I would use Trezor and other hardware wallets only with passphrase option because it is not stored anywhere on device and it is much harder for anyone to steal your funds if you lose your wallet device.
It is very important to make good strong passphrase made from several words, write it correctly and back it up in separate location from your seed words.
You can have separate account in your Trezor wallet without passphrase as decoy for holding smaller amount of coins.


You are never 100% protected and phishing attacks are mostly done by human mistakes, not checking if website is correct or clicking link received in email.
Watch what you install on your computer and scan it for malware, viruses and keyloggers before you use this computer for any crypto wallets.
I would suggest that you download Trezor Suite from official website or github page and use that instead of their web version.

Anyone can be victim of phishing so you should pass some free Phishing Quizzes and learn more how to protect yourself.

Let me rephrase it and be more accurate.
You started the main topic in bitcointalk about Taproot proposal in May 2019 and you posted 26 times in that topic.
I can't calculate exact time you spent writing this but I can appreciate it.

Private key can be found in Wallets & Addresses section of Blockchain account, but you could use that only in case you exported it before you lost your password and access to your account.
You should see your public address, balance and private key.

I think that old Blockchain.info website had different system, they used various number of words and I don't think they even used BIP39 word list so it's not compatible with that.
It's to complicated for my taste and I would suggest switching from their web wallet to other wallets like Electrum, and if you know private key you can even import from Blockchain wallet.

Losing your password is never a good thing but you can try contacting their support or write them on their Twitter support or other social media accounts, and maybe they can help with recovering your account.

Twitter support: https://twitter.com/AskBlockchain
Support: https://support.blockchain.com/hc/en-us

I heard about similar problem with Bitcoin addresses on ledger that was cause by some malicious program that was changing only last four characters on bitcoin address to steal funds, but right now I can't find the source of this information.

Ledger reddit page is full of posts with people complaining and asking where are their coins, but have you seen this doge page on ledger wallet website?

https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005174025

I don't remember seeing any campaign in Services section that paid only partially in Bitcoin and mostly in other tokens.

Possible solution you may have is to separate this campaign in two parts, one can be in Services and paying only in Bitcoin, and second part can pay rewards only in tokens and be in altcoin section.

Kraken and Jesse Powell already announced they will probably do the same after they see how market reacts with Coinbase guinea pig, and they will probably move from US to find better regulations.
There are rumors that CZ and Binance exchange will do something similar like Coinbase and Kraken, and other crypto companies may follow their examples.
I would not waste any time doing this for any hardware wallet companies because some of them are to busy with lawsuits from customers.

Exodus wallet is closed source so we don't really know what they collect from users but one thing is sure that they collect IP addresses you used, used coin address and transactions.
Wasabi is open source software, you can confirm their code on github and they have TOR enabled so nobody knows IP addresses you used and you can even mix your coins to improve your privacy.


Best thing you can use for this purpose is Trezor Suite with their Trezor hardware wallet.
Trezor Suite is open source software, they have the option to enable TOR and they are working on mixing coins similar like in Wasabi, plus you can use Bitcoin and other coins.
Turn off Usage Data collection in settings if you don't want Trezor to know it:

Both of these are not really your wallets but your exchange accounts, they have full control over them and they can decide when to send them and what fees to use.
Use exchange only for trading, not for holding your coins, and download something like Electrum if you want to have control over your funds.

His Slip39 mnemonic shares tool is only at experimental prototype stages and I don't see any new commits posted since December 2019, and his latest github commits are unrelated with this.
He is still posting commits for his Bip39 tool and latest one was at the end of February, so I would not call it abandoned project.

Looking at luke.dashjr chart we currently have around 86,000 nodes with 6,900 listening Bitcoin nodes and that data from bitnodes.io and this article is not really accurate.
Running full node is not expensive and it's not very complicated but you need to have some motivation to run it, maybe to improve your privacy or something else.
Article is outdated and there are many simple and easy implementations for running full node like myNode, Samourai Dojo or Umbrel.
This are some minimum Requirements for running your own full Bitcoin node:

This coins are lost and nothing will happen with them.
Bitcoin total supply is fixed at 21 million coins, circulating supply is around 18,684,000 but some research with FreeFloat supply is showing that 4 million bitcoins may be gone forever, and this can only be good for overall value and Bitcoin price.
Note that we can't know exact number of lost coins and some of them may be recovered and found in future, but people will probably lose more coins in future and bitcoin will be more scarce.

If you look at his github profile you will see that this guy is just a big commodore geek, and only people who played with C64 can understand him maybe, it's something like first love for BTC64

I do however wonder what would happen if this C64 miner was released in the time of Satoshi, back in 2009 and 2010 and without asic miners.

I think that 1 Bitcoin is currently worth around 486,920 TRY, and 1 TRY is worth $0.12.
Turkey annual inflation was above 16% in March, meaning that situation with Turkish Lira is not looking good and inflation will hit them even harder so they are just afraid of losing control, and they banned Bitcoin and crypto as payment option but it affected global crypto market in a bad way for sure.
I don't think many people are actually using Bitcoin for payment in Turkey and in other parts of the world (because of higher fees) but some other altcoins (read BCH) may be affected much more with this.
We are also starting to hear some news about weapons preparing for new war around Turkey, and situation with inflation is similar and even worse in other countries around the world, so we may see some new regulations and bans soon.

You can't really stake or earn interest with your Bitcoin and hold your keys in the same time, and exchanges like Binance are real owners of all Bitcoins you send them.
I am not really sure how exactly they are doing their so called staking but you must lock your coins for specific amount of time, and they can be hacked at any time (like it happened before) or they can freeze your account for whatever reason.

There is also Crypto.com and one other platform for earning interest for bitcoin is Celsius but they are also centralized, and I just heard they got hacked and had data breach with leaking customer information and their users are receiving scam messages with SMS and email.
I would never trust any service like that for earning Bitcoin however safe they claim it is, and safest best way is to just hold Bitcoin in your own wallet, but if you are willing to take the risk with any centralized services to earn interest than be prepared to suffer the consequences.

It was not him who merged it for sure, and it's easy to see this github that it was two Bitcoin Core devs Fanquake and Marco Falke by ajtownes and achow101, but Greg Maxwell is very active in overall Taproot activation subject.
Let's see what happens after 3 months but I don't see that miners are against this as 90% of total hashrate is supporting it, and I expect Taproot activation to finally be completed after this trial.
Average users who already use bech32 addresses will not even notice any change but under the hood there will be very important changes and improvements for multisig and privacy.

We have Trgovina section in Croatian local board so you can also post your offer there.
Adding one more option for contact like Telegram or email address would also be good suggestion for you.

Why don't you just generate private key or BIP39 seed words offline and then import them in your hardware wallet if you want?
Entropy generation in Trezor is not so great, and it is mixing external entropy from computer with internal entropy from built-in hardware random number generator.
Other hardware wallets like ColdCard are using secure elements for seed generation but I would still use old methods with offline BIP39 if done correctly.


You don't need to first receive coins on your address, but you should first delete and restore your wallets before sending or receiving any coins.
That way you will be sure you wrote everything correctly and made good backup.

Note that Multisig for most hardware wallets are not totally secure and for Trezor wallet you can't automatically verify that the co-signers are safe, and it has to be done manually for every transaction.
Jameson Lopp did a test of hardware wallets with multisig few months ago and it interesting to read and notice many flaws:
https://blog.keys.casa/bitcoin-multisig-hardware-signing-performance/

Now they say Bitcoin is bad, sun is bad and animals like cows are also bad because they create lot of pollution, they should be killed, and we need to eat only synthetic meat (as per dr. Bill Gates and other 'experts' like him).
How about that masks we are all forced to put on are faces every day even if we all know they don't protect us from anything more than polluted air in best case scenarios.
Cheap masks should be used only one time and then thrown away, creating millions and billions more junk that is really polluting our environment but nobody is talking about that.
I learned something new in last two years, villains from comic books actually exist in the real world.

Mempool.space is not my website, but my browser extension is using their API (plus two more alternatives), and I already told you what I think in my previous post.
Your transaction will probably be confirmed this weekend in Saturday or Sunday, so just chill.