By the time everyone has adopted Bitcoin, we will be rich AF. That's if Bitcoin ever gets adopted by everyone for real.

Of course Bitcoin won't grow forever. In 2013, it needed an almost 10x drop in order to return to where it is today. In 2019, it needed a drop from $20k to almost 10x lower to return to where it is now. Markets aren't forever bullish. Bitcoin has never been forever like this, it's just an illusion in your mind that it never stops growing up. It does, temporarily, but it always returns to higher and higher levels.

As long as Bitcoin's block reward decreases, if the market conditions of today (adoption levels + optimism + no more oppression from govs etc) stay the same or get even better, the price will increase substantially as time goes by.

Bitcoin is 2000% up from the lowest point of 2020. It's insane, yet people still don't get it: Bitcoin's death has been called so many times, yet it never happened. And it probably never will anyway!

When you play based on previous seasons, you probably just mess up badly. The previous seasons don't tell anything about this one.. perhaps besides the fact that alt seasons are always quite strong and end up kicking most hands out of the game.

One alt season might've lasted 3 months, but this one could last an entire year. Or less than the last.. who cares anyway? It's not like anyone truly cares how long the last few runs have been. What you can do is just cash out while you're on a profit, because you certainly don't want to be cashing out in panic while all those coins are roughly sliding off the mountain like an avalanche.

Play it smart and don't be greedy.

Confirm primirea imaginilor. Multumesc, Gazeta! In cateva ore ar trebui sa am suficient timp liber sa arunc o privire peste document si voi reveni cu un feedback.

Keep the seed somewhere safe just in case you remember what coins you had on it. Take a piece of paper and for every coin you've checked through Ledger Live (or a third party wallet for coins such as eGLD which do not work through Live), write its name down on a list. In a matter of weeks at most, you'd be able to verify the balance for most if not all coins and also know which have been verified and which haven't.

Create your own. I barely ever used any other fiat currency besides my local (RON), EUR and USD yet there are 180 currencies in the world. Yours would be even more useless than all those 173 have ever been for me, if you want an imaginable comparison.

Ah, naiba sa-i ia. Imgur era bun fara JS in urma cu doar cateva luni, dar se pare ca toti o iau inspre directia Twitter. Ce-i drept, browsere fara JavaScript nu prea mai se folosesc. Insa pe de alta parte, JS are atat de multe vulnerabilitati incat prefer sa nu ma aflu in randul celorlalti.

Am intrat pe link, si tot ce vad e:

Ma tem ca o sa fiu un pic cam nefolositor la chestia cu Whitepaper-ul, desi mi-as fi dorit sa nu. In orice caz, felicitari pentru initiativa. Am avut si eu o perioada in care ma apucase nebunia si ma gandeam ca sunt un pic cam nesimtit sa fiu in crypto de 8 ani si sa nu am eu macar o copie fizica a documentului care a inceput totul.. am luat cel tradus in romana (insa daca nu ma insel, nu e cel din OP.. trebuie sa verific, ca m-a pleznit curiozitatea!), l-am tradus si imi venea sa-mi dau palme cand am vazut cat de "bine" tradus e.

Insa inainte sa-l citesc eu, am zis ca il dau altcuiva sa il citeasca.. si i l-am dat, asteptandu-ma sa aiba o reactie pozitiva la ceea ce citeste. Abia dupa ce m-am pus eu sa il citesc am realizat de ce fata individului imi sugera confuzie maxima...

Since you're looking for the safest way to do it, I agree with @o_e_l_e_o's answer above. You only get closer to the highest safety/security possible when you eliminate all the potential risks and flaws out of your method. And so far, the only remaining potential security threats is someone physically tampering with your airgapped device which is imo a quite low probability unless you're being watched by intelligence agencies or have some bad actor around. That is unless you somehow mess up yourself and accidentally enter the airgapped device's seed into the online PC, which I believe is something that has a low chance of happening as well.

I would not use a phone because it has just too many backdoors and unknown/non-removable components. A PC is quite modular and you can easily remove or add anything you might or might not need. For me, privacy & security are not only interests but also a fascinating hobby (and now addiction, I guess). Even if you aren't followed by 3-letter agencies, I would still recommend to follow the best security practices as it's more than worth it over the long term. And since it's both fun and safer, why not?

Eu am incercat de ieri sa iau traducerea si sa arunc o privire peste ea, insa nu am momentan acces la un device safe cu JavaScript deci PDF-urile nu le pot vedea. Daca ar putea cineva sa urce textul pe un link raw Pastebin, ar fi perfect.

Ehm.. quite weird how you've been in the space for 8 years yet you don't know much about how most Bitcoin attacks could be countered easily with just few lines of coding.

Government bans cannot do much to BTC - India and China attempted to ban it, but it ended up as a failure. 51% attack is a VERY resource-hungry task that is easily redeemed worthless by the community, KYC can be avoided, underground markets usually grow huge in prices and hoarding can't realistically be banned when you have DEXs in existence.

Quantum computing is something that threatens the entire internet infrastructure if such computers were made specifically for hacking purposes (guess this will become something realistic at some point in the near future). Mt. Gox is just an exchange hack that never "stopped" Bitcoin from existing. It was only the people's fault for holding their money on custodial services, or some people were just unfortunate enough to be caught with their money on there right before withdrawing.

I don't think Bitcoin could be stopped. It could have its adoption slowed down or its price dumped heavily to the ground, but other than that.. nothing much can be done to it.

Well, I thought it was very clear right from the first sentence of my post that price and adoption are imo the two things BTC has yet to beat.

This depends on someone's long-term vision and I am certainly not the person qualified to give financial advice. For me, BTC and Gold are the perfect collapse insurance combo yet many others would contradict me. And I see why - hence why my post is half-pro, half-anti BTC. If someone takes their life savings and invest them into something a complete stranger recommended them to, then I think they are bound to lose their savings at some point anyway after viewing some random YT video predicting fortunes out of nothingness. At least I'm not biased.

I contradict you here, history would as well. I don't say it's easy to find & seize, but it's easier to find and seize precious metals than finding and seizing a Bitcoin seed would be.

Leaving the existence of this pandemic aside, had I asked you 2 years ago how easy taking away the right to freedom is you would probably reply the same. Well, look how easy it is now. For the good of everyone else or not, it happened so why would the confiscation of gold not?

Besides market cap and adoption, Bitcoin has outright won the battle against Gold in my opinion. Just think about the increase in BTC's price in the last 12 months. Had you invested in BTC the money you currently have in Gold coins & bars, you would have afforded about ten times more Gold today.

As you say, Gold has its own advantages - especially the beauty of those coins and bars. But it truly depends on what your goals are. If you want to be protected in case of an economical collapse, then I think it's wise to have both Gold and Bitcoin in your portfolio.

Gold is easy to seize especially with today's tech - a Bitcoin seed could on the other hand be engraved in a wall and nobody would find out you have one lying in your house. Gold would work tremendously in case of an Internet shutdown - but Bitcoin would do an amazing job during an economical collapse since it would not need tests to check whether it's counterfeit or not. The coin becomes more & more legitimate the more confirmations a transaction has.

If I were to have a strategy, I would probably sell my Gold right away and purchase BTC with all the money. Within a matter of years, I really believe Bitcoin will at least double in price so any extra-dollar means the possibility of re-purchasing Gold at a much higher quantity!

On the other hand, I think a recession is very, very close. If we get into one soon, I am afraid people will feel much less secure owning Bitcoin than they would owning Silver and Gold. With that being said, Bitcoin might actually crash during a collapse (at least initially). If you need money urgently within the first few months of a recession, investing now in BTC as a safe haven might be a very bad idea.

Always remember that Bitcoin has launched during the last financial crisis. It has not gone through one yet for us to know what the outcome would be. Gold, on the other hand, is a known safe haven in case of global financial issues. Therefore, I believe the best strategy if you want a safer insurance is having both precious metals and cryptocurrencies.

Pros of default mobile wallets: may make more people get into crypto & the users don't need to pre-verify the app to verify whether they truly come from Samsung's devs

Cons of default mobile wallets: you probably have no idea what the app does compared to the open-source build & there is a chance of getting a modified phone with a malicious preinstalled app if you don't purchase the phone from a safe source..

Not sure how non-custodial the wallet is since it comes as a preinstalled factory app. Unless you verify & build it yourself, there is no way to verify the legitimacy of the app.. is it? Perhaps the preinstalled app has a separate code that sends information back to Samsung's backend servers..

Let's take a look past the financial benefits crypto brings. I think the biggest opportunity the crypto space is currently giving us is the fact that we're all able to be part of the future.

Cryptocurrencies are definitely here to stay and develop rather than just die out. Articles predicting crypto's death have existed ever since Bitcoin's inception, but the only thing they have been able to prove so far is that humans are always rather rejectful about new technologies and sometimes very, very wrong.

The underlying technology and opportunities of blockchain are still heavily underrated and undermined. The more time goes on and the more control-hungry politicians and the Elites become, the more cryptos will be sought after by us, the smaller ants. If you spend enough time in the crypto space, you find out that the existence and development of cryptocurrencies slowly becomes a need. We're able to create something that could turn into a mixture of transparency & privacy, decentralization & immutability and so on - all backed by something that has not only been around so far without ever being disproven (besides a very small number of theories that had a few flaws in them) but also tremendously helped a lot of industries evolve and understand little fragments of the way our Universe works. Maths.

This is an opportunity to be part of what might turn into a revolution of the economical system. A revolution of money. Something that is like gold, but exists everywhere. Not only on Earth - according to the current knowledge we have, math should work anywhere in the Universe. That means Bitcoin could at any point work on Mars as long as there is an infrastructure that is able to communicate fast enough with other planets. Imagine we are part of the revolutionary cryptocurrency system that is bound to become so extended and developed that it will be the way of transactioning between planets or galaxies in the future.

I could go on and talk for so long about what the future could bring us through crypto, but this is the most fascinating opportunity for me. Crypto is the first universal currency. This is an opportunity nobody should miss.

You cannot include a "I am not a Robot" mechanism inside a blockchain. It would clog it up completely, since it would require human input. Best thing one wallet dev can do is automatically skip a seed if it's found to have balance on it - but even that makes things more difficult/resource-hungry.

Anyway, the idea is, the chance of generating an already-used seed is not zero but very, very close to it. So close you would probably have a higher chance of winning a millionaire jackpot multiple times in a row than generating an already-used seed and chances are your seed will be empty already anyway.

There are 1,461,501,637,330,902,918,203,684,832,716,283,019,655,932,542,976 possible Bitcoin addresses (someone correct my number if it's wrong).
There are around 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand on Earth, according to some math expert.

If you took and piled up all the sand in the world and RANDOMLY picked one grain up from the entire mount, you would have a higher chance of finding the same grain of sand twice randomly than generating an already-used Bitcoin address.

This is how close to zero your chances are. They still exist, but they're so close to zero it's realistically impossible.

The security of your chosen method depends on your habits. Most people have bad habits and generally practice bad security and based on my experience, the more critical your thinking is and the more paranoid you are, the higher the security you'll be looking for.

I'll leave here what I would personally do, since I really think you should always keep a good security practice. The more you don't, the higher your risks of messing up are.

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If you want to sweep a paper wallet, the most secure way to do it is on an offline, airgapped PC. For the setup, you basically need three things: two computers (one as the cold, airgapped wallet and one as the online wallet to broadcast your sweeping transaction) and an address to which you want to sweep your BTC.

Take an older PC of yours, remove any wireless modules from it and install a clean Linux distro on it. I'd personally recommend Debian or Ubuntu. If you don't want to install it, then you could use it as a Live CD instead (Live CD means everything you do is wiped upon shutdown/reboot). For Live CDs, I'd recommend Parrot OS which comes with Electrum preinstalled (or Tails). (bonus: I also recommend encrypting your HDD; bonus x2: if your future airgapped PC is old or you want it to run a lightweight distro, install Debian with XFCE). Make sure you verify your install file upon downloading it (Ubuntu verification tutorial; Debian verification depends on the type of download you prefer.

After installing Linux on this offline PC, it's time to download Electrum. Download it from here and verify it.

Installing Electrum
Now you have to install Electrum on both of your PCs (cold and online). If you want extra security, after verifying the file, you can (in descending order based on security as I see it):
 - Write the file (and signature, if it has one) onto a CD from your online PC and plug the CD into your now-airgapped computer;
 - Plug an SDHC/SDXC card (or a microSD with a SDHC/SDXC adapter if you have one around) into your online PC, put the file on it (and signature, if it has one), unplug it and flip the read-only switch so that your file/card never gets modified. Now plug it into your airgapped PC and copy the file there;
 - Plug an USB stick into your online PC (preferably a stick with a read-only switch), put the file (and signature, if it has one) on it, unplug it, flip the read-only switch and put the file onto your now-airgapped PC.

As soon as you have Electrum installed on both PCs, this is what you have to do next:

Step 1. You have to work on your airgapped PC to import the private key or seed into Electrum.
       Step 1a. From your airgapped PC, if you have a paper wallet containing a private key:
                     1. Open up Electrum and, as soon as you're asked what kind of wallet you want to create, check "Import Bitcoin addresses or private keys"
                     2. Insert your private key in the textbox. Move on to Step 2.

       Step 1b. From your airgapped PC, if you have a paper wallet containing a seed:
                     1. Open up Electrum and, as soon as you're asked what kind of wallet you want to create, check "Standard wallet"
                     2. Continue by checking the "I already have a seed" option and input your seed into the textbox.
                     3. After importing your seed, go to Wallet > Information and look for the Master Public Key. It should look something like this:
                     4. Scan the code using a barcode scanner or, the traditional way I like, write it down on a piece of paper Move on to Step 2.

Step 2. You have to work on your online PC to import the private key public address or the seed's Master Public Key into Electrum.
       Step 2a. From your online PC, if you just imported a private key into your airgapped computer:
                     1. Open up Electrum. During the Install Wizard, select "Import Bitcoin addresses or private keys".
                     2. If you have a paper wallet, chances are you have a public address on it. So, depending on this:
                          2a. If you have the public address, insert it into the textbox.
                          2b. If you do not have the public address, go back to your airgapped PC's Electrum and click the Receive tab. On the right side of your window, the public address is shown. Write it down somewhere or scan the QR Code (click the QR Code tab for this) and insert the address into the online PC's Electrum textbox. Move on to Step 3.

       Step 2b. From your online PC, if you just exported your Master Public Key from your airgapped computer:
                     1. Open up Electrum. During the Install Wizard, select "Standard wallet" followed by "Use a master key".
                     2. Insert the Master Public Key into the textbox. Move on to Step 3.

Step 3. Still working on the online PC, you have to create the sweeping transaction and export it:
                     1. Now you should see your balance in your online Electrum. Go to the Send tab, insert the address you want to send your BTC to and push the "Max" button. Do NOT leave it unchecked or you risk losing part of your funds! Press "Pay...", change the fee rate if you will and then press "Send".
                     2. In the bottom-left corner of the Transaction window, you have an "Export" button. Click Export > Export to file. After exporting it, either:
                           - Write the file onto a CD and insert the CD into your now-airgapped computer;
                           - Plug an SDHC/SDXC card (or a microSD with a SDHC/SDXC adapter if you have one around) into your online PC, put the file on it unplug it and flip the read-only switch so that your file/card never gets modified. Now plug it into your airgapped PC and copy the file there;
                           - Plug an USB stick into your online PC (preferably a stick with a read-only switch), put the file on it, unplug it, flip the read-only switch and put the file onto your now-airgapped PC.

Step 4. From your airgapped PC, you have to import the transaction and sign it:
                     1. In Electrum, go to Tools > Load transaction > From file and select the transaction you just copied.
                     2. Press "Sign" and export the transaction to File again (Export > Export to file..). Copy the file back to your online PC safely. Move to Step 5.

Step 5. Moving back to the online PC, you need to import the signed transaction and finally broadcast it:
                     1. In Electrum, go to Tools > Load transaction > From file and import the signed transaction file.
                     2. Press "Broadcast".

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There you go. Quite complicated for a newbie, but it's the safest way you can go. From here on, you could safely use the airgapped PC as a cold wallet. Practice good security. It's worth it in the long run.

In mesajul meu nu cred ca am ajuns nici macar aproape de vreo teorie a conspiratiei, deci nu inteleg cu exactitate la ce te referi. Legat de soare? IMF postase (as pune aici link, dar nu stiu cum sa dau mai repede in jos pe istoricul feed-ului Twitter) pe 11 aprilie pe Twitter o reclama legata de un "Soare artificial sub care ai dreptul sa iti intalnesti rudele in siguranta". Iar stirea cu incercarea lui Gates de a stinge/opri razele de soare e pe cat se poate de adevarata... adica pana cand si MSN, care e al lui Microsoft, a postat despre asta.

Mi se pare un pic penibil faptul ca orice e "out of the box", nu iese din gura unui oficial sau nu apare la un canal extrem de bine reputat TV e acum considerat "conspiratie". Intr-adevar, sunt multe conspiratii insa nici pe alea nu le judec. Ca iti vine sa crezi sau nu, anul trecut pasaportul COVID era o conspiratie. Azi, e realitate. Parere personala: decat sa refuzam complet si din start orice informatie noua, mai bine citim un pic si ne formam o opinie proprie. Asta se aplica si la criptomonede: nu vrei sa stii cat mi-am batut capul cu oamenii din jurul meu sa inteleaga ca Bitcoin NU e moneda criminalului. Si asta doar pentru ca stirile " oficiale" si "de reputatie" au prezentat BTC astfel.

Daca e sa o luam strict pe linia "canalelor oficiale", avem asa:
- JUST flatten the curve in 14 days => total lockdown si restrictii de 1 an de zile
- masca nu este deloc folositoare anti-COVID => masca e o necesitate (desi +80% din romanii pe care ii vad nu au masca sau au una care nu ajuta)
- pasapoartele COVID sunt o conspiratie => pasapoartele COVID sunt o necesitate
- vaccinul anti-COVID nu reprezinta o obligativitate => pasaportul COVID va fi o necesitate pentru a trece granitele/intra in anumite localuri, sau cu alte cuvinte vaccinul COVID e obligatoriu daca mai vrei libertate
- autoritatile romane: nu luam in calcul sub nicio forma o carantina totala! se aud conspiratii ca un total lockdown vine peste Romania! => carantina totala in doar 2 sau 3 saptamani de la "conspiratie"

Eu am ascultat si de conspirationisti, si de stirile oficiale. Le iau in paralel, si ceea ce observ e ca exista intr-adevar cateva conspiratii ce par/sunt Sci-Fi insa... o parte destul de rezonabila din ceea ce acum un an de zile era considerat conspiratie e azi considerat o necesitate. Aici intra si ideea ca vaccinurile ar putea avea efecte adverse, ceea ce din nou era considerata o idee propagata de conspirationisti. Asa era si ideea ca AstraZeneca ar fi un vaccin cu efecte nasoale, dupa care a fost intr-un mod surprinzator pentru multi interzis in alte state.

Pai daca pana cand si logica devine o "conspiratie" si noi efectiv ne punem capastru si gandim dupa cum vor altii sa gandim, ne aflam intr-un scenariu atat de aproape de 1984 incat devine infiorator.

Legat de Gates si dorinta lui (si a elitelor) de a scapa de noi? Pai pur si simplu din profunda dorinta a lui de "a incetini cresterea populatiei" poti deduce ca nu ii convine ca suntem prea multi. Adica ar vrea sa fim mai putini. Eu nu am o problema asa cu nimeni si nimic, insa dupa opinia mea un om care considera ca suntem prea multi pe pamant cred ca nu e deloc omul potrivit cand vine vorba de cautarea unor sfaturi bune pentru sanatate (zic). E ca si cum te-ai duce in Coreea de Nord sa cauti sfaturi anti-dictatura.

Iar diferenta dintre "ei" si "noi".. pai " ei" sunt in varf, au decizia, banul si puterea in mana iar "noi" suntem prostii care se supun si singurii pentru care legile exista. Asta vezi si in Romania cu politica si pe peste tot in jurul tau.

Tind sa te contrazic la capitolul transparenta. Venind vorba de guverne si coruptie, oricat de transparente ar fi cu noi tot va exista un mod prin cale sa ne fraiereasca ocolind-o. Asadar, intr-un final ajungem noi fara intimitate, ei tot hoti corupti, insa diferenta-i ca acum te pot si supraveghea pe langa. Consider ca avem nevoie de intimitate; faptul ca oamenii isi ofera tot mai multe informatii online.. e problema lor personala, ca sa zic asa, insa cred ca e foarte gresit sa imi fie mie intimitatea ingradita din cauza acestor oameni care isi baga P.U.L.A. in dorintele societatii!

Problema pe care eu, unul, o vad e faptul ca tehnologiile cele mai avansate sunt in mainile unor elite iar noi, prostii, vom ajunge la ele abia in cateva decenii. Nu degeaba vezi in filme atatea tehnologii "Sci-Fi". Ei le au, ca doar ni degeaba exista atatea facilitati underground in care se testeaza toate prostiile de tehnologii nemaivazute.

Deci, de ce ar fi asta o problema? Pai daca tu ai deja de 40 de ani tehnologia pe care planuiesti sa o dezvalui abia in 10 ani de zile sub forma "noului tip de ecran descoperit de X si Y", inseamna ca tu timp de 40 de ani te-ai uitat la toti ceilalti prosti cum se chinuiau cu un ecran mai putin eficient, mai putin econom care are mai putine utilitati. Deci de ce ar mai fi nevoia existentei noastre daca ei deja au suficienti roboti care sa ne inlocuiasca si suficienta tehhnologie avansata cat sa ne considere complet inutili?

Parerea mea e ca intr-aici se duce si discutia pe care multi azi o considera "conspiratie", respectiv cea legata de elitele de azi care cauta o modalitate de a "scapa" de populatia imbatranita si de a incetini cresterea populatiei a.k.a. de a depopula planeta.

Si am argumente care zic eu ca nu se indreapta nicidecum inspre conspiratii. Gates considera ca pe masura ce salvam vieti prin healthcare, oamenii aleg sa faca mai putini copii. Aleg ei sa nu ii mai faca, sau aleg sa faca un vaccin care are posibilitatea de a provoca avorturi spontane/infertilitate? Tot Gates a vrut sa faca un experiment pentru a bloca razele de soare "in scopul opririi incalzirii globale", care recent a fost oprit de Suedia. Oprim razele de soare pentru a incetini/opri incalzirea globala, sau vrem sa distrugem culturile oamenilor de la sat, sa nu mai primeasca oamenii vitamina D (ma gandesc ca acea crestere a vanzarii de vitamina D a fost provocata si de masuri de lockdown care au dus la o astfel de deficienta, zic, banuiesc...) si astfel sa ajungem cumva sa i se indeplineasca si profetia cu carnea crescuta in laborator cum i s-a indeplinit si profetia pre-pandemie legata de vaccinuri..

Asadar, dupa cum spuneam si in alte postari de-ale mele, regulile sunt pentru prosti iar noi suntem la fel de inutili pentru ei cum eram si acum 5, 10, 30 sau 100 de ani.

Revin cu o informatie referitoare la postarile mele anterioare din acest thread: dupa cum spuneam, bancile fac orice sa isi bage proprii clienti in pamant in momentul in care sunt gasiti ca ar utiliza criptomonede. E o sursa neoficiala, insa sunt destul de sigur ca informatia este legitima: Banca Centrala a Argentinei cere tuturor bancilor informatii legate de clientii acestora care au fost descoperiti ca ar lucra cu criptomonede. E o mutare pe care am auzit-o si in Romania in urma cu un an de zile din gura unei persoane care lucreaza in incinta unei banci. Faptul ca apare un zvon similar si despre alte tari imi confirma zvonul initial.

Asadar... bancile nu-s de imbarligat cu criptomonede...

Avoid any kind of doubler. Nobody gives you money for free. Don't be silly to think you've been miraculously invited by an internet stranger to double your bucks for free and try to think logically before even contemplating giving them your money. The first thing you should have in mind is that, if someone wanted to help you out, it would make no sense for them to first ask you for your money. Either they give you money for FREE or they don't at all..

N-am declaratia la indemana, insa categoria de venit cred ca e alta decat cea in urma profitului de pe trading/hodling => fiat. Dupa incasarea de pe campanii de semnatura, cred ca e mai potrivita categoria "venituri din activitati independente". Sau sa fie "venit din alte surse"... nu stiu ce sa zic.