We don't know what he really believes. As we agreed (I hope), what he tells can be true or can be false, we don't know.
Let's also agree that we cannot agree whether he has or not bitcoin

I guess that the Photo Seeds project may need mentioned here, at least briefly, since it was already discussed on bitcointalk.
Of course, like with the rest, it's (imho) riskier to use than a normal wallet with a normal seed.

There were small discussions here and there from people wanting UI/UX changes, but again, small ones.
From what I remember the problem is that the UI/UX is too heavily tied with the underlying code, so first of all a huge refactoring/rewrite is needed in order to get to a decoupled UI that can be customized/rewritten by a designer.

So the first discussion is not about paying a designer - somebody may be doing it even for free if it's decoupled - the biggest problem is the changes in the code, which I guess nobody is too keen to make.
Then, a second discussion will be about UI/UX and has to be done carefully. I have quite an experience with designers doing things look nice and lack usefulness. If not done with extreme care, a new nice UI done by somebody not "dreaming" all the functionalities of Electrum may actually harm the product.

Are you serious? How could I have a proof for this?
No, I don't have proof.


You should know that what people say is not necessarily what people think. Especially what personalities say in public is what suits them best, not the actual reality.

Do you have any other idea why would somebody who has no business with Bitcoin, somebody whose business is a competitor of Bitcoin, post so much about Bitcoin (no matter it's always negative, it still posts a lot)? Why such a person spends so much energy talking about .. the competition?

OK, it makes sense, however, when entity1 and entity2 make trade, my feeling is that if entity1 sells for entity2 IOUs or CBDCs (which value can be manipulated heavily and even turned to 0) is like giving a loan without proper collateral. Of course, a state will probably pay it (with the note that even national currencies' value is manipulated a little), still, using entity3 or, better, an independent "value" instead of entity2's whatever, makes more sense in my head.


Complicated story. I don't know if it's SWIFT or the banks, but I've got the point. However, maybe my words were unfortunately chosen. I didn't say the story is false (I didn't know nor care much), my point was that it's shown to the public in order to not say "we want to avoid the problems Russia has with SWIFT" (which can easily happen due to what happens internationally)

Actually it can be also ordered by authorities, if they're investigating something else/something more, like, for example, inside trading, hack, missing funds.
However, as I said, I feel like Hotbit is either lying, either hiding some of the truth.

Welcome aboard!

While you've done more research than most newbies (well done!), I'd still say some things:
* as other said, be careful and learn how to also generate those paper wallets safely, locally, offline (then wipe/cleanup that system too)
* since usually a paper wallet is basically a pair private key+address (paper is not necessarily involved), the way of storing the paper wallets is also important (keeping private keys or wallet seed in e-mails or cloud storage, or your desktop, is not OK)
* it's good that you learn all this with altcoins of very small value, but also keep in mind to not invest too much time (and also no money) into projects that may have no future (i.e. the vast majority of altcoins).

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You've missed the OP (it's actually MrCryptHodl) and you also didn't search for the name of the coin series either (1HoDLCLUB). However, here you are: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5408085

Nobody. It's open source.


He cannot.


We were puzzled too. It looks like in UK, no matter how wrong you are, if the other party doesn't show up for the trial, you may win. This is what I've understood from the matter.
And the whitepaper was "removed" only from bitcoin.org and only for Brits. it's still available in a lot of other places. And even on bitcoin.org, if you don't come from UK IP you can get the whitepaper.

The first thing that comes into my mind is "not your keys, not your coins". What I mean is that the crypto you'll be receiving... it's not you who will be receiving it, it's Binance.
You have an account there and in normal circumstances you'll be OK and you'll be able to withdraw or spend those coins. But.. what if..? With so many centralized platforms going bankrupt and freezing the user funds, it's a risk.

The usually recommended solution is self-hosted BTCPay server, but that's for situations people need new address for each payment. And it may need knowledge and hardware.
As you use same address for all payments, your own address in your own local wallet would do. Of course, I recommend you get yourself a hardware wallet to avoid hackers.

I will add that I've seen your address on that card is Legacy type. SegWit Bech32 addresses (bc1*) are newer and the fees to pay when sending to those are smaller. It also worth considering using those (again, in your own wallet).

I have a different opinion. I think that he has bought some bitcoin long ago and hodling. Of course, not for the tech, not for the freedom, instead, purely as investment. I see no other reason he spends this much time keeping an eye on everything that happens with bitcoin (and some more).
Of course, he may not admit that. That's a different story.

I have a feeling that this is just a cover. I have a feeling they may be using the problems (if real) related to the former employee in order to do this or that, probably because their funds were not looking as good as they should. Is there any other side of the story available, or only what HotBit officials say?

However, we'll find out in time. And the users having funds there.. yeah not your keys, not your coins.

This is a misunderstanding. Not all stable coins are CBDCs. CBDCs are Central Bank issued Digital currencies. Focus on Central Bank. They don't even have to be cryptocurrencies.


CBDCs are just a (another) digital form of the local currency. So the big economic impact can be only over the card processing companies (like Visa/Mastercard) which, in case of CBDCs will no longer earn millions from fees (of course, the shops will earn by not spending for those fees). And, as said, it's expected CBDCs will have a massive negative impact on privacy of its users.

This is something I don't understand. They can very well use any kind of IOUs in the same way, I don't see why CryptoRial is seen as a good choice. I mean, Iran can declare in any second they no longer recognize CryptoRial and other states get scammed. (I know, it's not very likely, but still... Bitcoin is safer option)


With most of Russian banks being locked out of SWIFT, of course they are scared they'll face the same. The "stolen" part may be more a story for the public.
Even more, by avoiding SWIFT they can also (re)sell Russian oil they may get at discounted price.


Actually with crypto it won't be that easy, since one can buy/sell crypto P2P, avoiding the centralized platforms that enforce US rules.

Electrum servers have a default limit for the history of transactions; most public servers have the default settings, hence you may have not much luck there.
Some possible options would be:
1. Import the private key (safely) of only that one address into another wallet and try your luck - this may work because it will ask for history for only one address and not more.
2. Import the private key(s) into Bitcoin Core - but syncing means time and hardware (and a lot of disk space).
3. Find somebody who hosts an Electrum server that can be accessed from the internet (i.e. not for local use only) and ask him nicely to increase the limits until you do what you must, then move to a new wallet.

You've watched too much propaganda and have read too few real news.
While shortages are indeed possible, it's the industry that will be affected most, not the population, exactly because the politicians love their seats.


Russia is overrated and time will show this. Yes, the "green plan" lunacy will have to be postponed for a while, and the supply routes will get redefined.
Russia will be forced to sell less gas and oil on much lower prices. This means less income for a country that relies almost as much as the Arabs on the money coming from this sales. This means shortages your propaganda seems to forget about. Even more, you don't have to be rocket scientist to understand that the lack of money is not visible that much on short term, it's getting visible over years, when the infrastructure will fall apart.
It's a bit ironic that you are preaching us the greatness of Russia, greatness this war has shown it was only a facade.

European leaders going down? Of course some do, it happens all the time. I don't feel that it's much of difference from the pre-war COVID related days. It's part of how democracies work.
And while you seem to be noticing only anti-Russians going down, I notice "friends of Russia" now helping Ukraine's defense (you know, democracy, freedom of choice...). However, I remember that Russia's traditional enemy was USA, not EU, still, the propaganda tells only about the harm EU took, and nothing about USA. And you know why? Because Putin's stupid war intended against NATO, just made NATO and USA stronger.


You seem to have no idea what democracy is.


I've missed this in the last post and I'll tell here. Somehow your whatever generation planes seem to remember far too good that they're heavier than the air. As I said, Russia's greatness was proven to exist only "on paper".

Actually imho it could make sense to change this or that to give less powers to some.
This could maybe give some less room for manipulations.


This is a very interesting idea. I like it. Can we do this, please?


I agree.

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Something I've been thinking on was that it may be helpful to differentiate between "whose trust rating you want to see colored" and "who you want to vote for".
This way the votes will also be clearer, this way people won't say that they trust this or that account because of some trades done and so on.

Interesting, I didn't know. Thank you.


Did it occur to you that in the same way as "it won't be easy, but Russia will cope", also EU will cope? Of course, it will not be easy, as it's a harsh awakening.
But, as a friend of mine use to say, every kick in the ass produce another step forward. EU may do now (sadly under pressure) some moves they should have done from the first place.
Right now, let's face it, it's a situation both sides are losing similarly and both sides can, similarly, evolve.

I'm curious what will the "friendly countries" do about really important things there are very few companies produce them and they've put Russia onto sanctions list.
It's easy to mock the exit of "sparkling water", but I've read not long ago about increasing problems caused by the lack of components for airplanes. The news tell that the industry has started cannibalizing some of the already broken planes to obtain components for the rest. Of course, this cannot work for long term.