Remind to OP that I gave you the table at that post. It looks nice so I think you forgot to check it. I only want to help you with what I can do  |
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I used to be a newbie and my age is not too old on the forum. I registered the account on April 28, 2019 and my first forum-versary is 3 months ago. You will not read if I write something too long as tl;dr so I will write it too short for you. As a newbies, you have to choose the journey you want to go: - Bounty hunters - Spammers - Scammers - Good members. There is nothing needed to say if you choose the first three. If you fortunately and bravely to choose the last one, and want to go as good members the next thing you have to do is choosing the area you have interests in. It is important because you will more easily spend more time for that, and you will feel more comfortable to do so. It is your interests so your works with it will bring lots of fun back to you. I chose to focus my time on the forum with security and privacy and wallet's features and usages. You can see it in my first thread I created to ask about Brave browser - What's wrong with Brave browser?. Unfortunately, because of privacy problems I stopped using the browser months ago. Bitcoin Core's prune node. Please help to use it safely.Warning when transaction fee exceeds sent amount for bitcoin wallets?Check links with Virustotal. False positive results, how much they are?Good topics on security and privacyAuthentication: Types, Risks/ Attacks, AdviceVisiting official websites and download official apps, not fake ones.There are some threads not belong to my main concerns. A new group of scammers, make topics with phishing links. Please nuke them.Find your managersOverview on DeFi - a new hot trend in cryptoIf you are newbies, now choose your journey and your interested areas you want to go with. |
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I don't understand why we need to uninstall and install windows operating system just to install electrum wallet?
I am also having electrum in my desktop but I never done this, can someone explain what is the reason behind OPs action.
It is for people who don't have a personal computer and have to use computers on Internet service store, and such computers are public ones and are used by so many people. There are risks of malwares, spywares, virus, trojans, etc. on such. Therefore, using Tails OS on USB will help such people eliminate risks to lose their private keys or mnemonic seeds. If you have your own computers, you don't have to do this. How to Install Tails OS on USB flash drive for Wallet Purpose |
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Is life Fair to us or do I say life isn't balance?
Balance is not often found because there is very scarce times when we can see two people do same things at the same period and get different results. Same things are somewhat similar effort levels they put in their works. Same period means there are nearly same risks and opportunities for them. If two above are nearly the same but the last one (results) are different, you can say something about fairness, balance of life. If two above are different, very different, no need to say anything for the last one (results). |
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I've always heard and read that I must disconnect from the internet when creating Electrum Wallets, to keep away from hacks, viruses, malware or having my bitcoins stolen.
Electrum: You must download Electrum wallet from official website, and must verify wallet. See the guides below to understand how importance it is to verify your wallet and how to do so. [GUIDE] How to Safely Download and Verify Electrum [Guide]Electrum wallet - Update safely and avoid phishing wallets?Verify wallets before installing & using. You'll lose fund if you don't verify5. created Electrum wallet, write the seed in a paper. save the wallet file in my usb.
No, you should not store your wallet in your USBs. Because you can lose your USB to someone else. It will be sucked if you don't set up a password for your wallet. But even if you set up a password for your wallet, how strong it is, I don't know and people can crack your password. [GUIDE] How to Create a Strong/Secure PasswordHow to Install Tails OS on USB flash drive for Wallet Purpose. You show interests in using USB so the guide is helpful for your needs. If your demand temporarily is not to move your bitcoin, and your demand is only to observe your wallet balance, I advise you to more safely use Bitcoin block explorers and use Watch only mode in Electrum wallet, like this: How to do? Import Bitcoin Addresses or Private keys. Choose to import your Bitcoin address to have the Watch Only mode. If you import your Private key, you will have a full wallet, not Watch Only one. With the Watch Only mode: after import your bitcoin address you will get a pop-up box like that This wallet is watching-only. This means you will not be able to spend Bitcoins with it. Make sure you own the seed phrase or the private keys, before you request Bitcoins to be sent to this wallet.
There are many explorers to choose from List of useful Bitcoin block explorers |
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No worries. I'll keep the sig on for a week or so, hoping it'll continue
I think you should not because if all participants keeps wearing signature and avatars as well as keep posting actively as previously when then campaign is on, the Bitamp company will not see difference when they run or not run the campaign. |
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Thank you all for another fantastic week. All the Full Members were a great addition so special thanks to you guys!
Thank you for your recognition. As a Full member participant in the latest round, I feel so happy when I saw your post. I much appreciated to both Hhampuz and Bitamp company. |
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Why not automatically temp ban people whose topic titles are similar enough to the ones OP mentioned, and have it expire for a week or so? Most scam topics have something like "[WORKING]" or "✔️Verified" or "Earn up to {x} BTC" so an automated banning bot can look for those key words.
Only theymos can do so. Last year he did it with Yobit. |
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That aside, bitcoin core is the most secure and the original bitcoin wallet for computers, it connect users directly to the blockchain. And thanks for your corrections.
It is your another misconception too. Bitcoin Core and Electrum all connect your wallet to server and nodes. The difference is what they store on your computer. Bitcoin Core (full node) store all things, entire blockchain; prune node store all things of each transaction but in limited period by personal setup. Electrum as SPV wallet, only stores block headers, not entire blockchain. |
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1. Where do the topics go? after a Minute I set my eyes on it and I come back again to check for that topic I won't find it
There are two destination sets for topics: Trashcan, and any board in the forum. We as users can not delete our topics to trashcan. Only moderators can do so. 2. Who has access to locked topics in the forum apart from the creator of that topic?
There are two types of locked topics: Locked by creators; locked by global moderators or admins. The first type: it is clear that creators can have access to their locked topics when they unlock those topics. The second type: only global moderators or admins can have access to such escalating locked topics. People who have userscripts can get access to those locked topics and can quote. A kinda shitty script for quoting posts in locked topics |
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I decided to stop using the blockchain.info (before they bought the domain blockchain.com and directed blockchain.info to that one). I did not have much bitcoin in my old blockchain.info wallet and I was a newbie. It is my fault sure when I did not carefully back up my wallet password and my 2FA secret code for that wallet.
I remembered I only backed up wallet ID, and believed that I always remember wallet password. After months I did not frequently log in wallet, I forgot the password, that is so stupid.
Another stupid thing I do is my phone got technical problems and need to recovered to the pure status. I lost both password and 2FA secret code. I lost the wallet.
I read that people can brute force wallet from wallet id and some good combinations of characters in password.
From the lose, I decided to use non-custodial wallets only.
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Oh Dear,
I really forgot to celebrate my second meritversary?
28 Jun 2018 - 28 Jun 2020.
Two years and 3,500 merits later I still thank you for every single moment, discussion, exchange of idea, lesson and of course merit we had in this forum.
I shall update the op with a few details, but I think my ego is pumped enough for the moment, I will do whenever I will feel down.
Thank you all guys for the support!
Two years and 3500 merits. I do a simple math and you earn 5 merits everyday in average. Such a merit earner. From my side, I earn 131 merits in the last 120 days. A simple math shows I earn 1 merit every day (a little higher than 1). Your quality is 5 times higher than mine. It is my shame to compare with you. Congratulations for your second meritversary. |
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Naturally, as human, people want to have something fun, convenient and easy to use and enjoy their lives. They are not aware of risks behind applications on their mobile devices. When threats are found or holes are compromised, they will get losses. Terribly, it is one-way and irreverisble journey .
I don't trade on mobile apps because another risks. On mobile, you can more easily make mistakes. Our eyes work better on computer screen and key board, not touchpad.
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No need to have passphrase because anyone who have seeds or private keys, they will be able to access wallets and funds. Passphrase is only to protect seeds or private keys. So at the end and most important point, protect seeds / private keys is thing to do.
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I thought OP mistakenly sent his USDT to BTC address on OMNI layer. Even it is, recovery is not easy, depends on willingness to help of owner (that likely is exchange) and with not small costs will be charged. I quoted my post and a perfect explanation from Danny Hamilton on same problem. There are three chains for USDT now: Omni layer that is built on Bitcoin blockchain; ERC20 that is built on Ethereum blockchain, and TRC20 that is built on Tron blockchain. ERC20 tokens have the address format of Ethereum address, but they are not ETH. More important, the problem of OP is he does not have any control on private key or mnemonic seeds of the address. In crypto "Not your keys, not your bitcoins; not your keys, not your crypto; not your keys, not your funds". It is not a discrimination between global and domestic exchanges but domestic exchanges tend to be small and their supports probably not good enough. Moreover, big exchanges do not mean that they must or always provide such recovery services for users. If they have such recovery services, the fees often are high. If fees are higher than what people can get back, it is out of luck again. Here are some very important concepts to learn if you are going to continue to use Bitcoin. Please take a moment to read through this post:
The reason that "blockchain" couldn't help
The company called blockchain that runs a website called blockchain is not THE blockchain. Imagine if I were to create a company called "Internet Services", and that my company has a website that lists the names of all the internet email providers that I know of. That doesn't mean that I am in control of THE internet or of any of those company's email services. If you were to send an email from Google's gmail service over THE internet to someone else's AOL email address, and that email were to fail to arrive... Calling my company that publishes the list of email service providers isn't going to accomplish much. I'm not Google (the provider that you sent from). I'm not AOL (the provider that you sent to). I'm not THE internet (the technology that you used to send the email).
That's what happened when you tried to contact "blockchain". There is a company called "blockchain". They provide a website that lists all the blocks that they know about in THE public blockchain. That does not mean that they are in control of the blockchain, or any of the services that make use of that public blockchain. When you sent bitcoins from Coinbase through THE blockchain to someone else's service and those bitcoins failed to arrive... Calling the company that publishes the list of known blocks isn't going to accomplish much. They are not Coinbase (the service provider you sent from). They are not the service provider that you sent to. They are not THE blockchain (the technology that you used to send the bitcoins.
It can be confusing that there is both a technology called blockchain and a company called blockchain. The company did not create the blockchain (they came along later and just named themselves after the existing technology).
The reason Coinbase couldn't help
Coinbase provides you a place to acquire bitcoins, and sends them elsewhere on your behalf. Bitcoins are not an electronic "account" like you are used to with a bank. It works more like an electronic representation of a CASH (paper and coins) transaction. If you pay someone $100 with an electronic account (like a credit card) you can contact the company that provides that account and they can cancel the transaction. If you hand someone a $100 bill, and they walk away... The money is gone. There is nobody to call. The only person that can give you that $100 back is the person that you gave it to. When you "sent a transaction from coinbase" what actually happened was that you asked coinbase to give some of the bitcoins that they were holding on your behalf to someone else (more specifically, to a bitcoin address that was not under their control). Once they turned over those bitcoins, there isn't anything coinbase can do to get them back. The only person that can give you the money back (or access the money at all) is the person (or company) that controls the address that you sent to.
The reason the receiver is having difficulty getting their service to fix this
Managing control over crypto-currency requires the use of digital keys. Each address has a key that will allow controlling of any funds at that address. The ONLY way to control those funds is with that key... AND... ANYONE with control of that key (or a copy of that key) can control those funds. Now imagine you run a service (similar to Coinbase) where you are managing the funds of thousands (or millions) of people on their behalf. That means your service has thousands (or millions) of keys to keep secure. If a disgruntled employee can get their hands on any of those keys, then they can steal funds from your customers. Therefore, you need to have extremely strict control over who can access the keys and how they are accessed. Also, if you were to lose any of those keys, the funds would become permanently inaccessible. It is possible to copy keys, but it is not possible to re-create a key without a copy of the original. Scammers, thieves, and other criminals will contact the service regularly, pretending to be a customer with an unusual situation and ask them to do something out of the ordinary with the keys in hopes of gaining control of the funds or tricking the service into sending funds. It is this high level of security and caution with their customer's funds that makes it time consuming and difficult to subvert their normal security processes to acquire a BTC key for a BCH address. Because of the time, difficulty, and risk... many services will either refuse to help or will require a significant fee to help in a situation like this.
However, the receiver's service is the ONLY entity that CAN fix this
Since the receiver's service is the entity that controls the digital keys of the address that you sent to, and since it is impossible to control funds without that digital key... You are at the mercy of the receiver's service. If they are unwilling to help you, then you either need to find a way to force them to help, or you need to consider this an expensive lesson in being careful about where you send your crypto-currency.
Bittrex: https://bittrex.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000961172-Bittrex-s-Deposit-Recovery-PolicyCrosschain Deposit Recovery
Crosschain - A deposit of one coin to a different coins address is considered a crosschain deposit
Bittrex will only attempt to recover crosschain deposits that exceed $5000 at the time of deposit, within 7 days of the deposit and will charge a 0.1 BTC for this recovery. Recovering coins crosschain is an inherently dangerous and time consuming process.
Due to our new Crosschain Recovery System, the minimum requirement for crosschain recoveries is $3000 at the time of deposit for the following crosschain pairs:
BTC to BCH
BCH to BTC
BTC to USDT
USDT to BTC
https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/7tb2i9/need_help_lost_10000_binance_usdt_sent_to/https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/7rg13t/metoo_sent_usdt_from_binance_to_bitcoin_coinbase/ |
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Some P2P sites provide excellent service for buying and selling such cards.
The table was composed during the last week. There are some info needs to be filled up and the table is not finished. There are dozens of P2P marketplaces but the top two are Paxful.com and LocalBitcoins.com. Trading on P2P marketplace is risky for newbies and they need to learn using video recording apps to record their trading progress for later use. In some trades, troubles will occur and they will have to submit evidence of their trades. In such trades, videos are very good evidence. Paxful: Either create a listing/ trading volume >1500$ |
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Bitcoin on testnet is valuable for people who need it but in reality it has zero monetary value and no one trade it. Why do you have to trade it using your fiats or any other cryptocurrency, it means you will pay a kind of cost to get some bitcoin testnet? It is a trap for people who don't know what is bitcoin testnet. They will think they have a very good deal to buy cheap bitcoin than on the crypto exchanges. Dogecoin is a low value coin but it has somewhat monetary value, not zero monetary value like bitcoin testnet. |
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