I think there are three possible options why the OP is publicly asking for something like this on the forum.

• The first option is that for some reason he thinks that all people who have something to do with Bitcoin have an account on this forum.
• Another option is that the scammer may have mentioned this forum to him or that he has an account here.
• The third option is that the OP is just trying to catch someone naive and play the victim, to whom someone will take pity and send a donation.

Whatever it is, I'm sure that neither the scammer will show mercy, nor will anyone be so naive as to send a donation.

The first reason that comes to my mind is that what you propose is still a bit too complicated for the average user, because for some even using only one HW is a challenge. Furthermore, with everything going on around Ledger, do you think it's even wise to advise someone to trust that company?

When it comes to hardware wallets, many will agree that the Passport is one of the best airgapped devices that can be bought at the moment, and for someone who has enough BTC that he wants to keep in a safe way, that $200 or $250 is not something that should be considered expensive or bad investment.

However, anyone can make an airgapped device from an old smartphone or computer, which costs practically nothing if such a device is collecting dust somewhere.

Bitcoin does not need to be legalized in such a way that some country recognizes it, because it is designed precisely in such a way to allow anyone to own and use it, regardless of what a country, its prime minister or president thinks about it. It is true that there are some countries that have banned Bitcoin, as well as the fact that those same countries also ban many other things that allow people to live freely.

Therefore, I think that for the people who live in these countries there are much bigger problems than Bitcoin being banned, and anyone who wants to have Bitcoin has to take a risk and break the law, or think about whether it's time to move to another country that doesn't have politicians who they behave in such a restrictive way.

I can understand that such an account created back in 2011 has some kind of sentimental value, but it would have even more if it generated some kind of value in terms of posts that don't actually exist. Will such an old account mean something special even if it manages to rank?

Maybe it will be the case for some who will consider it as proof that the OP is one of those early users of the forum, but I think that in this particular case the date of account creation does not have much to do with what will happen with this account in the future.

It's a good habit and it makes sense because in this way you avoid that in your post (if you're going to write it) you won't repeat what others have already written before you.


That's just proof that few members read more than the first to a maximum of 3 pages of a topic, and then what about topics that are meaningless in themselves and have 10 or more than 15 pages each and serve as spam megathreads for sig campaign spammers.

From time to time, some members appear who wonder how it is that they can never get merits, and they don't realize that their posts are buried under a pile of garbage and that probably no one has even read them.


What you imagine is perhaps technically feasible, but as others have already mentioned, we cannot always rely on merits as something that defines whether a post is of better quality than another in the same topic. I often notice that some members favor certain members when it comes to merits, regardless of the fact that someone else has written an equally good or maybe even better post.

Such a way of sorting posts would theoretically allow some 10-20 members to be at the top in each topic, which would mean even more merit for them, and even less opportunity for those who really need merit to reach the next rank.

If nothing else, he became the news of the day, although many people wonder who this man is and why he deserves so much attention. I have read his name a couple of times over the years on the forum, but I never got the impression that he was someone important, but just some "so-called expert" or as they call him, a crypto influencer who of course has his own token.

Is Ben perhaps related to the much more famous Brian Armstrong (Coinbase CEO)? Probably not, but it seems that the Armstrongs are very fond of cryptocurrencies and luxurious living

Is it possible to buy a monthly or maybe an annual ticket? I know that mostly children in my country who travel by bus to school drive like this, but I don't think it is limited only to them. An ordinary bicycle does not take up much space, and it can be hung on the wall very easily, especially if it is a model made of very light materials.


If memory serves me correctly, you live on an island, and that only makes life more expensive - I know this because my country also has a lot of islands, and everything is more expensive there than on the mainland. Just today I read an article that an employer offers a salary of up to 11 000 EUR for the position of a waiter in Germany, where there is a shortage of such workers.

I can only tell you that until maybe 1-2 years ago, I could go out on the street at any time of the night without fear, and today I no longer feel safe, considering that some of the people who came as cheap labor are already starting to show their inclination violence and religious intolerance.


Look, I was also in the army at one time, so although I consider most of that time wasted because I didn't do anything useful, I still learned something and know how to handle various types of weapons, which can always come in handy considering who my neighbors are, right? Unfortunately, mandatory military service was abolished a long time ago and today's young people do not have any knowledge of skills that would be of help in case they need it.

If you want to protect yourself from thieves, then you need to further complicate the situation in case such a theft happens, and I would suggest that you do two things.

The first is that the seed is hidden in an unusual place, which means that it will not be in a drawer on a sheet of paper, in a box with Christmas decorations or in a safe (if you have one at all). So turn on your imagination and think outside the box.

If you don't like the first proposal, you can additionally protect seed by setting a passphrase, and you will keep it separate from the seed, of course even better without any indication that it is about something related to cryptocurrencies. Even if thieves steal your seed, without a passphrase they will not be able to generate your coin addresses, and you will be able to safely transfer your coins to a new wallet.

As for natural disasters, there's no point in writing about it again, you got a link to a thread where we discussed it.

Somehow that number seemed unrealistic to me, so I checked what the statistics say, and it is just a little more than 50%, which is still a really big dominance, even though that CEX also recorded a big drop compared to last year. After all, it is a free market and people go where they think is best for them, but I think that considering how that CEX operates and how the authorities are pressuring them from all sides, the days of their greatest glory will slowly begin to fade.

I just hope it happens before some big scandal, whether it's hacking or something similar like what happened with FTX.

Some people sound like a broken record, and you are repeating something without reading my previous post, or are you deliberately ignoring it? You probably think I'm lying or talking nonsense, but I've always thought that what I collect will one day be worth much more than it was then, and even today faucets can be profitable if you own one of them.

You also completely ignore the role that faucets played in the promotion of Bitcoin, so you shouldn't look at everything only from a profit perspective.

Besides, I don't believe that you knew that Bitcoin existed 10 years ago, and therefore you can't have personal experience from that time - I earned my first BTC just like that and I don't regret the time I spent at all. Every day I spent an hour or two less watching TV or playing games, and I don't consider that a loss.

It has been confirmed once again that every time Saylor buys BTC the price goes down by at least 1-2%. If one of the various influential crypto-messiahs was doing this, it seems to me that 1 BTC would have been worth more than $100k long ago. On the other hand, Saylor certainly has nothing against continuing to buy BTC at low prices.

If we take into account that you borrowed most of that money, then it is not your money, but money from your friends, relatives and all those whom you, with your naivety and greed, dragged into something that had the characteristics of a scam from the very beginning.


If you worked for $1000 a month, you would earn $12 000 a year, which means that you would earn what you gambled away in 10 years. If you find two well-paying jobs, you might be able to make it in half the time.

Although this story of yours seems to me to be a fabrication, all just to promote your video - but if there is even a little truth in what you wrote, your chances are minimal that you will earn so much money sitting in front of your computer and posting videos on forums.

Most parents behave protectively towards their children, and I have already written that the mainstream media mostly write and speak negatively about Bitcoin, although often without any basis, considering that Bitcoin has nothing to do with Bankman, Kwon or that scammer from Turkey and many others who are guilty of tens of billions of damages because they behaved like arrogant kids who thought that no one could do anything to them.

Because of such people, Bitcoin gets a bad reputation, and I personally in my environment often hear very negative comments when people talk about this topic. Recently, a fraudster (or just an incompetent kid) disappeared in my country with around 70 million euros that he got from clients to invest in cryptocurrencies, and I don't even have to tell you what kind of media fuss was created about it. In its primetime news program, state television made a feature about it and showed the Bitcoin logo, that is, the logo of a domestic exchange, which has nothing to do with the specific case.

I want to say that I am not at all surprised that in general less than 5% of people today own cryptocurrencies, and even less Bitcoin - the general perception of Bitcoin is mostly bad to very bad.

Is your opinion based on facts or just a feeling? If you have concrete evidence that the OP is a scammer, then share it with the other members of the forum, preferably in Scam Accusations using the scam report format.

I still have a part of the earnings from faucets when I was just starting to get interested in them, and the amount I have is not very small, let's say you should be in the signature campaign you are currently in for several years to earn that amount. Of course, nothing is free, but in the beginning the faucets were something interesting, and you didn't have to click all day to get through them all, because then faucet rotators were popular - in a little more than an hour you could collect more than 300 000 satoshi + earnings from referrals.

You're generalizing things, because you can also say that everyone who was an early adopter spent all the BTC they had, although we know that's not the case since the blockchain is public and we see daily transactions involving coins mined in the first few years of Bitcoin's existence.

Anyone can open a topic about anything, including the OP about his great idol who did so much damage to Bitcoin with his senseless decisions, but the fact is that such discussions lead nowhere because we are talking about a man whose word is not something to be trusted and that is proved countless times.

In addition, do we have to have one topic in each board about whether Mr. Mars will change his mind or OP could learn one of our local sayings that says "promise makes a fool happy".

Will Elon Musk keep what he said or not?

Even if you can change one CEX to be dominant on the market, this does not mean that another one will not appear, because if you remove one, someone else will take advantage of that opportunity. In addition, you should take into account that Bitcoin was created for everyone, and that Satoshi did not in his vision go with any restrictions in terms of how mining or trading will be done.

It might have been better if we had DEX from the beginning, but no one could in any way prevent people from starting a business with CEX, which turned out to be extremely profitable for the owners, and on the other hand, a simple way for users to buy and sell Bitcoin. What is wrong in that whole story is that CEX started to present themselves as some kind of crypto bank, and many users started to use them in that way.

If there was a law that CEX could not keep the user's coins for more than 48 hours after the purchase, then clients would be forced to keep their coins in non-custodial wallets and this would somewhat prevent the centralization of millions of BTC in custody services.

Of course, something like that will not happen, because if we know that CZ indirectly called its users stupid in the sense that they are not able to store their coins independently, it is more than clear that they want you to buy something, and then leave it for them to keep.

You obviously don't know much about China, because if you didn't know, those who fanatically support the communist party live in China, and those who want "freedom" are scattered all over the world, and that's why you have Chinese shops in literally every town and small village where in the world.

That "strong urge" you are talking about has been quite dulled over the decades, and in order to keep it that way, the communists use the method of a huge network of informants who are ordinary working people doing any job, and in addition they report to the authorities any unusual, inappropriate and anti-state behavior. Such people then go to the so-called resocialization, where problematic ideas are forced out of their heads (mostly by force), and for the most stubborn ones there is something called liberation by work, that is, work in camps until death.

You, for some reason known to you, exaggerate the importance that Bitcoin has when it comes to revolutionary changes in society, especially in a country like China. They are not interested in Bitcoin primarily because they cannot control it, and even less because of some kind of profit considering their GDP compared to how much the entire mining industry (BTC) is worth and all the coins that have been mined so far.

Have you perhaps thought about not using your own car, but perhaps looking for an alternative in public transport (if it exists), or perhaps checking whether it would be feasible to travel to work (in the city) with an electric bicycle or an electric scooter? Their price (if you're looking for something above the average) is around 700 EUR or more, but they use very little electricity with solid autonomy in better models.


If your goal is to live exclusively in the city, then you have to accept that the cost of living anywhere in the west of the EU will be even higher than what you are paying now, but there is more than enough work, especially if you are a highly educated person.

As for the migrants, you are absolutely right, they have literally flooded all the countries that have a friendly policy towards them, but the problem is not that they take someone's job (there are plenty of jobs), but that they have become a big security problem in all the countries that you mentioned, but also in many others where there are more and more of them.


Have you thought about getting a job in the army? I know it may not be the most popular option, but the military generally takes good care of its members, and that includes housing.

Fortunately, I don't have such problems like you, but everything you mentioned certainly affects me personally, because climate change is something that I feel on my skin, considering that I am very closely connected with nature. The stories I heard 20 years ago and more have started to come true, and it seems to me more and more that we are going down a one-way street in the wrong direction.

However, the worst thing you can do to yourself is to give in to pessimism, and you should always find small things that you can enjoy, and sometimes they are even completely free. Imagine that tomorrow you go to buy a lottery ticket and they draw your numbers - a few million euros would erase all the problems you have, right?

Absolutely nothing, because even though some events are considered very negative, they still served a purpose and some people learned something from it all. Besides, even if someone could turn back time and prevent all the bad things that happened, they would very likely happen at some point in the future.

Ideally, it would be to prevent people from behaving stupidly and irresponsibly, but that is certainly one of the things that I personally think is impossible. In the context of cryptocurrencies we see a lot of illogical things, but in the general context of human stupidity it is only the tip of the iceberg.