Web traffic overall numbers can be faked, but there are a bunch of obvious signs that this is the case. For example, take a look at Cointiger's web traffic analytics: https://www.rank2traffic.com/cointiger.com

72% of traffic is from paid referrals, resulting in an extremely high bounce rate of 85% and low engagement.

For legit exchanges like Binance, the numbers are much different: https://www.rank2traffic.com/binance.com

Almost no referral traffic and much higher engagement numbers.

Not a perfect metric by any means, but it is one of the few that cannot be completely manipulated. It is unfortunate that sites like Similarweb are off for some countries, but it is better than nothing.

I'm not a big fan of this metric. It isn't really any harder to fake liquidity than it is to fake volume. Sure, exchanges will have to figure out exactly what Coinmarketcap looks for in an order book, but this can be done. Just because there appears to be a buy order doesn't mean there is anything actually underlying it. If an exchange is willing to fake their volume, chances are they also will fake their orderbook.

The best metric I've seen for exchange volume is Coingecko's: https://www.coingecko.com/en/exchanges

Assuming you have a pool of accurately reported exchange volumes (not every exchange fakes volume), you can get a fairly good estimate for a site's volume based off its web traffic. Exchanges that have much higher volume than their web traffic suggests are consequently adjusted.

Presumably these subs are being made from stolen credit cards. I'm not too sure how hard it is to become an affiliate, but I would assume all of OP's Twitch accounts have been terminated for fraud, and the same is likely to happen to anyone who uses this service.

The other problem is that he has gone so far out of his way to lie about it. He had every opportunity to come clean when I brought this up a few months ago.

Instead he came up with this crap:


Didn't have the energy at the time to follow up on it, but yeah, I don't know how you can say this isn't super shady.

Love the idea of custom indices. I happen to know a bit about this question, since I developed an index myself: https://www.mahaadvisors.com/index

I'd start by writing up some sort of methodology behind the index so people can see how it is calculated. For instance, it sounds like it is pure market cap weighted, but the ranking of coins below the chart is not (a few notable outliers are Binance Coin and Cosmos).

I'd also recommend adding some smoothing to the larger time intervals of the graph, since displaying each data point as is causes performance issues and can make it difficult to read, since each individual point is so large.

Happy to talk further, this is an area I've been working on for a while.

My years spent on this forum have been a big catalyst for my interest in crypto, so I am excited this is one of the first places I get to share this project.

Maha Digital Core Index is a market cap weighted index I've created that is designed to serve as a benchmark for investment return in crypto markets. While there are a bunch of price aggregators out there, I feel that there is still a gap in services that actually track the market as a whole. Total market cap really isn't a good measure for traders or investors, since that number includes tons of inflation from mining and new coins that have been created out of thin air. While there have been a few attempts at such an index, most are either based off of arbitrary weightings, include only a few coins, or provide limited (daily) data.

This project aims to solve all these problems. Currently, the index tracks the performance of 57 coins and is re-balanced every 5 minutes from live price data. This accounts for changes in price and circulating supply, meaning any mining activities, newly minted coins, or new additions to the index won't affect the index value. Essentially, the index shows you exactly what your return would be if you invested evenly across crypto markets based on each coin's total market capitalization.

While I only recently hooked it up to live data, it has 5 years of historical data based on the same objective market cap weighted investment methodology, so there is no selection bias in terms of historical return either.

I've put a lot of work into this project, and I would really appreciate any feedback to help improve it. As a little warning, I am not a web developer, nor do I have any coding background, so please go easy on me in terms of the presentation

I am posting this in the Securities section because I have seen a few people here ask about the possibility of a crypto "mutual fund". Ultimately, that is what we are building this index towards, and I would also like to gauge interest in a product like that.

More information is available on our website: https://www.mahaadvisors.com/index

I’ve been using this list since the new changes. Works pretty well without being subscribed to DT.

This is probably the low point of my Bitcointalk career, can’t even make the top 250 

Not saying OP is or isn't the original owner, but I find it funny people keep asking to see a fat stack of coins.

The value in keeping your crypto holdings private on a profile linked to your identity is much higher than the value of proving that identity.

This is Bitcointalk, not Elitismtalk. Just use the ivory tower or serious discussion for this, both are pretty dead at the moment and serve this purpose.

On a side note, you're pretty much implying the current mods suck at their jobs by suggesting this.

Yo can you hook a brother up with some of these $25 plane tickets? Do they come with a seat?

Just a note, you didn't actually lock the thread (as this post indicates).

I think it would be more fun if spammers/plagiarizers were shadow-banned. This would allow them to continue posting as normal on their end, without being aware of the fact no other users can see their post.

From VINSIN's own Telegram messages:

Do not trade with this user.

You can see that manual ownership recovering was completed around an hour ago here: https://bitcointalk.org/seclog.php

Exactly. If I wanted to purchase an account, all I would need to do is have the seller create a "loan request
 for the price we agreed to pay beforehand, and have them offer the account as collateral. Just make the repayment date a month or two in the future and no one will remember besides the "lender", who conveniently forgets to leave any negative trust for the default.

Fairly certain this post is just poking fun at all the people who post complaining about their red trust.

Right, it is almost certainly based off of total withdrawals within a fixed time period. If this wasn’t the case, any exploiter could drain the hot wallet by simply withdrawing a medium sized amount over and over.

It’s pretty obvious you are talking to a fake condoras on Telegram, I don’t see why he has any obligation to go beyond telling you that use isn’t him when there is no way to stop someone from using your username.

Only thing of value in this thread is that people can now tag your alt (fjunderwood).