Yep. But not because you have a hardware wallet it doesn't mean you should backup the recovery seed. Like most people said, the hardware wallet can be damaged. I think I have seen a few posts on Reddit in the past about people messing up their hardware wallet while doing an update; with them losing their funds because they didn't do a proper recovery seed backup.

Regardless if you actually frequently use your hardware wallet or not, even though if it's just locked up somewhere, it will still deteriorate, just as most electronics. Because of multiple things like moisture and such, that could potentially be huge factors in rendering your hardware wallet useless sometime in the future.

Anyway, people don't purchase and use hardware wallets for lifetime storage anyway. You have paper and or steel sheets for that purpose. People buy hardware wallets to be able to send funds with minimum risk of exposing the private keys.

I really douby the 2.39BTC was actually stolen. The address shown may be the site owner's personal wallet. If this website is only being spread out through Twitter, I doubt it would get any significant traction. I refuse to think that people still click some random link from some random Twitter account even now in 2019.

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EDIT: I've tried the website just to test. Not saying that this site is legit, but it seems to be showing the correct QR code(both the QR code displayed, and the QR code downloaded) as the address I've entered. Only tried it once though.

Though market-maker bots sure does help a lot in terms of liquidity, how are you going to achieve being an actual "decentralized" exchange if you're going to use one though? Or do you mean more of a non-custodial exchange like the Binance "DEX"?

Are you referring to this article of theirs? https://medium.com/aurora-dao/idex-token-listing-guidelines-eae00785fdd2

If you've followed their criteria in the article and you still weren't qualified to get listed, then chances are, that your project probably simply isn't enough for their standards. Also, how long were you waiting for a listing?

"If your token is not listed within two weeks of submission, it is safe to assume you did not meet our listing criteria at the time of review." -from the same article

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P.S. The Beginners & Help section might not be a good subforum to post this.

I mean, what do you expect from a competitor? They have the financial incentive to trash on their competitors regardless if it's a direct competitor or not. It's the same as Peter Schiff trashing on bitcoin because he has a gold selling business.

About the price fluctuations, well, bitcoin is a 10 year old asset. Of course it's going to be volatile. It doesn't take a genius to understand that.

If you only need to solely run Binance alone with no other program or app that's going to need good hardware, then you're probably fine with that model. Just take note that you wouldn't probably get that laptop working for other more resource-hungry stuff like gaming.

I was going to suggest Jaxx but I remember a lot of security issues with Jaxx in the past as well. Probably Trust Wallet[1]? I really only know 3 multi-coin mobile wallets. I suggest doing research about Trust Wallet first though. It's sort of affiliated with Binance if I remember correctly.

As always though, if you're holding big amounts, grabbing a hardware wallet is always heavily recommended.

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[1] https://trustwallet.com/

To get a laptop or a desktop depends on your setup. If you're good with one screen, then a laptop would probably do. But if you prefer multiple screens with multiple charts open simultaneously, then probably buy a decent desktop or a good laptop with good specs and good thermals.

Unnecessary unless you're in a country whereas certain exchange sites are banned.

Definitely not McAfee LOL. Malwarebytes + built in Windows defender is enough for me. or better, go with a Linux operating system.

This is heavily subjective. Some people prefer Windows, some prefer OSX. Choose what you prefer using.

I mean, it should be different for each person. One thing is for sure though, I think mostly what makes people interested in bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in general, is the possibility of making money.

If were talking about like people that came in on..:
2015-2016, probably mostly people that are trying to make money through faucets.
2017, probably people who became interested mostly due to the money that could be made by investing in ICOs and or random hyped coins/tokens.
2018, probably ICOs also? Most likely a mix of everything.

Just my 2 satoshis. Personally, I became interested when I dove deeper after reading about the Bitfinex hack on Reddit.

Their numbers are definitely questionable. Also, take note that if they're actually using BitGo to store their funds, wouldn't that be a huge potential problem security wise?

Honestly if I would make some loans through a certain blockchain project, I'd personally go with Maker[1]. I've been following the project for a while and it looks like they're doing well. Also, everything's transparent! I think it has a different system compared to Celsiusnetwork though.

Hope this reply doesn't look like a shill.

EDIT: forgot to mention. They currently just accept ETH as collateral. No BTC for now.

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[1] https://makerdao.com/

Shady as heck. Walang such thing as "revert" unless.. may access rin sila dun sa wallet ng receiver. If so, kung ma-"revert" man nila ung transaction, ibig sabihin wallet rin lang nila ung pinadalhan? Very very shady.

Kabayan. I've been in the bitcoin and cryptocurrency space for like 3 years already and I've never heard of this "Bitstring Wallet". It's a less known wallet and not to mention that it's CLOSED SOURCE. I'm not saying na scam yang wallet na yan, but I personally wouldn't trust it.

If you have funds remaining on your Bitstring wallet, GET THEM OUT. Use a reputable wallet like Mycelium instead. Or if you were to trust a custodial wallet anyway(with username and password instead of a recovery seed), leave it on Coins.ph instead.

Why do you think so? One of the biggest advantages of bitcoin is to have financial freedom and sovereignty. Why would it be against what SN "stood for"? It's his money. He should be able to do whatever he wants with it(yes, even drop every single one of the BTC he has on the markets, though I doubt it), regardless of what the effect on the market is. It's not like it would kill bitcoin. It would only drop/crash the price. But who cares? Unless you're only here to make money short-term, then it shouldn't matter that much.

Quite shady from the wallet's side. Mind telling us kung anong wallet mismo ung ginamit mo? From your statements alone mukhang nasa sending wallet ung issue. Hopefully open source ung ginamit mo OP, and not FreeWallet.

Not really a "trading group" per se, but a sort of subforum or "subreddit". If I needed a bit of opinions from the people concerning the bitcoin markets, I use r/bitcoinmarkets[1]. I personally really don't like using Telegram groups as most are spam-filled and or shady.

But as always, take every opinion with a grain of salt. Don't make your decisions solely from other people's opinions.

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[1] https://reddit.com/r/bitcoinmarkets

Yikes. That's what you call unlucky.

Anyway, you might be able to prove that you're actually the sender by signing a message using the address you used to send the BTC, or probably by sending 1 satoshi. Try contacting the website's support and hopefully they could help you. Just hope that they still have access to the recovery seed they gave you.

Though I agree mostly, it really really depends. Sometimes, just selling immediately could end up better for you; when the prices are going nosedive for instance. You could simply sell and buy back lower at a certain percentage. This question by OP simply doesn't have a binary answer.

It depends. It's completely up to you if you want to wait for your offer to be filled or you should just change your price target. That's the reason why I really suggest against doing trading for most people in the first place, especially if you have no idea on what you're doing. In the end, even though you can use TA and or FA to get stuff slightly in your favor, there's still no way to make sure what's going to happen in the markets.

Hence I always heavily suggest that you do something else instead that could be sort of "productive" for you.

If you're planning on creating your own gambling/casino site, it's a lot more than simply looking for a script. Trust me. If you don't have the capital for advertising and the security of your system? You're bound to fail in the end.