I am pretty sure a lot of people would still leave their assets in custodial exchange wallets, the information reads that the Etherbase exchange hack led to a loss of 5.4 million dollars, but when Binance was hacked few years back, losses amounted to over 41 million dollars, but still people have been leaving their assets on an exchange, so this case imo wouldn't change it, looking at the amount lost its not even close to what has happened in the past. Thing is, the responsibility of being our own banks is what most people don't want to take, for example every now and then, people download wallets with malware from Google, when they already know the official website should be their only option when looking for a wallet.
I agree with you mate, but how many honest exchanges are out there, it's better to have your assets in your non custodial wallet, with your private keys, than leaving that responsibility for an exchange, if they get hacked they may fail to reimburse their customers (even if they should). Exchange could go insolvent and fold up and if your asset was amongst those stolen, there's no way to recover your stolen funds.

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It's a dilemma really for the government in U.K. to either continue covering 80% of furloughed workers salaries for their employers or drop the scheme and watch the unemployment numbers rise. Though the job retention scheme in the U.K doesn't cover everyone and not every employer decided to join the furlough scheme, but it has helped to keep people's jobs for them, while they still get paid for not working.

Definitely the government can't continue this scheme for too long, but I'll root for an extension, to prolly end of the year; I say so because there are countries close to launching a vaccine for the virus by the end of the year; and the reason why businesses closed and there was even a furlough retention scheme in the first place is because of the pandemic. Beginning of next year could see workers in the U.K gradually return to work on a full time basis, and the companies they work for up and running. But if the government stops the scheme right now, employers will lay off their workers in mass, and businesses could go insolvent and fold up, leaving the employees with no work place to return to, when things return to normal.

No data or algorithm can be used to accurately determine the outcome of an examination that's yet to be written, imo, this should not be an option to grade students in schools. What data would either the teachers or the computer use to determine the grade: previous grades, social life of the student, level of intelligence, IQ level, background etc? I've seen good students go into an examination unprepared and fail, likewise bad students change their mindset, study hard and come out top to everyone's surprise.

If a student doesn't take an examination themself, then there's no algorithm or computer that can bring out a result that'll be accurate, the computer only predicts an outcome on the basis of the data fed in and how the coders programmed it to react on a standardized case by case basis, but there's no arbitrary standard for a student in every exam, they can be bad today and excellent tomorrow.

Filling this forms has major flaws, there is no way to be sure people will fill their correct information (wrong phone numbers for example), since the workers at the restaurant can't cross-check it with the customers ID or something and I'm sure quite a lot of people would do that so they'll be able to eat at the restaurant they want to without having to worry about receiving a call from the 'government' that they've been exposed to the virus; what about people receiving wrong calls they were at a restaurant they have prolly not been to this year, i have to agree with you that this is somewhat silly.

Tbh, I don't see any pros in this mandate, they could simply set tables far apart from each other and that's enough (social distancing) imo.

My story is a somewhat happy one, before ever earning any amount of Bitcoin I already was a member of this forum, and I'm an individual that's always ready to follow legitimate instructions. So I knew early that coins are better offline (either hw wallet or a cold storage in another device), I never downloaded wallets from any source other than the official website, my seeds were always safely written down, I didn't talk to people about my btc and all the modus operandi of scammers I knew by reading the posts of others. I was enthused and scared with the notion of being my own bank, so I had no option but to inculcate the btc principles in me.

That being said, I already had a strong Bitcoin background through this forum before I started accumulating, and that's why till date I haven't lost any of my Bitcoin asset to scammers. I wanted to try out trading at one point, but learning it takes good amount of knowledge to do so, I chose to rather invest whilst I study how to trade (which I'm still doing); my only losses in cryptocurrencies btw have come with buying some shitcoins with my money (I've never traded my Bitcoin for shitcoins) and they turned dead coins.

Chat encryption using private keys? That's a red flag and why no one should ever think of using this service, how can you be sure the providers won't store the private keys of it's users; it also reads it can be accessible to people you permit, that should not even be an option, no one should ever be permitted to have access to your private keys.

Twitter, Fb and other messaging apps steal users data (they lack privacy) and that's bad to say the least, but substituting them with a messaging app that will put your crypto funds/private keys at risk is the worse choice.

Sorry, but Ethereum 2.0 can't do that, I know eth holders are expecting big things from eth 2.0 when it's launched and I prolly think it will come with considerable improvements on the ethereum network, but there's no chance Bitcoin will be second to it, Bitcoin has a far higher price, market cap and volume. You also seem to forget Bitcoin had a major event this year (halving) and btc will likely go above the ath prolly next year.
IIRC Vitalik has warned the users allured to the DeFi hype, and the risks of scam in it.

It's not only on Instagram, also on crypto Facebook pages and even on youtube people make videos of how much ROI they have made from Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrencies, with fake follow through of comments were people claim they have also just received their own ROI. I mean, how can someone believe this, people try to believe that there's a quick money scheme waiting for them somewhere, when actually there is none.

One of the photos in the op reads: "earn $10,000 weekly investing in Bitcoin", with Bitcoin just a little above that price atm, it could mean earning one Bitcoin every week, it's plain stupid to believe this imo, what investment can even give this much ROI, or do people just love believing that Bitcoin is a 'gateway to riches' rather than focusing on the technology and it's pros.

The threads can help of course, but to an extent. I am still surprised how users fall for some of this scams, mostly giveaway related. Tbh i think scams are pretty easy to sidestep, I mean, users still use custodial/web wallets, they don't keep their seed phrase secret, users download and click random links, prefer to use Google search to get their wallets rather than go through the official website etc (and imo this instructions are pretty easy to adhere to). This is just a few of the follies users commit and lose their funds in the end, and somewhat makes the efforts of those who make awareness threads on different scammers modus operandi seem futile.
I think so too, and imo that's why the mods allow it in that section. I don't think the scam accusation board has much newbie traffic as beginners and help (do you have any statistics to back me up ) so many of them will likely miss or even never see the threads if it's only posted there.

Well if he had worked on digital identity instead of Bitcoin I can't say if I'll be enthused, maybe it's cause of my proclivity to Bitcoin (built over two years now) and how the Bitcoin network operates. whether perturbed or enthused I'm happy Satoshi created Bitcoin and that's what matters imo, what would have happened if he had rather chose to work on digital ID is what we do not know, but what we do know is the opportunities btc gives to it's users and Satoshi deserves appreciation for that.

There is no confirmation or certainty that the volunteer fell ill because he or she was vaccinated, so the illness should not be blamed on the vaccine yet, people fall ill everyday for different reasons, so until it's proven that it's the vaccine this patient received that's the cause of the illness, I don't think citizens should start panicking.

The production of the vaccine is somewhat rushed, so I expect this to happen and any illness on the volunteers during this period will, until proven otherwise, be blamed on the vaccine; it is what it is, and even if we don't like it, we have to accept that covid-19 vaccines will be in mass production and commercialization by next year.

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IIRC I think I had this issue (not really an issue if it's the same with what I experienced) some weeks ago, I think when I was trying to put in my seed to import my wallet on my Android phone, I tapped on the message box (that box where your seed appears) before typing my seed with the virtual keyboard and the option to move forward (next option) didn't appear. When you get to type your seed, just input with the virtual keyboard presented on your screen without tapping on the message box first, just try that and see, I'm not too sure.

Batshuayi has to leave Chelsea if he has any plans other than to sit on the bench next season, I don't know who will be Franky's makeshift striker between Giroud and Tammy Abraham next season, but imo Batshuayi is not in contention and Palace is a good option. That being said, Jordan Ayew will also not make things easy for Batshuayi to break into the team if he returns to Crystal palace, honestly I think he'll still be a backup in Palace, but he'll obviously get more playing time than in Stamford bridge.

This user alone has made about 64 posts today (mind you that the day is not over yet, so that number could still rise).
@aiguy already has 271 posts, and that users post history shows he started posting on September 4, 2020 (only four days ago) I don't know if he deleted previous posts as the account was created last year, btw this case looks far more than filling their post count (which is already filled, lol), looks more to me like spamming brazenly without remorse and on purpose, which imo should get them nuked.

The thing for me is I think this pandemic came at a bad, very critical and defining year for the U.S, I say so cause of the November presidential election, at the early stage of pandemic maybe or maybe not Trumps government didn't concentrate fully on tackling the virus, and being an election year, tried to gain more trust from the citizens claiming everything was under control, well, till it clearly wasn't.

And now so close to the polls, releasing a vaccine now looks too much of a political move, even if it actually may not be. Imo, due to Trump's controversial behavior many Americans don't trust him and for me the election should come and go, so if a new president is elected or the former one remains, the whole attention would shift to ending this pandemic and restabilizing the U.S economy, for now the attention is clearly divided.

The websites/ads you get when you search with Google are definitely not manually filtered to check for malware, phishing links or fake websites, the risk is with whoever is searching and that makes Google a very bad choice, but it's now more terrible when looking up for something as important as a wallet to download and store your funds, you could be importing your wallet with your seed, not knowing you're giving it to scammers.

Even if newbies are using Google search for random things and information, I think when it comes to a wallet or anything that has to do with their funds/money, more caution and carefulness is required, and the official website should be the only point of contact at all times.

The problem with the health care system in Africa starts from the education sector, that sector is 'poor' in many parts of Africa, with inadequate learning facilities/equipments for students studying to be doctors, this negligence by the government later comes back to affect the health system, when doctors aren't qualitfied as much as they should be. The wealthy (mostly the politicians) hence have to seek better medical care in the western world, whilst the doctors who can afford to go for more specialization abroad, leave the shores of Africa to the West, to gain more experience, afterwards which many of them never return, but end up practicing abroad. This circle continues this way and African countries lose their best hands to the west due to underdevelopment, while their health care system never improves.
You mean treatment right?

How did you come up with this ridiculous idea, well would you also postulate that the U.S. government start trafficking drugs to also make money from it to restabilize the economy? Wannabe economic experts have been on the rise since the pandemic with all sorts of panacea to the fallen economy and inflation, but if many of their suggestions like this one on cannabis be implemented, it'd have more cons than pros.

Imo, there's no policy the government can implement to revive the economy as fast as people want, any of such policies, like printing more money as we've seen already will have major consequences on the economy in the long run, as the nation continues to gradually open and businesses restart, the economic situation will slowly start it's recovery process, legalizing what the government considers illegal is not an option to revive the economy.