From your post history, it sounds like you're trying to build a website similar to BestChange, hence why you're looking for similar websites for your market research. If this is indeed your purpose, I suggest you make a new thread where you ask people what kind of feature they'd like to see from an aggregator website. I do believe it is more efficient compared to doing your own research, it also reduces the bias from your POV  to some extent IMO.

Your review campaign is also nice, but there is no harm to share your current product so that others can review it freely. Some people do provide feedback even if you don't pay them.

My country doesn't allow crypto as a means of payment, but people do love trading cryptocurrency. I won't be surprised if some of us do pay with crypto for services like game currency top-ups or something similar. Personally, I don't think it will change soon but it is good enough for me. There are dozens of exchanges and events about crypto, which is quite healthy. There was an event started by the government just a few months ago iirc that discussed about crypto regulation in the near future. I can definitely see this as a friendly gesture, but who knows if things will change in the near future.

I guess popular business like Indodax, Pintu, or Tokocrypto is the one with the biggest presence in the local market due to either being early, doing a ton of marketing, or getting an investment from big players like Binance, and so on.

Definitely. It is inevitable to discuss who use them and for what purpose, but seeing that service like this exist and even scammers are trying to make phishing websites, it is safe to assume some people do use them. It is definitely not the best option for security or privacy, so I guess those who use them believe the tradeoff is worth it. Or if they are a beginner, they simply don't want to look for other options since they think this is good enough for them. CMIIW.
Oh, you're right. My bad. I won't be surprised if there will be a new one that supports image or something similar though.

I checked the homepage using Windscribe VPN and it automatically changes depending on which countries I used. I tried Singapore, Belgium, US, and some other countries and the price changed accordingly (SGD, USD, EUR, etc). Based on this, I do believe they read the IPs of the visitors. Not sure why it doesn't work for you though. Maybe due to your VPN settings?

I guess it depends on what sensitive data is being shared. If we are talking about passwords and stuff like that, maybe most of them won't use this self-destruct note. Maybe they will share secret links or screenshot with someone else, things that you don't want other people to know but need to be shared with your partner for your purpose. People can also use it to send their BTC address to somebody else if they're doing a trade that requires secrecy (although I doubt this is the best choice for that), which I guess is why scammers are publishing websites like this. I would not be surprised if some of these websites also replace credit card numbers, and stuff like that. CMIIW.

Just found out about your project from the Mining board. I don't think you need to make new threads to announce your book btw, just stick to this one and then look around if you want to create new articles related to mining.

Anyway, I think you'll have an easier time convincing people to share their stories if you use other platforms like Gitbook (if you still want to connect your GitHutb) for example. At the very least it should be better than your current setup, even though it is not ideal either since GitBook is designed for documentation. GitHub is just not suitable for collaborative writing IMO.

Isn't this basically fiat in a digital form? At the very least, the idea of issuing currency backed by gold is not new. I guess technicalities will be the place where it differs from others. CMMIW. It's kinda interesting to see the idea proposed by so many altcoin projects is now being developed by some government bodies.
Verification could also be an issue. Although I don't think the amount of distrust toward this kind of currency will be similar to how people view USDT as being shady. Can't be helped since they never publish their details explicitly anyway.

I don't think responsibility is the right word. Even if crypto is legalized in your country and you can trade it openly, they still won't compensate you if you fail for a scam. I guess help is the word you're looking for, more or less. At the end of the day though, people should not overly depend on the government to do investigative works to put scammers in jail.

Any decent platform would always alert its users that they should never communicate outside of the platform and ask for proof from their trading partners. Even if you do a P2P trade directly, it is a silly mistake to make unless you're so new to P2P IMO. CMIIW.

They are trying to control the market, that much is certain. I don't think the end goal is to kill crypto altogether, I believe the US SEC is trying to gain a foothold before they start introducing rules, business partners, etc whether it is directly or indirectly. It might seem scary but this should not be the first time stuff like this happens. FTX went bankrupt just a few months ago, and the market is still doing healthy compared to the past. We might go even lower but that's just the nature of a very speculative market.

At the end of the day having a less concentrated market that relies on one or two exchanges is good IMO.

Ane rasa ini secara eksplisit dimaksudkan ke jasa yang mereka berikan di Binance.US gan. Dengan kata lain setelah pengumuman tersebut pengguna Binance.US ga bakal bisa menggunakan fiat (USD) untuk deposit atau withdraw sama sekali. Untuk yang global ane rasa fitur ini juga ada kok, misalnya di support page juga dijelaskan gimana cara deposit berbagai jenis mata uang ke platform mereka[1].

[1] https://www.binance.com/en/support/faq/buy-crypto-fiat-p2p

Ane baca sekilas, yang dirumorkan kripto di sini hanya berkaitan dengan sistem in-game mereka. Misalnya, player bisa memilih untuk mendapatkan BTC daripada cash setelah menyelesaikan misi, menggunakan BTC tersebut untuk membeli/membayar layanan di NPC tertentu, dan lainnya. Jadi kripto/Bitcoin yang dimaksud disini tidak bisa diwithdraw layaknya game play-to-earn lainnya.

Btw ane rasa GTA itu bukan sebuah "platform" gan, tapi game. Ane rasa bedanya cukup signifikan karena platform biasanya merujuk ke layanan seperti marketplace, social media, dst. Kalaupun rumor ini benar, ane rasa bukan berita baru mengingat ada juga game yang membuat referensi ke Bitcoin/kripto sebelumnya.

Wrapped token dan sejenisnya tidak akan bisa menggantikan koin yang jadi acuan token tersebut. Selama agan tidak terjebak dengan persepsi, dan tahu risiko WBTC dan token sejenisnya, ane rasa fair kalau agan mau spekulasi dengan membeli token tersebut. Sayangnya banyak orang yang berasumsi WBTC itu sama dengan BTC, padahal bisa saja token agan difreeze dan agan ga bisa redeem BTC lagi. Kalau agan ingin likuiditas tapi tidak ingin menjual BTC agan, opsi alterternatifnya adalah dengan DEX atau ya alokasikan sebagian kekayaan agan untuk membeli BTC buat trading. Mengubah BTC menjadi WBTC menurut ane sangat beresiko, baik dari segi keamanan smart contract atau nilai dari WBTC itu sendiri.

Ane rasa lebih aman kalau agan mengasumsikan setiap stablecoin yang direlease dengan minting dan diluncurkan oleh perusahaan/organisasi tertentu sejenis Binance, Tether, Celcius punya hal semacam itu gan. Mustahil juga mereka tidak mencantumkan fungsi semacam itu mengingat pemerintah bisa saja menuduh mereka sengaja memfasilitasi money laundering kalau tidak punya fitur blokir address dan sejenisnya. Alternatifnya kalau agan tidak suka dengan hal semacam itu mungkin DAI, walau beberapa hari lalu ane dengar SEC juga bilang DAO bisa dianggap sebagai perusahaan dan tidak bisa lepas dari tanggung jawab mereka sebagai sebuah perusahaan. CMIIW.

Sekilas mirip dengan tips mengelola laptop pada umumnya ya. Mungkin agan bisa menambahkan list software atau tools yang selama ini agan pakai untuk mengelola laptop agan, misalnya tool monitoring temperature atau fan (apakah semacam MSI Afterburner, etc). Dengan begitu tipsnya bisa lebih spesifik.
Berarti agan mining tanpa melepas baterai laptop agan ini maksudnya? Kenapa tidak dilepas seutuhnya saja kalau panas adalah hal yang sudah pasti bakal muncul kalau agan memaksa laptop agan untuk mining? Ane tidak terlalu mengikuti update laptop terbaru, tapi mestinya agan masih bisa melepas baterai laptop dengan relatif mudah, kecuali agan beli Macbook dan sejenisnya. CMIIW.

Dilihat dari aplikasi" yang dibuat sepertinya ini developer yang suka bikin aplikasi tiruan dan menjejali apps mereka dengan ads. Beruntung bukan scammer yang entah kenapa sangat mudah mempublish aplikasi malware di Play Store. Di sisi lain dari cerita beberapa dev yang ane tahu aplikasi mereka butuh waktu yang cukup lama buat di approve.

Dari pengalaman ane, kalau ada apps/produk baru yang hype, aplikasi yang "resmi" pasti selalu dicantumin di website mereka. Kalau open source jauh lebih baik, dan kalau di web resmi tidak ada info sudah pasti yang ada di play store wallet palsu, atau paling tidak hanya mencomot nama saja.

I see. Unless it becomes mainstream I doubt it will affect the average cost to mine Bitcoin that much. I won't be surprised if they have a promotion or something similar for the first few months or so, and then gradually increase the price as other businesses have done in the past. Not sure it will attract miners to move in since some people already mentioned that this marketing stunt is quite often done, while the reality is not that easy for miners (or even the average joe) to get stable electricity.

I believe the entity is different. I don't think the Nigerian SEC has the same goal as the US SEC. As far as I'm aware, in my country, the same thing happened a few months ago. As of now, crypto exchanges need to register locally, have an office here, and so on before they can operate legally. The goal is to make crypto taxation easier, or in other words, exchange will help the government to record and to tax every trade made on their platform. Basically, the government wants some control and earns more taxes from the industry. I won't be surprised if this is the goal here. CMMIW.

What is the reason for that? While it is possible that a government freeze any account for a made-up reason, I think the chance is quite small unless some economic uncertainty happens in that country. I've seen a few cases where banks failed to get the capital to get their operation going, and then they stop the withdrawal process but they still need to pay their users by selling their assets or getting a bailout. Using Bitcoin to store your wealth is definitely an alternative if you don't mind the volatility.

That is fair, but I believe you can also double-check the news first. I mean, from the comments you can tell that some already suggest it is old news. I don't think it is difficult to search for similar news if they do exist. They are not talking about views or opinions related to the topic too, just stating that the news is likely old. Anyway, the mixups between volcano energy and Volcano Energy is funny to some extent.

Do you mean the cost to mine Bitcoin if they have access to such an energy source? I guess we need to wait until the price kicks in. If it is cheap, maybe some miners will use them. At the end of the day, the market will adjust itself (hash rate & difficulty might increase for a while, then some miners no longer make a profit, hash rate & difficulty decrease, etc) as usual. CMMIW.

I doubt this news will pump the Bitcoin price or anything like that if that's what you're referring to.

Even if they can do it, I doubt any mixer would do that (at least not publicly). It basically tells its users that they can and will expose their logs if they deem it necessary. Why bother using them in the future if privacy is your goal? Besides the fault of this case is more on Atomic Wallet being a terrible wallet, not necessarily a mixer or other privacy tools IMO.

I think he's not referring to the seed phrase of the hacker address, but the logs of the mixing process.

He's got a decent following on Twitter at the very least. Can't say for certain how reliable his info is since I'm not that active on social media. You can check out his Twitter if you want to know more, @zachxbt.

I think this basically answers your question. The cost they spend to encourage users to read/visit their website is incredibly small compared to the visibility that they get. There is little to no incentive for them to actively find users who abuse the system unless you explicitly abuse it with bots or something. But yeah, at the end of the day, nobody knows unless you ask them.

If $1 per week is a lot for you, I suggest looking at remote workers like raters who usually don't need a lot of job history. You'll earn a lot more and that should allow you to spend more of your time learning something else, even if it is not related to crypto.