It seems that the fall of that mixer has a little more consequences, unlike all those mixers that suffered a similar fate in the past. The funds that passed through that mixer are obviously under surveillance, and there are more and more cases where users of different platforms report blocked accounts. The thing is even stranger because you didn't even have to be a user of that mixer for it to cause you problems.


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I have never believed and will never believe in those fairy tales, and I hope that one day people will come to their senses and realize how susceptible the whole thing is to manipulation.

It seems to me that you earned those tokens in bounty campaigns, but the crypto market crash caught you sleeping and now you are wondering if it is better to sell now or wait for another bull run. As others have said, it all depends on what you bought and whether any of it will survive the current bear market, and it is no secret that the rise in the price of Bitcoin causes the rise in the price of altcoins.

When you bought those tokens, you actually decided to gamble, and now you have to decide whether, in card terminology, you want to take one more card and take a risk, or if you will play with the cards you have.

My suggestion is that you spend less time on bounty campaigns and more on some more useful things - the forum is much bigger than Altcoins boards.

Some research that has been mentioned in the last year has said that this number is closer to 5%, although it is possible that it is about the percentage of users of cryptocurrencies in general, and not only those who own Bitcoin. However, 1% seems too small to me because it would amount to only about 80 million people considering that the current number of people on earth is about 8 billion.

I will share a link with a lot of interesting information for those who might be interested in this -> How Many People Own & Hold Bitcoin?

@Pmalek wrote a good post and listed all the important things to consider before choosing a hardware wallet. However, I would add that people are starting to think that HW is some kind of ultimate solution for storing cryptocurrencies, while there is still a much safer solution in the form of creating something we call a cold wallet.

The term "cold wallet" is also often used when referring to hardware wallets, although this name is correct only for those devices that never connect to the Internet - be it a smartphone or a computer. I think there are already a lot of people who have realized the risks that come from buying and using hardware wallets, whether it's about their personal safety, or the safety of their crypto assets.

I don't want to say that hardware wallets are bad because in any case, they contribute to security, but we should point out the possibility that each user can create his own hardware wallet, which can be far more secure than any commercial HW on the market if it is created correctly.

I'm just wondering what's interesting and what should happen next? Who in their right mind thinks that Peter Schiff will turn a new page in his life and start investing in Bitcoin, while at the same time calling his own son a brainwashed investor because he invests in Bitcoin?

The time you spent waiting for people like this to change their minds is really time wasted.

I tried to check that theory using the link posted in the OP, but I only get a blank page. I think your theory makes sense, although the one who exposes his seed in this way will not be less suspicious if someone asks for only 6 or all 12 words.


I suspected that it was a big number when it comes to the time for brute force, which completely removes any doubt that this scammer can do something with only 6 words. However, some people are quite convinced that making a winning combination of 2048 words is more likely than winning the lottery, which is of course far from the truth.

I am very careful with all devices and often check their cables, even though I am not a miner, but the house/apartment can also catch fire from a short circuit caused by a TV, microwave or a regular desktop computer. If you are going somewhere for a long time, always disconnect all unnecessary devices from the socket, so not only will you prevent a possible fire or damage from a lightning strike, but you will also save some electricity because the devices consume even in standby mode.

When it comes to mining, some may cause a fire, while others lose their lives, which reminded me of a case from a year ago.

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I therefore separate private from business, and on my private number I still have all the important people in the phone book and I can allow myself to have very strict options for blocking calls and messages. I think that these options are very useful because it is possible to block by the prefix of a network or country, and in my country people often complain about being called from countries where they have no relatives or friends.

Besides that, I'm happy because for several years I've had a "Do not call" registry where I can enter a number and save myself from anyone who sells something over the phone.

Exactly, every action on the device itself (HW) must be approved by the owner by pressing a button, and this includes checking the coin address, the amount we send in the transaction and fees, and the final confirmation that we want to make the transaction. With this, we can prevent the clipboard malware from replacing the destination address and thus stealing the amount we want to send.

However, the biggest benefit of the hardware wallet is that it generates a backup (seed) in a secure offline environment and that this seed is not displayed anywhere else except on our device (HW) only once when the device is initialized.

The real problem is in the way users keep/save that seed, which is often the cause of the so-called hacking of hardware wallets. As I have already written several times, the weakest link in all this is the user himself.

@mk4&@NotATether, I think we have been able to conclude so far that CM does not base its business on some kind of half-assed security solutions when it comes to staying out of the reach of those who would like to disable them in what they do. When we talk about mixers that have been caught in various traps over the years, we are talking about a rather amateurish job on the part of their owners - and the last case also belongs to that category.

This whole drama about Mt.Gox is a great shame for Japan as a country, because they have shown how ineffective they have become when it comes to justice. But I am even more surprised that people in some sensationalistic way try to present the situation of refunding funds to damaged clients and that this has been going on for months.

From some previous topics it was possible to find out that 3 payment options are available to clients - cash to bank account, Bitcoin or BCH. It is also known that the payments will be made gradually, that is, not everyone will receive their funds on the same day. When these facts are taken into account, why does anyone expect that around 140 000 BTC will be dumped on the market at one point and that this will cause a new crash?

I read some comments from the link posted in the OP and one comment caught my attention - if there is anyone who is expecting payment from Mt.Gox, can they confirm that they haven't even asked for BTC addresses to return BTC?

@Charles-Tim, it's true that you can't always rely on the algorithm that calculates the fee when it comes to Electrum, I think there was a discussion on that topic in the past. For this reason, I always use other sources to look at the actual state of the mempool and accordingly set the fee that suits me best at that moment.

Currently, mempool.space has all fees at 1-4 sat/vB, and Electrum (mobile) shows different suggestions in relation to which method of determining the fees you choose. This can confuse some users, especially the way it changes between the 3 options (nowhere does it say "click this to change fee setup option").

@Pmalek, I personally don't know if there is any possibility that the person behind this phishing knows something that we don't (which I really doubt). The choice of words that are being searched for is definitely interesting, and maybe that is the key to trying to brute force the other words in some way.

I think @o_e_l_e_o could help us clarify if there really is something here, or if someone simply messed up because they didn't simply look for all 12 words.

It doesn't seem like a mystery to me, but like a bad and amateur phishing attempt, considering that there are also very obvious grammatical errors that point to a very low level of knowledge of the English language. The person who made this page obviously does not know that Exodus has a seed of 12 words - which means that some kid played a little bit in the hope that he will succeed in scamming someone.

Do not share your seed with anyone and all such attempts will not pose any danger to you.

I also think in a similar way, because regardless of what happened in the past, we must take into account what did not exist then, namely inflation, war and a possible recession. All this will probably affect the extended bear market, and possibly a new bottom, regardless of the fact that many think that we have completely got away with it.

Inflation hit the middle class and the poor the most, because prices really went wild and some food products are even 100% more expensive, not to mention the price of fuel, electricity, gas or electricity. I think that the average person today has nothing or very little left after paying all the expenses, and therefore cannot invest in anything including Bitcoin.

I use the mobile version of Electrum from time to time and what is important to me is its functionality and that it has regular updates like the desktop version. A new generation of young people who put design first, and only then functionality and safety, often find themselves in trouble because of this.

In addition, Electrum developers are not very active on this forum, so this is the wrong address for such questions.

You are right when you say that some changes are happening when it comes to Bitcoin, and we can discuss whether they are good or bad, but as many others have already said, these changes do not change the very essence of what Bitcoin represents. People believe in the Bitcoin that was given to us by Satoshi, but even during the time when he was active, many changes happened and this is a completely natural course of events if you want to improve any product.


The idea of changing the max supply is radical and does not have many supporters, because it is essentially negative and would cause a lot of damage in the short term, but also in the long term. You have to accept that everything in life changes, whether it's about you as a person, the computer you use every day, or the car you drive - so you can't expect Bitcoin to stay the same forever.


The average Bitcoin user will never be able to understand some complicated technical things, but does that mean that you should lose faith in Bitcoin because of that? At the end of the day, no one is in a position to have to believe in Bitcoin, it's a matter of personal choice - if you have doubts try to remove them, or just stop believing.

What is all the data worth when the average Russian believes that it is all just Western propaganda and that the Russians, like in 1945, are liberating Europe from nazism and fascism... I understand that in every war there are those who fight for money and spoils of war, but that so much death and destruction has not yet opened the eyes of the average Russian to understand that wars of conquest in the 21st century are not something they should agree to.

First, young naive people die, and then their fathers come next - and right now, people aged 55+ are being mobilized. The fact is that 80% of them will never return to their homes. They say they're called tigers, but to me they look like old and battered cats (cannon fodder).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggcNHGcypns

His own son doesn't trust him when it comes to financial advice, which just goes to show that people like Peter Schiff are slowly but surely becoming the minority. He calls his son and other young people "brainwashed" because they accept new technologies and alternatives like Bitcoin, which clearly shows us that such people will not change their opinion in the near future, and maybe never.


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Of course you use your technical superiority to shoot like real cowards from afar and kill children in schools and people in shopping centers, but in close battles Ukrainians teach you lessons about what it means to be a true patriot. When Ukrainians target legitimate military targets anywhere in the occupied territory, you call them terrorists...


We saw this a few days ago, when the Ukrainians prepared summer fireworks for you in Crimea, even 300 kilometers from the front line - the superior planes of the fifth and sixth generation did not even manage to take off - a great success of the Russian military aviation. Money and military supremacy are not always decisive in war, and your Serbian brothers can confirm that because they are still whining about the defeat they experienced more than 30 years ago.


You mean these superior helicopters that the Ukrainians destroy without any problems?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMX9cEf8qVg