While it doesn't meet the escrow part, did you check for new miners at bitshopper.de ?
I know that at least the Sidehack/GekkoScience products are sold in EU there.

The answer is "far too few".
I think that people somehow think of it as difficult and overly technical and they're afraid to read it. I think that some may also think it's long. And yeah, people are lazy, me included.
I've got to actually read the whitepaper only at the point I was asked to proofread the translation of it. So, a bit late, but I've read it.


Indeed, Happy Birthday and a big Thank you!

I've had some weeks the app disconnected every couple of days and had to re-login, but actually lately it seems to have stabilized again (I don't know though if it's after the last update or it's because I've bought a better WiFi router).

OP - I am not sure if you'll be able to prove it was Binance's fault. And they can easily claim that it was some automatic feature for your own security. Or maybe your app has been updated (do you have automatic updates on?)
If you want to do this kind of operations where you have to be there continuously, you should consider doing that from a PC/laptop.

Indeed. I guess that it was made up by people who don't know what it is and it is also targeting the people who don't know what's all about. Typical buzz words.


In the past these exchanges weren't existing, so it's not a good comparison. But even nowadays, in the ICO era, there were "coins" that could be acquired only from their own website. So dumping onto plebs is still possible.
But my initial point was that those buzz words were used in order to make things look advanced and complicated to be implemented so they can eat up investors' initial funds. I mean that with 5.1M funds at hand, they don't even need to dump tokens, they're are already set.

I'm glad it worked out for you on Ubuntu and very nice of you to spend some time and prepare this walk-trough.
And thanks for the link back too



I would avoid paths where your own home directory is written. I don't know if it would work, but I would give it a shot with something like

Tokens were existing - in a way or another - even before blockchain.
And they can be issued and used easily even with a normal DB.
Of course, they become suddenly top technology if blockchain buzz word is used

No. Not for memorizing. It's the modern way to write down your "keys" (especially because common English words are less prone to error than "random" strings)
Memorizing such things are not advised, since accidents and strokes are far too common. Of course, you are free to do what you want with your own money...

If you have withdrawn to an unused address, it may be that the other 2 BTC is not linked to you.
But if you use a SPV (e.g. Electrum) or Ledger Live, they will know that it's all yours. And from this point it depends whether the Electrum server owner or Ledger reports this or not to a chain analysis company.


You had 2 BTC at another address, so in theory that other address will be used here, as said, possibly with no relation to the 1 BTC from Coinbase.
Also.. "outsiders"? Chain analysis companies are, by far, not outsiders.


Here all I see is somebody over complicate things for himself. I am not convinced it'll help to lose track, especially if they look specifically for you.


At this point it doesn't matter what they can find out from blockchain. They can ask Binance nicely, can't they?


I would not exclude that. And I think that if you'll keep all those tokens in Ledger live they don't even have to search too much.
Also, as I said, the resulted money may very well not come from your 1 BTC. Your example would be more appropriate if you had at home only another less-than-1.5 BTC.

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My conclusion is that you just made your life overly complicated and won't help you much because of the use of various checkpoints that can be used for analysis. If you want to get rid of those, you better switch to local full wallets. Also if you avoid mixers and privacy coins the link is not completely broken and since the analysis companies also work with probabilities, if you do this kind of "mixing" multiple times, I expect that they'll find the missing links for the trace. But maybe I'm overly paranoid too.

Trebuie si ca pretul sa fie relativ stabil, in sensul ca cel putin cu monezile aflate foarte la inceput am vazut cazuri ca din momentul cand incepi sa minezi pana cand ai ce vinde pretul a ajuns sa nu mai acopere curentul.

The first thing that comes into my mind is that your transaction is never confirmed.
This means that

• either your fee is too low and miners avoid it
• either nobody mines that coin

You should give more details on that coin / what you have there.

Poate... chiar nu mai stiu...


Nu m-ar mira ca Netopia (X) sa foloseasca la randul ei serviciile unei firme terte, din strainatate, de undeva unde treaba asta e reglementata. Si de fapt Netopia (X) chiar nu are crypto in contabilitate. Asa s-ar explica si de ce era asa scumpa conversia, cel putin ultima data cand am cumparat eu cu crypto prin ei.

It would be nice if you'd start by learning what custodial wallet means.
Hint 1: it's not about downloading blockchain or not (actually if you use custodial you never have to download the blockchain)
Hint 2: Bitcoin Core is not custodial

You somehow seem to not understand that when somebody "convert bitcoin into fiat" doesn't burn that bitcoin, instead it ends up in the wallet of somebody else who have paid the right fiat amount for it.
So if Jack's wallet is empty, it only means that Peter now has some more bitcoins. And it's not detrimental, it's actually the reason Bitcoin was invented.

Also you didn't read. For now there are 18.8M bitcoins mined. There will have to pass many years until all 21M bitcoins will be mined. Also because some people have died or made mistakes, some bitcoins are lost forever hence not in circulation.

Indeed, he should spend the funds better, instead of spending on "what he likes". For example building more power plants so the country doesn't have to buy from the neighbors would have been a better choice. Your list is also great.
On the other hand, if he wouldn't have been going by "what he likes", Bitcoin may have not been there either (not yet).

While I won't rule out any possibility, according to his story the mining part has happened before the 3k price. How long before, nobody can tell.
But since he doesn't tell anything about how many bitcoins could be in his wallet, I don't know if he had any.
The "somebody who bought a wallet.dat" doesn't seem that much likely though since he was trying to monetize... old blocks...

For now I tend to believe that this person has no idea what's all this about. Whether he has done anything meaningful or not in the past, whether he has coins that can be recovered or not, those are unclear details. For now I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. I don't like to call people scammer without proof.

I also couldn't install that library on Ubuntu in my tests. You can see me complaining here, it was the "smaller" problem I had.
The good news is that you can go without that lib, just then instead of dynamic linking (see the lines in my initial post)


you have to go with static linking


and you get error here too, you may have to set


and retry with


Source/details: https://github.com/romanz/electrs/blob/master/doc/install.md#static-linking

Actually that's not possible, unless the red is strictly because of their campaign. I guess that you've missed this post.

Not necessarily. Far too many are preaching/expecting 100k mark getting passed this year. Many are telling that another exponential growth phase is just about to begin. I don't know if they're right (I wish they are), but then x2 should be easy-peasy.

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I find it interesting that we've just got a reversed Bart Simpson, which I think it tells that the drop was kinda fake-manipulated. At least for that area.

I've picked some rather recent topics I find relevant for this subject:

Fees and conversion rates: Helping Businesses Take Crypto Payments. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Security and privacy: Why KYC is extremely dangerous – and useless and Privacy vs. anonymity
Spending the coins: Shall We Hold Our Bitcoin Like Gollum? or Best thing you bought with Bitcoin? ... here there's no "best" since this topic pops up every now and then, especially in Bitcoin Discussion, maybe Beginners and Help too.

If you compare with the current "market" for signature campaigns, you'll see that many offer less than that, fixed, per week: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615953.0
Then, as said, "low" depends (too) much on the user's home country.

But I do agree, however: it is "damn low" if you take into account that you'll ruin a not-bad-at-all account's future for 100$/week in a campaign that surely won't be here for ever (i.e. long enough).
And I'll come back to my original "hunch": it also depends on how much these accounts costed, since I am not convinced that it's the original owners who apply there.