Then you are good. I advise you move your funds though, since if somebody has his hands on your hardware wallet, he can brute force it and access your money (it is a possibility).


Yes. The safest is to use a new Hardware wallet for this, it can be initialized with your seed. It can be done with (software) wallets too, (at least for BTC it can be done and I guess that there are smart enough wallets for ETH too) but it's less safe.

I can't tell though what's the best course of action. If it's just lost, maybe buying a new hardware wallet is best (although it may take time to arrive to you). If it's stolen or there's a high chance that it ended up on others' hands, I'd move the funds asap.

What happens when you want to buy a soda and have only a 20$ bill? Don't you pay the entire 20$ and receive 19$ back as change?
Well, this guy had a 82.22624290 BTC "bill", and, although it's not a nice round number, the concept is identical.

If the 51% attack goes through, probably a hard fork will have to be forced and most probably the miners will leave those pools.
This means that the cost is a high risk to go out of business. It doesn't look like zero cost to me.

20% won't come easy, but the growth should be exponential.
So even though 20% is still far, 40% will come much much faster afterwards.


You are both right and both wrong. People don't understand nor care how Visa works, but it's extremely user friendly (and yes, many don't use even Visa...)
So the wallets have to be even more user friendly and fool proof. Then... even those who rick and come use Bitcoin get surprised by the volatility and the tx fees.

For the merchants it may be easier, they just need a payment processor that accepts Bitcoin and transfers them fiat into the bank account (please don't expect all merchants install bitcoin software for payments and also handle tax for bitcoin vs fiat), so maybe a good first step would be to get more known payment processors accept Bitcoin (and maybe also don't make the prices 10% bigger if paid in BTC).

If so, average Joe will know the bitcoin is an investment vehicle and he also can pay easily with it (he will see it as payment option everywhere he pays). It may make him curious enough to try it.

It doesn't have to be a particularly good read in order to become a .. reference.
Of course, you have to pay attention and find a way to post those domains in a way you won't just create back links to them and help their ranking.
And of course, you have to automate the process.

All in all, it can be more work than the reward, but it can become a reference site people come to get and updated list from, a list for domains they can put into host file as 0.0.0.0 or something similar (maybe you even provide such a file too, but make sure it's not a static link, else nobody will visit your page)

Indeed, Taproot lock in should happen in less than 2 weeks. And indeed, at the current state of the market, it could be just the news we need to make it move in the right direction.
On the other hand, I fear that it might just not be enough, especially as Taproot will become active only in... November.
So as much as I'd love to see you're right, I'd love to see some other good news too and maybe together they'll give the market the kick it needs.

1. Nu stiu daca ETH mai merge pe PoW, adica minat cu GPU, dar voi considera ca tu te-ai interesat de treaba asta.

2. Sustin cu tarie ceea ce s-a zis cu minatul pe laptop: il strici aiurea si castigi niste centi, poate chiar mai mult decat dai pe curent. Dar na, daca vrei doar sa vezi ce viteze obtii si sa faci un calcul scurt, poate ca merge. Legat de upgrade, vezi de trecerea ETH de pe PoW pe PoS, s-ar putea sa fi pierdut trenul.

3. Din ce am vazut pe configuratia minerului (vezi aici), ar trebui sa ai ceva de genul

Iar din ce vad in linia ta de comanda, pare-se ca ai unit cumva adresa de ETH cu cea de mail si worker. Poate ca n-ar strica sa folosesti totul in config, ca la sfarsitul paginii minerului sa nu ai surprize.

4. In poza pe care ai pus-o se vede o adresa de mail. Daca e reala, poate ca ar trebui sa scapi rapid de poza aia si eventual sa pui alta. Ca nu stii cand incep sa-ti vina mailuri despre te miri ce...

Bine ai (re)venit!
Este foarte greu sa recomanzi altuia in ce altcoin sa investeasca si nu este recomandat. Fiecare trebuie sa isi faca bine temele incat sa investeasca in cunostinta de cauza.
Sunt intr-adevar monezi care s-ar putea sa creasca mai bine decat Bitcoin, dar nu poti sti sigur. Nici pe departe, Si sunt clar mai volatile decat Bitcoin. Si la altcoins te poti trezi mult mai usor intr-o bula de pump-and-dump si sa pierzi.

Deci, daca tot stii cu ce se mananca, si eu zic tot Bitcoin.

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thank you!

Go to a block explorer, like https://blockchair.com/ or https://mempool.space/, enter the address there and see if there are indeed funds on that address.
If that's the only address with funds and they're there, the things could go easier.


The wallet.dat file size is not necessarily a proper indicator. And if you have more than one wallet.dat on the device you no longer can be 100% sure which is the good one. It's not uncommon to only think you backed up the correct wallet.dat. However, updating core should not overwrite wallet.dat


I'd start with trying to see if there are indeed funds on the expected address. Because if so, you'll be able to access the funds without waiting for the entire blockchain (by using a SPV wallet).

First of all, this kind of questions belong to Bitcoin Technical Support. Try to move the topic there (bottom-left, move topic), you have better chance to get better answers there.


Keep in mind that the full blockchain is around 400 GB and with normal settings that's to be also saved.
If the sync stopped because of the lack of space, you may try to run it in pruned mode, although I would go for this only as last resort (you still have to download the full blockchain and if a resync is needed it means one more full download, not just resync from disk).


If you want to check the files should be, by default in the paths written here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory
The most important is to backup wallet.dat (just you have to make sure you backup the correct wallet.dat, the one with funds).


I don't know if listunspent is available, but imho it could be one possible direction to check for the address(es) with funds.

I usually don't fully read T&C. I do "scan" though it, but that's all.
And this means that I've missed most of the times the requirements. Sometimes I've heard about them in the casino/bonus topic, sometimes I've heard too late.

Maybe slightly off-topic, but one specific case was not long ago, a casino wanted a advertising campaign and I've missed the part the the earnings have to be wagered first in order to withdraw.
If I wouldn't have missed that bit, I would have not do the job. (I was quite tight with both time and money and gambling is never 100% sure.)
I've done my part (I am a man of my word), but I've obviously gambled away quite a big part of the earning (because, as much as I enjoy gambling, my luck is just awful), so it ended up like an unnecessary waste of time.


I do like the places there the bonus is clearly stated from start how it's "handled". I've played quite a lot of times (especially longer ago) with free money, but I knew what to expect and I entered only when I had the proper time to enjoy the game.

All in all, I am not at all against the rules for withdrawal of the bonus money. They clearly make sense. Just imho they have to be said also where the bonus is advertised.

Well, he talks many times only "for the audience". And also he may have some coding for what he wants to say.
He knows that everybody listens, want to get any tiny big of clue about what his strategy is going to be, and obviously profit.

We cannot know if "a complaint about tyres" may actually mean that he can change 5 turns later than discussed, for example. Or maybe it's just "everything is fine".

In my country paper money is used way more than you'd imagine. But I still buy Bitcoin, since I expect world to ... evolve. As simple as that.

Eu cred ca exagerezi. Mult. Chiar si dintre "noi" vasta majoritate nu foloseste mixere si merge prin case de schimb centralizate. Dpdv al KYC PayPal nu este atat de diferit de Coinbase, de exemplu. Si din nou, unii retrag acei bani si altii ii pastreaza la Coinbase, ceea ce ma astept sa se intample si cu PayPal.


Daca vrei neaparat sa vezi conspiratii peste tot, le vai gasi pana la urma. Nu cred ca e o abordare sanatoasa (te rog sa nu o iei ca pe o ofensa, nu asta e intentia); nu spun ca as avea dreptate, dar eu vad mai degraba un fel de spirit de turma (bazat in primul rand pe lacomie) decat un masterplan sau o conspiratie.

I expect them be high. That's how PP works after all.
But imho it should not be a problem, PP works with different audience than Coinbase. If one will get to withdraw to his own wallet, he may get to have a better perspective on Bitcoin ecosystem and next time he may not be afraid to use Coinbase or maybe even P2P at some point...

As you said: the gain as awareness will be huge. With the rest... I guess that we need patience.

Nu neg ca sunt nesimtiti pana la cer. Dar eu vad un beneficiu enorm daca vor face acest pas.
Foarte multi nu au auzit de Coinbase, Bitstamp, Binance, Kraken si ceilalti. Ce sa mai zic de Bisq, LocalBitcoins, .. Li se par niste firme obsure care se ocupa cu "chestia aia pentru drogati si hackeri", adica Bitcoin.
Dar cumva tanjesc sa puna si ei mana pe un pic din borcanul cu miere. Si daca un serviciu financiar global si recunoscut nu numai ca vinde Bitcoin, ci ii si lasa sa retraga in pormoneul lor acele monezi, unii (eu sper ca multi) vor explora un ppic mai mult si vor ajunge sa inteleaga cu ce se mananca Bitcoin.

Thank you.


It's the way the markets/exchange are done. That's all.
I'm not convinced that you can get a better answer, I'll keep an eye though  


I am also "fond" of a few altcoins there and believe me, I've seen now and then (especially in my early beginning when I paid more attention to altcoins than Bitcoin) discussions for decoupling from Bitcoin. Nothing worthy has happened in that direction.


There's a mistake here: Bitcoin "believers" and greedy "investors" (speculators) who can't wait to cash out are not the same thing.


Central banks are expected to compete with USDT, not with Bitcoin, actually.

You seem to be overlooking exactly what I meant as answer. I'll try to broaden that.

They are not shadows, but most of their price fluctuation makes sense only if you look at it in price vs Bitcoin.
There are far too few coins that can be bought directly for fiat.
Most of the altcoins and tokens can be traded against Bitcoin and many day traders do this, making the coins look like depending on Bitcoin.
Most Bitcoiners also don't take altcoins serious. But it's altcoins' community who has to do something about it if they think they can do it, for example make their own exchanges where Bitcoin is not accepted and only their coins vs fiat will work. Then they'll break the chain and either go out of the shadow, either (more likely) disappear.

Is this a better answer?

First of all, the rule has it's exceptions on every price fluctuation. It has happened that Bitcoin has fallen and certain altcoin was (still) rising.
But I think that Bitcoin price is a great indicator of the money flow in the crypto markets, especially as most altcoins can still be bought mainly only if you buy another coin first (which is usually Bitcoin).

So if investors decide to get out, they'll get out of altcoins and bitcoin too, hence the whole market will feel that.
And since the value of altcoin's in circulation is much smaller, they feel much heavier such a negative move.

If investors come in, it's a little different. Most will invest only in Bitcoin for being most known and for being advertised as less risky than altcoins.
Altcoins will receive funds later and in smaller amounts, but when that happens, again, since their value is not as big, they may get very nice growth.

And I'll come back to the fact most altcoins are bought by buying Bitcoin first. This imho makes imho unnatural to reference the altcoin price in USD and it should be in Bitcoin. Then you'd see the real fluctuations and may give you something close to an answer.