Users should protect themselves by not giving custody of their own coins and stop treating centralized crypto platforms as banks because they simply aren't.


Certain percentage probably removed their money after everything that has happened in the recent period, but majority will just continue business as usual. I know people who lost money on both Celsius and FTX and they still are still staking significant amount of money on Binance, being absolutely sure that Binance is safe and nothing will happen. When I asked them can they be really sure that same thing won't happen with Binance, they told me that even if something happens to Binance, prices will go down so much that it won't matter anyway.  And those people are not newbies at all.

Ovo 100% stoji. Nekoc davno sam zivio sa cimerom koji je bio hardcore gamer te se prvo navukao na kladionicu i to opasno ali se nekako uspio rijesiti toga. Nakon jedno godinu-dvije stanke bio mu je bio dovoljan jedan posjet kasinu u branimir centru (jedno vrijeme su u onom tamo cinestaru uz svaku kupljenu kartu dijelili vouchere za kasino pa smo redovno tamo malo kockali) da zavrsi kao teski kockar sa kojim sam prosao sva moguca sranja ukljucujuci i kamatare koji su nam dolazili u stan. I zanimljivo je da nije volio rulet nego iskljucivo vockice, sto je ipak blize kompjuterskoj igri.


Onaj tko pije 3-4-5 kava dnevno je ovisan o njima htio on to ili ne jer kava izaziva ovisnost. Ako ih pijes toliko, probaj par dana ne popiti kavu uopce i javi rezultate.
Ja sam prije otprilike pola godine prestao piti kavu iz zdravstvenih razloga a do tada sam bio u rezimu 2-3 kave dnevno i to iskljucivo turske bez secera, mlijeka i ostalih dodataka koji kvare okus. Nisam se smatrao nekim ovisnikom o kavama jer sam stvarno volio okus ciste kave, ali samo cu ti reci da je prvih par tjedana bilo jako zajebano funkcionirati jer se tijelo naviknulo. Glavobolja ujutro, glavobolja popodne, nemas energije za nista. Totalni cirkus.

Danas normalno funkcioniram po tom pitanju ali da mi tijekom dana fali taj doping, itekako fali, pogotovo kad je naporan dan sa hrpom obaveza i posla.

If you are 100% sure that account changed hands, then you should act accordingly. Upon checking him a little bit more I do agree that his behavior looks suspicious and posting style seems altered, but I will wait a little bit longer as the more he posts in English, the more obvious change of his posting style will be.

(Lets say for a sake of argument that this topic is not made for merit fishing purpose) Yeah it definitely makes sense to name your child Bitcoin in the country where bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general are banned. I sure hope that there are some restrictions in Nigeria when it comes to child naming since you obviously lack common sense.


And what if in 10 years Bitcoin is still banned in Nigeria and people even start getting persecuted for it, how do you think child life will be? There are so many other way to raise awareness about Bitcoin instead making your child life more complicated than it should be.

You are right, that was brainfart. I wrote Gemini in the title while thinking about Genesis (for some reason I keep confusing those two). Anyway title sorted now, thnx.

Bloomberg just reported that Genesis is preparing to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy so it seems like yet another crypto company might bite the dust. I don't think that anyone is surprised about this developement after everything that has happened lately and are probably not the last one that will go down in the near future. The only question is who will be the next.

You mean that news about some surveillance program that gives law enforcement access to money transfer without court order? That doesn't seem to me like news that would affect bitcoin price that much. I think its more about small correction after bitcoin price going up 25% in the last 2 weeks that everyone expected.

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Regarding whether this is a start of bull season, I don't think that we are out of the woods yet, and its too early to tell anyway. If we keep these levels for some time then we can be more optimistic but I wouldn't celebrate just yet.

Here it is, list of 105 members of HFPA (Hollywood Foreign Press Association) that are voting for Golden Globe. In short, those are bunch of journalists all over the world and its much different from Oscar as 80% of Academy members are Americans + there's like almost 10k of them.

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About the Oscar, I see that odds (I am checking at nicerodds) on Everything Everywhere All At Once keep dropping, probably because they won 5 Critics' Choice Awards and the same thing happening with Brendan Fraser. Voting for nominees ended yesterday so now we have ton wait until 24th for the nominations.

It is a good news (for Binance) but I doubt that this will have any effect on the crypto market. News like this were big maybe 10 years ago but luckily not anymore. Now its just business as usual and CEX doing as much as they can do to suck up to governments to increase their reach (which is understandable).

Since you don't want "fake people", maybe you should share what is it all about, what are those tasks that people will have to do.

Since majority of his posts are in Russian, it would be good if someone who is a native Russian speaker checks his post history and see if there is significant change in posting style. Another thing, I don't see any change of email address and to me is unlikely that the new owner wouldn't change it as the old one could easily overtake the account.

I personally would like to see more evidence before neg tagging.

According to Coindesk, 196/535 members of congress accepted donations from FTX related people. We all knew that SBF was giving money to politicians left and right, but I don't think that anyone thought it would to this extent. Maybe that explains why they behaved like they were invincible.

You might wanna read my first post again. First of all, those are the wrong numbers that you remembered, and 2nd I also mentioned the house size (they live in Baden-Württemberg state, dunno if there is any difference in gas prices depending on the part of Germany).

No legit website will ever "give" you bitcoin and then ask you to deposit some of your own in order to unlock it. There is no something as free money just laying around waiting for you to pick it up, as simple as that.

Correct. Same numbers like the ones I shared yesterday but this time members were divided in groups based on the amount of posts they wrote in 2022 to get a little bit clearer picture of the local boards situation.


Yep, and its perfectly normal and expected. Majority of people come to forum looking for help with some problem that they have and when they get an answer, they just disappear while those that get hooked up rare. Its like that on all other forums that I visit so bitcointalk is no different than the others. I also did the same thing on some other forums; registered and then I either worte few posts and never came back, or I visit every once in a while, write a few posts and then disappear again.

No increase is pleasant, but no need to spread bs while real situation can be easily checked.


Well, I would like to hear in which Europe countries gas heating for families increased by 800%. We all know that prices increased and its not pleasant at all, but its one thing for price to increase 100% which happened in some countries but completely different to get increased by 800%.


They are not using any "tricks" like solar panels (they do plan to install them as from what I could see a lot of their neighbours have roofs of their houses covered with them) but their house is pretty new (built 4 years ago) so isolation is good which can affect how much you spend on heating (and cooling). Still, even if they lived in an old house I don't think that increase would be nowhere close to 800% like that guy from the screenshot allegedly had.

As per DdmrDdmr suggestion, here is the overview of the active members per local board, separated in groups by their activity (1-9 posts, 10-99 posts and 100+ posts). Initially I created 5 separate groups (two additional ones were 10-49 and 500+) but it was a total mess and you couldn't really see much. After spending few hours this is the best I could come up with, while keeping it somewhat visually pleasing and in line with rest of the charts.

It would have been much easier if it was only few local boards with not so big difference in terms of numbers, as having 18 boards with a huge difference really makes it harder to create something like this.

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@fillippone looking forward seeing your implementation for Italian board.

Cool story bro. You live in Germany/know someone there or you believe everything you see on the internet?

I spent Christmas holidays in Germany at my sisters place and we talked exactly about the gas price issue. So, they live in a very comfy 170m2 4 bedrooms & 2 bathrooms house and last year they were paying 80 euro per month for gas and this year gas company increased it to 120 euro per month. Just to add that she relatively recently gave birth to a baby so they are keeping house really warm (even too warm for my taste, I walked around the house in a tshirt in the middle of winter) and not trying to save money by freezing their asses off.

Now go check how much an average family makes in Germany and see whether they can handle 40 euro increase per month.

Some probably do and I do hope more people will follow others in that regard.

Because in order to actually sell high and buy low on the regular basis you have to be a good trader, and majority of people simply aren't. I tried that tactic in the past and while it worked for a couple of times due nothing but luck, in the next few times I tried that I lost big part of the previous profit so I realized that trading is not for me and I sleep much better ever since i switched to hodl mode, not obsessing over price.


I suck at trading and I have no time or will to learn it. Regarding how I survive bear market its simple: I don''t have any price tracking apps on phone and I very rarely visit Coingecko/CMC.

Gledalo se dosta toga u zadnje vrijeme, evo sto je od svega toga valjalo:

The Fabelmans
Spielbergov autobiografski coming of age film u kojem se saznaje dosta toga o njegovom djetinjstvu i opcinjenosti filmom od najranijih dana. Ocekivao sam neku dosadu ali film me ugodno iznenadio pa stoga ne cudi da se vec neko vrijeme prica da ce biti u krugu favorita za Oscara.

The Banshees of Insiherin
Crnohumorna drama koja definitivno nije za siroku publiku tako da ako ne volite filmove koji vuku malo na art stranu izbjegnite. Ali ako ste fan odlicne glume i kvalitetnog scenarija i emate problem riskirati, onda samo naprijed. Meni osobno jedan od najboljih filmova prosle godine te ga takodjer ockeujem u krugu favoita za pokojeg Oscara.


Osim filmova, gledalo se i par serija: dosta dobra humorna drama The White Lotus o dogodovstinama grupe turista i radnika u nekakvom all inclusive fancy resortu. Ovako na prvu zvuci meh ali bas je super napisana serija, ugodno iznenadjenje. Danas je izasla prva epizoda The Last of Us, serija koju sam dugo cekao (veliki sam fan postapokalipticnog settinga) bazirana na dosta popularnoj istoimenoj igri (koju nisam igrao). Znamo svi da su ekranizacije igara redovno lose, ali ovdje je stvar u ruke preuzeo HBO tako da je ova prva epizoda za sada dosta obecavajuca te jedva cekam slijedecu epizodu. E da, obje ove serije se mogu naci na HBO Max.