As you know, the founders of Samurai wallet are going to trial soon for writing code which is considered free speech. The gravity of this case and the consequences of the decision could be insane for Bitcoin holders. Basically depending on the mood of legislators. You having self custody of your bitcoin could be called a money transmitter and arrested in extreme cases, OR if your code is involved with the block chain and somehow moves enough BTC or crypto currency you could also be arrested.

There are sites raising money to attempt to defend Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill by raising funds. I'm here to see what peoples thoughts on this are and I'm sharing links to some sites attempting to do something about this.

https://freesamourai.com/
https://p2prights.org/donate.html

I didn't see anything wrong but don't forget to vet and protect yourself before possibly giving or diving further.

Cheers!

[The bounty is 20K or 30% of the lost funds. Which ever is higher at the time.]

I am the victim of a catfish attempt into boiler room fraud. I made terrible choices that go against some of the main tenants of a long time BTC holder and in my heart and mind I count my Bitcoin as gone for ever as I rebuild. That said I am sending information into the ether to help people learn from my story as well as offer incentive for anyone who may have the skills or connections to help.

(understand that hindsight is 20/20 and I saw many red flags right after I made bad decisions)
The story:
I was on tinder when I had a match. we talked over the course of a month. the conversations did not immediately lead to bitcoin and I never told the person how much I had etc. we talked about travel jobs and occasionally investing. previously all catfish attempts were crazy pretty models that have no business being on Tinder so it was easy to spot. This fake was average so I started talking to them. Eventually they invited me to whatsapp chat with 14 or so people. (could be fake copies I have no idea). They mentioned contract trading and led me to an exchange.

(Caution fraudulent exchange)
isgrape(.)com

After being reassured for over two or so weeks I sent some bitcoin in and traded with them. Initially I didn't send most of my stash but after the trade I was convinced to put more on the sidelines. I couldn't withdraw my funds. the site says frozen. To be clear I thought the scam was the trade and not the website. That was my mistake and there are tons of red flags I missed. Now most of my bitcoin is with them.

Facts:
actual photo of website wallet:
https://puu.sh/JfnT4/8d91046029.png

The website and wallet activity do not match confirming this is an actual fraud and not just them freezing funds.

Most of my Bitcoin is around the world somewhere. I can only hope it isn't going to fund Russia or something.

fraud wallets:
(initial fraudulent wallet) https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1QDQZTcKmY8H6snkvLtxizB18w2d9zF5mN
(current funds location) https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/3NWGK7FB5m7nYxRhu5rzge98656ZU49Uf9

my wallet:
1DKEam8egLGTre32tiW8bGUDzuDLmvhDey

Boiler room Whattsapp numbers:
https://puu.sh/JfnWk/471897a597.png
https://puu.sh/JfnWz/4a80577df6.png
https://puu.sh/JfnXd/05af17add7.png
https://puu.sh/Ji5yJ/aa29728b3d.png

The site is hosted at a company called majestic hosting. And the client used alipay to pay for the site. This would infer china, but without an ID or a location I can't contact a lawyer or anything.

The bounty is 20K or 30% of the lost funds. Which ever is higher at the time.

The bounty is fulfilled if I get the coins back to my wallet
at that time, the party that either retrieved the coins or parties that together completed the deed will get a split of the award. you will still be rewarded if someone else say arrests the person but I cant reward someone without the BTC in wallet.

My painful lesson has been learned.

Please only post if you can help I will not answer any inquiries that require me to pay up front.

https://www.change.org/p/retail-investors-fire-gary-gensler-as-sec-chairman-for-obstruction-of-justice

This is a real petition to attempt to remove Gary Gentler from his position as SEC chair. Feel free to share as he has been a huge road block to good regulation.

What do you think it it will mean to have an entire bitcoin as we truly hit the depths of supply shock. That moment when there is no turning back from terms like "Store of value" and many products are then denominated in Bitcoin?

For me I imagine a world where someone wants to start a project and as a whole coiner, you walk in and have the ability to angel invest on a dime, or by simply  being in the room you are collateral for innovation.

what are your thoughts?

A while ago I asked for a loan deal and was given negative trust for some reason. No one was hurt, scammed and no thing was exchanged. Is there anyway to take negative trust off my account for asking a question. Because this is pretty unfair and vengeful of people who don't for example know me as a person.

Hi there,

This is a massive long shot but i'm here to give this a try.
I am looking to borrow and give back BTC.

Looking for: 1(or more) BTC.
smaller amounts are welcome as well.

This will be used to store for interest in order to raise money for projects in my community(covid/ extra income to people out of work and more) for a month(more if allowed).

I'm already part time employing some people using crypto so they can have bread on their tables.

I have no interest in spending or gambling this away just holding for interest.
I would give the bitcoin back at the end of a specified date as per our agreement. (month to month)

Collateral: I would give all of my personal contact info and information. and updates at will via social media/discord etc. (I'm not going anywhere)
(edit) I have my own crypto that I can confirm 1 to 1 and would sell my car for lost damages up to a large dollar amount should something go awry on my end.

I could guarentee up to 40K with my collateral, maybe more.

Info: I have been in the space for 3+ years.
I manage several and varied crypto accounts with great success and try to extend this success to others.
I have hosted verified events(through the blockchain) as proof of my actions.
I don't have any negative feedback on the forum.
if there is anything I could do to make you feel secure in possibly making this work let me know. I'm an open book and strive to be transparent and honest.

I would be honored if multiple people inquired about this.

The Bitcoin price certainly affects many things. It can help us gauge adoption along with other metrics as well as the sentiment of people who are currently invested.

Bitcoin is not a get rich quick scheme. It is the currency of the internet designed as a super hard form of money to challenge many status quos.

Even if we were to pay more attention to the price. Many of the people worrying don't know the basics of TA. I'm here to tell you that if you own any amount of BTC you are riding a rollercoaster that is affected by adoption, politics, whales and many other factors out of your control. The one thing you can count on is the math, The fact that is was the first, the 21million cap, it's security, and the torrent of frustration it brings older businesses who have grown lazy and abuse the masses(banks).

From a TA standpoint (i'm a noob with a background in music but i've been studying and doing paper trades for years now). Bitcoin has been consolidating for a few months after a pullback from a 1 year high. The fact that it's been trading in the range its at means that the whales and traders who bought in late can't affect the die hard HODLERS who were already in the market in early 2019. You can find articles explaining the demographics of Bitcoin holders. Those who bought in at 10k+ were the ones selling.

Other than that we have some whales playing in the ocean.

Remember this is about change and technology.

If you believe in the ideals money is more than likely to follow.

Be well!

https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@hypersonic1/daily-blog-7-4-for-all-of-the-fud-people#comments

I wrote a long article explaining some of the key reasons why BTC in truth will never die even if the price lowered more.

Pass me some merit, follows and upvotes if you like it!

Hey everyone, I just wanted to say. If there is a post that is of a troll like nature on this forum, the best way to make it go away is to simply not reply to it. Posts with a super unrealistic and or dumb title gets bumped back to the top when yo reply to it. I keep seeing posts that should have been dead months ago because people reply to it. Remember the people that want BTC to fail also post on this forum. When spreading FUD it's easy to start like 5-10 posts knowing that all of your positive replies will bump them all to the top.

Just looking out for us.

I was wondering if any of the governing parties of any of the coins have plans to introduce coins that are known to be lost or unaccounted for. I'm not talking about hacked or stolen amounts. (which might be considered). But ones we know for a fact fell off the earth. I should not affect inflation at all. but it's just a thought.

Thoughts/ information greatly appreciated.

It's so interesting this past month or so. So Bitcoin has been hovering around 10,000. The moment that happened, one or two people would message me on various platforms trying to bash me and my whole generation. I'm sitting here thinking to myself: I bought in at the $2000 level, what grounds do you have to criticize someone who made 4X what they put in and still make a daily income from it?

There seem to be two problems wit bitcoin adoption. FOMO makes people lose their minds and some people actively fight against Bitcoin and for that matter change because they are on the losing side.

The other problem is this stupid generation war. If Generation Y made a car that ran on water...would you reject that? If baby boomers all jumped off a bridge...woud you be ok with that?

Do you think i'm so dumb as to not have savings and diversify into other markets...NO. XD

Sometimes I feel like people don't want to live in reality. it's crazy.

Stay frosty everyone! HODL (with interest) and diversify!

Exactly as the title states. I'm trying to make a channel that gets to the bare essentials of crypto currency, what it is, why it has value and why there are so many clones of it. I will get  into investment after getting into the basics. wallets, faucets and more. While there are things I promote the whole point is to do it in such a way that all boats rise. No Bit connect situations without prior warning. etc.

I plan to talk about the issues and this forum will be included in some of my videos. Please like and subscribe to help someone with my intention out.

https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=vJFbFatQkuw

Be well!

I'm planning on hosting a race for World of Warcraft. Winners will have the possibility of earning BTC. I'm super excited!

Next race is the 22nd at noon! (Current prize pool $100 or equivalent on race day)
A course walk through and AMA on the 18th at 5PM

If you're a WoW player and are interested please check it out here: http://wowdeathrace.weebly.com/

If you feel like donating, 50% of all every donation raises the prize amount!

The twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/hypersonic10

I'm hoping all parties have fun as we get this off the ground!
(also sorry if this is the wrong forum I think it's ok to post this here.)

I was wondering what people think te effect of futures will be on BTC.

I honestly think that if it was used positively that it would helpt BTC as people would have a place to visit and buy, but in all honesty I just feel like those with tons of cash to throw around can actively manipulate the market now as they have massive liquidity. How can we overcome this? Should we be worrying?

opinions please.

The BTC.BCH war is getting stupid. We have few voices of reason and with the coins fighting each other, it's a great way for people to lose their precious capital. How am I going to explain this to people i'm trying to convert to the coin? what happens if both ships sink because of this because honestly it's looking that way at the moment.

So I got the news BCH might be pumped on friday. I transferred .25 BTC into BCH(Got in at 799) and saw it rise steadily through the day. when it hit 1600 it started to explode saturday night. It just kept going and going. I was watching live bitcoin trading on youtube and the host couldn't keep up putting both moon goals and mars goals on the graph too late to match the climb. The moment it hit 2700 was the same moment the price shot down to 2100. when i say shot down I mean it was like someone fired a shotgun at the person holding the price. From there it fell then pumped twice and steadied into monday today which i think was the last major pump. We shall see. I'm prepared to take positions again for a $500 surge.

in total I made $500. If my internet literally did not fail I would have sold around the $2000 mark, instead getting out at the 1500 mark the next morning. (Would have been 2500 to 3000 if I was able too) what an interesting day and a learning experience.

Was anyone else able to ride the roller coaster?

I just saw this and it's starting to happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrG8X8OtfBs

Thoughts and opinions(prayers) please:

With all of the rolloercoaster riding today, the one day I need coinbase to work it's paaaaaainfully slow. XD Anyone else trying to get out so they can watch the current down trend safely?

https://imgur.com/DNsXXq9

Still waiting for that elusive Bitcoin Gold. Everyone's estimations have been off so far.

I'm having trouble finding consensus on which strain of BTC will win out. It's very important for guys like me on the streets talking to people about it with visa cards in hand to know what's coming up next. From what I can tell there is a ton of bickering.

At it's core it's a very simple issue on how to process transactions.

Why are people becoming sooo political about it?

But again the bottom line, the longer people play chicken or the crazy ivan game with billions of dollars worth of bitcoin, the more likely that value will disappear quickly come late November.

We need consensus on paper to have tangible debate and results. From what I can tell that's not happening. If you want all of those people claiming this to be a bubble to be right, if you want a self fulfilling prophecy, if you want the wallstreet nay sayers to win, that's how you do it. Arguing till your coin has devalued by thousands.

Thoughts, info and news please.