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4581  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Search for merits on: September 14, 2020, 11:05:59 PM
Hello fellow users I have registered over 6 months but I seem unable to gather merits
It's pretty much obvious why, you have only 'bounty report posts'.
and I don't know how and which sub-forum to get them.
You can get them on any board or sub-board, except the bounties (altcoin) section, where almost all your posts are.
Assist is needed from other senior members on the platform is needed.
The assistance/answers you have above.
4582  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: SEC fined rapper T.I. for promoting a fraudulent ICO on: September 14, 2020, 08:31:01 PM
Aside from Felton, all of the individuals have agreed to settlements to resolve the charges against them.
If T.I and the other individuals involved want to resolve the charges asap, in hindsight it could pretty much mean they are pleading guilty to this allegations and they have actually tried to defraud investors of this project in collaboration with companies FliK and CoinSpark and not a situation of the project being dead due to some other reasons.

That being said, I'm looking at a scenario were scam projects either impersonate highly placed individuals or actually even work with them in the future (and they even have been doing so), to allure investors, who will cause of that hardly question their legitimacy, which should not be so, no matter the individuals who make up the team, it's a rule of thumb to research about not only them, but every single detail about the project.
4583  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2020/2021 on: September 13, 2020, 07:06:01 PM
What a bad day for me I didn't expect him to beat Tottenham so easily against Everton.op My bet is gone in the wind
Everton have to finish in the top six at least after their good business in the transfer market (J.Rodriguez being the best) I like how they played today and if they can keep picking up important points like today, then a top six finish is very possible. I expected the game to be very tight, TBH I predicted a draw, cause there isn't too much separating the two teams, but good three points for Carlo Ancelloti and his boys.

On the other hand, the pressure is now on Jose Mourinho, for once I don't see his team as title contenders even from the start of the season, it was different when he was at Chelsea, Madrid or even United, but with Spurs I don't really know what the goals are, a top four finish? A cup title, carabao/FA cup?, Mou could actually be losing his place as a top manager.
4584  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: 🔍 Roobet.com | Guess Total Wagers #41 $50 Prize | Progressive Jackpot inside 🔍 on: September 13, 2020, 05:58:30 PM
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4585  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: For your ready reference on mobile phone/device bitcoin wallet on: September 13, 2020, 05:26:01 AM
Coinomi supports signing message since years, Samourai does too. This list is huge, am pretty sure many of them support sign message. May be we should refrain from making remarks when we aren't sure about something.
Remember the topic is about mobile wallets precisely, and actually, signing a message from most of this wallets mobile version is impossible. Yes Coinomi allows you to sign a message from your mobile and i don't know about samourai; but like cryptoaddictchie wrote, many of this mobile wallets don't support signing messages, if you want to sign a message with Electrum and many more of them, you need to do it through a PC or desktop.
On mobile, only very small part of your money should be stored on mobile, for daily or sudden spending. Your mobiles are easier to be lost (on streets, at company, at park, etc.). Your mobile can be broken by accidents, water etc.
That is not true, except you use your PC to store your assets in cold storage, whilst your mobile is used for online activities, well, If you're not doing that and you have your coins on your mobile in a non custodial wallet, you can save as much as you want, as long as you can follow the safety instructions: going through the right source to get your wallet, only you should know your private keys etc. Lastly, your PC can also get damaged in the same your phone can.
So I won't go all in to store my money on mobile.
The best option is just to purchase a HW wallet, that way you never get to move with it, cause I know quite a lot of people who go out everyday with their PC, same way with their mobile phones
4586  Other / Politics & Society / Re: More Support for Covid as Engineered Financial Reset on: September 12, 2020, 06:45:00 PM
Firstly, I don't think China and most countries of the western world can come to any agreement on anything, even impossible when we're talking about spreading a virus deliberately. I know Trump can pretty much be silly most of the time, but how many countries took the proactive action of closing their borders and invariably their economy on time to nip the virus in the bud, the number is zero.

Having established that, it has to be a last resort to close your borders, stop your work force and ask everyone to stay at home, and thats why there was a considerable delay, or why it looks like most presidents were reluctant to act, to stop the spread of the virus. That being said, "knowing how serious the virus is" and it still spreading, isn't enough proof to call this a deliberate act of resetting the economy system, you forget how fast covid-19 passes from one person to another, before the government got a hold of it's seriousness, thousands of people were already infected. Come to think of it, this reset isn't favoring the United States or the Western world, so what did they stand to gain.
4587  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Don't use your bitcointalk account password on other websites on: September 11, 2020, 08:53:29 PM
Some users complain it's not that easy to always create a strong new password all the time, so for users like that who find it difficult to create strong and unique passwords across many of their accounts/profiles, learn how to create a strong/secure password here, the instructions in that thread will help you, not only to secure your btt forum account, but any account you own.
4588  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Eterbase Exchange Hacked, Don't Leave Your Funds on Any Exchange! on: September 11, 2020, 05:22:59 PM
Now that this thing has happened again, no one would dare to leave some crypto assets on the exchanges...
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.
To be honest, its an exchange responsibility to keep safe user's funds. Hacking shouldn't affect trader's funds if the exchange honest with their business. Hope Eterbase will take care of the trader's funds.
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.
4589  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: 🔍 Roobet.com | Guess Total Wagers #40 $50 Prize | Progressive Jackpot inside 🔍 on: September 11, 2020, 12:42:58 PM
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4590  Economy / Economics / Re: UK economy continues to rebound upwards - but yet to cross pre covid levels. on: September 11, 2020, 11:29:22 AM
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.
4591  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Machine Learning and the Death of Accountability on: September 11, 2020, 09:03:13 AM
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.
4592  Other / Politics & Society / Re: UK - From Monday it is mandatory to fill in contact tracing forms. on: September 11, 2020, 08:31:52 AM
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.
4593  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Have you lost btc at some point of the time ? What is your story on: September 11, 2020, 06:05:24 AM
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.
4594  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: Twetch: Blockchain-based Twitter, encyrpted with BTC private key, Or it is? on: September 10, 2020, 10:49:04 AM
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is a fully encrypted messaging platform that allows its users to chat privately with anybody on Twetch. Twetch Chat is encrypted using Bitcoin, AES, and ECIES. Chats are encrypted using your Bitcoin private keys and are private and only accessible to you and those you permit.

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.
4595  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Ethereum 2.0 - Everything You Need to Know About Eth-2.0 [New] on: September 10, 2020, 08:18:02 AM
To beat bitcoin and taking the first place as a crypto king ethereum should make it fast, launch eth 2.0 as soon as possible with all the update improve
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.
And make defi  more improve with upcoming ethereum 2.0
I hope vitalik and the team make it fast
IIRC Vitalik has warned the users allured to the DeFi hype, and the risks of scam in it.
4596  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: #WARNING!!! Beware of this activities on Instagram. Don't fall victim. on: September 10, 2020, 07:42:46 AM
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' Sad rather than focusing on the technology and it's pros.
4597  Other / Meta / Re: EXPRESS THOUGHTS ABOUT B&H AND RANK AND MERIT SYSTEM on: September 10, 2020, 06:45:14 AM
The beginners & help section had blasted with new threads lately on scam related threads. I have seen that many wanted to help as it is their intention is to keep everybody aware from the current events and news of scam topics. It was indeed helpful to us newbie or not newbie users as for the awareness of the information posted by these users.
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.
Anyway, it is more good than harm.
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 Wink) so many of them will likely miss or even never see the threads if it's only posted there.
4598  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: If the real Satoshi had worked on Digital ID would you be perturbed or enthused? on: September 09, 2020, 07:39:29 PM
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.
4599  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Oxford university vaccine trial paused after participant falls sick on: September 09, 2020, 05:17:09 PM
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.
4600  Other / Archival / Re: 🔍 Roobet.com | Guess Total Wagers #39 $50 Prize | Progressive Jackpot inside 🔍 on: September 09, 2020, 02:08:11 PM
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