I guess you've seen a lot since 2013 on this forum, so we can say that advice from old members has a certain weight. However, I would still leave speculations about the absolute bottom in the speculation zone, because it is difficult to say what awaits us in the coming months, and some persistently call for another big crash.

Considering that many CEX these days announce how much BTC their companies have in their wallets, all these millions are hanging over our necks - because they are not there just because their owners are convinced that it is a safe place, but they are ready to sell them if the opportunity arises. In the long term, we all expect a new ATH to happen, but we will have to be patient for that - Santa Claus brings some less valuable gifts this year

I don't think anyone can say with certainty that it will be 50% or only 10%, but it's a bit frivolous to say that it will happen next year for the reason that many developers will work from home as if they haven't been doing it for the past 2-3 years for obvious reasons. Adaptation will undoubtedly continue, but the fact is that everything slows down a bit when we are in a bear market, and as things stand now, it is possible that it will continue through most of the next year.

As I have already written several times, the biggest problem is that the majority invest in Bitcoin exclusively for the sake of profit, and only a small part uses it as a currency.

For some, $7000 is obviously a lot of money, so some are surprised that certain companies spend so much on advertising on this forum. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if I found out that their direct income from advertising on this forum exceeds their investment many times over - because only one passionate player with a slightly bigger wallet is enough to pay for the campaign for the whole week, or maybe even for the whole month.

As long as there is interest in advertising, we should not doubt that it is profitable for all those who do it, and this means that there is a significant number of active members and guests who regularly browse the forum.

It is true that such files are safer if you store them offline, but at some point you will use them again on your computer that has access to the internet, right? In that case, you should still be extremely careful in terms of which websites you visit and what files you download - because the malware will not leave your computer if it finds nothing, but will wait until you make a wrong move.

Lost your HW? So how can this happen if we know that such a device should be stored in a special way, it is not something that you carry in your pocket like a wallet or keys.

How many serious CEXs are there that still have Faketoshi altcoin listed? We know that for some of the famous CEX CEO logic is not the strongest virtue, but why do they still support such a project? Maybe they think that Faketoshi will not sue them like he is doing to others these days...

That part about taxes is not very logical to me, unless the tax office is very inexperienced and naive to believe such a story. If I sign a message from a BTC address that is, say, from 2012 and show it as proof to my tax office, if someone there is intelligent, they will look for a history of transactions that will connect the sold BTC with that address - or they will ask me to transfer part of the funds to that address. That would not be very smart, because those who sell such old private keys surely try to sell the same key more than once, which can put the owners in very unpleasant situations.

Especially in the last 2-3 years, when a certain number of people died from the corona virus, and in the years before that, those two months were always the time when many people died as a result of the flu. Unfortunately, the EU has a lot of homeless people, and according to data from 2020, that number amounts to around 700 000, which is a truly devastating number, regardless of the fact that it is not much in terms of percentage considering almost 500 million inhabitants.


Many countries help their citizens by paying part of their electricity bills, so Germany has invested as much as 200 billion Euros for this purpose, and many other countries are doing similar things. Not everything is as black and hopeless as you can read in the media - we who live in the EU know best what is actually happening.


I am not saying that there is no similarity with what the Americans did in Iraq or Afghanistan, but they eventually left - while the Russians are carrying out ethnic cleansing with the intention of settling Russians there, and permanently occupying something that is not theirs.

I felt this genocidal barbarism on my skin 30 years ago when the Serbs brutally attacked my country and literally slaughtered thousands of people and burned and destroyed everything they could not loot. Russians do identical things, even their agenda is the same as if they copied it from their Serbian brothers.

You should know that it is not forbidden to sell BTT accounts, but that such activities are not something that is approved by a good part of the users of this forum. Just by asking a question like this, someone can tag your account, and also if we notice any strange activity on it, we can assume that it has changed owners.

Right now I'd say your account is worth nothing, although there are those who are always willing to pay any price that seems favorable to them at that moment. My advice, don't sell.

The transparency of the entire campaign actually depends on it, because if these data were private, only the manager would be able to catch potential alt accounts - and let's remember the case when one member caught even 3 such accounts that cheated this campaign. Maybe there is another reason, but I can't think of anything else at the moment.

I'm just interested in how far these lies go, because in the case of Coinbase, I remember that we had several discussions on the forum about which CEX has the most BTC in its possession, and at the beginning of 2020 some estimates were that Coinbase had a little less than 1 million BTC. Now, a little less than 3 years later and everything that happened in the meantime, Coinbase claims to have even 2 million BTC - and all the time we read about "huge outflows from exchanges".

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I hope that people's habits will change, especially after what happened with FTX and before that with the so-called stablecoin from Kwon, or with dozens of smaller CEXs that failed in one way or another in the last ten years.

No desktop or mobile hot wallet is safe, but I guess we can agree that it is safer to have a watch-only wallet than the standard version on the computer we use every day? If some malware has already compromised the OP seed, in most cases its wallet balance would already be zero, and surely the chances of that are less if you remove that hot wallet from your computer.

I just suggested him a completely free option so that he can sleep somewhat peacefully, but he should definitely think about a relatively cheap investment in a hardware wallet, or even better an airgapped device.

I would still agree here with the opinion expressed by @DaveF, because the transactions in question are certainly not related to with the fact that ordinary people have finally opened their eyes and realized that the exchange is not a bank, but rather the move of some extremely rich individual or company. If it encourages many others to do the same, that would be something worth discussing - but the fact is that CEX has millions of BTC in their possession according to what they are announcing these days - or maybe they are lying to us about it?

@Ultegra134, there is an option to still have Electrum on your computer, but at the same time you don't have any risk for your BTC. All you need to do is check whether your backup is correct and in a safe place, and then start the process of creating a watch-only wallet with which you can then have complete insight into your transactions and deposit addresses, but without the risk that you can in any way be hacked.

What you should pay attention to in that case is that if you want to recover the standard wallet again, be especially careful with your seed in the sense that you don't have a keylogger or some other dangerous malware on your PC.

CM really doesn't ask for any fee, but the advice for those who do use it is to add some kind of fee because it will raise their privacy to a slightly higher level. This would mean that if your deposit is 0.005 BTC and if you immediately withdraw your chips and make a transaction with them, it is not very difficult for companies that analyze such things to understand what it is about.

But if, for example, you send 0.00505xxx BTC and spend the chips in a smart way (with a delay), this will make your transaction more difficult to analyze and track.

I'm not a financial advisor to advise people what to do with their money, and I don't think anyone should do that unless they're in that business. People who invest their money on the recommendation of others usually blame them for possible failure, and you don't want to find yourself in that situation.

I personally know some people who preferred to have nice round numbers of something instead of 0.00xxx BTC, but that's more a kind of human perception of numbers than a meaningful investment. As far as I'm concerned, people can invest in anything, be it ordinary stones that they think is valuable, or various tokens and so-called stablecoins that have recently shown their real value.

Can anyone confirm that this is a transaction from Coinbase to an external wallet, or is it an internal transaction? It wouldn't be the first time that panic was created around such transactions, only to find out later that the funds still remained with the same company, just at a different coin address.

In addition, Coinbase has announced that it keeps about 2 million BTC in its possession, so if it is correct or approximately correct, I ask the question, what does 5% mean in the bigger picture? Spreading panic should not be something serious members of this forum deal with - and this topic is nothing but exactly that.

It seems that you are not aware of Russia's influence on the UK, and especially on their media, but that is a completely different story. However, if you are interested :

https://ukraineworld.org/articles/russian-aggression/not-only-ukraine-how-russian-narratives-influence-british-media



I think you should put on the brakes and stop working in favor of the Russian agenda, which has been spreading rumors for months that the EU will freeze without their gas or oil - and as @stompix has written to you several times, there are quite enough energy sources (oil, gas , electricity and firewood) so that we are not afraid of winter.

However, if we know how Russian barbarians are waging war destroying Ukrainian energy infrastructure in anticipation of winter, then the number of those who will die as a result of winter could be much higher than in previous years.

I agree that this forum is an extremely valuable source of information and a very important part of Bitcoin history, but that the concept of a forum is not something that today's generations are happy to accept. Unfortunately, they seek information and get advice on various social networks where it is much easier to manipulate information, and therefore many have a very distorted image of Bitcoin.

What I tried to say is that it is unlikely that a post on this forum will affect anything important in the sense that it will move millions in a certain direction, as some mainstream media can do. If you look at the proof-of-reserve data published by various CEXs these days, it turns out that millions of BTC are still in their possession, which means that even after everything that happened, most of their users did not react - or they are not telling the truth.

Regardless of everything you stated in your post, I think the title is exaggerated in every sense because 335 thousand people is simply too big a number, especially if it only refers to the EU. I think that all EU countries have prepared more or less well for this winter, that there is enough gas and that many measures have been taken so that everyone can have heating this winter.

It has already been mentioned many times that the winter is quite mild in most of the EU, and I have to admit that I haven't seen real snow in years, and that I spend much less on heating than I did 5 or 10 years ago. I believe that articles like this are just part of the propaganda war being waged from Russia, because if they can't destroy us like Ukrainians, they are trying to frighten us in this way in order to turn part of the EU public to their side.

Europe has survived much worse situations, and I'm sure it will survive this one too - and when this winter is over, we can start this topic again and see if these predictions were correct or if someone is just playing with numbers.

The freedom of speech that still exists in most of the world allows everyone to express their opinion, and if someone else disagrees with that opinion, they can try to dispute it or mind their own business and pretend it didn't happen. I will even agree with those who are of the opinion that most of what is happening in the cryptocurrency world has to a good extent some elements of scams, because most of the projects have no meaning and purpose and as such are nothing but a beautifully packaged fraud.

The bear market has always been and will be the most fruitful time for those who want to attack Bitcoin, and this should not surprise us - because many invested with the intention of profiting and were waiting for $100k, and then everything started to collapse. In the age of social networks, good news travels fast, and bad news even faster. Therefore, I advise you to be as little involved in them as possible, because that is one of the ways to get away from all that negativity that does not bring anything good.