I tried to check your demo. Basically, the countdown starts after you input the payment amount, but not before you select the payment method. I don't think it is a good option. I'd suggest starting the countdown after the user choose the payment method, and maybe extending the timeout for more than 15 minutes since a confirmation might take longer than that in the live version.

Also, what is the difference in the QR code between the URL, Address, and Amount shown in https://www.sheepy.com/demo/invoice/demo? I can't seem to understand it.

I think they just want to warn people to not rely on other companies to store their wealth and use banks or other alternatives. Not really surprising since people can get really stupid sometimes. Not sure how it works overseas/in the US, but in my country payment apps have a limit on how much money people can store (around $700), so it is unlikely that people will use them to store all their wealth in the first place.

They are trying to sell insured services at the end of the day, so using a risk of bankruptcy/uncertainty will definitely get mentioned. They can also tell people about the lack of control over their funds when they use a third party, but that is counterintuitive if they want to sell banks. Even if they mentioned Bitcoin, I believe the end goal is definitely to push people to use banks more.

Not sure using Instagram as a source is really a good idea. Some comments also suggest that this is old news. The latest news regarding El Salvador mining is related to this one[1]. Not sure if Bitcoin Magazine is mixing up volcano energy with a company called Volcano Energy or not, but it seems like recycled news.

If the OP is referring to the news I linked below, then it is using wind and solar energy. The article claims that it can work together with the geothermal energy mentioned last year, but it is unclear how it will do that.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/06/05/el-salvadors-volcano-energy-secures-1b-in-commitments-for-241-mw-bitcoin-mine/

Both of them are certainly a possibility. It is hard to figure out what really happened unless Atomic shares what kind of exploits are being used by the attacker. Even if they did that though, the distrust is still there since they can edit some code before making it public to steer the narrative to their preferred direction. Zach also claims to know what happened behind the scene. At the end of the day, someone would be better off using other wallets in the future.

Unless I'm mixing up some news, IIRC, they disable the downloads shortly after the attack was reported. Not sure why they allow users to download it again, especially after some reports suggesting the latest version is one of the ones that got affected.

I can find some tools that track blockchain size such as this one[1], but I can't find those who predict the size when all BTC has been mined. You can probably make a manual calculation with a fixed variable such as 1 MB per new block, 6 new blocks per day, and so on.

Maybe we can visualize it in detail if you show the comparison between and after this problem comes up. For example, my external SSD speed decreased by a blot (from 200MB/s write to 30MB/s after I copy a ton of data in one go). AFAIK, the SSD speed should come back up after you trim it or clear the cache even if they don't have dedicated DRAM. CMIIW.

[1] https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/charts/blocks-size

There are definitely good tools that we can use to prevent scams from happening, such as multi-sig/escrow, trust profile, trade history, etc. I believe people can definitely use P2P without being scared that much as long as they get the gist of it. But yeah, a change of habit can be quite difficult for some people who usually rely on a third party to prevent scams from happening.

Oh, so that's what you mean. I guess people can do that as long as the requirement is not that difficult. I do have an overseas bank account opened through apps like Wise, but I believe they also need to follow regulations in my country to some extent.

I'm not really sure if a single decision by SEC makes other countries will follow them blindly. Not to mention there is also dissatisfaction with SEC inside the US. AFAIK, they get sued by Coinbase regarding regulation clarity and they have yet to respond. They even get a deadline to respond within a week or so[1].

At the end of the day, they are trying really hard to make most tokens classified as security and sue exchanges left and right. The end goal is definitely to gain control over the market. As others have mentioned, better to be safe than sorry. Withdraw your money if you have any, and use other platforms if you need to trade your crypto (or look at P2P).

[1] https://decrypt.co/143673/us-court-gives-sec-one-week-to-respond-to-coinbases-rulemaking-petition

I believe you can find the explanation for no suitable output error in this forum, for example in this thread[1]. AFAIK, it basically means you don't have any more output to spend to increase the fee. It is not a new change at all. CMIIW.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2651778.0

If I remember correctly some companies already tried to build a dedicated secure chip for their CPU, like Qualcomm SPU unit. They can market those features and build a dedicated phone for crypto (some already exist I believe) if they wanted to. But it still doesn't solve the problem that a phone is a phone. Personally, I wouldn't use a phone as a hardware wallet even if they claim it is unhackable due to a secure chip, etc.

Most people definitely lost their trust in Ledger, especially after the latest Atomic Wallet exploit. Who knows, maybe the same thing can happen when Ledger makes their firmware can expose the user's seeds in one way or another. Unless they make everything open source and allow people to verify/develop their own app without relying on Ledger, I wouldn't use or recommend them to others.

Isn't that what CBDC basically is? I believe it will happen eventually, government wants easier control at the end of the day. Not sure how other countries would apply it but I doubt cash will go anytime soon, so that is still an option. But yeah, it is hard to not feel that banks/governments will freeze your money anytime they wanted to, especially if you have limited options to store your wealth.

I believe so. They just started suing more changes and claiming more tokens are securities, so I doubt they will let anyone issue digital USD without their approval at all. Would be interesting if they tried to fight other countries to make sure they can control everything.

8k USD per month transaction limit is kinda low, isn't it? If it is because crypto is being used, I wonder why they don't block people from the beginning and wait until they reach a certain threshold. Is there a limit or something on the trading activity for each month?

I'm not sure I get it, how can you be sure that a service is available in my country if it was blocked in Europe/US? For example, Pakistan just ban crypto based on the news shared a few days ago iirc because they don't want to get blacklisted internationally. At the end of the day, I do believe exchange services will allow users from countries that don't explicitly ban crypto trading activities.

Ane rasa faktor utama token punya perkembangan harga yang baik adalah karena proyek itu sendiri gan. Airdrop memang bisa jadi insentif, tapi kalau hanya airdrop banyak yang membuktikan kalau hal itu tidak cukup. Arbittrum yang agan sebutin sebelum memberikan airdrop udah melakukan banyak test di testnet setahu ane, dengan berbagai macam proyek dst. Dengan kata lain ekosistemnya sudah ada, dan ini menarik user untuk membeli token mereka dengan harapan proyek" yang ada di ekosistem tersebut bakal berkembang pesat juga nantinya. Mirip dengan ETH itu sendiri imo.

Dengan kata lain, kalau agan mau berburu airdrop proyek layer 2, coba dilihat juga ekosistem mereka seperti apa. Lebih baik tidak terlalu optimis karena malah bisa bikin stress nantinya. Perlakukan airdrop dst sebagai spekulasi, bukan kepastian.

Wah, padahal menurut ane mencegah user mendownload wallet mereka adalah langkah yang tepat. Agak kurang bertanggung jawab juga kalau dibiarkan begitu saja padahal eksploit masih belum direspons dengan jelas.

Beberapa korban sepertinya memang bisa mendapatkan kripto mereka lagi, walau belum jelas bagaimana Zach dan timnya melakukan hal tersebut. Dari tweet yang ada juga nampaknya recovery ini tidak bisa dilakukan untuk semua korban. Eksploit ini juga belum diungkap sama tim Atomic sendiri, walau Zach mengklaim dia tahu bagaimana attacker bisa melakukan serangan ini. Kalau code Atomic tidak dibuat open source ane rasa besar kemungkinan wallet ini akan ditinggal usernya.

Drakor ini drama korea maksudnya gan? Dalam arti agan suka banget nonton drama korea dan ga ada motivasi yang kuat bikin post? Mungkin agan bisa aja bikin target harian, misalnya 6 post atau lebih per hari. Dari pengalaman ane hal itu bisa membantu mengurangi burnout, kalau itu bisa dianggap burnout. Rata-rata manajer juga tidak suka dengan member yang posting dengan jarak 1-3 menit per postnya.

Kalau agan ingin menaikkan rank, tidak perlu juga bikin banyak post karena yang paling penting adalah kualitas post agan. Agan bisa bikin thread baru dengan topik yang unik dan riset yang dalam baik di board ini atau board lokal lainnya. Membuat banyak post dengan target menaikkan rank malah bisa membuat agan bikin banyak post spam nantinya.

Btw ane pernah daftar di campaign lain ketika sudah diterima di campaign tertentu karena produk yang dipasarkan itu sendiri. Misalnya mixer  vs ICO, mixer vs wallet Bitcoin, dan seterusnya. Alasan ini mungkin bisa juga masuk ke pertimbangan member tertentu, walau ane rasa tidak sebanyak alasan yang sudah dilist sama agan rico dkk di atas.

Om masih bisa download? Kalau tidak salah beberapa hari yang lalu download/install dinonaktifkan karena mereka ingin melakukan investigasi. Kalau berdasarkan laporan user di sosmed seperti Reddit, versi yang paling baru juga mengalami hack[1]. Lebih baik asumsikan semua versi kena eksploit dan jangan gunakan wallet ini ke depannya.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/atomicwallet/comments/141pvdl/please_ppl_who_where_hacked_can_you_write_what/

Seingat ane aktivitas di board lokal memang turun kalau dibandingkan beberapa tahun sebelumnya. Ada banyak faktor, bisa jadi karena bounty banyak yang ga menghasilkan, adanya sistem merit, dst. Ane sendiri sempat vakum beberapa bulan karena kesibukan di IRL. Mungkin bakal ada banyak member baru lagi kalau bull market datang. Ane sendiri daftar saat bull market 2017. Menurut ane ga masalah kalau ada seleksi secara berkala, karena yang tersisa setidaknya punya kualitas post yang cukup OK dibandingkan spam dsm.

Zach claims to have successfully recovered some of the stolen funds. He said he knows what is wrong but prefers not to share it as of now[1]. Wonder why he decided to do that, maybe the attacker still has the means to exploit more? Kinda surprising the funds are even recoverable.

[1] https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1665226056570118146

Does your country explicitly state that trading crypto is illegal, or crypto is not allowed as a means of payment (like how fiat works)? If it is the latter, I think you won't get jailed as long as the government is not doing something behind the scenes. If it is the former then prevention is definitely the only way to protect yourself. Relying on somebody else is not a good idea, to begin with.

I don't think it is feasible for the average user to open a new bank account overseas. Not to mention it doesn't solve anything if they use a platform that doesn't support any dispute system, a multi-sig/escrow to prevent scams, etc. CMIIW.

Aren't you looking for a bounty manager already? That should be a good option for marketing. You can't force managers to accept your proposal even if you pay them a lot of money if their credibility is at risk unless you want to hire someone with no reputation at all. It might be a good idea to introduce your project first. As far as I can remember, there are also marketing services if you want to promote your project on other media in the Services board, just need to search for them. I doubt any of them will accept mindless spam posts though.

I believe you can also install Electrum on a live USB if you don't want to expose your wallet continuously to the internet. For example, buying a mini-PC dedicated to running a live USB with Electrum, or just an air-gapped device in general.

I don't think they expect Trezor or other open-source hardware wallets to be immune from exploits or bugs in the first place. However, it is certainly better compared to using Ledger after their latest fiasco. You can simply build your own device and verify the firmware/etc since it is open source. Using multiple wallets increases the burden of making backups. Sure you can do it, but if you use closed-source software then I don't see it as a significantly better option. CMIIW.