It is generally advised that one should not use their official email for Crypto activities or even here onboard this platform. So I believe OP knows about that and would not make such mistake. Maybe that email he saw on the spreadsheet might be a default email just to fill up the space by abiding to the campaign rules.
However, the forum administrators knows about this that is why upon registration, the email is first on default that no one would have access to it only you not until you change the settings to wether you want the general public to see it or only you alone can see it at first.
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What is the point of hiding your email for registration here, if your email [email protected] can be found in bounty spreadsheets. I am 99% sure you have used that email to register here 
Except for a gullible fellow, else everyone supposed to have designated emails for different purposes according to their importance to you. It's another way to show how responsible you're about your privacy and security. So @Erumo if you have been using a single email for different important purposes they it's advisable you desist from it as your assets and information are easily susceptible to access without any scammer or hacker haven to think twice if the particular email is the right one for the very information they need.
Not always, if you want you can hide but dor someone who is offering service via bitcointalk then keeping it is public is important and if you don't want your primary email to be exposed you can change your email at anytime you want and keep it public.
I get the intention of OP is trying to say most malicious links are sent via email and if its available in public they can Target a newbie because they are easy prey for scammers since they can be deceived easily.
I get the intention of OP is trying to say most malicious links are sent via email and if its available in public they can Target a newbie because they are easy prey for scammers since they can be deceived easily.
What is the point of hiding your email for registration here, if your email [email protected] can be found in bounty spreadsheets. I am 99% sure you have used that email to register here
Maybe he used different one for airdrops and bounty. Of course before doing an account here an email is provided and that can be a private email, and not will be used for that activity since its personal. But I think there is always an option for a change email if the one he used has been exposed or already been used for airdrops.Maybe. Maybe yes, maybe no. But he is teaching to hide email after registration, yet his email is seen when he registered for bounty. Then where is that edge and criteria where to hide and to show emails?
What is the goal to hide email in profile? For protection and to prevent being scammed. It took me few minutes to get his email from bounty. More advanced search from a professional can connect that email with something else and who knows where that could lead. Perhaps even to an email used here for registration.
For me his advice looks like this:
Anyway, just forget about me. Stable090 has given a good advice. Well done !
If you're care with your account's security, hiding your email address aren't enough, you need to follow few other steps:
1. Don't use a same email address or password if you want to sign up on the other sites.
2. Don't set up security password because it could make your account locked.
3. Don't share your social media in this forum, this will increase a risk in your account.
1. Don't use a same email address or password if you want to sign up on the other sites.
2. Don't set up security password because it could make your account locked.
3. Don't share your social media in this forum, this will increase a risk in your account.
Well, services that collect email addresses can always use them for their benefits, they may even sell them to email marketers for money without your consent, or maybe with your consent since you might at some point agreed to their terms of service without even realizing what kind of rights you are giving them about your personal data.
I registered on Coinmarketcap, although honestly, I'm still not sure why I did it. A couple of years ago, they announced that their database had been hacked, and after that, I was flooded with spam. The same thing happened to me after the hack at Ledger. It took some time until I adjusted the spam filters, luckily there was an alternative email address, and it didn't cause me many problems.
Whether it was a hack or they sold email lists, is very difficult to prove.
There are services where you could try to limit the emails that you use. What I mean by this is you are going to be using the iCloud as the tool in which you could hide email if you do not want to be public in the first place in any registration.
It is the Hide My Email function. It is really helpful for me because I want to use a single email but not completely possible lol but it helps.
It is the Hide My Email function. It is really helpful for me because I want to use a single email but not completely possible lol but it helps.
Most members hide their email address for security reasons. Even after opening an account, everyone's email address is automatically highlighted in the system if the user does not click on the option to show email address later in the account settings.
However, for security reasons, it is better to heighten everyone's email address. Because if the email address is shown in the profile, different fraudsters or hackers try to do their different illegal activities with that email address.
But if you create an account with a temporary Gmail then there is no need to hide that Gmail. Because no fraudster or hacker can succeed in any of their activities with temporary Gmail.
However, accounts should always be created with an active Gmail account. Because later, if there is any problem with the account, the account can be accessed with that active Gmail.
However, for security reasons, it is better to heighten everyone's email address. Because if the email address is shown in the profile, different fraudsters or hackers try to do their different illegal activities with that email address.
But if you create an account with a temporary Gmail then there is no need to hide that Gmail. Because no fraudster or hacker can succeed in any of their activities with temporary Gmail.
However, accounts should always be created with an active Gmail account. Because later, if there is any problem with the account, the account can be accessed with that active Gmail.
I once thought about a single advantage of unveiling our email address on our profile page, except that it's also linked to our account and used for forgot password activity, guest of the forum who can't send pm can easily contact a member through their emails for business purposes. Supposing that the forum is filled with only cool headed people both guests, that would have been a good alternative means of contacting people. Since the disadvantages as Op advised outweighs the advantage it's important to hide the email and substitute it with our social media links, a space is made available for that too.
What is the point of hiding your email for registration here, if your email [email protected] can be found in bounty spreadsheets. I am 99% sure you have used that email to register here
Maybe he used different one for airdrops and bounty. Of course before doing an account here an email is provided and that can be a private email, and not will be used for that activity since its personal. But I think there is always an option for a change email if the one he used has been exposed or already been used for airdrops.
Come on, don't be too bitter about this thread. I think we need to be grateful for each piece of information and education that's been shared here because probably not all people are aware of this, and besides, it's in the Beginners & Help section, which means it's primarily intended for newbies. However, thanks to those who clarified that the email hidden setting is actually on by default. We can change the default setting if we want to show our email for certain purposes. All of this is valuable information for newbies, so there's nothing wrong with it.
I'm not sure why this forum is specifically mentioned for hiding an email address when it's a thing everywhere on the internet. Just don't leave your email address public anywhere, it will almost certainly be misused in some way. The Bitcointalk forum is no special exception.
There are also bounty campaigns that collect email addresses, I believe that many of them have submitted their primary email address.
Even if you take care of all such things, "hacking" of the user base of a large service happens very often, so you can easily be overwhelmed by spam.
Well, services that collect email addresses can always use them for their benefits, they may even sell them to email marketers for money without your consent, or maybe with your consent since you might at some point agreed to their terms of service without even realizing what kind of rights you are giving them about your personal data.There are also bounty campaigns that collect email addresses, I believe that many of them have submitted their primary email address.
Even if you take care of all such things, "hacking" of the user base of a large service happens very often, so you can easily be overwhelmed by spam.
That isn't only for bounty campaigns, but it's for every service that we use on the internet where we provide real and authentic personal information a lot of times. We don't realize what we are doing when we click on the "I agree" button given at the end of every registration page.
some people don’t really know about this so after creating account, they just start using it without changing email visibility to private.
AFAIK, when you create a new account, your email address is automatically set to hidden settings like by default, so how can new users can do the mistake of making their email publicly, plus i can not imagine how someone having access to your email address can hack your BTT account, because As clapping is not done with one hand, so is the account can not be hacked by only making it publicly visible. Origin of hacking starts when the victim made some mistake, for example, a spammer or hacker can use your email address + your wallet address in different airdrops or giveaways which have no double confirmation system to get high number of affiliate by masquerading. And hacker can send you email or messages to convince you to click on the provided link. And once you do it, all of your access to BTT account could be compromised by the hacker. (cross site scripting attack; a very common cyber attack) If in future your account got hacked you can look into the following topics. (maybe now for use in future.)
The best practice to safe your Bitcointalk account is;
- Do not use your main BTT email in any bounty, signature, airdrop or giveaway campaigns. Use another email address.
- If you are using another email address, then never link your publicly visible email with the main email address.
- Do not fall prey to phishing attacks. How? get familiar with the environments and by remaining up-to-date.
Overall, the security of our assets and accounts is in our own hands.
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Everything is alright but the things you are suggesting or sharing , you already don't apply on yourself .We are seeing that your email on your screenshot, I think you forgot to remove or blur that part.
Any way there is no doubt that email hiding is also a good idea to avoid the scammers- and phishers phishing emails link.
And I think for hiding your email from the beginning you don't have to go through this process you can easily done this on the registration form of bitcointalk forum by checkmark the box.
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Everything is alright but the things you are suggesting or sharing , you already don't apply on yourself .We are seeing that your email on your screenshot, I think you forgot to remove or blur that part.
Any way there is no doubt that email hiding is also a good idea to avoid the scammers- and phishers phishing emails link.
And I think for hiding your email from the beginning you don't have to go through this process you can easily done this on the registration form of bitcointalk forum by checkmark the box.
What is the point of hiding your email for registration here, if your email [email protected] can be found in bounty spreadsheets. I am 99% sure you have used that email to register here
I doubt that could be it; even if it is, the OP must have other active emails that he/she uses for bounty and everything else relating to this forum. I also don't see any point in going through the spreadsheet to search for the Ops email to prove a point.
The point is - if you are here to teach someone, start from yourself. What is the point of telling how important it is to hide your email, when you flash yours?
Privacy is very important that is why the forum already set hiding mails as default so that problems of account hacks can be minimized because if the email is exposed many people will attempt to try their luck to hack into users account.
What is the point of hiding your email for registration here, if your email [email protected] can be found in bounty spreadsheets. I am 99% sure you have used that email to register here
Lol ouch is this OPs email from bounty??I guess bounty manager was suppose to keep this part of the spreadsheet hidden as we have users out there mining for such information before your mailbox starts to receive all sorts of spam ,and possibly if you use same email addy as your bitcointalk email address people could try brute force their way to hijacking ones account.
All in all email addresses on the forum are hidden from the public by default unless you choose to change this for whatever reasons, so no need to worry.
Maybe the bounty manager forgot to hide this part or it is his rule that he publishes everything that is entered in the spreadsheet, so nothing can prevent him except awareness of the bounty manager.All in all email addresses on the forum are hidden from the public by default unless you choose to change this for whatever reasons, so no need to worry.
But you are right with the email being published in the spreadsheet so that more people will know including the scammers who will send spam messages about other types of fraud, but the OP has denied that email is not the same as on bitcointalk.
What is the point of hiding your email for registration here, if your email [email protected] can be found in bounty spreadsheets. I am 99% sure you have used that email to register here
It is your guess that can be correct or inaccurate.If a person is seriously about security and privacy, he will use a specific email for important registration and account. Obviously, email for bounty or unimportant things should be a different email. I agree that most of newbies will use same email for many different things both important and unimportant.
Some email providers allow you to enable 2fa which makes it very hard to compromise the address. I've never had any of my accounts with 2fa broken into. I usually have a password that consists of letters, numbers and signs and often use a burner email address for public forums, giveaways, product registration and similar things.
Don't worry about your email being visible people. Rather have a good and secure password, the longer, the better, enable 2fa and don't mix forum emails with the ones used for billing, taxes, or any government stuff. Keep crypto and personal information separate!
I'm not sure why this forum is specifically mentioned for hiding an email address when it's a thing everywhere on the internet. Just don't leave your email address public anywhere, it will almost certainly be misused in some way. The Bitcointalk forum is no special exception.
There are also bounty campaigns that collect email addresses, I believe that many of them have submitted their primary email address.
Even if you take care of all such things, "hacking" of the user base of a large service happens very often, so you can easily be overwhelmed by spam.
There are also bounty campaigns that collect email addresses, I believe that many of them have submitted their primary email address.
Even if you take care of all such things, "hacking" of the user base of a large service happens very often, so you can easily be overwhelmed by spam.
What is the point of hiding your email for registration here, if your email [email protected] can be found in bounty spreadsheets. I am 99% sure you have used that email to register here
I doubt that could be it; even if it is, the OP must have other active emails that he/she uses for bounty and everything else relating to this forum. I also don't see any point in going through the spreadsheet to search for the Ops email to prove a point.
The point is - if you are here to teach someone, start from yourself. What is the point of telling how important it is to hide your email, when you flash yours?
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