Install BPIP extension to your browser, it brings a lot of useful stuff. (see more: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5224821 )
And you can choose a theme for the forum, there are also two dark options.
Imho this is the easiest way to add dark theme to bitcointalk.

Considering the huge cost of this advertising, he could have been doing even a much better than just advertise not-your-keys-not-your-coins.
Interesting though that all the centralized businesses that have crashed in 2022 could have been the signal for not-your-keys-not-your-coins, still they were ignored.

I think that FTX crash has touched the "threshold" for people's fear and this is why people started acting more effectively. So SBF alone may have done nothing if there wouldn't have been Luna, Celsius and the rest.

Maybe you should not be differentiating Taproot from SegWit so "heavily".
I see Taproot a subset (more correctly it's a newer version) of SegWit. So bc1*, no matter it's bc1q, bc1p or other letters corresponding to the newer versions that'll come up (since that p or q after bc1 simply reflect the version of the bech32 address), the benefits should remain.

A Bitcoin ATM can contain fiat that will be handed to those selling bitcoins or can contain fiat paid by those buying bitcoins. So no matter the type or direction, fiat can still be there, at least in theory.

Some people on Twitter are implying that maybe Binance is leaving behind the legacy addresses and moves everything to pure SegWit.
If it's so, it may be great, although the timing was awfully chosen.

By my calculations the mempool may clear up before Monday. Let's see if other dramas will surface until then.

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Actually no. If an account changes hands it may get tagged (red feedback). Getting other's account in most cases ends bad from attempts to scam to people thinking the new user is more knowledgeable than he actually is.
It's not that difficult to grow an account and it's the honest way. It also comes with gathering knowledge on both bitcoin and the ways of this forum.

Yes.


No, the seed should not leave the device (and you should not enter it anywhere else than physical backups safely stored - paper, steel, whatever)
However, there are being discussed theoretical ways a malicious hardware wallet could steal your money, but those are theoretical discussions.
Ledger doesn't have the best reputation because of hardware problems (especially battery issues on Nano X) and sloppy handling of user data (to be overly nice in explaining that), but I do have a Nano S and it's working very good for years (and never lost a penny).


As long as your hardware wallet works, you can use it. It's not only their wallet you can use the HW with (I use my Nano S with Electrum for Bitcoin).
Even more, the seed is pretty much universal and you can put it into another hardware wallet or software wallet (although the second option is less safe).


The Ledger device's screen will show the addresses and you (really) should check them carefully. And then you'll be fine/you'll detect if there are surprises.


This part you can't. You have to trust them. This is why theoretical exploits are being discussed; trust is a bitch.
Edit: And this is especially true in case of hardware wallets with closed source (like Ledger). There are open source options though. See: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5416497.0

The internet traffic is quite big for one full node already, if you put more than one, it'll be even greater, and that may attract some curious eyes too.
That's all that came into my mind. Plus, I would do IBD for only one node and then copy the data to all the rest.

Maybe I've oversimplified some things (and you do have a good point!), but the overall answer ... I won't change it

Also imho the correct ways to handle the account are:
* use a reputable open source password manager, keep all the passwords there under a strong password you cannot lose
* stake (there's a topic for that) a bitcoin address of yours, in case all the other things go wrong (hack or worse), you can still use that for recovering your account

No, the forum doesn't check on its users. Even more, the forum is privacy oriented, hence the users can easily use it without offering any real information about themselves. So any user information you see may or may not be real.

So when somebody disappears, it can be anything, from broken computer and lost password to giving up the forum for whatever reasons or having personal problems (including death).
If the user has friends in here, they may announce that, but that's also not a rule.

Sorry if this is not the answer you've been looking for or expecting.

I've made the full/correct image with headers too, using data taken now from https://www.binance.com/en/fee/cryptoFee




The way those pages load up are kinda strange, I fear they may be accessing something from Binance actually, but I don't have the tools to check that.

This is possible, especially as in certain places they work with less digits after decimal point (was it 5?) instead the normal 8 (where I would use actually 9 to be on the safe side).
But:
* I don't think that those satoshi make much of a difference, even if it's for audit
* it's clearly not a good enough reason for such high fees for so many tx, they could have been doing it with minimal fee

This kind of guys is what Ignore was invented for, I recommend everybody use that instead of wasting time with this kind of mix between gibberish and blatant trolling.
I would not be surprised if behind this account is the same person as for Fullbear2222, polo7 and 325btc, which would also mean ban evasion.

I have a feeling that you didn't sync it all. But form the few info you provide I don't know.


Getting your wallet online even for a second is unsafe. And I have a feeling you want to store big money if you want to use different computers for each. So .. don't.
(Plus, since the cold storage never goes online, not even for windows updates, you can easily keep all wallets on that one. I repeat, sync is not needed for cold storage).

If you want only safety and you don't care too much about privacy, I will recommend Electrum because it's easier to handle and better documented.
One Electrum will stay forever offline. That one contains the seed. Offline.
Another Electrum, on another computer, will go online. That's a watch only wallet. They will work together. The watch only wallet will handle the online stuff (see funds/inputs, create transactions, broadcast transactions) and since it's online it's OK. The offline cold storage will only sign transactions (you transfer from the watch wallet and back when signed, to broadcast). The watch only wallet is created from master public key, not for seed. Some more details are here: https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/coldstorage.html

Similar logic can be done with Bitcoin core, but I don't have experience with that. However, there too, the cold storage stays offline. Always.


Sorry, I don't know (nor care much) about these.

You do have a point, but they could:
* do much fewer batches of consolidation if they want to // no need to do all in one day
* do partial consolidations together with the actual user withdrawals (that would be imho a smarter implementation).


This is a good question and I will come with two thoughts (although one of them may need its own different topic) :
* many traders (ie not actual newbies) could think "if the mempool is this congested, why would I withdraw? I will have to pay a lot to send back when I want to sell" // maybe this is one of CZ targets?
* what if, while we were cheering this year for how much bitcoin has left the exchanges in 2022, this was more due stealing/working on fractional reserve than user withdrawals? (I know, this may be a bit paranoid though).

Although I've taken a quick look, this doesn't seem to be discussed, and I think it should.

It looks like Binance has decided to consolidate their wallets/transactions last night. It's something they do now and then, but the current timing could not be worse.
And from CZ I do expect to be a deliberate move (usually in his favor, not ours), but I don't understand the reasons. Spamming mempool now means more panic to the average Joe in these days he's overly panicked. Does he want to make people change their minds about withdrawing from exchanges? Or does he try to cover some exchanges that can now claim withdrawing issues? I don't know.

For better info on the context, it worth looking on this tweet and the subsequent ones and also the images:
https://nitter.it/OwenKemeys/status/1592223269310328833

Theoretical issues are there from second one.
We don't know if the HW maker is honest or has included a backdoor in creation of the seed. It's not "stealing the seed" per se, it's more like creating the seed by somewhat simpler rules to allow easier brute forcing by them.
This would be even easier imho than this "Nonce Covert Channel Attack", although this nonce attack could reveal the seed no matter where and how it was generated.

I guess that no matter who is making the hardware wallet, the user unfortunately has to trust that company at least a little bit. But this was true from start, hence the hardware wallets should be used for "daily funds", not for a mix of daily funds and cold storage (safely generated paper wallet or seed is still more suitable for that).

But, as the others said, I don't see why a HW company would blew its reputation by doing this kind of shenanigans, especially one with great sales over many years. And since the "finding" brings nothing new, it may indeed be just for advertising.


How about SeedSigner? Since that's 100% open source, maybe it can bear more trust? Plus it already uses dice afaik.

There was/is at least one lawsuit against CSW, initiated by COPA, but afaik the topic there is only the copyright on the Bitcoin whitepaper.
Maybe more will come after that one is won (and the legal costs recovered).

This is not a cold wallet. This is the recipe for losing your coins without understanding how that could be possible. It has happened before. As said, cold storage should absolutely never go online after the address was set up in it. The cold storage doesn't even need to be synchronized with the blockchain. You should really read more about cold storage.


Do you by chance store the blockchain onto an external disk? If so, your problem may be caused by the disk disconnecting (bad data cable/contact or insufficient power sent to the disk).

You have the know-how to keep your bitcoins in a cold storage. Most don't even understand good enough what Bitcoin is.
They will just pick a fund, and if that fund also invests into Bitcoin, or more likely into some Bitcoin related financial product, they may have a bit bigger pension.
This can be good for both the elderly and bitcoin ecosystem too, if along the route at least one of those entities must keep real bitcoins in their stash, and the full amount, not a fractional reserve.