Sorry, somehow I've completely missed your answer.

All I know is what I've seen here on Bitcointalk in term of campaigns and some older info of what used to be the crypto related twitter campaigns.
That's not much of information, so I don't expect it to really be helpful, since you can go yourself into Bitcoin Services or Altcoin bounties boards.

The big names do buy. At least some of them. The chart in both the threads I've already posted suggests that.
What you seem to expect is (like the other topic!) news/headlines about new buys. And I have a feeling that some of those investors prefer to stay rather silent instead of triggering price increase, which won't favor them yet...

It's an interesting direction, but I fear that it's only wishful thinking, and since "you can't teach an old mule new tricks", it's not the old traders / users doing this.
I would be happy to be wrong 

Why you guys keep discussing that same thing over and over again instead of looking 2-3 posts around (or even using search)?!

This topic is about the same thing: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5329214
This topic may also help: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5329096

We shouldn't expect any news, really.
The big investors are happy to be able to keep buying big amounts of Bitcoin without making the price explode.

And the weak hands and so-called traders are selling, which is shown by the amounts of coins constantly leaving the exchanges.


If you look at the same post/thread, people tell that miners may not even selling (much) any longer.

So all we could expect would be to see more strong hands and traders getting real and holding for a short while, allowing the price grow as it should.
However, all this is speculation (and may be more appropriate to be moved to Speculation board).

They don't sync with each other. They are independent entities. Any of them, and only if it's online, syncs with the Electrum servers (which are sync-ed with the blockchain).
Since the watch only wallet has the master public key, it can hold the same addresses as the offline wallet, but only the online wallet will know what happens on the blockchain.
And the offline wallet needs help (gap limit) to enlarge the number of addresses it sees, but that's actually not necessary, since it'll remain offline anyway, and, as @nc50lc said, the offline wallet can sign the transactions anyway. And that's the only use (besides security) for the offline wallet.


The offline wallet will not know the updates in balances / incoming-outgoing transactions. Since it's offline, it doesn't receive that information from the Electrum server.
The offline wallet is only good for signing transactions (i.e. spend), and those transactions have to be made with the online wallet (which is the only one that knows the correct transactions/balances/inputs)


If you only want to notify users, the online watch-only wallet should do most of the job: see the incoming transactions, notify the users. The offline wallet is still useful for security and signing.
But if you plan big number of addresses, you'll have to go with Bitcoin Core.

Step 1: Buy Bitcoin (or a top altcoin) from any exchange (preferably decentralized, or from the forum [beware, use escrow!] no KYC exchange or localbitcoins).

Step 2:
v1. Make an account on Binance (where no KYC is required), exchange those Bitcoin to Monero and withdraw.
v2. Use something like https://monero.cx/ and exchange your Bitcoin to Monero (Disclaimer: it's a fairy new website and I don't know how honest they are yet, so don't go with big money here)

From the topic title, I think that OP may be (wrongly) thinking that the wallets will sync between each other.

OP: maybe you would be nice and tell the actual setup (what is offline and what is online) and what you want to actually achieve.
(For example, if you want to make a merchant solution and you expect to generate huge number of addresses, Electrum may not be your best option.)

Did you by chance created multiple addresses like this and they're all unfunded?
Because you may have passed the default gap limit and all you may have to do is to increase that.

Have by chance occurred to you that the fact we don't know nor care about the other forums is a sign of how good this forum is?

You really want to make me feel old, isn't it?


It's not always easy to know it's actually bull run or not. I see with Bitcoin and newbies, some jump in head first, others are still unconvinced it's bull run.
And market/price manipulation does exist, the smaller the coin's market cap, the bigger the chance for it, making legit market moves even less obvious.


There are a few other good coins too, some of them didn't even start a proper bull run. And imho they're by far not shitcoins.
Still, I am uncertain in which direction will their price move in the next year.
However, I no longer trade, and I'm still on profit with them just by holding, and maybe, sooner or later, they'll make me happy.


Clearly. People keep telling to keep at least half of portfolio in Bitcoin for a good reason.

Normally, for Electrum, the seed would suffice. And that should not stay on a file (since files tend to end up on desktop, or in Dropbox, with the results we already know). Derivation path could be a good addition too.

But I've got few cases (not with Electrum) when, for various reasons - from me not paying attention to hardware or software error -, that the last backup file was broken.
So I've developed in years the habit to keep at least one extra version back, just in case.

Welcome back.


Trading in bull trend is great. I've done that too, long ago. But bull trend doesn't go on forever. And you don't know when it'll stop and revers for good.
Certain traders may find it a better business to buy at 1$, sell at 0.7$ and buy back at 0.5$, or never buy back if there's no sign of recovery.


That's the best advice. It's a "reinterpretation" of "don't invest what you don't afford to lose".
Still, keep in mind that while this works great for Bitcoin, many other coins will go down and won't recover even after 4 years (and some may not really show signs that this is about to happen).

If an attacker manages to steal your wallet (via malware) file and your password (via keylogger), it won't matter that you generated the seed offline. So imho it kinda defeats the purpose.
On the other hand, the attacker needs to get both - wallet + password -, hence offline seed could be a tiny bit safer.

However, if you already know how to use Tails, I suggest you keep that wallet on Tails 100% offline, as cold storage, and keep on the live/online computer a watch-only wallet.
And just read and follow the cold storage docs: https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/coldstorage.html


I don't have this problem, I only backup seed(s). Unless you do anything fancy, seed should do.
If you keep files, I'd keep at least the last 2 versions, just in case one of them is saved damaged for whatever reason - it's a rule I follow for all file backups I make, no matter where from.

I think that you will have to basically ask her opinion on this.
Because it's not only about how she will react on this, it's also about how her husband will react on this.
Money and jealousy can change families completely, and not necessarily in a good way. Discuss with her.

It's another ~257 Bitcoin that went from circulation to institutional cold storage.
It's not a big amount, so I guess that many won't pay much of attention to it, but it can be noted that the trend is still there. For some it can be a signal that they can keep buying, in case they were no longer certain.

You wanted to say something, but mixed up apples with oranges and the result is just a... fruit salad. Sorry, but imho you've got it all wrong.

Because of its scarcity, Bitcoin price goes up. It's not only making up for the US dollar's inflation, as you wanted to imply. Bitcoin goes up also against gold. Bitcoin goes up also against the price of a pizza.
So a pizza after a year will be much less than 0.001 and much closer to 0.000135 (0.001 / 7, minus the US dollar inflation, give or take).

I don't know if the specific port is allowed. And I am not an expert, so if you're not in a hurry, just wait for a second opinion.

From what I know, if you try to do Telnet ^{which may need to be installed separately as windows optional feature} on a specific IP and port you can find out if it's anything listening there or not.
For example
tells me "Could not open connection to the host, on port 8333: Connect failed", since my bitcoin daemon is not running, but
gets me in (no error), since I am syncing my XMR daemon now.

I expect that telnet from VPS "localhost" will work and from your home IP to the VPS won't.

Imho the VPS has to allow incoming/inbound connections on the correct port (8333?) from your (home) IP.
You should make sure that happens, else you're wasting your time.

I certainly agree to this and imho it's one of the "points" that makes people not choose it.


I would rather go for a Tesla model X or a Maserati Levante.