Hello tk808, how is CTE affiliated with the exchanges listed in the OP?

Merry Christmas to the Altcoinstalks community!

I have not been very active lately but I still visit the forum from time to time. I wish the forum grows more and have more legit users.

10,000 sounds a lot for a two year forum but if they are bots, that's probably a normal figure. They cannot be eliminated all at once and many more will appear. The steps that has been implemented  to restrict new accounts like being unable to post links has been good though.

I would also like to see new accounts unable to create new topics until they earned a minimum level of activity. They will have to comment on topics and earn the privilege of posting their own topics.

Quote from: Zion03 on October 20, 2019, 07:04:44 PM

Ordinary forum member aren't allowed to post there.

Why no?

I can't see the reply button. It looks like mods are the only people allowed to comment.

Both are good forums, bitcointalk is tighter to increase its rank, makes it difficult for newbies to move up, and as I know bitcointalk is an official forum owned by bitcoin companies, there is one proof that Satoshi Nakamoto was active in the forum around 2009-2010
bitcointalk*org/index.php?action=profile;u=3

Maybe difficult for newbies who are spammers/shitposters to rank up. There is also no bitcoin companies.

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According to Alexa rank:
- Bitcointalk has - 12.5K
- Altcoinstalks has - 270K
(Google rank is - 1)
So basically Altcoinstalks  is pretty far from Bitcointalk 

At the moment, yes.

But I'm sure that when Altcoinstalks  will gain more popularity it will become same scam shill platform as Bitcointalk is.

You are talking as if altcoinstalks will become a platform that will scam people or did I misunderstood that?

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Quote from: Zed30 on October 20, 2019, 02:36:30 PM

Ah well, no platform is perfect and this forum also has to earn from something. Everyone can have their own opionion about forum x or y but making accusation without any proof isn't good. Staying in a forum that you think will turn into something else boggles me.

There is no need to call Bitcointalk a forum X or Y. Because for any sapient humanoid, who tracks what happens there during last 2 years, it is obvious that 99% of announced projects are scams and most of discussions are related to scams.

99% is just your assumption correct? There are a lot of scams that were advertised for sure but I wouldn't put any percentage on how many were scams and how many were legit. Some people would equate failed projects to scam projects also to which I don't agree.

Coin.ph is doing well with it's services that's why users are still complacent when it comes to their security. Some are even lazy to jut down private keys or seed phrase.

It was good for Abra to add 7-eleven for cash -in option but for them to catch up, they need to step it up a notch and add more cash out outlets. It's what they're really missing. 

This is from the article "New 0-Day Flaw Affecting Most Android Phones Being Exploited in the Wild"

Apparently, many android phones are affected by what they call as 'zero-day vulnerability" and it's been exploited by some surveillance group.

The zero-day is a use-after-free vulnerability in the Android kernel's binder driver that can allow a local privileged attacker or an app to escalate their privileges to gain root access to a vulnerable device and potentially silently take full remote control of the device.

Which phones are vulnerable?

most Android devices manufactured and sold by a majority of vendors with the unpatched kernel are still vulnerable to this vulnerability even after having the latest Android updates, including below-listed popular smartphone models :

Pixel 1
Pixel 1 XL
Pixel 2
Pixel 2 XL
Huawei P20
Xiaomi Redmi 5A
Xiaomi Redmi Note 5
Xiaomi A1
Oppo A3
Moto Z3
Oreo LG phones
Samsung S7
Samsung S8
Samsung S9
It helps to pay attention to these kind of news especially if you have a lot of personal information in your phone. Never trust your phone too much.

Let me give you this scenario:

A group or 100 people suddenly got interested in coin XYZ. During their research they found out that there are about 2,000+ addresses holding that particular coin. The group then decided that over time, they will continue to accumulate and hold the coin. After a year of buying, the 2,000+ addresses were reduced to just 500 (including the group of 100).

Now that there are limited people holding most of coin XYZ (less dumpers), what do you think is going to the price assuming there is still demand for the coin?