@OP,
Even if your wallet (any) doesn't suggest you a proper fee to get your transaction confirmed in next block or 2, please refer to a comment I made in another thread that I'm quoting here:


Hope this helps you next time you do any transaction.

https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,24h

Visit this site.
Scroll down to the chart that says "Mempool Size in MB"
Hover over it and you'll see something like this:



If you want your transaction confirmed in next block, I believe you'll need to pay between the fee range where block sizes are less than 1 MB'ish. Credits to DarkStar_ and TheQuin for making me understand more about this.

If I were you, I'd definitely choose SegWit over Legacy if you're not so loving towards short addresses and can use addresses starting with 'bc1' without any problems, though there are SegWit addresses that start with a '3' as well. The only difference I believe will be the fee that you pay more in Legacy and a bit/lot less (depends on the size of transaction) in SegWit.

Yeah, great thought actually. Some people (including me) put a blind trust on few of the reputed exchanges as well to store their extremely valuable coins there without even thinking once about the risks it pertains. I've had a very brief discussion over these things and I've also learnt that distribution of wealth is one major factor we need to understand very carefully and apply too after being known to it. The hackers won't ask us whether they should take partial money out of our pockets or full, it's the same as those criminals who put gun over your head asking you to give whatever you've got, but even they won't wait for you to transfer money from your bank to theirs due to the fear of getting traced down. After this article read, I will not be able to believe even hardware wallets which many users were praising about.

For my convenience, I've just created some offline paper wallets that I'll be storing in very small steel boxes each and be kept at a safe place as well as I also keep a check every now and then, just to make sure I don't lose anything.

A question here:

If I've kept my coins in a hardware and that hardware either blasts off or gets destroyed anyhow (talking about these Ledger and Trezor thing), will I be able to ever regain them?

What IF:
- Value of at least 50-100 of the top 500 gets plunged and a change comes by bifurcation based on value change?

As yo said that you'll be providing the highlighted price gains in green and drops in red to share opportunities, what if the 500th crypto gets down to 600? Will it still be seen as an investment alternative on the site? What will it exactly reflect here rather than just sharing the data of these coins that we can find over exchanges itself? Will it share like for eg.; Arbitrage trades to give us a glimpse of a crypto that has got different rates on two or more exchanges?

Or, why not just simply take and keep the details of the trader you traded with, once? I always had a list of traders ready to be contacted almost immediately and swapped almost anything that I wanted to, without the need of any third party escrow - completely P2P but I believe it involves higher risks and chances of getting scammed and escrow saves you from becoming a victim. Exchanges are escrows? P2P exchange like Localbitcoins might be considered but those like Binance, Bitmex, Bitstamp can't be taken as escrows as trading there is instant and gets you your coins easily but for a spicy charge (not too much sometimes).

I guess, even for that, he needs to download it at least till the timeline where he left using his wallet, i.e.; last year. This is what we've been yelling over here but OP seems to have probably resolved the issue maybe that's why they are not responding. The problem maybe, he doesn't really know the exact final address where he stored his coins?

Did you get all your transactions restored (as in display sense) till the last date you left your wallet on? If yes and if it's showing 0, then either your file is not the original old wallet.dat (maybe you've had different wallet like more than one and you copied the wrong file, maybe) or they're gone completely. Can you share that last receiving address you've had your BTC on? Or simply check if there were any transactions made on that address and if so, where did they go? To my understanding, blockchain shows you everything. Sigh.

I think all that supported the flag received that award from GP.
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I think he even accused the gambling site wolfbet to be scamming people whose signature you're advertising, right? To me, this guy is a paranoid dick sick who is just playing with some words, especially this "Schizophrenia" thing.

@Game-protect,
You know something? A dog, when walks under a plow that's being ploughed by a bull or cow, believes that he is beast of burden. You're that dog, GP. 😚
You're a complex for yourself man, hat's off.
And although I, with many people around, believe that bumping your thread is getting you negative fame, I'd happily bump it for you to let each and every user know about your foolish behavior and not to believe you or your given trust ratings in any case.

I just can't stop laughing the fuck harder after I saw the latest reward I got from you, here:



But GP, you didn't even see that you're coming from many of those untrustworthy dickheads who don't even know what to refer as reference link while leaving a trust feedback. I don't know how @theymos is allowing you to abuse the trust leaving power because you're just trying to do some time-pass and so you're playing with trust ratings system, my kid??? Well, like everyone here, not even a flying fuck for you kiddo. 

You're just murmuring crapshit out of your little mudded mouth which can't speak good about anyone and so, I'm not really offended by your statement that you left on my trust. You're done with just 2 rash ratings or you've got more? I'm waiting... 

Just for your awareness, please don't save these important things like your wallet.dat file over an email or cloud, you'll have full vulnerability of losing your BTC by getting your email hacked and wallet.dat file extracted as well as BTC stolen.


You'll have to sync it till the time of Blockchain when you stored them in that wallet and you're fine to check whether they're still there or not. Don't worry, they won't be gone if they're untouched and your email was fine during this whole year. To my knowledge, if your wallet is syncing then I believe you didn't set a password because it asks you one if you've put it and you're using an old password-protected wallet.dat file.

On a side note, don't you remember the address on which you had your coins? It's simple to check whether they're still there or not by visiting the BTC Blockchain explorer here - https://www.blockchain.com/explorer and check with the address.

Loan Amount: 0.02 BTC
Loan Purpose: Daughter's serious health
Loan Repay Amount: 0.024 BTC
Loan Repay Date: 3rd September or earlier
Type of Collateral: None
Bitcoin address: 1HCdBZF9EwTVuP3fQu4JNXkJtrzPxQmjda

I'm sorry for your loss OP.

I believe we should start up a campaign (not speaking about signature campaign) where we should make newbies aware of such vulnerabilities to save them from becoming a victim for those hackers who just want free money and don't really wanna work for it. Else, I'd urge @theymos and @admins (administration) to please display these things as warnings in the News part (top left of your page under avatar) as it'd actually save many of them and even us if we remain unaware until scammed.

If I'm not wrong, you can simply do that by visiting the Preferences part and set the notifications on and after that, each time your wallet has any activity done, it'll immediately send a message to your number as well as an email to the mail you've set. I used this website around 2 years back (blockchain.info probably) but as of now, I don't know how's it going on there nowadays.

That's wrong because in the end, it's all campaign manager's job to effectively put things into consideration and watch out for quality and negate any posts that doesn't suit the campaign's standards. So, the manager still deserves what they are being paid. If everything could be considered correct for automated counts and everything, then why didn't Yoshit campaign become a successful story here?


Something I'd agree with, because this is something that should be taken fare of as it's totally somebody's talent they are showcasing through making such program that'd do almost everything a manager does (except the quality watch part).

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I believe I've seen some spreadsheets with integrated automation which isn't fully automated but the manager used sums and subtractions in specific places to determine exact post counts and payable amounts in BTC which is quite interesting.

To me, yes we actually need some tools to save a lot of time and efforts managers take while managing a campaign's spreadsheet. There should be a date-specific column setting that must allow the bot to check the posts based on total posts made during a specified date (week) range so to save users from being provided false numbers due to deleted posts and decrease in total number of posts of a user because of the same. I was once a part of a campaign that used bot to determine post number, but it had this issue of starting count with the previous week's last end number and even if a few posts get deleted, bot used to show the same number as starting post count for which users had to make the remaining amount of posts to first make their count reach the count the bot used to show.

Heck, that's too many of those "brain dead" here!  
I find it silly on GP's part to collaborate with the community with such idiotic arguments and that "child abuse" thing was still my favorite one. But, he believes we must contact him if we were scammed by an online casino? Why the fuck? He's got a delusional that he got such an Authority that he wants to help everyone and do public welfare jobs maybe? Go, join a Charity GP!

And very sorry nutlidah, but you still didn't beat GP here and he wins the "Troll of the Era Award".

IMHO, Binance is not just another exchange out there and they assured as well as did return most of the funds of their clients till now. Being a trader, I'm fine with Binance as of yet.


Like I said, a trader would definitely use Binance again but as an investor, I'd never keep my money over an exchange as if it's a long term investment in BTC alone and even if in alts, I'll prefer to keep them in a safe wallet of which I'm able to hold the privkeys of addresses stored in it.


It's unpredictable just as the price of BTC and it depends totally on the sentiments of each trader as if they really find themselves safe while sticking to Binance or not. So, it's on a case-by-case basis.


LIVECOIN... /s
With such huge assurance and security available at Binance and the way Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao deals with all the issues that come to and fro, I don't believe anyone can stop loving Binance.

P.S.: I'm not a shill of Binance exchange but just like the way they do their job.

What IF:
- A buyer's intentions aren't too good and he's gonna buy it with someone else's Amazon account? (You know you can get an Amazon account with anyone's credentials for some bucks in dark markets, and even free sometimes)
- A buyer uses a different location (VPN) to protect himself from being traced
- Last but not the least, a buyer gives a fake address or an address of any of his relatives, friends, ENEMIES, or a postal address where he could fake out his identity and get the product through that gift card?

There's a lot I've got in my mind to ask, but please clarify these first.

I don't believe this as I'd repeat the same thing I told in earlier times - the volume during the 2017-18 was so low that the manipulation was a game to market-SHakers but after it got injected the leverage thing, I see the volume that's needed to shake the markets now is a lot more (almost 3x) from what it used to be. Asserting to the fact that you're saying, I think chances are very less of BTC coming back to lower levels as I believe it has already made its low for this year and doesn't need to go any further down as the pattern did justice to those who were waiting for another opportunity to buy back. The dissent about the price going up or not is actually becoming questionable with each day being cut off and this won't come to an end, so let's see what the time has to tell!

@Op,
The article was really good and I believe BTC is in its chase mode but still, after the leverage was introduced to BTC and both shook hands, it actually destroyed BTC as it gave a reason to SHORTS to short BTC and they did the exact thing - Massive selloff. I think it'll take a bit more longer for it to reach $100k as it's 10x of 10k, not to forget that higher the price we want to reach, bigger the volume we'll need to be able to stretch it there. I think the highest I'd be seeing this year would be BTC breaking above $17500, and speaking about 2020 would be a stupidity but still I'd stick to my old prediction and say that it may go above $63k (not so far below $100k).

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This is what killed the Chinese trader Hui You who didn't control his emotions while betting on leverage and a single mistake resulted into losing 2000 BTC. It was actually an example that the bigger the whale you are, the higher the chances of getting crushed down by the biggest sharks out there waiting for the best moment, while watching out the money that enters the markets in pieces. Even when you see that there are 1/2 or 1/3 of shorts over longs, or vice versa, stay away from the markets or play with least capital and leverage against the side that's looking to manipulate because then, these sharks come and drag the markets against high orders to liquidate them and steal away their money "legally".