If they are already so smart and intelligent, maybe they will avoid punishment and reach a settlement that would include some kind of house arrest while working for some three-letter agency. It is no secret that such things happen, and it is a real shame to let such people rot in prisons or to be employed by someone else when they are released. Besides, $6 million doesn't seem like a lot, at least not when we look at it globally.

Could you elaborate a bit more on this? I understand that Windows is a privacy nightmare, but if someone uses Tor in accordance with all the recommendations, does that mean that some private things are still leaking and can be used to try to identify someone?


This means that everyone should use Tor in the size of the window that opens at startup, but that doesn't make sense to me, because why would the normal window size that everyone probably uses somehow identify someone? What I know is that it is not recommended to use zoom in/out because the settings at 100% make all users unique.

Don't mix apples and oranges, because Trezor or Ledger are not offline or cold wallets, because at some point you still have to connect them to the internet, whether it's about doing a firmware update or a coin app update. And what fee are you talking about? Each device has its own price, and each transaction you make on such a device also has its own fee.

If you ever get the chance to use a hardware wallet, I advise you to try to understand some basic things before using it, because regardless of how good a device is, the human is usually the weakest link.

You express regret that you did not invest in Bitcoin 10 years ago because your friend is a millionaire today, and at the same time you say that Bitcoin is the "future of money" and that it is not a "quick rich scheme!".

Ask yourself if you would have really become a millionaire if you had bought Bitcoin then, because if you had done it at the beginning of 2013, you would have paid only about $13 for 1 BTC, but by the end of that year the price had reached even $950. Could you refrain from selling considering that it is a very big profit? What I want to say is that you could have made a lot of bad (wrong) moves in that period, and nothing would have changed in your life to this day.


Leave God out of that story, he has nothing to do with it, regardless of how some try to portray people around Bitcoin as a religious sect, which is real nonsense.

If you say that you have been collecting these tokens for 8 years, that would mean that you started collecting/buying them sometime in 2015 - and that cannot possibly be true considering that one token has existed since 2018 and the other only since 2019. Therefore, your story gets even more illogical and some details definitely don't add up, and everyone has the right to be suspicious and not believe every story they read online.

Your logic sounds quite illogical, because if you or anyone else stops being active on this forum, that would mean you are no longer alive? I know several members of the forum who are no longer active on the forum, but it has been confirmed that they are alive and that for some personal reasons they no longer have the time or will to be active here.

I think that Satoshi has left quite enough unequivocal statements from which it can be seen that he did not leave suddenly and in a hurry, and the last e-mail that Satoshi sent to Mike Hearn is more than clear.

Without getting into personal dramas, I will just say that moderators do not act on the basis of public posts (at least as far as I know), but only in case someone reports plagiarism using the "report to moderator" button. Therefore, I would not call such a way of attracting the moderator's attention stupid, but perhaps in some way unnecessary considering the way in which every plagiarized post is dealt with.

On the other hand, we could see that the number of report posts is decreasing from month to month, and one of the reasons is that an atmosphere has been created on the forum that this way of contributing to the forum is a waste of time. Everyone has the right to their opinion, but on the other hand, everyone can use their time the way they want.

This is one of the possible explanations, but again some will say that it is only October - the leaves are falling from the trees, the price of BTC is rising

Those people who are no longer active today (at least not on the forum) know very well why Satoshi decided to leave Bitcoin to them, because it was they who asked for it, which is quite evident from their communication. I already wrote that Satoshi must have felt all that negative energy, in addition to the fact that his main collaborator started to turn to the dark side (I'm referring to Gavin and his visits to places he shouldn't have gone), which he later described as a possible reason why Satoshi got scared, along with of course Wiki which started accepting BTC as donations and the famous comment "we touched the hornet's nest".

However, I wonder if it would have been different if Satoshi had left in 2012 or 2014 and not in 2010 - I think it's better if he left earlier, not only for "peace in the house", but also for his own safety.

What is the fact that in the early days Satoshi was nowhere near as popular as it is today - back then some were very openly calling for his "removal of authority", while today Satoshi is a true legend, and some like Gavin are not only no longer around Bitcoin, but they became hated figures because they were so "intelligent" that they started calling cheaters by his name.

It will never be clear to me how someone can even create a business based on this kind of business model, which, from the perspective of the legal framework, cannot possibly succeed. VISA is not some nonsense company through which money can be "transferred" in this way without the users being identified.

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This means absolutely nothing (unfortunately), because it does not prevent you from performing an exit scam at any time. However, everyone is the master of their own money and reputation, but I personally would never vouch for something like this.

First of all, don't post multiple posts in a row, it's against the rules of the forum - you can reply to the posts of several users in one post.

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Regardless of everything, you can still ask the casino to return what you lost, especially if there is already a similar case that you can refer to, but it is obvious that they (the casino) will try to avoid it in all possible ways without breaking the law.

All you have to do is be persistent and use all available platforms in order to achieve what you want. Honestly, this is the first time I've come across a case like this, because first they allowed you to gamble even though by law you shouldn't have been able to, and now that you've lost you can legally ask them to return your deposit.

No matter how this case ends, everything that happened leaves the impression of unprofessionalism on the part of the casino, and I wonder if the Australian authorities will take any action, given that the casino operated completely illegally in Australia.

This is not always the case, but in general, when you use Tor or VPN, you can often expect that the loading speed of websites will be somewhat slower compared to when you do not use them. However, for those who value privacy, "slowness" will not be an obstacle, especially if in this way they can additionally protect themselves from such malware.

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According to the information in the first thread posted by @lovesmayfamilis, this malware spreads in the following way :


This means that, as always, great caution is required when downloading apps from any location, including from the Google Play Store, which is not efficient when it comes to absolute filtering of malicious apps. In other words, limit the number of apps you have on your smartphone and download only those that have been around for a long time and have a very large number of downloads and good reviews.

I can't say if this BTT account is used by two people, but this only casts more doubt on the whole story. Accordingly, no one should so easily accept that the story is true, much less donate anything or share the story anywhere outside of this forum.

At the end of the day, does it make sense to give someone something that they clearly cannot/doesn't know how to take care of?

As I already wrote, it is something that you can definitely blame them for, but it still does not lead to anything because there is no element of scam, considering that you lost your deposit in a completely normal way by gambling at an online casino.

Be that as it may, you cannot ask for someone to give you back 1 BTC just because you think that they lured you to gamble in that online casino, you lost and come to terms with it. Next time, be more thorough in checking the casino before you make a deposit, so if you lose again, at least you won't have to feel scammed.

I agree, violence and anger do not have to be related exclusively to gambling addiction, but can also be the result of some of the other addictions you mentioned. In order to prevent such things, it is necessary to prevent people who are minors from having the opportunity to gamble, which is much easier to do in physical casinos, while online casinos still cannot see who is on the other side, and even when they ask for KYC, a minor can use the documents of his family member or friend to verify the account.

Unfortunately, the situation described by the OP is very serious and cannot be solved by itself, because such things only get worse if the person does not get adequate help. Gambling is supposed to be fun, and the moment it stops being, everyone has a problem which should not be ignored at all.

I don't see any scam in the fact that you lost 1 BTC gambling, only to find out later that your country is on the black list, and then you thought what would happen if you made a profit. We can only guess what would happen then, but who says that you wouldn't be able to get at least your deposit back?

What is by no means disputed is the fact that that casino did not warn potential players from your country in a very clear way that they cannot open an account at their casino.

I'm just wondering if you created your account using the IP of your country, or maybe you used a VPN?

The posts on this forum cannot be taken into account exclusively when it comes to trying to understand the reason why Satoshi left the forum, and for some time (allegedly more than 1 year) he was in contact with some developers after he wrote the last forum post. In addition, history tells us that some very close associates of Satoshi at one point took a very negative attitude towards him and demanded more "decentralization".

Source

Of course, for all those who want to know the real history, which is very likely the closest to the truth, everything can be found in perhaps the best article written on the subject, which also has direct links to all relevant links. Satoshi logically decided to leave/disappear after everything, because when the majority attacks you and doesn't agree with your decisions, what else is left for you?


The Last Days of Satoshi: What Happened When Bitcoin’s Creator Disappeared

What do mixers (in general) have to do with the fact that that platform is hacked? Mixin is not a mixer but presents itself as a decentralized crypto network and as things stand it is very very incapable of protecting what it should protect. Besides, why would coins that have passed through a mixer be better protected from hackers, that doesn't make any sense?


Their data that was stored in a cloud database was hacked, what more needs to be said than that? The fact that you have a company and that you claim to be an expert in something means nothing today, and you can have as much proof of that as you want if you look at all the scandals related to cryptocurrencies in the last 4-5 years.

You have more to read here -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5467994.0

There is no doubt that Bitcoin has a value that is clearly expressed on the market at all times, but there is also another value that is not measured in dollars or euros, but in the possibilities that Bitcoin provides to those who know how to use it in the right way. Most of the people with whom I had the opportunity to talk about Bitcoin over the years still think that it is some kind of internet scam, most of those who bought it as an investment see it only as a tool for making profit, and a minority experience it as a decentralized cryptocurrency.

For each of them, the "value" in the context of Bitcoin is completely different, and also if the values of the internet or gold are included in the same story.


Why didn't many people use the internet when it appeared? Well, to begin with, computers were expensive, there were no smartphones or infrastructure that would bring the internet to people. Does Bitcoin have that problem today? Of course not, because anyone with a smartphone and internet access can download a free BTC wallet, create their own seed and buy BTC in any way that suits them best.

If you take all that into account, then it is clear that in a year or two or even more than that, we cannot expect that the number of real Bitcoin users will increase by x10 if we take into account that today there are between 100 and 150 million users globally, although this is only an assumption.

For me personally, all three options are quite realistic, and now it's just a question of how someone thinks about that topic, which will result in one option being more acceptable than the others.

Realistically, the best option for everyone would be for those private keys to be destroyed, because that way those coins would never appear on the market, but also no one else would be able to present themselves as Satoshi if they were to be found one day. I would also take the third option as the one that makes the most sense to me, because I also think that the person who wrote on this forum under the pseudonym Satoshi did not leave anything to chance and that even then he/she realized how important it is that these coins remain forever unavailable.

It could indeed be considered the largest donation anyone has ever made for Bitcoin.