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!

You should tell much clearer what you expect from an Electrum that's offline.
While offline Electrum is great for signing transactions, if it's indeed on a computer that's always offline, if you ever go online with it, it defeats the purpose.
Then, if Electrum is offline, you cannot expect it to get the history of the transactions, since it should need an online server for that.
Since you had history, that wallet was not always offline.

All in all, I think that you're doing something wrong and you may have not understood that the money is not in the wallet, the coins are "on the network" and the wallet either needs to be online to "see" them, either works without, only for signing transactions (but for that you need an online watch only wallet too).

( I don't know how the VPN helps/works there, hence: ) Is the router forwarding 8333 to the windows 10 IP?

Many thanks HCP, this was the correct solution.

It wasn't straightforward at all, as a matter of fact I almost gave up at some point and I even unistalled Ubuntu after a couple of tries. But I've tried again, with Debian under WSL. I may have been making useless steps too, but I've finally got to the sweet:


Some notes:

• For now already the Debian folder takes 4 GB on my C: drive although Bitcoin runs under Windows and electrs actual data dir (30 GB) is set to somewhere else.
• The errors under Ubuntu were from not finding librocksdb-dev 6.11.4-3 to not "knowing" how to create files and folders on a Windows NTFS drive/folder. Not nice.
• For now it works well, but it uses bitcoind .cookie instead of user/pass, and I want to also make it start automatically, maybe also not fail if bitcoind didn't finish syncing, and obviously also install a block explorer.

When all is done I may even make another post with the steps, since I expect to not be the only Windows user here  

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Questions (need help) :
1. Is there any way to make electrs not fail (and instead retry later) if bitcoind is not available yet?
2. I could use some suggestions for the block explorer to install. Is it mempool.space or is there any better/easier one?

I think that this covers your question: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5364381

Although I tend to believe that LoyceV is right and you're lying, you had 10 years to buy at least some of those coins back to fix that mistake. If you didn't... too bad.

I would start with these 2 links:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/56924/what-does-signal-and-lock-in-mean-in-a-bip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Improvement_Proposals

Possibly the first one already gives you the "superficial" info you need.

I guess that this image tells it better than I could:

On the download page you can find:


The link from there goes to: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/tree/master/pubkeys
And you'll find all the public keys there, including Emzy.


Interestingly on https://download.electrum.org/4.1.5/ I cannot see Emzy's asc, only ThomasV and sombernight_releasekey

If you really want to, you can always stay afraid that this or that will sell. Nobody stops you from that.
But would it make sense economically to sell now if they don't really need that money? I don't think so. Not yet.



I would indeed see it as profit. But such a big company probably has people with more experience in handling values and they will stay real.
And, as I said, I think that they will not rush to sell if they don't have to, in the same way the banks don't sell and re-buy their gold based on market moves.

That's only on the paper. As people said, unrealized profit.
1 BTC = 1 BTC. As long as they don't sell, there's no actual profit to talk about.
Nice bullish (for newbies) news though

While the quoting is reassuring, it may worth mentioning that it was already archived automatically at ninjastic.space and loyce.club too.

It's not only about the years of practice on those tracks.
Some tracks have longer straight lines, some have shorter; some have tigher corners, some have them wider; some allow easier overtaking by being wider overall, some don't... and so on.
This kind of differences will favor one car or another, one driver or another, not necessarily because of the years of practice.

It could be. But it's up to the seller to decide for himself.
Imho at least this kind of clarification could get you more sellers. Good luck!