Based on his last message on the bounty thread he made, seems like he will distribute bounty tokens. Might be an additional expenditure for the him if those tokens are erc20, considering the current transaction prices.



That is a good question but only Murat can probably give us an answer to that. Maybe they weren't satisfied with the results, maybe they planned that from the beginning. Who knows...

What surprises me though is that such an experienced bounty manager accepted campaign without getting money up front, or at least escrowed it.

What happened: Asher Trade is a ponzi scheme that offers 15% daily profit on staked BTC.

ANN https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5265705.0
Archive https://archive.fo/W8cWW

Website https://www.ashertrade.com/
Archive https://archive.fo/oInz3


Everything is obvious from this screenshot. They even go so far that they require 50,001 USD investment for 115% daily profit, while you only have to invest 10 USD for 12% daily profit. Those offers are bs of course as no legitimate business can promise you similar daily returns, not even close.

Another suspicious announcement thread with standard red flags. Account recently awoke after two years  break and made copy of already existing ANN from 2018. Github account shared in the thread seems to be legit (same as the one shared in original ANN from 2018) so maybe they plan to replace it later on, as they sometimes do that, in order to postpone nuking.

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ANN https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5265689.0
Archive https://archive.fo/CjMPJ


Original Ann 🚀🚀 [PENG] PENG ⭐MASTERNODE ⭐POS ⭐ ZEROCOIN ⭐A NEW ERA
Github account https://github.com/coinpeng

To be honest, if someone makes only 15 posts per week that doesn't make him good poster, same as writing 40-50 posts per week doesn't make you spammer or bad poster (quite a few CM members reach 50 posts cap each week). So even if Best_Change implements what you suggested, it wouldn't automatically differentiate bad from good poster. You simply have to look at each poster individually, no matter the payment system.
It's true though that no minimum would give more room to good posters that for some reason don't have enough time to meet week quota, but from what I noticed Best_Change is somewhat lenient there so if you are ocassionaly few posts short you won't be kicked immediately.

I like @Best_Change approach as it is, where they are constantly "pruning" out less quality/active members and substituting with better ones, making campaign more quality, therefore more successful (we can see that it works, as it's getting harder and harder to get into campaign, competition is tough and you have to be good to get in ).

Every time I see this, especially in the combination with decent money, my first thought is scam. No one will offer 600 usd per month for something as easy unless there is some catch, and that's why OP didn't include any more info about it. First you gotta hook someone with story about easy money...

By the way, was anyone curious enough to contact marios22558 and see what's really going on behind that offer?

This looks to me like just another useless project that wants to profit from current covid-19 pandemic. We've seen quite a few of those lately and this one doesn't look any different from other such attempts. As always in similar cases, team identity is not revealed, and that's something you would expect from such a philantropic cause. Huge red flag for me.

How not to be allergic to  altcoins when most of them doesn't make any sense at all...

I see. It's just my personal preference, to hear the voice when watching video, that's why I asked about adding the voice.

Regarding that other part, maybe you should consider making a bit longer video covering stop-loss in more details, as I can see in the comments many people (especially those that are just starting trading) don't understand how to use it effectively.

Scammers are really stepping up the game and getting more imaginitive, now they are even creating games in order to hide the fact that they are nothing more than a ponzi scheme.
I can definitely see less experienced people falling for this since they even fall for basic scams like bitcoin dublers, and this scheme is level above that.

By the way, nice catch OP, flag supported.

Why do you think that those who own those "shadow" bitcoins (as you called them) would mindlessly just dump them ? After all, they are interested in profit, so why would they behave any different than others?

To answer you question, no, I do not worry about such scenario. Bitcoin survived so much already and at this moment stuff like that can't hurt him in the long run, and that's what's most important.


Yep. It amazes me how people keep finding ways to worry about BTC.

This looks like one of those popular Telegram scams where they send you a message in which he is "thanking Mr John Doe for huge profit and if you listen to  him you might earn fortune too and solve all your financial problems."


User tagged, and I'll gladly support flag if OP makes one!

Good guide, short and to the point, as it's supposed to be. I wished I used stop-loss more often when I was trading , it would have saved me a lot of money.

One suggestion though, maybe add voice too( but that's just my personal preference, as I like to hear voice in guide videos).

If they really wanted to prevent money laundering, they could at least make that betting part accumulative or sort that some other way and not force people to bet more than they are willing to. Forcing people to bet 50% of the deposit on a single bet feels like a trap. Sure, they covered themselves with Tos, but it's a bad practice nevertheless.

As @tyKiwanuka said, OP can go around that by finding some 1.01 game, but even with those odds things can go wrong (happened to me quite a few times).

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Then what OP experienced was probably just a mistake from someone on their team and not the standard practice, to reveal bounty hunters email. In my opinion, if that happens best is to contact their team immediately and tell them to sort that out.

From what I saw, in most bounty campaigns they do require email address. I guess it serves a another sort of verification, as bounty hunters probably have to register on the  project website using the same email. address. But yeah, people shouldn't use their main address for that purpose.

Yep, you can report Telegram scammers. As far as I know, there are few ways to report them:
1. Simply contact @notoscam on Telegram and give all relevant info on scammer you have. As usual, the more you provide, the better.
2. Contact Telegram support and explain the issue, again giving as much info as you have
3.Then again, you can also report user for spamming, and again if enough people report the same account, he won't be able to send PM for certain period of time.

If report is valid scammer will get "Scam" tag on their account, so everyone knows whats going on. Unfortunately, I think that people rarely bother to do that as those scam tags are rare, I've seen maybe 10-15 of those so far  and I am heavy Telegram user.

Yobit surprised me with the same email few hours ago..

1% daily return for BTC staking, what else to think other than its an obvious  bullshit on par with most obvious and cheap ponzi schemes that are reported here on the daily basis, lame attempt to get people buy their Yo tokens. It's just business as usual in Yobit exchange, I just don't know who falls for this anymore.

Rule of thumb: when someone contacts you via Telegram offering you something, it is a scam. Block+delete chat. Follow this and you won't be fooled, ever. Since its plagued by scammers, Telegram is worst possible place to conduct any business whatsoever, even if you are experienced Telegram user, and should be avoided for such purposes (for chat it's great, no questions about it).

It is true that Chinese products really raised the bar in that budget/best buy segment, and they do offer a lot for the money. I personally use few Xiaomi products (scale, Xiaomi Mi Box and Smartphone) and I am generally satisfied with the quality, especially considering the price, their products are really good value for the money. But if I want top quality, I have to look elsewhere. At least for now, unless they tackle that part of the market too. I remember times when Samsung phones were considered crappy and cheap, when Nokia ruled the market, and we can see now how situation changed.

Thanks @lovesmayfamilis, both English and Russian announcement threads have been added to the list. All that negative attention from copied whitepaoerr wasn't enough for them. Instead sorting that out, they decided to go full retard and immediately started using those newbie accounts to promote both of their threads. I see that some account used were tagged years ago for promoting ponzi schemes. Old habits die hard I guess..

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One more announcement thread  has been added
🌟 [ANN][REAP] ReapChain - Secure and Transparent Blockchain-Based IoT Ecosystem
Classic case of thread bumping-recently created accounts writing standard nonsense and fake interest.

I beg to disagree.

While Hisense, TCL and Xiaomi are decent TVs, especially in the budget range, if you want top quality, you will still go for Samsung, LG and Sony (not necessarily in that order of quality). Those Chinese brands still can't match them.
Here in Europe people are still mostly buying those proven brands, while only those that that are looking for budget options go for Hisense and other similar budget friendly brands.


https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1582792353

While situation on TV market can certainly change in the coming years, I still hope that those top brands will survive and won't end up like Pioneer and Panasonic, who once had best TVs on the market but people rather chose cheap crappy lcds instead quality.