I occasionally get some worthless shitcoins of seemingly dead projects in mew, but this is the first time for me to experience something like this from project that is listed on the exchange with some trading volume. That's why i was so surprised, but seems like people massively fall for it, sharing referral link left and right.

Pump&dump scheme in this case is obvious, as chances of project like this to gain and loose so much in the matter of few weeks  and to be completely legit are none to zero.
I also doubt that this is the last pump&dump cycle with this shitcoin.

To trade on some exchange, you have to trust them to some degree, and i honestly think that their practices won't have the effect that their are aiming for, as all this can only make me distrust them and never touch their exchange.

Ma nije u tekstu riječ o filmovima/muzici i kulturi općenito niti sam na to uopće ciljao, nego o prodavanju spika kako je svijet nekad bio miroljubivije mjesto, i da su ljudi živjeli kvalitetnije a svi mogući pokazatelji pokazuju da je generalno gledajući situacija dijametralno suprotna.


Kad već spominješ filmove, već neko vrijeme razmišljam da pokrenem temu o tome negdje na forumu. Gledam jako puno filmova (cca 300-400 godišnje i tako zadnjih 20+godina) pa možda ne bi bilo loše napisat koju i o odgledanim filmovima, dati neke preporuke etc a i vidjeti šta drugi gledaju . Nekad davno sam to radio na forum.hr ali mi se to mjesto zgadilo. Istina je da su se  generalno  gledajuci nekad snimali bolji filmovi, i da radim neku svoju top listu velika vecina je snimana prije 1990, ali ni danas situacija nije toliko losa koliko neki misle, pogotovo  ako se gleda dalje od americke kinematografije. Danas su nam skoro instantno dostupni filmovi iz cijeloga svijeta, svuda se snimaju dobri filmovi. Ova prosla 2019 je bila mozda i najbolja u zadnjih desetak godina.

Evo da se prijavim i ja, da ne cekam sutra i  zadnji tren. Oduzilo se jer se nisam nikako mogao odluciti za treci post, pa samo prijavljujem dva. Valjda je i to ok.

1.Certificate of Incorporation- what it is and why it shouldn't be trusted!-Kao sto samo ime govori, objasnjen Certificate of Incorporation, cesto koristen kod prevaranata.
2. We are living in the best period known to man!- Cisto neki moj odgovor na konstantno kmecanje koje cujem oko sebe kako je sve nekad bilo bolje.
edit:dodajem i treci ako nije problem
 3.KICKICO-KickEx:Legit business or scam in making?

Suspicious announcement  thread with possible malware. All the usual  signs are here: self-moderated topic, user joined github 45 minutes ago, newbie account that hasn't been active for some time.

User chikezee

https://archive.fo/NMWX9




Yeah all signs are there, but since that BitcoinExperimental  announcement thread is still there, that means it's all legit, no malware?

I've been using ExpressVPN for a few years now, and never had any issues with it. It is fast, reliable, and what's very important to me is that  they have great customer support, basically 24/7 live chat. Using it on PC, mobile phones (both android and iOS) and TV. Works like a charm.

I've tried several others top VPN services like NordVPN, but none proved to be on ExpressVPN level. It is more expensive than competition though, 100 USD for 1 year, but i think it's worth the money. And they accept BTC as payment option.

Some of you may  heard about KICK token Frozen Drop, where 888,888 KICK was sent to 167,375 addresses (useless locked tokens).  I decided to check KICK Ecosystem and their KickEx exchange that is in development at the moment, and to be honest, all this looks a bit dodgy to me. Whenever something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

Up until recently KICK tokens were basically worthless, reaching ATL of 0.000044 USD on January 24th this month( down 99.99%  since their ICO back in 2017 when they raised 25 million USD). Despite having their  Frozen Drop going on since November 26th, there was no change of price, and then suddenly , in the matter of 2 weeks, KICK reached 0.000818 USD , they are still pretty much worthless, but  gain is almost  2000%  (after reaching that price KICK went down a lot, current price being 0.000266 USD, that is almost 70% decrease in a few days). This is red flag number one for me, as it looks like pump&dump scheme.


Another interesting thing that they have going on is KickRef, referral system with 10 level depth. To me this looks like classic MLM scheme.


Source


To further hype this referral system and bring new investors, they gave few  example how much can people earn from it. Sure, they say that  earnings will  depend on the activity of your referrals, but this really reminds me of ponzi schemes, where they use similar language and graphics to attract new users.


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As i said in the beginning, they already airdropped KICK to 167,375 addresses, but now they have few other things going on and will continue with it. Since this Frozen Drop was random, now they introduced new mechanic where you can increase your chance of getting KICK tokens through their airdrop by holding 500k KICK. By the end of Frozen Drop, they plan to send  888,888 KICK tokens to 1 million Ethereum addresses.
This is huge amount of tokens , and i don't see how KICK will have any value after this is over.

All these airdropped  KICK tokens are  locked , and in order to unlock them, first you will have to register on KickEx exchange, go through KYC and then trade on the exchange in order to unlock those tokens. The more you trade, the more KICK tokens you unlock.
Goal of this tactic is to pump the volume of the exchange, and therefore attract new projects and traders.

Another issue with KYC part is that they required from people to go through KYC while their exchange is still in beta stage, and no real trades are possible. Since few days ago this requirement is removed, but still it didn't make much sense at all, and unfortunately, many people gave them their info already.

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I would like to hear opinion of others regarding this, and if someone has some additional info. Is this  just an aggressive marketing campaign that is trying to profit on people's greed but is completely legit,  or there are  more things  going on here, as for me this is just a way to advertise, pump, and then dump KICK tokens, as i don't remember any legit exchange having this kind of marketing strategy.

KICKICO announcement thread
Kick Ecosystem
KickEx

Sonex is  back with yet another fake Ann and malware. Looks like a hacked account, as it didn't have any posts since 2013, and just now made this. And of course joined github few hour ago.

Ann  [ANN] Sonex . New RandomX coin
User  anettle12
Archive  https://archive.ph/gJa2c

Last night Zion played 31 minutes, scoring new career high, 32. He is amazing, basically breaking his record in each subsequent game, but i think that coaching staff at Pelicans should use him less, and put bigger restriction on his playing time. Getting into playoff this year shouldn't be priority for them, as even if they grab that 8th sport ( they are not that close either, 5 games behind Grizzlies) they will loose in the first round against Lakers, so no point push that and risk Zion getting injured again.

This might be the case too, it might be the part of Hollywood agenda, or simply opening to the world, as some great  foreign directors in the past never had chance to win best picture. So even if it might be a part of some  agenda, it is still not a bad move as Parasite is a good movie and worth giving Oscar ( not my favorite tho).


I don't like any list  of Bong best films that doesn't have Memories of Murder at the top. That's a true masterpiece, and by far his best film, followed by Mother, and then Parasite at the 3rd place.


There are few other South Korean directors  beside Bong that are good starting point if someone wants to go deeper into South Korea cinema:
Ki-duk Kim: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003), Pieta (2012), 3-Iron (2004), Address Unknown (2001)
Chan-wook Park:Oldboy, The Handmaiden (2016), Joint Security Area (2000), Thirst (2009)
Chang-dong Lee: Burning (2018)- for me the best Korean movie in the last few years, but unfortunately didn't even get Oscar nomination for foreign film,  Oasis (2002), Peppermint Candy (1999), Secret Sunshine (2007)

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Considering the fact that Tarantino said that he will  (probably) make  only 10 movies, and we are at number 9 at the moment (he doesn't count My Best Friend's Birthday),  he  might end up  career without winning best picture Oscar, and join group of some great names like Hitchcock, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Leone, Welles, Fellini, Altman etc. I wouldn't thought so after watching Pulp Fiction back in 1994/1995, i was certain this guys wins an Oscar soon.

Ma ne mislim da ljude ne zanima, 20 merita je stvarno super nagrada, nego mislim da ljudi traze ta 3 dobra posta sa kojima ce se prijaviti. Ili se mozda ne prijavljuju iz ko zna kojeg drugog razloga, ali nekako sumnjam da se ceka bas zadnji dan jer ne znam sta se moze dobiti od toga, kao onda kad se ekipa masovno prijavljivala na onaj contest za 10 godina bitcointalka, hrpa ih je cekala zadnji dan, nadajuci se da ce biti bolje primjeceni.
A i kao što @Trofo kaže, ima nas cca 20 aktivnih ovdje, tako da teško može biti neke velike navale, ali u svakom slučaju super inicijativa.


Da to bi bas bilo bezveze, al zar bi stvarno netko isao raditi alt accounte pa onda glasati za samog sebe  za 20 merita? Pa nismo valjda HDZSDP  



Ovo je bas ok ideja, ima ljudi koji imaju par tisuca postova, sigurno da nije lako naci najbolje.

Another possible fake Ann with malware, user joined github 2 hours ago

Ann thread  [BEXP] BitcoinExperimental - decentralized self-deployment system
User Kosharko
Archive https://archive.fo/SydmO

I  heard merit sources complaining that they have issues finding low ranked members with posts worth meriting, so somehow I doubt merit source specifically dedicated for lower rank is a good idea. Sounds to me like a lot of hassle and work.

Few months ago theymos increased merit allocation for active merit sources and removed inactive ones. Something like that is more elegant solution, imo.

Few days ago Forbes released an article regarding NBA teams value. Knicks are still at the top with team being valued at 4.6 billion USD , 5th year in a row, followed by Lakers (4.4 billion USD) and Warriors (4.3 billion USD). Here is the full list:

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Source


Few takes:

• Despite being bad so many years, i guess it's  not affecting Knicks value much. Might be  the reason why their owner doesn't really care much whether he wins or loose as he keeps generating profit from Knicks. There are rumours though that Knicks are trying to get Masai Ujiri from Raptors for the GM position.
• 30 NBA teams generated 8.8 billion USD revenue, 10% increase from previous year
• On average, each  team had  $70 million operating profits. Only 1 team generated loss, Oklahoma City Thunder, due luxury tax (-23 million USD)
• Since 2010, an average value of NBA went up 6x (no team was valued over 1 billion USD), growing at much higher rate than other professionals sports in US.

All in all, seems like NBA is doing great.

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In the other news, Lillard got injured last night in the loss against Grizzlies, and  will miss All Star game. It will be interesting to see who will get the invitation instead of him, might be DEvin Booker, he has been very good this season. Or maybe even Beal/ George. For 3 pts contest i would like to see Bogdanovic invited instead of him.

Another fake Chancoin announcement thread  with malware, same guy that earlier today made Sonex

Ann link [CHAN] ChanCoin - Crypto for Imageboards
User fancyfutwork

https://archive.fo/rIQSF

User woodchucker is making copy/paste announcement threads . As you can see it's the same text, just different names used.

https://archive.fo/Avj6n


https://archive.ph/XKBpZ


https://archive.ph/KDc8X

 

Mozda jos nije prevara, ali je prevara u nastajanju. Bar se meni tako cini. Gledam taj Kick vec neko vrijeme, malo cackam po tome i bas me "svrbi", razmisljam da  na eng dijelu pokrenem  temu  i raspravu oko tih njihovih sumnjivih praksi, mozda i na scam boardu.
Recimo, oni sve ove airdropane tokene broje pod circulating supply i pumpaju mcap.  E sad me zanima, sta to nije neposteno, da se na taj nacin pumpa mcap a svi znamo da su ti tokeni zakljucani i tko zna kad ce biti otkljucani. Ili je to neka siva zona, pa se kao ovi njihovi  airdropani tokeni mogu brojati pod "circulating supply"?
Cisto me zanima jel ja imam krivo razumijevanje toga.

Taj KICK opcenito izgleda u najmanju ruku kao klasicni pump&dump shitcoin, a najvjerojatnije i scam. Bas sam na njihovoj Telegram grupi vidio da je CEO Anti Danilevski potvrdio da ce za otkljucavanje tih tokena prvo trebati odraditi KYC na KickEX mjenjancnici, a uz to smislili su jos jednu pizdariju: morat ces trejdati na KickEXu da bi otljucao te tokene, kao fora sto vise trejdas, to vise tokena otkljucavas. Evo direktan sa Telegrama  od njihovog CEO u vezi KYC i nacina otkljucavanja tokena







Uz to sto su u prvom valu poslali 888,888 KICK na 167,375 adresa, sad imaju jos jednu foru, planiraju poslati tokene na 1 milijun adresa. Cisto pumpanje njihovog mcapa i nista vise, jer svi ti zamrznuti tokeni se broje. Trenutno im je mcap cca  260 miliuna USD, a bio je i preko 500 milijuna do prije dan-dva. Za usporedbu, prije 3 mjeseca mcap je bio cca 1 milijun. Sve legit, nista sumnjivo ovdje.

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Znaci ako nisi bio jedan od tih "sretnika" koji su dobili tokene u prvom valu, mozes hodlati 500k KICK za mogucnost da dobijes jos tih dodatnih 888,888 tokena (znaci mozes dobiti, ali i nemoras)


Kad se na sve ovo sto sam naveo nadoda ona njihova referral kampanja gdje se isto dijeli KICK sakom i kapom, nema sanse da ne bude fail. Ocekujem  vrijednost tokena 1 satoshi.

Requesting flag support against @michaelcutajar, that is behind FPCC announcement thread
Flag type 1  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=1370

FPCC is ponzi with fake team member CV, promising big return, and recently they started shilling their Ann thread.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5224051.0

Evo mene opet sa 2 prijave

FPCC coin, njemacki ponzi sa CV plagijatima, a poceli su i shillati svoj announcement thread.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5224051.0

Arc Iris Hydrogen, onaj cloud mining smunjivi projekt o kojem je vec bilo rijeci i na nasem lokalnom boardu.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223344.msg53776322#msg53776322

Yep, they are definitely not a one man team, and there is no real leader yet. Mitchell might be one day, but he is not that level yet. For example, in case of Gobert injury, this team goes down easily in first round of playoff.


Clarkson is  a great addition for Jazz as before him they had non-existent bench, but there is one big downside of him playing so good: I am not sure that Jazz will be able to resign him next season, he will cost a  lot if he continues playing like this. Well downside for Jazz, Not Clarkson of course  . This year he got 13.4 million USD, and his next contract might go over 20 million per year.

Regarding Bogdanovic, 23 pts for him against Dallas is not that special at all, this season he averages  approximately 21 pts per game, this is just business as usual for him.