This crossed my mind as I was reading another bad news in our country about the bad effects of gambling. So I'm asking fellow gamblers here,

Have You Ever Felt Like Gambling Was Affecting Your Life Negatively? And if so how?

It's just a self-reflection on my end, again, I felt sad that there are young gamblers taking someone's life because of their addiction. And then they disposed of the body just like that, but they surrendered to the authorities after a couple of days that lead to the discovery of the body of the driver. As for my experience, probably the worst for me, is maxing out my credit cards or borrowing money that it takes me sometime to pay. So it's hard to understand what's going in the mind of this 3 persons when they unalive a hapless man and get his money and then gamble.

There has been a report from a cyber security researcher that 40 malicious Firefox extension has been discovered and this malware's goal is to steal our crypto currency wallets which include mnemonic phrases and our private key.

These extensions impersonate legitimate wallet tools from widely-used such as

• Coinbase
• MetaMask
• Trust Wallet
• Phantom
• Exodus
• OKX
• Keplr
• MyMonero
• Bitget
• Leap
• Ethereum Wallet
• Filfox

And one way that they can gain trust for users to download it is that it is poison laden with 5 star ratings. They also uses to copy popular crypto wallets and names like MetaMask above.

So again just be very careful on what extensions we downloaded and then installed in our system that has our crypto wallets in it.

https://blog.koi.security/foxywallet-40-malicious-firefox-extensions-exposed-4c14419de486

Here are the recommendations:

Install extensions only from verified publishers, and be cautious even with high-rated listings.

Treat browser extensions as full software assets - subject to vetting, monitoring, and policy enforcement.

Use an extension allowlist and restrict installation to pre-approved, validated extensions only.

Implement continuous monitoring, not just one-time scanning. Extensions can auto-update and silently change behavior after installation.

There is a new clipboard malware and a cryptocurrency miner spreading thru SourceForge which for those who are not familiar, provides a centralized software platform. So free online platform. And with that cyber criminals take advantage of it's platform by distributing malicious payloads such as cryptocurrency miner and clipper malware and hiding it as a legit applications like Microsoft Office:



And one such project is:

Code:

officepackage

Which appears to be harmless in the beginning, as it has Microsoft Office add-ins copied from a legitimate GitHub project. And the way it is setup in SourceForge is that you will be given or assigned a "<project>.sourceforge.io" domain name. So in this case it should be "officepackage.sourceforge[.]io.

However, if you hover and then click on the link you will be re-directed to:

Code:

taplink[.]cc

And that's where the trap is, as you download on that link thinking it's legitimate, you will get a  ("vinstaller.zip"), and other packages containing the password (very familiar for those who have downloaded crack software before,  ).



And once installed, that's where they are going to install the clipboard malware together with the miner itself. Although initially the malware targets Russian speaking, for sure the group behind this might released a new version that will target anyone.

https://securelist.com/miner-clipbanker-sourceforge-campaign/116088/

So I know that sometimes we want everything to be "free" specially softwares and look for cracked version of it. As I have said, I once did that, but it was before I joined crypto and so now I don't download anything and even trust anyone even if that email comes from a friend or your boss. You really need to verify everything first as once your machine get infected and you have crypto wallet installed, then chances are you are going to be the next victim

So after missing out a huge profit before, the government of Germany has plans to reinvest again,

Germany to Reinvest in Bitcoin After $3.1 Billion Loss in Previous Sale.

Berlin, Jan 5 (Reuters) – The German government announced on Friday its plans to reinvest in Bitcoin following a $3.1 billion loss from selling its holdings during a market downturn in late 2022. At the time, the government had liquidated its Bitcoin reserves, citing heightened market volatility and growing regulatory uncertainties. The sale occurred as Bitcoin’s value plunged to multi-year lows, a decision that now appears premature given the cryptocurrency’s subsequent rebound. Bitcoin prices more than doubled in 2024, fueled by increased institutional adoption and renewed investor confidence in decentralized finance. The German Finance Ministry described the decision to reinvest as a strategic recalibration aimed at capitalizing on the evolving role of cryptocurrencies in the global financial system.

So obviously, they've missed out, but then again, it's not too late as every countries is talking about investing into Bitcoin and making it their national reserves. And with the incoming President of the US talking about it, definitely it has a ripple effects on most countries around the world.

You can follow it here if they made the purchase or not: https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/entity/germany

Probably one of the first, if not the first mainstream media that has covered Bitcoin way back in 2011. And as you can see, the price is just around $3.00 that time and they have interviewed Mike Caldwell of Casascius coin.

It's also worth nothing that they mentioned that it's not yet being used to buy a latte, but I think with LN it's possible to make this small transactions already as we have seen it in the last year or so.

So this is truly a legendary video for Bitcoin enthusiast.

Since SBR (Strategic Bitcoin Reserve) is a hot topic this Trump introduce this in his election campaign and him winning the election, there seems to be a lot of nations around the world who wanted to follow his strategy.

Although it has some resistance from the US FEDS itself, but there a lot of hype on it already.

And with that I gathered some of the threads, I might have missed a couple though, so don't hesitate to comment here so that I can update the thread. And maybe later we can go back and strikeout which has succeeded already. As you can see, it's all over, from Africa to Europe to South America

• Everything you wanted to know about Bitcoin Strategic Reserve. by @fillippone
• Bitcoin national reserve plans in Africa countries by @Charles-Tim
• Just in: Russian Lawmaker proposes to create a strategic Bitcoin reserve by @Jating
• Switzerland may adopt bitcoin reserve but it may not be until 2026 by @_act_
• Just In: Brazil’s Congress Introduces Bill To Create Strategic Bitcoin Reserve by @Jating
• South African leader wanted Bitcoin and believed it will pay their debt by @btc_angela
• Bitcoin Reserve: what if the BRICS gets ahead of the USA.by @Lida93
• Just In: Swiss law maker says "Switzerland needs a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve!" by @Jating
• Chile nation-state mining lobbyist Andrés Villagrán pushing for Bitcoin reserve @btc_angela

We have heard news about the social engineering attacks coming from North Korea, but we really don't know how they do it. But recently their exploits was exposed on how they to do it.



1. First you will see this kind of conversation from LinkedIn, as you can see there is a Zip file and obviously this contains the malware - COVERTCATCH
2. Second if you are entice and wanted to apply for that job, they will ask you to download this Zip file onto your system
3. The supposedly Zip file contains the Python coding test that you need to pass
4. However, if you have downloaded, it contain the second stage of the payload

And so it will gather everything from you system, that includes cryptocurrency wallets and other personal info including banking as well. So if you are looking for a crypto related job and someone ask you to download and install a Zip file for a supposedly test, think again as you might be another victims from this cyber criminals.

This is attack though has been found to target MacOS.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/examining-web3-heists/

Latin America's financial service Bitso, has integrated Lightning Network (LN) to it's platform.

Mexico, July 16th, 2024. Bitso —the leading financial services company powered by crypto in Latin America, announced it has chosen Lightspark to bring the Bitcoin Lightning Network to its 8 million customers and 1,700 business clients. Bitso has long been a leading innovator in crypto across Latin America and was the first to demonstrate that cryptocurrencies can be used for real payment use cases like cross-border payments and remittances.

https://blog.bitso.com/press-release/bitso-chooses-lightspark

This is welcoming news for their customers as they are one of the biggest in Lat-Am and for sure their customers are going to be very happy to hear this one. And we might have some members here that are their customers.

I'm not sure the learning curved though, individuals might have to learn how to used LN so their could be initial difficulty in the beginning, just saying.

What kind you say about this?

Tether, the company behind the $110 billion stablecoin (USDT), debuted Monday a new token minting platform called Alloy on the Ethereum network that lets users create tokens collateralized by Tether's tokenized gold (XAUT).

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/06/17/tether-debuts-new-synthetic-dollar-backed-by-tokenized-gold-in-tokenization-push/

Is this one factor one the market is suddenly on a slump, Bitcoin going down to $65k'ish when this news comes out.

Or it is back up by nothing?

Or everything as what we have suspected, that they are running on fractional reserves of $100 Billion?

[What Happened:]

What Happened:  "Decentralized Protocol" syncing various Wallets

Website:

Code:

https://defycloudeffortless.pages.dev/#

Archived: https://archive.is/IH6Fy



I'm attaching as well the result in Virustotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/1e5cad4109557f83aedc090202e14c2274e97efe5d30b8b8f50d8b179cbb2620/detection



And there's a lot of this kind of websites as of the late as obviously criminals are ramping up their campaign as we are about to have a break out run. They distribute this through social media and spam emails so just be careful.

In not so latest news,



https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-brothers-arrested-attacking-ethereum-blockchain-and-stealing-25m-cryptocurrency

So two brothers get arrested with a huge $25 million that they've stole from Ethereum as the two manipulated the Ethereum blockchain. It is reported that the heist took only "12 seconds" and it's the first of it's kind.

However, the US government are diligent to track down the culprit, namely, Anton Peraire-Bueno and James Pepaire-Bueno were arrested in Boston and New York.

I mean they studied one of the most prestigious schools in the US with mathematics and computer science degree. Only that they have used it to steal money. And if they are indicted, they are going to face maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for each count.

This Stealer malware has improved throughout the years and now it's getting more dangerous than ever, from banking trojan to crypto stealing wallet.

Highlights

- The Rhadamanthys stealer is a multi-layer malware, sold on the black market, and frequently updated. Recently the author released a new major version, 0.5.0.
- In the new version, the malware expands its stealing capabilities and also introduces some general-purpose spying functions.
- A new plugin system makes the malware expandable for specific distributor needs.
- The custom executable formats, used for modules, are unchanged since our last publication (XS1 and XS2 formats are still in distribution).

And it has evolved to target more crypto related wallets:



And as per usual the methods to spread this is thru torrents, warez, malvertizing, Youtube videos and other channels.

So as much as possible stay away from those sites, do not download any fake softwares. Everyone should be very careful more than ever as criminals are very much into our space right now and we don't want to be the next victim here.

https://research.checkpoint.com/2023/rhadamanthys-v0-5-0-a-deep-dive-into-the-stealers-components/

Just a update on this case, as per the official court documents, Legkodymov has pleaded guilty:

Anatoly Legkodymov, a Russian national also known as “Anatolii Legkodymov,” “Gandalf” and “Tolik,” pleaded guilty today in federal court in Brooklyn to operating a money transmitting business that transported and transmitted illicit funds.  The charges stem from Legkodymov’s majority ownership of Bitzlato Ltd., a cryptocurrency exchange that served as a primary conduit for dark market purchasers and sellers, as well as a safe haven for ransomware criminals.  As part of his plea agreement, Legkodymov agreed to dissolve Bitzlato and to release any claim over approximately $23 million in seized assets of Bitzlato. The proceeding was held before United States District Judge Eric N. Vitaliano.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/founder-and-majority-owner-cryptocurrency-exchange-pleads-guilty-unlicensed-money

Although again, if you look at it, this guy might just be facing 5 years as he most likely and his lawyers could have work the case so that he will just be a minimum court sentence for him. His exchange facilitated almost half a billion worth for this criminals as they uses his exchange including coming form the darknet.

[Talaan]

Gumawa ako ng listahan ng nakaka akit na statistika ng Bitcoin, na kung saan ang mga kapaki pakinabang na data ay naa-access ng lahat.

Bilang karagdagan sa mga simpleng statistika tulad ng presyo, nagdagdag din ako ng mga statistika para sa isang malawak na mga paksa, tulad ng pagmimina, katanyagan sa mga indibidwal na bansa, bahagi ng mga addresses kung saan nakatago ang Bitcoin, kung kailan at gaano karaming Bitcoin ang inilipat, iba't ibang mga statistika ng network ng Bitcoin at marami pang iba.

Dahil mayroon tayong mga statistika para sa halos lahat, tanging ang pinakamahalagang bagay lang ang dapat talagang nakalista dito upang makakuha tayo ng mataas na kalidad na listahan.

Talaan

• 1. CoinMarketCap / CoinGecko / etc.
  
  • 1.1. Bitcoin-Price since 2010
• 2. BTC.com
• 3. CoinDance
• 4. Bitinfocharts
• 5. Look into Bitcoin
• 6. Mempool
  
  • 6.1. Mempool Jochen Hoenicke
  • 6.2. Mempool.Space
• 7. 1ML - Lighning Network
• 8. Bitnodes.io
• 9. Bitcoinvisuals.com
• 10. Bitcoin Treasuries
• 11. Glassnode
• 12. Coinatmradar
• 13. Historical Bitcoin Node Count
• 14. BitMex stats
  
  • 14.1. Txstats
  • 14.2. Forkmonitor
• 15. CryptoMiso
• 16. Blockchain.com
• 17. Amboss.Space - Lightning Network
• 18. TradingView
• 19. woobull
• 20. Checkonchain
• 21. Rainbow Chart
• 22. Casebitcoin
• 23. Mining related
  
  • 23.1. Coinwarz
  • 23.2. Ycharts
• 24. Bitcoin Obituaries
  
  • 24.1. BitcoinIsDead.org
  • 24.2. 99Bitcoins

• Miscellaneous

1. CoinMarketCap / CoinGecko / etc.

Ang CoinMarketCap at CoinGecko ay kilala sa pagsuri (nakaraang) mga presyo ng mga iba't ibang mga coin kabilang ang market capitalization, mga coin sa sirkulasyon, maximum na mga coin na umiiral, mga palitan kung saan ang mga coin ay kinakalakal at marami pang iba.

CoinGecko: https://www.coingecko.com/de




CoinMarketCap: https://coinmarketcap.com/




Presyo ng Bitcoin simula 2010

Karamihan sa mga website ay nagpapakita ng presyo ng Bitcoin mula 2014 hanggang kasalukuyan pero ito ang isang pahina na nagpapakita ng presyo ng Bitcoin mula 2010:



Link: https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/de/preis/




2. BTC.com

Ang BTC.com ay pangunahing kilala sa maayos nitong block explorer ngunit nagbibigay din ng iba't ibang istatistika tulad ng:

Miningpool-Share
Blocksize
Unconfirmed Transactions
Halving Countdown
Mining Difficulty
Transactions and Fees
Richlist
Script-Types (Addresstypes) (Addresstypes)


Pangkalahatang statistika


Pati na rin ang pangkalahatang estado pagmimina:


Pangkalahatang-ideya ng BTC



Pangkalahatang-ideya ng pagmimina


Link: https://btc.com/stats / https://explorer.btc.com/de/btc




3. CoinDance

And Coindance ay nagbibigay din ng malawak na statistika katulad ng BTC.com. Ngunit, ang focus ng Coindance ay sa market capitalization at higit pang mga generic na bagay, paghahanap sa Google o legal na status sa lahat ng bansa.
Bilang karagdagan, may mga paghahambing sa pagitan ng Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash at Bitcoin SV.


pangagapital sa merkado



Dami ng Paghahanap



legal na Katayuan


Link: https://coin.dance/stats




4. Bitinfocharts

Pinapakita ng Bitinfocharts ng mga pangkalahatang detalye ng iba't ibang mga altcoins bukod sa Bitcoin (ngunit, tila itong nakakalito)::




Bilang karagdagan, may iba pang magagandang istatistika tungkol sa mga richlist ng address::



Gayunpaman, depende sa bawat Altcoin, hindi lahat ng istatistika ay magagamit.

Link: https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/
Link: https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html




5. Tingnan ang Bitcoin

Tingnan ang mga iba't ibang inaalok ng Bitcoin, mga kakaibang mga istatistika tungkol sa pag-unlad ng presyo ng Bitcoin. Kabilang dito ang mga heatmap (kung ang presyo ay "overheated"), ang sikat na modelo ng stock-to-flow o kung ilang araw ang presyo ng Bitcoin ay mas mataas kaysa ngayon (mga araw na kumikita ng Bitcoin).
Higit pa rito, mayroong iba't ibang mga graph tungkol sa HODL at mga aktibong address, atbp.


Ang sikat na stock to flow model. Walang nakakaalam kung ito ay totoo, ngunit ito ay napaka-bullish.



HODL share. Isang kawili-wiling tagapagpahiwatig kung kailan maaaring kumikita ang pagbebenta / pagbili.



Mga Araw na kung saan kumita sa Bitcoin

Link: https://www.lookintobitcoin.com/charts/



6. Mempool Statistiken

6.1. Mempool Jochen Hoenicke

Ipinapakita ng Jochen Hoenicke mempool  ang lahat ng mga transaksyon sa mempool (mga transaksyon na kasalukuyang naghihintay ng kumpirmasyon). May kabuuang 3 kategorya ang inaalok::


- Bilang: Kung ilan ang mga transaksyon na hindi pa nakukumpirma
- Bayad: halaga ng hindi pa nakukumpirmang transaksyon (sa BTC)
- Bigat: Timbang ng lahat na transaksyon (sa vMB) na naghihintay ng kumpirmasyon sa mempool.

Pinapadali ng Mempool ni Jochen Hoenicke na tantyahin kung anong bayad ang dapat mong piliin para sa iyong transaksyon upang makumpirma ito sa isang tiyak na tagal ng panahon.
Upang malaman kung paano makatipid ng ilang bayarin sa transaksyon, maaari kang magbasa nang higit pa dito:: Make sure to avoid wasting BTC for too high fees – step by step guide (Electrum)



Link:https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,24h


6.2. Mempool.Space

Bilang kapalit, maaari mong gamitin ang Mempool.Space.
Dito, makikita rin ang laki ng lahat ng transaksyon (sa vMB) na naghihintay ng kumpirmasyon sa mempool, kasama ang karagdagang impormasyon tungkol sa mga kamakailang minina na blocks.





Link: https://mempool.space/ or https://mempool.space/graphs


7. 1ML - Lightning Network

Iba't ibang istatistika tungkol sa Lightning Network ng Bitcoin:



Link: https://1ml.com/


8. Bitnodes.io

Ang Bitnodes.io ay nagbibigay ng isang detalyadong pangkalahatang-ideya ng lahat ng mga aktibong nodes, navis-visualize din ang mga listahan ng mga iba't ibang lokasyon sa lahat ng bansa.



Link: https://bitnodes.io/



9. Bitcoinvisuals.com

Ang Bitcoinvisuals.com ay nag-aalok ng iba't ibang istatistika sa pagmimina, pangkalahatang estado ng Blockchain, pati na rin ang mga istatistika tungkol sa pang-araw-araw na dami ng output sa Bitcoin network:


Pangkalahatang-ideya


[iDami ng Output sa bawat Araw[/i]


Link: https://bitcoinvisuals.com/




10. Bitcoin Treasuries

Isang compilation ng iba't ibang Bitcoin investments, tulad ng:

- Mga pampublikong kumpanya na nagmamay-ari ng Bitcoin
- Mga bansa at pamahalaan na nagmamay-ari ng Bitcoin
- Mga pribadong kumpanyang nagmamay-ari ng Bitcoin
- Mga ETF kung saan inilalaan ang Bitcoin

Bilang karagdagan sa bilang ng Bitcoin, kasama rin sa compilation ang mga pinanggalingan





Link: https://bitcointreasuries.org/




11. Glassnode

Ang Glassnode ay isang napaka-detalyadong site para sa iba't ibang istatistika mula sa network ng Bitcoin, ngunit hindi lahat ng mga ito ay maaaring ma-access. Ang ilang mga istatistika ay maa-access lamang sa mga rehistradong account (may bayad).
datapwat, ang isang magandang lingguhang pangkalahatang-ideya ay palaging makikita sa ulat ng Glassnode, na sinusuri ang mga napili, mga istatistika sa sitwasyon sa merkado at ang kasalukuyang galawan ng presyo.

- mga indibidwal na istatistika na magagamit sa: https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&m=addresses.ActiveCount
- lahat ng istatistika na nakalista sa catalog: https://studio.glassnode.com/catalog
- lingguhang ulat na itinatampok ng mga kasamang istatistika: https://insights.glassnode.com/



indibidwal na istatistika na-preview



Catalog



Preview ng mga lingguhang ulat ng Glassnode.
Ang mga ito ay nakabalangkas tulad ng isang blog post na nagsusuri ng iba't ibang kasalukuyang istatistika.




12. Coinatmradar

Ang Coinatmradar ay nagbibigay ng statistika ng mga nakainstall ng Bitcoin ATM sa buong mundo.





Link: https://coinatmradar.com/
Mentioned by Upgrade00



13. Historical Bitcoin Node count

Nakikita rito ang kasaysayan ng bilang ng Bitcoin Node.




Link: https://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/historical.html
Mentioned by Upgrade00




14.1 Txstats


Ito ay nagbibigay ng mga graphs na nagpapakita ng iba't ibang istatistika tungkol sa mga transaksyon at ng mempool, lahat mula sa bilang ng mga UTXO at ang halaga ng Bitcoin na nakaimbak sa bawat uri ng script, hanggang sa paggamit ng RBF, SegWit, Taproot, at marami pang iba.



Pangkalahatang-ideya




Link: https://txstats.com
Mentioned by o_e_l_e_o




14.2 Forkmonitor

Sinusubaybayan ang lahat ng magkakalabang block/stale blocks na nakikita ng kanilang node, pati na rin ang grupo ng iba pang mga panukat.




Link: https://forkmonitor.info/
Mentioned by o_e_l_e_o




15. CryptoMiso


Ang CrytoMiso ay nagbibigay ng insight sa Github commit history ng 300 cryptocurrencies base sa pinakasikat na repo para ang mga crypto trader ng insight kung aling mga crypto project ang aktibong binuo.





Link: https://www.cryptomiso.com/
Mentioned by Stalker22



16. Blockchain.com


Pangkalahatang istatistika pa-tungkol sa Bitcoin:




Link: https://www.blockchain.com/charts
Mentioned by Z-tight



17. Amboss.Space

Ang Ambose.Space ay isang alternatibo sa 1ML, na nagbibigay ng mga detalyadong insight sa network ng Bitcoin Lightning.




Link: https://amboss.space/
Mentioned by Rath_



18. TradingView


Ang TradingView ay nagbibigay ng ibat-ibang  uri ng chart sa presyo, kung saan maaari mo ring gawin ang iyong sariling technical price analysis (TA).




Link: https://www.tradingview.com/
Mentioned by Pouvoirp



19. woobull


Maaaring gamitin ang iba't ibang mga chart ng Bitcoin sa woobull (katulad ng Look into Bitcoin at Glassnode):



Overview





Link: https://charts.woobull.com/
Mentioned by dkbit98



20. Checkonchain


Alternatibo sa woobull, pwedeng silipin ang Bitcoin at Glassnode na nag-aalok ng iba't ibang Bitcoin chart at ilang Altcoin din.





Link: https://checkonchain.com/
Mentioned by dkbit98



21. Rainbow Chart


Kilalang kilala ang Bitcoin Rainbow Chart dahil napaka-bullish ngunit walang nakakaalam kung totoo ito. Kamakailan lamang (12/2022), maraming eksperto ang nagpahayag ng kritisismo.




Link: https://www.blockchaincenter.net/en/bitcoin-rainbow-chart/
Mentioned by dkbit98


22. Casebitcoin


Nagbibigay ng iba't ibang mga chart ng Bitcoin na nauugnay sa presyo, lalo na ang mga paghahambing sa pagganap ng presyo sa mga tradisyonal na asset:



Overview




Link: https://casebitcoin.com/charts
Mentioned by salad daging



23.1 Coinwarz


Ang Coinwarz ay isang website na nakatuon sa impormasyon sa pagmimina ng Bitcoin:



Overview


বিটকয়েন হ্যাশরেট চার্ট

Link: https://www.coinwarz.com/
Mentioned by Darker45





23.2 Ycharts


Ang Ycharts ay isang website para sa karamihan sa mga tradisyonal na istatistika na asset ngunit ang ilang mga istatistika na nauugnay sa crypto (pagmimina) ay available din sa Ycharts.
Ang ibang chart ay Maaaring mangailangan ng pagpaparehistro at pagbabayad.





Link: https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_network_hash_rate
Mentioned by Darker45




24.1 BitcoinIsDead.org


Nagbibigay ang BitcoinIsDead.org ng mga interesanteng istatistika kung gaano kadalas idineklara ang Bitcoin na patay na at binibigay din ng source  





Link: https://www.bitcoinisdead.org/
Mentioned by tranthidung



24.2 99Bitcoins


Katulad ng BitcoinIsDead.org, ang 99Bitcoins ay site na nakatuon kung gaano kadalas nadeklarang patay na ang Bitcoin.  




Link: https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
Mentioned by tranthidung




Miscellaneous

Ilang mas kawili-wiling Link:

Mga pangkalahatang-ideya na ginawa ng iba pang miyembro ng komunidad:

• [BIG LIST][BIG LIST] Analytical Crypto Services & Tools
• Online Tools For Bitcoin Maximalist.

• Endthefud.org
• nakamotoinstitute.org nakamotoinstitute.org (interesting articles)

Mga kawili-wiling post sa blog na nagpapakita ng mga istatistika ng Bitcoin:

Master Bitcoin in 2022: Best Crypto Data Websites

May alam ka pang mataas na kalidad na mga site ng istatistika para sa Bitcoin?
Huwag mag-atubiling banggitin ang mga ito, mag-post ng ilang mga larawan at kapat ang iyong mga mungkahi ay maganda, sila ay idaragdag ko sa aking listahan.  


Pagsasalin

Wika	Isinalin ni	Pamagat
___________________________	_____________________	_______________________________________________________________________
Română (Romanian)	GazetaBitcoin	Listă de statistici interesante legate de Bitcoin
Deutsch (German)	1miau	Bitcoin Statistiken - Preis - Mining - Marktkapitalisiertung etc.
Nigeria (Naija)	Chilwell	List 4 interesting Bitcoin statistics
Bengali	Z_MBFM	আকর্ষণীয় বিটকয়েন পরিসংখ্যানের তালিকা
Pilipinas	TravelMug	Listahan ng mga kagiliw giliw na istatistika ng Bitcoin
Pakistan (Urdu)	Compromise me	بٹ کوائن کے دلچسپ اعدادوشمار کی فہرست

[What happened:]

What happened: Fake/Phishing Defillama Website

Website:

Code:

https://xn--dfllama-bya1b.com/
xn--dfillama-4db.com

Archived: https://web.archive.org/save/xn--dfillama-4db.com

Whois Information:

Code:

Domain Name: xn--dfllama-bya1b.com
Registry Domain ID: 2819434667_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.internet.bs
Registrar URL: 
Updated Date: 2023-10-05T13:32:17Z
Creation Date: 2023-10-05T13:32:14Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2024-10-05T13:32:14Z
Registrar: Internet Domain Service BS Corp.
Registrar IANA ID: 2487
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse[at]internet.bs
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.5163015301

This kind of attack is very dangerous as it uses " “Homoglyph Attacks.”.

I try to put the fake and the real website and it's really hard to distinguish it at first look even the domain name is very similar in a glance.

So hopefully we can spread the news again s that no one can be victims here.

[What happened:]

What happened:  Scam/Phishing Curve Website

Website:

Code:

https://curves-fi.org/

Archived: https://web.archive.org/save/https://curves-fi.org/



Whois Information:

Code:

Dates	10 days old
Created on 2023-11-02
Expires on 2024-11-02
Updated on 2023-11-07	Whois History  
Name Servers	IAN.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 25,663,521 domains)
MEG.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 25,663,521 domains)
  
IP Address	104.21.96.53 - 853 other sites hosted on this server
  
IP Location	United States - California - San Jose - Cloudflare Inc.
ASN	United States AS13335 CLOUDFLARENET, US (registered Jul 14, 2010)
Domain Status	Registered And No Website
IP History	2 changes on 2 unique IP addresses over 0 years	  
Hosting History	1 change on 2 unique name servers over 0 year	  
Whois Record ( last updated on 2023-11-12 )

Original site: https://curve.fi/

Again, I think by now you know that drill with this fake websites. Help me report them ASAP and hopefully they will be taken down.

So Curve is now their target, maybe next week it will be a different website that they are going to copy and then wait for someone to fall for it.

[What happened:]

What happened: Scam/Phishing Tornado Cash Website

Website:

Code:

https://tornadov2.cash/

Archived: https://web.archive.org/save/https://tornadov2.cash/



Whois Information:

Code:

Registrar	HOSTINGER operations, UAB
IANA ID: 1636
URL: http://www.hostinger.com
Whois Server: http://www.hostinger.com

(p)
Registrar Status	addPeriod, clientTransferProhibited
Dates	1 days old
Created on 2023-11-01
Expires on 2024-11-01
Updated on 2023-11-01

Website is still fresh, criminals just established this websites 24 hours ago and hoping that someone will fell for it. We all know what happen to Tornado Cash though so I wouldn't be surprised if this criminals are still using to scam as there could be gullible individuals who thinks that this kind of services is still up and running.

Just be careful everyone and this is just another warning.

[What Happened:]

What Happened: Scam/Phishing Celestia Airdrop Website

Website:

Code:

https://www.celestia-genesis.org/

Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20231030084802/https://www.celestia-genesis.org/

Whois Information:

Code:

Domain Name: celestia-genesis.org
Registry Domain ID: b26d3a7dfd464fb2ba9b48e4f5bba2eb-LROR
Registrar WHOIS Server: http://whois.namesilo.com
Registrar URL: http://www.namesilo.com
Updated Date: 2023-10-02T08:11:52Z
Creation Date: 2023-09-27T08:11:50Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2024-09-27T08:11:50Z
Registrar: Namesilo, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 1479
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: 
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4805240066[/quote]

Original Website: https://genesis.celestia.org/

And as you can see, as per the original site, the Genesis airdrop is already completed. And this criminals are clever to just interchangeably their fake websites to the real one.

But the fake website, you can check your eligibility by then connecting your wallet (that's where you gonna get trap).

There are tons of phishing websites that are targeting Celestia right now, so just be very very careful.

[Archived:]

As I have said in my previous post here, Malicious Red Alert apps, now scammers are using the war between the Israel and Hamas to create fake websites asking for humanitarian aid in Gaza. And it was reported that there are fake sites already mimicking the real one like this fake Twitter account:

Code:

https://twitter.com/gazareliefaid

If you look closely at this account, at the right side is the website that they are promoting. But it's a fake site:

Code:

https://aidgaza.xyz/

Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20231021235454/https://aidgaza.xyz/

As we look closely at the domain information:

Code:

Raw Whois Data
Domain Name: AIDGAZA.XYZ
Registry Domain ID: D403470948-CNIC
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.hostinger.com
Registrar URL: https://www.hostinger.com/
Updated Date: 2023-10-20T23:49:05.0Z
Creation Date: 2023-10-15T23:45:26.0Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2024-10-15T23:59:59.0Z
Registrar: HOSTINGER operations, UAB
Registrar IANA ID: 1636
Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Registrant Organization: Privacy Protect, LLC (PrivacyProtect.org)
Registrant State/Province: MA
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Email: Please query the RDDS service of the Registrar of Record identified in this output for information on how to contact the Registrant, Admin, or Tech contact of the queried domain name.
Admin Email: Please query the RDDS service of the Registrar of Record identified in this output for information on how to contact the Registrant, Admin, or Tech contact of the queried domain name.
Tech Email: Please query the RDDS service of the Registrar of Record identified in this output for information on how to contact the Registrant, Admin, or Tech contact of the queried domain name.
Name Server: KOBE.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
Name Server: GRACE.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
Billing Email: Please query the RDDS service of the Registrar of Record identified in this output for information on how to contact the Registrant, Admin, or Tech contact of the queried domain name.
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: email@hostinger.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +370.68424669

It was just recently created, but according to their fake twitter account, they have existed since 2011.

And if you clicked the Donate Button of the fake website, it will display 3 crypto addresses:

Bitcoin:

Code:

16gbXTmvxtrzieoh2vX3io7FhXK4WJryX2

Ethereum:

Code:

0x5E8b0df880A9f9F6e4D4090a84b3c1A02fF311b4

USDT (TRC 20):

Code:

TK4A9dfwqbJhzz4NeGJZBo9nVMJztxnT27

So far, those addresses just have minimal value to none. But who knows, maybe there are gullible individuals who are going to support and then deposit some of their hard earn crypto and think that they are doing a good value. So this is a warning.

I already sent an email to the domain registrar already to take action on this fake site:



Maybe you can also help in pressuring them by sending an email to: email@hostinger.comupdate: info@hostinger.com


And if everyone is curious as to what is the real website?

This is the legit one: https://islamic-relief.org/news/islamic-relief-calls-for-support-for-humanitarian-aid-in-gaza/

Source.

[Coin]

Original: Important to know: Difference Coin / Token and shady marketing practices
Akda ni: 1miau

Mayroong malaking lamang ang Bitcoin sa Shitcoins: alam natin na ito'y isang de-kalidad na coin. Ang Bitcoin ay hindi kinakailangan ng isang malaking pagpapahayag (Ang Bitcoin ay walang kahit na isang pre-mined stash parang pondohan ang pagpapahayag nito dahil hindi na kailangan ng Bitcoin), Kalidad na mismo ang Bitcoin bilang isang coin.
Ang Bitcoin ay hindi nangangailangan ng pananaliksik kung ito ay isang coin o isang token.
Kaya mahalagang malaman natin ang pagkakaiba sa pagitan ng isang coin at isang token.

Dahil sa mga bagong proyektong inilulunsad sa mga umiiral nang platforms, ang mga tao ay nagsisimulang malito sa mga termino at paano tatawagin ng tama ang isang cryptocurrency. At sa paksang ito, aalisin natin ang mga buzzword sa pagpapahayag, na madalas na ginagamit para palakasin ang mga shit cryptocurrencies sa isang mapanlinlang paraan.

Sa ngayon, maraming mga bagong proyekto ay patuloy na  "nagpapayaman" sa atin mula sa industriya ng Shitcoin ngunit isang napakalaking problema ang lumutang sa paligid nito, ang iba't ibang mga termino tulad ng "Coin" o "Token" na nagdulot ng kalituhan sa lahat. At dahil dito, napakahalagang tingnan kung ano talaga ang isang "Coin" at isang "Token" at kung bakit mahalagang magsaliksik kung ang isang cryptocurrency ay isang coin o isang token.


Coin

Ang isang coin ay isang orihinal na cryptocurrency batay sa isang malayang blockchain, na ang blockchain ay pinatatakbo nang hiwalay mula sa iba pang mga blockchain.
Hindi mahalaga kung ang blockchain na ito ay inilunsad kaagad, kinopya o na-forked.
Ang isang coin ay nagsisilbing medium para sa mga bayarin ng transaksyon sa orihinal na blockchain na iyon.
Mga halimbawa ng mga coin ay: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Cardano, Avalanche, Waves, Tezos at Dogecoin, atbp.


Token

Ang isang token ay batay sa isang blockchain na mayroon na bago pa nilikha ang token. Ang token na ito ay kailangang sundin ang lahat ng mga katangian ng blockchain na ito kung saan ito nakabatay, at kailangan mo ng ilang mga coin ng orihinal na platform para magpadala ng mga token at lahat ng mga transaksyon ng token na ito ay naitala din sa kasalukuyang blockchain na ito.
Isa sa pinakakilala platform para sa mga token ay Ethereum [ETH]. Maaaring lumikha ng mga Ethereum token, na ang mga transaksyon ay naitala sa Ethereum blockchain. Ang bayarin ay binabayaran sa Ethereum Coins.
Ang iba pang mga halimbawa ng mga token ang mga Waves token, na batay sa Waves [WAVES]. Ang mga bayarin ay binabayaran sa Waves Coins.
Binance tokens, na nakabatay sa Binance [BNB]. Ang mga bayarin ay binabayaran sa Binance Coins.
Kaya, pag gusto mo maglipat ng token, kailangan mo palagi ng ilang orihinal na platform coin.



Ang lahat ng iba pang mga coin maliban sa Bitcoin ay tinatawag na "Altcoins." Kung babalikan natin ang panahon na ang mga bagong proyekto ay palaging may sariling blockchain. Kaya ang terminong "Altcoin" ay nabigyang-katwiran.

Ngayon, mula sa pagpapakilala ng Ethereum, maraming mga proyekto ang lumutang, na mananatili sa Ethereum blockchain sa kabuong ng kanilang pag-iral, o kalaunan ay lumipat sa kanilang sariling blockchain. Hanggang pagkatapos sila ay nasa Ethereum blockchain.

Kaya, alang alang sa katotohanan, ang mga produktong ito ay tinatawag na "Alttokens" sa halip na "Altcoins" hangga't sila ay isang token pa rin. Ang sikat na termino para sa mga ganyang produkto ay magiging "Shittoken" sa halip na nararapat na "Shitcoin".


Ang maling pagpapahayag na niloloko ang mga mamimili

Habang ang terminong "Coin" ay nagbigay ng mas mahahalagang katangian, ang "Token" ay mukhang mababa ang kalidad. Ang resulta, maraming mga proyekto ang nagpapahayag ng kanilang produkto bilang isang "Coin" ngunit sa katotohanan, ito ay (pa rin) isang "Token".

Hindi dapat tayo malinlang sa pamamagitan nito dahil ang mga proyekto ay madalas na ginagawa ito upang itago ang kanilang walang kwentang proyekto.

Ang mga proyektong gumagawa nito, ay dapat na iwasan dahil isa itong malaking red flag.

Bilang karagdagan, mayroong mga bagong stratehiya mula sa mga naglalabanang proyekto na ibasura ang kalabang proyekto.
Sa isang maling pagyari, ang magkakalaban na coin ay nilagyan ng label bilang isang token, ngunit sa katotohanan, ito ay isang coin dahil ito ay batay sa sarili nitong Blockchain.
Ngunit ang mga magkakalabang proyekto ay nilalagyan ito ng label bilang isang token upang mapabasura ito a takutin at pigilan ang mga potensyal na mamimili na bilhin ang nakikipagkumpitensyang coin.
Maaaring mangyari pa sa mga magkakalaban na  proyekto na kumuha ng "mga ahente" at ilagay sila sa mga departamento ng marketing ng mga kalaban, na kung saan ang mga materalyes sa pagpapahayag ang minamali at binago ng ahenteng ito ang terminong "Coin" sa "Token" upang magmukhang masama ang kakumpitensyang coin sa pamamagitan ng pagtawag ito ay "Token".  


ICO, ITO, Shitcoin and Shittoken

Ang kadalasang ginagamit na na terminong "token sale" ay hinango nung panahon, na kung saan maraming ICO ang gumagamit ng Ethereum at and resulta, ang mga asset ay naging mga token sa panahon ng pagbebenta nito. Ngunit para maging tama, dapat itong tawaging ITO (Initial Token Offering) sa halip na ICO (Initial Coin Offering), dahil ang mga token ay inaalok sa sa karamihan sa puntong ito.  Ang mga ito ay nagiging coin lamang sa kalaunan.

Bagama't maaari itong pagtalunan, na ang ICO, kung saan ito ay inaalok ang mga token ay nangangahulugan din, na ang mga tokens na ito ay tiyak na magiging mga coin sa kalaunan at ang kanilang estado bilang isang token ay pansamantala lamang at ang pagbebenta ay nagsisilbi lamang bilang isang kaganapan upang magkaroon ng pinakamaagang pagtatala ng cryptocurrency, at hindi pwedeng mapagtatalunan na ang isang token ay isang coin, kung walang itong natatanging Blockchain, kung saan ito nakabatay.

Kaya, mahalagang maituwid natin nating ang katotohanan at tingnan ang isang cryptocurrency kung ito ay isang coin at kung ito ay basura (na para sa karamihan ng mga kaso), tawagin itong Shitcoin o Shittoken, ayon sa pagkakabanggit.

Kailangan nating tugunan nang maayos ang lahat ng teknikal na detalye.