OP's mentality is fed by youtubers and social media publications that have little interest about the technology. It is all about about price, lambos, shilling shitcoins and promoting scams. Not a single one of these influencers can create a better image for Bitcoin.

Hello, I'm posting in bitcointalk since 2017 but most were in altcoin section and didn't bother much with merit all this time. I have posted in a few threads you might find interesting which I don't think are rubbish. I deleted a lot of my posts mostly because of controversies, but I won't delete for this reason again.
These are from the last few days, take a look when you have the time:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5146437.msg51182167#msg51182167
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5132714.msg51253980#msg51253980
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2967940.msg51195928#msg51195928
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5138288.msg51195245#msg51195245
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5146432.msg51183303#msg51183303
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5149020.msg51281831#msg51281831

Thanks a lot.

I read your post and I felt bad as I hate these scams and I'm always trying to expose them. Still don't give up hope and don't feel guilty about it.

Every single person has been scammed at least once in his life in some way. Most will try to hide it if possible, thinking they can reduce the damage or the ridicule. You did the right thing creating awareness on this scam after the financial loss you have suffered.

There are various scams that can actually find someone in a weak moment. Trust me everyone has moments like these. Just go outside and run for a few miles. See the world and the people and don't get desperate. You will notice good people out there. I think you still might be young so you should be able to find a job really soon and in notime you will get there again. The easiest money I've made was from my day job. I made from trading but I lost my sleep. I made from gambling but I almost lost my sanity. Realize that there is no actual easy money.
Keep working and don't listen too much to youtubers as they are starting to annoy me once again with their opportunistic mentality. Still you can't blame them for these scams.

This is the only help I can provide. You probably can't recover this amount. The only one you could contact is your local police station and they will guide you through some standard procedure of pressing charges.


Please be careful as scammers might try to con you again so it is better not to make offers like this on the internet.

You are trying to minimize risk but this isn't the edge you are looking for.I seriously wish you success, but still you will be too lucky if this happens.


This is the best strategy to follow in gambling along with trying to find an statistical edge not covered by the bookies. Research bankroll management. Otherwise you are dead meat and can only hope for winning the lottery.

1) Myetherwallet, although they changed the page a bit so you have to bookmark the one that says vintage. It is the best way to secure your Ethereum and ERC20 tokens.
2) Metamask although it needs a few changes to be better and safer. Still it does the job quite well.
3) Enjin wallet. I use this as a mobile wallet. Can't find any better yet.

Be really careful with wallets that people post here as some might be frudulent or easily compromised.
Also always remember not to sent/post your private key accidentaly instead of your public key. Many newbies have done this mistake and they had their accounts emptied.

Don't need to trust anyone, especially any financial institution close to the banking sector, as this is built as a trustless environment.
I trust only the tech after carefully examining it. You are safe, without the need for a middle man, with Bitcoin.

I noticed that volume is up a lot on this coin. Is there any new development with Veritaseum?

I never said I'm familiar. I wrote that "I've been following". Interesting how you changed a word to make an argument here.
I own a few Mana but I don't own land in the platform to be exact. I'm just saying I read often about Decentraland from social media sources as telegram and discord where team is really active. There is no certain date yet for platform to go live, so I can't post exact information or rumours without any verification. I'm giving a hint and you should dyor. There are people and institutions that actually invested a lot in this project. Even last week there was a piece of land (64 parcels) sold for $81k. I'm also posting here quite often as I'm genuinly interested in this project. I participated in the builder testing and got rewarded for it too. So this is my involvement with this project. How about you bounty hunter?

It seems they prefer making new accounts and meriting them to abuse bounties. I've seen accounts completely unrelated with bitcoin with 100 merit only made for bounties. Obviously sold alts. Meanwhile after 3 years in btt, I've seen and wrote a lot of helpful comments that deserve merits and got none.

Indeed, I've been following Decentraland since 2017 and have to agree this is a serious project with a great product. Also from what I'm reading we will have good news soon.

I don't quite agree with this approach. There are already thousands of exchanges and not many real people trading or wanting to buy a coin.
If they start listing new ICO's like exchanges as Latoken do, then it would look like a scam for certain. Still Cobinhood doesn't look secure to me. It is a site that takes it's time to load after loging in and when I see this on an exchange it feels that they didn't do proper work on their site.

"It burns!"

I've always had problems with the search function so I rarely use it. Most times it takes too long to load and sometimes it doesn't provide results. I understand the database must be huge but there are ways to make this faster. I have problems finding out if I got any replies too. Is there a way to know if someone quoted me without looking back to every post I made?

In capitalism health care has quality and is available for everyone as long as the rich pay their taxes. Although, especially in the last decade, they found many ways to avoid taxes (like fake donations) creating implications for the quality of health care system as well as the whole public sector as well.
So the top of the pyramid keeps multiplying their wealth while the common folks, every working person, every employee can't possibly hide their income and is obligated to pay. This is the system and it also has even worse implementations depending on which country you live and how the people reacted. It is a fact that rich people get better health care as well as having access to better education, living standards and job prospects. It is also a fact that socialism has all these problems solved from day one. What they kept telling my people in my country was that this is the system we have and it works. They kept saying it until it stopped working. I have studied economics and understand both systems. There are errors in both, but the errors of globalized capitalism under the pretext of "freedom" is the worst possible system for any society and what it is promising is only a dystopian future.

Price is always all about supply and demand since the first exchange of goods happened. When you have knowledge of this simple microeconomic principle thoroughly explained by Adam Smith in the 18th century, then everything becomes clear. Now in every equation there are variables. What you have to focus on are these variables. For example you do know that bounty hunters will obviously dump massively not caring about trading, candles or waiting to sell at a higher price. I myself sold for ETH and BTC almost all coins I earned from bounties and I was right about it 99% of the times.
Why was that? Basically because there was no actual demand for these coins (I'm talking about hundreds). I did trading and doubled and trippled up a few of these tokens and then dumped them again, trying to double my profit, when it was obvious that the teams behind stopped supporting the price. So when the only factor that supports the price is the project itself or the exchange bots, then the volume is weak, the demand is weak and price will most certainly dive to zero.

Most ICO's, once listed, they did a few pump and dumps. All were manipulated by the teams and by the exchanges to catch a few dollars from the remaining traders. You have to realize how this works. The price can't grow in long term, unless there is real demand by investors. 2017 canot be repeated this year. In 2017 people made 20x of their initial investment and were able to extend into investing in ICO's and other obscure projects that were obvious scams. In 2018 I doubt there was even one decent project that listed on an exchange and actually had demand and price growth.

A variable into the equation is the exchanges the projects want to get listed and the passion/commitement of the developers. Once you see a project trying hard to get listed at Latoken (no offence but it is a small exchange right now) you know there won't be demand for it and price will stabilize at 1-2% of the ICO price. Now there was a project (Vanta) that was trying to get listed in Upbit exchange (a respectable Korean exchange). This one although I sold my tokens I'll be probably buying in again as the team is commited and supportive of the project and don't care about short term price fluctuations.

So these are the main factors to consider about price and not blame the bounty hunters for actually getting paid for the work they did. Bounty hunters are not traders. It is a job for them and remember that most of the times they don't even get paid for it.

I don't quite understand what is the laughter about. Your comment belongs in the past. Markets have circles, prices go up and down.So unless you think Bitcoin is a scam or a ponzie with no product or value, you should realize the potential in it. Price fluctuates as people are greedy and it is hard to regulate a universal market like this. People went bankrupt because they probably went all-in the wrong time without proper risk management. I'm suggesting anyone that thinks he went bankrupt not to write-off cryptocurrency investements.
If you want to learn about Bitcoin price, I suggest you watch the video bellow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg

I think you all should consider what would happen if the hack was 10x of what happened. You all suck up CZ and Binance and have huge amounts parked there thinking they got you covered? It was a 40million hack and what happened was CZ panicking and asking Jihan Wu if rolling back the chain is an option. Can you imagine what would have happened if the hack was 70,000BTC (400m$) instead of 7,000BTC? Do you seriously think you funds are safu there and that they acted professionally? Then they took it to twitter and unleashed a thousand bot accounts with copy-paste tweets. This was hillarious. I instantly withdraw BTC and ETH the moment they let me, which was 2 weeks later. If you trust any exchange you basically risk losing it all.

I think he means the price manipulation occuring with fake volumes from exchanges, tether printing etc. There are exchanges posting billions in trading volume, while the actual trades happening are only thousands of dollars. Senting money from your right pocket to your left isn't trading. Also volume is a solid indicator for a possible pump in price. So this indicator being manipulated by exchanges or whales is significant and makes traders life difficult. Still your point wasn't that at all. I completely agree that the only blockchain that is quite decentralized is Bitcoin and should be the model for worldwide trading. Although because of the fact that all transactions are on a public ledger and are traced by organizations, especially the large ones, I'm not certain if such trade blockades can be bypassed this way or they make things worse.

In my understanding (forgive me if i'm wrong) Bitcoin uses hash power to create SHA-256 algorithms thus creating more Bitcoins.
What bothers me from an economic perspective, is that we have right now 55 million tera-hash of computing power that are used to solve mathematic equations that are basically not used for anything else besides mining Bitcoin. Miners secure the network and create new bitcoins. In order to achieve this they solve a mathematical problem and chain together blocks of transactions. The problem here is that this mathematical problem is of no use for anything else. It is just a process added into the system in order to help with mining, making it just a timer more or less.

My first thought when I started reading about Bitcoin a few years ago was that these equations were used by some institution for a greater scientific cause. I felt a little disappointed this didn't happen. Recently after talking with my colleagues about bitcoin and trying to explain how it was produced by miners using mining equipment like Antminers that consume electricity etc.. , most of them had the same question:
So these computations Bitcoin network is making are used by some university or government institution to help with solving some difficult problem or equation?

I think everyone of us had the same question. Even before Bitcoin was launched I remember SETI project had an app that could use your computer's idle power to provide results for their project. Other scientific projects have same apps as they are in need of running extremely difficult algorithms that demand computing power of a supercomputer, making this costly and also time and space consuming.

So my thought is that there has to be a way for Bitcoin algorithms to change and be of help for science sectors that demand a huge amount of processing power. This would actually be a second major breakthrough for Bitcoin as besides from solving the digital money problem, it could actually be used (in the form of renting it's network perhaps) for science projects that otherwise are stalled and left behind for decades. Space exploration, health sciences, physics, all sciences are in need of processing data faster than what they can do today, in order for humanity to progress further. It's just a thought but I still feel like we are missing out on a huge opportunity to prove that Bitcoin can become something more than a means of transactions, something that can affect every aspect of our lives. Implications on price would be extreme if a usage like that is implemented, as it would become an enhancing quality of Bitcoin.

Now this might sound rubbish to some people (perhaps that's the reason I didn't write about this thought earlier), but still I know how a business is run in order to create value. I think this could add value and more qualities for Bitcoin.

Perhaps someone already mentioned something like this post in Bitcointalk, although after doing a quick search I didn't find any relevant posts.

In my opinion Craig Wright is 100% a liar. All the evidence he provided are falsified and not enough. Everything he says is completely contradictory to Satoshi's posts on this forum. If I'm wrong then Bitcoin is dead and also all current cryptocurrencies are, as noone wants to follow a person like him. Guy is screaming con-artist from 10 miles away. IF you wanna follow this person that's your head. If he proves he is Satoshi I'm quiting and I bet 99,99% of all these magnificent people on this forum will do the same. This person can only damage bitcoin and all crypto for his personal gain. He doesn't care about anything else except his own personal wealth and he uses any means legal or not to achieve it. His supporters are scammy too and should not be trusted.