I kinda second this, with some additions:
* if you want to add altcoins and still keep this simple, it could be "good for the business", but I'd suggest you do that on a subdomain and you just keep a link to that on main page (altcoins.preev.net?)
* more fiat currencies could also be useful, but, again, I'd keep preev simple and make the more complicated one a/another subdomain

I find more important to have more often updates for the price (or conversion amount) and to see the price/conversion amount at in the title bar.

I find it nice and reassuring to see the support Hodlonaut has got. I've seen today on Twitter some lines on the matter, but I didn't know the background; thanks OP for this topic.


If he would do this he would get - sooner or later - to fight somebody powerful enough and willing to defend himself.
If he would do this he would get even more websites hosting the whitepaper.


It would be interesting to see, but I don't have such high hopes...


That's correct. But we know that the chance for that to happen is slim. And this is also what Faketoshi is counting on...


Please don't pollute this thread with speculations already explained they're nonsense.

The first step has been done: Ricciardo is leaving McLaren at the end of this year. It's official:
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.breaking-daniel-ricciardo-to-leave-mclaren-at-the-end-of-the-season.7nJEoiDWEllG7NRGR7yn1x.html

Quite shame, I hoped Ricci will do better sooner or later.. and it didn't happen. Let's see what will happen next, will he go back to Renault/Alpine?

For the broken HDD I'd look for professionals. On the other on I'd look for wallet files and private keys (see pywallet app for searching).

Afaik there is also one trusted person on the forum who can do this (I guess that somebody will post his username), but you have to be very careful and cross-check the info since scammers too may come and pretend to try to help you.

In theory, indeed, there can be problems with HW - from things not implemented good enough to actual malicious intentions, especially in the case of closed source ones.
But in reality nothing has happened for so long, we can pretty much tell they've passed the test of time and, as you said, those calls are overly paranoid.

However, a new trend seems to be to be wary with the classical hardware wallets and go for devices like SeedSigner, where everything is open source (and you can even assemble it yourself). But this doesn't mean the HW are unsafe; as I said, they've passed the test of time and the companies seem to indeed care more to sell their hardware (and keep a good name) than stealing from people.

1. Your website looks pretty much exactly like preev did. While I don't mind, you may run into copyright issues.
2. After it ran well for a first look, no matter what I do (closed tab and opened new one), I see only 20k price. Firefox.

Good luck!

It's wallet management, but also transaction and blockchain management. Bitcoin core is quite a complex software.
However, the addresses are not actually stored anywhere. All the possible private keys are the integer numbers in a huge range. The addresses are derived mathematically from those private keys. So they don't have to be stored.

The blockchain contains transactions. When a block is mined, a number of transactions are included into the block and the block is added into the blockchain.

When one creates a transaction he needs to know (from the blockchain) exactly what inputs (yes, inputs, not coins) he can spend and will make a transaction off them, will sign it, broadcast it and wait for a miner to mine it.

Blockchain is not a second software; it's just data. The data of all mined transactions until now.

Actually you may have a chance since there are plenty of shitcoins desperate to get listed somewhere.. anywhere.
I don't think that those will matter when looking for a good exchange, but it may help showing you can be trusted with user funds. Of course, the risk is high that the people with actual tradable coins will not go there, still, one good strategy would be to allow low limits (min traded funds) and low amounts for min withdrawal; and of course bearable withdrawal funds (sorry, I didn't look those up).

All in all, I'd recommend you advertise your exchange in altcoins area, you may have better chance...

Yet you seem to have missed the parts about what is a wallet (since your question shows great confusion) and how safe is that.
Even more, by telling that the devs would lock Satoshi's funds is not only spreading misinformation, it's also insulting the devs. That's how I see this.


The thing is ... Bitcoin is not only for making people richer. There are so many good things Bitcoin brings... from innovation and technology to actual freedom (financial freedom).


Read more and ask more. Cross-check the information you get, don't just believe everything. Then you will know much more and will get better (and hopefully less insulting) answers. Enjoy the ride!

Ei, nu trebuie sa te gandesti asa, ca te deprimi. Cand se termina, se termina, nu trebuie numarat AMR-ul...
Dar ma bucur tare ca va plimbati.. si aveti si unde. Plus rasaritul, desi mi se pare obositor; in niciun sejur la vreo mare nu m-am trezit mai mult de o data/sejur pentru rasarit, de cand ma stiu...


Eh, asta nu prea merge. Sunt acum in Apuseni.. si nu ne prea lasa ploaia sa ne facem damblaua pe coclauri... sau cel putin nu cat am vrea.

The answers are simple if one knows a bit more about bitcoin.
Satoshi's stash, his coins, all are... all on the blockchain. A wallet doesn't contain coins, it contains keys that allows spending coins.

How many they are.. nobody knows, since nobody knows exactly all the addresses / wallets Satoshi owns.


The story seems to be that you may have been smoking something too strong for you. Or you've read the writings of somebody who smoke that. You better get better sources of information. Bitcoin doesn't allow neither stealing nor blocking one's access to his coins if you don't know the private key.

Because it was programmed to work with PoW. (Why can't I charge my old benzin car from the so cool electric charging stations?)

However, as said, one can change Bitcoin code to work with PoS and whoever agrees with the change can use that code, which will work on its own fork of the blockchain.
Of course, most probably the majority will not care about that change (that new coin), which is pretty much proven by the fact the attempts done until now produced worthless coins.

The scammers tend to ask for over complicated and completely unnecessary actions/setup to make you think you do something wrong.
I don't know Trust wallet (I use Electrum), but for any transaction all you need the transaction ID. You look it up yourself and see it was sent (and confirmed!). If that is done, you have the money, if it's not, then you are being scammed.

I recommend you use hardware wallets for 4 figures amounts, I recommend you learn to look up a transaction on multiple block explorers (and it would be nice to also try to avoid scammers)

[FREE RAFFLE] 1HoDLCLUB Special "Fine Silver 999.9 Coins" free raffle !
Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5410701

Organizator: MrCryptHodl

Se poate castiga:
Monezi de argint 1HoDLCLUB fine Silver 999.9 DIY


Poate participa Jr Memeber sau mai sus, sau cei Copper membership sau cine deja are cumparate obiecte 1HoDLCLUB.
Modalitate de inscriere: se alege un numar (care nu a fost deja rezervat) de la 00 la 99
Transportul este platit de castigator.

LE: Concurs incheiat

---

Wow, ma bucur tare mult! Distractie!

46 - NeuroticFish

Thank you!

After reading this I may no longer use the words "right" and "wrong" for a while.
I still don't understand what makes people spend the time to write such utter nonsense.

(I'll report it, so you may not see the source after a short while).

Since some people sell BTC and others buy BTC from those ATMs, I expect they have a hot wallet and they also work with exchange(s), hence, for optimizing the things, they may also have funds at exchanges. So a cold storage or hardware wallet would make sense for their profit and for other funds not needed daily. The rest would stay in hot wallets and the process would be automated.
(As mk4 also said) If they would keep the "hot" funds in HW, human intervention would be needed every time somebody buys BTC from them; not OK.

So I'd say the hot wallet is gone, basically like we see on any exchange's hack.

People rush to implement this or that, and obviously release it in production in order to earn money.
The fact it's in production doesn't mean it's safe. In most cases it's far from even properly tested (and not only for security).
One of the best tests is the test of time. Because these honeypots do attract hackers, no matter what, and they are a test.

But do people/users want to wait? No! They jump in! I don't expect them read the code, but some cautiousness would be nice.


I wouldn't go that far, but I would also not rule out this possibility. One example can be N.Korea's state hackers, for which all of us are enemies.
And even if it's not them, do you really expect the hackers be nice people who care about their victims?! Then they would notify the team, not steal people's money!

If not synced the funds will not be shown properly, creating/sending out transactions will also not work.


Signing, verifying should work. I think that importing too. So, as said, please give more details on the errors you've got.

---

LE: Just a thought: are you trying, by chance, to use wallets taken or bought from the internet?!?

I also agree with Charles-Tim: it's easier and safer to just create a new wallet into Bitcoin Core and send the funds there. If you use minimum fee (1 sat/vbyte) it will most probably be processed this week-end (maybe even today).
I will add that it's not only that Bitcoin Core cannot use the seed, it's also that since it was user with a web service, I would not consider it that safe.

Plus:
* if you have big amount of funds, you may want to buy a hardware wallet for safety
* keep in mind that Bitcoin Core needs to download the whole blockchain (450 GB) and by default it also stores it (you can prune it, but that can come with other surprises like the need to re-download everything when you change wallet); this means time and resources you have to be prepared for.
* you will have to keep backup of your bitcoin core wallet.dat file
* if you think that bitcoin core is not the best option for you, maybe you take a look at SPV wallets (simple wallets) that don't need so much resources (they connect to external servers, they also use seed so the backup is easier) like Electrum or Sparrow.