I have argued this on a thread before and not quite long, but maybe I am wrong. If you are not betting on sport like football, do not bother to choose either yes or no.

Since I have been betting, I have not thought of this before. Is the referee the reason you bet on yellow or red cards?

I have noticed some people have mentioned Yellow Card on this board before which is the reason I posted this. But I am kind of surprised when I saw the email message because I do not think there would be any Nigeria that will use Yellow Card on browser instead of the mobile app. I guess everyone will have the app, but in case.

If you are using the web, you will not be able to access the exchange starting from next month which is August 1st. Let me quote what was sent through the email.

Hi my username,

We would like to inform you about an important upcoming change to how you access Yellow Card.

From August 1, 2025, the Yellow Card Web App will no longer be available. We're making this change so we can focus on giving you an even better experience on our main mobile apps.

Your Yellow Card account and funds are completely safe. This change only affects how you access your account.

What do you need to do?

If you don’t already have the Yellow Card mobile app, simply download it before August 1st:

Android App: Download from the Google Play Store
iOS App: Download from the Apple App Store

You'll log in with the same details you use now - everything else stays the same.

You have plenty of time (until July 31) to make this easy switch, and we will remind you as this deadline approaches.

It is good that it is known now that Kenya government violated their own fundamental human right for arresting IPOB leading, Nnamdi Kanu.

We are in a semi lawless country as the government arrested two Binance officials unlawfully. One of the officials made his way to Kenya but our government thought Kenya government will also give his own citizens that has committed no crime to them (Nigeria government) to remand him in their custody.

https://saharareporters.com/2025/06/27/breaking-kenyan-court-declares-nnamdi-kanus-abduction-and-rendition-nigeria-illegal
https://www.channelstv.com/2025/06/27/kenyan-court-declares-nnamdi-kanus-transfer-to-nigeria-illegal/
https://punchng.com/ipob-hails-kenyan-court-for-declaring-kanus-rendition-illegal/?amp

If the first news above is true, he was awarded ₦120Million in damages.

This is the user profile: marios22558

The user constantly posting new contents just because he wants to scam people on this forum. Definitely, he is failing but he continues to post different scam attempts contents.

He posted another one today which is this: hiring someone to press some buttons

I believe if a flag is created for him and people supported it, the big red warning on all his posts will likely make him stop posting the scam.

What do you think? Or is it an abuse? I do not think it is an abuse for a scammer like him.

[Topics about what is happening in Nigeria]

Know that these are not rules but just my opinion about topics that can be on our local boards. I noticed that some people are posting topics that supposed to be on the general board instead of it being on the local board. If you follow this advise, the chance that your topic will be moved to the general board will become significantly low.

First of all, English and Pidgin are welcome on Nigeria local board, we do no need to have different opinions about this. Know that local board is not just about speaking local languages but mostly about discussing what is happening in your local community. Example is recent news about bitcoin adoption in Nigeria like the recent news from the regulators.

But I noticed many people are not making use of posting in English appropriately, this makes their post to fit more on general board instead of local board. These are types of topics that should be on the local board:


Topics about what is happening in Nigeria
This is the main reason Nigeria board is likely created because there are many Nigerians on this forum and we need boards that we can come closer and discuss what is happening in our country/community which is Nigeria. Example is the recent news about stance of Nigeria lawmakers, president, regulators on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, mining in Nigeria, age group of people buying bitcoin in Nigeria, OKX ban of Nigerians not to use their exchanges anymore, best crypto/NGN crypto exchanges and many other topics and discussions that are related to Nigeria. These types of topics are highly welcome on Nigeria local board as long as it is what is happening in Nigeria.

Discussions where naira is mentioned
We can have our own crypto speculation board like BTC/NGN speculation board and wall observer. We can compare and contrast between bitcoin and gold and probably other assets like silver. But make sure naira is used as the pair in the comparison and not dollar or any other foreign currencies. You may add dollar to it in front butake sure naira is first added to it and then you can include the corresponding amount in dollar with the latest exchanges rate. This is an example of the price that I mean using the current rate of bitcoin in naira ₦162,251,996.88 ($104,624.12).

Bitcoin and crypto technical discussions
Especially if you do not feel like asking a technical question on the general technical boards (although general technical boards are still the best boards to discuss about technical questions), but you can ask it here if you like. You can also help other Nigerians understand more about technical parts of bitcoin by creating topics about it which can highly be helpful while posting on the general board.

Topics in pidgin
Example are the translations from English to Pidgin but which we have a single pinned thread for which you can see pinned on the main board of the Nigeria local board. Also other Pidgin discussions which can even fit into general boards if it is in English but because it is written in Pidgin, it can not be moved to the general board.

Discussion about our members and some forum events
The members that I mean are we Nigerians on this forum. I have noticed this kind of topic is mostly about some bad behaviors among Nigerians either on this local board or general board, but it can also be about a user. Also events like the Pizza contest recent discussions can be posted on this board for more visibility to we Nigerians. While discussion about we Nigerians on this forum can be in English or Pidgin, most people will prefer event visibility on this board to be in Pidgin, although you can use what you like.

Definitely, events pertaining to Nigerians will be on our local board.

[NO]

I know it is NO in relation to the reason I am asking the question. Let me assume I may be wrong, which is the reason for this question.

Albon is right about this but I noticed people have not yet posted there which is the reason I created this on technical board for people to know about it.

Here is it: Warning: SeedCheckPro is a Scam!

All I see about this is a scam. I will remove the negative trust if anyone give a valid reason it is not a scam.

[Specification]

This is the proposal: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0177.mediawiki

In summary, it is about using bitcoin to represent Bitcoin base unit and sat to be deprecated. 1 BTC will be 100,000,000 bitcoin and there will be no 100,000,000 sat.

Specification

Redefinition of the Unit:

Internally, the base units remain unchanged.
Historically, 1 bitcoin = 100,000,000 base units. Under this proposal, "1 bitcoin" equals one base unit.
What was previously referred to as "1 bitcoin" now corresponds to 100 million bitcoins under the new definition.

What do you think about this?

I saw sat not confusing to me. But how about you? Also if 1 BTC equals 100 million bitcoin, is that not confusing? Because we all think BTC is the short form of Bitcoin.

I hope you are are aware of what is going on in France right now. In this year alone, David Balland, co-founder of cryptocurrency wallet firm Ledger, was abducted with his wife at their home in central France. Recently, three teens kidnap Las Vegas (US) man at gunpoint, stealing $4M in crypto. Just two days ago, crypto exchange (called Paymium) CEO’s daughter fights off brazen kidnappers in Paris. French police rescued the father of a cryptocurrency millionaire who had been kidnapped and held for ransom in a Paris suburb.

There are more of such attacks but we are still enjoy in country like Nigeria but we do not know what will happen in the future, maybe crypto might even be demanded for as ransom. It is very good we see how everything is happening right now so we can know how privacy is very important. And as for those that can not have privacy like some having a crypto business that people in his town know very well, such person may probably need a security.


http://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna204718
https://cointelegraph.com/news/florida-teens-kidnap-crypto-entrepreneur-at-gunpoint-steal-4-m-in-crypto
https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-exchange-ceo-daughter-fights-kidnappers-paris


If you want to follow the attack updates, you can read about it here --> https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks

PoS alone means centralization which ether moved to some years ago from PoW. But what they said few years ago has been done as they have increased the validators staking from 32 ETH to 2048 ETH. That is 64 fold increase and it means less people will be able to stake and more centralization in what that is centralized in design.

I read online that the Pectra upgrade will reduce transaction fee. I am not using ether which will not let me know if the transaction fee has reduced or not. Is it true that the transaction fee has been reduced?

[She further clarified that all official communication concerning the commission’s scholarship programme is conducted exclusively through the official NDDC portal: www.scholarship.nddc.gov.ng.]

This is from Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) but I think it can be helpful to people.

The Director of Corporate Affairs at the NDDC, Mrs Seledi Thompson-Wakama, issued the warning regarding the activities of fraudsters offering non-existent postgraduate scholarships to unsuspecting victims in a statement released in Port Harcourt yesterday.

Thompson-Wakama revealed that the fraudulent emails, purportedly sent from nddcregistry@gmail.com and claiming to be from the NDDC’s ‘Board Registry,’ invite recipients to a fictitious document verification and authentication exercise.

According to her, the purported exercise is scheduled to take place from May 19 to May 21 at Bishop Oluwole Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.

“Members of the public are hereby advised that the NDDC has no affiliation with this fraudulent selection process,” she stressed.

She further clarified that all official communication concerning the commission’s scholarship programme is conducted exclusively through the official NDDC portal: www.scholarship.nddc.gov.ng.

Former beneficiaries of the commission’s programmes and prospective applicants to verify all information through the NDDC’s official website: www.nddc.gov.ng,” she concluded.

Disregard the email and report similar emails sent with such scam information to NDDC.

https://punchng.com/beware-of-scholarship-scams-nddc-issues-alert-on-fake-offers/


This is not a new scam but I think I should post about it.

I hope you also read about the recent Ledger scam letters sent to Ledger users.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5539991.msg65329825#msg65329825

There is a discussion about who will be the next Pope already. You can see the discussion here: Who will be the next pope bets and predictions.

So if you want to discuss about who will be the next Pope, you can discuss it on the thread.

I noticed only one site is commonly referenced when discussing about something like this, including elections. But sometimes Stake is discussed also about but I noticed just during elections and not this time.

I went to Stake.com to know if this bet is available, and to my surprise it is available. This is it: https://stake.com/sports/outright/politics-entertainment/religion/next-pope/45273182-next-pope

But did you know other gambling sites that also having this for their customers to bet on it? Especially the gambling sites that their presence are on this forum which are also highly reputed as Stake.

Lists of some sites you can see it:
Stake.com
Duelbits.com
Betfury
Shuffle
Betcoin.ag
Sportsbets.io
futuur.com
Bitsler

Gamble responsibly.

What is going on? For people to lose more? Why are they not taken down?

People that their money were stolen by CBEX has not gotten any refund but CBEX said they will get refund starting on June 25.

You can readorea hour it here: https://punchng.com/cbex-resumes-operations-despite-sec-ban-n1-2tn-efcc-probe/

If I remember, this is similar to what happened with MMM. Tell people to avoid this scam CBEX. If you do not want to lose your bitcoin or money converted to bitcoin, avoid CBEX.


I think a new thread is need for this serious and urgent discussion.

[Advice]

This is common on an exchange which I am not interested to mentioned on this forum but you can see it on the thread that I will include its link here. There have been several complaints on the this about this P2P scam:

This is an example of the scam:
Alert: Latest P2P Scam

Someone told me it happened to him 4 times out of 5 times he exchanged bitcoin to naira this month alone.

You may want to exchange ₦68900, the scammer will send ₦60900 thinking you will not know. That is how the scam is. If you send the scammer message, he will do as if he did not know that it is a mistake and send the remaining amount.

This is becoming common on the exchange. Is it because people are not reporting it or the exchange negligence. I will advice people to start to report the scam and also give the scammers negative review.

You can give anonymous review on P2P exchanges. Also you can wait for some days before given the scammer a negative review if you want to avoid negative review from the scammer. I hope this may change their intentions later if people start giving them negative reviews.

Advice:
Make sure you check the amount sent to your account before releasing the coin. But not only that, make sure it is the right amount because the scammers are sending an amount similar to (but lesser than) the amount that you are expecting to receive.

It has been awhile but it keeps coming to my mind to ask this question to know more about the posts to report or not to report. I reported this post to be deleted:

Stake Platinum 2 LVL 2 verified for Sale

It was marked as bad. It is the last post on the image below:




I like to report sales of accounts on KYC sites like exchanges. If you check Stake terms of service, sales of accounts is even against one of the rules there. All Stake customers must even go for KYC even before they can be able to deposit now.

I think I reported some posts like this before that were deleted. What makes this one special?

I do not really read Nigerian news anymore after I do not see any good development in the country the way I prefer to see it but there are sometimes that some news are shocking.

How can a leader says people with dread lock should be arrested, cut their dread lock and be fined? Saying the hair style is linked to insecurity in the state 

I guess he got the information from the police because some Yahoo guess like fashion. But is it only Yahoo guys that are doing such hairstyle? Those Boko Haram and known Bandits that I have seen before on news have normal hairstyles and they do not do fashion.

Good to see that he has changed his decision after public outcry when I saw this news.

https://punchng.com/niger-gov-makes-a-u-turn-on-dreadlocks-ban-following-public-outcry/

You can check the price of sUSD which is a stable coin: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/susd

The coin is not backed by United States dollars but by locking up SNX tokens. This makes the price of sUSD to depend on the SNX stability.

After the many fails of algorithmic, many people still prefer to be using algorithmic stable coin. This will not be the last among them. Let us see if the coin will recover or its doom has just began.

Do not be surprised if you do not see the site accessible on May 1. You can see their announcement here on this forum on their service thread: eXch - instant exchange BTC / LN / XMR / LTC / ETH / ERC20

Know that Lazarus group has been a threat to everyone even to sites that have signature campaign on this forum. Remember they were responsible for for Sinbad shutdown and now responsible for the shutdown of eXch. eXch was reported to have been used by Lazarus group in laundering $35 million worth of coins from the $1.4 billion Bybit hack. eXch said only little amount worth of coins is linked to Lazarus group.

Be it linked to the hack or not, or maybe the coin that eXch processed for the hackers is not up to the investigated amount, we just know that Lazarus group is responsible for what that happened.

[Not bill signed. Do not let the title confuse you. Such bill can never even be signed I think.]

 

See House of Representatives.

They do not know what they can make into law again, but think those that do not vote now during elections will be jailed 

Seriously, I can not stop laughing after I read this.

I was not reading their boring Nigerian news but I just thought to read it yesterday and I saw it. But it was National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) reaction about it that I read.

https://punchng.com/nans-threatens-protest-over-bill-to-jail-non-voters/

Not bill signed. Do not let the title confuse you. Such bill can never even be signed I think.

I thought I chose Chelsea but I chose a different club.



I know the odds are very similar to what the odd would have been for the Chelsea versus Tottenham that has just been played. Chelsea won.

When the match ended, I checked my Stake.com account to see the little amount that I won but I did not see anything. I clicked on settled bet to know that I chose another league.

I laughed immediately. I can not say I am happy about it but I am neither sad and I am chilling right now and excited. Just a tiny amount of money.

I hope this will serve as a lesson to some people that can make this kind of mistake. The reason I brought it here.

There was a time I made a transaction through my GTbank master card to order an item on Konga, the transaction failed. I called Konga, they told me the money is with GTBank that I should go to the bank. I went to the bank and I was told to fill a report form which I did. I did not get refund back. I went to the bank two times. It was ₦5960 but that was 2012.

There are many news that I have read online that people will voice out about how bank want to scam them. But if we can see many news like that, how many would have happened that these banks officials have stolen from people. It happens frequently. The one I read about 2 days ago but surfaced on the news 10 days ago shocked people. You can watch it here:

https://youtu.be/bMDO89sArdU?si=05hHenX9T1y-BLPl

The man noticed ₦55 million was lost from his account. He investigated and noticed that the money was stolen by bank officials. That pissed him off and wanted to terminate his fixed deposit of ₦500 million. He was told that the money has been withdrawn. He sued FirstBank. They stole his money.

I am surprised that someone can hold ₦500 million in fixed deposit but he is not a young person but an elderly man which we should expect something like that.

You can lose bitcoin also through scam or wallet hack, but they are very easy to avoid if you read about it. Naira that is depreciating in price.