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5461  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Coinshub or apps like that- how safe is it? on: June 29, 2019, 05:53:48 PM
I prefer to manually add my assets in a portfolio app like blockfolio. This can be tasking when actively trading as it needs to be updated regularly.
Coinstats and coinhub has good ratings and are quite popular. But, endeavor to do your own research on their privacy policy and possible third party involvement in the storage of data. Ensure you do not divulge passwords or private keys.
5462  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: {WARNING} Cybersecurity vulnerabilities/flaws that may affect you. Up to date. on: June 28, 2019, 07:36:27 PM
- Use 2FA and password and never forget it at any cost.

It's also advisable to back up your 2FA account, if you use Google authenticator, or more preferably use authy which automatically creates a back up which can be assesses using your email and password
5463  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: What is OTC trading? Why should I choose OTC? on: June 28, 2019, 11:33:52 AM
OTC stands for Over The Counter trades, and it is used when individuals want to keep their transactions private. It is not a trading strategy, where one profits from, but an agreement between two or more individuals.

There is no specific amount range. People still trade with large amounts on the open market, OTC is needed when you want to keep the transaction covert, possibly to avoid influencing the market price.

Not all exchanges support OTC trades, check the options available on the exchange of your choice.
5464  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: A story about how to lose everything or "happy" 2019. on: June 27, 2019, 08:24:57 PM
Firstly, when investing in cryptocurrency or any venture, you shouldn't be persuaded. You should be advised and giving tools to help you grow your knowledge. This would make it easier for the investor to manage their assets effectively.

Cryptopia exchange was liquidated sometime last year due to a major hack. I do not know of any possibilities of regaining your bitcoins which was on that exchange.
Storing your assets on an exchange is never a good idea.
You should own the keys to the address which holds your assets.

I'd advice you first build on knowledge, then invest money
5465  Other / Meta / Re: Decentralised merit sources on: June 27, 2019, 03:29:36 PM
. To avoid abuse we could implement this right away by allowing current merit sources to have more weighting and prevent account farmers from having an impact by reducing their weighting to almost nothing.

I am curious to know how you'd determine who an account farmer is. Earned merits, rank, trust?
It think it would be susceptible to abuse on a small scale.
Overall, I don't think k you have to fix something that isn't broken. Delays in merit source isn't so much an issue that warrants changing the whole system.

The more people who have you on their list the more weighting you have. Anyone in the top 5%/10% or whatever we deem suitable for the size of the forum would then become a merit source.

If you make it an automated process, then members don't need to apply, or show interest. Take into account that not everyone would be interested in being charged with smerits to distribute within a certain time frame.
5466  Other / Serious discussion / Re: Career path and detours on: June 27, 2019, 10:24:49 AM
I mean one can only be stressed when he/she isn't been appreciated or doesn't like what he's doing and if you don't like your work then it's a wrong career. (my opinion).

It is your opinion. But look at it like this; a medical doctor can be very stressed out after standing for a straight ten-hour operation, while still feeling fulfilled about having saved a life. Also that same medical doctor can be stressed about losing a patient during his/her night shift (even though it may not have been their fault).
I don't believe there's a happily ever after. There'd be challenges no matter how much you love what you do. It's WORK, it's not meant to be easy, but it should be something that you always want to go back to and be better at.

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Also, a stressful job does not mean a wrong career
although I'm against the way the current ones are been operated. Schools just program you to be a poppet of the government. Since you're writing about careers put some emphasis on skills because it give you an advantage over others with just college degree.

Standardized testing discourages diversity, and tries to lump student with completely different strengths into a particular direction.

I also didn't put emphasis on college degrees. I was generally writing on any form of education one ventures into.
It's also important to pick a skill you're passionate about. Entrepreneurship is good, so are college degrees, so are talents/gifts. Just do what brings you fulfillment.
5467  Other / Serious discussion / Career path and detours on: June 27, 2019, 08:41:13 AM
Education is a very prominent aspect of every individuals' life. This could be acquired through, imitation, training, apprenticeship, self teaching. It could also be formal, informal, semi formal or non formal.
All forms of education boils down to a certain career path, i.e, what would you be doing for the rest of your life?
This question is an ineluctable one, and often one has to answer it at a very young age.
Of course, there are a number of people who from their wee days are certain of what they want to do and what brings them fulfillment. But I risk saying, majority of people do not have a certain career which they want to pursue, and if they do they have little idea of what that path entails when making that decision.

I'm of the believe that a career path should not be rigid, one is free to take detours when it appears necessary. The 'rest if your life's is a long time, and do mot be afraid to return to school, get a second degree, take up that passion.

Life is not a straight jacket and there are many limitations to a such quantum shift; age, finances, family, finances and to an extent society.
But, no career path should be simply endured. Find a balance and compromise that benefits all aspects of you.

Also, a stressful job does not mean a wrong career, people still take long vacations and sabbaticals from their passion and dream jobs. Find a Balance.
5468  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: A new kind of scam in telegram using gambling site on: June 27, 2019, 08:01:42 AM
As a rule of thumb; legit connections rarely message first, and not out of the blues.
If I get a random message from an unfamiliar contact, it raises all red flags.
Also why would the owner of a gambling site want to cheat his own system? He's proposing something inappropriate. Frankly this is an easy scam to spot.
Greed and ignorance (most will not verify the site using a third party) is the major reason people get scammed.
5469  Economy / Services / Re: Windice.io Signature Campaign(4 open slots) on: June 27, 2019, 07:55:45 AM
Accepted, 1 member slot left

Bitcointalk name: Upgrade00
Link to profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2423488
Rank: Member
Current post count: 390
Windice name: upgrade
Wear appropriate signature: Yes
Wear avatar: I'm in member rank
5470  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [GUIDE] Overview of the trust flags on: June 27, 2019, 07:24:30 AM
It's great that logged out users and guests also get to view the flags on accounta

True, and this depends solely on DT members, reason they were charged to be decisive in their assessment and judgements.

This increases the responsibility of DT members not to give negative trust for stupid reasons, but only for things that cause you to believe that the person is a scammer.
5471  Other / Meta / Re: 4 Pages of Bounty Mega Spam on: June 26, 2019, 06:13:30 AM
There's also an option to report a users post history to moderators, introduced by admin @Cyrus, this makes it easier to handle such mega spam cases

After recent discussion about it's usefulness, I've made a small userscript to add the Report to moderator button on the Show lasts posts of this person page.

You can upload it to a user script manager (eg:GreaseMonkey for FF).
Code:
Code:
// ==UserScript==
// @name     Post history report button
// @version  1.1
// @grant    none
// @include  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=*;sa=showPosts*
// @include  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;threads;u=*;sa=showPosts*
// @require  https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.4.min.js
// ==/UserScript==

var postLinks = $('td.middletext a:last-of-type');
var buttonLink = $("span.middletext").slice(1);

for (var i = 0; i < postLinks.length; i++) {
  var postLink = $(postLinks[i]);
  var reportLink = "<a href=" + postLink.prop("href").replace("index.php?", "index.php?action=reporttm;").replace(".msg", ";msg=") + ">Report to moderator</a>";
  $(buttonLink[i]).prepend (reportLink);
}

Here is how it looks:

5472  Other / Serious discussion / Re: Population rise and downsides on: June 25, 2019, 05:40:24 PM
If it gets worse and reaches the point where half the planet becomes uninhabitable, you can bet that it is the poorest countries that will suffer most.

At some point these countries have to get dependent and start thinking on their feet.
My country, Nigeria for example, is one of the largest producers of oil. While the rest of the world is looking towards other means of driving machines, which are more friendly to the environment and sustainable, we are stuck with oil which is gradually fizzling out.

Of course there are other countries which are direct consequences of external factors, and would need the help of developed Western Nations to curb climate change
We need to find a global solution to turn population rise to a positive.
5473  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [ Question ] Profile Photo & Copper Membership on: June 25, 2019, 05:09:57 PM
I've been trying to find a way to change my profile photo in this forum but apparently in the "Profiles" tag I was virtually unable to find an "upload" button.

The forum does not have a profile photo option. Only avatars, which can be used by full member rank and above only.

When I clicked it it didn't show what you will get from such membership

Copper membership lifts some of the limitations put on a newbie account account.

By popular demand, newbies can now pay to have some of their restrictions lifted. If you pay the fee, you become a Copper Member, and you can post images. That's the main point of this: allowing newbies to post images. Additionally (and these might change depending on how things go), Copper Members currently have these bonuses:

- Some of the same permissions as Member-rank members, such as reduced signature styling restrictions. (But none of the PM-related restrictions are currently lifted, such as the style limit or per-hour PM limit.)
- Your "you must wait ____ seconds between ___" counter is reduced by 75%. So if you're naturally of Newbie rank, you only have to wait 360-75% = 90 seconds.

If you paid an "evil IP" registration fee, then whatever you paid (in BTC terms) is subtracted from the upgrade fee. If you paid a registration fee a long time ago, you might even get a free Copper Membership due to the increase in BTC price. Just visit the link at the bottom of this post to check whether you have it already.

Edit*
Also, when I insert an IMGUR image link, it didn't show the image but it suddenly became a link under [img] tag

This is one of the limitations on newbie account which can be lifted by purchasing copper membership. As a newbie images are not displayed in your posts but image links
5474  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Please I need help from any Vietnamese speaking person for translation. on: June 25, 2019, 05:03:24 PM
If you're looking to hire the services of an interpreter or make a request, you should make a post in the Service or Service Discussion child board. I believe that would be more appropriate.
5475  Other / Serious discussion / Re: Population rise and downsides on: June 25, 2019, 04:19:48 PM
I think over the next few years we'll see societies moving away from farmed meat consumption and towards both veganism and lab-grown meat.

We'll need to become less dependent on many other essentials and minerals, which are exhaustible to effectively support the growth of human life.
In this case I think the rural and developing countries would be worse hit as they'd get left behind as technology advances. Except of course there's a drastic change and improvement in the governance of these states.
5476  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Privacy Coins on: June 23, 2019, 06:31:09 PM
Bitcoin was created to offer decentralization and anonymity to asset holders to enable transaction between two individuals without the direct intervention of a third party. This transactions are direct and unregulated, but are visible and traceable as the blockchain is an open ledger. While there is no real identity behind addresses, it's possible to link transaction together and have this provides a level of security risk.
This is the problem that privacy coins tackle.

What are privacy coins?

Privacy coins offer private transactions which are not transparent. It blurs certain information, such as amount transferred, address of individuals invloved or amounts held  in the wallets. This provides coin holders with a level of privacy and security.
Privacy coins is not a new technology, Monero; one of the most popular privacy coin was created in 2014 as a fork of bytecoin.
Check out this thread: [ANN][BMR] Bitmonero - a new coin based on CryptoNote technology - LAUNCHED. It was previously known as Bitmonero. Other privacy coins include, DASH, ZCASH and the more recently launched BEAM.

On the downsides, privacy coins has been identified by some as a medium for corrupt practices and money laundering with transactions that are difficult or impossible to trace. Although this has been a popular criticism for all other cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin. Considering that fiat currency can also be (and is) used for illegal activities as well,

Another con is the problem of scalability. It takes a lot of data to obfuscate transactions and some privacy coin networks also mixes up the transactions being confirmed by miners to make it more difficult to trace at the cost of scalability.
There's also the problem of the security of the network, and it's imperviousness to attacks.

Which is your favorite privacy coin?
Would you, or do you use privacy coins over utility and security coins?
5477  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Does jr. member rank profitable in signature campaign nowadays? on: June 23, 2019, 03:14:18 PM
This is why I would like to.know if Jr. Members in rank still can earn huge reward in signature campaign?

The measure of earnings is dependent of the location of the participants and the state of economy if their nation, so you'd get varying answers. But in comparison with other ranks, jr members and members do not earn huge.

And also the age of ICOs has been on the decline over the past months, this has affected bounties and many altcoins, more attention is going to Bitcoin paying bounties nowadays.
Try to keep learning and improving your knowledge to try and rank up.
Improving your grammar would make your post more readable. Good luck!
5478  Other / Off-topic / Re: 3 merits available to send :) good posts (preferring newbies and jr members) on: June 23, 2019, 07:39:34 AM
I'll just delete this thread if possible.... And open one when I have enough merits...

It's not a necessity though, not everyone must open a giveaway thread. Award them to deserving posts as you come across them. And by all means do not hoard smerits in other to open a thread.
5479  Other / Serious discussion / Re: Population rise and downsides on: June 23, 2019, 06:35:12 AM
Most of the governments are struggling to give employment for all their people which increase poverty and the low standard of living.''If it happens everywhere then this world will become like a war field.

Industrialization is also playing a part. And also improper governing by those in positions of power. Population growth does not have to be a menace, it could be used as a positive if properly managed. We need to also increase family planning sensitization.

...

The earth has so much pollution and exploitation it can take. We all have to realize that it's not indestructible, and drop the idea of; 'not it our lifetime at least', as it's already shortening lifespans and causing damage to out generation.
5480  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Advice for newbies on: June 23, 2019, 04:11:18 AM
should be more focus on learning different information rather than earning btc while staying in this forum which is not the right thing to do.

There's nothing wrong in trying to earn BTC (or any other cryptocurrency on the forum). And they also work conversely, without learning and improving your posts, you are not likely to rank up and can not earn any BTC as such.
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