If I read above correctly don't send anyone your seed..as to the above on a computer NEVER go go on the internet again..and you destroy hour hard drive after

wiping if you got his method to work..er maybe...if it is just a database fix (i don't know zip about this kinda stuff)

I would not do that....on a 1 post 'newbie' account! That is even more dubious than what I say without knowing zip above!

100% sure, he will take your partial 'seed' and run with it and try his own tricks.

Ask more people, do more research.....don't do anything till you understand it at least as well as the people offering 'dubious' fixes.

Also if this helps and you are a BTC Billionaire..don't forget my little self! lavish me with Bitcoin...(hey, the odds are the same as him finding that word!)

(loosing private keys..shudder..I just 'wet' myself a little bit due to fear) ..Ack!

Brad

I have 'friends' who have at the beginning of my 2013 Bitcoin mining....had a full scale and 'legit' in their mind...intervention..that I needed to sell out at $500 usd.

Ended up in a shouting match. So they don't say much anymore. But I need little graphs like this to at least 'try' to wake them up to get some BTC dust of some kind.

It may not be elegant and not exactly 'kosher' but ever once in awhile something like the above graph ...well..it 'oops' appears on my FaceBook feed.

I guess by this time they still think, it will go down by 90%...but maybe not......so progress I think...but it is 'annoying' when for years with little risk and

little money..it would have been nice to have them 'totter' along with me.

I've lately been telling 'newbies' w/o and funds to 'attic mine' crap out of their attic and sell it in small lots on eBay..even if only $20 here an there..it adds up..

with all the free time with pandemic and just buy BTC with such for a bit

of BTC dust. Indeed estate sales/rummage sales/etc and just 'flipping stuff at 2x the $$$ on eBay would be a small hobby equivalent to home mining.

I know home mining is dead, but figure it would at least be interesting to do..not like I made zip home mining when I started either but it was interesting

trying to do more of the same with stuff we all othewise would die with our attic's full of stuff anyway..so why not?..so far a few takers on the forum here but in my real

life...nada...zilch.

So anyway, with friends family it will someday come down to this very, very, likely 'pained' conversation..that goes something like this.

'Why did you NOT 'twist my arm' and sit on me and MAKE me buy Bitcoin/Crypto back in the day?" ..end quote....they all forget that I pretty much

tried to do this for years and got the same look as Aliens landing/UFOs/Fairy Dust and Unicorn's 'existing' and farting Rainbows!!!

..but anyway, I see that conversation coming.....I figure right around $15k ..if not sooner.

Brad

If PayPal is smart they will follow the below path to get as many people outside the USA into this Bitcoin and PayPal plan as the possibly can, for the simple

reason of 'Adoption of BTC will help the folk that don't have banks!'

1) They get accounts from folks without 'legit' or any Banking throughout the world, no checking accounts and that kind of thing. They with the BTC

option in a place with 'high inflation' on their nation's $$$ and such...get an account of some type. Maybe thru coinbase and its debit card operation of

a real USA bank. They still have no real credit rating for credit card etc? But if PayPal is smart that won't matter.

PayPal should set this up so that the 1st step is that you have BTC bought thru PayPal and in your account. In that the security is in the Bitcoin itself..PayPal

could say with such and such amount of Bitcoin, you have such and such access to use on Amazon, or whatever. From there, again, if PayPal wants to

take over the world like Amazon, they would then 'offer' on your BTC purchase history and or amount of BTC kept on hand in maybe, offer you the next

tier up as to offer you checking and banking through paypal..with your passport and KYC etc...thus now they also are your bank.....then after that, if I

was them...it would morph into offering services with KYC as an exchange. So the 'great unbanked' in the world could use Bitcoin to prove their credit

bona fides to get such banking and maybe exchange services with KYC without the worry of local banking in dubious countries or having banking first

or having credit card etc..they could simply 'progress' upward thru a PayPal path to get all of the above. In that Bitcoin security is in the Bitcoin..not your

credit history (or lack thereof) this is a plan. The people using this PayPal option to go up the chain above (sorry rough but you get the idea) they know

that PayPal is 'likely' more legit than their countried 'dubious' banking system so they feel secure as well.

This has to be the plan, indeed it is the way Coinbase for example guided my upward process to give me too much money and credit to use on their

platform over time. I can't see how something can't be done like I said above, (probably better explained then I did) and PayPal through Bitcoin/Crypto

could just 'wrap' up a whole mess of new adoption into the world finance system 'directly' and increase BTC/Crypto adoption massively. Also from

PayPal's point of view..all them lovely fees going in/out and around. Anyway, above is rough idea...but this should be do'able IMHO if PayPal is 'farsighted' enough to go

down this path. Otherwise, why the heck did they take BTC/Crypto unless they got some or all of the above involved as a long term plan?

remember I'm clueless...but how it looks to me.

I also 'believe' that like Viemo the service PayPal has money in and now will become the PayPal BTC/Crypto wallet..it to started out not letting BTC/Crypto

in and out directly. I think that also will change. Of course, if PayPall really, really does (got a BTC woody on this) buy BitPay..well crap...all heck will break

loose!

Again, rough sketch above of how it might work without my knowing zip about adequate safeguards.

Brad

This always happens...we need something like Bitcoin to stay like above $15K, due to adoption, not speculation. At that point, FOMO for Altcoins also

kicks in as they are 'cheaper' per unit. In the past the Altcoins tend to go up faster in such a senario and then dump even more than Bitcoin ..should BTC

back slide some. So the 'trick' is ..to 'time' your altcoin sales at that sweat spot for Bitcoin, IMHO.

Sometimes this works, but even so you will never time it at the ATH for your particular Altcoin vs Bitcoin...but hey, hope springs 'eternal'.

Thus, myself, I have the usual forks of BCH and BSV ...I plan on dumping 1/2 of them...leave the rest alone on legacy wallets. *no real reason, just doing so*

have some LTC/LISK in a Solo401k plan I should *probably* dump for 'income' now that I've retired. And Siacoin (don't ask me why)..which I should also dump.

My timing sucks, only all above worth maybe 3 BTC after cap gains and stBradate taxes...was 6 BTC a few months ago, live and learn.

But, yeah, this is the last or most altcoins I plan to move to BTC...but 'timing' wise don't pay any attention to me.

Again, the catch is when Bitcoin Pumps all Altcoins 'dump' as people get out to 'buy' Bitcoin on the FOMO.

So, I'm in HODL mode on my 'altcoins' above, until, HOPEFULLY, Bitcoin stabilzes at a floor price of say $15k and then the Altcoins (in the past..remember

I know zip) have then caught up. So if I'm right and time such, I can get some more BTC than selling Altcoins now...if I am wrong..my alcoins will 'mostly'

go poof anyway and I will dump and my problem is also solved. (win/win/sob!)

But to me, enough drama with BTC ..plan to get the rest of my mined and other dubious altcoins out the door for Bitcon ASAP!

Then *hopefully,* I will only have to *fret* about what to do with all my BTC money? Will I wimp out and sell to much? Will so much $$$ worth of Bitcoin

*mysteriously* make me more attractive? Only time will tell on the above ..*clueless* I'm just winging it!

Brad

The 'pandemic' did push us to a new digital age in the following ways:

1) The process of the 4 day work week ..is LESS controversal now...especially with people working at home and setting their own hours. Seems
that if you work at home/and/or can set your own hours you seem to able to get all your work done and take Friday's off!

2) According to we will change the way we work. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20201023-coronavirus-how-will-the-pandemic-change-the-way-we-work...so maybe a lot of work will stay remote and at home.

3) Online sales will go up even more. Today they said Amazon saw a whopping 37% increase in sale...so lots more people with cut hours and/or no work.
     https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/29/amazon-amzn-earnings-q3-2020.html

All of above will have a lot of effect on Bitcoin/Crypto..myself unsure of how good or bad this is...but as to digital age stuff moving faster it already has been
due to the pandemic, IMHO and likely to accelerate.

Brad

80 - Searing

Thanks!

Brad

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/28/21538278/coinbase-card-visa-debit-cryptocurrency-bitcoin-stellar-lumen-spending-money

Probably not that big of news...I mean it is 'only' a debit card to your USD on a Coinbase account...likely PayPal will have more utility than

this with their BTC/Crypto launch..but inceimnental progress is still progress...drip..drip..bit by bit...

Litecoin has done the same...and I expect many, many more to do this kinda thing....in that it is really not all that tough to pull off, IMHO

https://getblockcard.com/supported-currencies/litecoin/

Edit:

Additional info to my above post (rant) whatever...

Additional edit:

7) This 'thread' also does not allow you to quote..don't want all those pesky facts flying about.

Also, what is the mininum amount before you can withdraw is not mentioned any place we can find here on the thread.

Such lame scammer skills, take some pride in your work.

Also to anyone, what is the danger of 'giving' your drivers license or Passport picture and other info for 'supposed' KYC ..be a 'handy' way for someone

to make an account using your picture and info to get around KYC with a change to an email to them. So this may be the 'real' hidden reason for this site.

Brad

It would be great if your site were legit...but I'm not buying it.

https://scryptcube.com/

1) where is it at? Mining/Data Halls? Pictures? References?

x) Edit: I stand corrected. They say NO  hidden setup/maintenance fees. Which does not make me any less dubious.

3) The link below thinks your site is a scam at worst and at least 'suspects' you are a scam site.

https://www.scamwatcher.org/scryptcube-review/

4) Newbie account? Really? Can't even spring for a 'cheap' Copper Membership on here or find Someone legit (like me ...Legendary's are all over the place on here!

Or others like Philipma1957 to 'vet' your setup as legit?

5) I really, really, like the fantasy of any $$$ I put into your calculator below into BTC I double my money at the end of one year at current BTC price.

https://scryptcube.com/calculator

I like it, but it is the same as when a cute teenage girl smiles at me..then I realize it is because I remind her of her Grandfather..thus the bubble bursts!

6) Unless you have like 2c kWh and/or have the benevolence of the Buddha on spreading such profit around, I'm confused why you don't just keep the hash

rate yourself on such a 'sure thing' as doubling your money in ONE year and all that nice Bitcoin and the sense of control you'd have doing so. No issues

with 'pesky' customers complaining about their $1.90 1 year contracts, etc.

lol

newbie scammer..take some pride in your work!

Brad

Also, many, many people tell me to sell some...I know more than a few sold at like $10,500 on a buyback at $8,500 return on Bitcoin...even I! Know

that never works.... I may not 'want' to jump out in traffic...but I see a lot of FOMO and FUD like cars screaming past...but I don't play in traffic anymore.

Yeah, I sold low back in the day at $3,900 BTC ...13 BTC ..of which I recovered 5 BTC...but then again so keeping score I'm still 8 BTC down, but I was 'retired' on

crypto..at the time of this Real Life Issue sale and that got me to $50,700

and my last (about) 1.5 years till I could do 'traditional stocks/bonds' retirement...the option of going back to 'work for somebody' was just too dire...

So $50,700 or thereabouts x 15% cap gains (about) and 10% State Income Taxes left me with $38,025 (about maybe a bit more after fees)

Real Life Issues suck.

Since then however I can still have my 'fabulous' $30-$35K 'working' lifestyle, in say lifetime 'real no inflation buying power $$$" (about in real $$$ since I was 18 years

old) in my

retirement and NO LONGER have such a 'devil's choice' to make.

Of course, barring health issues or some such, in which BTC/Crypto 'would' be a lifeline....regardless..knock wood!

Currently I have enough Altcoins/Forked Coins/etc (of dubious values and numbers) if I sold now to get 'close' to my original HODL HOARD and recover the 8 Bitcoin sale

of dubiousness.

But you do what you have to do to stay 'free' (ie not employed ...retired 3 years early...this above sale covered the last about 1.5 years till traditional investments kicked

in)

So, that is even, after taxes (again) at 15% cap gains and 10% state tax. I however...am HOPING that somehow...Bitcoin will 'stablize' at some point

for a month or more and then the various dubious altcoins and forked coins etc...will be ripe to dump. (crosses fingers/does the sign of the cross at the cat/generally

going with HOPEM on this)

But we get around 18K Bitcoin, hell even 16k Bitcoin and I will 'crack like an egg' and dump the last of my altcoins..if not before to get them 8 Bitcoin back.

So, like all HODL and Bitcoin/Crypto 'plans' it is likely to fail, due to the 'fool' thinking he has an angle..(me) but hey, its a hobby....blundering along in confusion

and cluelessness has its own adventurious charm, don't ya know...always drama BTC/Crypto...always FOMO/FUD excitement.

Brad

I should have blown some 'dubious' litecoin back in the day for solar arrangement like you did Philipma1957....my 8c arrangement with a friend at data hall. 8c kWh is just not gonna cut it for any POW mining. Indeed I don't see any ASIC or POW miner of any algo flavor working until maybe, Fall 2021.

Not sure what I'd have to have to make 8c kWh work for a Bitcoin price, even if I got a new, largest, Bitcoin miner today on the doorstep...but I would think I'd need about $18k Bitcoin price to even look into the possibility. Currently selling crap out of attic on ebay to convert to BTC dust...it sucks... but makes a lot more sense than a POW miner. I miss mining, I was such a cute newbie miner full of hope, back in the day. Miss the fun. Miss all them pretty coins at 50/25/12.5 per block. I mean 6.25 per Bitcoin block, yech!

Brad

Well, IMHO, all the 'virtual land' is being gobbled up ..that is Bitcoin wise. 18.5 million Bitcoin have already been mined out of the 21 million total. So, if this is the

case, and you have had the halving about April 8th, 2020....and as such the 12.5 Bitcoin to a block is not down to 6.25 Bitcoin to a block. Thus you have 'starting' at

this time 2 things going on (1) less Bitcoin available and (2) due to the state of the world more people in HODL mode for Bitcoin. This means, a lot less, Bitcoin on the

the market for sale and with the state of the world 'adoption' increasing the price of Bitcoin has been rising steadily.

So, IMHO, it is now a 'question' of adoption....how many people want in? Now as far as HODL'ers selling, don't think we are there yet, so this amount of Bitcoin

available to sell will keep the price up IMHO. As a 'guess' on my own HODL'ings (for sure the Altcoins) I will likely dump Altcoins at around the previous all-time high

of around $18k per Bitcoin. So the hodl'ers will sell some around the next All Time High for Bitcoin and/or like myself sell their altcoins then (my plan) and HODL

the Bitcoin. So anyway, it takes a few months after halving for these price increases with Bitcoin, IMHO. With the PayPal annoucement and likely 'inflation' a concern in

a few years I see the stock market going down by 1/3 and gold and Bitcoin at least going sideways at worst or up a bit.

So in a 'general' market sense, save cash, get Bitcoin to HODL agains inflation and diversify your stock market assets to bonds more so then being aggressive.

We have a 'few' years to get through all this, as to myself I think the Bitcoin market is the place to be at this time above other choices.

(like I know zip)

Brad
 

google translate: I talked to him before and he confirmed from "sources" that China once again banned Bitcoin


On the other hand, walking around with a BTC/Crytpo 'Woody' at all times is becoming somewhat embarrassing!

come on, 2020, do something else weird, we need a repeat of 2017 and bring back home mining!

lol

Brad

edit: and people were telling me a month or so ago to sell at like $9,500 usd or some such and 'buy on the dip' ...

When..PayPal opens up 'world wide' that is when, IMHO, the full BTC effect will happen. In that if you wanted to use PayPal for a purchase say from

www.ebay.com and you are in a nation w/o credit cards and other banking options..I'd assume you could just use BTC via PayPal.

As to the buyer of an eBay

product..you know in say a third world nation you can trust eBay...so to speak...on the other hand...if you are eBay lack of a bank does not matter and also true of PayPal

with the Bitcoin and PayPal option. The security is in the BTC transaction, all else is simply pass through to the vendor. Again, if eBay is not a good example, use your own

own.
 
So it will be less than huge for otherwise limited folk to use in the 1st world nations BUT A GAME CHANGERER, IMHO, for the developing nations.  

It is very smart of PayPal to make this offer even it is ine

the limited fashion it has. Mainly, for those now with the option to use PayPal via the Bitcoin process that don't have banking or other legit fair/honest banking

or other services in their country. Indeed, once one or two BTC processes have gone through via PayPal using Bitcoin from these groups, PayPal could then have other

means of 'verifying' them as legit/honest  users of PayPal and indeed PayPal through steps to verify with BTC/crypto could then 'provide' banking services on the cusp of

their BTC/Crypto xfers and using that as a verification. Small steps for someone to go from BTC only..to limited banking to full banking to eventual exchange all w/o

traditonal banking as such for the start of this process.

Or indeed PayPal could be all services to someone overseas in developing countries. 1st the PayPal BTC use and verify..then use such funding to add banking

to PayPal as they see a need for such with adoption and demand and lastly go full exchange like coinbase with KYC. I repeat myself, but you get the drift of

possibilites for PayPal to both open up its own adoption world-wide as well as for BTC/Crypto in one fell swoop! Also, KYC could be implimented as the

processs goes along...all the way to full crypto exchange/banking levels. All starting from just simple sales with overseas BTC payments to PayPal.

As, to the USA, probably not a big deal. But say as someone trying to get products from the USA from a country with high inflation $$$ and more than a bit

of corruption etc...this could be a lifesaver and a really big deal. Again, the above is rough idea wise..but how I'd try to play the long term gains on BTC/Crypto

if i was PayPal.

Brad

Yeah, presently probably would not sell at $18k the BTC but 'damn' my 'altcoins/shitcoins' would be flying out the door that is for sure.

ie Simplify= "just BTC"
...
also the sell in 2017 was real world..i'd already retired on crypto so sell some at $3,900 or go back to work for 1 last year..yech

that was not gonna happen ..real life sucks sometimes..anyway so it goes at 18k the forked BTC and altcoins are frigging toast, that is very likely>


 

I'm on Syntrhoid (synthetic thyroid...have to take 1 small tasteless pill every day or I will wind down like a clock) only costs me like $200 bucks a year..but if it all

goes to hell like you say, I'd be dead in 6-months on say a massive EMP from a solar flare that blew up all the Transformers anyway...so it is a moot point for me

and other people. I guess that would be 'one way' to take it with me...ie no gold..just me and BTC/Crypto go 'poof' eventually together if the society/grid does not

come back up promptly.

if that is the case then paypal will have no choice but to fold the crypto aspect of their paypal plan

I'd guess though that PayPal would make sure they have a 'seperate cold wallet" with some kind of dual control and such..or they are idiots...I mean the normal

user is NOT supposed to keeo their BTC/Crypto on an exchange..thus either it is seperate and maintained by an exchange but really the cold wallet is under

PayPal's control...or as they say..not your keys..not your bitcoin/crypto...I can't see them (1) giving up that kinda control and (2) being that damn stupid to do so.

If such happens like you say and PayPal was to 'hedge' on covering such..well that could put BTC/Crypto for adoption 'back' 5 years indeed if PayPal was that slimy.

7-Searing

I have not often sold my Bitcoin in the last 7 years...but when I do "I always' manage to have sold at the bottom.

(hey, it's a gift!) Do this enough, and like 'magic', you will find yourself a Bitcoin Hodl'er before you know it!

The 'dumbest' move was selling 13 BTC at $3,900.00 then watching it go to like $3,400 and feeling pretty proud of myself

then it goes back up to $13k like now ..then down again..and now back around $13k..so baring health issues....not gonna happen.

I did manage to get 5 BTC back by 'buying' back in much higher than the BTC was worth when I sold it.....so it goes.

Brad


edit: Those 8 BTC I'm still down look kinda 'daunting' to get back now, don't ya know.

Ack! That surely beats me at my October 18th, 2013 KNC Jupiter Bitcoin Miner, with again, so on that day, I looked at $150 usd per Bitcoin! (I sat on my hands and did zip and waited for a miners from BFL ...which never came...but did get a 'fluke' refund from BFL more than 1 year later a week before SEC closed them down. DUMB LUCK rules ..I was such a clueless newbie! so giving up on BFL I finally got the above KNC miner...But again, sitting on hands from April 13,  2013 or 3 days before the Wall Observer thread started on here on April 13th, 2013 and the price of BTC on the 1st post on WO was..Ack! $67.43! I was distraut in thatI 'obviously' peaked at the $150 I mined that 1st day...surely, the price had to go down right? In that I missed the boat from April 13th, 2013?

Ah, my 'clueless' newbie youth....what a noob I was! I sure hope the next 7 years is at least this rosey for Bitcoin/Crypto!