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.

Don't blame only Bankman and his company, but all those who gave him money and trusted him. Such characters would never be able to do something like this if there were not millions of naive and gullible people who still believe in fairy tales, and it is not about children, but about adults to make the matter even more tragic.

The need to have a leader is much stronger than the idea represented by Bitcoin - all these people should go back to school and write the word "decentralization" a million times, and then maybe some of them would understand what it means.

Investing in cryptocurrencies (including BTC) is always a risk, but no matter what someone advises you to start a business, you must know that it also comes with its own risks. Whatever you intend to invest in, you should certainly do as thorough a research as possible, which will try to reduce the risks for your investment. There are certainly businesses that could pay off in times of inflation, and there are also those that could very easily fail in just a few months.

I will ask a simple question - why not divide the money into two parts and start a business and also invest in something else? It doesn't necessarily have to be BTC, but it can also be real estate, gold or something completely different that you think could bring profit in the future.

Maybe it will take them many more years to compensate everyone who officially requested it, but the investigations and the courts ended a long time ago and now the whole thing is in its final phase. Fortunately, the whole thing happened in a country like Japan, known for its great efficiency and high level of justice - imagine if Mt.Gox had its headquarters in Russia or China

This may be in some way imposing an obligation on all member states to prohibit trading with so-called privacy coins, but that does not mean that such business practices do not already exist in some states. I live in the EU and a few years ago all domestic crypto exchanges in my country removed privacy coins because the regulatory agency advised them to do so.

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The Caribbean is always attractive compared to any country in the EU, but these digital nomads are not exclusively connected to cryptocurrencies, so I don't see them giving up on Portugal or Spain because privacy coins would be banned. In addition, the world is a global village, you can currently be anywhere and receive payments in privacy coins and sell them for fiat on any DEX.

People, don't be naive and don't believe the fairy tales presented to you by various CEOs who have never done anything for Bitcoin, nor will they ever do it. In the fear that people will start massively withdrawing their funds from CEX, they invented that POR and now they are competing to show the bigger numbers as if that means that those who have the most BTC in their possession deserve people to trust them more than some others.

Well, Binance is very poor compared to what Coinbase supposedly has - and when everything is added up, let them make sure that the total amount does not exceed 19 million BTC

Are you personally frustrated by the fact that you can't get the merits you think you deserve, or are you asking the question on behalf of others? Let's say that this is the first question, and I will answer you very simply - most of your posts are in a board that is very specific and which is unfortunately flooded with spam posts - you will not find many who are merit sources and are active in that board, and even fewer who will look for good posts in megathreads.

Furthermore, the number of merits you see in user profiles are not those that they can share, but what they have received - there is something called sMerits and it is not visible in user profiles, although it can be calculated from the number of received/sent merits.

Many people don't consider investing their time as an investment, I think the OP is primarily thinking about how to get BTC without investing fiat. I agree that faucets and various PTCs are very slow and poorly paid ways to earn BTC, although some would be surprised if this was the case in the past when BTC was only worth a few hundred $. Faucets used to pay 1000 to 5000 satoshi per claim, currently they pay 1-15 sat per claim, but the fiat value of those coins has not changed too much.

What apparently no one takes into account is that these questions are mostly asked by very young people who cannot yet do anything "productive" nor can they legally buy BTC because they are underage. Sometimes it may be better to spend a little time on something than to invest directly, and besides, there are much worse ways to waste time, such as watching TV or playing games, which have become the daily routine of a large number of young people.

To me, this is a bit suspicious information, because maybe some 2-3 years ago there was information that Coinbase only had a little less than 1 million BTC in its possession, and now suddenly that number becomes twice as large. This is, at first, very worrying information, considering that so much BTC is in the custodial wallet on only one CEX, and on the other hand, maybe it's just a matter of showing strength in front of the competition.

I expect other big CEX CEOs to come forward and post their numbers, just let them make sure that the total number of BTC they keep does not exceed the 19+ million that have been mined so far