Thanks for your answer @sxemini! I know you can't mine SHIB, so I figured they were having you mine something else and then just converting it but wasn't sure what I was actually mining. Monero makes sense. For the RandomX mining I was doing it was on some PC's laying around, and I do get pretty cheap electricity costs (one of these PCs is always running anyways). Do you think they would earn more going straight to a Monero pool like MoneroOcean as opposed to unmineable?

I've found PooCoin to be a great resource for looking up things like liquidity on BSC tokens. I recently noticed they have a section where you can check the developers wallet for activity. PooCoin calls this Rug Check (https://poocoin.app/rugcheck/).. Has anyone used this before? What kind of flags should one look for to determine if a project has higher potential for a rug pull or scam?

This seems like a cool little tool put together by the PooCoin team, but they don't do a very good job of explaining the signs you should be looking for. Should we be looking for actions like several transactions being done to create LPs or lots of transactions being sent to the contract? What I'm really trying to figure out is if there is one part/action of this page I should be focusing on to get a sign of whether a particular project has a higher potential of rug pull or scam. Thanks in advance!

There are tons of different wallets out there..hardware wallets, mobile wallets, laptop/desktop wallets...etc.. My personal recommendation would be to go with one that is well established and used by a lot of people (might make it easier to get help/assistance if you have any problems or questions). Personally, on mobile I like Trust Wallet and on desktop/laptop I like MetaMask.

For getting money in there, you have a couple options...
1) Some wallets (like MetaMask) offer the option to buy crypto using your debit/credit card.
2) Buy on an exchange (such as Binance or Coinbase) and then send to your wallet address.
3) Do airdrops/faucets/bounties..etc and cash those out to your wallet address(es).

There are tons of different wallet options out there and people have their personal favorites. Do some research depending on your needs and maybe install one or two to check the layout..etc before you start putting money in there.

How did it go? Looks like this would've been fun if I were in Miami. Thinking of doing it again in any other cities throughout 2022?

Here are a couple new ones for anyone who's interested...

Name: Bope
Symbol: BOPE
Decimals: 8
Contract: 0x34fc9f0a512fab42c8779402763eedf9dc51ca5d
Amount: 50
BSC Scan: https://bscscan.com/token/0x34fc9f0a512fab42c8779402763eedf9dc51ca5d
Current Holders: 48
Current Transfers: 49
Current Market Cap: $0

Name: G1 Network
Symbol: G1N
Decimals: 8
Contract: 0x5e7d1b5ff1d2c7b11fd3b023dcc2c6832322ad6e
Amount: 1.89
BSC Scan: https://bscscan.com/token/0x5e7d1b5ff1d2c7b11fd3b023dcc2c6832322ad6e
Current Holders: 103
Current Transfers: 107
Current Market Cap: $0

I would have to say the simple answer to that appears to be yes. Maybe the YOLO trade was around before, but I had never heard of it until WallstreetBets. Options are nothing new and have always been a gamble, but it seems like more of the younger generation is willing to go "all in" with options calls/puts in hopes of hitting it big. I can't count how many YouTube videos I've seen of WSB people losing huge sums of money (significantly more have lost than made it to the milly mark). I'm sure these type of people have always existed, but probably not as many as there are today..

First, I've never used FTX so I can't really compare the two. However, I use Kucoin on a regular basis and have recommended them to friends for a long time now. Others have said fees are slightly lower on FTX and that might be true, but Kucoin has a solid name/reputation and is a very well established exchange. They also have some great bonuses (for holding KCS, referring people..etc) and from my experience (having been mostly a small Coinbase user before going to Kucoin), the fees are much better on Kucoin than on Coinbase. I can't say for sure that Kucoin is better than FTX because I've never used FTX, but I can say Kucoin is a great exchange and they are my personal preferred option.

I think Python is best to start with..Great way to at least begin learning programming. Once you get the hang of it, learning a new language will be much easier. If you can get Python down then decide what you're wanting to make, and then maybe learn a new language that's best for that.

Yes, you can do system admin work remotely. Most of the time, I would say a systems administrator does exactly as it says - administrate systems (usually several systems if the company is big)...What tasks what that include?

1) Company hires a new employee and needs to setup a Windows account for them..
2) Server is having spam sent off of it..admin needs to find the compromised account and handle it
3) System is compromised by another type of trojan/virus/attack..system admin needs to find and patch it
4) Server needs a new script/software installed or updated

Those are just a few examples that quickly come to mind..

I don't know how many people will use Bitcoin to buy a house, but Musk did it with Tesla's at one time, so why not let a mortgage company start accepting it for houses as well. Anytime a new company decides to accept Bitcoin (or any other crypto) I see it as a good thing because it furthers global adoption. Just wait till these mortgage companies actually learn what a smart contract is and what power it has...

That would be pretty nice if it happened. Bitcoin was over 1 Trillion in Market Cap at one point this year. I can only imagine what that would be at if there are more than double the amount of "users" as Crypto.com is stating..

They do have an announcement thread on Bitcointalk here, but not much information on there. Same goes with their website. On Telegram the token claims their Twitter account was suspended because other people were making accounts using the same name (their account was obviously not verified) and theirs must've gotten reported by people who were mistaking it for one of the fakes out there (some of the fake accounts were advertising a fake airdrop..etc). They now have a new Twitter account up and running. Personally, I think their account got suspended for other reasons (like Facebook taking immediate action) and it probably won't be long before we see more legal action coming their way.

But some people appear to be making money.. From what I can see, this transaction shows 2,358,563,521,503.813418996 bought 40 days ago for $618.03 and just cashed out 2,264,891,038,029.6834086 for $87,212.39

Getting BTC integrated to a point were you can accept it isn't that hard these days. There are Wordpress scripts out there which can make it so any Wordpress website can accept Bitcoin and exchanges like Coinbase have API's setup which make integration significantly easier. When you say challenges, do you mean challenges of things like transactions getting confirmed quicker, or bigger sites (like Amazon, eBay, Etsy..etc) adopting and accepting it? I think integration overall is well on its way and if a large company wants to begin accepting Bitcoin, implementing that isn't a huge challenge. However, I do think for it to be more accepted they need to get verification of blocks done quicker, like simultaneously. But overall, it isn't hard for anyone to accept Bitcoin (and even many altcoins like Ethereum) if they want to.

I don't think this is an issue with DuckDuckGo... Maybe check the following:

1) Make sure your computer doesn't have any adware on it. If you aren't running a virus scanner you can download adaware or another free adware remover.
2) Make sure the result isn't an advertisement. If it's the very first result then it could just be an ad..
3) Make sure you aren't connecting to a proxy or VPN. Doubt that would be the issue but it is something you can check on your browser.
4) Maybe try clearing your browser cookies and cache.

If you're starting a project in today's era and you don't have an announcement thread on Bitcointalk, then you probably aren't legit. It costs nothing to join this forum and there is a huge pool of investors/enthusiasts on this board. If your project is legit and offers value why wouldn't you want to let this community know about it? I wouldn't go and call some project a scam just because they don't have an announcement thread on here, but I would question it.

It's been going crazy. I saw it booming yesterday and was following some of the activity for a while. To be honest, the misleading name did get me to buy a little. I got in at around $0.000000024 (slippage up at 12%) and continued to monitor. Couldn't believe how quick the number of holders were growing and the amount of money in the market cap was climbing. It almost seemed like too much growth for only being available on PancakeSwap. After sleeping on it I decided to try and cash out my initial investment earlier today. I tried and tried but kept getting the "transaction may fail or may require manual gas limit" error. I ended up having to set the slippage even higher at 13% this time (with Default Transaction Speed to Instant) and that did the trick. Thankfully the token had gone up by another 100%+ in that timespan. Decided to leave a bit of profit in Facemeta to see if it continues to grow, but my personal thoughts on this little ride were..

Worries
1) The whitepaper and audit look a bit sketchy
2) The name is misleading as they have nothing to do with the real Facebook/Meta
3) I noticed their Twitter account was suspended today
4) Potential legal hassles from the real Facebook?
5) They say that you will need a "certain" number of tokens to play their game. This kinda reminded me of the Squid Game token scam..

Likes
1) They do have a purpose behind their token if the game they're creating is real
2) They've soared in popularity and already have over 40k holders & 24k CMC watchlists - just from being available on PancakeSwap
3) They have managed to check things off their roadmap (CMC listing, Logo/Price in Trust Wallet, CoinHunt listing..etc)

The misleading name really turned me off. Not to mention, so much growth in such a short period of time seems a little odd considering they are only available on one decentralized exchange. Still, I can't sit here and call it a scam because I was able to trade back the tokens from my initial investment (plus some), and the actual release date for their game hasn't passed yet. I would personally recommend everyone do their own research on this token if they are at all interested in it. Also, know from the get-go that this token has nothing to do with the actual Facebook/Meta company.

I would have to agree with the others on this one. To me, it just looks like a knock off coin of Shiba Inu and I would personally steer clear. Probably better off just buying the regular SHIB token instead. Prices are down which can present a good entry point and there has actually been a lot of good news coming out about SHIB recently. The real SHIB is an Ethereum token, the one in this thread is a Binance token. I'd just stick with the original..

It sounds like you at least know the risks that come with investing in meme coins. I wouldn't say they're all worthless, though. Elon Musk just announced that Tesla would accept DOGE as payment for merchandise and Shiba Inu had recent news announced that Travala would begin accepting them for hotel/airline bookings, a SHIB game is coming and a whale recently bought 50 billion SHIB valued at $1.8 million. So, I guess you can't really say all meme coins are worthless - not to at least some companies and whales.

Aside from those two, I personally think Floki Inu could gain some more momentum. Recent news was announced that one $DOGE millionaire recently purchased 500 million Floki. Another meme token that had some decent growth before the downtrend was Dogelon. It still has over 100,000 holders and is ranked in the top 125 on CoinMarketCap. As always, do your own research! But, these are two that I think might be worth looking into a little more..

The "coolest" can differ from one person to another. Personally, I think we're going to see all kinds of P2P games showing up on all kinds of blockchains. I've seen reports that Shiba Inu is creating a game - I'm guessing that will be on Ethereum. Chromia has already locked in 2 games for their blockchain and with the growth of Polygon, Tron, Solana and others you already know games are going to be getting created on those (if they haven't already)... Which game will be the "coolest" remains to be seen and could be different from one gamer to another. But one thing that I think is for sure is that next year crypto gaming will boom and we are going to start seeing lots of different games on lots of different blockchains..

BSC became quite popular earlier this year when Ethereum gas fees were sky high. I've actually noticed that now BSC gas fees can even be high. I don't think as a standalone blockchain they would have much trouble surpassing Matic, Solana..etc, but they can't get away from BNB. I pretty much think Tytanowy Janusz nailed it. BSC was launched at a perfect time (gas fees on Ethereum then were waaaay too high) and people being able to write tokens for it without coding was so simple it was easy for everyone to make the switch. They don't even need a standalone blockchain to continue their growth, they just need to keep improving what they're doing now.