I had a trusted member in my mind, not exactly what you are with one negative rating. But I am willing to give it a try with a small amount to see if it works out.
I'll shoot you PM later.

I disagree about the bolded sentence. ECDSA is pretty much about prime numbers.
-> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_DSA

But maybe I misunderstood you here or missed some irony, sorry then.

(Edited to add: I agree though, that golden-dragons post is pretty nonsensical)

Quoting myself...
From my limited testing with my 2 Apollos this definitely help to improve stability a lot. Didn't had to restart a single time since I have the below in /etc/crontab:

This fstrims the SD card once a week and logs the outcome to syslog.

The first withdraw with Blockfi is even completely free (no fees at all!).

Casinocoin (CSC) performed nicely in recent weeks, hope it continues that trend in 2020.

Thank you for your reply.

Nothing specific right now, I was just wondering if you had such an offer running as other newly started exchanges had when older exchanges closed down. I think there are a lot of coins looking for a new home after these major players left the field.

Can't speak for the US, I am almost-EU situated. I haven't changed moneys for abroad recently, but I am pretty sure you'll have a hard time here changing $5000 to EUR in a bank or exchange office where you are not customer (hence fully identified). And it only gets worse these days.

What is now $5000 as limit will ony go lower quickly.
Cash is evil for most of the money economy. Just think about how often the butcher can go to the baker with the $20 cash you gave him for steaks. And how often the baker can come back to the butcher to buy again steaks (or buy services from you and you spend it again at the butcher). Right, endlessly, because $20 stay $20 nobody is taking a cut of 1-5%.
Now play this in your mind with credit cards, paypal, apple pay or whatever and you'll find that after a few times going back and forth all the money is at the payment provider because the fees ate all of the $20.

How can they force us into this scheme? Buy outlawing cash transactions step by step.

I have to add, when we talk about 1 BTC = 1mio USD I expect we are talking about 5 years +. And my point was merely to take the tendency that legal amounts for cash transactions are constantly lowered into Gyrsurs risk assessment when he plans such a step.

(off to watch Oilers vs Bruins)

If you are referring to things like localbitcoins, then possibly you may be right. But I personally would bet that by the time BTC is 1mio we'll have all sorts of AML in every country that forbids these kind of P2P transactions, at least for amounts larger than say a few hundred USD.

In my country the amount limits for legal cash transactions will be again reduced soon, and the hawks among the legislators are up to reduce it further.

When BTC goes 1mio, the tax authorities will have software that tells them exactly to which wallet an address holding coins belongs as bitserve already explained, there will be certainly no more "under the radar" by then latest. Some block explorers can do a good job on associating addresses to wallets already nowadays.
Also consider that when BTC goes to 1mio, you won't be able to cash out the smallest amount to fiat without KYC, I would consider that too.

Like bitserve I'd also strongly really recommend against such a 1000-split. Otherwise you need to go through a mixer or an exchange but these fees would kill your plan completely.

Writing from a tax paradise with regards to crypto coins it could be perceived as offensive and rude if I would say "just pay your taxes then", but it could save you some trouble and a lot of fees though I am not in your shoes and can't judge what taxes would eat away.

Do you offer any special listing conditions for coins that lost their home when Cryptopia, Novaexchange and Coinexchange shut down?

Thank you for your reply LeGaulois, you raise some valid points.


I was not trying to imply that this translates to some suspicious behaviour on their part, I don't think so. I believe it was thought to motivate me to deposit just NOW or even earlier. I can see no reason to suspend an account based on lack of activity (except forcing people into having some activity). While they possible thought that mail would lead me to make a deposit, it lead me immediately to requesting the removal of my account. My first thought when I got that mail was "Sheeesh, good I didn't deposit yet, they could have suspended my account while the deposit confirms".
Interesting that you mention FB, never been there so I didn't know but it looks like Youhodler and FB target a similar kind of audience.
I could conclude that Youhodler is probably a total legit business, but their strategy in dealing with prospective customers or investors doesn't fit me really and I do not plan to do business with them.



You are absolutely right, I have meanwhile updated my post to reflect that my withdraw hit my wallet after ~36hrs. To be honest I was never scared I won't get my BTC back at all, they seem legit by all means.
Regarding the interest being credited to my account, as you say I did slightly misinterpret their FAQ, they are factually totally correct and the 2nd of the month is still the "beginning of the month". I was however supposing that this is some job running on the first day of month automatically and got irritated when I checked.
With all that critics from me I'd like to point out, that the withdrawal from Blockfi came as promised without any fees, which I think is remarkable and generous.



I could rant for hours about how stupid these mobile interfaces are and how they keep you from getting things actually done. But since I'd be upsetting 99.9% percent of all people, I'll shut up and just stick with "I am too dumb for smartphones and I love the battery life and real connectivity that my Punkt gives me when I need it.".
(Yeah, I really need to drop that link whenever I can, as I believe I've got one of the best mobes available and like a prophet I feel like making people see the bright light too).



  Somewhat true, never used any casino in my life (virtual or brick&mortar) before, but since I am now invested in one I tried it with a few hundred of DOGE just too learn what everybody knows: The casino always wins in the long run  This in turn affirmed me with my decision to invest in their bankroll. Sex, gambling and undertaking are the only businesses that work the same no matter what the economic situation is as grandpa always told me. The missus somehow objected investments in the sex or undertaking business though I am stuck with casinos for the time being 

I have read this thread at the time it was posted and was very thankful for the pointers. So I decided to give few of the named platforms a whirl for investing, following are my experiences with these services.

Note that I was not interested in borrowing funds, but only in investing to earn some interest on my coins.
These are purely my views and factual experiences and neither investment advice nor any indepth reviews, just what I encountered while trying them.


Youhodler - https://www.youhodler.com
Signed up and verified with ID for KYC. Asked their support a few questions about withdraw fees and was impressed with the speed of replies.
Initially I didn't get to deposit coins and after about a week I received the following mail from them, titled "Your account may be suspended":


Ok, now that was conceived by me as very weird, threatening users with account suspension just because they didn't deposit early enough. For me this was the showstopper and I aborted my testing, deciding that I won't trust them any of my corn. Therefor I can't say anything about returns, withdraws or interest paid, but this mail totally turned me away from them.


Blockfi - https://www.blockfi.com
Signed up and verified with ID for KYC. Deposited 0.1 BTC around 8th December 2019 and it was immediately credited to my account after confirming onchain.
According to their FAQ I was expecting to see some interest paid to my account by end of December/beginning of January 2020:

Though on January 2nd I still didn't see any interest paid to my account and decided to end the trial with them so I issued a withdrawal request for my 0.1 BTC. They state on their website that withdrawals can take up to several days, they also sent out a newsletter saying that due to federal holidays loan and withdrawal requests may take up to 48hrs because - well they are on holidays. Interestingly they managed to send out three newsletters from 30th Dec to 1st Jan.
After more than 30 hours my withdrawal of 0.1 BTC still hasn't been processed, though meanwhile I got a mail reporting that I earned $2.72 for my investment from December 8th to end of month. Will update, if my withdrawal finally hits my wallet.

Quick divestment is obviously not possible at Blockfi and if BTC had pumped today I would feel pretty pissed.

On the positive side it has to be noted that the BTC withdrawal should be free of any tx or withdraw fees (offer valid for one withdraw per month, subsequent withdraws get charged a fee).
Blockfi seems to be affiliated or run by Gemini and I somehow would expect them to process withdrawals much quicker.

[Updated withdrawal status]: Not received (last checked 31 hours atfer requesting)
[Updated withdrawal status]: Received my withdrawal (w/o any tx-fees deducted) ~36hrs after requesting it

Celsius - https://celsius.network
Had been recommended from LTC foundation and here. So I decided to give it a try even so it can only be done with an Apple or Android phone as it soley comes as app. As I don't fancy any smartphone the missus had to try it together with me. Even we made sure to untick the checkbox that says that we want our interest paid in Celsius (we want LTC), we constantly got notifications about having earned some Celsius. Lost temper at some point with this fondleslab interface bullshit and withdrew the 5 LTC back to our wallet. This worked instantly and without problems. Bottom line: Doing serious business on a fondleslab is just monkey business, I can't really understand why people do this sort of things on little devices where one wrong swipe can lead to things going terribly wrong.
App my ass, that certainly was the last time I was doing such things on device that is primarily good for looking for sexpartners and shooting down angry birds.. (yeah, I am a lil bit mobe-agnostic as you might have guessed by now...)


Bitvest - https://bitvest.io
Studied the site as well as their BCT thread and created an account (no verification needed) and deposited 1 LTC to see how it works. Within ~10 days with compounded interest that grew to ~1.03 LTC which I divested and withdrew. Worked like a charm, within moments the LTC was back in my wallet.
Meanwhile after the initial test I deposited and invested more and have got some nice gains from it. As their site allows API access to check your investments state it is very easy to graph what your investment does (example is a 0.1 BTC investment from ~Dec 10):



As can be seen above, there are times when you lose on your investment when somebody grabs a large win, after all you invest in the bankroll of the casino. Still over time this gave the best returns for me and I feel most confident in a service that has a thread here (and great trust rating).

Next I'll give Crypto-Games a try, they also have a thread here, their trust rating is also fine and they also feature an API to constantly check your investment w/o loggin into the site.

I personally definitely favour the casinos to get something out of my coins while I HODL (as in don't sell) them.

Again, I am not endorsing any of these sites/services at all, I am just reporting my experience.
Though if you would like to tip me for posting this, please feel free to use the below referral links when signing up to one of the casinos (I am done with the other ones):

https://bitvest.io?r=137121

https://www.crypto-games.net?i=BNDI9s2BSV

HTH

Good morning,

The ticker revolving around my crystal ball clearly says $9248 (though the 8 at the end is somewhat blurry), therefor I'd like to reserve the spot at
$9201 - $9250

In case I win (which I will), I'll share my price with the unlucky person that lost his keys in a boating accident (oh, wait...).

I am looking for a trusted member who is verified on gate.io.
I need to sell one of my old coins which is only traded there and do not want to verify by passport just for this one sale.

The coins are not tainted in any way and have been mined by me many moons ago. We're talking about a market value of roughly $500

If you are a verified gate.io user and trusted member here, please let me know what commission you would like to get for selling my coins there. I have somewhere around 5% after all fees in my mind but am open for negotiations.

Thanks in advance.

Never mind, I was smart enough to sell my DOT when they reopened, but as it went down like a stone I couldn't dump all and to save on WD fees I didn't pull the resulting BTC out ASAP.
Probably somewhere between 0.2-0.3 lost (definitely as I see it, might have given a nice comfy chair to lean back for the liquidator while they watch our money go up in vapour).

Chain is at block #211463 here.
No new block since a few hours as somebody jiggled up the diff to ~30k.

You forgot the zero trading but huge withdrawal fees which is also part of that standard recipe.
Though I currently have no reason to not believe they are under attack. A DDoS attack is a rather bad cover-up for an exit scam.

Been there too, swapped parents spinning rust against SSDs, now they often think they forgot to shutdown because it boots so quick to login screen (Linux, as I have several medical certificates allowing me to stay clear of any MS products).

The best way to accelerate Windows is at escape velocity.

Dass die Cold Wallets auf einem Server waren hoffe ich nicht, aber bei Cryptopia ist schon alles möglich und es würde viel erklären... Kalt ist aber definitiv was anderes.