Nice story! Still, imho if this would have happened (or will happen) then I'd expect:
* he would have also provide(d) a solution or explanation for the network congestion and for using Bitcoin for "paying at the grocery store", maybe even something better than LN
* he wouldn't have allowed the jackals get to come so easily with their claims about being him or having "the real Bitcoin"

I do look for TA, I do check now and then historical data. Is that really on chain analysis? Maybe close to that, but not really. As I said, I check now and then to understand what has happened and what's next to be expected, but since I am not that good on them, I also rely on what this or that guy is posting.
Sadly the TA guy I liked the most was caught cheating a signature campaign with multi-accounts, got kicked out of campaign, and he didn't post since.

And I was "trading" with play money. I was trading with money gathered from signature campaign, not touching the money from the day job. And I was trading on the altcoins market.
It was with rather small funds, small margin and a lot of time and stress. It was good only as gathered experience, since it happened rather shortly after I've learned the basics of TA.

Hehe, it's always easier to give advises...

What I've done back then was more like guessing ("gambling") than actual trading. Some of these rules I've learned after quitting trading.
Now I don't have enough time to follow all the news. I am not that good with TA either. And for me it was quite stressful to trade and I want a bit more peace of mind.

Since then I also have a family, hence a steady income is a must. And I don't want to do this as a replacement for may daily job.
All in all, it would be quite a surprise if I'd do trading again.

If you have reached this point, you are doing super great, and I mean it!


I was lucky enough to stay on (a tiny) profit while I've "played" day trading, until the point I understood that I know nothing and that I'm doing it wrong. And I've stopped.
If you want to "continue the fight", be careful. There's something people keep telling and I find it very true: TA alone is not enough. TA alone can trick you very easily. You have to be connected to all the news and rumors, whether it's from crypto, or politics or finances. And then you have a chance. And never forget the main 3 rules:
1. Only play with money you afford to lose (eg. not credit money)
2. Stick to the plan (don't be greedy, don't panic, ...)
3. Always have a safety net (eg. stop loss)

This means that gold is also trash.

Bitcoin can be used as means of payment very good, exactly for peer-to-peer. Yes, it's expensive if you're in a hurry. (It was again under 8 sat/vByte in the week-end.) Yes, shops will avoid using Bitcoin because it makes it harder for them calculate the taxes they have to pay in fiat - but this is because governments favor their own currency, not because Bitcoin would be trash.

You may have had bad experience. Sorry about that.
But if you have no friends to help you with some money, is the money to blame? And if you try to scam, no matter how desperate you are, doesn't that make everything worse? (With your red tag, people may think twice before believing any of your stories.)

All in all, your logic and your story is not convincing about "bitcoin being trash".

If you know this, then why a second hardware wallet? I have a feeling that what you need more would be crypto steel or similar (and maybe more than one).
And then the HW you are using can be reset and hold at one moment the seed you need.

The idea would be to keep the "big bucks" completely offline and usually keep on the HW only the seed for funds for current use.

I think that there will be quite a fight between these 3 for place #3 and any of these can get there.
I'd expect more like

3. AM
4. McLaren
5. Ferrari

But again, it's hard to tell.

You're right. I was so focused on convenience I've missed this. (Also the truth is that I've used Tails mostly without persistent storage on.)
Thanks for the completion/fix.

I love the keyword "cheap" in all that sentence  
You won't find even an expensive backward time travel service, since everybody having it would be too rich to bother.

The news is that CFTC has found out that this happens 
You know, better later than never.

The topic is interesting because it opens the road of fining them until they get the numbers much closer to the reality. And it gives a signal for the other similar agencies from the other countries where the exchanges are registered.
As said, 6.5M is nothing. But more such fines can follow. It's an interesting move imho.

Glad to see a sign of life! Welcome back and get well! (and obviously take your time if needed)

Since you are using it airgapped I think that tails is best: it has Electrum on it and a couple of other tools too and you don't have to to much (maybe persistent storage if you don't want to enter the seed every time).
The only cases you should use another distro would be:
* if you have another distro you prefer/you are more comfortable with
* if at some point Tails doesn't update in time to "new enough" Electrum (it has happened at some point before Electrum 3.3.4)

This being said, I'd use the newest Tails to have the chance to a new enough Electrum.

Whatever you do, make sure that:
1. The cold storage stays offline (no wifi and no utp cable either)
2. The seed stays safe, on paper, steel, whatever...

I know 3 pretty good ways to get Bitcoin anonymously.
1. Mixers. Although it's unexpected by many, ChipMixer is for free (although paying some extra helps with extra privacy).
2. Sell or offer services directly for bitcoin. For example I've made translations and only the customer knows that address of mine.
3. Buying bitcoin P2P, just beware of scams (for example don't pay before getting at least one confirmation). Again, only the seller and maybe a trusted escrow will know the address.

You do have a point, but in my 7 years on Bitcointalk I've received money into the profile Bitcoin address maximum 3 times. I tend to believe it was only once, so the 3 is "to be sure".
So unless somebody is involved in businesses on the forum, I find my rule is as good as yours. 

I'm not 100% sure that this is what you need, but maybe you can check for LPOS (Leased PoS), WAVES has that. Maybe you can mix PoS with LPoS and other whatever-PoS got invented meanwhile.
But I've never looked into the code of any PoS, so I don't know...

Ca idee, fiind vorba de USDT, sunt sanse rezonabil de mari ca "data viitoare" nici macar sa nu fie 1$, ci mai degraba 0.97 (sau mai rau). S-a mai intamplat...
Cu restul (mirificii ziaristi romani) sunt intru totul de acord.


Iar la capitolul ziare (international/crypto) as mai adauga https://www.btctimes.com/ , par seriosi.

See? I made others too talk!


I'm not surprised. I am unpleasantly surprised that some are not nice and try to stay silent and record everything, like you guys would not notice that.


Free booze  And afterwards, *no comment*.
(At least I don't pretend I'm working!)
Happy anniversary, btw!

Yep, it's a good lesson. Only that not all the wallets allow that.
I see people having fund in BTC, mBTC, whatever and they don't pay attention to all the details.
A proper wallet helps. Proper settings (to see also the values in fiat) help avoiding mistakes. And patience and double check is always necessary when one works with money.

Unfortunately knowledge is also necessary to have all these correctly together, and many don't have enough of that.

I've had in the past, once, a similar error.
I've "restored" from the (same) seed into a (new) wallet and there I made the transaction and went through.

People stop following crypto news. People stop using social media. People change mail. Just imagine the owner going through a very long illness... This can so easily end up with those funds lost ...


Indeed, but the main rule use to be to not keep too big funds on exchanges, or any custodian service. Many things can go wrong. Not your keys not your coins.
The seed idea is for those who keep their funds on proper wallets.


Thank you for the kindness, but I'll pass. Keep it for somebody who will find it more useful, somebody who keeps his funds at exchange. Maybe somebody who trades a lot. (I did say that this is a niche service, didn't I?)

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I don't need myself such a service (for multiple reasons), I've only tried to do some (hopefully constructive) criticism, my goal being a well thought and good working service.
For now the change of (your) IPs can be a problem. And although the proposed solution is .. weak, the actual problem is not that big (rather small chance for happening if multiple ISPs are used).
And yeah, there's also a trust issue: people have to trust you that you (or your employees) won't log their info and steal their funds later on.