Eu cred ca doar au auzit de el. Unii. Putini. Si nu cat sa il folosesca.
Unii "specialisti" au auzit. E jobul lor sa afle. Dar doar un pic, la suprafata. Ca si IRS, care practic au dat o gramada de bani pentru un "peer review" dupa care sa zica "nu se poate". Daca stiau mai mult.. economiseau banii aia.
Nu zic ca unii poate ca vor ajunge sa inteleaga / sa se descurce cu XMR, dar va mai lua ceva timp. Adica daca sunt unii care deja reusesc, i-as considera niste exceptii, nu ceva cat sa incep sa fac o regula.

Whether one has hardware wallet or not, he has to keep the seed safe and the wallet protected.
Indeed, the mobile phone app and other means to easily access the coins should be removed from sight and the seed has to be also encrypted, but can easily be done.
And another HW can be bought when the owner of the coins reaches a more safe county.

I do hope for the best for the people that's now in Afghanistan, since probably the tough days are far from over for them  

I've heard that at Doge's last ATH. But one may be able to convert/exchange to another coin of preference before withdrawing.
The point was to use a way to show the users they are earning something, anything more than 0. And the more expensive coins are not suitable for that.

At a second thought, another direction could be to show more (10? 12? 15?) digits after the decimal point for a "cheaper to withdraw" coin.

Most of those who know all this can easily make themselves an airgapped cold wallet with some old hardware they already own and don't need HW at all  
The size of the leak shows that (too) many don't know or simply cannot do this (ordering without personal info). But I feel that we are way off topic. Let's just agree that we cannot agree 100% on all aspects, OK?



Yup. Just it may be a certain amount of work there aren't many willing to do just like that.

I've already said that you do have valid points.

The closed source part is a two-edged sword: on one hand it's good since hackers cannot find problems that easy, on the other hand on open source more people could take a look and find/make improvements (see linux); also open source gives more trust (since in crypto you should not trust anyone, including your HW maker).

Ledger's reputation has suffered a lot after the leak because they lived in denial instead of doing much more for containing the damage. And although indeed the leak has nothing to do with the architecture, what good to protect your coins if one can find out your address and come in and "hack you with a 5$ wrench"?

I'm still drinking my coffee. The irony was unintentional on my side. But now, as you've pointed it out, ... you can't imagine how big is the smile on my face  

Clearly, at least in theory, without Secure Elements problems can occur. Still, it didn't happen. For years.
I also have a Ledger. But if I'd have to now, I would not buy Ledger products, although it works good. Two things to mention is the leak of customers' addresses and the fact it's closed source.
The thing is.. although it has Secure Elements, you don't know how good it's used.

So while you do have a point, let's stay open for multiple choices.

Well, Tether does need to be shaken a little and become properly backed sooner or later.
Their schemes that allow them "print money out of thin air" (which in this case may indeed be true) may affect Bitcoin beyond our (or at least my) understanding.
For example the bad reputation of Tether will simply help the central banks when they'll launch CBDCs....

Well, Trezor itself doesn't have secure elements and it's going just fine.
Some will prefer to do it homemade because they trust their own hands' work more than anything done by others.
Some just don't have at hand reliable shops where to buy from proper hardware wallets.
It's not only about costs and features, it's more. There's a potential market for this kind of devices. And if one is somewhat unsure he'll succeed in implementing it, a lower price may be handy.

We're in the middle of a bull run. More people are HODLing, why would they spend now?
Lightning Network gained popularity. Off-chain transactions are not counted.
Counting the "active" addresses is more and more an useless and inaccurate indicator; of course, it's good for a bit of FUD 

ThomasV key is here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spesmilo/electrum/master/pubkeys/ThomasV.asc
That's what I've imported (years ago) into my Kleopatra for Windows. I don't know though how you can import into your tool.


Edit: one more tutorial is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5240594.0#post_MacInstruct

I'm not a mac guy, but afaik this tutorial is pretty well written: https://bitzuma.com/posts/how-to-verify-an-electrum-download-on-mac/
You may check if you didn't forget anything (like importing ThomasV key).

Nice! Although longer name than preev, it makes more sense.
I'll throw in also a suggestion: please consider digit grouping for bigger numbers.

Also, right now it's just a competitor for preev with the (undeniably) nice touch of historical data. Not bad, but you have the tools for more.
Maybe for medium-long term you'd also add more fiat currencies (maybe from xe or similar) and more (all?) crypto coins that can be traded, at least for spot price. Then the website will become important.

The thing is... CBDC is not crypto. It's something that can be done even without a blockchain. It's centralized. It's just another digital representation of fiat money.
And since it's their stuff, they can easily make laws only for this, ignoring or banning actual crypto.

So unfortunately your hopes don't really have any basis. I know because I had similar hopes until I realized the truth.

Denial. Sunt extrem de multi care prefera sa creada orice poveste cat timp asta ii ajuta sa se minta singuri ca investitia lor nu este o teapa.
Una din cele mai simple directii de motivare (aiurea) e ca "dusmanii" sunt "gelosi" pe "averea lor" si de aceea zic ca e teapa (mda, stiu, suna ca o manea; oare de ce?!)

Oh, then it's very good. At 30-35$ the price is very good for basically a Trezor clone, even if it's "only" Trezor One. It will do.

I always check first 3-5 chars, some 3-5 chars somewhere in the middle and 2-3 at the end. I've got this habit since Bitsler website taught me to many years ago and it kept me safe.



Indeed, the double check is very important. And it's not because one will get transaction error - that would mean that the transaction was not sent -, instead it's because one may send money to address different from what's intended (for example because of clipboard malware).

Also double check would mean that one checks that the recipient address is for the same currency as intended.


One more thing I'd advise the newbies is to play around a little with the wallet of their choice before using it with real money. Electrum for example (if you use it, please download from electrum.org and verify it!) can be used also on testnet blockchain, with testnet coins. One can get some small amount of testnet coins from faucet and play around with electrum. This way he can learn about change addresses, fee, and all the steps needed for a proper transaction.

At 67$ GamePi is already at the cost of Nano S.
But I guess that this Pi based design may offer bigger flexibility (maybe more coins?), I didn't look at the git though (I may do that some other day).

However, I like it. One more option for those interested. I do like Pi Zero (I have a Pi Zero W for other purpose), maybe that's why I like it even more.

Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and such actively monitor and filter whatever is posted there.
Forums - and especially this one (bitcointalk) - encourage freedom on speech. This allows people discuss without barriers and improves the chances for one "open his eyes" and start thinking independently.

However, it won't work for everybody, some prefer to spread (or believe!) misinformation here too. And I don't think that any forum can do anything about that.
Of course, this forum is not perfect either. But you'll learn that nothing is actually perfect on this world.

What can forums do better? I'm not sure. But I'm sure that if a certain forum doesn't fit your needs, you'll find another one. This is how internet works.

If the pay is that low, I'd go lower than BCH or ETH, for example Dogecoin. This would allow the user see that he has been earning something, even if it's a tiny fraction of a cent.



Bitcoin fees are not big (just stay at least on SegWit), so BCH is not a valid choice, whatever you say. And if you set a minimum threshold for payment and batch it like freebitco.in does, you won't have to pay much (you'll probably have to do something like that whatever coins you offer anyway).