Cryptosteel products are far from new. I think that they've only made a deal to use the more visible Ledger store to sell their products.
Just since the user data fiasco from Ledger's side, the timing is bad.
I'm sorry, but I would not buy from Ledger website. And why would I do that? As it was already said, it's there on Cryptosteel website too.

I am not familiar with that exchange, but I'll try to help.

First, I think that you've been using a service that does the exchange on your behalf.
It's unclear to me what you meant by "realtime ticker", was that the price they did show in the "you receive" box (see step 3) or was it somewhere else?
If it was the price from inside that box, minus the fee, then you better ask their support (!).
If it was the price from somewhere else, another exchange or maybe preev.com, then I think that there could be an explanation.

At least I've encountered services doing this:
As I started, they sell on your behalf. This means that they take care of everything, but they don't do it for free.
At an exchange, they have found a buyer. They sold, they probably sent the money to your bank account and paid the fee.
And obviously they've taken their own fees for the service, fees that are usually visible as a bigger spread (sell much cheaper than you'd do, buy more expensive than you'd do).

Of course, you'll have to confirm for yourself that this has happened.


People have suggested this and that exchange.
"Normal" exchanges will let you place the sell order which will stay there until a buyer is OK with your price and buys. You'll sell then at the price you want .. or not sell at all.
Or you can sell at the price buyers offer, which may be a little bit lower. This will mean some fee, but very small, about 0.15%-0.25%.
After selling at something close enough to the market price, you'll have to handle the withdrawal and the related fees.


All in all, there are multiple types of exchanges and multiple ways to handle the selling/buying. Be more careful with what you are doing, make screen captures (I am still doing them now and then) since they could help when you are asking here or the support. Read more details. Gain more experience. And until you have the experience try to work with smaller amounts/values.

I would be afraid it may break before getting to ROI. Laptops are not made for such heavy task for such long periods of time. And they are are also expensive for what they do.
So no. Interesting as experiment, but overall, bad idea.

Ledger Live wallet was crap since I know it. Every time they added "things" to it, probably services that were paying - by contract or for the referred users - instead of making it work properly.
The only real use of Ledger Live is for updates in firmware or apps. All the other things are unreliable, hence various surprises can happen "suddenly"; hence you better use another wallet.


How long does syncing the main wallet takes? You know what I mean...
Every wallet or services that uses 3rd party servers can get overloaded in times of such hype if the number of servers is not big enough. That's where full wallets show their full power.

I think that Ledger had in the right moments better prices or better promotions than Trezor. Also Ledger Nano S looks pretty close to an USB stick ( + the screen and buttons, I know) which has made it more appealing.
There were also vulnerabilities Ledger has published about Trezor. Possibly useful marketing gimmick.
But all in all, many have bought Ledger they use it and they recommend what they know it works.

Ledger Live is crap. They were slow fixing bugs. But that little piece of hardware does its job. At least for me it does until now. And at the end, that's all it matters.

They also got their customers and affiliates database hacked, exposing quite a big number of addresses and phone numbers. I think that after the addresses were exposed the number of those recommending Ledger has decreased a lot.

The whole point of Bitcoin Core is to verify everything before it allows you work with it. "Don't trust, verify".
If you prune you save disk space (and some features with that), but you still have to verify.
If you have good internet, good RAM, some temporary spare space on SSD and a bit of skill or help, all this is not that painful. And you basically do it only once. Of course, you have to see if you really want this.


On the other hand, if you don't want to do this (I don't), just use a SPV wallet, that "syncs" in seconds. But you know this already.

They'll most probably adjust them (sooner or later), but they're by far not in a hurry. The history tells that they are much happier to "move" into areas with more relaxed regulations than comply in the way most other exchanges do.
When this "gray area" will become too much of a burden, then yes, they'll comply. Until then, .. no hurry. At all.

Nothing special. It's just Bitcoin being Bitcoin. Bitcoin market is not stock market. In bitcoin 10% spikes or dumps are not that unusual.
And I don't deny that I love more the +10% movements than the -10% ones.

Keep in mind that the day is not over and anything can still happen.  


Edit: It looks like Elon did his part too in this. https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1355086328120160256

I stopped holding DOGE many years ago. But I am immensely happy for DOGE community and I hope that this will hold. DOGE and its community deserves it.
However, the DOGE price movements are crazy today (70-260-125-170), I'm curious where will this end up (or heading to).
For now... TO THE MOON! 

This is BCashers narrative. The blockchain tech, if it's properly decentralized, is getting expensive if it's being used heavily. PoW is expensive too. And if you want it fixed, it's extremely easy: go for any worthless altcoin, those will be cheap to use; and especially if you go for one that's also centralized, you'll get fast confirmations too.

Now, at least the cost part, that's not much of a flaw, it's a feature. Bitcoin success relies on greed. This makes so many miners mine it and make the blockchain more secure than any other coin's, this also makes people hurry and pay huge fees for the transactions in order to not miss whatever market movement. You seem to have forgotten that 1-3 sat/vByte was just fine before this new bull run/FOMO bubble has started.

Also you seem to forget that in many cases there are options to avoid on-chain transactions, which is the usual advice in this kind of situations. This means altcoins or LN. This approach fixes the speed and fees for many (especially the withdrawal fees from exchanges, which are in most cases bigger than tx fees). And before somebody jumps and tells "then why don't use <whatever> altcoin only?", remember that without Bitcoin success, most/all altcoins would not exist, remember that your altcoin is most probably not accepted in the shop you want to use it, remember that your alcoin's price cannot compare with Bitcoins (and that's why you are actually using Bitcoin, no matter what you are saying). And remember that you are free to use what coin you want.

And if you still don't get it, then you don't want to understand and I wasted my time explaining it for you.

Unfortunately fro you, I've used BCash wallet only once and that was long ago.
However, as OmegaStarScream said, an option may be Electron Cash, which looks like Electrum and it's for BCash.

And since you probably wanted to get Bitcoin, I'd say that you'll have to exchange these for Bitcoin and maybe use another website than bitcoin[dot]com, which tricks people into buying their altcoin and believing they've bought Bitcoin. (just make sure you are sending these coins to BCash wallets)

1. You don't send funds to a wallet software, you send to an address. The funds will also not leave the blockchain. I'm telling you this because many live with this confusion that sometimes makes them lose funds.
2. What you sent with that transaction was not Bitcoin. After some research I've found your transaction, you've sent Bitcoin Cash. That's an altcoin with another blockchain and since Electrum looks on Bitcoin's blockchain, it cannot see neither your transaction, nor your funds. You'll have to use that private key from Electrum with another wallet that works on BCash network to access your funds.

Hi
The things that may have impact on the speed are the internet connection speed, the memory/RAM and the disk too. (Still it took longer than I thought.)

From what I know moving wallet.dat should work, as long as you are certain Bitcoin Core is stopped on both machines when you do this.
But please keep in mind that the whole process will start from 0 on the new device, although with the new machine specs it should end faster than the old.

I'll repost this link for where to find and where to put wallet.dat : https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory

Good luck!

First of all, make sure it's indeed Bitcoin, since Altcoin giveaways are completely disallowed.
I've found this (see quote), which looks rather scary, still similar things are tolerated in [url-https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5310543]collectibles raffles[/url].
So, I think that, as said in the quote, Games and Rounds is the choice you have, or link to external site.

And still, interestingly, you already talk about merits and ranking up. Are you sure that all this is not intended as a reverse psychology attempt?



It could be that. On the other hand, the account is 4 months old, time in which maybe he did nothing, maybe he did read a lot. I don't know, I can't tell for sure.

Bitcoin still has the potential to rise maybe even 10x or more. Compared to that 4.08% is insignificant, especially considering the risks.

I mean that no matter how old and reputed the website is, it's still a 3rd party and ... "not your keys, not your coins" - anything can happen, from theft to inside job and exit scam, no matter who are we talking about. Of course, the chance is usually small, however it makes the 4.08% benefit insignificant.

A couple percents of news/FUD fueled minor movements here and there can make millions to the traders that can spread and make use of them. So it's not to be underestimated.
Still all this noise cannot cover the effects the halving and the sound of the money printing machines from all over the world.

If you plan to only use crypto and you are asking who is not freezing account only because you use crypto, then maybe crypto debit cards is what you are looking for.
But most of those don't offer virtual cards and their availability depends on the country you live in.
You could start with [BIG LIST] Crypto Debit Cards then ask the community more about them. Binance, Wirex, AdvCash, crypto.com, or Coinbase can be some of the options I know of which could have more users.

No. The national crypto will be a digital version of their currencies. Not related to Bitcoin (they are centralized, Bitcoin is decentralized), no competition with Bitcoin.
The actual competitors, those who have to be scared of these moves should be major card companies, Visa and Mastercard, not Bitcoin.