Slow death (Hero Member)Let's start1. When and why did you become interested in cryptocurrencies?"well I made money from PTC sites in 2014, I remember that at the time I made money on Neobux and Probux (of course I thought they were legitimate businesses), with these two PTC sites I made $ 200 a day, it was excellent... until one day I enter the probox site and see on the forum saying that the Paypal site had frozen the probux account, but the probux administrator assured that he would continue with the site and I will create an account on payza , about 30 days after paypal had frozen probux account the site became a scam, it was a big nightmare for me because i had more than $ 30,000 on the site (i don't remember the exact amount), i only got Neobux which reduced the value of the clicks of the ads and my profit went down a lot, but months later I saw on the Neobux forum that the probox administrator was a serial scammer called Gustavo Gil Peron and had a scammers allied to him one of them was Alexandre Pereira Prazers and two others women I no longer remember the name
Months after the disappointment I had with probux I had to look for other ptc sites, because Neobux's earnings were very small, but all the PTC sites I found on Paypal froze their account and after some time the PTC sites started adding Bitcoin as a means of payment and that's when I went on google and researched bitcoin and discovered this forum, it was in 2016.
Unfortunately when I joined this forum I didn't know anything about DT and much less had any idea that many Bitcoin Double and HYIP sites were ponzi schemes (I know it shows that my stupidity was at an immeasurable level), but man I didn't learn the lesson even though a lot of money was stolen on the PTC sites, I still had faith in people and easily believed in them ... anyway, create Noni account and participate in the Give ways that hyip ponzi sites posted in the gambling section and for that reason I received negative feedback
30 days after I created a NONI account and received negative feedback I went to travel where I suffered a car accident on the way and lost my passwords and then I created this current account and decided to start doing research on scammers so I wouldn't be cheated and stolen money and as i had been stolen by the hashocean also my anger and hate for scammers grew a lot and it was there that i sold my Nvidia 9800GT video card that i played games, sealed my other HD, sold my RAM memories and my 19 inch monitor, i ordered money to my father and I went to buy bitcoins and it was there that I also met bestchange and started using bestchange to buy bitcoin) I don't remember the site that was added to bestchange at the time)... but it took 3 days for them to send bitcoins to my wallet, was exchange payza for bitcoin"
2. When and why did you buy your first bitcoin?"I bought bitcoin in 2016 because I had no other way to make money on the internet, from the research I started to do I realized that PTC Sites were ponzi schemes created by many serial scammers, I realized that I should never invest in Hyip/ponzi and cloud Mining sites, so the best and only option I had was to buy bitcoin and do day trade and Hodl that's why I risked selling my stuff to buy bitcoin"
3. How did you get on the forum?"paypal campaigned against PTCs sites by closing all accounts on PTCs sites, PTCs sites added bitcoin as a means of payment so I went to investigate what bitcoin was and found this forum and started using bitcoin"
4.1. You have spent a lot of time looking for cheaters on the forum. Is this a hobby or professional interest?"what happens Is the following:
I lost a lot of money thanks to scammers and as I like to look for new investments when I come across a project that has FAKE TEAM I report or when I see a post from someone who has scam indications I investigate further and report if it is scam"
4.2. Have cheaters tried to take revenge on you for your investigations?"this guy is the part i didn't even want to remember, two years ago i was investigating a hyip ponzi site in the Investor-based games and found out who was the guy who liked to buy hero member accounts to be able to advertise his double sites, he was an italian programmer, he sent me PM saying: "catch me if you can" and after that I was hacked into my Payza, paypal accounts, started receiving emails with strange threats and even received strange proposals for me to click on the link (I think to steal my passwords)"
5. What do you think of the current Merit system and signature campaigns? Do they harm the forum?"Merit system: clearly it is a very failed system, there are thousands of members who go months without even having 1 Merit and the Merit source are more active in some sections like reputation, scam accusations, and Wall Observer, look at the Wall Observer that you will understand that this merit system is a big joke.
signature campaigns: signature campaigns are welcome, I was once a signature campaign manager and I realized that it was a very difficult job, currently with this merit system it seems to me that who has won thousands of merits Is what else has priorities for certain managers and then I keep saying that this merit system has failed even in this.
But I don't want to discuss how each manager manages his signature campaign, I respect each person's decision, I just find it regrettable and sad that a place where it is said that a community excludes newbies and junior members.
Newbie, Jr. Member and Member no longer have a chance to participate in signature campaigns (argument: they will spam the forum, but the curious thing is that even old and respected members of this forum one day was Newbies, Member and Jr. Member and yes they have already made a 1 line post only and without any content)
it's difficult to Newbie and Junior receive merits ( even for me it is very difficult to receive merit, I wonder in what century will I become a legendary member
), I still think that each member of this forum should have 200 or 300 sMerit per month to be able to give merits to everyone "
6. The most useful forum topic? Most helpful users?"The most useful forum topic:
Forum ranks/positions/badges (What do those shiny coins under my name mean?)
Most helpful users:
@LoyceV
@Vod
members who are committed to exposing scammers
Forum Staff members
and finally @theymos which has the arduous task of keeping this forum running (I just think it should change some things about this Merit system)"
7. 3 things you would implement on the forum?"if i were the forum administrator i would change the merit system so that each person had 200 sMerit per month
If I were the forum administrator I would create a group of members to review the feedbacks given by DT members to prevent anyone from leaving negative feedback based on personal opinion without any proof that this person is a scammer, there are many cases where the member receives negative feedback just because he thinks Bitcoin cash Is real bitcoin, Of course I agree that Bitcoin cash is a big joke without meaning to exist"
8. Do you trade on exchanges or invest in projects?"I do both"
9. Tell a story about your big profit or big loss?"honestly I don't remember my big win (I had a lot of big profits), but I remember my big loss that was when I bought a shitcoin TPG that a member of the forum created (now I can't remember the name of the member)"
10. What do you think about the DEFI ecosystem?"now any shitcoin is using DEFI to take advantage of the wave, like what happened with ICOs, I think what I can say is: "let's take advantage of this wave while it lasts" "
11. Is your anonymity a vital necessity or precaution?"precaution!
if a scammer doesn't like me preventing him from stealing millions of dollars and decides to hire murderers to come and harm me in my country? I have to protect myself"
12. The last cryptocurrency book you read?"I no longer remember the title of the book, but it was a book in Portuguese"
13. Advise 3 cryptocurrencies/tokens for investment in the next 1-2 years?"Bitcoin
ETH
Chainlink"
14. How much will Bitcoin cost at the end of 2020?"In my opinion it will be under $14000"
Thanks to
Slow death for the interview!
The end.