I didn't get any mails from Bitwarden, so I'd guess that somebody may have been indeed trying your account at Bitwarden.
So it's not related to OP issue. And I also recommend OP switching to Bitwarden.

PayPal with its chargebacks is a clear case, I don't have to say much. I'll only add that they sell bitcoin themselves, hence they will not allow others interfere their business.
Revolut is a similar case, they sell bitcoin (actually bitcoin-named IOUs, I think), so they may not allow it.
For the others... it may be laziness and possibly some high processing fees too. Plus, in some cases, anonymous payments can be a legal hassle they want to avoid.

But it may just be that since all the other real possible alternatives may be more expensive, they expect too few use those. I guess that asking the exchanges especially on social media may make them reconsider. But would many use those indeed?

Keep in mind that there's probably a huge difference between what chain analysis shows freely/publicly and what can they do as paid service. It was often said that the free service is more a honeypot than something useful.

Depending on the implementation, some get data from locally running bitcoin core or the blockchain the local bitcoin has downloaded, or (also) from an Electrum server database, or it can also build its own database off this kind of data.
The data a block explorer offers is clearly from the blockchain, but, for easier retrieval a (another) local database is needed, to group the blockchain data in a different way.


You can look into the code of existing block explorers:
https://github.com/mempool/mempool
https://github.com/janoside/btc-rpc-explorer


Since you seem to still have a lot to ask and learn until you understand how bitcoin works, I think that nobody will spend time with you.
So start with the beginning and master bitcoin first. Then, if you have programming skills, you'll be able to make a blockchain explorer too if you want.

No matter how good the reason is, there's a very good chance they'll give out such info only under a warrant.
However, if the address is not posted in a forum or part of exchange, a good direction can be to look at chain analysis websites and see if it's linked to an address that can be tracked. But such info is most probably also not for free (that's why I will not do the research; I hope it's a helpful idea though).

PS. I tried to help; if you feel like removing the post, feel free.

Yep, but this can work with the rather uncommon big banknotes. The 100 EUR and 100$ ones are pretty much common (although I indeed find the 50 EUR much more heavily used than the 100) and getting them out may not got as easy as with the uncommon (from the first place) ones.


It heavily depends on govt narrative. They can push CBDCs and still tell that bitcoin is dirty money, or it consumes the so beloved electricity (I'm already expecting news that people will suffer in the winter because of bitcoin).
So no, I think that CBDCs will have very limited "good" effect on bitcoin getting mainstream.

I've never seen the movie Santoshi and the Minions. Is it at the cinema now?
Coins traded on the collectibles section contain dormant bitcoins. People's paper wallets contain dormant bitcoins. I don't know if that 90% is accurate or not (I guess it depends on how much time of inactivity means dormant for the writer). So..?


No. This is crap.
1. There's no such thing as "Satoshi and his co workers", you should read more before writing this kind of crap.
2. There's no such thing as unfreezing accounts (do you want to steal people's money??), again, you should read more before writing this kind of crap.

They build from chips and smartphone panels or HDDs to ships.
So presenting them as "smartphone giant" is a huge understatement.
And in this light, expanding their business into adding a crypto exchange to their portfolio, is not that special for them. A good news for bitcoiners though, obviously.

Still, as said, an announcement from them would be nice. Rumors from this or that can easily turn out to be false/incorrect (although that link from newspim the decrypt article contains is somewhat reassuring)

LOL!
I didn't look into their code, but yeah, sloppy programming, even at this level, doesn't have to be ruled out (see what happens with DeFi and such).
But really, even if one would not be sloppy, it's easier to ignore the funds from the first block since they cannot be spent anyway. And it can make sense too (from the wallet point of view).

As said, some wallets don't show/count correctly P2PK outputs.
Even more, some ignore the genesis block coins; even some block explorers do that (eg. SoChain). The reason, afaik, is that the genesis coins cannot be spent.

Indeed, the later you get to answer, the more posts you have to read in order to ensure you are not repeating somebody else.


It's all about activity. I am on your list and I can tell you that in many cases I skip a topic completely (i.e. I'm reading, but not answering) because everything I could say there has been already said. But no biggie, the forum is big, there are always interesting topics to be discussed. Or for reading. Also don't forget that there's also a world outside of computer; you can easily do something else for a while and then come back.

My guess would be thar "misrepresenting bitcoin" is vague enough and can be twisted around so nobody loses, while the whitepaper case is clearly a losing scenario, since Coinbase will defend themselves if they have to.


Unfortunately people don't read much, people rely on news for getting informed and even learn something (they believe so). Unfortunately for many the advertising is more powerful than the hard facts because they don't get to find out about the hard facts. And on top of this comes the courts in various countries giving strange verdicts (see UK/Cobra case). And the cherry on top is that people were trained by the media to treat bitcoin and bitcoiners as scammers, hence the hard facts, even if it's math, get ignored.


Of course that one of their goals is to make people believe their (probably centralized) shitcoin deserves to get valued as highly as Bitcoin is. That would make them rich forever.

This is history. Imagining what would have been happening if this or that would have been different is counterproductive.


The new car (for the 2022 new rules) did behave much worse (compared to the rest) than the previous (2021) generation, so that's correct.
It was also bad luck for Ricci because (from my understanding) each car behaves different, has different balance and so on; Ricci had to adapt to the new McLaren when he left Renault, then he had to adapt again to the completely new McLaren in 2022. He didn't.


Haas and Williams are just not competitive enough. Alfa Romeo has an experienced driver and one that brings big bucks, I don't think that anything will change there. Alpine is in turmoil and since I expect Ricci is disappointed and may not be searching too hard, they could both intersect for a "let's give each other another chance".


He is still adjusting with the new car. Quite funny to think, but it looks like Russel has adjusted better.
It depends on how many failures will Ferrari still have, but Mercedes are actively hunting for the second place. It looks achievable now.

That's why I said that they'll never admit they'd do this to favor CBDCs. Just since 100$ bill is not that big this kind of "used for illegal things" narrative may not hold and, as Hydrogen said, this will have a good chance to backfire against USD as reserve/backup currency.

I agree with the others:
* this won't happen too soon
* even if this process starts at some point, it will take a lot of years until 100$ bill will get completely phased out
* it is possible that all this is some fake news or ideas of somebody overly paranoid


Printing cash is costly. And it's easier to slow down the printing of new banknotes (for all the values) than completely phasing out the bigger ones.

Well, he had the contract on his side and could have been keep an overly strong fight for his seat. But I guess that he has proven, yet again, that he's a nice person.


So true.


If this happens I fear we won't see him in F1 ever again... on the other hand with his bad year and current situation, the morale is probably also very low and may not even care to start looking. That's why I also think that Alpine is one of this very few chances.

Nothing unexpected really. Of course, the reasons said would be to protect end users from scams. And that will partly get also achieved. This will make some scam businesses no longer have a chance to exist in EU. But of course, the result will be more stupid rules, more KYC, more things that will make bitcoin more appealing for companies and less appealing for the law abiding citizen.

There were discussions to stop the 500 EUR bills from circulation because they're too big for average Joe and only help those earning money from illegal things carry that money easier. And the 500 EUR bill is still in circulation, just no new banknotes are being printed.

The 100$ is not that big. And I also don't think that anybody would admit they are removing the 100$ bills from circulation to favor CBDCs. So unless they come with a better story I don't think they'll do it. And even then.. it'll take many years until the 100$ bill gets retired.

A wallet is not an account. A private key is a random number from a hugely big interval. The address is based on the private key.
Now if you leave a proper wallet software generate that number for you, the chance others will generate the same number is smaller than the chance for winning the lottery many times in a row. So it's pretty safe to say nobody else will have the same address.
On the other hand if you pick a nice number like 123456789..... to be your private key, somebody else might easily generate the same wallet and steal your money.

PS. Don't use websites generate your wallet, use wallet on your computer, or, better, hardware wallet.
PPS. What I was telling was about bitcoin. Eth / metamask stuff may or may no follow the same rules, you can ask in the altcoins area.

This is imho quite a good question, actually.
While some will say it doesn't matter it's a bear market since Bitcoin can easily be used only as means of payment, ... it's more complicated than that. Bitcoin price can fluctuate a lot.. in both directions. If one gets his salary in Bitcoin and in a matter of days his salary's value drops by 10%, he won't be happy.
That's why I've found it interesting the way El Salvador did; one can still use internally fiat (USD) if he wants to, while he does accept Bitcoin. If he decides to keep/invest into Bitcoin, it's on him and, depending on his patience, he may or may not earn big.
Someday, not too far in the future, the price should no longer have wild fluctuations and then it will be more suitable for adopting bitcoin as legal tender.


I don't understand this. Adopted or not, they still cannot control it. I don't think it has too much effect even on El Salvador's economy, although they have indeed bought some and the price is down now (they still have USD too as legal tender); on the other hand the tourism there has grown over the expectations.


Some are afraid of it, some have their own agenda (CBDCs), some simply want to protect their crappy fiat currency....

Good! I think that all that's still missing is the use of multiple sources (at least 1-2 more big exchanges).
Actually also some reference to the initial preev for the look and feel would be normal imho.