Due my work I use Google spreadsheets on the daily basis (and several hours per day) and this way of checking for BTC price seems slower and more complicated than using CMC/Coingecko or simply googling "btc price".

How come it is not up to him to tag that scammer for stealing his own work?

To me, that is a textbook example of a good reason for a negative feedfback and I just left one to Apt2022 as well since I think that person in question can't be trusted at all. The only problem is that its a Newbie account in question so he will easily ditch this one and continue business as usual with another one.  

I don't think that its surprising at all since their account got hacked due their own mistake and no one else's. Imho, its the least that they could so.


Its not the exchange that got hacked, but Kucoin Twitter account that attacker then used to share phishing link.

I don't think that you are looking at things neutrally or objectively if you think that its unfair for Ukrainians not to have their own local board while Nigerians do because getting a local board is much more than about which language has been used.

What you forgot to mention is that Nigerians got their local board by being consistently active for several years. They earned it by their effort and no one handed it out to them with the hope that they might be active in the future. If they were as (in)active as Ukrainians are, they certainly woulnd't get their own local board.

Just to add that I have nothng against Ukraine local board (on the contrary, I am a big supporter of local boards) but if they are not initially interested in being active in their own local board, what's the point in creating one?

While I sympathise with their struggle and I can imagine what they are going through as my country went through similar thing ~30 years ago, no one is forcing anyone to be active in Russian local board.

So, if they want their own local board, the least they can do is to actually be active in their local thread and if we learned anything when it comes to creating local boards is that theymos won't create new unless there is a real need for one. ~60 posts written in the last year or so shows that they are not really interested so why should forum staff bother?

Only in Europe? People from other parts of the world will correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think that situation is much better (if anything) elsewhere. If anything, it might be easier for people in Europe as they already have life standard higher than big part of the world so they can handle the price increase better.

Hah, I wish that was true. Unfortunately, the real situation coulnd't be further away from that as vast majority of business (and when I say vast I mean ~90%) simply fail due myriad or reasons and just being "interesting" is not even remotely enough to succeed in any business. At least not in the long run.


That's because you only see those that succeeded while you don't even have the chanvce to see all those who failed.

Here in Croatia (Europe) we didn't have food crisis at all (if by food crisis you mean food shortage), even though some fear mongers thought (or maybe even secretly hoped) that we will die of hunger and freeze to death due ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Price of food increased by substantial amoutn though but I think that's how its been all over the worl so its not specific for my country on region.

In times like these, poorer countries/regions are always those that are affected the most but unfortunately I don't see prices of food going down ever again to the old ones so no other solutions other than tightening your belt or making more money.

No one mentioned Bitfinex because @Amphenomenon asked about non KYC exchanges and you can't use Bitfinex without KYC.  Regarding Yobit, its one of the worst possible exchanges around that shouldn't be used at all, no matter whether they ask for KYC or not.

It was a pretty basic scam attempt in which attacker shared fake Kucoin website and promised free money. People fall for these type of scams even without announcement coming from the exchange's official Twitter account so I am actually surprised that more people didn't lose money.


https://twitter.com/NFTherder/status/1650272867785777153

Upon reading his post again, I have to say that I think you are right and this is indeed more about merit begging than anything else. I mean, why would member with 1000+ merits even report his posts to a merit source as he said that he is still doing that? These things should be imho reserved to those who lack merit to reach the higher rank and not just for the sake of getting more merit for whatever reason.  

With that being said, I did check his merit history and it looks like ~30% of his merit received came form the same member so no wonder when that source of merit stopped, he was left with very few merits received in the last few months.  


Given the reputation that CM built over the years, I am not surprised that people perceived members with their sig differently to the point that their posts had more "weight" and to be considered as a sort of forum elite. It will take a long time to see another campaign reach that level.

Even though some exchanges are more regulated than the others, you can't be 100% sure that they won't scam you or that you won;t have issues when you try to withdraw crypto into your own wallet. Having said that, there are a couple of centralized exchanges that are reputable enough that I wouldn't be too afraid to risk my money.


Nope, they don't transfer it to your own wallet and that's something that you have to do it by yourself. My suggestion is to do it as soon as you bought the crypto because as long its on the exchange or platform where you bought it from you won't have a real control over it.

Let's say for the sake of argument that both idea and ideal could fit there (even though I think that Igebotz meant idea as it fits much better there) there is another example where I think he switched those two words.



There is another member from Nigerian board that mixed those two words as well so by now we have at least 8 members from Nigerian board that are doing that and I don't think that all those are controlled by the same person.

While I do agree that this doesn't really belong to Meta, I woulnd't be so harsh. Call me naive, but I think this is more about his post quality rather than anything else as he is worried that it went down since he doesn't get as much merit as he used to. Iirrc one of the older reputable members had a thread where people could ask for his opinion regarding their post quality so I think OP's goal is exactly that.



It always boggled my mind how can non-merit sources have so much merit to share because 99% of the time I am at 0 and usually spend all of it the very same day I have some.

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@_BlackStar as others told you, its quite normal to receive less merit once you reach Legendary rank as many of us experienced (myself included) the same thing so I woulnd't worry too much about it.

I don't see how anyone could think that this is a good system. I mean tyranical government getting even more power, what could go wrong.


United States has bunch of issues, but even with all that they are light years ahead of China and without them/you still being the only global superpower, world would be a much worse place to live. Here in Europe we don't even have to imagine it as people that lived behind iron curtain very well know how it was when USSR ran the show and how it would be for the rest of us.

I really don't get this part of your post as OP is asking what kind of wallet is the most suitable for a beginner yet you shared him exchanges. Care to explain how this answer his question in any way?

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@OP For a beginner I think that something not too expensive and proven would be a good choice, meaning something Trezor Model One or Ledger Nano S Plus. I personally tried both and prefer the latter but I don't think that you can go wrong with either of those two.

That's a standrad excuse that we heard every time someone cought altcoin project plagiarizing whitepaper or having stock image photos. Its always someone elses fault and not your own. But even if you indeed hired someone to write the whitepaper, its your responsibility to see if everything is legit.

By the way, I see on your website that you signed yourself under few articles. So how come are you capable of writing articles yet you had to hire someone to write whitepaper for you? Or you also didn't write those articles and someone else did it for you?

Cheers bud, I guess you learn something new every day;). Forums I've been active on are usually very old so maybe that's why I haven't seen something like that before.


You mean it constantly and automatically saves text as we are writing it? Sounds good, but waiting for Epochtalk is like waiting for Godot.  

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After getting screwed big time several times by draft option not working properly, every time I am writing something bigger (e.g brief monthly overview of local boards activity) I save the post localy as I am writing it.

Bisq is not a rocket science, especially not for a medicine student like you so you should be all right if you decide to give it a try. The only thing that you have to be aware of is that you will need some bitcoin as a deposit in order to do any trade on Bisq and you will have to be patient as it may take days for buy orders to go through.


Who says that you have to transfer 25k in one go? You can start slow with few hundreds of dollars just to check how it works and once you feel more comfortable you can increase the amount. On top of that, if you try to buy $25k worth of Bitcoin in one go, you will seriously overpay it.


Don't mind fund managers and infuencers, none of them really knows what will happen next. And yes, if you are unsure about buying 1 whole bitcoin, DCA is a very good alternative.

I first have to say that I never even heard about this BXONE and from what I can see, they are not on either Coingecko or Coinmarketcap. Being there is not a sign of legitimacy of course, but exchange not being there at all is a major red flag. At least for me.

By the way, how did you even hear about this exchange, what made you use it when there are so many solid choices if you don't mind going through KYC? And if they suddenly ask you for more money in order to get your deposit out, you can be 100% sure that its a scam.