No. It will just make it more confusing for you to restore in 10-20 years, and you already have no room for error: one of the halves is gone, everything is lost.
If you really want to save the seed split in multiple locations it could be better to use something closer to a standard, like Shamir Backup. But you'll need at least 3 location for that.

Yeah.. this topic is a duplicate.

And although this matter should have been discussed here, the discussion is in Beginners and Help.

El Salvador situation is indeed different - they use LN there on a specific software. But that software will work with bitcoin nodes. I don't think it works with anything else. But yes, the user should get used with the tool.
And, as help, their govt has sent them some free money. Receiving them it's a good indicator for using the right tool in the right way.

But you do have a good point about multi-coin block explorers and wallets, but if the user has a good - proper - wallet, that will work on bitcoin blockchain and he will see that something is wrong with whatever the scammer shows.
And multi-blockchain wallet and explorers should tell the full name of the coin for which they show the transactions. One has to open his eyes, though...
Plus, if anything is fishy, if anything is different than expected, one can come here and ask with clear data at hand.

If one has the funds for it, diversifying is clearly the key. Gold, bonds, stocks, real estate, and why not, entire companies. The thing is.. one has to have really big funds to actually get to diversify.
And, on the other hand, bitcoin had the biggest returns for the last 10 years...



I feel like "meh, why this question again?". I mean, this topic was discussed so many times, I don't know what your point is. Are you trying to advertise gold to bitcoiners or what? Why aren't the other diversifying options in the topic?



Are you aware that investing into gold doesn't mean to buy jewelry? I mean, your comment looks a bit off...

User jeanvals is inactive since 2021-04-15, hence I wouldn't make too much of a hope to get answers from him.
Also if you have questions you better open your own thread instead of revive old ones (where you may also not be 100% on topic).

No. That's an address, not a wallet. A wallet can contain multiple addresses, hence there's a pretty good chance that the fattest wallet is bigger than the biggest address.
You can see here that even this address is (probably) part of a wallet with more addresses.

The rich has a very good chance that even if he loses a big amount of his wealth, he won't lose it all. By far. The rich can afford advisors for diversifying, ensuring and so on.

The poor -- depends how much money he got. He may or may not have the education to spend well, to ensure, to do something meaningful. Or he may not have got enough for all his plans. Of course that he will be the more "fearful"

All the transactions are saved in the blockchain. If a transaction is confirmed, it means that it was correct and nothing fishy/counterfeit in it. The software checks that.
Your wallet will find out from the blockchain that you received money. If the transaction is confirmed, then you are good.

It also helps understanding that your wallet never receives money, the wallet only handles the keys for spending certain (your) coins from the blockchain.


So the software takes care of everything, makes sure all the conditions are met, so when you have received money, from the moment they're confirmed, they are yours and you can be sure they're not counterfeit or anything. Since Bitcoin is not physical, I'm not sure what are your expectations about this topic; the concept is different.

As I said, on the blockchain, everything is clear and enforced.
However, you still can get scammed:
1. Buy something something else, but that's advertised as Bitcoin. There are plenty of "Bitcoin whatever" altcoins, but they use different blockchains.
2. Various services may get your money and don't send you the coins.
3. Double spend (of the same funds) is something you can easily avoid it by waiting for at least 1-2 confirmations.
4. Some may try to give you Testnet bitcoins; those are only for testing and they're on a different blockchain.
5. Make sure that you and only you have the seed/private keys for the funds. Even if you made sure your coins are not counterfeit, they are easy to be lost/stolen from you.

In my case .today redirects to archive.ph (although I'm not from the Philippines)
Usually I just use archive.is and I'm fine; and it works now too.

Maybe arhive.today is some load balancer/redirector and one of the targets is down?

Woah, I'm sure that if this is for real, it can be easily attacked by some smart lawyers.
I mean, if I have a successful business I have to partner with another private business only for the sake of it? This must be incorrect. Why would I help another private business? It's my business, I have to find the ways for enforcing KYC - maybe with the help from another company, or maybe not. It should be my decision...

I wish you're right. But I fear that this won't happen this soon. Hamilton likes to have some drama around him, this makes the newspapers write about him, show his picture, show his sponsors...

There are some 5 (maybe more) drivers now in F1, some are even my favorites, which should - sooner or later - make way to newer, younger ones. I expect Formula 2 and Formula E has quite a number of drivers that could fill those spots in the blink of an eye.

Indeed, they will be taking BNB from your Binance wallet as fee, not BTC or USDC. If you have BNB and this feature is enabled (afaik it is by default)

1. The fees are (10x) smaller than you wrote and BNB also doesn't help that much. (25% instead of 50%)
The fees are 0.1% (not 1%) and with BNB it's 0.075% (not 0.5%).
And I don't know 100% what conversion rate they use for BNB, sorry, I don't trade large amounts so it doesn't matter that much for me. It's probably the spot price.
Maybe you find more in their help pages.

2. I don't see why not. That's basically what I do, although I don't really "buy BNB" for this, instead I convert into BNB the small amounts now and then.

Woah, it's indeed complicated.   
Yeah, the legislation is stupid and instead of fixing it, they make it worse. In my country, especially in IT, the legislation is pretty lax because they've figured out that it's better to have people stay and pay *some* tax than leaving the country completely.
Limiting and over-limiting, special licenses, ... only make people stay just long enough to buy a plane ticket, one way only.
Oh well, sorry to hear...

And indeed, if it stays like this, it's not only about tax avoidance, it's also about avoiding other laws too...




Well, they can still over-charge and over-tax Bitcoin to fiat exchanging, but yeah, it's more than this... 

BNB is an altcoin. As long as Binance will have success, BNB should be pretty much OK. As soon as Binance will get into difficulties (and you may not be aware) BNB may no longer be OK.
Since Binance is getting at the verge of being banned here and there, they now try to start getting compliant with the law(s). This may be too late, this may be a problem for the customers, or may be just fine. I don't know.
Altcoins are risky. You should know that. All in all, I would not keep too many funds in BNB. But that's my opinion; some do consider it a wonderful investment.

Now, I'm not convinced how many exchanges accept BNB; I expect that they're are much less than USDT. Also you should know that if you withdraw BNB, you'll keep it in BNB wallet, not Bitcoin. You know the difference between Bitcoin and altcoins, right?

And at the end, I do keep some money in BNB. But it's under 1$. I keep it for cheaper exchange fees at Binance. For me, that's the only good use for BNB.


I hope it helps. But please do as you think fit. It's up to you whether you invest or not.

While Forex price variations are smaller and clearer, dictated by politics and news about central banks, the price of crypto can change greatly in very short time for no reason (or no apparent reason).
While the charts, indicator and basics are the same, it's much harder to foresee the crypto price movements. That's also why many see crypto trading closer to gambling.

Ohoo, I've checked 1.1.0 at some point and I was pretty much disappointed back then, now it's 1.5.0...

I see it does work with my HW now (although the first server I've tried said it has no transactions at all; the second worked). The old version didn't have neither the USB button, nor Ledger on the list of wallets to import.
I see it has things better done than Electrum (View->Hide Empy Used Addresses).
But - at least for me - it still doesn't have the usability of Electrum.
However, it's on the right track, so we'll get there too, and possibly pretty soon.

Thanks @dkbit98 for the update!

The trading price was never a real problem, even Dogecoin started really small (not that small, but still, I remember the days with 0.00015$).
But you're right, in many case the devs added far too many zeros at the end of supply value (making the price this low).
However, no matter the price was high or low, sooner or later all altcoins disappointed me (as price/investment).

I've watched (a bit late, I know, thanks for the link) the unveiling, and I also glanced at the comments too.
The comments were varying from "wonderful" to "it looks like me" or "it looks like Terminator". And I somewhat agree with them, since I also had higher expectations.

The statue is not bad at all, the fact there's a statue of Satoshi there is great (I'll surely visit it one day), but I expected... something else.
I see it like a monk with BTCitcoin badge, instead of "we are all Satoshi". Does it indeed act like some sort of mirror as it was said at some point (at least until the first rain)? I kinda doubt it too.

Ei esti tanar/a (Jr), o sa inveti tu ca altcoins au tendinta generala sa se miste in directie nedorita (in jos).


Si vorbind de altcoins, ai putea sa muti topicul in zona de monede alternative, ca sa nu deranjez un mod pt asta?

Creating addresses can be done without a full node.

But sending/broadcasting transactions will need a full node, even if that node is not necessarily yours:
* SPV (simple payment wallet) like Electrum connect to Electrum servers that get data from Bitcoin node
* Web wallets have their own node
...

So you can do basically everything without having your own node (and I do recommend you use a SPV like Electrum, maybe with a hardware wallet too if you keep significant money there), but under the hood you will rely on somebody's node.