I don't think it makes sense to open a new thread, but it seems that some Chinese companies don't feel like doing business with Russia at a time when at least 80% of all countries in the world have turned their backs on it. I don't know if this is just an exception, but it sends a clear message to Moscow that China will not turn its back on the other side when it comes to aggression against an independent country.

Do you think I envy you? Well I wouldn’t trade for your position for all the Bitcoin of this world. I didn’t build my profile on mass plagiarism and dozens of threads bragging about my accomplishments to prove something.


Now we come to the point where you have to take other people's words to describe me? In doing so, you do not take the other side of the story as a result of these feedback. If you want to, then I will give one feedback that describes you in the best possible way.

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I really don't want to pollute this thread with personal discussions anymore - if someone has a need (I don't have a personal one) to open a new thread about my or someone else's reputation, feel free to do so.

As far as I understand it is the number of Bitcoin on a total of 21 crypto exchanges, but I can not say whether it is the total number of what is available for sale or their total reserve. Either way, given the nearly 19 million BTCs that have been mined so far, it’s no wonder that at least about 10% is on crypto exchanges.

Maybe a year or more ago, an estimate was published that Coinbase alone holds nearly 1 million BTC, so this number is no surprise. As much as we talk about security, the fact is that the vast majority of Bitcoin investors do not know what a private key is and how risky it is to entrust it to someone else for safekeeping.

I am personally glad that there are people on this forum who are not afraid to say what they really think, regardless of the fact that it may concern some who think that they are some kind of gods of the forum and that some special rules apply to them.


Your idea is good because it does not require intervention by the admin, but since there will be those who will not read the rules and will make this fatal mistake (maybe accidentally) and thus be disqualified, it would certainly be better to merits be completely disabled in that thread. Either way, some of it would be desirable to apply.

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What is really incomprehensible to me is that someone is pressuring to publish the final results, and does not show even the slightest empathy for a person who is fighting with his family for life in a country attacked by his compatriots. I hope he gets his reward as soon as possible and stops whining in this thread.

I also hope that some lessons have been learned from the previous two competitions, in which I unfortunately did not vote for some of the reasons I have already explained in some of the previous posts. Just to clarify that I do not blame @icopress, but individuals who, due to their personal interests, made this competition very questionable.


I fully support this idea, and I would also suggest disabling the merits in this thread in order to prevent competitors from motivating voters in this way.

For ordinary mortals, 30 000 BTC is a hard-to-understand amount, especially if someone focuses on their fiat value - but for the crypto market, that obviously means almost nothing. In the article cited by the OP as a source, one sentence is particularly interesting to me :



It's just a question of how much BTC is available through OTC, but without a doubt it's millions - which means there are far more who want to sell than buy.

It is quite clear to me that Russia is moving in the direction of more or less isolating itself from the EU, UK, US, and countries it considers hostile - but doesn't a complete internet outage do incalculable damage to their economy, far greater harm than any benefits of such insane isolation?

Not even China has ever gone that far despite its censorship, because that would mean shooting yourself in both knees and eventually playing Russian roulette to swallow a bullet. Nothing can surprise me anymore, this madness is getting bigger day by day...

Today I thought my neighbors were joking about someone attacking our country by a drone or racket flying in from the direction of Ukraine and falling on our capital after flying more than 500 km - but it actually happened, fortunately no one was injured.

This is a model that was designed maybe even 50 years ago, and it has always been problematic, which has obviously happened now. Some speculate that someone may have programmed Jarun (part of Zagreb) instead of Yarun (Ukraine) and that the drone therefore flew all the way to Zagreb. What is amazing is that no country (Romania, Hungary, Croatia) managed to act it before it fell, which means that missile shields and air defenses are worth almost nothing.

However, some analysts attribute this to the very heated situation in the Balkans, where part of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republika Srpska) is trying to join the Republic of Serbia, and has the support of Russia. In recent days, an increasing number of international forces have arrived in Bosnia and Herzegovina via Croatia, and the French air force is patrolling over the country. A Balkan barrel of gunpowder could explode at any moment, and it would certainly suit Russia to divert the public's attention from the war in Ukraine.

We all know that China has no intention of ever imposing sanctions on Russia, because they are big and strong enough to pursue their policies, and the US and the EU depend on China far more than on Russia. It is also true that almost everything is produced in China today, but little of it is some kind of branded goods that are recognizable globally. When it comes to their goods, I can buy a smartphone or a smartwatch, but everything else is of very questionable quality, not to mention how many products are withdrawn from the market every day because they pose a danger to human health.

Russia is obviously playing on two key cards, one is China and the other is India trying to stay neutral, but as one of the more important US allies, it will have to choose a side. However, I do not think that Russia can preserve its economy and prosper without markets such as the US or the EU - this is a market of over 800 million people who have far more purchasing power than the rest of the world.

I agree that we cannot say that all people who do such work are doing something bad, there are always exceptions. If that person is helping you and others to be successful in their investments and is not yet asking for any compensation, then this is one of those exceptions.

However, all those influencers that I personally had the opportunity to see on YT are not worth anyone's time, let alone investments. If you understand Bitcoin at least at a basic level, no one has to tell you what will happen in 1 or 5 years - look back and you will easily understand in which direction we are going.

As far as I can see the problem is not in the content of the post, but in who posted it, the hypocrisy at its best

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I will not put any links to recent research, but anyone can see how many Russians support their leader - in a country of 150 million people not even 1% protest against the war, as we have already concluded they have completely different priorities.

If someone is on the UN blacklist, then there must be some reason for it, maybe the problem is in the exploitation of labor, the abuse of children in mining? I have done little research on gold mining in the DRC, and thousands of people seem to be doing it privately, and their health is being damaged, as well as causing considerable damage to the environment.

https://globalpressjournal.com/africa/democratic-republic-of-congo/hard-breathe-gold-mining-drc-damages-miners-forests/
https://observers.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-observers/20210407-videos-show-children-as-young-as-10-working-in-gold-mines-in-dr-congo

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I was just hoping to enter the largest holders Hall of Fame, but who knows, they may recognize me in the years to come

It has long been clear to me that democracy works to some extent in Switzerland where the government always asks the people what they think about something before a decision is made, not in countries that have elections every 4 or 5 years, sells people the story of how to vote, and then work in the interest of banks, corporations, and their own interests.

Ever since they started using terrorism as the main excuse to terrorize us, through a pandemic that has given them even more power - we need to ask ourselves what’s next? Democracy is a dead letter on paper, there is only an illusion - obey or you will have a bad time in life.

You created a profile almost 5 years ago on the forum and still haven't figured out how Bitcoin could protect you from inflation? At the beginning of 2017 1 BTC was worth barely $1000, today it is worth almost 40 times more, and last year it was worth almost 70 times more. I could bet that in 5 years you will ask the same question when the price of 1 BTC is 5 or 10 times higher than today, but this is a problem you have to solve with yourself.

Seen from my perspective (and that of many other people) the thing works perfectly, of course if we look at it in the long run. Be on the side of the winners who invest in times when the markets are in the red, not those who do it in the middle of a bull run.

Or in case you attack someone who is at least ten times weaker than you - shelling hospitals, schools and TV towers is even easier because they don't fight back. Meanwhile, Russian morale is declining, especially when they read that from now on they will be stalked by the world's best sniper.

I use Chrome on my smartphone, and I haven't checked what exactly it is because Google very often has updates for its services via Google Play - but that pop-up stopped appearing immediately after updates. I think it's a combination of both, although I didn't make a browser update, there seems to have been a hole in the system through which that pop-up was persistently displayed even though notifications and pop-up ads were blocked.

While millions of Ukrainians are living in the horrors of war and children are dying because they have no food or water, in Russia people really have strange priorities - sanctions are clearly having an effect https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1501659933162586117

Meanwhile, braveheart Wallace is sending Starstreak anti-air missiles to Ukraine, and as far as I hear Russian pilots have already started peeing into their underwear given what this system can do.

Yesterday I made some updates from Google Play related to Google services, and that pop-up immediately disappeared - so for all those who are irritated by the same thing, there is a solution.

No one wants to open Pandora's box and set a precedent, although we all know that a number of people got a second chance, but probably not something like this where the OP is looking for something, and honestly doesn't have the support of more members. The question is how many banned people actually visit the forum, and how many would ask for the same thing as the OP - it seems to me that there may be isolated cases, but certainly not dozens of members would appear and ask for pardon.

I think there should be an option that would allow the banned member to return after x years with a permanent ban on signature and avatar.