By mistake, one of my friends formatted the hard drive partition (His intention was to format a flash-drive) that contains all his private files, including wallet backup files (not seeds), all files containing passwords and security codes that he uses on all platforms. Unfortunately, he does not have a backup copy of all the data except the seed words for his wallets which are hidden in a place that is currently inaccessible (family home in another country).

While I was asked for help, I wasn't able to provide accurate help as i didn't face the same issue before. Searching online, I found many recovery programs but there are no guarantees that any of them are reliable to handle with such sensitive data. (As i'm not a technical expert, i doubt that any software can send a copy of a possible recovered files to a third part).
I suggest him to start changing all his codes in platforms as he still has access to his emails (fortunetly located in a safe partition) and phone numbers used in registration. Sure this is so much time consuming but at least he can recover at least his accounts until finding a solution to recover the rest of the files (perso images, projects...).

The computer he uses is a Toshiba laptop that runs with Windows 8 (a version that has not been updated since 2020 and not even licence activated), and he formatted the partition [D:] using the NFTS(default) system.
To be sure, he did not format the entire disk, but only a secondary partition, not the main partition [C:].

My question is for the expert members about the most effective way to recover those files or about any reliable program that is available for free, because my friend does not have the ability to purchase paid softwares online.

I chose to publish here because I do not trust other forum platforms and because any suggestions will be useful to everyone here, given that these incidents are a common occurrence and not everyone is qualified to deal with them professionally, especially since most of us will avoid dealing with specialized service companies due to the sensitivity of the data that will be worked on.

Please do not share any suggestion that you are not sure of its effectiveness. It is best to make it based on your own experience/technical knowledge, because some mistakes may be fatal, whether a copy of the data will be stolen or may will be lost forever.

With the information I gathered about cryptocurrency, I had interest and decided to buy some coins.
Being fully aware of the volatility of these coins, I was patient and did not panic as their were various degrees of ups and down and was told that this year is the best time to invest in crytocurrency due to the bitcoin halving which has taken place. I have been watching my coins dropping everyday in value thereby inducing fear in me as the value of what I invested has been on the continuous decline.
I do not know how soon they will begin to rise again.
[/quote look if they have dropped upto a point that you have faced 80 percent loss into your investment then don't sell your coins. There is no point of recollecting your remaining assets because it'll remain in the portfolio. If you have bought some good coins then they'll continue to fluctuate up and down but they'll not completely be out of the game.

Maybe someday you can see these coins to rise up into the markets me you can recover your losses. On the other hand if your at a less loss then 50% then you can retrieve your investment only if your not confident.

People actually trade as a full time job and few of them are successful but the reality is that, it's not an easy path. Just as you mentioned, there is risk, stress and lot of challenges in trading profession. Some of these reasons you mentioned can be manageable during trading although they can not be sustainable for a long term but this no.2 caught my attention. I mean why would anyone continue to do something that stress them and doesn't even provide them with a good income? Who does that? Financial reward is the main reason why people trade and if the earnings are not coming, the motivation, passion and interest will definitely disappear.

We have to face the reality, trading may work out well for some people and they may probably make it their lifetime profession but it's not sustainable for everyone please.

Yes trading is risky Because selecting coins in trading is a very difficult task. We can only select Bitcoin for long term investment but other altcoins will not provide a strong holding opportunity like Bitcoin. So I think day trading with altcoins is better. Altcoins can make big returns quickly and also lose big quickly so it needs to be monitored constantly. And if there is some profit, the coins should be sold immediately to avoid further dumping.  Because altcoins are quickly pumped and dumped quickly

If your salary was not US dollars, but USDT, would you dare to ask for it? Although USDT can facilitate transfers and cross-border payments, thinking about the fluctuations and risks makes me feel a little panicked! It can’t be used everywhere in daily life, What do you think? Come and chat!

The bitcointalk forum is comprised of diverse people from all over the world. Our countries' must have gone through inflation as a nation at least once or more since its history. As a refresher, inflation happens when the prices of goods and services rise and people can no longer afford those items because the country's money almost becomes useless. But is inflation needed? Why can't we just keep the currency at the same value? And why does it only happen to money? For example, the same wouldn't happen if we used gold as a currency instead. Is inflation a ploy that the government uses so people don't get rich off of savings?

If you want the same price for a product in all countries, I think it will be very difficult to happen and even any government will not be able to implement it in the near future because each country has its own product price benchmark. Apart from that, the prices of imported goods and exported goods will also be different in terms of price because there are costs that must be borne by the party who imports certain goods from other countries into their own country.

So this will cause a slight difference in the price when marketed and goods dealers and goods distributors will also calculate the transportation costs they have to incur when marketing to every corner and country. That is why sometimes we find goods at slightly different prices in other places, which we have to understand because considering the costs and transportation, unless these goods can be produced in all places or by all countries without relying on transportation or any costs to market them.

And regarding reducing the suffering and hunger that still exists in this world, I think the sellers of goods will also suffer if they cannot make a profit through their own sales and they will also be hungry in the end because they really expect profits from the sale of their merchandise. So you also need to pay attention to this because everyone in this world really needs money to live more comfortably without facing hunger and suffering.

There are some things the importance of which we cannot understand until the time comes. Maybe we don't care about those things because we don't need them now, but when we need them, we will regret these things, but regretting them at that time will not help. Now maybe we have the strength of the body and the ability to work so now we can manage all the things but the strength of the body is not there for the whole life of the people or their workplace will not be there for the whole life. Since these are not permanent, we have to plan for the future in advance. Those who invested in Bitcoin exactly 10 years ago planning their future may have gotten a lot better from their investment today. But those who didn't plan their future at that time and invest in Bitcoin even when there was an opportunity are probably regretting it now. Like those who didn't invest 10 years ago and now regret it, we need to plan our investments now so that we don't regret it at some point in our age. 
Congratulations to those who have already planned to invest and those who have Bitcoin investments and hope you will hold your investment for long time but to those who are still planning to invest I would advise you to invest in Bitcoin even if you think about your future. If we can invest now thinking about the future then this investment will be very useful for us at a stage in the future which we may not be able to imagine now.

Everyone has their own investment vision, but I also want to say that selling real estate to invest in bitcoin is too risky and not recommended, if not a stupid idea. We were on a bitcoin forum and many people became so crazy about bitcoin that they knew nothing else but bitcoin. Many people will support this idea but if we show this idea to financial advisors or economists, they will say we are stupid.

The potential of real estate is not inferior to any investment, including bitcoin. In addition to increasing in value every year due to demand, it can also create a passive income stream. Only people who don't have money to own real estate think that investing in bitcoin is safer and better than real estate.

The use of robot in the world is really affecting the economy and also causing unemployment.
If you build a company and you are making 1 million dollars as profit every month and then spends 6000 thousand dollars to pay your works and then you are given the opportunity to buy robots for 1 million dollars that will do the jobs your works are doing without it having faults for 10 years won't you go for it there by sacking your workers.
In the next 10 years there will be high rate of unemployment in the world because job's that should be done by humans are now given to robots and by so doing it will also affect the economy of the world.

If you really want to make money in the next bullrun, i think these gems can make you alot of money!

Coins like $SOL, $XRP, $ADA or $AVAX are too big already.

1: $INJ
Target: 15x to 20x

2: $KAS
Target: 20x to 30x

3: $NAKA
Target: 40x to 50x

4: $PROPC
Target: 50x to 100x

5: $MANTA
Target: around 20x

6: $ZETA
Target: 20x to 30x

7: $DYM
Target: 10x to 12x

8: $NEAR
Target: 20x to 25x

9: $SEI
Target: 15x to 20x

10: $MINA
Target: 12x to 20x

11: $TAO
Target: 20x minimum

12: $ASTR
Target: 15x to 30x

#bitcoin    won’t make you rich, you need to buy good #altcoins.

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The alt season is coming..

But the Halving is first.

What do you think will happen?

My personal bet is a plunge for a couple of days, and then slowly over a few weeks, we will start to see an increase in prices again, as the effect of less BTC being sold from miners.

Im holding most of my crypto in USD, so I can buy the dip.

What about you?

/Hamukione

There is always a risk in every investment. However, an investor must be able to face this risk. However, investing in new coins has always carried a big risk. Currently, this risk is getting bigger, especially now that there are so many new meme coins, and people are investing in these coins to target big profits. However, there will always be risks, even with good coins.

It has been a good ride for Bitcoin before then halving and now that it is done with, the momentum seems to have gone down, and as we all know, after the Bitcoin Rally, altcoins react to it. Do you think the rally of altcoins will start now or we should continue with our trades like nothing happened?

While I haven’t personally tried investing in Memecoins, my friends often ask me for advice on where to put their money in the crypto world. I usually suggest sticking to popular ones like BTC, ETH, and ETC. But some friends still go for Memecoins, even though many people think they’re not worth much.

After a few weeks, I started receiving messages and calls from these friends, sharing their successes with Memecoins. One friend even made a nice sum of money trading ROOST, experiencing what seemed like beginner's luck. He then wisely diversified his investments, putting some money into more serious projects and continuing to dabble in other Memecoins. Despite my initial skepticism, I've seen some progress.

I've always held the belief that Memecoins could potentially harm new investors in cryptocurrencies, leading them to feel discouraged after getting burned and thinking that the entire crypto market is volatile. However, my friends are all aware of the risks and only invest small amounts, treating it more like a game that eventually leads them to explore more substantial projects.

While I'm still not a supporter of Memecoins, I'm open to hearing other opinions.
 

I was doing research on SocialFi when something caught my eye, called Pulse. After doing more research, I became quite interested in this concept. So far, here's some of the recent SocialFi I know about SocialFi. Are these points accurate?


-Pulse
-Friend.tech
-Open Campus
-Lens Protocol
-Hooked Protocol

Bitcoin can not afford to reprogram its potentials values of being a non-custodial currencies hence it is a technological development created by an initiative individual who is known to be Satoshi Nakamoto.

It is a financial system initiated without any sector of the government contributing to the structure neither being slated with any form of authority role in the system of the digital financial system as Bitcoin.
And on no account would the potentialities and nature of Bitcoin would be flexible to be reformed such as to be centralized in other to justify the mistrusts of the people who are in doubt of it with the facts that Satoshi Nakamoto has remained unknown and yet the digital currency is non-custodian.

I made this expressions because just in, a neighbor is f man who has been in good terms in a while now with me  asked if I can recommend him to any way she can Invest, have her funds secured and as much make profits.
So I recommended Bitcoin to her which she acknowledged that she knows a little about it but her fear is that it is not a centralized technology and for that she has always felt insecured on the development.

You can imagine that she told me to give her my words that if anything happens to her funds if invested that I will have to refund her. 😏. That was silly and I felt mad at her.
And right then I clearly told her that I am not trying to introduce her to any of the Ponzi schemes so it is her choice to decide but all I can tell you(her) lastly about this is that your funds will be secured as long you (she) would stick to the terms I have explained to her after explaining the Pros and the Cons to her.

Dear fellas, please I needed to know how you would feel if you were in my position basically where she said I would refund her if her funds gets lost becasue you recommended and introduced her to the system.

I may be hated for saying this, but what's currently happening in the mempool is a feature, not a bug. The fact that we have a fixed-sized block limit means that the current clogged up state would inevitably happen sometime.

Another important reminder: Censorship won't prevent monkey jpegs. Let's leave asides if censoring monkeys would undermine one of the important properties: It just technically doesn't work. People who spend dozens of millions of dollars in monkeys everyday can bypass every censorship measure and save them straight to the UTXO set, which would be a lot worse for the rest of us.

Here's another: As long as the law of supply and demand defines the price of block bytes, we can never on-board billions or even millions of people on a layer-1 solution, unless we undermine another important property; being practical to verify the ledger.

Final reminder: The free market decides the ideal tradeoff. "Is it better to have a dynamical block size?", "Would it be worse if we traded 'being practical to verify' with 'being for the poor'?", "Would a tail emission save the situation?". These questions are not easy to answer. However, we have a lot of cryptocurrency options, each tailored to meet different needs. It's up to us to determine which option suits us best and to refrain from complaining about the shortcomings of a single solution.

BTC> I don’t like the term “crypto” …Not only because it distorts the field of cryptography, but it is also very much related to scam schemes, perpetrated by individuals who have 70% pre-mined coins, create pseudo-decentralized systems, and register trademarks, among other tactics…

The term ‘crypto’ brings to mind Schneier, B. (2015) ‘Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C. 20th Anniversary Edition.’ Indianapolis, Indiana: Wiley. in Chapter 1…”

A message is plaintext (sometimes called cleartext). The process of disguising a message in such a way as to hide its substance is encryption. An encrypted message is ciphertext. The process of turning ciphertext back into plaintext is decryption. This is all shown in Figure 1.1.

(If you want to follow the ISO 7498-2 standard, use the terms “encipher” and “decipher.” It seems that some cultures find the terms “encrypt” and “decrypt” offensive, as they refer to dead bodies.)

The art and science of keeping messages secure is cryptography, and it is practiced by cryptographers. Cryptanalysts are practitioners of cryptanalysis, the art and science of breaking ciphertext; that is, seeing through the disguise. The branch of mathematics encompassing both cryptography and cryptanalysis is cryptology and its practitioners are cryptologists. Modern cryptologists are generally trained in theoretical mathematics—they have to be.

That’s why my mantra is “Bitcoin NOT Crypto”..
BTC>

I can tell from my experience that Americans and Europeans care the most about retirement plans. In my country retirement plans don't exist, people work till they can or die. Too many people in their 70s work where I live and I have even seen some 80-year-old people working as a cleaner and in farming.
In poor countries, young people don't earn enough to make savings and when their parents grow older, their kids, now adults, have to feed them and take care of them. Years pass, parents die and these people still don't have any money saved. Then they get older without a retirement plan and then they end. That's what lifecycle looks like in poor countries. Parents luck education and their children have to pay for it.