EU has its problems, but I find it kinda ironic to hear all that coming from someone who lives in a theocracy that has one of the highest number of executions in the world (2nd only to China), with much lower freedom of press and where women get beaten to death for not covering their heads properly. It would be like Americans criticizing Europe for having too many mass shootings, or me as Croatian criticizing Finland for having too much of corruption.

Anyway, no point discussing with you due your hatred towards anything "western"  so see you in other topics.

From what I could read in media, at least two out of three of them probably won't go to jail as both Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang won't be prosecuted on any of the criminal charges as long as they cooperate in the investigation so I guess we will have to satisfy with only SBF (hopefully) doing some jail time.


Kevin O'Leary publicly said that SBF is a brilliant guy and the he would hire him again so don't you worry about them, they will be just fine. After all,  an average crypto investor won't remember any of this in a couple of years and would use another exchange started by SBF.

If what you are saying is true, that despite the number of posts going 50% down the amount of shitposts remained the same or even increased, that would mean that forum became much worse place than it was just a  year ago. I honestly haven't noticed such a big change, at least not in the parts of the forum where I am active.


I have to agree with this, situation changed dramatically in that regard and while few years ago high ranking accounts were getting permanenly banned for a sentence they plagiarized years ago (which was too harsh imho), now mods became too lenient and letting obvious offender walk around like nothing happened (good example of that is naim027 who is still roaming around).

Since forum activity has been in decline for years (e.g during 12/2021 287k posts were written and just one year later that number dropped to 147k during 12/2022), its only natural that amount of posts deleted goes down as well.

The only way I see this trend changes is if mods/admins become much stricter but whether that's in forum interest is another question. Or if theymos introduces reporting badges or something among those lines, but then I can see people trying to abuse that and even create their own garbage in order to report it.

Thnx.

Half a BTC (for now) is far from nothing but when you look at the big picture, its not that much considering everything that he ruined with his act...

There's been a lot of talk about it lately and a couple of my friends received those type of transactions as well but I haven't so far, maybe because I very rarely touch altcoins so I am not the good target (I guess they look for very active addresses).

At first this tactic looks incredibly far fetched and not very likely to work as who would copy his own address from transaction history (that never even crossed my mind) but then again when I thought of all the ways people lose money I wouldn't be surprised if some fall for this, no matter how stupid it may seem. In the end, if it doesn't work no one would even try it but as we can see, its been spreading around.

Gotta say that as a big fan of everything card related I really liked the Coldkey and even thought about getting some for myself and as a present for others, but the idea of someone else having an access to bitcoin on it eventually put me off. Anyway, what happened sucks big time and yes, yet another proof that you simply can't trust anyone with your own bitcoin.

Is there any estimate how much yogg stole so far?

Ne znam da li itko ovdje ima Coldkey kartice, ali osoba iza tog projekta (yogg) je sacuvala privatne kljuceve od (najmanje) jedne od serija te ih iskoristila za kocku te time ostetila hrpu ljudi. Tako da ako imate, sto prije provjerite da li ste pokradeni te ako niste, prebacite lovu dalje. Uglavnom, ovdje je cijelo objasnjenje situacije https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5434506.msg61586158#msg61586158

Steta, te kartice su mi bile bas fora ali upravo ta ideja da osoba iza tih kartica moze sacuvati kljuceve i u svakom trenutku jednostavno pokupiti bitcoin je i ujedno mana projekta, sto se na kraju pokazalo pogubno.

Good news for all those having money on Wyre, as they announced via Twitter they secured investment that enables them to lift the 90% withdrawal cap restriction so if there's anyone still having money there, get it out while you can.

Haha yeah, this winter has been the mildest since I remember and a real punch in the face to all those gloating how we all gonna freeze to death or have to buy wood stoves and burn our own furniture in order to survive lol.


We protest because we have the luxury to protest and not to end up sentenced to death like in some theocracies or sent by Putin to die in Ukraine. And don't you worry about Europe, we will be just fine.  

While I definitely wouldn't share seed phrase with my girlfriend, my wife is one of the persons I trust; she has the access to it and is a part of my contingency plan in case something happens to me. I mean, why would someone even marry person that you can't trust with money? For me that would be a nightmare and I would rather stay alone in that case than I have to constantly look over my shoulder, waiting for wife to screw me over.

I understand that a lot of people were robbed by their spouses, but in the end its their own fault for a poor choice of wife/husband.

For all interested, SBF just published "FTX Pre-Mortem Overview" in which among other things he still claims that if given few more weeks FTX before declaring chapter 11 bankruptcy he could have made the people get their money back, again accuses CZ as one of the main reason for the downfall etc. 

https://sambf.substack.com/p/ftx-pre-mortem-overview

While it should be obvious to everyone that sanctions are making life of an average Russian much harder and will continue to do so (at this day and age no country can be self reliant and thrive), I don't think that main goal of these sanctions will be achieved, meaning Russian army withdrawing from Ukraine. Russia ain't democracy where people can simply replace Putin on the next elections, and I don't think that military coup is realistic so I expect this to drag on for years to come.


Thing is, people have the government they deserve, and since an average Russian likes "firm hand" approach Putin is right up their alley. I read recently that Stalin is also making a big comeback over there and its more popular than ever (well, at least since the fall of USSR).

They have websites optimized for mobile phones, while forum doesn't so its not the same thing. You can try it for yourself, just enable desktop version in your mobile phone browser and you will see the difference.


I am using that feature of course and while it makes multiquoting easier, it doesn't really help when you want to address certain parts of post the separately which is a pain in the ass to do on a mobile phone.

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Looking at responses, I had no idea that so many people are using phones for browsing the forum. Too bad that we have to wait for Godot Epochtalk to get that.

You can remain decently transparent even without doxxing yourself, and just because you think that you understand the consequences, doesn't mean that you actually do as you probably also understood the risks of storing funds on hot wallet, and we can see how that ended up.


Stealing the bike should be the least of your worries. You are a bounty manager that is regularly storing your client's money and people may get all kind of ideas in their head (read $5 wrench attack). Anyway, suit yourself.

I understand that you wanna prove that you are doing everything you can to repay the money lost, but I don't think that this a smart thing to do, to doxx yourself over this. Imho, you should remove that link asap.

It's been a couple of weeks since this topic started, did you really expect to get it done so fast? We waited for months to get a couple of child boards added  so don't expect to get local board request approved in the matter of weeks. Its just the way things work around here.


Its been already explained to you that you shouldn't expect from forum staff to share you criteria needed, based on previous experience (Nigerians didn't get any feedback on that matter either). Focus on your own local topic and when they think that you are ready, you will get your own local board.

It takes some time to get used to zooming/scrolling but it's doable to use bitcointalk with mobile phone as well. My advice for you is to avoid multiquoting while on the phone and keep it simple. For anything more complicated I strongly suggest you to stick to PC.


I tried using iPad and honestly wasn't much better than mobile phone. Its better for reading though, but not really when you have to answer multiple posts (which is my main problem when using mobile phone).

What if he eventually pleads guilty before trial starts, you don't think that he can get better deal than those 17.5 years? I for sure hope that you are right, but I would be very surprised if he gets anything remotely close to that sentence.


In my country rich people regularly get lower sentences than they should according to the law on the count of some bullshit reason and I would be surprised if its not like that in the United States too.

USB stick won't make your crypto any safer than you having software wallet on your computer. What you need is a hardware wallet, and they are not that expensive nowadays. Good alternative for a very long hold is paper wallet, but only if you know what you are doing as its easy to mess it up and make it vulnerable.


Of course reviews are faked. I don't trust any of those platforms since there are services that advertise fake reviews (I even saw them on this forum) on both of those platforms and they are dirt cheap.