Even if there are only 8 recommendations for HW, I think that is quite enough for someone to choose the device that suits them best. Someone will need HW that supports multiple cryptocurrencies, someone else will look for one that supports only Bitcoin, and then it's quite easy to decide (at least for me personally).

I don't want to say at all whether the recommendations on that site are good or bad, but anyone who wants to buy good (reliable&secure HW) should look for the experiences of other users, and I know that every good HW has its own topic on this forum.

I will not speculate who the owner is, but I can say with certainty that the coins do not belong to CW Faketoshi, although it may be one of the addresses that he claimed belonged to him. Whoever it actually was just proved once again that all those theories about lost BTC don't make much sense

If you think that a topic is not appropriate for that board, then simply use the "report to moderator" button and if the moderators agree with you, that topic will be moved/deleted. That board is primarily intended for beginners, and accordingly no one should be surprised that most of them behave exactly like that.


Beginners behave like beginners (the majority), and if someone doesn't see or refuses to read all those sticky topics, everything you try to do to change that won't help much. A new board that would serve for new members to introduce themselves would not make sense for me personally, and maybe it would even be a bit confusing for some members who would write some things about themselves that should still remain private.

The OP is somewhat right, because it is true that anyone can create a wallet and send/receive transactions, but in order to register on CEX, they must be of legal age, and any service that requires KYC will be unreachable. However, Bitcoin allows everyone to be their own bank and, accordingly, to be somewhat financially independent, which is of great help to many people.

Bitcoin therefore has no limit when it comes to age, skin color or nationality, but it still requires some basic knowledge to be able to use it safely. Therefore, I would recommend anyone who is thinking about Bitcoin to devote their time to learning first, and only then to start dealing with practical things.

I assume that there are some technical analyzes that "suggest" such a scenario, but at the moment it seems quite unconvincing to me that Bitcoin can lose more than 40% of its value in less than a month, given that the OP mentions the halving as the deadline. It seems to me that there are a lot of people who completely underestimated the effects of spot ETFs, and now they are persistently trying to reverse the price to fill their bags.

If it is to be judged by yesterday, ETFs inflows are returning to levels from before with the new 5900 BTC, and that will hopefully keep the price above $60 000 regardless of the Grayscale dumps.

AI generated posts have been a problem for years, at least I've been aware of it since mid-2020 when @fillippone opened this topic AI writing messages on Bitcointalk.org. I cannot say how much content on the forum is currently generated with the help of AI, but I believe that it is already a significant percentage.

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That would only have a partial effect, because there are always managers who don't care, as is the case here. I think I even read that the user in question here was somehow promoted (rewarded) for his good work in the campaign. Tags, flags and black lists for such managers are unfortunately worthless.

Everyone has their own opinions on how things could unfold in the following months, but I don't know how to comment at all on what will happen from today until the halving, which will most likely be within the next month. Given that we have completely new players on the market (spot ETFs), major price changes are possible due to inflows and outflows of BTC from these funds.

Grayscale still has about 350 000 BTC in its possession and continues to sell them, and if a "black hole" happens again in the sense that other ETFs stop buying for a few days, a correction will occur again.

Given that there is no seed, and that Ledger has firmware that cannot be upgraded, I think that the only way to succeed is doing something advised by @nc50lc. Apart from that, I don't see how to approach this problem differently and solve it in a positive way.


I assume that the OP invested in Bitcoin back when it was worth maybe only a few hundred $ and did not believe that it would ever be worth what it is today. Before every bull run, we have the same problems - people realize that maybe they have something valuable, but also that they have a big problem that they can't access it.

Your wallet should be used for safe storage of your coins (private keys), and you can buy BTC on CEX (centralized exchange) or DEX (decentralized exchange). In general, people will tell you to buy a hardware wallet, so even though it is an option that is safer than any desktop/mobile hot wallet, you still need to know what you are buying.

If you have serious plans for a long-term investment in Bitcoin, then you need a more serious solution, but if you are going to buy worth a few tens of $ or something similar, then look for a desktop wallet with a solid reputation.

Why do anything like that when you can make tons of money just by investing in Bitcoin? Let's say you bought 5 BTC 1+ year ago at an average price of $20 000, today you could sell it for $350 000 which is $250 000 profit before tax of course. Not everyone has that much money, but I want to say that there are easier ways than this kind of method that the OP is trying to sell - and even if the method miraculously works, how many people can actually put it into practice?

If you do a job that is not too connected with computers and the internet and that job takes a lot of your time, and you also have a family waiting for you after work, then it is logical that you will have very little time (or none at all) for the forum or any other online activities. However, if you are really interested in what is happening on the forum, with good time management you can certainly find at least some time to spend here.

On the other hand, if you have an "online" business, then you can always take a look at the forum, right?

There is no doubt about that - but fiat is a scam sponsored by nation states, and few people in real life will dare to say that publicly because those same states have mechanisms to make life miserable for anyone who dares to question such things. If we take a closer look at what is actually the real agenda behind the repetition of the expression "Bitcoin is a scam", then it is quite clearly visible that "they" are saying this for only one reason, and that is the fear of losing influence over people, which is mostly carried out precisely through fiat currencies.

This is why some countries like Turkey or Thailand (maybe others) do not ban Bitcoin as an investment, but they strictly forbid using it as a currency. Of course, I didn't mention China, which banned it almost completely, or India, which does everything to discourage its citizens from using it.

I agree here, Bitcoin is not for everyone just like trading on Forex or stock exchanges is not for everyone - people lose money constantly on various investments, but we will hardly hear that they will accuse a well-known (influential) company of being a scam because their shares lost overnight 20% or more in value. As in real life, people fiercely attack those who cannot or do not want to defend themselves, and given that Bitcoin is decentralized, it is very easy to say that it is a scam and that it consumes electricity like some country, and that we will remain in the dark because of Bitcoin mining.

Of course, scammers use Bitcoin to the limit, but you should never blame the tool, but the person who uses that tool. Besides, for a scam to succeed, there is always a need for a naive victim, and the fact is that we have millions of people who behave just like that thanks to governments that do not provide for their education.

If you keep your coins on a centralized exchange, then there are several ways you can lose them :

1. CEX is hacked and that is something that no client can influence - but one can still hope that the company will compensate him one day.

2. The client loses his coins because he entered his login data in a phishing site - he cannot hope for any compensation except to report the case to the police and for the police to officially request the attacker's IP address and all other information that could help in the investigation.

3. The client loses his coins because his device is infected with clipboard malware, which results in a transaction that sends coins to the attacker's address. There is no compensation or even the possibility to detect the attacker, except for a complicated and sophisticated blockchain analysis that may not give any results in the end.

On the other hand, someone who loses coins and used a hardware wallet can become a victim of the clipboard malware described above, or a seed stealer in the sense that he enters his seed into a fake wallet. In both cases, we can say that the game is over for such a person, because even though he can report the case to the police, the chance of returning the funds is almost nil.

As strange as it sounds, a hardware wallet in the wrong hands is sometimes worse solution than storing coins on CEX.

I'm not sure if publishing such information could have negative legal consequences for you, given that you received a serious warning from someone posing as a lawyer for the people whose information you would publish. If you already want to publish information that is sensitive (personal), then you should do it according to the rules of the forum in this board -> Investigations


In that case, if you could prove that these things were added to the contract after your investment, it is possible that you are somehow exempt from them, although you probably should have reacted to it much earlier. Whoever was behind that project obviously decided to protect themselves legally in case something goes wrong.


I would suggest that you open a new topic in Services and post that offer, and maybe someone will respond, even though it's been a really long time and maybe it really is a very long-term and complex job.

I would be inclined to exactly that theory, considering that the manager wholeheartedly defends exactly such shitposters who could actually be part of the alt network that the company bought to promote itself on the forum. I wouldn't be surprised if they then hired one or more people to manage that network, and of course they use AI and paraphrasing to do their job.

It is obvious that such a way of promoting pays off, because the investment in buying alt accounts is returned in the way that they do not actually pay unique members to advertise them. Unfortunately, apart from the persistent report such post and the hope that some of the global mods will react with a ban, red tags or flags are quite ineffective for such things.

Perhaps the problem is that people bought such devices with the assumption that they will last a very long time and that they will work without errors - and it is no secret that today electronic devices are made to last as short as possible, because the goal of all manufacturers is to get you to buy a new device as soon as possible.

This does not surprise me at all, because if I buy a new mobile phone at least every 5 years, then I will most likely have to do the same with the hardware wallet. Unfortunately, everything has its expiration date, and after the pandemic, everyone is saving even more on the quality of production, which results in lower quality devices.

Some of my layman's opinion would be that the e-mail was written by the same people who were behind the project with the reason that they would scare you into continuing with what you are about to do. However, the message also mentions some interesting things like :


which would mean that you somehow became familiar with the possibility that you could lose your investment, and that you could not claim any compensation for the damage if it happened.

However, in order to clarify the legal situation, you will have to find someone who will study all the documentation in detail and then conclude whether you have legal grounds for any claims.

Maybe some people won't like it, but a hardware wallet (not even the best one) is not an absolute solution for safe storage of our coins (private keys) if we don't use that same hardware wallet the way we should.

I will ask a simple question - is someone's Bitcoin safer on a centralized exchange if we take into account that the person knows what phishing is and keeps his access data offline, or is someone's Bitcoin safer if he has a hardware wallet whose backup is saved to e-mail, in the cloud or as plain text on a computer?

The transactions themselves can only have an impact on compromising privacy if they fall into the wrong hands - but this is something that can be easily prevented if encryption of all data is used on the device, in this case a smartphone. In addition, every transaction can be seen online at any time, so if you want to brag to someone, you don't necessarily need to save a screenshot - you can always make it, send it to someone and then delete it.


You can simply warn him that it is a bad practice that has some risks, and beyond that, nothing else makes sense. If something bad happens, you did your part because you warned him, and if nothing bad happens, everyone is happy and satisfied.