Yep. Good news!
Still, Hodlonaut is also sued in UK by CSW. That case too should (hopefully soon) closed/dismissed.

Plus, I think that there are still Bitcoin devs whose cases need to be closed.


All in all, it's steps in (finally!) the right direction, but it's not all over yet.

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While I agree that ETF was already felt, imho that market is by far not yet saturated.
Some may even give the example of gold (i.e. a lot of years), but nowadays the things move much faster. Still not just months.

I recommend you search the forum with the post search from https://ninjastic.space
And related to asking, it all depends. I see some prefer you continue here. My take is one topic per (new) thread, else people answering you once in a thread may miss the newer questions and may believe that they've covered it in the past.

As said, it matters more to be offline than whether it's started or not.
I will add that in theory a hardware wallet should (absolutely) never send out the seed and just sign the transaction they should. Of course, in reality Ledger decided "heck with that", sadly.


There are hardware wallets that work completely offline and transfer information only via images.
You should take a look at 55 Hardware Wallets, compared feature by feature
Getting those open source and 100% airgapped should be a good step forward.

Also, if you consider them expensive and are you sure you can generate a proper seed by throwing dices (but beware, it's not as easy as you'd think, please read the topics on the matter in this forum) you can add for example SeedSigner to your list.


Because if it's closed source there can be literally anything in that code, including, as Ledger has shown, the possibility to extract the seed. Or the seed generator can be flawed (intentionally or not) and the seed is from a narrow set and can be found by brute force. Or... really sky is the limit.

This being said... well, sorry to say, but "you know nothing, Jon Snow".
Imho mixers have their use for people more privacy conscious than you.

Of course, my initial part was a bit harsh, some points you posted are real and known. You don't (ever!) know for what is behind a centralized service, including mixers and imho CoinJoin coordinator too. Heck, even Electrun servers are spying on us nowadays.

But for some, taking a risk is necessary. I still remember a post from somebody who was struggling to hide his coins from somebody hollowing every move in his wallet and threatening him. Would you still consider a mixer bad in such a case?

Yes, there's always a risk that some idiots may consider those coins of you "tainted", a risk some are willing to take and some not. But the fact they may be govt honeypots?! Well, if the govt is after you... you better start using proper privacy coins instead of mixers... (and not because mixers would be honeypots!!)

As already said, learnmeabitcoin.com is a good start.
I advise you play around on testnet as much as you can and... start asking here exact, specific questions. You'll get answers (some better than others) and directions. I think that this is the most realistic way to move forward.

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I think that CPFP should also be in the list.

And, as some have also mentioned, cold storage is a must. And it can be done easily with an USB stick and a Tails OS, no need to anything more fancy.

Adding extra words after a seed could be also interesting. Maybe also multi-sig.

And back to things I didn't see suggested: the derivation paths may worth a close look too.
Also people learning how to use a block explorer - for fees, for checking whether a tx has unconfirmed parents and how far, maybe other things too - is a must.
Dust amounts, transaction size and its cost based on size, or coin control are also useful topics.

I see OP has asked the same question in many places, to make all the discussion even more confusing (even for himself).
I will cross-post my answer:

OK, you misunderstood the bitcoin wallets, so let me try to explain.
The bitcoins are not in a bitcoin wallet. Ever. They are (let's say it simple) on the blockchain.
The wallet only holds the KEYS to the bitcoins. The key to spend them, more exactly. Only who has the correct keys for certain bitcoins can spend them (send them away).
And yes, the wallet helps you do certain operations with your keys - usually this means facilitating the spending.

So, if 2 hardware wallets have the same seed will generate the same keys and any of them can be used to spend.
If somebody else will get the seed he will spend/send away all the bitcoins (that can be spent by your keys, so "your" bitcoins) so you no longer have access to them, no matter how many hardware wallets you hold.

Clearer?

Clipboard malware is amongst us for quite some years. People should read a little, really, else their money can go away very fast.
The easiest way to handle it is to simply double check the address you paste vs the address you've copied. Full check, not only the first and last few characters, since there are some smarter versions too that try to make look alike vanity addresses.

And about using an old phone, it's not the best idea. Just read this old thread: Old phone as cold storage?
The thing is that you cannot be 100% sure the phone is indeed airgapped.


If you are on a PC or laptop, even historically "not that safe/secure" OS like Windows will do, as long as the device will remain always airgapped.
The thing is that you better use an OS you're familiar with, so you don't make extra mistakes and also never (!) ever go online with the airgapped device, even for a second.

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I'd say it greatly depends on how you look at it.
Technically I think that we can consider halving priced in, but then we trivialize/almost ignore the buying pressure coming from ETFs.
And of course, if we take only ETF into account, then we can say that halving is not priced in.
I'd say the truth is somewhere in the middle and neither halving, not ETF are fully priced in, hence the price will keep rising.
Just don't expect miracles in the halving day. Maybe blatant market manipulation, but that's also uncertain.


PS. This may be more appropriate for speculation, don't you think?