Just imagine what kind of opinion they will get if they get scammed by this or similar campaigns? People tend to generalize. It's easier to say crypto is a scam than to admit that you got tricked into handing over your hard-earned money to a bunch of Facebook scammers. Many aren't ready for the responsibilities of self-custody and won't be for many more years.   

Update:
Wintomato has been removed from the table!
There has been a valid scam accusation against this platform since February 03, 2022 and they have failed to provide any information to the community as to why they confiscated $20 worth of DOGE from one user.

A warning to those thinking of playing at Wintomato. Read this scam accusation first.
I asked them twice to share their side of the story here and here. Their forum admin was online two days ago and there is still no response regarding this issue. 

If we can assume that Coldcard's code is secure enough and has been put under the microscope back and forth to look for vulnerabilities. I am not saying it hasn't, nor am I an expert in that department, but Coldcard is not even nearly as popular as Ledger and Trezor. I am sure that more security experts have looked at Trezor and Ledger, be it for the right or wrong reasons. Passport will surely add plenty of their own code and improvements in areas they didn't like with the Coldcard. Those new snippets will also need to be checked thoroughly. 

It's still business. And business is competition. Everyone wants to be on top and get the biggest piece of the pie. When it comes to money, the big fish will always go for the small fish. Reusing open-source code is a double-edged sword. You inherit the good, but you also inherit anything bad, assuming there is something bad. If a serious vulnerability gets found in Coldcard, and Passport uses the exact same code, users of both wallets would have problems until a fix is found.

A combination of several factors probably. You mentioned the pandemic. That's certainly one element. The global chip shortage is another one. Inflation and its effect on prices is felt almost everywhere. And Ledger has spent plenty of money on promotions, marketing, and shills recently. Someone has to pay for all that and that would be their customers.     

I think there are still many people who fall for things like this. Otherwise, scammers wouldn't continue creating fake campaigns and sites like the one I just posted. Anyone with common sense would just read that message, smile and think how pathetic, and and go about with their life. I don't know how much these Faceobok ads cost, but whatever it is, it certainly generates enough profit for the scammers to keep doing it.   

I wouldn't buy it either. First because I couldn't care less about their DeFi and NFT support, and second because I don't need it to store my Bitcoin. The Nano S works just fine after many years. Yes, I know it's closed-source.

However, your argument that the Nano S Plus shouldn't be bought because it's untested can be used for any hardware wallet or any piece of equipment that is brand-new. It can't be tested before it's developed and released to the general public. So, I would like to expand on your thought process and say that you shouldn't buy any new hardware wallet by Ledger, Trezor, Passport, (insert company name), for at least a few months to a year to give those who know what they are doing enough time to test it and try to break it. Those who can do it themselves, even better.   

I don't think they made significant improvements or hardware changes, otherwise they would be marketing and shilling it as crazy. I just went through some of their most recent social media posts and there is no mention of any improvements to the Nano X. 

Whether it now sells in a white or black box, the device costs €149 if shipped within the EU. It's still the same old thing.

Our favourite social media platform, Facebook, is being flooded by new fake giveaways. I have seen a few already. The posts are sponsored and paid for.
The creators are pretending to give away 50.000 ETH to speed up the adoption of cryptocurrencies.
ETH, Elon Musk, and Vitalik. It's all mentioned to create an impression of a genuine giveaway.

Like always, don't trust anyone promising you free money and report such posts to protect those who don't know any better!

I like to stay away from drama and not get myself involved in such contests. I didn't vote last year. I forgot, but maybe I wouldn't have even if I didn't forget. This year I voted because I got tagged by icopress, so I put that on my to-do list. Had I known we would be having this conversation, I would have stayed clear. I stand by what I said previously. If I think that member X is the best in that particular category, I would vote for that user. Him or her meriting people wouldn't change that. The contributions to the forum don't change with those merits. For example, If I knew that you had the same or better results as the user who merited my post, I would put your name instead.   

I am not sure who those emails belong to. Are they supposed to be for companies that claim they are successfully recovering stolen/lost coins, or are those people who have used such services "successfully"? Anyone can create a Gmail and yahoo account. That doesn't mean their stories are fake, but it also doesn't mean they are true. Shilling and providing fake feedback is done to trick more people into believing that it's a legit business. But anyone can write how they used Company X, how trustworthy they are, cheap, and professional. Don't trust anything you see online, especially when it's about crypto or the recovery of funds, keys, seeds, etc. 

I haven't checked any of them out yet. I will do that the next time I decide to add new casinos to the table. I am currently working on some other topic that has caused a backlog of the things I need to update. Soon, hopefully.

The away goal rule doesn't apply any longer. Therefore, no one has an advantage for the second leg. If the match ends with another draw, no matter how many goals are scored, it's heading into overtime.

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Juventus defended very well for most parts of the game. They conceded a goal after they believed that Vlahovic was fouled while losing possession and instead of continuing to play, they froze and expected to hear the referees whistle. The goal that followed was amateurishly conceded. The Mckennie injury was bad because he is the only player with guts and quality in the current midfield. Except the goal, Juve was pretty clueless in that attacking half. I remember one attempt by Morata whose shot went over the goal and one by Locatelli with the same result. In the 2nd half, Vlahovic had one more shot that was saved. Other than that, they relied on defending and being pushed back towards their penalty box.     

That could be a useful addition for the upcoming years if icopress decides to continue with the ceremony. Somehow I don't think he will make such changes for this edition. He has stated that it's his decision whether or not to ignore votes by inactive and recently awakened users. But that's about it really.   

I don't think there is a need to make such updates because no one can donate anyways. I haven't posted any addresses and the whole point of this thread was to see if donations made any sense at all. It was a discussion from which I wanted to draw some conclusions on how to proceed and whether or not to do it. But after dkbit98 suggested that it would be smarter for Lana to introduce herself here and collect the donations in her own name without a 3rd party being involved, I stopped pursuing the idea of me doing it, but I wanted to find some way of approaching her. 

I remember when I was part of the FortuneJack signature campaign a few years ago. Our signature earnings were deposited to our casino accounts and we could withdraw them at any time. Like today, they were free back in those days as well, but the blockchain fees were much more expensive. It wasn't uncommon to see that FortuneJack paid $15, $20 or even more for each withdrawal. And all that came from their pockets! Now imagine that on a bigger scale where all their players carry out similar withdrawals!? They obviously had (maybe they still have) enough players for that not to cause problems profit-wise. 

The way that desktop wallet aka exchange works and is designed isn't really the topic of this discussion. I don't think anyone here has ever used Waves or the Waves.Exchnage client to be able to comment on that. The things you explained about seeing all your accounts in the same place no matter how you log in to the wallet could be an oversight and bug by those who created it.

What is important is that you shouldn't have the possibility to spend from the wallet whose private keys are stored on your Ledger without the device being connected and unlocked + the Waves app being opened. You can see your entire portfolio in Ledger Live as well, with or without the hardware wallet connected. Don't concentrate on that any more.

Ask their support to precisely explain how to move your coins from whatever "seed wallets" you have created, to your Ledger. That's it. Don't confuse people with unimportant walls of text. No one wants to or can concentrate on your thought process, emotions, fears, and whatnot.   

Now that you mentioned her father, the last thing I could try is get in touch with him. From what I can see, his Facebook page does accept messages in contrast to Lana's. But I am so tired of seeing a brick wall after each of my failed contact attempt.  
We will see...

Without pointing fingers, some of the users who are rewarding a lot of merits to voters are nominated for a reason and deserve to be nominees, if not winners in their respective categories. So there are two choices and both are wrong and right at the same time. You either don't vote for them if you think what they are doing is not right. But that is an injustice in itself. Or you vote for them and potentially get merited, and then it looks like you only voted for someone to be merited by that same person.   

I don't think it's something that can be done cheaply even for the casinos. Each transaction on the blockchain requires that you pay fees. Doesn't matter if it's a private entity or a big casino that carries out those transfers. If they worked with 3rd party instant exchanges, that would be even more expensive because the middlemen will take their cut as well. Casinos could allow players to swap two assets from their own pool of coins because they are receiving deposits in various coins. But honestly, I don't see this becoming a thing in the future as it doesn't generate any profit for the platforms and they aren't running non-profitable organizations after all.   

  1. Absolute Hero of Good: pooya87 and o_e_l_e_o - Two members who are among the first to respond when someone has technical issues.
  2. Golden Feather: LoyceV - Is called the Switzerland of Bitcointalk for a reason.
  3. Bitcointalk Ninja: LoyceV, TryNinja, and suchmoon - Because of the services they created for the Bitcointalk community. 
  4. Bitcoin Geek: nc50lc, pooya87, and o_e_l_e_o - I could name more than 3, but these are some of the lads I couldn't imagine the technical boards without.
  5. Event of the Year: The Bitcointalk Show - I hope it brings some fresh blood to Bitcointalk.
  6. Fail of the Year: China showing its democratic side when banning Bitcoin mining and craig wright being recognized as the liar he is.
  7. Discovery of the Year: n0nce - I don't know many members who registered in 2021 with that level of knowledge.
  8. Best SpamBuster: Ratimov - Because of 20.000 monthly reports.
  9. Best ScamBuster: I honestly don't know.
10. Craft Master: krogothmanhattan - Because of all of his coin giveaways.
11. Antihero: craig wright, the champion of courts
12. Miss Bitcointalk: Not a clue. suchmoon seems to be a popular option, so let's give it to him. Pun intended.
13. Best Moderator: Welsh, hilariousandco - It's hard to say who does what in the background, but these two can often be seen posting and replying to the users.