...Also 5% of global nickel production.

On the oil and gas topic, it's a "reverse sanction" only for medium term. If the current status remains for long, then it will force:
* infrastructure development towards other suppliers (hence on the long term more competition and maybe lower prices)
* infrastructure development for increased use of greens energy (maybe more nuclear plants, maybe more hydrogen, clearly more solar, wind and hydro)

I fear that this war can easily turn into a years long guerrilla war in Ukraine, I fear that this war can easily go farther, engulfing more countries, I fear it can easily turn into WW3.
All these scenarios would mean that much more infrastructure will need built or rebuilt.

It would be the ultimate irony they'd start using Hryvnia.


I find all the "bitcoin saves Russia" part a highly overrated dream of the (imho) new bitcoiners.
The thing is that, as you said, nobody sane would sell bitcoin for rubles. And those who really have money, they have euro, dollars, maybe yuans too, probably also not under their name. So whether they change into bitcoin or not is completely unrelated to the sanctions.

Clearly, it depends how big the damage is. This display is also broken, but you can still see enough for doing a reset.
On the other hand, if it's completely black and one also had really big funds there, indeed, best is scraping the HW and buying another (maybe from another maker), so he doesn't get his funds and home address exposed, even if he moved the funds away.
So it depends... one has to take the decision for himself; all we can do is come with ideas.

It may be him who has developed it, or, why not, he may be hired* (in a way or another) to "scan" the forums and lure some greedy newbies into the scam.

* i.e. got promised some money from the steal.

First set up a cold storage (with properly checking the new seed and addresses, with proper backups of the seed) and transfer your funds there.
And obviously also reset the HW (enter wrong PIN 3 times). Maybe even reinitialize it for an empty wallet and reinstall at least the bitcoin app.

Then even if they insist in recovering your seed, the most they can get is an old transaction history, if anything.
And yes, then I would not be scared to send it to them for fixing it.

Do you really believe that they need crypto? They are still selling as we speak gas and oil to Germany, USA and a whole lot of other countries, and they're not even selling it cheap. Do you think they don't get paid for that, no matter the sanctions on TV? Gas flows, fiat flows, and the common people (some brain washed, some scared, some standing against the war, no matter, all of them), as usual, suffer.

OMG what a crap news site. I won't even mention it. They've twisted the "cards will be unavailable" announcement, which is clearly related to the fact those cards will basically become useless plastic just everywhere (as said, because VISA/MC stops them) into something that sounds like it would be Binance's fault.

OP, sorry, you were misled. It would be a good idea to consider looking for better sources of information.

All this crypto for evading sanctions by Russia is false drama, talking about peanuts.
Russia doesn't need crypto to evade sanctions. As long as many countries still buy oil and gas from Russia, no matter the war, even fiat is flowing pretty muck OK.

And do you really expect the bigger whales from Russia have all their money in Russia? It's hidden in various countries, I'm sure.
Do you really think they cannot hire somebody from any country exchange that money into crypto for them?!


PS. What Coinbase did was cheap PR in the face of the govt (they never cared much of bitcoiners, didn't they?)

From what I've read/understood LN is using a pruned node and may be starting to check things too early.
BitcoinD at startup does check its last nodes and may be slow (especially if from HDD) <-- just a guess.
This issue to the one you've posted tells


Maybe I'm completely off, but maybe it helps. I don't know. Good luck.

Crypto cards are a very easy way to spend the coins at most merchants and as long as the fees are reasonable, there should be a market for the product.
But the regions not covered by the known crypto cards may also be sanctioned or have crypto illegal. One big area that comes into my mind is Nigeria, where crypto is now illegal.

On the other hand, if you manage to offer non-KYC crypto debit cards, you may have a very big market as long as your services are reliable and the fees not too high.


Global is a nice and catchy word, but I think that all OP wants is to find some suitable niche market/area where he can get profit from, no matter it may be only one continent.

So I've remembered it correctly. Thank you very much!

Also, then I'd say that quite probably OP, if using those "blockchain files", when he will put his own wallet there, he'll be basically back to square one.

Do you realize that if you run a full node others will connect to you and there will be quite some data transfer (smaller because pruned, but still), also you will download each and every node from now on.. on your mobile data? As good as your intentions are, it doesn't look like a good idea (also I don't know how legit those files are, but that's a different story).

Plus: wasn't a pruned node tied to a certain wallet and if you change the wallet you have to basically re-download? (Maybe I'm wrong with this, I didn't really use pruned node).

You just lost all the trust and sympathy. From here onward I think that all you can prove is that you are trying very hard to make them seem legit.
Seen that before, moving along...

If the point is learning to trade my advise is to not go for too big amounts hoping for the profits.
Trading is risky, the price goes up and down, and if you don't know good enough what you're doing you can too easily lose a big part of your funds. And losing (let's say) 20% of 127$ doesn't hurt as much as losing 20% of 1000$.
For now get a spreadsheet, see bitcoin price growth in percents to see how much you would earn, study the fees of the exchange you're using, learn about stop loss, look on TA (technical analysis), see what news can be relevant for the price.

Your math is way off.
45 USDT would have been the gains for 1 BTC. Since you've bought only 0.003219 BTC, the gain is comparably smaller: 0.148 USDT.
And since the exchange you're using has some fees here and there, fees you didn't care to check, instead of gaining 15 cents you've lost 30 cents.
Quite a cheap math lesson  


It's not about the pair, it's about fees and amounts. For such a small amount to play with you will have to wait for much bigger price differences to worth it.
If my math is right if you sell after the Bitcoin price gained 150$ you will not lose; but not gain either. So you have to wait for even bigger (than 150$) price jumps for this kind of trading (scalping). If the jump is 200$, you may earn some 15 cents. Does it worth the hassle? Only if the point is learning.

Well, you can try your luck in their issues thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5266815.new#new
You can try to contact somebody related to that platform: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2835882
But I would not get my hopes too high. Far too many users didn't get their money back.

As I've written in the past to somebody who got scammed of some 2000 EUR there:


All the information is already there. The related accounts are tagged as scammers.
If you want help in getting your money back, then you have to ask the police, really.

Sorry.

For allowing such things as "passive yield" you probably have to
1. convert your bitcoins into something else - probably altcoins althoough they sometimes are pegged to bitcoin and may look like they're bitcoin
2. possibly send out your money into others' custody

This means that you are on the risks of the other coins and platforms from price fluctuations against bitcoin in some cases to vulnerabilites of those coins/chains/platforms.
Even more, as you know, not your keys, not your coins.

I will also add that if something looks too good to be true, you better stay away.


So, as others said, I would not risk by bitcoins for some virtual pennies to earn. But what I'm telling is only common sense general stuff, I didn't risk my money to see about those platforms.

If you claim honesty you may want to start with escrowing the funds you say you're offering, especially since it's a brand new account you use. (Whoever wants to do the job, be aware!)
Also it may be a good idea to tell more here about the job. It would ensure it's checked to not be illegal, it could be a better advertising for you too.
Handling all this in private kinda gives too many chances that one of the parties will get scammed.

I think that you've got it wrong.
Virtual Debit Card is a card product where the actual plastic card is not delivered, hence it can be used only for online transactions, you cannot get it with you at the grocery store.
I don't know whether it was VISA, Mastercard, the banks or the FinTech companies who have named it like this but it's an already established name.