Absolutely! Since some of them can't find any valid reason to tarnish DASH's image and all they can do is to blow their trumpets whenever DASH slides a little in marketcap ranking but seems to act cold whenever DASH rises among other coins.

I think they seem to forget DASH's major features that comes with its solid development and its vibrant community, not to mention other metrics where DASH also shows good standing among its contemporaries.

I must admit that those previous allegations on Tether and Bitfinex have more substance than this 2017 bull run study which seems to support the notion that Tether and Bitfinex have been all along doing these unlawful things brazenly! And all of these are being set up to condition the minds of the public and influence their perception on these two entities. But of course, all of these are just allegations pending finality from court decision.

Now, this is the most puzzling thing to me, assuming Bitfinex and Tether did really orchestrate the pump on 2017 bull run, then we can assume that they were suppose to gain millions if not billions of dollars after that supposedly market manipulation right?

So lets also assume, they did totally get billions of dollars through that "manipulation", then I am wondering why Bitfinex, together with Tether were indicted on the supposedly $850 million dollar Bitfinex cover up allegation which supposedly happened on mid 2018?

I mean this allegations doesn't connect at all on why would Bitfinex would use Tether reserve funds to cover for its losses if they really did got substantial amount during the 2017 bull run as allegedly orchestrated by them?

I think we should all keep our calm and be patient enough to wait any future developments on the project. For the meantime, let us all keep spreading awareness about this project instead of becoming more demanding because any project development isn't done overnight and we all ought to know it! Imho.

It seems to me that there is a grand conspiracy to discredit Tether including Bitfinex purely because of competition! - maybe because there are other stablecoin competitors out there that wants to take over Tether's status right now and yet, they have always been disappointed!

And why would anyone link Tether as the only cause of 2017 bullrun when everybody knows that FOMO became widespread to the crypto-community and mass media further fueled it and everybody at that time "want to have a piece of the pie" with this "bullish crypto scene".

Now I think that study seems flawed and purely hypothetical and still needs to be peer reviewed by independent third party entities to verify if it is correct!

I also think Cointelegraph's way of reporting should be more comprehensive and subjective and should present more pertinent proofs to substantiate it. Imho.

It looks like these scammers are using automation for email mass sending and also using alternate sender addresses to avoid flagging so I think we should expect a lot of these being sent to us more often.

If you have any suspicion that your email have been compromised, then you can check it at Firefox Monitor and see if it has been included in a data breach.

I'm still glad that I have witnessed what DASH had become since the Darkcoin days, with its vibrant community and solid ecosystem and robust growth!

I think we don't have to  worry about DASH's current price  and its market ranking right now since it depends on crypto markets but I'm very confident in its development - with DASH being the main proponent of masternode technology, (thanks to @eduffield) which I found to have different implementations right now to some notable blockchain projects.

I can say I'm still a DASH believer no matter what! Great job guys.

Actually the article describes three projects which are focused on identity management - more specifically to help users avoid identity theft but I don't think those projects will totally help people from being scammed since there are endless possibilities of tricks and strategies that scammers would employ just to get what they want!

Now I think the thread title is somewhat broad and should be more specific. Also, OP offers only some solutions particularly with combating identity theft but regardless of this, those projects mentioned could somehow help us from becoming a victim especially with Civic project which I'm a little bit familiar.

As a reminder, just like what I've stated before, its very important that we should not become complacent with regards to our existing digital security setup because I believe no one is safe in this digital world. Imho.

Maybe Mayweather is a better fighter than Pacquiao but it still is a contested debate until now and it depends on whom you will asked about it.

I remember people airing their disappoint on social media after their first fight and most spectators aren't contented on Mayweather's boxing since they were expecting a very good and entertaining slugfest between the two boxers but it never happened, thanks to Mayweathers strategy.

Until now I can say Mayweather is hesitant to fight Pacquiao again because he is definitely afraid to lose and that he will avoid such encounter as possibly as he can because he is also afraid that he might become a laughingstock in boxing world if he indeed suffer a lose to Pacquiao.

I hope those graphs and the OP wasn't designed as a tool for a smear campaign to discredit Bitcoin so that another coin may gain from it  because I think almost everybody else that did smear campaigns against Bitcoin had eventually failed!

Now I would appreciate if OP would be kind enough to provide us a more objective comparison on Bitcoin and BSOV and let the community see both of their strengths and weaknesses and decide upon it.

You're welcome!  Being a part of this community, I guess its our duty to inform others on these pitfalls so that we may never become victims of it!

Now I understand that the email sent to you was sent by a different email address and I suppose these scammers are very aggressive on their phishing campaign and will do different tricks to become successful that I feel it is rather important to keep the community regularly informed about this until these threats have subsided, hopefully in the near future.

So I guess we should continue on keeping everybody aware about this as much as possible.

Yeah I guess its better not to spread false hope among our peers because as I understand, there are "societal problems" that cant be solved by technological solutions.


Had their assumptions been correct, then we could have seen significant improvements towards those problems right now but I'm afraid that 10 years since inception, Bitcoin will not solve these so called "societal problems" per se. Imho.

This information will be very helpful in spreading more awareness on this kinds of phishing attempts throughout the crypto industry!

Now I wonder what will happen to people who are not in this forum and are clueless about these kind of incidents especially if there is no one to warn them?

Bitcoin's deflationary model has already been the subject of several discussions not just in this forum but throughout the entire social media ecosystem. Personally, I believe Bitcoin's fixed supply is somewhat deflationary by design but who could have prove it?, not until we wait 100 years to verify both our assumptions are correct!

I also find your infographic somewhat confusing - adding up to that are the terms deflation and disinflation which both are influenced by several factors and not just by the supply design of any particular cryptocurrency and maybe you can consider also to include such factors such as CPI (consumer price index) in your graphs to make it more comprehensive.

Now I hope one of the crypto you've mentioned will be able to survive within the next 100 years adding to the fact BSOV is only an ERC20 token and could be perceived of riding Bitcoin's such that almost all Bitcoin look alike has been shunned from the past by the community.

Its very unfortunate that you've got to sell your exchange for a mere $75 in BTC and why is that? Why it is so very cheap?

I think its one of the exchange that succumb as an example of Darwinian theory of evolution - the "survival of the fittest" kind of thing!

Now I doubt if anyone will get interested in buying it since most of the crypto-community has already witnessed scammy exchanges come and go - most of which have the motive to cash in and was encouraged to set up after the 2017 bull run.

But if it has superb features at par with other notable exchanges, then might as well offer it to CZ, maybe he'd pay $750k and considered it a Binance subsidiary.

I think Bitcoin cannot solve household debt and  banking bailouts since it cannot influence the human aspects of what causes these problems!

I mean how can Bitcoin solve household debt when the the main cause of this comes from socio-economic factors and lifestyle choices! Similarly, how can Bitcoin solve banking problems when it was the result of poor management!

Therefore, I like to assume that Bitcoin cannot solve socio-economic factors, lifestyle choices and poor management but humans will! So the solution is for us to have necessary reforms so as not to have these kinds of problems in the future. Imho.

I think this might be a classic example of crypto ponzi schemes and even OP didn't have any verifiable credentials much less any securities permit or any other pertinent docs related to their identity and business operations. So in short, if ever one of these guys try to run with investors money, there is no way to hold them accountable.

Moreover, how can OP categorically state that their investment program is basically "free money" when its program will cost would be investors 0.1 ETH? My God! The crypto industry is now getting more mature than ever that I doubt anyone would be interested with your program knowing it has a very high probability of being scam!

Any scheme that is "too good to be true" should immediately make us suspicious and should avoid it all at once! I believe this things will continue forever as long as there are still unsuspecting naive people who didn't use their common sense and continuously falls prey to this kinds of traps!

Greed which is inherent to us and the temptation for "easy money"  are both fuels to this frauds that needs to be extinguish or controlled within ourselves. Imho.

I suppose trading signals are not being taken seriously right now because most of them are only being made with a hidden agenda like taking for a ride naive people for a pump and dump scheme which at the end could result in them having huge losses.

I think it is more ideal if we could get any trading knowledge as much as we can that could prove very useful especially when we have mastered the basics in theory and in actual trading activity so that in the end, we can easily distinguish those trade advice we encounter everyday if it has merits or not and act in accordance with it.

Of course we have to select validators which are very robust in terms of its security structure (e.g. those validators which have good uptime statistics, haven't had any security issues before, etc.).

I guess I'm more likely to delegate my tokens to validators who doesn't only have a huge amount of delegated coins but the node owner had also a sizable stake within that node. Other than that, I assume there are also well placed security mechanisms to protect delegators from totally being ripped out from their staked tokens should  a severe security issue arises.

I think these books are great references for traders whether your still a newbie or an expert. I hope I could find free digital copies available for download on some them and hopefully share it to the community. But still you are right! - "experience is still the best teacher" so to speak. Thank you for sharing that article.