The information that a forum account has been autobanned should be changed if you ask me. I am surprised that we don't see more topics in Meta with members asking why was this account automatically banned or why did a bot ban member X. "Auto" and "automatic" suggests that it wasn't done by a person, but in some automated way. Only if you are here long enough or you make some basic research, you will find out that each ban is issued manually by a real human being after investigating if a permanent ban is the best course of action or not.   

I am actually glad theymos didn't use the standard slogan we keep hearing all over the place. Those who know what it means, are already not keeping coins with custodians. Those that don't, either don't care or are thinking it's (hopefully) not going to happen to me. Displaying it all over the place will probably not change things too much.

"Don't keep your money in online accounts" is OK, but If I could pick a message, I would be more specific and say: Don't keep your money on cryptocurrency exchanges. The same can be said for any other centralized services (like casinos), but it's the exchanges that cause most of the problems. 

I don't know if someone mentioned this to you already, but all the text in your signature isn't fully visible on the forum. I can only see the top of "1) be like JJG just DCA". It's just enough for me to copy the text and paste it somewhere, but I can't read what it says from your signature space.

Ma jest, razumijem šta govoriš. Ali i tih $40 tjedno je bolje nego $0 tjedno ako se Marsbet kampanja ne nastavi a i ne bude mjesta u drugim kampanjama. Gledajući brzinski po Services forumu, ne vidim da druge kampanje trenutno traže nove članove izuzev Stake-a čija se kampanja nije popunila nikad otkako je krenula. A i nisi ugovorom vezan. Čim krene nešto bolje možeš se prijaviti i teoretski odmah poslje 1. tjedna preći u drugu kampanju.

Prijavi se opet u Betnomi kampanju, još uvijek ima slobodnih mjesta. Vidim da si slao već jednom prijavu pa si je onda povukao kad si primljen u Marsbet. Možda bi te menadžer i Betnomi kampanje primio ali te nije ni uzeo u razmatranje jer si objavio da si prhvaćen drugdje. I u signature i u avatar kampanji ima nepotpunjenih pozicija.   

@OP
Look at this future of money and tell us is this what it's supposed to look like? Is it a shitcoin? Well, kind of. It's the historic purchasing power of the world's most popular fiat currency - the USD. It just looks like a shitcoin.  



Ever since bitcoin was created, it's been going through cycles of extreme price increases and big dumps. Who knows, maybe that's how it's going to be forever or at least for as long as we will halving events. It tells me that bitcoin is still trying to find its price range. It was obviously not $65-70k, because it didn't hang around in that zone for too long, but it's also not $4.000 since it rebounded from that dip as well. Maybe we should consider $30-40k to become a realistic value zone for the future instead of having extreme price hikes all the time.

I have always appreciated sportsbooks that have quality streaming services. There aren't that many that can be compared with the standards that bet365 has set. Once you get settled in and make some money, I am sure many players would appreciate the opportunity to watch live streams of the games they are betting on. 

Those who allow it today might start disallowing mixers and coinjoins tomorrow. It's a double-edged sword. It will always be their site and their rules.

- We know that Gemini has blocked coins that came from Wasabi.
- We know that Paxos doesn't like bitcoin mixing.
- We know that Binance froze withdrawals of coins that also had a connection with Wasabi. Some more info about Binance not appreciating the use of Wasabi.

You should also check out [Blacklist] of unreliable, 'taint proclaiming' Bitcoin services / exchanges for a list of other centralized services that don't like people who are protecting their privacy. 

Slažem se. Kakve sve prijave mora da čita, siguran da u startu može odmah jedno 50% njih prekrižiti. Vjerujem da je do sad već napravio neku listu sa užim izborom kandidata koji su zadovoljavali njegove kriterije u prethodnim ciklusima ali nisu ušli u kampanju zbog ograničenog broja mjesta pa je sad samo stvar odabira onog koji najbolje odgovara trenutno. A tu su naravno i oni koje je primjetio na druge načine pa bi zbog toga mogli dobiti poziv. 

I don't believe you, and it sounds like a fairytale to me. Living entirely off bitcoin is doable and some people do it, but it requires a lot of work and very much depends on where you live. You need merchants and trading partners willing to accept your digital coins. It's much easier finding those in The States than in a poor Asian or African country. Every-day spending on food and supplies is easier with cash than with bitcoin. Then you have bills and taxes.

The one person I read about who lives entirely off bitcoin is based in Canada. He shops with merchants that accept crypto, buys a lot of gift cards, and turns to Bitcoin ATMs and friends when he needs cash. So even if he earns and spends crypto, he needs cash from time to time, and a lot of the spending is through payment processors that exchange your BTCs to fiat immediately.   

What would you be purchasing with your bitcoin following a nuclear disaster and who would be interested in taking it?

Let's forget the millions of casualties from the explosions, and the millions who will die in the aftermaths. The disastrous effects on internet, electricity grids, and telecommunications would leave you with no way to access your coins. The survivors would be looking for clean water, food, clothes, and medicine in a world that is poisoned by nuclear radiation. These things will gain in value and become the means of exchange and not a digital currency that requires internet (that does no longer work) and devices like computers or phones (that no longer work without electricity). It would be a surprising new world learning that your huge 4K TV with an OLED screen is now worth just a bottle of 1 liter of fresh water.     

We are not yet ready to embrace Bitcoin considering how much trust there is in centralized exchanges. Binance was one of the first to support this proof-of-funds hype attempting to attract new and dissatisfied users from FTX and other places. Hardware wallet manufacturers are reporting an increase in sales, which is positive, but I am afraid that most of the liquidity will unfortunately just move to other CEXs. Binance is, of course, at the top of that list.

Some people learn. Others just change the color of their shirts and carry on in the same way.     

When you say backups, you mean seeds and private keys are all digitally stored on the hard drive that now stopped working? I agree with Lucius and don't see how that way of storing sensitive data could prevent you from spending more coins than you would want to because you still have access to that computer and you can take whatever you want from it at anytime.

Hopefully you can recover your data and this becomes just a slap in your face and not a loss of money. But as soon as you do, you have to improve your ways of backing up those seeds. Good luck to you!

I am not sure what kind of hardware is available to the general public, but law enforcement certainly has interesting tools that can do all kinds of things. Even those located in shitty countries. I know an IT guy who works computer forensics. Part of his job is to inspect seized mobile phones in search for proof and clues. Assuming we are talking about the same type of "boxes", he takes a standard smartphone, connects it to the box, and he can access address books, SMS messages, 3rd-party software even with standard phone protections enabled. And he isn't working in a country known for the quality of their police and law enforcement. We probably can't even imagine what they have in the US, Israel, Germany, etc.   

Since those coins originate from centralized services where KYC was performed, I wonder how they would feel if you eventually use the same exchanges and deposited into them bitcoins that were mixed or went through coinjoins? We know that some CEXs don't like coins that are connected with gambling activities and surely they wouldn't like not knowing the history of your bitcoin either. I remember a post from a few months ago where one person said he used Wasabi's new and improved coinjoin but had his account blocked by Gemini I think. 

True, but like you said, the chances to make mistakes are too big and it's not worth it. It's easy to create two separate wallets, and you don't have to worry about which UTXO is KYC-ed and which isn't. 

Iz ChipMixer kampanje je odstranjen jedan član koji je zadnji post na forumu napisao prije otprilike 3 mjeseca. Menadžer DS je danas već izvršio isplatu za prethodni tjedan i nije spomenuo da ima slobodno mjesto ali ko zna, možda se i to desi uskoro. A moguće da novog člana dobijemo ličnim odabirom menadžera što je bio slučaj i u prošlosti. Zamislite ako to bude još jedna osoba aktivna u Hrvatskom lokalu.

Ljudi gledaju samo na vrijednost i ona jeste odlučujući faktor. Mi ne možemo danas govoriti kako spas iz fiata treba tražiti u bitcoinu koji je zaštita od inflacije kad je taj isti bitcoin ne tako davno vrijedio skoro $70.000 a danas vrijedi $20.000. Bitcoin i kritpo ne dobiva bitku protiv fiata u ovom trenutku ako gledamo na kupovnu moć. Razlozi što je to tako nisu toliko bitni i krajnjeg kupca i ne zanima jel za ovo stanje kriv FTX, Celsius ili nešto treće. Ako on u ovom trenutku vidi da mu je kupovna moć sa BTC-om 50-60% manja nego što je bila prije nekoliko mjeseci, sve ostalo je sekundarno. I kupovna moć tradicionalnog novca je puno manja ali javnost u njega neće izgubiti povjerenje.   

Dugoročno gledano, stanje će se popraviti. Ali do tad život ne možemo zamrznuti nego moramo plaćati i trošiti novac da bi preživjeli. A može da postane još gore prije nego se popravi. Još čekamo krajnje rezultate propasti FTX-a i Alameda Research i svih onih koji su s njima surađivali a ima ih mnogo. A onda možemo i doživjeti situaciju puno strožijih regulacija pa čak i zabrana u pojedinim državama što može dodatno donjeti štetu već poljuljanom povjerenju investitora.   

Nemoj reći dvaput, možda tako i bude za 10 godina. A sve uz ubrazloženje da je to za naše dobro i zbog zaštite životne okoline. Mi ćemo ti dati vodu koju možeš piti, sjeme koje treba da zasadiš, a od životinja smiješ držati samo jednu kravu ili 4 kokoške. Sve preko toga predstavlja opasnost za ozonski omotač i planeta nam se zagrijava jer ti imaš desetak krava.

Kod dobro poznatih novčanika koji se koriste već godinama i često su pod prismotrom, sve funkcioniše kako treba. Bitno je da se generiranje tih privatnih ključeva i seed-ova radi nasumično i da na to ne utiče čovjek koji misli da je njegov izbor puka slučajnost. Ljudi nisu dobri generatori slučajnih brojeva a ako se koristi neefikasan sustav, sigurnost cjelokupne fraze je manja od onih potrebnih 128 bita sigurnosti. A to bi onda bilo lakše za brute force-ati.     

OP doesn't need to generate two different seed phrases. I am sure Trezor Suite functions similarly to Ledger Live, which allows you to create multiple accounts for the same coin and with the same seed. His first bitcoin account could only be used with KYC-ed coins, while the second one is only for non-KYC-ed bitcoins. If OP has performed KYC on multiple exchanges, he can even create multiple accounts for KYC-ed bitcoins to separate the coins that originate from CEX #1 from those coming from CEX#2, etc.  

I took a quick look at it today. It allows you to create multiple wallets starting from 12, 15, 18... to 24 seeds. It's also possible to extend the seed with a passphrase and it's got a TOR on/off switch in the settings. I didn't play with the TOR feature though. When you create a new wallet, it gives you a choice to make a backup of your seed. You don't have to display it on the screen at all to write it down. What I noticed is the long sync time for bitcoin. In the wallet tab, it allows you to add the cryptocurrencies you want to keep track of. If you select bitcoin, the wallet takes a good 5 minutes to sync with the server. The positive thing is that you can't generate a new BTC receiving address until you have clicked on show seed on screen in the settings. With this feature, the developers are trying to make you backup your seed before you can start receiving any coins. 

OP hasn't responded back in his thread since 15 November. I don't think he likes the direction this discussion has taken, and we might not here back from him again.

Technicalities aside, people can do all kinds of things. Isn't the code for ColdCard hardware wallets based on open-source projects that they took, modified, and later changed the license to one that no longer allows the code to be distributed further and used by others?