The security of a virtualbox depends on the security of the computer that hosts it. It's Filesystem is just another Filesystem in your machine and if you mount it often enough, most attack types will probably still be able to find your wallet - there would be ways to make this harder but it still would not be too hard to attack.

The pendrive method would be what I'd go with, you can pick up big USB sticks for quite cheap now though - is there a reason you couldn't buy one for mounting fedora or something you're more used to (or was the minimalism security consciousness over fedora's dependencies/software that comes with it)?

How did you make the watching only wallet? If you don't know how you did that/don't have a private key or know who controls it then your funds are lost.

And no, master public keys used to generate those addresses are independent numbers themselves that are like a hash of a private key so can't be reverse engineered to reveal what they came from.

It probably depends on how sophisticated the attack was. It's likely the accounts used in binance and coinbase could also have been hacked or something too.

It probably is possible to track who took the funds but it'll probably take a legal order against one of the exchanges to get information about who the funds were cashed out to and where they ended up - but if they didn't cash out fiat, you might be needing to get the same information later on and I think both exchanges didn't require kyc to deposit.

What do you mean by a "private key encoding your wallet"? Do you mean its a mnemonic or starts with xprv? Can you give us the letter it starts with if it's just a bunch of characters?

Yeah normally you can just check the pinned topics, some places like the bitcoin wiki (mainly to search for things - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page) are helpful too and threads you find interesting and want the answer to you can leave open and wait a while to see how a few users have answered them.

You can also check youtube and a few other places for information if you don't want to have to read everything.

Do they only make these "predictions" when bitcoin is rebounding and then fallen slightly, perhaps to coincide with when they just bought some...?

I mean it's a nice news story and will probably get some people on twitter excited but I think their primary goal is still price manipulation.

There are ways to trade that'll allow you to make gains on your bitcoin - I wouldn't recommend or even consider starting now with it though, but if you're going to hold your coins for a while, investing in top cap altcoins and just holding them has given returns in the past (we're already near a peak) - there is still substantial risk with it and it might be boring. (ignoring any other forms of trading as it's likely to get you to 0)

You'll just be wanting to select btc then (it's listed on mine as "bitcoin" ), you can also select segwit though (idk if those are two options or one).

The bep stuff is binance trying to force their own chain onto you and erc20 isn't original bitcoin (it's more like a bond that says you possess it but don't actually).

They offer 2% interest on at least one stable coin there so this was only a matter of time before it happened.

However, like a lot of things cexes do, I don't think it's as attractive as the dex alternative (however more secure it may or may not be - the point is you still have choice).

There's a history button on the trading screen that I use in the app (I'm assuming the website has the same thing - it's near the other tabs at the top and might appear like an options button or something).

Edit: I see trade history and order history tabs at the bottom of the website on desktop.

Yeah it does sound a lot like your intent is just to gamble - which might be more likely to lose the saved funds (depending on how much self control you have).

You can take a risk with some assets on things if you want but don't make them too high. Having more than 5% of a crypto portfolio in new projects would seem high to me and I'd put my odds of losing that 5% quite high.

Whereabouts are you looking for it? Are you in the code itself or on a data file/block data?

There's a chance there isn't one stored in the block files because it might only exist in the chainstate and can be built by each node based on the transaction data itself (and that can't become dangerously corrupted because it's signed if it's legitimate).

There's a lot of reasons to use a p2p or decentralised exchanges. A lot of the time you get transactions that are settled instantly (after the last person transfers) and some that are enforced by smart contracts and so confirm fast (for decentralised exchanges).

You don't have to go without funds or trust someone with them as much if you use p2p exchanges too - unless they're in person.

You can always distribute exchange holdings if you're wanting to feel more secure also but don't trust yourself with bitcoin/other cryptos yet (especially for newbies).

There's a point in storing as much as you're competent to store on your own, a lot of money in an exchange is likely more secure than a lot of money in a Web wallet or even, in some cases, on a desktop one.

(obviously the best solution is to get a hardware wallet (airgapping or otherwise) and/or making your systems. More secure and yourself less susceptible to attacks - stop downloading random freeware).

I kinda think regulating stable coins might deregulate some - especially if there are anonymous devs on some projects.

There are lots of different stable coins and lots of different ideas on how to make them successful, including fully decentralised ones, so I think regulation. Will probably increase those being adopted and other coins not being as worthwhile, but I think some might be an exception to that as long as centralised exchanges keep accepting them for futures (like binance).

Have you been using different photos for ID, I remember doing verification for an exchange a while ago and it taking a few attempts even with clear photos to get accepted.

I'd also suggest contacting their support if it still doesn't work, and you might be able to give them your verification there instead.

The airgapping in itself is what makes the wallet secure. Your operating system doesn't matter as much, go with what you think is more usable for you.

The only way this might actually be a thing though is if you want your online version of the wallet to be forgotten every time you shut down - for which you might be better off using tails on the online PC.

Based on chipmixer's response times, they likely only refill chips every day at most.

There are specific chips they often like to split into smaller ones too and it's possible there's an algorithm running thst does this task (that the admin can just look over, eg dumping the raw output so it can be imported into a wallet).

Mixers work by having many users use them at once so one user is harder to trace. It's why the recommendation for privacy from chipmixer themselves is about a week (before moving funds out of mixed addresses or vouchers). Based on the support queries we have here, there are lots of people mixing 0.1btc+ - even if that was just an example - so it should be quite difficult to trace (especially if splitting is used or other  strategies like merging vouchers).

Well not really, if you don't need to spend it then there's probably not much point. A spending culture has been prescribed into a lot of people already, spending on something that's you're going to use or need is fine it's when you start creating waste that's the problem...

You spend inflationary currency because its value drops.


A pyramid scheme like the stock market?

Most things, realistically, become problematic when people have a lot to sell and choose to sell them all at once. Shaving $5tr off the US stock market for example wasn't $5tr leaving thst was already there - it was too many people selling for the order book to absorb (and if people collaborate or have a lot already, they can manipulate the price of things quite well).

It's mostly used for tracking purposes. You can obviously do a bit of coin control (if you own your keys) and stop those outputs being spent with the rest (clients like electrum also let you freeze those received coins so you can send them separately).

There's a chance it could also be used to advertise something by getting you to search for the address but I don't think that's been the main purpose of this sort of attack before.