I read an article a few days ago and apparently, the identity of the Poloniex hacker has been verified, and the hacker must return the funds before the 27th of November (while keeping 10M $) otherwise Justin would seek help from law enforcement. So yeah, I doubt he's dumb enough to make such a statement if he's connected to the hack in any way, shape, or form. That could easily backfire.

From my understanding, the approach is different than what's being used in exchange apps, and wallets where the biometrics are used to unlock the app. I'll try to get in touch with Cipher, I think he could shed more light on all of this.

Just saw a press release[1][2] of this service called bit store. I thought I'd share it, and also get some reviews in case anyone has used them before. The card have 2.5% top-up fee, and the company claims that KYC verification is not mandatory with a limit of 10K USD per month.

[1] https://news.bitcoin.com/bit-store-introduces-privacy-first-virtual-crypto-mastercard-and-unveils-websites-new-look/
[2] https://bit.store/faqs

What do you mean by "it has been confirmed that the BTC is received"? Did Coinbase confirm that the funds have been sent? or did you check the TXID?

If the latter, then you may want to start by checking that the receiving address is the correct one.

No, definitely not.  Could you explain what you're trying to achieve though? Are you trying to locate someone who stole from you? why would you try to locate your own wallet and how would that help you with anything?

، معظم الاختراقات التي فيها خسائر كبيرة نسبت الى فريق الاختراق Lazarus Group من كوريا الشمالية:

منصة CoinEx، اختراق محفظة Atomic wallet الذي مازال لحد الان كونها محفظة شخصية و ليست ب منصة، موقع Stake للقمار، الخ

كل هذه نسبت لنفس الفريق طريق بعض ال Blockchain Analysis

لكن يبقى السؤال، ما مدى صحة هذه الاداعات؟

أما بالنسبة لمنصة Poloniex، فيبدو أنه تم ايجاد هوية الشخص وراء هذه العملية[1] و سوف تأخذ المنصة الاجراءات المناسبة مع السلطات في حال لم يتم ارجاع  المبلغ (و يمكنه الابقاء على 10 ملايين دولار) قبل 25 من الشهر الحالي.

That's very possible, or maybe the way of calculating has changed over time. I'm not sure but this is just based on some tests I have done a very long time ago by the way. It's not something the administration mentioned.

I actually think I also had a bot running at some point, and it did show 24 hours as logged-in time, after 24 hours of running the bot and visiting pages every few seconds, but again, I could be mistaken.

Yes, that should be the case if my memory serves me correctly.

If I remember things correctly (someone corrects me if I'm wrong), it's whenever you're active.

So, let's say you're logged in, and then you visit a page, you are then considered "active" for the next 15 minutes and that's counted towards your logged-in hours. If you visit another page after 5 minutes only, then it'll start recounting after those five minutes which would make your logged-in hours 20 minutes.

I appreciate everyone's response. Now since I know that there are OTC desks and offices to exchange BTC and USDT to USD or EUR, I want to know if anyone has used any of them. I'd like to hear some reviews.

I'm aware of Coinsfera which was mentioned above, and I know they had an office in both Dubai and London, but I can see they're both closed now, so I'm a bit skeptical as to whether they are to be trusted or not? I can't find much info about them online aside from the Google maps reviews.

كتحديث: لقد تم بالأمس ارجاع كل خدمات المنصة و يمكن للمستخدمين الان سحب أموالهم[1]


في الحقيقة يوجد عمليات تهكير يعني تقريبا كل أسبوع، أما بالنسبة للمبلغ فاخر مرة كانت منذ شهرين مع منصة CoinEx حيث تم سرقة ما يقارب 70 مليون دولار.

هذا موقع يمكن استخدامه لاتباع كل عمليات الاختراق التي حدثت[2]

[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/poloniex-resumes-withdrawals-hack
[2] https://hacked.slowmist.io/

It seems like you've tried pretty much everything I can think of.

But when you say it didn't work, specifically with Electrum. How does that work? did you get different legacy addresses than the ones you were expecting to have? and did you make sure to select BIP39 in "Options"?

This article should explain the process: https://bitcoinelectrum.com/restoring-your-multibithd-wallet-in-electrum/

Make sure you followed everything as described here.

It was a phishing attack actually, yes and it got patched and fixed already.

Like I said, unlike blockchain.com, Electrum cannot be targeted the same way, because no private keys are hosted in their servers.


Assuming it's truly noncustodial as they claim, then yes.


You can always buy a hardware wallet, keep most of your funds in it and the rest could go into a hot wallet in your PC/mobile.

Making a site is not necessary if you have where to advertise the product. Let's say you made an account with a payment processor, and you created the invoice for X amount. Is it just for the sole purpose of giving it to people who are interested in buying? why not simply give an address in that case?

As for KYC, then I'm not sure I understand your question. If you don't want users to create an account, or go through KYC, then most services don't ask for that either, unless the amount is too big I would imagine but you will have to pass KYC as a merchant. If you also want to avoid that, you can go with Coinbase Commerce or BTCPayServer.

Are you referring to ViaBTC's wallet: ViaWallet, the noncustodial wallet? or ViaBTC the mining pool? If the later, then I'm guessing it's a centralized service? Electrum will show whatever amount you send. If ViaBTC doesn't allow you to withdraw that amount, it's probably because they have a min. withdrawal amount just like exchanges does.

But since you're selling some old tools you have, is it really worth it to build a website and use a payment processor for this? also, I'm not sure I understand the KYC part, do you need to pass KYC, or the buyer must do it?

Here's a list of payment processors anyway, with their KYC policy: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5444578.0

I would use something like eBay to sell those (assuming that you're allowed to sell them), and then use the fiat to buy Bitcoin.

Strange. I was pretty certain that I added exch. I'll make sure to add it, thanks.

As for SideShift, then this should also taken into consideration even one is not from the mentioned jurisdictions:

https://help.sideshift.ai/en/articles/6230858-sideshift-ai-s-risk-management-policy

I believe I talked about this before, but back then, I don't remember that "a refund" was only possible after completing the KYC process. They must've added that part recently.

Which exchange do you want the bot to support? Have you looked into Hummingbot?[1]. It's an open-source bot that has been around for quite some time and it supports a decent amount of both DEXes and CEXes, you should probably look into it before paying someone to write a bot for you.

[1] https://github.com/hummingbot/hummingbot

I guess I just paid attention to the fact that you were using Trustwallet. How did you even manage to bump the fees the first time if your transaction didn't have RBF enabled? Am I missing something?

أنا أرى أنه حاليا كل شئ متربط بال Spot ETFs الذي يتوقع  أن تقوم هيئة البورصة باعطاء الضوء الأخضر به قبل نهاية شهر الأول من السنة المقبلة (و يمكن أن يطول الأمر الى أكثر من ذلك).

و هو نفسه السبب الذي الذي ادى الى ارتفاع السعر الى ما هو الان، يعني ان كان هنالك رفض لكل الطلبات، فأنا أتوقع رجوع السعر الى ما كان عليه (ربما الى غاية ال halving على الأقب)، ان لم يكن الأمر أسوأ