If they have enough information on them then yes they should be able to do that. The issue probably comes with trying to investigate and find people (especially if they're using WhatsApp).

The other issue with this is it just stops one ponzi scheme from continuing, it does nothing to eliminate the others that might open up in its place (possibly with teams close to the ones thst could be prosecuted - it might also not even touch the schemes inner circle of scammers either).

I think it should be encouraged. It keeps things shorter and easier to read for everyone.

Additionally, if you're quoting separate lines and replying to them individually it can do better for avoiding obscurity/ambiguity.

I think you should only mark things if you think there's important context cues you've cut off or you've made a quote by splitting two related sentences in a paragraph so they're together (if they're different but similar enough to reply to in one block).

Just use electrum ltc or an exchange to do it - or any multicoin app.

I think you're overthinking what you're doing here anyway. If you have so many apps on your ledger already, surely you've got one with a low fee crypto you could also use? Bitcoin and eth were expensive, I don't think anything else is and I've not checked bitcoin fees recently (it might be cheaper now).

Professional in what? Can you invest directly in that? Most more direct and well managed investments are likely able to make you 10-20% a year if you're in a growing industry or one with a lot of customers.

I think things like value investing might be areas you'd be able to look into too if you're happy to hold investments for a while (they're generally quite profitible as a lot are companies that have higher burdens/risk in the immediate term but can produce a higher income over a longer period of time - they also seem to perform better than 10% on the year but I've only been tracking them for a few years).

I looked around to see if there was anything I was missing from other forums and the main places people go to talk about bitcoin with quality/knowhow seem to be bitcointalk, stackoverflow and github (but the stackoverflow used to not be very busy).

I don't know if other forums have grown much or well since but I doubt it (and they don't exactly have the history bitcointalk does).

I'd worry more about the quality of those reviews and the lack of incentives for users to write good ones as I see it.

I guess they do have to pay in advance of a review to seem like the reviews are accurate but there are probably better ways to do this (either pay out a certain amount of people or offer a higher bonus - the higher bonus could come with a higher withdraw requirement I just don't think $5 being lost by someone is much of an incentive to write a review).

It's always a good idea to come up with a strategy for when you're going to buy (and potentially sell) coins rather than just continously aiming to buy a lower price (you're more likely to sell at a loss then too imo).

Is it encrypted, can you decrypt it on your system and see if it produces a reasonable output?

I'd assume it means there's something wrong with the wallet file if it randomly crashes but not sure what so it might be helpful if you look through an unencrypted file or look for wallet recovery software that's well reputed to see if you can find anything that'll help you make it more readable/not crash.

I found out about bitcoin from news and from people I knew bringing up that news (initially).

I then got interested in Linux and more low level things and then got a lot more interested in bitcoin with that discovery (they were about 8 months apart).

I was around 14 when I came across bitcoin so I also couldn't find ways to invest (and I don't think it was very usable for me at the time too - addresses and the many decimal places seemed really confusing at the time).

Centralised exchanges are just one route to buying and selling coins - there are a few others that'll keep the market running if cexes all disappear (even though that's unlikely).

Taking idle funds from exchanges does mean they're unable to risk your funds to improve their own strategies in some cases and may effect how much they think they have in available assets to spend (but realistically, both of these shouldn't matter to you as they're not going to properly pay you for the shared burden).

Electrum doesn't ask for you to confirm your wallet when you try to access it so this seems plausible - I don't make new hardware wallets in electrum for this reason, I access them from it but don't do the original making there because of the chance of making a mistake (trezor gets you to confirm the passphrase on the device now, I'm not sure if other hardware wallets do yet).


This is another good competitor for what they've done - "changed" the password and assumed it "worked"/that was all that was needed.

There aren't many places where bitcoin is illegal, having a country not accept a currency as legal tender doesn't make it illegal to be used (or did you mean both weren't an option in your country).

It's hard to put enforceable borders on the Internet/almost impossible and these sorts of laws will force cryptos to adapt to them I think (instead of being completely illegal somewhere, new systems might be rolled out by individuals there to offer a representation of cryptocurrency while remaining legal).

Paypal's last ceo was very against crypto and were beaten by a lot of payment processors to implement it - this could happen to countries as lots of international currency transfers are expensive compared with crypto fees.

I remember I said "probably" at the time because I was thinking specifically about the document being full of links (either clearly displayed as hyperlinks or hidden - like an image being hyperlinked from), clicking on of those and downloading something that could then spread malware/infect your phone.

I think we should change price to value as a price will rise due to inflation but its value could stay the same.

I think it's worth thinking about bitcoin as if its value and growth are compared more to a stock than to a specific fiat price/market cap and it'll probably start reflecting those more, especially if /when bitcoin becomes more widely adopted.

I think most people would be buying up in large quantities (especially those who've been here a while - some people have dreams of getting 1 bitcoin, what if they can finally and more easily afford a few).

I think you'll be short of selling power at this point though because I don't think there'd be many people selling for $1k and trying to leave the sinking ship after holding on for so long.

This is one of those lists that looks like it'll be interesting to come back to in a few years/a year to see if and how things have changed.

I think a lot of those countries are in Europe or like to adopt European legislation so it'll be interesting to see if Europe changes in either way (either becoming more or less accepting of crypto) what affect that'll have on the list as a whole (especially if they maintain a favourable relationship towards it).

I think sometimes off topic is a "soft delete" for some newbies so the mods can discourage spam. Topics can also be archived by mods for similar reasons (so the op doesn't get a notification their post has been deleted and gets discouraged from making posts) - this is VERY selective and changes from mod to mod quite dramatically though.

Sometimes threads are deleted if there are duplicate topics, if the topics encourage spam/low quality posts or any other rules are broken.

There's 244k tonnes of gold that has been mined from only 3 countries. There might be gold deposits in a lot of other places (and areas we can't access like beneath the ocean).

I think there's likely a time where the number of bitcoin will become more scarce than the number of tonnes of gold, it might be a matter of when.

I'm not sure what you mean? I know there's a reason for consolidating smaller inputs into one larger input so fees are cheaper.

Breaking up larger inputs might do something for privacy but probably not much unless you're mixing with the inputs/utxos too.

$300k a bitcoin puts us near where gold's market cap has been so the prediction of that for this cycle was already very high.

I'd put the next price probably around $120k if market conditions are similar to the last one (there's a chance they're not because furlough wasn't offered to people above certain incomes which might've done more to raise the price as well as companies not being given funds to remain functional if they could on their own - I don't think many focussed on asset/market growth).