I can't comment on the numbers and estimates, but I will take your word for it. Luckily (in this case), the awakening doesn't happen simultaneously and people realize little by little that it's wrong and dangerous to store your coins on exchanges. So we don't have to worry about exchange users flooding the mempools with withdrawalal transactions. Not yet at least.   

I know. I have mentioned a few times that there are differences between the earlier Nano X batches and the more-recent ones that started having battery and charging issues. 

I do remember reading about a few broken Trezor cases and I have a picture in my head of a user duct tapping the USB cable to the device because it wasn't working otherwise. Maybe that exact picture is posted somewhere in my showoff your hardware wallet thread, or I saw it elsewhere else. But nothing significant. I am sure you could find problems with Trezor's as well if you dig for it on Reddit. I am not really interested in that though.

Coinerer is obviously not very proficient with the English language. The second quote you posted is not about him I think. If you check the first quote, he says "I am 27 years old", but in the second post he uses an incorrect construction and says "i been more then 45 years people...". I think he was trying to say that he knows about people older than 45 who invest and use Bitcoin, not that he is 45.

I am sure that casinos can provide receipts for such wins that can be shown to the banks and the taxing authority.

I didn't bookmark the thread so I forgot who posted it. Luckily, I found it with Ninjastic.space. His username is blockgardener and this is the thread: Bitcoin price calculator - Calculate live and historic Bitcoin prices
The site has actually been live for almost a year, but I just discovered it after the OP posted some fresh updates the other day.

I agree. It's far from ideal. I have gotten so used to typing just the first 2-3 letters of "preev", it's weird typing something else now.

Thanks for taking part and showing us your hardware wallets. It's been a long time since someone did.
You mentioned your USB flash drives a few times. Have you by any chance stored your recovery phrase on these drives, and are those digital copies the only backups you have of your seed? Have you made proper physical backups on paper?

Even though the site is running again, I wanted to mention an alternative that I saw the other day posted by someone in the Project Development sub-forum.
https://bitcoinpricecalc.com/

It's a decent site and even has a historical reference of prices dating back to 2012. I think it's a good thing to support simple things developed by Bitcointalk members.   

I think that at least 50-60% of the negative and bad posts and threads there are about Ledger hardware wallets in that sub section come from dkbit98. He probably gets a warm and fuzzy feeling in his belly when he sees something bad about Ledger.
But that doesn't change the fact that they messed up big time and in numerous occasions.

Regarding the build quality of the devices. I can only speak for myself and I don't want to jinx my Nano S, but it has been working fine for many years. And you also have Lucius stating that his Nano X is working just fine. So there you have it. I don't bother myself too much with negative comments on reddit because I have my own experience to fall back on. I am pretty sure that I am not special and that God and other forces are not protecting my Nano S in all these years. There are many like me out there who are satisfied with their products, but you don't hear such voices on reddit. 

Prosto je nejverovatno šta su sve te iskusnije (neću da kažem starije) žene spremne uraditi kad upoznaju nekog princa i zaljube se. To veze sa mozgom nema. Nije seksizam jer i muškarci rade razne gluposti, ali većinu muškaraca zanima seks i taj seks mogu da kupe na pola sata ili sat. Može i za cijelu noć ako žele. I to je većini dovoljno. Žene maštaju o nekim uspješnim biznismenima koji će da ih voli i njeguje jer su ih izvukli iz problema kada im je to bilo potrebno. Stvar je u tome što tim potezima sebe uvale u još veće probleme.

Bear market or not, exchanges should be used for exchanging coins, and non-custodial wallets should be used for their safekeeping. It's going to take some time for people to realize that, but hopefully we are getting there.

It's the other way around. People are moving their coins from custodial wallets to non-custodial wallets. Custodial means that someone else is in control of the private keys. Non-custodial means they aren't, but you are.

Ledger has sold more hardware wallets than any other HW manufacturer in the world. Despite their recent problems, I am sure that trend continued even in 2021-2022. Trezor is probably sitting on #2. Ledger puts a lot of emphasis on marketing and their devices are are cheaper than those of their competitors. If you do a google search for the term "hardware wallet", Ledger's website is the first search result. Trezor, for example, is almost at the bottom on the first page.

As if the story wasn't weird enough already, it just got weirder. So he managed to deposit his million dollar winnings into a local Singapore bank, but instead of transferring that money to his home country, he started buying bitcoin with it. The moment the money got deposited in the bank, he was safe from having his cash robbed. I don't see what changes just because he decided to purchase bitcoin. He could have just moved that money safely via the bank to any other place in the world. The transaction costs are a different topic entirely.

Since no one has explained how to create a Taproot address on Ledger Live yet, I will briefly describe the process.
After opening and logging in to your Ledger Live account, connect and unlock your hardware wallet with your PIN.

Now click on the "Accounts" tab on the left. On the dropdown list select Bitcoin and click on "Continue".



Ledger Live will then scan all existing Bitcoin accounts that are or aren't part of your portfolio. Give it a minute to finish or stop the scanning process by clicking on the "Stop" button.
To add a Taproot account, you need to switch on the "show all address types" under "Add new account". Give your Taproot account a name and click on the "Add account" button at the bottom.

 

If done successfully, a confirmation screen will inform you that your new account has been added to your portfolio. You can see it at the bottom of your "Accounts" tab because it's addresses are still unfunded.

To generate a Taproot address, you now need to click on the "Receive" tab on the left, select your new Taproot account on the list, and click "Continue".



A new address will be generated for you. Compare and confirm that the address on Ledger Live matches the one on your hardware wallet and approve it by clicking on both buttons on the device.



You have now successfully created a Taproot address in Ledger Live.

This is the first time I read about this case. I can't believe that a news site called "Live Bitcoin news" doesn't know the slightest thing about Bitcoin and reports that a person lost his "addresses" and now he can't recover said "addresses". He had some success with trading in the beginning but as he was greedy and showed gambling-related disorders, he invested more than he could afford to lose and lost. That's all on him and not on Bitcoin.

He says that trading Bitcoin is "high-risk". He is right above that. Trading isn't for everyone despite it being available for everyone. Blaming advertisements for your misfortunes is pitiable. It's not my fault I lost my crypto, there was an ad on the bus that tricked me...

It feels weird to tell someone their story is fake especially if it really happened to a family member. But there seems to be too many illogical things in this one.
I once won a few grands in a physical sportsbook and I was asked to submit my banking information where the money would be routed. They didn't want to give me the cash. I find it hard to believe he was given a suitcase or a bag full of money and shown the exit door. You also mentioned he talked to the police and they helped him apparently. How did they help him, and if he got the help he needed, why did he still need to buy the bitcoins? If attempt were made to kill him, those responsible should/would have been arrested. 

For sexy time?

He can't play well with players who are no longer there. Juventus had a €35 million buy option on Alvaro Morata but the clause wasn't activated. Therefore, his Juventus loan contract has expired and he has returned to Atletico Madrid. I assume he will be sold during the summer. Juventus was interested in keeping him but considered the amount as too big. They tried to talk to Atleti to decrease the price but they weren't willing to negotiate any discounts.

There are always ways and means to avoid paying taxes, especially if we are talking about cash transactions and P2P deals. We all decide if we want to pay those taxes or not. If you leave digital fingerprints for monetary transactions, you could get caught and questioned. If you don't, the chances are significantly smaller.

I think we should stop dreaming about a Bitcoin society that replaces all traditional institutions and instruments of power we have today. Let's just hope Bitcoin's development goes nicely and in the interest of its holders. It's an economy that works independently. A sidechain to traditional finance if you want. I am not dreaming of a world where the governments won't tax people at all because they are using Bitcoin only. All countries need those revenues and rely on it. Chaos would ensue otherwise. A world-wide mining ban is a more likely scenario (although highly unlikely itself) than the governments giving up on taxing their citizens.       

I would say it's very unlikely that a blockchain such as Ethereum will get the same support and build trust as Bitcoin has done. If and when Ethereum migrates to POS it will become even worse.  Just check the fees you have to pay to work with DeFi and smart contract interactions to see how useful Ethereum is in its current form.

Lightning Network or any other sidechains that might be created in the future still require official on-chain confirmations. So you still have to go through the bottleneck of Bitcoin's TPS and block generation time. Until that happens, those coins aren't yours yet.

I am only interpreting what the official partnership announcement stated and the term they used, which was self-custody. I don't believe it myself because similar terms or lies (if you want) were also said by those instant swap platforms that are around. They claim to do the swap process in a non-custodial way. But then we have cases of people being asked to undergo KYC, provide origin of funds, or the coins simply disappearing. Users have no way to get to those coins without getting in touch with the support of that centralized entity. If the process was non-custodial, a request for KYC could be answered with "yeah right, bugger off" and you just import your keys elsewhere and take back your coins. However, you can't do that.   

I agree partially. Di Maria is a suitable replacement for Dybala. Depending on his motivation (since he is 34), he might turn out to be a much better player in short term. But Vlahovic and Morata are different types of players. Dusan is supposed to be in the center positions where he is at his best. Morata used to play as a central attacker before Vlahovic came, but he did so poorly. That's not his natural role. He was better in the second part of the season in a 3-man attack when he had space to attack from the left and find Dusan in the middle. 

OK, good find. As you can see from the quote you shared, mprep is calling the list unofficial. Not the rules per se. It's an unofficial list. The word "unofficial" is an adjective describing what kind of list it is. So, it's a list of (official) Bitcointalk rules. It's better we consider them official because if we break them, the admins have valid reasons to ban us. Why the rules are not applied equally on everyone or not at all in some cases, is something entirely different.   

Theymos is so far-sighted that he knew that 10 years later I would ask these questions, but the answers are already out there somewhere. We just need to find them. Magnificent!  
Cmon theymos just answer the bloody questions. LoyceV is getting impatient and really pissed off right now. If not for me and LoyceV, do it for the betterment of humanity. And the kids also, we can't forget the kids.