Would anyone who has ever read posts from Satoshi on this forum or private correspondence with any of the developers really think that CW is the real Satoshi even if he signed a message from any BTC address believed to belong to Satoshi? At some point, we have to accept that it may happen that someone will come into possession of the private keys of those addresses, which means that even a signed message cannot mean that someone is the original owner.

According to everything we know about Satoshi and CW, they are two completely different people in every sense. CW is nowhere near intelligent enough to play the role of Satoshi, and he shows that every day with his forged evidence - would someone who invented Bitcoin be so incompetent that he couldn't forge a single document in a way that leaves even the slightest doubt of authenticity?

@NotATether, when I saw this first device on the list, I remembered that I saw that one of the forum members offered it for sale a few months ago, and I was curious and checked what exactly it was about. It seems that this Flipper is a very interesting and powerful device with which you can do all kinds of "naughty" things.

It seems that in addition to the usual threats from the internet, we will also have to pay attention to all these "solid" threats, especially if we use our devices outside the home environment.

If you think that CEXs obey the law down to the smallest detail, then you are living in a big delusion, because they not only close their eyes and turn their heads to the other side whenever possible, but also help users to become legal in their system in an illegal way. The CEX you mention is one of those that owes its success precisely to its work on the edge of the law, or better said in the gray zone, which is why they are banned from working in many countries.

But even if by some miracle he gets a verdict that he is the real Satoshi with all these falsified evidence, how can he "hijack bitcoin" and take what he thinks belongs to him? From some recent discussions, something was written about the fact that he will ask the developers to make a hard fork, although it is crazy to expect that any of them would ever agree to such idiocy.

In addition, those addresses where he claims that "his coins" are located are obviously not in his possession, as we had the opportunity to see when someone signed a message from exactly those addresses. It always seemed to me that the real Satoshi was the one who signed those messages, given that they are coins that were mined during 2009. I'm really interested in whether this will be discussed at the trial, and if it is, I would definitely like to read about it.

If we talk about the very beginnings, then it should be noted that at that time there were no BTC wallets with seed and that Electrum appeared only at the end of 2011, and it seems to me that wallets with seed did not exist before that.

As for those who are at least publicly known, some are looking for their HDD with thousands of BTC in the garbage dump, others claim that they hid them in fishing rods that ended up in the garbage dump again. In those early days, few people could have predicted that Bitcoin would actually succeed in becoming what it is today.

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The internet was already quite widespread then, at least here in Europe, where I already had ADSL sometime in 2004/05, and dial-up for years before that. Although quality equipment was quite expensive then, because for one LCD monitor that I bought then, today you can buy a solid 100+ cm smart TV or a laptop. I have to admit that I only heard about Bitcoin sometime in 2011, but then it didn't seem like something interesting to me.

Faketoshi will not give up as long as he lives because he has convinced himself that what he claims is the truth. Even in the event that the court, based on the evidence, undoubtedly decides that he is lying, I have no doubt that Faketoshi and his sponsors will find another country and some new court in front of which they will again try to present their lies.

Considering his age, he still has a relatively long time ahead of him, unless something bad happens to him, and considering that he has allegedly already tried to kill himself, maybe he will try again - although it is probably another in a series of lies, because cowards like him they don't have the courage for such a thing.

I would recommend him to move to Colombia, because there they recognize him as Satoshi Nakamoto, but everything can be bought there, including a false identity.

I also think that version looks better, although someone may like the other version as well. Will we be able to choose one of the avatars or will we all have one chosen?

Although the OP asked an interesting question, it is also very interesting to me that during the first 4 years as much as 50% of all Bitcoins were mined, and of that as much as 2.625 million in the first year.

Therefore, we can conclude that the first users were really privileged in some way, because not only could they mine with their personal computers, but they also had the opportunity to mine blocks with the highest rewards. It was, without any doubt, perhaps the most interesting time in the short history of Bitcoin, and the most fruitful period in someone's life if by any chance he saved the mined BTC for the future.

It sounds a bit insensitive and harsh, but sometimes people learn best from their own mistakes. These mistakes are sometimes very expensive and difficult to deal with, especially if it involves money such as life savings and money needed for basic life needs. People should learn that the internet is a very dangerous place full of people with very bad intentions who use every possible platform to get close to their victims.

They have their clients' money that they can't just throw around - and all those trillions of $ they manage were never meant to end up in Bitcoin as some imagined. Especially not in BTC mining, which will become less and less profitable, considering that after the next halving, only about 450 BTC will be mined per day, which is literally just dust compared to the 19.6 million BTC that are already in circulation.

In addition, in less than 10 years, 99% of all coins will be mined, and I believe that even before that, many miners will move to some new, more profitable projects.

I don't know what kind of bull market you're talking about, but I don't see anything like that happening - compared to the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022, the Bitcoin price only recovered, and only when we move towards the new ATH can we say that the real bull market has started. That never happened before the halving, and I believe it won't happen this time either.


Your neighbor and all other "neighbors" should not do things they obviously have no idea about. I don't know what your neighbor's parents taught him when he was little, but my parents taught me not to talk to strangers. What people do online is completely incomprehensible to me, as if they don't have a grain of common sense in their heads.

The matter is clear without any explanation that you are getting into, because who would legitimately ask for a deposit for the verification procedure? You want to appear smart, but in fact you show that you are not capable of writing a meaningful answer even when you prepare it in advance.

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@DdmrDdmr, in case you missed it, it would be good to know who exactly you are giving merits to ->

@Cantsay - possible abuse of merits + alt accounts

@Pi-network314159, since you call that wallet "electron", is it possible that instead of Electrum you actually downloaded a wallet for BitcoinCash? Regardless of what you have done, if the wallet cannot be synchronized, it is possible that you are connecting to a bad server or that something on your computer is blocking the connection to that program.

Check your antivirus program and firewall if you have them.

There are no official or unofficial rules regarding the use of artificial intelligence on the forum, and this is definitely something that the administration should seriously deal with so that finally even those who seek justifications for using it in an unethical way know what awaits them if they want to go in that direction.


If it helps you understand some things in a faster and simpler way, that's fine for me personally. The problem is those people who use AI to create some content and then present it as their own - and I'm one of those who don't want to interact with robots on this forum.


I've never used a single AI bot and I don't miss it at all in my life, which means that it can be completely avoided - unless you're under the influence of the mainstream media, which tells you every day that it's something completely normal and inevitable. Comparing AI ChatGPT and Bitcoin really makes no sense...

I guess most people haven't discovered adblockers yet, so they still allow Google to bombard them with ads at the top of the search, which very often results in scammers positioning their malicious links exactly where they will be most effective. Those who value their security will not even see such ads, but that does not mean that they will miss something, considering that spot ETFs have been the main news that has been speculated about for years.

In addition, the average American will find out about this option sooner by watching their local TV programs devoted to business news and news in general. Therefore, I do not see that this way of advertising can be some kind of extra trigger for investors.

The link does not say anything about the defendants having to return the money (or all the money) that they acquired illegally, but that does not mean that everything that was found was not taken from them. Considering that they have been doing this for years, they can refer to the fact that they have already spent part of the money, and if they were at all smart, each of them hid part of the money that they will be able to spend when they get out of prison.

In the end, the world is big and there are still countries where people can lie low and enjoy themselves far outside the radar of the US authorities.

Even though about 900 BTC will be mined per day, and in a few months it will be only 450 BTC, it actually means almost nothing in the big picture. Miners sell only what they need to cover costs, and even if they sell everything they mine (27 000 BTC) per month on the market, it would not play a big role considering that we have at least 2+ million BTC on the market which are for sale.

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Although Yugoslavia has not officially existed since 1991, what they are unofficially dealing with today in Brussels is the so-called Euroslavia project, which should include all the former republics of Yugoslavia. So far, Slovenia and Croatia have joined the EU, and all other former republics are in negotiations with Brussels. Unfortunately, they do not know that all these nations have never been and will never be able to be together, and each of their separations was ended by war, and I have no doubt that it will be different in the future.

I myself have some doubts about ref links in posts, especially in Gambling boards, because I saw that some members of the forum do exactly what is prohibited by the rules of the forum. In this topic, the global mod explained his position, but in the end it all boils down to the personal opinion of the moderator in the specific case.

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I didn't know that newbies can't even have a personal text, but I guess that everyone can make a little effort and become a Jr.Member in a very short time.

@chartsqa, if you mean referral links, then they are prohibited in posts (except in some exceptions), but you can put such links in your signature as well as in the Website URL and as Personal Text, which you can find by clicking on Profile -> Forum Profile Information.

On that link, I only see a page without any content with the message "Website kryptomix.io is ready. The content is to be added" and no redirection to other pages. On some other browsers, a warning appears about a potentially dangerous page that has been blocked, which means that the reports on Google Safebrowsing were successful.

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I don't think there has been an increase in phishing links, because even before mixers were one of the most frequent targets of scammers. A method of protection against ads that are displayed by Google as top search results is just one good ad blocker like uBlock Origin - free and easy.