Well, I know some people that that did the same and they profited, but I know even more of those that took loans during last bull market, bought BTC at almost all time high expecting they will take a quick profit and return money to bank. We all know what happened in late 2017/early 2018.

Situation now is even more complicated than few years ago due covid19 and generally bad economic situation when people are loosing their jobs left and right. We all expect that bitcoin goes up a lot like it did in 2017, but you never know what will happen, especially in these uncertain times. I simply woulnd't recommend anyone to gamble that way and invest money they don't have. Rather buy little by little, as much as you can afford. It is much safer method, and will still yield return.

Despite current price I don't think it's scary at all to buy bitcoin now, as long as you are responsible. And that means not borrowing money from anyone to buy bitcoin, not going all in with all your savings, and most importantly look at bitcoin as a long term investment and that means having the patience to wait for even few years.

Trying to time the market and waiting for  dips dips is harder than it looks  so that's why i prefer dollar cost average method where I don't care much about current price. I simply buy at regular intervals as I know I will profit in the end. So far this method works flawlessly.

Regarding when price will start dropping, it will probably happen suddenly and without some major sign, when people are not expecting.

I have some doubts about certain group of higher ranked accounts being part of a more serious  bumping group that is doing that in a much better way than Vitor Services and similar spammers, but it is not easy to connect all the dots and say with 100% certainty who is part of the group and who is not.


You summed it up nicely, in most cases it boils down to that, dodgy projects hiring dodgy service. And Merry Christmas to you too!


I just checked fiverr, and it doesn't seem so cheap. I saw packages like 10 posts for 17 USD and for me that's pretty expensive considering the lack of quality. It makes more sense to run BTC signature campaign that hire those spammers.

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One more announcement thread has been added

[ANN] Mirror Protocol Launch - Trade real-world assets with crypto now!
Same group of accounts that is working on xpocket and that scam XeniumX started working on the Mirror Protocol thread too. Since I tagged that group of accounts, as always they just activated another group of newbie accounts and continued in the same manner. Whack-a-mole goes on.

To me that topic looks more suitable for altcoin discussion. It's true that he started the topic with bitcoin prediction, but then he goes on about altcoin, and even asking "Which coin do you choose and what is your prediction regarding that token?".

But then again, all replies there are focused on bitcoin, as far as I can see no one bothered to give altcoin prediction so it would be kinda unfair to move it there. Have you tried contacting the OP so he removes that altcoin part of his post?

Vidjao sam tog nellayara, fino si ga upecao, cestitke na prelasku u Roobet!

Vidim da ti je falilo 3 merita da prijedjes u Sr Member rank a ja taman imam toliko merita za podijeliti, pa sto da ne. Koliko vidim bit ces i prvi na listi za prelazak u novi rank kad se otvori mjesto  jer -CryptoViking- napusta kampanju. Samo mislim da moras to javiti manageru.

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Nema BTCa, nema titule, izbor je revijalnog karaktera. Ima majice, ali nisam siguran koliko je pametno to nositi vani


Slazem se, njegov alat je stvarno odlican. To i Merit Dashboard u biti su dva koja najvise koristim.


Problem sa  tom kategorijom "Spambuster" je da u biti nitko drugi nemoze znati koliko tko ima prijavljenih postova ako ta osoba sama ne shera screenshot, a i da se javno vidi pitanje je koliko bi ljudi glasali po tome a koliko po tome koliko im se neko svidja ili ne. Ista stvar sa tim ICOEthics koji nije aktivan od kad sam ja na forumu, ali je ostao u sjecanju ljudi pa je eto dobio toliko puno glasova a neki koji su stvarno bili aktivni na tom polju su dobili jedva koji glas.

Ma cijelo to glasanje se ni bi trebalo uzeti za ozbiljno, kako sam ja shvatio to je bilo cisto ono da se vidi kako neki clanovi percipiraju ostale clanove. A oportunisti su mogli i zaraditi koji merit ako su glasali za prave ljude. Kazem, slika i preslika parlamentarnih izbora, jedni glasaju ozbiljno, onda jednu grupu to uopce ne zanima a na kraju ima i ekipe koja se pokusava ogrebati i profitirati .


Da, budem lockao danas/sutra, mislim da su svi zainteresirani rekli sta su htjeli.

Just because there is some trading volume on waves exchange doesn't mean that Colonel token is legit project. Regarding the profit, I am sure that some people profited from Bitconnect too, but huge majority lost the money and same thing will happen to everyone who invest in your scammy shitcoin.


You are seriously comparing Bitcoin with Colonel Token? Don't be ridiculous. You couldn't even bother to make whitepaper, let alone anything else that is normal for a new project. You also conveniently decided to ignore my questions about Bisk, care to explain that situation in which you did exactly the same thing like with Colonel token?

You claim that Colonel token is part of Military token, but there is absolutely no proof of that. No mention of Colonel token on MilitaryToken website, no mention in the whitepaper, no mention on the social media channels etc. My guess is that you are just using their name to dump your shitcoin, like you did before.

What you have to say about Bisk? As discovered by @holydarkness you once again used someone else's name (in this case online learning platform) in order to dump your shitcoins, while in reality Bisk doesn't have to do anything with your or crypto in general.

As far as I am concerned, tag and flag stays!

Even though situation is quite different now compared to previous bull run, I think that BTC dipping below 20k might happen exactly because no one thinks that it will drop so much. If I remember correctly, barely anyone expected BTC to dip sub 3k after reaching that old ATH, and we all know what happened.

Big players will want to acquire more cheap BTC and how else to do it other than dumping the price and buying from weak hands. And to do that effectively, they have to do it when no one expects, they wanna catch people with their pants down. As someone said, all we need is 30-35% drop to go below 20k, and if we know anything about BTC price, we know that such drops are always the possibility.

In the end, BTC dropping sub 20k is not a bad thing at all, it should be seen as an opportunity to acquire more.

I hope for some answer too, as it doesn't make much sense to me that you can get perma banned when you copy two sentences while you can open a topic and claim ownership of someone else's work without any repercussions. @Coaster89 probably spent days making it, and then @bitcoinermatt came and just nonchalantly pretended that he made it and even came up with the bullshit story around it, for the reason only he knows.


As a matter of fact he did contact me (by some strange coincidence exactly at the time I was making this topic) because I left him negative feedback. I told him that he can give his explanation here. Let's see whether he shows up but I don't think that he can say anything that will make me change my mind.


Well, according to Oxford Dictionary, plagiarism is "The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own". That's what he did; he took someone else's work and then went on about spending two weeks making it, hanging it on the bedroom wall etc while it was all lie.

An honest project that copies from scam. Cool story bro. You copied text word for word, that simply can't be coincidence.

The way I see it,  in the best case scenario is that you are incompetent and ignorant, while in reality you are just lazy and dishonest. In either case those who invest in your project will loose their money. Tag and flag well deserved!


So you are just random guy who felt so strongly about MasterAgencyCoin that you had to create an account just to defend them? No one will buy that, and if you keep defending them for what is an obvious plagiarism case, you will probably end up tagged too. Not that you care much about since that's just a sock puppet account.

I think "I should have bought more when price was lower". Then again, many of probably think the same thing now. But seriously, I am not that much fussed about BTC price anymore. Correction will happen eventually so there will be more opportunities to buy cheaper, but those opportunities will get rarer as the time pass by and as BTC climbs slowly  up to six figures number.


Exactly my feeling. I am glad to see BTC price going up, but at the same time I know that it will be much harder to acquire more with each new ATH. Then again, it is worth to buy BTC at any price as long as you don't go all in/take loan and slowly accumulate when you can.

If I have to guess why he did it, it would be merit fishing. But as you said, there is no  legit reason why would someone claim ownership of painting which is not his, and even made topic about it.

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I thought so too, that this is textbook example of plagiarism case, but guess I was wrong.

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Yep, that's the issue here, he claimed not only once, but three more times after his opening post that painting is his own work. He had the chance to confess and explain that he just took picture from someone else but instead he went on with the lies.





If admins confirm that's the official stance on cases like this, so be it. I just wanted clarification because report is still unhandled, and I don't waste my own and admins time reporting if I stumble upon similar case in the future.

Week ago @hosseinimr93 started topic in reputation board about suspicious merit transfers, and one of the accounts he mentioned was bitcoinermatt. Since those merit transfers indeed looked shady, I checked his post history. One topic he started caught my attention, in which he claimed to make bitcoin themed painting.



Since painting looked really good I did some reverse image search which immediately yield results. Turns out painting is work of reddit user Coaster89. That painting is shared on the Instagram account of the same user (@coaster89) and he is selling his art through rarible. Additionally, same painting was shared almost a year ago in WO thread, and user who shared the painting also shared the original source (Instagram account of Coaster89). Link to that post.

@bitcoinermatt didn't bother to answer my question what's going on there, who stole from who, so I decided to contact the person that I thought is the original creator, coaster89. I sent him messages both on Instagram and reddit and few hours later I got reply via reddit, confirming my suspicion that @bitcoinermatt is not the original creator of that painting.




After I got confirmation that he is not the creator of that painting even though he claimed that he is, i reported him for plagiarism



Week later, that report is still unhandled. Based on previous reporting experience I know that chances of report being handled after one week decrease significantly with each passing day and if report stays the same after two weeks, it will stay like that most likely forever.

I know that we don't have to provide sources of images we share here in fear of plagiarism, but what about those that explicitly claim ownership of painting/photo, like it happened in this case? Shouldn't this be seen as an obvious case of plagiarism since he took someone else's work and claims to be his own?

What happened: as I mentioned in the title, Colonel Tokens pretends to be part of Military Token, one older and now abandoned  project from 2018.

When you check Military Token website, you won't find absolutely any mention of this Colonel Token, and it's the same thing on their social media channels like facebook and Twitter, which are inactive for almost two years now. If they really have some new token, wouldn't the mention it somewhere? On top of that, soon after ANN creation Newbie accounts started showing up doing classic shill work. Since I strongly believe that this is just a scam attempt I am raising the flag against OP of that thread

Flag Type 1 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2551

ANN https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5303390.msg55929735#msg55929735
Archive https://archive.fo/9HKpp

MilitaryToken website https://www.militarytoken.io/


Goal here seems to be to make people buy their useless tokens via Waves exchange

It is a good thing that you reacted fast and removed content of announcement thread, but I won't remove negative tag just yet. Due your negligence you endangered people here, as we all know that projects with fake team members can end in only one way. It literally took me 1 minute to check CEO identity via basic reverse image search and you should have done the same before accepting this job.

I will keep an eye on you for some time and I might change feedback to neutral but for now negative stays until I am sure that you are not the danger for others.

My identity doesn't have to do anything with this. I am not the one who is promising unrealistically high profit like you. If you are legit, you wouldn't even promise 5% per month, let alone 36% or whatever it is, depending on your "package".


Hah yeah, according to Companies House their little scam company is registered for:

If they are legit investment company as they claim to be, they would be registered with FCA, but we all know that getting the license from them is a little bit harder, and in that case they wouldn't be able to  just run away with other people's money without any consequence, as they plan to do here.


Based on lack of social media activity, I think it's not going as good as they planned. As a matter of fact, FDCO even have ANN thread here, but it is also abandoned, no activity there since creation back in February.

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