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Recently, I've observed that there are some advertisements on X that I do see, but I didn't pay attention to them the first time. Afterwards, I click on one because of the name, and sure enough, the ad is about a "tax refund." What's a tax refund? It's a fair reimbursement to taxpayers for extra funds they have paid to the federal or state governments. Scammers are now masking their acts under the same idea, claiming that the Eth2.0 arrival signifies that the Ethereum Foundation is returning fees to Ethereum users who have paid excess fees while interacting with the chain. Just for people that must have read somewhere about tax refunds, it's true for US citizens but there is nothing like a gas fee refund, foundations will not return any fees to you because you weren't paying the fees to the foundation, you were paying to the validators or Miners (before Ethereum upgraded to proof of stake) to validate and confirm your transactions. As one of the EVMs that consumes fees the most, the Ethereum chain has been the focus of this trend, which is still relatively new, but I'm sure other EVMs will follow shortly. Among the websites I have found are these and are most likely to drain your wallet when you connect and try to claim the fee: https://refund.gaseth.xyz/
https://get.etherzgas.xyz/
https://home.etherzgas.xyz/
https://refund.etherty.xyz/
https://new.etherty.xyz/
https://view.gaszeth.xyz/
https://view.getzeth.xyz/ Scammers target places that are friendly to crypto and X is one of the places but I don't know why they accept any form of adverts on their platform and wouldn't do any investigation about the ads, please be cautious of other platforms you visit. |
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Earlier this year, around May to be precise, It was reported that one of the trading exchanges, Patricia halted withdrawals [1] which at first they claimed(lied) that it was due to blockchain congestion but what really happened to Patricia wasn't what was disclosed to the public at first, they actually lost $2m to hack around January 2022 but they keep mum and refuse to disclose that to the public not until they seize withdrawals around April this year. What happened like a joke turned out to be true, they have massively sacked workers and worked to get back to business again but from the look of things, they are not done with their fraud because, instead of them to resume withdrawals and allow customers to have access to their bitcoin, they decide to carry out another heist; they lunch a Patricia token(PTK) [2] pegged to USDT with a whitepaper [3] which is not listed on any exchange, if they have the USDTbank in the first place, they wouldn't launch another shitty stablecoin. Not only did they stop there. They converted the user's BTC balance to the worthless stablecoin without their knowledge, no emails were sent, and no notification, who does that? Why convert BTC to PTK tokens they don't need? Looking at the status of the company, they don't have the means to pay back the customers, they don't have the liquidity to settle all the debts, the BTC on the user's wallet is only database value, no intrinsic value and this is just another FTX scam. What have you learned? Not your keys, definitely not your coins. Never leave your BTC on another man's land, they control it while you only control the front end, you don't have the keys and you can't control what will happen in the future. Learn to keep your coins in your custody and protect your private keys and seed phrase. [1] https://techcabal.com/2023/05/27/patricia-loses-2m-to-hack/[2] https://techcabal.com/2023/08/19/patricia-customer-assets/[3] https://mypatricia.co/resources/blog/patricia-token-white-paper |
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What Happened: Returnyourcrypto.com - Scammers with fake testimoniesThis website is fake and everything they do is to scam. Ever since the growth of some decentralized exchanges, some scammers have taken scamming to the next level since tokens can be minted by anyone on dex chains (pancake chain particularly) and traders can buy and sell without any limitations. However, it has increased the rate of fake smart contracts, which may result in buying fake tokens that you may not be able to sell back, steal or sweep wallets with good tokens or coins. What this website does is scam people further, they claim to help you recover lost coins from scammers by scamming people more by requesting the victim's private keys with an assurance of an 85% rate of getting their money back.  Name of website: Email: support@returnyourcrypto.com Name of Telegram user: Additional Info: Domain Information
Domain:returnyourcrypto.com
Registrar:NameSilo, LLC
Registered On:2022-12-05
Expires On:2023-12-05
Updated On:2022-12-05
Status:clientTransferProhibited
Name Servers:ns1.hostsilo.com
ns2.hostsilo.com
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I'm reminding everyone here of the frequent collapse of centralized exchanges, which has resulted in many assets and wallets being drained and dried for trusting their money on centralized exchanges despite many warnings of not your keys, not your coins. I have a message for everyone, and I hope they take it seriously, especially those who have yet to withdraw their coins from centralized exchanges or custodial services. The new designs of exchanges share a similar pattern and there is something I have noticed, Defi wallet integrated into Binance exchange wallets as a sub wallet and very soon, other exchanges will imitate the same style just to acquire more liquidity from users or traders. Binance has integrated a Defi sub-wallet into their exchange, the option requires you to add a recovery phrase from your wallet to interact with its own BSC blockchain, we all know how important seed phrases or recovery phrases are meant to be with you, no third party. It should be with you alone because that way, no one can get to your coins, they want you to keep your recovery phrase on their exchange please don't do that, care less of their policy whether they save it or not, centralized exchanges are element of the same company that cannot be trusted. Your seed phrase or recovery phrase is intended for you and only you. Some of the things you need to know: 1. Not your keys, it’s not your coins. 2. Don’t paste your recovery phrase on any exchange, I know very soon other exchanges will follow the same pattern which will result in the stealing of funds. 3. Do not rely on centralized exchanges/ leave your coins on centralized exchanges. 4. Don’t share your private keys with people 5. Back up your recovery phrase and make sure they are properly secured and safe from threats and thieves. |
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To broadcast a transaction from a wallet to the bitcoin network, you can connect to a node, either privately or publicly, but I don't know why electrum and sparrow wallet used server in their network connections instead of nodes. I'm assuming server and bitcoin nodes are the same thing, but I'm not sure.
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Yesterday, I bump into Chipmixer service thread when OP sent out weekly payment to their signature participants and when I opened the transaction hash= 714701687f40263d6ff40139568e5162f38fd3eb04efb2b44954e36279d2712f, it was yet to be confirmed with 1 sat/vb and as that time the least unconfirmed median fee was 8 sats/vbyte and then right below one of the receiving wallet address, I saw one wallet did spent the output but was also unconfirmed at time. I was skeptical that the only way for the owner to spend his UTXO is to do a Child pay for parents or when the the parent transaction fee is bump. When I checked the wallet address transaction, it was flagged by the explorer as CPFP with a fee of 1.01 sat/vb but the fee was not too different from the parent transaction (1sat/vb). I wait to see what will happen when the mempool becomes less congested to see which one will first get confirm because that fee aren't too different. I just checked now, they both have been confirmed in the same block at the same time but it seems the parent was confirmed and the CPFP was confirmed as normal transaction.  Parent transaction = https://mempool.space/tx/714701687f40263d6ff40139568e5162f38fd3eb04efb2b44954e36279d2712f Attempted CPFP= https://mempool.space/tx/c6a2070c5370533fd73b2f07b0800f16c61e820781fa0fa0f24c8a865a412d1fIt is obvious the two transactions are independent of each other as the first transaction input was 1609 sat as fee and the second with 111 sat. From the screenshots, you can see they were both confirm in the same block and the same minutes but my question is was 0.01 sat/vbyte not significant to trigger the parent transaction as CPFP? Second question, if they were both confirm at the same time in the same block, where did the second transaction have his transaction reference from? For it to confirm, it need the previous(reference) transaction hash but seeing they both confirm at the same time is unclear to me. I was expecting the second transaction to be sitting in the orphan transaction pool since the parent need to be confirmed to have the previous hash to be able to to confirm the second transaction. |
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There are a few things that matter sometimes, especially when giving advice to newbies. It happens that creates a seed phrase from Electrum due to its lightweight with just the block height of transactions and fast synchronization, in addition, it can be used online with airgap devices that are not connected to the internet like on the operating system of Ubuntu and TailOS. This is the recommendation you get from most of the replies in the Beginner & Help board when anyone wants to set up a wallet environment and is limited to hardware wallets like Tezors and Ledger, but I was hooked when I wanted to create a legacy wallet address from my already existing recovery phrase. When I tried to construct a new wallet with the original seed phrase I used to get a regular segwit address, it didn't work until I read this guy old comments: You can't "convert" your existing Electrum wallet from SegWit to Legacy, you would need to create a completely new wallet (File -> New\Restore -> Standard Wallet -> Create New Seed) and then specify the "Legacy" option when asked what seed type you want to use:
You can't use the segwit address seed phrase to create a Legacy address in an Electrum wallet due to the wallet's unique seed scheme. I was aware that Electrum has a different standard for generating BIP-39 seed words, but it'll be a lot of work to secure two different recovery phrases and manage bitcoins on two different wallets. Please always share the necessary information when making recommendations for newbies, it's been almost 7 months since I generated a segwit address, and I only tried to build a legacy from it yesterday but it didn't work, but I'm relieved now. |
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Late last year, Twitter announced that they will be introducing a tip on Twitter beta to allow everyone to receive payment on Twitter using the strike APP, however, it was not available in all locations and also as a custodial wallet, it did not go well for people. Twitter has now enabled the ability to receive bitcoin using an address for which you have the private key ( third party addresses), there is no commission or cost for using this service. Any of your followers and friends from Twitter space can send you bitcoin at any moment by copying the address from your profile's Tip icon, the address is yours, and you have complete control over the private key to that wallet address. To use bitcoin tip, you need to set up the wallet address you want to be receiving your payment. To enable Bitcoin Tip, go to your profile: Click on Edit profile >>>> Select the Tip right below on your screen >>>> Enter your bitcoin address where you want your payments to be received, and save it. Then, toggle Allow Tips to make the Icon visible on your profile, and you're set to go. Anyone who clicks on that symbol and copies the wallet address can now send you bitcoin.  View of My profile before I enable TIP featureThis is the view before the Bitcoin Tip was enabled.  View of My profile when I enable Tip featureThe view after the Bitcoin Tip is enabled, when you see the money Icon on Twitter profiles, it means they have the ability to receive money and you may tip them if you like. Other options for receiving money on Twitter include Ethereum, Chipper, Patreon, Paga, and Barter. Apart from Ethereum, these are third-party remittance, there are risks associated with receiving money from centralized platforms, we have witnessed donations seized by these companies, I don't encourage anyone to try them. Observations========== - You can insert any type of Bitcoin address to receive payment and it has a way to detect some characters that are not related to bitcoin address, so when you insert wrong characters, it will return "Invalid character. Please try again" - Bitcoin Tip is only available on IOS and Android, the web version is not available for now. |
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We have 3 newbies with unusual names with threads on B&H board, they haven't done anything that violates the community but something seems off about them. I wanted to find out and ask why they use such lengthy and scattered letters but Marvelman discovered this: How well do you manage financial management?
If you have Bitcoin assets which wallet do you think is safe so far?
Wait, did you choose that username or you just feel like using dumb letters  His username loosely translated into English: "Make Love with Neighbors" Probably related to this member: SilovatiLijepuSusjedu (translated: "Violate a Beautiful Neighbor", but much more vulgar) I will report these members to the moderators, but I don't know if this is against the rules. I also search the names on google and the auto-translate detected they are Croatian and Norwegian SilovatiLijepuSusjedu ===>> In Croatian: Rape the Beautiful Neighbor. VoditiIjubavSaSusjedima====>> In Croatian: Make love to your neighbors. Saluttoutle Monde ====>> In Norwegian: Hi All The World. These are the 3 usernames, the last one doesn't sound offensive but looks similar to the first two and all were registered on the same day, the same time frame. Which could also belong to one person. VoditiIjubavSaSusjedima == Register on May 27, 2022, 05:52:51 PMSilovatiLijepuSusjedu == Register on May 27, 2022, 05:55:04 PMSaluttoutle Monde == Register on May 27, 2022, 06:19:27 PMThis is far from a coincidence. |
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I learnt that the time to create a new block in bitcoin takes an average time of 10 minutes but I don't understand what happened yesterday when I carried out a transaction. I sent some BTC and my transaction was successfully included in block 738344 and it was confirmed on May 29, 2022, 12:31 AM UTC. The previous block 738344 before my transaction was first confirmed on May 29, 2022, 12:30 AM UTC which was just 1 minute apart but the next block 738345 after my transaction was first confirmed on May 29, 2022, 12:53 AM UTC and the difference between that and mine was 22 minute, why is it like that? If 6 blocks will take 1 hour with an average of 10 minutes for first confirmation, what will happen when this happens, is this an anomaly because other blocks are similar to this with time variation or there is no standard duration for new blocks. |
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Yesterday, it occur to me that I don't know Satoshi gender, nobody does, it could be a person or people but in my previous thread, the first paragraph, I was looking for the right pronoun (he/she/they) and I couldn't get any as a subject to avoid the repetition of the noun in my thread. If Satoshi is a single person, what about the gender? is it a he or she? Another question is, how do you also address other objects like names in the forum with a pronoun when you don't even know who you are conversating with, You could offend a lady by calling her bro, there is gender in all profiles but for sake of privacy, many don't use it. How do you address other members without calling their names multiple times? |
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In court documents made public on Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice say Twitter violated a 2011 agreement with regulators in which the company vowed to not use information gathered for security purposes, like users' phone numbers and email addresses, to help advertisers target people with ads.
Federal investigators say Twitter broke that promise.
"As the complaint notes, Twitter obtained data from users on the pretext of harnessing it for security purposes but then ended up also using the data to target users with ads," said FTC Chair Lina Khan. Twitter broke their promise about how they collected their user data (email and phone number), they violated the agreement [1] that was presented in the paperwork with the authorities back in 2011, and they have been charged and fined $150 million for selling it for Ads. Similar organizations have exploited data in business, and many of them have always denied it to the public, but after further digging and investigation, the lies become burst into the public.  Source: https://www.npr.org/2022/05/25/1101275323/twitter-privacy-settlement-doj-ftc
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22038327-ftc-settlement-twitter |
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If not for his disappearance, many would have wanted to follow Satoshi's [1] footsteps in terms of digital currency and everything he/she/they put down on bitcoin whitepaper, [2] including some great developers who have done so much for bitcoin in their time, but the existence of centralized exchanges has captured the hearts of many, mostly the beginners who love it, cherish it, and can't live without it. We all love exchanges, but I'm more worried about centralized exchanges like Binance and other centralized organizations that provide trading platforms and give hope to users by allowing them to keep their coins and documents in their custody. Users before shareholders.
If you have a problem with the above, bye. Source: https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1528794370442420225I'm used to the forum caution phrase "don't simply trust, do check and verify before you make a move." If I have coins on a centralized exchange, how can I verify the above assurances that shareholders would agree to settle all users before them if there is a downfall? The tweet has inspired many users to stay glued to the centralized exchange, but look deeper, there's more than meets the eye. I got an alert about an upcoming AMA by CZ in 30 minutes on r/cryptocurrency, [3] so I went to see how he would respond to some questions about his views on centralized exchanges and, in contrast to what is being said to beginners on how to avoid their coins on centralized exchanges and skip anything related to KYC for privacy reasons. There were hundreds of questions, and due to the nature of AMA, the important ones I was looking up for answer were ignored, and the responses concerning securities were vague, very misleading, and I was shocked that people upvoted every answer.  The mods removed some serious comments, few unanswered comments were responded to by other users, but the responses demonstrate that many prefer centralized exchanges over a hardware wallet, which would cost them less in terms of peace and money. I have included snippets below. Security and care of users funds under their management
======================================================== 1. If users funds are safe: When it comes to the security of assets under their care, centralized exchanges have a way of avoiding questions by offsetting them with insurance funds set aside in case of unplanned events. Binance, in particular, has a way of saying SAFU, which means funds are safe, but the balances on the wallets are not up to what is in their hot wallets, other centralized exchanges do this in different ways, however reading how quadrigacx [4] slipped as an exit scam exchange should serve as a lesson to those who feel at home with centralized exchanges.  Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/uuitqp/ama_with_cz_binance_ceo/i9fhgpk/?context=3Some of the largest banks, which were previously at the apex of the traditional financial industry, have gone bankrupt, and nothing has been done to recoup customers' full payments. It's not difficult to be your bank, make it your key, your coins. 2. If centralized exchanges sometimes get hacked : It is usually easier to keep something hidden from the rest of the world by a single person than a group of people. They wouldn't disclose what happens behind the scene to the rest of the world to avoid FUD but trust me when I say that anywhere there is a huge amount of money that is publicly shown to people, hackers will continue to try, they will keep banging on the wall until it weakens. A hack could also make you lose your documents into the wrong hands, as long as centralized exchanges are managed by a group of people, an insider job might harm them one day. It happens to Kucoin [5] in 2021, roughly $200 million was stolen, some were recovered.  Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/uuitqp/comment/i9fjdwa/Your wallet seed inscribed on platinum and concealed in a safe location by you alone is one of the world's top secrets that only you can disclose to people, you don't have to worry about trusting anybody or being backstabbed as long as you did it yourself. 3. If centralized exchanges provide full transansparency: There is no feeling like holding the private key to your assets, for unknown reasons, it may be an advantage if they don't provide full transparency of the coins under them but you have no idea what is going on underground, they don't provide a sheet of their spending, they only provide headlines on partnership. What if your coins are been spent? It could happen to any centralized exchange and it could be the one you least expect may run some dirty moves with your coins.  Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/uuitqp/ama_with_cz_binance_ceo/i9jmfyk/Your privacy for government
============================== 1. If centralized exchanges will report their user crypto to the government: If the government demand what you're holding, they're likely to report you, they would not want to lose all of their customers because of a single person. Giving up your assets may be impossible, but there is a good chance that a centralized exchange can fetch your details to government, always read their terms and conditions carefully. It's not that heaven will collapse if you don't use them, it's for your safety.  Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/uuitqp/comment/i9fn7wv/Outro==== There are many beginners who don't realize how much it costs them to become familiar with centralized exchanges, they don't realize how essential security and privacy are, some do, but they would rather lose it than maintain it for something that isn't worth it. Centralized exchanges are recognized for there high liquidity, but they have a horrible reputation when it comes to privacy and security, don't KYC or keep your coins on them.
[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3[2] https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/[4] https://decrypt.co/5853/complete-story-quadrigacx-190-million[5] https://news.bitcoin.com/kucoin-boss-on-strategy-after-hack-we-chose-to-act/ |
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User 1xbitpatnar create a new account today to promote one of the biggest scam casino on the forum with a new pay rate, seems like they are tired of buying copper accounts to display image this time. It could also be that the account is a sockpuppet to the already existing 1xbit scam that has been going on the forum. DT members should investigate this account. 1xbit.com is looking to advertise their new promotion BIG 5 - Five Championship-Five Bitcoins. To help spread the word we would like to hire users from Member to legendary rank (Mostly Hero/Legendary) to help us out. If you post frequently in Gambling boards, we want to hire you.
1xbit.com Signature Campaign Rewards: 25x member. 40$ week 25x member. 60$ week 25x Sr Member: 80$ week 25x Hero Member: 100$ week 25x Legendary Member: 120$ week |
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My mobile data was left on and I received a notification on my email that ltcgambler self moderate one of the thread he started on gambling discussing and deleted every replied post, it is now deleted, I try to go through the [ Achive] thread, it was a nice discussion thread until he changed the subject to daily odd and prediction, later deleted the whole thread. Why did you do that ltcgambler?
To do the main question, I open the notification email on my phone but while accessing Bitcointalk pm, I saw something new for the first time on my chrome browser.  Have you noticed this notification on your browser? Did I enabled any settings that I'm not aware? |
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What Happened: Fake USDT Mint and trading platformI have been hearing from a group of discussions about fake USDT mint and trading platforms until I came across one. What they do best is to PM you on Telegram/Wechat/Whatsapp with a message that includes a username and password, the balance to that account( ofcourse it's too fake to be true) and the link to the website. They give you a virtual large balance of USDT on the dashboard and ask you to withdraw. One thing unique about this scam is that they wouldn't just scam you straight away, they will request a key/pin in an exchange for you to pay a small fee to facilitate the withdrawal and this is not a one time request, they will continue to ask you for this key/pin until they finish milking you without any successful withdrawal.  Details sent to me: Anyone can login to see the contents of the scam website Username: Jack11
Password: jk1101
Link to the website: https://usdtlonim.comDomain Information
Domain:usdtlonim.com
Registrar:Gname.com Pte. Ltd.
Registered On:2022-04-20
Expires On:2023-04-20
Updated On:2022-04-20
Status:clientTransferProhibited
Name Servers:blakely.ns.cloudflare.com
keaton.ns.cloudflare.com
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Yes, the subject is correct! Everything you see about centralized exchanges is bad for you. You may think they are cool because of the promotions and bonuses you get in exchange for ease KYC, documents you give them are all just easy routes to identify you and by the time you step into their foolish trap(they called it policy), sometimes you don't even have to do anything before they come for you. I was going through theblockcrypto and I saw one interesting article that featured how Binance agreed to share user data with Russia Government. This is the snip and quoted below: Binance reportedly agreed to share user information with a Russian agency that collects and analyzes information about financial transactions as the crypto exchange seeks to enjoy better relations with governments around the world. According to messages obtained by Reuters, in April last year, Binance’s head of Eastern Europe and Russia Gleb Kostarev met with the agency, known as Rosfinmonitoring or Rosfin, in Moscow at the invitation of a Russian non-profit organization called the Digital Economy Development Fund. Source: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/143016/binance-agreed-to-share-data-with-russian-government-agency-reportThere is more to what was been discussed, they claimed Binance will not share anyone's data unless when law enforcement directs them to do so just like the way banks do comply. Now imagine how many local regulators that will be disturbing Binance for who they suspect or feel to torment. Everything about KYC is wrong in crypto and so you should avoid it, you don't have private keys meaning what you are viewing is just data on the server, not your real coins, your privacy is at risk, and the government has the ability to change and do anything at any moment. |
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I bumped into a thread opened by epiclux and the user is into selling social media accounts, but not just that, the user is into selling bitcointalk accounts. I read and quote from mrprep rules about selling of accounts, I think those in charge should check. 18. Having multiple accounts and account sales are allowed, but account sales are discouraged.
Twitter 20K followers - 60$
Twitter 2011-2013 ( 50-250 followers ) - 20$
Ticketmaster accounts 2017-2018 - 60$
reddit 1.5K+ karma ( 5 months aged ) - 20$
YouTube channel 1K+ subscribers - 100$
Amazon 2014-2015 with purchases history - 50$
BitcoinTalk 2021 - 10$
BitcoinTalk 2012 Legendary (1453 posts - 1300 Merits - 7+ Trust ) - 1500$
discord 2021 - 15$
Coinbase verified - 300$ (without documents) - 950$ with documents US
Gmail accounts 2013 - 5$
Payment Crypto Only
BULK order will get discounts
No login Details will send without Payment upfront
other Social Medias dm in telegram : epiclux
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