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5041  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Fake Polkadot(DOT) website and fake app in Google Play on: January 24, 2021, 09:06:09 AM
These scammers even upload such apps by evading Google's app upload rules. So we can't just blame Google for everything. Because when Google finds a report that the app is fake, they delete it from the Playstore as soon as possible.
Sure, people should be more careful when downloading the apps and ideally do it directly from developers website but with just a few tweaks Google could reduce number of fake apps considerably. How hard is to manually check an app from the developer that is submitting first app on the Play Store? Just this would be enough to reduce most of the fake apps, but I guess that would mean hiring more people.

Regarding the time in which Google removes reported apps, they slack in that regard too, just take for example fake Trezor wallet. It was uploaded two and a half weeks ago, has hundreds of fake reviews, 1,000 + downloads and even Trezor warned about the app via Twitter (and probably reported it to Google) and that app is still there. If that is not negligence than I don't know what it is.
5042  Economy / Speculation / Re: Best Youtube Channel for Bitcoin price and prediction on: January 24, 2021, 08:29:40 AM
Its generally a bad idea to take an investment advices from YouTubers, especially when it comes to altcoins as they could be paid to promote certain altcoin. The other day I stumbled upon one funny picture that pretty much sums up crypto YouTube scene, which is full of shillers and clickbaiters whose only goal is to get more subscribers via ridiculous claims and price predictions as they know that people will like to hear "moon soon".





With that being said, I do watch one ocassionaly , and thats Crypto Daily but only because I think that he is funny af, so for me it's more about amusement factor than actually listening about their predictions.
5043  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: BEST GAMBLING MOVIES OF ALL TIME on: January 24, 2021, 07:53:52 AM
Up until recently it was The Gambler (the one from 1974, not the one with Mark Wahlberg) in which James Caan had one of the best roles of his career. But then last year Uncut Gems by Safdie brothers showed up, totally blowing my mind. Prior watching i didn't expect much as I am not the biggest Adam Sandler fan, but he had an Oscar worthy performance there, I've never seen degenerate gambler portrayed better. It is a brilliant film, but due hectic style and attack on the senses (even though it makes perfect sense) might be too much for some but its definitely worth of trying.

Few honorable mentions: California Split, The Cooler, Rounders, Molly's Game, Vegas Vacation ( underrated wacky comedy with Chevy Chase)..
5044  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why did the bitcoin fall? on: January 23, 2021, 09:53:17 PM
Just stop it... Bitcoin dropped 11% because it pumped from 10k to 40k in 2 months! Not because of irrelevant rumour. Its bubble time. Get ready for 20% daily candles. Ride the waves instead of trying to find a reason. Reason is here on market ... its money from extreme price movements.
+1

Everyone is trying to pinpoint the exact reason why bitcoins dropped, while all these little fuds and news doesn't really matter and don't affect the price as much as people like to think. Sometimes, people will just take the profits which is understandable after going from 10 k to 40 in a matter of few months.


Because of the articles that have brought fear to the people who don't have much experience in bitcoin. They've thought that the news that came out about double spending is for real.
And that made them able to sell and panic.
I honestly think that this drop would most likely happen with or without the news. But people feel better when they think that they know the exact reason why price drops or goes down. I wish it was that simple..
5045  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: [Warning] 10 fake wallets on Google Play - please report them on: January 23, 2021, 09:27:47 AM
This one seems fake as well, a Binance app, and obviously using Binance logo. It might steal users credentials.

Code:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jex.trade
I've seen this app before and at first I also thought that it is fake but then I saw that it is available on Play Store since April 2019, which was kinda strange to be available for so long and on top of that it had huge amount of downloads for a fake app (50,000+, but that can be faked too as well) so I decided to dig a little bit deeper. It turns out that Binance JEX  is indeed legit app &trading platform and owned by Binance. They acquired JEX back in September 2019

Binance is pleased to announce the acquisition of JEX, a crypto-asset trading platform offering spot and derivatives trading services. JEX will join the Binance ecosystem as Binance JEX and focus on further building the cryptoasset derivatives market, providing Binance users with professional services including futures contracts, options and other derivative products.

Through this acquisition, Binance will manage the JEX team and the JEX tokens run by its Foundation, introducing more utility to the JEX token. In a longer term, JEX tokens will be gradually distributed to all users via marketing activities and community incentives; subsequently, the tokens will be gradually retrieved and burned in various forms including trading commission deductions and so on.

If you go to https://www.jex.com and check the apps available, it leads directly to the same app that you mentioned, Binance JEX.

5046  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: how to buy and to store bitcoin on: January 23, 2021, 08:22:08 AM
As other suggested, if you want to buy  BTC without getting involved with exchanges, ATM is one of the easiest ways. I just wanna warn you that buying BTC that way is usually more expensive since generally ATMs have high fees (I've used them in several countries and fees was over 5%). From what I can see on coinatmradar.com, all ATM providers in Switzerland have a daily cap on how much one person can buy/sell (1,000-5,000 Euro) meaning there is some sort of verification needed, which kinda sucks as you are already paying high fee so one would expect to have less restrictions and without verification.

Before immediately buying 1 BTC, I would advise you to buy some smaller amount first to get yourself familiar with it, make a few transactions from wallet to wallet just to avoid any fatal mistakes as once you send bitcoin to an address that you don't have access to, it's gone forever.
5047  Economy / Reputation / Re: [LIST] ANN threads that are using bumping services on: January 22, 2021, 06:27:27 PM
I haven't updated my branch for a long time ... and since you update yours regularly, you should add the missing data.
When I started making this list I've decided to include only those announcement threads that were active at the moment of discovery, and not those that were once active. Since I see that threads you mentioned are not active for quite some time (and Amepay is already on the list)  I won't add them. Thing is, there are so many threads that once hired bumping service that if I started adding them retroactively list would be at least 4x longer than it is now.


And I want to ask you to add "Proof" to the main line, (so that anyone can refer to proofs).
Thanks for reminder, that's something I though about adding and will do eventually.



One more ANN thread added to the list, making it 94th.

[ANN][IEO]Axentro - An original, proof of work Blockchain for decentralised Apps

As always, I checked Axentro to see if I can find some dirt, but seems to me like it checks out, at least at those basic things like team&whitepaper. Nevertheless, for some reason they decided to hire shillers, and same accounts that are shilling their ANN is doing the same thing for another name on the list, Baex.
5048  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin is down a lot on: January 22, 2021, 11:16:22 AM
Since all time high two weeks ago was approximately 42,000 USD and we dropped yesterday at ~29,000 USD, that makes it 30% correction so I wouldn't  say that was something completely unexpected considering how much price increased in the last couple of months. It is true that Grayscale and others are amassing BTC at the crazy rate (probably more than it's being mined every day which eventually pushed the price) but still these can of drops are expected. People are bound to take profits after the rally and buy back in at the lower price, nothing wrong there.


Really? How much did gray capital invest on Bitcoin? So we can assuming the effect of their investment to the current market.
Just during December 2020 they increased BTC bag by more than 72,000 and  few days ago  they bought more than 16,000. Here you can see how much crypto they have at the moment.
5049  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Fake Polkadot(DOT) website and fake app in Google Play on: January 22, 2021, 10:12:31 AM
Seeing how popular Polkadot is at the moment, no wonder that scammers are faking their website. If anything, scammers are easily adaptable and will choose most popular projects at any given moment. Worst of all, that often works. Good catch by the way!


Also I spotted a fake Polkadot application as well in Google Play, recently created, January 13,2021.

Code:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tazg.polkaddotpvortfolio
Hm, link of the app that you shared leads to a different one than on the screenshot. That app is on the Play Store since December 2nd .




On the other hand, this is the link to the app that you shared on the screenshots and is released on July 3rd 2020 (updated on January 13th).
Code:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.polkawallet.www.polka_wallet



Then there is another Polkadot wallet available with a few hundreds of downloads,  but I am not sure which one is fake, and which one is real.
Code:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dott.polkedotmobile
5050  Local / Altcoins (Hrvatski) / Re: Binance kartica on: January 22, 2021, 08:34:41 AM
1. Nikako ne mogu dobiti cashback. Neki dan sam potrošio oko $100 ali nisam dobio nikakav cashback. Bez stejkanja BNB-a trebao bi dobiti 1% cashback ali ništa. Piše da ga isplaćuju jednom dnevno ali od tad su prošla dva dana i ništa.
Bas gledam Binance cashback FAQ jer i mene zanima kartica te ju namjeravam uzeti, ali izgleda da Binance ne isplacuje cashback bas za svaku transakciju, jesi siguran da tvoja transakcija nije bila nesto od ovoga sto je navedeno? Iako, vidim na njihovoj telegra grupi da se i neki drugi zale da nisu dobili cashback, a opet neki kazu da im radi bez problema.

Following types of transactions are excluded for the cashback calculation: Transactions on digital wallets, digital banking services, crypto exchanges, stored value products, money remittance services are excluded from the BNB Rewards program. The list of qualified merchants is subject to change by Binance and Partners.
5051  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: BTC double spend microtransaction on: January 21, 2021, 10:35:30 PM
It's very obvious this "news" is why the dump happened. That much is clear. This is not small news (if it were true). If it were true it'd be the end of blockchain! It's 100% the reason the market dumped today. It's just sad that a false story like this causes a market dump through support levels and going lower than it ever would have otherwise. Great for people who were waiting to buy lower, but this false news story looks like it will extend and deepen this correction which is pretty absurd. Looks like $30k might just break in a few minutes on this false news - down to low $30,000 right now.
It's not obvious at all, but people do like to think that they pinpointed the exact reason why price suddenly increased or decreased.

If this fake news about double spend indeed caused the price drop, why price didn't go up as soon as it was proven that its nothing but a fud. Corrections after a big really always happen so i don't know why is everyone surprised that it is happening. People expect we go straight to 100, 000 USD without few bumps on the road?
5052  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: BTC double spend microtransaction on: January 21, 2021, 10:15:50 PM
It appears as if a small double spend of around 0.00062063 BTC ($21) was detected

This is why the bitcoin price dropped Smiley
First of all, it was just an attempt of double spend, which some media misunerstood and shared, creating some fud. Andreas Antonopulos was right about calling out some of those for sharing misinformation.

Regarding the price I don't think that this has to do anything with the today price drop, as bitcoin price is going up and down for some to me mower, ever since we reached 40k+. People do like to explain why sometimes price goes up and down whle in reality some small news like this doesn't affect price at all.
5053  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The right way to store Bitcoin for long term on: January 21, 2021, 09:45:15 PM

1) Is something like a Nano Ledger or a Trezor the right method?
Yep, hardware wallet is definitely a good option. I am personally using Ledger Nano S for a long term hold and beside some hiccups I am generally satisfied with the device itself. App (Ledger Live) could be better though but if you use it for long term btc hold you shouldn't have much issues with it. Ledger as a comoany had some data breach problems so you wanna keep that in mind too.


2) What app should be used?
I am personally using blockchain wallet, but only as a hot wallet where I have few hundred dollars worth of crypto max. That's definitely not the place where you wanna keep your bitcoin  for a longer period of time.


Another good alternative for a very long term hodl  you might wanna consider is paper wallet. It will cost you nothing and if done properly it is a very safe way to store your bitcoin. Here is a guide how to do it.
5054  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2021 NBA Season on: January 21, 2021, 05:52:19 PM
So Collin Sexton just single destroyed The Nets last night in NBA making 42 POINTS, 5 of 3 points and 5 assists and I might say that he was untouchable last night as Nets really tried at some point to make everything to stop him but the guy was nowhere to be stopped.
It's just one of those night where player can't miss, these things happen, but Sexton is pretty decent player overall who can score and Nets simply didn't take him seriously and that's the result of that attitude. Then again, whole Cavs team was on a shooting spree last night, you won't see  worst offensive team in the league shooting 20/40  for three often.


The bench did look awful. There’s a huge drop off from player 5 to player 6. The offense looked terrible too. They constantly had to rely on 1 on 1 situations and while they’re good enough to make that work, it isn’t going to be reliable enough in the playoffs. Luckily they have plenty of time to try and put an offense together, but last night wasn’t close to it. Kyrie especially looked out of place and determined to do it alone. He failed.
Yeah offense did look better with Durant and Harden, now with Kyrie back they will have to adjust again. If we base it on the last game, Harden already tried as I don't remember last time he didn't score in the first quarter at all, he was kinda reserved. I do think that they will eventually figure things out as those three player have so much offensive potential that it would be a shame if that don't happen.
5055  Local / Hrvatski (Croatian) / Re: Pregled Bitcointalk Signature-Ad kampanja on: January 21, 2021, 03:46:07 PM
Sada gledaj kada ripple effect krene na ostale kampanje. Kao što je BTC majka svih coina i svi ju sljede, nekako mi se čini da je CM to za kampanje. Moglo bi se obiti o glavu svima nama.
Nekako mislim da nece ovo smanjenje utjecati na ostale kampanje cisto zato sto velika vecina ima fiksne isplate u USD, a ove ostale kampanje koji racunaju u BTC su ionako vec smanjivali, tipa Bitvest &777Coin (2 puta) i Yolodice.


To bi trebalo značiti da bi se vlasnici kampanja trebali boriti za (kvalitetne) članove povećanjem isplata. Nekako mi se čini u zadnje vrijeme da je standardna isplata za Sr. Membere $50 tjedno, a za Hero/Legendary $60 tjedno. I jako puno kampanja ima upravo takve cifre. Naravno, tu ne računam CM. Kad bi nove kampanje krenule s većim isplatama pa se ekipa počne micati iz postojećih kampanja, možda bi onda i postojeće morale malo povećati isplate.
Ne znam da li mi se samo tako cini, ali nove kampanje nekako slabije dolaze u zadnjih mjesec-dva, ali slazem se da bi bilo super da dodje jos koja kampanja koja placa malo jace od ovih standardnih cifri. Ne mora biti rang CM, ali i 100 USD tjedno bi bilo super i natjeralo stare a i nove kampanje da jednostavno daju vise ako zele zadrzati kvalitetne clanove. Uostalom, tako i jesmo dosli do cifri da je 40 USD za Sr Membera postalo standard, tako da je doslo hrpa novih kampanja a nije se roster mogao popuniti sa Hero/Lege clanovima. Treba nam jos jedan takav sig bull run Smiley
5056  Local / Hrvatski (Croatian) / Re: Grayscale Crypto on: January 21, 2021, 01:28:33 PM

Bitcoin trenutno ima korekciju ali Grayscale je u u zadnjih 24h dodao novih 8762 Bitcoina i sada imaju ukupnp 641.52K Bitcoina.
Da Grayscale je bas stisnuo pedalu sto bi se reklo, kupuju vise BTCa nego sto se namajna. Bas sam nedavno procitao da su prosli mjesec kupili vise od 72,000 BTCa sto ispada 3x vise od onog koji je namajnan u istom tom vremenskom roku, a neki dan su kupili cak vise od 16k. Gomila se masovno, i ako to nije znak da su ove trenutne cijene nista kakve bi mogle biti do kraja godine onda ne znam sta je. A XRP su se mislim nedavno rijesili, sto je takodjer znakovito.

Inace, koga zanima Grayscale malo detaljnije, @fillippone je napisao dobar pregled Everything you wanted to know about Grayscale BTC Trust but were afraid to ask!
5057  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2021 NBA Season on: January 21, 2021, 01:00:22 PM
I think that bench players couldn't take an active involvement in the game because Durant and Irving made half of the total amount of shots. Sure, Kyrie had a good performance with 53 percent, but he doesn't like to share the ball with teammates at all.
Nets bench is crap, plain and simple, and everyone knows it and their starting five will simply have to play more due that, especially those three. Just look at the last night bench performance; four of them had 6-24 FG and a measly 10 points combined. What's even worse, two of their ex players (Allen and Prince ) that are now in Cleveland had really good game. They will have to do something about it, and will probably get a few more players before playoff.

Defense is also an issue, since they allowed offensively weakest team at the moment to look against them like they are Clippers or Bucks. A lot of work ahead for Steve Nash, that's for sure.
5058  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Sales of bitcointalk account must be discouraged on: January 21, 2021, 07:52:30 AM
Newbies, build your account yourself than buying what that might not be real, do not put yourself at risk, buying bitcointalk account is dangerous because you will still post like newbies
Truth to be told, many high ranking members do post like newbies so no one would probably notice the difference   Cheesy

Joke aside, both account buyers and sellers are already being tagged so sake is already discouraged. If you ban it all together here, they will just do it elsewhere, as they are doing it already, sales we see on the forum are probably just the fraction of what is really going on. There is simply no easy solution for this, as long there is demand for high ranking accounts (and there is) there will be supply.
5059  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: [Warning] Cyclone Protocol- copy/paste of Tornado Cash on: January 20, 2021, 06:49:51 PM
I think that Tornado Cash is open source so anyone can fork it as they like and rebrand it, and they did that plus they included their CYC token and IOTX instead of Ethereum.
If you check on their github page you will see what exactly they forked:
https://github.com/cycloneprotocol
True, you are right, somehow I completely missed that they mentioned Tornado Cash. Thanks for pointing that out.


My opinions is that I would not call this a copy/paste scam (yet), but just a fork and they even mention Tornado.cash several times.
It is true that they mentioned Tornado, and thanks to that fact it makes them a bit less scammy, but the fact remains that there is very little of their own in here. Even if it's fork, I don't think that is encouraging for anyone that wants to get involve in this to see that they copied their website and visual style, choose very similar but a bit different name and word for word copied parts of Tornado Medium article. It's lazy and reeks of incompetence and I wouldn't touch it with a ten inc pole.

I removed negative tag and instead left neutral for now.
5060  Economy / Reputation / Re: [LIST] ANN threads that are using bumping services on: January 20, 2021, 06:23:46 PM
I wonder. Projects at the top of the list were given red trust and even red flags. However, it seems that for several months no one has paid attention to the projects that are added here. Does this mean that this form of marketing is starting to become acceptable?  Roll Eyes Apart from spam, of course.
I generally avoid giving negative tags unless I can find something else suspicious about some of those projects that are on the list (and if you check there are quite a few of those that I tagged&flagged for other stuff) but it's up to the each member here to make that decision. Best would be to simply nuke the threads that consist solely of shill posts and that don't have any regular members active, but unfortunately my reports stayed unhandled so I guess forum staff doesn't agree with that.


Funny so see how lazy this bumbing service is. They use same account posting sequence as in Totem. tiogallluli > maurearejumb > doubmiytiri > Akoan > leshogesan > Ronald22lubukuali ( easy to be noticed on Totem page 3 and UBERSTATE page 1). Bumper probably has a excel document with login/password and just re-login by the list.
Hah yeah, I wonder how much are they paying for such a shitty job these shillers are doing.


Strange that they have chosen tactics of just asking questions and OP is not answering them (must be lazy also).
On the contrary, I see that behaviour quite often, OP starting the thread and then abandoning while shills are doing their work for weeks without a single answer.
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