As long as you buy from reputable shops, or, even better, from those companies' official shops, there's no catch.
Some HW have no screen, some HW work with NFC only, and those go even lower than 39$. Some are Bitcoin only.
Make sure you know what you're buying. There's a topic that compares most HW very good, search it up., here it is: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5416497


I have a Ledger Nano S. When it's going to die, I will most probably not buy Ledger, unless they do something so great I'll forgive them for their many late mistakes.
One device I'm eyeing is SeedSigner. Pretty cheap, smart and I like it. Everything is open source there (OK, excepting the RasPi itself). I like the idea of using images to transfer the information.

I would not be surprised about that mindset, I've seen even here on bitcointalk the mentality of holding the precioussss bitcoins forever.
People have different approach in working with money and it's hard to change their mentality in this matter, especially when they've found the goose with golden eggs.
I wrote here and there on bitcointalk that people should get to also enjoy their money, hence "hodl some, spend some" tends to be more appropriate.

But while I may have some expectations from (some of) the people on bitcointalk, I pretty much don't expect more than this (or anything at all) from a generic commercial news writer.

QC is an issue in most phones I've been studying (I was eyeing an update for my 4+ years old phone). But I was looking into less pricey phones.
RAM management is an issue I've read about more than once, the Android system nowadays is hungry for RAM, at least 6 GB seems to be a minimal must.

A bit shame Graphene is only for the Pixels, from what I've read they're not the only ones with clean Android (iirc Moto also has clean Andro and it's much more affordable).
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I will keep an eye and retweet some of their donation requests too (already started). Pixel or not, it is a worthwhile project.

On the paper the correct number is 8k-10k, however there's a very good chance we're too late to get there/that low. Still, never say never.
Imho if it weren't the current uncertainty on financial markets the bear market could have been already over.

The forums allows easily to be used in a completely anonymous manner. Of course, one has to learn do that and also has o do that from second 1, else probably it won't help.
So the forum is great for this, but ultimately is a choice in the user's hand.

Then, if one is smart, he can ask for enough opinions and avoid get scammed. Still, scams are possible and I don't see how could they get eradicated on any forum or social media.

It's not a perfect solution, but I don't think that there's any better platform than this.

For the average Joe I recommend hardware wallets, if he can afford it.
If one does just a bit of research, he has a good chance to buy a good enough HW. And unless he does something extremely stupid, he'll be safe.

Paper wallets are obviously cheaper, and I recommend them to tech savvy people who know how to generate them safely, offline, in a live system (with no storage).
But they are somewhat static, if one wants to spend it's not straightforward to do the safety measures again and do all the handling like with cold storage.

One handy solution - rather cheap imho - would be SeedSigner, which is not really a HW, but not far from that. Bitcoin only though.


No. I don't recommend keeping any funds on mobile wallets - of course, unless the mobile wallet is linked to a hardware wallet.


I have a hardware wallet and of course, safe backup on paper. If the HW dies off, I can make cold storage, or buy another HW, will see.

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I expect people will keep telling about keeping the funds offline, in proper wallet, in hardware wallet, ...
I will add something more: make sure you only HODL decentralized coins, which cannot be frozen or stolen from you just for the sake of it.

I would not be surprised if they'd be expecting bribes here and there for the reopen.
I've seen similar stuff in my country too for far too many years, unfortunately (for example that's why we have probably the worse roads in all EU).

You have been thinking only to one use case, and yes, in many cases it's an user issue (usually phishing).

But you have missed the fact a developer with bad intention (for example one about to get fired) can do a small temporary change in such a website (even if it's a known and legit website) and log/save locally all those seeds. And after some days, months or years he can steal all those funds.

Or you've missed that a big number of so called online wallets are custodial wallets, meaning the user gets an account, not an actual proper wallet (the user doesn't own any private keys). Such a website, if gets hacked, will lose all the funds from the hot wallet, which can affect a lot o users. Or it can go bankrupt, or it can start asking for various KYC some may not be happy to give (and freezing/stealing the funds of those who don't comply).

So while the phishing and user issue is indeed the most common problem, it's not the only one that can happen. It's better to just avoid online wallets if that's possible.

Woah 
Stay safe, everything else can wait, no matter what.

Aualeu!
Stiu partial cum e, ca am avut si eu o durere de gat super nasoala acum vreo 3 saptamani, care inca imi revine din cand in cand (ca am tratat-o.. ca la noi, mai ales ca febra nu am avut), plus o tuse asociata incredibil de obositoare, dar, desi a fost una dintre cele mai urate dureri de gat pe care le-am avut in ultimii 30 de ani, cred ca a ta e mai nasoala.

Ai grija de tine, trateaza-te (mai bine decat mine!), multa sanatate si multa bafta!

Here there may be a translation issue: drug means also medicine, not only narcotic.

That's the reason for giving them only under prescription: they are addictive.
So I agree, it's illegal to sell them on the forum, since they're sold without prescription.


I think that the mods and also the vigilance of the people reporting posts is somewhat overrated. Such old posts/topics can easily go under the radar.
And now, since this is from 2012, it can even be considered part of the history  
I mean, please report it, but don't be shocked if it won't be removed. Some details (eg e-mail address) should be edited out though so potential buyers cannot get in touch with the seller anymore (if it's the case).


Weed and knives are a grey area, some are very strict in that area, some not. And imho they're much different than the much better example of prescription medicine.


And I'll get to your (actually good!) original question and the answer is similar to the prescription medicine: since the buyer will most probable not show an USA ID nor a permit for guns, we can safely consider this kind of deals illegal, hence report them.

I didn't wake up for it and I was happy with the decision. 3 hours...
I've watched the end of the race, it was superb, with Perez vs Leclerc, with Hamilton vs Ocon, with Alonso vs Russell...

I hope I will be watching a rerun today. Whoever has missed it, I advise to look for a rerun, it worth it!

This was what I expected/understood from that news. But the same news was putting Binance onto the same list as FTX and from my knowledge Binance cards are issued by Swipe, not Visa directly (as I already said).
So maybe it's in the way DaveF said, Visa takes the opportunity to get themselves into the news although it's not them who has made any actual direct partnership? It also may be that the journalists have no idea what they're writing about and some part of that news is mistaken. I really don't know...

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Concurs incheiat.

I think that you can add Ledger too to the list. It has same property: enter wrong PIN 3 times in a row and you can generate a new seed.
Plus this can go in other places too, not only collectibles, since people still want to create their own paper wallets in a way or another.

I would add a live OS stick (Tails?) too as an option for easy setup, since the computer setup you wrote can be tricky, traces/files will remain there for when one restarts WiFi / network.


However, great initiative and nice tutorial!

Clearly the exchanges do it for profit. And probably a big number of traders too.

Still, a network with only 9 nodes and the risk of getting funds seized is not something a business should spend time with if they want to be called reputable. But I guess that they don't care since if this happens BSV may also become worthless in no time, allowing the exchanges reimburse their affected users without a significant loss.

Still these exchange should not bite the hand that feeds them (mostly Bitcoin, I'd expect), hence do this (delist BSV), if not for the sake of their own (and their users') solvability, then as a gesture of courtesy.

If you look here the domain was created just 71 days ago.
I'd guess that somebody has managed to buy a domain name similar enough to Coinbase's and send some phishing mail (i.e. scam)

As a general rule, when you get this kind of e-mails you should never click them, instead go to the intended website by the link you know/use normally and see there if there's any announcement for you, or even ask the support.

The price is related to block reward (halving every ~4 years), mining difficulty (rising with more and more powerful miners getting plugged in) and also quite a hefty speculative component. Maybe other things too. Altogether I don't think that anybody could "calculate" the future price.
I expected the worldwide rise of electricity price will also matter, but for now it doesn't give any sign to do so.
Overall increase in bitcoin popularity makes more invest / hold and this increases the speculative component...

So yeah, people throwing this or that price in the news just make worthless speculation. Nobody has a crystal ball and math doesn't help here.

Well, OP was asking about other expectations than the price.
And while everybody hopes for 100k or higher, there are chances that if recession strikes we may not even reach the previous ATH...

I think that I've seen before at least one user being banned and all their posts being obliterated. But I don't remember details.
So I would say that yes, there must be a coneection.

And from what I see in the trust feedback, the mentioned user was evading a ban, so probably it's part of some automatic "punishment" that didn't manage to "reset" everything.

Maybe a mod knows more...