It would be interesting to see more sports players asking for compensation in BTC but this isn't what's happening:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/29/22205181/nfl-russell-okung-not-paid-bitcoin-debunk-carolina-panthers-cryptocurrency


Looks more like an ad campaign to be honest: https://twitter.com/RussellOkung/status/1343941366024433665

If it makes any of you feel better, even moderators are hampered by the 4 seconds limit.


I can also whitelist and I see that OP is already whitelisted (either due to being manually whitelisted or due to having bought a Copper membership). Only admins can increase the allowed post reporting rate so if you can make a good case contact theymos.

You said yourself your "seed is always online", meaning there are a lot of bored people searching for and competing to steal from brainwallets similar to yours. Hopefully it's a warpwallet or something similar with key stretching.

How long ago did you buy them? Somewhere on reddit I've seen Ledger claiming to have >2 million customers. They could have lied about the number but I wonder if they kept the addresses for as long as the warranty lasted which differs from jurisdiction to jurisdiction (the legal minimum is usually at least 2 years in the EU but often less than that elsewhere).


I can confirm that that is no longer the case.


All mods also used to get reports via email and along with that the reporter's email address would be included. I don't know if notifications settings changes affected that but afaik everyone or almost everyone used to get these emails.


Maybe French laws, but it's not EU laws that would force them to keep records for that long. It wouldn't hurt if they bothered to specify what they mean by "some transactional data". Satoshi Labs (Trezor) claims to sensitive delete user data after 90 days, and they're also in the EU.

If (low) speed is a concern, since this is what seems to have led to going for shortcuts, use samr7's oclvanitygen if you have an AMD GPU, or Jean_Luc's VanitySearch if you have an nVidia GPU. I prefer the latter nowadays, but it only uses CUDA instead of OpenCL so use whatever does its job.

That's how it starts. First $10k fifty years ago, now $3k, a lot less when accounting for inflation.


And that's how it ends.

I've had a number of payments via PP in the past of comparably low size (from USA, of course) that were sent to me reversed for AML reasons. (the person I was dealing with at the time was for some reason unable to make an international bank transfer, fortunately Bitcoin came in to save the day, that might become impossible in the future for ordinary people.)

It's not a hidden rule, plagiarism was always a bannable offense. People who pass off other users' posts as their own tend to do it on more than one occasion. Imagine what the mess the forum would be if a lot more users were to spam it with copy-pasted posts, inevitably scaring away worthwhile contributors.

Laiki Bank - anything above 100k EUR was lost.

Bank of Cyprus - 47.5% of the funds above 100k EUR were seized and were converted into shares.

As for why it happened, it's multifaceted:

https://www.mfsociety.org/modules/modDashboard/uploadFiles/journals/MJ~0~p1dg2hfl4fdhu1i4g1a4vu441ejj4.pdf

Or a shorter article:

https://www.cyprusprofile.com/articles/cyprus-banking-crisis-causes-and-consequences-bailout

What are your skills and which languages are you fluent in? You could definitely make more than $1/hour translating altcoin stuff.

Have you tried looking for customer support roles? E.g. https://weworkremotely.com/categories/remote-customer-support-jobs ?

There are quite a few (mostly smaller) companies that hire from anywhere/almost anywhere. You seem to be well spoken enough to qualify.

So it's a custom scheme at picking words for a brainwallet that you have come up with. I would advise others against such ideas with no dead man's switch if they have anyone they'd like to inherit their coins in the event of death. It also sounds predictable enough that someone with a lot of time on their hands may eventually stumble on your brainwallet.

For your sake I hope that at least it's in an encrypted file or it is itself encrypted. If you get malware on the device used to access your seed you could lose your funds.


Then don't bring the seed with you, or at least not unless it's somehow encrypted.

Given BadUSB and the like, if someone sees using a hardware wallet as a liability (ideally a Trezor with a passphrase as the closed source Secure Element in Ledger could one day lead to a critical vulnerability), webcams to read QR codes are the only reasonable alternative.

Przy każdej ATH, o której wszędzie trąbią znajdują się ludzie, którym przypomniało się, że mają jakieś bitcoiny na giełdzie czy portfelu. Sam tak robiłem, ale po ostatnich porządkach (2017) już nigdzie ekstra nic nie znajdę. Mimo wszystko jestem dobrej myśli

It says in the OP the wallet isn't encrypted according to his client, and last transaction is from August 2011, Bitcoin-Qt 0.4.0 with encryption wasn't released until a month later.

Or the client got it wrong and encrypted it on his own, or it was some sort of watch-only wallet.

Jak nie wydarzy się nic złego, to liczę na więcej dobrego, kontynuację pompy.

A tak na serio, to zainteresowanie może w końcu spaść naturalnie, jak więcej osób zacznie realizować zyski, to bańka pęknie, skoro ATH wreszcie po 3 latach przekroczone i nawet ci co najwięcej wtedy płacili wreszcie są na +.

To gdzie jesteśmy po pokonaniu każdego ATH to tzw. niezmierzone przestworza, historycznie bańki się kończyła ze względu na problemy z giełdami, albo złe wieści tudzież plotki. Jak nic się nie stanie poważnego z USDT, ani nikomu nie będzie udawało się z powodzeniem rozprzestrzeniać złych wieści, to równie dobrze można losować liczby z przedziału 28500...100000.

Only from July 1st to December 31st. Starting on Friday old rates will apply.

List of countries with VAT cuts and payment delays:

https://www.avalara.com/vatlive/en/vat-news/world-turns-to-vat-cuts-on-coronavirus-threat.html

And it was worth only $20 a couple of months later.


Last person to become a Donator was Claymore in April 2017. He paid ~$13.5k at $1350 average price per bitcoin during that month. The lower donation tier now costs as much as a new Lamborghini.

It's being dealt with but there has been a sudden increase in spam in the past few days. By the type of spam that shows up it's easy to tell there's more than one actor wasting their time. I wouldn't be surprised if it hurts them more than helps them since I'd expect Google to penalize sites which are spammed like that (off-topic content with links quickly disappearing).

I don't know about scammy call centers, but at least something as blatant as phishing does get removed in my experience. Unfortunately it needs some reports, not just one, before they bother to investigate.