Ever since I was a little kid, I always looked forward to the ice hockey tournament in the Winter Olympics. Considering everything that has been going on with COVID-19 and matches being abandoned in the NHL, I am not even sure the regular season will end in time for the start of the tournament. That means an ice hockey tournament without the world's best players. In other terms, a sack of shit.

The NHL calendar has always been in conflict with the IIHF and I guess that will never change. Imagine playing a Football World Cup without players from the Premier League for example? Just awful...

If you want to pay the finder's fee in Bitcoin, no need to overcomplicate things. You can sign a message from the address that holds the coins with the correct date and information what the money will be used for. Then again, will the people who see the ad know what a signed message means? If you think they will, do it. If not, just add a phone number and information that the finder's fee will be paid out in Bitcoin.

You can post it on social media or an ad on a local radio station. If your town has some significant bulletin boards in some locations, print it out and place the notifications there. You can also tape the ads to light poles around town.

Trying to hide your identity won't really work. It's not like someone who doesn't know you or your family would pay +$4000 to get a stranger's pickup back.  

Actually, you are right. I made the mistake of adding the wrong fiat symbol because whenever we talk about Bitcoin, it's usually converted to a USD equivalent, not a EUR one, for example. I should have said €49-€59. I think I got mine for €49 or maybe even €39 on a very good discount.

Just a correction. El Salvador didn't abandon their own currency because they didn't have one in the first place. El Salvador has been using the USD since 2001 according to Wikipedia, and on top of that they added Bitcoin - their second national currency.

It's probably going to be at least one South American country (maybe even two) with a ruined economy. It's very doubtful that we will see a western nation do it.

Like so many other people before you, you are probably suggesting a block size increase right? But you wont get much support for that. Anything that negatively affects the laws and pillars of the Bitcoin blockchain won't be accepted lightly, or at all. Bigger blocks means bigger storage requirements, which equals to less decentralization. Less decentralization = NO.

Have you received bitcoin to that wallet from other customers successfully in the past or is this the first time you have tried it and ran into a problem?
If this is your first attempt, I suggest you immediately stop getting paid in Bitcoin until people can help you to figure out what the problem is. It's for your own good to avoid loss of coins.

You could also try to check if the address that received the coins belongs to your wallet. To do that, first activate the console from the view menu. After that, enter the following command and see if it returns a TRUE or FALSE status:

I hope the command is still the same for the newer versions of Electrum as well. I know that it worked in the past.

The picture he posted here is the transparent version of the Ledger Nano S. I don't think there is any additional protection to it. Unless he has other pictures elsewhere.

The oldest achieve I could find is from January 2017. Back then, the Trezor One used to cost $99. The Nano S was sold for $49-59 if I remember correctly. On discount, it was possible to get it for $39, maybe even less. Hence its popularity.

So don't press it too hard.
It's similar to your girl's or your kid's hand. If you press it too hard, it might break. Don't do it.

@0x75
There are a lot of things that you should learn if you want to use Bitcoin. Bitcoin transaction fees do not depend on the amount you are sending or withdrawing. They depend on the weight and size of your transaction. The size depends on the number of inputs, outputs, types of addresses that are used, the script, etc. So there is no such thing as a minimum €5 fee in Bitcoin. Maybe LocalBitcoins charges its customers €5 per withdrawal, but that has got nothing to do with the network. It's not part of the protocol but each website or centralized service provider can decide what fees to take. 

The answer to your problem lies in one of the questions that people have asked you in this thread. Why don't you check them one by one and answer them?
If the transaction was sent to an address that doesn't belong to you, there is nothing you can do. BTC transactions are irreversible. The only person who can return the coins is the one who has received them. If it's a scammer/hacker who caused the loss, you are not going to get your coins back.

If it wasn't your address, why did you send the coins to it?
Always make sure you double and triple check the receiving address before you confirm a transaction. It seems that you could be infected with a clipboard hijacker malware that replaces a copied address of yours to one that belongs to a scammer. You can check that by taking a random BTC address, copying it, and pasting it in a new txt document on your computer, for example. If the address changes and is different from the one you copied, it's a clipboard malware.

If you want to learn and understand what you did wrong, start from the beginning and answer the questions members have asked you.
You didn't lose money because of Electrum. You lost it because of a mistake you made. 

I agree. However, which group do you think is bigger? Those who know how to go about using paper wallets or those who could mess it up somehow? You might not even belong to either of those groups, but you just don't want to commit to the task of creating such solutions. 

Exactly! I have to quote myself here:

I already explained myself in my next post after the one you quoted. I was making fun of the idea of being the digital owner of a post or a piece of art/drawing that is publicly available on the Internet for anyone to use and do with it as they please. It seems so foolish to me and worth nowhere near the inflated prices that these pieces are getting sold for. More precisely, the prices that we see, but in reality it can be the same person paying himself out of a different account and then selling it to a third-party with a fake 50% discount. A 50% discount from the price he paid himself.

They offer almost no volleyball markets whatsoever. I noticed that at the beginning but thought it would change with time. Mostly you can only place a bet on the full-time results and nothing else. Things like handicaps are missing or the total number of sets are missing. Those markets are available on other sportsbooks. And very often when the match is in-play, you can't place live bets on volleyball at all.

Maybe it wasn't supported at the time you purchased your Trezor device, but Axie Infinity is now natively supported by the two Ledger devices. The data leaks had no affect on the crypto assets though whatsoever.

I think the overall capacity before the latest firmware upgrade is 144kb and that it drops to 138kb after the update is done. Not dramatic, but somewhat of a noticeable difference sure. I still haven't performed the upgrade on my end and I am not in a hurry to do it.

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9 users have taken part in this thread so far and shared some feedback regarding the wallets they own. From those who did, 8 users own a Ledger Nano S.

Možda je u pitanju bila bolest, korona ili čak smrtni slučaj u obitelji. Hhampuz je korektan kad mu se na vrijeme javi. Ako je nešto ozbiljno, siguran sam da korisnika kojeg dobro poznaje iz prethodnih kampanja neće tek tako prekrižiti. Ako se dobro sjećam, i Arwin je bio u dugotrajnoj FortuneJack kampanji do prije par godina.

Vidim da se je u međjuvremenu aktivirao i da od četvrtka redovno piše. Kakvi god da su problemi bili izgleda da ih je rješio.

Not really a fair comparison. How could a paper do that?

Consider this scenario:
You said you have a printer without WIFI. Maybe you bought it with cash, maybe with a credit card that shows your real name. That information is stored somewhere on a server. The shop gets hacked and the data gets leaked. Does that make your product (the printer) worse? Would you stop using it and throw it away?

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Although Andreas is advocating for the use of hardware wallets (I think he even mentioned ColdCard in the video), the point is to stop using individual private keys and back them up. Too many mistakes have happened that have caused people to lose money by not making a proper backup of their private key, using bad software solutions that send change to a different address whose private key you don't have, etc. Instead of that use HD wallets and forget about single keys. Hardware wallets happen to be a good compromise between security and simplicity.

Ta Bitcoinova volatilnost će uvijek kod ljudi buditi skepticizam i neki će ga smatrati lošom investicijom. Ali imaju dvije strane te medalje. Kao što Bitcoin može da padne za 50-80%, tako može i da naraste sa $5.000 na $50.000 ili skoro $70.000 kako smo i sami vidjeli. Ljudi međutim u obzir uzimaju samo ovu mogućnost pada. A s druge strane da Bitcoin dobije samo 2% u godini dana rekli bi pa šta će mi to? Mogu onda oročiti novac u banci za skoro isti povrat i profit...

@Daniel91
Čini se da je taj tvoj kompanjon imao pozitivnije iskustvo sa Bitcoinom nego što misli. Ako je istina da su ta sredstva bila potrebna da pokrene sopstveni biznis, Bitcoin kojeg je posjedovao mu je pomogao u tome. U suprotnome, mogao je da bude rob banke koja će da mu da kredit. 

Upravo sam mislio da napišem par redova u vezi ovog slučaja ali bio si brži.
Lijepa vijest, iako još uvijek nije pravomoćna. Uvijek mi je drago kad nastradaju ovakvi remetiteljski faktori kakva je UniCredit banka s kojom sam i sam imao nekih problema. Kad sam se bavio nekim freelancingom imao sam kod njih aktivan devizni račun. Zove me jedan dan šefica banke da me pita ko sam i čime se bavim i zašto dobivam uplate iz raznih dijelova svijeta. Objašnjavam joj šta radim, ko mi šalje uplate. Kaže gospođa da to ne može tako, gdje mi je ugovor, gdje su fakture, moraćemo mi to istražiti i provjeriti. Sumnja se na pranje novca i finansiranje terorističkih aktivnosti. Poslje provjere kad ništa nisu našli (pošto ne može da prizna da ništa nisu našli) kaže možda je bolje da mi ipak prekinemo saradnju...ccc.

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Zanimlivo da Bitminer Factory već postoji od 2017 godine kao mining pool iz Italije. Možda je ova kompanije iz Gradiške koja nije nikad saživjela imala neke veze s njima. Samo me zanima zašto nisu promjenili banku kad im je UniCredit počela odbijati priliv sredstava i započeli saradnju sa nekom manje ograničenom bankom.

He is saying that it is not needed to keep track of individual private keys (on paper, steel or otherwise) and their addresses in today's age of recovery phrases. When Bitcoin was still in its beginning, it didn't have 12/24 word recovery phrases. Now it does and we use HD wallets. Why make backups of a single private key when you can take note of the recovery phrase and back up every private key that can be derived from it. That's what he is talking about.

Trezor Model T is safe as long as proper precautions are taken. There is no such thing as 100% security, and usually a user error causes the loss of funds.

How long have you had your Trezor before this incident happened and where did you buy it?
Have you used or installed anything out of the ordinary on the PC  where you connect your hardware wallet to or where a seed phrase is digitally stored?

Let's start from the beginning.

What software are you using to receive that Bitcoin? Since you posted in the Electrum sub, is it Electrum?
Post here the exact address from your browser history where the software was downloaded and installed from.
Did you verify the signatures of the downloaded Electrum app by following a guide like this, for example > https://bitcoinelectrum.com/how-to-verify-your-electrum-download/.

Check the receiving address on a blockchain explorer like Blockstream or Blockchair to confirm if the coins have been received or not.

Check your LocalBitcoins history and doublecheck the receiving address correctly. Is it exactly the same as the one you generated and wanted to send to?

Can you remember anything from those days? For example, do you remember downloading a software called Bitcoin QT where you were required to save a wallet file to recover your coins? Or were your coins stored on an exchange? Back in 2010, Mt. Gox was still around. Bitcoinmarket.com was also launched at some point in 2010. Do any of those sound familiar?

If you think the coins might have been stored on an exchange, search the emails you used back in those days for terms such as "exchange" "crypto", "bitcoin" to see the oldest results that pop up.