If I understand you well then you
1. Don't understand exchanges and the numbers they display
2. Don't understand banks and their operations

1. Exchanges.
The typical exchange doesn't sell their own money, they only match buyers and sellers' orders.
And since some do day trading, they will sell and buy and sell again and buy again the same and same coins for incredible number of times.
This means big volumes for the exchanges. If you also add the fact that most exchanges inflate their volumes... you'll get to huge numbers.
But no, they won't sell more coins than they have simply because they don't sell coins.

Of course, an exchange could play dirty games with the customers' coins from the cold storage, but that's the sure way to go out of business.

2. Banks do lend more money than they own. It's called fractional reserve banking and it's a common practice (legal too!).

I bought a laptop some years ago for 0.6BTC.
So I know how it feels.

Oh how I wish I was smarter than that.

As a Formula 1 fan I've watched (parts of) a couple Formula E re-runs last year. I liked them although I don't know all the rules yet. And clearly not the drivers/teams yet.
So maybe in another year I'll be able to give an opinion about drivers and teams 

Interesting and unexpected. I've read so many times "when Lambo?" and not at all "when Ferrari?"
I know of guys buying cars for Bitcoin especially in the winter of 2017/2018, but I don't know rich people, these guys bought normal city cars.



Although it's not the Tesla I'd prefer, it's the first post I read about Tesla that will be bought with bitcoin.
Is there any estimation on when will they deliver your truck?

There's no such thing as typical fee.

You either allow the wallet pick the fee for you, either look at a website like https://mempool.space/ (like it was said a good number of times already) and pick a fee based on what are the "current" fees at the time of looking, how fast you want the transaction confirmed and if you are in/close to week-end or not (since in week-ends the fees tend to be a bit lower)

Since you don't know all this, I suggest you keep an eye on that website for a good number of times (at different hours/days) until you understand. And you can also ask more exact questions in case you didn't.


And for the question about wallets, I'd choose one that allows you RBF, coin control and choosing the fee by hand.

I believe that you are mixing up things badly.
Bitcoin is money. Just imagine it as another country's currency, to keep it simple for yourself.
There are plenty of online casinos popping up over the world. Some use Bitcoin, some use VISA. No big deal.

Now, I'm not sure what you mean by "next roll game prediction" and I'm not sure if that's related to Bitcoin. Some casinos rely on (more or less) random numbers for their picks, some casinos may rely on something related to Bitcoin's blockchain (next block hash) but that's so seldom I don't think it's what you mean.

All in all, please ask more exactly what you wan to know.

I do see a difference. There will never be more than 21M bitcoin. As of art and NFTs, imho anything can be art and anything can be under a NFT; this means basically infinite supply.
While some of those objects may worth the money, I also feel like NFT is just another hype that will fade out at some point.

1. I think that they're both offer kinda same safety.
2. If something like that happens with the device and you don't want to buy another one, you can easily enter the seed into a software wallet (eg Electrum) and use the funds. The seed is the part you have to keep safe, maybe even in multiple places.
3. Not all viruses/malware "know" what to do. On a compromised computer the biggest problem may be a compromised wallet software (which you have to use together with the hardware wallet). But if you are not careful, you can download yourself a compromised wallet and the antivirus may not complain about it.
4. If they go down, the official support will also go down. But there's a large community of users here on bitcointalk and also on reddit and you may get help from the community. Keep in mind that the seed is more important than the hardware wallet.
5. I think that both are similar vs PC and I think that both have problems if somebody else gets physical access to them.
6. I don't know. It may be Nano X, but I don't know for sure.

I recommend you read [GUIDE] How to buy a Hardware Wallet the right way

All right. I've made a new issue. I've followed these steps, made my branch and made the pull request.
I hope that I've done everything right.

If anyone can check, it would be helpful. @NotATether ? 
If anyone can add some words to the issue, I don't know, it could also be helpful.

Really?! You are dreaming that Satoshi himself will come and validate NFT by using it? This is a good one!   Why on earth would he do that?!
No. I cannot imagine that. There's a line that if it's passed makes this kind of imagination get beyond reasonable. That's the line you have passed and I won't.

After making a proper backup copy of the wallet.dat, if you want to make sure you won't have headaches in the (probably far) future, you may want to completely wipe out wallet.dat.
Doing this will make it unrecoverable, hence you will be able to scrape/sell that HDD at some point.

I recommend SDelete, since it's made by a company that was bought by Microsoft, hence you can be sure nothing shady goes on.

Many people are not technical, don't know nor understand nor care about what's all that; for them it's some soft of magic with a buzz-word attached.
And since it's magic, it can be used for anything now, since it's trending.

Just to be clear, my intention is not to be mean, instead it's to show that different people do think different and we have to understand that and have the patience to explain, even if they may not have the patience to read or understand the explanations.



Also the illegal ones are transferred great. And those are the problem. Those made the officials put the "tied to illegal stuff" stamp to bittorrent protocol, making average Joe think twice before using it (and usually giving out).

In order to get proper answers, please answer these questions:

[1] is your miner some hashrate bought at some cloud mining website?

If the answer is yes then:
a. There's a huge chance that you have been scammed and you will never see any of the coins they show you on the interface (maybe you should tell us what website it is to check and try to find out)
b. You need to install a wallet software (please ask about it separately) and, if a certain threshold is reached you'll withdraw to your wallet first; then you can spend.

[2] is your miner a hardware you own?
[3] is this hardware miner an ASIC or is it your computer?
[4] do you solo mine or you mine in a pool? if it's a pool, can you please state which pool it is?
[5] usually withdrawing from pools requires a thrashold to be met. Can you please tell the magnitude of your earnings? 0.1BTC, 0.001BTC? more? less? (please make sure it's BTC and not mBTC and such).

If you have BTC in the pool, you will need to install a wallet software and put your address somewhere in the pool settings for withdrawal. But again, in order to get there you'll need to know this or that about wallets too.

It indeed looks simple, but imho one has to have at least 500k, but most probably more than 1M USD worth of wealth in order to get even close of thinking to diversify like this.
But maybe I am wrong and then I am open to suggestions/ideas.

I don't know the context of the question, but your "answer" doesn't seem to answer it.
Indeed, the chance Bitcoin get banned by US government is slim. But the world is bigger than US and the question may be related to another/any government. And in that case, in the same way the internet is censored in many countries, Bitcoin can be (and I think it is!) banned by certain governments. But also "the trend" is towards adoption, not ban, so on the long term I am confident it will be allowed/accepted in every country.

If you are talking about projects like Storj, I don't think that the data is stored on the blockchain (although I don't know how it works).
I'd expect the blockchain only records transactions, like adding and removing files from the distributed cloud.
The blockchain, if done properly, doesn't allow past data to be changed. And that may not suitable for files. And that's expensive to store. Movies don't need all nodes store them.

LN cannot compete with VISA, since VISA is centralized. Simple.
But it's not LN that's the main competitor at horizon for VISA/MC. It's the government issued stable coins. Those are to be coming soon and don't need this centralized service, since they'll have their own.
That's why VISA is trying hard to do something, anything, towards crypto. They need to innovate and adapt, else they'll be history soon and LN will "win" just by still existing.

Your post re-opens things discussed over and over again.
If you would have had good intentions, you would have searched instead of opening a thread which I think it's intended to FUD and also to back-link a website you are associated with.

Your post shows that you have no idea what you are talking about. For example, how could developers handle the price volatility?!


Hats off to @Charles-Tim for the patience to explain this yet once again.

I think that they haven't. I've checked once or twice the wallets of the better "quality" stories I've found, sometimes after days, and they had not transactions at all.
I somehow think that the situation is different. I think that in certain circles the users of this forum are seen as brainless rich kids and the forum is seen (maybe because of all those airdrops of worthless tokens) as a place with easy to free money.
My view/theory covers the beggars, the people asking for no-collateral loans and all those attempting weak/un"polished" scams.



Doing that, but it doesn't seem to help much. I mean I know it helps, but these kids have more time than I do.



PS. Did any of you read the thread of that guy today basically asking about the 2010-2011-like faucets, since he wanted a couple of bitcoin for free?

Aluminum is conductive. And afaik that's fine, unless it touches something electrically charged.
And since there's no electrical contact between the case and the micro USB plug I don't know if any harm can be done. Maybe by big charges/currents. Or you are referring to protection to lightning and such?