Pe de o parte e normal, orice comunicatie de acest gen poate sa faca si vanzatorul, si cumparatorul sa devina tinte (potentiali teroristi).
Pe de alta parte, nu stii cine face/vinde acele dispozitive si nu poti sa stii daca nu are un mic backdoor pe undeva. (Se poate intampla chiar daca e "pomul laudat" de Julian)

Adica, da, e convenabil tare telefonul si conversatia audio, dar daca e sa fii atent, mai degraba lucrezi in scris, cu ceva de genul bitmessage de pe un computer cu un linux pe el. Asa stii o treaba...

Problema este in felul urmator: logic ar fi sa nu te intrebe. Dar logica omului normal si logica statului poate sa difere substantial.

Azi a aprut pe forum o foaie foarte interesanta, chiar daca este relevanta pentru UK, nu Romania. Dupa cum poti sa citesti (in engleza, dar na..) statul (britanic) este de parere ca daca "scapi de" crypto trebuie sa platesti taxe. Iar sa "scapi de" crypto inseamna:

* vandut pentru fiat
* schimb crypto vs crypto
* folosit crypto pentru a cumpar bunuri/servicii.

...adica au acoperit tot, mai putin "accidentele de la pescuit" (boating accident)

The Fittipaldi / Pourchaire crash was in F2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0ktCEw9CUQ
Mazepin has crashed into Russell in F1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKlsx5StbBg
They're different crashes in different races, although in the same week-end and same track. Please don't confuse them.

He was most probably implying that he just writes down the private key or seed onto paper. Pen and paper are not software and can be seen as hardware.
I'd guess that he either doesn't understand what hardware wallet means, either wanted to play "I am smart and funny". Or both.

1. USDT is issued by a private company. I understand that you trust them. I don't. Can you prove me wrong? With proof?
2. Tether didn't manage to prove beyond doubt that they have proper backing for all the USDT they've issued. And I'm being overly nice in the way of telling this.

Flash is a huge security problem. Mixing browser for flash with bitcoin wallet may easily become a ticking bomb.
I understand that you want to offer convenience, but I don't think that this is a safe direction.

If a wallet was created by a good software (without errors, without in-built vulnerabilities like making the addresses by a rule the programmer can also easily obtain the private keys for those wallets) and, generated offline and that device/private key will never go online, then yes, they're safe.

However:
* different unrelated questions should go to different topics, else mix-up between answers can happen
* you should ask in more words - more clearly - your questions, else you may get very generic answers you may not find really useful

Yes, but not necessarily because there would not be enough good topics to discuss, more like some prefer non-topics and some prefer easy posts for a quick buck.
As somebody said, many things come out over and over again just because people prefer to ask again than search.

But new things come out.
People still have genuine problems.
The community keeps growing and some need personalized guidance (or just don't know how to search). Of course, newcomers are also prone to shitposts.
New tools are being created; people will discuss them, people will need help with them.

There will be good topics here, there will be shitposts here. There will be more people reporting 0-value posts too, or at least I hope so.


PS. OP, please consider moving this topic to Meta.

I think that the most honest answer is: Nobody knows.

- Since one can make a wallet anonymously,
- Since one wallet can have any number of addresses,
- Since one can have wallet without ever putting money on it,
- Since one can have as many wallets as he wants,

I would not count on the accuracy of any numbers (guesses/estimations) people would give.


You can easily find out how many addresses have funds.
One can find out how many addresses ever had coins on them.
But this is not the number of people.

Telling here and there you own 100BTC would probably just be enough.
Sooner or later somebody may come after you with the 5$ wrench and you will give him the seed sooner or later.
Keeping your mouth shut is a must as soon as you have a meaningful amount of BTC. That's no longer wallet related.

I am not familiar with Metamask, but after finding out how you've got hacked and clean up the system if needed, you should consider the old wallet compromised and create a new clean wallet.
And I keep preaching it: consider buying a hardware wallet.

After cleaning up your computer, you should install uBlock Origin and WoT (or better). uBlock Origin will hide the ads, WoT may mark the suspicious websites in.. anything else than green hence signaling you for caution and double checking the link.

The browser can download malware, but it may need you click an OK, at least that's how it was many years ago.

Keep in mind that it's enough you have a browser/clipboard virus altering the recipient's address when you want to send (or receive) coins and getting you this way send the money to hacker's address.

Depending on what password manager you have and whether it's encrypted or not, third party may get (or not) access to the whole content of the password manager data, including the seed. Since you are obviously not good on handling your seed, why don't you just buy a cheaper hardware wallet?

In order to check whether your computer is infected, my recommended way is a bootable antivirus CD/DVD you can download from known antivirus companies. Download, burn, boot from it, update signatures database if needed, spend half a day and disinfect. You can pick your favorite from this list: https://www.techradar.com/best/best-antivirus-rescue-disk
It's the best method I know, but I don't claim it to be perfect.

It can be seen in many ways really. Even the early CPU miners have spent electricity for mining... of course, compared with today price, that's nothing. Still.. they have invested.
As the others said, trading, working for crypto... are all investments. Although I've bought bitcoin at some point, most of my coins came from earning them - bounties, signatures, translations...
Even claiming from faucets can mean a huge lot of time.

I see only two categories of people who didn't invest for the coins:
* people who earned them at free raffles/contests
* people who have received coins as gift

And I don't think that those have much of an interesting story to tell... I can pretty surely say that most of those are far from "early adopters".


Oh, on a second thought, there may be one category of early adopters who didn't invest into bitcoin: people who have claimed from the very early faucets and did HODL since. Good luck finding one of those though.

I think it won't be 3 GP old, only 2 GP old. From what I know he used an older engine at Jeddah, hence the new engine has been used only at Sao Paulo and Qatar.
I fear the worse in the next race, really. I can't wait for 2022 though.

Have you withdrawn anything into your own wallet?
If not, keep in mind that anybody can show some numbers, but those don't necessarily mean that you'll ever withdraw (i.e. obtain) anything.

I know that's not the original cable, but I prefer this shorter one which I usually don't unplug from the Nano S.

I've bought this Nano S in 2019 and the reason was to do tests with it, mostly, since if need be I can setup a cold storage.
Now I'm too much used to its convenience, although I don't use it that much. (So yep, it still works good).

Why Nano S? Seemed to do more than Trezor One (more altcoins, although not in the same time, clearly) and similar (maybe even slightly smaller price). And I've also preferred the USB-like design.
The ugly color was chosen to stand out from my too many USB sticks


I was very angry on Ledger because of the sloppy way they've handled the data leak from their shop, and I still am, but from what I know only my e-mail has leaked, so I consider myself lucky with that.

Indeed, however if one use it for something productive, he can already make the step of buying a "second hand" license at under 10$, which are more and more popular now.
And the rest can just simply use it with watermark.


Indeed, it's 365.
And that's my point: far too many people don't know about these free options. They are not advertised, since usually nobody pays for advertising a product that doesn't earn money, and far too many end up with malware just because they've assumed that the OS/programs they need cannot be used for free.

Yes, that's what I mean.
And indeed, if you don't pay for Win10 you cannot change desktop image and you have the bottom-right watermark. I don't find that a big deal, I've used Win10 for some 2 years like that on a less-used machine.
It was back then not that annoying.

And for Office, if one is keen to use MS Office (instead of Libre Office, for example), he can use it in-browser, with a free MS account.

Am citit si eu acel feedback de la Vod si nu mi se pare meritat. Adica omul a afisat mare si clar conditiile pentru "afacere". Nu a dat teapa sau ceva, nu a furat sau ceva.
In plus, are si feedback pozitiv de la altii.
Desi Vod a fost super tare la trust ratings, a dat si unele rateuri. Om e si el...
Si da, ma inscrisesem.


Da, am vazut. Dar:
1. Nu am primit niciun e-mail
2. Cred ca acea parte din form este asa din cauza ca initial (vezi prima postare) a vrut sa ceara macar bani pentru posta; si chiar si acum s-ar putea sa ceara in caz ca adresa nu e din EU/UK.

Ne bucuram mult ca am putut sa ajutam un pic. Meritul cel mai mare este al lui GazetaBitcoin, ca practic el a organizat totul.
E tot meritul lui ca a reusit sa faca tot ce trebuie in asa fel incat sa ne si incadram de Mos Nicolae.
Multumim de feedback!


LOL! Vorba lui Cezar: https://youtu.be/HRTj9YS0S9I