That's true.


Actually I find the best option to have a cold storage and not a hardware wallet, especially a closed source one. Convenience has its price and that price is unfortunately rising.


Using a different seed phrase will not work because in order to change the seed you have to enter wrong PIN 3 times and reset the device. The result is that the apps have to be reinstalled at the moment the device has your HD seed and this procedure is done with (drums) Ledger Live. Yeah...

I guess that your point is searching for a collision / attempt of steal some coins.
One reason for such tools' scarcity would be that they are expected to be useless: there are far too many addresses that can be generated, hence all you'll do is to waste energy.
Another reason for the scarcity is that they may be seen pretty much as illegal.

However, @BitMaxz pointed out some tools. Maybe you'd elaborate what's all this about and maybe somebody can tell you whether it worth the effort or not.


PS. From what I know, both "Bitcoin challenge" and "Bitcoin alpha" (last one probably scam) are not related to HD wallets.

Indeed, it's subjective. Whether a market is mature or not cannot be properly quantified. However, I find that it's pretty much a requirement, else, as @bbc.reporter correctly noted, market manipulation would cause a lot of drama (and maybe lawsuits too). But is Forex or stock market really-really mature and with no manipulations? Prove it!

And that's why my point was that the only ones with actual gains will be the lawyers with fat paychecks.


This is imho wishful thinking. If there are no sellers, the volumes cannot rise. Even more, if the volumes will be correctly reported, they may go even lower.
Also keep in mind that (afaik) there are 2 kinds of ETFs and only one is backed with actual BTC reserve, hence with correct effect on the market. And by correct I mean that some will try to manipulate the bitcoin market so they can earn more on the financial one.
Market stabilization may be achieved if more institutions will invest and the price will be even higher. But I cannot be that sure.


I don't feel US far behind, with or without the ETF. This was a good argument before Michael Saylor and Co...

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Yes, I've plaid devil's advocate here. I am not against ETF, but imho one can build a good case whether is pro or against it.

He didn't. He's buying. Don't you see those green dildos?

Tails by default doesn't allow persistence, so, unless he doesn't play with things he shouldn't, he should be fine even with an USB stick.

1. It's not the first time I see that kind of links.
2. Put the malicious link under code tags if you really want to show it.
3. I hope that you did report the message.
4. I'd say that the board should be Scam accusations

If you don't start the Bitcoin app (the one installed inside your HW) in Ledger Live they don't know your xpub. So imho you can update without them knowing everything about you. Am I missing something?!
Of course, if you use their wallet, ... that's entirely your fault.

Afraid you'll get banned if you fall under 120? 

Ai intrebat si ti-am raspuns.
Google poate sa ma gaseasca si pe mine, dar asta nu ma face important.
Bill Clinton poa' sa-si faca NFT si tot nu o sa imi ofere suficienta incredere, cel putin din cauza ca e politician.
Si orice sfat ti-am da, important sa iei tu deciziile pentru banii tai.


Tu de fapt vrei sfaturi, sau vrei sa ne convingi pe noi?! Incep sa cred ca e vorba de convins...

I always thought that Russia asking for Bitcoin and Rubles for their gas starting today is the ultimate April fools trolling...

I guess that you have to post a lot and take advantage of the bug there's in the system.

You do have a point here, but I think that they can easily implement (if not done already, I don't have Trezor) in a way that the wallet/accounts part of the suite doesn't interact with the HW if you don't want to, at maintenance/firmware updates. The wallet part will have to comply, but you can use Electrum instead.

And if the hardware wallet makers choose to ruin their credibility and business by being overzealous at asking KYC / reporting, there's always the choice of using proper cold storage (although it may not be great for non-technical people, I know...)

I think that OP meant to use the old iPhone as cold storage, create the transactions with the watch only wallet, sign with the iPhone, broadcast with the watch only wallet. Doable.

@unknowncustomer , I've made a topic on pretty much the same use case, there are pluses and minuses, I recommend you read through all the answers there: Old phone as cold storage?; you could start with post #4 there.

Finally a proper service on this forum... although... your IQ doesn't look good either, so I'm not sure.
Also, you forgot to mention whether you offer any guarantee and if you accept escrow. What happens if at the end of the day my IQ will drop even more?

For start.. it's an altcoin. Altcoins have an overall long history of disappointing on long term.
Second, it's Binance's coin and the history has shown that exchanges don't stay on top forever.

Do I have the right to not believe you? 

I think that the actual bug is that the question doesn't change when the page loses focus 

I am 99.9% sure I didn't report that twice. I've looked into my history back then too.
I have only one post reported twice, but that's in 2 different days for 2 different problems (first it was off topic and got moved correctly, second is for plagiarism and it's unhandled).

But again, I'm not worried much. I know that most () of you guys (and girls?) are human and prone to mistakes now and then.

Iirc SEC has already rejected ETFs for the reason that Bitcoin market is not mature enough, telling that the price fluctuates too much and the exchanges are showing overly inflated fake volumes.
And while I don't like to hear it, they're right about that. On the other hand, is that a good enough reason for rejecting the ETF? That may be a lottery game with the only winners being the lawyers paid big for the lawsuit.

We don't have to tell them anything. At all.
As @pooya87 said, everybody will just switch to the decentralized platforms. We can (and should!) use hardware wallets without their crappy wallet platforms and go on.

The only problem I see is that this will slow down the interconnection between Bitcoin and the financial world.


So it clearly looks bad, but I have high hopes there will be plenty of ways to avoid EU crap when we want to and this may actually make people start using Bitcoin.. more properly.