Exchanges have to KYC their customers or will be forced to shut down or prohibit access for citizens of particluar countries or are taken to court. As an exchange provider you definitly dont want to get in trouble with institutions like SEC so times are over when Exchanges could do anything they wanted to do.

In my opinion, this is also the case with banner ads, Facebook ads etc. You usually dont click on it, but you recognize them subconsciously. The next time you are in a store looking for eg. shoes you recognize the previously subconsciously seen shoes from advertising again and take them rather than not advertised products.

Exchanges fear incoming regulations, thats why they require KYC now alltogether. Compare it to banks, you wont be able to open up a banking account without KYC. Its a step in the right direction in my opinion, the wild west mentality in this market scares any serious investor.

No, they are not easy to recognize when faked in a professional way. Our company host a site with about 5000k hits per day. Every now and then phishing sites pop up which look EXACTLY like our page, they simply copy our CSS styles. The only way to recognize that it is a phishing site is via the URL, you cant rely on "oh I am sure I would recognize a phishing site when I see one".

Ya, you are right, Electrum has some very nice features for more advanced users. But I think most users out there dont even know what UTXO management is For those standard users Ledger Live may be a better fit due to its simplicity!

Unfortunatly, I have already seen too many investors who have understood "diversify your portfolio" as "buying as many different coins as possible". Due to the fact that every coin is rising and falling with bitcoin it makes little sense to buy different coins, you should rather see your crypto investments as a single asset. Mixing cryptos with stocks and fonds or gold works very good in my opinion (no investment advice!).

In my opinion, you can not rely on historical data for cryptocurrencies. The market is strongly news-driven, positive news can cause massive leaps in the chart. The historical data can only be interpreted if one also takes into account the news situation in relation to the respective price fluctuations. This fits OPs "do your own research"

Hmm you usually wont be able to contact the management/webmasters etc. directly without knowing someone who works for the company and leak this info to you.

Did you try to contact the support of eg. Steemit? Maybe they will hook you up with someone in charge.
Another idea is to post your questions here. Chances are high that staff from those websites are members here at Bitcointalk and answer your questions!

First of all install Ledger Live. Its a very easy and intuitive way to receive, send and manage your coins. Eg. just click on "receive" and you'll get an address where you can send your BTC from your Electrum managed wallet to.

Here is a first steps guide for Ledger Live: https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006395233-Take-your-first-steps

-> may be a bit overwhelming first, but once its set up Ledger Live is very intuitive

I use a Ledger Nano S since 2017, its the best and probably most secure way to store your coins in my opinion. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Keine schlechte Entscheidung Habe mir 2017 einen Gekko auf einem Raspberry Pi aufgesetzt und monatelang laufen gelassen. Trotz Bullenmarkt kam da nicht wirklich was dabei raus, glaub es waren insgesamt 0,001 BTC "Gewinn" bei ca. 0,1 BTC Einsatz. "Gewinn" deswegen, weil vmtl. die Stromkosten ähnlich hoch waren ... Nette Spielerei und ich habe viel über Chartanalysen und co. gelernt ... mehr wars dann aber halt leider doch nicht

Aber wenn du Hilfe brauchst bei der Einrichtung einfach melden!

Fits both trading and investment strategies in my opinion. Controlling your emotions and stick to your investment/trading plan are the key to success because it prevents you from knee-jerk reactions like buying into falling knives or holding positions too long when greed kicks in.

For me the most important part is "control your emotions" in trading. As a newbie investor you close trades too fast or way too late, jump in and out of positions or accept losses when you shouldnt.

What helped me was to plan my trades on paper:
- entry points for a specific asset
- stop loss
- take profit
... and most important: stick to that plan and dont throw it away when a trade runs good.

Thats a rather difficult topic because signature campaigns in general, especially those which pay per posting, want you to spam the forums. Signatures are their advertisment, the more its seen the better a token/tool/project/... gets recognized.

If you can get paid for eg 60 posts/week you will try to write them forcing you to post at topics you cant contribute well or topics you arent familiar with. Some campaigns eg. want you to write postings in the gambling section, if you arent into gambling at all how could you post quality content in this subforum at all?

Hmm the last major press release was late 2018, so why do you think the team isn't active anymore? Couldnt find any evidence on Twitter/FB that this is true? Would be very nice if you could share any article regarding this!

The same applies for social media bounties, too. At the stage bounties and airdrops happen you wont be able to distinguish successful projects from unsuccsesfull. Its always a high risk you take that your effort becomes worthless.

I think so, too. I did about 50 airdrops in 2018, 30 of them payed out the tokens, 20 didnt. You have to at least register with your email address to qualify for the airdrop and often dont get anything in return. 29 of those 30 tokens I got are worth about 5 dollars in total, so ots a complete waste of time in my opinion.

Exactly. Same goes for cloud mining. I know a lot of people who fell for a two years cloud mining plan which was worth it when BTC was at about 10k and now have to still pay it even when they are at a (massive) loss!

I am sorry to say that but I dont think anyone in here can help you, you will need to wait for the support to respond.

Next time just avoid such small exchanges and only trade your coins on big exchanges, chances that you get scamed are way lower!

A trader doesnt care about the price. He trades bitcoin at 20k and he trades bitcoin at 1k. All that matters to you as a trader is how many percent of your stack did you win or lose with your trade!

Grüß euch!

Durch die Marathon-Saison leider dieses Mal etwas verspätet jetzt erst die Statistiken für März. Ich werde mich bessern ;-)

Am Anfang wie gewohnt die Monatsübersicht:



Etwas schwächer als im Februar, jedoch trotzdem ein wahnsinns Monat!

Top Receiver

Die Top-Receiver im März sind:



-> 1miau konnte die Top-Position vom Februar verteidigen, diesmal mit wesentlich mehr Abstand!

Die Top-Spender



-> qwk, what else ... ;-)

Der spendenfreudigste Wochentag ...

... war im März wieder Mal der Donnerstag:



Nachdems im Februar schon so knapp war, hab ich mir auch dieses Mal wieder angesehen, wer bis inkl. März overall die meisten Merits erhalten hat:



-> qwk konnte seinen Vorsprung gegenüber mole0815 wieder etwas ausbauen, bleibt aber auf alle Fälle sehr sehr spannend das Ganze :-)

Wir im Vergleich zu anderen Boards

Den im Februar noch hart erkämpften zweiten Platz mussten wir im März wieder an Indonesien abgeben:



Im Vergleich der User sind wir dank qwk wieder auf den zweiten Platz vorgerückt: