Quoting for visibility.

Yep, always use a trusted escrow if you are going to make a transaction deal.

How did you get him thou?
Was it only through telegram or this forum?
If the user is in this forum, can you please avail his profile link.

You forgot to include Merit giveaway topics that have been there lately...
It's just a new indirect way of collecting merit from other forum members and supporters.

Shasan, I think this fits well int he Press board if you follow the right reporting format or even other boards like Trading discussion because I don't think it's a scam accusation.

You got my support,
I think we need an even merit source distribution through all boards though I doubt Theymos is willing add any more merit sources any time soon.
I watched you start off in the forum and look where you are.
Good luck with your application.

Very funny that you called the sample pictures and photos your perfect team



And here you are claiming you are not scammers. Do you think we are stupid?
We are getting tired of this usual excuse from scammers.

I think collecting even $1K worth of value through airdrops and bounties in 2018 was so hard unless you were so lucky or hard a couple of accounts in different bounties.
Personally my break through was 2017. Made tones of money from projects that were very generous with their bounties like Pundix and Datum, before Ether started to crash the next year after an all time high. It was crazy 

ICOs were doing so well and I would jump from one ICO to the next. Buying and selling as soon as they get listed on exchanges. What I am really grateful about was that once I realized that a bear market was starting off, I liquidated most of my digital assets for fiat and stablecoins so despite the over year long bear market, what i had gained was an over achievement.

One thing I realized about crypto and business world is that you have to adapt and change strategies in order to survive in this game. Think quick and your decisions have to be swift enough without many emotions.
During the bear market, i have learned to trade and also a few more things about bitcoin and other interesting blockchain startups

Trading is now solely my source of profits when it comes to crypto. I no longer want anything to do with airdrops or bounties(at least It has been so for over a year now)

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Other benefits of crypto are;
- You can get hired for something you have passion for e.g graphics designing, blog writing and also a position for other start-ups without even having much academic docs to present.
-  I have never paid a signal tax from my crypto earnings and i hope it remains so. I have always hated the fact of having to pay my tax only for some corrupt top government official to enjoy it
- It sort of connects us allover the world, even thou we are anonymous, we can carry out business without having to worry about authorities breathing down your neck for our pennies.

It's Bitcointalk forum not "Bitcoincashtalk" Forum, wanna get a place where you can shill bitcoincash uncontrollably? Create it.

Who cares about shitcoins that will die out with time.
They only survive on hype, once the hype dies down, People will forget about them... Bitcoin on the contrary, has stood the test of time

Avoid that site Bitcoin.com at all costs.
The real bitcoin is simply "Bitcoin" not bitcoin cash or bitcoin diamond or bitcoin blue...
If you can more information about the Bitcoin, check out
- https://bitcoin.org/en/
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page

It's Open and it has been that way from day one because the slots have never been filled up to date, check the title.
You can also check the spreadsheet, very many open slots esp for member and full member position.

However, I am not sure why CM takes longs to accept participants... probably because he already saw them but they don't qualify.

It's most likely a false positive. Just give it time.
It sometimes happens with even trusted official apps like Electrum.

You folks have been in the forum for a while now... at least according to your dates of registration, that's about 2+ years now.
You should by now know that;
- CFNP means Closed For New Participants
- Applications for new slots only usually happens when the campaign manager announces an open slot after making payment for the previous week
- There is always a spreadsheet in the OP that you can check to see where any member has been kicked out of the campaign for a given week

1.  Visual inspection:
One of the commonest ways is looking at the domain itself, letter after letter to be sure that you are visiting the right domain. In this instance, you must know the official domain of the website you want to visit letter to letter

2. Check for domain age:
In most cases, phishing domains are usually newer compared to the Official domains except a few that are quite old. You can use different tools to such as
- https://www.netcraft.com/
- https://domainbigdata.com/
- https://www.whois.com/

3. Use Trusted anti phishing browser extensions
They may not be so perfect but together they can help you at times when you are the not so alert. they will warn you if you are about to visit a phishing website. Such extensions include
- Netcraft
- Cryptonite (metacert protocal)
- Ether Address Lookup (EAL)
- Metamask

Usually towards any given holiday especially long holidays, most people cash out (both those who are actually cashing out to spend and those that are anticipating a boring trading period)., this is the major reason for that

I personally have done this numerous times and even didn't it prior to Thursday last week(I cashed out and bought on Sunday) and i believe so many other day traders too do this kind of move.

When you have been arrested for committing a crime and taken to prison to serve a sentence and then later released after serving the sentence, do you think they will erase your past crime records?
No, the wont.

Take the feedback you have on your profile as a record of your past crimes such that new users know your history and whom exactly they are dealing with.

To really be on the safe side, make sure both accounts are not participating in the same bounty campaign.
It will be very hard to prove that the other account belongs to your wife once you are tagged.
It's better to stay safe than sorry

It's bad that you lost and amount of to such an exchange. I personally have never heard about it. This is the first time me knowing about it. Just wondering how you got to know about it. If you had done back ground search prior to sending money there, it would have been avoided.

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In 2017, a certain user was concerned about the shadiness of the exchange. The address they claimed was theirs was false.

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The profile of the so called exchange here in the forum was last online in may 2017.



Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=943653

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The Ann for their service is even more unprofessional and silly  
Once you see it, you definitely know that the exchange is more than fishy.

ANN LINK: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1755236.0

Of course HTTPS Everywhere won't help one if they visit a phishing website and lately most phishing websites run using secure certificates but in instances when one visits a website that is not secure. HTTPS everywhere will try to avoid a scenario where a user's unencrypted data gets leaked in case there is a security attack on the website at a given time due to the weak security protocol on the website.

It's never a guard against phishing.

1. Listing fees
2. Withdrawal fees
3. Team holds a certain number of COB tokens which they will be selling periodically( please note that they don't burn tokens like binance, they own them then they gradually release them into the circulating supply through selling them.
4. It's both ICO funded and Venture capital funded on the equity side.

Check out more details in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/cobinhood/comments/7nlmnz/how_will_the_cobinhood_exchange_make_money/?depth=2

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Not sure if this belongs to reputation board or Trading discussion/ Exchanges

Why is it not fair?
They are also human being like you. You should never be discouraged at all. The fact is you can also get merit if you start making good posts and help members. I just made my 101^th Merit today, and I am now a full member. You can also make it from Zero.

OP, coolcryptovator or ICOEthics might have knoweledge of more other useful tools, but those are the one i also know about.
Otherwise you are welcome