[bitcoinmining.energy]

Selling a unique domain

bitcoinmining.energy

Asking price reduced to $ 200

I will accept only this escrow: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1938190

Feel free to make offers.

Thank You.

P.S. Sorry for selfmoderated topic. I made this to avoid scammers and spammers.

We all know that Bitcoin Gold was a scam, created just to grab a huge amount of money out of nothing. For more info please read:


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2253633.0

Could anyone explain me please, how is it possible technically to make a premine on a hard fork? I'm asking this, because if anyone can do such thing, it means that any top coin can be attacked with such scams and this is not good at all for crypto community. Thanks in advance.

P.S. Sorry for self mod thread. I made it to stay away from Bitcoin Gold scammers and their paid shills.

Looking for Blockchain (Crypto) Messenger developer for desktop (Windows, Mac) and Android, IOS. I will reject any offers from newbies and so called "experienced developers". Please do not offer anything if you do not accept escrow. No bullshit. Only real offers. Links to your previous works are necessary.

[real crypto companies]

All of us, who is involved in crypto business, know that there is a new way of fundraising in crypto world, called STO (Security Token Offering). The idea of using STO in crypto appeared after many problems, related to ICO scams. Frankly speaking 98% of ICO's created in 2017-2019 were scams, or just failed projects, because nobody was interested in investing. Scammers (especially from Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine, India) entered ICO marked very quickly after understanding, that nobody will follow them and there will be no punishment for stealing peoples money using ICO. Thanks to super easy nature of creating ICOs on Ethereum and other platforms, making a scam crypto project became very easy (I wrote about that not a long time ago here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4474753.msg40161113#msg40161113 )  Also ICO's attracted a whole bunch of lazy idiots chasing a goldrush and throwing millions into ICOs without checking them properly. Scammers used fake pictures (stolen identities) and copied whitepapers from another projects. By the end of 2018 it became very clear that something should be changed for protecting investors from scam ICO's and STO appeared to be a good instrument for that. STO Security Token Offering is almost the same as ICO but unlike an ICO, STO a security token offering is a investment contract into assets, like stocks, bonds, e.t.c.. You can read more about that here https://cointelegraph.com/explained/what-is-an-sto-explained

Now let me make it understandable in simple way.
1. When you are investing in STO, KYC process is required (Creators of STO and investors,have to be identified) This clearly will protect investors from fake teams and you will know who took your money.
2. STO must be always backed by some form of tangible assets. This will be some kind of Escrow.
3. STOs are classed as securities and it requires official registration the country they are launched in. (SEC, FCA, e.t.c..)
4. Launching an STO is very expensive and scammers will not afford it.

All this is OK, but the problem is that STO is not anonymous at all this opposes to so called financial freedom which is the main part of crypto ideology. Also many investors will not like to identify themselves and also only few real crypto companies will afford launching STO because it is very expansive.

[Satoshi's original white paper]

Just a short question. How can I properly cite references in white paper? I would like to add the explanation about PoW and PoS mining (How are they working) to the white paper. Sources : Satoshi's original white paper and blockgeeks.com The reason is avoiding plagiarism accusations.
P.S Shell I ask blockgeeks for permition?

[[airdrop][mercatox][yobit][TVT]tvt.io Twitter airdrop]

What happened: There is a thread of a project called [airdrop][mercatox][yobit][TVT]tvt.io Twitter airdrop

ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2690972.msg27494587#msg27494587

1. There is no whitepaper and no team.

2. Website is made using template. https://tvt.io/

3. There is no way for me to understand what is the goal of that project.

4. Thread is full of newbies posting the same bullshit "It is good ,I want join it!" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2690972.msg31828748#msg31828748

Address mentioned on website is a virtual office address in Canada. 1 Yonge St, Toronto ON
M5E 1W7

Giveaway threads like this are absolutely useless and scammy.  

[Sports Betting Tips]

I'm going to post Sports Betting Tips here. I'm not selling them and not advertising any bookmaker company. I'm doing this just for fun. I have more then 10 years of experience in sport betting. Feel free to add your tips. Odds : Minimum 1.5 (Decimal) Thank you.

[P2P payments]

Now days we have more than 1 000 altcoins on the market. The question is, are people really using them? Frankly speaking only bitcoin, ethereum and monero are used for P2P payments. All others are used mainly for speculation purposes. Is it worth buying altcoins now days? I guess no, because all of them excluding tether are following bitcoin price chart.  I mean if bitcoin is going up or down, altcoins are doing same. (Tether is connected to US dollar rate and used mainly for arbitrage trading purposes) So do we really need altcoins? Regarding platforms, only ethereum is mainly used, and mostly for creating ERC tokens. All others, like waves, neo, etc are used very rarely. Monero is used mosly for shady deals because it is untraceable. (I doubt about that, because one dude who opened a shop on a dark web for selling drugs was cached by police last week. For communication he used 3 level protected VPN and was accepting payments only in monero) https://www.wired.com/story/monero-privacy/ You can read about dark web here. https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/how-to/internet/dark-web-3593569/ days. The main question is: Do we really need altcoins? Or Bitcoin, Ethereum and Monero are enough for crypto comunity this days?

[Do not buy accounts from the sources that I mentioned, because it is illegal.]

One of my friends launched a project and of course the bounty campaign was started too. After checking statistic via google analytics I found out that traffic coming from  Twitter + Instagram + Facebook = less than 3 % of total traffic.. I decided to try scammers method myself. Here is what I did.

1. Bought Twitter account with 2 000 followers for $ 10 (https://accsmarket.com/en/catalog/twitter/boosted) I was sure that twitter Audit will be less than 50% because followers are mainly bots. But twitter audit showed 87% and that was more than enough to enter any bounty campaign here on bitcointalk.

2. Same thing with Instagram. Account with 5 000 followers for  $10

3. Same with Facebook account.

4. Bought BTK account (member) for $50 (A lot of Russian scammers are selling accounts in the Russian board called "Baraholka" ) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=236.0 Prices are starting from $10 for Jr account and $800 for Legendary.


Do not buy accounts from the sources that I mentioned, because it is illegal.

As you can see, I could enter any bounty campaign, having all accounts mentioned above.

I'm sure that more than 50% of bounty participants are using the same scam scheme, for cheating. All this means, that a lot of  bounty campaign participants are advertising your project to bots... How is it possible that you have about 1000 participants in each bounty campaign.(about 3 000 in total) and you get less than 3% of the traffic to your project website ? And registered users are less than 0.5% I think it is much more better to allow only full members and above to participate in your campaign and even that will not guarantee you good results. Just 20-30 real account with real followers will do a much more better job.

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[(THIS TOPIC IS NON ABOUT SCAM ACCUSATIONS AND I AM NOT SAYING THAT THE PROJECTS MENTIONED BELOW ARE 100% SCAMS)]

Now let me try to explain very shortly why almost all ICO'a are scam. (THIS TOPIC IS NON ABOUT SCAM ACCUSATIONS AND I AM NOT SAYING THAT THE PROJECTS MENTIONED BELOW ARE 100% SCAMS)

1. Now days any dude using his moms savings can afford to launch a quite believable ICO (I already described that here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4474753.msg40161113#msg40161113

2. People are trying to decentralize everything:

2.1 Online payments (There are dozens of projects and all of them failed) Why? Because there is no way to compete with such giants like PayPal, Skrill, Google Pay, and many others. Here is the nice example of such project called "Monetha" Decentralised reputation with built-in payments That dudes just hired Eric Duprat (Former CEO of PayPal) and thanks to that, collected 32 million dollars in 1 day. The price is 80% down compared to ICO price right now and the reaction to the final product from the customers is https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1978067.msg39512766#msg39512766 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1978067.msg39512720#msg39512720 (Lead developer is a former stripper and a porn star) "That was discovered later"  

2.3 Crypto Banks

There are also many crypto bank projects. No government in the world will give a license to a bank which is related to cryptocurrencies. Visa and Mastercard already banned all operations with crypto.

Here is another example of a "Crypto Bank" Bankera the bank for the blockchain era. That dudes hired almost all European parliament members as advisors and collected $ 120 000 000. The final product is non working bank in VANUATU that is illegal in US, EU and China.  The price is 70 % down compared to ICO price right now

https://coinidol.com/bankera-announce-acquisition-of-pacific-private-bank-limited/

https://pacificprivatebank.com/

2.4 Crypto Taxi + Crypto Porn + Crypto Education ++++.... e.t.c. = Useless SCAM

2.5 Crypto Gambling

I think there is only one crypto gambling website that got licensed in Curacao and it's edgeless. But I'm sure that it will not last too long and that licence will be taken away from that dudes. ALL OTHER CRYPTO GAMBLING WEBSITES ARE ILLEGAL. There are dozens of reputable gambling websites like bet365, pinnacle sports, williamhill and many others that are officially licensed and got millions of customers.

2.6

Crypto Platforms

We got many of them, but generally only Ethereum is in use and mainly for Creation of token and crowdsale contracts for ICO's. (If you ask me Ethereum is a holly grail for scammers designed only to enrich scammer genius Vitalik Buterin.)

Some people will argue that ICO's are very profitable because you can buy something for $1 and sell for $10. Let me tell you that THE TIME OF SPECULATIONS IS GONE.

Sorry, I could add more things here but we will go too far with it. Feel free to add anything.

I was searching all over the internet and could not find the answer.

Are crypto casinos legal ?

Do they need a license ?

Are US and China citizens allowed to play in that casinos ?

I'm talking about casinos that accept only cryptocurrencies. (No fiat money)

I already described this problem shortly in my previous topic, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4474753.0 but here I will try to dig a little bit deeper.

All of us know that due to enormous amount of scam ICO's and crypto projects, Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube banned all adds and advertising related to crypto. So, only Microsoft bing, LinkedIn ads and bitcointalk are available for crypto advertising at the moment.

Also bitcointalk mods are sending all giveaway threads to trash can, because of new regulations on the forum https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2103690.0 That happened after Deepopnion "Airdrop" scam was introduced, that broke all records of amounts of posts in one thread by paid shills "Airdrop Participants". https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2006010.0

Because of that, scammers changed their tactic and now they are using so called "Shilling Services" to bump their threads on bitcointalk. I will try to explain how it works:

1. Scammers are buying accounts in Russian and Indian boards "Goods" where you can buy any account starting from Juniors and finishing with Legendary members. Junior member account is around $15 and scammers prefer them, because they are cheap. I used to know a Russian dude, who bought 40 Jr.Member accounts and hired 4 guys for $7 a day each, to post from all that bought accounts daily in one thread.... So if you see the new thread with a lot of posts from newbies and juniors (Answering each other and saying how good this project is) just stay away from it. Always check the posts history of suspected paid shills. Usually you will find a big gap in posts (One month and more) Also very often you will find out that dude was posting in Russian or in other language and suddenly started to post in English.

 

2.Scammers are hiring professional paid shills. (Service) That services are relatively expensive $ 2 -3 per post (Only full members an higher ranked members are posting in the tread.) The problem of such threads is the poor English of Paid Shills. That dudes are using google translate or just copying the posts from other threads. But now scammers found a solution for that problem too. There are services that are offering "Quality English posts for posting in threads" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4427536.0 That services are selling posts that are related to crypto, written in perfect English language.

Some examples of threads bumped by using services mentioned above.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3223704.0 (Confirmed Ponzi Scam)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3202250.0

Feel free to add anything.

[ANATOMY OF SCAMS]

ANATOMY OF SCAMS

All of us who is familiar with crypto, saw a lot of scams that stole a lot of money from investors. In this topic I will try to describe how easy it is for scammers to create a fake ICO.

1. Website: Any scammer can buy a very good looking template here. https://themeforest.net/search/ico ($40-80)

Domain + Hosting ($200)

2. Whitepaper: Scammers can order a quite decent whitepaper on fiverr for $500 https://www.fiverr.com/search/gigs?acmpl=1&utf8=%E2%9C%93&source=top-bar&locale=en&search_in=everywhere&query=ico%20whitepaper&search-autocomplete-available=true&search-autocomplete-type=suggest&search-autocomplete-position=0

3. Token and crowdsale contracts: Scammers can do that without any programming knowledge by using Artemine https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2153950.0 http://artemine.org/ ($100)

4. ANN design https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2784850.0 ($250) There are more services like this.

5. Advertising on YouTube Decent crypto channels will charge  $1500 - 4000 for a good review.

6. Bounty campaign manager $200-250 a week.

7. Team mebers. Scammers can hire some unknown dudes with just a lot of followers by promising them a share from their ICO or they can fake LinkedIn profiles via boosting services https://www.linkedjetpack.com/ ($800 for a 4 fake profiles)

8. Alt accounts for bumping the treads Scammers are buying accounts in Russian board "Goods" where you can buy any account starting from Juniors and finishing with Legendary members. Junior member account costs 1000 rubles ($16) So 20 accounts that are more than  enough for thread bumping will cost $320. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2682694.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4445925.0

9. Shilling services Shilling services are cheap. $1 per post for juniors and members and $ 2 for higher ranks. So scammers can afford a army of paid shills . The problem is that shills are from India; Pakistan; Russia e.t.c.... That dudes are using google translate or just copying the posts from other threads. Anyone can hire them via telegram. That service is mainly used by scammers for bumping their threads or for shilling. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2879512.0;all

So any fucking idiot can spend around $7000 - 8000 and then steal millions from people.

Please fell free to add anything to list.

[I need a short white paper for our ICO. Willing to pay with ICO tokens (equivalent $300) You need to have previous works! Offers from newbies are not accepted. For more details please PM me.]

I need a short white paper for our ICO. Willing to pay with ICO tokens (equivalent $300) You need to have previous works! Offers from newbies are not accepted. For more details please PM me.

[WebsiteERC 20 token creation via Ethereum.Twitter aged profile for ICO with 2500 + real followers + 1k retweetsYoutube video with 2500 + views Team linkedin profiles boost (200 + real followers, 200 connections, 300 endorsements) Bitcointalk ANN Signature and bounty campaign management. Price starts at 0.3 BTCFor details PM me !]

Website

ERC 20 token creation via Ethereum.

Twitter aged profile for ICO with 2500 + real followers + 1k retweets

Youtube video with 2500 + views

Team linkedin profiles boost (200 + real followers, 200 connections, 300 endorsements)

Bitcointalk ANN

Signature and bounty campaign management.

Price starts at 0.3 BTC

For details PM me !  

[Full ICO creation service.]

Full ICO creation service.

1. Website

2. Road Map

3. ERC 20 token creation via Ethereum.

4. Bitcointalk ANN

5. Facebook and Twitter adv + google adwords campaign.

6. Signature design for bitcointalk signature campaign.

7. Team Linkedin profiles endorsements, recommendations, connections.

For more details PM me

Thanks.