Glad to hear that!
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That's why most sites require you to use a combination of characters, a number, and an alphanumeric character. Back then, people would just use their name as a password or if they're feeling creative, they will use their name but in a backward manner. Some use numbers as well but it's just the date of their date or someone related to them. If a hacker would bruteforce someone that has a password like that, it wouldn't take that much for him to get into the account.

There's also the secret question back then which is quite easy to hack. You just have to know the personal details of the person that you want to hack (i.e. mother's maiden name, first school that have been to, etc.) It's not that hard to get all those details by just talking to the guy either personally or online.

No need for him to watch a TV series for like 12 hours straight for one season. I've finished watching one season of Mr. Robot because it has been mentioned in various threads in this forum and from what I watched I think your reason was because the main data drives are located in China. I'm not sure though because I don't really have a deep knowledge about the subject. It was like all of their hacking activities needs to get something done in China as well. For example, if they want to hack a company, they also have to hack the drives in China or get help from the Cyber army from China.

If what's in the story of Mr. Robot is actually a real thing, then China is a huge part of the Internet, both in bitcoins and in the dark Net. But I think the actual reason why people say that China controls bitcoin is because they hold a huge part of the total bitcoins in circulation.

No reason for you to throw away your PC because surely another thing will rise after the fall of bitcoin. People will always think of a new thing to make money online. There are also other things that you can do even right now to earn bitcoins. Do not limit yourself from what you're doing right now. There are still sources of income waiting for you to explore them.

Don't give up on life just because bitcoin died. There's more to life than to bitcoins (just like the saying).

You would definitely have a hard time convincing people that you're not doing anything illegal in the bitcoin world and you've worked really hard to get all of your earnings. There are times when getting a good amount of bitcoin is really easy to do (i.e. participating in an altcoin bounty and then the coin got pumped up) but you wouldn't be able to do that if you didn't study before, if you didn't possess all of the necessary requirements. Just continue what you're doing and don't care about them. You don't need a validation from them to become successful in life anyway.

Maybe he thought that ICO devs are earning millions out of ICOs because they collect millions of dollars after the solicitation. What they didn't know is that it's being used to pay for the advertisement, the devs, the website makes, etc. There's a lot of expense in ICOs. Even just signature campaigns take a lot of money to pay.

Regardless, people are willing to destroy their name in the bitcoin world just to get a lot of money. Committing sins and running away from the investors is no-brainer for scammers. They aren't concerned to those people that actually believed that investing in their project would be worth it.

Thanks for the update! I moved it on top of the table just so all of the abbreviations are together.

You put 0.00025BTC maybe it was because it was what chixka posted but it's different in the OP of their campaign. I was kind of confused because they only pay 0.000015BTC for jr member and so I checked. It's actually 0.000025BTC.

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I think even without mentioning to people what bitcoin is, simply promoting a cryptocurrency will lead to them finding out what bitcoin is and becoming interested to it. I think of the altcoins as a train that you can ride and those people that went in first can get their profit quickly while those people that have been riding the train for a long time will get a lot of profit. But the best ones do not wait for a long time but only wait for the best time to get out of the train. The train is also doomed to crash any time, by the way. So the guy was right, this is basically the cycle of an altcoin's life.

On the other hand, I really do think that riding that train and taking the risk that it can crash without any warnings is much better than just standing in the train station while judging or complaining how the train crash eventually.

TL;DR: Better to invest in an altcoin and take the risk than do nothing. Investing in altcoin is like riding a train that can crash anytime so you better get out of it when you think the time is right. In other words, sell your altcoin when you think the price is high enough.

It's okay to know all these things about bitcoin. We can't change these facts but people should realize the fact that all those scams and all those bad activities related to the use bitcoin will never do harm to them unless they try and go near it. It's like the thorn of a plant. You won't get hurt if you don't touch it. If you don't invest in hyip sites, then you will not get scammed. If you simply stay away from it (both from the thorn and hyip site), you'll be safe.

There are too many hyip sites because scammers make good money out of it and hyip sites will always be there. Everyday, an hyip site runs away and a new hyip site gets launched.

I think he was talking about mass adoption. Since almost everyone wants to use bitcoin and not fiat, then bitcoin will replace fiat. Even though it's not that likely to happen anytime soon, in the far future this might happen.

We don't need to sell our bitcoins since people would accepting bitcoins directly. For example, if you want to buy something, you have to pay 0.01BTC directly from your wallet into his wallet. No fiat is needed to get involved to buy something since everyone's using bitcoins.

Even with no physical form, bitcoin still does exist. Just like how your money in Paypal or in PerfectMoney exists. Both of them can be converted in fiat if you want to.

I don't think you really do altcoin tradings. Why? Because you said you can't get scammed in altcoin trading. The number of ICOs that turned into a scam is high. You participate in the ICO bounties, and then hold your coins for months hoping for the coin to actually grow as promised. But then after you a couple of days after the coin was launched in exchanger site, you just find out that the dev has already abandoned the project and people are just dumping their coins. The ending? The devs have earned millions while you're left there holding a scam coin that is obviously have no chance of getting revived.

People using bitcoins in illegal stuffs is something you can never control. People would continue to use bitcoins in illegal activities even if you do campaigns that promote using bitcoin only in a good manner. Fiat money is used in illegal stuffs too, and it seems like it has been used far more many times than bitcoins since fiat has been there for a long time now. Fiat hasn't been banned yet. Bitcoin having a good reputation might somehow affect the decision of the government but I don't think the reputation of bitcoin actually matters in the eyes of the law.

I wouldn't say that it's a "short cut" because hardcore programmers spent tons of time studying by themselves all alone in their room before they were able to code something enough to make ICOs (i.e. websites, etc.) Thinking of a new concept would surely jump your career from bottom to a much higher place but it's actually really hard to think of something new. Most of the time, you think that you just thought of something big, a concept that is big enough for you to attain success, but when you look it up online, somebody has already have thought of that long ago.

That stands true in first world countries but in most places in third world countries, it's quite hard to use your credit card/bitcoin card/ATM card to buy stuffs. Fiat is still the one that you should use (there's no other option). I'm talking about places that do not have malls. It's usually just places in the city and in malls that accepts payment directly from your card. I've also seen people (from movies) using their smartphone + some additional device to swipe your card. I've never seen anything like that in my place, honestly.

Unless if your email is the one that got hacked. He can simply use the "Forgot my password" feature to get onto your directbet account. The email confirmation system is nothing to him now since he's in control of your email. I haven't tried directbet but I do hope that they have a 2FA feature so even when your email got hacked, he still cannot withdraw your money or log in to your account. But it would be really bad for you if there's also a forgot 2FA feature on the website and then the directbet just sends an email regarding about it to your email.

Why did you invest on those websites in the first place? Were you a total newbie? The so-called "legit" cloud mining sites are just mining sites that haven't ran away from the investors yet. Even when they have been running for years already, they can run away whenever they wanted. The concept of ponzi, cloud mining, and doubler sites just fascinates me. It's like they have this magical way to multiply your money in such short period of time. But behind all those illusions is the fact that they're just using the previous investors' money.

That's why ICOs are seen as the new ponzi today. They promise this and that, most especially long term goals, but then abandon it later on. It's really hard to trust and invest in ICOs nowadays that's why most users just join the bounties. They get hyped up at first and after the early investors got their profit, the price just decrease continuously. Worst case is when the dev leaves the project together with the money that they solicited and not even let the early investors earn anything.

We can't say that for sure because fiat is so strong right now that even if USD crashes, people might just carry on with using their own local currencies. Only the people that use USD mainly will significantly be affected. And since that would surely be in the news, I think that's a good time to introduce bitcoins to people. If we do that, then people finally found the alternative money that they're looking for.

What difference does it make for hackers if they find out that bitcoin is owned by the CIA? As long as they're making money out of bitcoins, they will continue to use it. Fiat money is owned by the government, do criminals mind it? No. Maybe if once the CIA is doing something horrible against bitcoins, then the hackers will do something. Right now, everything's fine for them. Hackers' identities are still hidden because they use bitcoins.

Of course there are real people behind it. Who designed, created, and thought of making a scam site? Of course a real person and not some machine or bot. It's really easy to create thousands of fake profiles and pretend as if you're that person. You can simply grab anyone's profile nowadays. Almost everyone on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have their profiles in public. It's easy to pretend that you're that someone. So I don't think that looking for a "real" person behind a website would help at all. If it's a scam, then it's a scam regardless of who is behind that website.