That was quite expensive. Which wallet are you referring to? AFAIK most Bitcoin wallets (at least those that are open source) don't have a built-in exchange, so all you need is to send your BTC to an exchange. It doesn't take a lot of money depending on the network condition. 7-12% of fees for one trade is quite irregular even among closed source ones unless you're talking about the exchange fee itself, not the TX.

Safety depends on how you use them. It is not safe even if you use an HW but then put your seed online, or use a weak password. Don't think that HW will solve any of your problems. Even a mobile phone wallet is good enough as long as you set it up properly. Obviously not the best choice for a cold wallet, but for small transactions/hot wallet, using a mobile phone is still okay IMO. CMIIW.

Looks cool, but no button might be a bit troublesome if the screen is prone to failure. I'd wait for further reviews that test how reliable the screen is since I've seen a few posts about LED failure on multiple HW devices this past few days. Personally, I want a USB-C just in case the battery dies, so I can still use it with my laptop/phone.

At the end of the day, we need more testing. Q4 is still far away. It is their first product too, so we'll see. Hopefully, they don't cheap out and make it so expensive that it no longer looks appealing for somebody that wants alternatives from Trezor/Ledger.

I can see the similarity. Not really surprising new products will try to imitate the design since Ledger is one of the popular manufacturers. It is hard to tell if the product is designed after or before Stax was announced though. More competition is good anyway, I don't mind a similar-looking device if the features, security, etc are competitive.

Unfortunately, that's why companies pay for ads. They just want to get their product sold. Customers need to do their own research before they buy, even if they don't plan on buying a mining rig. You should explain to them why it is not a good idea then. Even though it is viral, and many people are interested in the idea of getting "free money" while doing "nothing", doesn't mean anyone can do it. Don't fall for marketing tactics.

If you're quite bored and want to try your luck, you can try lottery mining[1]. As the name implies, it relies heavily on luck so do not expect any return at all. CMIIW.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5337008.msg60079837#msg60079837

If you regularly share your cellphone network with your laptop, maybe consider buying a dedicated USB modem instead. I've heard that hotspot sharing for a long time can degrade your battery quickly since it makes your phone too hot. It also affects your phone even if you use a USB cable to share the connection, CMIIW.

Touching the wrong thing can be solved easily by a confirmation dialogue, even though I doubt any website will place such a thing on their website for every possible action that the user can take. That being said, most phones have larger screens nowadays, so a user can switch their phone if a mistouch happens regularly. As for the UI, I heard most websites support mobile view nowadays, so if your preferred platform still doesn't support it, maybe they need an update. Sometimes a developer would just release an app though.

The WiFi device itself might affect the network too, but I don't think it's easy to find such devices. Most laptops and phones nowadays support WiFi AC (even AX), and mobile phone networks even at 5G probably won't top the bandwidth at all, unless you live in a very technologically advanced place. CMIIW.

What does this mean? Everybody competes with each other to find the next block afaik. Do you mean can somebody skip the next block and mine the next 2nd/3rd block instead? How would that block be valid if the previous block is yet to be found though? You might be referring to orphan blocks too I guess[1]. CMIIW.

Seeing you've forked Bitcoin on your previous posts, I think you're quite knowledgeable when it comes to mining software. Some of your questions, especially the software part can be answered easily if you check out the GitHub page imo.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/orphan-block-cryptocurrency.asp

Oalah, jadi ada kemungkinan masalah kelembapan ya. Tapi agak aneh juga kalau hanya Nano X yang bermasalah sementara lainnya tidak, apa mungkin spare part yang dipakai punya ketahanan yang berbeda (kalau yang lebih mahal lebih mudah rusak kan menyebalkan sekali). Ane rasa kelembapan di Indo tidak begitu ekstrem sampai bisa merusak device (setidaknya di tempat ane, tentu beda kalau di daerah pegunungan). Ledger Nano S dan Nano X ane sampai sekarang masih oke sih, walau ga dipakai lama. Cuma memang ane simpan di tempan yang tidak begitu lembap, jadi ga bisa verifikasi juga.

Untuk retail user yang tidak ingin ribet mungkin mereka lebih mengandalkan ke ganti rugi resmi dari Ledger sih. Setahu ane reseller Indo juga support masalah ini, tapi tentu saja bakal makan waktu atau hanya berlaku untuk jangka waktu terbatas. Masalah screen juga cukup popular di HW lain, sepertinya memang layar bagian yang paling murah dan mudah rusak di perangkat hardware wallet di pasaran.

It's just a tactic to make their trading work. They want to influence the market sentiment, and it works to some extent. Don't listen to what they say, just look at what they're doing. There are many websites that documented many people saying that Bitcoin is dead/a scam, and then a few months later they say the opposite.

It is not only JP Morgan, just take a look at the news. From the recent FTX collapse, the bankruptcy of various crypto lenders, etc you will easily find who says what and whether they are being a hypocrite or not. They just want money from retails, and there are tons of ways they can do that, including spewing bullshit on a TV or newspaper every day.

Ga ada salahnya juga untuk menyimpan beberapa token gan, siapa tahu kan bisa jadi the next Doge. Tapi ya paling tepat sesuaikan keadaan agan saja. Kalau profitnya sudah cukup untuk agan, ga ada salahnya dijual. Ane pernah pegang koin airdorp dulu yang harganya menyentuh angka ribuan dollar, tapi terlalu pede dan sekarang jadi ga berarti haha. Di sisi lain ane juga pernah jual koin di harga murah tapi sekarang harganya melambung tinggi. Untungnya ane masih simpan beberapa, jadi nyeseknya ga berlebihan.

Nama NFT di publik sayangnya ane amati sangat negatif sekarang om. Susah juga berharap ada proyek bagus yang bakal mengadopsi NFT apabila mereka berhadapan dengan persepsi yang negatif di mata publik, kecuali memang target pasarnya hanya pengguna kripto saja. Baru saja kemaren ada proyek NFT yang ketahuan melakukan plagiasi atas game Arknights untuk animasinya, sebelumnya juga rame di sosmed masalah proyek" NFT artis yang ujungnya scam. Setidaknya butuh waktu beberapa tahun hanya untuk memperbaiki reputasi nama NFT di ranah sosmed/publik imo. Semoga saja idenya ga mati, atau paling tidak berkembang jadi ga sekedar rilis token NFT saja ke depannya.

Dari namanya, sepertinya ini course berbicara tentang Bitcoin SV (BSV), bukan Bitcoin (BTC). Kalau agan OP tidak tahu, BSV dan BTC itu dua koin yang berbeda. Terlebih BSV erat kaitannya dengan Craig (sejauh yang ane tahu)[1], yang tidak sedikit user di sini bakal bilang dia itu bukan satoshi. Bahkan pengguna kripto di luar forum juga bakal memperdebatkan hal tersebut.

Kalau agan ingin belajar Bitcoin, bisa cek beberapa thread edukasi. Setahu ane udah banyak yang share resource seperti buku, link, video atau bahkan artikel berkaitan dengan BTC. Rata" sumber belajar yang ada juga gratis dan tidak perlu akun untuk mengaksesnya. Kalau agan butuh sertifikat untuk membuat CV, mending sekalian menggunakan online academy yang popular semacam Udemy yang juga memiliki course seperti blockchain development, etc.

[1] https://twitter.com/AcademyBSV/status/1615616728599334913

Itu tiba" rusak gan? Agak mengkhawatirkan juga kalau tiba" rusak begitu saja, apalagi kalau pemakaiannya jarang. Sepertinya kualitas HW yang dibuat untuk hardware wallet di pasaran kurang bagus. Kemaren ane juga lihat ada yang komplain masalah touchscreen di Trezor. Apa penyimpanan yang dipakai tidak cocok untuk menjaga keadaan HWnya atau bagaimana ya? Bisa jadi cuma minoritas sih, cuma kalau pas kebagian device yang faulty bisa ribet juga kalau mau benahin sendiri.

Btw, market HW saat ini cukup luas gan, tidak terbatas Ledger dan Trezor saja. Agan juga bisa riset pasar lebih dulu untuk mengetahui review" dan kasus" yang muncul berkaitan dengan perusahaan ataupun device yang mau agan beli. Agan juga bisa membuat offline wallet dengan Electrum kalau agan punya device yang nganggur dan bisa diinstall wallet (tentunya harus dipelajari dulu risiko" terkait yang ada). Device ini tidak harus HP, kalau agan browsing" di forum ini pasti bakal nemu beberapa saran atau guide tentang LiveOS yang terinstall di USB dengan Electrum, misalnya.

Ini pakai di tahun berapa gan? Seingat ane Indodax tidak sampai semahal itu. Ane pakai di tahun 2017an sih, dan baru" ini kabarnya juga dipermurah untuk penarikan di bawah 100 juta rupiah. Walau masih sedikit lebih mahal dibandingkan kompetitor lainnya. Sepertinya mereka juga tidak perlu menekan harga lebih murah lagi mengingat reputasi di bidang marketplace Indo bisa dibilang mereka paling kuat sampai saat ini.

Saya pengguna Pintu gan. Menurut ane murah, dibawah 5000 rupiah. KYC seperti biasa dan sampai saat ini ane tidak dimintai NPWP. Menurut ane bisa jadi alternatif kalau tujuan agan hanya jual beli atau konversi ke rupiah, bukan trading (dalam arti mantengin chart, pake tools dst). Withdrawal instan selama bank yang agan pake support penarikan instan. Untuk spread seperti yang dibilang agan Husna di atas, ada beda yang cukup jelas jadi kalau agan volume transaksinya besar bisa jadi kurang oke.

I can find this right to close an account if the user does not agree to the E-sign agreement.
Source: https://www.coinbase.com/legal/user_agreement/united_states

But you can find more details on their user agreement for other countries such as:
Source: https://www.coinbase.com/legal/user_agreement/payments_europe

Based on that statement, I do agree that even if you ask publicly, they won't reply to you, if they ever do it at all. To put it simply, Coinbase might consider OP accounts to have some risk if they continue to allow him to use their exchange, whatever that is. I'd not stress too much and simply move on if that were the case OP, try to find other exchanges or start using DEX to avoid being ditched by an exchange again. Do correct me if I'm wrong.

Never experience it myself, even though I participated in various campaigns in the past (most of them were mixers). I never mix my coins and just sent them directly to my preferred exchange, but things might change depending on their policies. If they ask for personal details more than necessary, I might use a DEX or do P2P if I need to convert my earnings to fiat.

Things might change if my government or the government where the exchange is legalized requires an exchange to block mixer transactions though, they might look for popular addresses and then block any tx related to that address. Either way, I think you can still mix or use coinjoin or just use other exchanges. CMIIW.

I'm a bit confused about what you're trying to say here. Just in case you misunderstood me, I'm not using a Hackintosh but a Macbook Air M1 with a dock (from a third party, did not buy it from Apple), which is why sometimes I have issues with my connection. That's why I ask you whether you have the same setup as me or not because if that is the case, the culprit is probably your dock or your Mac version, not Electrum itself.

At the end of the day, since you solve the connectivity issue by updating, it's clear that Electrum is not the problem.

I don't look at the rest that much but this case seems like a classic victim of phishing. Whether he uses Exodus or not doesn't really matter if he inputs his seed (or passkey, as he mentioned it) to some random website, after some random guy that said he is an Exodus employee told him to do so. That being said, I do agree that it is better to use other apps if there are too many cases where users' funds are stolen without any clear reason why. CMIIW.

Anyway, has your issue been resolved OP?

Most of the popular ones mentioned above support USDT, or other stablecoins if you're interested. Just check their about page if you're unsure, or use a search on Google with simple keywords like "Coinpayments accept USDT" to see if they accept them or not. Self-hosted BTC payment gateway usually only supports BTC though, CMIIW.

As for detailed fee comparison, I think you'll have to compare it yourself if you want some in-depth analysis. I found some simple comparisons online but the information is usually outdated, and most users here would probably use BTCPayserver anyway. You can probably find this thread useful too[1]. Some posts on that thread have good suggestions if you want to look further, but keep in mind that most of these are BTC payment processors, so you have to check manually check them to see if other cryptos are available or not.

[1] Bitcoin Payment Processors

Unless I'm mistaken, OP friend uses Bitcoin Knots, which is a fork of Bitcoin Core. It is a decentralized wallet where you manage your own coins, I doubt any support will be able to help them recover his password other than suggesting some methods that have been mentioned above.

As far as I understand it, BTCrecover supports variations of Core like Bitcoin Unlimited, XT, etc, so I think you can give it a shot even if Bitcoin Knots is not explicitly mentioned. CMIIW.

Yes, that's what I understand too. However, I believe other explorers also have a similar function. I can see the appeal for an all-in-one revoke tool for different chains though, but if I don't use that many chains maybe I'll stick with an explorer instead. But, I might be interested if the tool is open source and can be verified by others, regardless if I use multiple chains or not.

I see. Do you plan to publish it on your GitHub then? If that's the case, I'll probably wait until the code is available to use the platform if I feel the need to revoke some contracts. I believe some people don't feel safe using a closed-source platform even if it's so convenient unless we use a throwaway wallet to test the tool.

What's the difference between your tool and using another tool like Etherscan built-in revoked, or Revoke.cash other than the support for multiple networks? Also, is there no plan to publish the source code so others can verify it? Some of your competitors have a Github page/open source code, if it were me I'd be more interested in using them regardless of whether I can verify it or not. Especially after the recent fall of some exchanges, so many scams using smart contracts, etc.

They have a huge market share and some buyers don't really care about the ripoff I guess. But they definitely took it a bit too far this time because almost all reviewers and your average joe refuse to recommend their GPU due to the insane pricing. Hopefully, AMD can be better next time, even though I feel like it might take a few years or that's too much copium too.

I might be wrong but I recall seeing some posts/news about some stores refusing to accept returns/refund for GPUs. Can't find it anymore though. It is not really impossible if a store implements them though, especially if the buyer is suspicious.