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.

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.

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)..

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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.


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..

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


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.

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.

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.


Thanks for reminder, that's something I though about adding and will do eventually.

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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.

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.


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.

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!


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).



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.

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.

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?

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.

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.


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.

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.


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.

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.


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

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!

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.

Truth to be told, many high ranking members do post like newbies so no one would probably notice the difference   

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.

True, you are right, somehow I completely missed that they mentioned Tornado Cash. Thanks for pointing that out.


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.

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.


Hah yeah, I wonder how much are they paying for such a shitty job these shillers are doing.


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.