Well, if you buy a SH computer, first thing is to re-partition the HDD/SSD to avoid surprises, ... right?
If you cannot do that yourself, you better buy from specialized shops that will do this for you.. of course, not for free.

I've added negative feedback to @CriptoDebit.com
I'll keep an eye in here and if he fixes the problems in a reasonable time, I'll remove it. But for now the things don't look pretty...

Does anybody know what has happened with the mempool in the last hours?
I see that somebody has dumped 100 vMB of transactions at 12-14 sat/vByte.
Any background story about who has done this or what event has caused it?


source: https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC,8h,weight

Don't tempt him! I am 99% sure he has notifications for his name and the time is also right for his predictions.
Also, it cannot be him, since that one doesn't seem to take the things so serious and also enjoys posting on bitcointalk.


...And it has just occurred to me that OP is right: it's just a matter of time until this website, human kind, earth and the entire galaxy dies; heck, it stands true even for this universe itself.

1. Install Tails onto an USB stick
2. Get Ian Coleman tool from git: https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39/releases, see for latest release and get the stand alone one; check it too. Put it to another USB stick.
3. Boot from Tails and make sure your internet cable is unplugged, also select in the start screen an admin password
4. Access the other USB from inside Tails (you may need admin pwd), copy Ian Coleman tool to /home/amnesia/Tor Browser folder
5. Run Ian Coleman tool.

- or -

Run Electrum and use that 12-word seed. It's usually good enough and may be safer than a seed generated by an in-browser script.


PS. adding 12 extra words to Electrum seed is not the same as having a 24 words seed.

Hi.
I hope that I remember it correctly. Go to cards and under your card see Linked accounts.
If Bitcoin is not shown as linked account and it's available to link, click the link icon. Then I think that you should be fine.

You have started early and pretty good, but it's not us who have to answer this question, it's you, since it's your money we're talking about and we cannot foresee the future.

We do trust bitcoin, also the history has shown that for long terms (4+ years) it tends to be a good investment, even if it may be falling badly now and then. It's a bitcoin forum after all.
But no, we cannot tell you a definitive answer for what is the best long term investment, sorry.

You seem a bit confused.
An offline generated seed makes sense (greatly!) for cold storage or paper wallets, but if your wallet is online anyway, it's not such a big deal whether you generate it offline or you let the wallet do it for you, since if your device is infected, the hacker may steal your wallet and password just as good as the seed.
So it's like you'd try to protect the windows against thieves while the door is pretty much wide open.

You need more patience. Much more. You've started with 2 guides that are not bad.
If you would have been continuing with improving posting style while keeping it informative, merit would have been coming soon enough.
But with this topic you've destroyed your reputation...

Also imho this hurry to get merit kinda signals that you want it for more than just post images in tutorials....


PS. If you only want to post images and you're willing to pay for that feature, coper membership is the fastest and most proper way. See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=credit;promote (and https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2385104 )
PPS. If you want a good future on this forum, it may be a good idea to read the rules: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0

First and most important: governments will officially protect their own currency. This also means bashing crypto, which they may see as competition.

Then: crypto is difficult to understand for economists. It's not that straightforward (for them) why crypto (and especially bitcoin) holds value, and, even more, that value tends to increase over time.

Also crypto is rather technical. Heads of governments and central banks are far from young and they don't understand the technical details and also fear them.

Even more, commercial banks have noticed that crypto can do easily and cheap various things they were doing slow and expensive. That means less revenues for them. So they most probably have done some lobbying against crypto.


Good enough for a quick list?

Da, avem nevoie, dar pe langa zambete nici nu facem prea mult (stiu, e destul de greu, la cat de putini sunt).

De exemplu tin minte ca acum cativa ani era o firma (cred ca Grup West, din Oradea si/sau Arad) care vindea masini si accepta bitcoin. Doar ca ii accepta prin intermediul Netopia, deci probabil ca iesea cam prea scump la o masina. Nu cred ca mai vand asa, nu am mai gasit nicio informatie recenta.

PCGarage vindea si cred ca inca vinde pe bitcoin. Tot scump, prin Netopia. Am mai cumparat de la ei, ca sa imi arat suportul. Dar nici nu cumpar atatea produse IT, si mai nou parca imi vine mai degraba sa schimb la ATM si sa-i dau cash curierului, si sa imi fac cumparaturile de la alte magazine.

Deci e dragut sa avem asemenea magazine, dar in realitate ne uitam de 3 ori pana sa cheltuim bitcoin, iar apoi ne uitam inca de 2 ori daca sa cumparam direct cu bitcoin...


De aceea sper ca procesatorii de plata sa intre mai serios. Sa fie pe de o parte concurenta si comisioane ceva mai mici, iar pe de alta parte sa putem cumpara de la oricare magazin vrem, chiar si cu bitcoin.


Ei, astea sunt alt subiect. Si cred ca nu e rau sa promoveze bitcoin (dar clar, bitcoin si nu rahaturi si tepe), ca, vrem nu vrem, aceste personaje sunt modele pentru unii si pot sa ajute omul de rand macar sa nu isi faca cruce de 3 ori cand aude de bitcoin.

I think that @decodx post answers it clearly.
@sirstevie6 is just spamming his (alleged) recovery service. It's clearly shady as hell, hence hats off for @ETFbitcoin for this topic.

I think that even tagging @sirstevie6 is appropriate, hence I've done that.

Imho your best choice is to make your own separate topic explaining (much) more clearly your situation and asking for help.
Asking in such old topics will get no answers from the original user(s) anyway, since those people are usually inactive for years already.

You don't have to check version numbers; LL already tells when updates are available.
And in most of the cases the updates are not something crucial. You're worrying too much, really.

If something big has change or something is not OK, I will most probably find out from the forum or from my Electrum (which I use with my Nano S)
Heck, if something is so big, I expect even LL will make a big notification about that.

So yeah, starting LL now and then can be useful. But worrying this much, overdoing it.. is not hood for the health. So just chill 


...And you freaked out again.
Yes, firmware updates can get bigger than the previous/existing one. I have a feeling this is the usual way, but I won't spend time checking it.
And it did happen to me once, at least to get bigger updates. For some the Fido U2S app was not installed. There was a discussion back then whether that happened because of the lack of space or Fido was not available for some hours. Or both.
Interestingly, this was already discussed in one of your topics (see here).


Please take a look in LL and stop asking questions only for the sake of it.



I have to apologize for not remembering it well in the last post.
I think that in beginning, before a firmware update, it was said to remove the apps. Now the apps are removed automatically before a firmware update (and probably reinstalled afterwards if there's space and no other surprises). So the update size doesn't matter, it will fit anyway (if we get to the point the firmware + one app cannot fit then the device will be discontinued). The question is whether all your apps will still fit, but if they won't you can just keep fewer on the device on the same time and uninstall/install the apps as you need them.

You described a bank account. You didn't describe how bitcoin works. On bitcoin I don't have to prove an address is mine, I have only to sign transaction if I want to spend.
On bank I have numbers in account. On bitcoin I have inputs that can be traced back to their inception.
So no, it's you who is missing the logic here. And by repeatingly doing that you prove it's you honor your paper deity, while I don't have to add anything.

Have a nice day.

I think that most services that offer crypto cards can be in this category too, since those cards can be linked to PayPal.
Although, as already mentioned, PayPal fees tend to be unreasonably high, so, OP, you better make sure if you indeed need PayPal.

So you cannot prove anything by logic, so you decided to ask nicely? 
Since this has been started, I'll also tell you my favorite quote on Bitcoin:

You just proving that you have no idea at all how Bitcoin works. Sadly, what you've described is a bank account. Now ask yourself the right question...

Bitcoin is just another manifestation of the same debt.
In the past people have been using shells, or silver, or gold for the same job. Why can't we use Bitcoin? Because it's... digital? Or maybe because the governments cannot alter the value at will with inflation?
Even now, banks and governments use gold for the job. Why don't they just keep <only> the printed paper if it's so wonderful?


Sour grapes much?

Cold storage is just a special way to work with your wallet.
It means that you have one wallet that never (and never ever) goes online, used only to sign transactions (transferred preferably via QR) and one watch-only wallet that can see live funds, can build transactions, can broadcast transactions (but cannot sign).

And yes, any coin's proper wallet can/should have that possibility.


Why it's advised? Since the only wallet holding keys is offline, if handles correctly it's impossible to hack. And for those knowledgeable it's not difficult to set up.