If you keep it simple, I'd expect that you have better chances that somebody from your family can find those seed words and make use of that money.

Of course, I know that this makes more vulnerable to thieves. I mean that I've seen even ideas to engrave onto steel and bury in the backyard, but then it will be lost for your family.
You have to find a good balance, one that suits you best. The more complicated you make it, the more the chances you'll lose those coins. Not now, but maybe in 20 years. This is how I see it.

The things is that lately Electrum kinda tries to convince its users to go for SegWit (bech32) addresses. Which is OK, since they can benefit of lower fees and LN too.

If you don't want to have multiple sets of seed words, you can generate a seed with a different tool and then import it into Electrum, just don't forget to check the Bip39 checkbox.
One tool at hand is IanColeman's, just you have to use it safely offline and you have to acknowledge that some consider the entropy of web-based apps not good enough for the best safety of the seed.

There are various reasons for a mined block to not be full.
One reason is when miners find blocks (almost) in the same; then one of the blocks will probably have no user transactions in it (only the block reward).
And the reason from your case is the the mempool has became empty and there were no more transactions to be included into the block (and yes, in the next 36 minutes transactions started piling up again).
The miners don't wait for transactions. They mine normally at an average of 6 blocks/hour.
And it doesn't matter how full the block is. If your transaction is included, it has the first confirmation. Every new block coming, no matter how full or empty it is, will increase your "confirmations" counter.


You can have tens of inputs or only one, you can have tens of outputs or only one. So yes, 1 to 1 is also possible.
Also you've got it wrong. One output is not the miner's address, it's usually yours. The transaction fee is not sent to an address directly.

Let me detail it a little.
You always spend complete inputs. If the transaction fee + the amount sent to the other party is exactly the value of the input then you have 1 to 1. But this usually doesn't happen, hence the change (exactly like the change in a shop when you pay with a bigger banknote) returns to you. And the change is another output, that's why you usually end up with 1 to 2.

Imho it's not such a bad move, and can even be enhanced a little.

The numbers on the cards make them great to be stolen. There are cameras everywhere. It's not so difficult to record the numbers from your card and then use it for paying online. It has happened even to people I know.
For many years I black out the CVV of my cards as soon as I receive them. Unfortunately I cannot really do more.
Cards being "blank"? I find a good move. The card itself can be used for shopping and ATM as usual, and if you want the numbers for internet use, then get them from the bank separately and keep them separately.

And as I said, it can be enhanced a little. My bank already offers virtual cards for free. The numberless cards can remain for in-shop use and companion virtual cards can be made for online use.


RFID is indeed a security hole, but actually I didn't hear yet of people robbed like that. Of course, if the numbers from the cards are going away, this could be the next attack vector.

Wow, I've managed to miss that (I badly need more coffee!). Sorry.
Still, I urge those with problems fill something, anything in that form. That's because:
* one can make his own topic or post in this very thread and post the link into the form; it's not in the designated topic, but at least it's there
* one cam post in the form and write into the form that the thread is locked; it opens the door for further discussions (the wording "Please be detailed so that I do not need to approach to you for more details." may mean that if needed, Royse777 or the casino will contact the user, right?) and at least there's an entry in the form before the time limit.

I think that Royse777 closing the thread was a hasty move, not deliberate to stop users telling their problems, since it gives him more work to do. At least this is how I see the things.

The fact you've removed the parentheses may be even better, I'm not perfect either 
While I find the names like UsdPriceH2 clearer, if you prefer the shorter h2 I cannot argue, since no matter which one you choose, I think that you should explain the variables, that's the correct and nice way to do it.


If you keep it for only 4 halvings then:
1. it cannot be tested for past halvings
2. it doesn't look like a generic formula that can be applied for the future, although the website does that

I also think that the formula is overly optimistic in some areas. The price increase is smaller and smaller with every cycle and you may have missed that; getting to billions during our lifetime is quite unlikely.

From what I know, Royse777 is not really "the" owner of that casino. He said yesterday:


Even more, in the last 2 or so months (maybe more) Royse777 was no longer as active as usual on the forum, probably caught in a lot of things.
The current situation with BitLucy most probably made the things worse as free time so I'm not sure how open he will be to spend time with you (no offense, I'm trying just to prepare you).
So my advises are:
* if you have open issue with BitLucy make sure you've filled the google form; today is the last day for that (!) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5395791.msg60373594#msg60373594
* try to get his attention and hope that he will contact you
 ** PM is an option, but please don't send more than one nor set your hopes too high, since some may have newbies blocked
 ** writing down his name correctly in a post may trigger notifications if he has them set up

If you've posted your situation into the form and it got handled (good or bad), it would be useful if you tell us too.

Anyone sane enough would avoid 1xbit. Expecting those who sound the alarm come and waste money while knowing they will not be able to withdraw is unrealistic from your side. But since your opinion is anyway biased, it doesn't matter, right?
And I want to add something more: it's only a small number of people that keeps coming and telling 1xbit is scam because most don't want to spend effort (and sanity) with all this, since the red feedback tells all that has to be told in the matter.

PS. Blackmail is a strong word. Do you by chance have proof for that? If so, please post it. Else you just show how low can you go for a couple of silver coins.

I'd guess that the (few?) cases written until tomorrow into the provided google form will be handled and, if it's the case, honored...
At least that's what Royse777 wrote here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5395791.msg60373594#msg60373594


There may be. It won't be easy to get the things right. And it'll probably be costly, in a way or another (money, time, reputation...). I hope I'm wrong.


It depends whether they honestly want to have a working business or it's just another hit and run.

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Edit: I've just found this part, which sounds.. interesting; maybe the problems will be actually handled correctly, maybe only patience is needed? We'll see.

1. You have probably made the MS word file on your every day Windows. If you had a keylogger malware, somebody else has also received those words already (and maybe he knows or maybe not yet).
2. You have probably made the MS word file on your computer first. Even if you moved/removed it, the file is not completely obliterated and somebody can recover it from your HDD.
3. Relying on your memory for the encryption password is not advised. What if you get a head injury and you forget the password?
4. USB sticks can "die" for various odd reasons. While I know it's convenient, it's not the safest nor a recommended storage for the seed phrase.
5. Your method is overcomplicated. Again, what if you get an injury and no longer remember? What you do then? You may even reuse the sticks for some other data since "wtf was on it anyway?"

So while USB is convenient as an "easy backup at hand", it's good only if you do have a better backup somewhere. And the way you've stored the backup is.. bad.

You can give it a try on testnet.

It means a different setting on the link. You can look up the tutorial from here or post from here. You temporarily create a new wallet, get some free testnet coins and play around with them, even if you'll just send them back to the faucet you've got them from.
The tutorial from the first link in this post has address to working faucet.

This would also help because some UI things have change a little and it's better to get comfortable with everything before using actual money.
Of course, it's 100% up to you. I'm glad it finally works.

It looks normal to me and this seems to be exactly your case.

I didn't see that for very long since I do have all signatures imported and, if you want more peace of mind, you can do the same, since it's not a big deal.

You can download the others' signatures from either the Electrum download page.
For example you Right Click on SomberNight, save as.. and get the file (make sure it's saved as .asc and not .txt). Double click it, you have to press next and check a couple of checkboxes here and there and you're good.

Then (when all 3 are in order), if you verify Electrum again, it will be all nice and green.

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Block: Bitcoin uses a public ledger to "write down" all the transaction. The public ledger is made of "blocks". The blocks are mined by the miners. The blocks are the "things" that contain transactions. A transaction start getting confirmations from the moment it was included into a (mined) block. The more you pay (sat/vByte) for your transaction, the more appealing can it become for the miners to include your transaction and cash in the transaction fee you pay. This can be very helpful in the days "the network is busy".

Mempool is the "waiting room" for the transactions. From here the transactions are picked and included into mined blocks. It's important to know that every bitcoin node has its own mempool and while the nodes do exchange information, the mempools may not contain exactly the same information.

If you want to get some basic understanding on how the transactions get into blocks, I find the graphics of https://mempool.space pretty useful. You can also get a feeling too on what fee you could use in that moment.

Now, a transaction is sent to bitcoin nodes like a "letter". That "letter" tells how many inputs you're using and how many outputs you create. This gets trickier, it depends on how many times and how small amounts you've received into your wallet and to how many direction you send. You should add one extra output since usually your wallet receives the change. If you need more details, please ask. The point is that the "letter" may be longer or shorter depending on how many inputs and outputs it has to describe. And what matters for the miners is how much you pay for each character of that letter (let's say so), not how much you pay for the entire letter.
So you can end up paying 20$ to send 10$ of Bitcoin or you can end up paying 10 cents for sending out 1 million $ worth of Bitcoin.

TL;DR; you can look at https://mempool.space for getting a glimpse on how the things work and for seeing what transaction fee you should use in Electrum. Use RBF option in Electrum for the case something unexpected happens and the transaction takes too long for your linking (although transactions can get automatically back to you if not confirmed in 2 weeks)

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Same here. Quite shame it went this way, somehow I tend to think that the casino owner took advantage of the fact you are so busy lately.
I've removed the avatar and text.

I know it will be far from easy, I can guess that it will be hugely time consuming too, but please see to get the open issues fixed. 

I don't see any reason why this would not succeed. I completely agree that the security of smartphones is a joke anyway. Also most users are lazy and biometrics fit just fine to their needs.
The only question is if they can make biometrics reliable enough in all the versions they'll make. Since if at some point those won't work, they'll suddenly have a huge lot of angry customers.
What I mean is that it's not uncommon that on cheaper (and somewhat older?) Android phones fingerprint just fails to recognize you 7 of 10 times. Apple will not afford this kind of failures.

I've read here the details about the change: https://www.dignited.com/96300/telegram-premium-everything-need-know/
From what I see there's no problem here. Only some new features will need to have paid subscription. And I think that the average user doesn't really need those. So I think that the paid subscription will be more like if you want to support their company, really.

The most important part I've read is:



PS. Please move this out of Meta, since it's not at all forum related.

Yep, this is what I was talking about.
Now I pretty much fear that the price may fall like in the previous cycles, i.e. losing ~85% of the value.  That would mean falling to 10-12k, so 50% of current value. I really hope I'm wrong...

So, back to what you wrote in topic: if we get back to 40-50k this year... it'll be a surprisingly nice development.

I am sure that this latest plunge has caught many off-guard.

However, I've done some effort and found one of the discussions on this topic I had in the past, discussions that maybe we have this year a softer (if any) crypto winter.
One of the posts is this one, but you can easily look up there for the entire discussion on the matter.

The point there was that - because of the institutional investors and maybe too because Bitcoin markets become more mature with every passing year - the highs should no longer be so spectacular, and the lows too should no longer be so depressing. So one idea was back then that maybe what was in April was a weak crypto winter (more like an autumn than a winter) and maybe in the next cycles it'll be even softer.