It's not just about greed, but about ignorance combined with poor English knowledge with the addition of something very important - some people blindly following some celebrities on social networks and they will do whatever what is required. Ponzi is an unknown term for them, therefore they can not even defend themselves from any kind of fraud.

These types of fraud are very easily feasible, you only need FB/Twitter account with name as much as possible similar to the original and coin address - then you just throw the bait in digital sea and catch digital fish. As long as there are possibilities, there will be the fraudsters who will exploit them.

There is a faster way to download full Nano blockchain, but it seems it is only for Windows 64 bit OS. I try it before and and it worked quite well, download time depends only on the speed of your internet. Here is link : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sP1z9S011f1W_0nK1KJ-UCJbjaNmk8GQ

I think I will skip to download full chain again, and will try with some light wallet, but just to send my Nano to Ledger finally. I guess Nanovault and Canoe in desktop version support importing of seed, any significant difference between them?

But if that scamer is using VPN/Tor or any other way to hide his IP address then this is also dead end.



Actually, in this case, it would be best to try play on the greed card option - in a way to send scamer new message from other FB profile and if he/she bite the hook then try to get some more info about them.

Story that you have problem with your wallet and need some help to recover few BTC could allure a thief from his hole...

Amazing things come to mind of today's teenagers, this is just another example as today's society shapes young people minds. First he take 1000$ from his father and make as he claim massive profit from that, but then because of the well known human greed in combination with the obvious ignorance he lost all the money. Idea that FBI solves his situation is really unrealistic, he is not USA citizen - and to acting terrorists is the stupidest thing he could do.

Not only he did lose money, now he is on India&USA black list as a potential threat - which means that there is no travel outside the country and his picture is probably on every USA airport and most of the world airports too.

What you should do is very simple, there is no need to complicate things. You send BTC from Electrum to Ledger Nano S and this is most important thing for you. That seed from Electrum is now all you need to claim BCH, and for that you can use Electron Cash wallet on the same device where you have Electrum. So just follow these steps :

- Download Electron Cash from this link : https://electroncash.org/
- Start installation - Standard wallet - I have seed - Insert seed from Electrum.
- Now you have BCH, and you can keep them in this wallet or send to Ledger Nano S.

In case you decide to send BCH to Ledger, keep in mind that any future fork of BCH will be connected with Ledger BCH address. That means you would need private key for that address in order to claim forked coin - or to wait Ledger add support for that coin in a way to allow split from BCH to some new BCH2.

For people who use Binance to trade, BNB is good choice - for two reasons. First is reducing the trading fees ( 25% discount ) and second is referral commission which is 40% if user hold a certain amount of BNB coins ( 500 BNB or more ).

Since Binance is one of the most famous crypto exchange and they are constantly evolving and expanding into new markets, their coin is for now looks like a very good investment. Of course that in the event of any larger problems for Binance their coin will go down, but in fact there is not even one crypto coin with 100% guaranteed success - and that goes for BTC also.

I'm not surprised with such stupid study, especially if we see where it comes from - University of Hawaii - probably the researchers spent too much time in the sun or have some serious problems with the brain. Even title is idiotic, they use term "trading" and probably think on mining power, so for them this is same process...

The fact is that total consumption of electricity consumed for crypto mining is less then 1% of the total annual consumption of electricity. With so little electricity consumption on a global scale claim that BTC trading (not mining) will cause a temperature rise of two degrees it's really stupid.

This site is actually a joke with such predictions, and I remember some of old predictions from this site who had been a complete failure. To rely on this kind of predictions really makes no sense and I think that most will agree with that. According to them, the biggest price in the next four years will be 33 000 $ in 2022, and with regard to how much is BTC advanced in its first ten years this is a very unrealistic price.

Of course, it should be mentioned that such predications do not take into account any good or bad events that may occur in the forthcoming period. If they were to be trusted then it would be best to sell our coins now since in next year they predict drop close to 3000$.

A great collection of crypto related links in one place, great for beginners, but also for those more experienced. I notice that you have links to cryptocurrency mining, we all know how this is work and that most of these sites are just scam projects. I also notice you not have any section for faucets, even some may say they are waste of time, but nothing more than cloud or browser mining sites, so I suggest one category for faucet lists.

Regarding making some income for your site, it is good decision to not use crypto ad networks since most of ads are advertise scam sites/projects, but I do not see why not use your ref links for exchanges or hardware wallets, or any other legit site. With such income you can improve your site and keep it ad free.

This thread is about long-term storage, and since you are just beginner you need something simple and for everyday use. I certainly recommend you to try Electrum for desktop and for smartphone, but be sure that your devices are clean from virus/malware threats, and that you download from official site.

Before installations I recommend you to read : https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ and then use this link to download Electrum for your OS : https://electrum.org/#download

I really can not find a connection between Buffett investing in StoneCo (Brazilian payments platform) and Paytm (Indian mobile payment platform) with any sign that he would invest in cryptocurrency. He has several times publicly expressed his opinion regarding BTC and I think this story should end back in 2014 when he say : "Stay away from it. It's a mirage, basically,"

We can all see how smart he was then when price was from 300$ to 700$, today is above 6000$ and it was 20 000 at the end of last year. How much profit a person is lost just because was listening WB? Let's take an example of a small investor who invest 3000$ and bought 10 BTC at the end of 2014, three years later the value of the investment was 200 000 $ - is that a mirage?

People like him can not refrain from such speculations, even though they make very bad prediction they do not give up  - so he is maybe idiot, but as we all know a very rich idiot. In times like this many so-called experts try to predict future of BTC, but it's just a game of them and the media - they get publicity and media make some money.

How many times Hayes will change his opinion in next 18 months?

With great certainty we can say that this is not just a coincidence, and that someone or something stands behind all these events. In other words, it is obviously manipulation with the sole purpose of greater coin accumulation, which will of course be sold at the moment of the new ATH.

BTC is almost always follow same path : accumulation/pump/correction and I think based on all what is presented that we are now in accumulation period. Price is fairly stable in last few months, but we've seen a few attempts which resulted with fall under 6000 $ for short time. In my opinion reason why price is so stabile is that most of weak hands emptied their bags, and real hodlers do not want to sell at this price.

For some BTC is only money factory, with one important difference - first want to make money on a daily / weekly basis, some others invest and wait for years. It is very likely that the paths of these two sides meet from time to time, perhaps in that moment comes to sudden falls or jumps in price.

I agree that financing of politicians and their parties should be completely transparent, but we all know that in most countries this is not the case. Maybe financing with BTC would not be as bad as it seems, because it is not entirely anonymous transactions. Solution would be that everyone can donate in cryptocurrency, but that transaction need to be publicly displayed with the name of the donor.

Some anonymous coins certainly should be excluded from donations, but if we want BTC to become serious currency at world level, then we should find a way for politicians to use it in the form of donations.

Some other people also share your thoughts when it comes to Tim Draper, but he is become very well known because of his accurate prediction back in 2014 that 1 BTC will reach the price of 10 000$ in next 3 years which of course happened. As far as we know he did not sell any coins after price go up to 20 000$, and as he said, he does not intend to sell.

You should know that it is not smart to put it in the same sentence bitcoin and impossible, four years maybe looks short time - but with the real development of events BTC could reach to 250 000$. Just remember last big pump, from 1000$ to 20 000$ in one year.

Tim Draper is give this prediction in April of this year, how can this be the news now? Calling him a crypto maniac who did not give up of what he said a few months ago is really pretty stupid considering his past predictions or business moves. Unlike some of the "experts" who change their thinking on monthly basis, Draper give only long-term prediction - and he holds on that.

How much will 1 BTC worth in 5-10 years we can only speculate, even Draper prediction is for 2022 which is 4 years from now.

There is a possibility for pre-orders, but deliveries beginning in mid-November so there is still no possibility of testing - I post that info in first post as quoted text - strange that you missed it...

Regarding only 3 coins which will be supported by this wallet I agree it is too small number considering that Ledger Nano S or Trezor now support hundreds of coins/tokens. But this hardware wallet is primarily made for users of blockchain.com online wallet, most of them only use BTC or ETH.

Now they have opportunity to protect their accounts from hacking/pishing for a certain price of the device. It would be much better move to invest that money in Nano S or Trezor, no doubt about it.

I fully agree that some of these prediction are not realistic for the beginning of the next year, but I think the majority of them was actually based on possible BTC ETF, and others are just speculating that something big could happen, although they do not know what that would be.

We all know that only one crazy month can push price two to three times up from where is it now, but I doubt that it could happen this year. For me personally 10 000 $ for the beginning of the next year would be quite nice price.

What else to expect after such big correction we have after last pump? That so-called experts are right with caution, they do not want to give some kind of wild speculations so that people can laugh at them after few months - especially if they do not have a basis for them.

But if you like to read some prediction for January 2019 by some experts here are some of them :




Read more : 16 Predictions for the Bitcoin Price from Industry Experts

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