Thanks a lot for the video, I think it's of a great importance to warn users about its appearance. I feel like the OneCoin scam hasn't been exposed well enough around the internet and I somehow feel responsible to expose it or any reappearance of it no matter in what form. I even translated it to my local board for those who speak my language to notice it.

I personally don't think the launch of digital fiat currencies has anything to do with the acceptance of crypto. Might be just me though.

They care about launching a digital coin to draw attention away from crypto. Do people really think governments will create a scarce, decentralized crypto with an actual future? The only future CBDCs will have is one of surveillance and full control.

Thread tradus din limba engleza. Link catre thread-ul original: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5352140.0

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Nota personala: Am decis sa traduc aceasta postare deoarece este vorba despre o teapa care s-a desfasurat inclusiv pe teritoriul Romaniei. Iar pentru ca data trecuta cand am aflat despre OneCoin nu m-am implicat prea mult in a incetini macar trend-ul prin diverse postari, consider ca macar de data aceasta pot face un mic efort spre a-l atenua.

Tin minte ca in jurul anului 2014 am aflat de pe un forum (cel mai probabil Softpedia) romanesc despre aceasta teapa, in fata careia mai multi romani cazusera prada. Se ajunsese pana in punctul unor amenintari, iar oamenii care reuseau sa intre in aceasta schema piramidala nu mai puteau iesi "cu mainile curate" din ea.

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Feriti-va de noul video DeepFake cu Ruja Ignatova, realizat cu ajutorul unui actor si postat pe YouTube, prin care se cer donatii pentru a ajuta la relansarea proiectului-teapa.
Ea (sau el) declara ca ea nu mai are acces la vechiul cont. Deci incepand cu o noua pagina dupa ce a asteptat o perioada lunga de timp, ea este pregatita sa schimbe lumea  .
Daca observati cu atentie, veti vedea ca fata ei nu se misca natural ci este suprapusa corpului prin tehnologia DeepFake.

Ce este important de observat din discursul ei (lui) se afla in urmatoarele replici:
"Oameni-cheie din echipa mea s-au transformat in tradatori si nu am acces la servere sau fonduri..."
"Avem nevoie de resurse. Si vreau sa angajez cei mai buni experti blockchain..."
"Am nevoie de donatii si fonduri din partea voastra."

Teapa originala OneCoin a fost inceputa in 2014 devenind mai apoi una dintre cele mai mari scheme piramidale din istorie, creata de creatoarea tepara bulgara Ruja Ignatova (The Cryptoqueen/Cryptoregina) care este disparuta din 2017 si are o sentinta de pana la 90 de ani de puscarie.
Se stie ca detinea mai multe pasapoarte diplomatice si probabil in jurul a 230.000 Bitcoini, deci cu siguranta nu are nevoie de vreo "donatie" de la cineva.


https://youtu.be/TnUWu3tWA3M

arhiva: https://archive.is/skJF3

Nu picati prada in fata acestei tepe, nu-i contactati si nu trimiteti niciodata vreun ban oamenilor care vand ulei de sarpe precum acesta.

I think, we could, we might, the price would ... it's all nonsense if you think about it. Even if the majority of us say the price should be much more than it currently is, our opinion is worth about nothing in the end. The market still moves according to the news, the new investors' moves, whales and so on.

You're on a Bitcoin forum anyway, so expect the majority of the answers to be positive. Bitcoin is still early, it might very well still be very cheap as well. A move from $40k to $400k might seem very hard, but it might turn out to be as easy, if not easier, than the move from $6k to $60k was. The secret word is might. Things are uncertain, the market is volatile.. at the end of the day, Bitcoin just moves in whichever direction it wants to.

I think we have two issues we'd be facing by incentivizing nodes. One would be that someone will obviously try to run thousands if not millions of servers (which are nowadays accessible within a few clicks, especially Amazon cloud servers..) which would in turn make them earn a ton of money. The other issue would be that incentivizing everything makes it in the end an unsustainable economy.

We can clearly see on this forum what incentivizing for everyone means, especially since the appearance of bounties. Many, if not most users of this forum only access it due to the money they earn from it. Otherwise, the forum would be an empty place - which I really wouldn't mind since those who remain would be the legitimately interested users.

Therefore.. as much as some people want node running to be incentivized, it's hard to do it without making it unfair. Imagine for BTC how many servers Google or Amazon could run to their own benefit, which could in turn be a big risk for us and Bitcoin's security. They'd all milk the hell out of BTC and I'm afraid the network would actually need to remove its 21M supply limit in order to function like that.

Bad idea in my opinion.

Could be a strategy. Purchase ETH before the fork, wait for the price to pump and just drop out. It doesn't mean ETH is getting more adopted imo. The hype is usually very high before big changes, remember SegWit.. I might be wrong of course, but I don't think there's much more than a simple money move.

I think it's always been "prestigious" to own BTC. I remember there was a thread here in which someone wanted to auction thousands of BTC for a few bucks and nobody thought it'd be worth it. This is what people still think even today..

That's the thing: you don't need to own a full Bitcoin. That's just a dream so many people have but it's pretty unrealistic. Remember, you can own even 1 satoshi. Nobody forces you to own a full BTC to be considered a Bitcoin investor.

Yeah, the price goes up almost constantly every few years. That doesn't make it a "problem" to begin with - in fact, there's a very good side to it if every time you buy the price goes up, lol!

When will people understand that a country's miners having over 51% of the global hashrate does not mean China is in control of Bitcoin? A country's total mining power doesn't mean all these guys are working together. In fact, this is why there are multiple miners rather than just one.

Also, China has nothing to do with the market prices. Worst they can do is release FUD, but even that has an end all the time. I'd rather think Musk has more influence over the markets than the Chinese do..

It's scarce, so people simply consider it is worth a buy at $41k. When markets pump, the demand is so high people think it should be worth more. When the market drops, it's the opposite. Bitcoin is literally worth as much as people want it to be or think it is worth.

It definitely sucks if you're not using the ccode to login in order to skip reCaptcha or if you have a bad connection. As long as you're patient with the little slower loading times, it's all fine though.

Something I recently keep getting is the "please turn on JavaScript" page that makes a Tor browser restart necessary. And that's likely because previous Tor users have created spam on the forum so the protection system against spam of the forum sometimes gets triggered all of a sudden.

But for the sake of my privacy, I ignore all these negative points and just keep using Tor without JS when browsing.

I have 2 theories out of which at least one I suspect Bezos is applying:

1. Bezos hates Bitcoin. He's a billionaire, he owns a corporation and he is actively working with other corporations, governments, authorities and so on. Hence, the idea of a currency they can't overtake or heavily profit from makes them pull back from helping it grow in any way. Look at Musk, what he's done is he's promoted DOGE to his own advantage. In the end, the poor got poorer, Musk got richer, the crypto scene has lost trust in front of potentially millions due to the pump and dump and so crypto had zero benefits from his crap.

2. Bitcoin is simply not popular enough for Amazon to do business with it. Bezos follows trends for sure, but he doesn't follow small ones. Bitcoin doesn't have that many users so his move to adopt Bitcoin on his platform would probably end up the same way Steam's did back in 2014 or so when they added BTC to the payment methods.

I had a 3rd theory I apparently forgot while writing this post, lol. These are the most likely scenarios imo.

This explains it all. The author is drooling after a crypto ban, and even if it happens all they're gonna do is prove themselves wrong. Say everyone moved to XMR suddenly - their entire policy of banning crypto is gonna drop to the floor, lol. You can't ban the unbannable.

Most likely. The average Joes do affect it too though, just imagine how many people started selling their BTC or purchasing goods with it every Bitcoin cycle. Even those newbies who simply nought BTC for the first time and sent it to a personal wallet. Overall, it tends to congest the network easily as long as the demand for BTC increases substantially.

Definitely an interesting read. Bitcoin might evolve into a super-sovereign currency, but I think the draconic upcoming regulations will be like a blockage of its real potential. Here is where the problems usually come up: when humans think grass shouldn't be green in the US but blue instead. Once a country doesn't agree with something, especially when it comes to systems that put them under "danger" of loss of control, they'll try to enforce rules other countries don't agree with. And since Bitcoin lives on its own, all by itself with no need of change of rules, there will always be a problem with Bitcoin's evolution.

One starts the trend, the sheep follow. Since this year's DOGE craze, everyone went nuts.. literally. It's like they are so desperate there's no more common sense.

All these shitcoins are pure crap and nonsense. Besides seasonal pumps that are not guaranteed, there isn't much to see or care about. These coins are alive only 1 month out of 2 years, at most. Nothing can promise you a fortune with no investment, this is yet another "get rich quick" scheme that won't work.

The Bitcoin as we know it.. maybe. Why would we ignore the fact that it's open source though? Solutions in the open-source world exist for almost anything, including this theory that you're trying to propagate. Even if Bitcoin as we know it ceases to exist, there will come another version of it that will not be defunct anymore.

If you hate on BTC that much, why even bother wasting your time here?

Bookmark the login code page and switch your security to Safest. Javascript has lots of flaws and if securing your real identity is your goal, this is one good tip to follow. By switching to Safest, scripts won't work no more.. preserving your identity better at the expense of comfort.

Great then. The less corporations coming in the Bitcoin world before it becoming mainstream, the better. No need for corps to join us, Bitcoin does a tremendous job all by itself.

If you're afraid of the Pegasus wallet, I personally think you should be first afraid of the big corporations who already know much more information about you than you may imagine.

Systems in general have weak points, there will always be vulnerabilities one can exploit. Storing your bucks on a hot wallet is already known as an unsafe bet, and there are alternatives even to these kind of phone exploits. For example, you could buy the cheapest smartphone you can get and use it as a cold wallet of the family. Unless you play with its system by rooting it and flashing custom ROMs, as long as you keep it constantly offline (although devices with WiFi, GSM and Bluetooth modules are never truly offline...) you should be fine.

But again, the change should start from the roots. Linux instead of Windows. Verify executables before actuallyexecuting them. DuckDuckGo or Microsia instead of Google. And so on..