2020 is almost over, and behold, Bitcoin smashed through $20,000 for the first time on Wednesday (16 December). This is good news for everyone who has a crypto portfolio, and however humble it is, it is an investment for the future, at the very least.
Today BTC is aiming for higher skies, the market is bullish, and it might still pump to $40.000, this weekend. But as we all know, although BTC it's stronger than ever, it's overbought... It's time to invest in ETH and other Alt.
After having lost my main source of income due to Covid 19, I started to study again and ended up not abandoning but ceasing to be so active in the crypto sphere. I kept track of the news and subjects of the moment, but I haven’t paid much attention to my faucets. But last Wednesday I got so excited that I decided to dig up all my favorite faucets, and discovered that I lost close to 600 referrals in 3 of them.
Losing 200 refs in each is a big loss for me, if you already know me, you know that my portfolio was built with faucets income. And I keep earning passively with them. The reason for having lost all the referrals was due to an attack on Coinpot. After the initial impact of this bad news, and right after reading the statement published by Coinpot, I realize why this group is the faucet group I trust the most. The vast majority of faucet managers would not even bother to explain what happened.
The statement made by Coinpot:
What happened to Moon Bitcoin/Dogecoin/Litecoin faucets?
On Monday 1st June 2020 we sustained a targetted and comprehensive attack on our servers that are used to host CoinPot and our faucets.
This attack was in two parts…
1. Most of our servers became infected with the Makop ransomware.
2. At the same time there was a low level DDOS attack preventing us from accessing the servers.
These attacks meant that CoinPot and the faucets went offline immediately and stayed that way until we started to find ways to fix the problems. Predictably the ransomware attack was accompanied by demands for an amount totalling over $200k USD to decrypt and release the infected files.
This amount is far beyond anything we can afford to pay. Even if we were able to pay, there is no 100% guarantee that we will get the files decrypted and it would most likely encourage future attempted attacks. Therefore we decided not to go down that road and refused to engage with the attackers.
We have a strong (or so we thought) backup process. So we now took the steps to start restoring the sites on new clean servers. 24 hours of hard work later…CoinPot and most of our faucets were back on line exactly as before.
However our 3 oldest faucets were running on legacy software/hardware that hadn’t been updated for too long a time. Unfortunately we now discovered that some of the backups for these sites also contained data corrupted by the Makop ransomware.
Since then we have been trying to fix this and recover this corrupted data — but now we must accept that we have hit a brick wall. The data is lost.
Every cloud has a silver lining and those faucets are better than ever…
If you know little about cryptos, or if you wish to create a crypto portfolio without investment, check out this post The Most Lucrative Faucets In 2020, you will find all my favorite trusted faucets and other sources of passive income. It´s never late to start, and if you start right now you will be ahead of the majority.
Wishing you a year full of blessings and filled with new adventures. Happy new year 2021!
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