Some wallets, like Electrum, have inherent flaw where any single private key and master public key are enough to get all private keys of a wallet, so you should always treat private keys of such wallets as if they were your seeds. This means never import private keys into some altcoin wallets to claim forks, even if corresponding addresses are empty, don't share it with anyone just for fun and so on.

Bitcoin will take a big dip in volume from that too, as currently a ton of reported volume comes from some very shady exchanges. Coinbase, the biggest exchange in the world, is somehow on 40th place when it comes to Bitcoin volume. But it's a good thing, because truth is always better than a lie, and the current inflated volume metric can be actually hurting Bitcoin, since it doesn't look realistic, especially if you take into account Bitcoin's adoption as a currency or an asset.

I have recently removed my mobile number from accounts like gmail, because of the risk that sim swap can be executed against me. It's a weird case when a security measure can make you less secure, instead of at least being just useless. I just can't trust that greedy mobile operators from my country won't sell my number to hackers for a bribe, or hire staff competent enough to recognize hacker's attempts to hijack a number.

Blockchain is such a small, niche and experimental technology that the only way to learn it is to read open source code, public discussions and mailing lists. There's no university that offers bachelor's degree in blockchain, the closest thing you can get is a degree in applied cryptography. Speaking about cryptography, it's absolutely fundamental for blockchain, so said degree is the best thing you can get if you are serious about becoming a blockchain dev. Plus, in worse case scenario where blockchain proves to be a vaporware and disappears, you'd still have a useful degree that can lend some very good jobs.

Seems like none of these billionaires understand what the heck is Bitcoin if they think that blockchain is the technology behind Bitcoin, because that's just a lie. Blockchain is simply a part of Bitcoin's protocol, just like PoW, SHA256 or Merkle trees. No one is saying that they are excited for those technologies, and no one should be excited for blockchain, because there's no examples of someone successfully using blockchain on its own.

Clickbait at its finest, OP is just desperate to get traffic for their crappy site.


My guess is that it was a phishing honeypot created by police to catch people who want to hire hitmen. As for how they tracked her, maybe they simply traced her BTC transaction if she didn't mix her coins - can be very easy if she bought coins with her credit card.

This is why Bitcoin will never be hugely popular for money laundering, it leaves a trace that will stay there forever, waiting to be untangled, but with physical things like gold or fine art or cash, all traces can be erased. And in Bitcoin it's much harder to obfuscate large transaction.


You need the tiniest bit of Bitcoin knowledge to tell the fakes from real Bitcoin, while with gold only specially trained experts can do it.

This article sounds like exactly something that Wright would want to be published - the main takeaway an average non-bitcoiner joe (and even some bitcoiners) is that Wright has 10 billions because he and Kleiman invented Bitcoin. Words like "allegedly" and "supposedly" will be ignored, because that's what people always do when they read news. I don't understand the US justice system, why no one bothered to first establish whether those coins exist or not, how many coins there are, where is the trust they are supposedly held by and so on. Everything is so fishy about this case.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent is broken and only shows errors, so my server has nothing to scrape and notifications are unavailable. Is this something that happens often or not?

Also, I've made some updates and you should get a bit better information about errors when they occur, please report them here if you'll encounter some.

Pools don't exist on a protocol level, and Bitcoin's network has no way of determining is a block was mined in a mega powerful pool or someone astronomically lucky just found it on their CPU. There's no way to change it by updating the protocol. So, the only way to remove pools is to physically stop them - good luck with that.

Even if you fork Bitcoin to have CPU mining and make ASIC's impossible (the holy grail of anti-asic movement), people will just buy CPU's in bulk and organize pools. They will be more efficient than regular users, because of cheaper electricity, cheaper CPU prices, better cooling and so on.

Unless your scam is an industry, like homeopathy or essential oils.


Or maybe they would allow new scams to emerge, because in the grand scheme of things crypto is insignificant. All these billion dollar marketcaps are imaginary, there might be very little actual money going into altcoins, so there's very little point in regulating it. So, if exchanges will become regulated and not allowed to list tokens without approval, scammers will move to smart contracts and DEX's.

Cryonics is not the same as immortality, and it's not a building block for immortality, it's just some rich people hoping that they can be frozen and awaken in the future, when their life can be prolonged (up to eternity in best case). The connection with crypto and UBI here lies in simple observation that all those things are novel/futuristic, so some wealthy people like to donate to those causes. I really doubt there's some secret plan going on that involves all three technologies.

You don't need blockchain to do any of that, and if we are talking about centralized entities, blockchain doesn't make any difference at all. Imagine if you stored files on your computer on a private blockchain, what would it give to you? You could use it to notice that some files are missing, but there a lot of other and more efficient ways to do it. Same with governments, the real reason why they show interest is because the got caught in hype just like retail investors do - government officials aren't some brilliant people who are experts in everything, and they can be misled too.

Software wallets that use BIP39 also allow the use of additional word, which basically is a password, and in terms of security is equal to your advice of encrypting the seed - both ideas fully rely on the strength and secrecy of a password.

There are some more advanced schemes, like Shamir's Secret Sharing, which allow you to split a key into chunks, where each chunk is useless on its own and doesn't provide any information that would weaken the encryption (unlike with naive splitting of plaintext key).

I think there's a good chance this lawsuit was organized by Wright himself - he just paid some money to Kleimans so they sue him so that he later can tell everyone how the court has proven that he is Satoshi. This whole case should have started with determining whether the coins exist or not, but no one did that.  Just watch how in near future CWS won't go to jail, won't have to pay any fines or give any money to Kleimans.

In some sense Bitcoin was created by US security services, because they have made significant contributions to Bitcoin's underlying technologies - modern cryptography and the Internet. If you don't trust some technology just becomes it comes from the US government, you should stop using anything digital altogether.

What really matters is that Bitcoin is open source software, and thousands of experts have already verified it and didn't find any backdoors. Who made Bitcoin is irrelevant, because you don't need to trust its creator(s).

You are mixing many things up here, so let's sort the terms first.

Brainwallet is a type of wallet that derives Bitcoin keys from user-supplied password.

Mnemonic format is a format data that is meant to be memorizable by humans.

Brainwallets are also memorizable by humans, because you can choose a password that you can remember. However, mnemonic seeds, like BIP39 or Electrum seeds ARE NOT brainwallets, because they are generated randomly. Brainwallets are inherently insecure, because humans are not good at generating random data. Mnemonic seeds are okay, because it's just a representation of some long random buffer.

If you want to keep your wallet in your brain, use a wallet that supports mnemonic seeds. Remembering 12 words might sound hard, but it's actually not, just establish a habit of repeating it on a daily basis, like when you brush your teeth or drive to work. However, never rely on your memory to store your seed - there's always a risk that you will forget it. Your memory should only be used as secondary backup, and the seed should be stored on other mediums, like paper, usb sticks, cd's, etc.

While we are at it, I think that Services and Goods should each be split into 2 child boards - WTS and WTB, or there should be a requirement (this can be automated with the forum rejecting new threads that don't match that pattern in the title) that each thread starts with either [WTS] or [WTB]. It's just super annoying when you go to those boards with intention of only buying or selling and have to read a ton of titles that you are not interested in.

You need to setup CORS headers on https://loyce.club for that to work, otherwise browsers won't allow requesting it from other sites. Also make sure that https is always available, because http requests are also rejected.

I don't think any userscripts should be integrated with forum, if you mean copying their code and inserting it into pages. Userscripts aren't very efficient, all this DOM manipulation can get pretty slow to the point where users will start to notice it. And some users might view this forum with Javascript turned off. It's just some of the reasons why stuff like that should generally be handled on server.

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