Have you just tried writing out the phrase a few times (8-20)? That's worked for me to be able to remember some of mine (I obviously have them written down too as the main backup).

I think there's a slight obligation by the user to do a small amount of research before updating (or waiting a few days without installing and update or using the device) to see if anything is unusual. Completely updating to a new UI you're unfamiliar with can be problematic too for example.

Also I don't think trezor can force people to update their firmware if they don't want to. I guess they could make it incompatible but since there are other drivers that can be used and it's open source, that makes things a lot harder for them to succeed in an attack.

"a bitcoin"? How much did you pay for it?

What payment gateway is it being stored on?

How did you buy the "bitcoin" did you use a payment method you could reverse easily (and have you tried reversing it)?

For the ease of use part, if you haven't already, I'd get comfortable with using bitcoin addresses (or any cryptos) to send and receive coins. This'll also help you to see whether the device you're using is trustworthy if you can check the first few, last and some inbetween letters of your address to make sure it don't get replaced by clipboard malware for example.

I think there's ways to not be censored at all this way (unless by the seller) dexes in the UK used to have people willing to do cash deposits straight into bank accounts which would be quite hard to trace.

There are sites that scrape what users have written here too and those archives will include the images the user has shared.

(eg archive.org used the scrape the forum's pages quite often).

Only leave on exchanges what you want to keep trading.

If you want to keep trading with all of the money you put into the exchange then you might be able to hold it as fiat so it'll be better insured or withdraw it as fiat (if that's free).

Do you know anything about what strategy you might implement? For longer term trades you are more likely going to be able to afford to move the coins off the exchange, for day trades and similar fast moving trades you're probably better off leaving your funds on the exchange or splitting them between a few if you're that worried about one and have a good enough strategy it won't be too hard to recover your funds if one exchange is hacked (just make sure you trust all the exchanges you store funds on).

Since you didn't include it in the op im guessing it might not have been included in the article but to what extent can the algorithms be broken (if indeed the article were anything credible).

You'd likely need at least a 128-qubit machine to break mnemonic seed phrases to start with and double that for private keys.

Rsa and ecc can already be broken if you use small enough keys .

Then there's the prospect the hashing algorithms used are a lot harder to "break" as they aren't linear operators.

Yeah the recommendation has always been to move funds away from exchanges if you can and it's nice to see someone from an exchange actually agreeing with that notion.

Every financial institution are bound by similar laws so it's hard to escape the account freezing normally, but with bitcoin the p2p and decentralised nature does make it doable.

If the post was old and only just deleted, you could also use the back button and go back to the page just before you hit delete to be able to see the post again (you'll lost your formatting but you'll at least not have to write everything out again - especially if it was too old to be saved in your drafts).

Crypto at the moment is a tiny asset, housing when it caused a crisis was very big and happened globally (I think housing in the UK alone is worth at least £10 trillion/$13trillion)

It is possible that too many speculating with too much on bitcoin and cryptocurrencies could cause a crash but these types of crises seem to be caused by large financial institutions repeating the same mistakes and overleveraging themselves and poorly diversifying.

"experts" also like to call things in both directions because it increases volatility (intermediates do the same but I don't think they realise it). Volatile commodities are much easier to trade than one that just goes in a certain direction or behaves in a way completely unexpected (like large rises and drops).

China and other countries banned the internet so why are we still using it?

That was meant to be a global resource of information but only half the world has it so we should just give up on that too in the same logic...

Bitcoin was more a technological concept that might replace banks or mightve just thrived from people being annoyed with government affiliation and control of their banks and the entire value production process.

The coinbase and crypto.com app seem to work quite well with my voiceover software (but I'm using android).

I'd avoid using bitcoin.com as they're not very trusted due to mislabelling bitcoin as bitcoin core (at least in the past, not sure if they're still doing it).

Apps might be easier to use than websites but some websites (like pro.coinbase.com are cheaper so it might be helpful to get someone you trust to help using it instead to save on fees).

Also text to speech might not work well for withdrawing funds to your own wallet instead of keeping them on the exchange so this might be something to consider but might not be much of a problem.

At most, you'll see litecoin, ethereum, bitcoin, bcash, maybe doge - as has always been the meme - and stable coins being accepted by means of payment for more widespread usage.

Bitcoin is the most secure crypto we have, it has the largest user base and is the most heard of crypto by common folk. This is why it's invested in, it being slow isn't really a problem when speed is a tradeoff for security.

If everyone wanted to, they could move to a cheaper chain with faster transactions on mass and cause everyone else to move - this hasn't been done, clearly people have the most faith in bitcoin compared with other crypto assets.

Bpip is owner by a user who left the forum, I'm not sure who actively manages it or if it's just left to itself now.

The general statistics included quite a lot of interesting info which might not be being collected anymore and that might've been the reason why it's not being updated.

A data dump of some of the information might be interesting but things like the timezones that users are online might've been considered problematic once the forum aged/got more attention after a while.

It'll hurt to get a finger cut off . Or have the police say they needed everyone's fingerprint and then just mould copies they can use to access your funds.

The body changes a lot and so do fingerprints, it's not a good idea to use biometrics like that for that reason.

It makes NFTs seem even more like art now .

It's probably harder to track laundering with assets that have fluctuating value too like art pieces so it can go quite well hidden.

I wonder what'll happen to the nft now though, i imagine it'd be hard to auction.

There was bip38 which encrypted private keys with a password (I think they then begin with a 'U').

The bip39 protocols for making the mnemonic phrase also allow you to extend your mnemonic with a passphrase (by adding words to the end of the mnemonic but it's not supported by non-standard types like electrum).

Have you got the old hard disk still? That'll be the only way you can recover the wallet if you've lost the mnemonic.