Se pare ca iau avant aceste campanii de recenzii. Eu unul abia mai tin pasul.

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Este o campanie a cazinoului Betnomi, care plateste (indirect) 50 de recenzii de minim 1000 cuvinte fiecare, 0.001BTC pentru fiecare recenzie (una/persoana, fara conturi alternative, Full/Sr/Hero/Legendary).
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Plata se face la sfarsit.

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Am mai gasit un concurs.

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Organizatorul este cineva foarte nou. Nu sunt sigur daca va da premiul.
Inscrierea se face postand o adresa de bitcoin.
Premiul ar fi 50$ in BTC, extragerea va fi in data de 24, iar alte reguli nu sunt, nici legate de conturi noi si multiple, nici despre cum va avea loc extragerea.
Am mai avut concursuri de astea, nu trebuie sa ne facem mari sperante, dar pe de alta parte, nu e mare lucru sa postam o adresa si sa vedem ce se intampla.

Concurs incheiat.

Ma bucur!
Ale mele inca nu au plecat din State (la cererea mea). Asa o sa am premiul acesta, si cel de la MJ si ce o mai fi si prin primavara (cred) o sa il rog pe MJ sa mi le trimita.


Eu la cardul Ballet de anul trecut am platit 10$ si nu am avut vama.
Din experienta mea cu AliExpress stiu ca depinde pe unde si cum intra coletul in UE. Daca intra prin Ungaria cred (nu sunt sigur) ca e mai laxa situatia si poti scapa fara vama de platit.


CRP este moneda acelui ecosistem. Inca un altcoin. Bine ca macar nu platesc in CRP.
Nu am o saptamana prea stralucita, asa ca o sar pe asta... Oricum, multumesc.

It's open source. But that doesn't make it safe. You never have to trust what you find running online.
This being said, Ian Coleman's page also has, at its end, link for getting the files for offline usage. And if you get those, and use them offline, on a system with no persistence or which you'll wipe (not just delete) afterwards, then you're pretty much OK.
And even so, if you are paranoid enough (which is not a bad thing) you'll read that the random used by such scripts may not be that good. And this may or may not be a problem. 99% of the cases it isn't.

Is this the answer you were looking for?

Indeed, for such large amount, even sending with a "huge fee" of a dollar or two (or even ten!) it still makes more sense to send on-channel.


Me neither, and it's known that scammers do make up complicated wording to confuse users (I don't know if it's the case, but it seems to be).


If one requires money from you in order to send you your money... that's 99.9999999999% sure a scam.
Just think: what on earth they need that money for?!


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Is that company some HYIP or cloud mining you've invested in and now you want to get your winnings?

If you know (big) parts of it, it can maybe be brute-forced.
But how it comes you've just forgot the whole password? Maybe you can find it/recover more of it before trying more with the wallet?

Maybe you know the password, but it's just not working anymore? That can easily happen when you change keyboard layout (somebody I know had recently a similar surprise too).

Well, on this same page there's also the account Coldkey, also (according to the trust feedback) acknowledged as alt of yogg.
It's an account inactive since 2021, but who knows, maybe yogg finds the credentials on another forgotten USB stick...

Since there was even mining in ads, I am surprised people still don't use ad blockers (especially ublock origin).
I think that it's only Chrome for Android that doesn't allow extensions/uBlock origin, but one can just install Firefox then.

Ah, and if one knows that he will ever click on an Ad or unsafe website, then he must have his funds on a (properly set up) hardware wallet.
Oh well, mishaps like this are good advertising for what one should learn to do at very least in 2023 in the world of crypto and internet.

...Ehee.. sa nu te astepti la asta prea curand. Poate ca intr-o zi cu soare m-oi apuca... Dar nici nu ma deranjeaza daca incerci tu si vezi ce iese...


Nu tin neaparat sa fiu eu Gica Contra, dar de atunci bitcointalk a trecut prin cel putin un hack, deci nu poate fi exclus sa fi gasit contul.. prin vreo baza de date sau ceva
Plus, cineva interesat de bitcoin asa de mult poate linistit sa aiba cateva sute (!) de bitcoini undeva pe fundul sacului si sa nu-i mai pese de noi, muritorii de rand
Oricum, nu prea conteaza, cel putin de cand s-a introdus meritele. @sciborg: iti recomand totusi sa te asiguri ca ai o parola suficient de sigura si de noua la cont.

I can clearly say that I am happy for you. Well, I am also happy to see the trend looks good again. It's a nice feeling, but I am also a bit wary because we're not out of the danger zone yet.
What I want to say is that you should not care so much about this small and short movements. Look on long term charts. The price can continue to go up or can go down again (and can even become scarily low, depending on the price one bought), but that doesn't mean we have to be overly affected by these movements. Again, it's only a couple of days of moving up; that's not much, not yet.
So: keep your cool, don't be neither overly confident, nor depressed by the price movements. Or at least don't take financial decision based on such short-time movements

Eii, noi se fim sanatosi. Ar fi fost pe gratis, nu? Altii au dat bani si tot n-au primit nimic. Nu ma plang.


Data trecuta s-a sincronizat mai bine (sau s-au aliniat mai bine astrele) si am apucat un week-end gol pentru recenzie.
Acum... nu am apucat nici in week-end sa ma uit, aproape sigur ca nu apuc nici azi, noroc ca am la dispozitie o saptamana... 

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Am mai vazut o campanie de recenzii la un cazinou, dar nu am inteles clar ce vor de la sufletul nostru (poate ca sunt mai lent azi), asa ca nici nu m-am inscris, nici nu o sa dau mai multe detalii aici. Daca doresti tu sa dai mai multe detalii, nu ma deranjeaza.

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Actually the arrest was some more time (weeks!) ago.
If we want to link the pump with FTX, a newer update was that SBF has found some $5 billion of the FTX money "in his back pocket" (about 1 week ago).


While some of the politicians and media he was paying would like him stay out and pump more money, the bitcoiners know that
* he ran something between fractional reserve and plain Ponzi scam
* he most probably did scam
* he most probably deserves prison time

Even more, bitcoiners know that
* bitcoin reputation was affected only in the eyes of those who have absolutely no clue about bitcoin
* if people would keep their money in their own custody, this kind of crap would have no fuel to happen

Pai compromisul, asa-zisul "consesnsus" este rege. Asta este democratia in cel mai pur sens. Chiar nu inteleg unde este problema. Vrei sa vina vreun auto-intitulat "sef" sa ia deciziile?! Uite ce a facut Vitalik din ETH cu trecerea la PoS si acum are centralizare si cenzura, uite ce a facut CSW de poate sa vina sa confiste banii oricui la el pe tarla... Nu, multumesc!
Consensul minerilor (legat de ce este considerat corect pentru blockchain) este chiar parte in white-paper-ul bitcoin...


De fapt nu. Chiar nu ai dreptate. Ca ultima data minerii au dorit SegWit2x si ... utilizatorii nu au fost de acord, deci nu au avut castig de cauza.
Iar in rest... nu inteleg "problema" pe care o vezi tu. Mineri trebuie sa existe, ca ei asigura si tranzactiile sa fie procesate, si securitatea sa ramana foarte sus.
Cati mineri... asta este o problema de pret si profitabilitate...
Deci pana la urma, mineri fericiti poate sa insemne inclusiv pret mare al Bitcoin.
Nu inteleg ce probleme vezi tu, si cumva am impresia ca te astepti sa-ti citim gandurile (de unde si discutiile contraproductive si in contradictoriu de pana acum). Poate ne zici mai clar...


Pai a deschis portile pentru LN. Pentru cei care doresc sa folosesca Bitcoin cu sume mici si sa-si plateasca rapid o cafa, de exemplu, este un mare pas inainte.
Pentru tine, care nu ai nevoie sau pur si simplu stai cramponat in niste idei (inca nu mi-e clar care este cazul), nu e mare pas inainte. Pe de alta parte, nu stiu la ce pasi inainte realisti te poti astepta.
(Si te rog sa nu spui nici de blocuri mai mari, nici de timpi mai scurti, ca au fost dezbatuite si ras-dezbatute si nu sunt viabile.)


Este alegerea ta. Din punctul meu de vedere este superb ca exista variante de unde sa aleaga omul (chiar daca unele softuri de portofel ii indruma automat spre SegWit pe cei care nu stiu diferenta - dar nici asta nu e o problema).


E bine; macar nu trebuie combatuta si retorica alora (mai degraba toxica decat utila dpmdv).


Chiar as fi curios la ce te referi... Dar din ce am vazut UASF pare sa fie preferat; deci conteaza "vocea" utilizatorilor mai mult decat a minerilor.
Si sunt curios de aceste probleme SegWit, ca eu nu stiu de niciuna.

I would not be so sure about that


I wanted to write: one = myself  , but then I've seen there's already a debate about 0, so 0 it is.

Who you know by name on the internet, in a privacy focused forum?
Well, this is a simple question and the normal answer for many is expected to be 0, or at least very low.
Of course, in some few cases people got in here (or were invited in here by) family, co-workers/class mates or real life friends, but I expect there aren't so many such cases.

There are also few cases people from this forum have met IRL, sent collectibles to each other (although even postal address/name is not necessarily reliable) or have me at conventions/meetings.
But they're too few imho.
So, again, 10 is not too small number for such a barrier. It's okay... At least I'd be overly surprised if I'd see many responses in that "over 10" range.

Adica eu ii zic curierului ca imi duca coletul la Bucuresti, el mi-l duce la Iasi, dar eu sunt de vina el nu stie sa citeasca?! Buna asta.


Este o lume libera. Fiecare "merge pe" ce vrea. Daca tii neaparat sa continui sa folosesti Legacy, poti linistit.


Faptul ca tie nu iti convine, nu inseamna ca altora nu le convine. SegWit a deschis calea spre LN. Tu poti sa le folosesti (SegWit si LN) sau nu. Unii le folosesc, alti nu.
In plus: ai pornit vreun nod de Bitcoin Core sa "votezi" daca vrei sau nu schimbarea sau esti doar dintre cei care comenteaza despre vot, dar nu se duce?

Asta chiar arata interesant. Am venit la comp in mod special ca sa ma inscriu.
Multumesc!

No. Normally he should have destroyed those keys long ago. And he seems to have (at least) a gambling problem.
Imho the relevant posts are this, this and this.

It's an incredibly sad shit show. And the last post I've linked shows a tiny bit of its dimension, especially if you take it together with the number of posters in the first topic.
I am really really sorry for the loses of these guys 

After seeing people who have been using "cold storage" in a way it was "going online only to send out transactions", my current experience tells that HW is the current "good enough" option for the masses. And the rest can set up a cold storage properly, hopefully better than Luke did.

"where do you store the paper" <-- If you ever had a seed to store, you can answer this yourself. And if you didn't, you should use the search feature.
And I am curious: what would you recommend then if not hardware wallets?

As an update, I've just read this overly saddening topic from Krogoth hence I think that I may have been wrong and there may be other tx and more amounts that were stolen.

That's correct. Imho if one wants to keep that DYI like forever, then he loads it; else (or if unsure) it can just stay unloaded as a DYI "kit", no biggie.
Of course, a collectible that's not loaded doesn't also hold the bigger and bigger premium over time. But there are always pluses and minuses.

I think that's "only" these addresses:



Still, that's over half a BTC. Plus the premium lost for those beautiful collectibles... Plus the many who may have unpeeled more of their collectibles to check them