In most cases shading the smallest doubt can be enough. Not everybody is knowledgeable in bitcoin and every step / send away / more split can help the user tell "I only received that" (as LoyceV said) and be believed. You give too much credit to what can be done and how many do that really good.

However, I have a feeling that the user might be trying to research & attempt some sort of "mixing by hand" for some of his coins, but I certainly don't recommend that. A mixer does that job much better.

No. But the fact you've used that PC for so many years can easily mean that the removed data was also overwritten, hence it has become unrecoverable forever.


In theory, if the disk was re-partitioned (for example for fresh Win10), there may be areas now used by other partitions, for example, that could have useful data. But I am not a specialist and I may be wrong (and scammers can pretend to be specialists and give you false hopes in order to try to scam you, so be overly careful and keep your expectations low).


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Something more: I've seen in your post history that in 2017 you were interested in an altcoin. Please also make sure you're not mixing up things, since I don't think that the altcoin worth the effort.

Din ce intelesesem eu, omul vrea sa incepe cu 1 antminer si dupa ce ajunge cu el pe profit si vede cum merge treaba, eventual cumpara mai multi.

Dar la cum evolueaza pretul la curent.. nu arata bine deloc... Cifrele deja arata pierdere, nu ROI din prima luna...

Although I agree that they can be a good step forward for now, there are a few topics here that worth mentioning:
1. Many people (and nations!) are afraid of nuclear power. From what I've read, that's one of the reasons Germany is closing them.
2. Even small reactors do produce nuclear waste, which is problematic to be disposed (and I'm saying it overly nice).
3. Nuclear fusion should give more power for longer time with virtually no waste at all, so it would be huge leap forward; it would make any fission based power plants "instantly" obsolete.


I know. I didn't make confusion, I don't talk about that kind of bombs. But a sudden release of a huge amount of pressure is... a bomb.

Yep, the rules will need to be adjusted every now and then. A silly cat and mouse "game", but I don't see better option.


As soon as they know what's the rule, they can abuse it...


On the other hand, the fact they find out the rules can mean that they've read the forum (i.e. one step forward). Of course, there can be that only their "master" have read the forum and the "puppets" only follow its rules.

February 2017: bought an average laptop, it has worth some 600 USD back then.
I don't have the tx id to look up the exact BTC value, it was some 1100 USD/BTC plus the payment processor was charging some 7-8% fee too.
So yeah, more than half of a bitcoin paid. I tell my wife now and then that the laptop worth as much as a new car (yeah, a cheaper one now, in crypto winter)

If somebody posts like this, it will be seen as a tutorial by the newbies, hence I was one of those telling to consider deletion.
I've seen too many newbies trying lately to come, some with poorly made tutorials, trying to fish for merits. Yet, you seem to have missed those.

On the other hand, if you're indeed right and was a question for reviewing, then OP could have really written 4 simple words: "can you please review?"


That's one of the mistakes I've seen. Blockchain is a database. Talking there about fees looks to me like confusion (i.e. confusing blockchain with whatever coin)

Sorry, I don't find it funny, since people did lose money there.
Of course, it's about people who didn't zoom out to see the big picture, have looked only at the last couple of months, got scared and said "f**k this s**t".

Keep in mind that there are bears that get profit and people with bearish sentiment who lose money.

I have in my mind 3 scenarios, of which 2 are bad and one is good.

1. He's in a prison (or worse) for whatever idiocy the agencies could set up, if they've caught him.
2. He's ill. Maybe had a stroke or an accident and doesn't remember much.
3. He has bought some bitcoin at under 1$ a piece long ago and now he's busy drinking margaritas. Maybe he even reads this forum now and then and smiling on us.

Almost everybody can make this kind of predictions, without calling himself expert.
Even more, predictions are worthless, since there's no harm at all if they don't come true, especially if it's predictions spanning for longer period of time, so people get to forget.

Both falling under 15k in the near future and getting over 100k after halving are rather common topics/expectations on this forum.


This is, on the other hand, an interesting prediction, since not that many are bold enough to make predictions for the end of the year (they can easily get it wrong and it's not far enough to get forgotten). We'll see..


PS. This topic is more suitable for Speculation than B&H.

Actually those testimonials are most probably all fake and one will be scammed again paying for a service that cannot do anything.

1. Bitcoin transactions are irreversible.
2. Bitcoin is pseudo-anonymous, hence if somebody knows what he's doing, the stolen coins won't ever be linked to his identity.
3. If, by chance, the thieve makes a mistake, he has to also send his funds to a centralized exchange (which may or may not happen, or, even if it happens, it may happen only after many years), and the exchange will move a finger only if a proper warrant will be shown to them, which  is not easy to obtain.

So this kind of "experts" will most likely get some fat money deposits from you, may fill you with promises and .. will do nothing.

This is the kind of post for which negative merit should exist.
A lot of big images... telling crap.
OP, please consider removing this topic. Really.

OP, I think that LoyceV's is the best and safest approach, also pretty well written.
If there's a big amount there, this is what you should do.
And if you're not sure, you can ask, and ask, and ask again, for each and every step, until you can do this.

I will add that:
* you may want to not send the entire amount to exchanges (if this is the reason for touching those coins)
* you may want to make sure the destination wallet is safe (maybe hardware wallet, double checked that the recovery seed is indeed correctly written and works) if you touch the coins in order to send them away

A website that's mining cannot mine bitcoin, since Bitcoin can be mined only with special hardware (which you most probably don't have).

So it may be mining altcoins and sell it for bitcoin, in the best case (I'll come back to this). If that happens, you'll be earning coins that worth some pennies, but your computer will consume electricity that'll cost much more than those pennies, so you lose money.

And I'm back to "it's mining altcoins, in the best case". Since it's very few pennies you'd be "earning" (that's if you ignore the electricity cost) like this, there are (at least) 2 directions for this kind of websites:
* if you're lucky, some will show a lot of advertising and will act like faucets, letting you withdraw .. pennies (after a big threshold is reached)
* if you're not too lucky (and this is what I expect to be the most widely spread case) the website will show some nice numbers there, may even steal all the information it can from your computer or at least browser, but you'll never be able to withdraw (and if you insist, you may be lied to deposit money there - under whatever reasons).

TL;DR: you better avoid that kind of websites.

I don't know where you've got these ideas from, but there are plenty of mistakes there.


I guess that you meant there bitcoin was invented or created...
Even more, since the identity of Bitcoin's creator is unknown, hence his country of origin too, your statement cannot hold.


There will always be financial institutions. But some may/will/should choose to work with bitcoin (too).


Bitcoin prices fluctuations make it difficult for many to keep all their funds in bitcoin. Even more, if they earn fiat they already lose by inflation (if the cost of working hour is done in fiat, it's subject to inflation).


It's the state who plays the inflation game. Companies may rise prices more than they should and blame inflation, but that happens only where there's no proper competition (usually weak state, weak law enforcement agencies).

Hmm, ai dreptate. Nu o sa imi fie usor (program exagerat de strans), dar o sa incerc sa vad de colet chiar maine. In cel mai rau caz macar dau cateva telefoane. Multumesc de idee.

I've missed this and it makes perfect sense. Thanks for the explanation.

I think that the current type of democracy always was pretty much an utopia.
I think that for a working democracy all law related institutions have to work and have safeguards (if one doesn't work properly others will fix that).
I think that for a working democracy there's a need that the same set of laws are ruling everywhere.

There will always be people or institutions that will try to not follow the rules. But finding them (and successfully convicting them) without invading privacy is a big challenge that will have to be fixed sooner or later. But without same laws and without fully working institutions in each corner of the world, this is impossible.

He may have had plans to step back at some point, sooner or later, but from my knowledge, Gavin's visit at CIA has greatly rushed the things.

I'm not even convinced whether he has "left" willingly or not...

I have some sort of bug report, I think. It may be nothing, or just a glitch in the matrix, I don't know.

It has 2 parts:
1. If I search for: author GazetaBitcoin, post title paraipan, it gives no returns, hence missing https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5266812
Also if I search for: author GazetaBitcoin, post content paraipan, it doesn't return that topic either, and also for example it's missing https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5135232.msg60637543#msg60637543

2. For the last 2-3 days not all the mention notifications seem to come and some 6 merits are missed too (meaning 2 or 3 meriting events)


Both are no biggie, you've done great job on both tools, still, I thought that you may want to know about this.