Maybe it sounds harsh, but it doesn't look to me as bigger-than-usual issues for Wirex.
But yeah, getting the money out via that virtual card is a pretty good call (and you made me thinking, thanks for that).

Afaik their virtual card doesn't work with Google Pay / Apple pay. Is that still correct?

I don't know if this is helpful because it's not 100% the same situation, but my Bitcoin Core has its blockchain on an external HDD connected via USB.
And I can tell you that during the last ~3 years my HDD got corrupted twice (and interestingly, it seems it was during shutdown/restart, not when power went down suddenly), last time I had to re-format the drive (and no bad sectors found).

I've also completed the survey.

Bech32 address: bc1q8sw4e4ms07jsjjmdu6y6tq3tjgezappycruhmy

Thank you.

If it helps you at all, my replacement card is also unnaturally slow in getting here. But I'm not that much worried, if Wirex doesn't want my fees, I'm sure that Bitrefill will be just happy to do that. (Plus, I'm not too eager to spend these days.)


I've learned to have the lowest expectations on Wirex support, so I'm not surprised by that answer you've got.
Still, it's more than nothing. Good luck!

Simply because he was privacy conscious and because he wanted to remain anonymous.
Plus, since in those days Bitcoin was worthless, just a cool technology known by very few, it was not so difficult to stay low.

It may worth mentioning that when Gavin said that he will go to present the early bitcoin to CIA, next step was Satoshi disappearing forever.
In this contexts there were ideas that if he would have been known his life may have been in danger, for example.

Of course, you can make your own wallet software that works as you want; you can add there a blacklist for sending.
However, OP was asking about receiving from others. And since they will not use your specially made wallet (so the sending would be blocked), you cannot lock the money you'd receive from them.

Interesant, se pare ca vom avea un nou concurs saptamanal? Incepe lumea sa vada ca isi pot face reclama asa, fara sa investeasca prea mult? Nu ma deranjeaza!

Mersi & bafta!

57 & 58 - NeuroticFish

Please & thank you

Using old phone as cold storage is not a new idea, I've been eyeing it too in the past. And I got convinced that the minuses of such an approach are worthy to be taken into account, hence I've abandoned the idea. Maybe it worth reading this topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5377997



It's not a limitation or bug. It's a feature/it's by design: without this you don't have proper trustless self custody for your money.

Nu sunt convins daca ceea ce am gasit de curand ar fi sau nu de interes, o sa las la latitudinea voastra, dar nu o sa imi bat capul sa fac o postare "ca la carte".

Am gasit aici un fel de tombola: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5483224
Premiul arata bine, este in jur de 550 EUR

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Data limita: 4 aprilie.
Nu exista limita pentru participare, chiar mai mult, acelasi concurs a fost postat si pe alte forumuri si social media.

That's 100% correct.
Still, some may try to use blockchain, not necessarily as technology, more as a buzz word for the masses that will not know nor care if a blockchain is actually used or not, but may believe (with enough money pumped into newspapers and other advertising) that those CBDCs "are like bitcoin".

Great list! I will add: keep the seed words offline, safely, without any chance for others to get access to them; the seed has to never touch a device that will ever go online. Keeping the seed as copies in multiple geographically distinct places is also a good idea.

Let's say you are a big company (like MicroStrategy) and, for whatever reason (like wanting to look good in the eyes of some square-headed politicians) you don't want any questionable money getting to your wallet or cold storage. It could be an use case.
Or it can be a way to fight dust attacks.

Various centralized exchanges, gambling sites or other services that want to overly enforce KYC and "source of funds" may want to also do this kind of blacklisting (although in reality the current situation suits them best, since they can freeze user funds and - why not - use them for business' needs for a long time for free).

So while the concept of tainted money is pretty stupid (and should not be recognized by anyone who cares about bitcoin!), there can be businesses that may like such a feature like blacklisting.

Can you understand that in order to do 51% attack they would have to either buy some of the pools to redirect their power, either buy as many mining devices as needed to match the current power (let's approximate to buying as many mining devices as they are in use now)? Or, well, a mix of the two. I myself I'm unsure of the real magnitude of this number (of devices).

The thing is that even big mining companies may have to stay in the waiting list to buy the gear they need. So it would be a very slow and expensive task, not mentioning that since those billions would be taxpayers' money, if the government is a democracy, it will be the last thing (use of money) they'll approve before getting changed and the preorders canceled.

Bitcoin doesn't have such thing as blocking or blacklisting.
However, various centralized services, of which some may call themselves wallets, do have this, but it's more a stupid workaround:
* if their wallets receive coins that they consider tainted by their rules, they may seize them (but the funds were received, as you can see)
* if their users try to use their account to send coins to wallets the centralized service prohibits (for example gambling), they will not allow the sending and may lock the account

I will add that my statement doesn't include LN. I don't know LN good enough to also tell about it.

I am not that skilled in image processing, but from my knowledge the manual tools, even professional, need quite a big amount of work to get to a good result.
With some AI tools you can even select regions where there's a bigger problem, and regions to be left alone at a certain step, and, with some trial and error approach you can do wonders in reasonably short time.
I'm glad you've found the right tool for you; the result is impressive.


Wow!

In your case there are no different powers in the state, hence even the votes are stolen: the result of the votes is not related at all with the number of voters, not with what they've elected.
Plus, while even in democracies you get, in many cases, to the point you have to vote between a couple of bad choices, I expect that in your cases the choices are... simply a bad joke.

Sadly my logic doesn't work in dictatorship. In such cases, the history has shown that sadly the only solution is a revolution. And that is painful and risky, usually with many dead and with unknown chances of success, including the fact that the regime coming afterwards will probably not be exactly what the vast population was hoping for.
Sorry... I have no solution in your case... 

I've used free AI software to enhance some pictures and and I've got impressive results.
I can just imagine that with paid ones... sky is the limit.
Great picture! But I expect the source was pretty nice too


Somehow the people are still following the noise of (rather small overall) price variations, forgetting the (this) actual important news.
...and from what I've read even the ETF is not yet fully priced in, so the next year+ will be interesting.

So you've made $500k in 4 easy years and now, instead of enjoying your money, you decided to be so kind and sell cheap your method.
With huge respect for your immense kindness.... please try this scam away from this forum.

Yes and you will find stories about it and a lot of FUD too.
* Bitcoin mining consumes a lot of energy (and OMG we gonna die because of this /sarcasm)
* Bitcoin mining can be used to consume excess energy in many cases, including, for example methane that would otherwise be burned or released to the atmosphere
* Bitcoin is money and money drives to both good and bad, depending on the people having it