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).

I've got a similar experience many years ago. I was a student back then, I've been receiving money from my parents on a monthly basis and that day I've lost all the money for that month and some extra for buying winter clothes for myself.

The only lie was that I didn't find clothes I like yet, but for more than a month I've eaten almost exclusively bread with lard so that I've received new money next month and I've also put aside enough money for those clothes. It was not pleasant and it was a good experience for "if it's too good to be true...", since it was no proper/fair gambling in my case, it was a scam disguised in gambling at the corner of the street.

August is usually a slow month. And past month was good, so August had no chance to compete with it. However:
I don't say that this is an ultimate solution, but one idea could be to change (at some point) the look/colors of the signatures/avatars, if it's you who has done the graphics and the effort for change is small (else it may not worth it for my crazy idea).
I mean that there may be that people already got used with your current advertising and don't pay that much attention to it like one month ago.
It may be just a worthless crazy idea, but I thought I'd share it.

It may also be that you may need more people/posts in the altcoin/token areas...

The culprit post is archived and linked, the culprit post is also quoted in this topic... it's like OP would really love to advertise the scammer...
Of course, one has to... have a certain death wish to try out that, but on the other hand, it was already the same with the initial topic imho...

Money is money, no matter it's transferred as bitcoin, altcoin stable coin, whatever...
In some cases a casino may attract more players by implementing more payment methods - more altcoins - because for each and everyone the best to spend is the one he already has at hand.
Of course, Bitcoin is king. Of course, some will prefer stable coins because they work/think in dollars, or course that especially when bitcoin's mempool is full, most known altcoins will be preferred. But really, I think that casinos should simply allow all the coins that can be traded at an exchange. Or at least the ones with bigger trading volumes.

Whenever I needed that I unpacked everything, updated the file, packed everything again... and it was not slow.
But again, this is not the "pro" solution, I clearly know that.

I guess that what @mocacinno has shown is probably perfect.

However, as a super-simple method with similar results, isn't 7zip with AES 256 encryption good enough? Imho it's much easier to use...

FYI, this same topic is already discussed at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5354532

"Microsoft to use Blockchain technology to fight privacy piracy."

There, I've fixed it for you 

You can prove that they were sent from your wallet, but you cannot prove that you were owning the destination wallet. I mean that for proving it's yours you need the same thing as you'd spend the coins, which I'm afraid you don't (of course, unless you manage to recover that wallet you've sent your coins to).

I would start with telling him read the white paper. Or, at least, most of it. It's only a couple of pages and it tells that it's a currency, what is aimed for and how it should work. I think that this would be a good start.

Then, explaining that the max number of coins is fixed and known makes it an asset with the price bound to grow and this is the reason for many speculating on its price. Forex and stock markets are similar, but with stronger regulations and smaller price variations. So it's not gambling/casino.

The software parts are upgraded - in a way or another - since Bitcoin was created. It's not easy indeed because of the consensus, but it's possible and actually done. Latest change is Taproot which was accepted and will go live this November. Keep in mind that it's normal for a software working with multi-billion worth of money take longer to get updated.

Mixing up facts with news and various coins and blockchains is a sure direction for failing get a proper idea what is what. Keep the discussion only on Bitcoin and after that is pretty much clear, only then move on to other blockchains, coins, tokens, NFTs and whatever (of which, keep in mind, most are just made to get your money hence it's better to avoid to insist much on them).

Not at all. The code doesn't expect at all the actions be "uniform and certified". That's why the code contains consensus rules.
Since the others have the proper code, their code will simply reject your block if it didn't follow the rules.

This means that whatever malicious you do, it will either remain local if you altered the consensus rules, either it will be dropped too when the correct blockchain will become longer than yours.
Keep in mind that you cannot really alter older blocks...

Nu as baga neaparat mana-n foc pentru utilizarea Monero de catre politicienii corupti, sau cel putin nu la scara larga (si clar nu inca), cred ca asta e un fel de vis/ideal pe termen lung.
Sa nu uitam ca tinutul banilor la saltea, sau ca aur in peretii vilei, sau in opere de arta este mai aproape de ce stiu ei ca pot face.
Cred ca e treaba noastra sa facem Bitcoin, Monero si altele sa devina atat de populare incat politicienii sa afle ca au si astfel de optiuni. Cred ca suna mai rau decat este, dar nu stiu cum sa o formulez altfel  

My first choice for bitcoin wallet must have quite a list of features:
1. It must work with hardware wallet. And this also clearly means it's non custodian.
2. It must be light (SPV) wallet since I don't have a 24/7 node running and I don't have the patience to wait too much until it syncs.
3. Coin control and custom fee are pretty much a must. RBF capability is also nice to have.
4. Clean interface.

My main wallet is Electrum for Windows.
As a secondary wallet which I use for tracking in/out and for emergencies I use Mycelium for Android.

Afaik WD black or blue are not designed for long term 24/7 use. Indeed WD black should have very good performance, it was my favorite 10 yeas ago, but for devices that usually sleep at night.
I do know though that it can easily go for many days without stop, since I also kept my computer running for months (torrents, folding@home, dabbling with altcoin mining) and the HDD is still pretty much fine. But it was months, not years and it was not receiving new data to write every couple of minutes. And I would not compare a WD black 2010 with a WD black 2021 (as reliability). So I don't know if it's a good choice. If you ask WD they'll probably say it's not.

Actually the list of non-custodial wallets is bigger, one light wallet that comes into my mind is Sparrow, for example.
However, I suggest that if one has life changing funds he should not keep them on a hot wallet, even if it's non custodial. Life changing funds should be stored offline (paper wallet, steel, seed backup, HW, cold storage, name it).