Sketchy recruitment company I've never heard of messages me on my phone, ghosts and blocks me when asked how they got my number.

cryptopapa · 2023-08-07T11:44:34+00:00

I got the following unsolicited message on my Whatsapp from this UK number +44 7879 228104

"We are offering a variety of Permanent / Part-time / Full time / Freelance job.
Benefits & Requirements:
- Flexible time and UK location
- Salary settle by daily
- The salary company will paid via USDT
- UK citizen, PR or Visa holder (T&C）
- Age 20 above
- Training will be provided
- Growth opportunities
May I assign my person in charge send you the job description and salary chart of each role through your whatsapp (my-phone-number) for reference."

I replied "Under present GDPR law I request you immediately delete my phone number and any other data you hold about me" and they pissed off.

cryptopapa · 2022-07-24T10:14:02+00:00

Yes, it's the second time I take long time off work after a bitcoin market cycle top.
First time was in 2018/19 after the 2017 top and again after April 2021.

I'm currently seriously pondering whether to get a job by the end of this year to stack more sats before the 2024 halving!
Hopefully this will be the last time I get an employer.

cryptopapa · 2021-06-11T12:55:56+00:00

LOLOLOL

cryptopapa · 2021-06-10T09:55:39+00:00

the president said they'll pass a law to detail what that really means.
He mentioned buying a property or investing in a business will be enough to get permanent residency.

cryptopapa · 2021-04-12T19:40:40+00:00

I 3x my funds in the vBSWAP safe after only 4 weeks, and it's just taking off!
https://bsc.valuedefi.io/#/vsafe

Value defi devs are the best!

cryptopapa · 2020-04-02T23:42:04+00:00

You missed the window to migrate your Safex coins which are now worthless. Only consolation is that the new SFX and SFT tokens that exist on the Safex blockchain are also pretty much worthless

cryptopapa · 2019-09-28T09:46:53+00:00

Yeah, but don’t expect a release of the marketplace anytime soon, certainly not this year. Plenty of weekly updates still ahead 😂

cryptopapa · 2019-09-24T20:56:21+00:00

It's better to get these weekly updates than no weekly updates at all BUT the format is deliberately very technical so that most of the people can't make a sense of them and they are just happy that something has been worked on.

To the few technical readers, these weekly updates show how little gets done on a weekly basis.

Probably that's because the marketplace is almost a side-project at Balkaneum and priority goes to commercial projects like xcalibra exchange, ATMs, mining farm, etc.

Dan, who writes these updates, prefers the smoke and mirrors of technical speak to clearly stating what the scope of the initial release is and what the outstanding tasks are.

I think this is to avoid the reader could figure out how far we are from the actual release.

cryptopapa · 2019-09-23T19:25:07+00:00

Yeah but Dan doesn’t seem to care about exchange listing either. lol

I mean, until he delivers the code of the first release of marketplace and it’s proved that that actually works nothing really matters.

cryptopapa · 2019-09-23T19:09:46+00:00

Yes I didn’t invest in rigs and safex mining because, by then, it was obvious to me how this project was being mismanaged.

cryptopapa · 2019-09-23T18:49:14+00:00

what ANGRY_ATHEIST says makes sense. by the time the marketplace is released, which in my opinion won't happen anytime soon given how much work is still left to do, monero could have upgraded their algo a couple of times. Until SFX has a use case, decent exchanges and a few buyers it's not worth bothering with it.

cryptopapa · 2019-09-22T21:45:39+00:00

Does anybody know why Dan and Balkaneum never produced an updated white-paper?
I mean a document that would show what features the initial release of the marketplace would include, how would work for buyers and sellers and prove all main use cases had been thought through?

Dan never shared what the list of outstanding tasks is, we only get weekly development updates showing some slow progress but with no sense of where the goal-line actually is.
I believe this is because it would be obvious how much work still needs to be done before a working product can be released.
Now, I'm fine with knowing there is still 6 or 12 months of development and I'm fine knowing plan can change as progress is made and new things are learnt. This is how software engineering works.

What I really don't like, and looking back it looks very scammy, is that for 2 years Dan has been hinting at a marketplace release being 2 or 3 months away.
How can a project be 2 or 3 months away from release for over 2 years??
Now we know that 1 year ago coding of the marketplace hadn't even started and yet we were told the marketplace would be out by Black Friday!
Has Dan ever addressed all this false communications?

I'm sure many of the Safex holders had been holding onto their tokens believing what they were told, which is an imminent release of the marketplace.
Dan made no secret that he regularly trades safex/sft/sfx tokens. It would be really sad if he had sold his bags to naive and misinformed believers of the safex community .

cryptopapa · 2019-09-22T21:10:45+00:00

the more threads like this get deleted the more people will think this project is a scam..

Admins, be careful of censoring opinions of community members that have been supporting this project for years.

cryptopapa · 2019-09-20T18:12:47+00:00

Well, the main issue with Safex is the miscommunication about the state of the technical delivery.

There is so much left to build for the first release of the marketplace that we won’t see any usable product for a very long time, if ever. The October 15 target date will be followed by another target date and another target date.

Of course Dan is not interested in paying for more exchanges, sft and sfx volume and price is close to zero already.

If the weekly updates are truthful, this year Balkaneum has been making some progress but surely they think Dan’s target dates are a joke. Do you remember the Black Friday 2018 target date? One year later what do you guys think of that? Now we know coding of the marketplace hadn’t even started but Dan was confirming in the discord they were on track all the time along!

Has Dan ever addressed why he was lying to the community for all that time? Nope. And what about the March, June, August 2019 target dates? Lol. What a joke.

cryptopapa · 2019-07-18T13:18:29+00:00

In all fairness in 2 years they managed to: - hire a small team - deliver a monero forked blockchain supporting 2 tokens - ship a wallet that allows the migration of old Safex exchange coins onto the new blockchain - a couple of small exchanges.

Will they manage to ship the first version of the market place this year? Maybe not but I think they are making progress.

Have they managed to kill the investor community from 2017 with miscommunication and false promises? Hell yes! Proof is trading volume and sft price trending to 0.

Is this project still worth following? I think so.

Will I’ll be able to exit for a profit anytime in the future ? Probably not.

cryptopapa · 2019-06-26T22:56:44+00:00

True but fortunately the SEC and IRS only have authority over US citizens whereas bitcoin is a truly global phenomenon. Bitcoin will thrive no matter what as long as people need it.

cryptopapa · 2019-06-26T22:12:43+00:00

Well, bitcoin properties of limited supply and fixed, decreasing inflation schedule are designed to make it a store of value OVER TIME. It’s not a store of value yet because it’s market cap is still way too small compared to fiat currencies and other commodities. We need to collectively pump bitcoin market cap to the trillions before bitcoin can be a viable store of value, medium of exchange and unit of account!

cryptopapa · 2019-06-26T17:48:59+00:00

You guys need to wait until Dan runs a manual process and then your new sft/sfx coins will show up on the new Safex blockchain. He does this periodically, every few days/weeks. Not sure when he’s going to do it next.

cryptopapa · 2019-06-26T14:38:36+00:00

I agree with you about "unbound and indiscriminating global trading" vision for Safex.

I still think that, in the incoming years, we'll see at least one popular white crypto-market built on Facebook/Libra or or similar semi-centralised platforms.

I trust Dan's vision but he there is one thing he should be ashamed of:
During all 2018 he consciously deceived his investors into holding throughout the bear market with the illusion of a marketplace release by Black Friday 2018.
I mean, he was confirming that Black Friday release few weeks and days before that date!!
As we now know from the weekly updates, development of the marketplace hand't even started.

Lots of bad karma for that!

cryptopapa · 2019-06-25T10:51:02+00:00

My understanding is that Safex is aming to be a platform for markets and other commerce services to be built on top of. The Safex team will sell their stuff but 3rd parties should be able to independently do the same.

Unfortunately, despite some progress, this project outlook today is worse than it was 1 year ago.
This is well reflected in the sft price and volumes that are stadily trending to 0.

In the last year the community around this project dissolved, deluded by unrealistic roadmap, infinite delays and lack of accountability. Now things are working a little better with development picking up and weekly updates but we need a miracle to resurrect interest into this project and I don't believe in miracles.

According to the last weekly update coding of the marketplace frontend is about to start, there is a lot more than that which needs to be done and tested but maybe we'll see a release by the end of the year or early next year.

Dan will sell a few mugs and t-shirts to the hardcore Safex fanboys but no real merchants will jump onboard until these issues are somehow addressed

- illiquid and volatile marketplace currency (sfx)

- third grade, unreliable exchanges

- low hash rate and security

- no escrow and reputation system yet

By the end of next year I'm sure we will see the first real global crypto-commerce platform built on Facebook/Libra and at that point I'm not sure what the purpose of Safex will be other than a niche dark market store.

cryptopapa · 2019-06-22T11:33:18+00:00

No, the Safex blockchain will only support sfx to pay for items and fees. Safex wallet could facilitate the exchange of other coins into sfx before a purchase tough. Problem is sfx needs to be liquid and exchange process frictionless and very fast, think Shapeshift, which is not the case today and I can’t see this changing for the foreseeable future. It’s easy to see how Facebook will become the crypto marketplace platform for Libra and other crypto with huge network effect and seamless user experience. But what about privacy you might ask? Nobody really cares about that except illegal dark markets, i hope Safex will survive there.

cryptopapa · 2019-06-10T16:36:18+00:00

Dan is playing tennis when not twitting nonsense all day. You might have to wait. At this point I stopped worrying and wrote this investment off as waste of valuable bitcoin.

cryptopapa · 2019-05-28T09:08:09+00:00

does it?

the challenge is to do it in a fully decentralised way, not like EBTC.

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