at all, there's usually no middle ground with those. I fall into former group so I enjoyed it a lot. I am personally bored more with mindless action than with anything else.

As a matter of fact, CODA odds were 26 to win the Oscar when I started this thread (February 10th) so it means that people are massively betting on it. Despite that, I still think that it won't win award and I won't best on it.

I honestly didn't expect that as TPOFG won both BAFTA and Golden Globe in the most important category so I expected it to be far ahead of the others, but I won't complain at the increased odds , as it went from ~1.6 to 1.8.

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Fist post of the thread has been updated with the latest odds and I shifted order of some categories so it makes more sense.

Ah, so you must be the only trading platform in the world where your users don't have any questions about your services, or any issues whatsoever. In reality, either no one is really using your platform or you are deleting negative comments. Or it's combination of both of those things.


Ok, you are not exchange but trading platform so that's why no one is shilling shitcoins are asking to get listed but do you really think that you will fool anyone with stuff that is going on in your Telegram group? Just take a look at the screenshot below, taken this morning. Group of accounts ( again with obvious fake names) came at the same time, talked for about 20 minutes and went afk, again at the same time. And as I said before, they do it all the time; they come as a group, chat a little bit and then they go off. Coincidence? I think not.

Anyway, whoever you are paying for to do this is doing a shitty job and won't fool anyone (like you won't fool us here) more experienced and is basically ripping you off. There is some poetic justice though, dodgy trading platform being ripped off by a dodgy "chatting service". Then again, your target audience are probably newbies, considering the marketing approach you took,

First post from the user Alicehodge and immediately started with plagiarism. To be more precise, combination of paraphrasing and text spinning from The Verge article, and all this to promote NFT marketplace development company, as they described themselves.

Archive: https://archive.ph/qBOml

I have 200/200. Fiber connection, so very low ping.


True, it could be better, but since those speeds are more than enough for 4k HDR streaming (afaik 25-30 Mbps is enough) I am fine with it. Also, keep in mind that those were the speeds for US/Australia/Japan servers which are very far away from me.


Since Netlfix works good with Mullvad on all those servers that you mentioned (and many more), there's really no point for me testing that one as well. While you can find several VPNs that work good with Netflix, problems start when you want to get one that will work with several others streaming sites. Beside Netflix, I use Amazon, Apple+ and HBO Max and to find VPN that works reliably for all of those while having wide selection of server is very hard. Well, there's one, but it has it's own issues.


Let me know if you check that one!

That story OP wrote might seem far fetched, or even a merit-fishing tactic (and maybe it is)  but I did similar thing more than once, I sent BTC to people in need (orphanage and some humanitarian organizations). The only difference is that I was sending BTC and they were receiving fiat as it was done via Paycek, which is popular crypto payment processor in my country. I could have sent fiat instead, but I simply wanted to do my part when it comes to Bitcoin adoption.


I think that there is nothing wrong with using Bitcoin for what it was initially intended for. After all, use of early adopters brought us to where we are now. I don't advocate spending absolutely all your BTC  if you have loads of fiat lying around, but there is nothing wrong with spending some of your BTC every once in a while as that way we do our part (no matter how insignificant it may seem) in helping with Bitcoin adoption.

If you have to pay $20-$50 in fees when sending BTC, you are either keeping your BTC in some bad custodial wallet that is overcharging people, or you are sending it via exchanges that usually have high fixed fees. If you are keeping your BTC in non-custodial wallets like Electrum that allow you to manually set your fees, you wouldn't have to pay for more than 50-60 cents. Just yesterday I bought VPN subscription with BTC and transaction fees were 50 cents. It could have been much lower than that but I wanted it done fast so I paid a little bit extra.


If you want to hodl fiat, you already have banks for that. After all, exchanges are a horrible place to hold your money for longer period of time. And same thing goes for centralized cryptocurrencies like USDT which can be easily freezed in your own wallet and there is nothing you would be able to do about it. And now compare that to Bitcoin and you will realize how unsafe USDT is for hodl.

For now I will give Mullvad a go, as looking at IVPN server status they have even less countries supported than Mullvad, and only half of what ProtonVPN has so I doubt it would be good choice for me, especially for streaming.

It's not hard at all to find VPN that does one or two things very good, but to find one that does everything good seems impossible. I might try NordVPN again even though I wasn't really satisfied with their reliability at all few years ago but maybe they improved in the meantime, or suck it up and use ProtonVPN even though they miss one country on their list that is important to me. It really sucks that ExpressVPN is by far the best one when it comes to streaming purposes but that one is not an option anymore.

Ispravak netocnog navoda, primaju i Hero/Legendary clanove. Ono "Seniors+" sto su napisali u postu znaci taj rank i vise.

Exactly. I knew that it will be hard to find VPN provider that can tick all of my boxes and that some compromises will have to be made. Tbh, If I was doing something extremely risky, I don't think I would trust any of the  VPNs that are mentioned here, no matter what they say about not keeping logs etc as all of those things can change easily.

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So, I took 1 month of Mullvad today to give it a go and I must say that I like it a lot, even though I won't use it for streaming. You can really tell that is privacy-oriented VPN.

First of all, registration is very simply and straightforward; you get 16 digit code that is your only login info. No emails, no confirmations and no hassle. I used BTC for payment of course and what I like is that you get 10% discount compared to other means of payment (to be precise they offer 10%  discount for BCH as well) so it's nice to see that they encourage people to use crypto. I tried various servers, from EU countries to NA and Asia and speed was generally very good, between 50-60 Mbps which is more than enough for comfortable 4k HDR streaming/torrenting.

Regarding streaming sites, I was surprised to see that Netflix actually works as I Googled it a bit and people said that Mullvad is generally not very good for that. So, I managed to access US, Australian, Japanese and few others without any issues. Unfortunately, Amazon didn't work at all, no matter the server I chose so for me it's not an option. Even though I won't use it for streaming purposes, I think that I will extend my sub and continue using it on my PC and mobile phone as as primary VPN since I really like how privacy oriented it is and find something else that I will use for TV only where I watch majority of stuff,

After Mullvad, I was about to get 1 month ProtonVPN sub, hoping that will be my go-to streaming option. Since they boast to have servers in 63 countries I kinda assumed that one certain country will be among those, but for some reason it isn't which is a deal-breaker for me as for some streaming reasons I need server in that country.

The search goes on. Or I will just use 2 different VPNs from now on, Mullvad + something else.

First of all, just because someone knows English well doesn't mean its his native language, especially at this day and age. 2nd, his English is far from the native level and it's not good at all.


While scam is not moderated here on bitcointalk so nothing can be done on that part, begging is against the forum rules so you can report him for that.

From what I remember, only the last few pages of DECENT thread were basically 100% spam done by one of those bumping services. That is, at the moment I identified the same group of accounts working across six different threads.The rest was indeed the mix of shitposts, rants and the occasional constructive posts.


Yeah that's a common "issue", that while some mod might delete the post you reported, some might mark it as bad or even leave it unhandled. It happened to me more than once and it's not an issue if it's just about a single post, but it can become an issue like in your case when you are not sure anymore whether to continue reporting posts in that thread or not.


You basically described 99% of the altcoin board threads, it's a total clusterfuck there. That whole section needs either big revamp or just to be locked.


No, I referred to @Welsh suggestion about reporting only the first post and then mods clearing the rest of the thread. And I tried that in the past, I reported just the original post on the thread saying that it mainly consists of bumping spam as I hoped that might be enough for mods to take a look and just clear the thread without me reporting each post separately. Nothing happened of course, report remained unhandled.

Since in the last twenty years four black actors won "Best Actor in a Leading Role" Oscars I don't think that's such a big issue anymore, situation changed. What people often forget is that black American actors not only have white Americans as a competition, but also actors from several others predominantly white countries like United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, Spain, France etc and all those actors gravitate to United States. As a matter of fact, in the last ~20 years, only 13 out of 20 Oscars in that category were won by Americans. I mean, it sucks that we even have to talk about quotas and stuff like that, simply let the best man win.


I've seen it and I agree, a very good movie. Probably the best one in International Feature category this year but haven't watched Drive My Car yet as its not easy to find three straight hours to watch it, even though it looks like my kind of movie.


Part of the reason might be that film industry is more focused on dramas and not so big budget movies due covid stuff. Same thing was last year, studios simply don't wanna risk a lot of money if they are not sure whether cinemas will be open and without that it's hard to return the investment. There is simply less buzz than in previous years.



Magnificent Seven (both the original and remake) is not a version of Fistfull of Dollars, but instead it's based on another classic by Akira Kurosawa, Seven Samurai. What's interesting is that Kurosawa was a big fan of American westerns (mainly John Ford) and was influenced by them so in a way westerns made a full circle. Regarding Tarantino, I liked Hateful Eight but Django Unchained not so much.


Yeah movies from streaming services can also be Oscar nominated, despite some big names like Steven Spielberg being against it. Regarding the series being nominated for Oscar, I think that you mixed something up as Oscar is a movie-only award. Golden Globe has series categories so maybe you confused it with that.

For my use, free version of either of those is completely useless. As I said before, I am not a fan of "free" stuff as more often than not they end up being more costly (usually wasting my time, and time is money) than those I paid for. So yeah, gonna test ProtonVPN "Plus" plan which fits my needs.

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Regarding all this lifetime/long term subscription thing, I generally avoid the former (I don't remember taking lifetime plan for anything) but I have nothing against 1 year sub. I don't take those right from the start though as first few months I like to test the service and if it proves to be reliable, I switch to yearly sub simply because I don't want to think about it every month. And as @dkbit98 said, it's not like I am risking thousands of dollars but 100, tops. I did the same thing with ExpressVPN, and will do with ProtonVPN as well if it proves to be as good as people claim it is.

Ok fair enough, let's say that (for the sake of the argument) you don't have anything with those shill accounts and that they are just some random users that did it on their own volition, but what about your Telegram group and activity that is going on there? Are we supposed to believe that sock puppet accounts are talking among themselves out of boredom, without you hiring them? Telegram chatter services are not charity organizations, they don't go around TG groups and chat for free, someone has to pay them.

If anyone has any doubt about activity there, they are free to head over to https://t.me/fybit_chat and check for themselves. This is how it usually goes there: few times per day group of sock puppet accounts starts talking among themselves for 20-30 minutes and then suddenly they all go off at the same time. Then again they come after 5-6 hours, they do the same thing and go off again. Rinse and repeat. Anyone that ever visited any exchange TG group knows that group chats consists mainly of people complaining about various stuff like not being able to withdraw money, asking about listing of some specific coin, shilling other shitcoins etc and basically nothing (or almost nothing ) of that can be found in your group. And don't get me started on the obvious fake names of those accounts: "Brenda Herrington", "Dorothy Slater", "Brittany Banks", "George Smith", "Charles Murphy" etc.

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?