Update: Mempool is down to less than 6 5 sat/vbyte It keeps dropping. Did the ordinal-scamspam finally fail?

I'll remind people again: you want the tax man to know about it, so you can pay your taxes and enjoy your money. What are you going to do with $100M black money? You're much better off with $50M in money that you can spend to buy items legally.

That's the dumbest thing you can do! If you have old Bitcoins you can easily prove your wealth came from capital gains. Depending on the tax system you either pay your taxes when you sell them, or you should have paid annually (like where I live). And that's the reason to report your holdings to taxes: if there's a paper trail, you can cash them out without worrying about the IRS. All you have to do is pay, and keep the rest.

You should move (bottom-left) this topic to the Beginners board.

Short version: you don't need Bitcoin Core to store Bitcoins, but Bitcoin Core is one of the many wallets that can be used to send your Bitcoins.
Longer version: see Choose your Bitcoin wallet.

Nope. Unless you checked right before and right after the feedback was left.

I wasn't around early enough, but if he always said he won't share addresses, he shouldn't change that now. That's the risk of buying second hand coins. It's good to know before buying them though.

@OP: have an avatar That's all I could do for you.

Try it Then test restoring the seed before funding it.

The tricky part is finding the exact dimensions back 10 years later, if you don't have a printed table anymore. It may take some trial and error to print the exact format again for recovery. And you should probably not keep it in the same safe

Thanks again for your flawless timing!

If you have to ask, you shouldn't hand out negative feedback.

I can't tell if they deserve a tag, but if you do, do it for the right reasons.
From your tag:
Waking up is not a reason to tag someone, deleting posts is not a reason to tag someone. Even better: most posts on the altcoin board are spam anyway, so they won't be missed.
Asking for a good reason to change the tag is like reversing the chain of evidence. It's bad.

I've seen several incorrect posts by now. To be clear: Mixin lost $200M, not Mixin Safe.

It's good this way. It's still very large. The only alternative would be to add an URL tag to the image, so clicking it shows the full size.

I always imagined part of the reason to introduce the Merit system was to use it to differentiate between posts once enough good posts have been Merit. It just never happened. I can think of many pitfalls, so it's probably a good thing.

However, a third party would be able to do this! @TryNinja has a very nice database with posts, and he could probably sort them based on the Merit they received. I did it for Bitcointalk's 10th anniversary art contest (for some reason none of the images work through the image proxy anymore, so it's useless now), and for that topic it made sense. For most topics it will completely mess up the discussion, or show very old posts. Imagine sorting by Merit on the Wall Observer thread, you'll end up with more or less random posts instead of a discussion.

Good news, I can sync again

It must have it, I don't use Orbot.

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My initial estimate of long-term bandwidth consumption was way off. It's "only" 1.4 GB in a few weeks now. Not great, not terrible.

The fact that they kept $200 million of other people's money in a hot wallet is what makes them not trustworthy. If a bank loses their customers' money, I don't trust them. The same goes for any other company.

That sounds a lot like what a large exchange did in the past. Who's going to buy made up "bond tokens" of an insolvent company hoping they won't lose more money in the future?

Your best bet it probably just to use Google:
Downloading all profiles once would take at least 6 weeks, and about 150 GB forum bandwidth. Checking them all on a regular basis is even worse.
If you know which profile you're looking for, you may find an old snapshot on one of the archive sites (archive.org, archive.is and more).

Good point: it works in other posts. Maybe the URL is really just wrong in the other one (but it's hard to check with Bitcointalk's proxy in there).

You don't need to connect to eXch's node to send them a LN payment. That's the "Network" part of "Lightning Network".

I can confirm it now works as expected.

Many paid reviews are like that. It's so obvious when reading those reviews.

Could it be related to the bump button? That changes the code and may not work with the extension. Try a few other topics. I'm not using this extension, so I can't check for myself.

That's called BIP38 encryption.

That's a huge gamble! Chances are "the hacker" is just a piece of automated malware, and chances are it's a lot faster than you are. That is of course what you should assume, and take measures to prevent it. So instead of risking everything by decrypting your private key on an online computer, it's much better to sign the transaction offline and never expose your private key to an online machine.

You seem to think hacks happen when someone is manually monitoring your computer.