62 - NeuroticFish

Thank you!

As said, a mining pool doesn't sell coins. The only (very unlikely) case would be if a miner has sold you his mining account, which sounds fishy at best.
There are also a huge number of websites calling themselves "cloud mining", but those only business is stealing. The lame (fake) excuses you kept getting seem similar to what those scammers usually tell their scammed customers.

About the image, you can post it to imgur.com and then send/post the link, just beware:
* posting/uploading the image to imgur won't make it private
* I cannot guarantee that the image will help me give you better answers (most probably won't)
** look for account/withdraw page yourself
** any web page can show some numbers under your name, that may or may not mean that you can withdraw that money
* I cannot guarantee if anybody won't use the information you post to attempt to steal your money if there's useful information there, so be very careful what you post.

1. There's a good chance that at the moment you get those rubles in your hand they'll worth even less than your "investment".
2. I guess that you can withdraw rubles only if you have account at one of the few banks not affected by the SWIFT blocking.

I find this an overly risky "business opportunity".

The point of cold storage is to never ever go online. This also means no more updates.
So airgapped cold storage going online for updates is a total mistake and a complete misunderstanding on how cold wallets should work.


I remember another hacked user some time ago claiming that he was having a cold wallet which he used to go online only for short time when making transactions.
This case is not much different.

As soon as the cold storage is online, it's hot wallet and no longer cold wallet, never ever.

It needs only a millisecond of being online to get all the funds lost, especially if certain malware was operating there for long time before and nobody knew. In the (milli)second it went online it could "call home" and expose private keys, seed, or even transfer the funds away (but the hacker can transfer the funds himself later after receiving the seed or private key)

Most crypto businesses charge a hefty withdrawal fee, which is not much related to the actual tx fee. It happens usually at exchanges, but it's not limited to them.
The withdrawal fee (in Bitcoin) is not related to the amount you withdraw. It would have been the same (in Bitcoin) even if you would have been withdrawing 10 BTC.

You should have been reading the rules before using their services, you should have been reading the rules before attempting withdraw of such a small amount.
While I agree the fees should be easier to find even if one doesn't have account there, they are present on the thread about crypto casino fees.

You are confused about what wallet means and what blockchain means.
The coins are always on the blockchain (but on the other hand there's a company confusingly called Blockchain.com offering web wallets).
A wallet is a tool you can use to sign transactions, meaning to move/spend your coins. But some businesses offer accounts and call them wallets.
So yes, it's confusing, hence you should explain much better what you want to achieve: do you have a "wallet at blockchain.com"? where you want to move your coins, is it to your own local wallet?

I would be wary on this. This stance can easily change. Keeping unnecessarily money at centralized exchanges is always a risk (not your keys, not your coins).
If I would be Russian I would withdraw my Bitcoins (or at least most of them) to a safely generated local wallet, just in case, especially after the precedent of what has happened with Binance's Nigerian customers.


PS. Weren't 50% of Russians agreeing to the war?

The governments already consider mixers undesirable (to say it nice), no matter where are they from. So I don't see any significant change.
And while I do expect them easily see what money was mixed, I don't expect them know which mixer was used for all those addresses.

And, finally, it's known that the illegal money transferred through crypto is rather small amount and I don't expect this change much and suddenly during this war. So I don't think that keeping a more vigilant eye expressly on Russian mixers worth the hassle.

Actually Monday, after the initial shock, it has recovered (I don't know though if it was natural or it was a massive intervention of the central bank), but Tuesday was again on a losing trend.
You can see the chart here for EUR-RUB (so increase means RUR losing value) : https://www.investing.com/currencies/eur-rub-chart

About the price of the goods and services I do agree with you. Those show much more accurately the inflation, those prices cannot be manipulated so easy by the central bank.


Converting a currency hit by heavy inflation into anything that doesn't fall is already a leap forward. Bitcoin has its history of wide price variation, hence buying Bitcoin is a bit risky - let's be honest - especially if one doesn't want (or cannot) hold for many years. So I cannot call it perfect yet. Right now Bitcoin took the path of store-of-value assets and its price grows, making it a very good deal for those believing it from start.
But those hit by this war will have to take decisions in a hurry and I won't blame them if they don't choose Bitcoin this time. I could blame them though for not buying Bitcoin in the past months or years.

Still, as I wrote in another place: Bitcoin is the easiest way to carry your money/savings/wealth when you flee.

I don't know how easy can the Russians buy Bitcoin nowadays if their money is locked is a bank, it may not be easy to withdraw and find a Bitcoin seller, and the fiat value decreases by the hour.
But I may be wrong, since there are also banks not banned from SWIFT which still operate in Russia.

And about the title... wasn't Bitcoin meant to make you be your own bank, no matter there's peace or war?

I see no irony here. No matter what wants one to purchase, if his money is locked in a crippled banking system, he cannot do much.
And the window of opportunity - e.g. actual sellers of Bitcoin for the plummeting RUR - may be closing; after a certain level of inflation it may become bad business to sell no matter how big the premium is.
I also don't think that XAU or USD can be bought in "better conditions".


Yes, sadly the Russians pay for this and may do for long time. But it's their own president, their own army invading there. And the polls tell that 50% of the Russians do agree with this war.

I'm sorry to hear  I would have preferred to be wrong on this...


I am not ill and I still have not much of a clue what I could do for real to keep my kids safe if a nuke falls.
So worrying too much won't really help...


Get well. That's prio 1 now.

It's not safe to keep keys for big amount of coins on any device that connects to the internet and especially a smartphone.
The vulnerability - it doesn't even matter whether it can or cannot be patched - doesn't bring anything new to this.

We know that most news writes have no idea about crypto; of course that they write utter nonsense - and pretty often actually.
And correcting them here doesn't matter. They won't read.
I've posted directly under the news, at least on twitter. Maybe... maybe they get ashamed and start reading more...

As long as a country's flag is there, world politics are involved, in a way or another.

There were already cases (they may have been related to doping though) the sportsmen were allowed, but without representing the country. Maybe this should be done more wider: we're all human, why represent one country or another? (Imho all countries should unify - but not through war, obviously - and ruled by individuals employed for the job based on actual skills.)


Is it the owner or "just" the main sponsor?
BTW, in the F1 world where everybody wants to become a driver, I don't know what's going to happen with Nikita Mazepin.
I've read "rumors" that he may get banned from F1, and obviously there's no shortage of possible replacements.

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Did you read about Bernie Ecclestone latest interview defending Putin?!

Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad it worked.
(And thanks for the tip too if it was from you. )

Some say that the western countries, especially Germany, has started doing this.
The problem is whether a proper replacement can be found, meaning one that's big enough and actually works too. Because the infrastructure that's not related to Russia seems to be insufficient and problematic.

From what I see though, more electricity will be made from coal and nuclear, at least for a while. ..Something they should have been doing from the second the gas prices exploded.

1. When you want to flee with your wealth, Bitcoin is easier to carry than gold.
2. When your currency value plunges badly, you may want to spend it for basically any investment you can, especially one that has a chance for not getting restricted.
3. Various traders seize the opportunity for speculation.
4. Bitcoin was going down for quite some time, it's about time for a reversal/recovery.


PS. Never take into account the short term price movements, speculators may trick you; never believe anyone's price prediction, they don't have a crystal ball.

This indeed may happen. And it can easily turn into a long term guerilla war until the point one of the following things happen:
* Ukraine is conquered
* Russian or Belorussian army makes the crucial mistake of attacking something belonging to NATO
* Either a "James Bond", either a "Claus von Stauffenberg" ends this

China has started to evacuate their people from Ukraine only today.
That may mean that Putin has told China that the war will not take longer than 4-5 days.

I think that Putin also greatly underestimated what Europe will do in the financial vs resources part of the war.
I honestly didn't think that Europe will become this united this fast (and I'm glad that I was wrong).