Report plagiarism (copy/paste) here. Mods: please give temp or permban as needed

[DaveF]

Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5195127

100% plagiarized from here: https://tradingdot.com/planning-your-exit/p1751

and here:

https://tabbforum.com/opinions/planning-your-exit

If it's asking you for a login here is the google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_f4buwxqwfQJ:https://tabbforum.com/opinions/planning-your-exit/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

-Dave

[Chikito]

Plagiarism

1. Thread : The welfare costs of Bitcoin Archived
User : Johnii

the cryptocurrency is not only extremely expensive in terms of its mining costs, but also inefficient in its long-run design. However, the efficiency of the Bitcoin system can be significantly improved by optimizing the rate of coin creation and minimizing transaction fees. Another potential improvement is to eliminate inefficient mining activities by changing the consensus protocol altogether.

can strictly dominate
PoW and even support immediate and final settlement.

Copy-paste from: https://dailyhodl.com/2019/09/29/crypto-works-best-as-a-large-scale-retail-payment-system-report/
Archived

the cryptocurrency is not only extremely expensive in terms of its mining costs, but also inefficient in its long-run design. However, the efficiency of the Bitcoin system can be significantly improved by optimizing the rate of coin creation and minimizing transaction fees. Another potential improvement is to eliminate inefficient mining activities by changing the consensus protocol altogether…

can strictly dominate PoW and even support immediate and final settlement.”

2. Thread : Bitcoin price Will be 11,500 by June 2019!  Archived
User : Johnii
Copy-paste from : https://u.today/btc-price-will-rise-to-11500-by-june-2019-bitcoin-is-predicted-to-gain-momentum-by-summer Archived

[lemipawa]

Is this qualified as plagiarism?

Username: Aleister Crowley https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=535846

Topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5201570.0;topicseen

Copy-paste from: https://hackernoon.com/9-rules-of-crypto-trading-that-helped-one-trader-go-from-1k-to-46k-in-less-than-a-year-232689fe5f00

Archieved: https://archive.is/pNTAM

[Stack23]

BTC_Aldonis (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2706705 ) should be banned for this copy paste.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5201994.0

Copy Paste Post:

We all know that blockchain is slowly taking over the digital side of the financial sector. But then there is tangle which is created to address the issues faced in the blockchain. But tangle has its own issues as well.
Which one do you think gonna win this race? Blockchain or Tangle?

Original Post:

We all know that blockchain is slowly taking over the digital side of the financial sector. But then there is tangle which is created to address the issues faced in the blockchain. But tangle has its own issues as well.

                                Which one do you think gonna win this race? Blockchain or Tangle?

Copy Paste Detected.

[alani123]

Is this qualified as plagiarism?

Username: Aleister Crowley https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=535846

Topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5201570.0;topicseen

Copy-paste from: https://hackernoon.com/9-rules-of-crypto-trading-that-helped-one-trader-go-from-1k-to-46k-in-less-than-a-year-232689fe5f00

Archieved: https://archive.is/pNTAM

Of course it is qualified as plagiarism and should be reported as such. Copy-pasting from anywhere without proper credit and in a way that's made out to be as your own creation is plagiarism. Especially here that the plagiarized text is 100% of the author's post.

[LoyceV]

Newbie btcshaker created a post with content that is used on several other sites:

Copy:

We apply an innovative algorithm, Bitcoin Mixer 2.0, to uplevel anonymity and money mixing in comparison with classic mixers. The main advantage of our service is that all the funds returned to you after a mixing procedure are verified coins from cryptocurrency stock exchanges having an undoubtedly positive history.

One of the "originals": bitcoinmix.io

Copying other sites makes me think it's a scam, but because scams aren't moderated I'm reporting the post for plagiarism.

[HCP]

Newbie btcshaker created a post with content that is used on several other sites:

One of the "originals": btcshaker.com

Ummmm... you might want to list some of the other sites that this is potentially pulled from... As you've posted it, it simply looks like they're "copying" from their own site

But yes, it does indeed look like it's simply a fake bitcoin mixer template that is probably being sold as a package on darkweb/hacking sites...

[witcher_sense]

~

The concept of decentralized digital currency, as well as alternative applications like property registries, has been around for decades. The anonymous e-cash protocols of the 1980s and the 1990s, mostly reliant on a cryptographic primitive known as Chaumian blinding, provided a currency with a high degree of privacy, but the protocols largely failed to gain traction because of their reliance on a centralized intermediary. In 1998, Wei Dai's b-money became the first proposal to introduce the idea of creating money through solving computational puzzles as well as decentralized consensus, but the proposal was scant on details as to how decentralized consensus could actually be implemented. In 2005, Hal Finney introduced a concept of reusable proofs of work, a system which uses ideas from b-money together with Adam Back's computationally difficult Hashcash puzzles to create a concept for a cryptocurrency, but once again fell short of the ideal by relying on trusted computing as a backend. In 2009, a decentralized currency was for the first time implemented in practice by Satoshi Nakamoto, combining established primitives for managing ownership through public key cryptography with a consensus algorithm for keeping track of who owns coins, known as "proof of work".

 

The mechanism behind proof of work was a breakthrough in the space because it simultaneously solved two problems. First, it provided a simple and moderately effective consensus algorithm, allowing nodes in the network to collectively agree on a set of canonical updates to the state of the Bitcoin ledger. Second, it provided a mechanism for allowing free entry into the consensus process, solving the political problem of deciding who gets to influence the consensus, while simultaneously preventing sybil attacks. It does this by substituting a formal barrier to participation, such as the requirement to be registered as a unique entity on a particular list, with an economic barrier - the weight of a single node in the consensus voting process is directly proportional to the computing power that the node brings. Since then, an alternative approach has been proposed called proof of stake, calculating the weight of a node as being proportional to its currency holdings and not computational resources; the discussion of the relative merits of the two approaches is beyond the scope of this paper but it should be noted that both approaches can be used to serve as the backbone of a cryptocurrency.

http://web.archive.org/web/20191118143735/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5087821.msg49317137

Copied from https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper

http://bitcoinplatinums.com/en/page/whitepaper
 

The formal execution model of EVM code is surprisingly simple. While the Bitcoin Platinums virtual machine is running, its full computational state can be defined by the tuple (block_state, transaction, message, code, memory, stack, pc, gas), where block_state is the global state containing all accounts and includes balances and storage. At the start of every round of execution, the current instruction is found by taking the pc-th byte of code (or 0 if pc >= len(code)), and each instruction has its own definition in terms of how it affects the tuple. For example, ADD pops two items off the stack and pushes their sum, reduces gas by 1 and increments pc by 1, and SSTORE pops the top two items off the stack and inserts the second item into the contract's storage at the index specified by the first item. Although there are many ways to optimize Bitcoin Platinums virtual machine execution via just-in-time compilation, a basic implementation of Ethereum can be done in a few hundred lines of code.

http://web.archive.org/web/20191118144026/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2432463.msg49518673

Copied from https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper


They are currently running scam ICO Bitcoin Platinums with plagiarism and fake team.
Scam accusation: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5198339.0
Support flag: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=983

[Chikito]

Plagiarism

User : HardFacts

Post Archived: Is Bitcoin not supposed to be about FREEDOM

Some guidelines:

1. Free speech - you can say anything as long as it is relevant and presented in a calm and polite manner. Swearing, SHOUTING etc. make your post more likely to be removed.
2. No zero value posts or threads, like "SELL SELL SELL"
3. No pointless or uninteresting threads.
4. No referral code spam
5. No NSFW content

Copy-paste from: https://sentivate.com/forums/topic/forum-moderation-policy/ - archived

Some guidelines:

1. Free speech – you can say anything as long as it is relevant and presented in a calm and polite manner. Swearing, SHOUTING etc. make your post more likely to be removed.
2. No zero value posts or threads, like “SELL SELL SELL”
3. No pointless or uninteresting threads.
4. No referral code spam
5. No NSFW content

[Heisenberg_Hunter]

Please ban Newbie BeastCoin2020 before they post another plagiarism content. Almost all the 4 posts were stolen from various sites without providing proper links.

#1

Copy :

KYC/AML is a severe privacy threat
Let’s analyze the potential consequences:
~ If you have ever used the KYC/AML process of the hacked crypto exchanges, YOUR PRIVACY IS COMPROMISED.
~Also, anyone can use your leaked personal documents to open any fake account using your name and launder millions of dollars through fake crypto exchange accounts.
We are getting to the situation when globally enforced KYC / AML process may lead to compromise privacy of millions of people. In addition, potential hackers can perform the impersonation attacks with stolen identities. 

Archived for future reference : http://archive.is/Uyl9y

Original :

KYC/AML is a severe privacy threat
Let’s analyze the potential consequences:
1. If you have ever used the KYC/AML process of the hacked crypto exchanges, YOUR PRIVACY IS COMPROMISED.
2. Also, anyone can use your leaked personal documents to open any fake account using your name and launder millions of dollars through fake crypto exchange accounts.
We are getting to the situation when globally enforced KYC / AML process may lead to compromise privacy of millions of people. In addition, potential hackers can perform the impersonation attacks with stolen identities.

#2

Copy :

Some people believe that global warming is just the conspiracy to control the development of industrial country. Sometime, I think so. What about you?  

Most scientists recognize that global warming does seem to be happening, but a few don't believe that it is anything to be worried about. These scientists say that the Earth is more resistant to climate changes on this scale than we think. Plants and animals will adapt to subtle shifts in weather patterns, and it is unlikely anything catastrophic will happen as a result of global warming. Slightly longer growing seasons, changes in precipitation levels and stronger weather, in their opinion, are not generally disastrous. They also argue that the economic damage caused by cutting down on the emission of greenhouse gases will be far more damaging to humans than any of the effects of global warming.

Archived for future reference : http://archive.is/m0WwD

Original :

Most scientists recognize that global warming does seem to be happening, but a few don't believe that it is anything to be worried about. These scientists say that the Earth is more resistant to climate changes on this scale than we think. Plants and animals will adapt to subtle shifts in weather patterns, and it is unlikely anything catastrophic will happen as a result of global warming. Slightly longer growing seasons, changes in precipitation levels and stronger weather, in their opinion, are not generally disastrous. They also argue that the economic damage caused by cutting down on the emission of greenhouse gases will be far more damaging to humans than any of the effects of global warming.

Almost all the topics and posts are meaningless plagiarisms. Please nuke the newbie and trash all the topics and posts made by them.

[Ridwan Fauzi]

I don't know this user (Rose_btc) relation's with https://coinswitch.co/ because his several post just copy-paste from that website and didn't put the link on his thread

an example he made this thread on beginner and help board

Many of us are beginners starting from today, if it is your day 1 and you are confused on which wallet to pick, you can refer to this post.

Although I am sure you will find many such posts on the forum, but adding here whatever knowledge I have gained about wallets -

Let's look at the latest and updated list of BitCoin Wallets -

• Ledger Nano S - Ledger Nano S is a USB sized cryptocurrency hardware wallet, The good part is that it can store Bitcoins, Ethereum, Ethereum tokens, and more than 30 other digital currencies. It works like a USB device, which when connected needs the device to confirm the transactions.
• Trezor - Trezor is a hardware Bitcoin wallet which also acts like a USB device, which works on “Zero Trust Approach”, which lessens the third-party compromise. It is one of the best Bitcoin hardware wallets. Trezor is protected by a PIN which provides you with recovery seed if your wallet is lost. It is specifically a Bitcoin wallet but supports many other altcoins. It has an easy-to-use interface and even saves from hacking and thefts by their difficult protection PIN.
• Keep Key - Keep Key secures Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, Dash, and Namecoin. They claim to be virus or malware proof, and assets are secured from thieves and hackers. KeepKey is a Bitcoin hardware wallet with advanced security against virtual and physical theft.
• Exodus - Exodus is a desktop supported cryptocurrency wallet which deserves to be included in the bitcoin wallet list. Exodus supports nearly three dozen cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dash, Zcash, Ethereum among the popular ones.
• Electrum Wallet - Electrum was mainly known for supporting Bitcoin and is widely considered to be a trusted software wallet in the bitcoin community. Electrum Wallet is a lightweight and easy platform to store your BTC holdings securely, where the bitcoin wallet sign up is convenient and easy.
• Copay - The Copay wallet was created by Bitpay in 2014 and it was designed to combine high-level security with a host of user-friendly features, making it one of the popular choices for anyone searching for a software wallet.With multisig functionality, Copay enables you to secure transactions by allowing more than one signature, providing extra protection against theft or hacking and also making this wallet worth considering for businesses.
• Armory - Armory is a full-featured software wallet known for its emphasis on security and flexibility. It is comparatively easy to use and compatible with Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OSX, Linux Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi, which is designed for advanced cryptocurrency users.
• Bitcoin Wallet Blockchain.info - Blockchain.info is a widely known web-based wallet, which was launched in 2011. Blockchain.info claims to have provided more than 23 million wallets and been used for more than 100 million transactions.
• Enjin Wallet - Enjin wallet is one of the most credible wallets in the crypto space that supports Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, ERC20 tokens, and Enjin tokens. It has one of the best architecture, with a secure keyboard, two encryption, where it turns the mobile wallet like a hardware wallet. Enjin is an HD (Hierarchical Deterministic) wallet, that provides the maximum amount of protection from threats and attacks. It is available for both Android and iOS devices.
• GreenAddress - GreenAddress is one more popular option for bitcoin holders that value security and privacy but is not that expensive as other hardware wallets. Its important features include the security inclusions, such as two-factor authentication and multi-signature functionality.
• Bread - Bread is a popular bitcoin-only wallet available on Android and iOS devices which is a competent BTC Wallet free to download and use, and provides convenient and simple access to your BTC.
• Airbitz - Airbitz (now EDGE) is an open-source mobile wallet available on Android and iOS devices which offers user-friendliness by allowing you to quickly and easily manage your bitcoin. It offers hierarchical deterministic (HD) and two-factor authentication features and can be easily backed up for extra protection.
• Mycelium - Mycelium is a well-established name in the crypto sphere founded in 2008. It is a mobile wallet available for both Android and iOS devices, and this open-source program offers a range of features that make it one of the most popular choices among bitcoin holders.
• Jaxx Liberty - Jaxx Liberty is becoming increasingly popular day by day as it provides a seamless user experience. Jaxx is available on different platforms like Windows, Linux and OS X desktops.
• Coinomi - Coinomi is a popular wallet that supports multiple currencies like Dash, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and many more cryptocurrencies. Coinomi has a user-friendly and convenient user interface, which makes it one of the best Dash wallets.
• Bitcoin Core - This is one of the old yet reputed Bitcoin Wallet, which is recommended on both Bitcoin’s official website on Bitcoin wallet review. The best part about it which makes it unique is that it is secure and unique. If you’re using Bitcoin core than you have to make sure you have enough bandwidth and time because it takes time to download the complete Bitcoin blockchain and it has to sync always.
• Bitcoin Paper Wallet - As the name says, it is the wallet, which is in the form of a paper. That means all your private keys will be stored here, which is kind of risky. But, if you are sure you can store it properly, there’s nothing better than this.
• OPENDIME It is the world’s first Bitcoin stick wallet which is a small USB like object that allows you to spend Bitcoin like a dollar bill and acts like a read-only USB flash drive. It is compatible on any computer, laptop, and phone. That makes it one of the best Bitcoin Wallets. It is comparatively cheap and very easy to use bearing all the security features. It also has an easy verification chrome feature.-  
• Strong Coin - This wallet has its own uniqueness for being a hybrid wallet wherein you and the server can hold the encrypted keys that allow access to the wallet. It stores an encrypted version of your private keys online but decryption happens in your browser. For security reasons, you should always backup up your wallet.
• Bitpay Wallet - The BitPay Bitcoin wallet can be used for both desktop and mobile and is available for Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, and MacOS. This wallet solution was first released back in October 2016 and is built on top of the Copay platform. This has now started supporting BCH as well. It provides an easy way to keep and expand Bitcoin.
• CoolWallet - CoolWallet is a hardware wallet that looks like a credit card. The Coolwalet card is a very slim electronic device that generates and stores your private keys on it. It can connect to any device that uses NFC or Bluetooth technology. It is started in 2014. They claim it as the first mobile hardware wallet.
• imToken Wallet - imToken is the world’s largest Ethereum digital asset wallet, with currently 6M users that produce ~10% of all Ethereum transactions on average. Apart from Ethereum, imToken wallet can be used for Bitcoin and EOS as well in version 2.0 of the wallet. The user will have the full control of their coins if they are using imToken wallet. They also provide inbuilt DEX support for in-wallet exchange of coins.

Original post/coinwith

Ledger Nano S
Ledger Nano S is a USB sized cryptocurrency hardware wallet which is best for Ethereum transactions. It is multi-asset hardware which looks like a folding drive. The good part is that it can store Bitcoins, Ethereum, Ethereum tokens, and more than 30 other digital currencies. It works like a USB device, which when connected needs the device to confirm the transactions.

It is secure and can run multiple apps, unhackable, relatively inexpensive and malware proofed so there is no risk of the private keys to get exposed to the internet. It is one of the best Bitcoin hardware wallet. This is one of the best cryptocurrency wallets available these days.

It can support and store more than 30 cryptocurrencies and can integrate with multiple software wallets. Lastly, it is one of the not so expensive OLED-based hardware wallets.

Click here to access Ledger nano S

Trezor
Trezor is a hardware Bitcoin wallet which also acts like a USB device, which works on “Zero Trust Approach”, which lessens the third-party compromise. It is one of the best Bitcoin hardware wallets.

Trezor is protected by a PIN which provides you with recovery seed if your wallet is lost. It is specifically a Bitcoin wallet but supports many other altcoins. It has an easy-to-use interface and even saves from hacking and thefts by their difficult protection PIN.

Just that it limits its communication with other devices. When the USB device isn’t connected, it’s turned off.

Click here to access Trezor

Keep Key
Keep Key secures Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, Dash, and Namecoin. They claim to be virus or malware proof, and assets are secured from thieves and hackers. KeepKey is a Bitcoin hardware wallet with advanced security against virtual and physical theft. Now, a lower price tag means more users can give it a try. In addition to Bitcoin, the KeepKey wallet enables the storage and transaction of a variety of cryptocurrencies and helps you keep a track of the bitcoin wallet balance.

KeepKey integrates with the wallet software on your computer by taking over a private key generation, private key storage, and transaction signing.

Its top-notch security almost makes it impossible for hackers to steal the private key.

Click here to access KeepKey

Exodus
Exodus is a desktop supported cryptocurrency wallet which deserves to be included in the bitcoin wallet list. Exodus supports nearly three dozen cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dash, Zcash, Ethereum among the popular ones.

As Exodus is a lite wallet, you never have to store the entire blockchain in your desktop.

Exodus galore with its pros over its cons. It has a very good interface with good access to the wallet, i.e full control.

Transactions over a crypto network can be made directly through the Exodus wallet. The transaction fee is paid to the network itself and not Exodus.

-snip-

archieve :  https://archive.ph/VAHmd

Edit: seems like he doesn't have any relation to the website

There is no source on the OP, so I'll include it as plagiarism
 
Copy-paste from : https://coinswitch.co/news/top-22-best-bitcoin-wallets-2019

archived : https://archive.ph/VAHmd

Sorry for not mentioning the source. I will edit it and mark the source.

Another reference:
Thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5204341.msg53174085#msg53174085
Copy paste : https://coinswitch.co/news/what-are-human-readable-addresses-in-blockchain-how-does-it-simplify-crypto-transactions
Archive; https://archive.ph/VvoWV

[HCP]

User: saraholiver

Copied Post:

Bitcoin prices recently reached a six-month low, having declined more than 50% from their 2019 high of almost $14,000.

After suffering this pullback, has the digital currency’s price bottomed out?

While many analysts are unsurprisingly bullish in the long-term, many of them are less optimistic in the short-term, emphasizing that the cryptocurrency could easily suffer further losses.

Market observers offered these predictions after bitcoin fell to nearly $6,500 on November 24th, its lowest since May, before recovering, approaching $7,400 the following day, Coin Desk 2local figures reveal.

[Ed note: Investing in cryptocoins or tokens is highly speculative and the market is largely unregulated. Anyone considering it should be prepared to lose their entire investment.

Bitcoin ‘Overbought,’ Says Analyst

“We don’t see $6.5k as the bottom, although it’s the first strong candidate for that title,” said Tim Enneking, managing director of Digital Capital Management.

Archived

Original Article on Forbes.com here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/cbovaird/2019/11/26/bitcoin-fell-50-from-its-2019-high-has-it-bottomed-out/#73ea376d6ed6

Post has been reported.

[1miau]

Please ban user Cheuslecheus

Original:

Careful though - the guy is not very responsive and is just hiring translators himself when someone gets in touch. I can tell because he contacted me once longer time ago, we did some business (he wasnt too professional unfortunately but at least I got paid) and just a few weeks ago, he contacted me out of the blue not even realizing we had worked together before - I then told him I would not work with him again. Just sharing my experience, its funny how little our world seems to be sometimes.

Plagiarism:

Careful though - the guy is not very responsive. I can tell because i contacted him once longer time ago, we did some business (he wasnt too professional unfortunately. but i paid him) and just a few weeks ago, he contacted me out asking more translations - I then told him I would not work with him again. Wink Just sharing my experience, its funny how little our world seems to be sometimes. Wink

Archive

In addition, he's a trust abuser.

[witcher_sense]

~

* Project Strength:

- The DublerToken public chain is clean and simple, and hidden from third-party applications and services.

- DublerToken prevents overload of the main chain by having a few predefined sidechains built into the DublerToken Carrier platform.

- DublerToken promotes the property rights of digital content. DublerToken has the capability to issue tokens for digital assets or applications and to establish the ownership of digital content through smart contracts.

- DublerToken Runtime runs on the OS of customers’ mobile devices. Apps are free to run and their performance is comparable to existing mobile apps. DublerToken supports traditional programming languages, making it relatively easy to write code. DublerToken also supports popular programming frameworks.

- The separation of apps from the network ensures that digital content won’t be leaked.

- Even when DublerToken apps are running on operating systems such as iOS, Android and Windows, the local OS won’t be able to sabotage the property rights of digital assets. The value of digital assets is preserved.

- For non-DublerToken apps such as Android or iOS apps, users can access the DublerToken Smart Web through the DublerToken SDK. Users can log into nonDublerToken apps using their DublerToken Smart Web ID. Users can also keep their nonDublerToken app data in their DublerToken cloud storage

http://web.archive.org/web/20191203042858/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5205850.0

This part is copied from Elastos https://github.com/elastos/Elastos/wiki/Introduction


Scam accusation thread for more info https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5206299.0

[Heisenberg_Hunter]

Please Ban Newbie StrategicERP for copy pasting the whole quora reply as a constructive post.

Copy :

I first heard about Bitcoins about three years ago (spring 2011), at that time a Bitcoin was worth about $2.00. The first thing I did was to download the Bitcoin client and started mining. I left it running a couple of hours, but as I can come back I had not gotten any Bitcoins. I thought, well screw this. Now looking back at it it feels stupid. Bitcoins were ridiculously easy to mine compared to today. Imagine if I had continued mining...

But that didn't end my Bitcoin story. I continued reading on the Bitcoin forums where people were speculating about the future price and impact of Bitcoins. I remember people dreaming about future values of up to $1000 and all kinds of cool ways to use them. At some point, I discussed it with some friends at school. I was 15 back then, but two friends actually caught on and found it really interesting. We discussed back and forth whether we should invest in Bitcoins or not. Finally, I decided to buy $20 worth of Bitcoins. Remember that at that time one Bitcoin was worth only $2, so I got 10 of them.

Buying them was a bit tricky though. The only real exchange site at the time was Mt. Gox. I created an account but immediately hit a problem, how would I transfer money to Mt. Gox? They had an option to transfer money by PayPal, but they had a processing time of one week to avoid scams. But I didn't want to wait that long, I was super excited, who knows where the value will be next week?

I continued browsing the forums to find another way to buy some Bitcoins. Eventually, I decided to buy from someone directly. I created an account on the IRC chat and managed to find a guy who was willing to sell Bitcoins to me by PayPal. I have to know idea who this guy was, his age, sex, country, etc. I knew nothing about him, except that he had a reputation on the forums. Finally, I transferred $20 to him by PayPal and a couple of minutes later I had 10 Bitcoins in my wallet!

A couple of months after my purchase, around June 2011, the value of Bitcoins started taking off for the first time. I remember excitedly following the rise and wondering whether I should sell. I kept telling myself that it might rise a bit more and kept waiting. Finally, the bubble hit its top at about $30 and fell back to the levels that I bought in to. I was a bit frustrated thinking that I had missed the whole party.

Eventually, I lost interest and only checked the value maybe once a month until January 2013 when the value started moving again. The value started rising rapidly and my thoughts were drawn back to the summer 2011 and the last bubble that I had missed. Afraid to miss the party again I sold my Bitcoins in February 2013 for $30 each only keeping 0.1 Bitcoins just in case, expecting the value to fall shortly after as it did in the last bubble. That didn't happen.

The following months were quite painful to follow as the value kept rising and rising... When the value soared above $1000 in fall 2013 I wanted to rip my hair off. I tried to keep myself from checking the value and stop thinking about the $10 000 I could have made from a $20 investment. One of my friends who I discussed Bitcoins with before contacted me at this point interested in whether I still have them or not, he had finally decided not to buy Bitcoins when I did. I can tell you that he does really regret that decision today...

Today I do not feel too bad about it anymore. It does bother me that I missed $10 000 but I have pretty much come over it. I try to focus on the fact the I still had a 1400% increase in my investment. It was a really risky investment and I am very lucky to have gotten anything out of it at all. When will I hit the jackpot like that again?

Oh, and my final 0.1 Bitcoins went missing a couple of days ago as Mt. Gox was shut down. Great.

Archived for future reference : http://archive.is/UYtF2

Original :

I first heard about Bitcoins about three years ago (spring 2011), at that time a Bitcoin was worth about $2.00. The first thing I did was to download the Bitcoin client and started mining. I left it running a couple of hours, but as I can come back I had not gotten any Bitcoins. I thought, well screw this. Now looking back at it it feels stupid. Bitcoins were ridiculously easy to mine compared to today. Imagine if I had continued mining...

But that didn't end my Bitcoin story. I continued reading on the Bitcoin forums where people were speculating about the future price and impact of Bitcoins. I remember people dreaming about future values of up to $1000 and all kinds of cool ways to use them. At some point, I discussed it with some friends at school. I was 15 back then, but two friends actually caught on and found it really interesting. We discussed back and forth whether we should invest in Bitcoins or not. Finally, I decided to buy $20 worth of Bitcoins. Remember that at that time one Bitcoin was worth only $2, so I got 10 of them.

Buying them was a bit tricky though. The only real exchange site at the time was Mt. Gox. I created an account but immediately hit a problem, how would I transfer money to Mt. Gox? They had an option to transfer money by PayPal, but they had a processing time of one week to avoid scams. But I didn't want to wait that long, I was super excited, who knows where the value will be next week?

I continued browsing the forums to find another way to buy some Bitcoins. Eventually, I decided to buy from someone directly. I created an account on the IRC chat and managed to find a guy who was willing to sell Bitcoins to me by PayPal. I have to know idea who this guy was, his age, sex, country, etc. I knew nothing about him, except that he had a reputation on the forums. Finally, I transferred $20 to him by PayPal and a couple of minutes later I had 10 Bitcoins in my wallet!

A couple of months after my purchase, around June 2011, the value of Bitcoins started taking off for the first time. I remember excitedly following the rise and wondering whether I should sell. I kept telling myself that it might rise a bit more and kept waiting. Finally, the bubble hit its top at about $30 and fell back to the levels that I bought in to. I was a bit frustrated thinking that I had missed the whole party.

Eventually, I lost interest and only checked the value maybe once a month until January 2013 when the value started moving again. The value started rising rapidly and my thoughts were drawn back to the summer 2011 and the last bubble that I had missed. Afraid to miss the party again I sold my Bitcoins in February 2013 for $30 each only keeping 0.1 Bitcoins just in case, expecting the value to fall shortly after as it did in the last bubble. That didn't happen.

The following months were quite painful to follow as the value kept rising and rising... When the value soared above $1000 in fall 2013 I wanted to rip my hair off. I tried to keep myself from checking the value and stop thinking about the $10 000 I could have made from a $20 investment. One of my friends who I discussed Bitcoins with before contacted me at this point interested in whether I still have them or not, he had finally decided not to buy Bitcoins when I did. I can tell you that he does really regret that decision today...

Today I do not feel too bad about it anymore. It does bother me that I missed $10 000 but I have pretty much come over it. I try to focus on the fact the I still had a 1400% increase in my investment. It was a really risky investment and I am very lucky to have gotten anything out of it at all. When will I hit the jackpot like that again?

Oh, and my final 0.1 Bitcoins went missing a couple of days ago as Mt. Gox was shut down. Great.

[morvillz7z]

Please ban user imtiaz1#3 who has multiple copy-pasted posts without stating out the source.

He is was likely evading red trust/flag for a plagiarized-caught project called Thesaurum.  

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A common and recurring theme during the meteoric rise of ICOs has been the pervasiveness of fraudulent practices. If an ICO’s main documentation and community engagement are skewed towards returns on investment over the underlying problem the project seeks to solve, then you should question the credibility of the token sale. Guarantees of high returns, rather than focusing on project goals, is a hallmark of fraudulent schemes.

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A common and recurring theme during the meteoric rise of ICOs has been the pervasiveness of fraudulent practices. If an ICO’s main documentation and community engagement are skewed towards returns on investment over the underlying problem the project seeks to solve, then you should question the credibility of the token sale. Guarantees of high returns, rather than focusing on project goals, is a hallmark of fraudulent schemes.

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Decentralized exchanges have become popular because they are very easy to find and use. Many people DEXes because they lack some of the barriers that centralized exchanges and cryptocurrency brokers put up.

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Decentralized exchanges have become popular because they are very easy to find and use. Many people DEXes because they lack some of the barriers that centralized exchanges and cryptocurrency brokers put up.

[Heisenberg_Hunter]

Please ban Newbie G1lborg at the earliest for plagiarizing in local board.

Copy :

How to seach IFSC code for different banks?

Hello my friend!
I know 2 Methods To Find The IFSC Code
♦If you have chequebook you can find the IFSC written on that.
♦The IFSC code of a particular bank can also be found on the banks’ official website.

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Methods To Find The IFSC Code

If you have chequebook you can find the IFSC written on that.
Find IFSC Code online on official Search IFSC Code website.
The IFSC code of a particular bank can also be found on the banks’ official website.

[FatFork]

Direct plagiarism - copy-pasted content without the use of quotation or proper attribution.

User: JessicaVL

Copy: A breakdown of Ethereum’s Serenity road map

Archive: http://archive.is/5PC6F

Original article: A breakdown of Ethereum’s Serenity road map by Josh Welson, December 27, 2019

[Stalker22]

User Riddance has plagiarized their ANN thread from RESQChain

Plagiarized content: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5214919.0
Archive: https://archive.md/OGV68 (archived by Rikafip)

Original content: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4803721.0

[rhomelmabini]

Please ban user abake for plagiarizing an article of hackernoon.



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https://hackernoon.com/10-signs-you-are-investing-in-a-bad-ico-d26ab11cdfed



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There are many ICOs. The phenomenon, that started three years ago, has become very accessible due to Ethereum based ERC-20 tokens. After you’ve learned how to identify a good ICO, in the following list you will find 10 red-lights for bad ICO investments.

1 – Team is inexperienced in the crypto field: No well-known crypto advisers, no famous venture capitalists investing. Watching interviews with the team’s key members can help answer if you trust them or not.

2 – “This is an existing company, with 3 years’ experience and 20 workers”: Is the company only here for the money? If the pivot is not necessary, then yes. If the company is already profitable in their field, why is the ICO needed, besides the “easy money?”

3 – Bonuses for everyone: The more funds are raised with a bonus – the more likely the price will be traded close to that discount level. The more serious case is when there is no vesting for the pre-sale investors.

4 – Hard cap is huge: other than a very few cases, an unlimited cap or a very-high cap means huge demand is needed to make up a secondary market (or exchanges). No one will be waiting to buy the tokens on the exchanges.

5 – No real need for the token: The whole ecosystem is built around the project’s token. If you can replace the token with Ethereum or Bitcoin and it still works, there is no real need for a token, hence no real need for an ICO.

6 – Aggressive marketing: when you see too many Facebook and Google Remarketing banners and ads, especially when they promise nice profits. That’s a red light.

7 – Community’s discussions are of low quality: Join the Telegram, ask questions, see how the developers respond to these questions. Same can be said about the ICO’s BitcoinTalk Announcement thread. A strong community creates high-value discussions.

8 – The public sale lasts too long: either the cap is too high, or the demand is too low, or both. Better for the project to raise 100% of 20M than 50% of 40M.

9 – No signs of a major exchange looking to list the ICO’s tokens: It won’t be said clearly because the legal team doesn’t let the ICO teams speak about exchanges, but this is a major part of the game. In 2016 Poloniex was the hottest exchange, 2017 was Bittrex’s year. Is Binance the exchange of 2018? Might be. What we do know, is that each new coin added there – benefits its initial ICO investors.

10 – Market cap is already huge: Assuming the company is selling only 10% of the circulating tokens for 100 Million USD, the token initial market cap is starting from 1 Billion, without making any 3x or 5x that will explode the market cap value before trading even started. This depends on the circulating supply. Be suspicious of the following: If there is no finite number of tokens, a small percentage is distributed to the public, no lock up on the tokens reserved for the team.

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