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I can hear nothing but the sighs of coin developers, crypto investors, traders and even bounty managers & hunters in this forum, Telegram groups. I can also hear the sound of silence from crypto enthusiasts, specialists, speakers or even crypto millionaires. I can even hear the terrible voices from crypto believers, gentlemen, ladies. I realize that Mr market makers are too greedy, dangerous and malicious. We are Nemo fishes and we have nothing to do but staring our money have been gradually gone with the wind. 
What are you feeling now? Share your thoughts

Who here feels they have a handle on their emotions when it comes to trading or holding?

I think it's an area that many people like to feel that they've mastered, but if they saw playbacks of their actions a while down the line it would be screamingly obvious that they haven't.

To give a personal example I have a few XEMs. A few months back I was looking to consolidate all the crypto threads I had lying around so looked into selling a sizeable chunk as they'd been pretty stagnant for a while.  

Being a bit dim and easily distracted I forgot about it and so stuck around for a 20-25x rise. Had my concentration held I probably would've gotten rid of them and would now be wailing and puking. In that particular case boredom and impatience nearly got the better of me.

There are countless examples on this forum of people declaring things dead or emphatically stating that such and such price will never happen again and giving up. Same goes for people going all in at the peakiest of peaks.

Have you yourself found your emotions tripping you up or are you an emotionless trading terminator?

Hello community. The market is in a bearish trend for several months. One says that "sharks" create panic with the help of news, forcing small holders of bitcoins to sell themselves to buy cheap, others say that at the end of 2018 bitcoin will soar like a rocket. Many people write and speak on this topic. How do you think how long the bear market will last? Share your opinions.

I know a lot of traders want 5 minute data of bitcoin's price.  So I've made a site that with an excel sheet of that data.  Also, I've calculated the highest/lowest percentage that bitcoin will increase during that five minute period. 

Let me know what you guys think.  With more time (and perhaps donations  ) I want to get 5 minute data for more cryptocurrencies. 

http://cryptoweatherforecast.com/

Hello Guys,

Just notice recent price movement of crypto specifically Bitcoin, now is the good time to collect then hodl of bitcoin at current price. The reasons are:
1. Big Business Man and Entity has started to enter bitcoin, they are such as Rockefeller, Soros, and Rothschild. Others are as this link:https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/04/08/soros-rothschild-big-institutional-investors-entering-bitcoin-market/

2. Major countries will be not a barrier for bitcoin as concluded on last G-20 convention as referring to this link: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-price-jumps-1k-after-carney-tells-g20-crypto-does-not-pose-risk. There is a high possibility to be followed by other countries. // Update// I just have found other news of Bitcoin usage legally by Germany Government in other thread, here is the thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4493205.0 == Germany added bitcoin as a legal tender!//

3. Popularity of Bitcoin will rise after FIFA world cup since Bitcoin will be tested for transaction during World Cup which will be witnessed by tens or even hundreds of thousands of people from all corners of the world, plus thousands of journalists who will proclaim their coverage all over the world. Here is the link: https://btcmanager.com/bitcoins-promise-of-global-currency-to-be-tested-at-fifa-world-cup-in-june-2018/

Even above points are considered as good parameter to collect bitcoin at current price, it is necessary to see the update of above points to impact the crypto market. We can understand that point no 1 will not be immediately affect the market since they need to comprehensively learn and research crypto space with the assumption above news are the just still the interest of those guys to enter crypto space. So it will need time for them to understand comprehensively in crypto space with certainly full of due diligent will be made.

While point no 2, even G-20 have released that crypto is not the threat to their economic and financial condition so crypto will be not barred but as a country definitely this is a good start at least the crypto activities will not be disturbed. This is a green light for crypto development, but again it will need time to be fully good effect to the market.

While the 3rd point above, seems it will be a faster effect to bitcoin price if the testing is successfully carried out. Hope Russia will be a place to spread out bitcoin to all over the world by performing FIFA World cup, even point no 2 and 3 are not yet affected the market immediately but if the point 3 is successful perhaps points no 1 and 2 will be move a little bit faster.

So as conclusion, in long term of crypto is still be a sexy thing specially Bitcoin to be collected and hold while see the update of 3 points above specially the test result of point 3. Beside, we can see the indicators of point 3 by waiting the support of $ 6000 (-+ 5%) whether to be reversed or broken. If $ 6000 support is broken, Collecting Bitcoin as long term hodl will be still sexy investment but still need to find another moment or support line of bitcoin price to enter.

How does it work guys?  Mining is completely legal and as far as I know there are no such % of tax that is taken specifically to the crypto mining. I think it all goes the same way as you would do with trading and gambling. When you will withdraw money into your bank account which you have gotten from the mining then it will be charged the same way as your salary gets taxed. With the different slots of income you will get charged different taxes mate. That is how it works. Also it depends on your country too. In some country's it is going to be taxed around 28% whopping price tag over the crypto earnings.

Any thoughts about this?

How well do cryptocurrencies fulfil the required functions of money, and how will we expect the 'Darwinian evolution' of monetary affairs advance? Here are a few thoughts to inspire debate and discussion - any constructive thoughts and feedback are welcome.

Cryptocurrencies: the potential is there, but still way to go to a perfect solution for money and payments

Never before has any previous form of currency been as purely global as are the newly emerged cryptocurrencies: the market for cryptocurrencies lives incessantly its hectically pulsating and wildly gyrating rhythm 24 hours a day, seven days a week around the globe, across any and all national borders that do not exist for them. The cryptocurrency market never stops the way the operations of SWIFT, Automatic Clearinghouse (ACH) or various central banks that operate only during ‘banking days’ and ‘business hours’ i.e. for around 200 days a year instead of 365 – and why on earth should the transfer of money in the 21st century be dependent on business days and hours representing the past? The cryptocurrency market does not need to stop, as it is dependent on none of those archaic institutions and their business hours – nor on any other institution or government. This market is participated globally by anyone willing – there are no ‘barriers to entry’ that have been raised around banks, central banks and other government and financial institutions handling traditional forms of fiat money – nor should there be any barriers to entry either. The market for cryptocurrencies is more egalitarian on a global scale than any other form of money, and advances in technology are making all this possible. Eventually, the underlying technologies will enable an open, global financial system that is accessible to all.

The most well-known of cryptocurrencies, bitcoin, was introduced 9 years ago, on 3 January 2009, in the aftermath of the beginning of the worldwide financial crisis triggered by the collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank in mid-September 2008. While the first years of bitcoin passed as a technological curiosity, an experiment to prove the concept, the cryptocurrency industry started taking pace in 2013-2014 with the introduction and gradual growth of exchanges and consumer wallets to buy, sell and make payments in bitcoin, and the increasing value of bitcoin prompted the development of a number of other digital currencies often labelled ‘altcoins’, the number of which has already increased to more than 1,500 as of today and is growing by the day – while most of those altcoins are not intended to be cryptocurrencies per se but tokens for various purposes in the crypto economy, often based on the ethereum ERC-20 protocol developed for the ethereum cryptocurrency ecosystem, to function as tokens, or means of exchange for various goods and services mostly in digital form, and leveraging the blockchain technology for ‘smart contracts’ or otherwise, there is certainly a Darwinian evolution underway to shape the future winners in the global crypto economy, which will later on form a significant part of the general economy, when the cryptocurrencies and the underlying blockchain technology reach mainstream.

If we go back to the basics of money, its fundamental functions of unit of account, store of value and means of payment or of exchange, very few, or any of the 1,500 potential cryptocurrencies or other digital asset tokens meet these requirements. In the end of the day, no cryptocurrency of today meets all those conditions, not even those that purely label themselves as cryptocurrencies instead of various tokens, i.e. none of them is ripe to function as everyday money, fulfilling its key requirements. If we reflect on them in contrast to these 3 required functions for money:

• Unit of account: this is probably the easiest one of them to fulfil, as all cryptocurrencies represent units that can be divided into sub-units, like cents on a dollar or euro, but often with much greater decimals – e.g. one bitcoin corresponds to 100,000,000 – 100 million – satoshis
• Store of value: the wild fluctuations of the cryptocurrency market trying to establish the ‘correct’ levels of valuation (consensus view of the market) for each cryptocurrency, with the combination of news relating to individual cryptocurrencies, countries, their regulatory actions or plans, and the potential or real use cases of such cryptocurrencies bringing them closer to everyday use affecting the market and the pricing of individual cryptocurrencies every day, being too high to make cryptocurrencies reliable stores of value as of today, because the value can substantially go up or down in a very short period of time, without any guarantee of any particular level – it may be better, however, than the currencies of countries suffering from hyperinflation (many people in a number of South American countries suffering from excessively high inflation rates having been early adopters of cryptocurrencies), but not compared to any fiat money of industrialised countries of today, or any commodity such as gold traditionally viewed as a good store of value, even if, at the same time, many attribute bitcoins as ‘digital gold’
• Means of payment: Again, the massive volatility in the price of cryptocurrencies makes them poor means of payments, as the wild fluctuations in value can cause significant losses either to buyers or sellers of goods or services with bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, and, because the markets have been generally bullish on cryptocurrencies over the past several years, despite of momentary corrections like January-February 2018, they have been seen more interesting to be acquired and held as investments due to the recent increases in their value rather than an everyday means of payment; becoming a means of payment would require much more stability in the market value of such cryptocurrencies (and relatively less interest to hold them as a speculative investment) as well as low latency, the technical capability of having a large enough number of transactions verified fast enough in the network (a problem that e.g. Bitcoin and ethereum structurally have but which can be solved in different ways such as the ‘lightning network’ project for bitcoin and sharding for ethereum, and some altcoins have been created to better deal with this problem of high network latency, long settlement times of bitcoin transactions)

So, while cryptocurrencies, which are independent of any government, central bank, bank or any other institution, can do away with banks and central banks by definition, and function as solid units of accounts, in general, they do not yet efficiently fulfil the monetary functions of a store of value and a means of payment. These remain major challenges to be solved, in order for a cryptocurrency to be adopted into mainstream use in everyday payments.

For this reason, there is so far no cryptocurrency as a universally recognised means of payment or store of value – the recognition as such has been limited to individual cases. At the same time, this fact, with the key challenges remaining unresolved in these respects, provides vast opportunities to those who try to create best solutions to these problems and challenges. A number of potential routes to solve all the problems and meet all the challenges exist. Time will tell, which solutions will be the winners, but, at the same time, the space ahead is so vast that it allows a plethora of different solutions for different purposes in this new blue ocean of an open, global, decentralised network-based financial system that is gradually taking shape.

In this new era, the power will be of those who decentralise, and not to those who attempt to centralise power – it will be healthier to let one’s power to be ‘cannibalized’ by the technological advances than to lose it altogether when only resisting this tsunami of change. The Darwinian evolution underway will take care that the power to which the traditional incumbents of centralised, closed systems are trying to cling will slip away, and will be transferred to those who build, contribute to or participate the open, decentralised financial systems taking shape. This is inevitable and it is already underway, and trying to fight against it is as futile as is the fight against the windmills – such momentum can no longer be stopped, nor would it make any sense at all to try to stop it.

The only way to succeed and to generate value is to seek and find solutions to the new challenges with the new tools made available, as someone will find the answers anyway, and those answers will shape the evolution of the global financial system of the future, so it is no small feat. What is clear, regardless of the exact characteristics of the eventual winners is, however, that the most powerful solution will no longer be anything closed or centralised, and it will be impossible to maintain any power in such closed, centralised loops, as they will eventually run out of air like balloons – the Internet would have never been as successful as it has become as a global medium, if it had remained a system confined for military purposes as it was originally conceived.

As is the case of the Darwinian evolution, all actors must either be capable of adapting to the changing circumstances and accept the new realities and take new shape, or become extinct. This is what seems to be eventually happening to banks, central banks and the so-called fiat money as we know them – cryptocurrencies and the blockchain-based infrastructure will render many of their core functions ultimately obsolete. The evolutionary train cannot be stopped, but one must jump onboard instead. One cannot win the future through prohibition of products of innovation or imposing ever more regulation, as one can only regulate something that previously exists; this battle can only be won through ever smarter innovation, being better at it than anyone else, and applying it in better and simpler ways.

Like the blockchain itself, or the internet in general, the flow of information and transactions always finds its path to the right destination through replaceable nodes that become ever more numerous and interconnected so that any node can be immediately replaced by many other nodes without compromising the functioning of the network at all despite of any external effort to destabilise it, without any central server or institution behind it that could be attacked – the blockchain train cannot be attacked, as it will always find a way around any obstacles. This architecture of the open global financial system literally brings the power to the hands of its users and takes it from those of governments and institutions.

But rather than rejecting it, any government or institution can become stronger by adopting these technological advances to the benefit of their ‘clients’, be it the people of a sovereign country or clients of a business. While it is always very difficult to cannibalize one’s own power, often it is vital for survival and success, as history itself has proven so many times.

Here are also a few thoughts relating to money, central banking and the cryptocurrencies taking over sovereign currencies: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4524280

Hi all,

For my master thesis, I’m currently doing a study about Initial Coin Offerings. The main purpose of this study is to learn more about the key motivations of investors to invest in an ICO. In order to finalize my study, I made a survey. You’ll find the link to this below. It would be extremely helpful to me if you could make some time to fill in and complete my survey. It will take you approximately 4 – 6 minutes.

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Thanks in advance!
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I want to learn about being professional trader. I want to search and read some articles but I don't know whatelse.
What I read so far is about how to read candlestick. And I learn how to read indicator but I just learn it by myself.
So what articles to read? If you have some suggestion, please share here. I don't ask for the articles to read, I just ask for some clue what to learn

Everywhere you can find cryptocurrency topic especially ICO projects are doing well on the marketing through social media like facebook, twitter, reddit, linked, youtube and etc. Celebrities, influential individuals and high ranking government officials are talking about cryptocurrency and that is why i think cryptocurrency is a trending topic all over the world. Do you agree with me? Even haters help cryptocurrency to be known all over the world so let just leave the haters then.

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>>>Don’t buy on peak. The drastic surge of the rate doesn’t mean, that the growth will continue.

>>>Don’t allow your emotions to overtake you. Successful trading is always based on сold premeditation, risk management and careful analytics. For the adrenaline you can go to casino.

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>>> Trade on different exchanges. Don’t keep all of your assets in one place!

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>>>Never count the profit you’ve missed. It’s better to fix small gains, than to lose everything because of the greed.

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Talk to an average person, and 9.9 times out of 10, they’ll have no idea what blockchain is, with the exception of maybe Bitcoin. If they do know, it’s surface level details at best.

When a trend emerges, some people don’t want to wait to see how things play out — especially when there’s money to be made. Perhaps this story can be an example:

Remember the massive excitement Bitcoin last year? Speculative investment exploded. As the price soared, it gained public appeal. And legitimacy. And a lot of people made a lot of money, very fast.

Then the price dropped by 50%.

By the time Bitcoin’s value plummeted, it seemed like most people had lost faith. But that “lost faith” reaction really only happened among those who had jumped into space at the last minute, hoping to enjoy Bitcoin’s climb. People with knowledge of blockchain and cryptocurrencies saw this coming— in some way, shape, or form. Active participants in the emerging industry were hardly surprised by the plummet in price that followed. These are “growing pains” that arise with any new technology.

Unfortunately, that patience was not widespread. Many people who jumped into the industry looking to make a quick buck ended up jumping back out at its lowest slump. They chalked their ill-timed participation as the fault of blockchain being a “trend,” opposed to looking at the long-term nature of what it means to build something globally impactful — and the rising (and falling) tides that come with such a massive undertaking.

This is why, as markets begin to recover (and they already have), and new variations of blockchain technology cement themselves into our everyday lives, everyone from general consumers to high-profile investors need to have a firm understanding of the tech.

Claim
Bytecoin is run by a highly disingenuous team, whose goal is most probably to maximize own gains by tricking people like you to buy the BCN token. Bytecoin can be classified as scam, not in the liberal interpretation often thrown around here, but in the classical sense.

Who am I and why am I investigating Bytecoin?
I am a fellow cryptocurrency enthusiast who in late 2017, early 2018 decided to start up a free cryptocurrency ratings agency, BD Ratings, to compete with Weiss Ratings (I guess you remember their entrance in the space). The coin selection process is random, drawn from Bitcoin block nounces. When finally block # 511650 hit, the two last digits of the nounce 207761428 selected the coin that by marketcap was number 29 on coinmarketcap.com. By that time, that happened to be Bytecoin. So this is not a targeted hit piece; I dived in to Bytecoin with an open mind just as I had done with other coins prior to this rating. I profit absolutely nothing by bashing Bytecoin. Neither do I profit anything from potential increased traffic to my coin ratings.

My membership status on bitcointalk.org is Newbie, so I can't provide pictures in this thread right now. I do however keep a number of printscreens as proof should they be required later. And finally, I decided to post this as a new thread because of the relatively low traction it has gotten elsewhere. No cryptocurrency newspaper I contacted has shown an interest in the findings. With this thread, I hope to change that as the proof of wrongdoing is massive. The inconsistencies are provided in separate "issues", all independent of each other. This means that the Bytecoin team ought to refute every single issue, and not come with a sweeping rebuttal. Let's hold them accountable.

What these claims does not include
In 2014, rethink-your-strategy turned the spotlight to multiple serious discrepancies in the official Bytecoin issuance story. The Bytecoin team's claim of a chain stretching back to 2012 seemed suddenly dubious. Read up on that historical thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=740112.0) as well if you like, it is one of the best out there. My investigation starts where that thread ended. The main overlapping issue seems to be the evidence provided of the use of sockpuppets, but other than that I provide new findings.

Intro
Bytecoin was announced on the 12th of March 2014 by user DStrange on bitcointalk.org (BCT). The coin was based on the new, privacy focused CryptoNote technology, thus using the memory-bound CryptoNight consensus algorithm that was quite resistant to ASIC’s back then. DStrange was not a developer; he appears to have stumbled upon Bytecoin when trying to mine a useless Bitcoin clone with the same name. He quickly put on the Bytecoin cloak and started handing out free coins.

Issue I: Early sockpuppets

(Note: for links and proof references, go to the Medium articles provided at the end of this post)

First to reply to DStrange’s post was user Lamalicious, hailing the project as looking like Satoshi’s second venture. Lamalicious registered on BCT on the 23rd of December 2013, the exact same date as DStrange. Another early poster in the thread, EndlessWin, also registered on the 23rd. Another user, Rias, appeared in the Bytecoin thread and showed great interest in the project. Rias wrote his first post on BCT on 20th of Jan 2014. So did the user Danni. DStrange first wrote something on BCT on the 21st of Jan 2014. EndlessWin created his first post on the 21st as well. Lamalicious created his first BCT post on the 22nd of Jan 2014, as did user Hexah. Cheesus first posted on BCT on the 23rd. Hexah, Cheesus and Danni registered their accounts with minutes apart.

And this is where it gets stranger. From the 5th of February to the 5th of March that year, all seven of these users go completely dark. Just before the 5th of February, and just after the 5th of March, two weird things happened as well. All seven are posting on the BCT “Beginners & Help” section, welcoming newcomers. DStrange even welcomes Rias in person. Danni interacts with DStrange in another thread about favorite movies. In one thread, Rias welcomes one person two separate times, probably forgetting to switch logged in account. Hexah is in that same thread saying hello as well. Note that this is one week before DStrange gets the Bytecoin announcement thread going, so they are not supposed to have met yet.

The second weird thing is that the seven supposedly independent users all show an interest in Putin and the invasion of Ukraine that occurred by this time. So to spell it out clearly, seven users that started writing on BCT at more or less the exact same time (many of which registered on the same day even), went dormant for one month, activated at the exact same time to post in the welcome-section of BCT as well as about the Crimea conflict, to finally rally under the Bytecoin flag later that March. rethink-your-strategy also started mapping this, but not to the full extent as he focused on other issues.

A couple of pages in, on 11th of April and onward, user Keeminakar ignites the rumor that Satoshi is involved with Bytecoin. FasterStronger joins the discussion, praising the coin. MadridReal perpetuates the Satoshi rumor. Qwerty777, and Agent99 add to the discussion as well. They are all registered on the dates 20th, 21st or 22nd of March 2014. They are all likely Russian/Ukrainian (notice the use of Russian emoticons where semicolon is omitted due to standard keyboard layout/preferences, as well as the interest in Russian translations, talk of Russian relatives etc.). All five of these users stop posting altogether on the 14th, 15th and 28th of September 2014. Then they are dormant for almost 4 years, when out of nowhere, four of them start posting again in February 2018, seemingly sold to new owners considering the change of writing style.

In June that same year, rethink-your-strategy starts uncovering discrepancies in the CryptoNote web page and whitepaper. He quickly also confirms that a certain BCT user that performed detailed blockchain analysis on the Bytecoin chain to prove its legitimacy, was actually a bought account. This is when more sockpuppets come forward to defend Bytecoin. madzooka is the first one, and a quick user analysis reveals a common pattern. madzooka’s earlier posts complain about missing some Bitcoin meet-up in Cleveland, USA. He also writes that he is interested in a certain California meet-up. What is evident is that English is not his first language, and a few posts later — there they are — the Russian emoticons. He also discussed the Ukrainian crisis prior to Bytecoin involvement, and he wrote in the newbie section of BCT, exactly according to pattern. User DNScode repeats the operation; defending Bytecoin against rethink-your-strategy’s accusations, while having earlier written in the newbie section, discussed the Ukraine conflict, and lastly used Russian emoticons. His account was registered on the 19th of March 2014, just in line with the other sockpuppets created on the 20th, 21st and 22nd. greenteanosugar chimes in. This user is registered 19th of March, then goes silent on 15th of September like most of the others. GreedyBoy, registered on the 20th of March, fiercely defends Bytecoin short thereafter. He gives away his background by Russian emoticons, the goes dark September 13th 2014 before re-appearing 4 years later with what seems to be a new account owner. Other probable sockpuppets are AtomicDoge, werrindor, David1978, Rockefeller, Meggie, JJKirsch, Monkeyseemonkeydo, TonyZX, Stanford, jolipenria, JPSelzer.

Issue II: Jenny Goldberg
On the 25th of July 2017, new BCT user BCN_official announces that she, Jenny Goldberg, is the new Bytecoin community manager. She confirms that old Bytecoin developers are still involved with the project, and that there is a strong roadmap going forward. From that point in time, she has been extremely active on the Bytecoin Reddit, Twitter and BCT. The problem here is, to no ones surprise, that Jenny Goldberg uses Russian emoticons (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=512747.msg21724861#msg21724861). It is not evidence of connection to the 2014 sockpuppets, but it sure as hell must be uncommon to be named Jenny Goldberg as a Russian. And Jenny is listed on the official bytecoin.org webpage.

What may be the only published audio recording of a Bytecoin team member, this Youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqLWFcSUlwo) confirms a few things earlier suspected. English is not Jenny’s native language, listen for yourself. The sound also indicates that some kind of voice changer was applied.

Applying Jenny’s twitter account to the Twitter Archiving Project data capture yields the following result:


The last word proves that Jenny used a computer with Russian language settings while setting up her account, or that she has such language settings right now. I verified the validity of this method by checking multiple Swedish Twitter accounts and they all yielded “lang”: “sv”.

Jenny Goldberg claims as you may know to reside in or around Barcelona. It came as no surprise then when I found a Barcelona crypto meetup group where the Bytecoin logo is utilized and where a Jenny G is admin. The group with its 175 members have 1 past meetup with 57 attendees. Looking at a couple of comments for this meetup, we find:

It is possible that anyone doesn’t know the location? It is a fake meetup?! I already asked on telegram and I received no answer! What a pity! - Theresa T

60 ppl confirmed and no one apart from us is asking about the location :/ so strange.. Idk maybe the info is somewhere else, in Telegram for example? I don't have an account so haven't check it. Anyway, given the circumstances I won't go >.< - Mariona

The meetup shows indeed no location at all. Wanting to double check, I contacted another confirmed attendee by mail. His answer: Hello, I believe it did not happen. I was waiting for the location to be announced but it never was, and people complained about it on the Meetup Comments.


Issue III: AssetRush
Jenny is the Bytecoin community manager as well as CCO of AssetRush (https://assetrush.com/), a new venture mainly providing token promotion services. When skimming their webpage, you will notice that they seem to have 7 team members, Jenny included. Just a little more than a month ago, I posted the following reply on BCT (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=740112.msg34881099#msg34881099). You will notice an investigation of the AssetRush team started back then, and interestingly, the full team numbered closer to 20 — all with different pictures of the same distinct photo style. This means most of the team members have been taken off the webpage since then. Only 5 of the now 7 team members were on the earlier team.

What proof is there to this claim of almost 20 team members? You can see in the BCT post that I link to Twitter users no longer found on the AssetRush team list. Other BCT users reply to that post after also reviewing the team webpage, acting as verification that all those disappearing team members were in fact on the AssetRush webpage earlier. It is still possible to manually look at all earlier team members since the webpage still hosts their pictures in the background. Just change the number in this link string and you will see at least 16 different team members (I saved all pictures): https://assetrush.com/img/teamFaces_6.png

Out of the 20 or so people, only 4 had Twitter accounts. They were all created between 4–12 April 2018. Twitter is quite common these days, so one might wonder why not a single person out of a qualified team of 20 had a personal twitter account prior to their AssetRush venture. Twitter seems to archive some user stats, including creation dates, so by this method, 4–12th April was confirmed. Hovering over users’ profiles shows creation date as well.

Back in April, I continued the investigation of AssetRush team members by checking their LinkedIn profiles, which only 5 of them had. Jenny has the oldest LinkedIn account it seems. Her feed activity started in July 2017. This is in line with the birth of the BCN_official Reddit user as well as the re-activation of the then dormant bytecoin_bcn Twitter account. CEO David Booker’s first activity was two months ago so we can assume he joined LinkedIn then. Yet he has over a 1000 followers — something many active networkers out there fail to achieve. He is also using Russian emoticons, which seems weird for someone with that name. David Petrachini’s feed activity started two months ago as well. Yet he had over 1300 followers. The account is now even terminated, possibly because I pointed these discrepancies out in April. David’s Twitter account is still active, but unfollowed Russian news outlets immediately after I pointed this fact out. Martina Sarto’s feed started a few weeks after David’s. She had 658 followers last time I checked. Now her account is terminated. Jenn Bruney seemed to have joined LinkedIn just after Martina but still managed to get 726 followers before terminating her account. These high amounts of followers obtained so quickly are obviously bought, and any LinkedIn veteran can confirm that. The account shut-downs are probably part of some cover-up of the whole Bytecoin/AssetRush mess. It must be a loss for them as the administration of all accounts, and the work put down to make them look and seem normal, is lost.  David, Martina and Jenn all tweeted in a way that confirmed my suspicion that English is not at all their native language.

Try the links yourself:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-petrachini/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martina-sarto/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenn-bruney/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennygoldberg/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/booker-david/


Questions that demand answers:

• How does the Bytecoin team explain all the sockpuppets present in the BCT ANN thread, many tied even to the OP DStrange? You have never addressed this issue since I mapped all of them.
• Can Jenny once and for all admit that 'Jenny Goldberg' is a pseudonym, now when we see through the massive maskirovka undertakings taken on Twitter, LinkedIn, meetup.com etc.?
• Can Jenny elaborate on the Bytecoin meetup in Barcelona and why it seems to have been faked?
• Can Jenny once and for all come clear with the purpose of AssetRush, why she faked all those team members, and if the Bytecoin team is involved in that as well?

What can you do?
If you sit on relevant information about Bytecoin and AssetRush not brought up in this thread, please post it here. If the information is sensitive due to anonymity preferences, you may contact me at bdratings@protonmail.com and I will respect your wish to privacy.

If you have contacts in relevant media outlets, please forward this information. I am certain the story is good enough to drive traffic.


Endnote
Most of the above claims are laid out in two of my previous articles. For detailed proof with links and other references, go to them.
https://medium.com/@bdratings/bytecoin-puppets-among-us-7381db79c468
https://medium.com/@bdratings/an-update-on-the-bytecoin-farce-3ae34ce45ba8

,or check the very end of this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=740112.msg34853259#msg34853259

Im working long hours everyday and dont have the time to study technical analysis..so what I did is I bought coins during bearish time .but when I check them back the value goes even dipper..what should be the best thing to do..apply a cutloss strategy or just leave them until the market goes bearish again?

Its too early to draw conclusions. This might be loose evidence of allegations of tether being a "scam artificially manipulating markets to boost bitcoin's price" are false. If tether has $2.55 billion in their bank account, that makes it significantly more difficult for them to have spent a significant sum of their liquidity purchasing bitcoin to "artificially inflate its value"?

How much tether they have on hand in their accounts could be the key factor, given the study claimed they exchanged tether for btc. These notarized bank statements validate the concept of tether being backed by considerable fiat reserves. But may not quite serve as evidence of whether a significant quantity of tether was conserved rather than exchanged for btc in an effort to increase its value.

After six months of investigating tether, I think this case should have been resolved by now. It doesn't take six months to figure out whether collusion occurred. The lack of valid information & evidence could be the best evidence of tether being innocent here.

1. CryptoCelebrities
2. CryptoKitties
3. EtherGalaxies
4. CryptoFighters
5. Blockchain cuties
6. Other?

Good day, just want to share my experience,
I am using 2fa as my security in my emails and exchange accounts, so one day I nearly lost my phone and that phone holds majority of my pins, 2fa, etc. so I thought I lost all, luckily I found the phone. So now I'm thinking of buying an extra phone for backup. What else do you recommend for backup?