These kind of things are rare but happen sometimes. Back in 2021 Poly Network was hacked for $600M, which hacker eventually returned. In the end they offered him a reward and position of chief secrity advisor. Having said that, I doubt that its gonna happen in this case, but I guess it doesn't hurt to try,

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/11/22619272/poly-network-attack-600-million-cryptocurrency-theft-doge-ethereum-binance-return-defi

It kind of reminds me a bit of r/Buttcoin, which has been around since time immemorial... They have made names for themselves by being steadfast in their wrongness. I remember I tried to use a source for a bitcoin article I was writing one time and the editor told me, no, the guy from r/Buttcoin wrote that, he's a total chode, you can't use it.

Some other prominent anti-bitcoiners that were once active on the forum:

jonoiv
NotLambChop
RawDog (most likely a troll account)
MemoryDealers (he started turning to the darkside in early 2016, basically by arguing that Bitcoin Classic - later BCH - was the same thing as Bitcoin)

At least one username sticks in my mind. The avatar of another username which I already forgot is still in my memory also.

Sometimes, their presence is needed especially when everybody is unreasonably bullish. For as long as they are also bringing with them some logic, or at least some sense, in their arguments, it doesn't hurt the forum to have them in certain discussions. It provides some good balance, although some of them are probably not really naysayers like Proudhon. He/she certainly owns Bitcoin and is pro-Bitcoin. He/she's just chilling.

They're probably a lot better than many influencers who are always mega-bullish in their TAs as if Bitcoin will just take a straight line to the moon. Many newbies must have been carried away by how they present chart patterns as if something big is always about to come. These FOMO-inciters are probably more damaging to Bitcoin's reputation than some naysayers.

1. you can easily check any fact I have given you. Which is to be expected, I have never been able to do with your fantasies

2.Judging by the people I saw in the rf army in 2022, in the so-called "second army of the world" - they recruit ONLY mentally distant and moral degenerates there:) I don't understand why you don't defend the "brown Russian world" yet
But... you will soon have a great chance "Russia: Vladimir Putin signed a decree on conscription of 130 thousand people into the Russian army".

Sept 29 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree setting out the routine autumn conscription campaign, calling up 130,000 citizens for statutory military service, a document posted on the government website showed on Friday.

All men in Russia are required to do a year-long military service between the ages of 18 and 27, or equivalent training while in higher education.

Sakkari, who breathed a sigh of relief as champion in Guadalajara, continued this form in Tokyo and reached the semifinals without losing a set. Pegula, making her post US Open debut, also came back well from the break and reached the semifinals without losing a set against the likes of Bucsa and Kasatkina. I expect the two racquets, who are well matched on the court, to break the game upper barrier in this match, which they have comfortably surpassed in their last three matches.

A bit of positive news from Russia Smiley

- VTB head predicts the dollar at 250 rubles in the transition to the Chinese model of the currency market
Russia's transition to the Chinese model of the currency market with the introduction of two ruble exchange rates will lead to a sharp decline in the domestic currency, said VTB CEO Andrei Kostin. "If we introduce two ruble exchange rates, we will have one at 150 and the other at 250, that's for sure," Kostin said at the International Banking Forum in Sochi.

- "Gazprom" reported a record in the history of gas production collapse. At the end of the first half of the year, Gazprom's production amounted to 179.45 billion cubic meters, the company said in its quarterly report. Compared to the same period of 2022, the volumes fell by 25%, and if compared to the pre-war period - by almost a third: in January-June 2021, Gazprom produced 260.8 billion cubic meters. Never in the three decades of its history has the world's largest gas company reduced production so rapidly.

- Budget expenditures for Putin's maintenance will be increased by 20%. The maintenance of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the next three years will cost Russian taxpayers 74.7 billion rubles. This amount for the "functioning" of the head of state the government has laid down in the draft federal budget for 2024-26, which was submitted to the State Duma on Friday.

- Russia faces a shortage of black bread. Rye of the first, second and third classes will make up about 97% of the entire harvest, but 59% of this volume will be of the third class, which is a poor quality indicator

- Russian farmers are under the threat of mass bankruptcies after the withdrawal of foreign grain traders. Monopolization of the grain market following the departure of foreign players who left Russia after the outbreak of war in Ukraine has brought thousands of farms to the brink of bankruptcy.
Grain traders are buying grain below the cost of production and this is destroying the economy of farms, a member of the State Duma committee for agrarian issues, Sergey Lisovsky, has said.

Could be private investigators who rather keep their loses private than coming on social media to look like an idiot for keep such funds online in the first place. It was the Mixin safe I guess.

Bitcoin October Month Performance

🟢2013 → 60.79%
🟢2015 → 33.49%
🟢2016 → 14.71%
🟢2017 → 47.81%
🟢2019 → 10.17%
🟢2020 → 27.7%
🟢2021 → 39.93%
🟢2022 → 5.56%
⚪2023 → ?? %

What do you think?
How much will Bitcoin pump this October? 👀

Comment Your opinion ⬇️

Rome was not built in a day, however the network effects^** in bitcoin keep building (and growing).. whether you want to believe (or recognize) it or not.

**Referring to those 7 network effects outlined by Trace Mayer.

In other words, there is no need to show a complete country or a complete system operating on bitcoin in order for bitcoin to be successful because little by little bitcoin is getting into each and all countries.. and still bitcoin is likely less than 1% of the world's population of adoption - scattered all over the world.. so bitcoin exists in an overwhelming number of countries around the world.. but for sure in no kind of a dominant way.. because bitcoin is existing side by side with various fiat systems that are likely going to continue to lose more and more of their value into bitcoin.. so in that regard, we have the greatest wealth transfer in the world going on right before our eyes, even if some people (probably and overwhelming majority of the people because otherwise they would already own some) are failing/refusing to see it.

Some countries and regions have already achieved or are close to achieving this goal, such as Iceland, Brazil, New Zealand’s South Island, Denmark’s Samsø island, and Germany’s Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein regions. These examples show that 100% renewable energy is not only feasible but also desirable for a sustainable future.

Hello everyone

Usb Bitcoin Miner ! is that recommended for a newbie?

im willing to start mining using 6 of those USB but im not sure how and where to start

if anyone have tried this please give us some TIPS or advice please

The Banks are continuously improving their service with offering that are more user-friendly and easy to use. One example of this are "Contactless Card Payments" where you tap your card for small purchases.

The scammers have figured out how to use that service to their advantage... by simply tapping it continuously (if it is not limited) and if it requires a pin... by watching you and following you after you have made a purchase. (They then take your card by force and physically tap it until your account are empty)

They also use card skimming devices to "clone" your card and use pin hole cameras to capture your pin while you are typing it. They can even bump into you with a device that will initiate a small purchase from your card that can "tap" 

Your credit card are constantly under attack, when you use it online and your Banking Apps are making you a target, because they only need access to you to force you to enter your pin... then they can change daily limits and transfer as much money as they like. (Local criminal syndicates work with Bank employees to identify potential targets.)

So, I was thinking... How can Bitcoin be better? Can we find better solutions for these attacks and will these solutions still give us ease of use? (No complexity but still user-friendly)

Share your experience with these Banking problems and give possible solutions for this, because we will draw a lot of people to Bitcoin, if we find innovative solutions to problems like this. 

Anyone here has any solid advice and heads up on the use of Bitcoin ATM. I'll be traveling to a new city and I'm learning there are a couple of Bitcoin ATM I'm the city. I'm looking to use one in the restaurant
where it is located in . I just want to know if there's any heads up or I should avoid it and pay in Bitcoin without using an ATM?
Thanks

I have been here longer enough to know how crypto bear market always feels like

as this news always appears at the end of the downward curve

I think its normal to see this kind of negative news especially in the bear market

$20M Bug bounty reward?!  
I don't know if this is true statement or not, but it sounds like a desperate move from Mixin CEO...
I said many times that using cloud for anything serious is worst thing you can do, that is just computer from someone else.
In last few days I saw several users claiming on social media how they lost coins in this hack, but I didn't see any proof for their claims.
Strange thing in this situation is that all Mixin websites work as usual for me, and there are no information about this hack.

The Lazarus group are the number one suspect as of now although investigation is still ongoing.

I didn't realise it until now because I was just reading the discussion on the project's main ANN and didn't think it was proper to discuss it there because the OP could easily lock the thread now that the service is down. However, my updates are more appropriate for this board.

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More updates!

Could it be an inside job?


One year before the hack:

June 18, 2022: 0x1795, an address connected to the hack, received 5 $ETH from Mixin (0xB0Cf). This address transferred 51 $ETH to address 0xd07A on August 6, 2021 and deposited 5.9 $ETH on Binance (0x4b83) on July 5, 2022.

October 20, 2022: ETH miner 0xab3B sent 118 $ETH to 0xfc73, a user of Gate.io and OKX.

November 9, 2022: Mixin address(0xB0Cf) sent 10,000 $ETH to 0x5D5a.

September 16, 2023: 0x5D5a sent 100 $ETH in gas to 0x4701.

During the hack:

September 22, 2023: 0xfc73 sent 0.5 $ETH in gas to 0x52e8, a wallet connected to the Mixin hack. This wallet holds $94M worth of $ETH.

September 22, 2023: 0xd07A sent 50 $ETH as gas to 0xb5d6, another hack-related wallet holding $71,000 in $ETH, moments before the attack. This transfer was done so that the hacker could disperse tokens from Mixin's addresses through 0x52E8 for the attack.

September 22, 2023: 0xb5d6 (hacker wallet) sent 0.3 $ETH as gas to 0x3b5f, an address that swapped USDT into DAI to avoid being frozen out of stolen funds.

September 23, 2023: Disperse.app address 0xD152 sent 0.0025 $ETH in gas to Mixin wallet 0x68EF. It is likely that the hacker used Disperse.app to distribute tokens.

After the hack:

September 23, 2023: One hour after the hack, Mixin user 0x6e05 retrieved 30 $ETH from the platform, perhaps sensing that a hack was taking place.

September 25, 2023: Mixin announced the stoppage of deposits and withdrawals, two days after it got hacked for $200M.

September 25, 2023: Mixin wallets sent 988 $UNI to a hacker-related address (0xCD65) that now holds $8M in crypto assets.

September 25-26, 2023: Mixin wallets sent $9M worth of crypto funds, including $HMT, $UNI, $ETH, and $USDC, to 0x4701.

September 26, 2023: 0x68EF, a Mixin wallet that received gas from the hacker (0xD152), transferred $USDC and $HMT to 0x4701. It is likely that 0x4701 is an address controlled by Mixin to secure their remaining tokens, although Mixin has yet to confirm this.

More can be found Here for the Blockchain specialists.

As far as I've seen, only Mixin Network is mentioned and within that, there are different groups of services. Mixin Safe, MixPay, Mixin Wallet, Mixin Messenger maybe something else. Apart from the statement "Mixin Network's cloud service provider was attacked by hackers", I have not seen anything more detailed about which part was the subject of the attack