There's no perfect wallet that combines a bit of privacy with being fast to use (SPV) and cross-platform (for example, Electrum, while it's great on PC, it doesn't work with HW on mobile).


Electrum for desktop. UI good enough, all the important features are there, pretty much trustworthy, and yeah, habit too.


We seem to lack wallets friendly with complete newbies. This is something I think that's missing badly. Some people need more than the functionalities made simpler, they also need everything explained, they need to be told where to be careful (for example to double check recipient wallet before sending), maybe wilth the hints being optional (easy to deactivate while the user starts learning his way).

I would love to see Electrum for Android also work with HW.

I would love to see in Electrum more privacy-oriented implementation (there were proposals so the logging/tracing of users' addresses would be a bit more difficult), maybe even allow Electrum also call Bitcoin core directly (provided that tx index is 1, obviously)?

I would love to see a very good Electrum server and block explorer solution well done and configurable for Windows. Most of the current solutions are done for Linux, most have each and everyone of them its own data (so one may end up with Bitcoin core indexes, Electrum server DB and also block explorer's DB).

Salut. Din pacate pe partea romaneasca nu prea este suficienta activitate (persoane active), si nu stiu daca vei gasi pe aici pe cineva care sa aiba suficienta experienta pentru problema ta.
Sfatul meu este sa intrebi pe partea internationala a forumului. Daca nu te descurci cu engleza, incearca traducere automata (cel putin translate.google.ro).
Incearca in Mining (Altcoins).

Bafta!

Schemele sunt, intr-adevar, intr-un fel asemanatoare.
Ala de la fotbal practic nu a facut o schema, ci a mazgalit pe aceeasi tabla si a explicat 1001 de lucruri si variante.
Iar TA-ul afisat este o suprapunere intre 1001 de scheme si variante.


Desi nu sunt nici macar pe departe fan fotbal (mai ales romanesc), am avut rabdare sa ascult cam jumate din clip si.. avea sens; chiar mai mult sens decat declaratiile pe care le faceau Hagi sau Gica Popescu dupa meciuri pe vremea cand ma interesa cat de cat fotbalul  


Nu ma mir, dar nici nu as veni cu "v-am zis eu", ca poate, la fel de aleator, sa mai urce si sa mai coboare din nou. Si tot asa. Si atunci devine un fel de lupta sterila. Acel "v-am zis eu" are nevoie de mult mai mult timp ca sa chiar aiba sens/sa fie definitiv.

I don't know, this guy landed in my ignore list waaaay quicker than g-p. But maybe I no longer have the same patience...?

I don't know how relevant it is for you, since it's another country here, but most of the few times I've bought for bitcoin the merchant used a local payment processor (Netopia) and I've paid 8-10% over the preev price.
I paid once via BitPay too, but so long ago I don't remember if I had to put my details (I think I didn't have to back then).

While unfortunately this doesn't help the ecosystem, if I have to put my details anyway there, sorry, but I find Bitcoin cards cheaper and more handy (yeah, some may start throwing stones on me now..)

If you would read more before posting trolling, you would know that Chimpixer is for free, no commission involved, only donations.
I wanted to continue with "So you were saying what?", but no, I won't, since your answer doesn't matter to me. Trolls are trolls and should not be fed.

Perfect! Thank you!


I can reproduce the mentioned issue (easiest visible at current price) on Chrome and Edge too (also Chromium).
And as fix I suggest the good old CTRL-F5. It works.

I've installed not long ago Electrs (Electrum server in Rust) and last week-end I also installed a block explorer called BTC RPC Explorer, both under WSL (windows subsystem for linux) where I've put a Debian (because I had issues with Ubuntu accessing Windows HDDs - I don't know if it was because of Ubuntu or myself).

It needs Node.js and Bitcoin core. If you want more features, an electrum server helps. If you don't want fiat prices for the bitcoins in transactions, I think that it doesn't use anything external, but you or others may have to check/ensure that.

I still use and recommend Aegis, it works wonderfully with Firefox on both Android and PC.

As long as you do your own analysis then you should be (more or less) fine, as long as you don't have to pay. Still, keep in mind that trading is a very risky business.
And if you do your own analysis too, you'll see that in time the list of technical analysts you read (and follow) their opinions will expand/adjust over time; some of those signals will disappear or become irrelevant in time.
Good luck!

The thing is that you should go by your own decisions. You can't expect unknown people over internet just be always accurate and be liable if they're wrong. You don't know who is behind those twitter accounts and what are their aim. Some may do it for the common good (such cases are very seldom), some will do it for their own good/benefit.

So think what would be their benefit, for all cases.

From what I see all they do is advertise their own website with their own banners and probably paid membership. This means that even if they get it wrong a couple of times, they may lose some users/followers, but not as much as the people trading based on their signals. Especially as the membership is paid upfront.

So I'll be gentle and just say: take all that with a grain of salt, don't jump in head first.

If you want to send the change back to original address, you can obtain the behavior much easier, if you uncheck Tools->Preferences->Transactions: Use change addresses

Also if you use non-standard change address, the hardware wallet may complain (my Ledger does).

There might be an idea to add functionalities for some simple fee estimations, like mempool.space displays (low/medium/high prio).
The point would be that it could maybe make easier topics like Loyce's "consolidate inputs" thread or when people will come and complain that their tx was not confirmed.
But I don't know how big would be the overhead for that and how many will actually use.. still, an idea 

Since I earn bitcoin too, I spend some and I hold some. Bitcoin is money and it's no use to just gather/hold them all for after I'm turned to dust.


I buy rarely for Bitcoin. It's not really an option in my country. I usually have to convert to fiat first.
So the answer would be... that I'm missing almost everything that money (fiat) can buy?


My strategy is to keep a balance between fiat and crypto.
If my bitcoin stash becomes reasonably big I will probably sell more than I earn, maybe even diversify in other investmnets; but I'll think more on that when I'll get there, if ever  

I had once in the last 6 months money sent to Binance from funds mixed at ChipMixer. Those funds went from CM (I want to make it clear, the mixer not the campaign) to an address of mine and after a while (I don't remember if it was days or weeks) to Binance.
It's not something I do often since the risk is there, but I've done it exactly as a test. Of course, it was not big amount of money (since that's how tests are done), but in my case it worked.

It was before this late Binance-KYC drama, still, maybe my test does help somebody.

While this could be a good idea/list in some users' view, some others may consider it off-topic, since it contains also bounties paid in altcoin.

Also, while I don't know if Bitcoin bounties are centralized anywhere, we do have Overview of Bitcointalk Signature-Ad Campaigns and in time altcoin bounties get centralized by this or that user, depending on who's active and willing to do it. list of bounties good quality (new update 17_07_2021), despite the date in the title, was last updated less than one week ago.

Not your keys, not your coins. You'll have to play by their rules and also have patience (their support are still people, some better trained, some worse). You already started that, so you also have to have patience.
The VPN may be indeed an issue since some users try to fake their country with VPN, making Binance wary about that practice.
If no change in.. let's say one day, my advice is to discuss, as possible, with the support, and try to find out together what's the best way to continue.

And for future reference, try to not keep too much money at exchanges. I repeat: not your keys, not your coins.

Yes and no. Many were probably misled, also "buy the rumor" probably works greatly, but overall I was surprised by this topic. If this (Bitcoin ETF approved) would have been for real, the media and twitter would have had many many more news on this.

Since I am just drinking my coffee, I didn't even try to read what the paper tells, instead I've scrolled down to see what a few Legendary members tell about it. And your other post, which I've merited, tells simply and clearly the story. My only regret is that the forum doesn't rearrange the replies and makes that one the first to save people from reading/scrolling too much 

That's great that you have found this out. Indeed, trading is riskier than most (traders) would like to acknowledge.


If you hold bitcoin, as long as the price grows, the value of your bag grows. Of course, that's unrealized profit (virtual profit) and the actual profit happens when you sell.
If you hold altcoins too, I recommend you pay attention to them, since altcoin prices tend to drop on long term compared to bitcoin's.


Bitcoin is money. The best way to increase "your bag" is to buy more or earn more (usually by working for it). [But only invest what you afford to lose; Bitcoin price rises and falls, it can be risky and you have to understand that]

Then there are many scams, from HYIP (websites where you can deposit and they promise that get huge returns) or doublers (with lies like send me any coins and I'll send back the double of that) and most cloud mining sites. Again, those are scams and will make you lose money.

Then there are legit places where you can deposit and get some rather small interest/returns (some exchanges maybe, or even some faucets), but here we talk about small amounts, under 5% per year.
But here too, the "not your keys, not your coins" applies and you don't have 100% certainty that you will get your money back and the interest.

Faucets and other means of free money may also look interesting, but keep in mind that the amounts you usually get are so small, they mostly don't cover the electricity and time spent.

Mining needs expensive devices, so that is out of question.

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So the best way I know is to hold in your safe wallet and buy/earn more from actual work. Sorry to disappoint you.

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BTC RPC Explorer seems to not know if a transaction has RBF or not. Since I'll use it for my transactions, it's not that bad. Correction: it does know if RBF is on, but it shows the info only for unconfirmed transactions.
As a minus, the look & feel is not that great. On the other hand, it doesn't have yet another database, which is very nice - having 3 databases for the same thing (just because electrum server and blockchain explorer are made by different people) is counterproductive.

I may give it a try, let's see how hard it is to install/configure. Thank you.

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Update: in under 1h I've got this also running. Impressive! Thank you for the hint!