Nope, they're asking for "supporting documents" (KYC, source of funds) which, from my understanding, the rightful owner doesn't want to send.

(I will basically say what witcher_sense said, but somewhat different, I hope)


The bitcoins people have in their wallets "exist" as results of transactions (or UTXO, unspent outputs).
This is "the form" you will find.


There's a "rule" in bitcoin code that tells to give the miners the right block rewards. But the coins go to miners' wallet also as transactions. The block reward is just a special transaction and the miner, if he doesn't spend it, will have an UTXO in his wallet.

You should do a quick search and see what DCA means. Because what Michael Saylor does is DCA. He buys whenever he has money for that, no matter the price. He has done that in bull market, he does that in bear market.
And since he's at a potential loss now (the USD value of what he's bought is smaller than the price he has paid), also means that there's absolutely no correlation between bottom and Michael Saylor's buys.

Unfortunately Bitcoin is not fungible. Unfortunately, since the history of each and every input is viewable by anybody, various businesses can easily become picky in where your coins are coming from or what you are doing with them.

BestChange's case is not unique. Afaik some bigger exchanges may be doing the same. BestChange could mark these exchanges they redirect to, in a way or another, but... there will still be some who fail to read the signs and such classification may also not be great for the business.
What has happened to OP is pretty much not unique also.

I don't understand why people don't read everything thoroughly before sending their money here and there.
I don't understand why people don't test new services with smaller amounts of money, which don't have the potential to "hurt the budget" much in case things go wrong.


Since the service OP was using has stated that it uses KYC/AML, it's somewhat at the limit between scam/stealing and not (although I guess that there's a bigger chance they keep those funds instead of sending them to the authorities). I would certainly avoid them, but I'm hesitant in calling them scammers.
OP should have been taking more precautions and avoid them earlier.

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[FREE RAFFLE] MYBITS SERIES 2 SET
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5404697

Organizator: MrMojoRising26

Se poate castiga un set de 3 monede Mybits, fiecare moneda fiind si incarcata cu 0.001BTC


Poate participa orice Jr.Member sau mai mult, sau daca are Trust 2+, sau are Copper membership.
Modalitate de inscriere: se alege un numar (care nu a fost deja rezervat) de la 0 la 99.
Transportul: gratuit in USA, sau minerjones va retrimite in Romania contra cost.

Concurs incheiat.

86 - NeuroticFish

Thank you!

That's correct. However, from my knowledge, there can be 2 types of BTC ETFs, of which one makes the ETF actually properly backed with Bitcoin (the entity emitting the ETF have to have that amount of BTC), and the other is not.
My guess is that most people think that all ETF are backed by BTC, hence this instrument could create a buying pressure on the actual bitcoin markets. (And a rise of the price).


I think that Bitcoin has fuzzy legislation on how to do bookkeeping on those acquisitions and many are afraid of that.
Many don't trust the crypto exchanges and businesses, simply because they're very new (and some are also somewhat anti-banking).

So working with USD and with companies you know and trust is a big factor for many.
Even more, keeping your bitcoins safe, as you know, it's not trivial.

So it's a decision I can understand.

You've completely missed the point of this forum. This is not "buy illegal keys" forum.
And on trust, I could indeed give him negative feedback, but if I start that, I would give you too negative feedback as buyer of stolen keys. Shortly, you're no better than the one scamming you.

But the conclusion is partly correct, although a bit late: you should indeed not trust anyone.

It's called backward compatibility 

If you're restricted by "your" network administrator, you should think very carefully to the possible consequences of what you're doing.
If "your" administrator is actually the admin of the company you're working for and you're mining with their machines, you may face charges for spending their electricity and maybe also for the extra wear on the hardware. Plus, obviously, the risk of getting fired.

Since I don't expect you earn that much from mining... I think that you should consider thinking it through, instead of finding ways to bypass it.

I am inexperienced on recovering your wallet, however, some basics:

1. WSL is a tool you install on Windows 10, tool which allows you run a Linux (you have to install from Microsoft Store) like you'd run any other Windows application (or console application).
2. I may be wrong, but cloning has a pretty good chance to completely miss the clusters marked as deleted or, even more, from a previous partitioning or formatting. Keep this in mind.
3. I think that best would be to get a HDD or SSD (different from the disk you have the valuable data on, but I guess that you already know you should not write absolutely anything onto the valuable disk) you install Linux onto it and run everything under pure Linux (no WSL) and then work on reading all the clusters of the other disk (I don't know with which tool) and scan them for useful data. The valuable HDD will probably stay either as USB disk, either as a secondary HDD.

As already said, this question is a huge failure of logic. If people would do this, it would mean that no posts ever get merited.
I don't even know if this is a real question you had or you're just trying to bring the next part, which was already discussed, in a hope to fish for some merit.


Yes, it was discussed before. This is a forum, not a problem solving website like StackExchange. The posts can easily create together a discussion and then the chronology is important. Even more, it can happen that the best answer needs a small correction or completion and that one may get more merit.
All in all, not feasible, sorry.


Very good advice, which unfortunately far too few follow.

This kind of request tends to bring you more red trust than getting you a loan. You should have been reading the sticky post. There's literally no good reason anybody would give you that money as lending (maybe as donation, heh)...
My advise is to remove or lock this topic.

The term depends very much from user to user... is it growth, or is it recovery?
From my calculations/feeling at least in Q4 2022 the price should start recovering. But the value to be touched is hard to predict. If it'll be 40-45k I'd be already happy. If it'll recover quicker I'll be even happier.
However, this is mere speculation.

Actually if the password is long enough and complicated enough it still takes longer than the hacker's lifetime to crack it.
Even more, while secondary security is a good goal, far too many don't understand that SMS can be stolen/impersonated and even more fail to understand that having a 2FA tool on the same device (phone) as the one used to go to the various websites and platforms pretty much voids the benefits of having two layers of security.


Indeed, I am lazy enough to use Bitwarden with their cloud service. I hope though that my password is strong enough.


I will add that it's also good to not keep life changing amounts (of bitcoin) on online platforms and also it's a terrible idea to save HD seeds and private keys into password managers (and I've seen such ideas here and there).
I think that it's best to have a "good enough" security, but also ensure that if that one fails it won't be the end of the world for you.

Omg. Excuse my sloppiness.. I managed to forget or miss those.

LOL!

I don't remember if that's your G Sheet or not, but if it is, please make column D a bit larger so it fits the larger numbers
(Actually checking/ensuring all of those may not hurt either).

Hey, I didn't see this excuse until now! I'm impressed.
Also, I find it more normal 8 minutes late than 1 second too early, especially as you don't have the time travel capacity of THE fox.
And 8 minutes is not that late...


I remember that handshake very good, but I've never seen a spectrogram on it. I like it!

Did they prove any ownership on those?


I do see they have very professional advertisement writes. I couldn't have been writing more legit-looking nonsense myself.

Now the real question: did any real (and preferably trusted) person managed to actually withdraw from there? Because that's the only real test, all the rest is sophisticated blah-blah.
Again, for sure: I don't say it's not legit. All I say the chances it's legit are slim and there's no real proof yet in any direction. I wouldn't risk my money on it, but some others do have a strange appetite for this kind of risks.

That's correct. I fear the moment bigger players may take the same decision. I do hope though that those are smarter, not so much driven by hype and didn't expose themselves in all kinds of shitcoins.