I don't think that's necessary I know that most of the newbie coming here is not familiar with this forum and maybe even bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general, but this forum is using a common language that is also used in other place like English and some other local language. So, even if you are not familiar with some technical term, some section is self-explanatory, some has a quick explanation on the forum home page, and I think most of it has a detailed rules on each subforum/section page. 

There is nothing could guarantee that your bitcoin or even the exchange itself will be just gone after you deposit your bitcoin, but there are some stuff that you can consider to pick the exchange that will less likely to just steal your bitcoin. Something like Reputation and Testimonials about certain exchange are everywhere around the internet, including this forum. I will feel a lot safer to trade my bitcoin in the top coinmarketcap exchange rather than some random exchange that I have never heard of it. Tho after what happened to FTX you will still be worry, but it just like picking the least risky exchange.

Welcome to the forum.


I think I have read this question like more than hundred times in this forum, my answer is always the same, it is always the right time to START investing in Bitcoin. If are about to start buying bitcoin then just buy it, not like much, but just set aside small amount of your money and use it to buy bitcoin now, after you are learning more about bitcoin and crypto you can decide whether this is the right kind of investment for you or not.

For me personally it will really depend on how much money the start-up asking me to invest, if they asking like huge amount of money like $1M (if I have that much money) even if my instinct strongly suggest that I should invest on them, but I don't understand how they work, I still wouldn't invest, I wouldn't listen 'bet' $1M on my instinct.

Yes, I think your hypothetical self in your thread is a 'bad' person, definitely not as bad as a person who kills, or rob, but still you are violating the rules that has been applied and (maybe) agreed by the society.

All that being said I still have a second thought, this will be the next question I assume it still related to your question. The reason why I consider your hypothetical self is a bad person is because you are doing something illegal, so my question is how if you 'legally' avoiding tax, like there is some loophole in the law that could allows you to not paying tax and you are using it, so you won't be violating any laws, are you still a bad person?

Tho specifically for Russia, they move to Yuan because of the US Sanction, China has really huge producing power, most of things are now made in China, so no wonder that they have the power to led other country to directly use Yuan instead of trading with them with USD.
USD clearly won't be as influential as before, so this might not as strong as before it will be more volatile. This will also affect America's political power, they used to have much influence to the global politic as other countries preferring their currency, their embargo won't be as feared as in the past. So yeah, mostly they will lose their power, but to be honest, I think they will find a way to avoid this. Don't get me wrong, I am not a US fan, its just, they have been global power for long, and they always manage to avoid their fall. One of the policy that has been applied was import band from several Chinese company, tho their saying is related to Uighur but it still has economic impact.

No I don't think so, high merit per post count doesn't always means the person always make a good post, it's not a secret that there are many people abusing merit, I mean not everyone is abusing merit but it's truly many. And if that's true than I am considered as a low quality poster, tho maybe I am, but I always try to make my post informative and adding something to the discussion, not always give a solution but I won't just type useless stuff and shitpost.

Now, what I consider as a good post, - I don't think that there are a standard for an actual good post that everyone is agreed in this forum except the post shouldn't plagiarize anything, so it might be very subjective -

• If you are making a new thread, you need to search whether similar thread already made before, if yes read the previous thread and if your still can't find the answer just join the discussion and ask your question in that thread
• If you are making a new thread or replying to a please make it at least understandable, use something like gramarly for tidying up your post, it's not rare that I saw some post that are not even understandable
• don't talk bullshit, only talk about something that you are really have the knowledge about it, so you don't accidentally spread false information
• Never do plagiarism, it will get you banned

I think that's all you need to make a 'good' post or at least 'fairly good' post, I know my standard is not that high on good post, but I think this is the minimum requirement that you are not considered spamming with your post.

There is really nothing any crypto could do to solve the food shortages and climate problem, the best crypto and blockchain could do in order to help this problem is collecting the data, but if there is no breakthrough in agriculture science and industry, even the most sophisticate blockchain and crypto tech wouldn't help.

I don't know anything about advertisement on the dark web (and AFAIK Bitcointalk doesn't have onion address), but in this forum it's pretty straight forward I think.

• First you introduce your exchange by creating Service Thread in Service Announcement section
• Second you run a campaign in this forum, there is a list of trusted campaign manager you can check here (LIST) Campaign Management Services  or here Overview of Bitcointalk Signature Anti-Spam Campaign Managers
• Third, you can also place an ads that will appear on on some thread on this forum, check the rules here Bitcointalk AdInfo
  

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Last but not least, since you are posting with Newbie account, and your question in this post seems like all over the place, I advice to move/post this question in the Beginners and Help section

I don't get what you mean in your post, so first 'you lost some money on bitcoin trading', second 'you want to make up for your loss in here (bitcointalk.org), third 'you asking the rules and regulations in this platform'. Now, Bitcointalk is not exchange or trading platform it is a forum when you can learn about bitcoin and crypto, so you can't really make up for your trading loss in here. Fortunately, you can also learn about Bitcoin Trading in this forum, on this section Trading Discussion, then you can apply your knowledge to your future trading.

This is the first time I hear the term of 'Black Tax' but where I come from, people who has black tax are called 'Sandwich Generation' meaning we need to fulfill our need (and family if already have wive or kid), and fulfill our parents and sibling needs. While I couldn't said from my experience since both my parents passed away when I was relatively young, and I haven't got much money even to fulfill my needs, but I have some friends who have the same position as you now, and I happened to asked some of them how they handle those things, some of them answer some of them think that's too personal.

On some answers I can conclude that it vary depends on the nature and habit of their family. Some family are very supportive and understanding so they will not ask much, or even never ask,  they will just be grateful on whatever they received from their adult kid. My friend who has this type of family never really has any trouble he give what he want to give and keep the rest for himself.

While other family are just so ungrateful, they they demand more and more from their adult kid, they will compare what they receive from their kid to other neighboring family. Most of the time this type of family asking 80% or 90% (if not all) of your salary/income. So my friend who has this tpe of family lies about their income, they will keep half of the money secret put it in some secret account or something.

So, IMHO, you shouldn't be fully responsible for other people live especially if they are an adult, you help with what you can and what you are willing to give, you shouldn't be obligated to sacrifice your own life for other people, even if it is parents or your siblings.

I will be very careful not to give you anything that's directly a financial advice, since I am not a professional. So let's just say what will I do if I am in your position,

It will depend on how much is my emergency fund and what is my 'assets'. If my emergency fund is like one year of my living cost (or more) and my assets is fast moving assets (like stock, securities, crypto, and such) I would definitely use my emergency fund and leave my asset as it is. If my assets is slow moving assets (like property, land, .etc) I would sell my assets and turn it into fast moving, mostly into Bond since it low risk (I might still invest on high profit like crypto or stock, but it really depend on the value of my assets).

If my emergency fund is less than 6 month of my living cost and my assets is a slow moving one then I would immediately or even desperately sell my assets, if it fast moving, I will sell my assets gradually.

This might sound ridiculous, and people might say that I am talking horseshit lol, but it's just my gut. I believe Elon has done with tech and that stuff, he is into politics now, and one of the main reason he bought Twitter is so he could control the narrative of online political discussion, again it's just like a conspiracy theory but that's my opinion.

Maybe in near future we will see he will be campaigning to be senator or governor,

I am really sorry to hear what happened to your nephew, I hope he doesn't get bullied because of his curiosity. But on the other I understand that some people still have a bad view toward crypto, my advice would be to stop discussing crypto at the school, except he was being asked. I am not saying that he should give up on learning about Bitcoin but just not in school, sometimes it's good to just be no one at school but being a geek outside of school.

As far as I know, in Bahasa Indonesia (for Indonesian) there is no rule that prohibit anyone to post in English - or at least not written in the general rules here. However, in my few years reading and observing the Indonesian Local section, I haven't sees any thread that are using full English, I mean most of the people write there because they don't need the extra effort writing in foreign language, so there is no point writing an English post there.

Thanks for the advice guys, probably too late but I have changed the image and crop it. But no worry, nothing that's not already everywhere on the internet, so no big deal.



Yeah there is always a new guy who just know about crypto that is too naive and thinking that they can get rich overnight, there is only so much we can do to help those people tho.

Yeah same old same old, most of project just looking to make quick money from the investor, they rarely think about the actual sustainability and scalability, just promising the investors that they might get a profit overnight.


Yeah I remember than day, a dozens of new ICO project everyday, from very common idea like Real-estate to some weird and wild project like blockchain dating apps and even porn. After ICO then DeFI, move to NFT, move to Web3 and then AI, everyone just jump into the bandwagon, and most of them have no idea what they are getting into.

This kind of scam is not a new thing, so people should be aware that it is a scam, this is what happened when people click on the 'Official link to get BTC'



Nothing fancy, they basically just ask to send some Bitcoin for verification, again not a new trick, will definitely just take those BTC away and never send anything back. Good catch by OP tho, just surprised that this type of scam is still a thing.

This is the reality, true that the recession is not going to happened to most of countries, because the production rate is not going down people still produce goods and selling it, people still making money, but the inflation is through the roof. If each government not quickly making good fiscal policy that has significant effect, then the people should be ready for the worse stage.