I wouldn't call them outdated. Many of the biometric scanners are pretty up to date in terms of available technology. But even then, they remain poor in terms of security. Most fingerprint scanners can be fooled with a replica fingerprint, which can be lifted from anything you have recently touched, from a computer mouse to a door handle. Most facial recognition scanners can be fooled with a still photo, and most people have uploaded several to various social media sites. And they can all be fooled 100% of the time via physical force.

They do state on that blog post that the user is able to access their seed phrase (they simply call it your "mnemonic"), so that shouldn't be a concern. I still wouldn't touch their wallet though.

In the words of Dr Cox: I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called "Bring back the porn."

Like it or not, porn is part of our society and part of human nature. There will always be a market for porn, and people will always find ways to pay for it. I don't know why companies try to fight it so much. It's like when tumblr decided to ban all adult material, and have since lost almost 50% of their traffic.

It is another perfect example of why bitcoin is needed, and I hope Pornhub will go down that route. Third party companies shouldn't be allowed to dictate to their users what they can and cannot spend their own money on. You might not have any interest in spending money on porn, but what about when companies like PayPal start dictating about things you are interested in? They've done it before, most notably to sites like Wikileaks, they are doing it now, and they will do it again. They are shooting themselves in the foot and are only accelerating bitcoin's adoption.

There's some good info in your post OP, but there's also a few mistakes which you should edit. Browsing in incognito mode does nothing to protect your privacy, as other users have noted. You shouldn't just use anonymous emails, but you should use separate email addresses for separate purposes, and use encrypted and privacy-respecting email providers such as ProtonMail. DuckDuckGo is a search engine, not a proxy or a VPN, and so does nothing to hide your IP. Free VPNs are poor recommendations since the companies are making their money from your data - they make you less private, not more.

If you are going to use a VPN, then you should pay for a good one. Look here (https://thatoneprivacysite.net/#simple-vpn-comparison) and here (https://www.privacytools.io/providers/vpn/).

DDG will return results in a fraction of a second, just like Google. My VPN reduces my internet speeds by around 2%, so it isn't noticeable in any way.

Most recent comparisons now put Firefox as faster and less resource intensive than Google Chrome, with all the added benefits of increased security and privacy. Google Chrome is spyware.

HTTPS Everywhere. But this is a security improvement - it does nothing for your privacy.

Everything you've listed still isn't enough to make you anonymous online. Your VPN provider can still see all your traffic and your real IP. If you really want anonymity, then you need to be looking at Tor.

There are a lot of things on that blog post which they are painting as an advantage to their wallet which I see as distinct disadvantages. I don't want my seed stored online, even if it is split in to "shards", and I definitely don't want it stored by a third party on my behalf and sent over a likely unencrypted email. This is less secure, not more, as they seem to be suggesting.

Biometrics are very poorly secure, and shouldn't be used.

The Yubikey is simply the decryption key. The encrypted and decrypted private keys are still stored on the mobile device, and so are accessible by malware, as opposed to a hardware wallet where the keys never leave the secure element.

Mobility isn't an issue that needed solved like they have made it out to be, since most hardware wallets are mobile compatible.

It says the wallet is linked to an exchange. Do you have to undergo KYC to use it? Massive privacy invasion if you do, and the risk of funds being locked by unannounced KYC requirements if you don't.

As we commonly see, they have tried to solve problems which don't exist and made their wallet less secure/private in the process.

Those are your only two options, pretty much. You can try other exchanges, but you will still end up paying huge amounts in fees, even if slightly less than what you are paying currently.

Downloading, verifying, and installing Electrum (for example) can be done in less than 10 minutes, even if you don't know how to verify files and have to follow the step by step guide. Another 10 minutes and you can have set up a new wallet and have your seed phrase backed up on paper. Once you are sending from your own wallet, you'll only be paying a few cents per transaction instead of several dollars. 20 minutes to save $60 seems worth it to me.

TMAN is right, and I would report that post if I came across it in a thread. It is little more than "Great project", just padded out in to a couple of lines. Don't fall in to the trap of thinking that a longer post automatically means it is more useful or less likely to be deleted.

The post doesn't add any new information to the thread. There is nothing in that post which will stimulate a discussion, and there is nothing for another user to reply to other than to simply agree. Why are they your favorite coin? What goals specifically do you want to see? What resources are you worried they are going to waste, what will they waste them on and why?

Imagine reading your post as someone else. Would reading that post give you some new knowledge or something to think about? No.

As much as I hate suggesting leaving your coins on an exchange for any length of time, if you are only going to be buying 5 bucks worth of BTC at a time, then withdrawing every 5 bucks separately is going to cost way too much in exchange fees. You'd be better off leaving your coins on the exchange until you have $30 or more and then withdrawing all at once. Another option would be to save your fiat up until you have $30 and then buy the BTC all at once. Either of these options will also prevent you from having a wallet filled with multiple small UTXOs which will cost you more fees to consolidate in the future.

Alternatively, avoid the exchanges altogether and trade peer-to-peer on this forum or a DEX, and then there is no withdrawal fee.

Moderators' time is limited, and the mountain of spam and other rule breaking posts they have to deal with endless. Even a couple of extra seconds spent on each report to either select a reason from a drop down menu or enter one in a free text box would massively slow down how many reports they could get through, and the users who would actually pay attention to the reasons and change their behavior are few and far between.

The vast majority of posts are deleted because they are either off-topic or do not add any new or useful information to the discussion. I think it's probably safe to assume this applies in 99% of cases.

Are you sure you are seeing all the user in question's posts? If you have any sections on ignore, then posts made in these sections will not be visible to you on the user's "Recent posts" page. I'm thinking in particular about the local boards, which many users have on ignore and some campaigns pay for.

If this isn't the case, then it's up to the manager to stop paying them and there is nothing anyone else can do. Contact the manager directly.

I think it's more about profits for the bookmaker.

Everyone understands what "0-0" means. Fewer people understand what "Under 0.5" means. So they offer worse odds on "0-0" knowing that newbie gamblers will bet on that, and they can make some more profits.

It's the same with Asian Handicaps. Lots of people don't understand Asian Handicaps, so other bets with the same outcome will have worse odds so the bookmaker can make more profit. For example "+0.5 Asian Handicap", "Double Chance" and "1X" all mean the same thing, but the Asian Handicap will almost always have the best odds. Similarly, "+0.0 Asian Handicap" is the same as "Draw No Bet", but again, the Asian Handicap will likely have the better odds. The majority of betters will select the markets with the worse odds and give more profit to the bookmaker because they don't understand the other markets.

The full changelog for Firefox 70.0 is viewable here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/70.0/releasenotes/. All these changes were previously achievable with various add-ons and setting tweaks, but it is a welcome addition that they are now included as standard with the basic Firefox browser.

Chrome, in the meantime, instead of also trying to block unwanted cookies and trackers, have released a statement saying that blocking trackers is bad because then how else will websites make profits from selling your data and how else will advertisers be able to build a profile about you to target you with specific ads? It's ok though, they are working on new methods that will steal slightly less of your data than current methods.

The gap between Firefox and Chrome is now so large that it is ridiculous for anyone who cares even remotely about privacy to use Chrome.

So why not just reset your root password?

Restart your computer and hold down shift until the GRUB menu appears.
From the GRUB menu, select "Recovery mode".
From the new menu, select "Drop to root shell prompt".
Input the following to grant write access to the root partition:
Input the following to reset the password, replacing "username" with the username of the account needing reset:
You will be prompted to input a new password twice. Once you have done so, type "exit" and then select "Resume normal boot".

You can then install Electrum, import your blockchain seed, and sign a message as you need.

I'm not aware of any web wallet which allows you to sign a message. A workaround would be to download both https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ and https://brainwalletx.github.io/ to an airgapped machine, input your seed phrase from blockchain.com in to iancoleman, pull the private key for the address you want to sign a message with, and put that in to brainwallet to sign a message. I wouldn't recommend doing this unless you can do it on a separate computer which you can guarantee will be permanently airgapped (i.e. never have an internet connection). It doesn't sound like you have another device available, so this method would be a bad choice for you.

Whilst I've never left a "nice guy" feedback, I can understand why some users do. The feedback guidelines simply state "You think that this person is unlikely to scam anyone". They don't state that a trade has to have been made or that that you have to have risked anything to the person in question. Thinking someone is friendly, helpful, and a "nice guy" very much correlates with thinking that person is unlikely to scam. Given that theymos has previously stated that it is fine to leave ratings about a person in general which are not linked to a trade, then while you can decide you don't place much faith in these kind of ratings, I don't think we can argue that users shouldn't leave them at all.

As I've previously argued for, I would be in favor of requiring a net of 2 inclusions from DT1 to become DT2, rather than the current 1. It would cut the number of DT2s by several hundred (from the current number of 457), and would result in far fewer of these "single feedback" issues which you describe.

If you don't want those pictures to start appearing as an avatar campaign, I suggest you send 1 BTC to the usual place...

Don't know about that. I've observed it several times.

I really don't follow your comment.

Not reusing addresses is good for privacy, but it doesn't do anything for your security or protect against your keys being compromised.

Even if everyone in the world generates thousands of new addresses each day, we won't even get through a tiny fraction of a single percent of all new addresses before the death of the universe.

The only difference in fee between addresses is if you are using legacy, nested SegWit, or native SegWit. There is no difference in fee whether it's the first transaction from a new address or the ten thousandth transaction from a 10 year old address.

I debunked your nonsense suggestion twice. Read both my posts above.

Now, since you failed to meet my challenge and debunk my posts above without simply throwing around insults, I trust you will follow through with your own logic and undergo a self inflicted ban for a period of 6 months. I'll be treating you as if you have.

I did. Read my post above.

You want to be free to spout out nonsense without punishment, but you want other people to be punished for calling you out on your nonsense. Completely hypocritical, and to continue to demand the moderators give you special treatment to the detriment of everyone else is trolling.

Now, rather than trolling with little more than childish insults, please clearly debunk my reasoning. Failure to do so should result in you being banned, by your own logic.

Furthermore, "your" address on the exchange isn't your address at all, just an address they have assigned to you to deposit, and the bitcoin you have deposited to that address have almost certainly been swept to the exchange's main central wallet (you can verify this by putting the address in to a block explorer and seeing that it likely has a balance of zero). There is little point trying to "prove" that an exchange address is yours via signing a message since you don't actually control it in any way, and the exchange can assign you a new one at any time, as well as potentially even reassigning the old one to someone else (unlikely, but some exchanges have done stupider things in the past).

It will be impossible to sign any exchange address, regardless of whether it starts with "1", "3", or "bc1". You can only sign addresses you control. If you want to be able to sign a message from an address you control, then you will need to set up your own wallet - I would suggest electrum.org.

It's not impossible, it's just that there isn't an accepted standard for doing so across all wallets.

Some wallets such as Electrum will let you sign and verify messages with both P2SH ("3" addresses) and Bech32 ("bc1" addresses). The only quirk is that you probably need to verify any message using the same client as the person who signed it, as different clients may be implementing different methods of signing (since there is no accepted standard), and so a different client may wrongly reject a correctly signed message.

Your trolling is going unpunished, so why should people calling out your trolling be any different?

Your entire post because you want other people punished for calling out your trolling, which is a pretty troll worthy thing to suggest.

Simply being incorrect is not the same as trolling.