I think that's:


I've found the info on this page: https://base.shiftcrypto.ch/applications/electrs.html

A quick search over the internet has shown that Electrs uses "banner":


and it should be configurable even as command line flag (you can search for banner in release notes).
Maybe it's a start.

I hope that I'm not off-topic, and also somebody with more knowledge than me will have to check/validate the idea.
Is it possible that - in a way or another - OP's friend did sweep/consolidate to something like "the segwit equivalent of the original paper wallet"?!

Some description is on Reddit, although there a change was involved: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/b67sm2/how_does_mycelium_handle_partial_paper_wallet/ejir3kx/?context=3

Yes, the 0.9% fee also applies to withdrawals. And you won't get the BNB cashback either, like you get for purchases.
And the ATM fees are on top of it - I've seen ATMs with 0 extra fee, I've seen ATMs with ~4 EUR extra too. Keep in mind that also that extra is counted within the daily withdrawals/limits.
The extra fee should be shown by the ATM.

One important thing is also the conversion rate. If you don't withdraw your card's currency, most ATMs will offer you 2 options, of which one is conversion of bank's (bad) exchange rate and one is at VISA standard exchange rate (good).

Indeed. Still, people's psychology works different: people get happier when the price is rising, since although they'll buy more expensive, the coins bought increase in value and this helps them stay more confident.
That's also why most people are afraid to buy the dip: "what if it drops more?"

Call me overly optimistic (or pessimistic if you prefer the dip), but I don't expect this sale last for long.

From my understanding, I think that a better wording would be that the businesses will have to accept bitcoin, but it's up to them whether in their accounts they'll receive/keep (from the bitcoin transactions) bitcoin or fiat.

This may be a technological problem, and I guess that this is what makes some of those merchants unhappy (along with misinformation and lack of understanding), since they'll have to install/use one more application/tool in their shops.

That's correct.
If this new "omg, dump, end of the world" wouldn't have happened, we may have had to adjust our guesses much higher; but now, we're just fine.

I think that it was "man made". I'd say that it has happened before too when - for certain events - peoples' expectations got fast too big.
This El Salvador story together with the great rise for the last 7-8 days have created a perfect storm we were too enthusiastic to see.

The result was:
* some actors dumping to move the price down
* possibly some actors cashing in their gains for the week to avoid risks
* many traders' stop orders kicking in and moving price even (much) lower

As you see, the bad actors have only started the avalanche, they didn't do all the job. Margin trading and stop orders not under continuous supervision have most probably doing the rest.


However, all this is only a theory. But it's not the first time I see this kind of development.

That kind of hardware wallets start to gain more and more ground lately. Even the old "established" Trezor is open source (just it doesn't have Secure Elements chip yet). A list is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5304483
And if a HW is open source for, let's say at least 6 months, I am 99.999% sure that multiple tech savvy people have checked it over a couple of times.


I don't realistically have such hopes. Sooner or later it will break, but I guess that it won't happen for at least 5 more years. My hope is that the technology will be better and cheaper until my HW dies off.

Luckily Nano S doesn't have its own battery. I just don't like this new mess up (c) by Ledger.

Basically because of the closed source policy they have, the disastrous handling for the hack of their shop, where a huge number of customers' addresses leaked, for pushing commercial updates for their software faster than bug fixes...
I also have a Nano S that works well, but if I'd ever buy a new HW, I'd choose another company (for these reasons and for experiencing something new too).

Imho it was not "nothing left". People around the world were buying Bitcoin for this event. Bitcoin and El Salvador were trending. People's expectations were very high, especially after one week of quite fast price rise.
And I think that this was the catch: somebody may have been playing with people's expectations. Somebody found this event very good for exploiting and decided to go for the pocket money of the trader wannabes.

1. Bafta! Am auzit ca nici la ei la suport nu stie stanga ce face dreapta, deci la a n-a incercare poate prinzi vreunul mai rasarit.
2. Incearca pe https://coinatmradar.com

I'm curious how low will it go and for how long.
But I'd say that now it starts to be a pretty good time to start buying those 30$s

1. You seem to not be very clear about what you have and what you can do. I have to warn you that there's always a chance you make a mistake, or phishing/malware comes "in between" and you lose all your funds.
So if it's life changing amount, I would do all these steps only after I understand more. As long as the seed is safe (whether at hand or not), your coins are safe on that Trezor.

2. Keep in mind that as soon as you've sent the coins to an exchange or custodian, the money is in their wallet and you have to (pray) play by their rules. For example for Binance you may need to either complete KYC, either withdraw only small amounts.

3. If you really do this, I'd wait until the transaction gets at least one confirmation before the reset.

I'm not that familiar with their politics vs the ex-Yugoslavian territories, but I expect it's not all nice and dandy.
And I also know that all it can take is new elections and new leadership for a change in the "official line", at least as declarations, and it may just be enough for EU.
Of course, I may be too optimistic (for EU, not for SRB), but I think that EU should become a new US and then a lot of problems would no longer exist.
Keep in mind that EU is not that strong politically and it's easy to make compromises, mistakes and moves that can help only on short-term (and on long term may be pretty much a mistake).

However, back to the topic, the date doesn't even matter that much, as long as that's - more or less - the direction (EU and probably EUR). And that makes Bitcoin quite unlikely in the equation.

I've read that there are talks about Bitcoin becoming legal tender in countries from Central or South America, but Europe? Nope.
Serbia is about to get into EU by 2025. This may also mean that they'll look towards EURO more than Bitcoin, although EURO is still very far.
I don't think that Serbia is such a good candidate, at least not until at least one of the prominent EU countries makes such a move.

Nah, it's just about showing who's the real boss there. It's just about getting everybody - no matter how rich and successful - back in line.
I'm a bit worried though for Jack Ma's... general health... It's not the first warning he gets and they've shown in the past that they're pretty much serious.

Really? It rose ~6k$ in 8 days and a 2k$ correction is "bad news" and "sentiment not good"?
Zoom out, look at a chart showing the last 2 years and think again. It really helps when in doubt.

I guess that you confused El Salvador with Ecuador.
The country where Bitcoin has became legal tender is El Salvador  

You can generate a new (different!) seed, but keep in mind that this means basically a new wallet. If you have coins on the old wallet and the old (recovery) seed is lost, also those coins are lost.
If you don't have coins on current wallet, I also recommend you write (when you can) onto the old seed paper "no longer in use" or similar to not confuse you.
You may want to also read this (old) topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/TREZOR/comments/8lqvki/i_want_new_seed_words/