Let me get this straight: you have Bitcoin at one address and you want to take away your own ability to spend it? Because a watch-only address as far as I know is an address that is not yours and you import it to monitor activity.

If that's the case, I guess the best way would be to create another wallet without that address and import it as watch-only but ultimately you would be able to spend it.

It would be nice if you could explain why you want to do this as an internet search indicates it is used as a scam:

https://medium.com/blockchain/the-truth-about-watch-only-addresses-c9708b5b892

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/21jh2i/attention_blockchaininfo_people_are_scamming/

We're still at it? The detrimental effects of Covid on the population have been worse than they could have been because you conspiracy assholes have refused to put on masks and get vaccinated.

65.7% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
11.76 billion doses have been administered globally, and 7.36 million are now administered each day.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

And you're still coming up with this bullshit.

How do you know that the president of El Salvador has not disseminated information one way or another to explain what BTC is? Do you live there?

I would be surprised if he hadn't done something.  Another thing is that much of the population still sees it as a strange and volatile thing, no matter how much you explain it to them, and also the price behavior since the adoption of BTC has not helped. If the price had gone up and today it was 5 times higher, it would have a lot more followers there.

I had an argument with a guy on the forum who defended precisely that, he insisted on belittling those countries for being poor and belittling the effect that the adoption of BTC could have in those countries of low GDP. Isn't it the most normal thing that it is precisely those countries that are interested in BTC? I think it is quite normal and welcome every small country that wants to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.

But if you talk about cryptocurrencies you seem to be including the nearly 20,000 altcoins which are not worth HODLing.

Yes sure, you just keep HODling "crypto currency" like Terra Luna and all the cryptocurrencies that have disappeared or are worth almost zero that you will do very well.

The only thing worthwhile HODLing is BTC.

Yes, let's agree that this is not a debate, or at least what would ideally be a debate, because if you insist on lying to pretend to be right what you are doing is to give a speech instead of debating.

And here, again, you are misrepresenting. You were the one who started despising those countries and what I said is that it is normal that those countries are the ones who are interested and not the countries with the highest GDP. From there you started to misrepresent exaggerating and twisting my argument and wanting to put the burden of proof on me, when the nonsense was said by you.

I refer to statements such as this one:


And you keep on giving a speech (not debating) with bullshit like this with which you pretend to be right:


You are still in primary school, right? Do I have to explain to you that the important thing is not what you save in one transaction but in the total of all transactions per year?

Bukele has said that these innovations will save Salvadorans $400 million annually in remittance fees.

https://blockworks.co/el-salvador-bitcoin-wallet-could-disrupt-traditional-remittance-markets/

I don't know how the issue will be in real numbers today but at least that's what he said.

LMAO, yes and I also know what a rhetorical question is. To misrepresent by asking such a question you'd better make the statement directly, as you seem to be afraid to state it.


No you didn't. You have changed and exaggerated what I said as I explained in the previous post. I'm fine with you changing what I say and saying what you want about it but then don't address me as if you want to refute me.


You wanted a debate, didn't you? Then we'll have a debate.

What do you think? That because I'm smaller than you I'm going to shut up? A debate is not about what you say, a debate is about contributing relevant ideas and exchanging opinions even if you don't agree with them but if you base it on strawman, rhetorical questions and basically playing the pimp then there is no debate, what you are basically doing is barking.

A country like the US, which has a currency that is the reserve currency of the world, has much more to lose than to gain if it considers BTC as a legal currency because it loses the power of currency control, but poor countries, like those mentioned above, have little to lose because their currency is worthless and if they adopt BTC they can attract investments, for example and, as in the case of El Salvador, save money in remittance commissions.

In the case of El Salvador, it did not even have its own currency and used the dollar, as happens in many other countries, which, in some cases, keep their currency but nobody wants it and the dollar is used a lot instead. Well, to use the dollar, of which you do not have the power (as the US does), it is better to bet on BTC, even if it is a risk, as mk4 said.

Is that clear to you? Because you have been on the forum for a long time, I am not going to let you bully me.

Great strawman. Neither have I said that it will "save" anything, nor have I spoken of radical economic change. And no, I don't feel like having a debate with you that doesn't look like it would be a calm one.


Yes

I don't know if you were expecting the 44 richest countries in the world to meet to consider making BTC legal tender in their countries. It is obvious that those most interested are those who potentially have the most to gain in exchange for losing control with a decentralized currency.

Hey guys!

In case anyone is reading this and is doubting whether to PM him to make money, I want to make one thing clear:

Someone who promises you an easy way to double your money is scamming you.

Please do not fall into the trap.

What fee did you use?

Why don't you put the TXID in mempool.space or another block explorer and see? I think that would be the best way, if it tells you that the transaction does not exist, it is a glitch, otherwise congratulations.

I say this because you say it seems to have been transmitted to the mempool according to Bitcoin Core, and it may be waiting for confirmation.

And how would you be able to guess that the bottom was $3.2K? The point is that we are in a buying zone and if you have good capital you don't have to spend it all in one purchase, you can divide it in several. Going with your 2018 example, someone who had $10K to invest at that time could have divided it into 4 purchases, starting at $5K, because it was clear that was not going to go down much more than $5K, while guessing where the exact bottom is is impossible.

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And you should have to have read few posts above to see that he didn't deposit any money, but that someone paid him by giving him access to that account, which sounds even more scammy.

You won't get anything out of writing to the support of a scam site. Forget about it and try to get paid what you are owed with another method. Although I think the one who supposedly paid you is a scammer too and you're not going to get anything out of it.

Having to deposit 0.01 BTC to withdraw $7,000 is too risky. Apart from the fact that it is too clear that it is a scam. Contact the guy who supposedly "paid" you with that account and tell him to pay you another way, although I'm afraid you're not going to get paid anyway.


Yes that is clear but it depends on who is asking you, as I've said. That's why I was asking him who was asking him that. In certain casinos they only let you withdraw by a method if you have deposited with that method, so there are cases where depositing is not a scam. In this case it is very clear that it is a scam.

It doesn't look good to me. How much are you supposed to have available to withdraw?

I guess the problem lies with the person who supposedly "paid" you by giving you access to that account. It sounds like a scam and that website sounds like a scam too, apart from the fact that an internet search already points to it.

Could you elaborate on who is asking you to do this? It sounds like a scam, but it also depends on the amount. If you want to withdraw 1 BTC and they ask you to deposit a minimum of 0.0001 BTC it doesn't sound so bad, depending on who is asking you.

If it's something you've supposedly "won" like a lottery prize, it's a scam, and there have been a number of them around here recently.

1 confirmation already.

According to mempool.space it should be confirmed in less than 20 minutes, but if next blocks take long to confirm and in the meantime a lot of high fee transactions are sent, it will take longer. So it can change, in fact, the first time I looked at it, it said less than 10 minutes, or the next block.