If you have this kind of questions, my answer is: please really consider buying a hardware wallet before doing any move.  It has a big chance to protect you from your mistakes.


And as said, the address is OK to go online. The private key should not go online, should not be checked online, should not be stored in email or Dropbox.
Take some time, ask before each and every step and you'll be OK. You did very good to start by asking on this forum. You can't imagine how much money was stolen/lost because of simple mistakes.

I don't follow much neither XRP, nor USDT, so I'm not sure I got what you meant.
But the fact people keep so much wealth locked especially in USDT doesn't make that right (I would clearly not do that) and while a government can seize funds for "legal reasons", most probably Tether will not do that.

His "models" are very precise (/s). I call them "numbers out of the belly".
The accuracy is very well shown by his other post:


Now, I just don't take him serious. But unfortunately some do. Some others tag him for trolling; it's clearly deserved too.

There are plenty of altcoins claiming to have fast and very fast block times. You can ask in altcoin discussion.
Just keep in mind that:
* some of those may not have actual blockchain at all
* some of those may not be decentralized at all
* the exchanges usually just ask for a much higher number of confirmations for such transactions, hence you don't save any time
* it's not advised to accept those coins without a "healthy" number of confirmations

If you want solo/lotto mining I will suggest a solo pool. You can read more here: http://www.kano.is/index.php?k=soloinfo
But yeah, still a pool hence I may be off topic. If so, please PM me and I'll delete this.

While you are correct, people will most probably keep holding and using bitcoin, since it's more popular and brings higher returns. Also most don't know that bitcoin is not anonymous.
Also way too many of those who know that bitcoin is not anonymous still think that "they have nothing to hide", not gasping the huge importance of anonymity. I hope that people will open their eyes before it's too late.

Litecoin doesn't have Mimblewimble yet; Grin is not known good enough; Monero is not accepted by some of the exchanges...neither of the options would go main stream too quick; still one has also the option of mixing his bitcoin an option you forgot to mention.

I don't think that any of them have even dreamed how big a success will bitcoin become.
It's the only explanation that would make sens in my head. (It would also explain why so many early coins are most probably lost forever.)

Dot com domains are to be used by private companies. Satoshi and the early team were educated enough to know that and use the more correct .org domains.
Of course that now, various... "people"... made the corresponding .com domains, to profit from the popularity of the original or to simply scam.
I wish he (and the early ones) wouldn't have underestimated the human wickedness and would have bought the .com domains too, at least to redirect to the correct ones.
But no, those .com domains (bitcoin, bitcointalk) are not related to Satoshi.


You can always try to look at the web archive, for example https://web.archive.org/web/20091219013549/http://bitcointalk.org/
It won't work perfectly, it won't have all the pages you'd like, but it's.. something...

Actually... we're all Satoshi Nakamoto. Except you-know-who
But yeah, OP is.. just another Satoshi wannabe.



Excuse me, did you try to say something, ask something, or just advertise yourself as Satoshi? I'm asking because you didn't say anything new, you just re-composed (quite badly) the conclusions of some other discussions.

I know that foreign currencies are now banned in Afghanistan, but I don't think that Bitcoin is considered part of them since it's not issued by a central bank. On the other hand, it may be just "bad wording" there since the goal is that Afghan people use only their local currency.


Now, with the ban, there might very well be that one may not be able to send or receive fiat from any known/international exchange...
And it looks like TradeOgre works with USDT and xUSD, hence stable coins, not fiat. Getting that fiat in Afghanistan is the real challenge...

The impact is not that big, since only the UK VISA credit cards are affected. Still unpleasant and some customers may just buy from elsewhere.

I've found an alternate link here: https://fortune.com/2021/11/17/amazon-blocks-uk-visa-credit-card-payments-fee-dispute/
Some interesting numbers:




It's interesting that Amazon didn't do the same with MasterCard, although I see they have the same "problem".
Or maybe they just try to force them to lower the fees - one by one.

Be very careful on how you present the information to your friend. Make it 100% clear that it's his choice whether he invests or not. Make it 100% clear that Bitcoin price can rise and fall. Also, if he indeed wants to invest, present him information about how to keep his coins safe (the wallet, which can be even hardware wallet, and the backup too).

The problem is that even with a court order you may not find out much.
I mean that since these problems occur pretty rarely, it's clearly not something the business does it, hence in the "best case" it's a developer that will do this for short time, remove his traces and move on.
The "worse case" for you, the case that will be blamed officially is the user being sloppy, not taking care of his seed/keys (like storing in mail or cloud), clicking into phishing, or having malware on his computer.

...I honestly can't see any way you would have the tiniest chance to win this... (and I'm clearly not their supporter either). 

Although I see many rising their hopes vs bitcoin acceptance, unfortunately I don't think that's the case.

As somebody already said, it's pure business here. Both sides are flexing their muscles in order to get "a bit more". Of course, I expect that at some point soon they'll both agree to a middle point, since with the current state both sides will probably lose some money.

But that's all: business. No relation with bitcoin. They don't care about crypo. If they would care, they would have been simply buying it.

Do you realize that if you hold such a currency the authorities can automatically withdraw or seize your coins in your wallet?
Do you realize that the authorities can make mistakes or abuses and this can become even a tool against their opponents?
Now think again: is it a good decision or not?

Exactly. @DaveF: everyone here is somewhat right. The problem is not if we need such a feature, we don't. The problem is that here - especially in Dev & Tech - you have the wrong audience for such a question.

I would only add that imho the market needs badly a wallet for newbies, packed with a lot of (optional) features like this (whether we find them useless or useful), with a lot of explanations and fences so the user cannot "hurt himself" while he is learning his way into using bitcoin. If such a SPV wallet is not implemented soon enough the "ultimate" newbie friendly wallet will most probably be a custodial one.

I don't see how can you prove those "dishonest companies" guilty. And if you can't you won't really have a case.
Those naive people most probable clicked into phishing sites and gave their credentials to malicious third party.
I don't say that the businesses are not necessarily guilty, but why would they risk stealing if they do earn money anyway? Again, you only have a case only if you can prove them guilty.

The signs for this were there in another topic, less than one month ago. The original was removed because the topic creator was banned. Here's the topic, but it's not a pleasure to read.
Nobody from here seem to have been acting since then on that matter. Unfortunately more people read wiki than Bitcoin wiki...


Actually most take Wiki as granted. Hence that page has quite a potential to hurt.

Another idea could be to start from the posts made in 2019 and continue from there: https://ninjastic.space/search?before_date=2010-01-01T01%3A00%3A01
Ninjastic.space allows you search between dates, but the result is ordered by post date descending, hence not nice to read exactly there, but it's a start.

Then for the trading account - and only for that - you may have a case. But I know of complains about the funds missing from the wallet, not from the trading account.