Thats not true at all. 1st Bitcoin is not anonymous, its pseudonymous.
And 2nd you are not fully Anonymous on the deep Web. You are not even Close to be Anonymous on Tor.
Investigation Bureaus have Tools/strategies to trace Users.
The best you can do is to try to hide/remove almost all traces you leave.

This depends on how much your time is worth to you. If you achieve a collecting rate of BTC's which is better than your average salary, then go for collecting/grinding coins.
But if you won't gather enough coins per hour it would be advisable to rather work offline and convert your earned Money to BTC.
Until now noone "lost bis Money" because of buying/Holding BTC's. But there also was no Crash yet.

This smells fishy miles away.
Please, first explain what you are trying to share with this innovative promotion.
Then, since you are a junior, escrow the funds.


I would not touch this file. Easiest form of malware distribution!
You either infect your PC or help him succeed in finding other victims.

But, of course, if you just try to spread some open source software then go ahead. But pls at least calculate hash sums and prove its integrity.

Of course there are people who got millionairs/billionairs through Bitcoin only.
In the early days of BTC those coins were worth almost nothing. Early adopters who invested ~100$ (and still own those coins!!!, There are also a Lot of ppl who could have been millionairs but they Sold their btc) are insanely Rich by now.

I don't see any altcoin to be able to surpass Bitcoin in short term. This is due to the fact that BTC has been here for a very long time as the first crypto.
One exception, of course, would be if something unexpected would happen.
Even if it would surpass BTC i would still hold/keep coins.
Im not saying i wouldn't also Invest in the surpassing coin.

I think the only thing which can destroy Bitcoin within a few hours is the loss of trust into Bitcoin because of any reason.
Doesn't matter if Regulations, Bans, New Cryptocoins or forks.. this shouldn't kill bitcoin.
But losing trust because of some security issues could make the value fall extremely fast.

About 5 months ago Customer had ordered an AMD Ryzen 7 CPU but instead they recieved an Intel Celeron.
Seller were swapping out those CPU, resealing, sending to retailer. This, of course, got revealed. But swapping HW Wallets with modified ones wouln't be detected that fast.

IMO the best way is to buy them directly from the manufacturer.

A programmer should not only be able to code some stuff, he should understand what he is doing.
You need a programmer who has experience in designing blockchain-applications.
On top of that you need a programmer who understands what "Security by Design" means. Not just a self-taught wannabe coder.
There is a lot of stuff going on in the web. Standing still in this business is regression.
You should rather pay a good fee to a good programmer if you want to have a good product in the end.

A lot of people (including me) are holding bitcoin because of 1 very good reason: We are pretty sure it will increase in price in long-term.
It might fall a few times, but im sure in the end it will recover and be a good profit.
Since it's supply is limited and the world is performing a change in technological/financial thinking the Blockchain technology will get accepted and more and more people
will get interested in Bitcoin which leads to a far higher Demand of Bitcoin than the Supply.
In the end, we probably have to "cut" Bitcoin by adding a few decimals and going 1/10 or 1/100 of a Satoshi.

For me it is pretty unlikely to have Bitcoin banned in most of the countries. If several governments decide to ban the use/ownership/... of bitcoin (they can not ban Bitcoin as "technology")
we will have to follow their laws and are pretty helpless. Governments already showed us they "do whatever they want". It's hard to look ahead into the future.
But i still believe there are far bigger problems governments are/should focusing on. And Bitcoin will stay Bitcoin.

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There are already Tons of altcoins on the Market. If your coin is mostly copy/Paste from another coin its pretty senseless to bring it Out.
98%+ are useless and nothing Worth.
You need to fullfill a Lot of consumers wishes with your coin to make t widely accepted.

An address is a visualization of a Public Key.
Each Public Key has ONE correspondending private key ("which holds the BTC").
Your Wallet generates Public/private key pairs.
If you have 0.1 btc on 1 address and 0.2 on another.. then your Wallet shows Balance of 0.3 BTC.
On Block Explorer you can search for addresses...
So 1 will Show 0.1 and the other 0.2 BTC.

Light wallets are wallets which don't require the full blockchain on the PC.
Those wallets sync your addresses via online Services.
There are a Lot of light wallets on the Market.
One would be Electrum for example.

To Send such a small amount you have either to use an altcoin as already mentioned (to not pay more tx fee than value of the tx).
Or you can use some kind of a Web Wallet which allows small Transaction within own Network without paying fees. This would require you and the reciever of your transaction
to be registered in such a Service. Blockchain.info offers a web wallet, but im not sure of how transaction inside of the blockchain.info network are handled.

Bitcoin will still b here in 10 years.
The Simple reason Bitcoin Core is not making 100 changes is because its just not necessary.
Bitcoin never was intended to be Anonymous.
A ledger with Pseudonym is what Bitcoin needs.
Same reason for not changing mining Algorithm.
It would be senseless. Look at the beautiful coins which dd "everything better than BTC".
They Stück at around 200-300$. Compared to BTC thats pretty low..

Its important to know where you made your purchase. Was it on this forum? Online shop? Deep web? Someone you chatted with on skype?
If you can't contact support you probably lost your BTC's.. but you can do start investigations. If you can find out who this person is you can take legal actions.

Fork will be at Block 494,784. This will probably be in 3,5 weeks.
I guess the most important Point is to not leave coins on any exchanges/online wallets.
And to move funds to another address.. to be prepared against replay-attacks

Not a big difference to the green paper with numbers on it which you love so much.
Value is directed by supply and demand. And BTC is definetly not just random numbers on the Internet

Depending on your Wallet this can take some time.
If you are sure you sent the right address, check your address with a blockexplorer (e.g. Blockchain.info).

Ask your sender if he did send you BTC or BCC/BCH.
And ask for the Transaction ID. You can then check the Transaction on a blockexplorer to See where BTC's have been send from/to.