I was thinking about it a few years ago so I decided it wouldn’t be bad to have a spare HW, then the Nano X with a 35% discount seemed like a good solution. Despite all the problems with the new devices, I have no objections to how the devices work - but given Ledger's very amateurish behavior with user data and the reactions after that, I wouldn't buy any HW from them anymore - as far as I'm concerned their reputation was ruined without the possibility of repair.

Fortunately, they are not the only company producing such devices - and as a last resort (and the safest) anyone can make airgapped devices and keep their private keys without trusting any company.

It is an indisputable fact that only 10% of the max supply remains for mining, but also that this 10% represents a little more than 2 million Bitcoins, and that is still a very large amount that needs to enter circulation. With the price now measured in the tens of thousands of $, and with everything in circulation, it is not difficult to conclude that there is still enough BTC on the market to meet all the current needs of any investor.

Although it is predicted that the last BTC will be mined around the year 2140, around 2030 99% of all coins will be mined, and those 1% (210 000) will remain for the next 100+ years. In less than 10 years, some things will be much clearer - and I hope some of us will be there to witness it.

Your money, your risk, and your responsibility - but 20% is simply too much, and there is also a guy from Russia who is unknown to you. This is an ideal combination to be scammed again, so when you are already going into such risky transactions, I recommend that you find a respectable escrow - ideally it would be one of the members of this forum who have been dealing with it for a long time.

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If we look at the whole situation from only one angle, then it seems to be exactly as you wrote. For the time being, I will treat the whole thing as a combination of various life circumstances that could have happened to any of us - and I hope that all three members will be able to prove that this is the case. In case the opposite turns out, we all know how DT members and others will react - you build a reputation for years and destroy it in a few days.

I've found a few results with a quick search, but other than the one offered through BestChange, they don't seem too reliable. Obviously, this method is not very popular, so if you do not find any favorable option, consider some other ways to buy BTC.

Have you heard of Dr.Doom? I would also call the one in question this nickname, because these are people who have become rich by constantly talking about financial crashes, economic crises, and inflation. The thing is, we need to constantly find new naive people who will believe in it, because it is enough to read the comments below the article to get an insight into what people actually think about him. I believe he will make a lot more money, most who listen to him will lose.

I would definitely throw out Saylor and MicroStrategy, as they buy periodically and mostly below 5000 BTC. Also Jack Dorsey is no longer a Twitter CEO and I don’t see that there could be anything there. Mr.Mars is always an enigma, but he is currently focused on shitcoins, and it would also be strange to invest in BTC, while at the same time expressing concern about how Bitcoin mining is extremely harmful to the planet. Ark, however, is a company that has a focus on some other things, when it comes to Bitcoin, they are mostly focused on ETF - futures based.

I advise everyone not to invest in cryptocurrencies if they do not understand what it is about - and the two basic things that everyone should know are when is the best time to invest, and that nothing can grow forever. I sometimes feel like a broken record, because how many times do I need to repeat that the time before or right after halving is the best for the investment?

Anyone who did it then was profiting at least x7 at the moment, and if they sold at ATH even x10 - I don't know what you invested in, but you obviously made all the wrong moves if you lost a lot of money.

It is impossible to say in which direction the market will move, I will be optimistic and say that the chances are 50% -50%. Strong resistance has been created at $50k, and the price bounces down every time it gets close - and it won't last very long, it will have to break in one direction or another.

In one of his last private messages, Satoshi wrote to Sirius (Martti Malmi) as follows:


It is enough for me to understand that the man decided that his job was finished, and that his further presence would only harm the further development of Bitcoin. In addition, from all the evidence that can be found - what would anyone else do if one of the main developers went to the headquarters of the world's most powerful intelligence agency, and together with some other developers calls on him to privatize all decisions too much?

For those interested a little more, I suggest reading the chronology of events that led Satoshi to decide to leave.


https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/what-happened-when-bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-disappeared

As I promised (with a slight delay) I can confirm that this seller has delivered what it promised - Netflix Premium UHD a completely private account that you do not share with anyone. I texted you via shoppy because I see you haven't been active here in a while.

I'm from the EU, and sometimes the media here have slightly different interpretations of daily political events - and I've seen that many times when I've watched popular US news TV - although the differences aren't dramatic enough to create a completely contradictory way of thinking. After the Biden-Putin virtual meeting, the key thing highlighted in the EU media is that the US will not act militarily in the event that Russia attacks Ukraine, and that is the key thing in the whole story.

Here I completely agree with what @stompix wrote - no sanctions against Russia will harm them too much, which is more than evident from the not-so-distant past. Russia relies heavily on its political and economic ties with China and Iran, which the US cannot influence - and also keeps the EU in a position not to be harsh on them because Russia is their main source of gas and oil.


The US would not put itself in a position of military conflict with a country that cannot be defeated in any way - unless someone thinks that Russia is a lighter opponent than Iraq or Afghanistan, which have proven to be evident military defeats of the US. Ukraine's only chance is to join NATO, but on the other hand, according to Putin, that would be like declaring war on Russia.



I would not agree, I would just quote @stompix

The problem is that licenses for this type of business in some countries can be obtained by anyone, and it is not a job that can be done by anyone. If you build something on bad foundations, sooner or later it will collapse. In addition, it is difficult for me to understand that some people have confidence in completely unknown exchanges without any reputation - but it is obviously a matter of trusting domestic rather than foreign companies, which is not a good decision in this case.

Centralized crypto exchanges (those that have existed for a long time and have a solid reputation) will certainly not disappear just like that, but will expand more and more due to the growing interest in cryptocurrencies.

The best way for people to learn the importance of keeping their private keys seems to be to lose them in incidents like this - if someone still decides to use crypto exchanges again as storage, then they don't deserve any sympathy when the same thing happens to them again. People forget that these exchanges are run only by people, and they are very susceptible to the temptation to perform an exit scam, which is often the case.

I thought people would learn something from what happened with Mt.Gox or Quadriga, but the fact that millions of BTC are on exchanges today speaks that they have not yet learned.

The OP seems to have created its concern from the following article :


If nothing else, they both announced that they would step back for a while due to other commitments, explaining that there are enough other developers and those who contribute to the project. A little fresh blood and new ideas will not hurt anyone

I do not want to go into any conspiracy theories, we all know very well that media propaganda is so strong that few alternative opinions can even penetrate the general public. Anyone who tries to ask a relevant question in any way is exposed to the media lynching and often loses his job because he dares to ask legitimate questions.

A few months ago, Croatian scientist from the prestigious Ruder Boskovic Institute published his research on the impact of mRNA vaccines, which no one has disputed so far - and the first copy of the research was taken over by Pfizer a few months ago. Of course, this is not an invitation to anyone not to get vaccinated or something like that - but to try to hear the other side.

Original link : https://narod.hr/koronavirus/dr-rer-nat-tomislav-domazet-loso-mrna-cjepiva-zasto-se-ignorira-biologija-retropozicije

Translated into English by Google Translator : Link

I am personally familiar with the project because I have personally donated several times, and as long as it involved smaller amounts the transparency was at a high level and the whole charity was run in a professional way. When someone donated 1 BTC and it was decided to transfer the funds to stablecoins things got a little out of hand with the obvious lack of activity of the members who ran the whole project.

This should never have happened, because someone will always start digging and find any irregularities, which will result in questions that need to be answered without any doubt. I would advise everyone involved in this to be as transparent as possible and to clarify all transactions.

A lot of good has been done through this project, let's give people some time to show all the evidence - and if someone has borrowed part of the funds for personal needs in case of emergency, let them apologize and return the funds. I do not approve of such actions, but everyone would help their family member in any way to save his life, and that needs to be understood.

There is no doubt that such stories always arouse suspicion, but at least a 1% chance should be left that the OP is telling the truth to some extent. As historical facts say, it was possible to buy and sell Bitcoin in late 2009, although the OP has so far shown no evidence that it did just that. Whatever the truth, even if the OP really bought that BTC, he obviously doesn't remember what he did with it - if he was intelligent enough to send everything to BitcoinCore, maybe he has a backup file somewhere.

@RickDeckard, I'm pretty sure this kind of campaign doesn't require 8 hours of work a day for a manager. As you know the payout is once a week, and the biggest job is to count and review the posts of all campaign participants at the end of each week since the payout day is Sunday.

Maybe @DarkStar_ has some other tactics, but what I post above seems most logical to me.

I do not dispute that the moves made by the Fed or the ECB (The European Central Bank) have no effect on financial markets - but currently, the world is concerned about at least two possible military conflicts that are practically hanging in the air. The first is, of course, the one between Russia and Ukraine, where large military forces are constantly accumulating on both sides of the border, and the second refers to the possible conflict between Israel and Iran.

What further aggravates the situation is the fact that the US is making it clear that it will not interfere in the possible conflict between Russia and Ukraine, while also practically giving the green light to Israel for military action against Iran.

Of course, none of this has to happen, but the very possibility of war conflicts of this magnitude forces people to be very careful with their investments. War only benefits arms manufacturers and vultures who exploit people in the war zone.

Oh no, another vector of attack on Bitcoin has opened up - as if there are only 1 or 2 developers on whom everything depends... Maybe the evil Chinese will create a covid-19 special strain that will attack only developers, then crypto miners, and finally all those who own BTC. But don't worry, after 22 doses of super-effective vaccines we will be safe from all possible strains of the virus