It is true that paying with bitcoin is often not the most convenient thing to do, at least not for now. Keep in mind that Bitcoin was created only 14 years ago which is a very short amount of time in the grand scheme of things so it will take some time to properly implement low cast and fast bitcoin transfers.

I simply don't stress mytself too much about situtaion where bitcoin is not the most convenient and instead focos on those where I can sp[end my bitcoin easily, like for examplt paying for IPTV, VPN, gambling etc.

I think that situation with Kucoin is a little bit different because many people used that exchange specifically for no KYC feature, myself included. Well, at least people around me.


That's true, but I think those would already use Binance, Coinbase or other similar "reputable" exchange.

Judging by the people around me that I know used Kucoin until they introduced mandatory KYC, I would say that they will loose a lot of customers (me included). I mean, no KYC was the main reason why so many people used Kucoin and once you remove that, people will rather use Binance/Coinbase (at least people I know) or just try to find decentralized solutions.

And how exactly you challenged what @ZachXBT said? Did you maybe do a proper research, forensics etc? After all, he didn't claim that its 100% Lazarus behind it.



Of course every developed country has their own teams of hackers doing their dirty work.

I don't think that theymos cares about which rank potential merit source sends merit to, but rather to what kind of posts he merits. At least I like to think that.



Nope, not everyone who applied became a merit source as there are bunch of users who submitted their applications years ago and were skipped when theymos introduced new merit sources back in 2021, while some who enevr even applied became merit sources.

To be honest, I don't think that they are fooling anyone other than themselves if they think by deleting posts and having better merit/post ratio will get them into better paid signature campaigns. Likewise, any manager that can get fooled by that is not a good manager at all and is not checking post history properly.

Another reason why some members might do that is because they could be embarassed by their early posts when they just joined the forum but its hard to say without you sharing the names of those members wo we can see type of posts they were deleting.

Who says that they are the best hacker group in the world?

After all, why country that is capable of developing nuke and long range missiles couldn't have a capable state sponsored hacker group? I don't think that they are so backwards as we like to think. Well, at least not at things that matter to them, e.g military.

According to @ZachXBT, it looks like that infamous North Korean group Lazarus might be behind this. Also, total amount lost now is more than $60M as they located more TRON and BTC that was hacked.
Source: https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1683747073227624448


I've heard names like HypeDrop, Ignition and Bovada being mentioned in articles but I can't say I heard about any of those before.

Da, znam kako to funkcionira ali rekoh mislim da nema potrebe to raditi (tj bar ja ne vidim neku prednostprednost) kad sam vec ostavio adrese za sig kampanje, a neke od njih ne mogu editati ni da hocu jer su ih manageri quotali kad su me primali u kampanju.

Postoji doduse jos jedna komplikacija kad je u oitanju hackiranje accounta, a to je da scammer zatrazi i dobije loan pa tebi onda ostane dug cak i kad vratis account, kao sto se nedavno dogodilo. Zapravo mi je nevjerojatno da netko daje loanove bez da trazi potpisanu poruku bas iz tog razloga.


Ma to je doslovno minuta posla, jedino je stvar da ne podrzavaju bas svi walleti tu opciju. dkbit98 je svojedobno napravio vodic kojeg bi malo trebalo srediti da se vide screenshotovi.

S obzirom da mu je theymos dao merita za tu inicijativu, fakat se nadam da bi se to moglo uskoro implementirati te da necemo cekati kao u slucaju epochtalka.


Da li je uopce ta potpisana poruka ista bolja od sheranja bilo koje bitcoin adrese? Pitam jer se meni do sada nije dalo to odraditi jer mi je nekako logicno da je dovoljno da potpisem poruku sa bilo koje adrese koju sam ranije koristio da dokazem vlasnistvo accounta u slucaju hacka.

I think that its obvious to anyone who follows my thread that Nigerian board is undermrited at the moment and could use at least one more merit source. The only "problem" is that theymos tends to readjust merit in bulk when he sees that amount of merit shared forum-wise went down significantly so it may take a while before applications made after July 2021 gets approved as at the moment, overall amount of merit shared is still pretty good.

Anyway, good luck and hopefully you get merit source status eventually. In the meantime, you might wanna report posts from your local board in Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source thread. I did that when we were in your situation and it helped us a lot.

Small update: Every once in a while I have to check one of my older reports and it usually ends by me checking old pages of this thread, not knowing where exactly particular overview is (since I am often too bored to check Google drive). So, in order to make it easierr for me and everyone else to check previous months overviews, I added the list of monthly overviews to the first post of this thread.

Ideally that should be added to reserved post, but since I didn't think in advance and make one, I have to do it this way. When the list becomes too long I will  reorganize it a little bit and create table for an easier access. 

Ja sam nekad puno vise pisao na mobitelu a sada mozda napisem 10% postova na taj nacin. Ono sto cesto znam napraviti dok chillam na kaucu je da na mobitelu provjerim sta ima novo na forumu pa ako me neka tema zanima, odvucem se do kompa ostaviti komentar. Ili ako je bas kraci post onda napisem to na mobitelu.


Postoje i laptopi sa vise ekrana ali imho nisu bas najprakticniji (a i preskupi su za ono sto nude) a postoje i oni monitor extenderi sto se nakace na laptop ali to je ipak malo vece te nije bas prakitcno za nositi okolo.


Da lako se naviknuti na multi monitor setup pa onda cim se maknes od toga bude ti malo prostora na desktopu. Ja sam dugo godina to odbijao misleci da nema potrebe za tim te sam tek prije koju godinu uzeo jos jedan monitor.

Arabic local board historically has a very high (often highest among all local boards) merit/post ratio so I wouldn't be surprised if someone who doesn't speak Arabic at all uses Google translate in order to farm merit.

By the way, are you a native Arabic speaker?

Dok sam radio ovaj pregled bacio sam oko na trenutni mjesec te ne da si malo bolji nego si  trenutno pri samom vrhu sto se tice kolicine postova, a i ovaj mjesec bi opcenito trebao biti malo bolji od prethodnog u kojem je vecina podbacila.


Samo 40 mjesecno? Imam nekako dojam da si ipak dosta aktivniji od toga.

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Meni bi slijedeci mjesec trebao biti dosta slabiji jer za par dana idem na godisnji koji ce trajati do pocetka 9 mjeseca a cim se maknem od svog setupa i moram pisati na laptopu odmah imam manje volje.

In that twitter thread that mk4 shared its mentioned that one of their clients (HypeDrop) had to disable withdrawals so it seems that not only their funds was lost in that hack.


Iirc the only crypto payment processor I ever used was Paycek and it was very user friendly (its non-custodial ofc)  so I don't know how easier custodial ones could be.

Kao sto sam obecao u onoj temi u Meti, evo i mjesecnog pregleda domaceg boarda. Kao i svaki out do sada, pregled je napravljen uz pomoc @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboarda te @TryNinja Ninjastic.space a sve slike su uploadano na joker_josue TalkImg kojeg ovim puem preporucujem ako trazite tool za uploadanje slika na forum.

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Analiza broja postova tijekom Lipnja 2023

Tijekom gore navedenog perioda na nasem lokalnom boardu napisano je ukupno 217 postova sto je poprilican pad u odnosu na mjesec ranije tijekom kojeg smo napisali 328. S obzirom da je ljeto i da ljudi imaju pametnijeg posla, pad se ocekivao ali nisam bas mislio da ce biti ~33%. Ono sto je takodjer primjento na chartu je da je altcoin sekcija skroz zamrla te da se velika vecona razgovora vodi na main dijelu, ali to u biti ne cudi jer tijekom bearan altovi ionako miruju te nema nekih velikih dogadjaja.

Bit ce zanimljivo vidjeti rezultate za ovaj mjesec jer mi se nekako cini da smo bili aktivniji nego prosli mjesec, ali u svakom slucaju ne ocekujem neko veliko povecanje broja postova.




Na ovom chartu se najbolje vidi situacija od 2018 te ispada da nam je ovo drugi najgori rezultat uopce, a ja cak mislim da je najgori jer onaj broj iz 1/2021 je rezultat dobivanja novih child boardova te se tijekom premjestanja topica i postova brojka malo poremetila.




U uspredbi sa ostalim boatrdovima smo takodjer dosta pali jer smo nekada bili u gornjoj polovici a sada smo na zalost pri dnu.

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Analiza merita za Lipanj 2023

Tijekom Lipnja na nasem boardu podijeljeno je 154 merita sto je pad od skoro 50% u odnosu na mjesec ranije te nam je to najgori rezultat u zadnjih skoro godinu dana. Opet, taj pad ne cudi s obzirom na pad broja postova te on u biti i nije uopce los kad se to uzme u obzir.




A evo i liste svih onih koji su podijelili te primili merit tijekom gore navedenog razdoblja. S obzirom na primjetan pad podijeljenog merita, ne cudi da je lista dosta kraca u donosu na Svibanj tijekom kojeg je 19 clanova merit a 17 primilo merit.




Kad se usporedimo sa ostalima po pitanju podijeljenog merita, ne cudi da smo i tu pri dnu s obzirom na broj postova. Inace, zanimljiva situacija je na Indonezijskom boardu koji je par zadnjih mjeseci pri samom vrhu jer su neki merit sourcevi sa ostalih boardova odlucili pomagati im dok ne dobiju jos svojih sourceva.




I za kraj ove serije chartova, merit/post. Unatoc velikom padu broja postova te jos vecem padu podijeljenog merita, nas ratio je i dalje odlican te mislim da bi bili na samom vrhu da nam dodje koji aktivni novi clan koji bi se zadrzao dulje na forumu.

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Lista aktivnih clanova tijekom Lipnja 2023

I za kraj ovog mjesecnog pregleda, lista svih onih koji su napisali makar jedan post tijekom Lipnja 2023, koja je ocekivanoi malo kraca u odnosu na mjesec ranije. Slackovic je ocekivano na vrhu sa 38 postyova, nakon toga je moja malenkost sa 28 posotva a BitGoba i dkbit98 dijele trece mjesto sa 20 postova.

1. slackovic [38]
2. Rikafip [28]
3. BitGoba [20]
4. dkbit98 [20]
5. Pmalek [19]
6. Daniel91 [18]
7. SirJohnVonSlotty [16]
8. casperBGD [11]
9. FatFork [9]
10. Trofo [9]
11. cryptofrka [5]
12. examplens [4]
13. Domchi [3]
14. JooBra [3]
15. Mardah [3]
16. Grim_Fandango [2]
17. zTec [2]
18. zoda [2]
19. Branko [1]
20. Rogovaw [1]
21. btctuxedo [1]
22. pmemorex [1]
23. sbogovac [1]

It is a little bit more elaborated than that because scammers invest more time and effort in order to fool the victim, compared to nigerian prince email scam. Some scammes play very long game and are willing to chat with victim for months before they go on the actual scam.

It does sound stupid to us that know about that scamming technique and generally have experience, but many people are gullibl and not aware of all the dangers on the Internet.

Because people feel embarrased to admit themselves and to others that they have been scammed in a such way. Also, when you see reactions like "If you had IQ above 50, you would realize while typing this post out that it was an obvious scam. So you didn't thought this was a scam, that proves your IQ is way below 50[/i]",  so no wonder that many people decide to rather suck it up then ask for help.


That's a pretty common scam tactic in which "female" contacts the victim, flirts with him for some time and then moves conversation towards "incredible investment opportunity on xyz platform". Men (and women) tend to switch off their brain when they fall in love and scammers are very well aware of that.

Payment processor Alphapo was hacked for 23 million USD in BTC, ETH and XRP. Did anyone here use them because I can't remember I ever heard about them before.