No social media is safe.. because these types of scams are mostly spread through social media sites in the first place. And scammers will find more and more enticing ways to find victims; so the only real solution here is to think realistically and in a non-delusional manner.

"if it's too good to be true, it probably is."

Using centralized platforms is still the far easier solution for now, unfortunately. Through the likes of Cash App or something similar to Coinbase's off-chain instant transactions. I know this requires KYC, but yea I think we're not close to having Lightning being bug-free enough to be used in a mass scale.

We're simply not ready to stop using CEXs yet, as obviously bitcoin isn't adopted enough to be able to buy and sell(or convert) it easily to almost anyone. What we need right now to progress are non-custodial peer-to-peer exchanges with good UX.

Fortunately most(if not all) decent sites/platforms now require capital letters, numbers and special characters, and have a minimum number of characters. And along with that, 2FA as well.

We're in a bear market mate, even the moderators themselves have been shaken out of the markets/s

In all seriousness, I think I've been seeing plagiarism posts a lot more rarely recently compared to years ago, hence why I thought the moderators were actually far stricter now. Didn't know they increased their leniency.

Yep! This graphic sure definitely over-simplified things to the point that we could probably somewhat call it inaccurate, but I guess what's important is that they dumbed it down enough and got the point across for most newbies to easily grasp. Short passwords = bad, long passwords with complexity = good.

Based on my experience, FTX and Kucoin have been the fastest, with the slowest being Binance. The speed difference isn't that substantial though, and the withdrawal speed of these exchanges(the time it takes before the withdrawal becomes confirmed off-chain) can vary from time to time based on my experience.

Most cryptocurrencies especially going below the #30 CMC ranking lack liquidity, hence prices can be all over the place hence demand for futures will most likely be lower. Not to mention that with platforms like Binance, most of their users don't even know what futures trading is.

Read the responses again — it's mainly because Russian is the aggressor here, and it's Ukraine that's being bullied.

Bitcoin doesn't need to be legalized as legal tender to be useful. They can simply sell the bitcoin/cryptocurrencies they crowd funded for USD or their local currency, and use that money to fund their stuff.

Surprise surprise, even if they don't want to lose customers, they'll need to freeze funds on certain wallets if the authorities tell them to. It's either they comply, or they get shut down. The choice is pretty obvious, isn't it? Sometimes you need to look at it at the issuer's perspective.

Why are you speaking as if that it was our choice/decision that both USDC and USDT can be frozen lol? If you'd ask me then jeebus I'd really LOVE these stablecoins to be totally censorship resistant, but no — because these stablecoins are totally centrally controlled by companies(Bitfinex for USDT and Circle for USDC).

This sounds really GREAT on paper as a privacy-conscious person, but man you're pretty much guaranteed to get pursued by the authorities in the end and be forced to accept AML/KYC.

Asking to fund Russia as well is like asking the community to hand the bully a pair of brass knuckles, instead of helping the victim to get out of the situation. Like, is it even that complicated?

P.S. DaveF is the GOAT.

So.. pretty much screw literally any service that (temporarily) holds custody over your bitcoin? It's not like you need to go all in with all your bitcoin when using mixers in the first place, because you definitely don't need to.

It's certainly "good" in a way that Russians will be able to move out of the already crashed Russian Rubble or to be ready for potential situations such as this, or for some people to finally realize that bitcoin is made for situations such as this. That not because your local currency is doing "fine" currently, doesn't mean that it will be fine forever.

As far as I remember, I didn't even read the (unofficial) rules until more than years later when the mass plagiarism bans came around and became a very hot topic here lol. I guess it's just me being used to how forum communities work.

So.. the summary is pretty much "How to build a great crypto portfolio: just buy good coins to hold for the long term" and separate holdings from trading.

I could barely call that a "tip".

Well that's a bizarre line lol. You do realize though that if the USD drops in value then so does your USDC and USDT stablecoins, right? The likes of USDC and USDT are pegged(at least, supposedly) to the USD.

Rank doesn't even depend on if you've read the rules or not. It's going to mostly depend on how knowledgeable an actual user is. Though it's good if people did, but I'd say reading the rules aren't THAT mandatory anyway as it's very similar to the rules of most communities. Just don't do stupid stuff and you'll be fine.

It would only be a problem in the first place if you leave your funds(or are totally reliant) on exchanges. Don't want getting locked out of exchanges? Use non-custodial wallets and peer-to-peer exchanges. Simple.