All sports, especially outdoor ones, can continue without spectators - provided, of course, that all participants are healthy. However, there is always a risk that participants become infected during the game, only one infected person is enough to pass it on to other players in close contact. In football, basketball or handball, such contacts are impossible to avoid, so these athletes are perhaps the most endangered.

A study was recently conducted "Sport Safely Launches," in Italy and these are some of the conclusions :

All they asked me when I exchanged my old SIM card for a new Nano SIM was my mobile number, without an ID or any other confirmation that I was the real owner - and all that in office, not via phone/e-mail. Although I knew before that SIM swap is something that happens, after my personal experience I would never use any verification via SIM card.

The first sign that a possible SIM swap has occurred is a complete loss of network/no service, and then you need to respond as quickly as possible with a call to your operator. What can be much more dangerous is SIM cloning, and in that case it can take a long time until you realize you have a copy.

This year there is case of SIM cloned in South Africa, state security minister and State Security Agency officials were victims in this incident. Slightly ironic that this happened to people who should care about the safety of others.

The legal way to promote a referral/affiliate link is through signature, and you can set that if you go to your profile -> Forum Profile Information.


I found their FB page, but the last post is from March 27th, and I don't see any important information that would lead me to believe that this is a legitimate business. As I already mentioned 10% guaranteed monthly interest is unsustainable, it's just a question of when the whole thing will collapse.

rikuu, please read rules before posting, ref/affiliate links are not allowed in post area.

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Personally, I would not invest 1 satoshi in something like this, just look at the website, there is no information about who the owners are, where the company is located or any other information that could give the whole thing some legitimacy. A guaranteed monthly interest of 10% per month is just another red flag, all smells on the obvious scam.

What most do not do is seek information from a bank before such transactions, as some banks have very strict rules and do not support services like Zelle. As for the money it might be "fraudulent", of course you can't know in advance that it's money that will cause you problems - but it’s a risk you take when doing business with strangers. They use a variety of money laundering methods, and one of them is Paxful, where BTC can be purchased by various methods with money that can come from illegal sources.

It is best to be honest and explain the situation, unless the BTC you are selling does not have legal coverage or if you don’t want the bank to find out at all that you have anything to do with BTC. To begin with, try to save the money you have in your account - and then go in search of another bank, preferably one that will not cause you problems with such transactions (if such exists at all in the USA).

I was also not aware of the fact that it is possible to identify the blocks that is mined by Satoshi, but they say there is something called Patoshi pattern, and that Satoshi blocks can be identified by specific data called nonce. However, they say that this is not a method that can determine with complete certainty that it is not Satoshi block.

A new blow for the EU and the eurozone comes from Germany, more precisely from the Constitutional Court of the Federal Republic of Germany which is "assessed that the European Central Bank (ECB) had violated its mandate and exceeded its authority with the government bond purchase program. Also, the judgment states, the ECB must prove the justification of the program, otherwise the Bundesbank cannot participate in it."

In other words, the German court has set itself above European laws and thus set a very dangerous precedent that could be used by some other countries in the future, especially Hungary and Poland, which often disobey various laws and instructions coming from Brussels. What is interesting is the fact that this verdict is the result of a 5-year dispute that was initiated in Germany in 2015 by a group of people (about 1750 of them), and the European Court of Justice ruled in favor of the ECB in 2018.

This decision of the German court resulted with the fall of the Euro against $ for 0.7%.


Additional source : JUDGMENT THAT SHOCKED EUROPE The German Constitutional Court has placed itself above European Union law, now what?

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I think you still have a little too high withdraw threshold given the rewards, and considering that you use a microwallet that amount should be much lower because these are not direct payments to the BTC address, so there are no blockchain fee costs. I hope you will think about it, and users will surely appreciate it.

What I have no doubt is that black gold will continue to flow, and that those who produce it will do everything in their power to make its price rise again. Consequently, the first step was taken in reducing oil production by only 9.7 million barrels per day, which is only 10% of world production - and experts say consumption has fallen by at least 25 to as much as 35 million barrels a day.

Therefore, in the short term, 10% cannot solve the problem - and even the effects of that reduction could only be seen during this month. It is logical that the demand for oil will increase as measures against the virus weaken, but this will go very slowly because many people will save on everything (due to job losses and rising cost of living). Whichever way we turn it is a double-edged sword, because reduced demand can cause the loss of millions of jobs related to this industry (around 10 million only in the USA) and if they lose their jobs, it will only make it harder to recover the economy.

The price will actually depend on whether the second wave of the pandemic occurs with the arrival of winter in the northern hemisphere, and in that case $60 per barrel has no chance of happening. As we can see in the infographic, the current crisis has far surpassed all those crises that have occurred in the past fifty years. No one could have even dreamed that price of crude oil would fall below zero, but we obviously live in a time when that is also possible.


https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/outlook-commodity-markets-and-effects-coronavirus-six-charts

This story has been recycled every year since 2015 as far as I can remember. Erik Finman is currently 22/23 years old, and he is only one very unusual exception considering that children as young as 12 cannot legally buy something like BTC, and that kids at that age don’t walk with $1000 in their pocket.

His story may be inspiring, but it is far from possible that someone today can only get rich with $1000, unless he is a really talented trader who can recognize the potential of some altcoin, buy it very cheaply and sell it at its peak for a very big profit.

I am glad the shipment arrived in a relatively short time, and that you took advantage of this really nice discount. I hope that the customs costs were not too high and that you will now store your crypto in a much safer way than before. But still keep in mind that even though you use a hardware wallet, seed backup is something you have to take very seriously. Also check the correctness of all words after you generate them, better to be 100% sure than to have problems in the future -> Recovery Check.

You're right, I was wrong about the model, it's actually about Trezor One. But as it is o_e_l_e_o  mentioned, it is unlikely that someone will become a victim of physical theft and at the same time expose passphrase via PC hack to same person. This would have to be a targeted attack, which is certainly possible if someone has a significant amount in their possession.

Trezor is obviously in trouble because they can't fix that vulnerability in any way, which definitely does some damage to them. However, workarounds do not satisfy all users, so I expect that in the near future they will have to launch a completely new device based on a completely new hardware.

I personally would not compare Bitcoin with Apple or Facebook, these are companies that sell devices or provide social networking services, which is completely different from what Bitcoin is. The simplicity factor should also be taken into account, because it is very easy to create an FB account and virtually hang out with friends, or go to the store and buy an Apple device. As a result, FB has about 2.6 billion users (data from Q1 2020), and Apple is sold 1.5 billion iPhones since 2007 when the device came on the market.

The simplicity factor is something that is definitely not in favor of Bitcoin, because in order for someone to use it he must have certain knowledge and skills. Consequently, the number of crypto users is still very small and according to the most optimistic estimates, it is around 1% of the world's population (slightly less than 80 million). Of course, these numbers come from the analysis of generated BTC addresses (which is completely meaningless), but also from the data of leading crypto exchanges. Coinbase is claim to have 30 million unique users, and blockchain wallet show it has almost 50 million created wallets so far.

It makes sense, although it sounds a bit strange that a security solution can pose a security issue. But in the end it's all a matter of individual choice, the risk can never be completely eliminated no matter which OS we use and whether we believe more in Windows Defender or some other AV. In the case of Avast, we’ve seen that free solutions come at a price, but it’s hard to believe that those paid solutions don’t spy on their users for making extra profit.

However, I think that it is far better to have something to protect us, than to completely trust that you will not pick up something malicious that will infect your computer. When I just remember how many users have reported over the years that they have lost their crypto due to clipboard malware, most would have avoided it if they had used any good AV/antimalware software.

I totally forgot the existence of wireless headsets and smartwatches which connect to other devices via Bluetooth, because I personally don’t use any of that. And we also all forgot that Ledger Nano X has the possibility of wireless connection via BT, so there are very likely potential dangers in the form of a possible infection of the smartphone with some crypto malware. Until a patch appears for this security flaw, we should definitely be very careful with BT in public places.

However, as this security breach was reported in December 2019, those who discovered this attack vector say that the devices that received the update after that may already have the appropriate fix.

Personally, I have never liked the idea of the euro as a common EU currency precisely because of the fact that only one member state that has major financial problems can seriously shake the entire EU financial market. Although national currencies have some weaknesses when it comes to trade between members, they (at least for me) represent one of the basic pillars of a country's sovereignty. The UK has long been a member of the EU, but has never given in to pressure to give up its national currency, which has proved to be the right move, especially in the case of Brexit.

Eurozone is on very shaky feet, but not only because of their own weaknesses, but also because some in the world do not like a strong and stable EU. The official US policy led by Trump is in principle against the EU as such, and they were one of the biggest advocates of the UK leaving the EU. This policy aims to weaken the EU and China as much as possible in order to maintain its dominant position in the world.


https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1205368801438707713

There is no need to exaggerate things and present false data on millions of deaths, if something more than 320000 deaths have been confirmed so far. Furthermore, the world was already on the brink of economic collapse or a new recession long before the virus appeared, as many countries were already in a technical recession. Instead of blaming incompetent and corrupt politicians for a bad life, they now have a good excuse to sell us the story for years of how the virus destroyed the economy and how they defeated that same virus so we all have to sacrifice ourselves to get through the crisis.

At the same time, they will get rich because they have invested in companies that produce protective equipment or vaccines against viruses. And while most think the virus vaccine will solve the whole problem, one may wonder why people still get the common flu, and various vaccines have been around for years?

I personally use BT very rarely, and mostly in a home environment between known devices. I don't remember the last time I used it to send something to someone else, because there are much quicker and easier ways to share photos or videos nowadays. However, I can agree that a smartphone is not a place to store large quantities of crypto, unless it is cold storage.

There have already been a number of vulnerabilities regarding BT (BlueFrag) which is patched just few months ago, or Bluebourne from 2017. A simple protection is not to keep BT on, at least not in a public place until a patch appears.

It is much more important for all Android users to be able to receive patches for their smartphone every month. I got a 500 MB + patch a week ago, and most of the vulnerability is marked as high or critical.

It's not just that about antivirus programs, every person has something they personally like or something they are paid to promote. From my personal experience (and I’ve tried most AV programs) I would recommend Norton Security as a security solution for home users. Of course, such software comes at a price - but one should never look at investing in security as an unnecessary expense. In the case of Norton, everything is automated, there is no need to run anything manually - weekly quick scan, computer maintenance in terms of performance and disk defragmentation. What I would still recommend is Malwarebytes Premium, certainly one of the best proactive protection programs that includes ransomware protection.

With regular OS updates and smart internet usage most users should be safe from those most common threats, especially considering that crypto users are one of the most vulnerable groups.

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Some even say that any use of AV is completely unnecessary, but it is a matter of their choice. I don't see how using respectable AVs can make the OS more insecure? On the other hand, there are many objections to the W10 as the nightmare of privacy - and yet the WD is something that should be enough to protect your device?

It is a well-known fact (at least for me) that Bitcoin (its value) is almost insignificant in relation to how you say "all the world's money". All mined Bitcoin at present worth about $180 billion, and only gold value is measured in trillions ($8 trillion more or less), while the whole fiat is worth about $90 trillion.

Like it or not, Bitcoin is almost at the bottom of it all - but it should be noted that it was created only 11 years ago, and that it is actually at its beginning. Only $1 trillion relocated to BTC would increase its price to $50 000, and if we take hundreds of trillions in all world markets, that would be an almost imperceptible figure.