Should I rather get another hardware wallet and try to get my inventory over there?
What is your exact model of ledger hardware wallet? Old and retired model S is slower than newer models, but I don't think this change would speed anything in your case, and your computer hardware and processor is more than enough. Maybe hardware wallet devices with faster processors will have less issues with many transactions, but this is just my speculation. it's not faster yet. I'll get a new hardware wallet on Tuesday, then I'll try to get everything over and will then reset the ledger. Did you choose any other manufacturer for hardware wallet? I would suggest getting something that is open source, and if you are only dealing with Bitcoin than Passport by Foundation could be good option. As for other hardware wallets, I never heard someone had problems with mining rewards, but you can check the list I made for open source wallets available today: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5288971.0EDIT: I did some research about Trezor hardware wallets, and they are saying that Trezor is not designed as a mining rewards wallet because of high number of transactions, so they are suggesting costumers to compile more transactions to one and then deposit to Trezor wallet. |
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Almost 7 days ago, I deposited around $800 and loaded it to my card, they deducted they card fee, loading fee and the balance never appeared in my card. Been trying to contact them but they never replied. On chat, only replied once and said give 5 minutes and then vanished.
Please create a scam accusation topic and flag against them and provide some evidence how much money they stole from you, and how you tried to contact them. It's not that I don't trust your word but it's always good to have valid arguments, and maybe we can track their bitcoin address and follow where the money goes. I already gave them negative feedback, but since they are not coming back for days, it's better to have red flag on their profile. Also watch out for any new service like CoinPayCard that could pop up in next few weeks. |
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Jedan novčanik za koji nisam znao do nedavno, Ballet PRO nije klasičan hardverski novčanik, ali je poboljšana i skuplja verzija starog Ballet novčanika. Razlika je da Ballet PRO ima dodatni BIP38 passphrase kod i sigurniji je zbog toga, metalni meterijal je 304 stainless steel što ga čini jako izdržljivim, a može se kupiti za $299 plus dostava. Podržava više od 100 kriptovaluta kao Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, BNB, USDT, USDC...  https://www.ballet.com/pro/ |
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Its an mobile application which allows to create virtual cards and they location is same as CoinPayCard's billing address I tried clicking on links posted to download this PayDay app but it doesn't work for me, and I can't finds this aps anywhere. On their twitter account Payday is saying they are Virtual Mastercards and Visa cards for Africans, specific country is Nigeria. If address is same as for CoinPayCard than there must be some connection. Could they be using this to generate cards? If so what could be the reason they failed to get this going (if it wasn't all about running off) I don't understand what you are trying to say. They are obviously gone from forum, telegram and ''cards'' currently don't work like they should. For creating Scam accusation and flag against them you need to create your own topic with proof/images how much money you lost, and conversation with support. |
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Sadly, I think a CBDC would probably be helpful for situations like this. As is, you'd seemingly need some sort of USD stable coin in order to do a trade like this without trusting a 3rd party.
No, CBDC is a scam and nobody should accept that slave fake coupon-like money! Just research what shitshow they created in Nigeria with eNaira, and it would be 1000 times worse in any western countries. Fiat is still transferred out of band. So is Bitcoin tho however. If you are familiar with Robosat, the platform doesn't really touch the payment, it just relays information between the Maker and Taker.
Yes I am familiar with Robosat that uses Lightning Network, but what's the difference and advantage between your proposal compared to using Robosats? Can mainnet Bitcoin be used with your proposal or it's only LN Bitcoin? Its meant to be an open protocol that anyone can implement. Just like Nostr, someone made the Damus iOS client. And then someone else made the Amerthyst Android client, amongst many other web clients.
Ok, I understand now. I am not an expert or developer, but I will take a look and try to spread the word about this. We certainly need more real DEX options for trading BTC, that are easy to use and can work on all devices, including mobile phones. |
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I tried to contact him through live chat on the website, asking a banal question, and pretending to be a future customer and I got a reply in a normal time period, around 3 min.
it seems that it is still accepting new users while ignoring the existing ones and keeping their money. I would say an obvious exit scam. Oh you are lucky if you received any reply from him  I tried contacting them several times in different times of the day but without success, and I can still register and send coins for new ''invisible''cards. If they don't show up in forum and refund money to their customers, I will have to give them negative feedback and damaged customer should create a flag against them. even if there is a bug, they should inform all existing users and temporarily stop the registration of new ones, because their system does not work.
I'm not sure I can say sorry for someone's loss here, especially not for the more experienced members.
They don't have to do it in forum first, but they have so much options like twitter, telegram and website, but there is no word from them. |
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wait, does this mean that Ledger wallets with firmware 1.3 or older become useless junk?
Shouldn't they be obliged to make available all the changes and updates so far?
This is how ledger operates, and I never heard that any electronic devices can get broken if you don't update firmware in time. Imagine you purchase a smartphone or laptop and if you don't update on time you can't use it anymore.  I think Ledger is slowly preparing their customers to permanently stop updating Ledger model S. |
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I have been thinking about for a while, how we can have something like Bisq, but on mobile. The P2P nature of Bisq makes it really difficult to run in a mobile environment. I have engaged with the Bisq 2 team and there's little to nothing that would improve this situation any time soon. I was hoping something would change after Bisq 2.0 get released, but your post crush my last hope. Only way would be using some remote software to control Bisq that ins installed on your computer, but that is not the same thing. On the other hand, Nostr have been developing extremely rapidly the past 6 months, and recently the Damus iOS client have increased the adoption of Nostr drastically. I was thinking if a similar architecture can be used for a Bitcoin/Fiat DEX. It's interesting idea and Nostr could be used since for this purpose especially after recent popularity in public, but I don't understand how you would exchange fiat currencies with Bitcoin. I haven't got everything figured out yet, especially on how to strengthen plausible deniability on the part of Nostr relay runners. But I did write an initial proposal on Github. Would love to get some feedback before I actually try to build an iOS client that actually implements the protocol proposed! Thanks! Can this work on Android devices or only for iOS devices? |
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No it's wrong, if you buy the PRO version, it's totally safe because they will only generate the encrypted private key from the BIP38 intermediate code you will generate with your passphrase and your own entropy before sending it to them. So they will never know your passphrase and won't be able to find it in any way. https://www.balletcrypto.orgNo, it's not wrong because I was not talking about ''PRO'' version that is much more expensive $299, compared to normal Ballet that starts from $35... that is almost nine times more expensive! I certainly don't think this is worth so much, and I still don't consider addition of passphrase safe enough to call Ballet a real hardware wallet. In fact they don't even call it a hardware wallet on their website, they just say ''Cryptocurrency wallet'' or ''Cold Storage Crypto wallet''. You can't change or add new addresses,so this is just glorified paper-like wallet, that can only serve as cool collectible for me. |
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I don't think anyone throws out copper, it's worth €6.50/kg! In fact, copper theft is a serious problem. So if you have old pipes, sell it, and buy washers There are recycling centers all around the world that buys used metal materials, but beware that there are many different type of copper. It is more expensive than stainless steel so it must be better for something, maybe not for backing up bitcoin seed phrase but for something else. One example how price of copper increased a lot, on Jameson Lopp review website Safe Seed copper plate was $16 (one of the cheapest at that time), and few years later price is $28... nice inflation. They do! You'd be surprised by the amount of waste of construction sites.
People throw out everything I know people who found perfectly working good quality laptops in garbage, or they had some small error. |
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Now I'm down to only using Phoenix Wallet for LN transactions.
Have you tried any other wallets (except Blue Wallet)? that is really too bad. i have never used blue wallet until now - my favorite is still the zeus wallet
It's not that bad because Lightning in Blue Wallet was custodial with LndHub, and they are working on non-custodial lightning use, that will come back in future. Electrum desktop wallet can also be used for LN, but I don't think they have that option in mobile Electrum wallet. There is one interesting chart from BitPay showing what are the most used LN wallets, Wallet of Satoshi, Muun and CashApp have much bigger share than Blue Wallet.  https://bitpay.com/blog/lightning-strikes/ |
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Recently, it turned out that Taproot can be used for NFTs, and it is side-effect that was never planned. For that reason, any feature that could have undesired side-effects, will take a long time to introduce. And confidential transactions is one of those features. I really didn't expect this circus with ordinals and posting stupid rock images on Bitcoin blockchain... now they even have dex exchanges for trading this stuff, result is that 1 sat is not 1 sat anymore. Can you guess what would be the worst case scenario in case if confidential transactions get introduced after soft-fork in Bitcoin? I am sure there would be much higher transaction fees, and blockchain size would increase a lot, but I am asking for other things that could happen. Sidechains and second layer solutions can be good for privacy, but I would prefer if Bitcoin introduced privacy on mainnet years ago. |
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He's not gone. He has been harassing me on telegram and messaging past clients whom I ran campaigns for. I guess he thinks he's doing something, but he's not.
I'm sure he will pop up on here again and give everyone a free post or 2.
He sounds a lot like some lunatic, and I can only imagine how he is doing stiff like this in real life to other people... I would personally record all his threats and harassment. Sorry for asking, but can you take a wild guess why he is being so suspicious about your health condition, and why he is so persistent to get return for his alleged donation? I am sure he is coming back with some new account soon... |
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I didn't like this from the beginning, just because of the way of communication and a lot of illogic behind them. for some reason, posts with a negative connotation in their ANN are no longer deleted as if they gave up on that and that's why it sounds like an exit scam to me. I feel the same way, that is why I can sometimes sound harsh to new crypto business that appears in forum, it's my basic test or litmus paper for scams. They really tried to cover their tracks with creating and locking bunch of topics, arguing with me and other members, and in the end they offered me again free cards in PM. Few members took those fee cards and they defended them, so I find them partially responsible for potential scam. Not trying to defend them or anything, but I want to write about my experience with this issue.
Not trying so hard, but you are (again) defending them  API problem does not explain why there is NO support, why that page is missing from their website, why there is no reply on telegram and in bitcointalk forum.... The customer support pages were always unresponsive the whole time - I only got answers via forum PM.
This is not true! I personally asked them several questions with support on their website, and now their whole support page is down. You should be really careful next time when you accept shady offers like this in public, especially since you are in DT1 if that crap is relevant at all anymore Let's not forget that you did a review for them, as agreed: Well strangely the ANN thread is locked, but I made an agreement with CoinPayCard to post my review of their card, so I will put it here.
I got a hold of the $99 Basic CoinPayCard, which has a $200 monthly spending limit and tried it out for a week. Here was my experience with that.
First of all it is a virtual card so I wasn't expecting to be able to buy physical stuff it, so I was pleasantly surprised when I was able to link it to an eBay and Newegg account - although I did not attempt to buy anything with it on those sites, see below for why.
My first purchase was a WinRAR license key (because I happen to be a huge nerd). I had set it to send me en email of the key, instead of any physical shipment. However, that order was declined. I'm not sure why, but the WinRAR people were manually processing that order. Hence why I decided not to buy anything on ecommerce sites.
Though, I have successfully purchased a number of other stuff with it, using different payment processors:
- Github Pro
- Bootstrap Studio
- a bunch of Udemy courses (this used Stripe)
Note: I tried to top up my Vast.ai account with this card, but it was declined, even thoigh it also uses Stripe. That's probably because computing vendors have an anti-VCC policy, in general.
So this card will work almost everywhere (except for cloud computing sites).
I loaded the card using a P2P transfer of USDT and also using ChangeNOW, and did not encounter any problems. I really got my money's worth out of it and will definitely use it some more.
Still not a bunch of people I would want to deal with, due to their attitude and the T&C they have.
Especially after I tried real hard to prove a point and show how shady they are. |
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Going to sleep, brb 48-72 hrs
saxydev is apparently counting time different from normal people, so from his ''brb sleep 48-72 hrs'' that was posted on February 13th passed more than 240 hours. This is one more lie on the list of his lies, and it's not surprising that he came up with this new excuse of not storing keys locally and sending them to some unknown ''trusted'' forum member... I can't wait to see what he is going to post next, and yes I almost forgot to say... I still didn't receive 0.1 BTC from him, but there is still hope... |
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I want to know how a hardware wallet works, assuming I download the Electrum bitcoin wallet right now and I decide not to use the wallet again, I can just restart the wallet and get rid of the keys and the wallet will generate a new recovery seed for me, is this the same with hardware wallet? You don't really need to know how hardware wallets exactly work, in a same way you don't know how any other things in the world work. I never heard anyone getting rid of keys from software wallet by restarting, you need to uninstall wallet and maybe delete few more files. You can easily perform reset operation on most hardware wallets, and then import of generate news seed words, and everything is done offline, that is the difference from software wallets. * Can a Trezor or hardware wallet generate a new private key or recovery seed? You can't generate new private keys, but you can wipe the device and generate or import new seed words. * Can a hardware wallet be formatted and start afresh?
Yes. It's not the same procedure for all hardware wallets, but it can be done. I would even recommend doing this first time you buy hardware wallet, to be sure your generated seed words works correctly. |
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A new info stealer dubbed as "Stealc" has been discovered, which is similar to Vidar and Raccoon malware.
Can you tell me how to install this scary Stealc malware to Linux operating system, I am asking for a friend?  Most of this malicious software is made for wiNd0ws OS, so best protection is not with installing bunch of antivirus programs, but it is in switching to good Linux OS. All bitcoin wallets work perfectly fine on Linux, and you don't have to pay anything to someone who is spying and monitoring you 24/7. I am recommending Fedora or Debian, but newbies can also try Linux Mint or Zorin OS, if they want gradual transition. |
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I don't know about all that. First off, I refuse to load my hardware wallets into my phone. I have a few hundred bucks in my hot wallet, and that's usually all I need. You are not ''loading'' anything on your phone, it's just interface and your keys/coins are still on hardware wallet. Some cards work with laptop, so you can carry that with yourself, you can even carry your whole mobile office if you want along with ugly fake calculator. And realistically a "cheap calculator" is less likely to get stolen than a credit card. It's fake calculator that can't work without cable or some weird battery gadget, so only an idiot would think this is real calculator, but I could argue that you would be very much suspicious and draw attention because people don't use calculators anymore. Third, I don't know how you can say that NFC chips will last for decades. They haven't even been around for decades, and mine start failing after keeping them in my wallet for a couple of years.
I never said NFC chips will last decades, but they probably will last long time. I was speaking about material cards are made off, same as credit cards... it's common fact they can last decades, and some of them are waterproof or made of metal. Nothing can break and there are no mechanical parts, no screen and no buttons, so they are very durable. Don't you worry. I just saw on their website, they now offer the perfect pants to carry it around. Oh great, price matches new ColdBerry perfectly, so let's buy reserve one pair for DireWolf in camo color combination and super BIG pockets so he can blend in everywhere with his portable devices  |
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As for other devices, the Nano S and the ColdCard are probably the best designs from an "incognito" perspective.
If you want incognito hardware wallet, than I guess best option for you is credit card format hardware wallets (Tangem, Satochip, etc.) that don't have any screen, and they communicate with application on smartphone. You can carry this card format wallets in your wallet, most of them are waterproof, and can last for decades... all other hardware wallets are not incognito at all, and I saw most of them. I agree with the Ledger, but ColdCard looks pretty odd, even more than an old candybar phone, no? Especially when connecting a 9V battery with a dangling cable to power it on.
hahaha....imagine having all this stuff in your pocket as ''portable'' device And for new gigantic ColdCard Q1 device you probably need to have some special kind of pockets. Yeah, the Passport is very comfortable to use, and ergonomically superior to other brands. It's worth noting the weight of the wallet as well; it comes off heavy at first, but it's heft feels good when using it with one hand. Just something for the weight-conscious professional cyclists to consider. I think that Passport is lighter than most smartphones but it could be even lighter if they used cheaper materials. My question is what happens with Passport if it falls on ground  because I have a bad habit of dropping things, phones, etc. Did anyone conduct any testing, even accidental drop test? so maybe sometimes NOT having a device that has a removable battery might be better than having a device with removable batteries.. when crossing borders.
Again, best option for this is credit card style hardware wallets, that is mixed with regular cards and paper bills in your leather wallet. |
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Now comparing 28 hardware wallets, feature by feature
Thank you for keeping this spreadsheet updated maxirosson. I have one suggestion, can you please add dimension/size for all devices (cm/inch), since you already added weight and most of the other things? I am especially interested to find out exact dimensions for new ColdCard Q1 device. |
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