Yeah... for me influential means... to be somebody I can always learn from, somebody I wish to be like that person.
This is a forum. You can always make a new account and start fresh. While it's best to be friendly and try to be part of a great community.. licking this or that ass for "being secure" may not get you far. I guess that if you want to be part of this or that mafia/gang you'll have to ask at the street corners, not asking loudly 

Reputation, or a good name, is very hard to earn, it can take many years to achieve. Reputation is hard to earn and very easy to lose. Hence some did live up to their names, some didn't.


Some joined to this forum earlier, some later. Each and every individual has different background of knowledge, different ways of expressing that, some keep learning, some not so much.
Excellence in posts is hard to achieve (and I think that some are better gifted than others in that matter). But you have to seek for proper information, not only the proper package. And also you have to crosscheck everything you read, since everybody can make mistakes.

Sorry, but without the technical details there's no bitcoin.
My list of influential people are people with very good knowledge in Dev&Tech or Mining.
Since you don't care about those, I have no list to give you.

Although I highly esteem also some non-technical peeps, I have a feeling you prefer a list of drama queens and forum policemen, and that's... not really influential for me...

24 - NeuroticFish

Thank you!

A mai fost nu demult un concurs cu practica acelasi premiu, avem o re-reditare.

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Do you try to get a problem fixed or you want to create panic?! Asking same question on every corner will get you nothing new.
Chill. Keep in mind that it's week-end and also holiday season. Also, as said, Tor is in trouble itself...
I'd say you should wait until the new week starts...


PS. If it helps, I've reproduced your first error both yesterday and today.

Your wallet private key is a number within a hugely big interval. Let's say bigger than the number of stars and planets in the universe.
And yes, if somebody finds out that number, you're screwed.

Just the chance is smaller than winning the big prize at lottery many times in a row (!).
The seed is indeed "just words". But keep in mind that being a rather big set of words in the list your seed words are taken from, and even more, a word can be used multiple times in your seed, makes it, again very (very-very-very) difficult to brute force it. So difficult that the electricity needed for the job doesn't worth it, no matter how many coins are in your wallet (!), plus it takes an awfully lot of time (many generations!). Again, the chances to "guess" or brute force it are extremely low.

Clearer?

I think that it may be possible.
At the moment a "trade" is locked in, both buyer and seller have a fixed and short amount of time to send you (the exchange) the funds (they promised they exchange) and then you will send to each party its new funds.
Pretty much like an atomic swap, just it doesn't have to be "atomic".

The problem I see though is the if one part is not sending the promised funds in the amount of time, you'll have to send back to the other party what he sent, maybe even on your expense.
So it has to be tighter and I don't know how you can force somebody send funds from his wallet if he doesn't want to... unless you heavily interfere with his wallet and I guess that this is not wanted.

But with devs around you you may receive better ideas.

I feel that you've left whole Arabia out of equation.

While the Arabs are extracting big time (they do need the money for developing), US tends to keep reserves, as you said, for generations. Keep in mind that it's not only cars, trucks, ships, planes need oil. Keep in mind that your clothes also contain a fair share of oil-based products, and it's just an example. US will keep its industries going for long.

So I don't think that US will become "the only supplier of oil for EU". At least not for long.

In the same way I told JollyGood that he's exaggerating and advised to cool down, now I will do the same to you: please cool down, you're exaggerating and this will do more harm to you than good.

And I will not answer your question because:
1. I don't have to.
2. As I said, you're exaggerating.
3. If I'd answer, it would be an answer neither you, nor JollyGood would like.

All I can tell that my trust list will probably change (suffer a big clean up), an operation that seems to be badly needed now since I've became part of DT. But it won't happen overnight and it certainly won't happen under pressure.

Cold storage means that the seed or private key (or the actual wallet, obviously) never, but absolutely never goes online.
So you cannot "go from hot storage (electrum wallet) to cold storage without modifying my private key and seed phrase". You have to create a proper cold wallet offline and send the funds from the hot wallet to the cold wallet.

Edit: typo/correction

I'm not into that altcoin (actually I care only of 1-2 altcoins), so I don't know about that altcoin and that particular wallet.
But you have to keep in mind that the newer the altcoin, or the wallet, or whatever software is, the more likely to have bugs or even logic errors.

Now to your question: logging recovery phrases is clearly a newbishly stupid mistake, I expect that the vast majority doesn't do that. Bitcoin Core and Electrum don't do that.

So there's a news on a website, the news writer doesn't even know how to correctly write down "Celsius", the central point of the news is a guy working for a centralized (ETF) platform, most likely it's paid news, and you think that this will encourage newbies do this or that? Well.. the news is worthless on the matter, the newbies already keep more than they should on centralized platforms and .. actually the news is somewhat right too:
* some people are incapable to properly take care of their funds, even if they are on a HW! (for example they will lose their backup seed or store it in e-mail)
* ETF and similar products, whether we like it or not, are more suitable for various companies who don't want to hire responsibles for handling safely bitcoin wallets

So the reasons and approach differ from entity to entity. We, on bitcointalk, will most probably keep telling "not your keys, not your coins". Others only see bitcoin as a financial asset/vehicle and won't care what tools (and custody) they use.

I've met completely un-technical people who were asking even questions like "how are the bitcoins created" and "what makes them safe" which are somewhat beyond the shallow "I want to use Bitcoin, I want to earn from bitcoin" typology usually expected from newcomers.

So I'll come with something else: explain them what you can and how you can and when you get to parts you find difficult... just ask in Beginners & Help. You should get all levels of answers, some technical some not. (of course, you should search first if that question was already asked, to avoid some harsh answers too). They've already seen you using the forum, let's use it for their benefit too.

I'd say that this already got handled yesterday and the trust viewer has old data, since it's scraping only once a week.



On Gazeta's bpip page though, interestingly...



So I guess that this may put an even better light on Gazeta's post.


I pretty much agree.


I think that there's still quite a difference (in strength) between the trust feedback of some newbies that come and go and the feedback of a highly ranked and active member, no matter he's not DT.

Indeed, I see the mods did act there; it has happened after I've started this topic. (Thank you @achow101)


Imho one conclusion is that the forum may need some more mods get hired.
And the main conclusion is that there's not much that will change. Well, it's like in all "bitcointalk needs" cases
I guess I can lock this topic. Thank you all for the input.

In my country this is actually happening. For at least 6-7 years already. Whatever you want to buy and it's expensive, it has to be done through bank (hence with KYC).
If you want to buy a new car, worth for example €15k, you will not even be allowed to pay the €10k in cash, maybe some 10-15% of the price, and they will tell you nicely, but firmly, that the rest must be transferred through bank.

46 - NeuroticFish

Amazingly looking coin; thank you for the raffle!

Dap, il remarcasem (probabil in acelasi timp cu tine), dar nu am apucat nici sa ma inscriu, nici sa il pun aici.
Oricum, multumesc!


Cred ca nu e chiar identic. Cel de acum are monede DYI, deci ma astept ca beneficiarul sa genereze/puna cheia privata, sa aplice holograma si sa incarce moneda.
Plus ca cele dinainte erau cu clepsidra, cele de acum sunt .. mai clasice.


Noi sa fim sanatosi! Si bafta sa avem!

As I wrote in my first answer to you (I mean here), you can go here for more info: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5248878.0
I guess that you didn't, since you would have noticed that it starts with


And indeed, that topic is the topic made by the bot creator (TryNinja) to announce the bot and to get contacted in case something is strange/wrong.
So my advise is to go and tell clearly (even better than you did here, if possible) your problem in this thread.