You are not a beginner, but very likely an alt account and this is a very poor attempt to fish merit - but you reminded me well to leave you feedback

Before you move to some promised "crypto country", I would advise you to learn to read with understanding, because then you might understand what someone wrote. OP is not from Türkiye at all, and I think that is more than clear.

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It's fascinating to see how people react to the word "adaptation" and consider a country desirable because it has a physical crypto exchange, without even asking what the fee is for buying/selling cryptocurrencies in such exchanges. If they paid 5% or more fees, they would quickly stop liking that adaptation.

This looks like a leak of the Ledger database, only with the difference that the images of ATMs users are also included here. If we take into account that ATMs are usually the most expensive way of selling/buying cryptocurrencies, I wonder why all these users agreed to such KYC and did not use some CEX where they should still do KYC, but the fees would be many times less?

Also, considering that the company behind everything went bankrupt, is it possible that they (or one of their employees) actually sold that database?

This is not a church or a sect that someone preaches here, this is a forum where Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies and some other things are discussed. You may be speaking for yourself, but anyone who understands what Bitcoin actually is has long understood what "not your keys, not your coins" means.



Do you think you helped someone with advice that has already been written several thousand times on this forum? Do you think that private keys on every hardware wallet are absolutely safe? What about those who don't know what clipboard malware is, or those who have no idea how to properly store their seed - or those who will share the same seed with various companies so that they can store it for them?

The hardware wallet is just a step in the right direction, but nowhere near what you imagine.

It's strange that you don't understand that Türkiye has banned Bitcoin as a payment currency, which means that it cannot legally be used to pay for goods and services, but at the same time you can buy and sell it for fiat. The same law exists in Thailand, and this is only an indication that some countries want to ban exactly what Bitcoin represents in its idea. For me personally, any country that has such bans is extremely hostile to Bitcoin.

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I have already written that I do not agree with such statements, and all these indexes and analyzes are completely useless if countries like Türkiye or Thailand are ranked so high, while at the same time you can go to prison or pay a fine if you sell or buy something for Bitcoin.

If someone just asks merit without any further explanation, then I would personally report such a message to the administrators, if nothing else then that user should get at least a temporary ban and that way a message is sent to him that what he is doing is not something people on the forum approve of. As far as can be seen from the answers in this topic, the majority have not done anything or will not do anything, and this only encourages those who want to get the merits the easy way.

Of course, there are also users who have publicly offered to send them requests in which they then check the post history of a user and assign merit to the posts they consider worthy of it. This means that there can be two approaches of those who send such PMs, some are ordinary beggars, others still want someone to look at their post history.

Was it really necessary and inevitable that you make that transaction at a time when the fees are much higher than usual? In addition, if it is about transactions that you do between your wallets, you could put a much smaller fee and hope that the situation will improve in the coming days, and if you have the RBF option, you can always "bump fee" if you don't want to wait any longer.

In addition, the ViaBTC accelerator could also help you (if the transaction meets the conditions). Anyway, $70 to make a $300 transaction definitely doesn't make sense.

Your transaction met all the conditions set by ViaBTC and as you can see, that very pool mined that transaction. In addition, the OP also uses that accelerator, and you can check that by looking at the last transactions that he "accelerated".

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/816345

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Do you think I'm not familiar with how that accelerator works? The thing is that what you do, anyone can try it on their own.

Don't you know that you could "accelerate" your transaction without any help just by submitting it to the ViaBTC accelerator for free? I just tested it if it still works and your transaction was added successfully, and when Via finds the next block it will be confirmed.

I'm actually glad when the fees go up because then we see who are the ones who understand at least something, and who are the others who think that the fees should always be a maximum of $0.10, because not only is Bitcoin anonymous, but the transaction fee must always be super cheap.

On the other hand, the majority who withdraw their coins from CEXs never complain that they pay fees that are at a level even higher than the fees that happened these days - which means that they are ready to fill pockets of various crypto messiahs, but it is difficult for them to pay $2 to a miner for the transaction.


For someone who has never used a non-custodial wallet, something like LN is a rather complicated science, and it will probably remain so for a long time.

HK is only one city and officially that area has a name "Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China", and I don't see why a spot BTC ETF in that city would upset someone in the US, especially if there are already about twenty spot BTC ETFs around the world (see @Poker Player post), and one of the biggest is in Canada.

No matter how you look at it, the US is definitely not even close to being the first in this, but that does not mean that maybe they did not make the right moves when they decided to wait and draw some conclusions from the experiences of other countries. If such an ETF is finally approved in the next few months (or maybe even days), it could very easily result in the accumulation of much larger funds than all other similar ETFs around the world have.

It's a shame that the linked topic doesn't contain something about unnecessary quoting, because I don't see a single reason why you quoted the entire OP. Everyone who gave their answer/comment in this topic is in some way an example to the OP and others who read this, so maybe you can think about how your posts look to others who read them.

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As for the doubt as to whether the OP is really a beginner or someone who is just pretending to be one, it is difficult to judge, although I am convinced that some are ready to do anything to catch a few merits. Therefore, extra care is always needed when trying to separate the legitimate ones from the bad ones.

I don't think the OP has that kind of anonymity in mind, and even if he does, he has already exposed his IP addresses and BTC addresses with the amounts he has on them. If he would like to make an Electrum wallet that would not share such information, he should first make a setup like you are talking about, and then somehow delete the connection between the coins he has now and those that should be in the new wallet. A far better option than VPN is to use a mixer with the help of TOR.
 
Given that the OP just wants to "cash out", that would be just one additional complication that he doesn't need at this point.

What you want (I assume) is to sell your Bitcoin in exchange for cash and do it anonymously - and there are several ways to do it.

1. The first is to find someone who would do it face to face, which is of course risky, but in a public place if you judge that the person is "normal" it can be the best (cheapest) option.

2. Another way is to use one of the DEXs (decentralized crypto exchanges), but payment to your bank account or any other payment processor may mean that your tax office may get access to this information at some point. -> https://kycnot.me/

3. The third option would be to find a crypto ATM that does not have KYC, but you should know that this method is the most expensive because the fees are from 5% and up. -> https://coinatmradar.com/

4. There are online sites that sell various things directly for BTC, so you can buy something and then sell it for cash. -> https://spending-bitcoin.com

@Nechiequ, someone probably already advised you, but forget about everything else and read the rules of the forum (one more and if necessary ten more times until you understand). If you had read those rules, you would know that posting multiple posts in a row is not allowed by the forum rules. You can reply to several posts in one post by adding quotes, but you can also edit the post without having to create a new one.

Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ

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It is wrong that you think that the forum should adapt to you, because it should be the exact opposite. Using AI or plagiarizing is simply wrong, and it will not lead you in the right direction. Use your brain and your words, and then no one will accuse you of doing something wrong.

People talk about anything and everything, and with regard to social networks and the increasing availability of the internet even where it was not available before, it gives the impression that everyone is talking about Bitcoin, but I think that it is still something specific and depends on the country and society. It may sound strange (to you and some others), but in the global economy Bitcoin is pretty much irrelevant (for now), if we take into account any criteria - be it the value expressed in numbers or maybe the total number of people involved in some way in BTC. For comparison, the US military budget is larger than the BTC marketcap.


Maybe everyone should treat Bitcoin for what Satoshi invented it for, not just a profit generating instrument? I don't want to be a hypocrite and say that Bitcoin is not a good way to store value, but we have to use it as a currency as much as possible, regardless of what some will say that the fees are too high or will find some other excuse. By the way, gold has been present among people for thousands of years, and it should not be compared to Bitcoin in the way that some persistently do.

It doesn't make much sense to compare futures and spot ETFs when it comes to Bitcoin, because they are completely different trading methods that naturally have a different impact on the BTC price. It's no secret that futures BTC ETFs have not caused too much excitement on the market, not only because of the way of trading, but also, as far as I know, because of the costs that clients pay for such a way of trading.

It is true that spot BTC ETFs in various countries are not very successful, so it is logical to ask whether one such in the US can be an exception? I personally think it can, because other countries do not have such giants as BlackRock, Fidelity or Grayscale, and here we are talking about more than $15 trillion under management, noting that there are at least a dozen smaller companies that are interested in the same thing.

HK may be an interesting story, but everything that happens there is several magnitudes smaller than in the US. However, I must admit that they have a good environment at their ATMs - for those who need professional help, of course

I'm sure no one will ask me anything until we hit the last ATH, and unless the SEC decides Santa Claus is coming earlier this year I don't have a feeling we'll cross $50k by the end of this year. Personally, I wouldn't have anything against such a gift under the pine tree, and I don't believe anyone else who understands that 2024/25 will be the year when there will probably be a lot of talk about Bitcoin in the mainstream media.

When someone asks me when is the best time to buy Bitcoin, I usually say that it was when you last asked me the same question. I understand people who only want to invest in the short term and make a profit as soon as possible, but I don't understand at all that they still think that Bitcoin is some kind of online fraud that can fail at any moment.

You really believe everyone, and it is obvious that it is enough for someone to write something on the internet and it is automatically considered the truth.

Does that article mention the fact that the Ledger database of their users has been hacked and there are hundreds of thousands of users whose data has been posted online? Does he perhaps mention that Ledger, which for years claimed that seed/private keys cannot be extracted from their devices, now admits that it is possible and also offers some kind of service where the user pays $9.99 per month to have his seed shared with as many as three companies that will take care of it?

Come on, what kind of nonsense are you talking about, surely the digital currencies of central banks will not rely on a private project in which the speed of their transactions will depend on how much someone paid fee at a given time. Every country that will have a CBDC will also have its own private blockchain because that's the only way it can have control over its currency.