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1  Bitcoin / Legal / BLOCKCHAIN.COM IS TRYING TO TAKE NEGATIVE REVIEWS DOWN BY ISSUING LEGAL THREATS on: February 26, 2021, 09:42:37 AM
I, like many others has lost cryptocurrency funds due to malfunction or breach of Blockchain.com 2FA safety feature.

I recently wrote an article about it, which was published here:
https://honestproscons.com/blockchain-com-is-losing-customers-funds/

Today I received a legal threat from Blockchain.com where they try to force me to take down this review. You can see the document they sent me below.

https://imgur.com/a/8Cekc8u
https://imgur.com/a/P1bkHsH
https://imgur.com/a/8YBV0ND

This is a rude and disgusting attempt to cover up the massive security breach their wallets have!

The funniest part it that, their legal team never replied to me, when I contacted them about the compensation of the funds their lost, but now suddenly they chose to wake up.
2  Economy / Scam Accusations / Unknown Blockchain.com employee is stealing customers funds on: February 04, 2021, 03:23:40 PM
There has been several cases on Blockchain.com where 2FA email of the user has been mystically disabled, after which all the funds have been stolen.

All evidence lead to the fact that the person behind the theft is most likely Blockchain.com employee, and was done like this:

1. The employee looked up Wallet IDs and account emails in Blockchain.com system and requested 2FA change via the publicly available form.
2. He disabled email notifications about 2FA change (possibly only for the specific account).
3. Once the 2FA email was changed, he either used a brute-force attack to crack the password or more likely he already acquired it from numerous user-data leaks, which is how he was targeting the accounts in the first place.
4. After gaining access to the wallet, he withdrew all balance to his own wallet.

Read whole article here:

https://honestproscons.com/unknown-blockchaincom-employee-is-stealing-customers-funds

Similar cases on TrustPilot:

https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6000e632755dc107e87e4f07
https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/5f5914d902e8570650b5a559
https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/5f47f09202e85708c8da4f77
https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/5fecaea5755dc107e0d2f768
https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/5fb0444a5e693f0a84273f35
https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/5f8d85b1798e6f04a417abeb
https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/5f5ca49d02e8570a4870925e
https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/5f259f7e1a5a6907a4787852
https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/5ee888f77dd753070884b184
https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/5eae1f9a086b6409544678e4
https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/5f47f09202e85708c8da4f77
3  Economy / Service Discussion / Review of the most popular cryptocurrency oriented publishing platforms on: January 29, 2021, 05:18:32 PM
Review of the most popular cryptocurrency oriented publishing platforms, ranked from worst to best. Pros marked as + / Cons as –.

8. Guest posting for Crypto Magazines
– Usually extremely hard to get published.
– Many websites require a fee for posting that can be pretty high (even thousands of dollars).
– Even if published, posts usually get very little visibility since they are not promoted.

7. Steemit
– Very hard to get exposure.

6. Medium
– Posts get absolutely no exposure unless submitted to a publication, which can be hard since there’s no tool to contact them through Medium.com.
– Bans users easily for political reasons.

5. Hackernoon
– Posts get very little exposure unless featured on the front page (which happen rarely, since there are lot of writers).
– It takes a long time for the post to get approved (usually days).
– High requirements, most posts don’t get approved.
– Commenting not allowed.

4. Your own website
+ You have total power and control.
– Unless you promote your website (which can turn to be expensive) you get absolutely no visitors.

3. Bitcointalk
+ Medium exposure, sometimes a post can get a lot of comments.
– Posting volume is so high that your post can disappear from 1st page in a few hours.
– If you want to know what cronyism and paranoia look like, visit this forum. All newbies are treated like scammers, and their account lacks features that senior members have.
– Unfair “Trust” system where old users can destroy a new member’s reputation without any proof.
– It is almost impossible to become a senior member on the forum since old members don’t give ” Merit” points to new members.
– General atmosphere is negative.
– If you try to sign-up from an IP that a suspended account has used before, you must pay a ransom in order to register.

2. Reddit
+ Posts get pretty good visibility.
+ Active discussion.
– After a day, your post will be completely forgotten.
– Often negative reception.
– In most crypto subreddits a user is required to have quite high “Karma” in order to post.

1. Publish0x
+ High exposure.
+ Positive community.
+ Active commenting.
– One must be approved in order to write.

Did I miss something? If so, suggest a platform in the comments!

Originally published at:
https://honestproscons.com/where-to-write-about-cryptocurrencies
4  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / The Problems of Bitcoin (yes there are some) on: January 17, 2021, 09:01:00 PM
Biggest Bitcoin problems in my opinion:

- Too complicated for masses
- No 100% reliable back-up protection if private keys are lost or stolen
- No charge-back option (this is both pro and con)
- Not enough big merchants

https://honestproscons.com/the-problems-of-bitcoin/
5  Economy / Invites & Accounts / Looking to buy Social Media Accounts with followers on: January 06, 2021, 09:48:05 AM
Looking to buy Social Media Accounts with followers.

Min 10k followers. The more the better.

Interested mainly in:

- Twitter
- Pinterest
- Telegram (only Channels)

Any niche, but preferably business, tech or crypto.
6  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / How to safely store your private keys? on: November 30, 2020, 07:59:40 PM
As the price of Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) is going up, more and more user start facing the problem of safe keeping of their coins, when the value of them start reaching 6 or 7 figures.
We all know that a smart user holds his own private keys, but how to store them safely?

None of the products currently on the market provide any solution with physical theft.

For example hardware wallets. Yeah, it's high security and password protected, but the recovery seed is on a piece of paper (or on a piece of metal) which offers no protection at all. Same applies to all other wallets with recovery seed and paper wallets. All cold wallets (the most secured wallets) offer no security when it comes to physical theft.

What's stopping criminals form breaking into your house and steeling your recovery seed?
Keep it in a bank vault? Well then the bank or the government has access to it (so it's no better than FIAT), and stuff from bank vaults is also being stolen sometimes.

As I see it, storing of the private keys or recovery seeds is the weakest spot of blockchain security. Bitcoin offers best online safety, but low offline safety. Storing cryptocurrencies is practically as dangerous as storing high amount of cash at home. Since there are more and more crypto celebrities, it's basically a gold mine for criminals, because I doubt that many of these people have bank level vaults and security.

So what is your thoughts? How would you keep private keys safe from physical theft?
7  Economy / Digital goods / LOOKING TO BUY NEWS WEBSITE on: November 30, 2020, 04:00:51 PM
Looking to buy business/tech/crypto (or general topic) news website (or blog) with existing high organic traffic.

Payment in BTC only with Escrow.

You can PM me, or comment on this post if you have something to offer.
8  Economy / Scam Accusations / ADBIT.BIZ - SCAM on: January 01, 2019, 01:52:05 PM

I deposited 0.1 BTC 1 week ago to my https://adbit.biz account, and still they have not credited my account.

Their support and email is not replying, so I think this is very obvious scam.
9  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / ICO IS BEHIND ICO BENCH? on: June 29, 2018, 05:01:22 PM
Find out:

https://medium.com/@filip.poutintsev/who-is-behind-ico-bench-fe10bc3208eb
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