Ho-ho-ho, what a nice surprise!
Thank you very much 2stout, will get in touch with MJ, but only after the holidays.

And thanks all for the kind words.

Merry Christmas all!

Raspberry pi is nice option. If you go for pi zero you may want to read about SeedSigner too. Using it as signing device is much more convenient than an offline computer imho.

It's not. He is not forced to make the transaction. The fees go up and down during months, so he can just wait until the fees become more bearable.
However, overall the fees are bound to rise, so it worth thinking on making long term plans for when the on-chain transactions will become even more expensive, i.e. when possible consolidate the funds and avoid making very small-value transactions at high costs.

I have an older not-yet-expired Wirex card and I can tell that there's no easy answer to any of your questions.
My card didn't work exactly in the days I've needed it. But at some point I've made another test and then it worked.
Officially they are migrating something (iirc their BIN numbers, hence probably the bank/provider) and probably the migration still has EU users affected (not migrated properly or at all).
A new card might work though, but keep in mind that the fees (official + hidden) are higher than Binance had.

About other providers.. I don't know, I didn't pay much attention. There are at least 2 threads on this forum about what other cards are available and probably other discussions about what cards are better for EU.

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16- NeuroticFish

Thank you!

32- NeuroticFish

Thanks!

10- NeuroticFish

Thank you!

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77 NeuroticFish

Thank you!

Neata. Vezi ca ai pus link la 541 in loc de 542
Dar te inteleg, probabil ca nu ai apucat inca sa bei cafeaua  

Bafta!

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Offf, nu am avut timp sa ma mai uit aici si dupa ce mi-am baut cafeaua de dimineata, si uite, am ratat si eu ceva. Am pus acum si al 3-lea concurs.

17- NeuroticFish

Thank you!

I will bold the answer, since it may be lost in the "sea" of ideas how to make your transaction go through.


So the transaction will either be confirmed, either will be dropped and in the second case the coins and the fee will return to sender wallet, like nothing has happened.
Just I will add something to this: the 2 weeks is not a precise or even reliable deadline. If the fee is low, some nodes will drop it faster. Certain nodes, some so-called "free accelerators" and even some wallets will keep re-broadcasting the transaction and then even after 2 weeks it may not be dropped.
However, historically the fees had high and lows, so re-broadcasting forever never happened. And of course, the sender can act (rbf either for up the fee, either for canceling, or cpfp for the change), the receiver can act (cpfp), so you still have a certain amount of control there.


PS. OP, you've posted while I was writing this. If it's not useful please PM me and I'll remove.

I hope you know that electricity still has to be paid... however, I understand your point.

Idea: get a fellow Chinese guy do this for you. He has to be able to read and understand the Bitcoin code, which is available to everyone. He has to do some research for rebranding that and maybe changing this or that (ports, supply rules, block size, and so on) and start it up for you.
Also maybe you start your project from Litecoin or others.
Plus he may need to make/clone you some miner software too.
However, going on this path you may get better price and also somebody you can communicate easier with.

There are a huge lot of altcoins already. All being more or less "cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin". So your logic of missed opportunity is not good, since the altcoins have shown that they don't have the potential of becoming as important as Bitcoin.

Making a clone of Bitcoin or a fork of bitcoin are not that difficult, hence I don't expect it to be that expensive, but this will most probably not be a good business for you, you will not earn that money back.


Since you don't have the knowledge to do fixes/adjustments later on, I suggest you just mine an existing altcoin (especially if you are aware you are just burning electricity for no return).
However, even for your "make me a clone" question you may find in altcoins are people who have already done it. Just take care and avoid getting scammed.

Such an account most probably has everything on for being recovered, hence I expect that whoever falls for this "great business" will end up soon enough with the money gone and no account.
And no escrow can fix that.

The puzzle was made long ago and it looks like it was meant to have more and more difficult solution for each "new" address towards the end.

It was not like that, the addresses following a certain rule were all emptied and for the rest the brute force is being used.

And since, as I said, it's more and more difficult, not all of them were found/emptied yet. There are a couple of threads made on this topic, at least one of them is still updated regularly and you can see there what addresses still have money on them (or you can look on the blockchain, obviously) and how some even try to team up the find the next address' private key.

And no, it's not 100% pointless, although they burn a lot of electricity for this. Each new address holds a higher amount of BTC and with the price going this high they can pay for that electricity and also get profit... if they manage to find the key.


PS. Scroll into this list and you'll see that 66th entry has no solution found and 6.6 BTC prize. Do the math.

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19- NeuroticFish

Please & thank you.

Many don't read more than the first post.
Some did answer here and might think they can't add more.
So a new topic has the potential to get more attention imho.
...Maybe add a post here with a link to the other topic then lock this one.