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I think that this is the "proof" you need:
https://web.archive.org/web/20221004170338/https://support.bitmain.com/hc/en-us/articles/10687719622681-ANTMINER-S19-Pro-Discount-Coupon

It's that page you've found, as archived in 4 October.



Best of luck!

That's pretty much what I was also saying...

Multumesc 


  Ai dreptate. Imi amintesc ca acum ceva timp (cred ca ani) am fost intr-o campanie pentru un cazinou, banii au intrat pe contul de cazinou si trebuiau jucati inainte de a fi scosi. Bineinteles, am reusit sa pierd o parte semnificativa din ei. Dar na, noi sa fim sanatosi 

Since the numbers/ratios for the previous cycles are not 3.5 and 6.3, they will most probably not be 3.5/6.3 for current/future cycles either.
So the math is too simplistic and, sorry, but probably wrong.

Na, nu ma plang. Pana la urma a avut loc extragerea si, avand (toti cei ramasi) practic ceva mai multe sanse, am castigat si eu


Am citit intre timp ca cel putin unul dintre organizatori nu a platit premiul (sau cel putin nu inca, dar a trecut cam mult timp).
Dar banuiesc ca asemenea cazuri sunt rare.


Bafta!


Am si eu o retinere in a-mi face inca un cont si acolo; inca ma decid daca sa imi bat capul sau nu.
Si legat de predictiile duble, fiecare organizator cu decizille lui. Cand sunt scrise de la inceput e OK. In acest caz cred ca nu sunt, dar cat timp nu sunt mai mult de 3 predictii identice poate sa nu fie problema.

Just for the sake of correctness I will confirm that the signature verifies with the latest Electrum.

According to the HW lists with Secure chip, list updated in September 2022, Trezor still didn't seem to add secure chip to their devices.
And after the thing I've found in their blog (see my other post) I would not be surprised if they will not add secure element at all.

By what I've read here it looks like, by far, it was not an accident, instead it seems that it was meant to "help out" gate.io fake its proof of reserves.
I don't know the full story yet, let's keep our eyes open (and maybe also keep the discussion in one place).

While this can indeed give some confidence to the investors, I think that this can easily become a poisoned gift, in the same way CZ took SBF's FTT to "use" as "emergency break" when the things become shitty (FTX too inflated, too dangerous for Binance).

However, let's not cheer for CZ and the current price level. The current price level doesn't deserve that and CZ clearly does all this for his cold calculations.

It's not 100% clear what you've done, I will assume you withdrew your coins from MtGox to your wallet and exported the private key.

* I remember that certain wallets (Multibit?) were allowing to export the private key password protected. If that's the case you need both the encrypted private key and the password.
* A crashed computer has in most cases a recoverable HDD. If that's the case you may be able to recover the wallet file. That may also be password protected.

However, recovering the private key from a password is most probably impossible. The only case it would be possible would be that it was a brain wallet built from that password (is that the case? do you remember how you created the wallet, was it you from some words, or it was the wallet software doing it at start?), but if that's the case probably it was already found out and stolen, especially if the password was dictionary word.

I think that your best chance may be to get the data recovered from the old HDD.

Blockstream's electrs is a fork of the original (romanz') electrs.
It may be more professional, I don't know, but it may also be more resource hungry too.
But the setup I've made is based on what I managed back then to actually install without Docker (and I really wanted to avoid Docker). Mempool.Space I didn't manage to install on my configuration. And I didn't know about Blockstream's electrs.

So I will not say that the setup I've made is the best. It's just the one I could install. If you have time for tests, you can try other directions (maybe also document them better). If they don't work, you can use "my" setup as last resort option.

If you are in the mood for tests, Fulcrum can also be an option as Electrum Server (and may or may not save some time, but iirc it will eat up quite some disk space with its db).

Ohoo!! What a nice surprise! Thank you very much! 
Will be preparing the response PM now.

I see people already have you some hints. I will give you one more: I've made myself a step-by-step tutorial for installing and configuring Electrum Server (electrs) and also Blockchain Explorer (rpc-btc-explorer). It can be done on Windows (by installing WSL and then Debian) or directly under a Linux. Bitcoin + Electrum server + Block explorer under Windows (with WSL and Debian). Good luck!

I didn't use this block explorer's REST API, but I may try that too, however, it's supported according to this page: https://www.npmjs.com/package/btc-rpc-explorer#Features

1. Trust wallet is not as great as you'd think. It's closed source. Plus "your keys - your coins" is a lie: if you make a mistake and others too get your keys, you'll keep the keys, but you'll lose the coins.
2. How about using a hardware wallet and a decentralized exchange?

In theory, at least the most known wallets can be restored from seed. That's in theory.
In reality, nobody could answer your question, nor should risk guessing. In the same way SBF had his backdoor in FTX accounting software, we just cannot know if this closed source wallet is nice and clean or not. In theory, it is, but that's only in theory.

And as long as trust wallet is closed source, whatever its developers (or Binance official) will tell ... you have to trust them and they may be lying or not. Even more, as long as they keep lying it's open source, I choose not to believe them, I choose to use an actually open source wallet.

I would be a bit surprised, since Binance looks stronger (of course "looks" and "is" are different things).
And I would be a bit angry, since the panic (and price dump) because of FTX would be nothing compared to what would Binance's fall produce. And I've already got tired of the current crypto winter tbh.
(I will add that I would not be surprised to see this news about crypto.com though)

I'm not a poker player, by far. I mean, I think I know the rules, I've played a couple times, but the "chips" were plastics with no value.

I think that BB had 77 or 99 and started small to lure as many people and money he can into the game.
My vote goes for 99 (to have only one guess).

Even more, the lower the price is, the bigger the chance it won't go much lower. So buying now can be a very good business.
However, this is arguably more a Speculation than being on-topic...

* As said, a wallet doesn't turn to 2FA wallet just like that. However, if you've made tests and now opened a test wallet, or the wallet file got corrupted for whatever reason, I don't know...
* No matter how you created your wallet, Electrum pretty much force you write the seed and re-enter it to continue. So, if that wallet is indeed yours, maybe you think a bit deeper and find those seed words; then you can restore your wallet from seed.