We do not even know certainly if Satoshi still owns any Bitcoin, if any of the old high-balance BTC addresses were/are his .. or if he's even alive anymore. but the best guess would be that Satoshi has used Bitcoin Core.

There are lots of options out there and your question is very nice in my opinion. Well done for looking for wallets without any third parties involved!

My personal suggestions are: Electrum for PC, Mycelium/Electrum for Mobile or, the best one of all, Hardware Wallets (I personally have a Ledger).

There is no safe wallet out there if you do not use them the right way though. Although hardware wallets made me feel the safest, they aren't if you do not take care of the basic but crucial steps such as paying attention to the transaction details, making sure the shown address is correct etc.

By "offline" usage I believe you are talking about airgapping a computer/phone in order to complete transactions on it completely offline. Again, this is NOT a no-risk zone. Don't you think that by airgapping a PC you'd be 100% safe!

If you would like to use an airgapped PC, you could go for Electrum. Here is a very quick tutorial on how to set up your Electrum wallet for this matter.

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If you are quite new to Bitcoin, which I assume you are, I highly recommend you to first transfer $5-10 to the wallet and test all wallet functions out to avoid large losses. Once you get used to the wallet, go ahead and store your little pieces of the Crypto King in it. One more friendly advice: don't give anyone your master seed/mnemonic phrase/private key(s) and better triple-check an address or the details of a transaction than be sorry. You might waste a minute on checking if the transaction details are correct, but maybe you're going to prevent the loss of significant amounts.

Well, it looks like there's quite a lot of positivity out there. As soon as this positivity isn't going to turn into silence in a matter of weeks, it could turn BTC into a monster. If everyone goes silent soon after the halving, get ready for nothing.

Just stay still and hope a 2015 crypto-doomsday like scenario isn't getting ready for us and everything will be fine. Price will move according to what we do with BTC and if the FOMO continues, it's going to be a positive movement.

Last time I looked up "Ledger" on Google I saw 2 different fake Ledger website ads. The fact that the only difference between legit search results and ads is that "AD" little text next to the ads makes it an even higher possibility to click them. How come do we never see fake YT or Amazon links over there while crypto scams are advertised intensely and easily?

No wonder Ripple is suing YT over identity theft scams. It probably takes a large lawsuit before Google finally decides to stop supporting thieves because that's what they're basically doing.

If you want to bet on the fact that the price will move exactly the same way it did in the past 2 halvings, then it'd be 11x this time - not 1x. That goes around my opinion that I foresee a max price of ~100k. Price went up & down 20-30% in the past few months already, that isn't a weird move for BTC. It's volatile, less than it used to be but it still is.

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Never took fiat to compare its inflation with BTC's. Very interesting point there. So from your personal perspective, do you expect BTC to go wild once people start realizing that its inflation is going down?

I never tried out localcryptos or other platforms to buy crypto off with fiat, but I've used lots of different ATMs. Make sure your closest ATM does not have KYC (or maybe it has a certain limit you can deposit without KYC - check their terms & conditions or call their number to find out) and also make sure it's open now that most businesses are closed.

If you can find one nearby, I suggest you to try it out at least once. Feels much safer imo and you don't have to work with banks to get your cryptos, so as long as there's no KYC.. risks are little.

Well, even without diversion I believe there wasn't much you could do besides crying out loud that casinos are closed. Never had a strong physical addiction to casinos, but I get the idea. I think it's better in the end and you should seek the positive side: if we were to have casinos still up and running right now, you'd be sitting there throwing your money away during some hard times. Maybe it was some kind of sign from the Universe for you to stop

I also don't think a 33x or 99x increase is likely. It'd turn BTC into a million bucks which is too much and could damage the markets actually for some time.

If there's a rise I'm expecting, it'd probably be a 5-15x increase making BTC worth maximum a hundred grand. But still, it's uncertain and there's always a possibility that things go wrong. My best advice is: if you can take the risk and are willing to, do it. If you're looking for large profits, be careful. You never know when a risky investment goes wrong due to simple reasons such as wrong timing.

Ca sa nimeresti "moneda aleasa" trebuie sa ai si un pic de noroc. Pana la urma cred ca acum exista aproximativ 10k altcoins, daca nu mai bine de atat.. sa alegi moneda buna dintre toate acelea tine si de norocul pe care-l ai..

Pot si eu sa iti vin cu exemple de monede care au crescut 10x in decursul a 7 zile cu un maxim de 15x, ideea e ca majoritatea le rateaza si/sau vand cand e prea tarziu. Am sa iti dau un exemplu din moneda mentionata de tine: daca in Martie ai fi cumparat Chainlink, azi ai fi fost pe pierdere 40-50%. Ca sa ai profit pe moneda aia, trebuia sa o cumperi la momentul potrivit.

Acum revenind la ideea ca daca ma rezumam doar la BTC aveam mai mare profit decat cum am procedat eu, ideea e urmatoarea (am sa folosesc niste cifre fictive dar ca profit in procente vorbim de acelasi lucru): am avut 1BTC care pe atunci era $1k pe care i-am investit in mai multe monede alternative. Astazi, am $7-8k (deci aprox. 700-800% profit) dar BTC e ~$9,5k. Am profit mare pe alts, dar as fi avut profit si mai mare daca banii pe care i-am avut i-as fi pastrat in BTC. Mai mult de atat... as fi avut azi mai mult BTC decat am acum.

It's not changing based on a number of days but on the number of mined blocks (as mentioned above).

It'd be a hell of a time for other Bitcoin users as only 1 CPU has to do the job all the miners in the world were doing before, so it's going to take a long time before the set of another 2016 blocks is mined - which would indirectly rise the number of active miners as the Bitcoin network, my logical thinking tells me, would get clogged.. resulting in our transactions being stuck, so Bitcoin becoming unusable until difficulty gets adjusted.

If Bitcoin ever reaches the point where only 1 CPU in this entire world is mining, I think there are way more things we have to be concerned about! Wouldn't the network be exposed to 51% attacks as soon as the difficulty is adjusted? Wouldn't only 1 miner in the world mean nobody cares about BTC anymore (or you're living in a post-apocalyptic scenario)?

How would that work though? How do you give a block to someone? Or is it done just by transferring the 6.25BTC to the buyer/giving them the key to it?

It makes no logical sense to me

The only reason CSW succeeded with his lies is because of newcomers hoping to get a second BTC pump chance with BSV. It did have a pretty amazing pump a few months ago, but it was probably artificial.

If there were no "investors" out there hoping for him to finally say a non-lie for the first time ever and prove his identity of the supposedly status as "the creator of Bitcoin" which is a blatant lie and an insult to Satoshi, we would've probably seen BSV among the last few pages of cryptocurrencies out there.

Rezervat.

I have a feeling that the more you play, the more you wager -> the more you lose.

Entertainment takes your attention from losing money & wagering away. The best thing one casino can do is make you feel lots of fun, as you'll be tempted to stay there and keep playing. I've had +5hr-long sessions and yet I lost. I don't understand why some people believe there exists a strategy to win, it's all about being lucky with a lil' dust of placebo on it

Sounds both good and bad when you say "old video (2013)", I feel old but semi-OG at the same time Those were very exciting times to be honest, I turned from a newbie who had no idea what cryptocurrency even means into a BTC fanboy in a matter of hours. Although today it is more adopted than it was back then, I still believe 2012-2016 were the largest boost Bitcoin had when it comes to adoption, price, number of wallets/investors/hodlers, mining rigs and whatever else you will.

I am just not sure if similar times are coming in the next few years - maybe only if something truly revolutionary happens or suddenly lots of people decide to take their financial freedom back. Anyways, with all these ups and downs it's been so far probably one of if not the most fascinating timeline of my life

Whoever has been through 2017 knows that McAfee is not a man to put your trust into. The way he used his own influence to his advantage was a crappy move and proved me that he's all about pumping & dumping his allegedly "coins of the future", which I am more than sure were actually the list of coins he was holding.

Calling coins what they aren't (saying a shitcoin is a privacy coin when in fact it never was one), using your tweets to do monstrous P&D schemes, (allegedly) asking coin founders to send him X BTC for him to shout it out (don't know if it's a confirmed fact but I do remember screenshots flying around everywhere of him doing this). Now that CSW isn't a hot topic on BTCTalk anymore, will McAfee be the new CSW?

Vorbind 100% din experienta personala, eu sunt de urmatoarea parere: Bitcoin pentru long-term hodling, altcoins pentru acele perioade de boom tip 2017.

Dintre toate investitiile mele ever in altcoins, am observat ca altcoins-urile sunt foarte faine in principiu pentru acele perioade de boom. Daca ai alts in acele vremuri si le schimbi in BTC pe toate cand esti pe profit, in scurt timp vei fi rege. Insa monedele pe care le-am cumparat acum 4-6 ani de zile sunt aproape toate pe negativ azi, iar un numar semnificativ dintre ele sunt pe cadere cu >90% de cand le-am cumparat. Pe scurt, fuck 'em.

Am observat insa ceva interesant: am adunat per total cati bani am pus in alts si cati bani am pus in BTC. Suma asta, daca ar fi fost sa ma rezum doar la investitii in BTC, mi-ar fi adus un profit mult mai mare fata de mutarile pe care le-am facut cu altcoins.

Am pus la un moment dat o suma destul de maricica intr-o moneda care, din acel moment pana azi, nu mi-a adus niciodata profit. Nici macar pentru un minut. Mai mult de atat... pretul e cazut cu mai bine de 98% - daca n-ai in plan sa iti bagi unghiile in gat, parerea mea e sa stai cuminte si sa te rezumi strict la "regele crypto".

Degeaba am trecut prin 2017 si am avut o suma uriasa de bani in alts daca n-am facut nimic, pentru ca azi sunt pe pierdere.

Situatia nu devine o problema din cauza faptului ca statul ar sti ce face fiecare cu monedele. Situatia devine o problema atunci cand partile terte apar intre mine si cealalta persoana care doreste sa tranzactioneze. Daca pui deoparte anonimitatea (in sensul de a introduce legi impotriva anonimitatii), atunci practic ai adoptie degeaba pentru ca moneda Bitcoin nu mai e ceea ce se presupunea ca va fi.

Desi Satoshi a avut si cateva postari legate de Tor si anonimitate gandindu-se inclusiv la asta, el a ales sa faca moneda BTC una complet transparenta care iti va da voie sa te misti d.p.d.v. financiar cum doresti tu, fara a avea nevoie de increderea unei parti terte. Bitcoin + third parties =/= Bitcoin!

Pe masura ce oamenii vor adopta ideea de BTC + parti terte fara anonimitate, statul isi va permite din ce in ce mai mult. Pana cand ne vom da seama ca Bitcoin nu mai e Bitcoin. E un fel de injectie letala nedureroasa care dureaza multi, multi ani de zile. Pas cu pas!


Eu gandesc altfel: lumea se va educa in momentul in care isi vor da seama spre ce directie se merge la nivel planetar si vor cauta adevarata anonimitate si intimitate jupuita de pe noi de catre stat. Daca o metoda de plaata a viitorului trebuie sa le aiba pe toate cum spui, atunci de ce de-anonimizam si, practic, centralizam BTC? Daca statul cere tot mai multe drepturi privind cryptomonedele din buzunarul tau, acea cerere de drepturi e un fel de centralizare camuflata.

Educam masele, dar de ce le educam gresit? Eu cand vorbesc cu cineva despre BTC, compar intotdeauna felul in care bancile rup toate hainele intimitatii si drepturilor de pe noi si se comporta de prea multe ori ca o autoritate sau compar felul in care conturile bancare de fapt inseamna banii tai in buzunarul altuia in timp ce BTC iti da voie sa fii liber. Ca banul tau sa fie proprietatea ta.

Sunt constient 100% ca Bitcoin nu va putea niciodata sa fie "moneda viitorului". Ca ideal, da - poate ca o sa reprezinte o solutie ideala pentru problema intimitatii pe care o sa o avem in viitor (bookmark this link & check it out months later!). Dar oricat de mult te-ai gandi, nu exista o solutie ca autoritatile sa fie fericite cu BTC asa cum a fost el creat decat in situatia in care ne supunem si lasam totul deoparte pentru a face cale libera guvernului cu masurile care sa le convina doar lor. Moneda viitorului o sa fie acea moneda dezvoltata in momentul de fata de chinezi/europeni. De acolo pana la BTC e cale lunga...


Spune-le asta si celor de la marile falimente bancare din ultimii 20 de ani din Romania care si-au pierdut toti banii astfel!

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Am sa revin putin la ideea pe care multi o au: faptul ca noi, care vrem anonimitate, nu ne supunem la plata taxelor si impozitelor. Si am sa pun urmatoarea intrebare la care nu am nevoie de un raspuns direct, vreau doar sa iti pun mintea la lucru putin: uitandu-ne inapoi la toate evenimentele intamplate din istoria crypto tu ce spui, masurile destul de anti-crypto luate de guverne sunt masuri pentru a imbunatati situatia sau pentru a ataca indirect BTC?

Daca o persoana cauta sa faca tax evasion, o va face gasind o metoda si cu, si fara reglemetarea cryptomonedelor. Sunt oameni care fac miliarde bune si mari cu aurul si nu au nevoie sa plateasca niciun impozit pe acei bani. Pai desigur, acolo e vorba de oamenii aia "mai mari" caci na, eu sau tu mai greu ne permitem sa ne atingem de niste kg de aur sa ne putem spala banutii atat de usor..

Eu pot garanta oricui ca masurile adoptate de state sunt, pe termen lung, un atac masiv indirect asupra cryptomonedelor. Ai sa vezi acest lucru in viitor. Apreciez pe oricine deschide o afacere in domeniul crypto si incearca sa faca ceva, sa aduca adoptia mai aproape de real decat de ideal, insa din pacate ai sa observi si tu in timp ca am dreptate. Decentralizarea, anonimitatea vor ramane doar idei, doar idealuri.. la fel cum si astazi, dupa cum bine observi, drepturile noastre reprezinta doar niste idei.

Why wouldn't he? It's online, nobody knows who you are and you play with other complete strangers without having paparazzi all over you.

As a celebrity, intimacy is probably something you drool for - this brings not only privacy of his true identity but also connects him to others from around the world and is able to do and say normal stuff without having the fear of being judged for it. If I was a celebrity, I'd do it. Especially as lots of people tend to judge you over your casino habits & enjoyment.

Si eu ma regasesc in exact aceeasi situatie, dar la mine acel "hodl" e de mult mai mult timp. Am mai facut trade-uri ici-colo asa, de distractie si pentru a-mi mai inmulti putin suma in final, dar in rest BTC-ul meu e de neatins momentan.

Tocmai ce scriam un reply in care vorbeam despre ratarea oportunitatilor. Revenind la topicul meu, probabil am sa-i tin deoparte pana o sa mai ratez inca o data alte cateva oportunitati (ca de obicei) si am sa regret. Dar sincer sa fiu, nu m-as vedea vreodata in stare sa ma apuc sa transfer BTC din wallet. Parca sunt prea pretiosi