Easy alternative is to rent some old ruin house or small land property in your city surroundings, use it exclusively for delivering packages from abroad and domestic, and nobody can deny delivery.
This is something people are doing to preserve some privacy if they are often ordering items with international shipping, and I know for a fact it's working fine in some countries.
It could be even cheaper than renting regular PO boxes if you find some good deal, and you don't even need to spend any time there.

Sparrow wallet is my first alternative option for Electrum wallet, I love it's design, functionality and support for various devices and hardware wallets.
Exporting Labels already exist in Electrum wallet, but turning this into BIP and making labels import/exports for all different supported wallets is a great idea.
I am not sure how exactly BIPs get approved and accepted, but I don't see why anyone would be against this proposition, unless there are some disadvantages ands risks I am not aware of.

Raspberry Pi 400 works like that, there is no fan just one big metalic heatsink, and it's not spending more than 5w according to various tests, that is much less than any laptops.
I don't know any modern laptop without fan (except some with ARM processors like Pinebook or MNT reform) and I think it wont last very long without fan cooler.
35w or 45w is standard for processors but you can always tweak settings in BIOS and make it draw less power with underclocking.

Those laptops with 45w CPUs also needs stronger power adapters, usually stronger than 90w and you can't charge laptop battery without them.

I have one of this devices you can plug in electric socket and measure how electricity is spent by any device, but I never tested this with laptop running bitcoin node.
If someone wants to save on electric bills I would rather use Raspberry Pi, that spends much less than any laptop but downside is much slower cpu speed.
Bigger older screens with higher resolution needs more power, but you don't really need screen all the time.

You can create custom unique addresses in Bitcoin using VanitySearch or similar software, and nobody is going to use that address other than you.
Only way this could happen is if you somehow made a mistake and leaked your private key or someone else got access to your computer device, so it's better to always keep private key offline.

How old is your laptop exactly, what processor it has, and is 160 GB storage SSD or HDD?
It's sure safer to run pruned node than regular spv wallets with using someone else node, but I am not sure how much this contributes to the network.

Can you estimate how much electricity is spent for running pruned node compared to running normal laptop system?
I think old laptops spend a lot of energy for screens and processors, but turning off screen can reduce consumption.
Used RAM is cheap so I don't think that would be a problem, if it's not soldered and can be upgraded.

I never tried it, but I checked their pricing and it could be interesting if you want to run light node on Tor with BTCPayserver, but for anything more serious it's way to expensive.
Maybe try sending PM to BitGoba, he is our local Lightning Network expert and I think he tried everything currently available for LN
Interesting thing about VoltageCloud is that Alphabet invested a lot of money in their business.

You are watching to much sci-fi movies and Coldcard has nothing to do with someone having hope for Bitcoin, it's just nonsense.

First, you have hardware wallets with open source firmware code so anyone can inspect and see what is happening, there are no hidden stuff for Trezor, Codlcard, Keystone, Passport, etc.
For Trezor you can even identify all hardware components and make your own DIY device, but they are also working on new prototype secure element chip, that should improve security a lot.
Coldcard is not exactly open source anymore, but you can still verify it's code and I don't think it's dangerous to use it, unless some major bug happens.
Closed source hardware wallets like Ledger, Safepal, etc are much more dangerous, and you could never know if they have some secret junk inside, so I would stay away from them.

Speaking about open source firmware, you should be aware that almost all laptops and computers have closed source bios, so it's much bigger chance of something leaking from there, unless you have coreboot or something like that.
Intel and AMD are constantly sending information and they have whole hidden mini operating system inside with Intel Management and AMD equivalent.
Now, keeping laptop offline can help, but it's not perfect protection at all.

Hey I like good quality mushrooms, they are multipurpose food and you can make pizzas with them, plus I can destroy all evidence of it's ownership really quickly.

You want to hear one of my wild theories?
What if member easternklaas was actually creator and maker of this fake paper wallet, and he used bitcointalk forum just as promotion for his ''product''.
I can't prove anything and it's juts my speculation, maybe because I had a funny (detective) feeling about this subject all the time.

There was probably a link or a QR code that was opening some fake exchange with account and fake balance.
Like I said before, something similar is available online for years, and they distribute links with discord, telegram, etc.
Account of this reddit guy is from 2012, so anyone can contact him to find more information about his story.

Ne znam istinu ali sumnjam u službenu ''suicide'' verziju isto kao i za Epsteina i druge s inkriminirajućim dokumentima, ali svakako je zanimljiv dokumentarac za gledanje svima koji imaju Netflix.

Nastavljaju se crypto scamovi, 81-godišnji Varaždinac mislio da ulaže u kriptovalute a ukrali mu skoro milijun kuna od 2019 do 2022 godine!  
Dopustio im je pristup svom computeru, mobilnom bankarstvu i bankovnim računima, pa nije ni čudo da je izgubio toliko novca.
Traže ljudima inicijalne uplate  od 250 do 300 eura a onda im na lažnim straniucama prikazuju kako je uplata narasla na 50 000 i 100 000 eura.
https://varazdinska-policija.gov.hr/vijesti/investicijske-prijevare-oprez/36359

Or they would just delist Zcash from this exchanges, and they don't have to explain why.
I don't like Zcash for several reasons, and it has even worse history than monero, but some security experts like Edward Snowden thinks it's good for privacy.
Lightning Network is fine and more people is using it, but I am nor sure it's the best option for for transacting large amounts of money, and we don't know what tech Chainalysis and others are using from tracking.
Sad thing is that most people don't care at all about privacy until it's to late. 

I thought this shit is going to be world computer with everything put on the blockchain  
This never gets old:



Can you or somebody else show me any real code that mister Bill Gates actually wrote, not including stuff he stole from other people?
He is not a developer, and on that videos he certainly looks like a lunatic and mentally unstable person, only thing I like about that is cake in his face
That doesn't mean that I am supporting US (or any other) government for arresting code developers, but it's not anything new... remember e-gold or read more about it.
If you go further in history you would see how governments even arrested people who own gold, or walk on the same ide of street with people of different skin color.
It's irony that people who created United States did that because of high British Empire taxes, and now they live in the land with highest taxes ever  
Now they are arresting developers, tomorrow they could arrest anyone for anything, or maybe they already can do that.

I think that default design is clean and good so I wouldn't make any drastic changes, but few improvements are fine.
Maybe adding mBTC along with BTC and Sats value would be nice, since this is one of the most popular bitcoin units used on many websites.

I would waste time and resources listing many shitcoins, but adding British Pound and some major fiat currencies could be useful.
If you don't want to break current page style maybe you can create separate Settings menu on bottom.

Using aggregator middle value is best option for me (Coingecko is fine), but you could add fallback values with several top exchanges.

Don't fetch value to often or they could ban access to their API.
I think checking every minute is fine, but it can be lowered to 20 or 45 seconds.

On very rare occasions I check historic values do it's not something I would use, and there must be a way to verify that price was like that according to reliable sources.

It's working fine now and showing correct btc value, but you may want to use some fallback API server in case default one is not working correctly due to some policies from Bitstamp.
Using single exchange is fine but I prefer having middle value of multiple reliable exchanges with high volume, something like aggregator value.

Nobody forced them to create and own centralized exchanges, and they can move it to some other countries or work on becoming decentralized.
With that attitude nobody would ever create anything useful for people (Bitcoin for example), if only blindly following new draconian rules and regulations.

Support for privacy is shown if you stand up and choose to fight for what is right, but I guess real problem is that not enough people care about privacy.

I only know about only one real DEX and that is Bisq.
Everything else is Vaporware and it has nothing to do with decentralization.

Easy way to export private keys and import them quickly is by using QR codes, so you don't have to worry if key is short or long.
You can print this using your own printer at home (if you have it) or you can even draw it on paper using square spaces something like SeedSigner is doing.
Whatever method you choose you should always test to see if private keys are correct, and make several backup copies.

John McAfee bi ipak mogao biti živ (ili ne)... to tvrdi njegova bivša Samantha Herrea u novom Newtflix dokumentarcu Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee.
Ona kaže da joj se McAfee javio iz Texasa nakon navodne smrti i rekao da je platio ljudima da se pretvaraju da je mrtav, ali on nije mrtav.
Prvo na što pomislim je da je urađen neki deep fake njegovog glasa kako bi se započela ova priča i nove glasine, ili ona samo laže zbog novca.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/john-mcafee-faked-his-death-ex-girlfriend-claims-in-netflix-doc/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ux_ipIsNyo

You have very limited choice for under 100 USD budget, only Trezor Model One or Ledger Nano S plus, but I would never spend a single dollar on ledger products.
I know BestBuy in US is selling hardware wallets but I would suggest looking for official resellers, or you simply buy wallet in shops available in your own country, before you go traveling.
My suggestion is to only choose open source hardware wallets like Trezor, BitBox02, Keystone or Passport (not easy to buy it now).

Alternative option you can do is to buy Rasberry Pi zero and use is as signing device for Bitcoin, turning it into SeedSigner.
You can also do just fine if you use some offline laptop dedicated for Bitcoin transactions.

 

Adding some more information I found about upcoming Trezor prototype chip, and I didn't see this posted before or I missed it somehow.
Prototypes and the mass production of truly open integrated circuit chips are going to be made by UMC, a leading manufacturer of semiconductors from Taiwan.
UMC headquarter is in Hsinchu, Taiwan, but good thing they are located in different locations in mainland China, as well as in Japan and Singapore.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/tropic-square-launches-open-source-chip-prototype-for-bitcoin-hardware

That makes you question why there is such a big push for using biometrics for everything.  
China and some other countries are already starting to use features like Pay With Face or Pay With Palm, and they market this as safest and most convenient way for payment.
All this data is held on some central server and it's connected with all your history, money, social credit system and social media accounts...
So if you had some accident and you mess up your face, or you disobey supreme ruler, you can't pay or use anything in this stupid system.