I do not use Blockchain anymore so I cannot recall the issues you are encountering, but I have personally always recommended not to rely on centralized wallet services such as Blockchain. Although you can get the master seed for your wallets, some things are limited (e.g. you cannot get the private key of an address from your main wallet, unless it's an imported address).

I had some problems with my wallet a few years ago and, after months, I was finally able to retrieve my balance and moved on from any kind of centralized wallet service.

For PC, imo Electrum is the way to go for you. If you are using Windows, I'd warmly recommend you to also try to do a transition from Windows to a Linux distro. Once you get used to it, you'll love the control you are going to have over your OS.

For mobile, get Mycelium. I have used it numerous times and I absolutely love it.

If you have a lot of money to transact with or hold, I'd buy a hardware wallet such as Trezor or Ledger with my eyes closed. I honestly never felt safer since I bought my Ledger and I'm now only using Mycelium/Electrum for temporary wallets. No more fuss with ".dat" files and private keys/seeds either as all coins are going to lay inside your hardware wallet.

I can't wait until the eleventh quarter of 2020 comes to see the new earning options!

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Oh come on, it's more than obvious they've launched a shitcoin copycat to try getting some money off fools. 15% goes to the team and advisors!

'Sup, @cryptominingcoin? Ran out of money for some toilet paper?

Din pacate, ca vrem sau nu, reglementarile vin. Problema nu este ca se reglementeaza, ci faptul ca automat ne sunt restranse anumite drepturi si intimitati. Sa inteleg ca, potrivit legii, vom pierde accesul ca romani la exchange-ul Binance din moment ce (din cate stiu) nu este inregistrat si in Romania?

Gluma cu "activitati teroriste" e cam expirata de ceva vreme. Daca e ceva ce urasc, e faptul ca au reusit sa implementeze acea idee ca noi, utilizatorii de criptomonede, am ajuta intr-un fel sau altul la sustinerea teroristilor/criminalilor. Practic, suntem considerati chiar si noi posibili teroristi. De ce nu e atunci toata lumea considerata terorista, mai ales din moment ce banii cash sunt mai putin urmaribili decat BTC?

Hai sa ne uitam putin la niste surse reputabile pentru a vedea care-i faza si cu "activitatile teroriste":

In anul 2010, Australia a cheltuit $7.100.000.000 pe droguri.
Conform unui studiu, americanii cheltuiesc anual undeva la $150.000.000.000 pe droguri.

Aduna cele doua si ai doar de aici, doar din Australia + SUA, $157.100.000.000 cheltuiti anual pe droguri, acestea find activitati care fac parte din "illicit activity". Atentie: acestia nu includ toate celelalte activitati criminale precum jafuri, furturi, escrocherii etc!

Sa luam acum aceasta cifra si sa o comparam cu cel $1.000.000.000 folosit anul trecut in BTC pe "dark web" pentru activitati criminale.. si totusi dolarul exista si magnatii acus' se ridica pana-n cer cu gramezile de bani si aur in timp ce criptomonedele se reglementeaza in prostie...

Gonna have to correct you on that one: coin mixing is actually one of the best ways to anonymize your transactions if used the right way. Exchanges have recently started to even block wallets of users using mixers due to the lack of possibility for authorities/exchanges to track the mixed coins down or reverse search them.

This thread isn't about privacy though, but quite the opposite.. privacy isn't part of the focus when it comes to cards for payments.

I wish some government body had taken online scams & malware way more seriously.. these scams are everywhere and it's quite easy to take them down fast enough when you have the power in your hands. I can't even recall how many times I've seen scams wandering around whenever I looked up something on Google or different other websites. If there was a little team out there to help with taking them all down 24/7, the number of scams would have decreased long ago.

Warnings could've been sent out to the public months/weeks ago when the panic was on an ATH and everyone was hoarding for masks. But hey, unless it touches their name/relative bodies/interests, that's just not gonna happen..

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Because that's how the future looks like, man.. it's the new kind of hate, but this time we're going to start hating and feeling a disgust for anyone who has been infected with the virus..

I mean, I said it from the start that this is the path we're apparently taking and some of my friends called me crazy but now it's making waves already through the news:

• https://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/miscellaneous/europe-prepares-mobile-apps-to-track-people-infected-with-coronavirus/
• https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-norway-virus-tracker-app.html
• https://www.msn.com/en-in/finance/news/india-virus-track-app-gets-50-million-users-amid-privacy-concerns/ar-BB12J91U

Subconsciously, as you download this app and constantly get alerted for getting close to an infected person, there's going to be an "alarm" developed in your mind after a while that'll trigger a different behavior whenever you're going to have to make contact with one of the infected.

You "have your own live exchange" that EXISTS NOWHERE on this internet. I asked you multiple times already for some real information about your exchange, not words. I don't need bullshitting and banners, I need real stuff.

Well, fuck ripple. You're either centralized or decentralized. You can't promote yourself as decentralized but never say a word about what's really going on behind the scenes. Where's the source code? Where's the link to your GitHub repo? And no, I don't need your "we promise we're safe" bullshit, I need real proof that your allegedly existing tech & software exists and won't scam anyone.

And.. excuse me? Crypto cross border trade was one of the major issues in the DEXs? I don't think I've ever heard of an instance where two people had a problem of trading cryptos between each other on a DEX because they were from different countries?

"Walahala removed this limitation with their new build technology. Live trade is now possible." - I'm sorry, maybe you should define what a "build technology" is because it's the first time I'm hearing of it..

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If your product and exchange would've been that successful and revolutionary, it would've made waves through the crypto markets and news outlets. Oh - wait, nobody's heard of you and all you're doing is try to convince someone to download your fishy software by writing statements with no proof laying behind the words.

Show me real stuff, real proof. Don't try to steer me away from my concerns by telling me to "try the demo wallet". Your answers have been backed by no proof yet and that says everything about you & your "products".

Non-crowded casinos are profitable too, the only difference is the percentage of profit you make - but besides that, all of them are money-eating machines.

Addiction is addiction - it's true that crowded ones may make you keep in touch with them more and the lack of focus caused by socializing may make you end up with some stupid mistakes, but any casino makes profit because that's how their gambling equipment works.

Well.. why bother with such technology when you can easily stop BTC by declaring any trade or transaction using it or any other cryptocurrency illegal? Much easier: just one law and you're done with it. Can't they also attack BTC using any of the existent internet technology (3G, 4G, even wired) we already have?

If anything, Microsoft's patent for a WO/2020/060606 - CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEM USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA is what truly scares me and I think it's more of a threat to BTC than 5G is.

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Thought this is pretty interesting: CIA DOC 1035 960


Page 3, from "2.":


Page 4, from "3. Action, b.":


There's more than just that - keep reading from page 3 down if you find it interesting  

DS is always on point with the announcements and notifications so if there's no message you have missed from him, it probably means there haven't been any changes.

I'm not American but if I was to receive some stimulus check from my government, I'd do it with my eyes closed. While people keep this check under their sheets and have its purchasing power decrease the more this crisis advances, those who will put their checks directly in BTC will see imo some beautiful change.

Big spike on the graph, but how much of a difference in total USD does this ~0.32% increase in $1.2k deposits/buys really account for?

Would be interesting to see the same chart but on a global scale based on the checks given by all governments worldwide.

We need it for the same reason we need all the other boards and sub-boards: to separate topics. Otherwise, the forum'd be a mess. There apparently are some members out here who put out scams but can't be kicked out of the forum so better "quarantine" them inside a board where all them scammers are than let them be around more popular boards.

On the other hand, it's sad that the number of scammers has overtaken the one of legit projects and services and they have to be put altogether. But it is what it is..

Nah, it'd be worse. Privacy is slowly burning away so we'll all soon drool for coins like Monero. Do a quick search of how top-tier corporations are slowly (now with the pandemic it's happening at a faster pace) taking over your intimacy and you'll be left amazed.

Well, it's quite easy to understand the process in fact:

• I'm willing to work with a centralized third party I have to trust. If so, then it's in my best interest to know as much as possible about them. You wouldn't trust me if I wanted to exchange two coins with you, right? You'd want to know more about me to make sure no scam is laying behind my apparent intentions.
• I'm willing to work with a decentralized third party I have to trust. If so, then all I need to do is make sure the third party truly is decentralized. There are a few factors such as checking its source code. This does not break anyone's privacy in any way - you only study its structure and if everything looks good, you proceed to work with it.

I don't know if "third party" in the second bullet is the right way to name decentralized platforms/services such as DEXs. In my opinion, trust cannot be completely removed. Even if you're working with a fully decentralized exchange, you have to trust the code behind it. Going 100% trustless is just an ideal, theoretical thing. I'm no programmer and have 0 knowledge about coding languages, so I have to trust those who say a wallet is safe.

Anyways, the thing is, decentralization removes a very significant part of the need of trust but not completely. However, it increases your privacy enormously. Even if you study these decentralized platforms as in-depth as you can, you're invading no-one's intimacy.

I have a pretty long list of coins I've been hodling for some years, but if I take a look over that list right now, +75% of them are absolutely gone from the markets. So choose very wisely which project you're going to be hodling.

Right now, out of the entire list, my top 3 most promising ones imo are Bitcoin, Monero and Komodo. I wanted to go for BLOCK too a while ago (I think I even have some coins on my portfolio) but I thought Komodo has shown a much better working product and I just like it more.

We're letting them take it from us. The more technology advances, the less privacy we'll have. Technology is the one that advances, not the human race. We're stuck at the same level humanity was a hundred years ago, having the same desires, but with technology everywhere around us.

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Maintaining your privacy means going off the track and probably being considered a weirdo. The sad part is, it's not limited to crypto. When was the last time you went outside without your phone, smartwatch etc? Isn't it true that you feel less secure when you don't have a phone with you? It should be the opposite, because surveillance is what smartphones are.

Go off their radar. Use decentralized exchanges with Tor  Try having an airgapped PC for offline crypto wallets etc. There's a long road ahead if you want to go that way. In my opinion: you either go all the way to protect your privacy or you don't at all.

For example, it makes no sense to use Tor if you're going to use it for logging in to your personal accounts. Go full anonymous. Go from point A to point B, don't stop somewhere in between.

After you get the hang of how atomic swaps work, I'd highly recommend you Atomic DEX by Komodo for mobile phones. Been using for a very long time and it does exactly what I request it to without having to worry about someone requesting my identity to proceed with the transaction and if a swap failed, I got my money back within a few dozens of minutes.

I personally haven't used other atomic swap tools - maybe there's one better and faster than Komodo's - but that's my personal suggestion.

Make sure you don't let yourself get lied to by online exchanges using the name of atomic swaps to their own advantage when, in fact, they have nothing to do with them. Always research before proceeding with sending some funds - it's your money. Take care of it.

Thanks for the replies - I understand all points of view but sneaking in these articles under some questions and pretending not to know the answers even if they're present right inside the article they're linking us to is not really okayish, at least not for me. I just feel like someone could create a thread summarizing their articles or to at least mention the fact that they are working on an article and are requesting information for it.

I have now seen that some mods have worked on deleting all posts from 2020. Thank you, mods! I do agree that it's not the least of the forum's problems but hey, one less makes things better, right?

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Meanwhile, I have looked a little bit into their account and it looks like coinfunda has at least one alt account on here. Will leave here what I found, just for the record:

Coinfunda has posted back on August 20, 2018 the following post:

And on June 07, 2018 we have the following post from ankurguta87:

According to the Trust on ankurguta87's profile, The Pharmacist classified the account as a shitposter on 2018-02-03.

Here's another proof:

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ankurguta87 also apparently ran the Twitter account topadnetworks which was suspended from Twitter. According to Twitter,


Proof that he ran the account:

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Now if we go back more in the past, I found this from some longer time ago:

Nothing. I expect nothing, honestly.

If I remember correctly, 2016's halving had just a little volatility followed up by nothing much. The real change will be seen 6-12 months post halving imo.

I don't know, just think about it logically - on halving day, will you move funds to buy/sell or just wait and see the block countdown to halving go to 0? I'm in the latter boat and I believe most are..

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Whenever I go to an ATM I take maximum care no shoulder-peeker is around and I always look dozens of times around while transacting. If this ever happened to me, I would've gone crazy mad and nervous

This is funny but also kinda creepy. Imagine having sold tens of grands and seeing it just spit the money like that - it would expose you to any thief wandering around!