This morning is really a surprising one. I just have got a notification on my email that I have deposited 0.00318 USDT in my Binance account. After some research, I got two possible reasons-
1. Someone mistakenly sent (Not possible because I never have used USDT on Binance, at least for deposit. I am sure that I have never checked that address ever.
2. Any staking or holding rewards. But how can this be true when I have nothing left in my exchange account? Moreover, I never had participated any exchange's staking program.

What possible reason can be this? If the amount was bigger, I would say someone mistakenly sent. But now, I can't find any reason of this.

I have little knowledge on mixing method. Have done mixing couple of times only. I'm curious to know how mixing site mix the coins? Definitely they have another souece of BTC which they sent to customers address. Where they got the BTC? Where's the guarantee that the btc they are sending is fresh enough. Is it possible that somehow receivers will get another users BTC which is linked with criminal/scam?

A current one is GOLD stablecoin which is promoting their project in the forum through signature campaign. I haven't checked that yet. What do you think about this project or any other project you know which you think the best GOLD backed token, please share your opinion here. Would appreciate a healthy discussion.

Usually, I don't use Coinbase but due to the increase in the fee, to avoid regular fee, I am using coinbase for now. Benefit of using coinbase is they use batch payments and as a result, the fee is less than usual. That's why I am using coinbase for a while for regular transactions.
I had a deposit yesterday on Coinbase which is missing now. It doesn't show up in my transactions, the balance isn't updated because the tx is not confirmed yet. I have contacted with support but still no result. What can I do? Is there any way in the coinbase app or web to directly request a rescan so that they can update my tx? Or, increasing the fee (bump) would be okay since it will create another tx. I always opposed to use centralize shit but to avoid the fee, I thought to use and now screwed up.

I'm a citizen of a country where bitcoin is illegal and there's no good way of trading bitcoin in legal way and secured way. I have been trading through the community I have built within these years but sometimes I got difficulty selling bitcoin, not much although. If you are from a country where BTC is legit, I think you are enjoying trading bitcoin. But what about the countries where BTC is illegal? Do you have any such way to trade bitcoin securely? I would love to hear the experiences, difficulty you faced/faces.

I am looking for purchasing 1 LTC at 1:1 rate with BTC. If you have LTC to exchange with BTC, please PM me. If you have decent trading history here, I may go upfront. Otherwise, you have to go upfront. No escrow unless you want to pay the fee since the amount is too low to spend a escrow fee. If you are interested, PM me here or comment in this thread.

Couple of days ago, a group of fraud from Bangladesh made around $250000 within 2 months through influncing people to gamble in their gambling sites/apps and later scam or something like that, have been arrested by police. From the amount they made, they had to sent a lot of funds to Ukraine where the leading people live. They used bitcoin to send the money. Police said they are investigating more to find everyone related to the gang and/or who have helped them directly or indirectly.
I sometimes sell BTC in local market through the help of some facebook group. I never felt that I am in risk but for the first time, it seems like we are actually risking ourself a lot of by selling BTC to unknown. What if they get a trace of ourself and link us with such transactions? Would we be also get punished? For your info, we had to use our mobile number to continue dealing.

With old version of electrum, people may lose their coin as older version have vulnerability. Not everyone can keep up all the news, update and mistakenly they use an older version which is vulnerable and they lost their coin. Why the users always accuse here of being mistaken while it is totally a mistake of Electrum itself. Why did they release such a version without having significant test? It really hurts when people complain that they have lost their coin by using older version of electrum.

Is there any place where I can sell any ICO coin/token? I know about bitcointalk altcoin Marketplace but that's not too good place to sell such coins. I have two coins/token from ICO which have been held last year but there's no update from the team, no listing yet. They are having many excuses. That's why I planned to sell them. Do you know any of such places?

May not be so important topic for others but I'm dying to know what happen to the report status if two or more person report a same post. For example, imagine someone has reported a SPAM POST and I also reported the same SPAM POST. Now what will the be status of my report since someone else have reported that post before me? Imagine the SPAM POST has been deleted. Now will my report be counted as-
Good
Or, Bad
Or, Unhandled
I can't remember if I have seen the correct answer ever. I tried to get a related thread but didn't find the exact answer.
So far, I have 99% accuracy with 1 bad and 5 unhandled reports.

I just have visited a thread on gambling and was a bit confused by watching the signature of LFC_Bitcoin. It was not working. I knew that he was wearing Bitcasino signature. I visited his profile and saw that everything was fine. Later I refreshed the page of that gambling thread and the signature was visible once again.
The signature was looking like-

What's this problem with trustwallet? I have tried to send the btc. The tx is confirmed. No problem with amount. Everything is okay. I don't use trustwallet. It's one of my friends tx who is confused (me too).

[Please be noted that- first number represent frequency of the local board and second number represent the percentage of that local board.]

Couple of days ago, I was looking for some statistical data on merits on Bengali local thread. Thank you LoyceV for that data. Now, I would like to compare some data with other local boards. DdmrDdmr has shared all the required data with me. The purpose of this thread is to visualize Bengali Local Thread is lacking of enough merit senders which is being a resistance to the profile rank up who is active in local thread. With delivering necessary merits, we may increase the quality of the post in local thread.
Please be noted that- first number represent frequency of the local board and second number represent the percentage of that local board.
Total Distributed Merits
Total Number of distributed merits in local board is 205252 but the total amount of merit distributed in Bengali thread is 163 only. It's less than 1% where the total number of local boards/thread has been divided by 23. Other languages include all the other local threads who don't have a separate board, Bengali is excluded from other languages.

Total Unique Senders
Total Unique merit senders in local boards are 9883 but it' only 46 in Bengali which is again less than 1%.

Total Merit Receivers
Out of 12334 receivers in local boards, Bengali thread has 62 receivers who received 163 merits. Average merits per receiver is 2.63 merits but in other local boards, average is 16.71 (Excluded Bengali) merits per user. This is a privilege for other local users that they have enough supply of merits but in Bengali thread, the merit receivers are high but not enough supply.

Total Posts Received Merits
In local boards, 74926 posts have been merited. In Bengali thread, 103 posts have been merited. Average merits per post in Local boards (Excluded Bengali) is 2.74 merits but in Bengali thread, it's 1.58 merits per post.

Total Merit TX
In local boards(Excluded Bengali), 205089 merits have been distributed in 118664 tx which indicates an average of 1.73 merits per tx. But in Bengali thread, the average is 1.28 which is far below from the average.

Limitation: Data is from 19/06/20

Share your opinion if you think Bengali thread require more supply of merits.

I used to see a lot of statistics on merits and most of them are interesting. But no one come with a statistics to find out which board are lack of merits and where distribution isn't proportionally low. In my local thread (no local board), there is lack of enough merit distribution. Lack of quality posts may be a reason but if people do high quality posts (some users do sometimes), no one is there to merit them.
I'm talking about Bengali local thread- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=631891.0
Can someone posts below details from this thread-
1. Total number of unique users got merited- 62
2. Total number of posts got merited- 103
3. Total number of unique merit senders- 46
4. Most merit received (User, post)
5. Most merit sender
And some more if you have in your mind.

Data provided by LoyceV- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5257102.msg54659225#msg54659225

[A new bill in India may be proposing up to ten years of prison or fines up to $3.3 million for using cryptocurrency]

There's a possibility of India to ban crypto again. According to an article by decrypt, "A new bill in India may be proposing up to ten years of prison or fines up to $3.3 million for using cryptocurrency."
If the bill passed, the chance of having Indian into the crypto space will be very low as the punishment is too high.
Source- https://decrypt.co/32160/india-considers-another-widespread-ban-on-bitcoin

There are a lot of crypto tracker to my known. Till now, I'm using blockfolio and it seems pretty good so far. However, which cryptotracker you are using and do you think any other crypto tracker is better than blockfolio? Share your opinion and let me switch 

Wouldn't it be good to see who bumped a thread? It has been a long time the bump system has been introduced. The previous bumping method isn't working anymore and shit projects are having worst days but still I think some projects have managed to get hidden service to get bumped. It would be good to see who bumps a thread. May be this way, theymos can easily share a way to identify the bumping service.

[What are the components of a bitcoin transaction?]

In each transaction, there is a lot of information which some of us, especially newbies, don't know anything about. Today, as I'm locked due to the Corona Virus effect and have some free time, I thought to write an info article for newbies so that they can learn everything about a transaction in an easy way.
What are the components of a bitcoin transaction?
TxID/ Tx Hash
Block
Size
Input & Output
Change Address
Fee

TxID/ Tx Hash
There are a lot of transactions occurring in bitcoin each day. TxID is the record of each transaction. In traditional accounting, we can compare TxID with the transactions of each day. For example, X company may have severals transaction on a day-
Paid $5k as rent.
Good sold- $10k
Paid electricity bill- $500
All these are some transactions and they have numbers 1,2,3. These 1,2,3 are the txID. A txID contains all the information of a transaction including timestamp, amount, fee etc.

Block
A block can be compared to the traditional page number of a book. For example, the xTH number of pages of X book contains some information. In the same way, a block contains maximum 1 MB data of the tx records.

Size
TX has its size. Depending on the input and output it can vary in bytes.

Input & Output
In traditional ledger books, we have different accounts for income and expenses. We can compare the income with input here. Imagine, you have 1 BTC which you received from your friend. If you are sending 1 BTC to your cousin, bitcoin blockchain will look if you really have 1 BTC. Then it will say, you have 1 BTC from your friend and you are sending that 1 BTC to your cousin. So, in general words, it will link the source of that 1 BTC with the destination of that 1 BTC. Here, the source of that 1 BTC is the input and the destination of that 1 BTC is the output.

Change Address
It's normal as fiat changes. If you have 1 BTC in your wallet and you want to send 0.05 BTC to your friend, the total amount will be used as input but the change of 0.95 BTC (minus fee) will be sent to your change address.

Fee
Fee is paid to the miners to confirm include your transaction in a block. Fee can be customized, can be paid 1 sat/byte or higher. Sometimes, when the mempool is congested (In other words, when there are more than usual tx occurs), the fee increases significantly.

These are very general components of a bitcoin tx, there are some more too. I will update them later.

Alternative thread of smartmixer- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5172400.0
Alt account which isn't tagged yet- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2659590
Smartmixer is a proved scam bitcoin mixer, their main account has been tagged but this one get out of the tag. Please negative tag the account.
Link to the previous scam accusation thread- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5227899.0
Also, please support the flag here- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=1926

For a long time, I used to see a lot of unnecessary drama threads in "Reputation" board. Some of them are just useless at all and have no point to be existed. Most of the threads are kind of personal attack for the self benefit, revenge and some are being jealous to other users. Why such kind of thread don't get a place in the off topic board? I think there should be minimum standard required to post in "Reputation" board. Otherwise it will be full of threads which doesn't make sense at all. Something must be done.