Flag supported, lets hope that no newbie falls for this scam and ends up sending their entire ethereum stash to the accused hoping to generate free money on the go by doing nothing.

For any bamboozled newbie reading this - If it was so easy to get 8ETH by depositing 10ETH there would no longer be any poverty in this world. But that is not happening, so use your common sense here to know what is true and what is not.

Well you cant be expecting the teams to treat their bounty hunters as kings and queens. Obviously the bigger money came from the advisors and thus their interests have to be protected. Just plain old concept of who has the deep pockets.

One of the reasons why many projects have failed is because these advisors will dump their tokens after the lock-in period and the bounty hunters will cry without having a single token at hand. Once the price has been dumped the tokens for the bounty will be sent out and they will never get a chance to make a profit off selling them.

The same story repeats every day and still the bounty hunters never learn.

OP, suggest you open a flag against the the accused for now. PM them respond to this thread as well. Will keep an eye on the thread and support it.

Since it is a newbie account, I assume it is not a bounty manager posting the thread but the scammers themselves. So probably they will not respond in which case we can tag the accused as well.

They even got a copper membership to post this scam (?) - but I have seen similar cases in the past.

I dont think being grateful needs any effort as well. Now it is painful to see work and time gone to waste but this should act as a lesson for many bounty hunters. They must realize from this that majority of the projects they join in are ending up as failures and thus assume that the time they spent making articles, doing translations or just spamming twitter is going to go to a waste unless they get lucky that one time in a million.

Sadly the projects look for cheap labor and they are protected by their own terms. Bounty hunters are literally powerless to do anything even if they feel like shouting at the project owners. Like always I would remind them to move on to bitcoin paying signature campaigns from this lesson.

There are certain problems regarding this. The forum is free for all so it is not their responsibility but only the manager's responsibility to take.

You see, the users who are making multiple accounts to cheat are not willing to stop and anything done to stop them will be faced with extreme retaliation because it will reduce their earning significantly.

The bad thing is that users can complain of identity theft and KYC selling away to wrong marketplaces which is rampant today through these campaign data collection.

In the end the managers have to face a middle ground. So leave it to them to take care of multiple account users or cheaters.

Most campaign managers have pre-made templates from paid designers or their own for the projects they manage and promote.

If you ask me, this is the only professional method of doing so.

Looking for designs from internet only shows that you are not willing to pay for a well designed thread. Cheaping out with free designs does come close to professional and that can hurt your reputation in future. Talk to the designers on this forum for more info.

Overview of Bitcointalk Designers(Signature,Avatar,etc)

So forget about free if you want to make a name for yourself in this competitive market.

Great to hear that. In future please make sure you keep an eye on the telegram channels of the different ICO projects that you participated in. It is somewhat your own responsibility to do this and keep yourself updated. There are other ways too like signing up for periodical newsletters and so on. Choose whichever is feasible for you.

Also lock this thread (check lower end of the webpage) because the question has been answered to prevent unnecessary posting after this.

But Sujon, you have to accept the fact that calling someone "zero to hero" does sound pretty legit - does it not?

I mean every newbie is out there trying to become a hero but nobody wants to work hard to reach their goal but want it quick and easy without working hard. They fail to comprehend that such methods to get rich are frauds and dont use their logic at the same.

FlagNTag is the way to proceed here. The accused seem to be leaving retaliatory feedback as well. Ignore that.

Alright I guess I got misinformed about the functionality of ViaBTC and thanks for correcting me on that.

However I still dont consider the services provided about transaction acceleration by some members of this forum and like I said I would defenitely like to hear from them too instead of just giving it a one sided speculation. The last time we tried to ask CoolWave about it, SFR10 remembers it I am sure, it ended up being a childish thread in Reputation.

The point is that there are risk takers and this becomes gambling to some extent, investing that is, not trading. With these shady tokens and no legally bound securities it is always going to be failures and looking for a profitable project would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Thus what I always suggest people is that buy bitcoin because it is the only thing that matters. None of the other projects need your money, they already got enough.

Some may differ with this statement but they will also learn their mistake with time.

It is somewhat constant. There is always a change in price with buying and selling. Now whether it stays under or above resistance levels depends on the trend. You might have some chance to buy at this level too.

Remember that one should not become impatient about such things. Study the curves and see where you can find such levels and this will only help you in trading.

I think it might cross 14k which seems to be the next level but lets see.

You can do some more things like checking our "Scam Accusations" section, to see if there was any reported scams. We have some scam busters doing this everyday and it is for your benefit only.

It might save your time and prevent getting involved with scam projects that end up hurting your reputation.

But yes these scams never end one can only hope to see some legit projects in the future.

Short answer is No. I would rather pay some fees to the miners and wait for the transaction to confirm than beg on someone's thread to make it seem as if the thread topic is legit.

Its a nicely planned gimmick/confidence trick run by some users on this forum. People tend to cheap out on fees and then come to ask their help, the helper does nothing but replies after a couple of hours saying that its been accelerated.

Now imagine going to this guy everyday, you will definitely feel one day that you should tip this person for their "hard work" - thats all how the scam works.

ViaBTC's accelerator used to work at one time. Its defunct now.

Would suggest you to pay fees as per the internet sites which keep track of current fees instead of using these services.

PS: I am yet to see any scientific proof that these services really work.

What the hell are you talking about? The fees for transaction is only 0.3%/per trade. The ethereum gas fees are not to be considered here because that is a part of the blockchain that you are using. That is different from Uniswap, that fee is not even for running Uniswap but to run the Ethereum blockchain.

If you are careless you will fall into those. But when money is on the line you should make a list of the tokens that you have and contract addresses, so you dont make a mistake there. Again a problem from your end not the site's end.

Bots only take part in trading. They dont influence the functionality of the site. They may move the market, but that will happen with any other exchange. Not something that the site can change or has control over.

You need to learn some things better if you wish to trade with ease.

They are all scams just like the OP here.

People like the one making the thread know that there are newbies running across forums looking for methods to  "cheat" the system and make money, you know the easy way to make money. They prey on these people and sell them such malware to wreak and steal info from the person installing it or just sell them a random bot from another source. Point is the person selling it got the money and essentially scammed the newbie.

Everyone looking for an easy dime, keep in mind - there is no shortcut to being rich. It takes time and a lot of hard work. If it was so easy to make money then people would not be working so hard to make money. Those who say the opposite are frauds.

If someone wants to make money in trading, its tough but you would need to learn how to to trade and learn to do FA/TA yourself first.

The accused is a nice troll at heart, they even support the flag raised against them.

Like they know what they are doing and thus they accept the fact that they are not trustworthy. Have seen them promote ponzi since the day I joined this forum and now I still see them doing the same. So I dont expect them to every change, like SlowDeath said.

Also please remove the link from the OP and put that in a [ code] [ /code] BBcode box.

The Libra project was done in a similar fashion too. Remember the dApps development craze? They went crazy all over the altcoins section at one time after the 2018 huge dump as the next hype and buzzword. Like everyone was developing dApps for everything in this world and as if it was the solution to all problems. Now its DeFi and it is being used in the similar fashion to gather attention and to sell their own products to the public even if they are mostly vaporware.

Point remains same. They are vaporware to a large extent. With a increase in mainstream-crypto adoption we might see some of the projects do good and they actually up developing something worthwhile.

However we might brand some DEXs as so called DeFi, this only proves my point that DeFi was here for a long time but people never took it up as a new term.

You got knocked off by a hurricane but you can still visit this forum meaning you still have access to your electronic devices and have a working internet connection. How convenient is that?

Let me remind you that future job payment, pawning yourself to someone - these are not accepted methods to collateralize the loan amount.

What you can do is click the link posted by @Bitcoinsummoner and thank your luck about how a Hurricane selectively left you safe.

See LeGaulois's post above it should give some good insight into this.

But coming from a more experience based and subjective state, I have seen altcoins following bitcoin many times when the bullish trend starts. This follows a plateau and then an altcoin bleeding out as people start selling them. Bitcoin tend to maintain its plateau for longer periods before going bearish again.

Singularly an altcoin rarely do start a bullish trend but it is very short lived, often speculated to be coordinated pump and dumps backed by advisors to scalp off the market and exit the project they were advising. This sector is like that, if you are buying bitcoin, you can remain in peace if you bought at low prices and hoping for the long term profit. If you bought altcoins then it is a never ending cycle of anxiety and depression. Some do make money off it too.

I dont think rates vary too much between centralized or decentralized exchanges. Previously people could buy from one and sell on another and get a 1-2% profit based on price variations even on a stable market. But is not so now.

In p2p it would depend on the buyer/seller. They can fix a price and you have to accept that. Eventually with increase in number of traders on a p2p platform the average price tend to go towards the current market price because of competition and wish to trade.

Both have their pros and cons. Try both and see which one you like.