I've started seeing too many guides/tutorials made by people who don't know the matter deep enough, hence they're full of mistakes misguiding newbies into making errors.
So I strongly advise those who are unsure about their new topics, add at least a "please tell about the errors so I can update the first post" disclaimer, to avoid harsh replies.

Also I tend to give more credit to an useful answer, even if it may be an one-liner, than a meme.

But overall you're correct (although I expect exactly the worse shitposters won't read or won't care about this kind of guidelines).



I think that this is wrong and can be misinterpreted (I see that some already thought that you're asking for trust feedback). Also DT comes and goes, the list can be reshuffled and one will no longer be DT for a while (especially if DT2).
I think that you need this from all users, especially Merit Sources (although some don't like to say they're merit sources) and users with high amount of merit, i.e. those who may actually merit those posts.

So:

but I say this not as DT, but as user of bitcointalk.

* take a look in the service announcements how did others make announcements (look especially for those starting with [ANN])
* make your ANN with as much info about the company as possible, presented nicely and easy to read (not a 2-liner, not a wall of text)
* stay available for questions, expect people questioning your business, especially at start; keep in mind that some will be nice, some may be harsher if they find mistakes or fishy or unclear things


Keep in mind that you, as newbie, won't be able to put images. If that's important for you, also consider acquiring copper membership.

It will most probably not make you rich, unless you make a malicious wallet that steals people money, but it can earn nice bucks.

Some things that come into my mind is:
- put ads on the wallet, especially on smartphones
- strike deals with other companies, like for selling/buying crypto directly from inside the wallet
- sell user and chain analysis data (especially, since one can buy/sell crypto, you may need to ask for KYC)

Also sometimes, but rather seldom, wallets or programmers get into financing programs from the richer companies (sometimes this also asks for some specific features though).


However, if you start all this from the idea to get rich, your mindset may not be OK and I expect you'll do, sooner or later, something fishy (like selling user data) just for the sake of money, ruining your and your wallet's reputation completely and throwing to the bin a great amount of work.

Cred ca ai vrut sa scrii 1.25 mBTC  , cel putin asa reiese din topicul in Germana. 1.25 BTC ar fi imens pentru asemenea concurs.

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Multumim pentru cuvintele frumoase!
O sa ma gandesc bine si o sa incerc sa particip, multumesc de invitatie (si de concurs, bineinteles)!

I was expecting a lot of answers from those users (easy way to fill quota, you know), but, surprisingly, none has come yet.
But I am curious what you expect to see as answers. I mean, we already know that the campaign in question has taken problematic accounts and shitposters. Would you really expect honest answers from those? Do you expect a meaningful discussion with those?

My words were about Electrum for PC. I don't know what's the status of Electrum for Android since I don't use it because it doesn't work with hardware wallet.
So Electrum for Android may need something more than just fancier UI.

Bitcoin is the safe bet.
And those who fancy higher risk gambling with their funds, there are a lot of altcoins to choose. Some few may get lucky.


Conclusion: too hard to choose right if you want something else than Bitcoin. So.. just choose Bitcoin.

PS. Not a financial advice, do with your money whatever suits you best.

I don't know if it only bad choice of words, but this looks like a mistake / incorrect statement to me. Bitcoin was not Scrypt. Litecoin was.

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I've been thinking in the past to acquire an USB miner. At first I wanted it for hobby mining, then as a collectible, now I've given up completely the idea. And this is my answer to OP: I think that they can be seen as collectibles, but only with a limited value which may not grow much over time, unless you know how to monetize them (and open some sort of museum, for example).

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).

Avem o noua re-editare:

[FREE RAFFLE] 489th- ฿ECAUSE I AM STILL IN A GOOD MOOD-CYPHER HODL PRINTED COIN
Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5409473

Organizator: krogothmanhattan

Se poate castiga:
Moneda CYPHER HODL printata 3D.


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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.