I guess you're making reference to the not too distant event with CM campaign and its sad end. To a great extent I do believe the abrupt manner that mixer site was shutdown showed the dimension and seriousness with which government could take things to if it meant it. I'm not a tech person but I do believe shutting down of this forum could also be possible but that could only be if there's incriminating evidence against it. CM fell out with the law and its advertisement ended here immediately. Except government can sufficiently prove that BTT was an active partner in the whole saga, I don't think it would want to go that way seizing its domain.

Oh, really? I didn't even think of that dimension when I got a lot of calls and offline messages in that regard from members on this while BTT was down a few days ago. If I did, I would've played a fast one on those worrying callers by pranking them that the site had been yanked off by government 🤪

Generally, I think of two factors that could be responsible for what you've observed regarding the decline. The first you mentioned "unfriendly environment for Newbies/users?" is my pick. I've read posts from veterans who said they were leaving the forum for what they termed the unabated toxic nature of the forum.

The second factor is the peak and off peak periods of Bitcoin circle. We tend to have more active users here whenever there's Bitcoin bull rally and vice versa. The excitement is often electrifying during bull period and we get to see many accounts come alive to make contributions and participate in signature campaigns. There's proliferation of signature campaigns around this period as many new projects tend to spring up, both scam and genuine ones.

Going forward, I think the numbers will be better next year as we get into the bull season.

There are good and easy to use Bitcoin wallets that you can get for free online, why waste money paying for one when you're still finding your way in this industry. Try Electrum wallet (someone already supplied the link above). It's free and on Android Playstore. See if your interest in Bitcoin remains high before doing further investment on wallet purchase. BTW, what did the person who introduced this forum to you tell you regarding this or you stumbled on this forum without a mentor like me too?

Perhaps Patrol69 meant "terrific" as used in that context.

It's not as if I don't have investments in altcoins. Of course, I do. I've an appreciable amount in altcoins and I do believe that on the short term altcoins give better ROI than Bitcoin. However, anyone investing in altcoins should be extremely cautious. For newbies, they should avoid alts investment totally if they can. The point I laboured to draw out there in the other comment is why would anyone intentionally invest in obvious Ponzi projects and the feelers I get is because of the mouth watering packages or returns these projects promise the public.

Thanks for alerting the community. However, I do believe that anyone who gets scammed by a newbie account should've themselves to blame. I mean, on what grounds will anyone solely trust an account that young which virtually has nothing to lose even if it gets red trust? It doesn't make any sense to me. Now that the account has been tagged, the user will obviously create another account and continue with fresh gullible victims. Nothing to lose for them. A few days ago on a different thread I made a post suggesting why the lack of moderation on scam should be reviewed. It's because of related issues like this.

Nor vex sey I single your post out to point out certain things. Na the desire to set things right make me dey do am. Those ur explanations na just transliteration of the proverbs wey you throw there. Nor be the real meaning. You fit ask any elderly person around you.

The first wan mean – reaping the consequences of one's stubbornness or recalcitrance.

The second wan mean – talks about retributive justice or karma. Whatever we wish unto others is what we should expect in return.

Sorry, dis wan nor be African proverb at all. Na you arrange am by yourself.

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*Abeg make una take note*

Abeg I don talk about dis thing before. I nor wan report anybody post to mod for deletion. For those of us wey dey write their proverbs for English, e nor too jell here. Make una dey write am for pidgin but make una put the explanation for English. E nor too hard na. Na beg I dey beg una. Una know sey I nor too go school and so I go like make matta nor cast here.

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God bless you for dat talk. I don even post my comment on dis kain talk before I com see dis ur own. I suppose pour you colele water but my fridge dry up now.

Having more than one stream of income is no doubt a given. However, what you've on your list aren't different sources of income. To the best of my perspicacity, they're just one stream of income in different tags. To have another source or stream of income is to venture into something totally different from what one is already doing. Let's imagine that one calls all that different sources of income and then cryptocurrency is banned or goes extinct, do you think one will still have anything doing to survive there? Of course, not. Diversification and away from the same industry is the definition of different sources of income. Do cryptocurrency, do stocks, do poultry, get a regular office job, own a barbershop etc; if one can do all that then one has different streams of income.

Whoever introduced you to this forum must be very proud of you. You haven't disappointed them. Keep it up and don't lower the bar.

Congratulations, Obari. It's a saying that good things don't hide, like the gold fish they will surely be discovered. You indeed put in a good showing and have shown that you're determined to succeed. You deserve it all. It's just a pity I was always short on merit whenever I stumbled on your posts. I guess you're in luck today.

I wonder why that's still so till date. I think it's time that got reviewed.

Those whose accounts got red tagged two or three years ago know what the disadvantages of joining in such a scam tagged campaign are and how they can't find a different campaign thereafter. For those who are rushing into it now, I can only say they shouldn't jeopardize their account by joining. Steer clear of such. Scam is a serious issue here even though it's not regulated and I honestly don't know why it's that way.

I know I've seen this user a few times online though can't remember exchanging any direct correspondence with them. Nonetheless, I know their posting habit isn't bad. Nice choice once again, BestChange. LogitechMouse, welcome to the green fam; and like they say in my local parlance – the land is green!

Your first choice is stepping out to confront that fear which eclipsed you in the past. That you've successfully done. The second part is to realize that those who quit don't win and those who later won never quit. Now that you're here, you should embrace learning like it will go out of fashion in the next minute. Read and learn to develop and resolve whatever nagging questions you think you've. Ask questions where necessary and don't be shy to do so. Before long you will also begin to sound high like those you envied before now. The last, and the most important, be vigilant while you're online. Even on this forum, be vigilant. Anyone who sends you a private chat or link or talks to you about business in private is obviously a scammer. Be warned.

Engineer, really? I nor wan believe sey I read dat! Dis is unbelievable. No youth should support dis APC criminality at all. Because we dey here dey get weekly change nor mean sey we go forget how bad dis government don run dis cowtry down. You think sey if na for sane countries dem for neva burn all those politicians or jail dem? Abegi.

To avoid catching a falling knife, the first thing you or anyone who's interested in a project that's dumping should do is to quickly rush to any social media outlet of the project to find out why the dump is happening and if there's any internal scruples. You can't miss this if there's anything wrong going on. Someone on the media channel is bound to expose it. Don't rush to buy any coin because you feel the price has depreciated. Find out why first.

I do random buying using the DCA technique.

I'm sure the account seller quoted those low prices for the various accounts to quickly draw their victims in. It's obvious that it's a scam waiting to happen. Either of these two scenarios, one will play out – there are no accounts to be sold in the first place or the  accounts have some forms of tags on them. Again, you talked about why didn't the account seller go into signature campaigns instead of selling the account. Truth remains that not everyone can make posts (constructively) to even save their own life.

This feature and the fact that scam isn't  moderated here are some of the things everyone should frown at. Plagiarism is frown at as property theft, so how come the real stealing and robbery aren't sanctioned? This is complicated for me as it beggars explanation. It's a bunch of contradiction, to say the least. OP, sorry for your loss. You've learnt your lesson from that encounter and I believe perhaps next time you won't fall prey.

That's just the point! Sometimes I want to compel myself to believe that most people forcefully expose themselves to be scammed. Everyone has guts feeling that alerts us of something but truth remains that sometimes we want to ignore it and do the permissive, especially when our minds are already made up to do it. In trying to go ahead we conjure up all sorts of "what if". Frankly, there are projects with scam well written over them without anyone digging an inch into them in research as to whether they're genuine or not. Yet there are people who still invest in those projects. How such projects get those they scam is a wonder to me.

To start with, Wakanda isn't the first Africa project. There was Dalecoin even before I embraced crypto in 2017. There was also Zugacoin created by Sam Zuga, an African, in 2019 or 2020.

I saw through the smokescreen when the hype for it hit the media but I avoided it as my sixth sense told me something wasn't right. My guts were right. It was the same way I avoided the shitcoin, Zugacoin. It's not as if it's an African thing to have bad projects. It transverses all continents. There are scammers everywhere. BTW, don't sell off what is left. You never can tell if there are going to be novice investors who are definitely going to buy it during the forthcoming bull run in 2024/25

I believe this is a rhetorical question.

😆 You acted like a typical Nigerian there and our way of running away from telling ourselves about death. What is someone mistakenly dying 😆.

This is a big issue with cryptocurrency and I know a lot of this scenario has occured with many hodlers, even in this forum, with those who died intestate. I've heard some make laughable comments as to how they will make sure they reveal their crypto hidings to their loved ones or next of kins before they die as if anyone knows what date they will die. Those who loud the need for privacy are the worse hit on this because they hardly trust anyone with their crypto stuff and wouldn't want to divulge any. It's important to have our crypto hodlings documented somehow so they can be discovered when we pass on.