What's been happening with the Nano X model is awful. My personal opinion is that it's being done on purpose by a group of dissatisfied or unqualified workers who are assembling the devices. Those battery hardware problems weren't there in the beginning. I think they started appearing after those database leaks. Ledger was probably hit financially as a result of those leaks. With the pandemic and lose of reputation, they aren't generating the profits they did in the previous years. Again this is my opinion. As a consequence, they either had to let some of their people go or lower the wages of those still working on the devices. Like in every company that goes through financial difficulties, it's not going to be the directors who feel it, it will hit those at the bottom working the assembly line.

That's good. It means Ledger is doing their part in convincing people to not use shitcoins and stick with bitcoin.

Seriously though, I think we have established in the past that Ledger Live and Ledger were never meant to be used as a wallet to store hundreds and even dozens of altcoins and tokens. Many issues occur due to various ERC-20 tokens. For those you have MetaMask, MEW, etc. I can only mention my own experience which involves never keeping more than 4-5 different assets on the device with no serious issues to report. If the problem was that widespread, I seriously doubt that I just got lucky or that God watches over me and protects me from software bugs.

You were asked this before but you never provided an answer. How did you pay this person who was selling you Bitcoin? You said that you two were located in different countries. That means face-to-face meetings can be ruled out. I hope you weren't sending him cash via a 3rd party courier or something like that. Did you use fiat in some form and how? Bank, payment processors such as PayPal, Skrill, gift cards, Western Union. Traditional financial institutions require KYC on their customers. Or was the seller maybe paid with other cryptocurrencies?

I saw that you posted a phone number in one of your latest posts. Is that the number you were initially looking for? If not and you still have the link to the website it was originally posted on, maybe there is a cached version of it in Google's cache or Achieve.org. Check here and look for it.

I think that's a bit exaggerated. They messed up big time with the database leakages, but they aren't the first nor the last company that will have their site/database hacked. Future events can't be predicted based on what happened in the past. I hope for the sake of everyone that a similar leak won't happen to a different hardware wallet producer. Somehow it seems to have become personal for you. Or maybe that's the feeling I am getting from reading your posts when Ledger is being mentioned. I hope I will never have to find out if you would attack other manufacturers the same way because that would mean another big leak happened somewhere.     

It sure is. If you can set something like that up, it's better than delivering valuable items that have to do with crypto and your financials to your doorstep.

OmegaStarScream is buying a Nano S. I have had the Nano S for years and have never experienced the firmware breaking anything. One upgrade did wipe the device and reset it to factory settings. Each new update takes up more space from the already limited internal memory, but that's the compromise you have to make for buying the cheaper and older version. I still think the Nano S is better than the X model for various reasons: No battery, charging issues, Bluetooth, and the most recent problems with pin connectors or overheating you made the community aware of.   

Word #3 has still not been uncovered. Try your luck with that one if you want.

Coinjoin is correct, yes.

It may or may not be, I don't know. I asked you in my previous post what that term means. It doesn't matter because it's not the word I was looking for. The point of the game is not to fill the spaces with any letters to create words that fit. You are guessing one specific term per line.

Bitcoin's very limited smart contract capabilities would make that very difficult to create. I don't have the needed knowledge to determine whether or not it's impossible though.

If I am a gamer, why would I want want to play blockchain-based games? For the potential to earn money? In that case, I am playing for the wrong reasons. Why not just buy and invest in Bitcoin? I never liked the buy-to-play model that many games seem to have adopted now. You purchase the game, then you are asked to buy in-game items to advance and get better.

Make something like Hitman or PES run on the blockchain.  

If what you and o_e_l_e_o are saying regarding data extraction is true (and I assume you both know what you are talking about), that would mean that open-source operating systems are equally vulnerable as close-source ones. It makes no difference what OS you are using when we are talking about extracting data from a computer's hard drive, for example. 

I always wait a little bit when it comes to installing Ledger updates. That goes for firmware updates, app updates, or LL updates. Especially firmware upgrades shouldn't be rushed unless a serious vulnerability has been discovered and patched in the newest version. You always want to wait and see if some bugs or problems pop up that need to be fixed first, and I would rather not be on the receiving end of such issues. 

That's unfortunate. You speak Arabic so I assume you are located in a Middle Eastern country. Of course, I could be wrong. But if you are, maybe you can check with one of their official resellers for the Middle East.

Janbal LTD and Phoenix World Electronic Trading LLC are both mentioned as part of the Ledger network and are located in the United Arab Emirates. You can check the resellers from other locations just in case you reside somewhere else. It's not the same as purchasing directly from the manufacturer, but it's an option worth considering.   

Wrong, sorry. Gnosis as in the Ethereum-based prediction market or does the term mean also something else? 

It does fit but that wasn't the word I was looking for.

Distributed ledger, shard, block height, and virgin bitcoin are correct! The term "emission" is wrong though.

Let's see what the next guesses are... Only two words remain.

Here are the new terms for Round #4.
Happy hunting!


1.   distributed ledger
2.   shard
3.   consensus algorithm
4.   block height
5.   coinjoin
6.   virgin bitcoin


* Members of all ranks can take part and guess the terms.

I wouldn't bother and waste time doing this. The exchange won't reveal identifiable information about their customers to just about anyone. If they did, what would prevent me from contacting an exchange you use with a made-up story of how you scammed me and deposited the stolen coins on their site (assuming that I know which address you sent money from and to which exchange)?

OP needs to get law enforcement involved if Bitcoin and crypto is legal in his country, and they are the ones who have to request information on the thief/scammer. If bitcoin and crypto is illegal in his cousin's place of residence, she could get into more trouble reporting the incident to the police.   

That's the way those platforms are supposed to be used hence the name "exchange". Unfortunately, too many people who can't bother to spend some time to create safer crypto storage options use them as wallets for their coins. When something bad happens, than it's everyone else's fault, crypto and bitcoin sucks, and the whole movement is a scam.

Keeping your coins in a web wallet is equally bad as storing them on an exchange if you ask me. An open-source and non-custodial desktop wallet with a proven track record that is installed on a malware-free computer is clearly a better option.

That's for sure. I don't think they are happy with the restrictions they were forced to place on their customer's accounts. But they were pushed into a corner and simply have to comply. Now it's a gamble who will be the next exchange to face a similar fate.

Nemam taj wallet niti nekog iskustva sa NTF-ima, ali javili ti se neka greška kao razlog ili objašnjenje što transakcija ne prolazi? Ako da, zaljepi da imamo bolji uvid u problem. Provjeri da u međuvremenu nije izašao neki update aplikacije gdje je taj problem uklonjen.

Možda više informacija možeš pronaći na njihovom Reddit kanalu:
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnjinCoin/

Napravi upit ili preleti postove da vidiš jel neko imao istih problema kao i ti.

Kriminalne arapske bande po Njemačkoj starce varaju i lažno se predstavljaju kao trgovci skupocjenih tepiha. Pokazuju im slike, obečavaju sve i svašta, uzmu pare, i nikad se više ne jave. I to traje godinama i još će trajati.

Ne tako davno sam čitao slučaj dvojice likova koji su se predstavljali kao inspektori. Žrtvama objasne da su operativnim saznanjima doznali da se u njihovoj blizini nalazi opasna banda lopova koja pljačka kuće i stanove. Kako bi zaštitili svoju imovinu predlažu da njima predaju nakit, novac i ostale vrijednosti a oni će to odnjeti i spremiti u neki trezor. Ako hoćeš pogodi jednom jesu li mnogi pali na tu foru.

Sigurno bi ostao na forumu. Mislim da trenutni članovi ovog foruma nude puno bolja rješenja za razne probleme od onoga što se može naći na društvenim mrežama. Ne znam za druge, ali meni je to baš bitno. Volim da čitam to što se piše i brzinu kojom se većinu toga riješi. Društvene mreže me kao takve ne privlače previše. Stack Overflow je također stranica sa odličnim članovima i rješenjima za one koje imaju probleme. 

I am not sure what to believe. I wanted to know for myself, but I give up. You are making accusations against efialtis, he is making accusations against you and your team. Nothing is backed by any kind of evidence. The fact is that no scam accusations have been created against any party. That's it from me. Over and out as the idiom goes. 

I don't think you can do much to help those who participate in bounties. They know that there is a big possibility they will receive worthless tokens or no tokens at all. They still participate because those few dollars (that they sometimes get) means a lot in their part of the world. Many use multiple accounts and some managers who run the campaigns don't really care. It's all about getting the message out their as much as possible. Promotion and presence, especially on social media.

Other bounty hunters are new to the scene and believe there is great money to be earned from bounty campaigns. They are not going to read scam accusations and research the projects they participate in because they already see it as very rewarding.

Try and find scammers if you are interested in that kind of thing. Find those who have scammed in the past and are back looking for more victims to scam.

Have you given any more thoughts to awarding the members of your affiliate program who helped you in the past? You mentioned that you considered some sort of award for them.

I will keep asking about the affiliate program even in the new ANN thread until you respond. When you decided to close the program, did you announce it anywhere and did you communicate it to the affiliate team? Since the affiliate page was unavailable for 2 months (according to what was said previously), did anyone know that it was unavailable because it got shot down?   

That's the supply and demand effect you just described. The demand rises or stays the same at worse, but the supply keeps decreasing. it's true what you are saying. Not that long ago I read a post somewhere that says that the amount of bitcoin on cryptocurrency exchanges hasn't been this low since the 2017/2018 era. That news came out around bitcoin's recent rise to the $67k mark. Even with a new all-time high, people (especially miners) don't want to sell. That tells you that the community is confident that the price will increase even further.

In addition to that, many merchants use payment processors that immediately swap crypto to fiat for various reasons. So, even if a store accepts crypto, their end-goal is converting the coins to fiat.

A modern-looking GUI and design. For the older generations who are into Bitcoin for years already, the way the software looks isn't that big of an issue. But newer generations will look at it, and say nah, this doesn't look right. For increased adoption, it's their opinions that have to be take into consideration.  

I would love to see a wallet with a detailed walkthrough and on-boarding process for newbies. Not just FAQs, DOCs, and videos explaining how to use the wallet to send, receive, etc. I would like a testnet environment similar to what some exchanges have to teach users how to trade on their platform. A testing area that users can go through with testnet coins that shows them how to generate an address, how to send and receive coins, select the appropriate fees, double check your entries... And they should be able to do all those things in that test environment, not just read about them.

I have to go with Electrum here. A force of habit and its trustworthiness. Electrum was the wallet I tried many years ago. It worked back then, it still gets the job done today, and offers me the coin control features that I need.  

The points I mentioned in questions 1 and 2.
An open-source multicurrency wallet would also be a pleasant surprise.