The fact that you are upset based on a warning is somewhat sketchy.

There are so many scams going on. And a lot of the scammer try to hide their true intentions until they find a suitable victim.

I don't see a problem with warning other people..


May i ask why you decided to use an alt account instead of your main one?

No.

Any data you transmit to the bitcointalk.org server, can be stored.
There is no browser plugin which allows you to circumvent that.

Your only way would be to not send anything to the server.. so basically.. not using this forum.


Browser plugins only enhance the user experience on the client-side. They can't affect software on a 3rd party server (i mean.. they theoretically can by sending wrong headers etc.., but that won't help you in this case).

Congratulations.

The probability of your computer being infected with 3+ different types of malware is at roughly 60%+ now.
The probability of at least one infection is at 98%+.


If you care about your data, make a backup, format your drive, reinstall your OS and never download such scams again.
What do you think their business model is? Just giving it out for free because of good will ? Sorry to disappoint you.. but that's not the case.


And i wondered why so much people lose their coins because their computer got infected  

Creating a proper and well documented flag support thread against a stupid scammer is a waste of time.

Why research and document everything if you can have the 20 IQ scammer come here and provide proofs himself 
Saves a lot of time and the low iq guy is digging his own grave 

You scammed all people visiting your site by lying and displaying wrong information in order to make money through affiliate links.
You did not steal from them directly. Nonetheless this is a scam.


Since both questions have been answered, when can we expect you to pay the creator of this topic ?

General warning:

Don't trust newbies with your wallet files or any other sensitive information.
Either use it without giving out any sensitive information, or don't use it at all.

Use a reputable recovery service (e.g. daves recovery service) if you don't want to risk being scammed.


Newbies offering a recovery service are mostly just scam!

'not even' ? 

I don't think a lot of educated people from the USA do truly believe anything he is saying / talking about. Not to mention all the people from outside of the USA..
If educated people support him, it is because of their own interests. Not because they truly believe he is competent.

Anyone whose money is at risk (i.e. FIAT-rich people), need to do anything they can to preserve the value of their money. And this includes keeping anything which does interfere with their plan low.
You will never hear anyone of them saying that BTC is the new currency / highlighting any positive sides of BTC.


I honestly couldn't care less what people - who need to preserve the value of FIAT - say about BTC.
In the long run, BTC will go up and USD (or any other FIAT) will go down. I don't care about spikes created by FUD and 'fake news'.

To clear any doubts of new people which may occur after reading this statement:


Exporting the private keys itself does not lead to any loss.
The fact, that you only backed up a specific 'set of addresses' can lead to a loss if you receive funds to a newly generated address in the future (which you don't have a backup of yet).

So, as a backup.. use the seed / mnemonic code. Exporting private keys itself (for whatever reason) is not an issue.

Please read the OP:

You might be too drunk to read.. look again:







1) You scammed everyone who visited your site.
2) The amount is not relevant in this case.

So please pay out those 5 BTC to WinRateCasino. Or do you want another (type3) flag ?




Maybe go scamming in the 'real world' then?
The consequences are more severe than just a flag on an account tho 

Money? Probably just a few bucks
Time? Depends on the actual microcontroller you try to tamper with.
You can't generalize this by saying it takes X minutes/hours/days.

Some USB sticks, for example, can be tampered with within a few minutes (software side).
Others would require to replace the controller completely.

Each devices is different and it almost always is not a trivial task.




Anything which has a microcontroller which doesn't verify the firmware.
So, yes.. everything in your list. At least on a theoretical level.




Sure.

There also already have been many cases where keylogger have been hid in keyboards.
Not directly manipulating the microcontroller, but inserted a small chip which reads out the keyboard buffer each X milliseconds.

There are countless ways to gain access to sensitive information. Effectively you can not protect yourself against all of them. It is a probability game.
If you buy your hardware from a trusted seller and don't let some shady techy people (who want to harm you) access it, you are pretty much safe.




As others have mentioned, if there is no data connection, no data can be transmitted.
And therefore no malware can be transmitted / installed.

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Well.. what if this happens? Is it safe to spread my cryptosteel around 10 banks then? What if there are a lot of bombs being dropped ? Is it safe then ?  

I also already considered creating a type1 flag, but we shouldn't do this.

Upon creating a type2 or #3 flag, the following has to be confirmed:


Creating a type1 flag now, would cover this incident.
And since a type2 / type3 flag is 'more severe' i would actually wait for someone to create such a flag, to support it.




Getting disqualified because of that would just be another red flag and would IMO justify a second (type 1) flag.
Does everyone participating there want to send their ID and other personal documents to them ? Is there not a single one who doesn't want to sell his identity for a few bucks 

Your bitcoin will always 'stay valid' and you will always be able to access them using your seed (or mnemonic code).

The lightning network is just a 2nd layer. You don't HAVE to use it. Everything pre-lightning works as it did before.

Look at it as a plugin. You can use it, it gives advantages, but you don't have to.
You can use your browser without any plugins too. It is not like after a specific plugin is available to download your browser won't work anymore.

You are right, i somehow missed that.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

You should pay out those 5 BTC to WinRateCasino. He proofed it in this thread.

Note that he can create a flag against you, if you don't.
And further, this (promising to pay out 5 BTC after a proof, but not doing so) is another reason to give you some neg trust rating.

Do all addresses containing a balance start with the same character (1.., 3.. or bc1..) ?

Do you have different 'accounts' in ledger live?


P.s. Since you have imported your seed into electrum, regard it as compromised.
You should reset your nano s and reinitialize it with a new seed, which you should NEVER enter anywhere except the nano s itself.

The nano s stores the seed securely and non-reachable. By importing it into a desktop wallet you are defeating the whole purpose of a hardware wallet.

To fully remove all possible leftovers (and indicators that this software ever existed on this computer) more than just formatting is necessary.
You'd first need to delete any information regarding this particular piece of software (files, registry entries, system logs, ..) and then fill the part of the hard drive where this information was stored.

On a SSD, that's more than just a trivial task. Even on a HDD that's quite a lot of work.

And i honestly don't think OP has a reason for explicitly doing this. At least not if having BTC wallets installed isn't illegal in his country plus the government wants to seize his computer. 


As far as i understand the OP, it is more a question whether to uninstall or to keep the software ?

Yes, bill gator was initially banned but later the ban was reverted and he received a 2 year signature ban.

But in contrast to the OP, he actually increased the quality of this forum.

Bitcoins are not sent to an address.
Addresses do not exist on a technical level.

Bitcoins (or more precisely: UTXO's) are assigned to public keys.




A seed is not a recovery phrase.
Quite ironic that you confuse terms in a thread explaining frequently confused terms  

A seed is a big random number.
A 'recovery phrase' is the seed encoded into something human-readable, for example into 12 or 24 words (-> mnemonic code) using BIP39 (or electrums encoding).


That's a confusion which happens quite often, and i think this should be outlined in the OP

"won't launch at all" is not much information at all. Could you be more precise? Error message, anything ?

However, is there a specific reason you want to stick to an outdated and unsecure OS instead of upgrading it to at least have a bit of security?
I, personally, don't see a single reason.