My thought exactly when I saw this . I can't take seriously these kind of predictions as its nothing but a bs. Sure, some will guess it correctly (like Tim Draper) but there is prediction  for basically every possible price. They achieved their goal and all news portals are sharing this guesstimate. Earlier today I saw one guy commenting under one of those articles asking if he should buy BTC now, worrying that he is too late. Fomo is kicking in as we are reaching previous ATH.

In the similar topic in Bitcoin Discussion board @mk4 shared an interesting prediction from that Citibank guy Tom Fitzpatrick that he made back in 2013 about gold and silver, where again he was bullish and expecting big price increase, again comparing gold bull run from 1970s, like he is doing now. I would like to see some of his previous BTC predictions, just to see how god he was.


I mean, of course it would be great if BTC reaches that, and all here (me included) are bullish in the long run and believe one day BTC might reach similar price, but by the end of 2021 to reach 318k? I don't think so. It's a long way from where we are now to that level.

While I admit that "I told  you so" in these type of situations can feel good, BTC going to 16,000+ won't change his opinion or feeling about BTC as people like that will say that "BTC went already to 20k and then dumped so it will do it again", or "it is just pump and dump scheme" or something along those lines. You know the saying, "You cannot reason people out of positions they didn't reason themselves into" and this applies here as well. For them BTC price is pretty much irrelevant and they will always find some excuse. At least that was my experience.

For me, it's a complete waste of time and arguing with those doomsayers is like playing a chess with a pidgeon; sooner or later it will knock all the pieces, shit on the board and strut around like he won anyway. I won't say I didn't make that mistake and argued in the past ( I am active on one IT forum) but I learned my lesson eventually.

@1miau ima dobru i preglednu listu bitcoin block explorera sa dodatnim informacijama, komentarima  i ratinzima (doduse osobnim) pa mozda tamo ima nekih koje ti nisi naveo (lijen sam sad usporedjivati liste ).

Sto se tice koristenja, ne volim komplicirati a ni isprobavati nove explorere tako da i dalje koristim blockchain.com.  Ako nisam skroz ocoravio mislim da ti fali na listi https://www.walletexplorer.com/ . Njega koristim jako rijetko, u biti samo kad hocu provjeriti povezanost adresa ali eto mislim da ga ne bi ga bilo lose dodati na listu.

Vidio sam da je ovdje na forumu dosta popularan blockchair, jel ima on kakve bitne prednosti u odnosu na blockchain.com? Vidim da je i na onoj listi koju sam sherao najbolje ocijenjen.

When you think about it, gambling is actually appropriate as that's what you are doing with your money if you deposit it there


When you put it like that, it does sound like a beginning of a joke, and that's what that site is. We all know why so many similar companies choose UK, as it's incredibly easy  and cheap to make one there, with little to none proper verification. And "UK based company" sounds more reassuring to their target audience  than "Chinese based" or "Russian based". Same reason why shitty altcoins like to use "Swiss based".


Regarding covesting (or copy trading), I know some people that tried that on PrimeXBT and they ended up loosing  most of their investment so I would advise you to be very careful. Even if traders look like they know what they are doing and performing good for certain amount of time, chances are good that  things will go south sooner or later and you will loose if not all, but big chunk of your investment. Imho, you might as well go to online casino and gamble with your money, as that's what this is. In that case you will at least have some fun.

I found one, but you can hardly call it proper unpacking video, and on top of that its published on their YouTube channel. You do see this infamous Minephone though and hear some annoying electronic music, no voice or any kind of explanation. Naturally, under the video there are few shills accounts telling how great that phone is. They simply can't resist doing that kind of things.
¡Ya llegó! Unboxing del Minephone WX - 2020


Yep, even with ETH at 200 USD they would operate at loss (if we assume that they would have to get that ETH from somewhere in order to keep this ponzi running for some time) and now with this prices scheme would crumble much faster. If you confront them with that question, I'm sure they would twist it around and say that's even  more reason to buy Minephone now, as ETH price is going up.



Everything is on sale there, including ratings from those "experts". Check any shitty ICO and chances are you will see the names like Ian Scarffe, Sean Brizendine and Hamza Khan. Among other things, ICObench also tracks bitcointalk activity and gives rating based on that so I think that's one of the reasons why we still see shill accounts despite bumping changes in altcoin board.


Unfortunately still alive and kicking, with few others as well. They were offline for a couple of days few months ago and I hoped that someone managed to shut them down for good but they came back.



This whole Bitwings mess doesn't make any sense.They have real mobile provider company behind them so it's not like same fake team decided to make a quick money grab scheme, that  we usually see. These are real people, they have some kind of conventions in South America, paying influencers to advertise this, going to that mobile phone congress in Barcelona etc. I guess they live in la-la land...

You are right, those warnings in different colors are flag related. If creator of the thread has Type 1 flag active against him, there will "yellow" warning and in case of Type 2 and 3 flags there will be a "red" warning. Bare in mind that Type 1 warning will be seen by guests and new members only.

In order for Flag Type 1 flag to become active it needs support of at least 1 DT2 member, while for flag Type 2 and 3  to become active support of DT1 members is needed.

Whether Binfair is scam or not I don't know, but they are lying about few things:

On their website they claim that Binfair Holding Ltd is incorporated in 2016, but when you check Companies House, this is the data they submitted. As you can see, they were incorporated under that name few months ago, and on the address used by bunch of other companies, which is standard practice.




Then on Facebook they claim:

Simple domain  check via whois shows up that they are live for a couple of months

Now, since they claim to be Forex and CFD brokers registered in UK, unless I am mistaken they should be registered in FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) and if you check https://www.fca.org.uk/ you won't find this Binfair, and that means using their services is very risky because they are not licensed for that kind of business. Question is, if they are legit, why aren't they licensed? Answer to that is pretty obvious imho.

If I am you, i would stick to well known and reputable platforms and wouldn't push my luck in order to save few bucks.

I know that's not exactly what you asked for, but it's pretty close imho, list of all those that shared and received merit on Beginners & Help board, from Merit Dashboard ( I set the range from the beginning up until last Friday). No surprise to see @DdmrDdmr on top of that list, way ahead of the other merit sources with 2832 merit shared so far.

By the way, thanks for sharing this list! I must admit that  some of the threads mentioned I see for the first time, and they look quite interesting.

Bump to spread the awareness about the dangers of thinking that Certificate of Incorporation is any kind of proof business being legitimate. Nothing changed in that regard as Companies House is still not verifying legitimacy of data submitted, and  it doesn't look like that will be changed anytime soon so it's still one of the scammers favorites tools.

My advice is, when you see a website boasting with this chances are good  that something is not right so be extra careful in case you decide to deal with them nevertheless.

It's funny to hear you saying that you are not interested in anything below 7,000 USD per month like that amount of money is peanuts when you couldn't even afford to start your "trading business"  for which you claim that you are capable of getting 10% daily profit, consistently.


If you are such a pro trader as you claim ( and with 10% daily you certainly are), you won't find anything better. Or maybe your little plan failed?

That reminded me of the meme I saw recently.



Worst of all, if something goes bad with this PayPal thing, people will blame bitcoin, crying how it's not safe as advertised etc. What I hope though is that those who bought this "bitcoin" via PayPal will eventually figure out that what they bought is not the real thing and that they can't move it around as they please  so sooner or later they will buy the real stuff. Or PayPal will enable that.

Time works for bitcoin so I am not  fussed with all this, I see it as just another step. Up until recently you would have your PayPal account locked if you tried to buy some BTC with it, and now we can see how times have changed.

Anonyme thread has been thrashed now, so all those hundreds of posts were in vain. I just wish mods nuked that thread sooner as it would save them some time from deleting hundreds of posts.

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Two new additions to the list:

[ANN] Investro - THE NEXT STEP IN AUTOMATED SOCIAL TRADING
Beside hiring bumping service to shill their thread, I tagged and flagged Investro for using fake team member photo. This is just another proof that scammers use  every method available in order to fool people, and while hiring bumping service may not be 100% proof that project is a scam, it is certainly a good indicator that something fishy is going on and calls for more in depth check up. If you dig deep enough, in most cases you can find some dirt. You can find more about Investro and their wrongdoings in this scam accusation topic.

📢[ANN][PRESALE] Base Protocol: HOLD ONE TOKEN - HOLD ALL TOKENS | [BASE] 🚀🚀  
Same group of newbie accounts that are working on Investro are active in Base Protocol ANN. No further proof needed to see what's going on here.

That's actually a good question. I do think that some of the posts get deleted, but not all. I don't know whether it has anything to do with the amount of replies plagiarized opening post of topic got, but I just checked some of my previous reports and I can see that topic is still there (while having bunch of replies) despite poster being banned.

Then again, it could be that you are right and none of the plagiarized posts are deleted unless user is nuked but I could swear that some of them got deleted while user just get banned. Maybe mods can clear this up.


My rule of thumb: if I see unusually well written post from a newbie user that looks like it could be a plagiarism, I just skip it (and check whether it's plagiarized). Maybe I am too paranoid, but that's how I deal with these things, I don't want to engage in conversation that starts in dishonest way.

The answer is very simple: majority of posters don't read posts made on the 2nd page before writing the  reply. They read the first post and eventually few more (usually not even that) and just dump their opinion on the matter and move on. Rinse and repeat, and that's one of the reasons why  there is very little genuine conversations on the forum.

I've tried few times to do exactly what you did, warn the people that they are answering on plagiarized post, but since they just ignored the warning  I stopped with that practice. Just report that post to the moderators (I reported it too) along with plagiarism accusation and let mods deal with that. All those posts written there will disappear anyway once mods deal with your report. Just to add that's the pretty stupid plagiarism case, as OP didn't get anything by copying those  unnecessary explanations, his story would be the same.

First of all, instead of those screenshots can you please provide some basic things like bounty thread link, Telegram bounty group link etc?

Regarding bounty managers changing the rules in the middle of the bounty, that's the scenario we've seen god knows how many times, so there is absolutely nothing new here. Bounty campaigns are trying to cheat bounty hunters by changing the rules while bounty hunters are trying to cheat bounty campaign by enrolling alts (I don't say that you did that, but many hunters do) and this "game" goes on with no end at sight.

As long as you accept do be part of the bounty campaign without knowing for how long you gonna work and when exactly you gonna get tokens because bounty managers put that little "we can change rules as we want" disclaimer, you will get screwed. Since I see that you joined quite a few bounty campaigns, I am pretty sure that this is not the first time you've been screwed in the similar manner so you knew the risks.

I would go even step further and say that 2nd option should be the only one accepted here. Since bitcointalk already has strong stance towards plagiarism and verbatim copying without proper quotation is generally seen as such, it should be enforced here as well. I don't say that people should be  immediately banned over this, but it should be seen as low value post if done excessively and dealt in appropriate manner. That way people would start using quotation marks properly, and eventually amount of useless c/p posts and topics would go down.

Now question is, why people don't bother with that? It is probably due few different reasons:

• Some want to appear more knowledgeable than they really are, and when you put something in quotation marks, it is obvious that it's not your original thought.
• Ignorance. I am pretty sure that quite a few of those doing that don't even know about proper way to deal with direct copying from external source.
• Poor/mediocre English level. Sentences look much better when copied directly and then just link shared at the bottom of the post instead of  trying to write something of your own.
• Merit farming. This tactic can be very successful as people don't really care about these things when they share the merit.
• Last but not the least, filling up signature quota. What's easier than copying something without adding personal comment?

Direct copy/paste should be clearly visible from the moment you start reading the post, as simple as that.


If it was just c/p article (or part of an article) without some personal comment about the issue, I won't merit it, simply because I don't want to encourage that kind of laziness, and by meriting low effort posts that's what we do. As @Pmalek said, it would have to be something incredibly important to me to merit such post, and even then I would think twice.

One day when you will have many topics created and you want to find specific one fast, you can use this hidden feature. As you can see it shows list of all topics created by you so it's very easy to find the one you are looking for once you have dozens of them.

You can also sort them out additionally by boards if you for example want to find all topics you created in "Bitcoin Discussion" or any other board.

It doesn't really matter that it worked that time, it still makes it irresponsible to take a loan from bank to invest in something as volatile as bitcoin. Sure, some might get profit, but this mindset will get you in trouble sooner or later as risk/reward ratio is not good.

One of the golden rules of investing in something like bitcoin or stocks is that you only invest as much as you can afford to loose, reading invest only the money that you have extra. Not money that you need for basic necessities like food, utility bills etc and certainly not the money you don't have (loan). Especially not during this current economic instability due covid-19 , where people are loosing  their jobs left and right and we don't really know when will it end.


What I would suggest to everyone buying bitcoin for the first time: buy now, buy when it reaches new ATH, buy if it drops to 5K. Just keep buying, whenever you can and if possible in regular basis, like every two weeks or once per month. Important thing is to only use money you have extra, don't ask from friends/family/bank. That way it will be less risky and you can still profit in the long run.

@Charles-Tim I appreciate your effort in sharing interesting articles, but the way you did it in this case is not the right way. When you are copying text verbatim , and I see you did that a lot in this case, proper way is to put that in the quotation marks, so there is no confusion whether are those your own words or you just copied the sentences from outside source. For example, your first few sentences should look like this (and rest of the text for that matter, if copied the same way)


I hope you won't see this suggestion in a bad light, it's just one thing I noticed people  occasionally do, and imho it should be changed because there should be a clear distinction between your own words and something that you copied.

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There are many who are still waiting to but bitcoin for the first time. For them BTC is too expensive now at 16k USD, but when it reaches 25-30k USD then they will see it as a good opportunity, that's how it goes, and I've seen it from my friends. Earlier this year I was selling some BTC as I had some expenses and I asked all of those friends who begged me to sell them some during last bull run  when BTC was over 17k. And now, even though BTC was around 10k, no one was interested, they saw it as a bad investment. I expect them to  come back once real fomo kicks in.


This is horrible advice and I really hope no one listens to you. Getting loan to buy BTC is a very irresponsible and bad thing to do, no matter the price. You are supposed to invest only what you can afford to loose, otherwise you are just another gambler and you are endangering your livelihood.Unfortunately many did that in 2017 and it didn;t end up well, as you have to pay back the loan, banks won't wait for you to bitcoin goes above the price you paid, they want their money now.

Bitcoin is all about personal responsibility, "being your own bank"  thing and people keep forgetting that. And that is also the reason why some people stay away from it as as they don't like that kind of responsibility, they prefer safety.

Regarding the making a mistake and sending to the wrong address, again you can't really blame anyone else, it is your own fault. Unlike with other means of payment where people can cancel the transaction and scam you.  Personal responsibility, nothing more and nothing less. If you don't like it it, best is to use traditional payment systems.